skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell by 1.5 Years in 2020, Just 0.22 Yrs. In Peer Countries
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Joseph, for #1, I've worked on in-house tools and:
1. They never get enough developers.
2. They usually get deprioritized in lieu of other projects.
3. Many small space companies don't have resources to build awesome in-house tools.

It can be really time consuming and take the team's focus off of the primary goal as well, so we try to get teams to focus on the things that they are uniquely qualified to do, rather than build software to support their operation.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...

"The estimate of global warming from 1850 to 2018 revised upwards, from 0.91 to 1.07 °C."

The consensus on anthropogenic global warming among research scientists has reached 100%. The climate skeptics don't say anything, they largely stopped publishing papers. You can guess why.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0270467619886266
HipChat had probably the best native desktop chat client for Linux. I really miss it.
Nice story, except DirectX owns the PC market, period.
It's more complicated than that; VHS and Betamax are both better than each other :)

Betamax did have somewhat better picture quality, but it had real disadvantages (in particular, as mentioned elsewhere, impractically short tape lengths when using the high quality mode).
> Key Bank won't let me login using Firefox unless I spoof my user agent

Stop encouraging this behavior and cancel your service, then.

> Also, ADP (timesheets and paycheck system) frequently breaks for Firefox. Sometimes it just won't load any of its forms or grids when I'm using Firefox. I think they only test with Chrome.

Was the last time you checked like 10 years ago? Haven't seen this happen in quite some time.
Congrulations on the launch, it sounds awesome. This is one of the companies where I would love to work. Are you taking remote candidates?
Whoa... I missed this earlier.

>I didn't even notice that I'd been moved to Finder at first.

You... can't tell finder from a web browser??

There goes 100% of your credibility with regard to UX.
Idk, people have the same weaknesses that we always blame on AI. People have bias, people lack empathy, people make incorrect moral judgements.

Doctors have bias. Doctors sometimes get apathetic. Not because they have bad intentions, in fact I bet most doctors really care and really try. But because they're overworked, and they have to care for many patients who they don't personally know, and some of whom get very sick. And because they're only human.

In fact, I believe the way most doctor's appointments work is that the doctor gets a list of symptoms, then matches it against a checklist of what they were taught / experience to form a diagnosis. Very similar to an AI algorithm. Of course this isn't as easy as it seems, you can't just Google the symptoms yourself. Doctors' knowledge and experience is very deep, and takes many years to develop. But still, it's not something an AI couldn't eventually automate.

Right now I would be skeptical of an AI doctor, just because I don't think current AI has that capability. But seriously, if ML gets better I would trust it better than any real doctor.
Yeah I was around at the time. As I remember it, the "developer demand" was a very small but very vocal cabal of AAA game rendering engineers :)

I think the general idea was the right one, the execution of that idea was the problem (e.g. Metal is the successful execution of the same idea).
It has done wonders for PC gaming so far.
To me it's simple. My tax as someone trying to get a startup to work is about 30%, it would be 22% in the US. That means I pay 8% extra to be largely abstracted from the harsh reality of the suffering of the unlucky and disadvantaged.

Check this video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKo8Sv99MkM That's about Skid Row, it's how one of the US's richest cities deals with the disadvantaged.

Dutch citizens with student debt.. that's a joke right?
There are no solutions. Those who can will use what they can, those who can't will be left high and dry. This is expected when supply rapidly declines when demand remains constant or increases over time. The watershed will change faster than human behavior and policy will adapt.

There was already not enough water for the rights distributed in the 1922 Colorado River Compact [1]:

> The delegates figured allocations on hydrologic data from the Reclamation Bureau that indicated annual Colorado River flow at Lees Ferry to be 16.4 maf. In truth, however, Colorado River flow is a good deal less than that. Data from three centuries indicate an average flow of about 13.5 maf. Also, flows are highly erratic, ranging from 4.4 maf to over 22 maf.

> Built into the compact then, between what it promised and what the river was prepared to deliver, was water scarcity. There is not enough water to go around. As a result, water scarcity is the root of most of the disputes and problems subsequently arising over the compact and the Law of the River. It is a situation that links past and present Colorado River issues and will be an abiding concern in the future.

EDIT: You personally can make the choice to not live somewhere that will eventually face water scarcity [2].

[1] https://wrrc.arizona.edu/publications/arroyo-newsletter/shar... ("Sharing Colorado River Water: History, Public Policy and the Colorado River Compact")

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210721173013/https://i.imgur.c...
Kramer: It's a write off for them.

Jerry: How is it a write off?

Kramer: They just write it off.

Jerry: Write it off of what?

Kramer: They just write it off!

Jerry: You don't even know what a write off is, do you?

Kramer: No. Do you?

Jerry: No I don't!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
Well in reference to the comment in the article about deporting muslims, the islamophobia is overlapping with xenophobia at the very least.
Is it your assertion that the poor did not consume tea in late 1700's America? I always assumed the Sons of Liberty had both wealthy and more middle class members.
Last year? I think in general yes, very much yes.
Privatization spurred tremendous increase in efficiencies. SpaceX rocket material is much more fuel efficient, significantly more re-usable. Even the blue origin rocket landed on it's feet yesterday.
After your example, `Point` is a class. You are not creating a record, you’re creating the class that defines the schema of fields in any record. A class can be defined without using the `class foo:` syntax, and in this case the class is returned by the function `namedtuple` to produce an equivalent effect.

As for the unusual space-delimited syntax, the missing context here is that namedtuple is a very, very old part of Python that predates the conventions now considered good style. Using space delimiters for lists of strings is a common idiom in Perl scripting due to the `qw()` quote syntax. Note the archetypical context where namedtuple was imagined to apply (record-oriented processing of logs and SQL result sets) was commonly handled using Perl before Python became dominant.

Namedtuple is definitely the most prominent example of this syntax convention in Python, but other libraries use it too. `enum.Enum` supports a function-like interface directly modeled off namedtuple. It’s a mildly bad idea to keep using it IMHO because it complicates static analysis or refactoring. If someone does a wide search-and-replace of a field name literal it’s easy to miss this edge case.
The science goes back far further than that. Scientists were advocating for natural burns in the 1930s, when the Roy Headley, chief of fire control for the Natural Forest Service, wanted to allow burns but was overruled.
In order to predict suicide you'd need real-time data of wide variety of aspects of a human being (levels of pain, hopelessness, connectedness, capability for suicide, etc) in a way that is impossible to achieve at the moment (insufficient measures and insufficient data gathering techniques).
The better used books are sold by the thrift stores on Amazon. It's pretty obvious they pull those out before they reach the shelves. It only makes sense.

Of course, they overlook some good stuff and it winds up on the shelves, too.

I don't begrudge the staff from picking out what they want.

I also know that quite a bit of the donations are simply sent straight to the dump.
Was the case for me when I flew back to Germany with my music instruments. They would not listen to any reason but forced me to pay to get the instruments that are my property back. Thieves.
> recovery groups and such, especially for meditation teachers

Some meditation teachers will fuck you up. Especially if you're a woman (most teachers are men), and especially if you're involved in tantra. Choosing a good teacher is critical, and very, very difficult.

Trungpa was a superb teacher. But even he left a trail of damaged students in his wake (and not just women).
Unfortunate; most of us have had experienced such situations separately, it sucks when they come together in a "rock and hard place" situation.

Good managers / business leads/ execs / champions CAN be reasoned with, as long as you find common language, think and understand their priorities, provide alternatives that meet their underlying goals (all of which frequently falls on the presenters). E.g. in your situation, it may be that unspoken expectation was to cut scope or increase resource contour or find another way to meet deadline rather than just changing estimates; or something completely different.

Occasionally though, you're as you say stuck between other people's indecipherable politics. I find in such situations, I'm most comfortable speaking the most honest truth and working hard, openly and explicitly, to understand/ask/bring to surface everybody's actual critical goals.
"he would be subject to prosecution if that's what he was doing"

You would, so would I but history has shown he won't have to worry about that.
Hopefully, Salesforce doesn't repeat that with Slack
Is it me, or is there no volume control for the music?
Yes, that was Munich with its LiMux project.

Incidentally and possibly unrelated, the project was abandoned after Microsoft moved their headquarters back into Munich.
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I don't think AI will make us dumber, it will allow us to work faster and more abstractly. Doctors have no incentive to regurgitate an AI prediction; they're the ones liable for care. Doctors will continue to second guess AI while they use its predictions as one of many data points for their decision.
You quoted someone saying it depends on WHAT they say, then posted an example of someone being fired for who they are. That isn't the same.
As the owner of a Mini-14--which fires .223 rounds--I think this comment is disingenuous. There are certainly rifles that fire more powerful rounds. But they are typically heavier, more unwieldy, and are bolt action and thus have a lower rate of fire.

Even a stock "hunting rifle"-type Mini-14 can shoot 10+ high powered rounds accurately in a very short length of time. With a pistol grip, an amateur could easily shoot and kill a bunch of people with one, essentially combining the ease of use of a pistol with the power of a long gun.

Common sense dictates that a AR-type rifle with a pistol grip and large capacity magazine is far more deadly for killing people than a technically more powerful .308 rifle.
> her portfolio is still underperforming an S&P 500 index fund with the dividends reinvested

Can you expand on this? The article indicates her one year returns were considerably higher than the S&P 500 last year.
> the trades don’t actually look suspicious nor requiring non-public information.

The purchase was made 1 month before this story[1] broke, which was a significantly market moving announcement.

There's plausible deniability, of course.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/biden-plans-to-replace-gover...
There is not even an admin panel in Notion.

As soon as you have a lot of documents, the search is super slow. Search that is super limited regarding its filtering capabilities.

Not possible to impose a structure on documents, no review before publishing. The right management system is super unflexible, the folder system is too flexible, the UI overall is not built to support thousands of docs, almost no analytics...

So yeah Notion looks better at first, but I dont know any company of more than 100 employees that would trade it from Confluence.

(I'm building a competitor to Confluence that looks good and is UX friendly, but to me I'm not building a competitor to Notion, Notion is very limited in term of the functionalities companies need)
When our freedoms conflict with each other, we have to reconcile that. I have a right not to be libeled, not to be defrauded, and not to be murdered. You may not like that these rights place limits on your rights to free expression, but that's the trade-off of living in a functioning society instead of alone on a deserted island.
I love dark humor!

Honestly, I don't think we need to worry about global warming, Apple basically solved it by not including a charging brick with the iPhone12 and new watches! /s

This sums up how capitalism feels about global warming.
Coffee has other side-effects. If you are trying to quit smoking, for example, the task at hand will be far easier if you do not drink coffee. Nicotine breaks down caffeine and smokers who are coffee drinkers are subjected to heightened agitation due to increased caffeine intake when they stop smoking. Psychologically, this higher level of agitation is misinterpreted as nicotine cravings. It’s a vicious circle.

Fair disclosure: I love the aroma of coffee and am a coffee drinker and a smoker. They are like bad friends for whom I have developed fond feelings.
Obama made some suggestions about normalizing relations with Iran and all the defense stocks went crazy though nothing ever came of it

Politicians suggesting things impacts the market all the time.
I don't think that's true. Which countries reply to active shooter calls passively?
Large federal grants/subsidies to stimulate farming in the Northern states, coupled with a progressive/tiered taxes on using more than [edit] xx million gallons of water in places like California and Colorado?

...I could see how the residents of those latter states would not be too happy with that solution, though. But it's not like the Federal Government isn't already constantly picking favorites for subsidies (see ethanol, oil, etc.).
I think it comes down to the idea that going out of your way to make the library work either way makes it easier for people to use, even if it makes the library itself a bit more complicated.

I wish more library devs would go out of their way to add such niceties.

A big one that I always do is if I'm expecting an iterator of
objects I make it just work with one.

from collections.abc import Iterable
def my_function(arg):
# slightly different if you're looking for a collection of strings or bytes
if not isinstance(arg, Iterable):
arg = [arg]

for item in arg:
do the thing

Or if you have a specific type of object you want it goes like this

from collections.abc import Iterable
def my_function(arg):
if isinstance(arg, MyObjectIWant):
arg = [arg]

for item in arg:
do the thing

I like to think of my libraries as mini programs for users, and I hate when validation is too strict, when it could be so easy to fix. Like when a phone number validator insists on (XXX)XXX-XXXX or XXX.XXX.XXXX or XXXXXXXXXX when it could just ignore everything that isn't a number and make sure there is 10 of them.
I've dreamt in bash-like, but in my defense it was kind of a fever dream.
(Dunno if just me but ...

... it took me a while to realize the "article" -was- the video, ie. the content coming from WSJ was in video form, particularly when the landing site has a textual intro ...
I mean, there's either a legal tax shelter he will take advantage of, or he'll pay the gift tax. People complain about the wealthy and giant corporations "paying no tax" but they are paying the minimal taxes that the law reqires, as we all do (any readers who voluntarily send extra money to the IRS are excepted).
Its a culture clash.

The Java people have the ISO9000 engineers who are extremely proud of their documented and approved 175 page procedure explaining every detailed step of how its an enormous amount of extra work but technically possible to remove replace and reinstall a 400 Hz power converter.

The Clojure people have the simplicate and add lightness aerospace engineer people who proudly re-engineered the plane's electrical system to not require a 400 Hz power converter anymore, resulting in a lighter, faster, cheaper, more reliable, simpler aircraft. Follow the money... can't sell replacement parts if the plane doesn't use them, so you can guess what corporate thinks of "simplicate and add lightness" designs. Much like in software there's an expanding gap between software people try to sell you vs software you paid to develop for yourself.

The cognitive load on the dev is higher, but its technically possible to write lispy functional style programs in Java if you follow rules about versions and if you drag all the other required complexity of Java into it ... its just simpler to write in Clojure.
Sounds like smart insider trading. I know some forums only accessible via the TOR network that trade insider info. Your first post is for verification, the ones after for either selling them or trading with others. If you trade your company's quarterly numbers with numbers from another company it's nearly impossible to proof that you used insider information.

IMHO the whole system needs a reformation. You should only be allowed to invest long-term, at least one month, probably years. Day trading and option contracts enable illegal insider trading.
It does tell you but sometimes the closest charger, even if full is your best option. You end up just having to wait. The wait can be a long time if you are unlucky
Most of Pelosi's homerun trades involved bluechip public stocks. I don't think it's reasonable to expect a VC to have that much edge there. VCs specialize in early stage private companies. That's a very different skillset than trading options on NASDAQ.

If Paul Pelosi really had that much alpha in quarterly moves in ultra-liquid stocks like Microsoft and Disney, he'd almost certainly be a hedge fund manager.
> Navigating to a web page is so much easier than installing an application.

Perhaps, but I don't spend a lot of time installing applications, nor am I concerned about megabytes of disk usage. None of the web applications I use do anything particularly interesting - all of the interesting applications I use are not web apps.

Web apps give maximum convenience to developers and sysadmins and in some cases, this is a worthwhile tradeoff, but often enough it just makes for an inferior product.
It was Munich, the project was called Linux. Their previous mayor (Ude, social democrat) started the Linux project. The next mayor, Reiter, also a social democrat, even called himself a Microsoft fan and cancelled it against all advice. Suddenly Microsoft moved their Germany headquarters from a suburb to the city, so you go figure. Also, there were some internal power struggles between departments and some obvious mismanagement. Conservatives always have supported Microsoft, and the G, as usual, had no clue about tech and first supported Microsoft, but now claim to always have supported open source...
Total shitshow.
>Nancy Pelosi's husband is CEO of a investment firm. It shouldn't be that surprising that she tops the list for investments.

I don't know if you're using this as an argument to favor Pelosi, because this, if anything, is only another conflict of interest on top of where she's currently at.

The disclosure and use of insider information from public companies can get you in big trouble, even if you're married to the people involved.

There's a reason why CEOs (and the like) take HUGE caution measures when liquidating stock and try to involve family as least as possible.
You can learn better programming by literally everything — just like you can learn worse programming by literally everything.

Maybe it isn't the case that books work better in making people better programmers, maybe it is the case that those who are more dedicated to learning programming properly, tend to be the same people who grab programming books.
The Nissan Leaf does not use CCS DC fast charging, it uses CHAdeMO, like they do in the US. But it's pretty much the only EV that uses it in the US.

https://www.nissan.fr/vehicules/neufs/leaf.html

"Le temps de recharge rapide indiqué nécessite l’utilisation d’une borne de recharge rapide équipée d’un câble de recharge CHAdeMO."
People always gloss over the massive scale differences when comparing the US to European countries, whether it’s prisons, taxes, healthcare, etc. It’s like, show me the system operating as well with 5x the population before even joking that it should work as efficiently at 10x, much less 20x. Call me when you’re filing EU taxes as individuals in addition to your nation-state taxes.
The fact that some firings for outside behavior are bad is not enough, imo, to justify a blanket prohibition on firing based on outside behavior that would prohibit me from firing an employee who called black people scum (for instance).

I think this is probably the median perspective.
Ah so tempted to post the punch line which is the best part of the bit. But I won't be the spoiler.
Netflix works fine for me in FF, but you will get a prompt to enable EME (DRM) on first visit on linux.
Kopete. We could do everything Slack did (even with inline Youtube videos, LaTex and video chat) under an AMD Athlon XP and 256 MB of RAM. And with KDE3 in the background.

cc /u/spiderice
Yes, sometimes, but you need to have a good sense for what is actually impressive to the people reviewing you, not just impress yourself (and you are the easiest person to impress).

Merely the fact that you put in the time to build something isn't going to be that impressive for someone considering you for a senior role. They'll want to know that your work was valuable to others, that it had impact. So if you just built something for fun or as an exercise, I don't think it's worth showing it. But if you wrote or contributed to a popular open-source project, or built something that is used by a large number of people, or you got published somewhere respectable, or you were successful in achieving some impressive goal like helping a community you care about, do share.

Make sure to explain how your work was impactful with numbers, quotes, use-cases, etc...
Why go for minced testes when you can just ram whole goat balls in? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhexl

do it right, and you'll wind up building the highest power pirate radio station in the west!
It looks like it uses YouTube as hosting behind the scenes.
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Like 3-5 regular cups a day (not Starbucks). Then after two weeks even 1 cup became too much. Switching to a gallon of cola then didn't cause any problems.
"80% of US Fund Managers Underperform S&P 500 Over 5 years"

http://www.ginsglobal.com/articles/80-of-us-fund-managers-un...
Hey, nice to see DATANOSE on that list! It was co-written by my PhD supervisor Scott Hudson, and it emphatically was a joke. He likes to tell the story every so often at conferences. If I’m not mistaken, the picture shows Scott with his trademark mustache under the DATANOSE :)
yap. not to forget TextWrangler
It would be great if someone compiled a list of important libraries missing from the ecosystem.
I've interacted with José Andrés in the past too, and can attest that he's an amazing human being. He is the kind of person who will try his hardest to use every single one of those dollars to help other people who are desperately in need of that help. It's really great to see Bezos doing this.
Perhaps you should approach this issue with more compassion.
Their returns all time in office are worse.