skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could just let people do whatever they wanted.

It is unclear why, having complained about being forced to work from the office, the set of employees happy to work from now think imposing their preferences on everybody else is supposed to be better for everyone.
Lunchmoney is a good multi currency financial analysis app that's been shown on Hackernews a bit

http://lunchmoney.app
Yes, but it seems like it's only available to enterprise customers trying to allow selective access to things behind the firewall: https://www.cloudflare.com/teams/browser-isolation/
So Egyptology isn't really a science today, and I should not trust what I hear too much?
I was also one of these kids. I even made a secret room under the rug where I put my games.
Derek Lowe.
Are those setup mostly as cooperatives? like some power companies
The a priori assumption that America must be unique in some respect such as geography that means there is nothing to learn from other countries is part of the problem.
Certainly, but I don't see what this has to do with the vaccine. From the very same article, this Twitter account is not ran by the Gamelaya institute but by a separate government institute.

EDIT: The link you send is not from Gamelaya either. Gamelaya's webiste is https://www.gamaleya.org/en/. The link you sent is by the same non-scientific governmental marketing agency.

If they claim that this indeed did not happen then I guess we will have to see some hard data.
It's called impatience. When you're spending what seems like all day on finding the damn bug, and you don't want to waste anymore time on trivia. We're all human, we all get impatient.
I bought a metric shiteload of books. Basically just climbed down the Amazon suggestions rabbit hole and got a heap of technical books that matched what I wanted to learn.
There is a concern that psn will make over PlayStations obsolete but that hasn’t happened yet. I sold a fat PS3
I hadn’t used much last fall, so I think a ps4 still has a lot of use ahead of it.
I'm pretty sure Marx would disagree with you on that. A transaction creates no extra value by itself.

Just because we end up with a bigger use value through transactions doesn't mean any extra value was added to the world.

Funnily enough that was the point of the article, Jeff Bezos letter was conflating different types of values and adding them together because they could all be measured in the same unit, dollars.
The Northeast is dense. Bay Area should have German levels of S-Bahn style service on the UP tracks.
> It’s very rare that you think “they should be doing it like this” when you’re in Japan.

Then you probably haven’t been living there for long. There are tons of things to change, one of my biggest pet peeve being the lack of house insulation and inefficient warming options (reverse air-con, petrol burner instead of central heating). Another is having to sort recyclable material into different categories which are collected at different days (and just once a week) instead of having a dedicated common bin for them. Speaking of that, lack of trash bin in public space is very annoying too.

> How did Germany get the efficiency stereotype and Japan didn’t?

Because it’s a deeply inefficient society. Good results is achieved by throwing more humans, usually doing almost jack-shit, to problems. 10 workers cleaning the same square meter, 16 people on a task for few hours, 4 secretaries at a very small clinic, salaryman staying at work bot producing anything just to keep a good image, etc. I witnessed dozens of such examples. European countries are way more efficient in general in part because they know when to stop, and can’t afford to pay too much people being idle.
"Amtrak can and should fully replace its senior management with people who know how to run a modern intercity railroads, who are not Americans"

The entirety of the article is a set of comparisons to European countries with 2 references to Japan thrown in.
Same with water and sewer?

I have a neighbor that refuses to use running water. Should the infrastructure be routed around their property?

Should they be forced to use running water?
> I have reclaimed 2-3 hours from my time that was previously allocated to earning my paycheck, and I now redirect it towards other activities. Those activities range anywhere from 0-100% on the scale of how relevant they are to me being a better employee.

In my case it's more like 2 hours saved, give or take.

50% of that benefits my employer because I'm a morning person and I'm not wasting one of my good hours commuting.

25% I tend to use on another half hour of sleep, being well rested is obviously good for my employer.

The remaining 25% is a lot harder to link directly, but it's generally gone into exercise and cooking that make me healthier.

> So in other words, you thought that the extra time it takes to earn the Google check was worth it.

There's nothing google specific about this, if you don't work there you'd likely be working somewhere else that didn't allow WFH.

> Why bring it up now?

Because for most of us it's the first time we've experienced the benefits of WFH.
I want a link to this collection so that I could shelve and read these books.
What stackoverflow was invented for.
Which Derek Lowe tears to shreds in a followup:

> These claims are bullshit. Posting them is a disgrace.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/28/ru...

For the record, I believe that's the very first time I've seen him use the word "bullshit", and I've been following him for over 10 years.
Windows Phone had this too. You could mix timelines from Facebook and Twitter in one view. Messages from FB and SMS showed up in one list. I don't know how they got the licensing and API access to be able to do that, but it was great. Also they styled everything according to the phone UI, so everything was one font, dark mode was just one toggle, it always matched your phone theme, etc.
btw if anyone wants to listen to the full oral arguments, they are here, and I'd recommend them if this interests you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqZElRV0oDM
Anecdotal, and I avoid judging the merits of any company based on a single employee, but the only Accenture staff I know lives here in SE Asia and she's offshore labour. When I've talked to her, I found it interesting that she had great difficulty explaining what she does at Accenture. What I gather is that it does indeed involve a lot of PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, scheduling apps, and mostly "workflow" type productivity. I've never been able to find out if they actually make anything, but I suspect not.
Any chance the user agents are the same? On some form spam I've seen often only a few user agents with some really old browser versions are used.
No? Normally when you write the code, you get the code. This is true for other activities too: You write a song, in the end you get the song, make a painting, in the end, get a painting.

The fanbase and the money are all incidental, and sometimes orthogonal. You could write code that $makes some rich guy richer$ and that will probably make you more money than code that $gets a beer for everyone$, which instead might make you more popular. You could also write code to solve $a very specific problem that only you and 10 other people in the world have$, which will make you neither rich nor popular, but solves the problem that you had, so how valuable that code is all depends on the problem you had. Maybe you write some code that runs your insulin pump, so it keeps you alive without thinking about it. What's that worth? Is it more or less than the $makes some rich guy richer$ code? You decide.

What's even better is that in all of those cases, you still have the code. Even if someone makes a copy of it, even if you give it away, you still get to keep what you wrote. Isn't that fantastic? I think that's fantastic.

I get it. Making money is extremely important to you. Have at it. The world is your oyster. Some people have just moved past that point, which might be tough to accept, but is true, and I think they're on to something there.
Are you using JavaScript when you are using TypeScript? I guess so, to some degree. The additional tooling complexity is just not that significant compared to the gains of a language that compiles to JavaScript vs using vanilla JavaScript.
Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago (2017)
so when AI will be ready for self driving? at least in cities.
Both of my first two sentences were dedicated to the fact that America should learn from other countries. There is lots to learn, but our geography is also quite unique relative to Europe and Japan.
Which is still not the same as saying we have to do it their way, but that people who have done it successfully might be able to do it again.

I agree that sentence is too strongly worded, but hell it might be entirely correct.
Yah, people saying the possibility of an apple dominated silicon industry is a bad thing must have forgotten what the Faustian nightmare that was the last 5-6 years of intel dominance. Competition is good. Intel and AMD will either adapt or wither. It’s not like apple is cornering the market through Broadcom-esque machinations or shady tactics. They put out a remarkably compelling processor that is both efficient, powerful, and relatively easy to get (yah, macs are expensive, but the Mac mini at 700$ comes with the same m1 you get in these new iMacs).
I also really love how apple is only offering two almost identical models of the m1. It’s powerful enough for the vast majority of computing tasks and I am so relieved I don’t have to spend time figuring out what the fuck intel is doing with their cpu skus. No doubt an m1x or m2 will come for the bigger iMac, but it’s super refreshing.
As for Jesus vs Mohammed, Mohammed is an incredibly popular name among muslims generally, so it’d be like leaving out “John”. Jesus is a much less popular given name around the world.
I was curious about this too, it seems like the GraalVM is investing a bit in at least tying into the WebAssembly ecosystem[0]

[0] https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/wasm/
> Hmm, not necessarily no. This can be a simple imperfection in the manufacturing process, it happens. There is not necessarily anything very wrong, just deficient QA.

You don't sell medicines to people which don't meet the specs you made public about them.

> The vaccine is going to work essentially identically to if it wasn't able to replicate. The difference is that you might get an adenovirus infection, which is basically a cold.

They've made the vaccine demonstrably less safe, either through carelessness or because they don't care. Don't minimize that, or assume it's the only place where the reality of sputnik doesn't match up to the phase 3 data.

> This should be a pretty easy fix, actually.

The fix is Gamaleya taking their current production facilities offline figure out where the problem is and fix it. Unless you're suggesting that regulators should just go full YOLO on this and let it slide, which is a stupid idea.
Look up the USS Nimitz incident. It was tracked on the ships radar and visually confirmed by multiple fighter pilots deployed to investigate.
It isn't contrariarism. The end result is that most JS libraries are immature, have complex edge cases that can only be fulfilled by one package but not from another similar package, and that old packages don't evolve to adapt to new paradigms.

Knowing that pretty much every Python dev knows how to use requests, Django, and NumPy means saving a huge amount of effort in retraining and fighting to pick and choose on choices of ultimately little value.
Let me be more direct. Tropical algebra is no of practical relevance to rail route planning. My understanding is that there's some highly speculative work in this direction, but nothing ready to be applied, or any indication this approach is more useful than standard methods. What you are seeing is someone who previously did pure mathematics wheel out a personal obsession and then (unwisely) chastise people for not caring about it.

Therefore, we should we should not care whether rail managers learn, or learn about, tropical algebra.

(Another observation: look at all the highly efficient European and Asian railways. As far as I can tell, algebraic geometry was used in the planning of exactly zero of them. American rail isn't going to be fixed by the application of high-powered mathematics.)
I suppose it's in a way replaced by the notifications shade -- aggregates all messages. Let's be honest, most if not all notifs are from communication apps.
I don't think anyone here has any problem with Apple and Google (and others) competing on who can make the best phone.

The problem is that you need to compete in the market of smartphones to be able to compete in the market of app stores. Its quite similar to Microsoft pushing Internet Explorer with Windows a few decades ago - Microsoft was using a competitive advantage in one arena (operating systems) as leverage to gain a monopoly position in another arena (web browsers). The effect of that business strategy is it raises the cost of competition. Competitors now need to compete in both markets (OSes and browsers / phones and app stores). The expense of doing that knocks out almost all your competitors.

All else being equal, less competition is bad for innovation and bad for consumers.

Having both Steam and the Epic games store on windows is inconvenient, but both stores are forced to compete with each other on price and features to retain customers. In the long run this is means cheaper games and better platforms.

This is obvious in the smartphone market too - the iPhone forced Android to become a way better operating system to compete. (Early versions of android were awful.) And Android in turn innovated on notifications and widgets and lots of other stuff, which forced the iPhone to raise its game. There's no competition for the app stores - and predictably the iphone app store is fine, but it hasn't improved much in years.

Epic makes video games. They want to compete with the app store without competing with the iPhone. Whether you agree with them or not, I think they certainly have a case and deserve their day in court to argue it.
Read the associated footnote for that line.
The thing that's missing is that there's no incentive to learn. Will doing a better job make for better pay? Will people actually believe in and use an improved system? Will the government adequately fund the system?

At least the other systems have a history of performance, leading to worker pride. Like just about everything else in the US, the Amtrak workers are basically corporate drones who have been stripped of their craftsman pride.
> so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)

To be as blunt as I know how to be: good. I really hope that anyone inclined to treat people that way goes all the way and cuts me out of their life completely. I don't need or want friends like that, and I've had no trouble making friends (including iPhone users) who aren't so absurdly shallow as to treat people differently based on the color of their message in a fucking texting app.

In other words, I really do hope you're right about this and it's affecting my life and relationships, because the only way it could possibly affect them is positively by cutting assholes out of my life.
Exactly. The clarity is the boss telling you go/no go. For some things it doesn't get much better than that.

But having someone actually _telling_ you "yes" or "no" is infintely better than a boss that sits in the sidelines or tries to please everyone fruitlessly.
Drainage of brain is how I'd describe what I feel in my head when meditating: as if there are pipes on the brain that get clogged during day and locking up on a static thought flushes those pipes down. That's a weirdly pleasant feeling.
It might sound crazy to suggest more phones as a solution but using two phones, one of which has browser blocked with screen time and other one I leave in my office.
That allows me to intentionally leave my browser enabled phone and use my other phone when I want to be less tempted to scroll a lot.
BTW it is not 'exactly' September 30, it is usually last Saturday in September. So it does not even align at a 'calendar month' boundary.
What do you mean by “doubling down”?
>You don't sell medicines to people which don't meet the specs you made public about them.

Sure, and I never said otherwise. But all things considered this is pretty minor.

>They've made the vaccine demonstrably less safe, either through carelessness or because they don't care. Don't minimize that, or assume it's the only place where the reality of sputnik doesn't match up to the phase 3 data.

Yes, this does make the vaccine marginally less safe. Not by much. Empirically, after millions of doses administered, the safety profile of the vaccine is more than acceptable as is.

>The fix is Gamaleya taking their current production facilities offline figure out where the problem is and fix it. Unless you're suggesting that regulators should just go full YOLO on this and let it slide, which is a stupid idea.

I literally say the exact same thing. In any case, Gamelaya right now is trying to get other people to produce the vaccines, but sure they should fix this issue. It will not be complicated.
Sorry I don't have the time to sift through tons of trash to find one truth nugget.
This made me laugh. If you put ethics aside, couldn't you just do all those things on physical humans?

I have a hard time believing we'd find it ethical (at least in the long term) to experiment on a simulated brain. If it were accurate enough, might it be considered a person?
This is where you are wrong. First of all, I was only talking about violent crimes.

Real life experiment, look at Baltimore homicides https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2015

Look at pre-2015 and post-2015. The homicides increased from 200s to 300s. All because of a police crime and BLM protests in 2015. Now you have 100 extra people each year losing their lives. US needs more police, not less. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/12/baltim...

All the police did was not getting proactively involved on the streets, those stop and search you were mentioning. They still responded to calls and did their investigations. The result is 50% more deaths from homicides, each year.
I throw it on the charger for 30 minutes while I work in the evening. Works great, and as others have noted, that’s usually enough to get through 2 nights.

It charges pretty quickly; quickly enough in my experience that even if I forget to charge it one day and I find it dead at an inconvenient time, I can usually throw it in a charger for long enough to get through the rest of the day without much inconvenience. I’ve had my series 5 for about 18 months and in that time, only once have I had it die on me when I was trying to use it.

If I ever go back to working in an office, my use pattern might change, but for the most part I think the inconvenience of charging daily is overstated.

Edit: It also will notify you 1 hour before your configured bedtime if it doesn’t have enough juice to get through the night. I thought this was silly when they announced it but in practice it is great.
Europeans just don't know how to make money. We should ship some of our best Americans to Europe, replace their senior leadership and show them how to learn, and then migrate their capital to the United States, where it rightfully belongs.
Doesn't the TOS for Twitter prevent this? It's all because each of these services want to present their own "experience". A unifying UI would screw their vision and light hose their revenue.
I hope you get that metricFactory out of a computableMathConceptFactoryFactory
I'd gladly sit in a nice train compartment for a day over driving or flying, especially if it had a nice view.
Faster Rendering Using Hardware Acceleration
And how much are they losing on their 100B real estate depreciation? Way more than 1B per year.
> (especially parents!)

Riiiiight... Kids are often not as big a distraction as the immature coworker(s) who can't be bothered to, you know, shut up and actually work.
6500 gallons per car * 7 cars * 52 weeks = 2.366M
Eh not really. If you can't map it in your head what are you doing?
You don’t exactly play games on a desk in correct posture either
I’d walk away too if management saw our role as stealing from the customer. Oh boy.
I was talking about this with a friend of mine, that I missed blackberry unified feed. They where great phones, but the slow change to embrace touch killed them.
I thought it was used for the railway timetables
I can’t disagree. I mean the new iMac has some design issues IMO (I hate the white bezel), but damn, the combination of good display (I’d LOVE to buy a 4.5k standalone 24” monitor, 27-28” 4K just isn’t good enough imo), goodish design and an incredibly powerful processor for $1299 is super compelling.
$3.65M/year during declared droughts, which is most years.
I'll tell you what gets their feathers ruffled are guys like you who don't even ask them what they know and think.

And the park I'm talking about where that conversation took is not a "tourist trap". Almost every visitor there was Mayan and very few tourists go near there. It was Xunantunich. Go look around with Google Maps and tell us again there's no where to grow crops there.

You're all so fast to dismiss me when none of you know more about this than me and I don't care where you sat in a classroom to get your degree. And the giant leaps to take what I've said so completely out of context here is stunning. You all didn't read what I said at all, you all projected your own made up interpretations onto me so you had something to bitch about.
10X is one order of magnitude, 100X is two.
Apple breaks background compatibility nearly every year on their products, yet they get a pass?

That's why those who value backwards compatibility don't choose Apple or Google, they choose Microsoft.

Unfortunately these days Microsoft seems to wish it were and is starting to act more like the former two, but the difference is still there.
Like one expense they saved on is sending out recruiters and engineers to likely thousands of career fairs, recruiting sessions, etc. Nobody would reasonably argue that skipping all of them is a sustainable strategy long term even if it hasn't hurt them much so far.
It's funny how here in NYC he was literally nicknamed "train daddy" and radically improved the subway on-time rates and track speeds... so yep, he had to go. Everyone loved him, NY and London are not all that different culturally. He picked up on the subtleties and worked through them, and goddamn I wish we could have him back.
The Big Ship and the Little Digger: A Suez Canal Story
Thanks to the EU construction companies in France have access to Eastern European labourers.
And they don't do unions.
I think this is a good comment, not immature. I think I understand where you're coming from.
I've been a Common Lisp fan for a while. As has been said by others who've used it, even if you don't use it in your daily work, it changes your thinking.
I think UML was (is still for a few?) the standard way to define structure and interactions.
UML seems to me to have a high amount of ceremony. For something as complex as say, a jet engines control system, perhaps this is reasonable?
.. I also like the idea of enjoying "my own quirks". This fits with the dedication in SICP, https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf .

I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing

A great idea. The trick is to be able to keep a job while doing that. Looks like you've somehow done that with picolisp!