skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice: Ah, FedEx founder F. Smith just booted himself out of the CEO slot and to just Chair of the BoD.

At one time he was scared of the problem of scheduling the fleet. Yup, if describe the problem in complicated terms, then the scheduling problem gets wildly complicated, e.g., in NP Complete, etc. -- could have a big team working months on just the first version. But he needed answers right away and, to satisfy concerns of some investors on the Board, needed the answers also to apply to the whole, planned company (eventually it grew to something much bigger than the initial plans).

I was in a meeting looking for a solution with several people, and it was all confused. Finally I just announced that I'd solve it.

I was teaching computer science at Georgetown and had 6 weeks to go to the end of the semester. So, I wanted to be done in six weeks. How'd I do that? Sure, just concentrated on what the business actually needed and threw out the rest. So, in six weeks had the software putting out nice schedules.

Our two representatives of BoD member General Dynamics and major investor evaluated the schedule and announced "It's a little tight in a few places but it's flyable.". The BoD was thrilled.

At one point Smith stated that my work "solved the most important problem" facing the company. The 10X, maybe 1000X, difference was essentially just in delivering what the business needed and dropping the rest.
A good text editor will have regex ability, and once you learn it, it’s super convenient to have it handy. Writing macros to do stuff is more of a hassle. RegEx is most useful for me as a super quick and easy way to solve a one off problem that isn’t important enough to write code to solve.

I once walked in on a coworker (who’s not a developer) who had copied a pdf into text and was laboriously scrolling through thousands of lines of text to remove footer text with page numbers. He spent hours doing this, it’s a 10 second problem with using regex.

In the same job, sometimes our clients would give me large files in the wrong format (like a word document) that couldn’t be normally be import. Notepad++ and some regex magic pulled out all the data I cared about in a minute. It would have taken years if my other coworker did it his way.
More info in french
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ABS would be fine, maybe printed in vase mode to be extra thin
One thing I am glad for is the presence of Waymo in SF has upgraded the detail on Google Maps in that city. Every curb, sidewalk, marked crosswalk, and other feature of the streetscape now appears in Google Maps. It's really improving. Compare:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.76628/-122.46048

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7663897,-122.4603632,19.6z?h...

Google Maps has this level of detail in. S.F. and Phoenix, their two self-driving launch cities, and not in other places like say Denver or Charlotte, so I surmise this data is attributable to Waymo.
That's one way to look at it. Another is to compare Bill's effectiveness with that money vs the government. There's no contest. Bill is insanely better at capital allocation and society is better off that he manages it.
Same here. I already have noise-cancelling headphones and live in an area where the smog levels are at times hazardous (100ug/m3+).
True uranium is finite in the environment, but its hardly the only fuel source, combined with breeders/etc the fuel supplies are effectively infinite (aka we have thousands of years with just the current known reserves).

Similarly most of the "waste" isn't really waste if we choose to burn it. We have a couple centuries of fuel for our grand children sitting in "waste" caskets at the existing plants. Similarly to how we basically burned the "waste" from the soviet nuke programs in our reactors for 20 years.

So, sail might be cool, but its not going to happen for these huge mega cruise ships. There is a reason the navy uses nukes on their larger ships.
Is the implication here that shaming fatness made people thinner? If so, how did acceptability even start if shaming was so effective?
Fast and simple JavaScript timestamp conversion and code reference
Built this as an alternative to https://currentmillis.com that is more focused on my average use-case. Using the path as the input allows for a faster answer.

Useful for :

- Converting to and from millisecond timestamps

- Generating test data

- Quickly getting reference for JS Date utilities
This could be used as cooling in VR headsets. Maybe this is Dyson's ends goal?
If you asked me 20 years ago if cars would drive as well as they do now autonomously, I would have made the fusion power joke. Today, no way. The technology hasn't gotten "stuck" like fusion or (before DNNs) speech recognition did.
In my current org, all developers, whether they're F/T or contractors, have a company account created for them and never get permissions on any other account. This is a good reminder on why I should adopt that practice I ever build a company of my own, no matter how small.
Are you suggesting that Google ban all current apps in their account? Google has no idea which apps 'H.' contributed to. Or whether 'H.' still has a relationship with Raya Games.

If 'H.' is a malicious developer, then all apps that were extant while 'H.' was associated with Raya should be considered suspect. Google (and its user base) have no idea what apps 'H.' touched. The very least Google should do is ban all apps uploaded and/or updated during 'H.'s employment.

And even then Google has no way to know whether 'H.' still works at the company, or will work again there in the future. Google doesn't (and can't reasonably) have any insight into personnel decisions at Raya Games.

Is Google throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Yeah, probably. But Google can't differentiate between baby and bathwater when it comes to malicious developers. Google has an affirmative responsibility to protect its userbase. It doesn't have an affirmative responsibility to let any individual publisher sell apps on the Google Play store.
There is (was?) always a lot of C++ in Core Animation stacktraces, and Core Animation was really foundational to the iPhone UI.
My team prior to COVID could be broken down into four categories: introverts who perform well, introverts who don't perform, extroverts who perform well and extroverts who don't perform well.

When in the office, the un-performing extroverts could schmooze, bullshit, and kiss ass to maintain status. They've lost that now, and it's obvious how they're performing (though measuring performance in IT is very tough).

The extroverts who previously performed well are doing the same, but have learned how to use online tools to maintain their status. Now it's even easier to kiss up privately to your boss or scheme with another manager behind your bosses back.

The introverts are even more interesting. Past underperformers have improved dramatically. Whether it's not having to play the Game that they're unable or uncomfortable, they've all inarguably improved. The introverts who were doing well prior to WFH are also improving, though not at as dramatic a rate.
Even wide distribution of long-haul trucking exclusively on the interstate, or an automated bus-like commuter service (but actually good, unlike the regular bus), would be a pretty meaningful innovation, wouldn't it?
We have self-driving cars operating in multiple cities right now (Chandler and now SF) so it sounds like those predictions were accurate?
When Apple lies about performance on a stage... It's clearly from Apple and people treat it accordingly. Nobody relied on that information or even believed it.

When Facebook pays a marketing agency to get anti tiktok headlines into local news, the reader has no idea who was involved and is left with negative impressions of tiktok that stay with them long after they forgot the details of the story (if they even read that far).
Economic advantages along with a huge number of jobs destroyed
But which consumer apps use it? I know of a handful of photo apps that use it to enhance photos, but I'm not aware of any other types of apps.
Never stopped using the old index cards and binder clip. Todo lists, notes, GTD systems, brain storming sessions, pseudo code, bird lists, scoring baseball games, etc. Still can't sync to cloud though.
I recently unearthed one of my old Hipster PDAs from college. It was buried in the back of a drawer. Quite the bit of nostalgia as I leafed through it.
The Brilliance of Charo
> Driverless cars in a European city center, during snow, ice and rain seems unlikely within 10 years.

The fun thing about European cities is that many of them are extremely willing to make (to Americans) unthinkable changes to traffic patterns under their jurisdiction. I would not be the least bit surprised to see those downtown centers closed to all but driverless traffic (if they are not closed already).
Reminds me of Hushme: https://www.engadget.com/2017-01-07-hushme.html

I can't believe they're still in business: https://gethushme.com/hushme/
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
Powerful winds over the rippling hills leads to some different effects; too. We get ridgetop areas that people liked to build on the last couple centuries without inquiring why there were such handy natural clearings there: every 20 years or so a storm comes through and the winds scrub the knob of the hill clean.
Why is delegation important?
Docker founders launch Dagger, a new DevOps platform
Kirigami-based metastructures with programmable multistability
It looked better on Star Tours: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/25/RX-24te...
Yeah, we’re going to solve the climate crisis by taking less cruises, and not reworking our transportation, energy, and agriculture industries. If you don’t have kids (or have one fewer) you can do whatever you want with regards to climate change.
I believe OP is comparing the visualizations produced by the Auto Pilot system in their Tesla (jumpy) to Waymo's visualizations (stable and coherent).
Likewise, a lot of computer scientists didn't take Engelbart's 1969 "mother of all demos" seriously because they thought general artificial intelligence was right around the corner. Why bother with a mouse and bitmapped display when you can just tell the computer what you want?
I complained two hours ago to my brother that i only had 40 days (8 weeks) and not 52 and that the 20k pay increase is not worth if i don't have vacation to spend the extra money.

I hope you have unpaid overtime and make enough to be able to take some.
This looks absolutely brilliant. A mobile air purifier that doesn’t touch your face.

Wow.
I searched around for anything on audio mag amps and couldn't find any. Maybe we should build one and try it out?
They know their socks will get a hit so they do stunts like this!!
Google, the tech journalist/blogger consensus, etc.
I set it once per installation, then it's blank forever. If it's getting reset for you, maybe it's a Windows-vs-Linux thing or something?
The Museum of Retro Technology
Do you live in a place with weather? I think we'll get there eventually, but my timeline is closer to 20 years. I just don't see AVs nailing that last 1% for true peace of mind in places like the Eastern USA with torrential downpours in South Florida or snow and icy conditions in New England.

I hope I'm wrong though, I would prefer it if my kids and other road users didn't have to drive.
Bacteria -> Your hands

Your hands -> Windstream

Windstream -> Goes everywhere

It's not even about Dyson dryers, but dryers in general
No, the idea is that .foo.foo increases the specificity of .foo over .bar
If we can put aside our own ideology and national bias, the business model and tactics of ByteDance, Facebook or any other company in the ad-tech supported social media realm operates more-or-less with the same objectives and does the same things.

Ideology is just the trash can we are all eating from.
> get a bunch of 3"x5" file cards (here’s 500 for around 3 bucks) https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00094GHRM/ref=nosim...

It's actually $10 now, must've been a successful blog.
As somebody whose worked in the large scale anti-fraud area… I always make sure my team knows that the real people who fall through the cracks matter big time.

Anti-fraud is a tough space because you can never be 100% sure which actors are legit and which are scammers… after all if you knew who the scammers actually were you’d have blocked them all ready.

I always make sure there is some kind of escape hatch for legit users who get caught in our system. These escape hatches might not be super awesome for real users, especially if they fell into a bucket that strongly labels them as scammers, but at least they have an out.
There's also RFC 3339[1] which is, IMO, a bit better. The RFC is readily readable, unlike an ISO standard, and the RFC is — mostly — more restrictive.

ISO is fun up until you have to parse "2022-089". Yes, that's a valid ISO date. And it's in March. (And yes, I've seen that used in the wild, though I don't know why anyone would ever choose that format.)

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339
My first thought is about how headphones have become a tacit treatment for agoraphobia. And agoraphobia is also highly correlated with hypochondria. So if you are willing to pay $500 for noise cancelling headphones that help separate yourself from those around you, I suppose there might be a market for this.
Heinlein wrote it, his character Lazarus Long presents it. May or may not mean Heinlein thought it was true. It's oft-quoted but I think it's silly posturing. I guess everyone's just insects after all, since 99.99% of people will never do or even be prepared to do anywhere close to the whole list.
I live in NY
You are also a distributed system.
I remember similar negativity in the western press when tesla unveiled their 'biohazard mode'.
Found the manager.

I have my cat sitting next to me on a window ledge. Every now and then she makes a noise when she sees a bird. Totally disrupts my day. Can't focus for a good 24 hours. Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

Imagine replacing my cat with my former cubicle mates. One who has ADHD and feels the need to verbally express every thought that comes to mind. And who gets upset when he doesn't get the validation he desires. Now that disrupts my day. Add in 2000 other employees in my company, any of which can walk by my desk and ask me about XYZ.
Maybe for someone who is paying close attention, or even works in the industry, this distinction can be made.

And that's valid for now. That a company has not had a major accident so far does not mean that I'm not going to be their first victim.

I love the idea of self driving cars.

But they are also really scary.

They're being brought to us by the same industry that gave us

* BSOD

* "why the heck can't I share my screen right now? can you share your screen? yes? well why can't I share my screen?"

* Your account has been terminated for breaking the terms and conditions. You cannot appeal this decision. We are now deleting 4TB of your life's work.

* An attacker has gained access to your email account. Your life is now ruined.

`But they're safer than human drivers!`

So what. They're new, they're capable of killing you, they're brought to you by tech.

They're f'n scary.

Self-driving advocates will do well to acknowledge this rather than being dismissive.
with a stutter? what are the repeated letters for, redundancy?
Microsoft has a very usable online version that's free (with a bit of upsell here and there). Arguably more capable than Google Docs.
Why is the red primary color oriented at 104° on a vectorscope?
I absolutely agree with everything that it's written in the article. It makes no sense to re-open offices.
Another story in a similar vein. There are many, many stories about how the advent of DNA sequencing would finally solve the issues of creating the tree of life for all species on Earth, and solve the problem of defining species boundaries, this was some 20 years ago or more. We're still nowhere close thanks largely to the unimaginable quantity of biodiversity out there. We have the low-hanging fruit genomes (specimens readily available, known to be commercially important, etc), but that's about it. Even with those "genomes" (most are not curated to any real level of completion) we still haven't solved compute at scale, even small analyses (10k terminals, 2k genes) take months if not years to comprehensively run (i.e. explore parameter spaces), albeit thanks in part to limits on resources available to scientists.

The Earth is big and complex, I can't see the singularity on the horizon yet, but my vision is aging.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
The typical way to run Mimir is centralised, with different regions/datacenters feeding metrics in to one place. You can run that central system across multiple AZs.

If you run Mimir with an object store (e.g. S3) that supports replication then you can have copies in multiple geographies and query them, but the copies will not have the most recent data.

(Note I work on Mimir)
85% in favor of managers being the problem. I pulled that number from the Ford Motor Company turnaround where Deming said management was 85% of the problem.

And I mean, who is responsible for curating those 1x engineers in the first place?
Vista Install in 2 Minutes
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I don't believe I did, it was my primary residence so bypassing a lot of the tax implications from capital gains. It was my first house sale so I was really expecting to companies involved in it that I paid a small fortune to to handle things of that nature, or at least send me documentation to send when I did my taxes. Unless something got lost in the mail I never received any sort of tax docs, which in my obvious-now ignorance might have been very wrong.

I did these taxes in the height of the pandemic in March after being laid off and living out of airbnbs for 3 months so it very well may have just been missed unfortunately. I'm not even sure what they need or who to talk to, I'm just going to mail them everything I have including the Statute stating I don't need to pay capital gains on a primary residence house sale under $500k.
It's meant for hands that were just washed. I understand that not everyone does a great job washing, but I have a hard time believing this poses a real threat..
This matches my own feelings strongly. I think a lot of it has to do with what some other commenters have mentioned, in that I no longer feel in control of the computers I interact with, not really anyway. Some of that is simply that I have a better understanding now of all the factors involved.

I started working with computers when I was very little (4yo), and have really had this as part of my life and career since. Now I look around and other than the computer given to me by my employer, my next newest machine was the last gaming PC I built 11yrs ago, which I don't even use anymore. Outside of work, I'd much rather spend my time in the garage working on cars or spending time with friends or my wife doing something out of the house than stay home on a computer. I haven't completely eschewed computers, I still keep my website reasonably up to date, and I still occasionally play video games, and of course I read HN in my free time. But for the most part, once work is over, I don't even want to touch a computer. I feel like electronics have infected every part of modern life in a way to surveil and manipulate us as a a society, and I feel like if I share my thoughts about it publicly I'd sound like a Luddite. But I've learned most of what there is to know about computers in my life, and it didn't reassure the idealist views I had when I was younger, it shattered them.

Maybe I'm just getting old (I'm nearly 40), but I think we're starting to get to a point as a society where our computers no longer do what they're told, and the computers make decisions most people are forced to follow without any opportunity for their own judgement. It's frankly dystopian, and I desperately try to avoid it outside of work.
Reading the title I'm worried, should I keep using reflection instead?
I do not care if people take me seriously, I care if they take the facts seriously. I know I know more about psychopharmacology than the majority of people on HN. I do not need to prove that to anyone.

I have been talking nicely about this stuff for years, it does not matter because the corporate propaganda for these meds is too powerful, so what you hear is a normal human response; frustration. I do not think most people are stupid, I think they are ignorant.

This method of treating symptoms of mood disorders is at best, harmful.
but they’re cheaper at first
A Google Developer account costs all of $25, one time. You really should scale your expectations of service based on that number. You will not be partying with Larry Page in Fiji for $25.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
How is this supposed to disrupt Nvidia? Those marketing stats from those slides are really poor. Only 90 fps (what an arbitrary target?) on Fortnite, GTA 5, Rocket League, and Valorant. All of which are older and very well optimised games so I'm not sure 90fps at 1080p is showing anything impressive...
But Google is not open about the reason and if you can get the attention of their internal support people (if you have the right kind of account) they don’t seem to know why this was done either. If Google were explicit about the nature of the problem and were to provide an open process to contest and address the accusation that would help a lot. As it is, they are opaque and non-responsive. It’s an abusive relationship.
Never build on top of Google. Yes, this limits what you can do. No, that is not a bad thing.
Damn! I read it maybe 10 years ago. Nice to see the site's still up. It's sad the wiki was taken down though. That was a world of information.
Skiff lands $10.5M from Sequoia to build out its end-to-end encrypted workspaces
That assumes everyone thoroughly washes their hands, which is unlikely. Dyson hand dryers, specifically, always have a nasty puddle of water at the bottom of their drying "crevice" in busy bathrooms.
Labor is cheaper in Asia so I'm not sure why the transition would happen faster there. Lots of jobs exists there for the sole purpose that the price of a robot/automation is way higher than paying someone to do it.
But you just washed your hands. Where are the bacteria coming from?
Off topic but this is the first time I noticed this. Why is a project under the Facebook namespace asking for sponsors/backers?
Neat! A bit over a decade ago, I had a similar experience with Lucene (not that I implemented it from scratch, but certainly used it in a fairly unorthodox, for the time, manner). I had to implement some search stuff and Elastic Search was still in its infancy so was not necessarily the "obviously right choice" as it has been recently for this kind of document search job.

I implemented a multi-tenant search engine on top of Lucene using C# and Azure Blob Storage under the direction of my manager at the time. This was actually pretty cool, because I had actually learned about TF-IDF and search technologies in school so it was nice to be using some of that knowledge. And there were a lot of problems to solve with regards to locking, index update coordination, etc. that, as we know, ES takes care of for us today. Anyway, the project was a success, and launched, and backed a couple of products for a couple of years until it was decommissioned due to outside forces basically making it irrelevant.

That knowledge and experience seems to have ultimately led me down the path to becoming the resident ES "expert" at my current position.