skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Entity modeling was one of the big inspirations to our approach. The main difference is how do you reassemble the single time-series table to create any table.

This was quite a challenge and I think what makes the traceability and source of truth problem a lot simpler.

In Narrator, the data team writes small SQL to create single customer centric business concepts that we call activities. These are around 25 lines and decided to be understood by anyone in the company (i.e. "viewed page", "called us",...).

Now, every question you or a stakeholder has will simply be a rearrangement of these activities. If you can describe what you want, then Narrator can assemble a table that represent it.

Source of truth - What ever is in the activity stream?
Tracebility - always Dataset (activities and how they relate), then activities (~25 SQL).
Coherent Model - Customers doing actions in time.

Does that make sense? Some of these things are easier to show in a demo then describe in text.
Not having the time to concern yourself with politics isn't a position of neutrality or agnosticism. You can only adopt that position if the status quo of a society provides you sufficient protection, stability, prosperity, etc. to allow you to tune it out. If those conditions aren't true, it's not possible to "not concern yourself with politics" in a Maslow's hierarchy sense. And so doing so is unavoidably a tacit defense of the status quo.
You're hitting the nail on the head but people can't bring themselves to accept you're right.

Yes the OP lovingly crafted his skills over a period of several years, but let's face it, his skills are commodities and you too could have achieved his success if you took a shortcut to hire someone to produce an icon pack quickly and professionally and then partnered with an influencer to sell the productized version of it.

Probably 94% of the success here is due to the influencer's exposure. The moral of the story is become good friends with influencers in relevant industries and be ready to act quickly on new business ideas, and keep access to cash to invest in whatever is needed.
Yeah but you are mixing people in equation with your examples with ethnicity.

Imagine two same ethnicity neighborhoods, with same economic wealth, one has crime rate 2% other 0.5%, would you think it would be discrimination to allocate more police force to 2% one?

For the interview part, imagine I am saying I am only hiring CS graduates, and A ethnicity has 10% CS graduates, B has 1%, am I discriminating?
That’s difficult when yes-man culture advances the velocity of desired features, and by extension happy boards. There is an often unspoken violence (to human expression) in conformity.
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I just remembered that voicemeter is windows-only, but on the chance that you are using windows You can see my voicemeter setup here: https://forum.vb-audio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1201&p=4282&s...

It looks intimidating but it's actually only a few changed settings. My email address is in my profile if you have any questions.
If Linus had done that we would not have Linux.
Understood, thank you. So, essentially, you have used the language immersion approach, on top of a light introductory course, enriched by regular vocabulary building. Sounds reasonable to me.
Ironically this unwillingness to accept that things have changed forever (forever here meaning next 2-3 years atleast) is exactly what the article talks about. The sooner you accept this the easier it will be to continue with life.
Do you have data to suggest that will happen? People like to live and work in Seattle, just like they like to live and work in California and New York. Or Europe.

Will some folks get grumpy about taxes and leave? Maybe, but I don't have any data to suggest that it will materially matter.
Oh Dear, Rust Again
The portable bluetooth speaker market is incredibly crowded already, with offerings from some names like JBL, Bose, Sony and whatnot.
Sweden – keep in mind though that we have a much much more compressed salary variation than the US. That goes for both private companies and government agencies.
The main difference is the reason that a senior engineer or VP gets hired.

It is not to write code by themselves. It is to help other people do it.

For this, being a walking encyclopedia certainly helps. Of course, there's probably a correlation with being able to solve the programming puzzles in such a situation, too.
Do the people making the statements you quoted have more context/information, or are they just more vocal.

In my experience, there has never been a shortage of people with practically no information communicating very strong opinions online?
Activity, Customer, Time, Activity, 3 features, Revenue impact. source and source_id (for identity resolution) and a couple of meta data columns.

You can see some example transformations here:
https://docs.narrator.ai/docs/by-data-source
Best PA EQ so far! Added to https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio#Processing
Where is the racism in the GP comment?
They allow the access because "good behaving" advertisers can use it to do animation and such without having to load high-bandwidth media files.

It is a feature of their display ads system that user privacy is protected and advertisers shouldn't be able to solve to a user when the ad is displayed (though they can, of course, begin a business arrangement with a user if the user clicks the ad; that's called a "conversion"). Scammers that abuse the JS layer fly under the radar because Google will ban their display ads account if they get caught abusing what the JS allows them to access (such as trying to data-scrape parameters off the user's machine to estimate whether they're seeing someone they've already seen).

"3 Ad Serving. (a) Customer will not provide Ads containing malware, spyware or any other malicious code or knowingly breach or circumvent any Program security measure." [https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/54818?hl=en]
Cloudflare Launches Radar, Internet Trends from the Edge
So event sourcing?
Forgetting for a moment about the analogy, if you identified that an island had a really bad piracy problem, your solution would be to... send all of the merchant ships past it? That's extremely Machiavellian, to say the least.
Apple was literally fined for slowing down older phones: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

If you want your phone to last forever, you need to take control of it yourself. Get a Lineage OS compatible phone and ditch the play store. Not only will it be faster, the battery life will quadruple.
Yes. Windows RT was what it was called, and it was Windows locked down to only run store apps. The market decided it sucked and it ended up failing.
Never forget that calls that protests and political expressions aren't happening "in the right venue" or "in the right way" only help one side.

Take for example NFL management telling the players not to kneel in solidarity. That is the players' most effective (and frankly, peaceful, and not particularly disruptive) way to send a message. But if you don't agree with their message, moving to shift it to a less visible place is absolutely a political attempt to neuter it.
This is the same reason companies used Groupon with their terrible economics or people take cash advances on their credit cards: you need the money today even if it is incredibly expensive and sub optimal. Does the GP also think we don't need laws for CC companies because the high levels of consumer debt show people obviously want 20%+ interest rates?
ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns
The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand (1959) [video]
The "regular" taxi cab medallion cost averaged $35k in 2017 down from $200k in 2013[1] otherwise you will likely be leasing it and a car from a taxi company. If I recall, the daily buy-in is generally $90-150. So these costs should be included in the calculation.

[1]http://leg.wa.gov/JTC/Documents/RFPs/RFP_TAXI_FINAL.pdf
Latest rev StarLink sats have successfully performed satellite to satellite laser comms.

Disclosure: I intend to own StarLink stock when available.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-space-lasers-first...
Memory devices are already fully 3D. DRAM has been using stacked capacitors for more than 10 years, where the logic is on the wafer surface but the storage capacitors are built up onto the fully processed wafer.

3D NAND (VNAND) is also fully vertical -- again, the logic is all on the wafer surface but the storage cells are built up.
I bought an Ikea Eneby 20 about three years ago (there's a dual speaker version available). It's my travel companion. Still in use. Almost daily. Indoor. Outdoor. Techno, Rock, Spotify...it just sounds good (bass a little prominent but can be fixed trough EQing or a piece of cloth)

It looks good (not like a plastic toy) and sounds absolutely great. Paid $40 back then. (last time I checked it was 50€+ in EU right now).

You absolutely can pay >400 and it might be accurate hifi, but what you really want from a speaker is joy :)
> They're just poison.

This. And like another commenter pointed out, it's not unique to one side or the other. Anyone who defines their entire existence in this left/right dichotomy is suffering from media-induced mental illness.
Optimizing for efficient, capable teams is a difficult problem, and seemingly untenable above a certain size by nature. With that in mind, the obvious answer (especially in software) seems to be to keep teams as small as possible. Netflix's strategy is higher half the people, pay them twice as much, and give them as much autonomy as possible according to the CEO's new book. The obvious counterpoint to that strategy is it leads to overwork and will inevitably devolve above a certain size as well.

For a more radical strategy on keeping company size small, I like how the startup Stedi has taken a crack at innovating on this. Their entire tech stack is structured around AWS offerings, mainly serverless. The idea is that by paying a premium to Amazon, they can outsource all server management, scaling, etc. issues which typically take up tons of engineering bandwidth. Presumably, Amazon's round the clock experienced team will also be able to handle it more effectively than they could. In the meantime, Stedi can now avoid hiring for tons of jobs and keep headcount as small as possible, enabling engineers to only work on things that matter.

While I'm not sure how Stedi's strategy will play out, it is one of the few opinionated stances on company organizational philosophy that attempts to take advantage of recent evolution in cloud offerings, and internalize the consequences of those improvements.
I think congestion reduction is probably the more common goal [1] from the point of view of the environment, economics and road capacity utilization.

Traffic calming is probably a localized goal in more pedestrian heavy areas or where there is a vulnerable population (children, disabled, etc.).

Traffic calming also benefits retail stores. I once lived in a city with an artery with unsynchronized lights. Getting to the other side of town was an exercise in frustration, but I can imagine the brick and mortar stores along it benefited from patrons making impulse stops. (I could be remembering wrongly but I believe they lobbied for the lights to be unsynchronized).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coor...
Abandoned Chip Fab: MOS Technologies Factory Walk-Through 35 Years Later
This was an awesome episode! It's so inspiring to hear people's stories.
The same happens in medical devices. Changing to newer versions can be very expensive in terms of testing and documentation so you stick to old stuff which may not work well. It's a tricky balance. Switching to a newer compiler may fix your current problem but introduce a ton of other subtle problems.

I often think that we create inferior solutions because it’s too hard to get newer methods approved. But then the newer methods may also cause problems.
I think you deeply underestimate embedded use. There are a huge number of devices running on relatively obscure microarchitectures.
The headlines on Vitamin D and Covid far surpass the actual data. Here is my summary on the latest research: https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-and-covid
The Benedict Option[1] having been mentioned on HN, I recently read a translation of Benedict's Rule. He's pretty clear that entering by the narrow gate implies giving up not only private property, but also personal property, and even personal volition.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...

Given that doctrine in 516, it's no wonder the early christian church appealed mainly to slaves and poor people.

[1] St. Benedict is not fond of Sarabaites.
> If you choose to join Coinbase now, expect to be "mysteriously" rejected for a lot of jobs in the future.

Fortunately, these days, it's possible to make a whole career out of working at companies that don't subscribe to this neo-McCarthyism.
But what constitutes "actual UI"? You have to link to way more than system libc to make a GUI app on Windows.

And it's kinda orthogonal to using it on OSes that don't have their own UI layer, because that can be implemented as another backend. For example, wxWidgets wraps native widgets on Win32/macOS/X11 (with Gtk considered "native" for the latter) - but it also has wxUniversal, that renders by itself, and is the backend normally used on platforms like DirectFB.
Let's suppose that in a couple of years, data emerges that demonstrates that this happens. What do you recommend should be done about it, assuming it were to happen?

There is good reason to be concerned about this question, because a simple Google search reveals many articles on this topic: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-municipalities-feel-bu...

Do you believe that taking a wait-and-see approach is wise?
What would you suggest instead for HPC?
The url is missing an 'r' at the end.
-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="x86-64;arm64;ppc64"
Huh? Linus targeted the x86 architecture.
macOS will deprecate older Macs 6-7 years after their release. You can use older Macs as Linux machines, with one of the BSDs, or with Windows.

The T2 chip can prevent people from putting their OS of choice on their hardware once Apple deprecates support for their machine.
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A large group of people, maybe even a majority, believe in the general idea that technology can help solve social problems. Then you have a company that says they make the world a better place. Of course you're going to get some people who legit want to do that, and believe the scale and scope of the operation allows this to actually happen! Then they're very upset when, for instance, their spreadsheet software is used to track how to steal refugee children from their parents and sell them to adoption services. It's going to take some adjustment to convince these people that the company that says they're making the world a better place is simply constantly lying, and only exists for profit.
Forced by the technology to shine a bright light on her face at all times ... wasn't that used in interrogations?
Being "prepared" for a given opportunity is often trivial. Whether the opportunity you're prepared for ever arises is luck.
Ruby, like Perl, is really built to be a part of a *nix system and has some bash elements (like special variables).

It's a natural fit for one-liners.
That's an odd prediction, given how unpopular the idea is.
There's a lot to be said for the Stoics. The trick, I think, is that you have to begin it early. It's easy to skip the your-son-may-be-dead-in-the-morning when you're young and your son probably won't be dead. But if he dies, you can't pick up The Consolation of Philosophy and get sudden consolation. It avoids the unpleasant shift -- and perhaps just smoothes out the constant amount of unpleasantness over time.
I'm not the person you asked, but I could see there being harm in lying to children about how reality works. When children are first growing up, they have no clue about the nature of reality, of what is and is not possible, but their brains are constantly gobbling up data on what the world is like. From this, one forms concepts of how things relate to each other. Ideally as they do this, there are no contradictions between their concepts, or they're worked out over time, but in lying to a child and feeding them this false information, you are introducing contradictions into their concepts and distorting their view of reality. And one's view of reality directly relates to their ability to interact with it in a self-beneficial way.

Now I can't say that this will actually have much of an effect, like I said, we can naturally work out these contradictions over time, but I think this is why one should not lie to children in general.

Like you say, not all untruths are created equal. It could be quite easy for them to fix their concepts once they realize it is a lie, but perhaps it could have some lingering effects. I can't say. I'm not a psychologist and each individual, and their mind, is different.
First engineering job “after learning to program in prison”
That's doubtful in polarized conditions.
so how much was paid in ads on twitter and how much was paid to the influencer?
I saw this firsthand in May/June in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. It was a pretty small company and there was one employee in particular who was very much an activist, though a number of employees of course felt very strongly about what was going on. The company genuinely tried to do their best to support them, encouraged this person to take a week off for mental health and from my perspective was making a real effort to be understanding and support this person and also to express support for the BLM movement as a whole.

There was one manager in particular who really tried to do the right thing in supporting this employee. The manager convinced the marketing folks to make a pro-BLM post on LinkedIn, but then this employee got upset that it had not gone far enough and was too weakly worded. A good friend of the employee and former coworker at this company actually called out the company in the comments of the post on LinkedIn for not taking a stronger stand. The manager also convinced the executives to have the company donate money, and this kicked off a broader giving back initiative where they wanted everyone to vote on causes that the company could support in various ways. This caused even more backlash, because it had now lost site of the BLM focus and become a broader thing.

By the end, the company was just cluelessly walking on eggshells with no idea how to not make things worse in their attempts at support. The employee was extremely frustrated, struggled to regain any level of respect for the company and stopped really performing in their job and ended up leaving a couple months later. I still very much believe nobody was in the wrong here, nobody involved was a bad person or even an insensitive person. It just proved to be very difficult to navigate this situation, there were too many ways for it to go wrong and the company didn't handle everything absolutely perfectly and so they just made things worse.

Anyway, in the end I'm very convinced that everyone, including the activist employee, would have been much happier under the model as stated by Coinbase. And even if this person left or had never joined this company to begin with because of that policy, the result would have been very similar in the end, but without the weeks of frustration and stress and lost productivity all around.
Tinyml for Microcontrollers
> without the extra step of breaking H2O into hydrogen and oxygen

Heat it sufficiently and it will be broken down.
It should be noted that function pointer comparison is defined to not be deterministic between different compiler option sets, it's at least for now possible but mostly useless.

Through there are bugs involved, too ;=)

(Due to const folding comparisons vs. doing them at runtime there was/is non-determinism in the same build between different call sites ... )
> Also: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread.

Is comment pagination still necessary?
Do you eat meat? I don't, for moral reasons. If you do does that make you evil in my eyes? Are you in fact evil?

I could do this all day. A clear and unambigious view of what's wrong and right is a risky thing - you will be compelled to fix it, without limits to your interference.

That was provocative and I think you're a good person but I don't think it's so easy, or safe, to draw a dividing line. But that risks not drawing a dividing line, so more dangers lurk.
Different people value different things. What's desirable is not the same for everyone.
Also, never underestimate the magnitude of inertia. There's a point many of us reach where we're more interested in your tools being consistent and predictable, rather than bleeding edge. We dread OS updates rather than look forward to them, because it means we'll need to allocate brain cycles to something that's changed and that's just not that important.
We'd rather be allocating those brain cycles to a project that we consider interesting and maybe even important, rather than adding fancy stuff to our phone's home screen layout.
If employees want to influence a company's political stance, then they've already lost, because employees are not shareholders. It's not their call to make.

They would have a leg to stand on if they were part of a worker's cooperative, because then they'd be owners. The juicy job market for tech workers may obscure this fundamental fact, but when the rubber hits the road any overpaid engineer is still considered hired help and forever "below the salt". Until workers build up a co-op sector to compete with private sector companies, they will never have a say, no matter how much they kick and scream.

So either sit your ass down and sell your soul like you already said you would, or get out there and start building. Not just for yourself, but for all of us. Because we will never have true democracy as long as most of the wealth the people generate gets sliced and diced at board meetings without even the veneer of representation.
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Redwood Capital Advisors https://redwoodcapitaladvisors.com/ invests in special situation opportunities that arise in the extremely inefficient private markets.
So there's no nuance to anything people do, there are only good or evil people? That's quite an extreme view.
Of course he's not, I'm just saying Bill Gates is using his money and influence to have governments force that on their people, and make such people happy to be forcefully vaccinated as well.
That's a great question. No, you don't have to change the any other applications at all. We work from the raw data in a warehouse.

So the typical flow is that your production applications structure their data however they want. From there the data is sent into your warehouse as-is (using an EL tool like Fivetran).

From there you write small sql scripts in Narrator for each activity you'd like to create. Those scripts are responsible from transforming into your format to ours. They're generally fairly short. Our docs describe them here: https://docs.narrator.ai/docs/transformations
Thinking requires forming hypotheses and ideas, which is an act of the imagination. Probably the most important thing is to help stimulate a child's imagination and support their curiosity.

In a situation that requires thinking, encourage the child to come up with more than one idea. Praise every idea.
Don't forget the guilt of the "native" inhabitants displacing the prior native inhabitants.

It's a rabbit hole.