skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Tell me about your experience with productivity apps
There are tons of those apps: Any.do, Todoist, Microsoft todo (Wunderlist), Things, Omnifocus, etc. I want to do a small research on the use of those apps. I am thinking about three types of readers

1. The user: A person who actually use a productivity app
* What app do you use?

* What are the features you use a lot?

* What are the most cumbersome features you wish they didn't exist?

* Have you ever been in a situation when you are using an app and you say "I wish I could do that"?

* Have you tried other apps before using the actual app? Why did you quit?

* Are you using different apps to organize a workflow? Tell me about it.

2. The traumatized user: A person who once used an app (or several apps) and then decided to never use an app anymore.

* What drove you to quit the app?

* How do you manage your time without the app?

3. The person who never used an app:

* Why you didn't consider the option?

* Do you have some particular fear/need (privacy, accessibility)?

Feel free to talk about anything that I didn't ask above. I want to listen to you.
It seems a reasonable enough assumption to me, that tech workers make more than average - so much so that I didn't feel the need to trawl for a peer reviewed data source.
+2 for this. Worked for me with two separate companies!

One of them I had an internship and they never told me to leave, so I just kept working (and getting paid) until eventually they hired me full-time!
I've been writing Python professionally for a while now, and the one thing I always want to reach for are multi-line anonymous functions. However, I do appreciate how Python prevents some of the callback hell one can encounter in JavaScript codebases.

There is a difference between abusing anonymous functions, and situations where anonymous functions might be called for, where it just so happens that those functions require more than one line of code.
Isn't this basically what Obamacare tried to do? Except with a lower tax?
First time I heard about 'lite'. I have to say the first impression is really great. Fast and smooth. Nice work!
What does this have in common with the Qt framework? Asking because the project name follows the naming convention for Qt classes and widget.
2019 F1 21 races vs NASCAR 36.
Maybe part of the success is in pre-packaging the wire and ribbon to act predictably, similar to how ribbons of surface mount components come on uniform tape reels instead of loosely in containers. You can crease or bend things to be predisposed to movement in certain directions.
There's no way they can build an entire one in just 30 seconds. It probably takes longer than that just to package them.
So here's an example of more that we can do.

A huge problem in the field is that we must use the previous benchmarks. This is because how do you know if the needle moves or not if you just change your data constantly?

So. In order to tackle this problem, someone with more resources than me needs to create training sets that are less biased. THEN, new academic papers need to benchmarked against the old biased sets, and also the new "less biased" (I don't think it's possible to ever get 0% bias, the world just isn't that clean) sets. And progress needs to be eventually transitioned to be measured on the new less biased sets.

The upsampling algorithm used pictures of celebrities. And the researchers put a blurb in their paper that was basically a "We know this is biased but everyone uses it so we must also". I feel like this is less useful science than an algorithm trained on more of a mix of actual real-world humans.

I admit it's quite challenging and probably impossible to do in some areas. I mean, how do you make a field whose end algorithmic goal is generalization, not use real world data to generalize people? But I think the issue can be worked on, and the need to use celebrity photos to train a set is a good place to start.
By pollution I meant all the transports between races, all the services, products, material needed, all the people (spectators, staff, etc..) coming to races, their transports, food too, the transport and products for their food. It can go deep, those are all the hidden costs in terms of pollution, that people easily overlook
Let's assume the odds are fair such that the odds of all horses sum up to 1. Betting on all other horses would give you 1:1.02 odds whereas they should have been 1:1.01. While there is no way to answer for sure how many races you would have to bet on to make money, we can look at the probabilities. There's a 95% likelihood that the horse will lose 5 races in a row. If you start with $100 and reinvest your winnings every time you'd earn a profit of $10 with 95% likelihood, meaning there's a positive expectation value. On the other hand, if the 1:50 odds were right, the probability of it losing 5 times in a row would be around 90%, leading to a neutral expectation value.
I've seen internship to offer rates exceed 80% :P

Lots of Big Tech is in that general range. I actually don't know of any top companies where the offer rate is ~30%.
Waymo Challenge Report
A- make a mental or physical note of your busy mind, how busy?

B- put on noise cancelling headphones if you have them. Otherwise sit someplace without visual noise in your cone of vision.

C- breathe in for 5, hold for 5, exhale for 5, wait 5, repeat 4x

D- note if you get pleasant feelings in your head, above eye level, tingles. This may be a physical manifestation of stress being relieved.

E- review your busy mind, are thoughts holding more strongly?
Autodesk and coal mining
1. Founded Names Database - a social media website designed to collect user information as aggressively as possible, before selling all the information to classmates.com.[1] (got this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709270)

2. Invested in Locately TWO YEARS after founding DDG.[2]

Locately, for those unfamiliar with the company, had built a proprietary data-mining engine which collected data from customers’ (opted-in) mobile phones in order to understand more about what sort of behaviors they were engaging in out in the real world. It could tell how a customer moved from one location to the next, what stores they passed along the way, how long they visited stores, what sort of lifestyle or shopper segment the user fell into, which competing stores a consumer would frequent, how a business compared to its rivals, and much more.

3. The DDG favicon issue since 2018. Was only promised to be fixed four days ago after it got to the front page of HN.[3]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database

[2]https://www.crunchbase.com/person/gabriel-weinberg

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166

> What’s the evidence that DDG itself is not privacy centric as claimed?

Past behavior is a predictor of future behavior. (see: Zuck, Thiel, Facebook, Palantir)

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Why the downvotes again? I gave a reasonable reply to their question.

At least give me a reason for them... =)
https://gist.github.com/neodigm/53bcad834a62b442dfca6694cacc...

This is an old but favorite in-browser snippet. I've been using it to follow/unfollow users. It can be used for anything.
Semantic and Instance Segmentation on iOS Using Flask API–DeepLabV3 Mask R-CNN
Bullshit Jobs (2018)
Walked into doctor for a weekly shot. That’ll be $60.00 copay. Balance billed to insurance.

Me: how much without insurance?
$15 dollars out the door.

Okay...

Few years later. I need an MRI.
I call and ask how much. 750 dollar with insurance. (Deductible)
Or $500 without insurance.

I pay 1300 a month, and it’s often still cheaper to not use it.

We need to change the questions that are asked.

Not just who will pay for it. Because the same procedure at the same location can have drastically different costs depending on who is paying
Yes tomorrow is okay
Any undergraduate level textbook on E&M. Griffith's 'Introduction to Electrodynamics' is a commonly used one.
If you treat it as hazing the problem becomes more manageable.

Ultimately, scientists want to be understood and accepted by their peers and make friends, they are people after all.

A culture of abuse can start when the notion of exclusivity is accepted and outsiders want to join the group, whether that be in a single research group or within a field of study.

The problem is exacerbated by greedy individuals, and limited pools of funding to carry out research.

In turn, the greediest are the most exclusive, and the most prone to toxic behavior and chronic hazing.
> Rooted in discredited pseudoscience and racist eugenics theories that claim to use facial structure and head shape to assess mental capacity and character, automated facial-recognition software uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other forms of modern computing to capture the details of people’s faces and compare that information to existing photo databases with the goal of identifying, verifying, categorizing, and locating people.

I'm sorry, what? Does this person think that phrenology / physiognomy, two old pseudosciences that have been discredited for a hundred years or more, are actually at play within ML systems?

I'm totally willing to believe that ML facial recognition systems insufficiently trained on a wide enough set of faces will mistake one person for another. Sure. But to pretend that the system is based on eugenics belies a critical lack of understanding of what these things actually do, and ascribes agency and racial animus to a computer program. Pretty clear to me that this shows the author doesn't really know anything about how these things work.

The reason to not want facial recognition in public spaces is the same as to not want mass surveillance: a reasonable expectation of privacy by citizens. Of course, if also want no police in these areas at the same time, one should not be surprised if eventually they go from peaceable public squares, to a haven for petty crime, to eventually a fearful place people avoid.
Wow - look at this picture:

https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw

This is not from a wayback machine copy of dynamism.com - this is a new, Windows 10 laptop in 2020 (!)
What do you mean by "estimate a duration" ? Do you mean take a duration as an input? Would you elaborate more on how you are using spreadsheets ?
Yeah, never dared personally, but guess was just overthinking. Are you fine if I add your point to the article?
Nothing: http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/faq.html#why-the-name...
> What’s wrong with an API like appendChild etc?

Verbosity vs. fluency, given the application domain, I expect is the concern. I'd rather have fluent DSL separate from the basic language runtime, though, so that adopting it is a separate decision from using the runtime.
Hah, they were even cheeky enough to put the Aperture logo on the robots
> You should try harder to give people the benefit of the doubt - you can't expect people to list every single possible caveat for every opinion they express.

The position, as stated, is literally false which my argument by absurdity demonstrates. So what I expect, is that people attempt to make true statements, and where the truth value is contextual, then their phrasing also ought to reflect that nuance, ie. damaging a person is typically morally more serious than damaging an object, and psychologically damaging a person is typically worse than physically damaging an object.

There are no qualifiers in the original claim to reflect this nuance, and like it or not, people absolutely do believe unqalified claims until they are challenged on it. Why do you think slogans and propaganda are so effective.
I wasn't complaining. My apologies for coming across that way.

It was a statement of fact.

I've been writing open-source software for well over 20 years (actually, well over 30 years –Where does the time go?).

I think I understand the issues involved.
The author explains their reasoning about globals here.

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues/24

It mainly boils down to the fact that an indie game written by one person and never maintained after release doesn't need to be written for maintainability. Supposedly there are productivity gains the author receives from doing this.

Personally, I disagree from past experiences dealing with hundreds of globals in legacy code, but to each their own.
Questions aren't statements, you can write lots of things that aren't statements. What are you on about?
I don’t understand why this is such an obviously bad strategy - lots of people buy an item, cancel or return it, and then buy a similar item.
Considering how Japanese companies are famously conservative, I can't help but wonder if Fujitsu executives were faced with undeniable evidence that productivity increased during the pandemic WFH
One of Räikkönens great skill is giving feedback to the engineer that's why he is still driving and good at developing cars.
Yes, I just came here to get similar suggestions for my kids also.
Having them some time to spend on khan academy subjects will occupy few hours in a day, but I am looking something in javascript game tutorials for my elder one as he is more interested in it. He is good with basic javascript skills.
Any suggestions or pointers?
Agreed, I'm much more at the limit of the kart for every corner. If i crash, its not much $ out of my pocket. The value of the car is always at the back of my head when doing track days - even when its relatively "cheap", and thus I am slower. It take me much much longer to get up to the limit on the car :/
Related

"Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468924

"Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330818
The article already agrees with you on point 1:

> Once you completely remove the old abstraction you can start anew, re-isolating duplication and re-extracting abstractions.
I think developing a tool for SMEs like this is really tough. Whenever I come across a new one, in order to evaluate it, often one of the first questions I try to answer is: how's this better than a Google Spreadsheet? Most of the time the answer is that it isn't, unfortunately.

I don't have many checklists (three in fact) but they're in a folder in Google Drive. Each one is a spreadsheet that has the template and a when doing a run the template is duplicated and renamed to the date.

With that setup I think I've accomplished the main selling points of this tool: central repo, sharing, history, dashboard. Plus I've revision history and audit log.

Additional upsides are that it's an existing tool that I pay for and use and users are familiar with it. Plus I've none of the limitations of not having a paid version.
I think the top answer is right philosophically in terms of putting entity recognition first and predicate recognition later.

Trying to do it with grammar is exactly why you get into the rabbit hole where you get mixed up about Old York and New York. There is that "New York City" that daddy doesn't live in no more, and the "New York State" I live in where you frequently find dirt roads that look passable on GPS and paper maps but aren't.

It is an ontological problem, not a grammatical problem.

You are right that "air traffic level" is key in curating your city and/or airport database. You would start with a list like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_pa...

and work down from the top. At some point you can put together a "proof" that it works for the top 20% of the airports that get 80% of the traffic and work up from there to cover 95% of the traffic.

For any project like this you need to build a test set if not a training or evaluation set. If you are not willing to look at 1000 examples by hand then don't get started.

People are willing to spend six months fighting with everything from procurement to device drivers to run the same models on the same digits that everybody else runs, but it is hard to get people to make evaluation sets.

I can't guarantee that the people who make those sets will succeed, but it is certain that those who don't make them will fail.
Highlights from our conversation with Ronak and Beth from the Safari team
DisInfoSec – An online cybersecurity conference featuring disabled speakers
Mozilla owns Pocket. Why wouldn’t they include their own service in the browser?
Can get quite far using a CRF solution. But nothing is close to perfect here.
Interesting project and I am sure that AI will come to play an important role in radiology in the future. However classifying CT scans for the diagnosis of covid-19 is very straightforward for even trainee radiologists and performing the scan, rather than interpretation is the rate limiting step so there is no clinical need for this tool.
I had a fairly long conversation last year with someone who is a manager at a well-known "unlimited vacation" company. His take was that it works well but that's because there's clear leading by example from the top.

(It's also not necessarily a great system in general if you're someone who moves between jobs a lot as there's no unused vacation payout under such a system.)
... and this is the exact reason I still love hacker news.
Try to go a bit earlier in the Senna, Prost, Mansell, Piquet era. Character was much more present and some funny stories from the backstage. [0]

[0] https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-...
I have a feeling that automation slowed down in many sectors when China came "online". I think this cycle is coming to an end, and there is no comparable pool of labour anywhere in the world so that fully automated factories are going to be the next step (that wasn't technically possible in the early 90s but I think we now have the technology or very close to).
As with the compass, the orientation of your magnetic dipole against the field is unstable, so now you need a second propulsion system for maintaining the unstable orientation of the dipole.
Related: diff2html CLI that will open your browser to a beautifully-rendered HTML diff:

https://diff2html.xyz/
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan-Level Data
Pyodide is a science-oriented suite, it's more than python. I haven't tried it, and it seems way too big, and seems too complex to build and/or use.

Brython provides some interfacing with the DOM, which is mandatory if it's replacing javascript.
I didn't think about the gas consumption really. I'd have said the same about a cycling race (and I love bike, but practising, not watching). The pollution comes from all the surroundings, transports, materials, organizations, services, broadcasting, littering, ..
2020 in a headline
brave's bugs are homophobic
Australia to seal off 6.6M people in virus-hit state as outbreak worsens
Wework was a parasite, it was done whenever landlords figured out they can just deal directly with the tenant and both would save an expense.

However, there might be promise for a sort of coop remote work environment, not necessarily tied to your company, but shared by your neighbors. For instance, I would love to have a work station in the neighborhood, in walking distance to my apartment. I only need a desk, a monitor, decent internet connection, but things like having a more secure shipping address and print/copy/fax/package dropoff would be great perks. I would gladly pay a membership fee for a small, hyperlocal, neighborhood-based incarnation of wework, where I would be guaranteed to have a desk whenever I choose to walk the block or two and get some work done. Basically, the local cafe, but I always have a seat, a monitor, and basic fedex functions.
Very few high end factories would allow some random journalists to poke around. Some candle factory is a different story I suppose. But you are right,I'd love them to visit some more modern shops.
There is a interview of Elon Musk with MKBHD. He was precisely referring to this as being one of the issues when they were trying to automate the pipeline. The machines just couldn't plug a loose tube in its place. Maybe they should have consulted with Sony.
Isn't it reasonable to think that once you have enough density, the business starts making a lot of sense (e.g., collecting (in the same car) multiple orders simultaneously from the same restaurant -- and delivering multiple orders on the same car to the same building/neighborhood)

I imagine you'd need a local hub/exchange for it to really work. I do question whether the model works outside urban settings though.
Perhaps one of the biggest barriers to fast moving SV style startups would be how difficult firing is in Japan. You need around 18 months to fire an ineffective employee. (And in contested cases I've heard of an employee who stayed on payroll for 4 years while the firing was finalised). It's one reason why people often face being harassed to the point of resignation rather than formally fired.
China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case
I bought the original Street Fighter II the month it came out for SNES for $99 CAD (which at the time was ~$83 USD).
Maybe they can use some of the excess power to secure the app
Analyze millions or even billions of rows of data in Google Sheets
Wow, that headline is a stick in the mud on a nuanced topic.

> What’s your biggest weakness? Where do you see yourself in five years? Why do you want this job? Why are you leaving your current job?

I do a lot of tech & business interviews, and I don't ask those questions (unless they've recently left A LOT of jobs). I ask situational questions to understand how they think, who they talk to, what research they did to understand the problem, and the solution (was it simple?). If they tell me they built a Rube Goldberg machine, I ask if they would have done anything different with hindsight. If they don't realize they built a Rube Goldberg machine, well, perhaps they won't be a good fit.

I look for people who can solve problems, do their own research, ask for help when they get stuck, aren't afraid to attempt solutions (many that will knowingly fail) and have the introspection to identify failures and admit it are generally people you want to hire for senior positions.

Now I admit that it's a lot harder to hire this way for junior positions, when they have less examples, less job history, etc. Educational projects are a substitute, as well as working on personal projects.
>The call shows how Silicon Valley millionaires, who have been coddled by the press and lauded as innovators and disruptors, fundamentally misunderstand the role of journalism the moment it turns a critical eye to their industry.

No, I would argue that journalists don't understand that their role requires objectivity, and that the whole industry is broken because it has been completely dominated by ideologues, top to bottom, who are blatantly pushing politics onto the masses.

Don't support BLM? Have legitimate criticism? Be prepared to be called out by "journalists" until you fall in line, if you don't get cancelled first. And let's be real, this has been the status quo regarding taboo topics for at least a decade.

Edit: would you all be downvoting if the same journalists were adding pro Trump spin to a sizable proportion (or majority, depending on the outlet) of non-editorial (but editorialized) media? I'm not going to support blatantly partisan writing by ostensibly neutral platforms simply because they represent my politics. We need objective news and the fact that it is impossible to be purely objective is not an excuse to deliberately pollute news articles and headlines with consistent agenda.
I imagine a good compromise might be a small piece of "contract work" where a company presents a small representative task as a project for a candidate to complete and the candidate actually gets some form of compensation for their time. There are definitely problems to this approach, but in a best case scenario, the result is a win-win situation even if a candidate doesn't get hired. At the moment every candidate that doesn't get hired represents a net loss for both parties (time for both and opportunity for the candidate)