skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many layers to this if you think about it. They may try to save effort by only typing the question in case you are there. But also, it's a way to avoid you not answering. I mean, they may (perhaps subconsciously) fear that you will read the question and decide to procrastinate on answering it because it looks too hard somehow. Instead, if they get you on the hook in synchronous communication, it will be harder for you to "snooze" on the question. I mean you can explicitly tell them you'll take a look later but you can't pretend that you haven't read it yet. Or some may use it as an excuse to pause working.

That plus a lot of other mind games. In a way it's a power game, whose time is more valued, who gets to demand attention right now etc., who has more flexibility and convenience...

Also, sometimes when people are confused, they sort of emotionally panic and just need someone beside them, to hold their hand and comfort them virtually. Then if you don't respond, they somehow do manage to solve their problem on their own anyway. But it felt simpler to just interrupt your work and ask you instead of thinking or searching in the internal docs etc.
I like Image Capture.app when I want to scan a multi-page document to one PDF
You could tell them to 'fuck off' with this extension fuckoff.yt
Why is it a Wall Street problem?
Not a noreply. I hate noreply. Why not "hello@" or "support@" or something -- anything -- with a human being behind it? :(
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> in my view
> intentionally conflated

I don't think you should have an opinion that people are misrepresenting something maliciously without being able to back it up.

Your interpretation of the term "remote-friendly" is not the common interpretation. They don't need to change how they work. You don't have to work at those places. If you're confusing about what the terms mean _in practice_, talk to people who work at different places and look at job postings and try to infer from usage what the terms mean.

A Google search for "what is a remote friendly job" can also be helpful.

I strongly disagree with the jump from "I'm confused about what a term means" to "People should change what they do to match what I understand they say they do". I don't think you did that intentionally, as it's a common mistake when people are surprised by a term's meaning, but it's still a wrong reaction.
+1 for Vercel. Ran my first project on it years ago when they were young and I was stupid. It was so easy to get a front end hosted. I'm still stupid but a lot more experienced now, and still use it for spinning up side projects
What about a doctor performing an hours long life saving surgery? A soldier on the front lines in a warzone literally dodging bullets? An accountant in the middle tax season? A lawyer fighting a case where failure could mean death? An engineer fixing a production issue with millions of users angrily knocking at your door? Competing in the finals of a sporting event? A nurse assisting covid patients not knowing if they'd be affected next? A schoolteacher herding a class full of rowdy kids every day?

None of these jobs are easy or predictable. A majority of jobs in the world require everything you said to be successful. Working in a kitchen might be hard but is hardly unique.
God bless Julio Torres. One of my favorite SNL sketches of all time. That and "Fischer Price Wells for Sensitive Boys" -- another Julio Torres sketch!
> One acre-foot

These units seem to be deliberately obtuse.
I used a poor choice of words. I should have said "I have never needed to write one in the wild."
Growing up in Southern California, it was always maddening to me why water restrictions weren't always in place, it's a desert!

Somehow we would get lots of rain or snow fall in the mountains, then state lifts water restrictions, and we end up with low reservoirs again.

Another issue is that Los Angeles would issues fines for high water usage, that's not enough when wealthy people can pay the cost, the consequences for wasting water need to be much higher.

(edit:Typo)

2nd Edit: Water restrictions should be applied to the agriculture sector (since it accounts for ~80% water consumption), that wasn't very clear in my original comment.
That is a huge difference. Much better that way.
Belters don't want Inners pitching their services...

But for real, replying "we can do that!" in reply to a comment about a product seems alright as long as it's lightly sprinkled and not constant.
Hmm... on my iphone, the bookmark vanished this morning from the favorites list and it was weird. I got to the wordle homepage after googling it. I am guessing this had something to do with it.

Is that even a thing? Is there a way to force reload a bookmark?
Ask HN: Heavily exposed tech stock holders, how are you coping with the crash?
Perhaps some generational wisdom from the Dot-Com era or Great Recession could be shared.
Storage is cheap at scale. Bandwidth isn’t.
Correct, you get what you pay for. Acrobat Pro supports advanced rotations for only $14.99 per month.

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pricing.html
A remote first company almost has to encourage asynchronous workplace. Because expecting to have synchronous communication is just not very efficient. If everyone is in the office, you can observe if a person is busy, turn your chair and ask "do you have a sec", knock on their door, or walk into their cubical and interrupt their workflow.

But when everyone's working from home, you have less visibility on other people's availability. When you send a message to a person on slack, that person is likely doing something else, they may be working on something different, eating a meal, or even sleeping in another timezone. As a result, you should not expect people to always be ready to have a synchronous conversation with you.

To keep communication efficient in a remote workplace, you have to consider all these facts. People says "how are you" on slack to me everyday, not because they really care about how I am doing, nor do they love wasting time waiting for my response to that, but .simply because mentally, when they type messages in slack, their brain is still thinking about mimicking a face-to-face synchronous conversation. They only realize this is a problem after they are exposed on the recipient side frequently enough.
I work in marketing. Personalization can provide incremental benefit. It’s particularly effective for owned channels (email, in product) or retargeting.

This author is clearly engaging in hyperbole to gain attention and drive new clients. Zig when others zag.
I have curated thousands of sales threads from twitter - the new learning university. Dm me to get early access. https://twitter.com/v2s2c/status/1522481960471252993
It's just a very foreign concept to me as a european. Perhaps I'm more inclined to the idea that institutions like education and healthcare should be publicly funded and shouldn't aim to be economically sound, as some services can only be done properly at loss.

In 1992 in Italy hospitals became "hospital companies", meaning what was once a public service with the sole aim of providing the best possible treatments to citizens for no cost, became at all effects a business (although still state owned) with incomes, expenses and a budget. You may think this makes sense, but since then our healthcare quality has tanked.

One notable side effect is that all hospital companies cut on the intensive treatment beds to save on costs, which backfired heavily during covid since we didn't have enough beds and many patients died without proper treatment as a consequence.
I know, right?

It's also perfectly possible to split those things up, and to have them share the same database.

This causes microservice extremists' heads to pop off..
I did find a GAO study that said that trains increased in length by 25% since 2008.

But the number of derailments dropped by more than 25% during that time, so the probability of a given car being involved in a derailed train still decreased.

There's been other coverage of the ironically named "precision scheduling" in the rail industry causing a lot of labor problems, because it makes for nightmarishly unpredictable schedules for workers. They never know when a train is going to leave until it is full, so after working a shift, workers stay in a hotel waiting for a return trip that they won't know about until 90-120 minutes ahead of departure. I am guessing that the claims around increased derailment may actually be about frustration with the work environment.
And I think the process lends itself to more changes as it focuses so much on the short term as opposed to forming a crystallized vision of the overall targets. This in turn hinders productivity.
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It sometimes really is as simple as folks who think they know better than anyone who uses their product; people who refused to dogfood or even touch the thing they ostensibly work on, in any given day.

The default white title bars that blend seamlessly into any white content behind them is a perfect example of this and so many people don't even realize they can change it.

Windows usability has declined since Windows 7 which had a lot of things that seemed like the designers were trying to improve their own lives while using the software. My favorite was the thick borders that were easy to grab for resizing, etc., even on high DPI displays. Compare it to Linux UIs where you often have to grab a single pixel border on a 4k monitor to resize a window.

Thankfully Win 10 still has large targets for grabbing window edges even though the border is only 1px.
So you want regulators to decide how much of a profit corporations should have for a non essential service like watching videos?
The confusion you're experiencing is because I specifically mentioned "modern nation states" and you responded with "even the most primitive tribes." If we stick to the same topic, it might be more clear.
If other people get out of debt society as a whole improves, including you and everybody else. It's not a zero sum game.
I like core hours in theory, especially if the window is that small (in practice I've seen it more like 10-4).

What should the window be when the team is split across timezones like PST & EST, with a 3 hour difference? Either someone is online very early, or very late.
The workers are the same. The situations they find themselves in are different. People phone it in because that's what we incentivize.
What value does Google get out of YouTube besides the minuscule profit?
I'd guess it's building the FSA then running it but instead of yes/no, emitting the last matched character when in a failed state. I believe that's a common(?) trick for parsers, so it's plausible they do it for regexes

As for why "standard" libraries don't offer it, I'd guess it's a development-time concession that production usage doesn't require; python specifically does ship batteries included with the tooling required to make such a thing, but appears to shop just shy of cooking the actual FSA

>>> re.sre_parse.parse(r'^(([hH]acker)[ ]?([nN]ews|newsletter))$')
[(AT, AT_BEGINNING), (SUBPATTERN, (1, 0, 0, [(SUBPATTERN...
Wow. I just kayak’d this lake with my partner and her family 3 days ago. The white coloration of the bottom 30 feet or so contrasted with the red tops show just how much the lake has fallen.

My partner’s parents said that they were on the lake about 20 years ago, and their reaction to how much it had fallen was very visceral.

I’m very glad something is being done to help the lake.

Also, go see it if you get the chance. It’s very beautiful.
Plato was among the first to stand liberalism in contrast to democracy:

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Hayek said "If I have to chose between a democratic society and a liberal society, then I must choose a liberal society." That idea has been at the heart of Western political theory since Plato, who also suggested that it was better to live in a liberal society than a democratic society, but Plato was reacting, specifically, to the democratic murder of Socrates. Socrates had advocated for a style of probing philosophy that would wake people up by forcing them to "Question everything" and this made the people of Athens uncomfortable, so they accused him of "corrupting the youth of Athens" and they sentenced him to death. And Plato's analysis of the democratic murder of Socrates set up the conflict between democracy and liberalism that the West has spent the last 2,500 years discussing. The criticism of the "tyranny of the majority" usually starts with a discussion of the democratic murder of Socrates.

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/is-it-true-that-entrepreneu...
I'd be fine with it personally, but I think that'd be a really silly way to go about it. They could provide advertiser tools to the content providers that respect premium accounts. Not super hard, but here's the catch, and oooh baby is it a doozy - they have to pay fair rates for advertising. I know that's going to be hard to stomach, but if they do pay fairly, I suspect most content producers would be happier with that arrangement.
The Complicated Logic Behind Donating to a Food Pantry
Are you sure a significant percentage of the target demographic they are wanting to hire regularly consumes cannabis and will gladly miss an opportunity for … cannabis ?
I don't think so, words have meanings, Buddhism refers to a group of sets of ideas and doctrines.

Buddhism encourages disconnection, in fact the Buddha said that withdrawing is good and that sense pleasures are dangerous.

What you said is wrong because it implies that suffering is NOT something we should seek to be free from.

I take it you're a beginner to the practise?
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We’re looking to hire a full-time team, but we are open to contractors. We are currently working remotely, but will be settling into a hybrid remote/onsite model in Toronto, Canada. We’re hiring for a number of skills. We’re very interested in people who could bring more than one of these skill sets.

-= Intermediate to Senior Game Developer =-

- Proficient in Unity / C#

- Has shipped a title for mobile (iOS, or Android, using Unity)

- Has worked an entire development cycle, from prototype to completion
- Familiarity with Augmented Reality (AR), or Virtual Reality (VR)

- Bonus: experience developing native Unity plugins for iOS and Android, in C/C++

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- Proficiency with an ML framework such as Tensorflow, or PyTorch

- Has trained, tested, and deployed an ML model

- Bonus: experience with ML for music, speech-recognition, or NLP

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- Proficient with front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

- Familiar with SQL databases, NoSQL databases, and distributed datastore concepts

- Experience developing APIs to backend systems from mobile apps

- Bonus: Building in-house infrastructure / build / testing / integration tools

- Bonus: DevOps experience

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People should be kind to others.
An off switch doesn't convince me more though. If the company really wants things always on, they could easily wire the hardware off switch to a software off switch and elevator-close-button it.

In fact, even a non-nefarious company might do that so a sudden power loss doesn't cause data corruption.
Where this "you want an async work environment? You must not want communication at all!" narrative is coming from is beyond me. There is more beyond the office to communicate with.
Other than a few years in L.A., I've lived my whole life within a mile of a rail line. It’s only in the last month that I have ever seen a mid-train locomotive. Something is definitely changing.
My personal experience is that I have never had someone decline to let me use their phone. I believe people are default kind and interested in helping others, and it's hard to imagine that in a random sample of say, 5 people, none would let you use their phone for a few minutes.
Children Use Conflict to Win Popularity
Reading this atm. About half way through and already it's one of my favourite books. Would love to contribute to the notes if you're accepting PRs
> Ohio where my monthly water bill I think has never exceeded $25

My sewer bill in Seattle is over $120. That isn't for water, that is just the price of getting the water out of my house! (My water bill is half that, go figure!)

This was winter/spring, so just this is just laundry, showering, and doing dishes.
In Scandinavia we have BankID which kind of uses SMS, but not quite. When I try to authenticate it sends a message to my phone and then I have to type in my 4-8 digit pin code on my phone. Apparently they have put a tiny application on the sim card, so sim swapping isn't an issue. Whenever I get a new sim card I have to authenticate the sim card using my hardware token and password.
Reasons Asians are better at Math
I have the same problem with my .one domain. Even though that TLD is about 7 years old, about 10% of sites won't accept it.
Thanks for catching that! That's an editing mistake: I was originally going to introduce wheels as the primary kind of bdist that we're interested in, but I decided that it would be too much of a tangent. I'll rewrite that section now.

Edit: I've added some language to clarify that "bdist" and "wheel" are interchangeable in the context of the post.
Then pay for streaming services they have professional content?
Open Source 176B language model training progress
Periodic variation can work in tandem with a changing mean. Think of a sine wave multiplied with a line of non-zero slope.
Are you sure this removes the ability to perform ANY software update? As far as I can interpret from this email this just seems to remove the ability to perform the update remotely.
Is Orange County paying for this? Because they should…
Absolutely.

I write fairly humble apps, though. If things got a lot bigger, I'd hire someone to do bigger work.

In any case, it's really easy to toss out a codebase that took one guy, two days to write (I do exactly that, all the time). The advantage that I have, is that I write really good code, in those two days (feel free to check out my work).

The big app that I'm writing, is a native Swift app. The server is written in PHP. This is not because there's an inherent value in that, but it is because that is what I do, and we can't get anyone else to do the work for free.

You use the tools at hand.
That’s why going to an open-source BMC is important.
Typical scenario though is that then they move on ask somewhere else. So they have to type it out anyway. If you don't reply, they can copy-and-paste the question to somebody else.
Pardon my simple question: What is Liberalism?
I have an MBA and a computer engineering degree, both from Vanderbilt University. I had never thought to compare the difficulty of achieving either for some reason.

Looking at both......the MBA is indeed trivially easy compared to my engineering degree. By an order of magnitude. Thanks for opening my eyes to that.
> It turns out that the actors other than the factory actually have no power over inventory in the system, and since inventory costs the same everywhere, you should be holding 100% of inventory in the retailer and just passing inventory along the supply chain

I was expecting this result despite never actually playing this game and only knowing things from the article alone.

If this game is what business-managers are playing to learn dynamic systems... then it is almost certainly the source of "just in time" inventory management of today's supply chains, then something like that is natural.

So the question is: is the model wrong, or is just-in-time inventory management (for middle groups, like distributors and wholesalers) really the best way to manage inventory?
> Most new businesses fail, especially in the restaurant industry

The rate of restaurant failures is lower than the average for all new businesses.

And it's possible to have hit after hit in the restaurant industry. Most restaurateurs are just shit at business.
A lot of these architectures you're referring to are intended to scale a team and solve collaboration issues, some intend to allow for easier automated testing or configuration etc. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing either if they're designed in a way that larger teams of varying skill levels can contribute.

If you're busting out an iOS app in a day alone then of course MVC is going to be fine for your needs.
Obviously doesn't get into all the nuances of Mean-Variance, as I wouldn't have expected a Substack article to attempt.

I thought the discussion focusing on Sharpe was really interesting. There's lots of higher risk investing opportunities like options, alternatives, and crypto, but not a way to put them on the same scale vs each other.

Edit: They run an Inverse Cramer Index (https://www.getquantbase.com/fund/details?title=Inverse%20Ji...)
For what it looked like when the first people arrived in 1976: https://youtu.be/8U0PJ4Ib378

From that to a few hundred thousand inhabitants is quite unusual here.
Cable TV has never been as free. It was first a method to deliver broadcast channels to areas without a good signal and then you had the “Superstations” like TBS and WGN that also had ads.

The only channels that were ever ad free were the premium channels that are still ad free.
I use Cloudflare Email Routing. Only problem I currently have is if I don't think ahead, I might have to setup the alias on the spot (probably should setup a catch all to make sure that it doesn't just drop them). And that redirects stuff to generally anywhere (though I mostly have it setup to redirect to an outlook.com family plan, which is already paid for for other reasons).
Related:

The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802515 - April 2012 (246 comments)
He didn't say it disproved climate change, the question was whether incrfeased C02 was the cause of this particular issue.
> Why would anyone be stupid enough to trust google to keep the "ad free" experience ad free?

One can cancel their YouTube Premium subscription at any time for any reason, including and especially if it is no longer delivering an ad-free experience. In the meantime I'm quite happy paying $10 a month (annual plan) to never see ads.
I’ve been doing remote async for five years now. Nothing beats that lifestyle for me. I think it’s only natural to work that way. No alarms, only natural rhythms. Code when it works for you, tackle problems, respond to messages when it suits you best. What’s the point of remote work if everyone’s online at the same time? I don’t see the point as a developer. Business-wise, maybe—if you don’t have everything dumped into txt.
Three books anyone interested in the Colorado River generally or Glen Canyon Dam specifically should read are

Cadillac Desert. A history of how all the dams came to be.

The Emerald Mile. Things got pretty perilous at Glen Canyon Dam owing to it being too full at the wrong time of the year. In the midst of this, three guys decide to take advantage of flow levels we're unlikely to see again in our lifetimes to set an all time record for running the Grand Canyon. This is on my personal list of the greatest true stories ever told.

Down The River (or anything else by Edward Abbey, really). The titular essay is about a trip down the Colorado. Abbey was an ardent critic of Glen Canyon Dam for flooding Glen Canyon. Better known for writing The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, but Down the River more specifically deals with the Colorado.