skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably good advice for some aspects of life, you know you best.

I do see that you comment on similar topics. Group think though. Logic, math, computer science, hyper connectivity of the internet. It's like a microcosm analogy-'trend'-flow. Probably gaining understanding independently primarily through imagery and correlating words and meaning.

I think at base with graphs, math pictures. Then math words. Logic forms rigor that reels in insanity, ties oneself back into reality - data recognized as valid by my own existence. Computer science, software as my profession. But I started out being an artist, that's sense of self.

People sometimes behave like birds or schools of fish, even if the words are all jumbled up and connected in strange ways (lots of wikipedia?). Primes behavior for seeing connections in social media. It's like having a body in digital space, that's how I see it, sort of. Leaving footprints all over the place.

As for feedback loops, self reference. Math. Words, I'm guessing we share a connection through other social media, background validation, I'm going to guess wikipedia, but that's just how I see how people establish thinking connections, because that's the difference between it and so much other information on the internet. It's very organized and ordered in terms of relational linking to connect different topics, and it ties back into academia - 'knowledge as categorical imperative' funded research. You can worry about the feedback loops but pretty sure everyone in the system does too. Everyone needs a base to check against.

I could be wrong but guessing is sometimes fun to do. I try to reduce the space I guess in. Makes understanding simple things turn into a hard problem. Cheers
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I have completely stopped using Amazon, with the final nail in the coffin being the stories about how they treat their workers. I think it's just a matter of dependence and most of the stuff I used to get, I can find it elsewhere.
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As far as I'm aware, GDS has no plans to move from Cabinet Office (source: I work at GDS).
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would love to watch it, but looks like it's only available in the US for some reason :/
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Netflix falls more than 14% after earnings
Nerds like to divide reality into finer and finer resolution.
One in three households or thereabouts. It's certainly not "most" - but not sure "vocal minority" is accurate either?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/ameri...
It's up, aaaaannnnddddd now it's back down...
By your own source, a majority (51%) of "economic historians" working in economics departments and a strong majority (74%) of "economic historians" working in history departments disagree outright with the statement: "Taken as a whole, government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression."

It seems unlikely that some huge portion (say, > 90%) of those historians further believe that New Deal policies had no or little positive effect on the Great Depression. Are the "credible historians" just the ones who happen to agree with you on this topic?
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And even if you check something out in person at a retail store and go buy it on Amazon, there is a chance you receive a counterfeit. A very, very high chance for some items.
They don't like "rich assholes" but they are very authoritarian and respect and obey "power."
But we are connected to some much more than others.

See: mother + newborn.
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The New Deal was responsible for stretching the Depression out for several additional years. It was one of the most economically ignorant and harmful interventions in US history.

Food was actually destroyed during the New Deal to create artificial scarcity in agricultural produce:

https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_17.html

This destruction of agricultural stock was based on the idea that the problem in the economy was low nominal prices, when that was merely the symptom of the contraction in the money supply as a result of widespread defaults and an erosion in lending.

The low nominal prices were a natural reaction to the reduced money supply, that enabled consumption levels to remain at their pre-crash levels. With their efforts to increase nominal prices by creating artificial scarcity, all the New Deal officials did was reduce economic output, and with it, consumption levels, resulting in lower quality of life.
I think you miss-understood my statement. They calculated $150B based on is 16.4% stakes in Amazon, 100% financial assets (stocks). Yes, you can convert it into real assets at any time, after vesting period, but as the CEO and founder of Amazon, he can't do that. So the point is, he is still considered the richest man on earth at the moment, but he can't still spend $100 billion tomorrow on a gigantic island. So, yeah, $150B doesn't mean anything. It's just a random number.
Your quotes from the privacy policy do not describe “targeted advertising”. Indeed, the section you quoted from has this preamble:

> We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design Instapaper, to suggest popular content to users, and to share with advertisers and publishers.

and this afterwards:

> When information is used in this or a similar manner, we do not disclose anything that could be used to identify the individuals on whom the information is based.

I suppose using aggregate data in that manner could technically be described as “monetiz[ing] using user data”, but it’s not the type of activity most people are worried about (nor, incidentally, something that would implicate the GDPR).

As for the ToS license grant, it’s presumably the type of cover-your-ass wording lawyers always put into those agreements. I’m not a fan of the practice myself, but it’s not really evidence that Instapaper does, or intends to, use user data after deletion. Also, it might be intended to address backups, though I’m just speculating.
Maybe this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/16/amazon-pr...
Is it absurd though? Russia probably didn't follow any disclosure laws. Also, these ads are more about driving traffic to groups with content designed to influence people without coming off as ads. I guess the real question is how much Clinton and Trump spent on astro-turfing vs Russia's ads.
That's still my favorite term for this.
At Amazon's scale you cannot simply turn tens of billions of dollars into economically meaningful growth. If you could, and expect proportional increase in valuation, then nearly every company would be doing the exact same thing. Take for instance Apple. They are netting some $48 billion a year with much more than that on hand. They clearly desperately want to move beyond just the iPhone and have been trying all sorts of ideas, but nothing is really sticking. And so they've been left to resort to spending literally hundreds of billions of dollars on share buybacks to try to increase the stock price that way. If they could just invest their profits into growth and expect proportional benefit, that's precisely what they would be doing!
As in: It's everywhere.
>There's a simple hack toward being more positive: When you make a joke, ensure that you're the victim, not someone else.

Doesn't that just make you less offensive to others?

Still doesn't say anything about you being more positive - in fact, making yourself the butt of your jokes could mean you're self-deprecating or depressive.
They will have to write a detailed post-mortem (with many people with titles starting from director watching it every week). Based on what comes out from the post-mortem automation/testing will be implemented to remove/mitigate the failure from the equation in the future.

Unless this is something egregious (ex: a manager not allowing the team to "scale up" in preparation for the event) no one will get fired. Tempers may flare a bit if it is something stupid (it's usually not).

Nothing different from what happened with the (very public) DynamoDB and S3 failures of yesteryear.
I'm not sure that's a valid test. UBI at $10/month is absolutely worthless. UBI at $500/month is probably worthless. UBI at $1000/month is barely adequate. If you start the test at small amounts, you're going to experimentally decide that it doesn't work. But that only means that it doesn't work at those amounts. It could still work at larger amounts.

Of course, it could bankrupt the country at larger amounts, too...
I found this:

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/issues/94

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/issues/111

But the project looks abandoned which is a pity.
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Oh yes, these things don't happen without air cover from a wise strongman (or strongwoman)
Almost. The director got the bonus and the yard workers got more work.
Common scam on Instagram too. Run a "contest" that anyone who likes a photo immediately "wins". They choose 6 out of 20 products as a prize, with listed values from $10-60, but actually mass produced in China for <$3. All good until you enter your shipping information, and shipping is $30.
sure, they probably don't get that money back which might slightly influence the revenue for the quarter, but it's not as if the value of the business has changed drastically in the last 3 hours.

This happens every time AWS has an outage as well. Reddit is down, better sell AMZN.
Yes. There is a contest that exists called "Ludum Dare" where a theme is announced, and within 2-3 days people have to design a video game fitting that theme.

One person who took up the challenge was Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson ( https://www.twitch.tv/videos/38122415 ). You see him coding for 11 hours or so, and at some points (like in the beginning) he talks about what his gameplan for coding the project are. Throughout you see a screen share of him coding, or drawing a tile map, or the like. It's an interesting thing if you want to see how a very successful game programmer that had to put a finished game together within 2-3 days would go about it.
So, I'm just going to say this, even though probably everyone already knows it: there are way, way more people looking to make a living off of producing content (Youtube, Twitch, etc.) for the internet, than there are people thinking, "If only there were more content on the Internet, I would pay some money or put up with some ads for that." There's nothing wrong with putting it out there if you want to, but expecting any kind of financial reward or other validation from the size of your audience seems like injecting yourself into a pretty vicious zero-sum game.
The article started with about author's experience hanging out with some really positive people, and somehow made a conclusion about needing to hang out more with happy people (happy != positive). Then goes on to describe various benefits of having close friendships or social circles that you can depend on, and basically used dependable friend and happy friend interchangeably.

Although, despite being such a poorly written article, I do agree that having a group of close friends who you can depend on for good and bad times is huge for our mental health and happiness.
That's what's called a discussion. People make arguments, corrections to other's arguments, and counter-arguments.
That’s not because you’re mathematically illiterate (though that may be true), but because it’s a bad title.
Quora sure does take in a lot of data.
Nah, not at all. The vast majority of people don't care about the inner workings of a website, they just want to buy cheap shit and have it all work. Prime Day pretty much markets itself, I just recently got a package from amazon and it was plastered with Prime Day advertising, my co-workers are all talking about it, it's the centerpiece of their website. You'd have to work pretty hard NOT to know about Prime Day today.
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Why is plutonium being transported in a rented car...
Isn't this style called YouTube Poop or YTP? A little different style, but my favorite [0] is the clip Mr. Banks Has a Mental Breakdown.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-FaceFJYCk

edit: fixed zero-based reference index.
Some services (before I left) just did not have the sheer capacity to have Amazon.com as a customer at peak. The service teams just said "nope, sorry, you're going to kill us".

The requirements for prime day/black friday/cyber monday were mind-boggling.
Don't forget higher education.
Capitalism needs an upgrade.

Our current version breaks down in the global internet economy with digital platforms and digital retailers, where simple brands combined with external capital have the ability to turn companies into supermassive black holes for consumer attention. As we know from math, singularities need special care, so we better start thinking about how we could fix the situation.
It's not a question of where it is, but when it is.
Of course it's FUD, thats almost the definition of of risk. "Risk assessments on GDPR litigation are blown wildly out of proportion." because there's a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

I just don't think it's particularly unjustified FUD. It is a big law that made a big splash. Can you really blame anyone who wants to wait and see how it goes down?

There IS a ton of guess work for now. To take either stance with so much certainty is a little dishonest IMHO. And I think you agree! You say yourself "... in all likelihood, on the off chance ..." Is "better safe than sorry" really so unreasonable.
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We've been using Typescript (almost) since the day it was released. IMHO, I would never start any decent-sized JS project without it.

The development speed is really good. It of course takes some time to transpile, but we have a live-reloading setup which allows us to see code changes almost instantly. The actual build time will depend on your setup (our projects are usually between 1-5s), but I think the advantages of a type system easily outweigh any build time.

I don't have too much experience with the different test frameworks, but we've used mocha (with chai), and they both work great.

The only real downside is that non-TS libraries will need a definition file to enable typechecking. We don't use too many 3rd party libraries, but most of the popular ones include typescript definitions, and making your own for libraries which don't have them isn't too hard, depending on the size of the library, of course.

In summary, we've not seen any downsides to using TS. The language is a joy to write in, and the type system is so well designed that you can actually avoid writing code in some places by designing your types properly.

I hope this helps!
Just to add, J.C. Bose also authored first science fiction in bengali language.
Everything you really don't need is cheaper, everything you do need (rent, groceries, education) is much more expensive while wages haven't increased since the 90's.
Often people is nervious at job interviews. It might not be the best place for this sort of creative problems.
Well, not under the /books/ section.
Can you give a citations for (1)? That sounds interesting.
OK, now I see why Apple is able to keep selling $2000 laptops that are not good at being laptops.
I suspect their are far more viewers than people making content. The issue is 1 or even 10 viewers is no where near enough to support a content creator.
Your margins are so thin that you're worth $150,000,000,000. Right.
Not really. You just have to have money a lawsuit can extract from you. See http://herpesnews.com/herpes-legal/23-years-of-herpes-lawsui...
I thought Amazon (or at least the AWS side of things) was supposedly fairly good about blameless post-mortems?

I remember people were praising them as such when this outage happened: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
In every instance throughout history, the $weapon wielded by the peasant has been vastly inferior to the one wielded by the noble's army, guards, etc. In fact one could argue that the peasantry has never been less outgunned that they are currently, when previous uprisings made do with sticks and rocks, and the heads of the wealthy still rolled in the end.

The fact is that the select few protect themselves with rolls of the sons and daughters of the masses. Sure, plenty of them will turn their weapons on their fellow countrymen for a paycheck, but how many? And for how long?

And especially once those bullets start flying, how useful is the money being paid to those guards? How long before they have all the money they could ever want and no one will sell them food?

In our hyper-connected world, we lose people jobs when they crack a racist joke on twitter. How hard will it be to find the 1%'s executioners?
It's really interesting. The more remarkable successes Musk has, the more a certain large group of people and media organizations attack him. It almost makes you think they have some sort of hidden motivation.
There's a white paper sort of thing from the Ministry of Defence that goes into the rationale, more than it goes into any technical details:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/combat-air-strate...

A large part of it is about supporting the high-tech manufacturing industry in the UK, so it creates good jobs, attracts investment, can compete for exports, etc.
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Perhaps. Or perhaps something you can get a lip balm for at the Walgreens checkout shouldn't cost you millions of dollars.

Also, if you do disclose, you better have in it writing. If there's no evidence of STD disclosure, you can still be sued, and then it's he said vs she said (or pick your permutation of genders) and it's your two reputations competing for who's more trustworthy in court and can have the upper hand. That disclosure can still cost you.

Lawyers will always advise you to have disclosure confirmation in writing (email or paper is best, text might be still ok).
> For languages that support monkey patching you don't dependency injection.

What am I missing here? We've got to be working with different definitions of the term "dependency injection" or something.

Using monkey patching as a complete replacement for dependency injection seems absolutely bonkers to me. The codebase I'm imagining when I here that is one where no module's run-time behavior can be understood by simply reading its source code, because every single one of its run-time dependencies is being monkey patched in from some where else entirely. It's also one where, to take the same class and instantiate two different copies with two different sets of run-time dependencies, I'd have to do something wacky with the monkey patching instead of just creating them with different constructor arguments.
There’s an easy litmus test to see whether or not someone is worth further engaging with and it is this. Does the person make your life better or makes you happy? If people are constantly putting you down or not wanting to listen to you or are hard to get ahold of, these are all signs that you may have misplaced atachmments to the relationship and it’s time to get out. Going through this you may ask yourself what does this other person have going on in their life? What are you contributing to the relationship that may be of burden to others and cause them to act this way towards you. Upon addressing these questions you may then assess what you may need to change in how you interact with other people if anything or wether or not the other person is in a position at this stage of their life to to be able to participate in yours.
Having been on both sides of this I’ve found approaching all relationships with humility and compassion goes a long way towards alleviating any tensions.
Not covered in first answer: you could leave at 6, but if you stay till 7 there's a roast dinner. I suspect people who still work at Google are sometimes a little blind to their own behaviour.
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I've never read any modern historian to say that the New Deal effectively fixed the Great Depression.

So yes, I believe that most of those 51% and 74% believe the effect was nonexistant or small. Typically, something like "if FDR had spent as much on the New Deal as he did during the War, it would have ended the Depression". [1] (I.e., it was too little, as in my previous comment.)

I welcome any references to historians claiming the New Deal largely fixed the Great Depression. (Or really, any option from a historian more positive than the quoted article.)

Or...you know, just silently downvote this comment :)

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/the-great-depression-of-1929-3306...
> It's involved to code a test to cause the partition, wait for the various timeouts to take place, then heal the partition, then wait some more for things to start talking and recovering.

Yet, on the layer that is charged with surviving a partition, that's exactly what you should be doing.

Your unit test can verify that some machine sends the designed message down the wire, it can check if it responds to the expected message, but it can not even check if the software can detect a partition, even less that it can survive one.

I would recommend you make those timeouts configurable from the user point of view.
I have not encountered any downsides except very, very minor ones. The upside is MASSIVE and renders those downsides meaningless.

Speed/development heaviness is not an issue because you can skip typing whenever you want and just write ES6+.

Non-TS libraries are easy to import and use. I use one or two, but most libs have type defs available.

Testing is the same as in JS. There are type defs available for the major JS testing suites.
... Is there anything even good for Prime Day this year? Or the year before? Two years ago I remember seeing at least some Dell Workstations that could be repurposed into cheapo home servers. Most of the stuff seems to be odds, ends, and stuff that the various Chinese product-clone companies couldn't get rid of.
This is a really important aspect of good testing that doesn't seem to get as much attention as it deserves - the tests that have brought the most value for me are the ones that assert the business requirements, not the implementation details.

So for a little passthrough/orchestration class, it probably doesn't make sense to do much testing. For something that actually performs business logic, that's a prime candidate for testing. I've seen plenty of tests that just seem to aim to increase coverage, heck, I've written plenty of those myself - but at the end of the day, the benefit they serve after being written is probably minimal.
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Ambient noise generators like mynoise and noisli have been a great help in getting dev and documentation work done amidst noisy workplaces. What about you? Is there anyone out there who doesnt need noise cancellation headphones or ambient noise generators to get focus intensive work done?
Interesting. Does this mean you plan to release it?
Are we looking at the same site?
I wonder why that hasn't been possible so far. HSV has a huge impact on people's lifestyles in the US. You'd think just about everything would have been attempted by now to address it.
If it was under circumstances in which a typical person ought to have been able to avoid being shot, it would say a lot (not that that justifies the action of the shooter).