skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure. Cars need maintenance. Customers want to drive the cars before they buy them. So maybe the management and dealership owners lose out, but the rank and file should still come out OK.

I think the same thing may be true with tech employers and their on-site benefits. Sure, the employees aren't eating out in town as much, but they are still eating. For the line cooks and other service workers, there's still work to be had. Its the people who are in the business of owning service industry businesses that are in trouble.
My understanding was that the original string idea arose naturally, but as they developed the idea further it started (out of necessity) to take on the familiar bizarre attributes like extra dimensions and supersymmetry. Sometimes I wish I knew the math behind all of this, but I only have so much time on this earth and I have other things I want to do with it.
You're missing the point. No one will be caught entering the U.S., with or without a visa, in a Sunnyvale mall parking lot. All you will likely be able to catch is unlawful presence, which is a civil matter and not a crime.
I seem to post a version of this comment whenever a philosophical subject ends up on HN:

First, Wittgenstein's ultimate views concerned the validity/fundamental meaninglessness of metaphysics, not all philosophical inquiry. There are other subjects in philosophy that require little to no metaphysical justification: aesthetics, mathematics, and certain branches of ethics are all examples of this.

Second, we (HN users) are all here because of philosophy. The fundamental theories and methods of computation stem directly from the work of philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s, who in turn were building off of systems of formal reasoning devised in the 5th century BC. The same can be said for our political organizations, our aesthetic considerations, and our basic Western metaphysical perspective. I'd call that "accomplishing something."
> So why the the lack of interest from "high growth" HN crowd?

1) Because VC's want returns measured in months, not years. So VC funding is right out.

2) None of this is high-growth. You are selling into a market with a fixed budget. To win, you have to displace something else. That's expensive and difficult and doesn't scale.

3) You are effectively selling to the government with all the downsides. Worse, you are selling to a set of things that are government constrained without the upside of being actual government.

4) Nobody inside cares. There is no short term 15% bonus to most of the people with their hands on the levers. The people in charge won't move until there is so much residential solar installed and the power grid is in such bad shape that individuals start disconnecting from the grid.
You’re thinking rather short sided here. There are a lot of ways to find out if someone can think critically and also has the appropriate level of skill at programming. I prefer to give them a set of much more real world type scenarios to see how they will handle things. Often I do this in a paired programming scenario. We both sit down. I drive they navigate and we spend 20 - 30 minutes trying to build something. The something is never anything that is going to go into production. Just code that is real and useful and can show me how they think through a problem and whether they can catch mistakes in code as they happen in real time. Lately I’ve been a fan of making a shopping cart (since the software I build doesn’t have a shopping cart).

I keep it very short. I try to make it low stress. I try to make it fun and funny. Why? I really want to know if the candidate can work with me and how they will work. I don’t care one bit whether they can remember the big O notation of a red-black tree search or whether they know how to reimplement a complex datatype. I care how they will work with me in my environment.

You might say “you’re method is just too simplistic. People can game it and get through.” It’s been accused of that before. And frankly, I can memorize algorithms and game that interview. Try gaming me while we pair on some code and I try to toss in a few roadblocks. Try to game me as I try to see how you will react as we work together. It’s hard, and my methods have been quite successful for me.

As for the pay, I don’t pay people what Amazon, Google, and Facebook pay. But I pay very well and people stick with me so it seems to work out.
At our 40 acre walnut orchard in Northern California, we water via two wells (30 foot water depth) powered by two PG&E-powered electric pumps (60hp and 20hp). There is an agricultural discount if we run them nights and weekends, so we typically run them on weekends for 12-24 hours. Summer daytime temps are often 90-95 degrees F. Nighttime watering is also helpful due to less water evaporation.

But given the duck curve, I expect PG&E will at some point encourage 10am to 3pm power usage. Then it might be cheaper, electricity-wise, to run the pumps 3 times a week, during the heat of the day, instead of overnight on weekends.

Bad: More evaporation, so more water use.

Good: Maybe cheaper, and since trees reduce their photosynthesis when it gets too hot (to decrease water loss), daytime watering may increase growth by keeping the air temperature lower.
This reminds me of someone who once told me that the vast majority of philosophical problems are self-inflicted and caused by the intentional use of vague and ambiguous definitions, and therefore could be solved trivially simply by agreeing on a definition for something.

One example given was the Theseu's Paradox (or The Ship of Theseus):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

The entire problem only exists because you're intentionally using a vague term in the problem, therefore causing the problem itself.

At least that was the commentary, I'm not an expert in the subject, and I'm sure many will disagree. But then, even the disagreeing is just pointlessly creating a problem for the sake of the discussion.
The sales engineer and other suggestions are all good ones. You could also pivot to law school and become an attorney specializing in technology related cases.
It varies, but by and large we do not have arbitrary access to utility customer data. For most utilities, customers are empowered to give written authorization for a party to act on their behalf to access/manage their utility data, so we have an online form they can fill out to grant that consent within the US-DOE DataGuard Privacy Guidelines (think GDPR for energy data). For some utilities, they are beginning to provide OAuth-style access for customers (I'm actually on the board of this "Green Button Connect" standard, and we'll be coming out with our own OAuth-style solution utilities can buy next year).

Overall, it varies from utility to utility and regulatory authority to regulatory authority. There's an incredible amount of politics and policy involved, but mostly it revolves around clear consent (which isn't ever a problem since the utility customer is the one wanting the energy audit or quote). The complexity of the regulation/policy is what prevents a good fit for most VC models, and other financing options are more experienced and comfortable at this than VC.
I highly doubt that traditional traits of luxury like interior build quality, fine details, mechanical touches, etc. will ever go away. The Tesla is a great car, but for people with a different taste, there are some really nice alternatives. For people with lots of money, there are far better driving experiences to be had.

The geek part of my brain is not the part that lights up when I’m driving.
I read something a while back stating the studies these theories of hunter-gatherer paradise are based upon were flawed in that they only took into account the actual time it took to gather food and not preparation and whatnot which turns out to add up to significant amounts of time.
For any X, the foundations of X come from Philosophy.
Non-paywall link:

http://archive.is/sYGyZ
If it helps, I have a CS degree and about 15 years experience now. That experience started not in programming but in IT support and then system engineer/infrastructure work for corporates, followed by IT management and Project Management roles. These are all achievable with that degree.

I also know others who mixed it with some short courses on stats or other things to diversify into data science, marketing, business analysis and other areas.
Well the question was what do they have that comes closest. They do have a lot more than just pinyin and handwriting. If you don't know, it's fine to just say that, or stay away from the discussion, especially when you seem to be answering with such certainty on something where you didn't read the question.
> This is a typical misinterpretation of the reality of programming. There is no such thing as undefined behavior. Once you get down to bits and bytes in memory and instructions the processor does EXACTLY what it is designed to do and told to do by the programmer.

Sure.

Only problem is, all you have to do is change some code generation option on the compiler command line and millions of lines of code now produce different instructions. Or, keep those options the same, but use a different version of that compiler: same thing.

> The processor does exactly what you, the programmer, tell it do to.

Well, yes; and when you're doing that through C, you're telling the processor what to do via sort of autistic middleman.

C is not the low level; you can understand your processor on a very detailed level and that expertise won't mean a thing if you don't understand the ways in which you can be screwed by the C language that have nothing to do with that processor.

I suspect that you don't know some important things about C if you think it's just a straightforward way to instruct the processor at the low level.

> Languages that are closer to the metal require the programmer to be highly skilled and also carefully plan and understand the code down to the machine level.

C isn't one of these languages. (At least not any more!) It's considerably far from the metal, and requires a somewhat different set of skills than what the assembly language coder brings to the table, yet without entirely rendering useless what that coder does bring to the table.
Aero 15x runs Windows, and the Windows version of the software is much better optimised. The software load is quite different, which is misleading.
We care a lot about having an optimal level of technical debt and write about this on our blog and in our handbook https://www.dropbox.com/s/kdctzn1ha8z666l/Screenshot%202018-...

I like the perspective I recently read here that you should avoid the debt with a high interest rate. If you got a fundamental concept wrong and that mistake spreads throughout your codebase that is much worse than an isolated piece of code that could be better.
You state this as if I didn't so I'm confused by that :S. Regardless it is possible to do a full build for under $2k, especially if you have any resuable parts like case/psu/nvme.
> Consumers aren't datacenters

Consumers have also shown zero intention of paying more for secure devices. Until we have a public ME hack with real consequences, I do not expect that to change.
To be truly resilient against any kind of (potentially unknown, even) lossy image compression, you would need to add a lot of redundancy. QR Codes are pretty much that, but their data needs to survive being “transmitted” through a blurry photo with arbitrary lighting, rotation and perspective, so they likely have a lot more redundancy than you realistically need. (EDIT: You might hit the limit where you need QR Code levels of efficiency relatively quickly, depending on the number of steps and how aggressive each recompression is.)

If saving and sharing can mean changing the image dimensions however, you of course need redundancy by that factor.

But yeah, that’s why we don’t choose lossy compression algorithms for binary data. If every bit counts, there is no entropy you can lose (though a lossless algorithm might find a more efficient representation, so to speak).
> I’m not saying this is likely, but imagine white Toyota or Honda could do with Tesla’s battery/platform technology.

Tesla's batteries are made by Panasonic, who also makes them for Toyota
Also my layman's understanding is that there is a lot of different math that fits string theory.... not just one, that kinda raises questions about what math is right if any of it is.
The point is content maynot be worth watching, but you don't know unless you paid for it. You can make space by just keeping the content that are worth watching more than once, which in my experience is a very small fraction of the amount of movies produced.
"In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. "

A suggestion is the start of a hypothesis, not a thesis. So this article (old article) is saying nothing but a point of view. It is not even worthy of Wikipedia.

Anyways, I still don't get it about equality and diversity. How could you embrace both, at the same time?.
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To be fair, almost every leader portrays themselves as a “man of The People” when this is almost never the case. Even authoritarian dictators like Gaddafi claimed this in order to lend legitimacy to their rule. What’s really surprising is that it actually often works, at least as long as the leader keeps handing The People table scraps that is.

In the United States, I find the phenomena of well educated, wealthy republican businessmen playing themselves up as—for lack of a better term—Good ol’ Boys to be a particularly ugly version of this. It’s a cynical and demeaning farce, yet it still seems to get results.

Perhaps the root cause is that true men of The People rarely make it to power. Perhaps it is some human quirk: a primal desire to latch on to leaders and identify with them. Whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon so I guess you can either try to fight it or exploit it.
There are some gimmick luxury cars out there but for car people, there are some damn fine experiences out there. An entire range of expensive UX from the rugged to the sleek. Cars are just different.
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Anybody who wants “Tesla’s” battery technology need only pick up the phone, call Panasonic, and order it.
Which vague term?

The problem in The Ship of Theseus is one of identity: do objects have historical properties (i.e., do they undergo change but remain "the thing"), or do they become new objects when change occurs? Taking either horn leads to radical conclusions about the objects we interact with on a daily basis, and so we have a paradox.

There are plenty of examples of vague and ambiguous language in philosophy, but I think that the SoT remains problematic without them.
I'm confident it is, though back in 1987 it was just called sarcasm.
The screenshot of the CAPTCHA clearly shows that it was entered incorrectly. I would suggest that entering syruc when the word was clearly ms7wt was more likely the cause for rejection.
Indeed. Energy in chemical form is astonishingly cheap to transmit (and store), but, as electricity, it's completely different. The storage problem is part of the point of the article, of course.

I always thought this was one of the advantages of rooftop solar, that it would reduce transmission costs by bringing generation closer to consumption, especially at peak, and not necessarily because of costs due to losses in the transmission lines, but costs due to maintaining the necessary capacity in those lines (a challenge for both the SFBA and NYC, IIUC).
The big problem with big data? Without theory, it's just garbage
But in the private rooms at the club, there were no outside stimuli. The rules were clear, the distractions minimal, so I could focus and interact.

My ex likely qualifies as ASD, though he was never diagnosed. He is terrible with faces. Faceblindness is common among ASD individuals. He had a lot of other issues.

He was career military. A common recommendation for ASD individuals is to let them wear the same stuff over and over, to get them multiple copies of their favorite items to wear. Wearing the same thing helps accommodate their sensory issues.

In the military, he was required to wear a uniform. He had multiple copies of it. A lot of people who have to wear a uniform get tired of it. It's boring. It's stultifying. But ASD individuals find it a comfort.

He didn't have to remember faces. Everyone's last name was displayed on their uniform.

He had handwriting issues, probably dysgraphia. He had his favorite pen. As an adult, he didn't need a file giving him permission to use a particular writing instrument to accommodate his issues. He had choice and it was chalked up to personal preference.

If we happen to find a situation that's a good fit for how we are, we look competent and brilliant. If we are expected to do things that don't work well for us, performance suffers.

There's really nothing magical or mysterious about that. It's just a shame we so often require people to have justification for their preferences.
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This story is such bullshit. It smells like someone's stuck in a short position over Tesla stock and wants to create a dip in it...maybe it's the same guy Elon insulted on that last quarterly earnings call.
In what sense is Trump not elite? He was born elite, grew up elite and does things for the elite. In the context of the US being governed by and for the rich he is part of that trend. Maybe he uses different talk than the elite you mention. But they all have the same interest which is to amass as much money as they can in their own hands. None of these people cares about making life better for the average citizen. Maybe they do in an abstract sense but do nothing (like me caring for poor people around the world and doing nothing).

The elite are the people with money. They have the real power.
You get that in plenty of 2D environments though. If you do a perspective warp in Photoshop you can get it, and CSS transforms (for HTML content!) will do it if you rotate around the x or y axes.
why this isn't a sublimely silly argument.

It's not really intended to be much of a serious argument, is my guess. In 1987 the idea that members of agricultural societies didn't necessarily live better lives than hunter-gathers wasn't as widely known or accepted. He presents that idea in a popular magazine in proto-clickbaity terms.
There are dedicated reporters at a lot of outlets for each of the tech giants, I don't understand that complaint. I've talked with several of them, they show up at like every tech gathering they're allowed into, and many people at those companies know their names/faces and avoid them like the plague.
if we continued to live as 'chimps' as some have worded it, the chances of extinction for humans, and all life on this planet is 100%.

for all the damage done to ecological systems, now the chances of humans and some of those systems actually surviving beyond the life left in this planet is now some number above zero. that's a good thing imo
At the time of this reply you've been downvoted a bit, and that is ridiculous.

No, not everyone requires certification to be a PM, but many places do, and in many cases it helps get past the resume filtering process.

So get a PMP cert if you want, or don't and find a company that isn't going to discriminate on the lack of a certification. It costs a bit of sanity and $500 some to pad PMI's coffers, but its basically paying $500 for your resume going to the top of the stack. Sucks, but it is how it is for a large enough number of companies to matter.

"Defacto" may be the wrong word, perhaps "ubiquitous" would be more correct, but your point is valid.
Musk has hasn't just had a bad day. He's made a whole series of colossal strategic errors in stubborn defiance of conventional wisdom over the past couple years. The pedo comment is just the cherry on the tip of the iceberg. The delusional mini-sub stunt wonderfully encapsulates his whole approach to running the company. For years I've just been shaking my head as people try to rationalize his bullshit over and over, but those chickens are coming home to roost.
These short conspiracy theories are hilarious. All the available evidence points to a conspiracy by the sell side. They’re the ones with entire websites devoted to worshipping Tesla and Musk where words of skepticism are grounds for banishment.

It all reminds me of my pal Adam Feuerstein who is a pharma analyst. There are hoards of people online who accuse him of being a puppet of the short side but all he does is publish true facts about drug trials. Just telling the truth is more than enough to be labeled a short shill by the people who are themselves very invested in the pump and dump.
If anyone is going to figure out how, it'll be Zildjian.
This is just moving to vagueness in the definition of "object".

>Taking either horn leads to radical conclusions about the objects we interact with on a daily basis

How would someone deal with objects in the real world differently based on a solution to this supposed problem? In what context is the distinction important?
I agree. There are lots of tangent careers you can do with a CS degree. Also consider: IT operations, Quality Assurance, technical PM, network infrastructure. Some of these might require a bit more training, but your CS degree is a solid foundation to build from.
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Are you willing to stake your career on that guess?
Interesting, I didn't realize there were laws against direct sales[1]. The phenomenon of bullshit jobs--i.e., jobs that serve no real purpose--has been discussed here on HN multiple times[2]. It's funny how entire industries (like the 2-3 million people who do health care paperwork in the U.S.) could disappear overnight if the systems and regulations were different, and we wouldn't notice, except possibly for the unemployment it would create.

[1] "U.S. car dealerships [are] protected by state laws. Most state laws expressly prohibit manufacturers and distributors from operating retail outlets. They must by law sell their vehicles through independent franchise retail distribution network."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/commutin...

[2] Most recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17260911
The source may not be anonymous to the WSJ (we the readers have no insight as to whether or not the source was anonymous), but articles like this where WSJ was unable to find a second source shouldn't be published as journalism. Uncorroborated hearsay does not make for a proper, publishable news article.
>Why not make the sources go on record?

Do you really need someone to explain to you why this is a silly idea?
Ah, voicetube idea is nice :)
I'll second this. I'm not a counselor, but my guess it that your anxiety is coloring your perception and performance of programming tasks.

I strongly suggest you make some time with a counselor, and let him/her help you understand the real causes of your anxiety, and find a path towards managing it. This is what they do for a living, and AFAICT most of them are pretty decent at it.

My guess is that you'll have a better chance of enjoying programming, and perhaps performing better at it, once you get a handle on the anxiety.
You’re in an interesting spot. You could generate your own power, since you don’t need to store it.

I’d take a long look at how much power you need, and when 5 years of electric bills are more expensive than your own installation. Maybe never, but prices do keep falling.
I'm in high school. I know how to double click, I know how to work with excel spreadsheets. I plan to pursue a CS degree and eventually get an engineering job in the future. Heck, I even read Hacker News.

Yes, us teens are on our smartphones a lot, but the majority of us know how to use computers... this article is pretty misleading.