skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you have to shift your mind a little and think in terms of the flow of money. Income is money flowing from "the world" to your assets. In order for your assets to be positive, the income must be negative. Expense is the exact opposite; it's money leaving your assets to go to "the world".

Basically, think of the left side of your equation (expenses + income) as "not yours".
This history of the Business Roundtable blew my mind. It's among Caro's The Power Broker and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States for clarity and myth busting.

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17942038-lobbying-americ...

"Lobbying America" tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders.

Examining the rise of the Business Roundtable and the revitalization of older business associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Waterhouse takes readers inside the mind-set of the powerful CEOs who responded to the crises of inflation, recession, and declining industrial productivity by organizing an effective and disciplined lobbying force. By the mid-1970s, that coalition transformed the economic power of the capitalist class into a broad-reaching political movement with real policy consequences. Ironically, the cohesion that characterized organized business failed to survive the ascent of conservative politics during the 1980s, and many of the coalition's top goals on regulatory and fiscal policies remained unfulfilled. The industrial CEOs who fancied themselves the "voice of business" found themselves one voice among many vying for influence in an increasingly turbulent and unsettled economic landscape.

Complicating assumptions that wealthy business leaders naturally get their way in Washington, "Lobbying America" shows how economic and political powers interact in the American democratic system."
As an alternative perspective, they’d make the exact same rant about how you’re the rotten apple.
Why would you need facial recognition to print a coupon? If the system knows that product A is next to product B, then it can just print B's coupon whenever A is scanned at checkout.
As a profesional mathematician I can say the following: Always start thinking from an example - first take the most simple one that you can come up with, then gradually increase the complexity and include all the possible unusual, weird, extreme, ... cases to really understand why the abstraction is formulated the way it is.

No mathematician ever came up with an abstract theory from the top of their head - they also started from examples and were gradually increasing abstraction only when they understood the matter on a certain level and needed to express this understanding in a simple abstract language in order to move on to the next level of complexity...

It takes quite a lot of time to learn abstract mathematics this way, but it is the only way when you really want to understand what is going on.. But it's normal, mathematical texts are just extremely "dense" - you are not supposed to read them in the same way (and speed) as say history or biology books. So take your time , read every sentence and every formula, read it multiple times if needed, and always have one or more examples in your mind that on which you visualize (in your mind or on a piece of paper) every single bit of the abstract theory you read. It is slower than just reading, but with experience you will be able to it faster and faster until it will turn into a process that automatically runs in the background of your mind anytime you read a mathematical text..

Good luck!
How would you measure the aggregate seriousness of a database, if not with some function of the individual entries of the database? Give me a fucking break, you know damn well I'm right.
What's a good method of (technical) hiring in your view?

For some context on my question:

I'm part of a startup-ish group of people who, frankly, don't have a tech hiring group. We have ~25 engineers (i'm losing track these days lol), but no real manager-engineer bridge. Which translates to, we have a bunch of people who code but none who know how to hire. Unfortunately, i am one of those responsible for hiring, and i've got no clue what to do.

We've gone through various attempts over the years. I've been part of ~15 hires for the company - most of our current tech side, to one degree or another. We heavily value hiring the "person" - so we try to suss out people values and cultural fit, but i think we really suffer from being able to evaluate the technical ability of the candidate.

We're not worried about hiring the top talent of SF - we probably couldn't afford that anyway. But we do want bright people who can grow in the problems we're solving. This is where i'm struggling to improve on, as a person hiring.

Thoughts?
You mean something like https://www.harukizaemon.com/simian/ ?
This was actually posted on Marginal Revolution today with the exact preface "Let's not give them twitter"

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/07/he...
> Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality.

This is patently false, and probably a reflection of the Google bubble you live in.

DeepL is pretty objectively superior to Google, as evaluated by journalists who natively speak the languages it translates in the articles linked on their website. You can find plenty of in depth reviews online, and every one I've read has admitted that it's at absolute worst as bad as Google Translate. Edit: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/deepl-schools-other-online...

Maps is a different story, but there are certainly better options for certain specific needs. I'd like to see the noise-pollution based routing service on HN's frontpage yesterday remade with Google Maps.

Search is somewhat subjective, but I haven't used Google Search in several years and I don't consider an engine that requires me to scroll past page after page of ads — including what amount to ads for services like Google's inferior flight service, that won't necessarily be easily removed by an "out of the box" ad blocker — high quality.

And those are the services you picked. The article has a great little analysis of Google Flights and why "It did not crack the top 10 of Frommer’s 2020 ranking of airfare search engines, for instance" and why the FTC's leaked documents called it out for providing less options. (Spoiler: Up to 80% more expensive flights, when it found flights at all).
Supposedly tempura started as a result of Portuguese traders in Japan.
I just use both DDG and Google if needed via !G. That way i get more results from different sources.
These hardly prevent all accidents.
Absolutely this. I'm a contractor in UK financial services (primarily) and see this pattern across all of the large UK and global financial institutions you've heard of.
Sometimes you don't know what the minimum viable is because you are a beginner and don't know yourself well in that field.

For example, I started running with shoes that were somewhat fine for beginners when I would double-check online, but happened to have limitations that affected people who practice a lot, or people who don't practice properly, or in my case undiagnosed issues (hypermobility of the knee). In my case getting those shoes with too much shock absorption was actually dangerous because it prevented the feedback loop of auto-correction from being built. This led to some habits that I didn't notice were bad and later on led to a pain in my knee that has, despite my best efforts and much rest over the last 8 years, entirely prevented me from the freedom of running.

Another example I've encountered is with the guitar: the first one I picked up was this entry-entry-level thing that was viable for my budget but hindered my interest in practice because I didn't just encounter the physical pain you encounter when learning the guitar, but also the pain you get from badly adjusted guitars with high action and uneven frets and fairly crappy wood. I gave up on it a few times. But I eventually tried again and made the hypothesis that the hindrance was the guitar, and after testing that hypothesis I committed to buying a better one which enabled me to actually learn things that flat out seemed impossible on a crappy piece of wood. Years later, I'm far away from all my good guitars and I buy this entry-level thing because I miss playing.. and it's been hanging there mostly untouched because of how bad it just feels.

I think it's much smarter to spend some time testing out things with other people's help and to borrow stuff for a while whenever possible, but on average to commit to something above entry-level if you're trying to be serious about anything. You'll save yourself a decent amount of time, you can give yourself a progress curve that looks much smoother, and when comes the time to truly upgrade you'll have something solid to use as a base to look at higher quality tools.

edit: notwithstanding the fact that in many cases you have zero resell-value for physical tools that are entry-level, while something average will at least go for a reasonable percentage of the original price
> It stored debit as negative numbers.

Did it display assets in the balance sheet as negative numbers?

> the one comment I got from an accountant on here it seemed fine with debit as negative numbers

Was that accountant fine with assets as negative numbers?

> Goldman Sachs absolutely know that they have DB$1tn!

The did have $1tn in their balance sheet. No DB, no CR. Just $1tn.
Need Charles Bukowski model.
Toxic people will use whatever excuse is necessary to justify their behaviors.

If they want to wage slave, slave away. Leave the rest of us out of the theater production. Unless your job involves life safety, it doesn’t matter all that much.
Actually Wal-Mart does have health care facilities in some states now[0]. They will probably roll these out as they can but many states have politicians and embedded providers that will fight them tooth and nail. The most common means is through Certificate of Need, this basically means that the claim can be made the hospital or service is not needed as there are sufficient offerings in existence.

They also sell like other stores generic medicines at very low costs; the issue being is some reimbursement setups exclude some of these and some politicians did not like the idea of cheap medicines because it undermined their position.

[0] https://www.walmart.com/cp/care-clinics/1224932
> *I don't entirely understand your search engine idea

Does google allow for iframeing or customizing it's search results? No. A new search engine that has a API/plugin for 3rd party websites so that websites can integrate a global search engine into the website like google integrates websites' content into its instant answers. There is room for innovation here when 3rd party websites get creative in displaying global search results in different ways simple or complicated ways. If there are Ads in results, the website gets paid a % of the ad revenue that the search engine made due to the website embedding it's results.

Search engine's are high margin business, so they should be able to share 50% revenue with websites.
'computational photography' is interesting because it requires a different way of thinking about what an image is than what we were used to. As if going through a certain shaped lens is the only way to make "real" photos.

My own thinking on the subject got severely reshaped when I took it upon myself to write some alternative lens models for Chunky[1] (the Minecraft scene path-tracer) and later my own path-tracer[2]. Once I realized that every pixel on the screen could be mapped to any virtual light-sensor position and direction, suddenly projections were arbitrary. I could define a lens that wrapped around the subject, pointing inwards if I wanted, and that was no less 'real' than a pinhole or fisheye lens.

Of course modern phones take things a bit further than just straightforward transformations. Guessing what's between the pixels or selectively blending multiple images together maybe crosses my subjective threshold between what I think of as a 'real image' and a 'made-up' one. Especially as the AI gets smarter. Because I can no longer understand exactly what happened.

[1] https://chunky.llbit.se/
[2] https://github.com/TOGoS/SolidTree/
There was a company called "stop lift" that deployed cameras on its check out lines. Looking for fraud by employees and probably self checkout.
Whenever I'm in a store at the cashiers I look up and often see lots of camera domes above the register.

https://www.stoplift.com/about/why-stoplift/
At the same time, the runtime has been upped from 50ms to 15mins, and much faster cold starts, according to https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/27/cloudflare_serverless.... That might get them more customers.
Snarky explanation: same reason why you need blockchain in a private, single writer database

Charitable explanation: maybe it covers additional use cases such as you stopping to look at a product, but end up not buying it.
Out of curiosity which flight search is better than flights.google?
FFS can people stop defending China every time someone calls them authoritarian.
The sad part is you can use any mainstream email sending service like sendgrid and it works no problem. You can even have a completely phony "From:" header and it will land in the inbox [0]. And BTW gmail isn't even the worst, I could still easily make it into spam from my own server. With outlook/hotmail I couldn't even make it that far.

I wish people who praise Email as an example of decentralization working actually went through that exercise.

[0] yes it will show "via sendgrid.net" so perhaps by design the domain in "From" isn't checked, but still...
I would have loved this when I worked on a regex engine a few years back. It was before I took my CS theory course and had no idea what an automaton was. Let me tell you, having a formal theory and visualization in front of you while working on something is extremely helpful.

This looks like it would be a great tool for both people looking to learn, and those who are looking to optimize their regular expressions as well.
They can claim "Advanced Targeted Marketing using machine vision and AI" and charge 10x more for the product
Read

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Deve...

and

https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...

Also think: if the business does project A, how much money does that make for us or save for us? From a developer standpoint I have gotten the business people to tell me a value that is a fraction of the cost of the product. You fold that one and free up resources for project B which is the other way around.
On lethal autonomous weapons with Paul Scharre
OTOH all he had to do was throw in a quick throw away phrase and it was like a tarpit for you. You were so hung up on it you never got to explaining why his post was poorly argued.
Pledge for sustainable research in theoretical computer science
Turns out Google has been doing this for my own site on certain pages. If I search for:

devtools capture element screenshot

It has listed the exact instructions on the search results page: https://i.imgur.com/NTdDjZY.png

Can I get an outsider perspective, are those 4 list items shown in the rich snippet too many? Is it too wordy? I'm wondering if a single item which said:

Search for screenshot in the Command Menu (Cmd + Shift + P)

Would be better?
You don’t

> It would be trivial to add face recognition to this stack, and I strongly suspect it is in fact offered if you ask for it.
> I never understood this from an economic perspective. The USA has rules in place for hiring non-citizens to come the country and fill jobs in landscaping. There are X slots a year.

"X" is effectively zero. A few people get in legally via refugee status or family relationships, but in practice the number of green cards issued is a tiny, tiny fraction the number of jobs that are actually done by immigrant workers.

And it seems like covid isn't adjusting this much. Newly-unemployed legal workers are not rushing into fill gaps in, say, farm worker employment that were previously held by undocumented people. The "Americans won't do these jobs" theory seems to be holding.
In fact, people can't accurately identity peoples faces, there have been many convictions of people based on people recognizing faces in a line up, and their recall of said persons face being completely wrong.

So by your own logic alone this technology should be dismantled.

You defer to a fantasy utilitarian argument, where the material interests of the average human right now should be subjugated to possible technological advancement. This makes your moral and ethical compass devoid of any humanity. This is truly a horrifying set of morals you have put forth.
How to Build a Good API That Won’t Embarrass You
I think this is worth looking at to see the history of why building distributed systems is hard.

Also this, "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Is a good kind of funny explanation of what can go wrong.

Lamport obviously did spend his career fixing the problem and we owe a tremendous amount to him.
For one example, read the docs for Beancount, which is mentioned above.

Signed values are the way to go!
The book Lobbying America details the history of Business Roundtable and replacing The New Deal with Reaganism. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17942038-lobbying-americ...

Sure, course corrections are always needed, but there's no denying the oversteer of the neoliberal policies since. We've learned a lot since the 70s and it's probably productive to update our mental models and worldview.
Hello! I'm also working on something similar: http://www.yourcityracing.com. I plan to make the toolset open source (https://twitter.com/jjmontes/status/1288109714631348226).
New York's Laundromats Are Managing to Avoid the Coin Shortage
There is some information about what building type it is, residential, commercial, it's different how much is tagged in different parts of the world, this is Berlin so quite a lot is tagged, but not all.

I'm thinking that using the information where there is information and then doing the rest randomly with some rules is a good way forward. Of course the type of building doesn't say which style it is in but I've been thinking about using area size of OSM building shape for example, a very big area is probably a modern one, a very tall one as well if that information is there.

There seams to be some movement around mapping the building style and/or features in the ML space though, using crowd sourced images, point clouds. Would be amazing to be able to feed that into the system and get facade material, color, architectural style.

-stina flodström
> Why are you decreasing the number in two columns?

It's not two columns, it's both sides of the equation:

Assets = Equity + Liabilities

So if you're decreasing equity, but not gaining any liability, then the only option is to decrease assets to be balanced.
I play bass, and my advice for people who are new to an instrument is to invest a bit of money. (For bass guitar, this means spending $250-$350 for your first guitar).

You can buy a bass for under $100, but many of these guitars cannot be set up properly. The strings sit really high, so you need to apply a lot of pressure to play (the alternative being that they buzz against the frets).

Learning on an instrument like that adds a lot of frustration. What's worse, it can teach you a lot of bad habits, like over-gripping.
Thank you, Now I feel dumb. I was so preoccupied in digging inside the source to see if it was plain html video tag or are they using custom player that I didn't see Youtube mirror beneath each video and more over my google whacking skills failed me.

>I would be really interested to know what software he uses to make the videos

I would like to know the encoding parameters he uses to convert the video to .mp4, because when ever I convert my video to .mp4 with handbrake or ffmpeg it fails to play properly in <video></video> in one or more browsers resulting in me putting 3 different sources in my blog (Twitter, direct .mp4/.webm links)[1].

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/butt-pomodoro-a-butt-triggered-po...
I built one of these, modified the firmware to show leap seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQaPtOPP09U
>So eager to remove choices from someone else.

Oh people can't afford a car if it has seatbelts? Poor people should be able to buy unsafe cars! It's their choice!
This seems similar to Hangfire/Quartz. What does Runly do differently/better?

EDIT: Any plans to support other languages, e.g. everyone's favourite language to hate (JavaScript)?
The shittier the product the more agressive sales people are required to sell it?
> It will then add a blur to that background to simulate Bokeh.

Yeah, and it looks completely awful and utterly fake. The author forgot to mention that 'detail'.
Pity, zero proposals to increase safety when using C is the only option for whatever business reasons.
... Are you blaming labor unions for the oil embargo?
Wikipedia has, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Courant:

Courant left Germany in 1933, earlier than many Jewish escapees. He did not lose his position due to being Jewish, as his previous service as a front-line soldier exempted him; however, his public membership in the social-democratic left was reason enough (for the Nazis) for dismissal
Counterpoint: as your online identity becomes more and more of your brand, the need for a professional, high-quality headshot is more important than ever.

(Less so for full-time engineers, but absolutely for management, sales, consultants, etc.)

Headshot photographers not only provide crucial professional lighting expertly adjusted for the contours of your face, but also have a grab bag of techniques to establish rapport and get an authentic, confident, warm expression out of you that is almost impossible to get otherwise for most people. Not to mention work with you to get the right tone and look -- the background and lighting and expression a quirky food blogger needs will be totally different from a conservative CEO, which again is totally different from Brooklyn fiction author.

And because of people's need to brand themselves online, headshot photographers who 20 years ago had actors as 95% of their business, now have business professionals as a majority of their clients. Business is booming.

The photo studio isn't going anywhere -- it's just changing what and who we need to take photos of.
The End of Open-Plan Everything
Neutron radiation leads to embrittlement in many materials, so the long term effects will have to be considered in addition to short term corrosion rate improvements.
Before implementation (and probably before choosing who does what), have the engineering team(s) estimate effort required for each granular work item in their upcoming release/sprint/month/whatever. Afterwards, you’ll have a measurement of velocity. Pivotal does this with Tracker so they’ve documented it: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/articles/planning_with_v..., https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/healthier-approach-estim...

Note that, as they say, “Velocity is a planning tool, not a goal or a competition. Quality is a much healthier and more useful goal.“ However much effort you spend caring about velocity, spend many times as much caring about quality - code/implementation choices, UX, resulting impact to the product/business, etc.