skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I remember having discussions on whether airbags caused more injuries than they prevented! But the fact of the matter is the issue is largely settled in the public eye. How did we get here? The answer is simple. The approach was a dispassionate search for the best solution.

There were no "scientists" claiming hyperbolic doomsday scenarios if we didn't pass specific legislation by a certain date. The collapse of our transportation infrastructure due to Kessler Syndrome -- but for highways. This should cause any rational person to be skeptical.

There were no fund raising rallies held by highly influential "scientists" who refused to wear seat belts themselves. This too, should cause any rational person to be skeptical.

People did not start with a chosen solution, and selected evidence to back it. They started with evidence, and searched for the best solution.

In effect? Seatbelts and airbags weren't a cargo cult driven by celebrity "scientists" that relied on emotional appeal. If you want your politicians to "listen" to "science", then you must divest the emotions, the desire for power, and the appeal to authority from it.
Yes, but you should change the website to block before the survey starts, instead of just being broken.

Also, your data set is likely to be overwhelmed by foods and trolls.

Good luck.
That’s fascinating to me. Isn’t much of the point of NYC’s boroughs (i.e. purely-administrative divisions of a legally-conglomerated city) that infrastructure that makes sense to centralize/share between boroughs, can be centralized/shared, much more practically than it can under separate city corporations?

Why, then, does the distinction in library systems remain? Is it advantageous somehow? (Certainly not for the people wanting to check out a book via inter-branch loan.)
That sounds incredible. We’re used in a lot of universities right now and it would be great to see more
Some good advice in this thread, but missing the most important thing: people & process.

(1) You need visibility. You don't seem to be plugged in - what were the CEO's goals? How did his exec team manage towards them, what orders were passed down, and how did you execute on them? If you don't know, it's because you weren't plugged in - for all you know, you _were_ irrelevant.

(2) How to get visibility? You need to set meetings: project kickoffs, 30-day SteerCos, quarterly updates, AND end-of-project readouts. Out of sight, out of mind. You need to get in front of people who matter, and explain the value of what you do in a way that they can claim credit to their boss.

(3) When you get in front of $important_people, you need to speak their language. Show them the money (your exec summary is always the same: I [made, saved] $X M in the past Y months, which is Z% of total revenue). Mark progress against a roadmap. Make pretty presentations they can forward to their boss. And talk slowly (not so they can understand, but so _you_ can avoid looking silly).

When you're a freelancer, the above is _more_ important, not less. I'm sorry you got screwed (if engineers have to be good at business management crap, WTF are business managers for?) but these are, I think, the skills you're looking for here.

A good book to read on this is The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins, if you're curious.
The gas station also probably pays more per square foot of real estate.
> And to be fair, a neural net is just a bunch of linear models joined by a non-linearity.

Nobody did this before computers though.

> . In that case, it's essentially stacked logistic regression, which was invented before computers.

It isn't "basically logistic regression", it is just a technique which uses logistic regressions. The full technique is ML. If you remove the ML parts it is basically just logistic regression left though.
That's rather sad, union types are really what I like most about TypeScript. This might explain why VS Code feels so slow sometimes when type checking, because I have a few types that rely heavily on unions.
It's interesting you mention the solider aspect because the US Marine Corps went through a similar evaluation.

For a long time, being a drill instructor (the guy yelling at you in boot camp) was considered a low status position and therefore a career dead end. This in turn led to the DI spots being filled primarily by people who were in trouble, didn't care or were "bad apples".

At some point, the questions were raised: "Wait, why are we putting some of our worst Marines to train new Marines? Wouldn't it it make more sense to have our BEST Marines train the next generation?". The follow up was then: so how do we actually make that happen?

The answer was to make being a DI one of the stepping stones to higher level ranks. This dramatically increased the quality of DIs and in turn, raised the quality of the training and finally the Marines.

There is a similar story in some countries with socialized medicine. E.g. to get a license to practice medicine privately, you first have to spend N years working in a public hospital. This ensures that you can get top quality people working even in a public healthcare based system.
Makes it pretty hard to hide an Internet backdoor in it.

Seriously, I wonder if this is a way to make a secure and open computer, by implementing the deepest level of security functionality in slow but visibly trust-able hardware.
I respectfully disagreed. I felt MS365 is superior than GSuite. Google Drive have reoccurring issues that drove my boss and me crazy and apparently it is a common issue. Outlook have features that I want to use that Gmail don't have.

My boss is considering to moving to MS365 because GSuite showing its ugly head often and that have a impact on our productivity.
one thing to note is that there's a reason electric cars have lower range on the highway and gas cars have higher range.

first thing to note: the faster you guy, the less efficient you can be (air resistance effects you to square I of speed I believe). So this explains, why electric cars get a lower range, the faster you guy, the more air resistance they have to overcome vs local driving with less resistance.

but what about gass engines. This is simple: gas engines are inefficient. they can't be configured to produce exactly as much energy as needed (as opposed to a drawing from a battery). Therefore, at lower speeds, they are producing much more energy than is needed and it gets wasted. at higher speeds, even though they have to overcome the same amount of more resistance, much less energy is being wasted as more is needed. This has gone into why so much tech has gone into trying to make gas engines more efficient, from the prius's hybrid system, to stop/start to deactivating cylinders and on and on.

how well did your passat do on local driving? my guess perhaps 2/3 of that number?
We originally chose iPhone for my grandparents because they were intuitive and easy to use.
I have to help her more than before. It does seem that either iOS is sending her more notifications about various things which she is scared to touch.

Im not entirely sure what triggers it, but I think the fact that she doesn't get the "toolbox" view you can swipe up. I've had to help her with turning wifi back on, or screen becoming to dim.

I wouldnt be surpised if it is the swipe gestures that she randomly engages and all of the sudden the phone is doing something she didnt intend that makes her afraid of "breaking it".

Though, I havent actually tried to observe her usage.
Same here - as well as coffee/piss breaks, sometimes I just need to sit away from the screen and think on a problem for a while, or work it out on pen and paper. But I know this will leave an 'Away' gap in whatever they are using to log, and that might look bad on my metrics.

I've found that resting something heavy on one of the modifier keys, e.g. Ctrl, does the trick nicely.
JavaScript workaround techniques are always interesting and often useful to those who want to provide nojs users with full functionality.
git is even worse than whatever these tweets suggest Office 365 does. Git stats have been used against me on performance reviews even though there's no context to the situation. I went from a programming role to an ops role because the ops person left the team and I was the only one left that could do the work, so my number of check-ins dropped, but my contributions that improved the ops section weren't acknowledged.

Any company can create bad metrics if they want. The only solution is to either play the game, or change companies.

That said, I fail to see how effective employee monitoring would be via Office 365. I don't know who would be evaluated on number of emails sent per day, unless they were some sort of support personnel. And if so, they are already being monitored by other means. Any other type of evaluation sounds absurd, ex. number of Word docs opened or created, number of spreadsheets opened, number of presentations created, etc.
OMG. I wonder how long it would've taken me to notice this and now I can never not notice it.
Probably. A few long standing FreeBSD developers hinted at helping out when Sony ran into problems e.g. their own file system failed and they required help tuning FFS to make the most out of their blazing fast SSD.
This is a great documentary about the situation: https://johnfrummovie.com/
I never realized that he did this! I always noticed how the longer colour strips started with a two panel throw-away for papers that wouldn't print it. Was that still a thing after he demanded the whole thing be printed? If so it's interesting that he kept up the two-panel thing after that!
Oh that brings back some memories. An old manager of mine at Apple had moved into Apple from NeXT with the WebObjects team. We had a lot of black hardware and tons of NeXT docs, etc. and ran the Austin corp NetInfo server. He worked with Jobs for WebObjects demo/keynotes. He told some stories about Jobs, mostly about things he would throw when demos went badly.

I still have a lot of NeXT swag that was eventually given away and have a color turbo slab gathering dust.
> You might be right

> In my defense

Reading through your story and comments, this seems to be your main problem. Better communication might be helpful but you have to be more open to feedback and criticism. At the risk of sounding rude (not my goal) this post reads like a plea for validation. I don't know you and I hope I'm wrong, just going on what I see here.
Wait until you realize your company is taking screenshots of your desktop to make sure you actually are working.

I've never been worried as my long breaks are necessary for Programming. I always get the job done. My biggest concerns are economic as I'm high pay and they are often let go.
Not sure if this is helpful, but I've been doing webdev for the last 3 years as a summer job for small businesses in my hometown during uni. I hate to say it, but byoung2 hit the nail on the head when talking about the need for "cookiecutter" websites. Most small businesses are looking for basically a 5 to 10 page website, with some basic information that looks pretty - they don't need/want/care about anything custom.

Therefore, I think the key is adding value to these "cookiecutter" websites to justify your rates. Can you bring in a photographer to get some pictures of the business for social media and website use? I often find small business owners know they should be engaging on fb/ig more, and are stressed about the fact that they have nothing to post. Are you a hosting reseller? That could be an avenue for increased revenue as well.

I know my "adding value" spiel does not help with your "finding clients" question, I think byoung2 covered everything i'd recommend - walk into a ton of small businesses with mock-ups of their new websites and quotes for how much they'd cost.

Your website looks great btw.
This is called "velocitation"

https://driversed.com/resources/terms/velocitation.aspx
> The only reason something like gold is valuable is because it's scarce, and it's scarce because it requires a lot of work to extract.

These things are true but not necessarily so. Things can be scarce without being difficult to refine from raw materials (a stamp). Things can be difficult to extract without being particularly scarce (aluminium). Things can be valuable without being scarce (TVs), things can be scarce and not valuable (an original artwork by my 4 year old daughter).

The only thing that makes something valuable is that it is valued by people. People are weird and have lots of different reasons for valuing things. There are lots of things I could burn an insane amount of energy and money on that would not result in anything valued by others.

The idea that something should be valued based on the work that went into creating it is interesting as a hypothetical idea but not something that is very relevant to the actual world we live in.

If anything, you've got it backwards:

> it's scarce because it requires a lot of work to extract

It requires a lot of work to extract because it was so valuable that all the easy-to-extract gold was taken and put in jewelry and vaults.
I know how bad particulate matter is, but I'm not sure if you've thought through the implications of running a nuclear reactor in biodegradable containment and without any way to safely access the inside. I guess it might make a nice dystopian novel, perhaps the bronze age nuclear power company sends in war captives or something like that.
The most important part of the pricing is the intended consumer. It is expected to be used by government officials and employees of big companies, for whom, the price is not a big factor.

Then comes the competition. Not a lot of companies are making these.

The next one is volume. They're not going to sell as many of these so they produce them at a much lower scale, driving the cost per unit up.

Then comes everything else.
Reminds me of the apartments built into London’s Palace of Westminster. (They’re for the current speakers of the House of Lords and House of Commons to live in, if they so choose.)
I don't spend much time on Facebook, but I use a Firefox extension from here: https://www.fbpurity.com/ which lets you get rid of (hide) a lot of the junk, including sponsored stuff. It would be unbearable for me otherwise.
Again w/ Neal Stephenson bring prescient (in this case his 1992 "Snow Crash"):

Y.T.'s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...

Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
The reason mortality rates were so high was primarily due to child mortality from disease, virus, or bacterial infection. Not because people just dropped dead after 30 years. Once people got outside of the age of 20+, the average lifespan drastically improved for the individual since they survived the most difficult portion of life in terms of survival.
People will buy sequestered carbon if there is a market for it. Some kind of cap-and-trade system for emissions would make it profitable to do carbon capture once cheaper methods of reducing emissions have been exhausted.
I love love love the plain C code, making use of unix pipes to produce (real time) video. The subtext is also that you might not need fancy tools.
Facebook employees are evaluated on many things, including number of reviews that they participate in. My friend said that lead to a lot of engineers adding "+1" comments to as many reviews as possible, or requesting "Thank you"s for responding to emails.
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom” --Eisenhower (b. 1890)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1331041820516769792.html
The article can be summarised to: "Use the subreddit where your target audience hangs out"

Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy (and reddit has a "no promotion over 10% of account activity" policy). There are things like self promotion threads but its only visited by people looking to promote their products and not by other people. Users who don't cease the promotion on being warned will have a very real possibility of having their account and domain banned from the sub.

I've been on the moderator side of subreddits, and the general sentiment is that people are there because of a shared interest and not to be the promotion ground for some wannabe-rich guy. If a subreddit is for fountain pen enthusiasts, they'd rather see 10 posts going "Help me choose my first fountain pen" rather than some guy promoting his fountain pen store on etsy.
The Disc as Dongle
> This is a bad analogy.

What is with programmers and their utter failure to understand an analogy, is it their literal mind? Is it the lack of socialization when growing up?. "Data is the new oil" just means that it is an important economical and political asset, that's it that's the extend of the analogy.Nobody is thinking about API degrees, viscosity, sulfur content, etc. For the purpose intended the analogy works. I am pretty sure you could come up with a better analogy (Data is a car, in true Slashdot style) but watch like not even 5 min later another guy will come up to pick your analogy apart with the most literal of interpretations.

In my special hell I am doomed to take literature classes with a bunch of programmers.
What about helping clients setup WordPress or Shopify sites? I have helped friends with these and imagine this might be viable business.
The store where the price is low also needs it shipped and stored, and is also close to my home. So that's definitely not a reason.

Did you mean "convenience makes the price higher"? No quarrel there! The issue is how much higher. 8x more expensive (as an example) is in the "ripping me off" territory, if you ask me :)
This means that your cost of sales is high; not tens of dollars, but potentially thousands or tens of thousands.
Ask HN: Would Quantum GPUs be much better for Deep Learning than classical GPUs?
Please excuse any mislabeling of the terminology. My question is this. Would a quantum processing unit with a similar number of cores/quibits as a high end graphics card be much better at deep learning/ML tasks? It seems to me the ability to occupy super positions would allow a neural network to be much more elaborate than that which is allowed to exist in a classical computing system since in essence all a neural network does is make a ton of guesses then prunes the solutions that are not accurate representations of the data input. If quantum is not capable of doing this on its own or does not excel at it would it be possible to overlay quantum processor units and classical units in some kind of grid system like a checkerboard to leverage the strength of the other processing technology? Does anyone have any source info on this?
some track how long you stay in the bathroom using the RFID badge that they gave you
You are not thinking of the wide range of disabilities. This is fine, you're not handicapped. It doesn't occur to you. It does have to occur to some of us, so your policy quick take is probably not well-conceived.

Quick, name the condition(s). I'll phrase it like a riddle: I can dance at your wedding but I cannot walk outside much of the time.

ROT13: Nal cubgbfrafvgvivgl qvfbeqre.
That’s a topic not related to typescript, it’s javascript after all.
TBH, every app on that list sound like a scam app.
As a developer really? Which kinds of issues for example? I feel like Linux is the default platform for software development, and Windows is a 3rd class experience by comparison.
Mi Band 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 – Which Is Better?
TX 3.67

The reason I pointed out the other states was to show that the looser gun laws of Texas is not necessarily the cause of higher firearm homicide rate. The other states have looser firearm laws than Texas (not in all respects).

Edit:

Some other states

CT 1.823

DC 19.27

IL 5.11

MA 1.25

MD 7.61

NY 1.53

RI 0.94
A "tech stack spoofer", that would be cool and it can have applications beyond that like for security by obscurity.
Applications (at least on linux) could call

setsockopt(fd, TCP_CORK, 0) // uncork
setsockopt(fd, TCP_CORK, 1) // cork

after every logical block (request/message/transaction/etc) to get the best of both worlds.

Unkorking always releases what's in the buffer. (edited for formatting)
Tesla market value crosses $500B as shares surge six-fold this year
This reminds me of a time I wrote a Facebook post which tagged about a half-dozen couples I know. I consciously wrote all the het pairs as girl, boy e.g. "Sarah Smith, Dave Smith" not "Dave Smith, Sarah Smith" because on the one hand that's how I most often think of them, and I noticed our culture usually puts the man first so why not be contrary?

Anyway, Facebook re-ordered them. And so I followed up with a post asking why that happens. It turns out some of my friends saw other orders, some got the order I intended. Intriguing.

Fortunately one of the scientists thought of a perfectly rational and testable explanation, she tested it, and demonstrated it's apparently right.

Facebook has some internal "How much you interact with this person" metric and it's using that for sorting. It has no way to know your relationship to Sarah and Dave in the real world, it's just putting Dave first (for example) because the two of you exchanged a dozen terrible fish puns last week, a measurable Facebook interaction, whereas that walk out by the lake with Sarah when her mother died isn't on Facebook.
Ask HN: Where to share draft products for constructive feedback
Any recommended online communities that are welcoming of early product versions for constructive feedback?
Combined with that, many employee's know how to work the metrics to make themselves look more productive than they really are.

So you end up with work being done to fit the metrics, not necessarily work that is of highest need or more impactful to the organization.

I have seen plenty of bad metrics lead to managers no understanding why their dept's appear to be "hitting all the numbers" but also no performing in the way they desire at the same time
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No--but certain constructs could translate to slower than expected execution speed.
I'll take the autodidact, you take the student fresh out of college with no practice :)
> My experience is, written communication don't exist until I've mentioned a summary of it in a verbal communication.

Mine as well.

We forget that as programmers text and reading is a good chunk of what we do, so we project that onto others and act surprised when the way they look at the world differs from ours.

I've found it pays to 'speak their language', look at the world the way you think they'd see it from their perspective and then things are easier all around.