skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not childish, it's how a society works. It's the same concept behind seatbelt laws. Not wearing a seatbelt "should" be an individual choice but individuals not wearing a seatbelt in aggregate is a net negative for society so we legislate their use.
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for what it's worth this is the best, most resonant, description of the process that i've ever read (the whole article, not just the juggling bit)

and personally, i needed to be reminded that it's hard for other people too, that it doesn't just come out fully-formed as conventional wisdom might have you believing it should.
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That's what makes this experiment so interesting!

Because initially, the researchers had the same hypothesis. Yet their survey data collected from a highly educated, left-leaning audience gave the opposite result.

Major kudos to the NYU team here. First, for such an interesting outcome that's so contrary to their/our/everyone's assumptions. Second, for trying to help bridge the nasty partisan divide in American politics. It may be a futile task, but hey, somebody's got to try something...
I lost around the same amount about 2012, then gained 10kg/22lbs back as soon as I started earning enough to not worry about rent and medical costs every single time I went grocery shopping. Good for you - wish I could have been so disciplined (though 40lbs still isn't that bad when everything is said and done)
My wife is a teacher in PR. She is paying her pension but knkws wont be able to use it. This is the cherry on top of an education system that has me paying for the costs of running her classroom and even the cost of her students' materials costs. I do it for the kids, so that they have a betyer chance in life. But damn how it hurts to see politicians and department officials walk around with millions in their pockets while I spend my heard earned money (that has been taxed) on things they should be making sure are provided. How thry expect schools to work without paper, pencils, toilet paper, light bulbs, or books is beyond me.

And now, well, they are looking for ways to cut costs and benefits to teachers. Fucking assholes.
It is slowly happening elsewhere in the world, anywhere the diet is leaking in a preponderance of food from packages with nutrition labels on them, roughly speaking. Was in the PRC relatively recently, and was shocked at the levels of obesity I noticed while entering the country at the airport. Still not anywhere close to US levels, but very noticeable.

Once I got to their grocery stores and strolled around noticing the explosion of restaurants that served an increasingly sugar-laden menu, it clicked together for me.
> Anarchy is the only true freedom. Any social contract (i.e. government) limits freedom.

Limits on freedom does not always translate into less free. Limits on owning nuclear bombs can be seen as an increase in freedom for those who don't own them.
much snark.
No major disagreement there.

What I'm trying to highlight is the distinction between the struggle for power and the exercise of power. Campaigning for election is a struggle for power. So is purging your political opponents within the government. So is founding a startup.

Governing is the exercise of power. Deporting all immigrants and closing the borders is the exercise of power. "Grab 'em by the pussy" is the exercise of power. Leveraging a monopoly is the exercise of power.

Power struggles are usually looked at favorably by those whose interests align with the ascendant power structure, and unfavorably by those whose interests are entrenched. The naked exercise of power is usually looked at with distrust by everyone, on the theory that if they bully someone else, they could bully you next. There's a fairly wide grey area in-between; for example, I've categorized Trump's immigration orders as the exercise of power (which probably both you and tptacek would agree with), but someone who just lost his job to an immigrant would probably categorize it as a power struggle where Trump is fighting the immigrants oppressing him. And similarly, not everyone would buy your claim that a dictator committing a purge is an "outsider" in his government. The key point though is the relative power differential between parties: it's a struggle for power when the active party is the underdog, and the exercise of power when the active party is dominant.

The way I read Altman's quote, he's casting Trump's campaign in the same terms as the struggle for power that all startups have to go through. He's specifically not endorsing what Trump has done with that power once he attained it.
You might want to re-read the conversation sometime when you’re in a generous mood.

From my outsider perspective, the comment you are replying to is entirely reasonable and not personal (“The major complaint from parents [..] seems to be” is not the same as “your complaint right here”), and then you flew off the handle and started cursing the commenter and your son’s teacher in all caps.

P.S. this “If we want to actually fix elementary math education, that would be simple.” is a pretty ridiculous statement, unless by “simple” you mean something like, «Create a new job for elementary school math teachers; hire well qualified candidates; give them rigorous teacher training; pay them much better, provide a longer career ladder, give them more autonomy, and show them dramatically more respect than currently; and reorganize the whole school day to give the new math teachers time for introspection, collaboration, and professional development. While we’re at it, fix and improve school facilities, and make sure every school/teacher has the resources they need.» In that case, sure, “simple”. (Note that the specific curriculum used has little to do with any of this.)
"Because I can hoard access to it over the other teams and make myself indispensable."
>The delivery service is actually a loss leader for instacart's underlying business, which is influencing purchase decisions through their app and getting paid for it

If that were true, wouldn't a heck of an easier approach have been to setup an "ad network for retail delivery apps"? I think you might be underestimating both the difficulty of the logistics side of their business, and therefore its value as well. I've never really looked into Instacart (Not available here), but I imagine a more likely Instacart investment thesis is "if local businesses were given the option to not have to manage their delivery fleet, with minimal impact on other parts of their business, would they switch? + How much can we reduce the cost of local delivery due to scale/volume, and therefore is a monopoly position in local delivery achievable?
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That's because people who want that stuff can simply choose a different laptop. With Apple however, you're screwed if their top-of-the-line product doesn't provide the things you're looking for.

And of course it's made even worse by the fact that you're not allowed to run macOS in a VM, effectively forcing many developers to buy Apple hardware.
The trick is to distinguish those situations from the ones where it's a political goal to destroy the pension plan because somebody considers union and pensions to be intrinsically wrong.
There's a difference between normalizing the election results, and normalizing his specific behavior.

I don't think we should normalize a President accusing, without any evidence, the previous president of wiretapping him... over Twitter.

That's one example of something that should never be normalized.
In the end, the lack of software (on Windows, the vendor would need to recompile the code for all ISAs) was what doomed Windows on PPC for me. Even though it was ridiculously fast, and a nicer experience than MacOS 8, neither Visual Studio nor Outlook were there.
Replace male with white, women with black, and re-read your argument. Does it still sound sane?
There is an infographic that opens another page in the OP's article that shows that new Massachusetts teachers will NEVER break even on their pension.
http://www.bash.org/?330261
I disagree. There's always jobs for valuable candidates. It's average to below-average candidates who find any market challenging. I believe in always having standards, and if you run across this kind of bullshit, set them straight and move on. The reason this kind of crap persists is because too many people put up with it.
So does this mean the environment was only partially simulated? It sounds like we're assuming Martian potatoes will be grown in pressurized environments.
Potatoes on Mars? Poland can into space!
Programmer salaries went up. Teaching salaries went down.
OK, so tax garbage food and tax BMI.

Really, it should be no different than any other sin tax. It's behavior you want to discourage, so tax it.
Google gets recursion:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/google-gets-recursion.htm...
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I agree, this is crucial information for assessing the incident. Autodrive crashes are going to be greater than zero, the important question is are they going to be less than manual driving?
Only following the law in "some cities" is not a good thing.
Yep. I go to the top university in Canada (wrt being employable in technology) and work with/know many qualified females. I can say that there is only one (out of ~25) that claims she has never experienced any sexism.
Yes, it is. A large part of the country supported Nixon throughout the scandal and the aftermath.
Do we all know? I currently weigh 270lbs (and climbing) and I

* Don't consume soda or sugary drinks of any kind
* Go on 3 mile walks 3-4x weekly
* Have switched to soylent 100% of meals to make calorie counting dead simple
* Recently cut out alcohol too

And yet pounds are adding on not coming off. I've been gaining about 10-15lbs a year every year since I hit 30 after being at a stable weight of 170lbs for all of my teens and 20s and none of the adjustments I've made have had ANY impact on it what-so-ever. So maybe its not just "eat less, fatty". Maybe there is something else going on?
DHS: https://www.dhs.gov/
Heads up Google Cloud just release a new feature today which allows you to redirect traffic to different storage buckets and even VM instances using simple rules which are themselves stored in a storage bucket.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-jcxSZGS-8
> What I'm trying to highlight is the distinction between the struggle for power and the exercise of power.

I'm not sure there is the kind of distinction here you are trying to draw; a struggle for (future) power is one context in which (present) power is exercised, they aren't opposing or conflicting concepts.
I suspect the CIA is doing these primitive basic attacks for one reason: they work a lot of the time. CIA likely doesn't use ONLY these attacks (and the more intricate ones are probably run by a different group), but I mean, c'mon, buffer overflows and SQL injection are STILL effective venues of attack. Why give up on something that works just because there are other, stronger, tools? This lets you reduce risk of your involved attacks being caught - use them less often. Meanwhile, you can get 80% (made up number) of your targets with "silly" stuff, and only bring out the big guns on the 20%.

All speculation, of course.
So while some stores may do their own delivery, by consolidating that space
into a single player they are able to create tremendous volume.

OP's point was that shoppers typically shop at 1-2 grocery stores. Seamless/GrubHub is different because people are more likely order from several restaurants across time.

clairity makes an astute point that Instacart's personalized data is more valuable than any single grocery store's data. and competing on "store shelves" allows them to negotiate with brands directly, and totally circumvent the grocery stores.

.... but in order to do that, they need to capture the market, and they need their operating model to work well for long enough to meet that goal
No. I've seen the statistics for how many birds are estimated to be killed by human-made objects.

Buildings were the biggest killer of birds by far. Many millions of birds each year are killed by colliding with windows on buildings. They often don't realize the window is there. I'm guessing the bird sees through the window and doesn't realize there's a barrier or they see a reflection of the sky instead.

Automobiles were also big killers of birds.

Windmills were estimated to result in 0.1% of bird deaths by man-made objects or something really tiny like that.

I don't understand why people freak out about birds being killed by wind turbines when vastly larger numbers are being killed by buildings and cars. Nobody is yelling about saving the birds by getting rid of buildings and cars.
This is what worries me about most such pension systems[1] -- because they don't operate on an actuarially sound basis, but depend on there always being enough payers, they are prone to "evaporative cooling"[2], which can strike suddenly and without warning.

That is, as you keep goring a larger chunk out of newcomers, you make their alternatives more attractive e.g. occupations other than teaching, or teaching in other country. This looks disproportionately appealing to the biggest potential contributors. So each person that leaves means a bigger chunk you have to take out of other newcomers, and the process accelerates. So then you may have little warning before you reach the point where enough have left to make it bankrupt.

Unfortunately, it's an uphill battle just to convince people that pensions should required to be funded at all, i.e. they set aside the discounted present value of every future dollar promised, rather than "oh don't worry, we'll totes have enough rev by then!".

[1] i.e. pay-as-you-go or underfunded

[2] To explain the metaphor, "Evaporative cooling" refers to how the exits from the system are lopsided and change its average properties. For liquids, the particles that evaporate away have the highest energy per particle, leaving the average particle energy -- and thus temperature -- lower.
Data Engineer at Thread (YC '12) here.

We're a relatively small team so it's nothing terribly sophisticated - Spark jobs prep log data for a nightly model training, done with sklearn - the model is just a python pickle that get loaded into our ranking system, Thimble. All done on EC2.

We also have a real-time pipeline (Bazalgette) that pulls events off a Kinesis stream and turns them into features, saved to Redis.

We're hiring a software engineer (in London) at the moment so if this sounds like the kind of tech you'd be interested in working alongside, drop me an email (in my profile) or look at https://thread.com/jobs
I don't understand, the equation doesn't change at all.
> At what point do people take responsibility for their own bodies and their own lives?

This question touches on some very deep and controversial ideas kicking around in the current conversation. The question of whether we have an inherent "human nature", a biological substrate that informs our capabilities and behavior, touches on everything from education to tech employment. I don't want to debate the subject generally.

But can we agree, for the specific case of food consumption that

1) we have very strong impulses that are difficult to consciously resist; that

2) these impulses originate in biology; that

3) the existence of exceptional willpower is a mark of exceptional self-discipline, a level not practical to achieve for most; and that

4) advertisers prey on the difficulty most people experience in controlling their food behavior?
They're not inconsequential, but the analysis they did seems to have been in terms of counties, not districts, which would insulate their results from being explained simply as gerrymandering.
In my experience as a small-business ops guy, other devs just aren't interested. I try to get them to learn a bit and avoid the personnel SPOF, but they have their own bailiwicks to lounge in.

It's in my own interest to spread the knowledge around, because I like holidays-that-are-holidays.
I've been speculating that they'll do a A11+x86 combo; possibly using a very underpowered, bargain basement x86 paired to an ARM for native binary compatibility during the transition.
I absolutely agree, but only in so far as it applies to politics or the public sphere. When it comes to code, I have a hard time correlating it much with fascist dynamism.
You're correct about there being a genetic component to obesity. Unfortunately, it's also the case that it is just "eating less" --- physics has no special case for 21st century humans. The way to square this circle, and what's particularly difficult for people in this society, is to accept that that there is a genetic component to this behavioral issue.

We'd prefer very much going around believing that behavior is somehow disjoint from genetics. That just isn't true, and as long we continue believing it's true, we're going to make bad public policy.
>How many music pirates have murdered someone this year?

Considering half of Americans pirate music I'm sure that there have been plenty of murders by pirates this year. But it would be stupid to go around arresting music pirates and claim we're preventing murders.
> There is very little actual food choice because the market optimizes for profits, not for health.

Hold on! The market consists of both suppliers and customer. One would think that being fat is not profitable for the latter. Meanwhile, only 3% of Japanese people have a BMI over 30, while 32% of Americans do. It must be that Japanese markets don't optimize for profit! Or maybe you got the source of the problem wrong. Guess which one I think it is.

> Mexico has shown that regulation does work, they regulated sugar which has had a positive effect on health.

Hungary has a higher sugar tax, had it for a longer time, and it appears to have no effect on health at all. Go figure.
Gerald Sussman covers the Tower of Hanoi problem in the SICP lectures [1]. The thing I find fascinating about this solution is that it doesn't even require the rule that you can't place larger discs on smaller discs - it simply is never optimal to do so anyway. And the solution is so simple, I wonder if you could invent a game by first coming up with a solution and then seeing what it actually solves.

[1] https://youtu.be/dlbMuv-jix8?t=47m17s
I think as a society it is pretty clear that we do not know the secret to not being obese. I can't count how many times a day I am bombarded with messages telling me to eat junk food, that it's fine, it's fun. People do not live in a vacuum and can't be judged too harshly for choosing the options that society has worked very hard to place in front of them and promote. It's simple psychology that when faced with sizes such as small, medium, large, giant, extra giant, then people stop choosing small. Should we accept personal blame for our innate cognitive biases? No, of course not. What we should do as a society is stop manipulating people into making choices which ultimately harm them.
Yes, sexual harassment never happens when men of sound conscience are around.

However, when a woman is unfortunate enough to be in the absence of such protective presence, it will find her like an estrogen-seeking rocket...
Also, grains used to be a decent source of Omega 3's until we (over the course of many generations) selectively bred for sweetness.
So what's your point? Are you trying to argue the USA has the same level of freedom as China or Iran?
I rarely solve difficult programming challenges. I solve difficult business challenges all the time.

This is an expedient way of presenting difficulties encountered in software development. Suppose you need to collate information from many different processes that are distributed in space and time, possibly pursuing the information from a series of back-up sources when the primary source fails, and providing on demand, at any point along the way, a summary of results taking into account pending results and failures.

This is a straightforward problem for a human. A person does not need special training to pick up the phone when their boss calls and say, "The framer finished on Tuesday, the faucet supplier hasn't replied to any of the voice mails I left last week so I sent an email to the plumber since he's used them before, the electrician says the wiring won't pass inspection the way we asked him to do it, and the client approved a draw for $10k so there will be no problem paying for the tile on Friday." Someone who does not program computers does not see a need to analyze this problem and create a precise and detailed plan for how to pursue and summarize this kind information. The difficulty arises when attempting to do something like this with a computer.

Therefore, it's reasonable to describe it as a programming challenge. But you'd be foolish to. You're much better off calling it a business challenge, because getting it right matters to other people and the proper modifier for stuff that matters is "business." If it's "programming" then you're just amusing yourself on company time.

We've internalized this terminology to a sick degree. I took someone's dependent little brother to a diabetes appointment for them, and when I was summarizing the visit to her, I accidentally referred to the doctor's directions for taking the various medications as the "business logic." I meant to distinguish it from the things the doctor explained merely to satisfy my curiosity. As programmers we've had it drilled into us that "business" means something that matters to other people and can be discussed with them. Anything that is not "business" is at best mildly self-indulgent to mention and at worst selfish to even think about.

Therefore, we strive to describe everything we do as "business." This is how the statement

I rarely solve difficult programming challenges. I solve difficult business challenges all the time.

becomes a declaration of virtue.

As an illustration of how words affect how we think about things, replace the word "programming" with "engineering." We aren't ashamed of tackling "engineering" challenges. So there's an out when something is hard and matters but can't plausibly called a business challenge: call it an engineering challenge instead.
Who will pay for it?
The amount of times I've seen some BLM support spout racist comments against white people is disappointing
I'm sorry I belittled your experience and frustration. I didn't intend to do that, or to say your problems with your child's math education aren't real problems. My response was coming from talking extensively with teachers responsible for implementing common core. Their biggest complaints are not coming from top-100 mathematicians. I recognize you are angry your child isn't being taught well. And that the standards and expectations, both with what your child will learn and what teachers will be capable of teaching, aren't up to snuff. I agree with you. But for educators, that is not the typical complaint (this may not be true amongst you and your friends and family, though). Common core's curriculum can be good while the education produced from teachers trying to implement it is bad. I'd place the blame primarily on the process we use for training and incentivizing our elementary teachers: we don't treat math competency as a requirement, we don't provide enough support to implementing new curriculums, and we don't provide good teachers with the authority to enforce real standards. No matter what curriculum people try to use, the teacher-support problem needs to be fixed. Common core is not the real enemy. And it would be great if part of the support we gave to teachers was paying people like you to provide training to them, and helping those teachers who don't like teaching math learn what challenging and achievable standards actually are.