skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote "afaik, it's quite uncommon for those outside the humanities and certain social sciences to believe this". This is an example of a fragment of your constructed reality. It's something you choose to believe, because it coheres with your other beliefs. It is clearly not a true statement, because the supposed objective reality is constantly updated with new knowledge acquired across all domains of human thought. No single individual possesses the complete view of all the knowledge. In other words any subjective reality is constructed, and the objective reality is not known.

A "constructed reality" is not the same as a lie (or incomplete truth). A lie can stand alone in contradiction with facts and proofs, as your statement above does, by definition. A lie can be integrated into a coherent view of the world, a constructed reality, composed of truths and other lies.
Don't get me wrong I think having a co-founder is often a bad idea. I just don't like any of the reasons you mentioned.

Hmm. Let's see.

1) It’s very hard to convince a cofounder to join an unproven business. And that is going to waste a lot of your time looking for someone. When you could be building your business instead.

2) You likely won’t need to build anything to validate your product if you use duct-taping, wizard of oz, lean startup. And after it's validated, well, just go ahead and build the mvp using the minimal toolset.

3) You can hire someone from a site like Upwork and in many cases they will be a lot cheaper than you are and still pretty good.

4) With frameworks like rails, laravel, bootstrap and a mountain of plugins it's pretty easy to build products that can make money in your spare time (10h week).

> Billing code, dashboard, homepage, getting users, retaining users, design/ux, debugging, customer service/support. This takes months of grueling work.

If any of those things are grueling for you:

a) Are you sure this is the right game for ya? ;)

b) Are you sure someone didn't already make a lib for that?

c) Outsource them!

Edit: If the main reason you want a co-founder is because you don't want to go it alone then you could fix that by joining a site like indi-hackers and talking to other founders as you work on your stuff. Maybe join a mastermind group. Etc.
Over the last fifteen years there have been three times as many wingsuit deaths as freesolo deaths, for what its worth.
I'll say this: it's incredibly hard to have a full-time job and also build out a successful side project. It sounds really nice and rational when you write it out here, but it requires an insane amount of focus and basically shutting out any leftover time. Most people can't do this.

I would suggest surrounding yourself with wealthy people and keeping them updated. When you have enough progress to get them excited about it, ask if they'd come in as an angel investor. Once you get a few of these lined up, you can get enough runway to justify quitting.

The base advice is good: don't quit your job if you don't have 6-12 months of runway first. But also, your job is holding you back from the execution that will be required to build your project and get customers, so try to find a way to bridge your exit.
It seems to me that encapsulating analyses in bash scripts would help with reproducibility.
To say more then 70% of tech workers do not work on friday is probably incorrect. Your experiences differ very much from mine, and places like the Gigafactory don't have this perk.
Right up there with reading large amounts of fiction. I mean, one should experience life instead of sitting on a couch or wherever for hours on end, staring at printed words and immersing yourself in some other person's imagination! At the end of it, so many hours every year and you have nothing to show for it.
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I'm an Amazon Seller myself - the reason that other sellers add to the listing with products for sale (with crazy price), is they get access to all the metrics on the listing, traffic, conversion rate etc etc. It's a ploy to get access to the sales data.
It absolutely conveys useful information. At least... when used correctly.

It's talking about applications that share a similar structure and composition. An isomorphic application is one that is structured similarly on the server and the client (often sharing most of the code) but will not have all the code the same.

For example - server side code may deal with Auth or routing whereas the client is more data driven.

This is quite different to a 100% server rendered page OR a client-rendered page. It shares some features with both. This is also quite different from the implication of a universal application - which would imply both the client and server run the exact same code (otherwise how can it be called universal?).

So it's very information rich compared to any alternative.
Unfortunately this will not help drivers make a living. It will make them work more and squeeze another level of profit through another level of exploitation.

Also, I’d be curious about user testing this first. How many people enter a ride in a dire need for something?

Thirdly, why can’t drivers sell things themselves and take 100% of the profit?
I just saw a watch repair book for $98,900 a few days ago. I see outrageous prices all the time.
Procrastination is seldom time you actively choose to waste, though, and few procrastinators enjoy it.
Well, it's an extension of thinking people should be able to make voluntary transactions. If someone is willing to give up their ticket for $X and someone else is willing to buy the ticket for $X then it is a pareto improvement for them to trade, since they both get something they value more than what they have.
Οδηγός η φόρμα στις προβλεψεις στοιχηματος Κυριακης
Funnily enough, my dad grew up in the USSR and said he learned a lot of English listening to Scorpions records and reading the lyrics + translations. They were some of the few records he could get his hands on. He said it was a huge help when we all immigrated to the US later.
You have no ISBN, right? It's fascinating that this bookseller took the time to create by hand an entry for your book in Amazon's product database.

In a way, not even not having an ISBN is a sure way to "withdraw from the international book trade"[1].

[1]: http://www.anagrambooks.com/no-isbn
"Reality" is ambiguous, I agree. What we experience, even at a basic sensory level, isn't reality. Rather, it's a model that's based on limited perceptions. In an context based on natural selection, at scales from evolutionary through developmental to experiential.

And further, what we experience as reality depends on our model of reality. And then we act, which reinforces whatever reality we think exists.
There's no exploitation, just market clearing prices. Or could you define exploitation?
> What's going to happen if you switch the job on a pending I-140? And an I-140 could be pending for years in case you are not aware.

The I-140 can be premium processed. How could it be pending for years? Your new employer restarts the PERM process with the priority date from your old application. For Indians and Chinese with multi-decade GC waits it makes no difference if you have to restart because your priority date doesn't change so it's not like you'd get a GC faster by staying with your current employer. For everyone else, you're stuck with your current employer for maybe a year or two until you get a GC.

> Even approved I-140 (after 180 days) is not clear cut because the AC21, which allows this, states something to the effect that it's fine if you change to a similar job. How similar? It's up to the USCIS to decide.

All true and valid points. Hence I said the system could be better. Eliminating per-country GC caps seems like the most expedient solution.
When you mix ethanol with water it gets heated up : https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d859/b2900e6d66cf71d79601dd...

Russian saying "The worst thing after drinking hot vodka is to have sex with sweaty woman".

Yet, it was Dmitry Mendeleev (inventor of Periodic Table of Element) who discovered that 40% mixture of ethanol and water is the best combination. It is quite hard to achieve precise mixture ratio by hand.

Yet in USSR you could buy pure drinkable spirit, here is a label of the bottle: http://incolorprint.ru/d/701905/d/1959_Спирт_Питьевой.jpg

Used in cases when volume matters.
Alcatraz mystery deepens after discovery of letter claiming prisoners survived
I was about to say maybe it's finished but it has 70 open issues so maybe it was just abandoned?

It is at version 1.0.3 though so it could be that it's considered finished. Seems strange to leave the issues open if it was though.
Scrolling in the tab bar works out of the box though?!

Is that extension about changing the tabs with the wheel?
Uber is already dystopia by the measure of its villainry. It blows my mind that women still use it in the presence of competition, and that it hasn’t been shut down for its blatant disregard for laws, privacy and human decency. And that drivers still drive for Uber.
Sometimes people forget that taking risks doesn't always end well. I took a big financial risk in the 1990s which ended up costing me 15 years of savings and a long period of anxiety and depression. If it had worked out I could now give speeches about the need for taking risks...
Two futures traders actuall managed to buy every onion in America in 1955. They tried to sell them all in Chicago which lead to a massive price crash their and shortages everywhere else. Congress then passed the Onion Futures Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Does this have something specific to do with Gmail? Or is it just that it’s another thing (a separate, independent feature of your Google account) that you get for free, as part of being a Gmail user?
I do. Life is a gamble.
There’s a reason Wawa gas stations are partnering with Tesla for SuperCharger installs on their properties.
If scalpers are buying 40% of the tickets and not finding buyers they'll quickly go bankrupt.

If they are finding buyers at the higher prices, that means the market clearing price is well above the list price, and scalping increases total surplus (again, by moving tickets towards those who value them more).

If the ticket sellers are artificially reducing the cost then this is what will happen.
This was actually 200 proof USP (US Pharmacopendia) ethanol. Fit for use in products for human consumption.

I never would have drank it otherwise. If it's not made specifically for human consumption, even really pure ethanol can have super nasty trace toxins in it.
If you lose the odometer and the gasoline tank level meter you no longer have a way to plan refueling on longer trips. Run out of gas in a bad place and you can end up freezing to death (happens every year to people during blizzards) or dying from heat stroke (happens every year to people around Death Valley/Mojave, usually from getting their vehicle stuck). "Door is open" warning indicator is also part of the dash. Driving with a door that flies open unexpectedly could easily lead to a crash. Seatbelt warning lights not operating is a safety issue. Losing the battery warning indicator can leave you stranded, losing the ABS warning indicator can lead to a crash, losing the engine warning indicator can lead to very expensive repairs.
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I’m happy this is happening in a state that I don’t live in. What next, in their infinite
wisdom and prescient vision, will the political class think up for us? Maybe every restaurant’s deserts must be gluten free or automobile repair places must be open every day until at least 10:30pm.

I see no reason to trust others to make decisions for me about the kind of electronics I can purchase.
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Probably not. But distillation is still the norm, isn't it?
How is it even related to browsers? o_0
Step 1-1000:
Find customers

You are a sales person. Not a developer
In my 20s and 30s I did what I thought was right and said what I thought. Turned out I was wrong.
Don't you need Spotify Premium?
Great technology. Shit service. That’s our reputation
If only they were as honest about everyone else's tweets.
Microsoft was incredibly malevolent. They fought very dirtily to try to destroy any competitors they had. They had an enormous monopoly.

All private monopolies are malevolent.
>> "You might feel dumb asking questions, but you look dumber when you don't get it because you failed to ask."

That depends on having co-workers who also think this is true.

In my experience, this is not guaranteed. Frex, I used to work in that one company as a junior dev, where I was expected to know everything about the internal development processes of the dev team from day 1. Well, I hadn't taken "<that_one_company> 101" in my CS course so I had no idea, e.g. which one was the development server and how to get onto it. Still, when I asked people that information, they reacted as if I had transgressed some invisible barrier and I was taking up their time for no reason.

After a lot of this, I resolved to never ask anyone anything again. I mostly kept to it (one time I was sure someone had done something incredibly stupid that I didn't want to have to take the blame for, so I called them over to fix it themselves- and it turned out I was right). The upshot of this was that I learned a metric shit ton of things on my own, but of course the people who depended on my work being done quickly were constantly breathing dow my neck in rage.

On the bright side, once I felt I had received enough self-training at the expense of that company, I gave myself a promotion by finding another one, where I received some of the most brilliant mentoring I could ever expect, by co-workers who were incredibly relieved that a new hire was interested in learning about some of their legacy software.
Yes, most Chrome extensions work as is. There's even an extension for downloading extensions from the Chrome store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
Well, a major consideration is that uploading data to a third party is a huge barrier. Imagine you want to work on internal messages between your users, or support tickets, or emails within your company. Because spaCy is open-source, we already had a lot of users where data privacy was a 100% non-negotiable requirement. There are already a lot of people doing cloud stuff, so it made a lot of sense for us to think about self-hosted tools.

We also had a slightly different idea about what makes annotation or data collection "hard" or painful.

If you start back at a business or product need, you first have to sketch out how you're going to structure your solution before you can start annotating the data. For instance, you might need to decide whether to do sentence classification, or tag spans of text, or recognize structured relations. You need to figure out how to select which texts to annotate, or which parts. Maybe your documents are long, and it's efficient to annotate only the start of the document. Maybe the information is rare, and a lot of effort should go into getting the right filtering process before you annotate your text.

These types of considerations are really basic -- they arise on every new thing you do. You can develop better or worse intuitions, but in the end you have to make a bunch of decisions, and making them blindly is really inefficient.

Prodigy addresses this by letting a single developer quickly iterate on trying out different ideas. You can filter the stream of examples however you like, plug together the components in different ways, and build complicated pipelines. You might start by selecting examples for entity annotation by keyword, but then decide your keywords suck, so you build a text classifier to select the examples. Then you might apply a sentence-based classifier to all examples of a given entity type, to identify the presence of some relation. This pipeline of three models is very quick to build once you know you need to build it --- and Prodigy helps you figure out whether an approach is working within a couple of hours.

We could have given developers all of these pieces as REST endpoints...But that would give you a really miserable workflow. If what we're trying to give you is a bunch of functions you can compose in different ways, we should just let you program.

In short, we think the big problems with ML/data science/AI are that the technologies are so unpredictable. If you're at a point where you know exactly the inputs and outputs of all your models, and you just need to 10x your data set, you've really almost won already --- you're at the happy state of knowing you can turn $ into %. That's a great problem to have, because it's not the big problem. The big problem is the unpredictability.

The best solution to unpredictability is rapid iteration, and to do that we need to give data scientists the tools to figure out which supervised approaches seem most promising. And if developers are working with a bunch of composable pieces themselves, it may as well be a library. Making it a SaaS just makes the product worse.
Skynet wouldn't accept an asymmetric war. How many times did the HRC bots retweet her messages?
It's a problem that a billionaire not knowing something is a problem.
"all other legitimate uses are good" is a tautology
Yes, that was part of the reason I didn't bother with it. I was frankly surprised to see that anyone bothered to list a copy at all, since the market is very small. (Primitive Baptists of any sort are a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of American Christianity, and the appeal of my book, if any, is to an even smaller subset. But de gustibus non est disputandum.)

[EDIT: close paren. I couldn't take it!]
Because the story of Beowulf that we have is a Christianized version, rewritten by monks. We have no idea what the actual moral framework or symbolism of Grendel was, or wasn't, in the original story.
Hah, I think icons are the place isometric views work really well, actually! Lots of room for highly differentiated objects with an isometric view. However, text and interconnections and maps are really not great at these isometric angles. And I do really like the icons used in the figure in the original post, just not the whole.
Ignoring that whole major privacy problem of using their payment to get their background...

What makes you think that job seekers are the standard demographic of Uber riders? If anything, I'd think you'd have more luck pitching new jobs to the drivers.
I think the format matters. Old folk stories would be told by a village elder to a handful of children, and if the children had questions -- Why did he do that? Is he a bad person? -- the storyteller could provide the necessary explanation at the time.

Modern folk stories are created in publishing houses and movie studios and broadcast to hundreds of millions, with no opportunity for the reader or watcher to ask the storyteller for elaboration. So the stories have to be clear from the start; if there's no way to resolve ambiguity, you need to avoid having it to begin with.
I recall there was a specific reason for this - does anyone else know why? Is Google working on the legal/tax implications of fixing it?
There's quite a bit of a confusion here.

Everclear is a rectified spirit (pure grain alcohol)

'Rectified' refers to the method of distillation, not purity or source. 'Rectified spirit' is not equivalent to 'pure grain alcohol'. The latter can be the former, depending on the type of distillation. The former can be the latter if it's derived from grain (rather than from e.g. potatoes).

Vodka isn't anywhere near as distilled.

Russian state standard for vodka specifies use of rectified alcohol. This statement doesn't make much sense, as vodka is simply diluted ethanol. Before dilution it has been distilled just as much as any other rectified ethanol.

It's less pure, a lot less.

Alcohol used in high-grade vodkas typically undergoes extensive filtration beyond distillation. Industrial rectified alcohol will typically contain significantly more contaminants (e.g. fusel oils) unless it's UHP lab grade and is what's used in the crappy cheap vodkas.

Any time you create a liqueur you should use rectified spirits (Everclear/Crystal Clear/Golden Grain/etc) not vodka.

Depends on the liqueur. Some formulations call for grappa, some for brandy, and clearly will not tolerate a substitution with a rectified spirit.
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A better idea than a race to the bottom. Needs some front-end work.
> In other words any subjective reality is constructed, and the objective reality is not known.

Yes, agreed. The only issue I have here is about the contortion of language to support a particular philosophical viewpoint. If the phrase were 'the social construction of subjective reality', there would be no problem. Instead, this underhanded usage of 'reality' is an attempt to remove the distinction between objective and subjective reality. Not only does it do that functionally, but it was also promulgated by people who do not believe in the existence of an objective reality (comically, in part because of then-vogue linguistic theories and bad interpretations of quantum and relativity theories).
I think Q/KDB+ is probably the closest to what you're asking for - mostly English words with a direct mapping to the underlying array primitives.

Regarding J specificaly: Some words (sort, inverse, each, every) are in the standard library and loaded by default. What have you tried?

You can define your own cover words for the built-ins (here I've added a cap ([:) to signal a domain error if the word is used with 2 arguments when it expects 1, and vice versa):

times =: [: : *
signum =: * : [:
sum =: +/ : [:
count =: # : [:

J programmers don't do this for the same reason JavaScript programmers don't do this:

var ArithmeticOperationsLibraryWhichIsIncludedByDefault = Math;
var TheLibraryRegardingTheBrowserWindow = window;
I'm now able to walk to work (<20 minutes) and I miss reading during my commute :(
Nobody went around after the Civil War deliberately killing every single man, woman, and child on the losing side, and forming an entirely new country.

This is what happened in Haiti - a full on genocide after the French surrender. Remarking on the extraordinary feat of "electing" a former slave is a little bit strange when almost everyone who wasn't a slave was killed or fled the country. With a few specific exceptions, white people in Haiti became persona non grata who could not own land, etc.

The degree to which post-war Haiti could be called a "republic", except nominally, is somewhat questionable as well.

Additionally, slavery as a "way of life" destroyed in the South is generally exaggerated. The South was economically dependent on slavery, yes, but slavery was largely an institution of the wealthy planter class. As Grant wrote in his memoirs, most of the Southerners who fought in the Civil War were duped into fighting a war they had no real interest in; the best most of them had going for them was basically "sure, I'm dirt-poor sonofabitch, but at least I ain't a slave".

The young men who would have the fighting to do in case of war, believed all these statements, both in regard to the aggressiveness of the North and its cowardice. They, too, cried out for a separation from such people. The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre—what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation. Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch17