skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not that convinced about the hard work part, it strikes me it's a hangover from the protestant work ethic. If you can't achieve something in 40 hours a week why would adding another 20 make much difference. If anything it might make it more difficult.

I think I'd phrase it as you need work and luck.
>I'd say this can count as lucky... or unlucky(?) beyond that, all you've got is your own toil, sweat, tears and guile.

No, luck does not end at birth.
They could make a recycling plant set :)
We're talking about the effects over a time horizon, though, not instantaneously--the instantaneous conversation is both misleading and uninteresting. Five years from now, their sustainable energy production/backing outpaces their usage, and they're still using the same process--does it magically become not-greenwashing at that point? Was it retroactively not greenwashing?

Don't get me wrong--of course greenwashing is a thing that exists. But so does unwarranted cynicism.
I don't think history actually shows this. Of course "innovation" is such a meaningless term that it's probably true by way of encompassing too broad of a definition.
This is exactly what Malcom Gladwell talks about in Outliers: The Story of Success. He starts off by mentioning how hockey players have this age advantage since they are more physically mature than people born in other months and cut off by our artificially created system.
Devil's advocate: Taking the drywall job is akin to clicking the "start driving" button. Once you do either of those things (which you are entirely free to not do on a particular day with no penalty), at that point there is an agreement to try and not skip a wall here and there.
Luck plays a huge role.

However, it does help when one can recognize a rare opportunity, and can quickly act on it (take that meeting, show up at that event, say the right thing).
Being a white male is certainly not mandatory for becoming successful.

And a better personal ability would be to have supermodel genes :>
This is putting some stuff Uber did in Germany into perspective.

When Uber Pop launched in Germany insurance companies were quick to publicly state that no driver using Uber is insured under their personal policies and they needed to opt into commercial policies that are multiple times more expensive.

Then Uber stepped forward and put out a big anouncemnt that every driver is insured for up to 1 million €. Everybody was like "yeah, okay, that's not nearly enough to be allowed to drive here in Germany". Nobody understood why Uber would make such a dumb statement. Now that you explained how it's handled in the US, I'm not surprised anymore.
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That's not strictly true. Colleges are getting more applications than every before and are many of the best ones have tuition assistance programs for those who can't afford tuition. However, its true that the awareness of these kinds of opportunities is spotty among the poorer sections of American society.
while this is true, there are plenty of ways to de-anonymize transactions. you'd have to take extra measures to stay anonymous. meaning, can't rely purely on bitcoin protocol

https://decentralize.today/a-new-attack-vector-to-deanonymiz...

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency/lecture/qnS76/...
> but there is a strong tendency in this corner of systems developer to assume that stupid mistakes are a fault of the programmer and not the language, and so such benefits are considered flaws because it means letting in stupid people.

I don't disagree with you, but I think I can steelman Torvalds' position a little bit:

Low-level development is touchy. If you're not extremely careful, you're going to make errors which no language could possibly prevent, which could very well hard-brick some poor schlub's gear. Selecting for people who know the most "be careful" of all the "be careful" languages means selecting for people who are at least somewhat less likely to make errors like those.
However much disdain you have for college

I’m in the UK where the previous government had an ideological urge to get 50% of school-leavers into university and the only way it could do that was massive dilution. The Russell Group are still quality but the gap between them and the ex-poly degree mills is vast. Attending one of those indeed is not really an education despite the certification.
> I couldn't figure out what the lesson was being taught here.

I can easily see myself setting my kids up with something like that to teach them the value of time, structure, and work. It's no different to me than buying them a chemistry set, an Arduino, or making baking soda/vinegar volcanoes with them. I can even work through the math with them to show them that what they did was more expensive than me just handing them $5000 and telling them to watch TV all summer to save wear and tear on the car.
I appreciated our discussion on this point in a thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521817
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Well said! I agree with you about hyperbole although it can be both drama and reason.

In fact I edited my comment a bit after reading yours.

Two examples one is Churchill'/ warning in the 1930s that Hitler is evil, cannot be trusted etc. He was considered a fool who had destroyed his career until he was proven right.

Another modern example is Elon Musk's warning about AI. It may seem crazy and hyperbolic now but if he turns out to be right then it's dramatic and reasonable.
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You could argue that's luck as well, lucky to have wealthy parents or contacts that can finance your business.
> Well, I had the advantage in that I already knew I wasn't touching it on Docker with a ten foot pole, and we use Ansible, so that made my google search pretty obvious.

But the thing is, docker shouldn't actually make things that much harder -- it's just the same old process + namespaces + cgroups. In theory not that much is different, I'm not sure why reality so often doesn't match up.

> Yep, that's a pain in the arse, and a trap for inexperienced players still.

Yeah I got mega trapped. At one point I started walking back versions, trying them in lockstep (to get away from the maxConcurrentShardRequests and the NoShardAvailableActionException issue, before I realized that the latter issue was due to stale data on disk). I started bouncing between docker repos for this stuff -- elastic stopped publishing to dockerhub, but there's images like blacktop/kibana and bitnami/kibana who that still exist. Once I try again with a clear head I'm sure it will be easier.

Yeah I actually filed a ticket on the maxConcurrentShardRequests thing -- it seems like a real bug and it's waiting for triage.
> Students have spent their k-12 years having education 'done' to them.

I think you have neatly expressed the root of the problem right there.

Education is best approached by the student, not compelled by the teacher.
The blog is written after reading the following post by Michael lynch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241

The idea is to simplify promotion process in tech companies using Gamification to remove surprises and external influences.
"Not all that much" is not how I would describe a chart like this:
http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanag...

And lung cancer is not the only cancer caused by smoking.

In any case, cancer death rates and changes in risk factors do not speak directly to the claim about treatment effectiveness. If you are diagnosed with cancer, you are basically every bit as f'ed today as you were 50 years ago, except in the special case that your cancer happens to be one of those that never would have been noticed back then.
The X series. Try X3 reunion, or X3 terran conflict.

tbh, there is a bit of a steep learning curve / bafflingly bad interface thing going on with them but theyre the best of those kind of games imo.

Theres also elite dangerous, but I could'nt rally get into that. Because the galaxy is real sized with billions of stars everything is necessarily samey and bland. Also its sorta like an MMO you need to be checking out forums and engaging with the community to actually find out what to do. I do not want that from my privateer-likes. I want to just be able to completely immmerse myself in the game and explore on my own and find cool things and possibilities and implement my own schemes.
Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. Of all directions not to go, that may be the nottest.
Head First Design Patterns helped me. I'm not saying to go overboard with design patterns. But it helped me understand some ideas about Object Oriented design
After reading the Martin Fowler article you linked, your comment makes more sense, but I think the terminological distinctions Fowler makes are never going to be widely adopted. People are going to keep using terms like "mock" and "stub" to broadly refer to any kind of test double, and it's disingenuous to assume otherwise.
Whitney, Guggenheim, MoMA, Intrepid are all same price or more. Elevator rides up one of the famous skyscrapers are all more expensive. $25 for Met is better value compared to all of them.
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How many people have you met who had a car but really gave it up to Uber everywhere? Maybe in large cities like SF or NY but for the vast majority of Americans Uber and Lyft supplement their car usage rather than replacing it.
Having a black doctor for a parent probably provides more benefit than having a white dockworker for a parent. That's the point of the comment above. Similarly for being the daughter of rich couple or the son of a poor couple.
I think if starting pay for a highschool teacher was 85k a year, but came with the expectation that your students are utterly prepared for life after highschool, we could fully resolve issues with k-12.

While I agree with the sentiment behind your proposals, I think the real world variance of this throws things of. As an example, I had a very hard time in HS due to social issues, and basically flunked out of math my first year. Went to community college to make up the course; did fine, got a B, and ended up continuing to take CC courses and graduated a year early (did very well in CC compared with HS at the time).

Coming from a pretty low income family however, I was still utterly unprepared for higher education, in the sense that 1) my family had 0 experience on navigating the system; or 2) even having expectations of higher education. It never even occurred to me that I was almost 2 years ahead of my piers in accumulated college credits. I ended up going into the military to get the money to go to university, since my family had effectively none. It all worked out in the end, but with some decent mentorship, or even one decent teacher in HS, I could have finished an undergrad degree at 19-20.
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You are right, however that is a systemic bias in equal opportunity – not representation.

Foot in the door is a huge step, and it's totally okay for companies to push initiatives that allow more minorities to get their foot in the door / exposure to the company and industry. It's not okay for them to push that agenda in assessment to reach better distribution numbers in representation.
FWIW, "Sync" is not a place -- by "in Sync" they mean "synchronously". This confused me for several minutes.
Yes hopefully. Take a look at BayesDB (and the underlying crosscat algorithm) and probabilistic programming.
How do you watch your logs? I couldn't for the life of me find an alternative to Kibana that interoperates well with ES.

Grafana should be possible, but it just seems like no one uses grafana for just plain log watching.
First amendment jurisprudence, thankfully, disagrees with you. But first, some history.

For most of modern history, speech has been censored in some form or another by governments. Naturally so, as any kind of divergent thinking can be dangerous to power structures (this hasn't gone away). In 1663, John Twynn, was tried and executed in England for printing material that suggested that perhaps the monarchy should be beholden to the people. The Sedition Act of 1798 was passed by the American Congress and signed into law by President John Adams. Namely, it prescribed fines and imprisonment for those who "write, print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous and malicious writing" against the government. This was used to jail several members of Congress, among others.

Modern free speech jurisprudent didn't start to develop until as late as 1917. The Espionage Act of 1917 was enacted at the start of World War I to prevent actions that were seen as unfavorable to the war. The Supreme Court upheld the law as not violating freedom of speech in Schenck v. United States. I believe there was a subsequent 1917 or 1918 case that began to turn the tide (the reference escapes me at the moment and I'm at work), but it wasn't until 1969 in Brandenburg v. Ohio that the Supreme Court ruled that inflammatory speech is protected as long as it satisfies a two-prong test:

1. The speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action," AND
2. The speech is "likely to incite or produce such action."

The case concerned an Ohio Ku Klux Klan member who was recorded saying particularly horrid and denigrating things about African Americans, but, notably, nothing specifically threatening. The Supreme Court upheld your right to say things like "I think we should kill all Jews" because, although a terrible thing to say, statements like that aren't imminently encouraging lawless action and not likely to do so.

Past that point, the Supreme Court has regularly upheld this interpretation of the first amendment. The best argument against a more European, say, interpretation of the first amendment is that, simply: governments only ever censor speech that they don't like. That's why the Espionage Act was used to incarcerate the likes of Emma Goldman and not, say, the people who were helping organize lynchings. If you were to enact hate speech legislation, and history bears this out, the people most affected are the minorities: black people, Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ people, pacifists, communists, anarchists, socialists, etc. Think about all of the police that shoot unarmed black men. Can you seriously imagine police forces across America protecting the speech of someone that calls for the abolition of the institution that person belongs to?

So that's a brief history and law lesson (caveat: I am neither a lawyer nor a historian). This is certainly a larger discussion to have, and I very much enjoy debating things like hate speech legislation and speech restriction in general, but I'll leave you with this for now.
And through his writings (either Fooled by Randomness or The Black Swan) I discovered Paul Wilmott and his very lucid writings on quantitative finance.
Weird tirade? It might be tirade, but it's not weird. I'm just tired of people claiming "I'm green", while actually being worse for the environment.

> Why does their lack of this knowledge doom the environment?

Because people change their behavior based on what they find out. So it looks like legos are now "better" for the environment, because the plastic touched a plant.

But not only does it not make a difference, it's actually worse for the environment.

It reminds me of when BMW used hydropower to make electricity to each ovens for carbon fiber manufacturing.

https://www.alternative-energies.net/bmw-produces-carbon-fib...

Guess what? That's worse for the environment! Electricity is a very inefficient way to heat things. Save that electricity for where it's needed and heat your ovens with natural gas.

Instead someone else is making electricity with natural gas, and the total environmental impact is higher. But then of course BMW doesn't get to falsely claim "we're green".

> Why do you expect the general public and media reporters to know offhand about polymer chemistry?

I expect the reporter to ask a chemist. Go check and see if Lego's claim holds any water.
Bit by bit, Whole Foods gets an Amazon touch
Well it's a good thing Bitcoin DNGAF what the state thinks because all Bitcoin actually is, is math and code
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Interesting I wasn't aware of the filter issue with the original LimeSDR. The lower range was one reason why it was on the top of my list of something to pick up for when I've got a proper reason to need a full featured SDR, rather than just the mostly toy RTLSDR based stuff. That said I think it's still up there for the high input bandwidth (60MHz woo!) for me. Unlikely to ever need real transmit ability but being able to receive that much is a nice feature.
You can visit the online Lego store and pick out any number of any colour of the plain (or any other) bricks that you want.

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick

There's a search filter.

You can filter by colour and by name, for ex: 2x4
> When there's less shares, the EPS increases, making it appear the company is performing better.

When there are fewer shares, my individual stake in the company is actually performing better.
Does that cause an interruption while you are playing?

Do you play on chess.com? That seems to attract unsporting players.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/request-for-disabli...
That stuff is in /r/news now, although the controlling faction changes on occasion.
Instead of a goal, education has become a requirement where it is not necessary, or affordable. Because of this, millions of people are starting their adult lives in serious debt.
I'm sure that you've seen this already but just in case you haven't:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster...

I didn't follow it to the letter because I'm stubborn but
No it's not mandatory at all, just incredibly advantageous. Much more so than physical attractiveness, although that helps a great deal in life as well.
Wing Command III really brought the two together. If you played it in VGA instead of SVGA mode, you'd get the smooth/speed and even texture feel of WC2. SVGA mode gave you really cool detail at a lower framerate, unless you had like a DX2/100 PC.

WC4 was really the blow out engine .. so much smoother and they removed the cockpit view entirely for a much more functional HUD. The story was also much more complex.

Prophecy was the first game with actual 3D acceleration, with extra effects if you used Glide/3Dfx. The story wasn't as good, but the graphics were nice, even though the actual flying/shooting felt a little more arcade like (you could ram and bounce off of ships).

I think I still have some of the old CDs .. might need to fire them up in Doxbox or wine.
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Cool to see that Amazon is giving 5% back on Whole Foods purchases made with their Amazon Prime credit card. Hopefully they'll bring prices down enough to make cash purchases competitive with other stores, and the 5% back will be a true bonus.
The short answer to both of your observations is that they're misperceptions.

1. Universities have long been tied to visible activism -- the fact that we're at the high point of a wave now isn't particularly meaningful. There is no systemically disruptive "unrest" in universities -- classes go on, degrees are being earned.

2. The feelings thing seems like your perception. Yes, more visible and provocative and simply unusual speech occurs at universities. By gross volume, there may be more feelings-based reasoning that you perceive in universities. But compared to the cultural mainstream, critical thinking is much more visible and prevalent at universities -- it is, in fact, required a lot of them time.
> Chrome on Android using either a OTG cable for a U2F USB key

Which key did you use? I tried Yubikey 4 (via OTG cable) and 4C (directly) and the U2F flow with Authenticator did not work (just like the key would not be recognized for U2F).
> At that age, every month of development makes a big difference in social skills, which leads to more leadership opportunities.

Citation? This sounds suspiciously like Malcolm Gladwell, who is a pop psychologist hack and whose arguments hold water like a paper bag.
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I will never forget the first time I saw Wing Commander in a magazine and the sinking feeling that set in when I realized I needed a new computer to play it, but I was 13 and had no money.
Yeah those damned coastal elites fighting for universal healthcare and more education and higher minimum wages.

The reality is that the only real "elites" are these fantasists who've bought into this narrative and actually believe they are the "Real Americans (tm)." It's a childish delusion that is only sustainable by an even more delusional pride.
And if you are asking those questions, then you might personally find a university to be useful!

But that does not mean university should be demanded of everyone!
Very true. Not only is there some conflict of interest built in, but unscrupulous gallerists can and do take advantage of the relatively weak position of emerging artists.

Funny you should mention Brad Pitt...

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-a...
Dropshipping is viable but not nearly as easy as most make it out to be.

The main benefit of dropshipping is usually that you don't manage any inventory, but prices and really anything but making the sale to the customer is out of your control. Serious problems can arise when your customer's expectations and your suppliers expectations (or failure to uphold thereof) are mismatched.

Serious problems like this can lead to account terminations on amazon or other platforms, forcing dropshippers without rock solid suppliers (and processes) onto custom websites, or non-mainstream platforms.

To be able to manage a decently large store well, expect to invest hundreds of hours in software and more in support. Just take it seriously with the long term outlook and you're much more likely to succeed.
whether what the author said is true or not is irrelevant. not that i am on any side. am i the only one that is noticing that TOR and Signal can be tools which could be used to extend clandestine intelligence gathering abroad. they are sort of like trojan horses, except they can be deployed remotely... why chase when you can just create an ecosystem that attracts and then you can sit back, watch and analyze then act.