skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ancient stoics definitely seem to be talking about tempering the positive as well as the negative emotions. I listened to Aurelius, and it seemed pretty clear that this is what he was referring to.
You're describing supposition. That's fine! It's fine if we just agree.
From what I've read on r/aviation, that was true 10-15 years ago, but not last year. The airline industry goes through cycles of "too many damn pilots" to "oh my god we need more pilots". I was reading some smaller airlines were will to train you to get your type rating and starting pay of $60-70k.
I used to work on a team that made flash ads at a giant company. The salespeople didn't say no to anything.

These companies were paying $500,000 for 12 hours of exclusive time on our home page, so they got whatever they asked for. If they wanted a car to drive out of the ad and smash into the text below, and have each character morph into 5,000 butterflies that then reformed into the car, they got a car driving out of the ad and smashing into the text below, and having each character morph into 5,000 butterflies that then reformed into the car. And they got it within a week.

I swear, the wizardry those flash devs pulled out of their asses was some of the best hacking I've seen in my life.
Conversely, I hit that years ago (long-running migration tarpit) and forgot about it until I setup a clean home directory on a system which didn’t have my dotfiles repo and thought I’d hit a major Git regression. It saves you time on exactly where you need it the most.
Not swinging at balls outside the strike zone is a trivially good idea (unless you can hit them well), but difficult to execute.

In the text he notes the importance of being within a ball's width, which requires some serious practice.

What to practice and how is the focus of his writing about hitting.
The ancient stoics like Aurelius definitely seemed to be talking about curbing both the positive AND the negative emotions. I was surprised by this when I listened to the words of Aurelius.

Newer stoic philosophy may be different.
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Vancouver's SkyTrain (Elevated/underground commuter rail line) is 100% automated - and the first branch of it was built in 1985.

Unless they changed it in recent years, I believe it's control systems currently run on OS/2.
Well fly fishing in general is an activity that requires a good amount of coordination and practice to do well.

For Williams specifically, I think it was essentially him applying the same perfectionism, discipline and scientific approach to it as he did to hitting a ball.

Back to your question, I think its about "sportfishing"–that is, going after certain fish with certain gear, fishing in tournaments, holding records, etc. It's a thing (see https://igfa.org/)
In 1984 the draconian thought control was only for party members. The proles went about their lives mostly unaware, and made up most of the population.
FreeNAS

/partial sarcasm
Thanks. I like those ideas. I’ll give it a try.
I really think there is an under-addressed niche here. I haven't tried your product yet, but I was pretty hopeful when I saw this posted here. That being said, I have some feedback already:

- $29/user/month just feels too high. My per-service spend on any other SaaS ranges from $3/user/month to $18/user/month. What makes this service so valuable that I would spend more on it than any other SaaS that supports my business?

- There's obviously some overlap here with Jira. It would really be nice to see a page on your website showing what RoutineOps can do that Jira can't already do.

- Some people really, really like learning about products by video instead of text or screenshots. Videos aren't as information dense, I know. But in the past I've found them useful in my goal to influence budget holders.

- Your screenshots don't illustrate how the recurrence flow actually works. If I schedule a new task every day and then do nothing for seven days, do I have one task or seven?

- There is no obvious way to contact you. The page footer isn't just spartan, it's barren. It's missing some really essential stuff. Privacy policy is another important one.

- My primary use case for scheduling and tracking recurring work is based on audit compliance. Are you intending to address that market segment? If yes, then tell us.

- When I'm buying software to help with audit compliance, it's especially helpful to know whether the SaaS organization I'm purchasing from also has passed some audits (like SOC 2 or ISO 27001) I guess it's too early stage for you at this point, but something to think about.
Now that's just completely wrong. Airliners had full automatic landing capability for a long time, it's very often used when there's zero visibility at the destination airport.
Being worried about new potentially disruptive tech is legitimate, it's hard to see our place in an environment we can't predict.

However, particularly as a full stack dev, I think that it will create more opportunities for jobs than concurrence. You mention 10-20 years ahead, if you look that same horizon back in the past it seems (I wasn't working then) that the job also changed significantly, without making devs obsolete.

AGI might happen in our lifetime (I hope so), but I'm dubious that it will happen through a singularity [1]. Therefore, I'm not worried that as tech experts we won't have time to adapt.

[1] this blog post by Robin Hanson is from 2014, but recent research events especially from OpenAI have only reinforced his points https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/07/30855.html
"debits and credits balance" is a very useful constraint to have in your system in order to maintain data integrity. Transactions can also get quite complex - think of a salaried payroll deposit - this is a transaction with 5-10 splits from various accounts. Even a typical ecommerce sale might have 4-5 when you include commissions owed, shipping, sales tax, etc.
Yes however they still have access to all medical billing claims as they are the ones paying them. I've worked in this space for three years.
> genius bootlickers

I guffawed. I don't understand who thinks it's a good idea to have a bunch of clueless volunteer fanboys represent your first line of support. So many forums are like this though. Microsoft is especially polluted with it last I checked. It screams "so big we're officially completely out of touch".
Paul Nurk dives 18-story building with $20k custom-built drone
Yes, I've been to Tehachapi, Cajon, and Donner Passes. And Cima Hill, and Ash Hill, and Goffs. I know what mountain railroading out west can be.

Maybe the gnarliest scenario I know of out there is: There's a major brush fire on Cajon. Like, 20-foot-high wall of flame. Is it far enough away for you to try to get the train past it? (With maybe 4000 gallons of diesel fuel under each locomotive, and maybe liquefied petroleum gas tank cars in the consist?) Or do you park the train, and hope the fire doesn't come to you? I mean, I guess an AI can make that decision without being influenced by concern for its own survival. But I suspect that most train-driving AIs don't have a really good set of training data for this scenario...
Jeff Bezos will be an open target when he's questioned by Congress
I'm pretty happy with Google Drive (except for the unwanted filesharing "exploit") and have never liked Dropbox ever
Quite the opposite. The way thing are done in G Suite (via Groups) is the worst. In Office 365, you don't get a copy of each email.
Yeah, I think you're probably right. You'd think you can get some quiet by standing in the middle of a hundred acres of park, separated from the outside world by a quarter mile of grassy hills and fifty-feet tall glass walls, and you'll get some quiet for a bit…but then a plane will fly overhead every ten minutes or so on a final approach to SFO from LAX :( So I call a place "quiet" if I would call it that for more than a minute at a time.
> They told me that although it's technically illegal, the U.S. government has never prosecuted anyone for paying a ransom

If I was going to take a job doing something that is illegal, I think I might prefer one where the government has prosecuted people. Then I could look at those cases and see what people got off with just probation, which got light sentences, which got harsh sentences, what kind of plea deals were offered. Then I could at least have a decent chance of figuring out if the pay and benefits are worth the risk.

If they haven't prosecuted anyone (and this is not a line of work that has been around for a very long time), I'd worry that they just haven't gotten around to it yet, and I could end up being the first. Being first could be very bad, because they might be pushing for a harsh sentence to discourage others or encourage people prosecuted later to take plea bargains.
Well, I don't really get that analytical about it.

The thing about me, is I never did the "boiling frog" thing.

I went into a company with a fairly insular culture in 1990, and came out in 2017. It was sort of like being transported in a time machine. I learned the tech, but not the prevailing culture.

In 1990, it was [finally] cool to be a programmer, but it was just beginning to be "lucrative." Bill Gates was sort of the only real software mogul most of us knew. Larry Ellison, and a couple of others were just beginning to flex their muscle, but they hadn't really hit their stride, yet.

It is now crazy lucrative. A lot of people, make a lot of money, and they also act as cultural bellwethers for their employees and fans. Their values become the values of the workforce. Fairly standard human nature. Nothing surprising about it. Good old-fashioned "Monkey see; monkey do." As I said, I live in New York, and have been watching this happen with the finance industry since the day I moved up here.

It was just a shock to encounter the same ethos in the software industry. In 1990, most of the folks that I hung out with were tech enthusiasts. We enjoyed the tech, and were happy to make a decent living off it, but most of the people I hung with considered it a vocation of love; not avarice.

We were dorks, but happy dorks. Working in a team was fun, and we didn't feel the need to have the crazy competitiveness that we have today (but it was beginning, back then; I just didn't encounter it in my circle).
I guess you’re talking about Vercel.com instead of Next.JS, right?
Unless the process fails at multiple stages, no. The metadata for who owns a file is not hidden. It's pretty obvious that you get randomly shared a file from someone else. Then again, we've had cases where the process failed at multiple stages before...
My 10 Favorite Reflection Questions (and where I found them)
> Ann Kelleher, a 24-year Intel veteran, will lead development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes. Last week, the company had said the smaller, faster 7-nanometer chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule and it would have to rely more on outside chipmakers to keep its products competitive.

I hope Intel keeps its US-based fabs and continues to upgrade them. It would be a mistake to cede this capacity to outsourcing like so much of our other manufacturing capacity. Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization. Japan, Germany and South Korea have avoided this.
I wonder if this puts dogs at risk for contracting or spreading the virus.
That's even how Slack advertises their own service.
It's online-only, chatbot-driven, no sales associates in offices to visit. You just snap some pics on your phone and you're insured.
If anyone's interested, here's my (ledger-cli inspired) double entry accounting CLI application in C#: http://github.com/soheilpro/Ledger

It has two interesting features:

1. Supports multiple currencies

2. Has a query language that lets you easily get various reports
I gave up on it shortly after talking about ingesting raw sewage

Good call.
Yeah. It's all left over from the fact that double entry bookkeeping is older than the use of negative numbers. Start with the rule that every account has to be positive and you get all of the inane rules.

CPAs are the OG Luddites, refusing to use negative numbers to make their jobs simpler and easier to understand.
You need zero for place based notation. Eg 210 is "two in the hundreds place, one in the tens place, none in the ones place." Place based notation gets you representation of multiples all the way to infinity. Otherwise you need to represent multiples with unique symbols like in Roman Numerals. Eg X means 10 no matter how many symbols are to the right of it.
Did Google ever site any other factors like a vaccine timeline or forecast of cases in the Fall as contributing reasons to extend WFH until Spring 2021?

Just wondering if there is any other interesting data out there pointing to things persisting to be bad until Summer 2021.
Many comments about overtime being banned as though it is a bad thing.

My understanding was that "Overtime" was meant to be used sparingly for short term circumstances - not for months on end - to avoid burnout.

From a labour cost point of view, most places pay penalty rates for overtime. Often 20% to 50%. Or maybe that is my naive view here in Australia.

So wouldn't it be cheaper to just hire more employees/daytime contractors? Plenty of people looking for work I hear.
Yeah, Klepperman's is the best explanation I've read of accounting. (And I had a college course on the subject). The clarity of it reminds me of the classic "Calculus Made Easy" text.

In contrast, the article in this post is terrible. Tons of footnotes referring to exceptions. I feel like the author is trying to summarize a subject he doesn't understand himself.
Maybe Apple consumer forums, but I’ve had amazing support from the developer forums. Especially Quinn “the Eskimo” ... saves my butt every 6 months it seems, and isn’t the least bit offended when my questions relate to an opaque electron code signing issue. Seriously, bless this person for doing the “lord’s work.”
The data transfer pricing is a big letdown considering Cloudflare has always has free transfer.

When transfer is so expensive, it makes it harder to switch from other clouds that have more than just compute capacity, especially since you might be paying double to transfer between cloud->CF->user
Flag that article. This is spam that kills the web.
Spammers don't have the corporate liability protections that allow corporate employees to spam without worry. So really, spammers are better people.
It's not just a resource limit issue. It's more akin to designing the tax code. At the top, you have to design a performance review system that trickles down to 100k people who operate in different parts of your organization without special casing too much to incentivize the desired behavior (special casing or discretion may add complexity, potential unfairness and bias, or effectively segment the company reducing internal mobility or make some products less attractive drawing away subsets of talent you may need there). To make the matters more difficult it's not like the CEO gets to write it on a tablet; as with the tax code, it is not designed in a vacuum, and the people who write it have existing political incentives too. Life is complicated.
Can this service be used with preexisting recordings? I have family that are losing the ability to speak and I’d love to be able to give them that back somehow.
Depends on where you are. Some places are flat enough that you can see several miles. A freight train can stop in two miles, more or less. You're not going to see the drunk on the track in that range, but you might see the semi or the freight car.
Well put. My dad would say (pre-WAR) that it cost him at least 100-150 home runs, likely putting him ahead of Willie Mays and behind only Ruth and Aaron (among pre-steroid era players).
I have a similar observation about Austin, TX. And there's every incentive not to live in a dense urban core due to absurd rents and not many folks are going to bike in a TX summer.
Why does Renduchintala's head roll and not Swan's?
Another article I just read says Intel is talking to TSMC. I think they are trying to get out of manufacturing.
Pitching 101 [pdf]
Why should gathering and analyzing the data take years? We can and should do better than that.

Why can't schools districts share the information in near real-time?
Was this just shipped? If so, congrats!

Might be just me, but when I compare the feature list with something like Monday.com (which can be configured to do the given use case with its internal automation tool), I really can't imagine paying $29 per user. That's at least double what I would be ready to pay, especially since I don't see any integrations and there's no mention of webhooks to build on top of.
Intel Makes Changes, Murthy Renduchintala Leaving
Haitz's Law
General intelligence in its biological form was achieved with hundreds of millions of years evolution, which required the "evaluation" of trillions and trillions of instantiations of nervous systems. The total energy consumption of all those individual organisms was many many orders of magnitude more than all of the energy that has been produced by the entirety of humanity.
Same in Milan. The M5 line is completely autonomous (you can also sit in front and look at the tunnel through a large window). The next line, the M4 (no, not a typo) will be autonomous too.
How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?
"Why does FB even have employee medical information and personal finanacial records?"

You are assuming that they have this information. However their argument is that the search terms "could" retrieve such documents. There is nothing here that confirms they possess these purportedly irrelevant documents that would be produced given the current search terms.

Usually lawyers will redact personal, sensitive information before releasing the documents. In the US, some courts make this an obligation. Also, usually there are some search operators to limit the results of the search to usage of the terms only in certain contexts, e.g., like the ones used in Lexis and Westlaw.

It is a new level of irony, hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance to see an unregulated, privacy-destroying tech company whose core business requires ingesting personal information from hundreds of millions of people at an unprecedented scale try to argue that EU regulators, who are probably limited by statute in what they are authorised to do with the information they receive, should not have access to information for the purposes of investigating Facebook's activities.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/16-pixels-body-copy...

"16px" is a very good font size. I.e. don't do anything, just let the browser use its default.
Wasn't there a post here on HN only days ago saying DoNotPay had been charging their account for months after they cancelled their account?
Yeah, it does doesn't it. I've seen a couple of projects using it but nothing more.
Note to people looking for job security: there is a HUGE need for developers who understand finance. The fundamental problem is that most finance people can't speak the language of software development (the biggest problem I've seen is that finance people tend to be very poor at writing out a spec of what the software should do - they're much better at looking at a set of examples and then telling you if the calculations are right or wrong). Similarly, most software developers don't know enough about the intricacies of the finance world when building financial software.

I had a colleague who (over years of experience) got to be so good at teasing out requirements from the finance people that I called him "The Finance Whisperer". His skill at crossing the finance-software worlds was unparalleled, and he could command a large premium for this knowledge.
20 years ago, Microsoft's power was at its peak. people usually go with the 'strength'. And that was not counting the disadvantages of extra cost and inconvenience.

Also, The Apple Cube was not as good as the NeXT Cube that Jobs had produced earlier.

Poor little Apple Cube. It faced a huge uphill battle.
Cancel Culture is the physical manifestation of freedom of association and the effects of market forces on rational actors.

People pretending to be L/libertarians hate it.

If you don't want to lose your job maybe don't tweet shit?

What's worse than the fake libertarians "angwy" that rational actors tend to act rationally when associated with ideas they (or the market) find(s) abhorrent are the people who think tweets are "speech" that Twitter cannot arbitrarily control.

HN techbros tend to be more vocal than average about "speech" and "freedom" but are the first to report/hide/criticize, much like the fauxlibertarian stuffed shirts and billionaire-controlled free marketeer groups who keep suing social media sites for deleting their hateful and bigoted comments. Or DARING to not do business with them.

Thankfully judges actually understand rights and freedoms and have read more about them than what is contained within never-opened pocket constitution that techbros like to pretend to have read keep swatting them down in court like the losers they are.

Techbro: "Freedom!!!"

Corporate Board: "Ok, we're going to practice our freedom of association and disassociate from your bigoted ass. We like money and hate criticism."

Techbro: "No, not like that..... Only speech and guns. No association-- that doesn't count."
US olympians earn an average of $16,000/year, mostly from part-time jobs that give them extra time to train. If they win gold, they get $40,000 per medal (meaning teams have to split it). Olympians are definitely not in it for the money.
>differentiate mine / shared / someone else's

They're all Google's.
Think of it this way: Assets - Liabilities = Equity

If we deduct everything that we owe (Liabilities) from everything that we own (Assets), whatever is left belongs to the shareholders (Equity).
Automation can (eventually) significantly reduce pilot error; it also has a more reliable way of fixing corrects and avoiding regressions. Automation isn't just about the cost of the person flying the plane, at some point in the development curve it is just a better choice (e.g. why factory robots can do better work than manual assembly workers).
git range-diff

Very useful to get an overview of what changed after a rebase.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-range-diff
thanks, I thought it was a good way of making a little bit of money while introducing a new challenge / reward
Awesome. I've setup a Google Group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/mathlingua-discuss.
Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph
Session Replay – A Privacy Nightmare?
Ive used session replay tools for years now to help optimize funnels and reduce friction on websites. However, I always meet a privacy concern along the way. Anyone else have this experience?
The next hot strategy is reverse-proxying an actual site to grow a domain's position in search engines.
Cool. I've setup a Google Group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/mathlingua-discuss.
Oh wow, I posted this earlier and assumed it hadn't been picked up. From people's comments here it sounds like I may have missed the mark on some of this. Pull requests always gratefully received.

None the less, the result has been some software which seems to have worked well for those that have used it. I certainly haven't received any angry issues.

I'll link to this thread from that page.
We'll never know, but I imagine strategic positioning in the blame game is very important at the upper rungs of a company like Intel.
Googlers can't use our workstations at home, but we can use our laptops for remote desktop/SSH. Everything else is processed in data centers which means great performance everywhere. We've also got monitors and office chairs to bring home.