skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say instead software is just communicating, and communicating is about abstraction. That's from the user to the CEO all the way down to the software/hardware.

There's a shift from communicating in an imperative manner to communicating in a declarative manner. Even between humans, communicating to a junior/senior, there's a difference between how much imperative and how much declarative communication you do.

Business use case is very declarative - "This app should send me a reminder before my appointment."

The next level of abstraction breaks it down further: How many minutes before the appointment? How many reminders? Email, push notification, in-app? Which of these are practical given our resources?

Then the next levels break it down further. Do you want more control (imperative) or do you want more abstraction? Is it so dumb you have to explain to it step-by-step how to thread itself and clean up memory?

And then there's a different level where you have to explain it to the other person maintaining the same code.
How are you going to deal with the imbalance in charge? It's likely that the to-be-moon has a very large charge differential between it and the Sun, but also likely between us and it.
It’s certainly not perfect, but I genuinely think it’s much better than being an FTE anywhere else. Of course I’m biased.

I mentioned benefits in another post, so I wouldn’t say it’s gig economy.

What other environment could give a developer $100+/hr, ability to make their own schedule, and essentially all legal protections to work on side projects, work for other companies, etc. at the same time?

Is it for everyone? No. But we’ve had more quality devs interested than we can employ at this point, so I’d say it’s attractive to a good portion of the market.
Please make sure controls like text inputs and checkboxes, radio controls, etc. have some kind of visible focus state for accessibility.
He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books

If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady
It’s not the norm, but this type of stuff happens more in this industry (labor of love) than in other industries.

Read up on the sausage party scandal

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/sausage-party-animators-u...
overtime-1201838425/amp/

The animators were even reluctant to raise objections over fears of being blacklisted.
It's funny, but I find your example way more illustrative and deserving to be shared on HN, than the original post. Honestly, I don't find microbenchmarks that compelling, because there are too many caveats to take them seriously without really understanding what's happening under the hood. And I wouldn't participate in arguing about manual vs auto-vectorization, because these are just 2 different use-cases, so there's no question for me that auto-vectorization being possible in the language is just better than it being impossible. (I mean, disregarding the programming, writing kind-of-imperative formula when discussing math can serve a purpose, as it is a different perspective, than writing the same thing declaratively. I would prefer "vectorized" declarative form in the most cases, but surely one can find exceptions, where M[i,j] = ... is just much clearer.)

But your comment just vividly shows, how much proficiency in writing clear code actually matters.
So not an hourly contract? but a per deliverable contract? How do you figure out what's a deliverable in the time - if thats what you're doing.
I have a disability but didn't have money to get a doctor's appointment to fill out the paperwork proving I qualified for discounted bus fare as a disabled person. One of the things I wished for while homeless was a program that would provide me with free access to a doctor for purposes of filling out such paperwork and getting me access to the discount to which I am legally entitled but have never received.

[...]

In my case, without ever managing to arrange to get my disabled fare card, my life got better simply moving to places with cheaper bus fare and a lower cost of living. Keeping public transit affordable and/or making sure it is good quality and will get people where they need to go can help poor people more than other groups who are more likely to own their own vehicle.
Coasting is getting your kicks outside of work hours.
About time this gets national level support from lawmakers.. but then I tend to be overly optimistic
Yep. It's also important that free housing doesn't turn into concentration camps (defined as collecting people into areas separate from communities) to hide former homeless people. Expanding Section 8 and similar with rapid SRO placement would be an easier solution in the short-term, while there is a need for dedicated/incentivized Section 8 and true affordable housing inventory against the wishes of NIMBYs.
Good enough engineering to start an Internet company – Listen Notes
Yeah, she uses OBS to flip the recording (she mentions “in software” in the video in the tweet, and the interview mentions OBS)
Same in Perth Western Australia

also the current Lab gov has promised to cap Public Transport at a maximum of $4.90.

A pretty significant saving
https://twitter.com/MarkMcGowanMP/status/1350648142585217025...

*Goes into effect Jan 2022
Calgary, Canada; has free transit in the downtown core. But not very far, and not to the suburbs. But makes it very convenient when you are in the centre, and don't need to think twice about moving around that core.
This has been done, I’ve lived in cities where this was the case for a while. In at least some cities, this turned public transit into a mobile homeless shelter, drug den, etc. So normal people stopped using public transit because it was unsafe and unpleasant.
Thus, "almost".

But big enough to be spherical. Or to eliminate multicellular life on Earth, if it hit us.
No, if I build Slackware on my computer and you build Slackware on yours; the binaries we end up with will not be bit-for-bit identical.
Free public transport has been researched and it's not clear if it's positive. It's certainly not a slam dunk community good -

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22136... ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2017.10.002 )
That's somewhat uncharitable. patchelf, for example, is one tool developed by NixOS which is widely used for reproducible build efforts. (although I don't know concretely if Debian uses it today)
Most of the primary research is NIH money handed out to university researchers. But then easily as much money is spent in human trials and that’s privately funded.
Why would public transportation need to be paid for by "boosted commerce" to be beneficial? Why does it need to be profitable?

As a public service, do we ask fire departments to be profitable? What consequences happen when we try and make other essential services profitable, e.g. police?

Should armed forces be made to be profitable?

How do you define profitability in the first place... how do you define the costs and benefits?

Why does this question only ever seem to come up when we're talking about things that raise quality of life for the poor?
If your job is getting in the way of your life goals, why don’t you find one that doesn’t?
All else equal a driver who does 5000 miles a year will have half the adverse events of Someone driving 10,000 miles/year. That’s a huge difference that makes no sense of lump together. And yet only a few (non-commercial) insurers, like metromile, account for it. It makes no sense.
How much were you willing to sacrifice in salary in exchange for additional vacation? Was it a net-positive deal for your counter party (employer)? I ask because I hear this kind of thing all the time who want to make the same money, for less time at work.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.
I did not imply that your company is an Amazon warehouse, I'm sorry if it sounded like that.

But if this "hourly wage for hourly work and nothing else" becomes a norm, that's what we'll eventually get, I'm afraid.
If you’re just going by mileage count, you can look at the odometer.
Reminded me of the game Bungie made pre-Halo called Marathon, which mostly took place on a colony ship that was made out of one of Mar's moons (Deimos)
Quite frankly, I'm surprised that is hasn't come up multiple times in the course of getting to NixOS and etc. The attacks are easy to hide and hard to attribute.
> It has nothing directly to do with violence against developers, that's taking many leaps.

It is literally the very first claim on the front page of https://reproducible-builds.org.
There's some frameworks, but libraries are generally under a "community support" model where if you're using the library, you fix the bugs you find.

If you want a team supporting that qsort function,you want it behind a rest api
> One can easily put in 60+ hours for weeks on end and be incredibly productive while doing it.

Do you have an objective measure of that? I've worked with plenty of people who thought they were being productive for 60+ hours/week, but none of their productivity actually stacked up. Founder/CTO types were the worst, they'd bypass process and cause outages but because of their position everyone had to coddle their ego and pretend that they were doing good work and the trouble wasn't their fault.
$50k is comically insufficient to cover the damage you can do in a car in a single incident, though, and such a bond is a limp assurance at best.
I wish I could find the article I was reading a few days ago.
It said something like: zero antibodies found in vaccinated until 2nd jab, then the effectiveness of the 2nd jab seems to struggle to bring it up to 50%.

I would call that nearly useless. If they are ignoring these poor statistics and just rolling back to pre-covid rules I'd say its worse than nearly useless.
They Put Up a Pride Flag. A Homeowners’ Group Said Take It Down
(Un?)related, but this brings back memories of wiggling a Windows 95 window back in the day and "speeding up" the application.
That someone would be Bezos and his pizza person.

in time, two-pizza teams evolved into single-threaded leader (STL) teams, a term borrowed from computer science that means to only work on one thing at a time

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/when-jeff-bezoss-two-pizza-te...
In Vancouver it's unenforced, about half of people actually pay for their tickets.
I was targeted with this trash, it disappeared late 2019.
Cities in Poland started doing this.

One of motivations was that seeding wild flowers gives reason to cut grass less often, allowing to save money and noise. Maybe the same applies in USA and cost cutting could be used as an argument?

Other motivations were biodiversity and that it is less ugly (though not everyone is fan of them).

From city official website: https://www.krakow.pl/aktualnosci/237069,1926,komunikat,zdec... https://zzm.krakow.pl/dzialania-antysmogowe/393-sianie-lak-k... https://www.krakow.pl/aktualnosci/247208,29,komunikat,nowe_l...
I’m a poor typist, for some reason I can touch type with my left hand, but I have a tendency to “hunt & peck” with my right hand. This is probably because I have to use a lot of GUI-intensive, mouse-based design software for work (constantly taking my right hand off the keyboard).

After reading your comment, I decided what the heck and my TapStrap2 arrived Thursday. I know I should just take those 15 minutes a day and improve my typing skills, but where’s the fun in that?

In any case, I’ve got the alphabet memorized, and now (at the end of Sunday) I can consistently get 18 WPM. For extra challenge, I decided to learn on my non-dominant (left) hand. I’m pretty impressed with how quickly basic proficiency can be achieved. I haven’t explored the mousing features, or macros, but I can definitely see myself using this in meetings in the future— if for no other reason than some sweet show-off value.
Long-time Seattle resident and transit rider here. Seattle's erstwhile "Ride Free Zone" was instituted with the aim of promoting tourist activity and applied solely to rides that began and ended within a tiny part of the city center; for example, if you were a homeless person in the U District making a trip downtown, you would still have to pay, each way. So - except for very short trips - it was not necessarily something that meaningfully benefited poor people nor low-income people.

More recently Seattle's Transit Riders Union (among other groups) has advocated for more substantial free transit. Some baby steps in this direction have been realized with such things as free transit for high school students.
Kind of reminds me of lots of 50:50 stupid remarks in recent year, that 50% pan out for the wrong reasons. Hindsight bias could make a cult out of that.
In the end, everything is boiling down to matrix math, so you can always make the argument that no neural network is impressive if you want.

The model's size is ~173MB, depending on settings. That's not much space to have memorized every single possible combination of events, nor was our data enough to cover that either.
Perfect. Tax Uber to subsidize free public transit.
The social contract in Japan was that you’d give your life to your employer in exchange for a fair wage and stable employment until you retired. Neither of those things are true now. Wages are low and companies either ignore their legal obligations or hire people as contractors, who have less rights than full time “employees”.

Now, many people, especially women* and young people are finding that it’s possible to run a small business for 3-4 days a week and make more money than an entry or even mid-level full time office job.

So, I think Japan finally enforcing rules against abusive behavior at the workplace and pushing for a 4-day week, if it really happens, is a reflection of where society is at right now.

*Women have a low wage ceiling because they are expected to quit and have children at any time.
There's always the option of paying someone who wrote the thing you need to give you a nicer license
Otherwise: Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
It would mean that if two split off pieces of Amazon want to call each others' APIs, other companies could also do so under the same terms (if there is a charge, everyone pays the same rate). This could work.
I also started in Matlab + C, and didn't personally like Python very much, but wound up liking Julia after a bit of adjustment.

Still a work in progress, but I've written up a few of my lessons learned in the process [1] in case they're useful to anyone else. Properly figuring out type stability and dispatch-oriented programming took me way too long, but things started making a lot more sense after that.

I haven't used it a ton, but [2] also seems potentially useful for anyone else interested in making the same switch.

[1] https://github.com/brenhinkeller/JuliaAdviceForMatlabProgram...

[2] https://lakras.github.io/matlab-to-julia/
We had ~100GB of data (and that was gzip compressed data). The final model is 173MB.

It's simply not large enough to have memorized every combo.
Oh yeah, gcp customer service was atrocious. Took several months to find out that we couldn't do something undocumented but not obviously impossible.
> What i recommend: Paleo / Keto diet.

Based on what evidence?

> Physical exercise.

Exercise is usually great. Is there another type other than physical I don't know about?

> No sun screen in your face / around the eyes

And get wrinkles and skin cancer. Excellent!

> Throw away your sunglasses.

And get cataracts. Good one!

My apologies but these recommendations come across like the side of Dr. Bronner's soap bottle. Entertaining but I'm not sure how useful or scientific they are.
no, it's not elitist. I assume a human does the last decision. this human doesn't care about the content of the video (like you do) but has to make a defendable decision in limited time based on limited information.
Timezones are likely an issue as well.
This is gold !!!!
This is very helpful post especially if you are starting an Internet company or in the process of building one
This is what generally kills me about a lot of public policy in the US. I think people need to be helped and assisted when down and out without removing agency or deincentizing upward mobility. Too many policies create an awkward situation where you are incentivized to not work or improve your situation in the short term because you may actually worsen your financials by doing so. For example, if you are laid off you are better off just taking unemployment then taking a lower paid job until you find something more suitable.

Section 8 housing is also a great example of bad public policy. Since landlords are under no obligation to accept the vouchers, and even when landlords are they will find another reason not to accept the vouchers, it segregates poor people into specific apartment complexes that do accept the vouchers. These properties are usually terrible and not worth the market value cost. Years ago I lived in a very nice apartment that was cheaper and in much better condition than the apartments that accepted section 8 housing in my town.

Perhaps a universal basic income makes the most sense as it would provide choice without labeling someone as poor. I suspect this would simply lead to an increase in housing and commodity prices across the board, but at least people have the agency to decide what they need most. I also suspect it would be a much more efficient and effective form of public assistance.
You mean Neptune and Pluto's orbit is so eccentric that it is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune.
Which problems do you see in the explanation and graph? It's as easy as it can be, totally nothing fancy, you can create the system out of scrap basically.

Note that I'm not an electrical engineer and can't write diagrams. I do not have "friends" in this area.
Thanks for another great post about something that a lot of people on this forum don't even think about.

I think part of what this boils down to, more than just means testing or fares/rates/etc. is that any time you put up logistical/bureaucratic/cognitive/complicated barriers to something, you discourage its use beyond what you're directly trying to prevent (in name - sometimes the barriers are entirely intentional. something something voting...)

This goes beyond just poor peoples' access to public transportation. Most adults experience this in at least some way dealing with government bureaucracy. It's key in product design - making something confusing and hard to use will discourage its use, even if it delivers a lot of value once the difficulty is overcome. Humans only have limited amounts of patience, focus, attention, time. If you are poor those are even more scarce, since they're being spent on basic day-to-day survival.

Anyway, I think particular public policy options that could fix these types of problems may delve a bit too far into politics. But I think the problem is fixable. Make things simpler
Crypto News: The Great Stakening could happen before 2024
It's often been the low-code ones. From Multimedia Fusion to Bootstrap Studio. Many come with undocumented bugs or limitations, like loops failing or not being able to do a certain thing. Bootstrap Studio ended up being training wheels to responsive web dev for me.

On the "higher" code stuff, Android is chock full of anti-patterns. Adopting the full repository flow of Android, from web to local database cache will lock you in a lot of patterns. You have to design your data into a way that's easily stored in SQLite, i.e. be pretty damn clear whether your data is an int, string, or pointer, which is hard to tell with new features. And then there's the mess of testing this. Some of these features are still in alpha, e.g. an official library might support pages in the form of integers, but not Strings. So for the most part, you rarely ever want to code Android in the manner that Google teaches you to, unless you're in a company with 10 devs on a team or something.
Something to keep perverts busy instead of letting them find what they were already looking for
In that case, the bus, producers, and consumers would all be treated as separate services, no?

The memo does mention pub sub, FWIW.
I'm not sure how your take works. Either :

A. Motorcycles are hitting many things causing everyone's insurance to go up. But here at least, motorcycles and riders are insured differently to cars, as you'd expect with differing %chance vs damage outcomes. So not true.

B. The mysterious group "Everyone" is at fault hitting motorcycles too much, causing everyone's insurance to go up. Which seems... fair?
I hereby modify my design and drop the bluetooth module. The communication need not be two-way. I suggest ultrasonics, assuming the phone's speaker is able. Now all energy is consumed in the phone. There will be only the E-paper-module and microphone and some filtering in the watch. Also the refreshing rate can now be faster. If the clock shows only the current date, the battery will last decades. The blanking timer is initiated by the presence of the said sonic carrier, or rather by the lack of it.
But giving all homeless homes isn't the solution either, lest you want crime and drug filled ghettos.

The solution in my mind requires everything, at once. Homes for those who need it. Mental support for those who need it. And enforcement for those who merely want to abuse and corrupt the system.

The homeless problem lumps everyone together into one camp and while they do suffer equally, their reasons are vastly different. There is no single solution, and it certainly will be difficult.

Unfortunately i see the friction involved in _actually_ solving this problem as so great that it will never be done. Though some extreme measures may be taken.
Simple Code: Immutability
> Part of the problem is in being one of the only services that offers itself for free.

It's worse than that imho.

I live somewhere that provides a fair bit of support and free services (e.g., transitional housing) for the homeless. That doesn't get rid of the homelessness, all it means is that the remaining people without access to shelter and showers are those that are generally incompatible with polite society for a variety of reasons. (Crime, severe drug abuse, severe mental illness, etc.)

Implementing it as "anyone can hop on wherever" implements a weak filter for the worst of the homeless population using it as shelter. Those who've been refused or kicked out of available shelter.

I could see it working more as a "free transit passes" program so they could be revoked and not re-issued for people that were going to cause ongoing issues in the same way someone that shows up to transitional housing and gets high and assaults other tenants and neighbours could be removed.
US navy tests aircraft carrier with explosion that registers as 3.9 quake
> It's an open secret at least in the tech world that absolutely no one is putting in a productive 40 hours of work a week.

Is this true only in the US? What percentage of companies is this true for? How many jobs will tolerate this reality?
If you like to scroll vertically instead of horizontally, you might like this one that takes you to the bottom of the ocean:

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
You can only create "bad" code in programming, there's nothing bad in programming I know of. Ah, don't forget that as per GitHub statistics, programmers usually have psycho-neurological problems, it's a hard thing for the mind to stay in balance.
It is weird sometimes. Took me about ten recruiters reaching out before I finally found a company that was even willing to negotiate on vacation days. I have 23 vacation days a year, no thanks, I’m not going back to 15 until I work at your company for five years. Just accepted a new position with a 15% pay raise and 20 days, which when I do the math 23x=20x*1.15, which is funny because I came up with the number right on the spot and somehow did the math so I’d be getting equivalent monetary value benefits for my PTO.
Ah, this one he already committed in the past. Doesn’t scale well.