skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but not appealing to the government as constituted
Government funded is incompatible with independent. By definition such an organization is dependent on continued government funding.
As I was typing it, I was thinking there would be a psychological name for it. It seems like something they've likely classified and tried to measure.

If you'll permit me a vulgarity, my give a damn button is broken. For PR, I sent off two donations. It's the same as I did for both Florida and Texas. I don't view it as buying karma, or anything. I view it as being more that I'm actually obligated to do.

We don't care need to to overly care, do anything, or devote energy. Being obligated to outrage is a silly social trend. It's unfortunate and it's surely painful for those most closely impacted, but we are continually bombarded with news of tragedy.

Selfish or not, I'm pretty sure it's more healthy to just accept it and acknowledge it. I'm absolutely not saying it wasn't tragic, I'm just saying I am unwilling to get emotionally invested in it.

I suspect that makes sense, I'm mostly just trying to explain it in more detail because I don't know of a more precise term for it. If this happened in my area, I'd be much more emotionally invested.
> taxation without representation

Residents of Puerto Rico don't pay Federal income tax.

They do pay other Federal taxes such as social security and import duties.

A number of hedge fund managers and other high-net-worth people have established homes in PR just to avoid Federal income tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico
I don't have a source for it, sorry. I was chatting to someone involved in car safety research around 10 years ago, so it'll have to be listed as 'anecdata'.
Well, but if port knocking was a great effective security tool, everyone would be using it, which defeats the obscurity advantage and would bring it back on par with good old passwords.

It might be a decent extra tool for very delicate situations, but I find it reasonably clear that it's largely self-defeating and not to be relied upon. It can also introduce further bugs.

I can see it could have an appeal as a proper password system though (not an obscurity device), since it's really the first step in interacting with a server. With password protocols, you usually have a more complicated interaction that can open a greater surface area. It seems good practice to authenticate absolutely as soon as possible.
I left a startup job recently. They did a stellar job handling it. They spent a day or so making offers to get me to stay, then the remainder of my last two weeks listening to my reasons for leaving, making plans to fix their problems (so nobody else would leave), expressing their appreciation for my hard work and helping me find leads for a new job. At least three people on the executive team offered to provide a glowing reference for me, should I ever need one. My last paycheck was deposited a couple of weeks after I left. One of the classiest groups of people I may ever have the pleasure of working for.

I should point out that they lost nothing by this.

An employer who sends nasty emails and withholds pay is ruining the possibility of a valuable future re-hire, causing needless guilt, turning his own employees against him, building himself a poor reputation, and begging for a lawsuit. It's a heavy price to pay for his own pettiness.
> it should be government funded and independent

You can be government funded or independent, but not both.
May be.

Meanwhile real-world non-trivial projects tend to be large projects.

Nice to be prepared for that instead of gambling on "surely we'll extract out smaller projects that fall on the right abstraction boundaries in the face of unknown future requirements."
Don't give out your secret sauce. Let them taste it but not "how" it is done. So just tell them the "what" and not the "how".
For the sake of comparison, per capita GDP in Puerto Rico is $29k and in MO it is $43k. It is poorer than the mainland but not as destitute as this comment makes it sound (although things have been on a downward spiral for years).
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It's news because Tesla projected to have delivered 1,500 Model 3 by end of 3rd quarter. They missed that milestone. Simple as that.

I wouldn't read too much into this myself. Scaling production is hard. Regardless, it's an important metric that speaks to Tesla's ability to deliver, at least short term.
If they have worked there for nearly a year, I would hope that they would have more than 2 weeks vacation time accrued? I am guessing there was also some more vacation time that needed to be paid out?

Secondly, you said your friend quit 2 months after taking their vacation, but the CEO's email says "take 2 weeks vacation then give notice the next week". Did you friend actually give notice to quit a week after vacation (i.e. give them about 6 weeks+ notice that they were leaving) or serve notice 2 months after returning from holiday?

Having been a business owner who has hired staff in the past, yeah it sucks when employees quite while on holidays - mainly because it gave me no time to plan to hire a replacement, or to have them help train/handover to the replacement staff member.

But if they have taken holidays that were legally owed to them then there is nothing I can do about that, and it would be unprofessional to vent about it as it is well within their rights (albeit inconvenient to the business).

It also comes down to whether the employer lets their employees take their leave in advance (e.g. your policy is 4 weeks holiday per year, and a staff member wants to take the entire 4 weeks when only 6 months into their employment). Some companies let you do that, sure - but in THOSE cases, if the employee quit while on holiday then there is a real issue because the took an extra 2 weeks holiday that they hadn't yet fully accrued. Though in your friends case, unless they had taken other leave earlier in the year, they may still be within their accrued allowance?
I am very impressed that GM decided to do this. I realize that this is apples and oranges. Cars are all different and each model has to be certified in all he different countries. But my first thought (besides "Awesome!") when Elon musk announced his mars plans was that it's amazing he wants to do all this in less time than car makers are able / willing to ditch fossil fuels. Good to see GM on the right track.
My question here is what are the side effects? It seems like something like this would already happen naturally if there were no significant trade offs
If Microsoft wants to be competitive in browsers, they must make edge cross platform. It's a very capable browser and can hold its own against Chrome and Firefox. And it is continuously getting better. But if they keep it so tightly tied to windows 10, they are gonna have to discontinue it just like groove. I like to use edge on my laptop but there is no sync possible between my phone and it, because there's no edge for Android. Things like this keep people from adopting what is actually a good browser. Groove had the same problem. The app on desktop was pretty good, the service was pretty good, the app on Android was shit and not available in India.

If they continue like this we will soon see shutdown notices for Cortana, edge and others. A counterpoint is onedrive. They have excellent iOS and Android apps. The service is good in its own right. Onedrive ain't going anywhere.

TL;DR if you want to compete then compete.
This is the good side of Dynamo, and it's awesome that you've had that experience.

The flip side: Dynamo gets expensive and it gets expensive quick, and being a custom API (and, indeed, a very different way to think about datastores) makes migration difficult.

It's great to use, if you understand the tradeoffs. Just make sure you understand them before you make the leap.
> government funded and independent

Pick one, please.
Greed is the root of these investors problems. They offered up anything to get a piece of each round - in this case voting power and board seats.

Uber investors are not alone - Facebook and Google investors also have little control.
I'm guessing what's intended is actually to attack the US government's handling of Puerto Rico as being on an essentially colonial basis -- something that I find hard to completely dismiss if you look at bombing them in the 50s, the current debt crisis being worsened severely by Congress' refusal to allow recourse to bankruptcy, the shameful failure to render aid after Maria, etc.
This objection is only valid for discovering new laws of physics -- technological development can happen even with fixed knowledge of basic physical laws.

No, experimentation is also important for translating fundamental scientific knowledge into working technologies. Consider the problem of building a fusion reactor that generates net electricity. You don't need new laws of physics, but you can't make progress with simulations alone. You have to experiment to find out if devices behave in reality the way they do in your model.
The reason why those of us on this forum can tell the difference between good and bad information is because we received a good education and learned critical analysis skills.

Facebook, Google and the internet in general are an objectively bad source of knowledge. They are subjectively good sources of knowledge.

The vast majority of people do not have the skills to use the internet as a source for good knowledge.

The contents of the average library contain better knowledge than the internet. The contents of a library at a world-class University and even more-so.

The internet is the most overrated institution of contemporary society when it comes to obtaining knowledge.

It is somewhat good for entertainment but probably not better than your average game of Dungeons and Dragons.
Exactly right - in my case the situation was another team accidentally bringing a new ZK node with "bad" but "new" data online. Had there been network isolation, no issues. Had there been static cluster identifiers, also no issues. It was a messy environment, and it should have been prevented by operational diligence, but my point is redis is "harder to mess up". As on on-call engineer, I'll always go with simpler, foolproof tools. Another qibble is how gnarly the client-side driver for Kafka is...

I don't hate Kafka, I just don't like ZK and find redis has better tooling and a better track record at my shops :)
> Anyone looking at the presented data should be able to reason the result without needing to conduct a statistical test.

Part of the problem, though, is that scientific results are often counterintuitive, or (particularly in the social sciences) are easy to view as obvious after we know what the answer is.

One famous example: the sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld once gave a talk where he asked whether urban or rural men had adjusted more easily to the day-to-day routines of military service in World War II. There are equally obvious reasons why rural men would adjust more easily (e.g. they have more experience with physical labor, have experience with guns) or urban men would (e.g. they're used to crowded conditions, have more experience with a hierarchical division of labor).
I would be very, very careful of calling anything a company of such very sharp people does a "joke."

One of my prior gigs was pushing a billion data points a day through DynamoDB without it breaking a sweat. We were paying for it, too--but it was there and it worked.
That's a very overt form of fraud, and it probably requires very different countermeasures than the kind of unintentional biases under discussion here.
If nothing else the federal government is there and they're between two states (and also a lot of the media is there) so it's a bit harder to imagine almost the entire city being without electricity for over a week.
Puerto Rico is the 29th most populated state/territory in the country. They basically have the same number of citizens as Connecticut. It would _definitely_ make a difference for one of the parties - though it would likely be the Democratic Party. However, Puerto Rico has been voting on statehood for a very long time and has historically voted against it. In the past couple years they did vote for statehood - twice in fact. But they did so while republicans controlled congress and since republicans know giving Puerto Rico statehood wouldn't benefit them they will never prioritize it while in-power.
I see friends on the island managing to post Facebook updates so I feel like a professional news organization should be able to get some reports out if they really want.
> Amazon’s weaknesses are in the first case high-end design

Just design generally, including their website ... anecdotally, so many people I know don't really know that Amazon Prime Video exists, or if it does exist how to find it. Likewise for Music.

Apple has this discoverability problem too (Apple Music doesn't have a web UI, it might as well not exist if you can't install iTunes, and then Apple wonders why its social features don't take off).

For its devices, Amazon also seems to share Google's general obliviousness, e.g. they just announced an alarm clock with a camera. Who wants a camera pointed at their bed all night? Their Fire Phone pioneered this over-expensive faux-3D UI, which on paper sounds great, but anybody could have said they weren't going to get the development support they needed to really sell it, and most users aren't going to care. Design is more than just veneer, you've got to make stuff that people want... Amazon's current approach seems to be "well if we just sell it cheap enough, we'll get customers."
That effectively sets the average valuation at $1.7 million for every startup accepted into YC. While I'm sure there are exceptions, startups with really strong initial traction, that seems like a fairly reasonable (if not elevated) valuation.
To which ideals is Amazon's success "repugnant"? It seems to me that Amazon is facilitating demand much better than its competitors, which means, according to the rules of the free market, it should win. Or am I misunderstanding?
The text on the Tesla website mentions https://globenewswire.com/

Anyone can setup a real time account for free.

Also the WSJ article pretty clearly used the press release as a source, so mentioning that is a separate issue from whether it is a good or bad source.

(unless you think the WSJ called Tesla and verified specific facts like "4,820 Model S and X vehicles were in transit" vs "The company said 4,820 vehicles were in transit at the end of the quarter")
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fivethirtyeight.com clearly doesn't include themselves as a member of the media.
Don't worry! Westinghouse will come along, buy out Tesla, and destroy Edison!
I wonder if they would praise Java, especially ancient Java. It was a very similar language. Easy concurrency was a big selling point. Generics were a matter of casting to Object.

What’s old is new again, though one can hardly imagine cat-v touting the merits of Java.
It depends on law in the state you're in.
Thank you for pointing that out.

I would have myself made the mistakes of assuming the terms is ubiquitous and everyone already knows it. I have heard it used liberally at every job I've done in the last 15 years.

I would have termed it a "very very common acronym." Right up there with API.

But your post reminds me that not everyone's experiences are the same.
If they give appropriate notice what is the difference whether the employee is on holidays or not?

Having watched from the sidelines while workplace relations break down a few times, it always amazes me how simple forthright communication could solve many of the issues both parties have.

Too many on both sides treat employment as a battle to be fought rather than a mutually beneficial arrangement.
> P=0.05 is best interpreted as "There is a 95% chance that this data isn't pure noise".

This is incorrect. A p-value is the probability of observing a value of the test statistic that is at least as extreme as the reported value, assuming the null hypothesis is true.
A state is represented by two Senators (regardless of population). This would mean making PR a state would dilute other states votes. Regarding the House of Representatives, PR has a "delegate", called the Resident Commissioner - which have almost no voting power. The population also tends to vote almost %50/50 for democratic vs republican [i].

This setup basically gives no incentive for either party to push for PR to be a state. (Even though it should be).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Pu...
Great work. I'm in the process of writing an ETL and while I don't think this will suite our needs (so unfortunately I need to keep writing) this article provides a lot of great detail that helped me see the process more clearly.
The databases you mentioned both have strong consistency, but do not have serverless pricing models. My employer FaunaDB has a similar consistency model, but a pay-as-you-go model that requires no provisioning or capacity planning.

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Not lies and trivial to find news stating the truth - http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/europe/catalonia-spain-indepen...
> There's no such thing as "proving correctness". You can have bugs in the type definitions.

You can have bugs in type definitions and you can have bugs in tests as well and that'll be a problem until computers can read our minds. Type definitions are superior at checking what you specified though because the checking is exhaustive. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that.

> This is no different from writing tests in a dynamic language.

It's not. In that example, the type system will verify the stated property is true for all values of "s". Tests only check some specific examples whereas using types in this way tests all possible input and output pairs. It's like comparing a maths proof to checking an equation holds for a few examples you tried.
I don’t think that the world can quite fathom how dangerous Amazon actually is to virtually every industry.

When it comes to purveyors of physical goods, Amazon has the power to reshape the fabric of our streets and neighborhoods in ways few people can fathom. Say goodbye to grocery stores and ground floor retail if they get their way. They are just smart enough to do it slowly enough where they don’t have any jarring sudden impact.

In tech, Amazon has tremendous power to put anyone they want out of business. AWS puts them in the enviable position of understanding all sorts of intimate details of everyone else’s business models. Again, they are too smart to do it too quickly.

It pains me that my generation, a generation of people who dream of being makers and business owners, don’t see the irony of the convenience of having toilet paper delivered and lower prices at Whole Foods for what they really are - a trick and a trap that strengthens a company that can and will have a real tangible negative impact on everyone’s employment and business prospects in the future if hasn’t already.
Puerto Rican here!

In my opinion, these are two very good pieces to learn about Puerto Rico
[1] https://youtu.be/CesHr99ezWE
[2] https://youtu.be/Tt-mpuR_QHQ
> I definitely had much more null pointer exceptions on java than typing errors on Python

Null pointers are a type error. The fact that several nominally "statically" typed languages don't differentiate between nullable and non-nullable types is a significant source of failure in their type systems. Using a modern language that properly identifies nullable values as a distinct type from non-nullable ones goes a long way towards eliminating a whole host of problems. It will be interesting to see what things look like in 10 years or so once Rust has had time to really displace a significant portion of the C and C++ code in the wild, and hopefully Kotlin has killed off Java (and if we're really lucky Typescript has done the same more or less with Javascript).
Are you saying one should not value a company based on what they're saying? Then in Q2 when they wrote "Based on our preparedness at this time, we are confident we can produce just over 1,500 vehicles in Q3", then we should not believe them. So why do they bother saying this? If they got an uplift then, they get punished a bit now, that's fair, life goes on.
> Amazon's current approach seems to be "well if we just sell it cheap enough, we'll get customers."

To be fair, there's also a (massive) market for that.
Why is the LAPD speculating about his medical condition? Does the LAPD run a hospital now and have doctors and nurses on their staff?
This is the book. The preview is limited though and I can't find the editor reference directly.

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R.F.C Walters, 1992
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How is this different than FreeNet?
It does seem like a strange choice to pick the forth syntax if it's going to be so different. I don't think there are a lot of forth programmers waiting around for something like this to switch to.
Maybe because American have been told this 'rising tides lift all boats', immigrants create more jobs, wealth, etc. bullshit for 30 years now, and we're' actually no longer willing to buy it since it apparently hasn't been the least bit true for most of us.

At this point, I'm willing to risk potential some lost jobs and GDP, which never seems to benefit anyone I know, and in exchange, shut down the H1b and other immigration scams.
Did you bother to even open the article? Literally the first sentence is "While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted) has been occupied with other things..."
It might still not be enough. Washington D.C. would almost certainly be a Democratic vote, but as I understand it, there's no way Republicans will allow D.C. voters to be represented in the Senate, all the while babbling about patriotism.
The iPhone is an Apple Music client. That’s a pretty big installed base.

The iPhone music client is not very good. Maybe that’s more of an issue than the lack of web client.