skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere in the book is it pitched as a tool you roll out to a bunch of MBAs and hope that good things happen - it's never about out-of-touch managers demanding results. If someone cascades objectives without also cascading planning and estimation, are they not simply a bad manager?

What the book DOES say is that you should not create such a fear of failure that no-one will set stretch goals, and that OKR results should not replace individual performance evaluations. In short, OKRs are what you seem to think they are, plus the culture that makes it possible. If an organisation doesn't get that right, are they doing OKRs?

If your organisation does not allow developers to push back against impossible objectives, do you not perhaps have bigger problems that OKRs (or any other system) can't fix for you? Why would you blame OKRs - would any other system not also be painful when a company has become so dysfunctional? Also, did you know that all objectives don't need to cascade - some can be set bottom-up?

You're going to call No True Scotsman fallacy, and I'm going to call Straw Man, so I'm done with this thread. Perhaps I just fell for John Doerr's elaborately constructed fantasy that he uses to sell books. But right now it seems like a useful tool to keep a company on track, and I'll keep adapting it as the company grows.
Oh, thanks, of course, I forgot about the insider's knowledge fraud. That makes sense.
Yes, that's what vc-based startups are for.
Impressive! I know a number of people who self publish who will love this.
> Grind, put in basket, boil water and in the meantime level coffee in basket and put metal screen on top, once water boils pour in basket, then make the espresso.

What grind setting? Temperature fluctuations matter - too hot and the coffee tastes burnt. Pressure changes the profile. The key to good espresso is consistency - for someone who is using a manual, typically they have experience with espresso. They think surely it is easy, the way a math PHD thinks calculus is easy.

But it isn't that easy - and once you realize you need a good grinder and not a baratza encore, you'll see the cost further increase.

Also, manuals lack a steam wand which is a real downside.
Self-documenting code is a total myth. Instead of the author documenting what a piece of code does, why it does it that way and how to use it everyone who works on that code has to spend hours looking through the commit history, merge requests, design docs, wiki history, asking around etc piecing together the history and conversations around the code.

Sometimes these artifacts don’t exist so then you have to go do the same research the author did to write the code just to figure out why the code exists...

Note that none of those activities are reading the code itself because you can do that in both scenarios.
If I'm watching a movie I probably want to quality to remain reasonably high, if I'm watching a Youtube video of people talking or something where visuals don't really matter I'll take 480p over buffering.

Youtube is pretty decent for that, you can either let it figure out what format to use, or force the resolution. That's a good compromise IMO.
I suppose that if you start with an obvious fact without any disclaimer of that then it gives the impression that everything else will be obvious too, and so the article isn't worth reading. They could perhaps have phrased it a bit differently e.g. "you're no doubt aware that ...". Personally, I wasn't offended.

It reminds of something a little different but on a similar theme: the advice to never say "clearly, ..." in lectures, because it serves no purpose except to intimidate people that don't already know what follows. Actually, it does serve a purpose: so that people who do find it trivially obvious aren't thrown off wondering if there's something deeper there than they had realised.
Lenovo has ThinkCentre/ThinkStation desktops available with AMD Ryzen CPUs.
> The point is that we are getting unintuitive and unexpected results.

> it will find unexpected correlations between data but there's zero indication whether these correlation bear any significance until a human goes validate the prompt, and it can generate infinite of these, making the discovery of significant new ideas pretty slim

seems a pretty direct response tbh
The thing about federation is that every instance can have their own criteria for joining. I haven't seen one that requires an application like that, but it doesn't surprise me. But surely if you just want to spin the wheels there are instances that are easier to join.
That doesn't demonstrate comprehension in any interesting sense. You don't necessarily have to comprehend a text in order to generate a plausible nonsense continuation of it.
Humans communicate using an imprecise language. Some parts of our language are designed to convey belonging and familiarity - rather than facts.

Why do fairy tales start with "once upon a time"? It helps the reader feel familiar with the text they're about to encounter. Why do formal speeches start with "Ladies and Gentlemen"? The audience knows the expectation of formality which that structure provides.

In this case, the author is using a cliché for a couple of purposes. This first is to let the reader know that this is an informal piece of work and shouldn't be treated as a rigorous scholarly article.

The second is, hopefully, to make the reader feel "in the know". Anyone from the target audience reading that might think "I haven't been hiding under a rock! Unlike other people who read this. I am smart!"

Not every piece of writing has to be original. Clichés exist to help guide people through unfamiliar territory and to provide them reassurance.

And they all lived happily ever after.
Facebook Diversity Report Shows Incremental Progress
wow, considering that ebay's valuation is ~$40, this unit alone is/was one fourth of it
>Actually very few news outlets even attempt to give global coverage, BBC is the only one I know of that somehow gets close to this.

Far fewer still, are news outlets covering child sex trafficking. But hey, "I don't want to see this, this is terrible, let's call it a conspiracy and move on".
I read the article. There is nothing to suggest this is not a public offering, nor any mention of it being specifically for people working on Netflix titles.

Did you read a different article?

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Edit: turns out they did read a different article, which is here[0] and does strongly imply it's not intended to be a public offering.

[0] https://netflixtechblog.com/empowering-the-visual-effects-co...
FileCoin just recently launched and it aims to fix this exact problem.
This doesn't really mesh with the situation on the ground.

I think it does:
https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?scale=linear&trendline=fals...
A baratza vario is what, ~450 USD? So you're over $1000 there.

> and dialing in my process a bit, I'm able to consistently pull as-good or better shots than the premium coffee places around me (LAX).

Man, that's sad. There are a lot of bad cafes out there - but there are many good ones around me, and I live in a midsized city.

> This whole experience has taught me that a multi-thousand dollar HE machine is truly only as good as the person behind the portafilter.

The consistency is what matters - a bad barista makes bad coffee no matter the machine. But expensive machines and grinders make more consistent coffee, period, and offer much more chance for variation with PIDs, pressure change, temperature change, etc.

Look, for us espresso afficionados, it may seem easy. But I remember my first machine - it took me a year to pull consistently good espresso shots. Perhaps our expectations are simply different.
> ME2 feels like a shooter with strong RPG elements and ME1 feels like KOTOR where you get to aim the guns, it is very much an old-school bioware RPG title.

Funny, that difference is exactly what I most disliked about ME2.
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The zero sum counterparty view of each individual trade is as incorrect as the ‘not playing against other people’ view because it doesn’t account for risk/liquidity across time and space.

If I’m using the market to grow wealth for (example) a child’s college fund, it is largely immaterial if my counterparty then later makes more money holding what I sold to them. More power to them, I needed to be liquid and they made that possible. We both got utility out of the trade.

Similarly, I’ve written HFT algo strategies myself that would aggressively take on losers because by doing so I could get to higher rebate levels. Virtually any modern portfolio is going to be taking on expected losers to de risk the whole portfolio, thats money management 101 stuff. In both of those cases ‘professionals’ ‘lost’ to ‘dumb’ money but everyone received utility from it.
> But don't do it because you want to do it. Do it because you literally can't imagine not doing it.

What about because you can't bear the thought of having to work 8 hours a day for the rest of your life? I realize this is probably among the "bad" reasons to start a business (and it probably sounds disrespectful to people who have and will keep on doing that until retirement), but that is how I feel currently.

It may sound like a burnout problem, but there wasn't anything to be burned out by except... having to actually work full-time. I now freelance 10-15 hours per week and that feels doable but I'm not going to have a fun retirement with that (at least living expenses are covered).
Redshift AZ64 encoding is not 70% faster than ZSTD
> Netflix says the service offers “virtual workstations, integrated storage and full access to secure rendering in a connected environment” and is intended to “provide collaborators frictionless access to infrastructure to meet Netflix’s demand for VFX services around the world as our library of original content continues to grow.”
Yeah, for the 3d side of things it gets a bit trickier, vs 2d (compositing, grading, etc) where the interface itself could trivially run on anything, and you just need rendered video frames.

But even for 3d I would thing a "streaming based" 3d protocol or something would be much better than just an RDP connection
You are like me, espresso is worth it to us. But to many it is not. The space, cost, difficulty to achieve good coffee...most people just want their coffee.
No, the CCP will censor the NBA out of the country if they stand for things like Free Hong Kong.
Thanks for this comment.

Spengler referred to the Medieval Era as Spring because that was when what he saw as the key cultural forms first emerged -- such as linear perspective in painting, and soaring Gothic cathedrals - all of which he saw as manifesting a new cultural tendency to reach out to infinity which later seeped into maths and music.

For Spengler, this sense and longing for infinitely wide and profound 3D space marked out the Western individual.

I think what constitues the West is constantly changing. The historical base is Western Europe. If W. Europe and the US diverge in ideology over the next few decades (not necessarily a bad thing) then as a category the West will shrink back to the base. Possibly a bit larger if the EU stays intact or integrates further, as I hope it does.
Not OP, but yes, I do get a captcha: https://i.imgur.com/Paocsee.png

I'm using a VPN, maybe that's why. It's annoying as not only you need to fill the captcha, but it takes 30s to 1 minute for the video to load.
I Manage My Notes
BBC is as much clickbait as any. The days of actual journalism at the BBC pretty much died off a number of years ago.
Very good point. I would stay up late on Adderall and the first hours would be very chaotic. But if I took it even later when I was supposed to be sleeping, it would drag me, and I would be able to work.
Later I found out it was an anxiety issue, but the they tend to rob me of long term memory
There is no real debate about whether climate change is real nor whether or not it is a major threat, but there is still debate on policy-relevant points. I'm not a climate scientist myself, but I do work with a bunch of them and from what I gather from talking to them there is still a lot of work and debate over consequences, remediation, and urgency. The latter mostly ranging from "extremely urgent but we still have time to avoid the most severe consequences" to "it's too late to prevent widespread disasters and we need to try to minimize the worst."
I was active on the Erlang stackoverflow.

I left because stackoverflow is not a community, I don't give a crap about the gamification, the incorrect answers most upvoted because they provide a quickfix rather than a proper fix, and I'd rather go in places where you can have an actual discussion when you need to re-frame problems since newcomers aren't generally used to the paradigms of the VM and OTP.

Stackoverflow felt like working for free just spending time answering things for imaginary points whereas other fora have more reciprocity available through richer dynamics that can help build communities.

Stackoverflow, to me, is a last resort more than anything else.
RDP is indeed terrible for anything involving video or 3D, but there are companies out there that specialise in much lower latency desktop streaming. As an example Parsec started out focused on allowing people to run AWS instances for gaming rather than having a beefy desktop at home, but appear to be pivoting into remote desktop access for creatives: https://parsecgaming.com/teams/
About AutoGreens: Fully Automated Robofarm and the Future of Home Appliances
Agreed - https://imgur.com/qbVZUk8
Wow that is very helpful. I am going to take a look now!
looks impressive. could be a nice addition on my personal library page - https://arpit.tk/komura
15 x 0 is 0.
Firefox also allows to search without bringing up the search bar first by setting "accessibility.typeaheadfind" in "about:config" to true.
Reducing the timeout for the search bar to disappear after the last keypress is very useful as well. This is hidden behind "accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout".

Caveat: is messes with pages that use normal letters as keyboard inputs, like WASD as movement keys. One might need to disable it temporarily if that happens.
Do you have anxiety? It was what caused me to have the same issues
Don't be a cynic. We can blame Apple (not just pre-OSX), Sony, Nintendo… and blame Microsoft too.
> Can't possibly by tested right now, when stress is at an all-time high.

I am not sure how to word this but I think there is a distinction between the anxiety experienced during the current pandemic and a more extreme 'high cortisol' 'high adrenaline' stress.

This would be the type of stress you would experience if someone threathened you with a knife or a gun on the street. The problem is that a lot of people experience a very similar hormonal response but induced by for example being berated face-to-face by an abusive employer or getting into a near confrontation with someone in traffic or public transport.

The anxiety you describe is indeed 'stressful' and arguably we all have different experiences but I would speculate that if you experience anxiety about the current situation but in the confort of your home and with all your basic needs met, than perhaps that will still generate less 'hormonal' stress levels than the face-to-face interactions associated with some workplaces, commutes, etc.
> On the negative side, I am often disappointed by the quality of espresso in (Italian) coffee shops.

In general I agree. It seems that other areas have been doing much more in this space in the US, Australia, etc.

At home I like to do things more in the Italian style - but with higher quality beans, and the difference is remarkable.
this question will sound as uneducated as the speculation above: aren't induced labours only 1 scenario of (possibly) superfluous intervention?

Also, I couldn't find reference in the article where they describe that data as being excluded..
That's really nice!

I have no idea how well it works on various browsers (the bugaboo for all CSS), but it's noice!
You're describing the exact opposite of a scientific process.

And even if science reached nirvana just now (spoiler: it did not) the exact action to take is nowhere close to being an easy choice. We're in a prisoner's dilemma in which if you stop polluting I can take advantage of that, kill you economically and the climate goes to hell faster because you where out tree hugging and left me to do whatever I want with the planet.
Unfollow anyone who retweets outrage tweets, or posts low-effort content, follow people who post original, high effort content, and never go to the twitter's home page -- read only the latest tweets in chronological order. This will considerably reduce tweets that target emotional triggers or simply waste time.
Well it depends which one you do. Nobody greps PDFs. And even if you have the article as plain text file you woulnd't grep to see nearby text, you would use your editor's equivalent of ctrl+f.

ctrl+f is about finding the context of something

grep is about filtering out the irrelevant information

Linux utility "less" which is the best tool to browse logs ever has both ctrl+f equivalent(/), and grep equivalent (&) and both are useful.
What does it mean for a sentence to be "Shakespearean correct"? Do the generated strings necessarily contain 10 syllables?
Cisco releases security fixes for critical VPN, router vulnerabilities
> Activist investors Elliott Management Corp and Starboard Value had been pushing eBay

Well there's your problem.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of interpolated search with other known but non-uniform distributions.
> I've re-focused on Supply Chain/Logistics as there is so much room for potential growth and re-capturing losses within them

Could you expand on this some more?

I realized you spoke a bit about this issue in the rest of your post, but I would love to read more specifics.
I'm the author of the blog post. It's a good question but, yes, you are missing something. Mostly me being an idiot.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is-spelled-url/

I usually spell it upper-u upper-r lower-L specifically to annoy both sides of the argument.

(I'm not sure why the submitter substituted the l for I.)
I don't believe embedded videos have adverts either way.
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I choose it because I have a lot of experience with Nginx, and none with HAProxy. So I set it up as a LB, and it worked for my needs (at least from what I can tell).

I will definitely checkout out HAProxy now.
Yeah, maybe not do the standard American thing and visit 5 countries in 2 weeks. Pick one of them and visit more places than just the capital.
Dang, Kijiji is actually really solid in Canada. For me, it was like Craigslist except with some pretty good UI/features.
A physics paper claimed the Koran had predicted the discovery of the Higgs Boson
>Site down... Shows ReCAPTCHA

I suppose this is cloudflare + their new captcha provider. This behavior is annoying / suspicious. They know the site is down, yet make people solve captcha repeatedly before finally telling them that the site is down.
Tech leaders and health authorities collaborate to combat Covid-19
That looks good. You should combine it with a landing page generator for self published books or docs.
The Building an Indie Business- the Benefits of Podcasting (Part 2)
Fully-Dynamic Planarity Testing in Polylogarithmic Time
> GPT-3 shows that it’s possible for a model to someday reach human levels of generalization in NLP—and once the impossible becomes possible, it’s only a matter of time until it becomes practical.

The fact it can [occasionally] generalize and participate in a verbal conversation on a human level means it can potentially organize and direct productive (on a human level at least) action if assigned as a manager to a team of humans. Doesn't it?
Why are you applying for Java jobs? It sounds like you want some reasons to not do it :-). Java is just a language, and I agree with you, its not very appealing with its factoryFactoryFactorys and so on, but it can pay well, but there are other jobs around.

As for interfering with you're side projects - I've used multiple languages, after a while changing between them is pretty easy. I liken it to people who know multiple human languages, they can switch effortlessly between them, programming languages are a lot more similar than human languages.
Humans are superior to animals in many ways, but many animals feel pain as readily as humans and have instincts that are frustrated when we use them. Ie, they suffer because of what we do to them. It seems silly to get stuck on a point about whether or not slavery is exactly the right word for it.
Given that Netflix has a vested interest in trying to pump out a high volume of content. Can this be a play to help comoditize the post-production costs associated?
Having to carry some paper and writing tools around would make note-taking significantly more annoying for me than just being able to use my phone/laptop.
I'd like to add that the rule engine was also converted to provide (decent, for the time) support for modern-day adventures - I own basically everything publised for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenaries,_Spies_and_Private... and it was quite decent.
> this is a very large bandwidth savings.

I'm going to need to see some evidence of that! I'm pretty sure H.265 or AV1 could encoder better quality videos at that bitrate.
The ones that keep mentioning Microsoft alone are the cynic ones, selling their FOSS agenda the best way they see fit, usually with zero experience from the games industry.
Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarked.
It is a valid reason. Some people start companies to actually make money. If that is your motivation it can be very powerful. I would also say that it’s going to be (probably) years of 12+ hour days that might end in failure.
The author of the article in question was asked by the IPCC to be an 'Expert Reviewer' for the next Assessment Report.
This is talked about in the article. The Nespresso didn't quite catch on in the US like it did in europe. Americans generally prefer to drink larger quantities of coffee, often in the car. This does not lend itself well to espresso. As such, K-cups got much more traction
Mastodon is immune because it doesn't have any influential users.
I'm not sure where you got the impression that I wanted people to clean up misinformation from the web. That certainly wasn't my intent.

Perhaps you and I move in different social circles - but I get a lot of forwarded "claims" on WhatsApp and Twitter. Well-meaning people who see an image with some text on it and send it to their friends & family.

My blog post is mostly aimed at them - showing how easy it can be to check sources.
What if you ask it a serious question you are genuinely interested in getting an answer to and it responds with a real clue? They say it seems like going to reach the human level, doesn't this mean it will NOT "just generate nonsense"? Humans use to generate nonsense but it often makes at least some sense.