skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For instance, take a Big Five trait such as agreeableness. How do we know that a person is agreeable? Because we define agreeableness in a certain way and then measure the degree to which someone conforms to the definition.

I'm not sure what's the point of this observation.

This is the case with every term.

How do we know someone is a murderer, a cry-baby, a thief, a chef, or any trait X?

Because "we define X in a certain way and then measure the degree to which someone conforms to the definition"
> You can certainly see some countries (e.g. Scandinavia, or Australia, or even Canada) finding a different balance point than other countries (e.g. the US).

Three very resources rich regions. They are exploiting their natural resources to compensate for their (relative) low productivity.

> When 8 hour work days were introduced was there some sort of sharp drop in productivity or innovation or standard of living? Or when the work week was shortened to 5 days from 6 days? I don't think so.

Yes there was a drop, if you consider everything relevant. When the 8 hour work day was introduced new workers were still being added to the workforce. Almost half the population in productive age joined the work force in the later part of the 20th century alone and women were for the most part not working when the 5 day work week became a thing for example. Individually the work hours came down, but as a whole we work much much more today.

But we don't have that luxury now, we don't have an untapped work force to lean against. And of course, the elephant in the room: our declining and aging population. Fewer and fewer working adults will have to provide for an increasingly large number of retirees.

The situation particularly in the west is dire. Pension funds are at very high risk of collapsing almost everywhere and the solution will not be to work less. Maybe, because politicians are politicians, the 4 day work week will be a thing, but retirement will creep into the 70s, it's already being proposed in some countries.

Increases in leisure time will be only on paper, done only in exchange for votes.
Qt developers have bills to pay.
IIRC doesn’t Intel have an (older) Ireland-based fab in Lexlip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leixlip
I agree.

to bystanders, odd autocorrect:
it's marshalling. marshalling data. although fight and war are indeed also appropriate associations for binary data exchange (struct conversions) between languages.
Arguably the "nation" of the USA extends into England, Australia, Israel and a few other places which have taken a lot of the culture.
I always enjoy co-mingling the words etymology and entomology such as can be done with with the word 'bug' as it relates to computing.

Some people take it quite alliterally.
Sshhh!

Don't mention that elephant in the room, that affects all countries.

And that's apart from the paucity of charging stations in sparsely-populated countries like Australia and Russia, and the lack of electrical grids servicing those sparsely-populated areas.
You also need to make sure that the gibbs phenomena does not cause the filtered signal to leave the range of the representation. So a prefiltered signal is less than 1, but the post filtered signal wont be. Meaning if 1 is the cap for your audio output, then enjoy a brand new category of distortion. But its a terrible way in general ofc, just optimize an appropriate, zero phase filter with an unaffected passband and minimum distortion. Its trivially easy, and there is no excuse to just use the terribly shitty short "classic" filters common in audio processing or graphics as implemented by skilled programmers who dont know the difference between dft and fft. (which is always easy to tell as they use the term fft as if it was synonymous with frequency transform estimates)
> I like art.

I like coding. The thinking, the problem solving, the expressiveness, the chiselling out of a solid block of emptiness. It is my art.

I made it my trade. It's a double-edged sword, with which I badly stabbed myself a couple of times. I tried to drop out, but can't help but come back to it.

The job's not me alright, the coding is a big part of me for sure.
There is a talk from Venkat Subramaniam, if you want to explore Collectors to death,

Here is the part about teeing
https://youtu.be/pGroX3gmeP8?t=5499
You have never tried to dig a new or more cables under the sidewalk or into the ocean, do you? What you kids think is "free" is in fact heavily subsidized by other people's money.
Yeah I can't say the UG website is anything special, the scrolling feature is pretty useless without being able to limit it to smaller sections of the pieces as you said.

Mostly I pay for the breadth of songs available.
I find the chase for the "magic fix" drug fascinating. By that I mean not so much the research into it and developing the products (I understand the economic incentives), but more the number of often very smart people who experiment with all sorts of supplementation.

Someone in the thread said they are doing it to maintain their health when getting older, but we already know a proven and effective way of improving health and slowing ageing, exercise. It has many other beneficial side effects (decreasing risk of depression, heart disease etc), but instead of exercising people experiment with "wonder drugs", which might have significant detrimental side effects (look up the history of vitamin C supplements for example). I guess part of it is that our community has a strong predisposition to technological fixes. The other part is likely that exercise requires effort.
Thats not how the frequency transform works. Its more likely to have more signal than noise in higher frequencies iif the signal is smooth and the noise white. But real relevant signals often have discontinuities.
The fed is creating money. They buy treasuries with money that doesn’t exist as a way of increasing the money supply.
How Robots Can Learn End-to-End from Data
You really should be able to benefit from the pension. See: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/retire-abroad/sta...
I wouldn't recommend using No Code for API development. Mostly NoCode is good for developing applications as a whole and not produce piecemeal things like API. However you will find tools to build APIs over airtable/google sheet - but if you need tighter control, they aren't the right thing.

disclaimer: I run a low code/no company.
Ding, ding, ding.

I find it funny most people don't realize pair programming is about control. It's like a workplace Stasi. Management expects you to deal with the inevitable conflict resolution, even if that's not your job. Even if your pair shows only for a couple of hours a day and you have to do the work of two people.

“Much harder to spend time on HN” people who like pair programming either like to have power over someone else, or they want to coast and/or be handheld.

People say it's about collaboration... it's more about learning power phrases like “let’s timebox this exploration”, “you have to call the keyboard”, “let’s do plus and deltas”.

I tolerate it because the productivity is so low it helps recovering workaholics.

It's the best secret to dilute accountability and charge outrageous consulting fees.
> Not believing in utopia is one thing but, unless you're a nihilist or think we're at the end of times, you surely have to believe that the world can be made better and maybe do something about it.

I’m not entirely sure about the three options you presented. I reject the premise that the world needs to be made better. It seems roughly good enough to me. I’m free to work on whatever I want. I’m free to have as many children as I want. I’m not sure how it could be made better outside of the government taking less of the fruits of my labor. If that makes me a nihilist, so be it, just leave me free to build my life how I want it. I can manage the rest, don’t need anyone to “fix” the “world” for me.
That's the grand irony to me. People construct all these bizarre theories to justify narratives to themselves when the real "government plot" is always in plain view and it's so painfully obvious : direct the money to where it is convenient to go.

I call it a conspiracy of boredom. If the average person knew all the details of how our monetary system worked, they'd be in the streets throwing molotov cocktails. The problem is that the details are just too boring and complicated for a vast majority of people to be interested in so nobody cares.

The Matt Taibbi articles of the 2008 era attempted to get people interested but covering it in sex drugs and rock n roll and putting it in rolling stone wasn't enough to get anybody interested.
> I so disagree. You can totally dance to metal. First, there's headbanging and moshing which are absolutely kinds of dance, as is air-guitar playing (a kind of... interpretive dance; I guess?).

I completely agree with you here. I used to dance to metal bands frequently when we were allowed to go out and dance.
Yes for the most part, plenty of women always had jobs. The feminist movement was about women who wanted careers, which is why so much of its appeal was amongst the middle to upper-middle class who were unfairly being kept out of prestigious professional roles.
I just worked through them so it's a bit of a fresh wound. I wanted so badly for there to be a big satisfying payoff!
You're getting downvoted, but how many ransomware attacks would be successful if a bank account was required?
> You misunderstand. The question is whether individual value structures converge/approximate to a superstructure outside every individual, not whether individuals can use environment, history, each other etc as an inspiration for their custom tailored lives.

You misunderstand. They of course converge, there is no other alternative but for society to be a reflection of their individuals. You don't like the answer so you pretend what they converge into is not worthy somehow because it doesn't adhere to some high societal morality standard which by the way just so happen to be the morality you ascribe to, which is of course nonsense.

> I take that as a compliment because one of the things I aspire to is to not get dissolved in the blind allegiance to achievement and excess positivity.

> It usually gets unnoticed but when people excessively project themselves to achievements and future growth; they turn into massive narcissists. And I am not using that in the pejorative sense; they lose a grounded sense of themselves.

Oh the irony.
No. In idiomatic python, you would not use a functional approach for something like this, but if you really wanted to, you could do:

def teeing(reducer1, reducer2):
return lambda acc,elem: (
reducer1(acc[0],elem),
reducer2(acc[1],elem)
)

functools.reduce(
teeing(
(lambda l,elem: [elem] + l),
(lambda l,elem: elem.price + l)
),
cart.getProducts(),
([], 0)
)
Embedded development is more than just wrangling C, that would be like saying backend dev is wrangling EC2 instances ;).

It's knowing how low level hardware operates and knowing how to dig yourself out of the various gotchas like for example figuring out that a last minute replacement of the crystal oscillator by the HW team with a cheaper one is now screwing up your boot process or that the reason your products are starting to go haywire after 6 months is an interrupt triggering too many writes to the flash, wearing it out prematurely, etc.
Most used digital filters are small this is true. But that is an error caused by legacy solutions which required filters to be exceedingly short beeing inappropriately applied to modern systems and problem. The most egregious examples are from videogames, where several different short classic filters are usually applied in series in order to deal with e.g. aliasing. The problem is twofold, it effectively makes a larger filter, and that larger filter is terrible at its job. The effect of using a single appropriately designed large filter is astonishing.
If there is an actual security risk, availability of those APIs could be tied to signing the necessary contracts which make the developer accept the liability. But we were discussing the special API used by zoom. No safety risk here.
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The effectiveness of the CIA (or government) depends on the narrative of the author. Like the immigrant paradox: are they lazy or are they taking your jobs? which is it?
There are ongoing efforts to stabilise a SRFI (like SRFI198 [0]), which would be the first step towards this. (First get the SRFI, then once that's stable and well implemented, it can be considered for the next spec).

Unfortunately there's a lot of disagreement between the bigger players as to how this should be handled:

> > 1) The authors appear to be deadlocked

> No need to soften it with an "appear", we are intractably deadlocked.

[0] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-198/srfi-198.html
Same, I thought you were the author of the linked website for the same reason.
Not the healing, but I experienced the light and the audible voice
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Life tends to get in the way right after early-mid 20s so chase your dreams while You still can.

I'm assuming you are talking about the math/physics matrix theory and not the "We are living in the Matrix" theory. I wouldn't quit my day job just to get "Red Pilled" and fall down some phylosophy rabbit hole.

Working at a job is more trading your younger years than giving them away to a corporation. In some ways you are trading your younger years for better years in the future.

The only gotchas I could see being an issue would be macro economic issues like the looming depression, unexpected family events or health issues. You should include adding to your savings in your budget calculations as that remains important no matter your career path and is a good hedge against any unforseen Gotchas.

Good luck and I hope You change the world.(For the better!)

PS: Have You looked into the stuff D-Wave has been working on? It may be right up your alley.
I don't know much about TOR but recall reading speculation that the NSA operates a majority of the exit nodes.
> doing "low mental workload"

This I tried, took me a long while to realise I should not have, because "low load" is still load, and what I really needed was rest because I had myself throughly mentally exerted.

On top of that "low load" doesn't mean the task is of less importance. Mistakes come by easier when one's already exerted.

I don't think the parent meant it that way but suggesting that solution can come out as demeaning for people that already are on the edge of exhaustion and internally questioning themselves.
> continue to exist after you correct for experience/education

No doubt there is also discrimination. Especially if there's a real effect, it's easy for people to be aware of that and exacerbate it with discrimination. Same as women can't do X man's job until they could.

> dramatically better pre-adolescent test results.

Childhood interventions to raise IQ are known to wear off at adolescence. It's not necessarily because of the adult world but perhaps because the interventions are just bringing out latent childhood abilities that normal kids don't get the opportunity to use or something like that. I don't know but you have to look at post-adolescent IQs for the effect on adult-income.
> Sometimes to prevent a total collapse, the fed needs to print some money.

Endless bailouts paid for by population can't possibly be a sound long-term solution. Maybe it's better to just let it collapse.
I imagine part of the reason is because Java has the idiomatic usage of

list.stream().functionalOperations.collect(Collectors.toList())

whereas in Haskell you can just do whatever on your lists and it should fuse... or so I thought. Clearly I don't know too much about which way is the "right way" in Haskell since I haven't used Control.Foldl before and I just sort of assumed fusion would happen at least for most list operations.
Spotify cannot figure out that I don't listen to German/French podcasts/books and constantly recommends them to me. My interface is English, I listen to primarily English but also Russian/German/French music and will often specifically click off of French/German music and after 5 years it still cant figure out that I don't want fucking French and German books and podcasts. WTF SW people, I thought this was your bread and butter...don't even get me started on youtube ads which seem to follow the country you're currently in, like...how haven't you figured out which languages I speak after using you for 10 years.
> which incentivises the C-suite to fix them.

It doesn’t. It provide C-Exec material to increase significantly Cyber Defense budget not overhaul Information System.

For those executives these are two different topics with different budget.

Of course for regular engineers it’s not, legacy infrastructure is probably much simpler to hack than modern one.
Someone should tell that to Apple's tech support. Their motto seems to be "Deny, Blame, Upsell" -- until there is a class action, anyway.
Honestly reading that felt extremely anxiety-inducing and like a nightmare work culture. My work patterns are too chaotic to ever pair for more than an hour if I’m forced to.
Without stirring abroad
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out the window
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes
The less one knows.

Therefore the sage knows without having to stir,
Identifies without having to see,
Accomplishes without having to act.

(Tao Te Ching, chapter 47, D.C. Lau translation.)
That’s just reduce.
Teeing is basically creating multiple streams from a single one and after doing something with those “branches”, aggregating them.
The Japanese working culture might be the only one worse than the American one.

In Japan you need to be at the office before your boss and can't leave before they do. And this goes all the way up, meaning that the lowest employees practically live at the office.

Combine this with a culture that doesn't really allow questioning your superiors makes for a really stressful work life.

One anecdote I heard was that a company had a one hour meeting with the Big Boss, who told what he wanted people to do. After that they had a two-hour meeting where they figured out what the boss meant. It was not proper to ask questions directly from the big boss.

Americans on the other hand glorify working two or three jobs, suffering 80-100 hour work weeks is a badge of honour. And they still just barely manage to get a living wage.
Every time I stop, my quality of life drops like a lead weight.

I have a sort of internal battle over this, but I love watching the numbers go up. They can’t forever and they won’t, but for the time being I find slipping another 2.5-5lb onto the bar incredibly gratifying.

At the same time I know the numbers mean nothing and arriving, effort, and consistency are everything.

Regardless, apart from god sleep, pushing myself with barbell training is the single thing I can point to that dramatically improves my mental and physical health.
(probably wrongly worded)

Wouldn't toyota model essentially set a required buffer size in kanban, essentially ensuring a certain level of stock decided upon by risk management?

The pull flow would then ensure that the stock fluctuates around that value instead of being driven to 0, because taking a "card" out of stock might trigger purchasing of more stock?
>Now find a single person who can program bare hardware on a short notice on above Arduino level.

Are you in the US? Because EU is full of embedded devs.
Back when he cared about being "a good net citizen". I wonder what 1996 Larry would think of today's Internet (that he helped shape).
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Yes, you can pick tunnel length in I2P.
Then why didn't you just say so.
Baidu Research: Text-Driven Video Synthesis
https://github.com/pmarks-net/chromadoze multiplies white noise by a stairstep shape (rectangles of various heights), then runs an IDCT to generate colored noise.

I wonder if this actually has subtle artifacts, or if it doesn't matter because the input is noise?
Who funds the “research” and/or the publication in which it appears.

If one or both of those is a foundation or opaque organisation, who funds it, and what are their interests?
How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Consume? A Flawed Analysis
natural immunity is always a prove to the first line of defense against diseases.
I have no idea why the builder part should be async. Either that, or it’s named badly, which usually comes from an unclear view of the problem domain
This is hilarious. I was completely predicting this would happen when the time comes. The author nailed it precisely in this:

>The true issue at hand is not, ultimately, where we will work, but how we will work. Remote work forces you to change the how. It is not a cure for shitty management or a bad business model or a bad product. It is merely an organizing principle — it forces you to the hard work of listening to and trusting employees. It pushes executives to build a culture with intention and long-term vision.
>If history is any guide, the business case for remote work HAS been made.

Management is increasingly becoming irrelevant. The fear of being irrelevant will drive all sort of drama as work forces returning to office.
Is there a moral to the story? Perhaps, when in the US, be sure to get a second opinion on your diagnosis, the first might not be right.
Parsing Pictures of Mars Muck
> There are underground metal scenes in the Muslim world, in spite of disapproval from officialdom that the music is anti-religious. Those in Lebanon and Iran have been well covered, for example. Often its afficionados speak of the supposed universality of metal, and certainly don’t see it as bound to European paganism, so that alone doesn’t seem to explain its failure to connect with those of Afro and Caribbean heritage.

That is an interesting point. I am struggling to find a good way of explaining my thinking on this but if you listen to rap music you will see here and there lip service paid to their Christian faith (liner notes thanking God, lyrics mentioning God in some form) even as they talk about "slapping bitches" and shooting rivals. So even in their rebellion they don't openly rebel against their faith.

I suspect that it could be down to differences in what people are rebelling against. If you are a kid living a comfortable middle class white existence then if you want to rebel then you will rebel against the stifling conformity. Black kids, especially in America, live under a very different reality and tend to spend their energy rebelling against being harassed by the police and against the system that keeps their communities in poverty rather than against religious faith and the like.
My point is that every country teaches their own narrative to its youth, and of course it’s always only the parts of history that don’t make them look bad. English kids aren’t taught that the UK did nothing when Westerplatte was under siege. Swedish kids aren’t taught that Sweden profited and aided the Nazis by selling them natural resources. Australian kids aren’t taught much about WWII relative to Europeans as far as I can gather, as the curriculum centres around the ANZACs and Gallipoli.

I think people having pride (or indeed shame) in their own nation — whichever nation that may be — for historic military engagements is misplaced, and is really an example of exceptionalism. It’s not a small thing either; I think this sentiment significantly aided Vote Leave’s Brexit campaign. As another commenter pointed out — British people know that we won “two world wars and one World Cup”.
The things we do are within our control; the ways others respond are not.

If someone wishes to volunteer to work 24/7, it isn't my job to stop them. It's insane of them, though, and I might contemplate firing someone who felt pressured to act/respond at 2am (for being dumb and unreasonable).
Thanks

Number eight is my fav :-p