jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Turn off chat. Nothing is forced onto you.
Corrupt from Masters Of Deception is black.
At some point, OP and their coworkers should be refusing to work on any new code that isn’t at least superficially in the service of reducing these preemption events. If coworkers aren’t concerned about that, it’s probably best to move on.
Competition will fall to the last mile. The last mile means so much, probably will require some implementation from the competition. The real competition is challenging and making it cheap for amazon to rely on them so they can rise the price. I say that because majority of Amazon's fulfilment is fraudulent in either or actual delivery.

Lasership is the Smaug's missing scale for Amazon. They FAIL and FRAUD on every single shipment they have made to my apartment. When I see something is being shipped by them I by default do a return.

The competition will need to be able to affirm that every single shipment is made without widespread fraudulence.
I also find the weather example a bit funny.

"Remember kids, if you want to ask for weather, don't forget to send the API key from the previous step in an HTTP header named x-rapidapi-key!"
It does feel like it has creepy vibes. Would you say the dangers are more environmental (scorpions, rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, etc), or climate/hiking remotely, or criminal?

I'm in my 20s female traveler and would probably be traveling alone, most likely sleeping in the back of my SUV- which I've done all over the country and generally in sketchy areas I'll get a hotel room or rent a real campsite.
This is meandering pretty far off topic but... Why do you need a new chef's knife every 3 years? I've had my reasonably-priced Victorinox for probably a decade. With routine sharpening using quality stones (they cost more than the knife), I don't see needing to replace it in the next decade.
Haven't seen it mentioned here but maybe graduate him to Factorio. Has a lot of "complex systems" thinking and also has the combinators to play with.
I worked at a Scala shop in 2011. It was pure hell. Slow compiles, bad tooling (the Scala plugin for Eclipse was a slow as molasses, IntelliJ's was a bit better though), inexperienced developers. I asked why they chose Scala... It was obviously immature at the time. "Joe thought it was good." (Joe was the architect.)

I'd never touch it again.
> AI is going to be for the next 50 (or 100, or probably 200) years.

To be clear about that "probably 200", are you saying that you believe we'll need trillions of times the processing power of the human brain in order to crack how it works, or that you believe that we've nearly reached the end of increases in processing power, for at least the next 200 years?
I think I have to change my graphics card, I see very few polygons on this website.
I encourage everyone to visit the Holocaust Museum. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deceiving-...
Get into my Cybertruck with my Cybiko to take a trip through Cyberspace. Whoosh.
Have you had a look at CodeFund (https://codefund.io/)? I recently started using it (no affiliation), very easy to setup, ethical ads aimed at developers and so far the income I've made seems inline with what I'd expect.
The only reason that Google can throw stuff against the wall and scale it immediately is because they have the infrastructure in place.

I can’t imagine you can decouple Googke’s products from their infrastructure.
Is this the same type of illusion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfFco7K9v8
Interesting analogy, but it's a little off.

The main reason modules are interesting is not as a generalisation of vector spaces, but because they are helpful in studying rings. Kernels of ring homomorphisms are ideals, which in general are not subrings, but they are modules - and of course every ring is a module over itself. So to study a ring R it pays off to instead study R-modules, since working with them is... you guessed it! Simpler.
We already did learn that. QED describes a photon perfectly mathematically.

There is just now word that maps that to ordinary terms.
Gmail was the sexiest thing when it launched. I remember I was so desperate for the Beta invite.
The only answer here is drm esque file signing. Any attempts at detecting fakes will only work while the tech is young. Ofc this requires a web of trust and verification techniques to be applied, since videos are often re encoded.
I would take half my salary if I had to to WFH full time. Luckily I don't have to!
"I'd wager that they won't put up with high numbers of downloads"

Pure speculation. More speculation: I'd wager they'd be OK with it. Bandwidth is practically free.
AT one time, showroom/service center combos were a very good thing for consumers. Consumers want to test drive many vehicles before they buy. They want to have a range of options on hand to chose from. After they buy, they want somewhere they can entrust their car to for repairs. In summary, the type of role the dealership fills was and possibly still is an important role in the automotive market.

This is where dealerships came from. Manufacturers, especially when they were smaller, didn't want to deal with establishing such a presence in every town in America, so they left it to private business.

This brings us to the existing franchise laws. I'm told the rationale goes like this; if a manufacturer were to suddenly decide to sell its own vehicles and cut out the middleman, said middleman would be completely and utterly screwed for obvious reasons. The laws, thus, are a form of guarantee for the prospective middleman. He knows his extremely capitol-intensive venture cannot be toppled two years later when the manufacturer decides to sell direct. If such protections were not in place, (so the story goes) entrepreneurs would be hesitant to start a dealership, the absence of which would have been a negative for everybody.
Yeap. Most gear over 10 years old is likely to have this problem. Power supplies, TV, cheap a/v gear.

As an interesting note, I cracked open /A/D/S car amps and related gear from 1980's. Crazy engineering... No tantalum or electrolytics anywhere in sight. Props to whomever worked on that.
That CD you just glossed over contains backups of the company's files.

If you are in that industry that could be pretty damn valuable.
For one it's a statistical risk factor, not a guaranteed death sentence. There will always be outliers.
love this haha
Thank you Aaron!!!!!!
> When I'm paying for an official Azure version of Ubuntu on Azure, I darn well expect there will be a closer support relationship than the free desktop version.

Okay, but maybe other people don't want that if it entails their information being shared with a company they haven't initiated a business relationship with?
> Cost is a really solid argument against MSSQL

If you're a small 2-5 person team, sure. But once dev payroll breaks $1M/yr, paying ~$100k for SQL Server doesn't seem so bad anymore.
unfortunately mentioning any specifics risks transforming the conversation into arguing about such a specific item with the results being projected back onto the main statement. It also risks sounding like one is pushing his/her pseudoscientific stuff. In the area like microbiome with highly individual situations and relatively low level of established science any specifics is just an anecdote not much suitable for rigorous discussion. (i have myself found a couple ways of dealing with my SIBO (test based diagnosed by GE) for example and almost never discuss those specifics. It is really an area of "do you own research" and the useful methods/etc. are really "out there".)
> The gut is often called the second brain, and lots of mental health issues like anxiety, depression, stress, etc can be greatly helped by improving diet and healthy gut.

Who calls it that? I've seen a comment or two before, but certainly not "everyone" calling it that. It's a nice analogy that probably could be stretched way too far, as these things go.

Are the causal links clearly _known_ or correlation shows that the link may be identifiable?

> It’s criminal that medical establishments are controlled by pharmaceutical companies and establishment media spreads prescription drug propaganda.

Hmm... this sounds like conspiratorial thinking. Do you have evidence of this, and if it is the case, a reason why this status quo is worse than other alternatives?

> Everyone needs to do their own research about gut health and direct impacts to physical and mental health.

Why? Wouldn't it be more reasonable for scientists to research, work towards consensus, then report findings, rather than duplicating the fixed costs of setting up laboratories and health testing facilities in our garages? Considering I did this, what is the likelihood I find a stronger connection or novel fact about certain microbiota that inhabit my or my families' bodies? Or perhaps you're being less precise in your terminology, and you're advocating that people study scientists' research rather than conducting wetlab studies. Could you clarify?

Analogously, we should also all study the universe, but few advocate for all to build radio telescopes on their available rooftops.
Vouched for this as it's a good point for anyone who understands the P320 FCU and the legal framework which inspired its creation.

The FCU concept would still have value were the legal framework less Byzantine, but its practical benefits would be significantly diminished.
Reading that thread, I'm always so confused by HN posters who ask for evidence that would be impossible to provide without self-incriminating. Are they asking disingenuously, or are they just clueless?
> Most of the community finds python sufficient because they do not need to interleave training and simulating.

That's kind of my point. Most of the community has models running on GPU's and don't care too much about CPU-bound workloads, training or otherwise.

If you do care about that, you are in a relatively small niche of machine learning, statistically speaking. I am not denying it's existence, I'm just saying that your stack will have to be different if you want to extract the maximum level of performance out of your CPU.

> IIRC, a maintainer of a popular project/framework that I contribute saw improvements upwards of 2x when using C++ over python.

That's not surprising at all. Like I mentioned in the parent, if you profiled your code and you found that Python function calls are the main bottleneck, and you believe it to be worth investing time in getting rid of them, you can use the C++ API's of Caffe/TF/PyTorch/Whatever.

I personally don't work in simulations so I haven't ran into your problem. In the deep learning world, the CPU is unusable for any task (training, inference, evaluation, etc.), so I've never been concerned with things like function call overhead.
"I have no idea how modern systems boot, because I haven't kept up on the changes happening in the last 10 years. BIOS 4evah!" -> UEFI is somehow bad. k
I don't think it needs 'updating' much, but there are a few oversights in the original.

Heinlein has 'write a sonnet', but doesn't say anything about reading a book, or writing a letter or essay (and no, those skills are not implied).

As for setting a bone, that can be important if you are far from help, but resuscitation is a more urgently needed skill, and needed more often.

I'd also add in 'communicate wordlessly', 'learn a language', 'teach a skill', 'sketch an idea', 'negotiate honestly', 'spot a swindle', 'make a friend', 'speak publicly', 'improvise', 'follow the rules', 'stand up to authority', and possibly a few others that Heinlein missed or skipped.

In terms of actual updates, skills that an omnicompetent today would have that weren't really a thing 50 years ago for the general public, the ones I can come up with are mostly things like 'evade surveillance', 'communicate privately', and 'buy contraband', and a few that just reflect the democratizing effect computers have had on various skills that used to be extremely specialized and non-computer-related like 'take a good photo', 'edit a video', and 'publish globally'.
I’m not aware of any cases beyond that one - however, that case is still due to the failed electricity grid. When power went out and homes began to freeze, Texans fired up cars and generators to keep heat around. Harris county alone saw almost 600 cases of CO poisoning during the blackout.
Back before electricity deregulation we were paying more for electricity but in the process of rate setting we were looking at it from a systems perspective in which reliability was considered holistically.

(The lower rates were not just from ‘efficient markets’ but also it being possible for high cost producers such as steam turbine coal fired power plants to go bankrupt in the fracked gas age w/o bankrupting the whole utility.)
Why do we need fiat currency where self-interested parties inflate the currency & pay themselves?
Wasn't that Cyprus, not Greece?
Even when the PFS is configured, the defaults can be faulty:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html

"I'm not aware of any open source servers that support anything like that."

The article is from June 2013, has anything changed since?
Tanks also only work against an unprepared enemy, but I think many will agree that tanks can still do lots of damage, even given the prevalence of armor-piercing munitions and anti-tank weaponry.

In practice, how many people are going to have RFID jammers, and how many of those will reliably work? I'm guessing that that'd be close to zero. Related, Psycho Pass is an interesting anime which goes into the issue of "smart guns" and the subversion of their safeguards. It's also a damn interesting series.
Humidity makes a huge difference.
Two problems with this:

1- It could be jammed by a 10 euro/dollar device.

2-The smart watch(via Patriot Act) is going to require the government has a back door or mechanism that could disable it remotely when the government wants it disabled, like they do with computer software and hardware.

The second amendment reason for existence is controlling the people in power against abuses on the people. Of course people in power want to get rid of it while militarizing the police(because hard times are coming).
Quite often these checks are just so simple and half-hearted that once you have even a little experience they're obvious.

A most basic protection, for example, might make the user enter a serial number to register a piece of software. If you enter the correct number then all is OK, if you enter the wrong number a message-box might appear saying "Sorry registration number is invalid".

Displaying that message-box almost immediately makes the cracking job 80% simpler. Disassemble the program, look for the reference to the text-string. Then look for a "compare + jump" that goes to that area of the code. 99% of the time the comparison will be "Is the serial number OK?" and if you remove the jump, or invert it ("jmpz -> jumpnz"), you're done.

If you want to read more you can find mirrors of +fravias documentation and demonstration site online which were live back in the day and introduce this stuff, and lots more:

http://71.6.196.237/fravia/academy.htm
If you're doing iOS development and have previously only done non-business apps, competency could be demonstrated by being able to architect a non-trivial app. The lines of code don't matter as much as how you manage the code (low coupling, strong cohesion).

Unfortunately, the non-business apps may hold you back from a portfolio standpoint, especially since you said there was nothing complicated in their inner workings.

It might be worth your while to work on a more serious/business-oriented app (that scratches an itch of yours - not something that you have no interest in). Something along the lines of something that reads from an API and displays it/allows the user to do something with the data. Throwing in some nice visual eye candy with UIDynamics or the older CoreAnimation is a nice touch, as well.

In general, during the course of the interview, since you have a non-traditional background, you want to demonstrate that you took on technical challenge(s) and solved them. Since your apps to date appear to be not too complicated, please consider building something complicated in the month you have allotted yourself - just for the experience of it. The bar keeps getting higher with each successive iOS SDK release - at this point, you should be comfortable with storyboards, blocks, not blocking the main thread, handling async stuff, networking, and the many open-source libraries out there that make things better for iOS developers.

For bonus points, build the app all in Swift (and then you can tell the interviewers about it - most developers have not seriously delved into Swift for lack of time/bandwidth).

Also, start reading the articles curated by http://iosdevweekly.com if you have not already

Good luck!
Between rulings like this and the pressure that these companies are exerting on small websites, it would be impossible for a Youtube to emerge today. What's more, this has a sort of chilling effect, with more and more companies shying away from potentially dangerous ideas and moving to safe, consumer internet applications like a million twitter clients that bore you to death. I fear for the future of the internet as I know it.
To this day; Googlers still find tiny bits of string tucked into the corners of their otherwise immaculate office space.
Down for me, google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4o0E3Aa...
You're going to complain about a refund of what, ~ $22, from a service with no SLA for a site in 'private beta'?

You must think pretty highly of your app. Why don't you take it out of 'private beta' and let the rest of us look at it?
"Is there a single Android handset that competes with the iPhone in terms of units" In a lot of countries the Samsung Galaxy S just does that.
Heroku has no SLA
This is a great list, thank you.

Julia Evans has a Pandas cookbook that's a good complement to the official docs: https://github.com/jvns/pandas-cookbook
I went in thinking "meh, let's check" and was surprised and quite amused about the "wholesomeness" of what could have been a very strange encounter.

He seemed respectful and she seemed unbothered by the whole ordeal. Interesting, not my cup of tea, but definitely interesting.

Something else that caught my attention was how early he believes his interest for feet developed, as early as six and nine years of age. I wonder how this slightly amusing predilection grows and develops over time, as to even gain sexual connotation.
In my experience, currently public transport works really well for high density routes, but no one has managed to solve the low density route issue. Take a bus going towards a leaf node at 10 pm on a week day, and you're often the only one in a huge bus with the driver (that's of course if you're in a place where such a bus exists). Environmentally and economically, that's dreadful, worse than a car. I don't think public transports running at 5% capacity is the solution.

The solution might be full self-driving cars, but we're far from it yet.
If you're an expert in CICS, JCL, DB2 then you'll get a job, but if you just hello_world.cob you won't get a job.

Kinda like its somewhat easier to get a react.js angular.js node.js job than a generic javascript job.
I am pretty sure natural gas power plants can carry liquid fuel reserves but most don't carry much.
Reddit Is Fun on Android and Apollo on iOS

Alien Blue used to be great until Reddit bought it and turned it into the official app. Very sad.
give croissant
(1) is a good argument for why you should start there when you have that ignorance. (2) is a meaningless hypothetical that does not describe the current situation. Neither addresses even some of the example questions I’ve raised which don’t even cover the space of questions which should be considered.

If you think the answers are “obvious”, you’re either ignoring relevant questions or you are filling in answers with your own assumptions.
I wear glasses too because of nearsightedness. It took me several tries at different eye doctors to find lenses that did not make me sick, but my negative experiences were not only with video displays. I had problems driving and reading, too. Of course I could read the letter charts in the doctors' offices and in the driving license office. (edit: i was experimenting with contact lenses at this time too)

Once I got the right lenses in front of my eyes, all was fine until I moved away from a CRT display, which I had no problems with at 100% brightness. My IPS display with CCFL backlight brought the pain back, until I set the brightness to 15%. But I still experience eye fatigue after several hours.

I have my display elevated so it's really at eye level, and it's about 1 meter away from my eyes so that looking at other clutter on my desk isn't a drastic change in focal distance.

I have two soft halogen lamps over my desk for lighting. It would be better if they were behind me. The lighting fixture has a switch to change the electrical configuration from series to parallel. In parallel the lamps are brighter and this produces a bit of glare so I only use them this way when I am working on something mechanical on my desk.
I thought like this for much of my life until I realized how badly the system exploits those who create value in science and technology.

I suspect we live in a world where about 90% of the value is created by about 1-2% of the people who receive maybe 5-10% of the economic benefit. Personally I'm not very satisfied with that distribution but I don't see it improving unless we become less naive about economic/legal/political matters.
I think the period names you are looking for are "A New Hope", "The Board Strikes Back", and "The Return of the Jobs".
I'm going to second videotaping yourself. I found that running through a speech then watching the recording helped enormously. It let me see the 'this part doesn't work, this part does' big picture, which helps you improve with each rehearsal.
Reasons to not buy the book:

1. I am a scientist. This sure doesn't seem like science to me.

Reasons to buy the book:

1. I am too ignorant to be pessimistic.

2. The source of the suggestion. Ryan's judgement usually seems pretty sound.

Two reasons are better than one. Just bought the book.

I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. I'll start on Monday.
Let's put a webcam at your door. Your employer would love to confirm you are on your way on time this morning and some of us would love to see you struggling with the keys again, like the other night.

It's public information.
To ameliorate that you could find external mantras that resonate with your idea of who you want to be. I feel like the biggest weakness of this system could be that, if the mantras don't jive with your conception of a better person, you'll never be able to stick to the schedule.