skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree totally with what you say here, but circling back to the original quote from the essay, the author tries to say that any type of result which you cannot explain is not scientific progress, and that is what I disagreed with originally. Often we can get reproducible results about repeatable behavior or phenomena that "just work" without a solid, low-level, reductionist explanation about why, and in those cases, it's totally OK and still counts as valid progress. Similarly, when we try to do reproducibility studies and we cannot replicate a result, that is progress in the sense of ruling out a result, or shifting the burden of evidence back on the original researcher and casting proper doubt on something. Not usually as exciting or effectful as positive results, but progress nonetheless.

I totally agree we live in a world where publication incentives create perverse anti-science problems, with file drawer bias, p-hacking, falsifying data, etc.

I'm just saying that in the essay, the author seems to go waaay too far in claiming that it can only be scientific if you can tack on some type of "explanation" (which, we could even debate what that means and how you could know if you have the 'right' or 'complete' explanation).
You are also making poverty level wages ($15k-22k/year) on commuter jets for years until slots open up that pay more. Air travel demand drops? Be prepared to be furloughed with no promise of a job in the future.

Truckers, pilots, there is no shortage. Just a shortage of pay and reasonable working conditions & benefits.
Possibly in your particular corner of the world - but preferred spellings for Chili/Chilli/Chile vary all over the place.

In fact I imagine the reason you spell the vegetable one way and the recipe the other is that they're both regional variations of the same word from different places too.
Yes, reverse mortgage. My SO's grandmother did this.

Sucks for the kids - as they won't get to inherit a really expensive home with extremely low tax burden (prop 13 continues the low tax burden to those who inherit the property). Banks are so happy to do these right now.
Computer tech folks have this stronger than healthy equation of new == good, old is wrong, needing replacement.

Just because we do something doesn't make a better idea than ideas we had in the past that are not being used. There are lots of dead great ideas.
Similar boat of making Minecraft videos in the past (2011-2014). It was mostly just my friend and I playing through various Minecraft adventure/puzzle maps. We got a couple dozen to a hundred followers through luck/timing (playing new maps that later become popular) but didn't get too far.

Then one day my friend on a whim did a skit that ended up doing very well (it got featured on wired.com and even posted on HN [1]). We got a lot of attention from this skit (and one or two others), but this really wasn't content we wanted to dedicate ourselves towards.

It was extremely disheartening seeing the wide disparity between videos we wanted to make and videos that got views--we loved to think that people enjoyed watch us, but it was really clear that most people just wanted to see more of those two/three videos.

I don't think I regret the time spent though. Doing LPs definitely strengthened my ability to explain what I'm doing as I'm doing it, a skill I use all the time as a software dev (and one I definitely see others lacking). It also gave me a ton of experience with video editing, which while not as useful professionally is a lot of fun and I think a useful skill to have in your pocket.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3543039
I was frustrated when I learned the 2013 Mac Pro didn't have upgradeable SSDs... not because they aren't removable, but because they're proprietary and Apple won't sell you one. They will replace defective units with replacements of the same capacity only.
Thanks for sharing.

Do you get good sleep with Vyvanse? The only -ve side effect I'm feeling from 5 mg XR Addy is that I fall asleep somewhat late (like mid-night or later) and wake up a couple of times, and get only 7 hours of sleep. Don't have headaches though, but I would love to get a deep sleep while on it.
In college, I was the SA of a small dialup ISP. Two PCs running Slackware, a Livingston port-master, a T1, and about two dozen Hayes modems. I probably still have the install CD in a box somewhere.
This.
Relationships are two way streets. Humbling yourself to this fact while having compassion for where others are at and what they have going on in their life can give you the courage you may need to pick up the phone and call while alleviating the fear that they are not reaching out because they don’t appreciate or like you.
I agree that based on historical prices, a large number of assets appear to be at the high end of valuation, but I don't know if it is already correct to call that a "bubble".

I prefer the Cliff Asness bubble definition, "the term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify."

Looking at a lot of those markets, it is definitely possible to see future outcomes that make the current prices justified.

The stock market? After the tax cuts, Shiller P/E is on the low side of the 20s now. With another few years of solid earnings growth, there's definitely a possibility of justifying these prices.

The bond market? Look at 90s Japan. That could easily justify those possibilities.

Art and real estate? We have more rich people who want to have their capital flee countries like Russia/China than ever. That is a trend likely to continue.

So I'd refrain from using "bubble". Valuations are stretched, but not absurdly so.
You need to stop peddling misinformation from two months ago.
Clang does a good number of warnings/errors on unique_ptr, and I'm not sure your first point is actually right - it tends to be pretty hard to use after move.

If you want to pay the cost of runtime array checking every time, an impl in operator[] is just a few lines long. Thankfully it is becoming more common to run programs under ASAN in dev mode.
"At a typical plant run by Toyota Motor Corp., widely seen as the most capable carmaker, a new car requires about 30 hours of labor. Even with all the robots, Tesla spends more than three times that number of hours on each car, says Michelle Hill, a manufacturing expert at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-12/how-tesla...
They're more than big enough to be bringing their own public IP blocks to a provider and having them announce with BGP.

Hell, even us regular joes can do that with services like Packet.Net or Vultr.
I'm pretty sure that the man/people behind Satoshi Nakamoto are the richest in modern history.
In the long run, the attacks don't matter if Tesla can just ignore them and build the cars.
I mean, my house isn't backed by the full faith and credit of the US, but I'd still consider it a form of wealth. Pablo Escobar is about the only guy I know who kept all his money in cash.
Of course, no one would ever look too far into the matter.

We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.
I’m curious what the reprocusions are, if any, once a post mortem is completed and teams or individuals that contributed to the outage are identified. Is “causing” this a fireable offense?
I used Dropbox in the early days because of the ability to place a file in your public folder and allow others to download a copy of that file using a standard URL.

You could share a file with your colleagues by simply emailing a URL to the file. No other service was as straightforward at the time.

When that feature was later removed, I stopped using Dropbox.
Tesla does more than final assembly, so it's an apples-to-oranges comparison. Plus, aluminum-bodied cars are famous for needing more human labor. Bloomberg fails to go into that, which makes for bad journalism. Great to have an actual discussion about it... for a change.
I agree, I lived next door to him for 5 years. The stadium, Great America, Ace/Amtrak train, and being in the direct flight path of San Jose airport made for quite a bit of noise. Every house in the neighborhood had double-pane windows for that reason.. Not to mention the occasional waft from the nearby wastewater facility makes me more than happy that I no longer live there.

Not really sure what the buying couple saw in the area. The house was really well-kept and updated but I feel there were other homes in much better surrounding neighborhoods for a similar price-point..
What Makes a Hit
Managing Bad Behavior – Suggestions for addressing problematic employee behavior
The cognitive bias that hurts creativity
> Or why it would be “worthless to try to diversify within the same structure.”

?

The book has 2 chapters on that single point. And repeats it everywhere else.

On synergies, the OP post was about it, not about disruption.
I suspect national guard forces would make the backbone of several armed factions.

Endgame for the 1% is being in a position to gain the spoils of war and to take less damage than your competition.
> Similarly, if you're still living in the past and / or want to maintain your own server instead of pass it through a 3rd part

So, users' privacy is now officially a thing of the past?
I don't like the improvements they made that actually make the new MBPs worse for what I do. I also don't trust them regarding the keyboard issues and will wait two years before even considering a new MBP. If my old MBP breaks it will be some other manufacturer with questionable long term quality but much lower price. They lost my faith and doing a major recall would do lift their image in my eyes tremendously.
Thank you for your quick and honest reply!

I fancy myself as someone who supports "the little guy", and the Dropbox team's story is an example of how "the big guys" totally and completely fell asleep in a pool of their own money while Dropbox built something that people wanted before other bigger players.

I therefore find it ironic that I don't support them with even just a little bit of money per month, when a big portion of the pitch for the job I currently work and the small project is "but we're different because we're smaller and therefore client focused!"

I hope everyone can reflect on who their money supports. But I'll tell you two large corporations I'm very happy to support: Bozzuto, my apartment company, and Bank of America, my bank.

I would never trust a small landlord to take care of me for the right price (I've been burned so many times by private owners). And well, I store my money in a place that is FDIC and regulated... Ok I have a credit union too :)
Probably a net-negative business move.

This creates goodwill among vegetarians within the company, who will appreciate being part of this uniquely progressive organization. However, their lives will not actually change very much - they won't have to witness meat at company events, sure, but their travel lives will be the same - they will just order vegetarian, like usual.

This creates ill-will among meat eaters at the company, who will want to eat burgers and pork chops and will not be able to do so on the company expense, like every other company allows. Unlike the vegetarians, they will be reminded of this not only at company events but also every time they get food while traveling, as they have to think through what they are allowed to eat and see all the meat options, knowing that WeWork is the reason they can't have them.

The animosity outweighs the goodwill here by a large margin. Retention will suffer.
if I were to overthrow the government, I'm assuming many peers would be involved too, probably Anonymous, a lot of the tech community, etc.. (if it was down party lines, or even 99% vs 1%...

Assuming the revolting army was full of tech geeks, the best we could hope for is a drone/robotic army that uses technology. Because jocks most of us are not. LOL.
My land lady in San Carlos told me she had a heck of a time keeping her house in the late 80s early 90s housing crash. Ya, you can win if you are liquid enough to weather the storm, not everyone is though, especially if you are heavily leveraged and go underwater on your loan.
This is just a thought from the other point of view - from a person with an accent: I tend to avoid people that avoid me because of my accent. Granted, English is my first language and Norwegian my second... but I never know what to think.

I'm sometimes difficult to understand. I know this and I'm working on it. I do switch to English if the other person understands it (It is very common, even if they have trouble speaking). I can carry on basic conversations, though sometimes I get lost with new vocabulary or am simply not fast enough to join in. I can work basic jobs with patient folks. I slowly reading adult novels. But when people avoid me for not speaking well enough, I can't tell if it is because I'm having a bad day with the language or if the person is an asshole.

Nearly everyone I speak to in English has an accent. I've one friend here that is a native English speaker, but even then our accents are different - him being British and me American. However, I also know that if you expose yourself to accents more often, they become easier to understand. This is where the lazyness comes in, I'm sure, but heck. I'd personally rather not be the asshole.
Still available online :)

https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/
I've seen this phenomenon discussed before on Hacker News and Reddit, and it's disappointing that the New York Times did a shallow article and didn't really get to the bottom of it. The explanations I've heard include:

(1) Bots running against each other bidding up the price on obscure titles. One strategy might be to price a book that you don't have in stock at 10% greater than the other seller who presumably does have it. Then if you get an order, you buy the other seller's copy and ship it to your customer getting a 10% profit. But things run amuck if multiple bots follow the same strategy.

(2) Exploiting people's stupidity and laziness. Almost nobody is going to buy your book for $2464, but if eventually somebody somewhere clicks on the purchase button--because they were too lazy to keep searching or thought it was the going price--well then you've earned the profit of selling 600 legitimate books (at, say, $4 profit each) by doing 1/600 of the work! This could indeed be your business model.

(3) Money laundering. Ie., book buyer A with lots of ill-gotten cash buys a worthless book from seller B for a huge price. Seller B makes an enormous profit, pays his taxes, and appears to be a clean, highly successful rare book dealer. Buyer A and seller B are obviously part of the same organization, maybe the even the same person.

(4) Automatic repricing software. If you're a large seller, you don't manually choose the price of each item, but leave it to an automatic system. You'd think that slow moving items would be priced cheaper to get rid of them. But perhaps the software keeps raising the price because it thinks it is a rare item, or due to errors in the algorithm.

It's funny how everyone who speculates about this is convinced of their own explanation. I'm not so sure. It might be all of the reasons above in different proportions. I'd love it if someone who was actually doing this outrageous pricing would speak out and tell us first hand.
I hope that this isn't the culprit for you, but I was having a lot of trouble focusing. I kept finding lifestyle reasons for it (a life of attention issues plus a newborn baby were near the top of the list), but then my health went to hell.

Turns out that my blood pressure was through the roof. I fixed that and I can focus again.

I genuinely hope that your blood pressure is fine, but seriously, if this is a new thing, it might be a good idea to see a doctor for a checkup. From experience, it's far better to catch blood pressure early than when you end up in a cardiac unit...
Yes, but nowhere near 20%. 7% a year itself isn’t very sustainable.
Except, if it looked like it was coming to that, guess who just got a major pay raise : Police... Now Police is the highest paid field in America...and they'll do anything the 1% tell them to.
Pfft, Fiskers main problem was their battery supplier bankrupting them up - quite possibly on purpose, if not that - they could have been successful.
I would like to include Void as a serious, competent and elegant distribution. I've used it for a complete year, and have really come to appreciate its focus on simplicity, reminds how Arch was before they decided to use systemd.
Google Drive is like "I guess you can use the desktop client instead of the web one". One Drive is like "I guess you can use a Mac". iCloud is like "I guess you can have non-Apple devices". Dropbox just syncs your files from and to anything you have, equally well. I'm pretty sure none of the others even have a Linux client at all, but Dropbox does.
lol, like employers need a real reason to fire someone in this day and age
Does it factor in the warranty maintenance? Tesla seems to have a high rate of warranty work from noisy drive units to retrofitting titanium armor to all the battery packs.
You have the theory reversed. It's that hookworms caused lethargy, which was perceived as laziness. As a result, the southern accent has become associated with laziness.

Personally, I think it's more related to negative opinions about the South following the Civil War, which is why even upper-class southern accents face the same stigma.
Answered: How do I learn mathematics for machine learning?
Cisco Systems used to be renowned for hitting consensus revenue projections precisely, always consensus +1 cent.

That kind of "management" is a red flag IMO.
I liked that explanation.

So... with TLS 1.3, it won't be possible to do connection-jockey anymore, will it?

(This is why I was saying things were such a mess earlier)
Theranos downfall from the perspective of a journalist who made it happen
Some people wait for an external trigger. If you're having a good time, meet them from time to time. Don't stress it. It's good.
If the 1% decided to lobby for police salaries > 400k per year, would the police be more obedient? If revolution was coming, you better believe pay for police would rise, and they'd definitely protect their own interests.
The ticket API and SDK for the greater Helsinki area subway, trains, trams and busses is here: https://sales-api.hsl.fi

There's a call for new service pilots: https://hsl.fi/idealab

The official open data and APIs including GTFS, GraphQL and MQTT here: https://hsl.fi/en/opendata

Disclaimer: I've worked on these at HSL.
Performing and Preventing SSL Stripping: A Primer
Agreed. And your office's arrangement/open-ness
You're right to consider the marginal effect that this might have on the purchasing habits of meat eaters, but you're wrong to ignore the marginal effect that the fall in prices will have on meat producers.

A fall in price will always reduce the quantity supplied, ceteris paribus.
My comment was based on random visits to /programming and checking out what people were doing.

I didn't know of the streamers you mentioned, but I'd be sure to check them out.

Looking forward to being wrong on this.
Need an open source for Cholula sauce :D I replaced my ketchup with that to reduce my calorie count, and save a few $
what is a bar raiser?

and when has amazon ever been an engineering force? i have always felt the website and service experience is a relic of the 2000s. more often than not, i get the answer “our system can’t do that” from customer service.
my memorial weekend on a few acre olympic rain forest camping trip: regular signal hunting for hn. Oddly found a 6x6 area which after a reboot with provide lte. after idle would have to reboot again to open some more links
Carbon Dating is typically for things at least 500 years old. While that might be useful for furniture, it wouldn't apply here.

Glue is useful - an older chair would have used hide glue, made from real animals. If a modern, non-hide glue was used that's an immediate giveaway. However, modern furniture builders still use it quite a lot in high end work today
For data in general, I don't think either HTML or PDF is perfect. Both are designed for you to lay out how a document is displayed, rather than the content specifically. For example, some content in HTML is invisible or split between different divs/spans/whatevers. A lot of it is generated dynamically by JavaScript and async requests. Something like JSON or XML is much more powerful for data storage. For example, you can store the data for graphs as raw data so that the consumer can render the graph however it wants. Display-agnostic data is always more flexible, and I think the best way to provide data on a webpage is both as a visual version and as raw data.
Not all child rapists are the same. If an eighteen-year-old has consensual sex with a seventeen-year-old, technically they have "raped a child". And yes, over zealous prosecutors do prosecute cases like this. There are people on the offender registry convicted of distributing child pornography because they sent someone a nude selfie when they were a teenager.
Apple, Google cashed in on Pizzagate-offshoot conspiracy app
I watched a lot of Twitch while I was playing video games myself. The slower paced games (Cities Skylines, Factorio, Minecraft, Civ 5, etc.) have occasionally monotonous periods where having something in the background is nice filler.
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> The bar had to be lowered to meet the demands of growth.

Not only that, but I've noticed that Amazon has started using way more contractors (not actual firms, but more Mechanical Turk/UpWork like contractors, if not just straight up misclassification) and agencies within the past year or so. I can't say that I'm surprised that Amazon is having technical issues now that they've grew in numbers but not in technical chops.

On a side note, it is a great time to become a recruiter in Seattle with all these agencies popping up. /s
> It is in many places day 2.

For those unfamiliar with internal Amazon lingo, a big deal is made of it always being "day 1"

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/13/jeff-bezos-says-it...
Why you can't upgrade? Good engineer should be able to replace those chips, it's not exactly rocket science. Or those chips just don't available in China or they are somehow paired with motherboard and different ones won't work? For example I know that you could replace disk on iPhone for some reasonable money (less than buying new iPhone with higher capacity) in China, at least that was the case few years ago.
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I was asking why the GP thinks assuaging guilt is a motivation here.
2nd for The Bobiverse, it has some humour and had some fresh ideas in it.
I would add onto this to say you should try to find someone who has been with at least one product since it launched. Launching vs. inheriting a product is a huge difference.
Sadly this is true.. I'd love to see Progressive politicians jump ship to Republican, pick up a few emotional issues like anti-abortion (though secretly pro-choice), and be pro-gun (though still a believer in regulating which guns are allowed on the market).

Basically troll the party in red states, some might actually get elected on a platform similar to Bernie but tweaked to appeal to right wingers, and then we can work from left/right to pull the masses to a center that's more progressive less corporatist.
If it take income in the UK as an example.

• 50th percentile is 21900,

• 90th is "only" 50600,

• 95th is 70400, that's the salary required for the 220K average UK house.

• 96th is 78800

• 97th is 91300

• 98th is 11000

• 99th is 159000, that's the salary required for the 500K average London house.

It really only takes off from 97th percents. Wealth diagram is probably going to look like that too.
Thanks. I noticed a gain of 20% on my images with this method.
Also... With fermented sauces, once you store it, should/could you pasteurize it?