skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in your observations, are consumption habits changing the same way with respect to diet? eg. will they (mostly) skip unhealthy processed snack foods and move towards something new, and if that happens how will preventable diseases that plague western countries manifest if at all, the health and drug industries, aged care (family vs business). some things are skipped others might be accelerated. globalization works as long as there is another country down the road you can kick it to, but the axis of power will eventually shift towards emergent markets and those governments will cut out western monopolies out of self-interest, or at least be very resistant to a foreign controlled corporation taking its local profits offshore. japan and south korea have a resistant corp-gov structure due to monopoly, high technology and mass employment creating huge economic leverage over the political system. are chaebols nepotistic fascism, a valid competing business structure, benevolent dictatorships?

were not having this conversation in the 1980s and most of the worlds airports and shopping malls look eerily similar today, yet older systems are more brittle and prone to fracturing and new infrastructures tend to be cheaper, deploy faster and require less maintenance. giant malls in america remind me of communist apartment blocks dotted all over eastern european capitals, permanent monuments to a big idea that proved temporary. at least the soviet model serves some present social utility. the hidden cost of solar is of course in the manufacturing and re-use process which is fossil fuel dependent, but se asia has oil and gas fit to purpose. globalization for the western leaders means controlling the development of poorer countries by creating avenues for the corporations they front to come in and build, for the poorer countries i think they correctly see it as a way to accelerate society but not necessarily at the cost of autonomy like some corporate colony of an american or german or chinese conglomerate. people may reduce consumption individually, but over the scale of the planet the food industry alone must be undergoing some giant mutation. it's really hard for me to imagine a future in asia and africa without massive increase in petroleum and it's assorted bi-products.
AirBnb app was one of the primary examples of large organizations using React Native. They are simply saying they are sunsetting their React Native app.
I wonder if this reason was chosen due to various clauses in his contract. Perhaps it exempts him from a golden parachute, because it's misbehavior on his part? And even it he was also trading, this explanation doesn't put as much risk to the share price.
Psychology’s favourite thought experiment doesn’t predict real-world behaviour
This questionnaire is entirely incompatible with enterprise environments, where the work is not only boring, but also pointless (as results are way further down the line and deliverables will surely change multiple times).
When Musk went public with delusional claims about what Autopilot's HW2 would be capable of, the director of Autopilot at the time, Sterling Anderson, made the principled decision to resign. Sterling later teamed up with Chris Urmson and Drew Bagnell to co-founded their autonomous driving startup, Aurora innovation. When the fledgling startup was only 3 weeks old Musk levied a meritless lawsuit against Aurora, accusing them of using trade secrets stolen from Tesla. The irony of this is that there was nothing worth stealing from autopilot. It was a critical time for Aurora, and the lawsuit was costing them $200k/month, so Aurora settled out of court, paying Tesla's legal fees and agreeing to monthly audits (which Tesla never followed up on, since the lawsuit was bullshit anyhow).

My opinion of Musk really went south after that. I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt on anything, anymore.

Fortunately Aurora managed to escape that near death experience and has an autonomous driving dream team together, solid funding, and has partnerships with 2 of the top 3 biggest automakers in the world.

Robotaxis stand to challenge the economics of personal vehicle ownership and have the potential to dramatically reduce the impact our transportation system has on the environment, and that's what Musk was out to destroy.
Doing a hybrid app in the way that the articles describe sounds like a recipe for tremendous complexity.

One line in one of the linked articles that really struck me was "Often times, it is not clear whether code should be written in native or React Native. Naturally, an engineer will often choose the platform that they are more comfortable which can lead to unideal code."

Without a top down vision of the proper role for React Native vs native code, how could anyone possibly expect things to go well?

Even within React Native there are a lot of existing "boundaries" where native code is used in a way that allows the general contracts adopted by React to be used without worrying much about the implementation details.

The quote above suggests that Airbnb expected a cohesive and sensible approach to emerge, when clearly there were (as the articles mention) many developers who were strongly opposed to React Native from the beginning.

While it's not necessarily the case, it seems that if there was debate about where "models" should live, there was really a need for a CTO to simply make that call and allow the rest of the team to coordinate around the tradeoffs associated with the decision. Without that, the battle will be fought with every pull request and other social and organizational factors (like bro culture, intimidation, etc.) will dominate over the technical merits of the decision.

I love Airbnb, and use the app extensively both as a host and as a traveler. It's not clear why it ever seemed sensible to go down a "hybrid" path. The app has pictures, scrolling listings, and photo views. I'd be curious to read an article that discussed very frankly the decision to go hybrid and where the lines were drawn that turned out to be problematic.
Full title is too long: Psychology’s favourite moral thought experiment doesn’t predict real-world behaviour
Conflating freedom and privacy to lump them all in together is a bit unfair I feel.

Apple for example is a privacy leader. Easier to secure their walled garden perhaps and they have their own pros and cons but they shouldn’t be in a set with google, Facebook and to a lesser extent, MS.
Most of Amazons sales are through third parties, most of them dont collect.
C++ is not C, but is still weakly typed. I think even Rust is weakly typed in unsafe mode (I'm open to correction about that). This makes sense when you think about the CPU which is weakly typed and dynamically typed (it's also dynamically scoped unlike all the modern lexically scoped languages running on top of it).
I see your point, but you're saying:

> Yeah, we don't trust just anything that comes in on that socket

Well, you are, you're trusting it came from a browser so the Origin header is correct, right?
Screws fall out all the time; the world's an imperfect place.
Smoking and procrastination are both correlated with ADHD (for which dopamine has also been implicated) so there almost certainly is a correlation between them.
that's what i'm procrastinating on right now
Young human child? That’s pretty impressive.

Did scientists try to breed intelligent monkies like breeding dogs?
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You assume that the underlying data cannot be correct and not fair.
I mean you have to understand that we're talking about the more general application of ethics.

Killing a man is generally seen as unethical. Eating meat generally isn't.

So if a vegetarian was working as a taster for Al's Nothing But Beef restaurant, we wouldn't say they are unethical, but they are violating their principles.

Or if Stallman started working for Apple or Microsoft. He wouldn't be doing anything unethical, but he'd be violating every principle he stands for.

So I think the distinction is an important one. To separate one's personal principles from what is generally regarded as ethical.
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I thought it was pretty amazing how much they hype up designing. Airbnb uses a CI workflow where they can practically draw a shape on a piece of paper and create a React component out of it. At least that is what I took away from their design bloggings. What I found truly amazing is that there were no instructions to set up their environment for my own product. What a waste of energy. Every marketing site and app I write has some part of utility for other applications. This is not the case with Airbnb.
Since you're struggling with writing I'd highly recommend 'Elements of style' by William Strunk. I'm surprised nobody recommended this yet.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37134

Quite a few practical tips in there in terms of sentence structure and style.

Just as a reference point, from the wikipedia page, "Time named in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923"

Also as an aside, this book also inspired the name of the programming tome 'Elements of Programming Style' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St...
US sales tax is not relevant if you're not in the US.
We had a CFO bring a handgun onto company property in his car. Some one spotted it (apparently, it was in plain view in the car) and notified the police. He was given a talking-to by the cops and then by company reps. He wasn't fired at that point but he was gone in a month or two. Related? I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.

The company is in Sunnyvale, site of the Richard Farley murders at ESL in 1988. So, yeah, I think the police would be interested in knowing his intentions.
It’s not that hard if you document things as you go, then at the end of it you have a tutorial and when you revisit 6 months (or years!) later you know exactly how and why you did something. On top of that most of the ones you’re reading online are written for inbound marketing, so it ultimately serves as a revenue source for many.
that's until OP decides tonight that the tool is so pouplar that sticking a database behind it to serve anonymous examples MUST be a good idea, e.g.
Type hints are almost always a crutch or fix for bad design/unclear data flow/`None` abuse.

If you've ever worked on a Python code base that you didn't design and write from the ground up, you would know that these are inevitable, and in many cases encouraged by the language. Even if you did design and write it from the ground up, and even if you meticulously document every class and helper method, the reduction in cognitive load is tremendous.

And if you are writing a library or API that other people will use, it's an extra layer of documentation convenience. Why force people to peruse your 200 word docstring when they could just see the signature pop up in their IDE?

edit -

Consider this example:

Country = NamedTuple('Country', [
('iso2', str),
('iso3', str),
('full_name', str),
('short_name', str),
('other_names', Sequence[str])
]

class Person():
__slots__ = ('age', 'name', 'birth_country')

age: int
name: str
birth_country: Country

def force_standardize_name(self) -> Tuple[str, str]:
""" Attempt to coerce a name into standardized First, Last form """
...

Maybe my design is bad, but just having all that information written right in the source code makes it so much easier for me to work. Not to mention, I can actually run the Mypy static checker on this and verify that my code does what I think it does.
Prefix the URL with outline.com/ ;)
And? Do you have some issue with the petroleum industry?

Or is this just about how you compromised your preferred career path?
Re the competition in the gpu space: that’s also still the case in the scientific computing / ML fields, where CUDA is still several years ahead in terms of functionality and existing investment.

Disclaimer, I am long NVDA
Well, that’s what you get for interpreting idioms literally.
Not if it makes enough people uncomfortable.
> People who believe this pipe dream that static typing will somehow protect you from technical debt either haven't dealt with Java or it's slightly better cousin C# or have only dealt with that one technology and believe whatever kool-aid advertising they were sold on.

Hark! A counterexample has arrived! I spent a bunch of years creating and maintaining big Rails applications. I've spent the last couple years on a bigger application in Java. I didn't drink any kool-aid, I just think Java is a better tool for this. C# and other things may be even better; the key is the ability to write static analysis tooling, which includes, but is not limited to, a compiler's type-checking analysis. It's not that a language with strong static analysis support saves you from creating a mess, it's that it makes it easier and much less risky to clean up that mess over time.

I agree with everything in your second paragraph, and would emphasize the risk aspect of refactoring a big application without good static analysis tools. After the first few spooky-action-at-a-distance prod breakages due to refactoring, it becomes hard to argue for a merciless and constant refactoring culture, and much easier to become the grizzled veteran who is a risk averse gatekeeper discouraging major refactoring in code reviews (this was me).
Native speaker here. You're correct. "Sunsetting" is when the creator slowly phases out manufacturing / support for a product, so FB would need to be the one sunsetting React Native. AirBnB should say they're "transitioning away from" React Native.
Krzanich also presided during the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for which Intel's messaging left much to be desired. Krzanich is also suspected by some to have engaged in insider trading. [0]

https://news.alphastreet.com/chipmaker-giant-intels-ceo-bria...
Determinstic Finite Automata in Go
I should rephrase - I suspect that the study was funded by the industry, whereas the industry insider wasn't speaking on official terms.
These strange RFID tags from China
> we start with some priors (random weights)

i dont think we start with random priors. We start with a set of priors that are geared for certain things - facial recognition, language etc. The environment then fine tunes them.
5 Skills UI Designers Need to Become UXers
What makes you think that language is binary? That strikes me as absurdly unlikely.
Its pretty much the anti smart TV argument, where I have access to much better systems so a halfway attempt merely gets in the way.

Also I didn't mention it but its kinda implied that "standard windows laptop" has too little memory to actually work well, a two hour battery, an old fashioned slow spinning disk, and lots of crudware pre-installed and hard to remove, whereas chromebook implies "it just works" seconds out of the box, a ten hour battery and SSD means no moving parts. Also the windows box is inherently insecure.

If all either will ever do is rdesktop / ssh into clustered machines, and I'll never do any local processing other than maybe play games on the windows laptop, its no contest that the chromebook experience is better.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt is one thing; using ridiculously over the top negative language about him and his companies is another thing. The grandparent of your comment is hyperbolic in its contents, and the parent of your comment is right to point that out.
Is it Tuesday?
A computer program can't tell what category your product falls under.

Does a smock qualify as an Apron and thus it's free from sales tax? What if I print 'kiss the cook' on a smock?

Sales tax has a single set of rules that if you are in a specific physical location, but it becomes 50,000+ wildly inconsistent rule sets when you look nationwide.
Anything can be construed as 'the price of doing business'. If the EU instead required every retailer with at least one customer in the EU to get a tattoo of the EU flag, in return for getting access to the market, would you also consider that just 'the price of doing business'?

My objections to this are:

- If an EU country is owed tax by people resident within its borders, then perhaps the country's tax authorities should arrange for it to be collected, rather than relying on some foreign entity (e.g. Chinese company) to collect it.

- There are ~200 countries in the world. Should any company who wants to sell over the internet need to know about the sales tax or VAT registration thresholds in each of those countries? If so, this gives a huge advantage to large retailers over small ones.
That is mind-boggingly ridiculous: the concept that a company would have any sort of opinion on who I have sex with.

US work culture sometimes feels so incredibly alien when seen from the outside.
Setting up swipeable stacked elements
SAP’s Strategy Continues to Progress to Support the Best-Run Businesses
Another, let's say "interesting" CEO resignation. So many in such a short timespan. I wonder why this is happening all of a sudden.
I don't think you're giving them enough credit. They built an either eng org on RN. I'm sure they made calculated decisions about how to address their stack. In fact IIRC Gabe said they always preferred pure RN when possible but conceded that someimtes it wasn't. I doubt it was some hybrid free for all like you're suggesting.
How many of these "new and unique ideas" could be attributable to Koko and not her handlers? Almost all interpretations of what Koko's signing means come from her handlers, not from neutral observers.

Dogs can be trained to recognize hundreds of words, perform many tricks based on hand gestures, can engage in different body language to indicate different things that they want at the time, and can show true affection to their human companions or other pets in the house.

What bothers me most about Koko is that she has been presented as something entirely different than a smart, well trained dog; that she has some deeper understanding of language and can combine words in novel ways, but the evidence really looks like there's a lot of cherry picking and prompting by the researchers to get at that.
But a salt is a key in the same sense as a MAC key (such as HMAC key).
The South Dakota tax only applies if you sell more than $100k or send more than 200 shipments, which factored into the decision:

Respondents argue that “the physical presence rule has permitted start-ups and small businesses to use the Inter­net as a means to grow their companies and access a national market, without exposing them to the daunting complexity and business-development obstacles of nation­wide sales tax collection.” These burdens may pose legitimate concerns in some instances, particularly for small businesses that make a small volume of sales to customers in many States. State taxes differ, not only in the rate imposed but also in the categories of goods that are taxed and, sometimes, the relevant date of purchase. Eventually, software that is available at a reasonable cost may make it easier for small businesses to cope with these problems. Indeed, as the physical presence rule no longer controls, those systems may well become available in a short period of time, either from private providers or from state taxing agencies them­selves. And in all events, Congress may legislate to ad­dress these problems if it deems it necessary and fit to do so.

In this case, however, South Dakota affords small mer­chants a reasonable degree of protection. The law at issue requires a merchant to collect the tax only if it does a considerable amount of business in the State; the law is not retroactive; and South Dakota is a party to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, see infra at 23.
If you were the Tesla CEO and your director of Autopilot quits to start a company doing the exact same thing, would you be OK with that? I wouldn't.
How is he a "bored rich kid"? He's bored running two innovative companies? Not to mention he started his entrepeneurship at 12, he sold a video game he created at that age. Since then, I believe he's started 7-8 companies. Hardly what I'd call a "bored" person.

What does veganism have to do with an electric car company? His eating or not of meat has about a .000001% greenhouse gas impact relative to his investments in renewable energy and electrification.
Are you misusing the term “middle management” to mean the bottom-level managers? Or are you saying that most requests for permission are going 3 levels up?

Most requests for permission are probably going to direct managers at the bottom because that’s who most employees report to. I can’t imagine taking every request to my director. He’d ask me why I’m wasting his time and tell me to do my job.
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> You can't sell raw meat without a package, for instance; that idea is absurd and stupid.

Here in [some european country] preferred way of getting quality meat is at the market, where it is not prepackaged. Larger supermarkets also sell non-packaged meat. What did you mean by such strong assertion?
Wish I could upvote this more.

In short: Complexity is the biggest killer. And here's a way to view it and tame it.
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One of the nice benefits of the US system of government is that the ability to relatively easily pick and choose where to live, where to work, where to do business, etc forces the states to compete with each other to some degree. This ruling runs counter to that because using online retailers to avoid local taxes is a very low effort way to avoid local taxes or avoid funding a local government you disagree with and this ruling paves the way for states to prevent that.

I have no problem with sales tax. I have a problem with states getting a cut of transactions that did not result in transfer of money to an entity within their borders.

Sales taxes generally follow the location where the money was received, not where the goods were used. If I buy something at a brick and mortar store then I'm subject to the sales tax where that store is located. Why should the state of buyer be getting a cut of the transaction when the state of the merchant is the one that is responsible for the environment in which that commerce happened?

If I live in MA and drive to NH and buy fireworks then MA has no claim to tax the transaction because it's obviously the environment of NH that made that commerce possible at all (you can't buy fireworks in MA). What if I live in CA and want to buy some special paint or cleaning product not for sale in CA so I drive to NV to buy it? What if I want to buy a widget and my home state taxes it and some other state subsidizes it (not necessarily at the retail level, the tax/subsidy could be anywhere in the supply chain) so much that I drive to the other state. In that case my home state still has no claim to tax the transaction since it happened out of state. What if the price is so much better elsewhere I'll be willing to pay shipping from half was across the country? How does the fact that the a 3rd party (shipping company) is responsible for getting the goods to their address change the situation? Does the fact that the transaction originates online affect anything?

I have no problem paying state sales tax as long as it goes toward the state of the merchant. The state of the merchant is responsible for creating the environment that facilitated the commerce. They should be the ones getting a cut.

Edit: I genuinely would like to know what the reasoning of those who disagree with me is. I see no good that can come from allowing states to exert authority on businesses outside their jurisdiction.
This is just a self-XSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting#Self-XSS

If it were a reflected XSS you could trigger it with something like https://whydoiprocrastinate.com/#%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22this..., but I don't think this actually matters.

Sloppy programming, sure, but it isn't a real security issue.