skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way things used to be – Louis Rossmann
I hope we'll eventually get autonomous minibusses in US cities, operated privately. Tesla FSD is already suitable, maybe with remote human operator takeover for the 0.1% of exceptional conditions.

One of the problems of public transport is that the clientele is not exclusive enough, and the routes do not automatically align to the pickup and dropoff points of the passengers. A private members-only service with an app would solve this.
Hail a city taxi in that situation then!
Any plans to do this kind of detailed comparison with Druid too?
An EVP of Ops of a fortune 500 did this to an entire room of functional experts.

We were there to discuss a technical implementation.

She kicked it off by saying "Let me start by asking a simple question, why do we do this function?"

I am now considered a domain expert. I love this question. It surprises me at how few people start with the why, or even can articulate the why.

The room of experts, were assembled to roll out a new product in their area of functional expertise. None of us had an articulate answer as to the why. She kept on asking. She gently challenged bad answers with a follow up why. Then when everyone gave up, she gave her answer as to the why. It was brilliant.

Always start with the why. Then ask why again. Keep on asking until you understand why.
I would strongly recommend (having used both extensively) going all in in gitlab instead if you have to do a migration anyway.
This blog is such a mess to read. There is a little bit of somewhat useful info about the hearing aid industry, but it’s padded out with a whole lot of unrelated junk.
I do this all the time. I'm a non computer engineer who gets pulled into all sorts of computer related things as the contact point with the actual business. Having a good BA and someone who asks stupid questions make such meetings end in positive results much more often.

I also preface with saying I'm going to ask stupid questions and if anyone holds it against me I'm ok with it. If I'm asking a question it's usually because I don't understand a consequent of something someone said that everyone seems to just nod their heads and agree with, and that gives everyone an opportunity to reconsider the fundamentals.
Hm. I don't know about that, I thought that the problem already existed for 2 diagonally opposing sets of buttons: you can't tell the difference between the two.

so:

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Would look identical to the CPU without diodes.
Strategy video games (Civilization series, SimCity, Total War series, Tycoon games) are right on the knife edge of this. I love the process. I love playing the game. Especially total war. I love conquering my neighboring nations and living out historical fantasies. But the next day, I feel awful.
Curious about your opinion on bamboo products. I assume you're referring to modern bamboo desks, shelves, and other items that are made from Chinese bamboo and made in China. They typically slice the bamboo grass pieces into ~8 sections, then use planing machines to create planks※. These are then pressed and glued together to make products. These products are then shipped overseas using the same methods as other products.

If the glue used is either sustainable or they don't use very much of it, and the bamboo is grown locally, what makes it less sustainable than using wood? And certainly more less energy-intensive than steel.

※ I am not a woodworker, don't know terminology.
I just see node growing stronger adoption wise every day.
> the liquor with or without milk or both

Both with and without milk? Must be how Zen monks drink it.
America is a third world country wearing a gucci belt.
A follow-up study followed a group of people who only ate calorie-restricted mice once a day. I can’t find the link, unfortunately.
Why are you pretty sure about that? From what I have read about it, it seems the argument is very much for search results within the youtube app.
It's tough, I think it depends on the framing and is definitely something worth talking about. Part of what we were trying to do with this initiative is start with some _global_ concept of "fair" and then allocate that amount as best we could. The total amount we came up with is $150,000 which is $2,000 per engineer on staff.

Sooooo ...

> Does [$155,999.89] reflect the value and developer time savings you've received from [all community-run open source projects] over the year[]?

Yes. We believe that contributing $2,000 annually per engineer is a meaningful amount that fairly compensates the value we receive from open source volunteers.

May I flip the question? Does $500 reflect the value and developer time savings you've given to Sentry over the past year?
Why not both?

Write a blog-post, and have a brief summary + link on Twitter?

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The main benefits to the blog-post is that you get writings in exactly the format you want. Sure, Twitter does images and videos now, but there's still MathML, DotViz / Javascript graphs / etc. etc. that I can run on a blog that will never be allowed on Twitter. All possible with static-sites or low-dynamic sites (ex: low-CPU usage PHP).

Lets say you're a Chess blogger. Would you really want to be making .png files (images) of chess positions and talking about them? Or would you rather have a FEN/PGN-interpreter in Javascript on a blog-post? (First one on my search engine: https://mliebelt.github.io/PgnViewerJS/examples.html#1102)

No. You load up your favorite PGN-editor. You document the positions you think were interesting. You download the best PGN-interpreter you can find on Github onto your blog and let it rip.

The main benefit of Twitter is that the audience is there. Have your toxic comments spew out over Twitter, but your content remains on your site specifically.

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The reason why the HTML format is so powerful is because the writers can invent new formats specific to their communities (thanks to the magic of Javascript). Chess players have invented PGN to describe games. Tetris players have invented Fumen (a Javascript play-by-play of Tetris strategies). The Math community has LaTeX / MathML / MathJAX. Etc. etc.
Here is a non-paywalled description of the process. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a167588...

>Lignin is what makes wood rigid and brown. Somewhat counterintuitively, Hu and his team removed the wood's lignin polymers in order to make their wood even stronger.

>The lingin removal allowed the team to compress the wood under a mild heat of around 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Without the lignin binding together the wood's cells, the scientists were able to make its cellulose fibers very tightly packed.

>When the fibers are jammed together...the wood's fibers begin to form hydrogen bonds.

So essentially they found a different (more natural-sounding for sure) way to polymerize cellulose. Right now bamboo or sugar cane are broken down and polymerized all the time via a different process to make plant-based plastics, rayon, etc.
PyTorch 1.10 Release; CUDA Graphs APIs, Front End and Compiler Improvements
I'll risk making this a partisan issue and say the anti-intellectual and anti-science bent seems increasingly prevalent among Republicans like Mike Parson and their constituencies. One of the most shocking statistics I've seen recently is the Pew poll which shows that in the space of 2 years Republican attitudes about higher education saw a 20-point swing such that that most Republican voters now believe college is net detrimental to society. To me the attacks on journalism, technology and science feel like part of a larger trend, especially given the COVID denialism we've seen.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-gro...
> Governor's office clearly employs technologically competent people.

But you're assuming the Governor would pass the basic test that even shows that he is competent at listening to other competent people.
We were using tags, so that "else" block isn't the one being used for ClickHouse. Regardless, the table that is created (by the community and verified by former CH engineers) orders by created_at, not time and so that query should be the "fastest" the distinct possible.
Thanks for the clarification. I just went by what's specified in the sidebar on GitHub in the "Milestone" section.
If you spent $155K, that's how much you donated, regardless of the transfer fees.

But if you spent $154,999.89 because the exchange rate slightly improved while you preparing the transaction, after you chose a number of Euros to donate, then you spent $154,999.89
You're diverting.

Being attacked and/or killed is almost never voluntary. Viewing anonymous posts on the internet is almost always voluntary. Whatever damage is caused is emergent from the framework of interpretations of the individual. This is closer kin to victimless crime as opposed to real crime than it is conditional rules of engagement. I'm under the impression you're engaging in sophistry though, "This is troubling logic if we expand it to other areas." You're correct, a square peg does not fit in the round hole. And you've also failed to negate the myriad arguments favoring continued anonymity with any salient cons, but have instead erected a strawman.
I've done my own indepth research (beyond just reading all the popular books, I have met and talked to numerous people involved including watson) and it's pretty clearly established that the photograph was shared in a departmental seminar and not private data that Franklin had some sort of special permission to interpret (this is factually established by Judson in Eighth Day, using Franklin's own diary which she willed to Aaron Klug. In my own personal estimation, even if she had lived, Franklin's work would not have qualified her for the prize.
And if you're going to write a blog post please publish it somewhere where I'm not forced to open it in a private tab/disable JavaScript/manipulate my user agent or whatever else is now necessary in order to not give my info to a reader hostile platform.
That's true. On the other hand, "The pros and cons of such a law are so mixed as to make a good one impossible," is a good reason not to make such a law. I think many of us see any law that could be described as "banning anonymous accounts" as being written with too broad a nib to be useful.
>The vaccines were never sold as something that would stop the virus in its tracks with only half the population vaccinated.

They were sold as a cure that would allow the person who received the vaccine to go back to pre-covid times because they were protected. Now you have states like California mandating masks indoors even for vaccinated people, which goes against what everyone was told earlier this year. For those who are hesitant towards getting the shot, how would this make them any less hesitant?
While I appreciate that Sentry stepped up to the plate to fund open source, I'd also like to point out the obvious which is this is just 1.5 person's salary in Silicon Valley, for a year. I hope that companies instead of donating money, can pool their resources together to start a non-profit fund invests their money that will grow in time, so in time, more engineers can be funded.
I highly recommend this [1] book on the topic as we navigate a post-truth world. The Narcissist's Prayer is also worth a read [2].

It's not all narcissism though; it can be difficult to reason with deeply ingrained belief systems when there is a lack of critical thinking and challenges to the Id and ego, not to mention innate tribalism.

EDIT: Agree with the deleted comment that The Narcissist's Prayer could also be The CEO's Prayer, based on the personality type the C suite attracts [3].

[1]
https://smile.amazon.com/Narcissist-You-Know-Narcissists-All... (The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880280

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-ma... (1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here’s why, according to a psychology professor)
That doesn't seem to tell the story of Monica Cellio, but be a story written by her. One maddeningly vague, unless I want to start digging through tweets to uncover all the things she is alluding to.
They're taking the lignite out of the cellulose, and then compressing the resulting soft mesh into a harder material. A few years ago, "transparent wood" was a thing. That was taking out the lignite, and putting some transparent plastic in.

Not clear what's special about their compression step.
I think you have this backwards. I am more likely to remain loyal to Sling or Youtube TV than I am to Roku or some other smart TV OS. Simple reason: content. Sling doesn’t have regional sports networks from NBC any more, but Youtube TV does. Switching over to Sling is a non-starter. Meanwhile, Roku’s operating system doesn’t really offer something I can’t get elsewhere.
That's a great question and I have some thoughts as an outsider.

It's pretty much impossible to reflect/match the value received over time. Think about a SAAS that charges 5$ per month, even though the time it saves you is months, if not years.

It's also impossible to accurately know what the value received over time is.

The best we can all do is support OSS in a way in which we are comfortable, whether that is more or less than the objective received value.
Look, you are clearly chastising an account whose first language is not English, and for not having penned their remarks in a way that would satisfy the crypto-fascist tendencies of the average tech worker living in SF. You can call what he said ignorant on some level if you read into it enough - why would you, is my question? - but the idea that it is harmful is ridiculous. Your remarks and others calling this guy racist are far more harmful than anything he's said so far.

Many of us may be programmers but we should still be able to grok things with more nuance than this.
He would simply declare that his victory was stolen by special interests in the judiciary, and over 50% of his state would nod and agree.
Well, FlixBus is not using freelancers or ignoring existing regulations around their business. So not the traditional gig economy pseudo-tech company.
This.

I'm somewhat envious of my friends who stuck with one language like C, and are super proficient with the one or two languages that they know.
question: would you yourself want that "badge of sysadmin honor" on your resume?

I feel that if it were to be known that I was involved with this in any way, it'd kill every future job prospect I'd be willing to take. And you'd better keep your resume up to date considering how quick the employer here is known to be in issuing pink slips and other forms of workplace hostility.
Looks like giant plywood. I'm actually really curious how it handles moisture content changes. Does it crack and is it dimensionally as stable as plywood?
> I mean red states are more rural which alone would account for more subsidies.

Yeah, duh, that's their point.

We are strong as a country because our wealthy, dense state economies support our poorer, rural state economies; and that's why it's laughable when red-state citizens and politians rant about seceding from the "evil communist blue states."
They didn't enter illegally, please read up on the issue and this article as the countries didn't have borders until after independence so this has and many times this is because they don't have paperwork or proof even if they are from the region. It is an attempt by the government to remove poor Muslim populations from India and blatant religious persecution.

The current government in India is going from a democracy to a Hindu nationalist state.
Searching and recommendation have two different use cases that might overlap but most often don’t
Well, if I am within the you tube app, I am searching youtube first and I want the youtube results to be at least presented first. If I want to search all the services, I can search from the roku homescreen.
Of course I cannot access the full text article, but the claim that this HW can be sharpened and become "3 times sharper" than "most commercial table knives" sounds not very scientific.
There are a good deal of resources explaining these concepts in non-Haskell languages. This one is quite good and in javascript: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide

As far as functors this could be rephrased more comprehensibly to those unfamiliar with Haskell as "What is a Functor, really? Functor is an interface here are some definitions:"

(typescript)

interface ArrayFunctor<A, B> {
map: (f: ((a: A) -> B), arr: Array<A>) -> Array<B>
}

interface PromiseFunctor<A, B> {
map: (f: ((a: A) -> B), arr: Promise<A>) -> Promise<B>
}

interface ObservableFunctor<A, B> {
map: (f: ((a: A) -> B), arr: Observable<A>) -> Observable<B>
}

"definitions" is plural here because typescript doesn't support higher-kinded types or else it might look like this:

interface Functor<F, A, B> {
map: (f: ((a: A) -> B), arr: F<A>) -> F<B>
}

(note, there are ways around this used in the fp-ts library, see here: https://www.matechs.com/blog/encoding-hkts-in-ts4-1)

> I actually do understand some useful subset of what Monads are and I just don't know it

This is certainly the case if you have ever used flatMap on an array or chained Promises (or other async structures like futures in other langs).
Replying to infiniterand, a table of function pointers is going to generally have way more overhead than an indirect goto. An indirect goto is essentially a single assembly jump instruction. This is also often faster than a while loop plus switch since it is friendlier to the branch predictor.
Mistakes I made that caused my employees to quit
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This is a great post to give you some talking points:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-time-series...

I also love this recent one we did with some non-standard time-series data that the NFL provided! Really fun working on that data set.

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/hacking-nfl-data-with-postgr...
I don't like facebook the product, but I think they are being dunked on, too unfairly recently.

However, I'm most amazed and impressed how facebook has created a team -- likely compensated in FB equity -- and then convinced the world that the team is an "oversight board".
OK, I've got what you meant now. Makes sense.

> I apologize if I came off slightly gatekeepey; I should be clear that I don't particularly care if you know the name of these methods. I'm just saying that these methods are calculus concepts, and as such having an understanding of calculus can help you with that.

None of your posts bothered me at all. Appreciate the care, though.
It's an open secret that many majority-minority schools use the "gifted" program to pander to white parents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...
I agree -- it is an odd question to ask. One might as well ask, "Do you derive any benefits from this life thing?"
There must be an automated tool for transforming twitter threads into blog posts and posting them.
> (if you want evidence of his antipathy to Missouri's cities, look no further than covid vaccine distribution - St. Louis had maybe one single site, but rural areas had more vaccines than they could use. My elderly parents had to drive for hours to get to one of those underused sites because there simply weren't any vaccines to be found in the metro area.)

I lived in SoCal at the time and had to do the same thing. I drove about an hour and a half into the desert to get it when my name came up, and I lived in the city of San Diego.
YouTube can flag accounts for spam/promotion. My guess is there's something like that at play where anytime his comment has OpenStreetMaps in it it gets removed.
Wages in US have higher ceiling. Averages aren't that much different.

This contributes to brain drain - if you are pretty good developer, you aren't really incentived to move to US. If you are one of the best, in US you can earn many times more.
A raspberry pi will do 4k, HDR AV1 and h265, and includes a remote, case, storage, power supply and HDMI cable?
I'm confused about why you would want this evidence. Do you think I'm suggesting they're fraudulently hiding Bitcoin sales? Not selling (and taking the $50mil hit) is an action, too.
> If you're having a high level technical exchange with somebody that you don't know, then you find out that that other person is a female, you're really impressed, that a girl will be that good at this very technical topic.

What nonsense is that? I've never noticed any correlation between gender and technical skills. I mean, I've noticed that there are fewer women in the technical space, but not that their skills are lower.

You then seem to go on to assume all white people are racist against black people. Because both of your examples are racist.
I do this all the time too and have observed the same results! I ask a lot of dumb questions like "what does XYZ stand for?" and "what was the original problem you were trying to solve by taking this course of action?". Even though I always have that same sinking feeling, usually by the 4th or 5th question I have a very clear idea of what's going on.
The human body's energy management system is incredibly complicated and rife with subtleties. To the point that the whole "calories in == calories out" meme, while not factually untrue by the standard of Newtonian physics, is just about as useful as saying that gravity is the cause of all airplane crashes.
I didn’t read it that way? Unsure about others though
Oath Keepers in statehouse: How militia movement took root in Repblcn mainstream
I think that was a great example of; 'normalization of deviance' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
Is deanonymization going to drive more engagement?
I don't think you know how specific earnings guidances are...
And a belligerent failure to understand sig-figs.
As far as I know, the Earth's surface cannot meet humanity's current need for hydrocarbons, polymers or building materials. Biomass production is limited by sun energy and most importantly phosphorus and nitrogen cycles. Even hundred of years ago, people were already exhausting regenerative capacities and back then there were only around half a billion humans living on all this planet. Petrol chemistry and mineral exploitation saved Earth's ecosphere short term. But obviously that can't last forever.

It's nice to have functional carbon sinks and all, but we will never replace even the majority of petrol, metallic and mineral based production of today with biomass derived alternatives. The surface and geological cycles cannot support that. And food is priority. If phosphorus rock is gone, we're fucked for good.

We need to cut down.
He was also great in a small bit in Heist.

My awareness of Ricky Jay started as Ricky as character actor and it wasn't until a few years later that I came to realize just how much of a magic and sleight of hand wizard he was. If you get a chance I recommend 'Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay' in addition to the Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants mentioned elsewhere.
I've met 2 people who have tried to make that switch and overwhelmingly they get told by shops they apply to after passing the technical interview that they have to take a 30k (usually more) paycut along with worse culture/benefits to go into it and change their minds.
I ran between languages for a few years and have stuck with TypeScript for the last few months after deciding I wanted to be one of those people. Already so much more productive when I don’t have to Google everything I do.
before I read this I was opposed to this but now that I read what you wrote and it makes sense, prosecute the shit out of them.
Holding people responsible for the acts of PACs they create seems reasonable to me. Reputation laundering should be discouraged.