skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.govexec.com/management/2016/02/usps-records-firs...
Attention scarcity is real. "When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive." James Gleick, paraphrasing others earlier. An abundance of information makes scaarce what information consumes: attention. There are only 24 hours, or 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds, in a day. Whether it's individual humans or groups, our capacity to assimilate information is profoundly finite. No matter how many stories there are, there are only ten top-ten slots.

Attention is inextricably rivalrous.

I'm not convinced that true capital abundance is possible, but that's a different argument.

I will argue that attention scarity and capital scarcity are simultaneously possible.
Is there an alternative to iCloud for backing up the iPhone? I’ve kind of given up on checking what’s aloud this year.
This idea certainly has more legs than the first one. It's like a battery equivalent of the reserve tank that motorcycles (used to?) have. You run until the engine cuts out, then you flip the valve to switch to the reserve tank and you know you have at least 100km or whatever left to find a petrol station.

Reserving, say, 10% of your overall capacity would add much less strain on the system and still give you the most important part of the results. Conventional techniques such as Coulomb counting and estimation from voltage are still probably more practical but it's fun to consider alternatives. :)
I find that the most common usage is for someone describing what they think is a small, very specific fact, but is in fact just a repetition of an old wives' tale with no veracity whatsoever. So maybe the original definition isn't intentionally used that often, but it does end up being relevant quite a lot!
Yeah, Teams tends to murder conversation. It's not even broken, its just not quite worth engaging with.
Is there a patent for this?
I agree.

We are removing statutes of Confederate figures and slave holders now. Schools, buildings are being renamed.

I expect this list of schools named after Barack Obama to grow larger: https://www.google.com/search?q=schools+named+after+barack+o...

Here is Barack Obama ordering burgers at Five Guys burgers: https://www.google.com/search?q=barack+obama+five+guys&sourc...

It is well within bounds to imagine future generations being absolutely incensed that schools are named after meat-eaters consuming the end product of industrialized slaughter.

It is easy to imagine future generations seeing us as monsters.

Are we monsters?
This is a good point. Gig work is unfalsifiable and worth as much as a blank period to an employer trying to see if you are a good fit.

Hell, you could lie and say that you were an Uber driver and there is literally no way for this to be verified.
It’s like Scott G says, better to be a mediocre company in a great market, than a superbly-managed company in a bad market.
Idk, it’s gonna be all anecdotes but, when I was a teenager I pirated software heavily too, but then when I finished high school I paid for an academic license for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection for my own personal use for example, as well as a few other pieces of software prior to that. And mind you, there was no cloud stuff that forced me to buy it, I just chose to. And I’ve bought a bunch of other software too since then. As well as many games both before and after.

I think more so what made me stop pirating software altogether, and instead either paying for it, or using FOSS alternatives, was in part the realization that it was going to be a bit silly for me to want to get into software development and wanting to get paid for my own software, while at the same time continuing to pirate software. So that is the main reason I stopped pirating software I think. That and the fact that I learned about a lot of FOSS when I started at the university.
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The world hasn't been the same since Google disrupted video games with Stadia.
> How is that relevant?

User experience is incredibly relevant. The entire purpose of the platform is to match drivers and riders. If it can do that more effectively, it has become better as an independent platform.
My experience with Slack was it is a litmus test for your company culture. If you have people prone to histrionics and complaining, it's going to encourage that. If you have cliquish attrition-game players, they're going to create their own parallel channel scheme. If you have grandstanding drama queens who work an audience, it's the weapon of choice for the sort of people who send emails with long cc' lists. If you have hustlers who pretend you owe them things and always seem to cc' your boss, they will use public channels for off hours callouts that sit for hours before you can respond.

The one anti-pattern personality that Slack does mitigate well is people who use in person meetings and phone calls to make after the fact misrepresentations, and I suppose, sales.
Throwing opinions here, but after working a bit with Shopify themes, there might be some reasons to stick with SSR rather than aggressive caching. First, the storefront can be dynamic depending on visitor region/login/logout. Second, Shopify have most of the logic on the backend, even having non-js html nodes for ordering/add to cart. Third, I don't think the visit distribution of the stores makes caching economically viable (the top 20% store probably don't account for +60% server load).
> But I personally would not like having the system I bought as a phone suddenly change in function allowing side-loaded software.

This is exactly the problem. Apple can and does routinely change the functioning of their phones, and if you prefer the old functionality you have no recourse, because Apple contractually forbids you from installing software of your choosing.
Isn't that just supply and demand finding the market price for something?
Well, as for non-‘vanity journals’, I would say the anonymous peer review process. Similarly, the publishing process after the initial anon peer review process can be generative + a healthy back and forth revision process. Plus it has the potential to take you out of sub-sub discipline echo chambers w/r/t some aspects of methodologies and other approaches to even writing/explication. Largely, though, I would say from both sides, (I.e. reader and scholar), the journal and all that comes with it (I.e. peer review process, the academic press and their branding, in some disciplines the main editors can also lend something to this) lend a greater degree of credibility and confidence in the expertise of the scholar(s). I mean this in a sort of take it for what it is, the positive and the unseemly all at once, sort of way.
We should have less transparency, not more. Right now the peer review process is single-blind, but it really should be double-blind.

Even if someone doesn't have a PhD or work at a research institution, they should be able to publish good science. Right now, that just isn't possible. And the opposite problem is also true: if you're a big shot in your field, you'll be able to find at least one journal that will publish whatever crap you submitted, regardless of the quality.
On my computer, Safari and Chrome both display in sRGB while Firefox displays in the "native" (aka wild west) RGB. You can verify this by opening up the "Digital Color Meter" app.
In proportion to the margin, the "service cost" is already astronomically expensive.

Moreover, the the click accept "contract" is not license for extortion -- does not make extortion legal. A mere contract does not make arson legal, even if accidental; does not make man-slaughter legal, etc.

The computer fraud and abuse act applies, regardless of contract. Adobe accessed user computers/hosts in a way inconstant with user defined permissions, usage policies, etc. I have a usage policy that you "signed" or did the equivalent of "clicked through": if you (Adobe) elect to install your automatic app update on my host hardware, you certify that you will not delete any data files stored on that hardware. Just because Adobe did not bother to read the language of my hardware usage policies, which has language that it "superceedes all other agreements between the hardware host owner and the app installer, does not mean that they/Adobe are "immune" and can simply ignore their liability for IP destroyed.

There has to be a way to get these $#%@#% -- enough is enough.
I am almost certain 6$/hr doesn't count depreciation and only part of maintenance. Just fuel costs mean that if you were to drive an average of 20mph, you would pay on average 3$ in gas (in California).
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> “They create problems, high-school-type problems,” one CEO of a midsized firm told me. “People are making fun of co-workers, they’re acting unprofessionally, and it’s technically a company system.”

The crux of this is that Slack enables long, heated arguments that normally would be defused by:

1. Being surrounded by your coworkers

2. The frown of your manager

3. The strain on the faces of those around you

It basically comes down to 80s/90s era concepts of netiquette: try to imagine that the person you're writing your response to is a thinking and feeling individual, and imagine their reaction to your words. Read out your words that you've written in the heat of the moment and think hard about how they'll be felt when read.

If you have an employee who is prone to ridiculing others and won't desist from doing so when asked...

FIRE

THEM
In proportion to the margin, the "service cost" is already astronomically expensive.

Moreover, the the click accept "contract" is not license for extortion -- does not make extortion legal. A mere contract does not make arson legal, even if accidental; does not make man-slaughter legal, etc.

The computer fraud and abuse act applies, regardless of contract. Adobe accessed user computers/hosts in a way inconstant with user defined permissions, usage policies, etc. I have a usage policy that you "signed" or did the equivalent of "clicked through": if you (Adobe) elect to install your automatic app update on my host hardware, you certify that you will not delete any data files stored on that hardware. Just because Adobe did not bother to read the language of my hardware usage policies, which has language that it "supersedes all other agreements between the hardware host owner and the app installer, does not mean that they/Adobe are "immune" and can simply ignore their liability for IP destroyed.

There has to be a way to get these $#%@#% -- enough is enough.
I don’t disagree with some of your other points, but having problems and being inclined to complain about them are often separate things.

Like at startups, there are often a ton of problems, naturally. At some startups people complain a lot. At some they’re good at fixing or ignoring problem for some greater goal. Aiming for the latter (I.e not amplifying) should be a goal as well while you reduce your problems.
First of all, "Basic economics/psychology informs" does not constitute empirical proof that UHC leads to decreased "innovation" (which is a weasel word in itself).

Second, even if we granted the premise that UHC leads to less healthcare innovation, this doesn't mean that there's "infinite harm" in to people in the future. Unless you're claiming you have a crystal ball, there is absolute 0 epistemic basis on which to make this claim. For all we know, not having UHC leads to nuclear war and we all die. Or, having UHC leads to the singularity. Etc.

Third, even if we grant that there's an innovation advantage to for-profit medicine AND we grant that you can predict the future, that still doesn't mean that there's "infinite harm", precisely because "harm" is comparative. I would argue that we've picked most of the low-hanging fruit of human medicine and that the marginal utility produced by new treatments is far outweighed by the human suffering of our for-profit system.
Perhaps it's consistent with computation being done in many "parallel universes," but with heavily restricted communication - in this model it's almost trivial to parallelize work (flip a quantum coin, do A if heads else B), what's tough is making sure that you don't get parallelized along with the work (i.e. that you don't become entangled with the computation) and making sure there's a way to accumulate the parallel computation into something that's singly-readable and useful.
Changing code may be progress. Replacing working code with code that works less well is definitely not progress, though.

The problem is that working old code often has far more corner cases and bug fixes in it than you think. It's easy to "replace" it with something that is buzzword-compliant and that uses the new shiny, but that doesn't cover all the cases and doesn't have all the needed bug fixes. That's not a step forward.
Living in an apartment is what has fucked me over. I like living in a small space. But that was fine when everything I did was outside that space - Gym/Pool/Sports/Restaurants.

Swimming is my thing. I don't know why but it makes me feel normal like no other exercise can. but the pools have been closed for months now here in Melbourne (excluding a couple of weeks in the middle there).

Now I'm just depressed, stuck in isolation, borders are closed and can't visit my friends or family. Everyone saying this shit is easy for introverts have no idea. They seem to think introverts don't do anything or never used to leave their house?

Talking to a therapist maybe helps but as other people have said, not knowing if there is any end in sight is what sucks. Not sure why I'm venting to you.
We know how to solve this problem:just use an order book or auction.
Yeah I do not understand why the author waited so long to disclose and also feels that Google deserves a "stellar job" here. Sure, Google patched the bug very quickly after disclosure. But given that Google waited so long, it sure looks like they only prioritized the fix once disclosure was a risk. If anything, I think that the author should have scheduled disclosure sooner.
Yeah I remember when no one but nerds like us used the web
I have always been curious about this. What did the drivers do before these services existed? What prevents them from returning to their previous life if workings for Uber/Lyft is really as bad as I have been told it is? Why did they start driving in the first place?
> Nick and Andrew did a similar experiment, they found no effects whatsoever.

> And so they send this to a journal and the response they got was, well, you know, you probably wouldn't expect an effect because this is not fairly novel information to the students. So we are not going to publish this because it's not really surprising.

I don't quite understand that example.

If every one else in their papers indeed suggested that telling students of the cost should solve the issue, and everyone believed them, then how can it be claimed that the experiment results are not surprising. The whole point was to disprove what apparently was blindly accepted because of common sense; being then told that in fact the opposite is common sense seems like a slap in the face.

I didn't read the paper, so maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure it's actually a good example for that journal. Had they done experiment in isolation with no preexisting notion or consensus of what might solve the graduation issue, maybe.
+1 for this. I used Lightroom in school, tried Darktable on my Linux machine at home and found it perfectly usable, though with a bit of learning curve of course.
Just try to see with your eyes closed, its just a "soft-shutdown", the eyes keep operating.
That is highly specific to your own agreement, and such penalties are usually only for the first 3-5 years. For myself, I have always negotiated 0 prepayment penalties.
Differing inputs causing verification failures is indeed an issue. In addition to data access races, replication latency also causes this. The legacy service always reads from the primary MySQL instances per shard, but the new service always reads from replicas for scalability and geo distribution.

One slightly helpful mitigation we have in place relies on a data versioning system meant for cache invalidation. The version is incremented after data changes (with debouncing). To reduce false negatives, we throw out verification requests where the two systems saw different data versions. It's far from perfect, but it's been effective enough.
Peak privilege, maybe?
The Dynamex Decision [0] has held that the State of California has always considered drivers to be employees.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamex_Operations_West,_Inc._...
Narcissism is usually associated with self flattery or egocentricism, as opposed to selfish self-determinism/control (unless in the form of performant displays of anti-lockdown value-signalling).

COVID inspired woke-scolding is more narcissistic.
This is just a geothermal unit with the evaporator built around the load and instead of air to air transfer through convection it is air to air transfer through radiation... nothing but smoke and mirrors. The problem with efficiency and A/C is the excess heat generated by the compression element of the Refrigeration Cycle. The closest thing to 100% efficiency is achieved through absorption chillers that utilize an internal chemical reaction based off of external heat to produce compression through a metered system... neat idea though. Heating systems that utilize the same process are different though - you can achieve greater than 100% efficiency with the use of flash gas bypass designs that will say for example produce 1.5 tons of heat in a 1 ton system.
It's equally insulting to posit the straw-men arguments like this. The degree to which BLM protests do any good is debatable. The degree to which they need to be public displays, mid-pandemic is also debatable, unless you are worried that the US is going to run out of seething hate and police brutality incidents by the time the pandemic is over.
Well, and that's kind of an extension of this. Real security where you own the phone and the software for it is a premium feature only available to people who can pay <ask for quote.>
Well, no, because if you are an Uber driver the vast majority of the depreciation in the value of your car comes from driving Uber. Cars depreciate in large part due to mileage.

Finally, "marginal wear and tear" is a completely absurd concept. The cost of wear and tear on maintenance of a car has a positive derivative and thus has no margin, the more wear and tear the more expensive wear and tear gets. In other words, the limit of the cost of wear and tear as wear goes to infinity is divergent towards positive infinity. Thus, there is no marginal cost.
It’s not hard to cross compile for windows with mingw. As long as you’re not using something like gtk.
it's funny because this looks like badly organized workplace

in a group of skilled people it can still happen

is it due to bad leadership ?
So one data point. Sounds like they didn't differentiate themselves well enough from the fixed bid contract. The great thing about fixed price per sprint is they have to impress you with progress every sprint or they risk losing the job. That's great at motivating them to deliver value to you every sprint. Another way your interests are aligned: you know how many sprints you want to pay for. That motivates you to prioritize the most important features so they are completed before you run out of budget and sprints. What a great way to manage risk.
They eat them in Iceland. Traditionally buried in the soil to rot for a while. Apparently they taste of ammonia. Disgusting.
The outdoor fresh air intakes are typically via ERVs (Energy recovery ventilation systems). These systems bring in fresh air, filter it, and typically run it through a heat exchanger to minimize energy losses as the fresh air comes and and the stale air goes out.

The purpose is to prevent buildup of harmful gasses and VOCs (everything from CO2 to CO to regular out-gassing of furnitures, etc) that can become dangerous if not cycled regularly.
Shopify has traditionally been an example people have pointed to for scaling a monolith with a large growth factor in all areas: team size, features, user base size, general "scale" of the company.

Does anyone on here, who has worked on this project or internally at Shopify, feel that this project was successful? Do you think this is the first, of a long and gradual process, where Shopify will rewrite itself into a microservice architecture? It seems like the mentality behind this project shares a lot of commonly claimed benefits of microservices.

> Over the years, we realized that the “storefront” part of Shopify is quite different from the other parts of the monolith

Different goals that need to be solved with different architectural approaches.

> storefront requests progressively became slower to compute as we saw more storefront traffic on the platform. This performance decline led to a direct impact on our merchant storefronts’ performance, where time-to-first-byte metrics from Shopify servers slowly crept up as time went on

Noisy neighbors.

> We learned a lot during the process of rewriting this critical piece of software. The strong foundations of this new implementation make it possible to deploy it around the world, closer to buyers everywhere, to reduce network latency involved in cross-continental networking, and we continue to explore ways to make it even faster while providing the best developer experience possible to set us up for the future.

Smaller deployable units; you don't have to deploy all of shopify at edge, you only need to deploy the component that benefits from running at edge.
I read that too. Loved it. An unexpected gem!
From size considerations, Electron apps can be more precisely described as a browser containing exactly one web app that it always runs.
> but their description of cold things sucking thermal radiation doesn't jive with my freshman-physics understanding of thermodynamics.

Pseudoscience alarms started to sound in my head, until I read the comments.

If I understood this correctly - you will still radiate heat as normal. But, since the thermal radiation you emit will reach these things (assuming line of sight), you won't have much reflected back at you (or at nearby objects, which would heat them up). And so, you feel colder, even though the air is not being chilled.

That would make sense, similar to how we can make ice during the night even in a desert. You can radiate heat into space(as not all thermal radiation will be absorbed by the air)

https://tecped.com/process-of-freezing-ice-in-the-desert-acc...
Hmm... it seems like this would be a good thing for undergrads to do in a class setting or an internship. It would give them experience writing an actual paper, albeit with null results.
It’s such a reversal. Historically Chunky woman were often considered more ideal since that meant wealth and status.

Skinny woman meant poverty.

Difficult to carry fat on a diet of turnips.
Great article. I am not keen on relying on Edge for Windows, but that solution is a hell of a lot better than Electron.
"Faster" languages often have big advantages in small benchmarks which get a lot smaller or even reverse once you're looking at whole application performance.

Mandelbrot (from CLBG)
Ruby 246s
NodeJS 8s
Java 4s

Web (fortunes from TE benchmarks)
Ruby + Roda + Sequel 51k rps
NodeJS + Express 46k rps
Java + Dropwizard 62k rps
Now I'm remembering... They had the phi as a coprocessor in a PCI slot, effectively making it just as issue as a GPU. But the second gen (knights landing) made the phi the host processor, but removed almost all ability for external devices. It had potential I think, but it was a weird transition from v1 to v2.