skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A book that tries talk broadly necessarily has less room to go into detail. For advanced level references, one will have to drill down to sources that are more specific.

Thankfully, this book cites its sources and extensively documents references, and the author even maintains the reference links[0].

[0]: https://github.com/ept/ddia-references
Interestingly, this breaks Betteridge's law by giving an indeterminate response instead of the negative.
Are you saying a trip to the Eiffel Tower in Paris gives people a sense as to what it's like to live in France?

Let's not kid ourselves here. Spending a weekend at Fisherman's Warf isn't going to give you much a perspective of living in San Francisco.
Does anyone know what license they plan to use? That could make a big difference.
We definitely need better tools as an industry. A good tool would allow custom code to override the framework and the imported components.
Agreed, the "cash hoard" option should also include assets, and we should also talk about debt and depreciation in that case. I don't think it conflicts with my original assertion wrt. wages.
Optical illusions (there's also physical ones) are often demonstrations that the problems aren't solved in humans either; they're just "things that work sort of, some of the time, with caveats about how you define 'work'".

More so if you include reasoning illusions like people being more scared to catch a plane than drive a car or thinking that a lotto ticket is a good investment.

Human intelligence doesn't really meet intuitive definitions of human intelligence. But it does work well enough as long as you ignore all the times it doesn't.
I would have thought even if they're not treating symptoms they'd want to know things like blood pressure and blood chemistry change over time. Like, "We're going to keep drawing blood every hour until things look to be long-term stable."
Being a newbie to React I’m always told by my experienced React peers that ‘creat react app’ is the right way to go about building react apps. Can you explain why we should build Webpack from scratch ?
Other comments in this thread have discussed it. Sounds like NASA is well aware of rotating structures, but large ones are way too expensive and small ones cause other issues due to the fast rotation required.
I see an independent ophthalmologist. He stocks both Luxottica and non-Luxottica frames. Every time, they and I blindly select frames with a bias against Luxottica. Every time, I choose the Luxottica frame. Somehow, that company has cornered the market for decently-built frames for non-hipsters.
Profits are either returned to shareholders or accumulated (and returned later). Returning 91% of profits to shareholders does not seem particularly odd to me.

(Possible point of confusion: earnings means profits earned, not revenues earned.)
There's a 200 page, 8-years running, active thread on eyewear/frame selection, https://www.styleforum.net/threads/ask-me-about-eyewear.1205...

Boutique frames are not usually available online, only from authorized B&M retailers. Because of the cost, opticians only carry a few models. Sometimes older models show up on Amazon and eBay. A few models are available at http://www.pretavoir.co.uk/us/ and http://framesdirect.com (owned by Essilor, soon to be Luxxotica).
People who would trade freedom for safety deserve neither.
> want to return to those times

Do they? Or do they want to reduce some of the more obscure, less clearly useful regulations?

Have you heard any advocacy for say, removing catalytic converters from cars?

The most common thing I've heard is states rights, and not having this be a Federal thing, which isn't really about pollution.
Most people just load the page and twitch a bit at the noticeable delay.

Devs are going to run dev tools, take screenshots and scream about it on HN.

Stripe.com's product pages are beautiful examples of how to make gorgeous marketing pages at reasonable size (3MB, <1/4 the size of this Wix behemoth)[0].

[0] https://stripe.com/atlas
Neat idea. Perhaps position this as a minimalist browser (vs "smarter")
The lack of good designs for non-Luxottica brand frames is appalling. I use a third party eye glass company to order frames + lenses for < $100 and get good quality stuff (but not the best styles). Why are they not able to compete on style and fashion?
> Over the years I have come to the conclusion that the real heroes of ideas are not the people who have them – they are the people who buy them.

I love this quote. That was a great read.
Why managing physicians is like herding cats
Necro-cannibalism did allow some to survive severe famine.

Seriously though, the quote works well for many usual cases of discussion. People have incentives which they do believe in - you can discuss how those beliefs started and why you think they don't apply. Sure, you can find pathological edge cases where doing that didn't make sense. Doesn't mean the rule is bad for almost everything else.
I am in college right now, and after one year I and a friend got summer internships. I made $43 per hour and my friend got just under $8000 per month plus heath insurance, which was nice because she is on Medicaid. I was surprised I got an internship because my grades aren't the best, but I did apply to a lot of places. This was after freshman year of college, so neither of us had taken more than five CS classes, in total, in our whole lives. Neither of us had any programming experience before coming to college.

Over that summer we were both able to pay off our first years worth of student loans for the tuition that finaid didn't cover. A different friend of mine took last semester off to work at Apple, and got free housing right by the new spaceship campus thing.

There are a ton of recruiting events on campus, and the place I worked over that summer offered to hire me part time over the year. Obviously life isn't all about internships, but being able to pay tuition and send money home is a giant plus.
People say college is lame, but I think if you can get in somewhere decent or even not that great it would be a good choice. I also know a ton of transfer students from community college who are in their mid to late twenties and less commonly in their thirties. You could always just apply to some places and see how that goes before making a final decision.

One other thing is that I am taking a lot more math than I thought I would have to when I came in as a freshman, so just make sure you like math.
> Why are they not able to compete on style and fashion?

I am honestly curious if this is primarily a materials, vendor, distribution, design personnel or intellectual property bottleneck.
they aren't.

many fortune 500 companies offer some mechanism for employees to own stock, such as ESPP.
>(...) if you think corporations are entitled to cut costs, squeeze employees, and slash benefits all in the name of squeaking out ever increasing returns for shareholders or to pad out their own exorbinant executive salaries.

That's literally the reason most corporations exist, so yes they are entitled to do exactly that, to whatever degree the law and market allows.
I love exa and have just mapped it to ls (and ll for exa -l ) .

That way I don't even have to learn the new command (or risk forgetting about ls / be frustrated when I can't use it).
Right now, what I am doing is going to developer meetups, talk to them after the seminar is over and get their business cards. Then I reach out to them and ask if they know if their company's hiring. Sometimes I get put in the interview process and fail, but most of the time I hear that they don't have anything appropriate for me.

So it's not much just considering college education for its classes as I am for the reputation of going to one of the better ones. Joining academic clubs, going through applying to internships. The path of least resistance to getting $BIG_CORP on your resume is by interning as a student. It's easier to get in that way than as an experience developer, where you'll be evaluated more harshly.

I mean, would most MOOC's provide students access to career fairs and internships at $BIG_CORP?

Also, as someone approaching middle-age, I would be taking my classes more seriously than many students 10 years younger than me.
I would highly recommend that you pursue this. I'm quite a bit older than you and am pursuing and CS degree at Columbia part time as a General Studies student.

My motivation is different than yours in that I don't see myself writing code professionally, but believe understanding technology, from logic circuits, to math and data structures begins to reframe how you think/how I think.

Also learning within a university setting is a great addition to all that you can continue to teach yourself remotely which is generally more tactical, like learning R via Courseworks.

You may also find that the diversity in the course-work may point you in a direction where you're more naturally drawn. Maybe you'll find a different path, meet your future wife, meet a business partner, or some other unexpected outcome. At the very least you will learn something.

All the best...
> I don't know C#. Should I assume this is the way to write comments? That's just terrible.

It's not an essential part of the language. It's something that is used by the IDE and doc-generation tools. Comments inside the method that follows will not be so verbose (one hopes).
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"to your Feedback"

Pretty sure that just means that if you submit feedback, that feedback becomes property of Wix [0]. From a laymen's interpretation of that paragraph, your content remains your own.

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The second paragraph sounds pretty standard for a SasS company.

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[0]: They explicitly define 'Feedback' in their T&C as follows:

> In consideration of the non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Wix Code granted to you by Wix subject to the terms hereof, you agree to serve as a “beta tester” of the Wix Code and to provide Wix with useful input on the Wix Code, including on any problems, bugs, failures, deficiencies and other challenges you may have encountered while using the Wix Code, and other input and ideas you may have on how to improve, enhance or upgrade the Wix Code, or any other feedback you may have and deem relevant (collectively “Feedback”).
Try viewing the site with uMatrix. It's a completely blank white page until you allow scripts, XHR and an iframe.
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Here is a quick summary article:
"52 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/climate/trump...

The article also has concise descriptions of each change.

Here are a few (without the concise descriptions):

(Overturned)
3. Lifted a freeze on new coal leases on public lands

4. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions

5. Revoked a rule that prevented coal companies from dumping mining debris into local streams

12. Repealed an Obama-era rule regulating royalties for oil, gas and coal

13. Withdrew guidance for federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews

14. Relaxed the environmental review process for federal infrastructure projects

15. Announced intent to stop payments to the Green Climate Fund

22. Revoked directive for federal agencies to mitigate the environmental impacts of projects they approve

23. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the “social cost of carbon”

(In progress)
26. Proposed repeal and replacement of the Clean Power Plan

27. Announced intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement

28. Proposed rescinding a rule that protected tributaries and wetlands under the Clean Water Act

29. Reopened a review of fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks

32. Reviewing limits on toxic discharge from power plants into public waterways

33. Reviewing rules regulating coal ash waste from power plants

34. Reviewing emissions standards for new, modified and reconstructed power plants

35. Reviewing emissions rules for power plant start-ups, shutdowns and malfunctions

37. Announced plans to rescind water pollution regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands

(In limbo)
45. Reviewing a rule limiting methane emissions at new oil and gas drilling sites

46. Put on hold rules aimed at cutting methane emissions from landfills

47. Proposed delay of rule limiting methane emissions on public lands

48. Delayed a lawsuit over a rule regulating airborne mercury emissions from power plants

51. Delayed compliance dates for federal building efficiency standards

(Changes reinstated after legal challenges)
1. Delayed by one year a compliance deadline for new ozone pollution standards, but later reversed course

2. Delayed publishing efficiency standards for household appliances

3. Reinstated rule limiting the discharge of mercury by dental offices into municipal sewers
How about changing the HN title to match the page (“Profits Without Prosperity”), rather than 0x4f3759df’s editorialized version (currently “Stock buybacks as a mechanism to depress wages and increase CEO pay”).
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I'm a bit confused about people buying glasses online. How do they check for comfort? What about the prescription lenses?
AFAIK it's also the only first-world country where Firefox has the (slight) majority market share over Chrome on desktop.
Say what? I cannot find a single friend or family member who wouldn't be complaining at the healthcare; and those who are healthy just complain how high deductibles are in case they got sick.

Have you ever been to Europe? Some west-block countries like Germany? Same wait time for private sector only at the 10% cost surgeries, xrays you name it, with the same equipment that USA is using in most cases.
protokollprellbockverkehrprotokollserialisierunganbieter would be a lot catchier and roll off the tongue with ease.
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People still show up at work in developing countries.
It's not going to have its own dictionary entry because it's two separate words and not a phrase.

The first few google results for [[moral right]] are about the legal term, but then there are many not about it. And while this is not the best comparison, I would assume that most pages talking about the legal term will have the word "copyright" on them somewhere. Is that a reasonable assumption? Because [["moral right" -copyright]] has almost as many results as [["moral right"]].
Every time I walk into an eyewear place, I walk out feeling frustrated and angry. That being said, I recently found https://dresden.com.au/, who are making decent prescription glasses for as low as $50 AU.
They cannot be more capable of proving Kolmogorov complexity than an axiomatic system.
It’s not the standard way. It’s the standard way for documentation so Intellisense can provide information about the function. The standard way still uses C/C++ style double slash ( // ) and multiline style ( // )
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> Companies can also reinvest profits in the business

The point of the stock market is to efficiently let investors re-deploy capital from mature companies (earned through capital gains and dividends) to growing companies. If all the lemonade stands that need to be built have been built, your research dollars will be less effective than others’, then constraining capital to the incumbents, by dissuading dividends or buybacks, results in (a) bad investments and (b) rent seeking by the agents overseeing this restricted capital.
He ends the talk begging for criticism. Listing issues is appreciated-- other comments do so (see talk about capabilities & how this isn't new since the 80s)
I don't think you can just pin this all on one issue. "Globalism" mainly means moving manufacturing overseas, but that's not really applicable for most rural locations. "Immigration" especially the undocumented kind, is centered around low-wage service sectors. Again, not mainly part of the rural economy.

The main issues are the collapse of coal and other higher wage resource extracting jobs, the take over of family farms by large corporations, and the fact that the majority of U.S. economic growth in the last 20+ years has been centered around very large cities. And it's pretty much impossible for people in these towns to get in on any of it since they don't have the networks, the skills, or the savings they would need to start from scratch in one of those cities.
> ... was completely unsurprised to find out that ...

So please share your findings then
The Coursera recommendation is spot on. MIT Open Courseware would be worth looking into as well. Studying a few mathematics and programming courses would put OP in a much better position to determine the next steps.

I finished a comp sci degree with a major in computational mathematics and I don't feel like I could accomplish very much with my bachelor level skillset in an industrial context. I didn't learn enough mathematics in 1-2 years to be a good applied mathematician.

I wish I did a mathematics degree in hindsight!
I think the answer these days should be "hire a programmer".

The difficulty with that answer is that the market for web development is becoming bimodal.

On the low end, you have the site builder tools: Wix, WP, Squarespace, and so on. These days you have to include Facebook pages in there as well. You can set up a basic online presence for next to no money with these, and in most cases you can buy a reasonably professional-looking theme to make your site look decent for not much more. Of course you're limited to common features and have few opportunities for customisation, but does a web page announcing your local church events really need any more?

On the high end, you have bespoke development. Someone like me, or no doubt many others on HN, can build you a site that does more or less anything and adopts whatever distinctive branding you need. However, we're going to charge about as much for an hour or two of our time as the whole thing costs with one of the site builder tools, and your final bill is going to have at least two more zeroes on it to do roughly the same job and probably more if we're doing anything that makes it worth using us in the first place.

There isn't much room in between any longer. The days of getting your neighbour's kid's school friend to build your company web site for $500 are gone. The site builder tools have commoditised the low end of the market, and for that kind of money they'll probably offer better results, while no agency nor even any established freelancer is likely to get out of bed for a gig that small.

In short, hiring a professional doesn't really make sense for a lot of small business or community web sites any more. Either you need something truly unique and customised, in which case you need the time and money to match, or you're probably better off just using a site builder if you don't have the resources available to do it in-house.
(4) is an interesting question. Unfortunately it's much harder to understand than it is to ask. For instance, to people really understand, rather than just providing a thin illusion of understanding? What does it actually mean to understand something? Can you make a test that can distinguish arbitrary systems which truly understand from those which provide a thin illusion of understanding?
Ah. That has never come up for me because I assign `propTypes` and `defaultProps` within the class definition using class properties. I had assumed you would be assuming I would too because you made mention of class properties in your post. Who would go to the trouble of setting up decorators without also using class properties syntax? Quite a few people, apparently, but the practice of using one and not the other baffles me.
For a probably extreme but real example, I think I would prefer my Grandfather's specific duties with the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1940s not be released. I don't even like talking about what kind of scientist he was in some crowds.
Most CFD guys have aerospace engineering/physics backgrounds, not CS. Trust me, the coding is the EASIEST part of the field. It's almost an afterthought. CFD development, at the level where you are contributing novel work, is applied math. Nothing more, nothing less.

OP, your aspiration is possible but difficult. CFD is a rarefied field of heads-down, highly quantitative minds. If you were outstanding at math in HS then I say go for it. Going back to undergrad isn't a bad idea. You'd be a non-traditional student, but I knew a few of those when I was in undergrad who did well. You should be pretty comfortable in math through vector calculus and linear algebra; if you're really struggling, you might want to reconsider paths. You have to be ready for 3-4 years of hardcore aerospace engineering and math courses, which could be a tough transition. Good luck.
> Done correctly, it’s a synthetic dividend without the immediate tax burden on the shareholders. Those that want to cash out, can sell a portion of their higher priced shares.

If you cash out you're still potentially paying taxes on capital gains.

The only way to avoid taxes while still profiting from the increased price of the shares (it seems to me) is to take a loan against your portfolio (possibly deduct that interest) and re-invest the money.

Retail Joe six-pack investor probably won't be able to do that; but it seems like the sort of thing a professional money manager might do?
So what would you include in the next-generation ML tool?
Aren't banks allready shifting over in larger scale to quntum computing? Would also explain the openess from a bank. Though national banks and nation state backed banks are imo often quite a few steps better than the rest - then again at times even though publically supported fks up like Nordea.
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I am a digital designer engineer by profession who is working with verilog all the time. Having done some part time rails development in the past I have deep respect for the open source community and would like to make some contributions myself. I know open source contributions do not help the career at all in my current line of work and I don’t care about that. The recent momentum in RISC-V processors has made me think this is something I could contribute on and it would give me some chance to learn some advanced computer architecture stuff as well. Any suggestions on how I could begin would be welcome, in fact suggestions on open source contributions on something completely different would be appreciated as well.
“Stock buybacks as a mechanism to depress wages and increase CEO pay”

Is what the article is actually about. "Profits Without Prosperity" is by comparison cryptic and uninformitive.
Yeah, definitely, go for it. Do some math and maybe physics too.
Sellers are the delivery companies' customer.

If there are a lot of delivery problems, it means the seller has chosen a poor delivery company which reflects poorly on them.