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" another idea I have is to pay department heads a percentage of every dollar saved each year."

We can't reasonably measure how much money is 'saved' because there would have to be some rational benchmark agains which there would be 'savings'.

What you would be inducing is merely 'less spending'.

The 'spending' is not the problem, it's the efficiency.

We want governments to spend wherein the can be a high ROI on that spend, but not where there is less obviously.

As the article hints, if SF had an amazing new subway system for it's squandered billions, that would probably be a net win.

In other words what we want is 'surplus' to be generated from government spending, the 'more surplus for the dollar', the better.

Because most government services are free, we don't have any direct way of measuring said surpluses (we don't in the private sector either, but assuming any degree of market efficiency than price can be a proxy for surplus).

So either we have to 'guess' at the value of services created (easier for subways than for say, having 'judges'), or create some kind of direct measurement.

Or perhaps levels of spending and baseline measures of output could be measured, and then held to account against other cities in the region/country and have cities more comparably 'benchmark' against one another.

And finally, just transparency: if people see how much money is going where and it's popularized, published, widely disseminated, it can have a populist effect.
Obviously you can't do this here. We've banned the account.
Gentrification has a part, but so does the work of city & community leader. East Palo Alto became a city in 1983, before that the county handled the area's affairs...and given the smaller size/population it was not a primary focus.

A lot of credit goes towards the police relationship - https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/02/how-east-palo-alto-sh...
> Many modern-day applications need to be built at an enterprise scale, sometimes even at an internet scale.

I would argue the contrary: most applications don’t need to be built to scale. Building distributed systems (which is what scaling is about) costs a lot of effort and therefore money. Throwing more hardware at it and traditional optimization are enough for 99% of projects (you do that after a project turns out to be taking off)
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I don't think I've ever seen a single cyber event attributed to Russia in my country. I see a ton of speculation in the news about other nations but never Russia. I'm going to suggest that your view that Russia is held responsible for the ills in the whole flat world is quite wrong.
I think the big brother would always find a way to do that, ip? mac?...
For all the talk about saving carbon by skipping on headphones/charger, it is quite telling that if Apple (and other manufacturers too) wanted, they could have just made these two parts easily replaceable (batteries used to be conveniently replaceable anyway) and saved a lot more wastage. Talk is cheap etc.
Yes, it's super slow abroad. Especially in the US.
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I don’t listen to podcasts to get detailed information so, who corrects the corrector and what process do they use to correct the corrections?
His startup/business/project is based around Medium, so I doubt he's going to ditch it.

"Editor of Better Programming (medium.com/better-programming). Building Moneyball to help you make more money on Medium (sign up for the beta @ usemoneyball.com)"
Those strike me as over-engineered and still pretty wasteful.

Compare to e.g. ice cream freezers https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ice+cream+freezer&atb=v60-1...

But the point isn't that these things don't exist, it's that they aren't the norm. We do a lot of really obviously stupid things, even when better options are right in front of us.
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Actually supervised learning is "learning missing data dimension" by parameter tuning via associative learning rules.

Gradient descents are a special case of associative learning rules assuming all data points the same importance.

A type of associative learning rules is Hebbian learning rule.

In the very fundamental we only need associative learning. Of course, for practical application we need diverse tools with different conceptual frameworks to choose for commercial: human resource or cost performance.
What the article calls CQRS is just read replication (Its still very valid, and common), its just not called CQRS, CQRS is about actually different data representations on query and read, and is an orthogonal concept to read replicas.

source: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
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> Places where current wages are low are going to see wage increases (because of higher demand / lower supply), which in turn will lead to an increase in costs of living.

I'm not sure that there's so many SW people outside of the big tech hub areas so as to make such a difference. If they are more uniformly distributed across the country, their impact on each community will likely be negligible.
I had issues with intermittent charging of 6S so I upgraded to 2nd gen SE. I didn’t want larger screen so 11 wasn’t the option.

I personally don’t like SE. The Touch ID is crap, it is not an actual button that presses so touching or pressing button doesn’t wake phone up. I have to pick up the phone to wake it.
In a direct, face to face conversation, you are fully dedicated to the other person. This means the time between interactions has a meaning on its own (thinking about whet the other party said, not agreeing ,...)

In a chat you are expected/allowed to do other things in the meantime.
I have drawer refrigerators and freezers in my house.
They're kind of in the orbit of one another. One quantifies the near total cost of funding an individual public employee from that municipality vs the entire household income of a family living in said municipality who presumably contributes towards funding that one individual. That household certainly doesn't pay for that municipal individual's total compensation from their benefits dollars but rather from their income.
I cant seem to find the content between 1992 to 2002 (for comp.ai). Was it closed for that time?
I read this article expecting it to get somewhere useful but when I realized it was just propaganda it was already too late.

Seriously, the people who want to make a career in software and the people who want to be entrepreneurs don't need any convincing. What is even the point of this?
The writing's been on the wall for a while: this was first announced last year, then postponed, and the online UI was already shut down in February 2020.

Completely boneheaded move in that it removes the last reason many people like myself would ever even stumble into a Yahoo site, but then again, Yahoo Groups's SEO visibility is also near-zero these days, and I figure the beancounters at Yahoo computed that this is worth less than the ever-present cost/risk of policing random contributions. (Which is also why file attachments were the first to go.)

For anybody looking for a replacement, I can recommend groups.io (no affiliation), which also has a pretty smooth migration tool and has a completely adequate free "Basic" tier: https://groups.io/
You posted several flamewar comments in this thread and unfortunately have a significant history of posting race flamebait to HN. We ban such accounts, so please stop that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You've also been using HN primarily for political battle for quite some time. That's against the rules here, and we ban such accounts—we have to, or else political flames will take over this place completely. If you want more explanation about that, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Either way, please stop doing this on HN.
That’s not exactly what I’m after. I don’t want it just to count time on background windows, I want it to count time starting from the first time I opened the blocked website or app today, regardless of whether or not it’s open now.

Plus I’d prefer something that has mobile support.
Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup when I can enjoy comfort and success working at a FANG company? Startups _sound_ great, but death marching myself without compensation is a stressful proposition.

Sure, I have a handful of ideas that seem reasonable and dreams of startup success—and maybe I'll explore them in early retirement.
If you have already received the grant I don't expect that is changeable right?
Siri has always relied on external servers so it doesn’t bother much. I agree with your last point, I hope they move towards full on-device Siri
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There was a lot of issues with the "new" Yahoo Groups web frontend. A feedback system was set up, but virtually all the reports were ignored. They removed it altogether at some point, so you couldn't even see reports or vote counts. It became infuriating to use; at first it was basically useless, the most critical issues were (slowly) fixed. But search and pagination was significantly worse than before, and it truncated all subjects, even if they would fit perfectly fine in view. The post overview literally looked like "Can you ....", "Question about ....", "Processor is ....". Putting on the tinfoil hat, it almost seems like they wanted it to die, leaving this issue unfixed..

The (one) group I followed basically disbanded in the year following the "new" launch. I think it's about a year ago they officially closed it down, activity moved to a Facebook group and a subreddit. It's a pity really, I miss the mailing list architecture.
I'm in the same boat. I don't understand the argument that manufacturers are using telematics as a loophole, since it seems that the 2013 law specifically says that while many uses of telematics are not covered by the law, those that are "necessary to diagnose and repair a customer's vehicle" ARE still covered.

> With the exception of telematics diagnostic and repair information that is provided to dealers, necessary to diagnose and repair a customer’s vehicle and not otherwise available to an independent repair facility [...] nothing in this chapter shall apply to telematics services [...].

So, are manufacturers doing things like including telematics that they claim "aren't necessary" but in reality are pretty important? If so, then independent repair shops are at a disadvantage, but the solution should be to force those signals to be available through the physical port.

Or is it a matter of independent repair shops not being able to compete with the dealerships who can get telematics to do things like email you when it is detected that your oil is low?
Not an expert on this, but remission is defined as:

> a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain.

My understanding is that after the treatment, and while in remission, people would need to maintain a healthy lifestyle to avoid relapse. It's still early days for this treatment so I'd guess that they're being cautious with their language.
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$450,000 1970 dollars are $3 million 2020 dollars.

And in 1970 Chile you could do a lot with today's equivalent of $3,000,000.

And everything else you said is pretty much pretentious nonsense.

If you want to join a personality cult, at least follow someone worth following not a failed alcoholic communist sponsored by the KGB.

I bet Allende met Stafford Beer by accident while looking for beer.
Why does SF get to embrace all the tech talent it atttacts, but not need to deal with rising population of less desirable demographics? Is there something about California that makes it more worthy of the countries wealth than the communities with less resources?
At my previous workplaces: no it has always been an unmitigated disaster. And in one case I think moving from the original monolith to microservice based architecture killed the business.

At my current workplace: yes! We have about a dozen separate "microservices" and it works pretty well actually. The main difference I can see is that the boundary layers are extremely well defined and completely asynchronous. There are no synchronous REST or RPC calls between services at all. And it actually works!

I think the key is loose coupling in the extreme.
Thanks for sharing. I still disagree but my disagreement is way less cool than your interesting use case.
This works really well with Home Assistant
Hi, sure, I didn't want to dismiss the idea itself. The no code approah just isn't for everyone I guess. Most major cloud providers have some level of abstraction for ML modelling these days which is why I was curious to check yours out as well. Hence please take my main point to be the plea for something that shows what your platform is doing without exposing data. :-)

As for the other questions, your pitch text made claims like "you can share your data with people and they can use it in their projects but cant steal it." as well as, I assume, the mere existence of these tools having some impact on bias. Both data extraction from models deployed in the wild and model/data bias have been topics of discussion in ML research over the past few years and I was wondering if your tooling did anything specific to tackle those aspects.

PS: Are the icons like "view_quilt" on your home page huge? On mobile chrome I could read halfway down the page before those loaded in and was a bit confused about the placeholder text.

PPS: On your homepage in a real browser now (Firefox on Linux, recentish version), you somehow managed to disable text selection there.
Depends on issue but usually no. Bernie Sanders would not be moderate in Europe, and mainstream Democrats (increasingly) would not be either.
I spent a good amount of my teenage using Yahoo services - Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups, Geocities, Yahoo Mail and of course Yahoo search. It's really sad to see them fade into oblivion.

I wonder what will happen to Google and Facebook in the next twenty years.
written cantonese is almost the same as written mandarin.

the problem is that spoken cantonese is not much like written cantonese. it's a combination of pronunciation, accent, idioms, and sentence structures. best advice is for speakers of mandarin or cantonese to learn the other language like a new one. (there's also the written form of spoken cantonese, written spoken cantonese, if you will, that is the written representation of spoken cantonese using a set of special characters of sinitic origin).

if you are from guangdong you will learn all systems of language - written mandarin, spoken mandarin, written cantonese, and spoken cantonese. some hongkongers don't ever learn spoken mandarin correctly, getting them to speak mandarin in front of a camera is always a source of good laughs.

those who argue that cantonese are mutually intelligible with mandarin will typically use cantonese newspapers and official documents as evidence. those who argue that they aren't will point to spoken and colloquial cantonese as evidence. the objective point of view is to accept that cantonese as we know it exists as two separate languages used for two different purposes.
Yes, and that is impressive! But he has also set several cold exposure world records that these people probably couldn't replicate that easily, or perhaps ever.
I generally agree that free trade is the way to go and we are reaping the benefits.

In the context of free-trade however: How would you handle the intellectual property issue, can you still have free trade with a state that does not treat IP in the same way?
Is this the same issue as “alarm fatigue” in medicine?

https://www.apsf.org/article/alarm-fatigue-and-patient-safet...
Poor numerical literacy linked to greater susceptibility to Covid-19 fake news
I designed Nebula [0], a LLVM front end for Whitespace, written in Go. It's the first ahead-of-time compiler for Whitespace. It features its own bespoke intermediate representation in static single assignment form for simpler optimization. Whitespace instructions are stack-oriented like Forth, thus most instructions modify the stack. Nebula lowers these stack-oriented instructions to registers in SSA form such that the stack is modified only once per basic block. It was trivial to add support for Brainfuck, lowering to the same IR.

I have record of almost 100 Whitespace interpreters [1], so I am confident that Nebula is the first AOT compiler for Whitespace. Another project is CensoredUsername's Whitespace JIT compiler in Rust that assembles code on the fly and deoptimizes on error.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewarchi/nebula

[1]: https://github.com/andrewarchi/ws-collection
Newsom first launched project roomkey, housing thousands of street people in rented hotel rooms earlier this year. He then announced project homekey, spending vast sums on buying hotels and motels to convert into 'housing' this summer. The astonishingly autocratic one party California government have been buying city center hotels with no discussion or oversight to convert into 'homeless''homes'. Newsom is doubling down on his failed policies and despite being family is now in danger of burning out his political capital.
I read your other comment; I'm still unclear on your motivations. Why would you need, over the course of years, to "de-calcify my vascular system and gut"?

Is this related to some recognized malady which requires lifelong megadoses of Vitamin-D as a treatment?

Does your bloodwork show what is considered healthy levels of Vitamin D, calcium, and related biomarkers after these years of megadoses? Do doctors approve of your regimen & bloodwork results, or recommend against them?
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A reminder that holding your breath under water until you become light headed is not a good idea:

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/07/28/breath-holding-...
When discussions of housing vacancies pop up at work lots of the individuals who reside in the city report that there's open units at their apartment complexes etc.

I'm really curious what the 2020 census rolls up for us in this area of California migration, etc.
It sounds like you might have the experience required to explain what is different about men's gymnastics that causes it to not have this same youth bias?
So, how "it changes from state we don't know to a different state after measurement" differs from "we don't know what state it is, but after measurement we know"? How do you know state changes after measurement when you don't know which state it is before measurement? Does it really change, or do our knowledge of that state changes? That's why I say that state doesn't change, we only know what state it is after measurement.
Thanks for the explanation. Appreciated.

I think this answers part of my question as how modern Korean create new words/concepts, if not via English loanwords. So those word roots could still be applied in certain cases.
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do you have any links re that shopify package manager - google seems to confuse software and postal wrapping...
Privilege.
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Because there's more to life than work and entertainment. There's language barriers, culinary familiarity, family ties, cultural familiarity, quality of schooling, levels of crime, etc. etc.
If you want to experiment the real thing, there is https://news.aioe.org/ , a public news server.
The last part is great.

My children always liked sport but I told them that this is for their fun and not a medal for the organization (they were never interested in the competition part).

They switched sports either when it was getting boring or they felt that the competition part was over the fun one.

This does not mean that they abondonned early, but for instance both stopped karate after their black belt, to do rock climbing or ping pong. Because the fun was gone.
Appropriate that a company that makes 'information dominance centers' has the address 1984 Isaac Newton Square.
Yahoo Directory is gone. Yahoo Search is gone. Alibaba got away. Now Yahoo Groups is going. The Yahoo home page looks like a low end news scraper site, like Newsmax. It's now owned by Verizon, which feels they should have some presence in "content". Unclear if Yahoo is profitable; Verizon doesn't break out the numbers of Yahoo vs their other sites.

AOL is in a similar position. There are enough legacy customers to justify keeping the power on.
You're right, you should totally GTFO.
I don't get how articles like these get reposted so often - this article is from 2019, for god's sake. If you're interested in the state of the city budget, Covid-19 combined with the passage of a year means that you really need to double-check everything in this article, so at best, it's a waste of time. At worst, you're being pushed toward a very biased, incomplete view of things - I'm not saying every article published by a "think tank" is factually wrong, but ignoring such articles is a handy lifehack.
> freedom to focus on deep coding problems without fear of where the next paycheck is coming

Depends on your risk tolerance. You will most likely not be able to profit greatly off of your deep coding problems if you do them for a company with highly stratified reporting chains. Profits will get passed around to the idiots above you in the chain of command, leaving you with peanuts; probably some small bonus or raise. In my experience, engineers aren't rewarded greatly at a company unless they fit a certain bill or serve a certain HR/political purpose, unbeknownst to you. Such implicit biases are however, impossible to hide as they can be measured directly.

If upper management doesn't like your attitude, behavior, your looks, your race, your gender, or anything else, they can and will stop giving you opportunities. Sometimes they will treat you poorly so you leave, sometimes they'll keep you around until you do something to get fired. The latter is certainly likely if they treat you poorly. This is not only unethical, but is a normalized practice in HR.

Now, consider the case of solving deep coding problems on your own -- you're not getting paid, but you will most likely reap all of the rewards for any big wins you have, and your life isn't at the whim of internal politics that you are unaware of.
I’m not convinced. Fundamentally, Apple is a services and a hardware company. They have no business in advertisement. Do you follow Stratechery (Ben Thompson)? He writes about Apple’s privacy fundamentalism here (midway through the post): https://stratechery.com/2019/privacy-fundamentalism/
English isn't my mother tong, what's building a Moneyball?

Writing whatever people are willing to read in the promise to make it big, without having to do anything big yourself?
> commoditizes people's time, making them more replaceable and lowering what one's salary can buy even longer

Commodification of people is treated extensibly in anticapitalist writings. ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Commodification )

> Call me paranoid, but we might see another Fall of Rome in our lifetimes.

There is a more moderate stance of American Decline ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/American_decline ) that has been a source of sourness to many US nationalists
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What else could a man do but cry with rage?!

The most interesting thing is how flat the hierarchy apparently was. Was a modern astronaut just mingle with the prime minister and try to muscle in on a launch?
Earlier this year Stitchfix had around 8,000 employees and 115 data scientists, and operated at about $55k of revenue per employee.

They are neither small nor particularly successful.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenli1/2020/02/17/stitch-fix...