skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of benevolence of shopkeepers to their younger patrons cannot be understated. As a young kid I learned how PCs were put together from the local clone shop on San Pablo Ave in El Cerrito. I bought a 286 with 512k ram and two floppies and got to watch it be assembled and tested. Later (1989ish) I spent every moment I could at a Macintosh shop on Shattuck Ave in Berkeley playing SimCity on a then unheard of 20” color monitor (at least I recall it being that large). Today I’m at Google and just prior I was at Apple. The link is not direct, but the latter does not exist without the former (there was also a C64 prior to the 286, though without the shopkeeper story), at least in my case.
Commenters and even Lemire are really missing the two points of major inefficiency.

(1) Making 30 researchers spend time on grants when only 1 wins is a waste of researchers time, regardless of productivity.

It's a system built for bureaucrats who don't know to evaluate work-product from those who do by comparison if not mutual critique. It's a wealth transfer from researchers to taxpayers.

(2) Grants always are on topic, but the topic is mostly selected to avoid political embarrassment. In the 1990's, it was HIV. In 2010 it was Alzheimer's Amyloid Beta. Then computer security. Unlike the internet or jet engines, these have not panned out as foundational research (except perhaps for some of HIV). Again, topics are selected not to deliver value to citizens, but to politicians.

Yes, this is inefficient. Yes, academic bureaucracy sucks and the publication game is easily corrupted and early advances are more relatable than later ones.

But the real problem with science in the U.S. is that there are not enough jobs for scientists, because companies are happy to get research and development done more cheaply elsewhere. Companies have only disincentives to develop local labor pools.

That's the negative incentive that dwarfs everything in academia and publicly-funded research.
Google's entire purpose is selling private data. The fact that it retains a monopoly on the access to that data doesn't change that all the bad stuff is happening right in the first party entity.
I'd like to believe US is better, but I honestly don't see the evidence that would support this. The vast majority of people simply use completely different criteria for stuff that happens in China.
When people say "software is eating the world," this is what they are talking about. When mastering the software development cycle becomes a strong differentiator in an industry, inept companies (like Hertz in this case) get fleeced by rent-a-coder firms that get paid the same no matter the usefulness or reusability of their code. They end up, hopefully, spiralling into irrelevance while competitors who are able to harness software to their advantage win out over time.

Hertz is even suing Accenture to recoup the development cost, but it seems they are missing the bigger problem, which is that their aging digital presence has probably harmed their ability to acquire or retain customers to a bigger extent than the lost cost of development...
Probably worth $50 when time is money but all I got were results I could have duplicated in GIMP, as someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with GIMP. It looks it just picks a font and an icon?
> Posting somehow felt both beneath and above me—there’s so much brilliance and nonsense in the comment section

Relatable. I rarely post or comment, as when I have something to contribute to the conversation I usually cannot (NDA, etc.). And for the times I could post, I don't really have anything of value to say; echoing into the void and all.

But then I do get value from the comment sections, oftentimes more than the original post/content.

So thank you to those who do comment and contribute!
This is why classes have lectures AND labs.
Ask HN: Why aren't students penalized for scoring too highly on an exam?
Scoring too highly is a bad sign since it could mean the student spent too much time studying or is taking a class that is too easy.
The amount of money for an NIH R01 non-modular budget hasn't changed since 1999. Which means due to inflation, the average "gold standard" grant budget covers half as much as it used to, roughly.

Wherein are you going to fund mandatory replication studies - some of which are massive cohort studies, so you're going to need a whole new population cohort - let alone the...citation police...to review every citation not just for its existence, but for its content.
99designs is another option, albeit at a higher price point (but still far below OP's budget). I was very satisfied with the logo and redesign I got there. Got to see a lot of options before settling on the designer we chose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record

This exists for boats too, and is generally also broadcast between countries before international arrivals for scheduled services.
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Turns DALL-E AI Art into NFTs
I’m trying to get as rich as possible and learn as much as possible to be able to setup a self-sustaining village
> But that makes sense statistically, because those are thousands of ostensibly independent events

Not only that, but in the case of a plane or train crash, the passengers were completely powerless to do anything about it. So it's a death that's imposed on them by the event.

In a car, the driver has nearly all the agency to do something about it and not be part of a crash. Car crashes don't just suddenly happen to people on a random distribution.

Many of them are directly the fault of the driver, so you can opt of those (don't drive drunk, sleepy, etc). Many are the fault of other drivers but you could often opt out by paying attention (go watch youtube dashcam car crash videos, it's astonishing the number of crashes where the victim could've avoided it but doesn't do anything). Many are also due to lack of skill (e.g. car slides on an oil slick and driver doesn't know how to control it) which you can opt out by taking car control training. Some are from equipment malfunction which you can also opt out (maintain your car).
My only experience with accenture was when they were brought in for a year long engagement to build some splunk dashboards.

I sat near the consultants, and they would just spend all day working on projects for other clients.
> The New York-based brand consultancy agency Arnell Group was hired on a $1 million contract to perform the brand update, leading to a 27-page design proposal titled BREATHTAKING Design Strategy. The document was subsequently leaked on Reddit by a user claiming to be an industry freelancer and garnered mixed reception, being described in some press reports as "bizarre", "nonsensical", and "brand-equity pop-psychobabble".
A huge amount of the bulk in smart watches is the health sensors and vibration motor. Can easily slim things down if those aren't required along with a big display.
They may have been making a coy reference to nuclear winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter)
The issues you call partisan aren't really partisan but they are made partisan by politicians and those with power.

A large majority of the country is for making marijuana legal at the federal level. Most people don't like corporations and billionaires funding our elections. Most people are against gerrymandering. Most people are for legal immigration. Most people agree that out healthcare system is broken and way too expensive. Most people want education to be affordable and effective. Most people care about the environment. Most people don't want people to be jailed for petty things or people wrongly convicted.

The things people disagree on are the way these issues are framed by politicians and the powerful and the proposed solutions. However it's easy to agree that all of these things are a problem. I'm not saying everyone agrees but a lot more people agree on things then you are lead to believe by those who benefit from keeping the country divided.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm

There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. That isn't counting situations like Uber and Amazon contractors whose expenses like gas and wear&tear aren't appropriately accounted for. But it is true that a smaller percentage of people are at the federal minimum wage, thanks in part to individual states with higher minima.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-min...

A majority of states set a higher minimum wage than the federal limit, and unless I missed something the only highly populated state without a higher minimum is Texas.
Or you could simply make it so that the threat of driving drunk was so high that people actually thought twice.

Get caught in a DUI? You simply never. drive. again... Ever. No 2nd chance. Hurt or kill someone as a DUI? Mandatory minimum jail time.

The difference is that this encourages personal responsibility and has personal consequences, rather than attempting to police the entire population for the bad deeds of the few.
Fantastic course - Fastai courses are a must for anyone looking to learn Deep Learning/ML.
>Any deviation from typical huge fund manager behaviour

You make it sound extremely subjective, but Blackrock is (I think) mostly managing index funds, and it should be easy to quantify how well they track an index.
I don’t agree with this take, and there are tons of plausible reasons you may have had better responses to the ad without salary listed.

The problem is that no one wants to apply to a job where the salary isn’t viable for them.

Amongst the 50 other things they don’t know about a role and company, most of them you need to talk about in an interview, but item #1: salary, is make or break, and can be answered before even applying.

It’s disrespectful to candidates not to put a range on the ad.
It's also the worlds largest nature reserve.

There is something poignant that nuclear apocalypse is better for the environment than human civilization as it normally functions.
Ever since being rear ended in stopped traffic on the freeway, I do make a practice of stopping a bit further from traffic than normal and watching the mirror, ready to speed away on the shoulder, until there’s a decent buffer of stopped carts behind me.

This isn’t reasonable to expect everyone to do, but any individual can realistically minimize their risk in this regard.
Even if you knew that it would never get stolen the SSD could still die unexpectedly. Or any number of other problems.
Absolutely! I wasn't implying otherwise. I think in the U.S. the inertia of both design and life choices is more of the problem -- I think convenience captures both of these issues in their present state. I use convenience here not to suggest actual convenience, but the appearance of convenience, much in the way that it's not really control, but the appearance of control that makes us register the preferability of the personal car.
I actually genuinely value doing a good job. I genuinely hate being put under pressure to deliver stuff that looks good but is actually bad. It feels awful to me. I've built my career around avoiding this.

I'm not trying to claim moral superiority here or anything. Figuring out tricky ways to get the clueless rich to enthusiastically give up their money can probably be argued to be a moral good, provided the money isn't just going to some other even richer people. I'm just intellectually and emotionally unsuited to it.

Maybe I am just optimizing my employment the only way I know how, because I'm not suited to the more powerful ways.
I wouldn't consider tries to be obscure tbh. They are the recommended solution for many leetcode-style interview problems involving string searching. I think anyone who has done serious interview prep has encountered them.

https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/931977/begin...
Say what you will about the Jira process, there is no climbing involved...
Generally speaking individuals who work at large contracting firms either do so due to immigration status or because they’re either not experienced or technically incompetent. The tech market offers full-time positions with wonderful salaries. Why would anyone want to work at one of these firms? It’s because they can’t land any better job and can hide their moving between multiple projects frequently due to ineptness as “short term projects”.
Took the time to add it all up. Between federal,state,city income tax, sales tax, property tax, excise taxes, healthcare (which European taxes pay for already) premiums; I pay 53% of my income in some form of taxes. I'm not sure if that's less taxes than in Europe, but I'm pretty sure they don't pay 50%+ of their pay towards tax.
Show HN: Building a SaaS Marketplace for Digital Products and Content
How do you implement it? Do you do a scan with every insert or do you hash or use a tree for indexing?
Adaptive History Autofill in Firefox
FST is one underappreciated data structure. Its used in places like speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, optical character recognition, pattern matching, string processing, machine learning, information extraction. If you know about it you exactly know where to use it.
Agile and scrum are in practice such nebulous terms that while I don’t doubt that you have had good experience with the particular version of these concepts that you yourself use, the agency could well consider itself to be using the same concepts - yet here we are.

The older I get, the more I come to understand that the problem with projects is people, not methodology. 30% of IT projects still fail, despite “agile” now being widespread.

The first value of the agile manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Unfortunately, most implementations throw this one out first.
No code as it stands now is too difficult for what you get. First you have to go thru the learning curve. Then you have to decide on how to use the no-code tool to solve your problem. Many times you find out that unless it's a very easy problem to solve the platform you are using can't really solve your problem to a satisfactory level. And lastly, if the tool is useful to you then you are stuck paying a monthly fee to keep on using it.

Personally I'm a fan of the way Microsoft Access solves the no-code dilemma. There you get a general all purpose database. You then get the tools to create a useful user interphase that let's user's input data in what ever manner your solution dictates. It's very useful. You can even compile it into an application that you can move where ever you want without having to have Access installed. It's blotted code but for a simple solution it does the job and no monthly fees. This is the model that no-code solutions should follow.

I would even say that the best of no-code tools should start with a basic application, database, and have that be your starting point which can be modified at will. There are many companies that need a simple database solution but can't get it developed because of the money and time it takes. A no-code database solution would be great. One that you write once and it can be used on multiple platforms.
that makes sense, and now that I've seen proof that it's possible to build a watch-sized smartwatch, I'm even more puzzled that not a single one is on the market
HNSW, or Hierarchical Navigable Small World is a graph data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search of vectors.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09320

The problem space of ANN is one of those really deep holes you can go down. It’s a game of balancing time and space, and it’s got plenty of fascinating algorithms and datastructures.

Check out http://ann-benchmarks.com/ for a comparison. HNSW is not “the best” but it’s easy to understand and is quite effective.
think the CEO of that company is active on HN. might be able to advise you of your options or you could reach out to a lawyer like Gabe Levine, the same lawyer in the famous "F*ck you, Pay Me" talk by Mike Monteiro. he may have some advice.
You forgot the most important feature over normal hash maps: they offer a deterministic iteration order without incurring the cost of a tree-based ordered map.

(If you don't know why this is important then maybe you haven't worked on large systems that undergo rigorous evaluation)
I mean, how often would the instructor need to correct a human to drive legal in a busy city? The null hypothesis here is that driving legally in big cities is not practical.
> Bill Clinton taking the White House in 1992

You mean the Bill Clinton who was so cucked by conservatism that he passed the "Law and Order" Bill of 1994 that made him the architect of mass incarceration? That Bill Clinton?

Clinton pretty much only won because Ross Perot was a conservative spoiler in 1992.

The modern Republican Party is a project spanning 50+ years that really began with racial desegregation. The so-called "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution that now dominates the Supreme Court is a modern invention of the Nixon era. The Federalist Society began is a project in the 1980s to create a pipeline to push this completely made up "philosophy".

Prior to the mid-to-late 1970s, abortion wasn't a controversial topic. Catholics had been opposed. No one else really cared (or, rather, they viewed it as a personal choice where the Bible was silent on the issue).

We are now in an era where Supreme Court just openly lie to justify a political agenda. Two prime examples:

1. The coach who Gorsuch claimed was quietly praying despite photographic evidence to the contrary [1]; and

2. Alito claiming abortion was never part of our tradition despite Ben Franklin publishing instructions on how to do an abortion at home [2].

Hopefully you're just an unwitting victim of this very effective propaganda that makes you believe the Democrats somehow started the culture war. I hope for your sake you wake up to the fact that you've been systematically lied to.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2022/6/27/23184848/supreme-court-kennedy...

[2]:https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-frank...
Universe-altering implications of plot twist in ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ (2019)
So why should the student be penalized? If it’s a signal that intervention is needed then just intervene, why the punishment?
> When a plane or train crashes

When a scheduled aviation passenger plane crashes.

GA (General Aviation, "private pilots") flights crash all the time, people in them even die most days. If it happened in their catchment it'd probably make your local TV news, but it won't be their main story and it won't be a national headline unless somebody "important" died. A few hundred people die this way, in the US, in a normal year.

The reasons are much the same as for private car ownership:

- The private pilot cuts corners. They cut corners on maintenance and fuel, they cut corners on training, they cut corners on procedures. So their plane may fail more often than it should, or when one thing goes wrong there's less slack left than there should be.

- The private pilot is subject to very relaxed medical requirements, especially in the US. So too often these pilots will become disabled in flight, and they're usually alone or with a non-pilot so if this happens they're probably dead.

- The private pilot's skills are poor, they're subject to minimal day-to-day oversight and few of them seek real development of their skills once qualified. This means when things go wrong the pilot is less likely to successfully recover from a situation which was salvageable.

- "Mission mindset" easily creeps in for private pilots. Particularly for weather, but also for loss of daylight, private pilots often have a purpose (e.g. "Get back in time for Sarah's wedding on Saturday" or "Fit in one more trip to the lake before winter") which causes them to make unwise decisions to press on into poor weather, deteriorating daylight, etc.
>Assault rifles are for assault and we don’t need more assault. So why have them? Because a few people think it’s cool to own?

People who think this should have a grizzly bear run at them at least once.

Having seen it from a car I became pro-minigun instantly.
Funny thing is, your very comment is an indirect praise of the very thing they were advertising to you, and here it is being read by thousands of people. Are we so sure absurdly terrible ads don't actually beat out actually good well tailored ones? Looking through the history of radio ads, television ads, it seems like the best ads are always the stupidest. "Head on, apply directly to the forehead!" isn't so far off from "You bought a washing machine? Buy another!". The reality is, advertising optimizes to target stupid people because stupid people spend money. It is easier to trick a moron then sell a smart man something they actually want.
I'm looking forward to Framework 2. Version 1 just has too many limitations and poor decisions. You shouldn't have to give up a port to charge the laptop or read microsd cards, those should get dedicated hardware. Modules should have options for two type C or two type A ports side by side even if they're limited to low speeds. You should have the option for a non-chiclet keyboard and a mousepad with real buttons.

I adore the idea of the Framework, but for me to buy one it has to options I actually want to use. There's no point in a modular laptop if a conventional one has the functionality of all the module options at the same time.
Do you support the right of the polio-infected resident of Rockland County (a NYC suburb) to attend tonight’s basketball game? Would you be okay with him shopping at your grocery store, standing in line with you at the cash register?
Suspect the usefulness will end up being dictated by energy management concerns. Balancing mobility & runtime. The logistics of swapping batteries / charging every hour, how well you can make them "camp" somewhere & wake up, needing very close "home bases" where they can charge and batteries are stockpiled etc.

> Let's say twenty of these are deployed on a yard.

If they are moving around, you need either a human swapping batteries more or less continuously (~20 battery changes / hour) next to a pile of lithium (maybe 100-200kg for 20 units) and a generator of at least 10-20kw. I guess you would want them to auto-charge off a vehicle or fixed equipment for it to be practical.

Seems like you could make something work but IMHO they seem like less of an obvious "slam dunk" when you consider the fiddlier aspects of operating them.
I guess they're following Denmark's example. And I think the rest of Europe should follow.
How I feel is at least psychosomatically related to how the system is operating, but also how things are outside of the controlled environment.

Generally this is an algorithm that might work for one person:

* Is it equal or higher than the upper temperature outside? Run COOLing function (if it exists) until the LOWER inside temperature bound is reached.

* ELSE Is it equal or lower than the lower temperature outside? Run HEATing function (if it exists) until the UPPER inside temperature bound is reached.

In both cases DO NOT continue to run the circulation fans, at least above a whisper quite slow circulation, past the thermal shift operation. Luke-warm airflow makes the system perceptibly anemic and the results dis-satisfactory.
You can catch a wide swath of those alias domains by the highly advanced method of "check the MX record and see if it matches a known disposable email service". This only accounts for some low-hanging fruit, of course, but at the end of the day the user can almost certainly just sign up with a "legitimate" free email provider or spin up a receive-only mail server wherever and there's not much you can do about that.
A large purchase- but perhaps just small enough you can agree with yourself to let go of worry. Perpetual anxiety about theft is no way to live.
I've used quadtrees for some cool stuff I can't really talk about. All the things you think binary trees are good at but with x,y coordinates, or any n-tuple of coordinates as you suggest.
Frontiers has a great review/publication model https://www.frontiersin.org/about/peer-review/