skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so, but I guess it's possible. I haven't really thought it through. All kinds of weird shit happens in a counterfactual world where the second law of thermodynamics is violated. It kind of reminds me of the Feynman sprinkler problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_sprinkler

My guess is that if you really could carry this argument through without reference to the asymmetry of entanglement that it would be a major breakthrough in the philosophy of science.
"Hi. When you upload an image to imgur, we need the legal right to distribute it to other people. We also process your image to look right on different devices, which requires the legal right to modify your image. We promise not to distribute or modify your image beyond what we do here at imgur.com, and won't sell it to other people"

Seems easy enough to write.
Greek would also be possible, which would put the writing no earlier than 500BC. To my eye it couldn't pass for the earlier Phoenician alphabet.

When you're talking about a mine that was likely operated for centuries, it's also hard to say "everyone who worked here was a slave" or "everyone who worked here was a well-paid highly educated craftsman".
Why is it always a choice between poorly-written regulations and no regulations?
Those numbers sound about right to me. If I lived out in the area I was thinking of serving it might have been doable, but I figured with the low potential for profit and the amount of time it would take to deal with customers, install equipment, etc., it wasn't really worth it.
If duration is a simple displacement between two points in another direction of space then you are right, the two are equivalent: you have then also accepted that time does not flow and lacks intrinsic direction for it is precisely these properties that separates "time" from "space".

Time flows and is irreversible, this is what makes it special, and it is the denying that the flow and irreversibility are inherent properties of time that constitutes "dispelling the illusion".

In other words, saying that "time is an illusion" is saying "time is just like space".
Why should those of us who don't choose to live in the country have to subsidize the lifestyle choices of those that do choose to live in the country?

And, before you go thinking I'm just the radical conservative, recognize that this cuts both ways. I'm also of the opinion that we shouldn't be subsidizing people's high-carbon lifestyles by making roads free, for example.
Yep, and quiet electric motors is why air taxis could be a real thing again in major cities. E.g. Uber partnered with NASA to try to bring them to Los Angeles before the 2028 Olympics, with 18 heliports scattered around the county.
There author doesn't mention the fact that he and other profs in humanities are funded by a ponzi scheme of students tricked into paying for degrees that don't have salary value.
>People from one of the other faculties argued it's disrespectful to allow someone with mere BSc to teach students

At my university, they let college sophomores teach discussion sections to other students. This is typically done by Graduate students, but it's possible to be a sophomore teaching a senior.
I get the sense that the author of this post is fairly young. It's pretty interesting, if you look at the graph from the Stack Overflow survey of competitiveness vs kinship with your peers, it drops pretty rapidly with experience: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#connection-a...
https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
Couldn't we just increase 4G capacity in that case?
I once took out $25,000 from my WF account and asked for it in a cashiers check. I paid the $5 fee for the check (even though they had stated that it would be free) - then I took my money....

I came back ~1month later to re-deposit the check into SAME WF acct.

They stated that they had to put a hold on the check for 14 days until they could verify the funds. For a WF issued cashiers check. From the SAME act the funds came out of.

I changed banks that day.
I agree Indian culture is very diverse - much more so than here in the US, for example. But let's look at some of the examples:

>If you live in Gujarat, you are respected a lot more for having your own business (whether its a Multi National Company or a corner shop) rather than an employee, even if you have a great job.

So most kids in Gujarat are not pressured to complete high school?

>If you live in Kerala, I imagine you are respected well if you go abroad and send remittances back.

To be honest, in my very limited experience, Indians living abroad are responsible for trying to improve quite a few institutions in India (in particular trying to build more educational/social institutions that benefit society in a way that existing ones fail). I honestly don't know if they are from Kerala though.

>Credential ism is a very recent phenomena in Indian society, in place mostly because of the police-state like rule imposed on Indian society by the British.

While I accept blame on the British, things that happened over 70 years ago is not "recent". The failure of not moving away from credentialism does not lie with the British.

>of course the society will re-orient itself to satisfy those requirements.

Incidentally, much of the credentialism existed in Britain as well in those years. Their implementing it in India was merely a way to mirror their own structures. However, the UK today is significantly less focused on these things, yet the sentiment is still strong in India. Yes, of course society re-orients itself to satisfy requirements, but the burden is on the society to re-orient itself once those requirements are no longer there.

BTW, my aim is not to minimize the impact of colonialism. I'm trying to point out that blaming colonialism will never be part of the solution to a country's woes.
That would be easily countered with "So... I read your essay and it intrigued me. As a baseline, to understand where you're coming from... can you...?"
And societies have the ability to add more capacity by realizing by having privately owned radio spectrum the advancement and adoption of wireless data transfer has been stunted for decades.

Everyone likes to argue that you can't have an all wireless society because there is limited bandwidth available, but as it is we are only using about 10% of the usable spectrum (from about 200MHZ to 8GHZ) for network data connectivity, and even then most of it is still privately controlled - if an area has too many AT&T subscribers and not enough Verizon customers, the Verizon spectrums go to waste while the AT&T ones are oversaturated.

There are a few things I could name off the top of my head that would overnight dramatically improve technology, but nationalizing back light for the people to use and then having this entire range opened up to generic data transfer with the same congestion rules and regulations used on currently open bandwidth rings would go a long way to improving most of our lives dramatically.
Against marriage
Part of that is because they often can't get more than one IP address from their fiber provider.
Cripes, a bumbershoot
So the government gets to keep $1B collected from WF. What about the people who overpaid all those fees? Are they being refunded?
The Game of Everything, Part 6: Civilization and Religion
Mainly Spark, but it really depends on the domain, what libraries exactly that you'll need, hell I look at what kind of deployment routine the client wants, what their maintenance crew looks like compared to what they want from me.

There is plenty of scala in fintech, I can tell you that. But there's plenty of ocaml, f#, matlab, excel macros, r, kdb, cobol, fortran, c++, a vast array of different technologies.

Most places that choose scala are choosing it over erlang or Java or c#, they USUALLY only choose scala over ocaml if they want to have some old ocaml code talk with new infrastructure that they want built in scala, ime. Because of how performance works and that multi core isn't working yet, ocaml is limited in application if they're willing to find or already have scala programmers.
This is maybe the most important point. This developer clearly did not know how muddy the technical stack was at this company when joining. Sure, every organization has different standards, but related to that is what the desired standards are. In this case, it's clear that internally those were the desired standards.

I think that raises the issue that during interviews, it's important to reliably find out a) what the state of code is and b) what the real standards are. It would probably be better to work at an organization with no testing that wants complete unit test coverage, than to work somewhere with a test environment that is happier with poor coverage.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find a layman who, when presented with the commerce clause, replied that he had inferred the Dormant Clause [0] or Civil Rights Act [1] from it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant_Commerce_Clause
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 - "... principally its power to regulate interstate commerce"
> Somehow, we need to figure out a trick to move this cognitive error from the periphery of consciousness to center stage

To get meta: is not this suggestion potentially a result of the "summer of the shark" bias? If not for all of the media reporting on fake news, election interference and Facebooks bad behavior, would the author still make this recommendation? As others have said on many posts about the Cambridge analytica scandal, we've known for years Facebook collects and shares all our data; why is it an issue now but not then?

We only have so much cognitive space and cant mentally solve every cognitive bias we have, and can't solve every problem in the world. what empirical evidence is there that this "summer of the shark" phenomenon deserves to be center stage vs any other problem? Not saying it doesn't deserve more attention than say school shootings or the cognitive bias of loss aversion for example, just wondering whether there's evidence to confirm this
Why many of us do this: It's often easier to refer to previous posts relatively rather than to cite usernames. For "OP", others will know to simply look (or think) back up to the top (or thereabouts). For "parent", it's usually the comment above the one that is being replied to. So parent to your post is what I'm referencing, but I'm now replying to you (and have taken no notice of the usernames because it's easier to focus on the content).
You can use also a local DNS server for your whole home network. If you think it is too much work you can use something ready-made like pi-hole [1]. The nice part is that it will work also for your phone while you're on wifi.

[1] https://pi-hole.net
I have been a WF customer for many years and, to be fair, they have always done right by me. It used to be that my main complaint was they would ask me to sign up for a credit card every time I walked into a branch, but they've cut way back on that.

I am, of course, disgusted by their fraudulent actions, and have several times considered closing my accounts in protest. But now I'm thinking that I probably couldn't find a bank anywhere under closer and more intense scrutiny. For now at least, it seems they're on their best behavior.
I guess the better analogy would be video games that are exclusive to a console ie. playstation exclusive or xbox exclusive.
I'm a Flow user rather than TS (and Flow complains about that code out of the box), but you are not telling us all:

Since TS 2.6, if you enable all the optional "strict" mode checks than TypeScript does complain about that code.

I see no disadvantage in those checks, e.g. "strictFunctionTypes", being optional, since you can always make them mandatory for your own project(s).

To test it:

- Go to the TS Playground at https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/

- Enter the above code

- Select "Options" and enable at least "strictFunctionTypes"
Just curious, who else is using that protocol?
Amazon has definitely become less consumer focused.

For two other examples, they used to price match themselves, then it was only in the last 30 days, and now they just refuse unless you ship the product back and ask for a refund/re-order.

But worse still, and nobody seems to have noticed this, Amazon has removed the "Buying this elsewhere" from their Wish Lists. This started on Amazon (UK) but has no been deployed to Amazon.com. That means that if someone is using an Amazon Wish List your choices are either: Spoil the surprise, or buy it from Amazon. That's even true if you buy the product from Amazon but a different version/edition it doesn't match with the exact Wish List one (or forgot to add it via the Wish List).

The "Buying this elsewhere" is still listed in Amazon's help[0], so I provided screenshots showing what it now looks like[1]. Consequentially I'm now looking for an alternative Wish List vendor I can recommend to friends and family that does provide a "I purchased this elsewhere" option.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/b6KDNqt.png
SunTrust Bank says employee may have stolen 1.5M customers' info
Maybe that's the problem; he wasn't hired or looked to as a leader, or as previous commentators have said, he hadn't earned the respect of the team yet.
Closure compiler in ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS mode does this too.

function add5(x) {
return x + 5;
}

console.log(add5(3));

compiles down to

console.log(8);
cryptocurrency is money. People need money to survive.
The way I've always seen it, if you insist on being able to dress the way you want as a means of self-expression, then you really don't have anything worth expressing.

Dressing for comfort, or to suit the physical demands of your job are valid motivations. I wore a shirt and tie at my first job (back in 1987), but within a few years, I didn't bother any more because no one else did. Nowadays, "business casual" is fine by me.
Pity that in this rewrite, they were unable to speed up compilation speed. From the latest reports, dotty appears to compile at about the same speed (if not more slowly than) scalac.
It's going to be even worse with 5g. 5g is just a spec and the current most likely way to meet that spec is with micro-cells operating at higher frequencies.

They will require line of site because higher frequencies can't penetrate obstacles. To get 5g speeds and capacities, you're going to need to put towers everywhere.

Smaller towers yes, but many many more of them.
Every single one of the author's complaints was an opportunity that the author could have ethically leveraged to advance and gain job security, all the way to lead tech (assuming that's what the author wanted).

Is there an industry where people like me get paid to keep people like the author from self-destructing in a near-perfect job environment?
> A few months later walked by a branch and on a whim decided it was a good time to close my account. Walked in, ask to close it, they said I had to wait, I said oh OK that's alright I'll just withdraw all of it. Good riddance.

Careful, if it's not actually closed they'll hit you with fees.
My read on this is that it's Amazon taking another step towards their long-term endgame in retail.

Amazon is one of the few companies out there that thinks in the long term. Like the Cylons in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, they Have A Plan. And in retail, that plan has been to leave money on the table in order to build the biggest, most loyal customer base possible -- until such a time as their position in the marketplace was unassailable, at which point they would flip the switch and start milking those loyal customers for all they were worth.

I wrote a little bit about the first signs that the switch had flipped a couple of years ago: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/07/amazon-the-screw-begins-t...

> Why would you need to pay for Prime if the free shipping they offer to everyone already works fine for you? It’s a good question. To which Amazon’s easiest answer would be to simply change the free shipping so that it doesn’t work fine for you so much anymore. Suddenly you have a reason to shell out those ninety-nine smackers...

> Amazon has spent twenty years now attracting shoppers with goodies like fast, free shipping. But businesses don’t give out goodies without expecting to make money off them at some point; so fast, free shipping quietly becomes a choice: fast shipping, or free shipping. “Customer delight” becomes “fulfillment operations” to be “optimized.”
Not sure... just seems to be a reality.
>Firing duds is the best moral booster there is.

The Glassdoor reviews on Netflix suggest otherwise.
This is what the WARC [0] file format (and/or gzip) is for.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
I agree with your statement, but I worry that not everyone has the ability to move to less rural area even if they wanted to. How do we avoid punishing the people who are not choosing to live in middle-of-nowhere versus those who make that choice?
> Why are you, presumably a Haskell programmer, surprised when someone repeated that usage in 2018 on an internet forum?

I hate the way monads in general are talked about in the Haskell community (I also do not like the language for other algebraic terms). In particular, it is common to say 'data type X is a monad'. This statement is completely nonsensical. A monad is a thing along with some operations. Haskell data is a concrete description of how to store a thing. By itself, a piece of data has no operations associated with it. There is no way a particular data type could be a monad, since a data type is just a thing.

The proper terminology is 'X forms a monad along with these functions' or 'X has an instance for the Monad type class' (this is different, because the monad type class allows for a subset of monads, not general monads). I am on a personal mission to rid the Haskell world of sloppy language because it confuses beginners, in my opinion. For a long time, I thought monads were a thing. Then I realized they're just an algebraic structure, like groups or rings.

When we say things like 'monads don't compose' it makes it seem like there is some deficiency in the idea of a monad that makes them not compose, rather than a realization that monad composition results in zero or more ways to combine two arbitrary monads. Thinking just the former makes you wonder if monads ought to be fixed. Realizing the latter means you realize that the lack of a fix indicates that putting two monads together can accomplish a variety of tasks, only one of which is likely suited to your use case.
I don't know about this fine, but the vast majority of bank fines are usually "consumer relief." Banks usually are in a position to where the actual financial impact of the fine is a very small fraction of the headline number.

"Goldman Sachs buys a home loan at 50 percent off. It then modifies the mortgage for the borrower to perhaps 60 percent of face value. The modification gets referred to the overseer of the mortgage settlement, proving that Goldman did lower the cost for the homeowner. And as homeowners begin to make modified payments, the bank can resell the now-performing loans, or just take in the revenue stream. If this works, Goldman makes at least a 10 percent profit on the deal, while satisfying the consumer relief terms of the settlement."[1]

The above glosses over the notion of it working by saying "if it works," but for the most part, it does.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-wins-lose-mortg...

Good reference, too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/business/dealbook/mortgag...
That's not what leadership means, unfortunately. Being right in a non-productive way is also a failure in leadership.

At the end of the day, if you do want to provide technical leadership, the skills to understand the team and how to interact with them effectively are at least as important as the technical skills.
Sounds bad, but you should see some Citibank branches -- they dont even make the call for you nor do you get a place to sit down -- I was trying to resolve an issue and the representative literally took me to an in-bank phone booth, dialed the number and handed the phone to me. Basically -- deal with call-center-hell while standing up. What's the point?

The good news is that this behavior is not universal, I looked around and there are banks with great customer service (in my case, i found ChaseManhattan to be superb, though it may be due to my "tier" and how much money i keep with them.)
On the demo page in Chrome, Faster.js is actually slower.
Yea, that is definitely on the roadmap!
You can’t kill that which is already dead.
That deregulation already happened a month or two ago. But it's bullshit because the banks were awful before Dodd Frank too.

What Obama should have done during the crisis is nationalize the failing big banks instead of bailing them out and then broken them down into a hundred little banks and sold them off.
> Meh, the reason many people weren't targeting .Net Core until recently was because of the huge pain in the ass it involved

+1000. It wasn't even library support, it was the tooling that was a huge pain in the ass. Half the time it didn't work right, builds broke unexpectedly, build file formats kept changing, cripes what a pain. I swore off it until the early .NET 2.0 standard prereleases when things seemed more stable, and it's been much easier to port my libraries.
Business class SMS is quite reliable.
Efficiency is another question, it may be more of a "it's the thought that counts".
Avicii is Dead
It's straightforward QoS management. Public service users get absolute priority, even if that means kicking everyone else off the network. After that, voice and SMS get priority, because they're important to users and have very low data rates. IP traffic can have whatever's left on a fair queuing basis. Most operators use deep packet inspection and can perform fairly sophisticated traffic shaping.
That is how all code that makes money looks.
If I am using a single HDD, can ZFS still add parity data? That's neat if it can. I assumed parity with ZFS was for something like RAID6 where there are multiple HDDs in a set.

Do any other file systems other than ZFS support adding parity in a single HDD config? Last I checked getting ZFS in Linux required lots of side band steps due to licensing issues.
Sure, we're covered by many laws, but also many rights--the right to fair trial, the right to legal representation, the right to petition the government, and so on. If a law is poorly or vaguely written, it can be challenged on those grounds--many laws are tossed as unenforceable.

But when you click on a user agreement, there's no negotiation or possibility of redress. Take it or leave it, and they just cut you off if they feel like it. The comparison to laws is nonsense.
Whats your "tier" and how much money do you keep with them?

Please reply with mothers maiden name, SSN and DOB.
RIP. I don't like dance music as a rule but he always managed to make approachable, fun music that just felt -good-.
You both (@patreus, @throwawayjava) might want to take a quick look at my profile before you start speculating about my financial situation.