skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I should get paid my current salary for my current work. Feedback on my work is that it is "Good" which means the employer is happy paying me for my contributions. I'm not being paid for my labor and time - I'm being paid so long as my employer thinks what I'm giving them is worth it. I'm not grifting anyone - I'm just in an at-will employment arrangement.

Caring about hours worked is for bad managers, plain and simple. The biggest reason to not work in the office is that it's easier to avoid these bottom-of-the-barrel, butts-in-seats leaders. With them out of the way, you're free to tune your output in such a way that keeps your employer happy while also freeing up your life.
> BBC's Sherlock series which doesn't make it possible for the viewer to figure out "who done it", it only has Sherlock swoop in and connect dots that were never shown

I realize this is a little off-topic, but this is something that the original Holmes did as well. Almost every story was solved because Holmes had already spent time "off-camera" doing things, or already happened to know about obscure poisons, etc. It all feels very deus-ex-machina.

It wasn't until the Agatha Christie era when it became customary for mysteries to show all of the clues that the Detective encounters to be also given to the Reader, so that the reader can try to figure it out before the detective exposes things.
I think you are misunderstanding my point, so apologies for being unclear. I am not questioning the actual validity of the data collection or ROI of the projects themselves. I am saying that the market can award value to companies who just signal they are making efforts to "digitally transform" or "invest in data assets" or "monetize data". It doesn't matter if they accomplish them tomorrow, the market is giving value today.

Thanks for sharing your CEO experience, that is not a data point I have encountered. I do think money and power are closely linked, although maybe not as closely as I assumed.

==I felt dumb ever believing that business leaders care directly about money.==

Today, what do you believe they care directly about? Power? Ego?
In the context of lacrosse, it's sad that a First Nations team wouldn't be welcome to compete, since they are arguably closer to the game and more passionate about it than any other nation.

Fun fact, for those unfamiliar with lacrosse: Canada has two national sports: hockey is our national winter sport, while lacrosse is our national summer sport.[1] Most Canadians have probably still never played it, which is a shame because it's at least as amazing to watch or play as hockey. Field or box.

[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/N-16.7/page-1.html
Interesting.

The thinking behind my post was that if you add up training (for the activity they compete in) and all the other physical activities people do, the differences in training volume will be dominated by the other differences -- consider people with jobs that involve manual labor, or, to a lesser extent, bike commuters. Perhaps this was controlled for in the studies?

The other thing I had in mind was people whose sports involve lots of different movements one can practice -- say, ice hockey. I have no idea whether ice hockey shooting practice counts as high intensity... but it's not nothing, and doesn't seem much like ultra running either.
Thanks for the link, I missed that post.
All of these types of power hinge upon our economy/military and the economy/military of other countries. This whole, "he has bad manners" have zero effect on relations. Whoever told you that is brainwashing you
The real gem in this article is the Eviction Estimation tool linked to from the second paragraph:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzRhYjg2NzAtMGE1MC00N...
> A critical shortage of cloth?

Not cloth, but melt-blown (and to some extent spun-bond) non-woven polypropylene. This is the fabric used to make surgical masks, surgical gowns, bouffant caps, and disposable bedding for hospitals. All of these things were in shortage in March and April.

The shortage of melt-blown non-woven fabric itself is now mostly over. Still in shortage are N95 respirators, which use melt-blown electret non-wovens — material given an electrostatic charge so that it attracts particles in the air. International N95-equivalent respirators are available to the public at inflated prices, but genuine (American standard) N95 masks are still difficult to find at any price.

The WHO guidance against mask-wearing was a desperate attempt to mitigate N95 shortages. Even when all major health authorities were telling the public not to use masks of any kind, N95 respirators were widely purchased by people who had no idea how to use them. (I've been in NYC throughout the pandemic. It's extremely common to see N95's worn with facial hair, with un-pinched nose strips, or even with the lower head-strap dangling. N95's have little value if not properly sealed.) The WHO believed advising the public to wear any mask at all would exacerbate N95 hoarding and ultimately cost lives by making them unavailable to hospitals.

[Edit:]

Not sure why I'm getting downvotes for this. This isn't controversial information. Dr. Fauci has given this same explanation for why mask guidance changed:

> [Fauci] also acknowledged that masks were initially not recommended to the general public so that first responders wouldn’t feel the strain of a shortage of PPE.

> He explained that public health experts "were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply.”

> [...]

> “We wanted to make sure that the people, namely the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected,” Fauci concluded.

See: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
Inclusion, control, and openness seem like a very interesting lens through which to examine office politics. It seems like inclusion & control are decided intentionally, while openness is more of a culture thing that depends on the people more than anything else.

To try & combine the 2 frameworks... sometimes there are complex incentives for intentional mis-alignment.

I guess that some information is assumed to be private — sensitive personal info, or tentative strategic shifts (“we’re probably laying off X department next quarter”). But this ever-present masking of underlying intent is something else entirely.

It does seem generally selfish — it’s one of these locally optimal, holistically disastrous behaviors. It seems like openness will inevitably slide away from any organization — it’s generally dangerous to be more open than your peers.

But, anecdotally, I’ve noticed that my assumptions about how “open” my team is become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I generally have better luck when I do the “risky” thing of acting more openly.

Or, to frame the last point differently: static analysis only goes so far, this is a dynamic system, and we ourselves are an important variable.
skateboarding is a very bad example here - there is a noticeable difference in the quality/bearings of a "beginner" equipment that comes from Walmart/Target that costs ~60, and a proper setup from a skateboard shop that costs ~120.

The beginner equipment is more likely to get you hurt by breaking, and the bearings will be very very slow.

For other sports, running/biking/skiing/etc I think this difference is not as pronounced.
I used to love listening to him, really.. (still remember his dtrace talk fondly) but this one was hard to focus on. Lots of uh ah hum. Surprising.
This reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill that tried to pass a legislation concerning the value of pi
Reading “Manager in Shorts” book and quote as I go
As for the pandemic we are currently undergoing, I believe we should use all means possible to put an end to it. This is why i consider XX should lower minimum investment sum to 50 USD, so college students who are on a tight budget can also invest in these startups.
Thank you for the app!

I've created PR for brew cask, as I wanted to be able to add it to my dotfiles.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/86697
> Well, the demon needs to have information about the motion of the atoms, otherwise it does not know when to open the door. The interesting thing about Maxwell’s demon is that it tells us entropy is somehow the opposite of information, you can use information to decrease entropy.

It's the first connection between the laws of physics and the process of computing, although it's a modern reinterpretation (the original interpretation only argued measurements by the demon requires energy). An interesting implication is: all computers in this universe must generate heat because information is lost in the logic circuit. However, if we can construct the logic circuit in such a way that all information is preserved at the output (i.e. reversible) [0], this computer only needs an infinitesimal amount of energy to operate.

Also a fun fact: Do you know that the term "daemon" for background processes was originally named after Maxwell's demon? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Terminology
I tend to ask the motivation of releasing oas after all this time, specially when GitHub already has decent API docs
(https://docs.github.com/en/rest)
For my perspective of this whole argument I will try to make a non-partisan analogy (if such thing is even possible in modern times). Consider two mathematicians, Alice and Bob, solving the same equation f(x) = 0. Alice found the solution to be x = 1 but Bob found x = -1. Maybe Alice has made a mistake, maybe Bob has, maybe both, maybe neither and both 1 and -1 are roots for this equation - we don't know yet.

Now, imagine that instead of discussing their findings directly and arguing about them, both made some judgment about their answer and discussed just the result of that judgment. E.g. Alice asserts that the answer is positive and Bob insists that the answer is negative.

How well would they fare if one side, say Bob, insisted that the other side claims that -1 is positive and hence is completely nuts and objectively cannot perform as a mathematician due to inability to compare -1 to 0? And no, Bob does not think questioning correctness of his answer by Alice is feasible because people who do not understand that -1 is negative do not deserve a courtesy of an argument.

I posit that even if both agree on what numbers are positive and negative there is no discussion and no agreement possible unless both sides allow to discuss the roots of the equation.
By no means am I on the side of the WHO, but I'll try and play devil's advocate here.

How will most people interpret "we don't know"? You and I might understand the wisdom behind admitting to not having enough information, but the average person won't, and the media can easily mock this form of honesty.

Being knowingly wrong or inconsistent seems to be a better strategy since the attention span of the average person is rather short, and appeal to authority is a pretty effective mind trick.
As a Scandinavian who moved to the US, my impressions from my limited personal experience is that

- Swedes do clock out after 8 hours, but they work all that time.

- Americans can spend a lot more time at work, but there is a lot of "just hanging out" going on.
Just had some feedback about the demo: I noticed chapter headings were being underlined (anchor links).

I wonder if I might persuade the layout editor that the aesthetics would be improved if the underlining was removed?

Underlining is a holdover from the days of typewriters, and considered unaesthetic in professional typesetting [1, 2]. It's really only done in scripts, manuscripts and other non-published documents.

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html

[2] https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/4674/is-emphasiz...
Decrypting Diversity: Diversity and Inclusion in Cyber Security [pdf]
That's a reasonable first thought.

When I hear "double taxation" in the US I usually think first of self-employed people sometimes having to pay both income and payroll tax compared to an otherwise employed person only paying income tax.

Then maybe I think about places like Missouri where after you take your post-tax income and buy a car with sales tax on the purchase, you pay yearly for that car as a personal property tax (which does not include your license plate, or inspection, or the city sticker some local places require).
Right, I didn't mean that you didn't know how, just that it's high effort and capital requirement for such early stage companies; which used to be more true for publicly traded companies (phone calls, letters, physical share certificates) and investment clubs were/are a way of pooling resources. Family offices, but a club rather than a family, I suppose.

But it sounds like you want something more like VC-backed ETFs, with a pretty granular or even single-company focus, such that you agree with the underlying's focus, but don't have to deal with the lawyers etc. side of it.

Actually it's been a theme of Matt Levine's that the trend is toward ETF everything, ETFs of ETFs, 'nobody' dealing directly in the underlying.
Real wages for the lower classes and employment numbers for African Americans are/were basically the highest in 50 years. Zuck/Bezos wealth is an inherent outcome of technology...
I dont know how my cheap burnt CD's from the early 2000's are still fine but some of my pressed CD's are suffering from Disc rot!
Google Maps is essentially TripAdvisor with better search, but fewer reviews. In addition, Google Maps is probably the most used GPS routing software these days.

They would do fine standalone, either following a path like TripAdvisor or Garmin or both.
Theoretically, it’s true that DoT can be easily blocked by the network through port blocking and that blocking DoH is a lot more difficult because it’s over the same port (443) as web traffic.

But in reality, the main browser makers embracing DoH have provided very easy mechanisms for network operators to tell browsers not to use DoH. So it’s not like DoH, at least as implemented by the main browsers, is against enterprises and network management.
Caesar's biography by Adrian Goldsworthy is excellent, but quite extensive.
Usually, no. But in this case, yes. This plan was amazingly effective in increasing the power of big business over government. Realize that from the New Deal through the 1970s, about 40 years, there was an adversarial relationship between big business and the government. That was viewed as the proper role of the government, as a counter to economic power. That was a core principle of the New Deal.

That memo, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Business Roundtable, turned that mindset around. It took a lot of time, effort, and money. It created many organizations. Conservative think tanks came from that effort.
Leptitox
There's an HN RSS feed engine which supports user feeds:

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

Reddit and Mastodon (https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius) also support RSS.

Though mostly I don't think I'm posting much of substance presently.

Look for a gitlab static site ... eventually.
Note it is only a theorem. From the wiki:

"The theorem is built on the basic presumption that the laws of quantum mechanics hold."

They may not.
There seems to be a trend where companies are creating tools to monitor data quality...

* Great Expectations: https://github.com/great-expectations/great_expectations

~2 years old, does data profiling

* Data Sentinel: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/data-sentinel-aut...

It's not open sourced however.

* Data Anomaly Detector: https://www.slideshare.net/iblaine/using-airflow-for-tools-d...

Something I built at One Medical that is not open sourced...but this deck has some interesting concepts in it. The approach here is to minimize the effort, lines of code, number of clicks needed, to test your data.

* Amundsen: https://github.com/lyft/amundsen

This is open sourced, and some contributes are building features for data quality analysis. Amundsen seems like it has a bright future.
Actually, by "public companies" I meant "publicly owned/run companies". I can see now that this was poorly worded.

> Governments do not get disrupted short of foreign invasion or revolution

And also elections. This is especially true in countries that don't have a two-party system.
I'm having trouble with backtracking and groups. It's possible I'm doing something wrong, but

[bc]*(cd)+

doesn't seem to match

cbcdcd

Nor does the simpler

a*(ab)

match

aab

But

a*ab

matches aab.
We store "dimensions" as table columns with no artificial limits on column count. If you able to send all dimensions in the same message, they will be stored on one row of data. If dimensions are sent as separate messages, current implementation will store them on different rows. This will make columns sparse. We can change that if need be and "update" the same row as dimensions arrive as long as they have the same timestamp value.

There is an option to store set of dimensions separately as asof/splice join separate tables.
Then you should almost certainly aware of the fact that the spreads on USD currency pairs are extremely low. Low enough where it ends up being cheaper to go Currency A -> USD -> Currency B than it is to go Currency A -> Currency B. If all you want is acceptance and value stability, it doesn't get a whole lot more stable than that.
I think experience (learning where to search) is a part of it.

But a lot of the software I was working with 10 years ago was not open-source - these days I can look up the source all the way to OS level when doing Android stuff for eg.

And documentation is really just much much better - MSDN of old was considered gold standard but nowdays it would be considered bad documentation - like someone else said above docs moved from pure references to more use case focused which makes it much more searchable and eats in SO space.
No pensions, no (worthwhile) 401k's. We all become indentured servants renting for the rest of our lives.
> I think Next is well setup for the long term (5-10 years).

No way. Take as an example one of the most used JS libraries in history (jQuery): released in 2006, and it has been already 4 years or so that it's been slowly substituted by React/Vue/Angular. So, jQuery has had around 10 years of solid development and usage. Saying that Next.js will have between 5 and 10 years of live, it's not realistic (perhaps React will, but Next is going to be dead in 2 years when yet another framework appears that is better/faster/smaller/more featured).
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft has six passenger seats and lots of windows
Well everything is relative. If you lack an example more extreme than you by definition your stance is the most radical - which is neither inherently good nor bad.
> everyone uses Linux for server

And here I am deploying .NET and C++ solutions on Windows Servers, strange definition of "everyone".
Why do most developed nations don't let citizens own guns then?
I'd say that taking money from an organization that runs concentration camps is a bug.
The ones I know of (mine included) aren't giving any discount. They only waive the room and board but you have to pay everything else....
I have heard this exact statement from multiple Swedes. I have seen them goof off just like their American counterparts.
I do not know if one data point, or an anecdotal observation, can be generalized. A good measure would be to look at companies developers worked for after leaving an adult website (for e.g. MindGeek aka Pornhub). And then look at average pay change, duration of stay etc.
The goal with this article was never to show the best or most efficient way to match regular expressions, but rather to convey the correct interpretation of what a given regular expression will do when you try to use it. Even discussions of slow and simple backtracking regular expression matchers are a pretty niche topic and likely too much for casual users of regular expressions.

Yes, I was thinking about also allowing it to optionally cross-compile to the more asymptotically efficient matching algorithm, also documented by Russ Cox. Everything takes time though, and I figured it would make to put this out there before investing too much time in something that possibly no one would use.
Oh.. Sorry, maybe my phrasing was wrong. I was just surprised that some adult websites would just not do that.

If it sounded like I was implying that he was talking about the entire industry, that was not my intent.
Kissat SAT Solver
In superdense coding you send one quantum bit ahead of time and hang onto it’s entangled partner. Then later you send one classical but which, when combined with the quantum bit you shared earlier, conveys two classical bits of your choice.
Build a Live-Updating Covid Dashboard Using Google Sheets and Apache Superset
Covid-19 Hospitalizations (SF, no updates since 7/21 due to Federal reqs)
If you enjoy podcasts, then Mike Duncan's History of Rome is an excellent piece of work. Similarly, his book "Storm Before the Storm" is very good, focusing on the events that began the collapse of the Roman Republic: Sulla, and his civil wars. If you enjoy biographies then Adrian Goldsworthy's books "Caesar" and "Augustus" are very good as well.
I wasn’t actually commenting about the language itself, more about the fact that you can go very far with just a server-side language and powerful hardware without having to use overhyped stuff like microservices and/or Kubernetes which apparently everyone thinks is a must-have nowadays.
Here's what I get:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.forth

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There's no content available for me.
Term limits shift power to lobbying groups and aides who know what the Hell's going on and how to work the system.
Oh! Mars may not be so poor for solar. Inverse-square means less sunlight per area, so less electricity. But thin atmosphere factors in too! Estimated Earth-based solar loses 90% by the time sunlight gets to the ground.

So in fact a solar panel in space around the asteroid belt (outside the orbit of Mars) gets about the same flux per square as Earth ground-based. If I estimated right.

Anyway, talking space-based solar vs ground-based solar (not nuclear). Due to the twin advantages of less atmosphere to get thru, and no/less night.
Exactly, I wonder what's so bad about scrolling on mobile that even reputable news sites need to implement the stupid horizontal swipe.

To the author: Great to see lightweight things anyways, it's nicely done and really swift.
Kudos to Github for trying this. I'm excited to see more SaaS companies "call their shots" and provide insight into their roadmap plans. It seems like a natural evolution of the industry.

For any enterprise SaaS businesses trying this at home – keep in mind that any product information that you publish publicly can and likely will be used against you by a competitor in a sales cycle at some point, fairly or unfairly. This might still be worth it overall, but is a real risk that isn't obvious until it happens to you (or you observe your team doing it to someone else).
Curious, has the President really tried that hard? I can't imagine that he would fail if he made a clean break from Twitter when switching. Love him or hate him, he in a position to command endless press through whichever platform he chooses.