skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or is this JIT production mostly restricted to the automotive sector?

It has more to do with Human side of things. No one wants to take the blame. Or similar to the old saying, no one gets fired for buying IBM. The concept is a lot easier to understand once you have worked in a large enterprise and witness it firsthand.

It you put too much inventory as backup. Someone will point the finger at you why are we having so much inventory. The world is at peace. We dont need that many.

Your CFO doesn't like your department? Great!. You have now given them enough ammunition to fire the bullet in your direction.

Your inventory might also depreciate in price. How do you know if your component won't drop price in three months time? Although that is also the case with hiking price. But politics is more about protecting your downside, not upside.

You want to put a contract that keep stable supply for at least a year with an accurate forecast of your sales. Which department is in-charge for that forecast? Let me tell you one little secret. There is no such thing as "forecast", but only educated guess.

You want a stable supply and guarantee? But your manufacture will also have to safe guard their Interest. You cant just forecast your buying volume to be 10M / year and only buying 6M, leaving 4M capacity that were allocated for you but now going empty. If you dont fulfil those requirement, you have to paid a penalty. And If you follow news around Apple, you might have heard Apple paying Samsung this penalty because their OLED panel did not meet the contract's minimum target.

In most circumstance, unless your Vendor absolutely hate you, your penalty will be paid back to you and deducted in your next order over large unit volume. i.e You are paying less for the same component next year. So your manufacture will be happy to keep you as a customer for a longer period of time.

None of these are specific to silicon or tech. Substitute the above with Walmart, Cargrill or any player from any industry. Supply Chain and Logistic are pretty much the same everywhere.
If you even question one facet, one official count or piece of evidence of the official narrative you're labeled a denier or a truther or a conspiracy theorist.

The problem is trust. Were you yourself there to witness all controversial events? If not, you have to rely on the testimony of others and trust that they're not lying and have not themselves been tricked.

Edit: See what I mean? I didn't question anything, I just brought up questions about questions and people judged me for it.
If one is going to use r-word to discuss economic policy, it is more accurate to describe the minimum wage itself as racist. It has consistently produced higher unemployment rates among blacks than whites. In the past, this was because a high minimum wage created a surplus of candidates for some jobs, letting employers employ racial preferences without cost. Today, given lower black education levels, and in many cases, work experience, a high minimum wage disproportionately prices blacks out of the labor market.
Thanks for the explanation.

> If you upgrade your function from no second argument to a numeric second argument [...] It will not crash, because it still perfectly type-safe

It's type-safe using a definition of "type-safe" that is defined relative to the underlying JavaScript model of "corrupt the user's data rather than crash". It wouldn't be type-safe using most other languages' (including Python, for example) model of "functions have a type that includes the number of arguments, and applying them to the wrong number of arguments is meaningless and hence not considered type-safe".

It's fair for TypeScript to use this approach. But it is surprising to many of us, who view type systems as tools for ruling out some dumb functional bugs, not just crashes.
It's really simple: the data file contains a line per job, consisting of the date, time spent, optional label for a job. The script reads the lines in a loop, converting hours to minutes, sums by minutes spent, and breaks the total into hours and minutes. (I'm doing this actually just on a given range to be billed, and insert/paste the total and any billings derived from this into the text file as a comment, by this maintaining the text file as a key documentation and marking any billing intervals, as well).
How about using an animal's nose instead of an electronic nose? Detect the brain signals and let the "AI" figure out the patterns when the animal inhales something. No need to create a new nose from scratch, no need to train the animal as well.
Having your house foreclosed after you upload the wrong thing to YouTube would be a new wrinkle.
They make lovely squeezable tubes. I would suggest giving them a try! They are much better.
Emojinomics is a better portmanteau word.
Use–Mention Distinction
There’s this article from 1933. If it’s not in the Constitution then a simple congressional bill signed by the president would do it.

https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
Not that your link isn't a problem, but I don't think algorithm bias (which Twitter tried to fix when discovered) is worse than an explicit policy to suppress content with:

> Abnormal body shape, chubby, have obvious beer belly, obese, or too thin (not limited to: dwarf, acromegaly).

> Ugly facial looks (not limited to: disformatted face, fangs, lack of front teeth, senior people with too many wrinkles, obvious facial scars) or facial deformities (not limited to: eye disorders, crooked mouth disease and other disabilities).

Source: https://theintercept.com/document/2020/03/16/ugly-content-po...
> Zone requirements would include applicants owning at least 78 square miles (202 square kilometers) of undeveloped, uninhabited land within a single county but separate from any city, town or tax increment area.

I guess I'm not sure I see a big problem here. if you have a bunch of land that no one lives on and isn't currently being used for anything, you get to set up your own little county there. no one has to move there if they don't like the deal, and federal environmental protection rules would still apply. there's more than enough land to go around in nevada, if you can actually think of something worthwhile to do with it.
Had a first child, 2 years in I Was constantly stressed out. I started tracking time very closely. Both what was done, what needed to be done.

Worked out that If there were no delays; I would have 5 minutes at 7:25 to myself.

It was a much needed wake up call.
>> More importantly, it will be increasingly difficult to meaningfully dissent, and ideas, information, and narratives that threaten the status quo will be removed from public discourse. When the only acceptable information is that approved by the ruling administration, there can be no meaningful check on state power. Consent for the establishment agenda can easily be manufactured, and opposition can simply be deemed “disinformation” and treated as “dangerous,” deserving of censorship and removal. With a silenced opposition, power can therefore be exercised with impunity.

Oh but this has already happenned, and is showing no signs of abating- with the prosecution of journalists and whistleblowers such as Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Reality Winner, and less recently Daniel Ellsberg [1], Jack Anderson [2], Thomas A. Drake [3], and many others over the years; and those are just US citizens that let out information about US governments.

But of course these were not people who shared raging tweets and facebook posts about how masking hurts liberties, or about vaccine hesitancy and so on. That is to say, these people did not share their controversial views about contemporary matters. They publicised documents and information that is not normally available in the mainstream press (until someone like those people leaks it) and is certainly not something that random "dissenting" tweeters and facebookers can be aware of.

Given all the above I have to think that the article is complaining about the wrong kind of silencing: instead of the very real silencing of journalists and whistleblowers, it points to the "silencing" of dissent, that, in truth, remains not very silent at all.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#The_Pentagon_P...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)#Targ...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake#Eventual_whist...
Subjective Time: What It Is and Why It Matters at Work
Most situations operate on more or less cost vs efficiency basis, no matter if you are a beginner programmer making your first game in Unity or a senior dev at Google. Your code needs to be fast enough to be fast, but not fast enough that you have no time to develop anything else on your project.

It seems therefore natural, that as hardware becomes stronger, developers feel less pressure to optimize. Naturally also, it is the developers fault when something is so poorly optimized that it affects the product. Because in the end, we are workers like all other kinds of workers, and we're looking to get a job done, and not done "perfectly". (unless you're hired to optimize servers at Google to the point of perfection)

Also, a term I like to mention is that "instant = instant * 0.5". Meaning, if your code is fast enough that it doesn't affect the user experience in the end, and feels "fast". Making it twice as fast has literally no impact. And I doubt server computing cycles is causing energy shortages around the world. We've got other problems causing that.
> Should we also laugh at folks who graduate from MIT’s doctoral programs and want to be addressed as “Doctor” even though their degree might be a ScD?

Yes. Insisting on the use of titles is vaguely European. That’s not how we do things in America, where the title for the head of state is just “Mr. President.”
Not at a neighbor's barbecue, but in a US academic setting, it would be pretty natural in my experience to address someone as "professor" even if you knew them well enough to also refer to them by their first name. Doctor would not be particularly natural.
What's log? console.log?
The bill's draft sounds much more tame. Seems like a novel take on free trade zone style initiatives. The company gets to make a lot of decisions early on but eventually it won't have much control left.

https://www.scribd.com/document/493267147/Innovation-Zone-Bi...
You might want to check out the 1974 assembly hearings where the successor of the guy you cited has a bit about “political Muslims”
> why are we jumping the gun to the other things?

Perhaps all those kinds of sensors could be cleverly combined in ways that make them more feasible/reliable, not less.

If we limit ourselves to designing it with the same specific conceptions of smell that we have, we might be unnecessarily making the job harder for ourselves, or missing easy optimizations that would make it more effective.
I also like Rust tools but Python is quite manageable using either pyz or pipx: I use the latter to install each tool in its own virtual environment. Periodically I run “pipx upgrade-all” to install updates (including injected plugins) but otherwise spend almost no time on it.
When I was a kid and we had to do a school internship, I went to my dad's company. Since we were just school kids, they didn't really give us anything to do. Except: Loading and unloading tapes and moving tape lists from the main tape library room to the backup safe. The backup safe was several hundred meters away in a different building (on the same lot).

This was basically their WORM archival system. The tape library was a room full of tapes, wall to wall with shelves in the middle. Those were the oldest tapes. The in-use tapes were inside "Robbie", the circular tape robot. Not sure it it's this model exactly, but it sure looked like this: https://bjgreenberg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/tape-library...

The tape robot would periodically spit out tapes on one end that we'd collect and then file away in the correct location on the shelves and vice versa, got a list of tapes to get from the shelves and insert into "Robbie". I don't remember typical tape sizes at the time, except that obviously it was much more capacity in a little tape than I had in my hard drives at home at the time :) Now imagine, Robbie filled to the brim with these 1PB tapes...

Robbie and his extended tape library was in a room right adjacent to the actual data center floor, which had an IBM 390 mainframe and lots and lots of EMC^2s, AIXs, Suns and everything else you can think of being in a data center ca. 2000. You obviously had to get into and out of the data center through a single person entrance gate (a vertical tube that literally only one person could fit in, opening one side at a time only). First day I'd just walk through the data center and look at everything, reading labels and such. Found the server that all my personal emails were going through, as my ISP was hosting there! Heaven for a kid like me.
Some members of the Georgia legislature tried to pass a bill about a decade and a half ago that would have allowed property development companies to set up their own local governments. They would have been HOAs on steroids, extending the power of the developers, and later the property owners, out of the realm of civil enforcement and into that of state backed government. The developers wanted it because they wanted to go beyond just building subdivision and get into building entire masterplanned cities, which would happen in phases over decades. That's difficult to do when there are pesky residents getting involved in everything once the first residential phase is completed. Think maybe the Great Recession killed it off but it certainly wasn't popular in the press or with community groups so it might have been defeated even if the economy didn't sour. Bet we see this idea or variations of it keep coming back over and over again.
Progress.

I got clients via word of mouth and then worked with them to have a more structured & systematic way to think about SEO and online growth.

Now I get most of my clients via the book. And
I already start with them from a systematic baseline.

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Or think of it the other way, imagine getting contracted to create a webapp and the first thing that you need to do is to explain how the internet works.

Vs. Getting contracted and starting to talk about the advantages/disadvantages of different frameworks and app paradigms.
The 6700K has the same "most powerful CPU for its socket" situation going on. When I was looking to upgrade my 6600K, it was absurd how little extra it was to get a brand new Ryzen and motherboard compared to the 6700K.
> I'd be surprised if there weren't a fight from the feds about ceding this amount of power to a state.

Huh? No federal power would be ceded: this would be, were it to pass, the State allocating power that is already the State’s in a different manner than it has previously

OTOH, there are some federal issues raised; many of the things corporations might salivating over using their new public powers for would likely raise 14th Amendment issues, and the lack of an superficial arm's length relationship between government and the private actor might make it harder to deny the improper purpose than it is in the case where officials are merely covertly in the pocket of private interests.
I am talking about the formula language you're using in spreadsheets for calculations etc, I don't think that is legacy. I don't think I know anyone using the Visual Basic thing, I actually thought that's not part of Excel anymore except for compatibility support, but yes I guess Visual Basic stays in English.
I found the material from the Systems Innovation group instructive on the presence and application of some of the aspects of complexity in the real world:

https://www.systemsinnovation.io/course
I was looking at the Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform) role
https://boards.greenhouse.io/rokt/jobs/4216960003

On closer investigation, it looks like the emphasis is more on the 'Data Engineering' side over the backend development side.

Although I have 5+ years in Scala + Kotlin backend dev (along with a lot of the tools + tech mentioned in the spec like postgres, k8's and AWS), I'm not sure I would be 100% suitable for a more 'Big Data' oriented role; especially at Senior level.

Thanks for getting back to me on the visa topic!
Interesting point on the P/E considering eventual convergence on a final process node.... intel looks like a low-risk value play for the long run
a lot of questions in the discussion on what problem this solves . . . rather than thinking about cartaX as a 'private stock exchange'—which is pretty abstract—i think it's easiest to think of it as a solution to the problem of employee, founder and investor illiquidity in private companies.

problem: let's break down this problem of shareholder illiquidity generally.

- hiring: it's hard for private companies to hire against FAANG because the latter offers liquid stock comp. we created a calculator that shows the impact of this https://sacra.com/research/startup-recurring-liquidity-calcu...

- retention: employees bear the financial burden of illiquid stock because they often have greater liquidity needs than early investors and founders (who are able to take some off the table earlier). employees are the last to get liquidity because they're farthest from the money. check out our report on this https://sacra.com/research/tender-offer-pricing-data/

- admin: i've talked with CFOs who have to deal with one-off requests for secondary sales and it's an admin pain.

solution: companies have taken to running tender offers, often bundled into the latest round of financing. you could say that the tender offer is the incumbent in the 'liquidity solution' space that cartaX is trying to dethrone (though to be clear, carta has its own tender offer product).

what's different about cartaX? 2 things: (1) it has a market dynamic with competitive pricing and (2) T+0 settlement because carta has write access to the cap table.

there are a few important players in the 'liquidity solution' space otherwise that are big players as well:

- angellist recurring transfers: https://angellist.com/blog/recurring-transfers

it doesn't have competitive pricing, but angellist has made it a quick and simple process which puts 1 line item on your cap table (angellist)

- nasdaq private markets: https://www.nasdaq.com/solutions/nasdaq-private-market

companies like asana and coinbase ran auctions via npm. they have market-driven pricing but they do not have T+0 settlement. also, they mainly use npm as a feeder into listing on nasdaq, so they are less incentivized to promote the growth of the private markets generally (contra angellist and carta).

- forge: https://forgeglobal.com/solutions/companies/forge-company-so...

taking more of a services oriented approach as a liquidity solution by working with companies.

for more on this stuff, read https://sacra.com/research/the-privately-traded-company-seco...

the upshot: cartaX is a liquidity solution for private companies, but because the solution comes through a competitive pricing in an auction, it creates this additional risk around not being able to know and control the price. this giving up control is hard for private companies who are used to controlling their cap table, price, scarcity of their stock, etc.
One of the criticisms of the Republican Party and the people that align with it and it’s prior iterations is that its existence relies on disenfranchising people. Removing their ability to vote. Whether it’s outright exclusion from being a voting citizen, or barriers to entry to vote, or subsequently stripping that right from people. From the beginning of the country till now. And when even that fails some want to dismantle the entire system outside of the prescribed process.

All parties have at some point added to mass incarceration programs and ways to remove voting rights from people, Republican Party right now are the ones that want to continue it as opposed to attempting to rehabilitate and create productive members of society as fast as possible.

There is only one other party with federal representation right now, so that is hard to reconcile for many, but the re-enfranchised people often support that other party’s goals.
How to start a CTO/Tech community in South East Asia?
I believe in "Strength in numbers". When we a group of believers [of tech] comes together frequently to share our pain points and technical experiences, I believe we can create leverage of knowledge and elevate the region's technical competency.
What are some pain points/topics you would love to hear/discuss?
The Absence of Hysteresis in U.S. Macroeconomic Data
Not everything Apple makes turns to gold. The $350 Apple Hi-Fi comes to mind and to a lesser extent HomePod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi
Yeah, you hit a pretty deep cultural point about the US here. Everyone "can be anything" just by thinking it. And that's not even getting in to the pronoun people...
I've learned to think of understanding as a form of compression. The more recurring patterns there are in a system, the better we can understand them. The fewer such recurring patterns in a system, the harder it is to understand them. Fortunately for us, a lot of things in nature are recurrent.
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29#file-v...
Chesterson's Fence is the act of DECIDING without knowing. There's nothing wrong with SUGGESTING without knowing. In fact, that's a very desirable thing. Different disciplines bumping into each other and making such suggestions is how great ideas and great solutions are hatched.
Yeah, I am splitting hairs on purpose, because at the end of the way winning benchmarks on the playground is meaningless on the business side.

Yes, Unity uses C++ in the core engine, just like in the old days the first wave of games written in C were full of inline Assembly, while the first wave of Objective-C and C++ games were plain old C.

Yet the Switch has outsold the DS, and Unity powers more than 50% of the games sold on the platform.

C# 9 is at the same level as D and Nim, minus a couple of little things that could still be added. To the point that with .NET 5, Microsoft has started to rewrite the runtime in C#, whereas Unity is slowly porting the rendering pipeline into the HPC# subset.

So if they would decide to have Unity on D or Nim, compiled with the LLVM compilers, which kind of discussion would we be having, which compiler makes clever use of LLVM IR?
How LDAP is used to enforce the network
> This was the same time that the idea of a gentry emerged in England: People who are not noble, but certainly not peasants, either. They were people worthy of being ranked above somebody in the social hierarchy. So esquire had come to suggest moderate respectability with a dash of prestigious servitude.

This part is on point to a lot of contemporary society.
I think it's more natural to twist things thumb-over-index. index-over-thumb is a slightly awkward movement, at least for me. this corresponds with the right-hand rule (relative to your hand).
Depends what the exploratory work is.

If you know what result you want. It's easy to apply. Assert on the output.

If you don't know what you want, you can't apply it. Because you can't write the asserts.

So you can do exploratory implementation as long as you know the result you're looking for. But I'd also argue you want to have an idea about what you want before you start writing code. So I don't find that many places where it doesn't apply.

One of the few ones where it doesn't apply is tweaking the UI for looks.
Archaeologists Are Studying a New Type of Mummy They've Never Encountered
We should welcome any opportunity for competition with county cartels.

Let them experiment, crash and burn. Or maybe they will surprise you. Let the explorers and the innovators take the first step and innovate.

If we based our execution of ideas on conventional thinking, America would have never been discovered.

The beauty of this is that no one is forcing anyone to participate in any dictatorship.