skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

I guess they assumed that anyone interested in todo-apps would have already encountered GTD before.

I never managed to get GTD done, but the book was still an interesting and enjoyable read when I read it back in university.
This is a distraction and diversion from the original comment.

Hollywood is not at the scale of the internet. Some privileged people got cancelled in Hollywood, who cares. When a hard working person gets cancelled by saying something stupid, the consequences are back breaking.
This would translate to do not leave the bathroom in the US, or at least do not go outside your abode.
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Because they won't wait until there's a 25% chance of becoming the next facebook to buy something, they'll do it when there's a 5% chance. There's at least 5 years between that 5% and 25% chance; to have that 5% chance means you probably have 50 million users. And after this company turns down that first offer, and after facebook releases the clone, they'll take the second.

I don't think anyone has had a realistic chance of becoming facebook since facebook became facebook. Google didn't have a realistic chance of becoming facebook, and they partially wrecked a lot of their other properties in the attempt.
Why can't you have a Kanban board with you?

I use KanbanFlow with both work and personal boards and it's great. The mobile interface fine. For home/desk situations, I'll use a spare monitor or a cheap tablet so it's more present.

Nothing wrong with preferring a notebook, of course; it is easier for some things, and I use to carry one religiously. But since it's an extra physical object I have to haul around everywhere and that requires a special tool to even use, I don't miss it.
This seems to be a reasonable take to me. Systems like Autopilot make driving safer. I'm worried that the conventional wisdom on HN is (a) that systems like Autopilotmust be perfect, which will never be attained, and (b) extremely loathe to recognize the times Autopilot has saved lives.
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Solaris is focused around a planetary ocean that's sentient in some manner too alien for humans to understand. That's how Lem sets up the story, because he likes to explore failures to communicate and what it would mean to encounter the truly alien. But it is his setup, and not the result of an actual alien encounter. We don't know whether it would be similarly impossible to communicate with aliens. Maybe Sagan and the SETI folks assume correctly that it is possible.
If you were to postfix any “AI” criticism with “yet”, it would make the point being made more legitimate.. We don’t know what we don’t know..
All advice has exceptions. But I don't think it would be controversial to say that in most engineering organizations, -Werror will catch and prevent real bugs at a nontrivial rate.
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USB-C PD cables will work for your new laptop same as the old laptop. I can bring a single power brick (with 3 USB outputs) and charge a macbook and a windows laptop and my phone-- all at once.

Will it support higher wattages? Maybe not: the cables have to advertise their supported wattages. But maybe that's preferable to years gone by with shady USB cables that would happily cook your phone due to bad wiring.

QC is a red herring here, as it was never a USB standard. Some vendors decided to piggyback on a standard connector with a goofy protocol: as if some motherboard / switch vendor decided that the PS2 connector should also be used for a high-end network connector as well.
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There's still a lot to learn in materials science, plus the gap between "well technically" in a lab vs "well actually" in a factory.
Wow. I’ve heard cheating is a major problem in Asia but $8000 flip flops just to pass a test is unbelievable! Why not just study for the darn thing?
Ironically, it's as though the experience was designed to be as video-like as possible.
While that would probably be very valuable, it will probably come with lots of implementation details that won't really matter to you unless you plan to write a database yourself.

I'd suggest this one: https://dataintensive.net/ Its intended for _users_ of databases, that is, developers incorporating databases (and other kinds of data systems) into their applications. It gives just enough explanation on how those systems work and what they can (and can't) provide, and also gives a more general overview of what's available beyond relational SQL databases.
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I know that Cloudflare is always very liked on HN and the CTO often comments here. I often refer to friends that Cloudflare only exists thanks to HN. But Cloudflare is not (neither HN) the center of the world you could have better than R2 with B2 before for example.

And no they didnt disrupted anything. You dont disrupt anything in one week actually. Has R2 had any impact on S3 business model or customers so far ? Probably not.

Not saying Cloudflare is a bad company, I believe it is one of the few (maybe with Stripe) that is able to still work as a startup even though they have thousands of employees, which is quite impressive. But the article is clickbait
@dang it would be cool if links in Ask HN posts were actually links.
Should you care about jokes made by people you have never met in a city far away?

In the real world you would pull your friend aside and criticize him for making these 'jokes'. Now the jokes happen on the internet and instead of criticism from friends, family and neighbors you get attacked by strangers you have never met.
I have a personal kanban board. My pain is deciding how many tasks I can work on for a given day.

Somedays I have 5 tasks and I finish them with a few hours left over. Other days, I only managed finished 2 tasks and have to push the left over tasks back into the pool.

Anyone know if there some heuristics I can apply so that I continuously adjust my task loading on a day to day basis?
We need a federal analogue act for industrial chemicals. Or, better yet, do what the EU reportedly does, and demand safety tests before allowing novel chemicals to be used, instead of 30 years later after someone notices the 1000% increase of obscure cancer rates near the Chemours plant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act
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If you are here to locate some great electricians in Harringay, you, my friend, have come to the right place. Just bear with the talk for a while and you will get the best out of it. At the outset of this blog, it is not incorrect to state that we live in an electrical era in which all of our daily activities are dependent on power.
Take a listen:

His violin concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w0t4Qn6LY

Finlandia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c
I think you made an insanely good bet considering the average age of all vehicle types in the US except SUVs is greater than 10 years. Even if every new car in the US were fully self driving then it would be a tight bet assuming current trends hold.

https://www.bts.gov/content/average-age-automobiles-and-truc...
> McKinsey cannot disclose its relationships with other companies.

Ok, then it can't take a job with the government. The contract is clear. I'm not a lawyer either, but I do read contracts before I sign them, and this one doesn't sound very complicated. You're right that it is a standard clause.

I don't understand why you think it's unlikely that this is noteworthy, and I don't understand your explanation of why the bankruptcy case was different. I agree it might have been worse, hence the criminal investigation, but it sounds like a breach of contract in both cases, possibly even a breach of the exact same standard clause.

> the Contractor agrees it shall make an immediate and full disclosure [...] of any facts that may cause a reasonably prudent person to question the contractor’s impartiality because of the appearance or existence of bias.

Can you genuinely say that there are no facts in this case that create even the appearance of bias?
The underlying research is indeed very interesting. Passing this (image extrapolation as a means of tracking rain movements) off as something new or “AI” is what’s not great and doesn’t help trend of people rushing to portray something as “AI” when it’s just the same sort of data analytics that’s been going on for a long time. Granted a lot of that concern falls on the press and PR folks more so than the underlying research.
Does your neighborhood/town have a "Buy Nothing" group (on FB)? It's a private group for what you describe - giving away unused items. We've used our local group heavily for this - mostly giving away things (we downsized homes a few years ago and have been purging ever since). But, we also picked up some nice things as well - my wife even hit the jackpot with a neighbor giving away a closet full of designer shoes in a hard-to-find size.
For anyone else, my suggestion:

1. Open google maps

2. Turn on 'live traffic' congestion layer.

3. Identify your local petrol stations.

4. Find one with low congestion, avoid the ones with high congestion.

5. Click on the marker on google maps,

6. Check the 'busyness' indicator.

Observations:

If it's not busy and there's no congestion it's probably not got any fuel.

If it's as busy as usual or even a little bit more than normal, and congestion is not insane then head there.

If it's very congested avoid as it's probably being swarmed by social media promotion.
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USB-C needs two things to make it less confusing:

1. There needs to be a small, inexpensive device that:

A. You can plug into a USB-C port and it tells you what that port is capable of as far as power delivery, data rates, and data protocols go.

B. You can plug a USB cable into the device and it tells you the power, data rates, and data protocols that the cable can handle.

2. There needs to be inexpensive true USB-C hubs. It needs to be possible to have computers that only have USB-C ports, peripherals that only have USB-C ports, and only USB-C to USB-C cables to hook the peripherals to the computers.

Right now if you have a computer with N USB-C ports and M peripherals with USB-C ports and M > N, you generally have to use a hub that hooks to peripherals via USB 3 A ports, and so you need USB-C to USB-A cables.
Adult smoking has been on a downward decline in the US for decades and youth smoking peaked in 1997[1]. While I'm sure the returns of stocks like Philip Morris were very good in their heyday, nowadays MO stock does not have astronomical returns. They just have an extremely solid dividend yield. Compared to FB (>21% 5-years) or Snap (>100% 3-years), Altria Group total 5-year returns are just over 10%. Over 15 years, they don't even break 5%[2]. Philip Morris International has a similar story: returns in the mid to high single digits[3].

1: https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...
2: https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xnys/mo/trailing-returns
3: https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xnys/pm/trailing-returns
Misinformation doesn’t exist.

Lies are real information.
and while we will certain learn more later, we may never learn it all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
I'm going to hazard that much of the punchline is due to terrible QC / fraud problems on the shipper's website. It would not be a former bookseller named for a South American river, would it?
I think calling it clickbait is too harsh. The right headline would be: "Cloudflare announces 3 changes which have the potential to disrupt 3 industries in the near/long future". So it's somewhere in the middle between "totally describing what's inside" vs. clickbait-y.
Don’t. Think fearlessly and don’t lose the kernel of independent thought.
Follow @FacebooksTop10 and you'll see this in action:

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10?lang=en
Assuming there is a gold standard for intelligence, acting as if we can replicate what it took a universe millions of years to stumble into, by etching into silicon some algorithms that have meaning to us specifically, then seeing that as an autonomous experience acquiring organism is odd.
He’s on the other side of the bet.
Well, what's the semantics of your result? Say you have

TABLE UsersWithKnownAge(id ID, age INTEGER)
TABLE UsersWithUnknownAge(id ID)

CONSTRAINT UsersWithKnownAge JOIN UsersWithUnknownAge IS EMPTY

with obvious predicates: "User with id ID is known to be AGE years old" and "User with id ID is unknown". You join them and get the relation with the predicate "User with id ID..." How do you continue?

"We know AGE_KNOWLEDGE about the age of the user with id ID", where AGE_KNOWLEDGE is Option<Integer> that has semantics "number is unknown" or "number is known to be NUM". Okay. What information about the whole dataset can you extract from this join?

If your query needs to know the users' ages, you can't execute it unless you restrict yourself to querying about UsersWithKnownAge, in which case, just run it on UsersWithKnownAge.

If your query doesn't need to know users' ages, you can run it on "UsersWithKnownAge(id) UNION UsersWithUnknownAge(id)", not on an OUTER JOIN.
Why? We can't predict the future.
There's the notion that over time the flaws of the previous generation of technology are held up as traditional artifacts.

Things like:

- the "warm" sound of vinyl records.
- nostalgia for early myspace, tumblr, geocities, web design
- faux edison lightbulbs
- low vs high frame rate movies

I wonder if the flaws of all the current ML techniques will eventually be thought of similarly.
Both Firefox and Brave are pretty terrible out of the box. Firefox with it's Pocket integration and promoted stories on a new tab by default has always urked me. Brave has always rubbed me the wrong way with it's BAT crypto.

However, despite these issues, I use Firefox as my daily browser for personal stuff and Brave for work (I need a Chromium-based browser).
> I would take the absence of commercial acceptance as evidence that artificial intelligence is not up to the 'everyday' task of driving.

The most interesting thing Tesla is doing to make "acceptable" FSD possible is to open an insurance company.

So commercial acceptance is proxy for capability, but it is not immune to regulatory moat building (or alternatively, go the other way - like, force 80+ year olds to drive enhanced cars).

There's some ways around it, but that problem isn't a technology one.
I think I can one-up you :)

Many years ago I had two Linksys devices. A router and an access point. They were both that blue and gray chassis style. (Like the original WRT54G, except these both predated that model).

They had the same size barrel connector. I was fumbling around under my desk getting everything connected when I let the magic smoke out of one of them. Turns out I gave the 9V unit 18V from the other’s wall wart.

That may also have been the day I learned the phrase “magic smoke”
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What are your pain points when it comes to web application testing that you are looking to solve?

Why is no-code/low-code software more successful?

Is important for you that software you use is available as open-source?
> a great diaspora will begin.

That was announced to great fanfare and support in the NYT a decade ago, and it didn't turn out so great.
Ask HN: Programmer for 20 years, burned out twice, how do I keep working?
I have been programming for 20 years. After the first 10 I burned out and had to switch to contracting for a couple of years before I could get another FT job.

10 years later it happened again. I believe i had covid early on in the pandemic but i was never tested. I was working from home and the company I was with didnt care at all about its employees well being. I had a plethora of health issues and my performance dipped so they fired me after 2 years.

The next job i took was for a start up as vp of eng. I had to quit after 8 months when

1. I could see the signs of burning out
2. The owner fired all my engineers, crippled my hiring process, wouldnt give me a budget, and i had to pick up all the slack and work from 3am to 7pm seven days a week and recieved absolutely no recognition for it
3. I found out the owner was plotting to replace me with a friend of his and demote me after i had saved them from losing a multi million dollar contract and sacrificing my health to do it

I took the last 7 months off and worked on personal non paying side projects. Now i need to get back to work so i dont run out of cash.

I had originally planned to do some contracting again, but i dont even know how to land contracts these days (10 years ago i was just getting them via referrals).

Any advice on what type of job to look for that wont drive me insane and rob me of my health? Im a very skilled programmer but cant stand the thought of re-entering the nightmarish world i have been away from. I have already applied to about 20 start ups but am absolutely terrified im going to find myself in the same situation i was in with my last two jobs.
It's really interesting to see this as a top comment here, then rage against youtube for trying to self-regulating.
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What do you think usually causes ICs to begin looking for new jobs in the first place
It’s not a partnership, you’re their manager, you have more power by definition. It’s risky to offer any criticism to a manager. Does your team know that doing so is a safe action, regardless of what they say? (And is it true?) Do you request anonymous feedback? What is the upside for them if they offered critical suggestions? If they say you’re not doing something well that you think you do, how do they know it won’t cause them problems down the road? Will you be defensive or open to hearing it if they say something you disagree with? IMO this can be risky for you too, because you may have a wider point of view on things, which could cause you to have to disregard some points of criticism, which could in turn make it look like you’re not respecting your team’s opinion. I know from experience both as a leaf node in the company and as a manager, that sometimes people being managed can get the wrong idea about how things are going down and start to believe that they see obvious/easy solutions, while the manager’s point of view is broader and problems are not so easily fixed.
And the worst is kids. If you think you can go off track and say dumb things as an adult, think of the 14yo self. I thank God I was a teenager before the modern internet. There is no forgiveness. The doors of college education can be shut on a whim for a bad joke. Where and when I grew up, your political opinion was irrelevant to your college admission. You didn't have to demonstrate your committment to the polical cause of the moment to apply.
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Ask HN: Software to edit code in many vertical strips?
I have a large monitor. I want to see a ton of code at the same time - instead of a single vertical scroll of code, I want lots and lots of narrow vertical columns of the same file shown side by side.

A big use for this is code reviews, so even a non-editable view of text/PDF would be okay. Editable would be even better.

I used to have some software back in the early 2000's, when Mac OS X was new that did a read only view in this way, but I can't remember the name.

Any suggestions for me?
Heh, hi :D

And I just realized why I didn’t get those: Bypass Paywalls Clean [0] removed the subscription nag and all the popups.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
Entirely agree. The problem is that most people don't understand that and easily fall prey to thinking that AI is a magical black box that can solve any problem you throw at it. In no small part because of all the hype by salespeople and the media. The reality is that NNs are great but only for some types of problems AND where there is a high tolerance to false positives and negatives. Clearly, this does not include problems where safety is critical (unless you can really demonstrate that AI does better at safeguarding than humans AND you can convince the public to not be scared).
Chess and Go were beaten, and the AI goalpost had to move /somewhere/...
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>> I've been often looked down by people who used Knuth almost god-like authority to dress up all sorts of awful engineering.

Quick quips don't get to trump awful engineering. Just say call Knuth a boomer and point to the awful aspects of actual code. No disrespect to Knuth, just dismiss him as easily as people use him to dismiss real problems.
Direct link to the SO post and answer that the extremetech page paraphrases, for those who don't consent to being tracked left/right/centre and would prefer not to click hundreds of times to say so: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
> That dynamic led to a complaint to Facebook by major political parties across Europe. This 2019 internal report obtained by Haugen says that the parties, "…feel strongly that the change to the algorithm has forced them to skew negative in their communications on Facebook… leading them into more extreme policy positions."

> Scott Pelley: The European political parties were essentially saying to Facebook the way you've written your algorithm is changing the way we lead our countries.

> Frances Haugen: Yes. You are forcing us to take positions that we don't like, that we know are bad for society. We know if we don't take those positions, we won't win in the marketplace of social media.

I’d never heard this before. It’s stunning and the lines between this and real world damage are so clear.
At some point we started calling nonlinear regression AI and now we're spending inane amount of energy explaining that this AI is not really AI.

well, no shit.
I somewhat understand how applies to math, but is it generalizable to life?
This seems about ten years out of date. Current cloud deployment software is now so powerful that a lone developer can write and deploy entire systems: front end, middle tier micro services, data stores, private network, firewalls, all of it, boom. And it’ll be containers every where so dev and prod will be more in sync than ever.

And communication skills where highly useful in the mid 90s as much as they will always be. And the salaries for developers are so much higher now than before. Yeah sure everyone that knew what CGI was in 1996 got a great job, but that salary was like 25% of what is now.
Let's assume the forecast is sufficiently coarse, just economy will go up/down/stay as is. Now you can just compute the future based on the past plus the reaction to your forecast, for each of your forecasts. That gives you three pairs of (announced prediction, predicted outcome). Now choose any where announced prediction == predicted outcome. This leads you to the same Nash equilibrium that you described, with a simpler model. Of course it's now obvious that an equilibrium is far from guaranteed. If reactions were distributed like dice rolls, 12.5% of days don't contain any equilibrium. I guess at that point just choose whatever leads to the desired outcome (lots of opportunity for "insider trading" here).

With a more detailed forecast you need a better approach like you described. I just found the limited case easier to reason about.
Spreading awareness will not work. Too many people. And as the article says, 90% 0f the audience are young people who are not going to fall for the scam anyway. companies need to step up their fraud detection systems