skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because they're not paying for the cost of the road capacity they're using.

Suppose it costs $3000/month for an apartment near where you work, because supply is constrained by bad zoning regulations etc. If it costs $1500/month + $400/month travel expenses to live an hour's drive away, lots of people will do that instead. If you add $1100/month to the cost of driving to discourage that, all that happens is that the $3000/month apartment goes up to $4000/month because you've increased demand for closer housing but not supply. If there is no housing for people to move into, there is no price that will get them to move into it.

But if you increase the supply of no-commute housing then people will immediately move into it independent of the cost of road capacity, because landlords don't want empty apartments so the price will fall to the level that causes the new units to be occupied.
So what should be used for SaaS directory infrastructure?
At first, it will be hard. You may not have any spare time. After the newborn phase, the amount of spare time you have will slowly start to go back up again. Enjoy it, they aren't little babies for long. You will be well aware of how precious that time is, in a way that your pre-parent self could not comprehend.

I usually have about 4-5 hours of time after the kids go to bed. During this time I either program, talk with my wife, work on mixing records for clients (I'm also an audio engineer), compose music, rehearse with my band, research interesting things, etc.

If you are with a partner, try offering to watch the kids and suggest they do something enjoyable for themselves. This not only gives some quality time with the kids, it also makes it a lot easier to ask for time to do the things you want, or even have your partner reciprocate.
I think the point being made is that the devil's advocate brought out the norm to mobilise for every contingency (not that innovation won't suffer, which is obvious as misstrust rises) and that it can be used to rhetorically balance two points of view that are not equal (or two questionable actions).

In general:
Ownership of information and facts are key points in the overall discussion here, if something is known it can be manipulated (just as they discuss above).
Defensive patenting could be achieved, or releasing news of something to knock away at funding for its continuation...

One example how it could be relevant in particular to the general discussion is how the software and partially hardware has been kept by CIA to formally avoid reprecussions from good honest people.
Great job,

- Any plan on embedding option for 3rd party websites?
- Self-hosted versions?
If I could truly change how History were taught, I would eliminate the rote memorization. Any exam with multiple choice questions about what year something occurred in is missing the point, in my opinion. Lots more material could be covered without this.
Yes, they were also trying to assassinate the leader of a country who was also on extremely high alert for that sort of thing. This journalist is regular joe, who also happens to be a drug user. Wouldn't it be easier to just spike his drugs, overdose him, shoot him in a "drug deal /robbery gone wrong".

There are so many better ways to assassinate someone, and I think the CIA of all people would know the appropriate amount of force required. Seriously take off the tinfoil, you're just spreading FUD.
I am rolling on the floor laughing at this. Thank you for writing it.

"Choose the interviewer" is pretty much "choose a random developer working at a San Francisco tech company". There are so many true stereotypes in here I'm hurting from laughter.
One thing I'll say — it doesn't just make things faster. It makes things so much tastier. Any stewing or braising dish gets done much quicker, and the meat retains so much more moisture while still getting its connective tissues broken down.

I have never failed to make a tasty meal in mine.
It's not transcribed locally at the client except for the wake word.
>Is there any case in which a permanent ban on future legislation would be, or has been, productive or reasonable?

Not to be pedantic, but the US Constitution contains a few pretty big permanent bans on future legislation. Government limiting governments power is a hallmark of the American system.
Windows junctions to the rescue
The purpose of that is to ensure that certain fundamental rights of citizens are protected, though, whereas this is the banning of future similar legislation in a way that I only see as being favorable to companies, not citizens.
One thing I always thought would be interesting (but no idea if viable): allow trusted engineers / seniors who have been in the company for a certain time to vouch and directly push a referral through to the final interview stage. Something like a joker. You could also link the referrals performance to the engineer directly and limit the joker to one per year or something like that.

When I refer someone I usually do so because I worked with that person in the past and / or highly believe in their technical ability. I want to work with that person because I believe him/her to be a valuable asset for the company.

It's very frustrating to loose a smart person and possibly friend because of some trick interview question
Does the zstd define an archive format (hierarchy and metadata)?
Using async/await in TypeScript
> - an easy way to spin up the entire infrastructure locally (say for new hires);

DEB/RPM packages, along with the source packages (they make preparing the OS
for development easier).

> - an easy way to share new services with the team;

DEB/RPM packages.

> - the environment should mimic staging/production as much as possible.

DEB/RPM packages, inside a container or VM that runs the same OS as on
servers.

Don't make your environment overly complicated. You can safely use tools that
are on the market for dozen years, they haven't aged.
Very misleading regarding Oroville.

It wouldn't have been a "30 ft. wall of water", it would have been half the reservoir volume as the failed emergency spillway "bedrock" quickly eroded.

And the emergency spillway failure mode wasn't because of age, it was a design flaw from the day the dam was built.
This is much easier to debug. You can look at the state after each step.
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Silicone-Cover-Models/dp/...

this is the exact product you're asking for ("Creates an air-tight and water-tight seal on the Instant Pot stainless steel inner pot.")
Reminds me of New Orleans. They told you the levies were gonna break. They are now telling you the dams are gonna collapse. It's gonna happen and then we'll deal with the problem after the catastrophe.
"Does your company choose to do things the hard way over the easy way just because it's hard?"
Here's the other side if anyone is interested. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/larrydowne...

See also https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/3.7.16-_multi-...
Interesting! I didn't know that actually.

It seems like those bans on future legislation can be traced back to fundamental parts of the Constitution, though, right? Parts that aim to protect the citizenry.

The constitution is also supposed to be the highest power in the land, however these are simply legislators banning future legislators.
I think all things being equal, growth in population is a wash. In a static economy I would think that one more adult will on average and at scale contribute about as much as they consume.

AFAIU our economic system (or at least our expectations of it) is based on productivity growth--more output for an equivalent input of labor. The additional output gains are the basic source of wealth creation.

For various reasons I think it's easier to maintain robust productivity growth with a growing population. Workers reach maximum productivity age 40-50.[1] Also, if you want the 40- to 50-year-olds of tomorrow to be at the top of their game you want them to begin learning to use their tools today.

So an aging population has an increasing proportion of workers past their prime and, worse, those people will be even less productive with newer technology than workers about to enter their prime productivity years.

If the population is shrinking then things are worse because now there are fewer workers paying for services for the elderly. But that's a different sort of issue, I think.

Alternatively, we could just kill old people. Then we might even be able to sustain high productivity growth even as the population shrinks. But I suspect old people might be critical for sociological reasons; society might be much less stable in their absence.

[1] https://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2016/12/09/why-productivity-g...
I find the version without chaining easier to debug.
I run some coding workshops for 6th to 8th graders and would be interested in using scrimba for some of the lessons. Are you currently opening this up to beta testers that can implement it in a real world scenario?
I'm constantly overhauling my own bias and opinions on subjects when presented with new information, I don't do this actively - its more subconscious, which is against the results of these experiments. The results were the subjects estimating a scenario (after being told they were deceived). The scale of measurement was the positive and negative bias they had towards themselves.

They started with a negative bias, which was then contradicted by a neutral fact. The outcome was a negative leaning estimation.

The others started with a positive bias, which was then contradicted by a neutral fact. The outcome was a positive leaning estimation.

A logically sound conclusion, a "mean" outcome. This doesn't seem like some kind of eye-opening revelation... am I missing something here?
There is no such thing as 'neutral' where humans and politics intersect.

Many others have made the point that it is perfectly possible to lie with a collection of true statements.

It is also possible to be used in this context; that's where the phrase 'useful idiot' comes from. So Assange should be pure as the driven snow and be laundering manipulated documents, thereby giving them the imprimatur that you, among others, appear to grant great value. In fact, this is what I and others believe to at least occasionally happen with WL.

> which it has always been so far.

How do you know this? How do you know that 'truth' hasn't been shaded by blending observable facts with unverifiable ones or by omitting documents, or parts of documents? How do you know that everyone outside of WL insiders (loosely defined) is granted access to documents at the same time? I think there are still questions about Stone's access to the Clinton dumps.

> distracting from the real story here

Please. Everyone gets to pick "the real story" for themselves.
They do this on the T as well - I wear headphones.
If I don't recognize the number, I let it go to voicemail.
If they don't leave a voicemail or they leave a spam message, I block the number. (The iPhone lets you block numbers.)
Firefox on Android used to have text reflow, then they removed it. Then the crappy extensions were made. I used to use text reflow on Conkeror (Firefox based) on desktop, but a year or two after they disabled it on Android they removed it from Firefox. I agree, I also use Opera on Android, for this feature.
Send vulnerabilities to appropriate software vendor, wait 30-90 days then release to web publically?
First, with modern SaaS platforms, it's not that hard to do security right. Seconds, it's not like you can say "no, I'm not going to fill out your questionare".
You might like https://github.com/killercup/rustfix
You could also make the argument that a rich persons time is worth less because they can afford to hire people to do what poor people have to do themselves, like clean the house or go shopping or drive their kids around. They are also more likely to have a job that can be done from home.
>I hate that if I look at a forum post written >5 years ago, odds are all of the images will be broken.

Could be interesting to sell these placements to advertisers: if you don't donate, we'll change all your linked images to image ads after 12 months.
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Regulations are not legislation. The FCC was created through legislation which defines its power and scope. This would be part of that definition.
If I hacked two people's private emails who were in some popularity contest, and they both contained severely incriminating things, and I only release 1 of those to the public, then I believe it is arguable that I have gone beyond mere truth-disclosure and on to outright manipulation.
> When i look up the internet I find people doing full time job delivering products while having a family and some still find plenty of time to blog or write books

When I think of those I follow in similar situations, it seems they tend to eschew learning for learning's sake, and even those who were successful programmers learn to delegate. (Rob Walling comes to mind) So whether it's running a product, or learning new skills, I think it's a matter of avoiding shiny object syndrome.
I drive a beater, it cost me $4k 6 years ago. I spend $40/month on insurance in a big city - liability only, about $150 a year on maintenance (2-3 oil changes, plus misc.), and generally have 1 big repair a year that runs me $300-500. All-in-all that's $75-95 a month plus gas. It's really not a huge toll, even for poor people.
Thanks for the kind comment. I have been thinking of putting together a Python and SQL book since I teach those primarily and no current book fits my needs. I hope to have the same appeal except being a much better programmer these days :)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I would have to self-host. I meant to ask what the advantages were over Simplenote. The option to self-host is one. But I wondered about the other advantages.

I see on that page they say "That's why we built Standard File ... backs up your data to multiple locations, ...", and this sounds interesting (I'm not sure of the best way to backup Simplenote data, except perhaps with a combination of nvpy and git) but the Standard File page doesn't talk about backups at all.

How do you ensure your data doesn't go away?
Thank you for pointing out that the word was irrelevant (and thus should not
have been used in the first place).
I agree and dissagree. I lived in Kirkland(outside of Seattle) and spent time in LA. LA would really benefit from a real tram system. It is not too spread out for it, and it is a great candidate, because so much of it is just shitty strip mall and parking lot, that simply bulldozing half the city and building something decent along with a tram line would be a good idea. Kirkland, not so much. Too much suburb, you are right. But despite the spread of many american cities, there is still a hole lot of urban core, which is desparately lacking any sort of real mass transport infrastructure, and too often I hear eletist sentiments as being the reason not to build real infrastructure.

Ironically, a kind of anticapitalism, unionism, plays a big role in this. Unions in the construction industry have played a big role in making prices in the US higher than they should be, though even this cannot be the entire explanation. Prague has its corruption, I like to think of it as being a %20 tax on all government projects, but still we manage to do things for prices that are reasonable, even within the context of our economy. And the price of concrete aint any cheeper here than it is anywhere else, and the Czech Republic is far less wealthy than America. Somehow, America has learned to oscify itself to the point where it is less capable of building real infrastructure than the average eastern european deap state protodemocracy, it is really strange.
Seems a certainty to me, assuming that eventually the cost of the carbon footprint gets passed down to consumers.
Certainly functional programming is not making the data containers to fulfil
a separately defined interface. This comes from OOP paradigm (its form that is
implemented in most languages).

And then, what specifically does "functional programming" mean to you that
makes implementing an interface a feature from functional paradigm?

But this all misses the point of my comment. If you knew it would invoke the
unnecessary discussion to call the iterator "functional feature" (as the
quoted comment signifies), you should have rephrased the title of the chapter
in the first place, rendering the disclaimer unnecessary.
Interesting to see if the company actually shifts it's culture.

My wife is vegetarian so I'm exposed to quite a bit of different sources of veggie protein. My concern is that the fake meat stuff is actually kind of expensive compared to meat. If it was cheaper I can see more folks move in that direction.
> it isn't as if driving has been anything close to free

That's true, but completely misses the point. Road access is free, which is what causing congestion on some roads during rush hours.

Any solution to that has to target those specific roads during those specific hours.
The best kind of Web
Agreed. I think the key here is that consistent exposure over time to patterns reduces cognitive load through "chunking".
Most the arguments I get into are on already resolved topics, like whether or not CO2 captures heat, whether or not evolution is real, whether or not vaccines work.

I don't know, so I can't tell you when or if the climate will hit some unrecoverable precipice, but I can tell you reliably that adding more CO2 doesn't help.

I don't know, so I can't tell you whether punctuated equilibrium or the selfish gene imply better statistical models for distribution, bit I can reliably tell you evolution is definitely real and maybe one or two of the effects it has.

I don't know, so I can't tell you the exact odds of a vaccine having the maximal effect or meaningfully compare two new potential vaccines, but I can tell you why the USA doesn't have polio and smallpox.

Just being able to say "I don't know" helps, so many people out there make up their mind then won't change with the facts because they are uncomfortable going through that "I don't know" mental territory. Don't try to be an expert in fields you aren't, but try to understand what little can be understood with the information at hand.
Sounds like your application is latency sensitive, and not bandwidth sensitive, take a look at the graphs towards the end of this article:

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/numa-and-cluster-on-di...

There's not much difference in memory bandwidth between crossing domains on the same die (COD) vs crossing domains system wide (accessing memory for a different socket). What kind of computation are you running?
I loved this thought experiment. I often feel like this too, a lot of people identify with R or D or Trump or Clinton, not because of any specific policies they wrote. It's almost always your community, basically what level of shunning am I going to receive for believing X. We're all tiny machine learning experiments that push our personal agendas. We align with an issue that's important to us or we align with a group that's important to us. People are very "group oriented" so specific issues, while important, are typically less meaningful than the tribe mentality.
Make time and have a super-human SO :-)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13815933 and marked it off-topic.
The DMOZ data is licensed under creative commons and there is a RDF export. I downloaded the data, registered a domain - http://www.zedurl.com/ - and I'll try knock up a mirror of DMOZ tonight as a rails app. I'll update this post if things go well.
It's an interesting thought experiment, if the original poster had qualified every statement in a different way...

"you just start working with a white person, giving the white person basic isolated tasks, and as the white person successfully progresses with their work, task are getting more and more complicated (salary, permissions as well). After few months of such freelance-ish work you can know for sure that this white person is compatible with the team, able to solve problems, able to learn. And only then the white person becomes an employee with offer, benefits and SO."

Now, I'd like to declare right up front I don't think the original poster was trying to exclude women. I think the original poster just wasn't thinking about their writing at all.

I think that's all the parent post was getting at--people should think more when they write, and make sure they think about what they're saying.
Prevailing wisdom says developers don't pay for tools so investing in them is stupid.
New kind of recurrent neural network using attention
Upload metering is happening again in Australia. Especially on mobile devices, this could get super expensive.
> They’re so difficult to make, in fact, the companies that build aircraft don’t make their own engines.

Airframe manufacturers are prohibited from doing so. The "United" in "United Airlines" harks back to when Boeing, Pratt& Whitney and an airmail company were integrated into a single company.

Today, when an airline buys a commercial airliner, the airframe and engine purchases are separate even though the airframe is specific to a single engine type.
I have a 12-year-old step-daughter. That is how my schedule has shifted -- doing more after her bedtime.

I am lucky though. I am working for an early-stage startup, and there are a lot of opportunity to step up and skill build, not for its own sake, but because we need to.
The article you linked doesn't actually address either of the points you claim it negates. It doesn't look at peer-reviewed status or citation quality (or quantity) as variables. It claims that most published research findings are false, but you're making a misleading interpretation of its findings.

> That said, you'd be surprised how often the fact (pun intended) that it's "impossible to know anything for certain" is lost on people.

It's certainly not lost on the millions of newly minted epistemic skeptics, who all of sudden over the last few months feel a calling to publicly argue against the knowability of objective facts.

I took an epistemology class in college, and I do agree that there is a sense in which facts are never truly and finally knowable to us. But I vehemently disagree that we should import this philosophical doubt into matters of everyday life. Even if our ability to capture facts is imperfect, throwing up our hands and saying "nobody's ever actually known a single fact, so why bother trying to agree on the terms of debate, lets just agree to disagree about the facts" is a transparent gesture towards legitimizing ignorance.
Well, that's my point. Rc<T>/Arc<T> essentially mean: "I can't figure out ownership here; let's use automatic memory management instead". The thing is that this is pervasive in ML (even simple functions like List.rev – functionally reversing a list – are a problem), so you end up having Rc<T>/Arc<T> all over the place. The underlying problem is that pure functions from data structures to data structures create multiple ownership naturally.

Remember that this is about the claim that "Rust is very much ML". It really isn't. It's a totally different programming paradigm. That's not bad. Rust does some things very well that ML has a hard time with. But it's not the same.
Ya, but then you're just disagreeing with the content of the decision (which is fine, and I agree with you) and not its structure (regulation that precludes future regulation).
Are traits really an ML thing? To me, they seem more similar to Haskell's typeclasses (and by "more similar to", I mean "almost exactly the same thing as"). From my somewhat limited experience with OCaml, it seems like the closest thing it has to traits is modules/functors, which seem to work fairly differently (i.e. traits are "added" to existing types, whereas functors are used to create new types).
I'm willing to bet that this is for two reasons:

1. It's expensive because people with more money are more likely to be vegetarian.
2. We don't pay for the true cost of meat, i.e. green house gas emissions, water usage, transportation costs, etc....