skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The code is too hacky to share. Basically, I got a CSV of daily average temperatures for a bunch of cities. I discarded all the rows except for ones in the US and within a single year.

Then, for each city, I just counted the number of days whose temperature was within a range.

I had to do a little massaging because for some reason Washington DC was double counted in there.
There seem to be a lot of people on HN, as anywhere, who lionize Elon Musk and praise seemingly everything he does -- like the post I replied to, which characterized his business with Twitter as among his "finest moments."

I'd personally suggest that his work to electrify the car market is very important. His moves to buy Twitter -- sincere or not -- seem like utter bullshit. Especially compared to the things he could do to significantly improve lives for millions if not billions of people. And all at a lower cost than buying a social media company.
No, it's just IBM for once billing accurately to reflect the value they delivered.
The article suggests the dna hypothesis was the front runner for a while though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryozka_(Russian_retail_store...
Huh. Property tax is already a thing of course, but I guess if the LVT was going to replace all taxation the stakes would be much higher.

In an urban setting, it seems to me that the land value should be... reasonably uniform, unlike property, which should make assessing much easier, right? But that's just getting the number. Whether people are happy with the number is a whole 'nother problem.
The people in the country don't have access to that favorable tax regime ;)
The pure go fork is https://github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite.
>investing, which is how new productivity gets funded

As opposed to working, which is how productivity actually happens.
> without having to dodge heroin needles or human excrement or have abuse hurled it us or be assaulted.

What a failure of imagination for what civic policy could be.

The idea is to build a social net in society such that you take care of people so that they never need to fall low enough to be shitting in the street or using hard drugs to get through a miserable existence.

This is expensive, requires compassion, and extremely socialist policies. The Hackernews crowd wouldn't love it.

But the money is there in society, it just requires a few less billionaires, and a few less multi-mansion lifestyles.
There we go again...If you had a photo you not would need to make the merge of the four different images achieved by the four different teams.

Now the you have published the data from 2017, If I publish my own "photo", and I chose blue with spots of white, using the same library you used and the same color maps:

https://github.com/liamedeiros/ehtplot/blob/docs/docs/COLORM...

Why yours will be more a picture than mine in blue? Maybe I will even splint a little bit of red in there...
Honestly I would rather have a UI-less solution a bit like the "Reactive Forms" from Angular.
People who live in France and commute to monaco
I think this is the real reason right here: it lowers our ability to negotiate with candidates and thus costs the company money.

I started making more money faster when I stopped answering the salary question and start countering it by saying, "How much are you authorized to offer?"
Ask HN: How to build a brand as a Product Manager?
As a developer, it is relatively easy to build stuff and then show it to public. What can i do as a PM to build a brand?
It's happened twice. Once was on a really old chain. The other I'm not as sure. I'm a heavy guy. If I use my weight I can put a lot of torque on the pedal.
> Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but then my boss, Elon Musk, called me in to work anyway.

:-)
This is due to tax policies reducing the revenue pool. This makes it easier to judge individual divisions of the total because there are necessarily fewer outlets, and since it's a smaller pool there's more reason to fight.

The idle rich who can't find anywhere worthwhile to play with their nearly-free money (until recently ZIRPish) are a bug in the system. Oh, but lets pretend we are captains of industry by saturating the world with sure-failures. "I wEnT tO GsB!"

And government is absolutely inefficient, which is a good thing actually. Despite the efforts of conservatives, government still has to account for many many corner cases and special needs. Ask any Agile TDD aficionado how this affects velocity.
I rather think the fiction is that they serve the government, but I also have The Creature from Jekyll Island in the backseat for light reading so my perspective probably is heavily biased.
Smaller calles of Barcelona have a bad reputation too. And Marseille's old quarter took a lot of effort to sanitize for the tourists.

Marseille is the only city in Europe where I was waken up at night by gunshots.
Interestingly if the market was 100% sure the deal would go through I'm not really sure how it would work because that would mess up the options chain IV. The main reason would be speculation other's might push it higher before the actual deal. Call hedging will amplify this but it would be weird in this scenario.

EDIT: Actually it could go higher because of people covering cash-covered calls that are exercised or closing shorts that existed before the announcement - see below.

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It looks like Twitter actually did go higher then 54.20 on April 5th to 54.57~54.92 [1]

The reason why it did IRL is several factors. One is speculation it could go higher due to volatility/inefficiencies. The biggest reason is most likely hedging against sold call options and closing short positions - which are both essentially positions that the deal won't go through. If somebody sold a share of twitter for 50$ thinking it would go back down but now wants out of the position they must buy the share which increases buying pressure and thus the price. Similarly if somebody sold a cash covered call and is exercised or hedge against it to limit losses they must buy shares at the current price (which is 100x per option). Again this increases buying pressure and thus the share price.

I swear there's a few other reasons I can't think of right now. It's basically from market inefficiency factors. Speculation (of the share value not future company value per-se) and hedging are the main ones in this case. In non-acquisition scenarios other factors include portfolio rebalancing, margin-calls, market orders,
and poor order-book liquidity.

[1] I'm seeing different numbers from different sources but they're all around there - I'm not sure if they used sale price or the quote price etc, quoting a stock is a whole can of worms in itself.

Disclaimer: I can't claim to be any type of expert - some of this may be incorrect, and I'm a bit rusty
Definitely looks that way in the UK - I've been watching my local housing market like a hawk because I'm looking to buy soon. Houses are staying listed a lot longer, a fair few getting reduced, and newer listings are coming in at more reasonable prices (as much as over £100k is reasonable for a 1 bed flat miles into poverty stricken suburbia).

I think people are feeling more risk adverse cost of living etc and want to hold onto money and stay put where they are.
Another thing to consider for tech folk here: if you convince the company of cost savings always consider the possible equity value increase. Software led companies can generally command high EBITDA multiples. If you cost $100k and save the company $100k in annual costs, then you potentially have created $2,000,000 in equity value (20x is a safe EBITDA multiple to assume). A business owner would take that deal any day of the year, especially one that might sell to a PE.

Note - Companies can be valued at top line ARR/Revenue and/or EBITDA, so YMMV, even in the PE world.
or system of doing license exam by driving around the school block is actually a failure and produces people not able to drive safely.
The U2 iPod
Did you delete your original comment?
You're right that it doesn't have to be that way, but there are good reasons it's remained so. Code re-use in ES is fiendishly difficult because every system is a special little snowflake. Moreover, ES teams are fantastically understaffed relative to the complexity of the systems they own.

Because nothing works by default on ES systems, you have to implement it yourself most of the time. If you can clear that hurdle, your company is unlikely to be open source friendly. If you can clear that hurdle, people on other teams won't have time to adopt it for their systems, so it won't spread. If you can clear all of that, all you've won is a single tool. In the meantime, the rest of the industry as written half a dozen.

There are things you can do here, but... yeah.
> I'd have assumed "sexual" meant relating to sex (intercourse), rather than relating to sexes (male/female)

No, sexual harassment is any form of it that references the sexes (male/female), otherwise garden variety misogyny (e.g. "women are bad at X", "X is bad at Y, because she's a woman") wouldn't be considered sexual harassment.
I think the author of modernc.org/sqlite also ported the test suite. They wrote https://gitlab.com/cznic/tcl to run the TCL-based tests, for example.
I've never heard a wind turbine despite being within less than a mile of hundreds of them. They really aren't that loud unless you are right up next to them. Maybe the old ones were that bad?

https://youtu.be/v-sUDSwsE_w?t=232
I used to use AdGuard's DNS (https://adguard-dns.io/). It looks like they're going to be launching an upgraded version that you can customize in the future.

Right now, I'm using NextDNS (https://nextdns.io). It lets me add ad/tracking block lists, block specific domains (especially ones that serve annoying embeds in many sites), and setup rewrites so that I can have my-fake-domain.com resolve to localhost. I can use their DNS-over-HTTPS with Chrome/Edge/Firefox and I can setup my router to to use their DNS. It's basically my own little PiHole without needing the RaspberryPi (which are very hard to come by these days).

(Anxiously awaits someone on HN telling me that I shouldn't be using NextDNS)
For Spotify users here are 2 tools you might find interesting:

https://obscurifymusic.com/

This one compares how niche your tastes are compared to different countries.

https://discoverquickly.com/

This is a discovery tool.

For me the discovery functionality of Spotify and 3rd party discovery tools work perfectly. I keep discovering new music, the algorithm has learned my tastes pretty well, yet there are still tools if I want to go beyond that.
I didn't think anyone would post this to HN when I wrote it, so I certainly wasn't baiting clicks, except perhaps from the friends with whom I shared it directly.
25hp is enough to propel a very non-aerodynamic scooter (it's about what most 250cc models produce), with the rider sitting up in the wind blast, at a continuous 130kph. An car can be more efficient at cutting through the air.

What it's not enough for is much acceleration at those speeds. But a battery buffer would help hugely, as long as you aren't driving very sportily for an extended period of time.
This is an area where Warren Buffett and Nassim Taleb agree in opposition to the efficient market hypothesis. Speculative investments are occasionally culled, and when that happens, some investors are injured, while others are completely wiped out.

These moments of extreme plain make a fully diversified or even an anti-fragile strategy effective in the long run. Value investors don't get wiped out, they live to fight another day. This lesson was forced into me by my father during the dot com era, and it's been shown painfully true. The value trap is a concern, but market fundamentals are the only way to sleep at night. The biggest issue in markets is, due to the lack of need and cost of most public offerings, most companies with fundamentals are now out of reach of non-accredited investors and are completely funded by private equity.
Drip irrigation is a solution no one wants to discuss. Israel has shown it is possible to grow crops at scale in a desert.
i mean...that's one way to get the next round of VC funding (or equivalents...)!
A stock trading company, IT stuff are support for the real employees, the traders. You have a trader, you have a trading company. The programmers are just support for them.

Not the norm, but I suspect it probably happens more than it should...but this is the sensation I'm feeling about "Devops engineers" in the last few years. Which, yeah, we could sit here and talk all day about whether or not "Devops engineers" should be a job title at all, because Devops is a "way of working" or whatever but that's kinda the self-fulfilling problem isn't it?

Devops was supposed to be a way of working and somehow it got turned into "Help Desk for the App Developers" in way too many environments and orgs, where too many great Developers with Operational capabilities end up being on the receiving end of "the devs are working on feature x, we need someone to do this, and we failed to really figure out our engineering resourcing needs, so uh, I dunno give it to the Devops team to deal with".
The SEC filing clause (4.6(a)) is probably more germane than the proxy materials when it comes to bot calculations, and page 5 of the last Twitter 10-K covers their methodology. One can argue with their calculation method, but they're clear about how they're doing it and, as long as nothing comes to light documenting that they internally believe their bot rates to be higher than what their filing shows, they're in material compliance with the contract. There's no due-dil out for Musk in this, only a material misrepresentation penalty that Twitter is highly, highly unlikely to fall afoul of.
Elon's comment is just as likely to have been made in jest as serious, which is not a take I've seen in these comments. If you follow his Twitter account then it seems in line with his sense of humor.

A lot of people get pretty riled up over his tweets it seems. If it brings you joy then follow it. If it messes with your mind, then maybe just unfollow it. He's rich, mercurial, sarcastic, and a lot of other things, but ultimately you can just disconnect from it and go about your life.
Right you are! Twists for shielding, two pairs for duplex - which means that since the 90s on, you practically always want two pairs pr connector to enable duplex (be it 100mbit or faster). Ed: but probably 4 for gigE.
Although these divisions may exist, I'm not sure why we have to call them out and normalize them. Essentially what you've described is a two-class system of engineers.

Staff engineers can save the company money. Without them the "line" engineers cannot be as efficient in their mission. Why create any sort of hierarchy?

This type of thinking is antithetical to the startup mentality, but seems very amenable to the way big tech companies think. Which is exactly why I don't work for them.
> Most people are pretty competent and will rise to q challenge.

My experience is exactly the opposite. Most people are actually incompetent.
The capacitor plague was real. So many electronics I have from that era have failed due to bad caps. They are almost always cheap bottom-tier components with brand names and packaging suspiciously similar to the more reputable ones. (I’ve also read about inferior components that have been re-sleeved but I’ve never come across these. I don’t doubt they exist, though.)
It's sexual because it related to a prominent quality of one sex: badlness in men. If the genders were different and 'she' was called a 'skirted c---' it'd obviously be sexual harassment no?

Having something you can't change (or is part of your gender identity) be used as part of a harassing statement makes it worse than a usual insult.
It might, but I don't think that's necessarily your problem. That's what they get for not being up front.
Agreed.

I for one am very happy with the wider EV push, because I will never need to buy a Tesla. I am sure many other people have similar sentiments. Obviously they are valued for their batteries and solar as well, but their business model and product offerings there are far from a fit for everybody either. It all does not add up to current value, although it is hard to see where the mad dash to buy "the future^TM" runs out of cash to throw at it.
> Have you ever interviewed someone whose resume looked good but who couldn't code basic things? The kind of candidate FizzBuzz was invented for?

It's a self-fulfilling prophesy, if you're using FizzBuzz to judge whether people are competent.

Programmers aren't stage performers, but companies treat interviews like auditions. Anyone with "performance anxiety" is assumed to be incompetent, which is silly. The tech interview/audition is unnatural and very different from normal work.

It's been shown by researchers over and over that interviews test for anxiety, not skills, but interviewers refuse to listen. https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
They said "it’s really easy to rationalize away discrimination at the margins." My reply was pointing out that there is little legal protection in rationalizing away discrimination at the margins because tests for disparate impact require the approach to also stand up holistically which can't easily be rationalized away.
I just left a hedge fund to join aws. Even the aws is famous for its worst WLB and toxic culture, it is much better than the hedge fund I worked for. Knowing many friends switched from finance to tech, I found no one regretted.
Plus the TC is still much more than HF even after the 40% drop.
That exit looks like a regular highway off-ramp with what should be a long smooth transition but abruptly stops at a red light after the corner. Not surprisingly this happens.
I’m missing “On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules” by David Parnas. Also anything about type systems.
I think you’ve misread what I said. I said “My fear is… we won’t respond with sufficient scale to avoid large scale suffering.”

With a million dead and millions more financially ruined, I think it’s fair to say we didn’t prevent large scale suffering. And to be clear my issue isn’t just with direct spending - a few more stimulus checks would have been nice but wouldn’t solve the larger problem - I think we needed better consistency from the government on risk profiles and the importance of masks, as well as more mask mandates and travel restrictions, and finally better testing infrastructure. Some of that is direct spending but much isn’t.
It's not a two-class system, it's a reality of the business incentives, and local monopoly vs competition.
your perception of what is "nice weather" matches up great with my own. Edinburgh has nearly perfect weather for my tastes.
Broad averages of what? Difference in muscle characteristics and bone structure between males and females? Multiple consistent studies showing wide variance in average IQ among various demographics? The strong correlation between IQ and all manner of life outcomes, including technical achievements?

Or are you asking me to find a study which shows which specific cultural differences make large swaths of people more likely to, say, pursue sports and music versus academic achievement? Or invest in their children?

Again, the evidence is ubiquitous, overwhelming, and unambiguous. Synthesizing it into a paper would get a researcher fired in the current climate, if they could even find funding or a willing publisher; not because it would be factually incorrect, but because the politicized academic culture would find a title like "The Influence of Ghetto Black Cultural Norms on Professional Achievement" unpalatable if the paper didn't bend over backwards to blame "socioeconomic factors". Which is ironic because culture is the socio in socioeconomics, yet I would actually challenge YOU to find a single modern paper which examines negative cultural adaptations in any nonwhite first world group.

Further, my argument has been dishonestly framed (as is typical) as a false dichotomy, I'm not arguing that discrimination doesn't exist, but the opposition is viciously insisting, that all differences among groups are too minor to make a difference in a meritocracy, and anyone who questions otherwise is a bigot.
Charles Perrow, Complex organizations : a critical essay, 1972, 1985. pp. 186--187 looks at the firm and intra- and inter-firm dynamics from a sociological perspective. It's in large part a review of the literature to the time of its writing, beginning with Weber and including serveral economists, though Coase only merits one mention. There's considerable attention paid to Herbert Simon and James March, among many others.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/complex-organizations-a-criti...

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Complex+organizations+:...
>It's different from layoffs. RIF comes with the implication that the reduction is permanent.

Academically, yes you're right. Practically, they are the same. No one can afford to sit around and wait a year or two to get rehired after layoffs, if that ever happens; and anytime a RIF happens, the positions are usually refilled once finances are better.
I'd call them nanocules instead.
We're eating each other to survive because we've been sold on the idea that there isn't enough room for everybody, but we're eating each other in a metaphorical sense rather than the literal.
I've looked through the blog posts, and I don't see which contract manufacturers they are using. Anyone know who they use for the plastic molds?

It would be nice to know the pros and cons of the CMs people are using.
> It also allows people to build their credit without a credit card.

I actually looked into this when I first saw these companies spring up, as I figured it couldn’t hurt to build up my credit some more, for free.

Unfortunately, unless I was mistaken, what I determined was that these companies don’t report your positive activities to the credit bureaus. The net result is that there’s nothing but downside from a credit perspective.
I'd put down a lot of money on this being an artificial limitation, and not a technical issue.

If I had to guess, it is that they have hyper-optimized the pipeline for HLS for battery consumption. Streaming video is one of the most power hungry things people do with their phone that laymen often don't think is power hungry. (Unlike say 3d games, or GPS).

If the MSE path is less optimized (and it is, simply by nature of having JavaScript in the loop handling the video segments), which drains the battery faster, but sites like Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook switch to using MSE, then now the iPhone battery life numbers look worse.
THIS! Oh, so much this! I never get it why they do this... I don't know how many times I clicked the logo expecting to get to the product's homepage, but, instead, I get to the blog's index. It escapes my mind, why nobody seems to think about this.
It does appear to do that for me in their example on the homepage (desktop Firefox), though?

Doesn't this happen by default in most cases where a regular <label/> is used?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/la...

> When a user clicks or touches/taps a label, the browser passes the focus to its associated input (the resulting event is also raised for the input). That increased hit area for focusing the input provides an advantage to anyone trying to activate it — including those using a touch-screen device.
I actually had one of those cards! The only games I could get it to work with were Half-Life, glQuake, and Jedi Knight, and the bilinear texture filtering had some odd artifacting IIRC
Google announces Flutter 3, now with macOS and Linux desktop support
So, given this... I have a product idea, along with another technical co-founder. I have a few months savings to feed my family, so I could feasibly work on it fulltime. ... Let's say I came up with a demo, a pitch deck, etc. Would people say the chances of getting seed capital is significantly reduced now? Or do we just not know yet?
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