skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spaceplan (http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/) also ends after a while and was very entertaining for a clicker game. Apparently they have paid versions now too, which I haven't tried.
Salesguy comes in wearing sharp titanium semi-rimless glasses. Notices that I'm wearing very similar. We compare.

His cost $350. Mine cost $35 including shipping. I bought a backup pair, too.
Data Genetics did a great job doing a layman's write up on Benford's law, which is still one of the most fun math things to tell my family.

Here it is:

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html
Why Is New York Full of Empty Stores?
US is a huge place, so experiences don’t generalize well. You’ll have to state the region and probably the city you visited for your statement to have any meaning.
Great article! A tiny nitpick: the distinction between continuous delivery and continuous deployment, is that in the first case you could deploy anytime your want, but the triggering is still up to a human. With continuous deployment, everything is shipped to prod automatically, given that all conditions are met.

If you want to learn more quickly - I did a talk on the topic last week, and did my best to provide a concise overview of the most essential terms. Check out the slides for a high-level view on ci/cd [1] and deployment pipelines in general [2] if you want to learn more.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/VladislavSupalov/automated-testin...

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/VladislavSupalov/automated-testin...
FTA:

>Distributions that would not be expected to obey Benford's Law

> ...

>Where numbers are influenced by human thought: e.g. prices set by psychological thresholds ($1.99)
This paradox I think is what turns people off Redux when they first learn it. "All this code... for what benefit?" Of course it's total overkill for something like a counter, or a todo list, but it's tough to teach an introduction to something by starting with "here's a huge enterprise app, let's dive in" :)

I tried to call this out in the article to make sure people are aware that improving simple Counter examples is not what Redux is really meant for.

I'm considering putting together a larger course/book that does just what you say - build up a React app using plain state until it becomes painful, and then refactor it to add Redux. My question right now is, how far should I go? Do I walk through building the entire app with state (and push through the complexity), or do I give up at the first indication that Redux would make things easier?
That's more of an anecdote than any real data.
Also consider Dante https://github.com/jyp/dante instead of Intero. Similar (not identical, see the README for a quick overview) feature set, doesn't require stack.
So if your software needs to run 24 hours and something breaks with your software, how do you avoid being on call?

A developer shouldn't be the first person called, there should be an operations staff but they may have to escalate.

On the other hand, any time that a developer is routinely being called in the middle of the night, there is usually either an issue with the software or the infrastructure not being fault tolerant.
Given this commentary, its probably worth highlighting you're the developer of an entire fork of the perl codebase... Rather than the average user.
Absolutely, you'll need water, food, meds, guns and real friends to survive...
Reminds me of the classic, "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth" from the Annals of Improbable Research.

https://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/articles/pean...
Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year
Idea: Show bitcoin prices in terms of my hour's worth!

$ coinmon -c X EUR/month
You have to work Y hours for a bitcoin!

I think this aligns just a little bit more with the idealistic view of BTC. Next step would be getting paid in BTC, and then, getting a fixed amount of BTC.
lol....gee, ya think!?!??!?
This is not a myth, and the video you linked doesn't say it is a myth, it is AA your body can't synthesis : phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, and histidine.

The sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and homocysteine, can be converted into each other, cysteine can be made from homocysteine, and phenylalanine with tyrosine. Likewise arginine, ornithine, and citrulline, are interconvertible.

But for example if you only eat rice, you think you get 2.56g per 100g, but just 3.8% of lysine and 8.2% of leucine in its proteins, when you need 23% of leucine and 18% of lysine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid#Recommend...

Also nutritionfacts.org is junk science vegan propaganda like Cowspiracy and What the Health.

https://www.thatnerdysciencegirl.com/2015/11/13/the-case-aga...
Messaging as a programming model (2013)
The assumption that Toronto is on par with London, NYC or other large metro areas is a common delusion of those living there.
An answer to that question will allow me to offer a token suggestion that may make OP reconsider his stance ;)

immigration restrictions raise salary for people like me, citizens. Most countries have some form of immigration restriction for similar reasons.
Interesting indeed.

Question: why would he not share the same family name?

Completely ignorant here, is there no connection between childrens' names and that of their parents?
My supervisor's thesis from the 70's is in about as good as shape as the one linked. Must depend on when it was scanned.
Being white, Western, and male are totally social positions. That's why they matter, in a way an 'attribute' like your shirt size doesn't. Because our society is literally structured around them.

Still not something you can do individually to change them, not something to apologize for being, not something to feel guilty about it. But something to be aware of? For sure.

Disagreeing that being white, western (when talking to/about China) and male amplified the negative impact of the tweets is to pretend society is different than it is. It's not one's _fault_ one is in that social position, but it _is_ a social position, and it matters.

This may be a stretch, but being an SF reader, it's helpful to imagine an SF story about, say, aliens that take over the earth and set things up so they're in charge. Remember the 80s show 'V'? That's pretty much what's really going on, except not with aliens. Doesn't mean the aliens in V had to feel guilty for being aliens, and they couldn't change being aliens. But some of the acted against the other aliens plans to steal all the earths water and eat the humans, others for them, and others just went along with it. But pretending things weren't set up to give aliens power over humans wouldn't have helped anyone (well, except power-hungry aliens).
Why in fuck is this a link to mobile?
It would be cool to have that visually presented for controversial topics. Your observation never occurred to me before, good stuff :)
Node.js Strategic Initiatives
Sorry yes I was referring to the personal backup plan.

We use b2 at work for our corporate offsite backups and I can’t praise it high enough.

We’ve had it running for over a year and it’s just been set and forget.

We use cloudberry as the backup tool and it’s been great.

B2 is obviously our third line backup for when all else fails but I have confidence in it and it’s cheap.
Used this to detect tax fraud for a state government and uncover a breach (by poor suppression techniques) of medicaid data. This little law is extraordinarily useful!
> My point is that generalized statements about the American infrastructure aren’t generally fair since the US isn’t a monolithic organization

Very true, but I'd say when talking about roads, that goes for the state level in places like Texas and even down to the metropolitan level. Where I live, there are 75 mph high quality privately-managed roads close to terrible ones.
Interesting. Very talented family.
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These clicker games seem little more to me than an advanced "fidget spinner". There's really no skill or logic required and there doesn't seem to be much of a goal, other than to amass higher points/cookies/cows or whatever.
Kittens is one of the best clicker games there is along with space lich omega and a dark room I think.

For those interested in these types of games I would recommend subbreddit https://reddit.com/r/incremental_games
Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future
With due respect that's completely wrong. Clicker games have been a thing long before microtransactions were around and popular. I remember sinking an hour or two into cookie clicker: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
Re: central seating position. Try driving a combine harvester or an agricultural tractor pulling a long train of equipment. They can be heavier, longer, and/or wider than a semi. They use a high central seating position for a reason.

Re: mirrors. They're not there for aerodynamic reasons. The semi has a lot of cameras, so you'll have to use the screens. Sometimes a mirror or sticking your head out the window might be preferable, but it's a reasonable substitute.

Re: night mode. It'd be nice if they used OLED screens with a dark theme so you can really crank down the brightness and black is completely black. Still time to change that if it isn't, so hopefully somebody from Tesla is reading this and/or advocating for it.
Did my thesis trying to apply insights from Benford's law to the design of the adders in your CPU. The idea was you make your low order bits, which see more activity, slower and more power efficient and your high order bits faster and less efficient. Meet the same timing overall but with less energy on average. Sadly, memory addresses were close to pure entropy for my purposes and the savings I was able to get were only around 5%, not enough for all the effort.
I'm sure some people have had very good experience with zenni, but for what it's worth I gave up after 4 pairs (over about 3 years) that never quite had the right prescription. I had better luck with Warby Parker, but only have a single pair for comparison.
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Lee and Li are probably the same word, transliterated to English characters differently.
Well, you're ignoring massive swathes of infrastructure types. Containerization has led to a complete revamping of US ports during that period. The electrical infrastructure has been massively upgraded, including a huge decrease in coal fired plants. While passenger trains haven't been improved at all, freight train usage has grown rapidly and the already very extensive rail lines have been maintained (conflicting demands between passenger and freight being one of the major limitations on high speed rail). The entire internet was built during the period you specify. As was a nationwide cell network with nearly universal coverage in populated areas, despite a much larger area and lower population density than comparably developed European countries. The GPS constellation was deployed and opened up to the public. Automated banking and payment systems. Etc etc.

Not all infrastructure consists of roads, bridges, and tunnels.
Why DynamoDB isn't for everyone
You've got to be more specific. I've lived in NYC for almost a decade and I think the power went out 3 times and that's always been due to a hurricane. Power cuts are not something I've had to deal with in any significant manner in anyplace I've lived in the USA (and I've lived all over).
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There is also https://cern.ch/particle-clicker if you want to play one with an educational element.
1. Any OS can update which UEFI boot-target is the default one (this is what parent poster complains about). It should however not interfere with another OSes config or files. Windows does not touch Grub (or the other way around). That messy, unsafe and unreliable approach is reserved for legacy BIOS boot.

2. UEFI supports clean and safe separation between boot-targets, across single volumes, multiple volumes and networks targets with cryptographic verification if desired (Secure boot). UEFI supports everything traditional BIOS boot supports and more. The same can not be said the other way around. It also boot straight into long-mode, meaning you don’t have to implement X86 mode-golf (and similar lessons in ancient history) at all in your OS-loader.

UEFI is rather overengineered, but it’s clearly a better approach with better support for modern use-cases built into the core design.

Think of UEFI as Grub built into your machine. With UEFI your individual OS’s bootloader should no longer need to handle/be aware of multi-booting. They should only boot themselves.
I study how large groups of people work together towards goals for a living. Whenever there is a large org not meeting its goals or performing much worse than another large org in similar circumstances, I look at feedback loops.

What are the feedback loops involved? Are there consequences for poor performance? Are they the same? How often is feedback measured? Do the reward/punishment systems reflect the goals of the people paying for the org to operate?

I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole here. Instead I leave it to the reader. It's not rocket science to figure out. I've worked in and around government bodies of all sizes (including some that I considered very well run) and the bad ones are all bad for most of the same few reasons.
$ coinmon() {
> curl "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" | jq ".[0] .price_$1"
> }

$ coinmon eur
"6988.4723188"

In case you don't want to install 61 packages [1] :)

I don't know when/where nodejs development went wrong, but there's definitely something wrong.

[1] http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/coinmon
I am sorry, yes, WE means weekend. I am French living in Germany and this is part of the "continental" way of writing. Even in Denmark where I stayed a couple of years it was used all the time.
I've been following his work for quite a while and never knew that!
It's not the release culture that is at fault here. It takes age for a language to mature. Relying millions of dollars on an untested language is grounds for trouble.
THis is as good as I can find:

http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-s...

The issue is defining suburbs. Usually it is Rural vs City (Which includes suburbs)
Apache Airflow? It's not SaaS but is easily self-hosted, and I'm aware of a few initiatives to make it into a service.
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In my eyes, the power of the individual is often underestimated. Individuals propagate a system, indivduals can turn neutral to a system, or long for its destruction. Beyond a certain tipping point, small men, refusing to carry wheat and may the world burn anyway, shatter empires.
If you ever need to deal with encoding, you will very soon know why my friend. I've hated Python3 just as much but reality left me with no choice. It's time to say goodbye sooner rather than later.
I like the thought experiment of what Wikipedia might have been like in ancient times. It would have been amazing to read tweets and internet comments from Galileo, Shakespeare, and Jesus.

It also makes you wonder about the distant future. I wonder if this comment will still be on the internet 2000 years from now, and if any human will read it. I'm pretty sure an AI will read it in the near future, if not right now.
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What it is RIGHT NOW, is fixable. I don't know what you're trying suggest be done instead.
But just going equal salaries is often suboptimal.

Founder one is 19, has no-one to depend on him, can happily live for 40k a year.

Found two is 27, has a wife and a kid, has a mortgage, the lowest "stress" free amount he could live on is 80k a year.

So what are the options:

* Pay both 40k. Founder two cannot make end meets, and has to get a second consulting job on the side. He therefore puts less work into the product.

* Pay both 80k. This is "fair", but it is literally just padding the bank account of Founder one. You are cutting your runway N months short for no real gain in output.

* Pay one 40k, pay two 80k, give 1 a bit more equity. This can also be seen as "fair", but it may not be. Founder two is bringing 10 years of experience to the table. Founder one is bringing only two. So in the long haul, you are giving one more money.

* Pay one 40k, pay two 80k, give each equity based on what they bring to the table. Maybe founder one gets more equity. Maybe founder two does. Decent chance it would be founder two, as he has more experience.

To me the right play is pay people what they need to not stress, and give equity based on what they bring to the table. Obviously I am closer to founder two in the above scenario, and I suspect a few people advocating equal pay are closer to founder one.

At the end of the day, each founder is either worth it or not. Some wizard that lives in SF so needs 120k to live? Maybe he is worth it. Some guy with a party problem that needs 95k to live, despite being a junior dev? Maybe not worth it. I think it is better to evaluate each person and see if what they need is worth it, if not keep looking for someone else!
The point is that you're not going to do formal verification of your software. There is actually very little formally verified software out there, and the verified code that does exist is relatively small.

And no, you can't rely on the compiler to get it right. Maybe if you only write Haskell you can get there 99% but there will always be human errors in code that the compiler can't find.
I was thinking the same thing about the mirrors. Physical mirrors have their own limitations (poor in low light, poor when there is a badly placed bright light due to glare, etc), its just that we are used to dealing with them. Tesla's implementation may turn out to be better than that. Of course, it is also possible that Tesla's implementation may turn out to be worse, and his article was phrased as a list of questions that he would like to resolve in a test drive.
Paying down the technical debt is a tricky one, especially if your application is large. If you have the cash, it might be worth it to bite the bullet and hire a consultant/freelance technical writer. Get them to build up the documentation that you are missing, and then make sure your workflow enforces that it stays up to date.
I use a real-life notebook for anything real-life. I enjoy keeping notes offline. I use a bullet journal style.

For quick meeting notes or todo notes at work, I send myself an email.
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More Stanford free online courses/MOOCs(over 150) here:
https://www.class-central.com/university/stanford
I haven't seen a non prompted Linus rant, personally.
Benford's Law has been widely criticized as a technique to detect election fraud. A political scientist wrote a paper describing a variation. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/pm06.pdf He used some data from the 2006 election in Mexico just to illustrate the proposed technique.

The paper has been used extensively by critics of the election as a proof of fraud. But they haven't been able to prove fraud any other way. The paper was never meant to be used as a strong proof of anything, it was mostly exploratory.
The Victoria Line in London runs 36 tph. The Jubilee Line is 30, but will be 36 by 2019. The Central Line has 35tph in the morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_line#Service_and_roll...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_line#Service_frequency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_line_(London_Undergrou...
What's stopping us from making new sand with a giant solar powered grinder?

We should have plenty of rocks...
Yeah, the same things piss me off too.

Either let me fix it myself, dont have fucking braindead "policies" that are anti-customer, and bloody respond when someone has a problem.

Recently had an ebay stupid. Because a bit was flipped differently than they thought it should be on their backend, gave random bullshit errors.

The procedure here should be: fix your goddamned system to autocorrect it, or automatically put me in touch with a chat agent to fix it on their end.
It just goes to show why developing a mature language is a difficult task. There are situations that were never thought of or some really unintended consequences.

Additionally, for the love of god, why are people experimenting on the main-net? My understanding was Ethereum has a test-net to try and experiment/learn smart contract coding. Is that too different from the main-net to learn stuff?
Bit late here, but I'll give my opinionated answer anyways. The public sector is overall of lower human employee quality than the private sector. A high quality person that wants to get something done without a ton of red tape just doesn't stay in government work for the most part. It's not salary related or even money related, it's accountability related. Fixing that requires firing many entrenched people which will not happen. This is why many successful governments in the US task the private sector with building, maintaining, and sometimes even managing these projects. That has problems too, but in many cases at least it's done in reasonable time with reasonable quality or there is someone to hang.

Oh and I should mention large seemingly-private orgs that win all contracts, especially that are highly unionized without competition, are essentially government orgs and suffer the same issues.
They still reference the Dragon book, but how relevant is it still? I recall that a lot of it deals with parsing (which nowadays seems an almost trivial problem), and it doesn't treat garbage collected runtime systems, or JIT compilers. Or type inference with any of the newer typesystems as used by e.g. Rust, or even Hindley Milner.
But if you pay up front the whole concept of paying to make your clickies refresh faster (IE, the entire business model of clicker games) goes away. What's left after that?
> Try driving a combine harvester or an agricultural tractor pulling a long train of equipment.

Those are not typically driving on roads though. The seated position next to the center line means you don't have to pull as far into the other lane to see oncoming traffic.

Semis pass too.

WRT mirrors: no matter the high tech solution, having a manual backup is a prudent precaution. A mirror is harder to take out with a single splash of mud. It will also ease the transition between driving normal rigs to driving the Tesla rigs. Drivers working within their comfort zone is important when they're running for 10 hours at a time.

[EDIT] Wrote this before reading the article; frankly, the author does a much better job explaining why so many mirrors are a bonus (it's not just behind the truck that matters), and covers the central seating explanation much better. Short of being a trucker, I'm not sure how we can contradict his comments.
I ended up with an Embody after owning an Aeron (fully loaded, correct size), and Steelcase Leap (Leather).

The Aeron was terrible. Quite possible the most uncomfortable. It felt stiff, not nearly as configurable as the Leap, and unlike the Leap, rocked instead of actually recline. I could never find a comfortable position or sit still.

I liked the Leap, actually ended up keeping it with my Embody and giving it to my dad. The Embody is a nice in-between. The Leap feels better built, more comfortable and I love how it reclines instead of rocking on a spring mechanism, almost like a lounger. Makes those longer days far more comfortable.
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Still he has a good point about not being able to open the window to reach out to hand papers / etc...

I don't know how it works with "normal" trucks, but won't this mean having to get out of the vehicle to pay tolls, hand license to police, etc?