skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An archive isn't a good tool to onboard people.

The knowledge you get at school or college is a kind "onboarding" new members. But it doesn't make you read every single piece that was ever written. You get a summary of both events and outcome, and most importantly the current state.

That's also how Wikipedia works: Articles don't get longer and longer, you can also summarize and put stuff into perspective. That's why there is a way to delete stuff (with version control, of course).

Moreover, onboarding new people (or maintaining the collective memory) isn't the only form of communication that happens in a team. Maybe it's not even the most important.

What about coordination? On the smaller stuff, on the daily stuff, but also on the bigger picture?
Well, at some point, you reach your limit in shares, so...
We weren't "engineers" at Parc, but a combination of many talents (check out the actual histories of the place -- why waste time speculating when there is much you could learn?)
I think the article's contention is that on-the-ground teachers expect that two people coming out of a high school Algebra II with C+'s are similar. (Certainly that is my working hypothesis.) The article argues that it ain't so.
NodeJS and MongoDB is frequently used together and I think some fraction of the NodeJS developers thinks that NoSQL is just the better, newer, faster solution to data storage. I regurarly run into customers who hire us to make their data model work and some non-trivial cases end up being moving them to PostgreSQL. Data engineering actually is a more complex topic than some people think and it really bites you when you are actually using the solution for a while.
This looks so very useful. Also, good timing since we're just about to make a new visualization which could be used for more things in future. I dabbled with Plotly when it was announced, but had trouble with connecting our data sources and ran out of time.

I see the OP is here answering questions. Have you thought about Gapminder like animations?

I'd like to show our statistics with map data from our GIS systems. In the announcement the Walmart demo shows map from Mapbox so there's support for their service. Could you elaborate on what options there is for visualizing geographic information?

There was so much in the announcement from Jupyter to Excel like reactive components. It resembles Mike Bostock's D3.express in this regard [1]. I can't wait to start playing with this!

[1] https://medium.com/@mbostock/a-better-way-to-code-2b1d2876a3...
Slowly but steadily. Given the fact that D has not managed to die when it had so many chances to, I tell that D has better chance at mass adoption as "a better C++" than the current wave of Swift/Rust/Go that rely on "life support" from a corporate donor.
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What were those regulations doing for us as consumers, exactly?
Although I agree that this criticism of Canadian banks is probably broadly true, note that the banks did manage to coordinate on Interac, a quite serviceable standard for sending money electronically between private parties.
From a legislative perspective, that would be a great reason to mandate that all new construction include at least one urinal per bathroom (and that they be suitable for use by untrained females), and a horrible reason to mandate a lower tank size/flush volume on toilets that may be used for defecation.

But no matter what you do regarding toilet laws, the benefit simply vanishes in the noise when you also consider agricultural/industrial water use. It is pissing into a hurricane-force wind.

Domestic use in the US is 40.5 km^3/year, of which maybe 4.1 km^3/year is used in toilets (both for intentional flushes and leaks). Total freshwater use in the US is 483 km^3/year. A 50% reduction in water use for toilets would amount to a 0.5% reduction in total water use. For comparison purposes, 23.5 km^3/year of domestic water is used outdoors, for watering lawns and gardens or for filling swimming pools.

From a purely legislative perspective, it makes more sense to mandate leak-resistant flush valves than the size of the tank. It makes even more sense to strike down at a federal level all local zoning laws and HOA covenants that mandate a certain appearance for lawns, to explicitly allow alternate yard arrangments, such as xeriscaping and no-mow approaches, on residential properties. That would save more water in total than you could even by mandating that toilets could not use any water at all. And even that would pale in comparison to laws requiring just a 4% reduction in water use in steam-turbine power plants or in agricultural irrigation.

If you do the math, the burden of regulating toilet flush volume far outweighs the benefits from doing so. While you were counting flushes, one leak in one pivot irrigation rig just wasted more water than you will ever save in your entire lifetime of flushing toilets. This is my problem with individual environmentalism. An individual human already wastes so little that sacrificing just a bit more for the sake of the planet is easily flushed away by industry that has zero incentive--economic or regulatory--to conserve limited resources. You can drive a zero-emissions vehicle for an entire lifetime of commuting, and that benefit is more than erased by just one container ship burning bunker oil to ship consumer goods from Shanghai to Long Beach one time.

I pay by the cubic foot for municipal water, and I pay again for the municipal sewers and water treatment. For what I pay, I expect to be able to actually get my solid waste into the sewers without some jackass telling me how much water I can use to do it without also telling the toilet vendor that their product has to be able to do the job with that volume. Regulation for the public good is fine. Idiotic regulation, that does not accomplish the intended purpose, is not okay.
Tl;dr: Uber needs to raise its prices.
Quizlet seems to be doing the same thing and already has a somewhat large community behind it.
I 100% agree with this train of thinking and really like the way you've structured this. It's helped me kinda put together all the nagging feelings about what is wrong with criminal justice. In your opinion, what's the alternative though? Or I'd even be interested to hear what your take is on what a step in the right direction is. I know there are systemic problems that really trigger most of this, so maybe the solution is to cure the disease and not the symptoms so to speak?
> The economic system we collectively create absolutely "gives" and "takes" from different groups, all the time. The notion that it's fine for one group to shift the rules to help themselves and harm others, but it's not fine for the harmed to try to retaliate (even via a voting-driven "revolt") is silly.

That's a very "class conflict" approach in the Marxist sense. It's not clear this was what was argued in the post I was answering to.

In any case, that analysis is obviously highly political, and the least that can be said is that not everybody agrees with it.
BearSSL
18 years is an ok commitment, especially given that there are other implementations available on those same platforms. This is likely not the case with 'D' for all the platforms that gcc targets.
Is AI fine with this? The few hedge funds I know work more using quant brains that discover models than AI.
How do you presume to know all this? This is the kind of made up BS that pollutes any attempt to get at what is going on. What is your motivation for such pronouncements?
How do you guarantee SLA uptime with that model? You won't know of any breaking changes until it hits production and when it does you will have to fix it. This may be an easy 30 minute fix and you pause transactions, or it may be a 24 hour fix and your world is broken for "forever" in api standards where 99.9X% is generally standard uptime requirements.

It seems to be that any service that consumes private APIs is going to be inherently unstable, although I agree on the slow pace of work in the finance world.

Also, once they figure out your consuming their APIs there will be an arms race and possibly legal action.
> It tends to be a negative correlation.

This definitely needs a citation. It might not have significant correlation either way, but I cannot find a reference for the former (some cursory googling [0][1]).

[0] https://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/research/school_funding.pdf
[1] https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa746....
Certainly a possibility.

I totally agree with you that is seems downright ludicrous to think that a spell will cause bullets to bounce off of someone. We have to take the author at their word that such is actually the belief of those using the spell. (My experience in Africa would tell me that may be a rather naive understanding of the villagers' expectations of the spell's effectiveness. From what I've seen in Africa, it seems more likely that the villagers believed that the bullets would miss them or go around them; it just strikes me as a little too stupid to be believable.)

All of that seems irrelevant for the conclusions that the author is trying to reach. The belief is labelled as "false" without any evidence given for such being the case until the conclusion where it is written as "(false) belief". In other words, the word "false" is an unnecessary modifier. Hence, it seems like it is being used as a rhetorical device rather than a meaningful addition to the article.
Sometimes doing one thing well is all you need. Anki is like the assembly language of flashcards apps, higher-level solutions can be very handy too. (Speaking as a multi-language learner.)
Apple's decision on “tips” may undermine its prospects in China
Do you believe that the fact that you, personally, have never "seen a rich minority person discriminated against" effectively support your argument? Do you think there are any studies that have been done to try and see if there is racial discrimination in the taxi business? If you haven't tried to look for such studies, why not? Or if you did, why don't you cite them instead of your own personal experience in not seeing rich minorities being discriminated against?
I used to be a computer technician. Sometimes I arrived at a customer's office and the perplexed person couldn't explain why his computer suddenly started working. I developed a theory I called the "Tech Threat Syndrome", which posed that computers occasionally hid their problem whenever a technician appeared, so as to embarrass their user.
A silly headline.

According to the article, the average person doesn't exist, either. I don't know many people that are 13% fluent in Mandarin, 13% fluent in English, 9% fluent in Hindi... At the same time, having ~2 hands and ~10 fingers seems about right. Some metrics work with averages, some don't.
There are so many similar stories, all the way back to the 15th century witch hunts, so you'd expect that we've learned how to interview children now. But no.

There is also a problem of under-reported sexual crimes against children, since they do not simply dare to tell. But it's unlikely that it's a whole village involved.
>The self-driving car game was supposed to save them, but I don't think they're guaranteed to win that fight

Agreed. I'd argue that existing car-sharing companies like Car2Go are better positioned to dominate the "self-driving taxi" market. They've already solved the challenges of owning and maintaining a shared car fleet profitably. The day self-driving technology is ready, they'll already be miles ahead of Uber.
I would guess the crypto scheme is to cash out with ICO - those have been raising ridiculous amounts of money lately, for projects that sound like a joke.
OP sets up the straw man of "anybody against any inequality must be advocating perfect equality" - which is hogwash. By OP's logic, feudalism is perfectly fine because it accentuates the differences between serfs and kings. Or hell, even slavery is Ok. What reasonable people have to start to appreciate is that everything isn't black and white, there are shades of gray and we can have meaningful disagreements about where the lines are drawn.
Same here. We have several clients who got moved to Postgres from a randomly selected unfit technology. Funny thing is with things like Solr you can build a really fast search index as well on the top of doing ACID transactions in the db. This covers almost every aspect of data engineering. There is obviously the scaling limit with Postgres but most of our clients are in the single db instance range by the size of their data.
Would you pay for access to this API service?
Drone Pilots Are Buying Russian Software to Hack Their Way Past No Fly Zones
Partnering with the AV ecosystem to protect our Windows 10 customers
Palletene
EU court: Vaccines can be blamed for illness without scientific evidence
A (relatively) complete guide to every kind of legal hurdle a startup will face
Cambridge the city or the university?
I'm quite certain that BTC/ETH/SHM-TC fundamentalism and bigotry has no place here. Try Reddit bro.
> I went to the highest funded (amount spent per child) public school in my state, and as far as I am aware it was far behind in terms of curriculum strength compared to what my parents were taught in the Soviet Union at the same age.

This is because just pumping money into failing schools does not magically turn them around. There is little correlation between per capita secondary education spending and student outcomes.
Yes, you are wrong. Do a little more work and reading, and you'll readily find out a bit more.
Take the other example in the paper: https://github.com/breck7/treenotation/blob/master/paper/tre...

How does it know that line starting with a number translates into a switch case. Is it the case for all function definitions or just because it's named getLocation?

In any case some logic is hidden there and making the ~10x size reduction is dubious. It only works because there is some other code that's not show here that implements that casing logic.
accurate, except I was trying to rustle some jimmies... I get pretty heated about this stuff... I sincerely hope you've got it held down. I sure don't
That sounds like a standard enterprise implementation.
There is an analogy to clustering (an unsupervised learning technique) here.

Take the simple case of 2 dimensions (each observation is plotted in 2D space) with possible values of 0-10. Let's say the extreme (far from average) space is within 5% of the border. The total extreme area is (10x10)-(9x9) = 19 (i.e. 19%). Now add a 3rd dimension. The extreme "volume" in 3d space is now (10x10x10)-(9x9x9) = 271 (i.e. 27%). You can see where this is trending. Add enough dimensions, and every observation is now "extreme." They become so far apart that each observation almost deserves its own cluster, and you lose any idea of similarity.

Back to this particular article: when you _add_ (or average) all of the dimensions -- like you do on an exam -- suddenly they are close again.
Long tail doesn't necessarily mean that the tail makes up most of the distribution. A long tail can make up a majority, or minority, of the total distribution.

E.g. 80% of revenue coming from 1,000 customers. 20% of revenue coming from 100,000 customers

or

20% of revenue coming from 1,000 customers. 80% revenue coming from 100,000 customers.

The latter is more fat-tailed.
Cuneiform
> Make tipping harder

That's the opposite of what I want. I leave a tip because I want to reward good service. When good service is provided regularly, I want to see it rewarded regularly. Making it harder to tip reduces the frequency with which good service is rewarded directly. You literally said "make tipping harder."

I want to tip when I've been provided exceptional service. I don't really want you to make it harder for me to tip. Show me a study that says, making it harder to tip statistically results in higher wages, obviating the need to tip!

I don't want to have an awkward conversation where I ask the driver if it's acceptable to hand over cash as a tip, when all signs seem to be pointing to "no, tips are not considered a usual part of this exchange." I may want to leave a tip! The transaction is not a cash transaction, so exchanging cash is unusual. Now I have to carry cash to complete an otherwise totally digital transaction.

I expect a way to leave a tip as part of my transaction, if you don't want to leave one then don't leave one! Or, drive yourself!
Just a warning: nothing really to do with hair gel.

One minor tidbit:

The Gauls [...] credited with the invention of
sapo, which was less an early form of soap, notes
Omrani, than a pomade that brightened the hair.
It's way too easy for anyone to pick up Node and CRUD a few pieces of data into a NOSQL store and voila, I am an architect :)

Selecting the right framework, platform, model for current needs with reasonable forward looking support takes experience and strong formal fundamentals.
When will this be available in the US?
My home directory:

- bin :: quick place to put simple scripts and have available everywhere
- build :: download projects for inspection and building, not for actively
working on them
- work-for :: where to put all projects; all project folders are available to
me in zsh like ~proj-1/ so getting to them is quick despite depth.
- me :: private projects for my use only
- proj-1
- all :: open source
- proj-2
- client :: for clients
- client-1
- proj-3
- org :: org mode files
- diary :: notes relating to the day
- 2017-06-21.org :: navigated with binding `C-c d` defaulting to today
- work-for :: notes for project with directory structure reflecting that of
~/work-for
- client
- client-1
- proj-3.org
- know :: things to learn from: txt's, books, papers, and other interesting
documents
- mail :: maildirs for each account
- addr-1
- downloads :: random downloads from the internet
- media :: entertainment
- music
- vids
- pics
- wallpaper
- t :: for random ad-hoc tests requiring directories/files; e.g. trying things
with git
- repo :: where to put bare git repositories for private projects (i.e. ~work-for/me/)
- .password-store :: (for `pass` password manager)
- type-1 :: ssh, web, mail (for smtp and imap), etc.
- host-1 :: news.ycombinator.com, etc.
- account-1 :: jol, jolmg, etc.

Not all folders are available on all machines, like ~/repo is on a private server, but they follow the same structure.
I don't know, but knowing the taste of baijiu I would not have tried drinking their ancient beer.
The share of taxi rides in Manhattan has decreased by almost the same amount Lyft and Uber rides have increased [1]. The overall number of rides has increased in the other boroughs due to Lyft and Uber ridership.

1. http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...
> Amazon are the good guys because a relatively few book firms control the market. Amazon is helping to improve the customer experience by lowering the price of books.

they're replacing an oligopoly that is exploiting their customers with a monopoly though.

amazon hasn't really started exploiting its monopoly status yet (to my knowledge) toward the consumers, but a lot of authors have already started to complain about it.
20 years ago my father ran a small business and routinely relied on D&B reports to provide insight into the creditworthiness of unknown suppliers or customers.

Of course investors and larger institutions use Standard & Poors and Moody's to provide credit ratings and background histories on public companies and their stocks and bonds.
But what kind of indoors, up-to-code Western kinds of indoors, or simple grass or adobe huts that the existing people are more than happy to live in? Time and time again, we Westerners look at other cultures as savage and depraved for not having the same lifestyle as we. This is going to lead us to our doom, trying to be a total savior.

I firmly believe that we in the past did not have a responsibility to "educate" the various indigenous peoples of the planet, however due to past measures existing cultural structures were completely decimated, people are totally reliant on the West. We have interjected ourselves to every facet of the globe, continually introducing technologies and economic patterns that many cultures cannot afford or scale, that is these countries end up in massive poverty (measured by Western standards), because they are trying to adapt a complete economic and technological system that they had no part in developing.
Why is that a dick move if it's true?
Sorry, just a linguistic aside, whenever I see summarize I assume that I am going to see some version of NLG but it's always some version of most important sentence. I like the site though.
You can change most variables in CleverDeck's algorithm (the same one Anki uses), as well.

If open source and super customizability are important to you, Anki is probably a better choice for you. For many people, I think having the ready-made decks and a nice interface is more important. And CleverDeck does have some features, like three-sided cards and siblings, that I personally loved in Anki.
We are required to take ethics training like this yearly. Simply doubling that frequency may be justified due to Uber's history.
I'm sure that kite design will be very stable in the air. But I guess the triangular wings are not very efficient and disturb each others airflow.

I wonder how the tetrahedral design compares with the Cody kite design, from the same era. That design looks more efficient to me, and has been proven to scale big enough to lift people in the air.

As a kid I built several small Cody kites and they fly amazingly well. We combined several and flew with up to 1km of line, hundreds of meters high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Franklin_Cody
>Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single one fell within the average 30 percent on all 10 dimensions.

I wondered about a very similar problem some weeks ago. I was bothered about the terms "ectomorph" and "mesomorph" because they seemed useless once you considered height: the vast majority of "ectomorphs" seemed to be taller than the average while the vast majority of "mesomophs" seemed to be of average height, so there's no point to these words. And so I wondered how would shoulder width would change given height (which seems to have some kind "decreasing returns"), and how the average measures would relate to actual average build. I mean, is the "average guy" really the guy with the average height and average shoulders? Because it's not as if the scale had just changed, like doubling the size of a cube, but there seems to be some deformation going on as well.

Anyway, didn't get past the wondering phase at the time. But I think it's too much of an important problem to be casually thrown as part of a pitch. I don't see an immediate reason why the average tuple should be the tuple of all averages, because some of the variables might be "dislocated" and thus not coincide with the averages of other variables. Some guy might be very close to average height yet still somewhere in the left-tail when it comes to body mass, shoulder width or any other measure. So there might be a typical student, but I don't think this is the way to find him.
So does a completely self-taught computer scientist.

Why throw your money away on expensive bootcamps when you can just teach yourself everything?!

My first programming gig was before college, and I was completely self-taught (this was before CS was offered in 99% of high schools).

Learning how to program was easy. I was probably a better web developer in middle school than I am now (although JQuery happened at the tail end of my web programming days, so there was a lot less complexity. Or at least a different type of complexity).

I needed the formal structure of a degree program to learn CS. Past Linear Algebra or so, the math became too difficult to learn on my own.

I expect I'm pretty typical in that respect.

If someone tells me they taught themselves how to program, I usually don't think twice about it. Just a "me too, aint it grand!" If someone tells me they taught themselves CS, I'm much more impressed (and therefore, in the case of hiring, incredulous).