skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a couple of ideas:

Tie success metrics for DevOps into Dev satisfaction.

Create pods of developers which include a DevOps person (and a UX person) that work together on projects.
You mean, type_id and type_name would have to be handwritten functions, right?

If it is possible to automatically generate these, could you provide an example?
China: Countries outside region should keep off sea row – Global News
This is the worst kind of feedback, I'm so sorry.. (website looks clean, product makes sense, value prop is pretty clear, I'm sure you'll do great)..

..but seeing "tint" and "ai" next to each other just makes me read "taint". As in, "the patch of skin between the testicles and the asshole".

..maybe try a different TLD?

Again, so, so sorry.
Thats not an accident. Offshoring and immigration have killed the ability of labor to walk when given terrible choices like this.
Serious question: if these jobs are so awful, and they do sound awful, why are people taking them?

I can think of several possible answers, but I haven't the faintest clue which ones are (most) right.
Safety rules are good and valid. They are not a suicide pact, however. With a once-in-a-century global pandemic, brave volunteers should be allowed (through even earlier large-n phase 1 and 2 groups) to help expedite the safety approval of something that can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people worldwide.
Agree on distance driven as an important metrics, road type too. However, is driver neglect really a variable for self driving cars? If yes, then is it a self-driving car?
But can I download a car with that speed?
I understand what you're saying and agree that slides with more than a little text are distracting.

For many years, even before becoming aware that the approach had a name, I've always made slides for my presentations contain only a few words, and, for the most part, no images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method

I don't take it quite as far as having one or two words: I normally limit it to six or seven.

Basically, something people can read instantly.

People have commented that my approach to presentations is quite unusual, but at the same time well received and fairly effective.

> They look at you for explanation.

That's exactly it!
What about the fact it's in the middle of the night? I'd much rather work longer hours during the day than start at 2 am.
Be more conscientious:

https://daringtolivefully.com/how-to-be-more-conscientious

https://einzelganger.co/how-to-increase-conscientiousness/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/201...

Be physically healthy:

https://www.harvardhealthonlinelearning.com/courses/cognitiv...

https://biostrap.com/blog/mental-acuity/

https://joovv.com/blogs/joovv-blog/mental-acuity-tips
Also, don't put all your eggs in one basket. It sounds cliche, but diversification is important. When the entire market crashes and you're down 30%, it will come back... in time. When your crazy YOLO stock crashes 90%, it may be done for good.
I finally have words to describe the kind of programming I like to do in my spare time!

Thank you for linking to that article.
> "You're never as careful when spending other people's money."

That's a nice description of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

> This is highly unusual in most professions: Imagine if your roofer grabbed whatever shingles they liked best and billed you for it after they were up. Now imagine every roofer worked the same way.

I mean, this basically is my experience with contractors, auto mechanics and most other professions where there's a lot of information asymmetry between consumers and providers. In a capitalist exchange, buyer and seller are opponents and both will use the others' lack of knowledge to their advantage (or be outcompeted by others that do).

It's a fundamental dilemma of our world. The more expertise a task requires, the more important it is to hire someone to do it instead of doing it yourself. But the more necessary that person is, the less qualified you are to evaluate their performance.
> I'm not necessarily arguing it's untrue, just not quite the hard-and-fast rule that 1 is.

This is pretty subjective. If you grow up with sufficient dietary iodine, that's worth 10-15 IQ points (a gigantic amount) compared to the counterfactual. Iodine supplementation is highly effective in populations that have presumably been going without for, at the very least, many hundreds of years. This is the reason we iodize salt.

With that in mind, how much of a hard-and-fast rule is #1?

The other side of this argument is that dependencies can be surprisingly subtle. This is pure speculation, but the thing that leaps out at me about atmospheric nitrogen is that oxygen is extremely corrosive. If the atmosphere were more oxygen and less nitrogen, lungs of today might experience a lot more wear and tear than they are currently designed for. (Or not! I really have no idea. But I think the hypothetical has some thought-experiment value anyway.)
Just to be sure, you mean 10x between subsea cable and regular armored fiber cable, not cat6 I can get from best buy.
There are several reasons that people don’t get the binary wheels, but a lot of the time it’s either pinned dependencies where they’re requesting an old version while running 3.9, that window between a new python release coming out and our quarterly release schedule, or an unsupported arch for binaries like Alpine, the m1 macs, random android.
>Skip netflix for an evening and see what you can make!

Hah! Were it that simple. I already have a backlog for my backlog. :D
Old is new again, apparently. :)
I personally found the metajoke amusing, whether it was intended or not. The comment, low effort as it is is no different from the comment chain it describes. Great stuff.
My estimate came to around $22k/kilometer for the cable itself plus the laying it in deep ocean. I didn't estimate the costs of repeaters.

The Google project was $33k/kilometer, so I don't think I could have been too far off on the cable itself. Looking at other undersea fiber projects, that seem about typical. For example, this one [2] estimated $27k/kilometer [1].

Here's an Alibaba seller with submarine fiber for $2000-9000/kilometer [2].

The submarine cables have an aluminum or copper tube around the fiber optics, an aluminum water barrier, and a sheath of stranded steel wires, and an outer polyetylene layer, with various other layers of mylar, polycarbonate, and petroleum jelly in between.

I'd expect the metal layers to be the most expensive parts. Looking at the cost of tubes or cables of those materials, it looks like each of those would be in the $1000-2000/kilometer range.

[1] http://infrastructureafrica.opendataforafrica.org/ettzplb/co...

[2] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Submarine-Fiber-Optic...
PCA can solve a surprisingly large number of problems. And when it can't directly solve a problem, PCA can be used to as a preliminary analytics step to rank features by weight/impact which can then be combined with iterative methods to solve other types of problems.

PCA was my introduction to data science and it remains one of my favorite tools to pull out. I'm really surprised by the number of data scientists that I meet who never use it, or have even never heard of it. Then again, even Data Science From Scratch dedicates like two pages to the subject, so maybe it is not something modern data science programs spend any time on.
Similar shenanigans are the reason I cancelled Disney+.

I’ll pay a monthly fee for your entire back library. Otherwise, no thanks.

Also, what’s the ethical issue with pirating content that is not for sale? I’d love to see a copyright overhaul that formalized abandonware and extended it to back catalogs of film and music.

That way, people could legally torrent everything currently missing from these streaming platforms. (Offline-only distribution would count as “abandoned” in this regime.)
Then add an RX480 4GB as secondary GPU for desktop usage, and only use the nvidia card for CUDA?

Or rather, complain to your IT to do so.
...because most people don't get to be picky about their jobs. They take whatever they can get. Especially during a pandemic / economic crisis.
The benefit of the LSP is being able to integrate with any text editor. Focusing on an IDEA plugin would leave behind the many developers who prefer VSCode, Vim, Emacs, etc.
I recently had COVID, so I have just gone through all of the stuff in this article.

You would be surprised how many "COVID Testing Sites" are scams. Pure scams.

Many of them are not even able to bill your insurance, probably because Insurance companies would refuse to pay the fees they are charging for. So you will be paying out of pocket for them.

I actually did shop this around, trying to find a legit one. Several of the ones I called charged $400 for a "screening visit" which is basically the person that comes to your car window and asks if you have any COVID symptoms. If you say "yes I have a cough" or you list any other symptom of COVID (which is almost anything) then they will determine that you should get a COVID test. This screening visit is laughable. Many of the people screening you aren't even licensed medical professionals in any way. Even more disgusting, half of them are volunteers. They think they are helping the community and have volunteered. They simply listen for a single symptom and when they hear it then they give you the test. This screening cost ranges from $200 - $600 in my area. But the average was $400. Then they administer the test which can be charged $99 - $299. Many of these "drive up testing sites" that you see advertised are legit scams. They want people to see the sign, pull up in their car, get the test without asking any questions, and they will get a surprise bill of $500 - $1000+ in a few months. The other charge that you often get is a test results charge. Some of these testing sites are charging you for the phone call they make to tell you the test results.

So be very wary if you are getting COVID tested. THere are a lot of places out there doing COVID testing that are PURE SCAMS!

Good news: there are some legit ones. But you need to really do your research ahead of time. I eventually went and got tested at a testing site that is operated by my state. They are authorized to bill the CARE Act which was the emergency bill that allows for free COVID testing and COVID care. They were also authroized to bill your insurance. They bill insurance a flat $99 fee. And if your insurance doesn't cover it then the CARE Act can cover the rest.

So please be careful out there. If you are getting COVID testing, make sure to do some research and go to a legit testing site. Call them and see if they can bill the CARE Act. Even if you have insurance, you want to go to these sites because they are the "official ones". If they are doing it legit enough that the CARE Act covers them, then the insurance companies will also cover tests from that same place. Make sure there are no additional costs for screening or delivering results. If they have any of those costs or are NOT covered by the CARE Act, then run. Those places are likely profiting off the pandemic and will surprise you with expensive bills that your insurance will refuse to cover.
Hey for Work
>I think the contention is that places that are shorting stock AND writing articles about how badly run the shorted company is have a conflict of interest which damages the credibility of their reporting [...]. It would probably be ideal if reports came from people who don't have a direct financial stake in the success or failure of the company they're writing about

Not really, because then you run into the opposite problem: "experts" making random predictions without putting their money where their mouth is. In a sea of "experts", who do you trust?
Perhaps in small, private forums, but in public physicians are a protected class. Not many op-eds criticizing the AMA vs the big, evil pharma companies. That said, it's not a panacea, but not great when a 15-min visit to get a $.10 pill costs $200.
HMOs often have a negative public image due to their restrictive appearance. HMOs have been the target of lawsuits claiming that the restrictions of the HMO prevented necessary care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_maintenance_organizatio...
An off the shelf solution: https://www.tabcat.com/

Works well for some outdoor critters
Is it really the source code that has value, or your continued expansion and development of said code? Genuine question.

The reason I'm asking, while I was writing the article, I was considering including the youtube-dl fiasco (when the RIAA took it down from GitHub) as an example. People were concerned not because the code was gone (lots of mirrors popped up quickly), but because they were worried that the contributors would stop further development.

I think that's another indicator that the code itself carries little value. However, the problem space you've loaded and mapped to code in your own head, does have lots of value. Of course the fact that you're sharing it with the world in the best format we know so far (code) for free is much appreciated :)
I don't know what's idiomatic here as English is not my first language, but according to my dictionary "localize" can also mean "to find the position of something"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/localize

Maybe it's British vs American English?
http://archive.is/tLeDH
What is the state of the art on censorship resistance right now? This cat-and-mouse proxy fight never seems to go great for the good guys.

My last in-depth reading on it was the excellent 2016 SoK paper “Towards grounding censorship circumvention in empiricism” (http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2018/cmsc818O/papers/sok-cen...)

The high level takeaway then seemed to be that researchers were not focusing efforts on measures that can actually help more people resist censors. Have we made progress since then?
Because people have bills to pay.
That will just be abused
Semi truck driver. I work for one of the largest nation wide trucking companies in America.

We have these in all our trucks, but only one forward facing camera. The driver is not visible.

I have been flagged a few times for following too close, after a car cuts in front and I didn't slow down and back off soon enough.

In our case, the truck radar detects the following distance, and you get an audible alarm. If you back off soon enough, no harm no foul.

There are other sensors in the truck that detect hard braking, hard turns, speeding, etc.

If your truck rats you out, your boss reviews the telemetry and the video, then has a coaching call with you.

We are told that the camera only records fifteen seconds before and after an incident.

In my case, I appreciated the recording and coaching, because I then had to think about how to prevent further incidents. My solution was to slow down a couple mph in crowded situations, which works because people who cut in front of you are a little more likely to be automatically pulling away.

Not weighing in on the appropriateness of Amazon's solution. But the yawning thing would drive me nuts. We all have yawning bouts.
This is the sort of condescending stuff Musk likes to say.

What, specifically, is the moat that they are behind? Auto manufacturing is one of the leanest and most competitive industries in the world.

If they “got lazy” how come many manufacturers are still better than Tesla at basic fit and finish and hardware reliability? Do we suppose that Tesla is even lazier? (I don’t think that Tesla is lazy at all; I’m pointing out the flaw in using “laziness” as a metric.)

A car is a collection of many things. Musk properly understands the impact of Tesla’s electric drivetrain. He underestimated the sustained difficulty of manufacturing the rest of the physical car at scale, just like you are.

It’s tempting to look around the world at things as they are, and think that they must be easy since they’re already happening. People have been building cars for 100 years! How hard can it be? The truth is, a lot of what we take for granted in life is delivered through continuous effort against sustained difficulties.

Tesla is certainly not the only carmaker who struggles with automation and quality. Musk does seem like the only carmaker CEO who is regularly surprised that those things are hard.
Depends on where you are. Yes, some places have them all over the place, though the vast majority of those have a no tip option, or a clearly indicated, "skip it" one, or button.

This one did not, and the interaction was planned so there is no opportunity for discussion, until after payment.

Other parts are still running all manner of those little POS terminals and they vary widely.
Yep, I think that part was the interesting bit here.
Ha, I'm actually half Jewish, and I am completely ok saying these exact same things about Jews. The harms that are inflicted against African Americans in particular are far worse than those against Jews or any Asian demographic I know of.

> No, hard working asian and jewish kids should be punished for bad things that Wells Fargo did a quarter century ago.

It appears you failed to look at the link I posted. Wells Fargo engaged in that behavior in the run up to the 2008 financial crash--hardly "a quarter century ago." Black folks in this country have faced ongoing discrimination since before the United States existed, and this persists in economic exploitation by business and government alike.

I'll assume you're arguing in good faith, so I've added another example of how African Americans are economically exploited, this time by municipal government. This level of discrimination and exploitation simply doesn't happen against Asian Americans.

Now do some Asian American demographics face greater challenges? Sure. You named one, Vietnamese Refugees. You could also include Muslim refugees escaping genocide in Myanmar, to provide another example. But what that really illustrates is that "Asian American" is a category stretched almost beyond usefulness due to the wide, wide range of folks who are included, covering a continent with 4.4 BILLION people.

https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-ferguson-missouri-cour...
The term for this is "break-away collar" if that helps.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-clo...
> Offshoring and immigration

That is a straw man. Instead, corporates need to be forced to follow labor laws and respect human rights.
Because the American middle class has been eviscerated by globalization, pandemic, etc and these are the best, er least bad, jobs available to many of them. They don’t have any leverage or bargaining power, collective or individual.
Oh dear! how is NSA going wiretap that ?
Re your newsletter form, I'd take out the first name requirement.
how does something like this work against DPI? i guess not great?

>Don't use this in situations where your personal safety or freedom could be at risk

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/06/kashmir-social-media-pol...
https://thewire.in/media/kashmir-journalist-auqib-javeed-pol...

reason why i have a general disregard for technologies that are based on some sort of "link" AFK, phone number or the stupid facebook real name policy. this is as of today being used to crack down on dissent. what you are saying is true but https://thenextweb.com/in/2020/01/08/kashmirs-police-want-pe...
when you have your govt do this, how can you keep your signal account private? your phone is already listed. isnt it? cant the police see if you are on signal and if online means you are bypassing them somehow regardless of what you might be saying?
Ask HN: What are you using to detect payment fraud?
I noticed an increase lately in fraud and chargebacks on my website and I'm wondering what do you guys use to prevent that.
That and the ever present complaint that they can't take a hit like they used too.

Never mind that makes them way safer and saves tons of lives. Some people want to crash up derby their car every weekend.
Classic swallowing of bait haha. Surely you could have guessed why.
They have bullshit jobs.

I don't get what's the point of your question?

I'm saying the OP has a bullshit job which he fails to acknowledge. I'm also saying is that McK only reason for hiring ppl like OP is virtue signalling and nothing else. And finally that McK is mostly harmful to society.

I never talked about why google hires PhDs. :Shrug:
How good are your Terraform scripts? Improving their creation and maintenance seems like a direct path to improving throughput quickly...and speed is the thing here because you don't have money to hire DevOps of which the important thing is "you don't have money" because the purpose of your job is getting the company to the point where you have money because not having money is how startups die.

Terraform vs IaC isn't what kills startups. It's the wrong problem to prioritize. Without money, there is no future to be more efficient in. Good luck.
Hey!

I do geospatial data science, specifically feature extraction from LiDAR, imagery (near earth), satellite, pretty much whatever.

Do you have any sample data you are distributing? Also, what are your thoughts on collaborations for white papers?

Looks good. I'm interested in what the cost comparison is with say digital globe.
Just cancelled my Prime membership a few weeks ago. It's funny how addicted our family was and also how free we feel now.
This is an excellent idea. Also, sell aggregated data on cost of care in local areas to doctors and insurance companies, so they can make clear business decision on how to compete against the local market.
Bear in mind that the iPad was rumored to cost >$1000 but then launched at $499.

On the other hand it might sense to launch this as a pro-workstation for the usual kinds of task: architects, designers and engineers being able to visualize and interact with models directly in space.

If they can make that affordable and usable for pro designers at every level, (which $3500 clearly would be), they will have a hit.

A consumer gaming device can come later.
We should distinguish between "double dispatch" in the abstract and a concrete problem being solved with it. The concrete problem often has more constraints, not mentioned when talking about it abstractly.

For example, using a different language means that the build system needs to support the other language, which can significantly complicate the difficulty for users of a library compared to a "pure" version written in the same language as the rest of the ecosystem. It may also limit portability, if the original language and the other language you pick don't support the same platforms. This isn't a good thing to inflict on users of your library.

To be a bit more concrete about it, suppose you are writing code in Rust to target WebAssembly. Pure Rust libraries are more likely to work than those written in a different language.

There are other ways to avoid this. In Go, you can use the "go generate" command to generate Go code from code written in another language, and check in the Go code, so downstream users of your library don't need any special tools. That's probably okay for private dependency on code written in another language, but less useful for datatypes used in public API's.

Someone talking about OO "epicycles" is ignoring most of the constraints that library maintainers face. It seems unsympathetic and out of touch.
http://archive.is/0q5bR