skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who absolutely do not care about school and don’t want to be there are unlikely to attain much benefit from school. I think this is true no matter how much you try to force them to pay attention, punish them for skipping, leaving class regularly or simply daydreaming while ignoring the instructor. There just isn’t much use imposing the will of an authority on someone who has their own free will which isn’t aligned and doesn’t want to be dominated. In my opinion, success at that sort of endeavor should not be celebrated. A student should only be in school if they want to be there.
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Three things come to mind.

The first is that at age 40 I finally started taking my health seriously. Long story short, I got bit by the “lift as much heavy weight as I can”. I’d love to one day lift respectable heavy weights. But at 44 with 2 shoulder surgeries in my rear view, I have to come to terms with I probably won’t ever hit a few of my goals. I still believe that I’m stronger than most 44 year olds around me though :)

The second is work. I believe I’m average to above average developer. I’m good at keeping the big picture in my head. But because of depression (under control but still affects me) I am the worst procrastinator. I play schedule chicken with myself all the time. I’ve tried GTD, Pommadoro (sp?), and countless other “get shit done” techniques. Nothing works. I fear at some point I’ll play chicken and lose. At this point in my life, I’ve kind of come to terms with it. I can usually say “OK. Slack off today. But tomorrow you have to commit to at least 4 hours of work”. And that usually works. But the last couple of months - not so much. Hoping it’s not becoming permanent.

The third is I was pretty isolated before COVID. I’m even more isolated now, and I like it. I’m afraid that I’m going full hermit (not in the strict sense of the word since I do work). And it scares me that I’m not MORE afraid of isolating myself even further from human beings.
Let’s say we take it “some skepticism” is useful. The question is - how do you use this skepticism to enable quick decision making?
And that’s not even specific to tech salaries. A typical Bay Area TC of $250-400k for a senior engineer will also include great healthcare so there is basically no competition in any European location.

You have to specifically want to live in a European city for the culture/walkability/etc or else there is just no reason to take tech jobs there.
While a good point, at the moment the balance is much more shifted towards dead media rather than wasted resources. At best, the document doesn't get as much engagement as it could. At worst you get non-reproducible research papers, when you're really lucky if you can find the code in open access and compile it, let alone get the same results.

And sure, some simulations are very heavy, but they are more of exceptions. Also possible to have the best of both worlds, and have both a simulation, and a static snapshot available.
Surgical and N95 masks were proven against other coronaviruses.
montessori designed a way of teaching, where each child learns at their own pace. missed time simply never causes a problem that way
Empathetic with the OP here. And an investigation should be undertaken. However it would be naive to expect this does not happen at Apple. It has thousands of employees. Many of them forgotten. They will try to self preserve. I don't see it as a black and white case.

Do not expect rosy experience at any company ever.
If you have this for US, I would have tried. My business is currently passive but I still pay a lot to accountant to run a payroll once per year.
Not exactly news, his widow wrote about it in 2016: https://n.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308
I recall there was a study a few years back that claimed real recidivism rates were actually much lower than commonly stated due to a selection bias effect.

Here are the slides:
https://www.bgcheckinfo.org/sites/default/files/public/5thMt...
"It's not opening the source that makes the software more secure. It's enough reviewers or white hats looking at the code. Security vulnerabilities in Linux (both kernel and user space) show that regularly."

Thank you for that additional point, it's worth being said and helps us model the closed source alternative.
Even for legal drugs most (maybe all?) countries have rules about how you can market or promote them. The classic example would be things like cigarette and alcohol marketing needing to include health warnings.

Since the App store is global, it makes sense to just not allow anything that could run afoul of those rules.
Of course. I just used chronic fatigue as one example, those are others.

Regardless, my point stands: when the average person thinks of using amphetamines to stay awake, they're thinking primarily of the illegal context, not the prescription one.
I really like F# but am concerned there might be some kind of gotcha with using it in a commercial project. Like somehow Microsoft might decide to require payment for .NET or something.
no it is not an opt-out of conversation. It's a point that you made a massive oversimplification and yourself opted out of thinking. You just basically said, lockdown = bad consequences, non-lockdown = good consequences. non-lockdown could have had 2x, 4x, 10x, 100x, 1x, 0.5x the infections. We don't know which. You ignored all those possibilities and their repercussions and just stated lockdown has been disastrous implying that non-lockdown would have been less disastrous. you don't know that. I for one believe non-lockdown would have been more disastrous. Hospitals would be more full, more people would be dying, people would be even more desperate than they are, the result would be an even worse economy and more suffering
You know, when I read "Horrifying PDF," I thought it would be an exaggeration.
> That is a common but very shallow take on Steve Jobs management. Yes, there are instances of him being abrasive, but he led some very successful tech development efforts which involved getting people to come together around difficult goals.

He might have had other talents that compensated (at a corporate level) for the damage from his asshole behaviors, but it seems pretty clear that he was, in fact, an asshole. Not all those stories are from the workplace, that second link is all about how he treated his daughter.

The issue here is how does having an asshole like that at the top affect the rest of the company's culture and the behavior of the other managers?
You can’t provide advice until you have a full picture of the situation.
I find myself thinking about Krupp, and Basil Zaharoff
I think part of the issue is immigration/visa problems. If you're a US citizen/permanent-resident, there's sort of a "ceiling" to how much abuse you will get from your employer, since at the end of the day you can say "fuck this, I'm working somewhere else"...however, if you're on some kind of visa, these things get a lot more difficult, since the company doesn't just control your livelihood, they actually control you being allowed in the country at all.

While of course you can still apply to other places, and maybe you'll get lucky to find another company who wil sponsor your visa, it's a substantially more-uphill battle.

(disclaimer, not an immigrant, this is just based on what immigrant friends have told me and from what I've read).
Morons like you are why the road to hell is paved in good intentions.
The personal/political aspect aside, I can think of multiple projects that could have benefited from an approach like this.

I'm often astonished by the inefficiency of project delivery, particularly in large companies.

Teams spending months building sub-systems from scratch, where there is an off the shelf(sometimes open source) tool that will do the same job and better.

Man years of work going into chasing trends like "serverless" or "microservices" for no real reason, when a monolith running on a server, could be delivered in a fraction of the time and probably do a better job than what ended up being built.

I'm convinced that paying two teams to work on the same project would often cost less than paying for the huge teams and cost overruns I've seen.
I hope she spills all the beans publicly. Put out every picture, file document, recording, and email that she can. With accusations like this, the company and the perpetrators need to be exposed to the public, nailed to the wall.
I sometimes get stuck on “what’s the point of this?” More specifically what the end really will actually bring about. Over the last several months I’ve been working on a small display fountain I wanted to put outside my house joining to entertain folks as they walk by. Every so often though I get stuck on “is anybody at all going to care about this?” And then I waste an afternoon watching videos or something.

For me, I have to find the will to push through those moments and get it done.
There are a number of these ghost kitchens in my area available on Uber Eats, some of which are pretty good.

Some of the best Nashville hot chicken I've ever had has been delivered from a place simply titled "Nashville Hot Chicken Shack". Googling them, I couldn't find anything about them. Not even putting in the street address gives me anything. But I did find out the address belonged to another restaurant, which let me realize that they were a ghost kitchen using that restaurant's kitchen facilities. And then I noticed in the app that the restaurant's name was mentioned in small print, which finally confirmed it.
I already said it sucks that Apple is only now enforcing or adding this rule.

Clearly Apple has changed its mind.
> At worst you get non-reproducible research papers

Ability to rerun programs is great, but we should be careful to remember that it's a different thing than reproducibility.
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I think he was saying it's not a deterrent from committing more crime, not that it's not a deterrent from going back to prison. Which is to say, it's not deterring what we want it to be deterring.

Even if that part is useful though there's no real reason to impugn the integrity of the people the GP references, and the reply does not tell us why we should find those people more likely to be prone to self-rationalization, which it needs to.
I poked around and the Carlsbad Desalination Plant wikipedia page has numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...

Cost about $1b to built. Energy costs are $49-5m a year. Total cost $108 million.

That's inline with my rough memory that 45% of the cost is capital, 45% energy, and 10% maintenance. Fudge those numbers as you will.

When I think about the economics it seems complex. Cheap power offsets extra capacity somewhat. Someone that actually manages, designs, plants probably knows real numbers.
"we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch"

This is what Microsoft did, and later admitted it was bad for the products and users and teams.
This all makes sense, thank you. The friction-free aspect of browser windows is still pretty critical to my workflow, but I'll look into whether it makes sense to grow the habit of "migrating" a task to Zotero when it gets heavy-duty enough.
It's all open source now
> I never understood the supposed attraction of "just like a startup, but in a big company!"

Imho it's frequently used to falsely motivate junior/inexperienced into working crazy hours that they might get some financial or other rewards like a startup.
A contradiction is when two things both can't be true. Not just when things are unlikely to be true.

It would be a contradiction if people only ended up in prison because they wanted to go.

In reality many people commit crimes for other reasons, like lack of food and shelter.

Its much harder to get a job with a criminal record, so many former criminals end up forced back into criminal activities for food and shelter.
Might it be because if the teacher reads the n-word out loud they’ll lose their job? If they don’t read it out loud the students will pester them until they do?
Few other countries make people
take off their shoes through airport security... we haven’t had any copycat attacks.
Watched a few episodes tonight - well done, I'm hooked!
^ +1
to support this, just a couple of months back there was a huge mess with N26 (the neo-bank) trying to prevent its employees from unionizing and how they actually did it.

Ref: https://www.worker26.com/ & https://twitter.com/worker291

Disclaimer: No relation to N26 or the union in any way, just another Berliner supporting their cause
Bingo, sir. https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-22
Are you sure?

This department of labor letter seems to state otherwise

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/2006...
Why do you care if it is on the app store or not? Just let users download it from your website. In any case people aren't discovering mac apps from the app store in any significant numbers.
Yeah, you can do this when you have several equally good offers in your pocket. Meaning you're good enough to be picky. What would be your response if you don't feel you're better than all others who applied for this position?
> Yes, very likely I am "not a good leader". I recognize this. I don't want to be. I "just" want to have teams where you do stuff together, because it is fun, because it has a purpose, because it makes money, whatever. It works a lot better in situations where everyone has their own agenda and is not hired by "my company".

Ironically, this is the way the leaders I most admire also talk. Maybe you're putting to much emphasis and pressure on yourself, maybe your employees really did want to belong to "your company" and be on the same agenda as you but that was too stressful a burden to bare?

Either way, after 5 lead roles for yourself, taking a supporting cast role sounds like a good idea with little risk, if you hate it well at least you'll know for sure
Exactly my thoughts. I'm surprised that the majority of commenters here are taking this at face value. Especially, as you mentioned, the "implied hidden suicide/murder threat". If it was as the author described, 99% of people at any company on Earth would be absolutely shocked and appalled by something like that. Unless Apple is some truly some kind of other-worldly hellhole, they would not have gotten the reaction that they did.

I'm obviously not qualified to diagnose anyone, especially from reading a single blog post. But have any of the other commenters stopped and considered whether it rings true that her coworker shouted "Die!" at her on her way to the bathroom? Or does that sound more like something that someone with, say, paranoid schizophrenia would say?
Wow. Some of their kids lived until the early 1970s. The things they lived to see from the late 1880s to the early 1979s include so many things like 2 world wars, the invention of the airplane to jet flights being commonplace, men going to the moon, from early automobiles to fast race cars, from classical music to disco (oh, wait...)
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is shit.

More everything means more shit.
That's a tremendous understatement. They're both incredibly huge projects with major advancements. It's not only hardware that helped create modern cellphones, the whole ecosystem and perf improvements are game changers.
On Tuesday we set a record of 432. On Friday, of 585.

To me the shocking thing isn't that we are setting new records for deaths, or set 2 new records in one week.

It is that the second record is more than 1/3 higher than the first. :-(
> Think back to the toilet paper shortage, or the mask shortage, or the hand sanitizer shortage, and how long it took the market to respond to those events.

Not long? Toilet paper distribution recovered quickly, little old ladies are now knitting masks and I hear distilleries have started converting into hand sanitiser plants. There was a month of confusion then in my experience everything started snapping back to normal. I've never seen so much hand sanitiser as is now available.

> My point is it's still very slow, and if you're saying that days matter, the market is not the tool we want.

Yet if we don't go with the market I bet a worse alternative will be chosen. Back in March-February people would have argued in February that the US CDC was there to overrule greedy companies rushing out coronavirus tests and make sure that there are high quality standards. Then the CDC shipped a test that didn't work and scuppered the US's opportunity to nip the pandemic in the bud. That instance alone is a damning indictment of a government-first response to a healthcare emergency.

People can keep making a big song and dance about how this time the market can't possibly work because it is different to all the other times the market worked really well. Then the government will implement something slower than just letting people buy vaccines like everything else. In time the complete screw-up of the response will be used as evidence that there is no way a free market could have handled something so complicated.

Pretty much every time a free market has been used to solve a problem, the problem gets resolved as fast as possible with minimum fuss. The only exception is problems that poor people have. Coronavirus is not a poor-person-problem. Leaving it to the market will get great results.

> That said, throwing the military at this problem seems fine to me, honestly.

It'll be slower than letting people buy a vaccine off the shelf. The military has no special advantage here. There are great reasons that the military isn't left in charge of running a countries logistics networks - they are competent but not the best at it.
There is no one, single, correct answer. People have been starting successful startups everywhere, long before COVID.

Being in SF makes it easier to raise venture capital, but it's still possible to raise capital elsewhere.

Rabois is making a lot of noise about Miami, but it's not going to turn into a startup hub overnight. It's not exactly bad right now, but Austin has a better startup scene at the moment.

Personally, I'd recommend that you figure out which city makes you the happiest. It's much easier to maintain motivation to build a startup when you're in a place you enjoy. If you're living in a city you hate just because you think it's somehow optimal for business reasons, it's going to be a drag on everything else. Optimize for happiness and fit everything else to it.
Agree linear algebra is key, but would recommend Gilbert Strang’s books and courses.
Steve Jobs died from being a jerk, to himself, because he refused to take his doctor's advice about his diet and pancreatic cancer. A reality distortion field only works so long.
Right, but what about the people that respond by rejecting those experiences or implying something unsavory about the person sharing them?
Anyone know of any resources for advanced computer vision? This seems like a critical starting point.

And I don't mean using OpenCV or something to draw boxes around objects. I mean understanding the 3d scene in detail. And ideally even understanding the dynamics of the world.

Also, anyone have any experience with HASEL artificial muscles or something similar? Anyone know a reason I shouldn't pursue that over servos?
Meme with the comic dog in a fire saying "everything's fine".
Sexualized media does make me more horny. Sample of 1 but I'm pretty confident I'm not the sole exception.

You can google "using porn to get in the mood" to see other people certainly get horny watching sexualized media.
Loss aversion bias

I'd love to one day leave my tiny hometown in Canada and get exposed to foreign cultures (primarily interested in US/Japan/Germany). However, I find it hard to stomach tossing out the ~$10k worth of crap that I've accumulated over the years so that I can move abroad -- even though I've heard from my friends that top companies have ludicrous signing bonuses that can allow me to replace everything.

Maybe once Covid is finally under control in a year or two, I'll be able to overcome my personal bias. For now, I'll focus on studying foreign languages in my spare time and avoid impulse buying.
Regarding state space blow-up, the only thing I'd add is that after DFA/NFA minimization you always get a canonical state machine (up to state relabeling) so the size will be the same regardless of how it was constructed. This doesn't mean that state space blow-up won't happen but that there isn't any inherent overhead (after minimization) compared to writing an equivalent regular expression by hand without using the product/complement constructions. But minimization interacts poorly with some practical features like capture groups, so you could probably only use the minimized automaton for matching and you'd have to compute the captures after a match some other way.
being hungry can make you grumpy
From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration:

"The declaration makes no mention of [...] Long Covid, which has left many fit and young people suffering from debilitating symptoms months after a mild infection.

[...]

the WHO say that the herd immunity component of the proposed strategy is undermined by the limited duration of post-infection immunity. The more likely outcome, they say, would be recurrent epidemics, as was the case with numerous infectious diseases before the advent of vaccination.

[...]

It was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian think tank that is part of a Koch-funded network of organizations associated with climate change denial"

Enough said
I reject the notion that a dominant proportion of research publications are mediocre. Instead, the problems have gotten harder. Harder research questions forces careful, yet incremental, research programs.
Now that's an intriguing concept. "A file format for declaratively specifying a physical data-communication artefact, abstractly-defined by the interactions it supports."

• Just showing the user text? Compiles to plaintext.

• Get the user to give some input? Compiles to a styled form, as PostScript.

• Add radio buttons? Compiles to a physical form but with a 3D-printed notched slider glued to it.

• Require validation for freeform-text form fields? Compiles to a 3D-print + VLSI + pick-and-place specification for a tablet embedded-device that displays the form and does the validation.

Now imagine a "printer" that takes such abstract documents as input, and can print any of these... :)
It's not just used in the middle east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...

Finally you could build them and then just not run them: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/05/04/yuma-desalination...
> the pandemic was pushing state hospitals to the “brink of catastrophe”

what’s the exact metric for catastrophe?

routine treatments for many people have already been delayed resulting in their deaths

daily emergencies have resulted in the same thing

Hospitals around the state have declared their “internal” disaster, as a signal to send people to other hospitals in advance

And its been like this for weeks

So at what point do people say universally consider it beyond “the brink” and actual catastrophe, in California
I saw the presentation from the oculus reveal. If anything, it's way more creepy than google glass.
Never once I thought I will find this kind of content at HN. I am just now up to 9/53 on your youtube series, and I think if you get a pro editor to polish up everything this can easily be turned into a really good show, maybe some tv or channel will ask for rights. I feel like theres loads of potential in commercializing this if you edit it correctly.