skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you finding yourself having difficulty in programming due to weakness in math?

I never liked math that much, but as a professional programmer I don't typically find that the programming I do requires any advanced math.

If your job needs math, learn that math. If your job doesn't need math, there's not a lot of point in learning it because you will forget it again due to non-use.

I don't remember any calculus for example, because I've never needed it since I've been out of school.
Even if they sign BAAs, that doesn't mean that every health organization is willing to go off-prem. On-prem is popular for a reason.
> We did consider switching to a fairer electoral system in 2011, but ironically enough we decided against it by referendum.

On the other hand, the countries with the most stable democracies (measured in centuries) (US and UK) have two-party systems. So maybe the choice was less obvious than you allude to.
I quit Facebook lately and moved to Discord for my group chats, cause we already had the channels from gaming.

It is good, but we all have trouble with the notifications. (this has nothing to do with react native but you are here and this is a gripe). Like if you have it running on a computer it doesn't come to your phone. So we have tons of miss-communication for stuff like "yo I am drinking near your house meet-up". Discord just sits running all the time on your PC, which for most is running all the time. So I stopped using it for time sensitive messages which sucks. I would never dare use it for a "Hey I am buzzing outside your house answer". You literally have no idea where the notification for the person is going to go. FB-Messenger never had this issue.
I've seen a few companies with their own Mastodon (or compatible software) instances. They can post local-only for internal stuff or just not connect it to the fediverse at all. MIT even has its own.
Facebook loses $119B – biggest in Wall Street history
This is possible but friction welding needs temperatures to reach above melting point for a little while that is 1085°C for copper and 660°C for aluminium, machinery needed to do this would be insanely expensive and would need to be done to the IHS detached from the cpu as that gets ruined at around 115°C i think, it would be better for enthusiast grade heat sinks to carve out an IHS in their blocks. but that would be made for mainstream processors only 8700k, some intel hedt and amd threadrippers

Edit: selling custom IHS integrated heatsinks with LM applied and nail polished is a small and probably fairly inconsistent business to invest in buying a well binned 3790k kit, very few people would upgrade till an 8700k which showed significant gains worthy of an upgrade you would run dry for a few years especially the premium you would ask for such a service people would use these things for a long long long time i know people who are still using i5 2600k just because majority games are poorly multithread optimized

AMD could collaborate with EKWB would be great TR2 Liquid and Navi 96 Liquid. Intel have too much ego to collab
Non-amp link: https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-free-cafeteria...
Is that the real quote?
The product wasn't a money maker for a mega corp. They couldn't justify investing to make the product better and pay well. It was a fun team, but it got really boring since we could only ship once every six months with the OS. I like shipping daily!
"For teams with large amounts of data, the export function has been reported to fail and it may be difficult to reclaim your team’s data. Consider contacting HipChat support to see if a new solution is available."

They're kidding, right? That's a well-defined migration plan?
has anybody ever said this in the past five years
> I mean... britain wouldn't be the ones policing the border, it would be turkey.

You were clearly talking about the Turkish border in your previous comment. Entering Turkey doesn't make you an EU citizen, and the UK, not being part of Schengen and having no land border to the mainland, has lots of freedom to police it's own borders against non-EU nationals trying to enter from other EU countries.

Turkish (then EU) citizens would have the right to enter and work in the UK, yes.
Same here. We just started using it and everyone really likes it so far. Much better than Skype. I've tried Slack and didn't really care for it. I realize MSFT is mimicking the Slack style in Teams, but I just didn't really actually want to use Slack. But Teams seems like something I want to use.
Tesla's magic is wearing off as Model 3 excitement dwindles
True. Inaccurate data can be bias, but I think made that distinction. If you have a representative, statically accurate data set, you can't call the data bias if it points one way or another.
It's hard to imagine using a stripped down browser-based feed reader after using an excellent dedicated application like NewsBlur.
Did FireFox synchronize your read stories across devices?
> Not ideal, but couldn't have afforded the places I moved into two years earlier and moving produces high quality of life gain.

Maybe it's years living in substandard student housing, or years in "not-in-the-US" housing, or even a couple of years being effectively homeless, but anytime I get more situated than living out of one suitcase and one computer bag, I find moving to be a burden that (generally) outweighs what you call the quality-of-life gain. That's me, and I'm probably inertia oriented in everything except the companies I start/assist/work-for. I love tuning the business to be better. But I often just go home, maybe to a dump or dive, and open a can of tuna fish for dinner. (My kids don't seem to understand that either - so I'm guessing this isn't normal)

EDIT: My (now) ex-wife lives in a nice house, with a fair number of upgrades, in a nice neighborhood. And my kids get to live there too - nice schools too. So, that's nice. But I don't think it is anything I would have ever invested in or developed for myself without her prodding. (Which might be why she divorced me, but I suspect it was probably slightly more complicated than that. But, still, it probably should have been enough!)
I think the insight is that there isn't really a built-in mechanism in particles for making choices, it's more that through experimentation we are _imposing_ a structure that forces a choice in an attempt to extract information. But we find that even when we force the system to make a choice, we get effectively no information and this appears to us to be a sort of complete randomness.

I interpret Conway's idea (in part III) to be that this is not a structural randomness, but rather randomness only in response to structure that _we_ impose during an experiment (e.g. determining spin), and that this is similar to our free will which is not structured (if you subscribe that that theory).

EDIT: I feel like I should clarify: at play here is the question of how mechanistic the universe is. If we accept that the universe is mechanistic, then we are forced into a position where we have to say (if we wish to avoid determinism) that there is such a thing as a "completely random" mechanism, and furthermore we have to effectively absolve free will of any structural restrictions by requiring that it is somehow part of our vitality as humans (call this mind-body dualism or whatever -- there is a long history of this debate). Obviously this is all beyond physics, but it is important to realize what assumptions we are implicitly requiring in order to discuss randomness and free will in this case.
> Setting up something as critical as that to have such a slim majority decide is illogical

So you'd rather have a slim minority decide?
OK I admit I was thinking of VAT when I made the comment (I'm in the UK), and also the typical exclusions from VAT for food, books etc and partial liability on businesses (sales minus allowable purchases).

Undoubtedly a sales tax can be regressive but don't those exceptions move it far enough into being a tax on discretionary purchases? There doesn't seem much anti-VAT feeling in the UK outside of occasional axe-grinding from the popular press.
I strongly disagree. The US is still highly highly segregated.

Just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Discrimination in the case of insurance, advertising, housing, etc happens by zip code.

Live in the wrong zip code and you’re screwed.
Would Keybase Teams fit the bill, with end to end encryption? Or has to be on-prem, even if encrypted, for your requirements?

(I don't have any association with Keybase, I've just investigated this product as a Slack alternative.)
I would also recommend this. I've been using it for a while and it's amazing. Tightly integrated into version control, great team/project/task management, code review tools, great command line integration though arcanist.
Ah ok. I'd bought sensors and breakout boards etc from them and never had problems. Good to know.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620543.
how is reinvesting profits a government subsidy? Literally any company that wants to grow can do that

What subsidies are you even talking about? Most of your post sounds like stuff you just pulled out of your ass
Wow. Atlassian is really on the way down, giving up on such an important and strategic part of the business. They've given Stride not even a year to try to compete.

Guess they'll always be the JIRA company.
Congrats to Slack to winning the Enterprise Market!
We are actually starting work on allowing pasting images from the clipboard this week :D

So stay tuned!

Thanks for the kind words, the team really appreciates it.
JIRA's problem is it's too configurable and popular with folks who are into prescriptive authority, so it absolutely can be worst tool you've ever used, and frequently will be.
HipChat was a great tool 3 years ago. Atlassian left it to wither on the vine. Really too bad, as I enjoyed its simplicity.

Also, data export is great, sure, but what I really want is someone to re-setup all our build and monitoring notifications in Slack :P
I’ve read both your replies. I’ll check out your suggestions over the next few weeks. Much appreciated.
Atlassian is selling the defunct Hipchat to Slack.
This can definitely help support local business. But seems unfair to lower-salary employees. As an employee who used to have free lunch and now doesn't, I have felt the financial effects.

Dining out truly can make a big impact on the wallet- $10 dollars per meal (unlikely in Mountain View unless fast food) x 5 meals a week x 48 weeks a year (let's be generous and assume you get that much PTO) = $2,400 annually

Company-provided meals also tend to provide healthy options which can be expensive to purchase outside of work- and tend to contain less sodium and sugar than restaurant foods.

I can see this potentially benefitting the local business of 'Amazon WholeFoods' and Costco as people buy more groceries to bring lunch to work with them and eat at their desks. Eating out every day is expensive.
The world record women's 800m time is surpassed regularly by high school boys.
Take it at your local community college. I’m about to finish a summer session of algebra 2 and I have learned much quicker and more thoroughly than when I attempted with online resources, or books. I highly recommend it!
> I just want all my friends using one so I don't have to sign into fifteen different services just to communicate.

If only the different services would be able to talk with each other, you wouldn’t have to get your friends to all switch to one of them. But, here we are, a decade or two later, and interoperability is still nonexistent.
I oversee a ten person team, we use Teams and love it.
Sounds like you have turned engineering into a religion, where no result--under any circumstance whatsoever--should be subjected to the critical faculty.

I don't want to "smash capitalism." I just want to run a Dawkins on your religion.
I can't help not to trust telegram with my data, just gut feeling. You cannot use their service without giving your telephone nr. Now they like to have your ID's too. How can they honestly advertise "anonymus chat"? And the double ICO, over a billion fetched. So much money and data, where does that lead to?
Yeah. I guess my point is that they are trying to get web/mobile engineers, but the data from AirBnB shows that the opposite of this post is what actually attracts mobile engineers.
Yes, absolutely. Good point.
> I think referendums are awful. The late and great Julian Critchley used to say that, not very surprisingly, they were the favourite form of plebiscitary democracy of Mussolini and Hitler.

Referenda are the only mechanism of plebiscitary democracy (which is democracy by plebiscite, which is a synonym for referendum), so calling them someone's favorite form of plebiscitary democracy is vacuous and tautology true.

But neither Hitler nor Mussolini is particularly known as a supporter of democracy, whether plebiscitary or otherwise, so aside from the nullity of the literal reading, the clearly intended implication is false.
I agree, but there's also benefits of looking at a quality piece of code to see how it's done.
Well in that case I hope MS gets a second wind like it does for VSCode. I use IntelliJ daily since I use a lot of the bells and whistles, but VSCode is great and also runs on Electron. It seems that there's a lot of things MS is doing right with the tool that Slack can't or won't.

Maybe WASM to Electron is in the horizon? :)
Great! How many cooperate chat applications does the world actually need?
How do you convey "relaunch the app" to your users? I'm sure many of them think that pressing the home button is the same as killing your app.
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Does this seem a little like bit of gov't overreach?
They're saying a business can't provide food to their employees?

Am I missing something?
When is this overhype for Slack going to stop? It is a chat application with a slightly improved UI like it existed 30 years ago.

This is a step in corporate IT that I really cannot fully understand. It seems that every company//startup has to use slack nowadays to pretend to be cool again.

Everytime I have a serious conversation about the productivity gains or losses of Slack though, it is pretty clear to me that it is more disruptive than helpful. It fosters a "Always on" culture, where irrelevant chats are exchanged publicly to advertise how much work is being done. If you shut down Slack and appear as Offline people assume you are not working.

It also seems to me that now that Slack became the norm for communication, I almost don't receive well written emails with well-argued technical discussions anymore. Everything is now a "Chat" that dilutes the technical discussion because it needs to be responded "directly".

I would expect 2018 to be the year where people start questioning the utility of "Slack everywhere" and not blindly jump on the Slack bandwagon because that's what great startups do.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620543, which was posted a few minutes later but has a marginally more substantive article.
From docs: "Learn how to create cardholders and issue credit cards to them."

Landing page have multiple cards of different types, including debit and credit.
Depends on where you live in this World. For young people here (south america) that could be a lot.

That's a problem generally with cloud services. Pricing is mostly done considering some countries and contexts, but totally ignoring other. With physical equivalents some years ago, local distributors made deals with their home offices to adjust for this, but that's not something usually done anymore.
This might be a great idea in theory, but terrible execution. By having this only apply prospectively, it makes every new business have to compete with businesses that can offer free meals on campus.
Obviously I'm in the minority based on their success but after the latest Prime rate increase I've mostly given up on Amazon. Part of it is just the terrible UX. Compare trying to watch Prime video with going to netflix.com. The retail website is incredibly noisy. There's all the 3rd party cruft to sift through (the things not sold by Amazon) and the worry about counterfeit products. AWS UI is always cluttered and feels 10 years behind the times compared to Google cloud.

Basically Amazon has succeeded in spite of its terrible UX (IMO) but I'm personally tired of it.
For example when a company acquires another, your workflows will be broken, you are forced to move and learn the new tool and you have no control over YOUR OWN data at all.
I don't think its fair to blame them on the failure of the solution you picked before, and nobody else will be able to handle better.
This is a common gripe with a lot of open source software, but from issues I've had to track down, Facebook is downright inviting on saying if you have an issue and you know how to fix it, submit a PR and we'll merge it.

Their priorities may not align with yours, but it's not such a bad policy. If you don't like it, fork it?
Besides, it is also healthy to really get out of the office for an hour or two.
No, it’s a hypothetical situation where a reporter can create the conditions for a money quote.
No support, no integrations with various other parts of an enterprise stack, no channels or other ways of grouping relavant material with each other. Social networking is not organized / enterprise communications.
On top of that, opening an email in a new tab from inside of GMail hasn’t worked for at least 2 years now, and it doesn’t look that they’re going to bring back support for this basic functionality any time soon. At least the new GoogleMaps version has gotten pretty acceptable in the last year or so, it’s almost as responsive as the classic one used to be.
What's stopping companies from charging a cent per meal?
Sure. But when the stylistic goes overboard, it can get in the way of actually communicating ideas. If the author wants to express their style more than they want to communicate, that's their choice, but it is at the price of communication. In particular, I'm not going to bother to read very much of it...
Facebook Insiders Sold $3.9B of Shares Since Scandal
You can do that and have access to a company cafeteria…
The complicated truth about a cat’s purr
I'm sorry but this is so f*cking stupid.

As a Bay Area resident my priorities are the cost of housing, cleaning our dirty streets and alleviating traffic congestion.

This is an example of progressivism gone awry. Solving the basics is incredibly important. Our quality of life is in decline (in the bay area) and this is the best our politicians can do?

I'm enraged.
The UK government was also one of the biggest proponents for the UK remaining in the EU, so it's... not exactly surprising that the Leave campaign didn't align with the government position
The usual idea I hear is that React Native might be a good idea for a small company with an uncomplicated app, especially if they use the React stack on the web.

However when one grows and starts competing head to head in the App Store or Google Play with the other top social or finance or music or whatever apps, the ones who have expert teams with familiarity with the specific Android or iOS platform will pull ahead. Particularly as you can still have a (mostly) common REST API backend, base things off the same design mockups with some modifications, and so on.
The editorialized title submitted by the OP is incorrect (and probably in bad faith). Free food is banned at one complex in MTV called the village ("That's because the city prohibits companies from fully subsidizing meals in the Village,"), not all over mountain view.
Thanks. Changed from https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.b...

Edit: looks like it's a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619658.
New revolutions in science have tended to be less "we were totally wrong" and more "in extreme cases things don't quite fit the models". It's conceivable that FTL communication and travel aren't as impossible as we currently think, but that would require that things we've demonstrated fairly well are completely wrong. The same wasn't true with heavier than air flight, which (as the other comment notes) we had proof of it being possible (in birds). We knew it was possible in theory, but figuring out how to actually work out the mechanics of the process were the sticking points.

https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...
Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language
TFA states: "That's because the city prohibits companies from fully subsidizing meals in the Village,"
As a Hipchat user, I welcome this decision. I was not happy with using Hipchat at work for a number of reasons including

* No inline syntax highlight
* No edit of message (apparently I've seen some do this but I never figured it out)
* can only attach one image at a time
* Message fails to send then after some retries, sends multiple times

It's great that I won't have to use it again. However I'm a bit surprised that atlassian is discontinuing Stride given that they have launched it relatively recently.
Everywhere I've ever worked, >90% of people bring their meals to work >90% of the time.

This sounds like another of those special microcosm "problems".
There is also Zulip (https://zulipchat.com)
Leafminer: New Espionage Campaigns Targeting Middle Eastern Regions
From twitter:

SAN FRANCISCANS: my studio costs $2700 and I stepped on human feces & 1 used syringe on my morning commute

CITY: we hear you, action must and will be taken. Scooters are now illegal

SF-ANS: what

CITY: no more delivery robots

SF-ANS: but

CITY: workplace cafeterias are forbidden

https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1021973421046022145
I love her style. She knows a lot, but is VERY open to being wrong or not knowing things fully. That is to say, she's happy to say something that might not be 100% correct but is the way she understands it, or to admit she only knows 10% of this one thing. There's utterly zero arrogance but also there's not really a lack of confidence. It's almost a childlike wonder/excitement about things. In using that approach, it makes the reader appreciate the subject as well, feel happy about the things they know in common with Julia, feel happy about the things the reader knows that she doesn't know YET, and also feel comfortable that "hey, here's somebody else who ALSO doesn't understand this topic that well!" In every way, it's the exact opposite of imposter syndrome, both for the writer and for the reader.

I think too many of us (at least, based on my own experience) don't feel like we know enough to share with people. You both don't realize what you know that others don't, but are also anxious about being wrong or presenting yourself as an expert when you are not, for fear of ridicule or judgement or whatever.

She's such a great asset to the community.
> Confluence is a top tier wiki

Can you explain why you feel this way? I've felt nothing but frustration using Confluence internally. It seems to continually get in the way and have an obtuse and unintuitive way of doing things.
>"Company builds tech needed to serve their business."

From a tech worker's perspective, this seems super obvious, because that's how they generate their value in the market.

But this actually isn't "News at 11" material, because in the majority of non-engineer dense industries, companies purchase tech solutions when they become available and aware of them on the market rather than build out what they need when they need it.

Those are tremendously different modes of execution. When Goldman Sachs ramped up their spending on developers to produce proprietary solutions, for instance, it was a newsworthy development.