skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have, I built a subscription coloring book business when they became a huge fad. It was profitable (between $500 and $1,000 a month in net profit) and I sold it after 10 months when I needed to relocate outside of the country for work so the burden of managing it would no longer be worth it.
I also joined somebody else's side hustle in the employee engagement space (tips for managers and a simple tool to keep track of staff info like birthdays, favorite food, etc.) that was acquired by a larger but still very small company in that space. Both "exits" were not in the low 5 digits so nothing notable but a nice feeling
There is the potential for personal liability as a result of ignoring recalls. I'm not talking about failure to maintain a vehicle. I'm analogizing willfully ignoring safety-related recalls.
Not sure about that.

In coding, leadership by example and mentorship are one of the most fundamental aspects of true leadership.

In fact, if you have junior devs, the most rapid way to make them more productive, is by putting them with senior devs with good habits they can lead from.

The article is also misguided: someone with 6 months experience can literally not 'lead' someone with 20 years experience in the hierachical sense. It's completely illegitimate.

They can however, manage staffers with senior abilities, in the same way you can hire contractors to build a house. The 'contracting' relationship implies a lot of trust across the boundary, which is what will have to be the case in a 'junior leadership' role.

In fact, they probably should avoid calling it 'leadership' in any sense of the word.

He is probably the 'team bus driver / manager / stock guy' compared to the senior devs, who are like the 'players on the field'.
I would be unable to sit in such a vehicle at all, then. I must face forward and clearly see the horizon or I throw up in a matter of minutes in any moving vehicle.
A timer that's like a pomodoro timer but different. Wrote it for the iPad because I was interested in multi-touch gestures. Wrote a prototype in Java that works on the desktop which I use every day. I've just never gotten around to completing and publishing the iPad app. We're talking iOS 4 when I started...
I think the reality is that a manager’s job is alignment. Sometimes that is resetting the expectations of the organization, and sometimes that is redirecting the team or team members. Realigning without pissing people off is what leadership is.

Managers who only ever “interface” or act as a “shit umbrella” end up screwing the team over in the long run.

Your surgeon metaphor only stands up in a situation where 100+ Surgeons are operating on the same person.
I was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Marathi is my native language.

Ek number was commonly used in my childhood days in Mumbai and it means "First class" or "Classic". Typical uses: ek number joke, ek number daaru (daaru = alcohol, liquor), ek number maal (First class, good looking, hot girl), ek number vada pav (classic food dish) etc.
Couples who meet on dating apps have too much fscking time on their hands. Dating apps? srsly? <owl meme> <cranky old guy meme> <bbl meme>
Keep it. You will need it in a parallel universe.
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I think it would be helpful to indicate what language the person in each recording is speaking. For example, the site has a sample of someone saying his own name "Zachary" as something like ['zaxari] but in American English it would be something like ['zækʌɹi]. This is especially significant for names that occur in multiple languages.

In English names that begin with <J> are usually /dʒ/, but in French they're usually /ʒ/, in Spanish /h/, in other European languages very often /j/ -- even if they're spelled exactly the same way and have the same historic origin! "Jan" could easily have three different pronunciations depending on what country Jan comes from. (I know a Jon who pronounced it with [j] in his native country but consciously chose to encourage the American-style [dʒ] pronunciation after he moved to the U.S.)

Another interesting question is how much people expect/prefer foreigners to attempt to pronounce their names in a native way. For example, most Brazilians named Thiago would probably pronounce it something like [tʃi'agu] but might not be upset if English-speakers pronounced it like [ti'ɑgoʊ]. (They might think "well, that's progress over [θi'ɑgoʊ]".) My name is pronounced [sɛθ], but Brazilians don't have /θ/ (let alone /-θ/!) and they normally say ['sɛtʃi] instead. (I've gotten to be OK with that and even joined in jokes about how it sounds very similar to the name of the number seven in Portuguese.)

Mandarin has the sounds <zh> [ʈʂ], <j> [tɕ], <c> [tsʰ], <ch> [ʈʂʰ], <q> [tɕʰ], <sh> [ʂ], <x> [ɕ] which are all not present in English and which will probably sound to English speakers like /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /dʒ/, or /ʒ/ (the <zh> in "Zhang" on your site sounded like /dʒ/ to me as an English speaker but I'm imagining it's probably [ʈʂ]). So it's an interesting question what will happen if I speak to a person named Zhang and refer to him as /dʒaŋ/ (which is what I would probably say by naively imitating the recording on your site), as opposed to my non-pinyin-literate intuition of /ʒæŋ/. Can we assume that people generally just prefer if we get as close as possible as the phonologies of our own native languages allow?
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Grow.com supports both 3rd party, as well as SQL database. It doesn't run SQL directly on your db, but pulls it into the provided data warehouse.

I work at Grow, happy to answer any questions.
That's not "speaking google" that's "speaking MBA"
You can also have lots of fun with growth experiment, finding good light, nutrients mixes for better yield/flavor. Blog it and tell us!
The FA is simply announcing that an airline has started service with some ARJ21's, nothing to do with C919. The ARJ21 has been in use in other airlines since 2016.

I'm certain that China would have done something like these jets regardless of whether other manufacturers had declined, or if they helped, or whatever. Just as the Soviets/Russians have been making jets and just as in that case it said nothing about Boeing or Airbus.
My friend and I built a marketing company for fitness.

We haven't yet made any income from it, and covid hit us pretty hard because of our customer base. However we're using the end of 2020 to build momentum on a few social media platforms in order to start gaining traction.
I hate this mindset, lots people get killed by senior driver with impaired vision/reflexes and it's always the same bullshit "but it would kill him to take away his independence".

well, tell that to people that will eventually be under his wheels.
There are no alien (not from earth) UFO's because any alien smart enough to come here would be smart enough to disguise their transport as a plane. There may be earth made UFO's which can do amazing things.
So much for the "democratization of AI", I suppose.
I disagree on Miele. They still produce their products in Germany. That's not something you do if you want to sell plastic knockoffs. Sure, quality may vary, but this is literally their brand identity. So I seriously doubt there is a calculated attempt to be less reliable.

It gets more difficult. Tefal produces great pans in France, and really terrible pans in China and they are almost the same product and have the same price.

What I try to do is to buy D2C if possible, from brands where I know what is produced where. That's only a small subset of needed things, and its expensive, but it usually works out for me.
I now know household, electronics and clothing brands that genuinely produce here in this country, for example, and the quality is simply better. I also know that no child labour was involved. So, I feel good about supporting such efforts.

Any brand I see on Amazon I assume to be one more variation of the same rebranded product. If I buy it, I buy it under the assumption that it could break the next day.

I also check whether the established brand name has been bought up, which happens a lot. Most of the eminent electronic brands are merely licensed labels nowadays.
In Excel there's a toolbar button to toggle showing formulae rather than their results. I realise this doesn't counter your overall objection, but it does mean chasing down logic isn't quite as bad as having to select individual cells one at a time.
Wow, I clicked because of your comment and I concur, you're not being dramatic, it's pretty overwhelming animation
Because the modified page wouldn't be signed with that key? This is one of the basic things https does
I specifically like HN because it doesn’t have a political bias and allows people to exit their group think bubble. The range of smart people with varying ideas, and willingness to debate, is enormous. Although I feel like downvotes fly more often than they used to a few years ago...
Mentioned in the comment below, but a few places are implementing it including New York City, South Carolina, and the Northern European Sea just from a quick YouTube search:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oUGWuKRwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmb-lH6A7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAONydtbnU&feature=emb_titl...

I also know of a couple projects in my area, near Poole and Christchurch harbours in the South of England, that have successfully reintroduced oyster beds in areas which were previously barren.
Grow.com is a great low-code / no-code option.

Anyone can use the graphical transforms to 'write' SQL and you can pull all the data into the provided data warehouse so don't have to set that up.

Is is not cheap, but it is powerful. I work there, happy to answer any questions.
Unless you are targeting a constrained embedded system, this kind of anti-memory-allocation thinking is counter-productive. Avoiding memory allocation significantly increases the complexity of an API -- or worse, leads to shortcuts like using (thread-unsafe) globals or (overrun-prone) fixed buffers.

In C, dealing with memory allocation is such a pain that C programmers still tend to avoid it. But C++, especially post-C++11, makes dynamic memory allocation much, much easier to deal with. (And GC'd languages, obviously, are easier still.) There is still a performance cost, obviously, but that cost almost never matters in application programming use cases, and is even negligible in many systems programming cases.

I do think Protobuf does too much allocation, but saying that libraries should not allocate memory at all is an outdated view.
It definitely helps to be familiar with an organization to actively participate in it. You can accumulate political capital independent from the management structure, though, and you can manage without playing politics.

I always suggest folk to embrace and understand an existing organization's culture before attempting to effect change within it.
Took a while for the article to get to the main point but the reason for the raise is because: "Under the new rules, drivers will earn a gross hourly pay of about $30.30 per hour, before expenses." I was very confused why rates were going up if the drivers made 23$ an hour on average now and the minimum wage was only 16$.
Here's a forum thread created by a relatively new Defold user documenting part of the process from prototype to finished game: https://forum.defold.com/t/apple-spider-casual-arcade-action...

Another from a more experienced team, but new to Defold:

https://forum.defold.com/t/travel-blast-by-mpgames/66089?u=b...

"Low entry level compared to Unity. Lua is easy to learn programming language. One of our UI designers became Defold developer in a month"
I probably have about 20 domains registered that I've never done anything with. Eg wherewasthistaken.com - the idea being you have a photo, eg from your parents, and you don't know where the photo was taken. So you post it on the website and people can comment if they recognise where it was taken.
Part of me thinks they may intend to get rid of the physical ports altogether on the iPhone. This would serve to differentiate the "productive" iPad from iPhone, and allow them to scratch that minimalist itch they get every once in a while.
Pushing 45 now, having worked in a lot of industries, I say this is bad advice. Most people who want you to talk less and listen more are just trying to control you and in corporate landscapes, never ever assume anyone is trying to help you.

I wasted a lot of years staying silent, reminding myself that other people know more than me. Actually, all the smart, competent people were the ones being quiet in the first place, and all the people saying “talk less, listen more” like they are life coach gurus turned out to be the overconfident know-it-alls and people with duplicitous motives.

The problem is that a lot of young people are smart and have great ideas that more experienced people didn’t have. But because the young people don’t have political capital, the older people need a way to set up political gatekeeping and launder credit for sourcing the ideas from younger people.

It’s near impossible to truly tell if you’re dealing with that level of political dirtbag (usually yes) or if you’re dealing with rare good-natured people who want to give you real advice. So in the prisoner’s dilemma of it, young people have no rational choice but to defect and push for their own agendas. And they should.

When I meet young people now, I try to remind myself: they need to be heard, they need to talk. I need to listen. I shouldn’t patronize them by saying, “talk less, listen more.” I should presume they are equals, and keep my opinions private if their youthful exuberance causes them to put their foot in their mouth. They need to speak and be heard to grow, and I shouldn’t be set in my ways and miss the good ideas that occur to generations who experienced a whole different world and landscape in their formative years. Their perspective adds to mine, it doesn’t need me to correct it.
Here's the actual quote for those curious

https://youtu.be/THFoayEgsV8?t=238
Those are also the only nights when people are out at all. People who have to be at work on weekday mornings aren't driving home from visiting their parents late on a Tuesday night, they're doing it late on a Saturday night. Yeah, it probably is alcohol but there's a lot of confounding factors.
This works for sharks because they are a pre-existing condition. However if the bay with a shark bio lab was an origin of shark mutants, I'd assume the lab engineered them.
US pay is certainly higher for the top 5% earners than virtually any other country's top 5% earners. But the litmus test of a country's system is whether you'd want to live there, not knowing what person or in what family you'd be born to. If you know you'll be a top 5% earner, of course the US is a better place than say Sweden. If you don't, the US doesn't look so hot.

Second, there's work/life balance, for example you can look at annual workhours and see there's a 350 hour gap between the US and Sweden: https://clockify.me/assets/images/working-hours/oecd-hours-w...

350 hours is equivalent to 8.75 weeks (or more than 2 months) of 8 hour, 5-day workweeks. That's a massive difference.

Second, Sweden has free education. Being a top 5% earner in the US sometimes comes easy, but often times you're looking at medschool, lawschool or CS or whatever, that can set you back anywhere from 30k to 250k, with 7% average student loan interest rates.

Stuff like this can put a massive weight on your shoulders from age 18 til 38 or so, constantly climbing a corporate ladder, working crazy hours, and paying off a massive debt. All the while fearing that an economic crisis or some kind of disability leading to unemployment, can ruin you. In a country like Sweden there's no such weight on your shoulders, subsidised, and a massive social safety net. Quality of life is quite stable, and you can both very much enjoy student life, and your life right after, all the way til old age, with a healthy work/life balance.

You also don't have to live in a city that you share with an extremely poor underclass, homelessness, crime, drug addiction, while paying a million for a single bedroom.

Of course I'm not saying everyone in tech is working 80 hours and getting crushed by debt while working in an overpriced city with some minor dystopian undertones. But when looking at these things, Sweden and the US are certainly on opposite sides of the spectrum. And it must be taken into account when looking at pay.

I'd love to move to the US for some time, the natural parks are amazing, I like the culture and the vibe. But work/life balance, the lack of safety net if you're unlucky and the general state of the country for many of its people, are repelling me. I've never thought of pay as something that attracts me to the US, it's really not worth it for me because I'm not lacking anything (although I do make about $100k equivalent in western Europe, but even at much lower salaries when I was younger I loved it here).
>> that doesn't mean that their eventual decline into depression and suicide wasn't triggered by that loss

It's not just loss of jobs/businesses/careers - loss of loved ones to COVID can be a cause of depression too. Allowing more COVID deaths could increase suicides.
As complicated as it is, deep learning is simple compared to programming by hand all the required knowledge. This approach historically failed (expert systems).
NYSS Bill A416 – Removal and detention of cases, contacts and carriers
Maybe because "20X slower"
It's a pretty cheap sensor that can potentially detect all sorts of toxins in the water as a supplement to normal water quality analysis. You really can't expect any sort of reasonable sensor technologies to detect wide ranges of potentially harmful contaminants in water supplies while you can use mussels, clams, etc. as biological sensors--the modern "canary in a coal mine."

I worked with a research project that was sensing, collecting and analyzing types of mussels in rivers that were used as an indirect measurement of water quality in the river. The assumption is that the mussels can act as a proxy for certain contaminants. In fact, they actually filter a lot of water daily so you can occasionally analyze one as to what sort of contaminants it absorbed as a proxy for whats probably in the water.

Meanwhile, water intakes typically only monitor for known and suspected contaminants. They have to rely on other indirect measurements like changes conductivity as a signal to analyze the water and these are noisy and fairly unreliable compositional change detection proxies.

Neat stuff.
I never really understood such arguments. Not being combative, just not sure. If we are in a simulation, then why do things like energy matter? Who says those are meaningful in the "real" world. We can only perceive the simulation, so our idea of physics is whatever the simulation creator thought would be nice, no? May be there are things we can infer from this "simulation" about the world one abstraction above, but in nested simulations that would be arbitrary as well.
Not a surprise. Though anecdotal, I've noticed an increase in the use of "blasts", "slams", and "lashes out" in U.S. news titles over the past few years.
Thanks for the insight, that makes sense!

Perhaps this is too unhip, but I wonder - have you ever dealt with the OMG's Data Distribution Service (DDS)? I used to think it was too fuddy-duddy to even glance at, but the recent adoption of DDS by ROS2 made me take another look. DDS seems to have a lot of interesting properties, particularly the QoS and discovery mechanisms. What made me think of it is that DDS is really a free and open standard, but there are a number of commercial entities making money off of it. They provide DDS implementations for free, and then they make money by offering professional consulting and support. Maybe a Cloudflare-backed capnp could end up looking the same way. Anyway, I'm sure you have your head around the possibilities and tradeoffs, not sure why I'm rambling.
The energy loss from power plant to consumer is 8-15%, on premise cryptocurrency mining is using

A) from some sources: Energy that wasn't going to be sent over those power lines

B) from other sources: a hedge against the loss

C) in some sources a combination of both A and B

If you get around to noticing, I have refrained from any snark with you and I wonder how long you will keep that up
Awesome. Love the idea, I've built a card game to teach innovation (www.intrapreneurs-game.com) so I appreciate the effort that goes into designing a game, I'm currently trying to get my game developed as an app because I'm doing some remote workshops in 2021 and want to use it, thanks for sharing
Optimus keyboard already does this and exists on the market. This is not defensible.
Then get a nice hefty bill. CW is expensive.
The water being crystal clear looks cool, but it's an ecological disaster for larger fish in the food chain that depend on the turbidity of the water for ambushing smaller fish.
I think externalities should be priced into that $23. Lots of things can be cheap and still account for externalities.

A wacky wall walker [0] is less than a dollar? Does that amaze you? Should it cost more? Should it not exist?

Same with a spinning top. Or a book. Or colored pencils.

I’m certainly concerned with externalities and make my children’s toy purchases accordingly. I am curious and would like to know why you think a $23 plastic drone isn’t very good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_WallWalker
In Washington state, the unemployment agency has been hindering investigations to the point that a public warning has been issued to the agency's leaders about it from the investigators (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washingto...). The head of this agency recently claimed that $357M of $600M has been recovered. However, it is hard to trust this figure because the agency has already been called out for misstating financial impact (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/sta...).

What's really damning is the level of incompetence. Washington state's unemployment agency went an entire year without standard anti-fraud checks, leaving them broken that entire time. They only fixed it this year, seemingly because this unprecedented level of fraud caught the public's attention. The agency's leader, Suzi LeVine, was picked by Governor Jay Inslee to lead this agency as a "natural fit". But the reality is that it was a nepotistic appointment - LeVine was a Sales and Marketing executive at Expedia and then US ambassador to Switzerland. Her early career work experience at Microsoft was more technical but it was too long ago and too limited to give her "tech credentials". However, she was a prominent DNC fundraiser and donated significantly to Inslee's campaigns (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/how-democ...), so here we are.
The general idea is that the discipline is automatically enforced via the type system, e.g. you have a library which provides a type FragileAndDangerousResource, but the only way to interact with such a thing is via (linear) functions along the lines of

withFADR :: (FragileAndDangerousResource #-> a) -> a

addToFADR :: Int -> FragileAndDangerousResource #-> FragileAndDangerousResource

In other words, linear types are purportedly useful precisely because they make it reasonable to ask for that extreme discipline on the programmer's part, because the compiler is right there to tell them when they screw it up--ideally with a helpful error message.
This is key since the entire analysis hinges really on 2 or 3 key assumptions and furin cleavage is one of them.
The brain is not just more efficient, it also builds itself. The hardware necessary to run a neural net is given. Maybe the rigors of self replication are what's missing from AI.