skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were rugged little machines.

Back in the '80s I had a dog named Ben. A lab-afghan-shepherd mix, truly a great dog. Whenever he took a nap, my cat Petunia would climb on top of him and take a nap with him. They were best friends.

Ben had only one bad habit. He liked to find my wallet or checkbook and bury it in the back yard!

One day he found my HP-16C in its "leatherette" case. Yes, it was just like a checkbook or wallet. So he buried it for me. Thanks, Ben.

And then he dug it back up and when I found it, it had major tooth marks in it!

I was pretty upset. This was not a cheap calculator. So I swatted him on the nose with it. [1] And then I was so angry I threw the calculator across the street!

Well, I felt pretty stupid after that. So I went across the street, picked up the calculator, and it still worked! And it still works to this day. (Lucky for me, Ben's tooth marks just missed the display.)

[1] Animal rights lovers, please do not get too upset. Ben and I had our disagreements from time to time, but we were best of friends, just like all the dogs and cats I've had the privilege of sharing a home with.
Take care of an infant while recovering from birth without taking extra time of. That's not a huge difference, but it is economically significant for many couples especially when they have physically demanding jobs.
You actually strengthen basementcat's point. There have been many stories about how lottery winners often end up worse off than they were before. Handing someone 100 million dollars won't keep them rich if they are bad at handling money. Apparently this is proven by research of lottery winners: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_0011... and https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016/01/12/odds-are-15-...
> and, presumably, on your employer's time

Lunch at your desk and "nothing to do if nothing breaks" server-monitoring shifts are both common, and that's just in the tech world.
You don't need Klout to tell you the follower count, which is still the only real proxy there is for reach, bots and all.

Beyond that, no single platform has actually been successful as a "influencer" marketplace anyway, it's all driven by agencies connecting directly.
"* the parts of our food supply that are heavily dependent on pollinating agents rely entirely on commercial pollination services, not native ambient pollinating species."

So the orchards that cultivate a healthy ecosystem through a diversity of species, and care given to soil health, which grow, produce, and sell fruit for only slightly above factory farming rates aren't part of the food supply?

If you only define food supply = factory farming monoculture, then absolutely the "least bad herbicides and pesticides" are the best thing possible.

Eating almost entirely locally costs far less per year than the difference between and entry level vs top of the line laptop. Eating from nearby food producers who take care of the land is not very expensive relative to other luxuries people invest in. Habitat loss may be inevitable, but factory scale, chemical based monoculture does not implicate all of us, and personal action is quite reasonable.

It's probably less effort than changing your diet for other reasons, but people seem to be more motivated to change their diet for body image reasons, or the soylent-esque lifestyle optimization, etc.

It baffles me that more people aren't raging environmentalist lunatics as I am.

FYI if you think this is bullshit, here's a public demonstration of an alternative to factory farming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3riW_yiCN5E
There's a free hour long video that's more in depth but I realize even expecting 10 more minutes of anyone's attention is asking a lot.
Odds Are $1.5B Powerball Winner Will End Up Bankrupt (2016)
In that case, the fact that our minds run on similar substrates is probably non-coincidental.
Github stats on number of issues

# Totoal #

Flow: 2081 open, 2748 closed

Typescript: 2541 open, 14421 closed

# Between 4/11 and 5/11 #

Flow: 88 closed, 93 new

Typescript: 448 closed, 173 new

Note: We are using flow but we are not happy that Flow is not up to speed with answering questions or addressing concerns.
He meant a human can produce 100W. He specifically doesn't mean "for one hour"; he says the human works a full workday, producing 800 watt-hours of energy.
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> In a micropayment content market, it would be creators selling directly to audience.

It doesn't matter, you'd still need to generate the same level of revenue than the ad-supported business, or even more, to justify the switch.

If you didn't, content creators would just stay in the ad-supported business.

> I'm sure you could have used the same conceit with cable TV to prove that something like YouTube would never work.

That doesn't apply here. We're talking about providing the same content with a different monetization strategy. YT wasn't about the monetization strategy, but about a different type of content.
I'm not sure why you think the sheer idea is offensive. Companies are constantly putting a lot of effort into figuring out what journalists, analysts, and other types of influencers are worth spending effort to work with and cultivate and which are not.

The fact that Klout was a rather useless way of quantifying this--and I'm suspicious whether any type of automated system is going to help you all that much--doesn't change the fact that understanding to what degree and for which audiences someone influences purchase and other behavior is useful.
I really dislike when people focus on luck this much. If you have in your mind the notion that luck is real and that it affects the outcome of your efforts in any way, sooner or later (and often times without really noticing that you're doing it) you will use that notion to excuse your failures and to explain away other people's successes, and that will prevent you from achieving your goals as fast as you would have otherwise.

While it is useful to understand the nature of how markets operate and the role of luck in them, I find that worrying too much about this is harmful for my personal development and that taking a stance that is something like "luck doesn't exist" is more useful. http://ssygen.com/posts/luck
Not quantum mechanical, just random, and the available material is restricted in each cross.
In my experience, jerks don't like being told that they're jerks.

YMMV
I think it's mostly because, in a very real sense, men have always been able to have it all. Men have always been able to have children and a career (because their wives stayed home to raise them!), so the quote isn't as poignant for them.

BUT -- I do think it's actually useful to talk about "parents having it all", because all those breadwinner men with stay-at-home wives missed out on a lot of quality bonding time with their kids. They may have thought they had it all, but they actually missed out on developing real, meaningful relationships with their kids.
> BTW, his code was so, so pretty. Mine would have been ugly. Kids are far better coders than we were 30 years ago. I was crazy proud.

I don't know what compiler you were using on Ultrix but C++ in that era was insanely bad.
How to make your ideas stick
I found this imgur album easier to read than individual PDFs:

https://imgur.com/a/ZjQ3PLS

The WaPo also has them sorted by popularity:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/t...
It may not be something covered by the article, but this is not false. And those who don't do it, are not virtuous paragons or whatever- they either haven't done it, didn't think of it, or got caught.
For a group of futurists, ya’ll really spend a lot of time looking backwards.
The population is rather segregated, if a kid needs to be bussed an extra 30+ minutes each way it's not nessisarily worth it.
Although reach isn't really influence--especially influence that's relevant to you as, say, someone running PR for a company.

But, to your main point, yeah. Whether it's agencies or in-house staff, working with "influencers" beyond mostly broadcasting information is mostly an individualized relationship business.
I dunno, I've seen a lot of ordinary Americans sow more division than images like these would:

https://imgur.com/a/ZjQ3PLS
People who are good at making money make more money. Yes, it's tautological, which doesn't make it untrue. People who are good at scoring the basketball get a lot of points. People who are good at cooking make delicious food. I think you're questioning whether someone can really be good at "making money", and the answer is yes. Money follows rules and laws that appear random to those who are not skilled. Just like some people might not understand the laws of electricity, making electricians seem like wizards. That doesn't mean the laws don't exist. And those who understand the forces behind money are able to take advantage of them, like a surfer uses the force of a wave to propel himself. Effortless. The wealth just seems to find you.

Your second point is accurate, but not really a rebuttal.
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In an interplanetary first, NASA to fly a helicopter on Mars
There's a plugin to run TCL in the browser [0]. Last update appears to be 2006 though, so I doubt it's usable on today's browsers.

There was an effort at one time to implement a Dart VM in Chrome [1]. That has been stopped, though [2].

[0] https://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/

[1] http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/dart-language-for-str...

[2] https://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html
Citation please, or at least a numeric definition of "heavily dependant".
Python types are optional, and have adequate inferencing. Any where you think it's too verbose to use types then you don't have to. In Java, you must use types even if you believe it is just boilerplate. That's an essential difference.
> It's time to admit that we can't fix web security anymore

It seems like this was fixed in a newer version of chromium.. a version that electron is not based on. This particular problem exists purely because they used a framework that depends on a ridiculously complicated backend, one that the framework has chosen not to follow closely (despite the backend addressing security issues relatively timely)
>However, at an individual level it seems unfair to me, since obviously not everyone that was qualified by the label "white" during slavery is responsible.

All white people as individuals were not responsible for slavery, and some even opposed it, but all still benefited from slavery by virtue of being born into the race, society and class that the slave system was designed to benefit. That is unfair, but nonetheless true.
I don't know this history. Would you mind expanding on it, or giving a link where I could learn more?
No one has multi-billion bets against TSLA. It's only like 25% off its all time high and has a market cap bigger than GM.
Can you pick a cohort who circumstantially have to socially interact outside the home? Then you can monitor interaction effect neutral to their tendency to self isolate.

Can you pick a cohort with a trusted buddy and double test their state?

Could you measure this indirectly by some other thing, like rate of use of masking scents or cleaning product?
It doesn't have to be explained why, it is. The why would be a separate question requiring reasoning. Things can be true without an explanation as to why they happen. It's not an assumption as experience is not a choice, in fact experience is a prerequisite to then be able to assume (as well as to reason).
In the context of a large client application, I often advise engineers that if we're optimizing things like the types of `for` loops we use, we've won the performance lottery. That is, I've never found a critical performance issue that is the result of using `forEach` instead of `for`.
I am not sure if it does solve NIMBYism entirely. I note on the map of tunnels they would like to build there is no link between Santa Monica/UCLA/West LA and downtown LA.

I assume that is because such a tunnel would involve dealing with the city of Beverly Hills, which has historically been unenthusiastic about mass transit.
The irony of a user having their privacy violated by a pop-up meant to protect their privacy is infuriating.
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No, this is not a write guarantee.

You can still lose an acknowledged write.
On Twitter it seems to be somewhere in the 500 to 1000 followers count before things become an order of magnitude easier.

I don't think it's just the cumulative advantage of having more people retweet you (and thus the greater relative ease of getting in front of people) I think it's also learning how to present a constant "face" on Twitter. By the time you're at 1000+ followers you've figured out how to be interesting, how to be consistent, you've streamlined your personal site to point people towards your Twitter and all of this feeds back in on itself.
The Wachowski’s Speed Racer Is a Candy-Colored Whirlwind Good Enough to Eat
There are actually many businesses predominately in Asia or India that sell clicks/likes
Based on the preorders here: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

... looks like less than 5000 units have been ordered.
The internet has always been controlled by the government from day 1. And while you may wish to work toward a more independent net, wishing won't make it so overnight. We've go to do what we can with what we've got.

Local governments make deals with ISPs to get coverage to a certain % of the population in exchange for exclusivity. Adding NN to the deal is just negotiating terms in an existing agreement. If we had a free-r market or some competition that might be a better way to get what we want, but we don't.
If you don't follow US politics, most conservatives hate Tesla and the WSJ (part of News Corp) is probably the preeminent conservative paper in the country.
Ultrix was roughly about the same time as the first C++ (a preprocessor that made C) - people were still figuring out what good and bad C++ was
Numerical Methods for Deep Learning
This actually should not happen if you adjust your bet size to match your bankroll (with the caveat that your bankroll is sufficiently large to be unaffected by the minimum bet). The article you link to actually suggests that, in the first bullet point, though it's expressed in the negative.
> [King/Bachman] debunk the notion of meritocracy

Not sure that is correct, because (if you agree that King is good), you do need to be good to be successful, and I think that is what meritocracy wants to accomplish for society: that those who are successful are good, rather than bad. For society, it is not necessary that everyone that's good is also successful, just that the bad doesn't rise to the top (too much).

What it debunks is the (incorrect) corollary that if you are not successful, you must be bad/lazy (or that if you are good you are guaranteed to have success). Which of course does not follow (A→B does not imply not(A)→not(B)), particularly if there are multiple necessary factors for success, such as for example quality AND luck/path dependencies. If it is quality AND luck, then it's not the same as lotto, though the random part does play a role.

And yes, wealth redistribution makes a lot of sense for societies, and yes, the "no success → bad/lazy" fallacy is often used to justify not having such mechanisms.
Why not just use 100W, why specify over 1 hour periods? you would likely have a pool of bikers anyways so the averaging is builtin.
MAN you need to get through that last third! He eventually rejects this worldview after his disillusionment and departure from Nation of Islam. After converting to Islam proper, during his pilgrimage to Mecca, he completely alters his old views.

If there's a quote to sum up the final third, it's this:

"Brother," he said finally, "remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant -- the one who wanted to help the Muslims and the whites get together -- and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying?"

"Yes."

"Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping Black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then -- like all [Black] Muslims -- I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me twelve years." [0]

[0]: http://malcolm-x.org/docs/int_parks.htm
Apparently a large number of Thai are enslaved on fishing boats, being worked to death. Large portion US fish is being fished by Thai/vitetnamise children.
thats just completely tautological. id argue that little upward mobility, and racial inequality in lifetime earnings suggest that being having money makes it easier to make more. also because it is my lived experience as someone who is rich.
That quote describes a good mental model for someone learning JavaScript, but not necessarily the physical truth.

JavaScript's numbers can do everything doubles can; but if the compiler can prove that all values that a particular variable could possibly take on will fit in a smaller type, then it can use that. So a variable really can end up stored as an integer--or never stored anywhere for that matter, like if a loop gets unrolled and the counter is optimized out.

The bitwise operators behave as if integers are 32-bit two's complement. The typed arrays are also two's complement. A smart developer can write code that a smart compiler will compile to bitwise operations on actual physical 32-bit integers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/09/elements-kinds-in-v8....
How does Stack Overflow do pagination
Why is it a poor example? I'm comparing a car company that, over 100 years ago in 1914, was producing 714 vehicles a day by hand with 13,000 workers [1] to a company in 2018 with 37,000 employees utilizing robots yet manages to only produce half that amount?

[1] https://www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/business/forbe...
WSJ doesn't have great love for most silicon valley companies. In Tesla's case, I think it's their continued over promising and under delivery. Currently the high cash burn plus low production volume on the model 3.

Wsj also has some nice pieces about Tesla, such as their recent tour of the production factory. https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-factory-in-a-fishbowl-15...
Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies
I feel like it's the other way around. With the market cap so completely out of sync with reality, shorting seems like the safer choice.
Pot-Size limits don't impact hot or cold streaks.
That's an extremely dangerous assumption because of the implicit rounding and precision loss inherent in the underlying double type. An interpreter "may" use an integer under the hood but it still has to behave as if it were an IEEE double, that includes all the nasty things you don't want in integer math.

Most C programmers would be too scared to perform bitwise operations on doubles and JS doesn't add anything that makes it safer.
My use case involves a nine year old...
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/key-statistics?p=TSLA

A bit down the page on the right, you'll see "Shares Short", "Short Ratio", "Short % of Float", and "Shares Short (prior month)".

What that is telling you is that almost $10B of Tesla stock has been borrowed and sold (with the profit coming from buying in the future at lower prices, ie, betting against TSLA). That is increased about 7% from the prior month, and would take almost 5 entire days of average trading volume to close out all the short positions.

This is a high level of betting against a stock by any standard.
25% of all Tesla stock is out on loan according to the first Google result for "Tesla short" [1] Assuming most stocks on loan are due to shorting, 0.25*50 Billion (Tesla Market Cap)= approximately 10 Billion being shorted.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/tesla-short-interest-hits-re...
> but all still benefited from slavery by virtue of being born into the race, society and class that the slave system was designed to benefit.

This is false. Many benefited, true, but not all. And even if it was true, I don't see why people should be made responsible for the actions of others that under some definition are from their same "group", even if they benefited from them. This is collectivism/racism at its finest, it bothers me tremendously and I'm not even white.
thank u, great source.
> And yet, as a programmer, I feel all of these improvements pale in comparison to the stuff I learned that would be equally useful in Notepad as it would be in a decked out Sublime Text/VSCode/Emacs.

As someone who's 5 years into my career and interested in moving past the not quite a senior engineer plateau, what would you say are the important things you've learned?
Winning and losing have a lot to do with confidence and ability to take risks. Winning reinforces confidence which allows one to take more risks if they have a growth mindset(also equally important).

PS: The add-on[1] I use to avoid redirects doesn't like these medium hosted blogs. These links redirect to medium[2] which redirects to original link and I am stuck in an infinite loop.

[1]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect...

[2]:https://medium.com/m/global-identity?redirectUrl=https://ofd...
NeTV2, an open video development board
This explains a similar phenomenon with paper clips

https://youtu.be/F-I-BVqMiNI
You've linked that thread a couple of times here, never really elaborating on the nature of your concerns, nor do you elaborate on the specific nature of your concerns in the ticket. Have you considered elaborating on the nature of your concerns? Is there a specific vulnerability in chromium you feel could be exploited here?
What resources should I consume to be ready for my new Python job in 2 weeks?
While Python was my first programming language, I haven't written any since around 2010, and certainly not in a professional setting.

I'll be starting as a senior developer at a company that uses Python and Django as its tool of choice.

My friends: What books should I read to prepare myself for my new job?
GitHub Activity and Crypto Markets (Commit Activity Says Little)
>One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government.

This is brilliant thinking, the DNC should have given the FBI more material to leak to Guiliani. Then Comey could have based his October surprise on something in the DNC servers, instead of having to obfuscate the fact that the emails he was basing his 're-opening' of the case on weren't anything new. Oddly enough, he had no problem concealing the fact that the other candidate was the current subject of a counter-intelligence investigation opened when the ambassador of australia formally notified the us that the trump campaign claimed to be cooperating with a hostile foreign power.

A contradiction your comment creates and you don't actually engage is the fact that the Crowdstrike report and the IC report on election interference both support each other. If you claim the DNC was trying to control the narrative, it's only necessary to hire outside expertise if you're trying to challenge the credibility of different experts. If the experts are already going to be saying the same thing as you, there's no need to pay an outsider to parrot it.
Close, but the slaves are primarily Cambodian and Myanmarese who flee to Thailand and end up on those fishing vessels. There was a great series of nautical-themed long-form journalism by the NYT a few years ago and one of the stories [0] dealt specifically with this. It's a tough, but great read, as are the other stories from the series.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thaila...
CS 70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory
I have. They don't like it, which suits me fine. Personally, bitcoin has been wonderful in providing the financial means to leech off the system.