skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like anything else, GP’s advice is context-sensitive. In this case, it scales with experience.

If you just came out of a bootcamp and claim to know 3 backend languages, or have less than 3 years experience and list more than a half dozen languages, I’ll assume you’ve worked with each of them so little that you don’t know any of them in a meaningful sense.

If you have more than 10 years experience and know only 2 languages, your exposure is very limited, and I’ll wonder whether you’ve learned by rote rather than knowing how to learn concepts and reapply them elsewhere.

For me as a hiring manager, it’s not about curiosity or passion so much as flexibility and ability to learn and grow in both depth and breadth.
Why don't doctors recommend them for type 2 diabetes? Well, my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes that will cause the disease to go into regression or disappear altogether. Also, they prefer to try medications like glucophage before they resort to insulin. There just seems to be less eagerness to finely manage type 2 diabetics, maybe because it is felt that the patient is partly to blame for the disease, whereas type 1 diabetics are innocent victims of their own immune systems. I honestly don't know what they're thinking. An artifical pancreas would vastly improve the situation for type 2 diabetics too.
Re: Just one more place to expect ads being shoved in your face.

Clippy: "It looks like you just crashed [due to distraction from Clippy ads]. Would you like a list of local accident attorneys?"
I don't. I generally write plaintext or html in a texteditor.
> Meanwhile, with Uber you just press a button and they take you to the airport, bags and all.

Not necessarily. Ubers don't want to go to the airport for the same reason that cabs don't. I've had ride shares cancel on me once the driver's gotten close enough to see that the destination is an airport. Granted it doesn't happen as often as with cabs whose meter is conveniently not working once you mention the airport, but it does still happen.

Illegal parking in bike lanes is a huge problem though. This morning there were several vehicles parked in the bike lane across two consecutive blocks, so I had to ride in the travel lane the whole while. Some asshole unsafely passed me at speed by going into the bike lane, then swerving back into the travel lane at the next parked vehicle, then we got into a yelling match at the next light about when cyclists are allowed to depart the bike lane (hint: you don't have to use it when you're literally unable to because it's blocked).

Enforcement is an absolute joke, and sometimes it's even cop cars that are blocking bike lanes. Bike lanes that aren't physically protected from people parking in them are oftentimes not worth anything, and unfortunately, we don't have any cross-town bike lanes in Manhattan! (They're on the verge of opening the first one, but it's well out of the way of my commute.)
In my opinion, the headline did not intend to reflect the actual number of voters who turned out to vote. Instead, the headline highlights the shocking disparity between the data reported by the voting machines and their supporting software compared to the actual data. I suspect it will be clear to the majority of readers that 243% turnout is unreasonable and impossible.
Neat little device, looks like a Yubikey clone. One could get a similar device by hacking a Logitech unifying receiver, which contains a ..16MHz 8051 clone in it, and a radio to spare.
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything – Short Film Showcase
I avoid sharing data with FB, but personally I would rather share my contacts with FB than with some random app developers.
The strange thing is that most of the people that are attacking so harshly magic leap in this thread have business link with hololens that has really an abysmal FOV.

Disclosure: I’m not buying a magic leap, I have no financial interest on it, I just want some working environment that I would really really enjoy.
There are different kinds of redirects. See the discussion of 303 See Other vs 307 Temporary Redirect in RFC 7231:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.4.4

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.4.7

303 means "GET this new URL" while 307 means "resend your request at this URL without changing the verb or body".
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> We do make heavy use of the S3 versioning API to let us roll back files, lifecycle rules for past revisions and have never been able to find any service which offers the same amount of functionality with reasonable pricing.

Backblaze B2 has both lifecycle rules ( https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/lifecycle_rules.html ) and file versioning ( https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/file_versions.html ). I would LOVE for you to evaluate it and tell us what we are missing to win your business!

The Backblaze B2 system is still new and we are actively expanding the APIs all the time, so we're always collecting customer requirements looking for common issues we can tackle next.
Independent of whether paperless electronic voting systems are specifically banned by law, buying and using them creates the appearance of deliberately enabling fraud; the consensus among professionals in the relevant fields is that they're unacceptably insecure.

So why don't we prosecute the voting officials who did this? Or at the very least get them out of sensitive positions?
"Programming as a social activity" would actually be a better title for that book, as I recall it.
> cab drivers are committing suicide because of their debts

This isn't the motivation for this regulation. If it was, the same City Councilman who proposed this cap wouldn't have shot down a minimum-wage proposal for cab drivers. Remember: most medallions aren't owned by cab drivers. And cab drivers don't donate.
The search feature is nothing short of amazing. I love how fast it is. Is it scalable to large amounts of documentation? How is it indexed?
This Is How Product Managers Achieve Financial Freedom
This is for microcontrollers so it doesn’t need 64 bit. I don’t think silicon vendors want 64 bit since making it 64 bit requires more gates. Cost matters.
(Not the gp, but) [n]ope. Recently there was a headline that apple music was gaining subscribers faster than spotify -- that's because apple music is smaller. I highly doubt it surpasses spotify.
TBF in Europe (or specifically the UK) the new regulations seem to have come up with a plethora of new banks -Starling, Monzo, Revolut, Tide, etc.

Both my personal and business accounts are with these, and it's awesome. Starling for my personal account and Tide for the business one. I get notifications of payments usually before the in-store machine has finished sorting itself out. Also get nice things like being able to use Google Pay before the card arrives. I've just got married, and our joint account will be one of these.

I assume these banks have popped up from these EU regulations, as they didn't exist 3 years ago.
This is available in NC.

https://www.duke-energy.com/home/billing/rates

TOU summer rates:

23.456¢ per on-peak kWh

11.945¢ per shoulder kWh

7.012¢ per off-peak kWh

vs fixed summer rate of 10.369¢ per kWh.
I love that they wiped and degaused the servers holding key evidence. Cause why would you do that if you had anything to hide?
Of course we ration scarce resources. But the nature of government services generally is, and should be, that we don’t just ration them by ability to pay. If that led by definition to optimal outcomes then the private sector could handle it. Government is for all the other stuff.

Should we charge $500 to get into national parks? Why not? Should we just charge people for the health care they consume a la carte or should we have a national system for that? Why?

As you can see you’re hitting on a general philosophy question here. My argument would be that trying to set shared government services at market rates tends to lead to deeply regressive outcomes.

There certainly are smart arguments on both sides with congestion pricing. Externalities matter. Are cars inefficient? And so on. But my intention is to illuminate the other side of the coin, which seems perpetually unrepresented.
That's super weird, maybe I had another NYT article open. Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. No numbers at all in that one though.

Anyway quick googling for 2017 numbers: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/13/16468716/uber-yellow-cab-ny...

So we have 10k medallion holders and ~60k uber drivers giving the same number of rides per day. No, there's not enough there to give a rigorous analysis but that is a vast difference in the amount of rides offered per car.

Maybe most of those Uber rides are in the boroughs and that accounts for the difference in ratio, but I'd be very surprised if that was the whole story.
You get used to the 1-based indexing pretty quick. It's a non-issue. 1-based indexing is the standard in math, and also Matlab and Fortran. For the primary use-case of Julia, it makes sense. Julia REALLY tries to be easy for Matlab users, who still dwarf Python users in science.
> Amazon has never offered to buy Backblaze, but also we are not for sale. Or at very least not at the prices Amazon would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever.

This as much as anything encourages me to trust and invest in Backblaze. Long may you live. Maybe I'll get around to writing that Rust SDK I've been meaning to write for a while...
Problem is the electorate isn't educated well enough to use critical thought and reasoning to see through the propaganda.
Here's the thing though. Those bike lanes are clearly being used by lots of people, as are the travel lanes by lots of drivers. What isn't being utilized well is all of that free parking along the street -- most of those vehicles only move twice a week when they have to because of street sweeping.

So the simple solution is to eliminate all of the free parking and replace it with paid parking and loading zones. And raise the price high enough so that there's always spots free close enough to where you're going so that vehicles have a place to park themselves for short periods of time that's outside of the travel and bike lanes.
Good point, but it's not here now. It is however better than the old days where you needed your own IP address to do TLS/HTTPS.
> Land is good, but can be seized by a government. I know an Iraqi family that went from riches to rags due to this.

If more Iraqis had had Bitcoin, they would probably have been fine. /s
Some of this is startup vs corporate needs. Corporate employment doesn’t always prepare one well for the agility and initiative needed by a startup (rather, corporations seem to pound those qualities out of employees).

The good news is that there ARE large companies that use non-MS stacks, as well as companies that use MS alongside other tooling (whether it’s having some systems in .NET and others in Java, or using Python/Perl for “glue” code or whatever).
^ This.

It's often called "Quicken Direct Connect" (NOT "web connect", that's a bastardization trying to push the login flow through the proprietary web interface), and often has to be specifically enabled for your account (Bank of Slum-merica is the only place I've heard charging for the functionality though).

Check say https://ofx-prod-filist.intuit.com/qb2600/data/fidir.txt to see if your bank is listed (that contains both direct and web connect banks, you'll figure out what the flags mean).

Setup a cron or human cron to pull and save the raw OFX (QFX) query every day/week/month, and then run whatever reports/analytics you want from that. This way you'll have history to use with whatever program/scripts you move to, and can also straightforwardly integrate legacy banks that make you use the web interface (just at a much lower polling rate).
Regarding Iraq, we still owe for that. USA debt is now Yuuuuge! What GOP "found" funds for was tax-cuts for the rich.
I've mentioned this on every post.

> If options, then I've only ever heard of doing an 83b election in concert with early exercise

And

> The timing doesn't work if your grant vests over a period years, hence the need to early exercise.

Am I being unclear or are people just not reading what I'm writing? Also not sure where these downvotes are coming from. Definitely open to correction, but I've yet to see how it's possible to elect 83b on an option plan with vesting, if you can't / don't opt for early exercise.
I have been reading through a lot of his papers on causality. The next evolution of AI will be driven by a better understanding and implementation of causal models. AI/ML today is seriously lacking in this area. For this reason, spending time navigating this relatively unchartered territory will be worth the effort.
Apple are no better data hoarders.

A personal anecdote - last year I tried to (for the first time) use an iPhone. First of all, why do we need to "activate" it? What's wrong with just turning it on and using?

Then comes data collection, they wouldn't allow me to use my smartphone without a SIM card (I couldn't use my old SIM in that moment because it was not in the micro format). So, you can't "activate" your iPhone and use it as wifi-only device, they want your SIM card's data first.

OK, trying again with an old inactive SIM card from the drawer, now they want my full name, my email, my telephone, my birthday and my address. Why though? I decided to play their game and entered bogus data and a temporary email address. Now they want me to confirm the email and the telephone. Just let me use it already! I managed to confirm the email (the unconfirmed telephone number was nagging in the notifications area), and hooray, I already could use some of my phone and get online.

Next comes the iTunes account. If you want to install any app from the store you must have an iTunes account. Again, full name, telephone, address, zip code, etc.. In the end it refused to register (maybe some algo detected my bogus data which I didn't even try to make it look legit) and it just suggested to contact their support.

This is when I reseted it and decided to return it.
Honest question: what are the equivalent numbers for Uber's side of the battle? Looking at one side of the question without the other doesn't allow a balanced assessment of the situation.
I think this is a bit out of touch. People in the situation you're describing are generally coming from a place of desperation, not of careful contemplation. And yes, it would behoove them to plan meals and pinch pennies, but when you and your spouse are working 50+ hours a week each to make ends meet, the type of self-reflection it takes to make those decisions is in very limited supply.

I've not been in a working-poor situation since my late teens, but I can say that there are times when I was working 60+ hours a week, and I did not have any energy to think about meal planning or healthy eating or investing in my future besides dumping some extra money in a savings account. Luckily, I did have the money to eat healthy, and luckily my wife was (sometimes) in a position where she could meal plan for the both of us, but oh man...if I was in the same situation and making < $30K/year, I would NOT have been able to even think of these things.

It's not about being intelligent or even about resource management, it's about having the energy to think about it, and if you're working your fingers to the bone, you don't have the energy. So it's easy for us to sit around on a forum while there's a lull in our cushy jobs ranting about how poor people should manage their time better, but I can tell you that it's not easy.
I've lived in Georgia most of my life and we've used these voting machines as long as I can remember. I've never felt comfortable voting on these machines. You get the card from the poll worker, you put it into the machine, you make some choices, and then you hand the card to another poll worker on the way out the door.

Nothing about that process gives me confidence that the votes are actually counted after they are cast. I believe they are counted because I still have some confidence in government. Unfortunately confidence in government is eroding and these poor processes are not helping.
Python is not the de-facto standard to my knowledge. It really depends on the field and task. R is huge in my research area, MatLab is king in some other areas, and Fortran is still being used for large-scale number crunching. Will Julia replace all these? That's the ambition but I doubt it's going to happen. For instance, R has a unique and vast ecosystem of extension packages. It would take decades to build something comparable in Julia.
UK or US?
Considering TS has been around since 2012 and has the full backing and support of MS since then I'd say calling it the flavor of the month is not necessary. Might they drop it some day? Maybe, but seeing as they have several large profile products using it that is unlikely any time soon.
Apologies for the delay - I was getting married :D

No I wouldn't go back, certainly not rightaway. It was a contractor role anyway, plus to be fair it forced me to have some time off i've not had in a couple of years, I don't like taking days off, and with the UK being the hottest it's been for ages it's actually turned out quite well. I've worn shorts for the first time in my life :D

I will say the company was awesome to work for, with great people, but the organisation/organisation was... lacking. Most places i've contracted at they've asked me at worst a month before "so, are you renewing?"
The way markets work is that there is a certain opportunity work $X based on the actual (not idealized) consequences of setting up a series of transactions. If incentives are such that there is a market opportunity worth $600B by selling subprime mortgages and socializing the risks, then eventually somebody is going to capitalize on that market opportunity, regardless of how immoral it is. If only one person does it, they make $600B. If 10,000 people do it, they each make $60M, modulo inequality within the market. The only thing that being moral gets you - other than warm fuzzies, which unfortunately you cannot eat - is larger wealth inequality that happens to benefit the person who is most immoral. (In fact, I wonder if one of the other drivers of inequality today is that by-and-large, most Americans are nice, decent, moral, hardworking people, which means that the market opportunities available to scumbags are only capitalized on by a tiny minority.)

The only way to avoid immoral behavior is to fix the incentives so that it doesn't pay off. In this situation, that means either make it uneconomical to sell (perhaps by penalties like jail time), or to not allow the sellers to socialize the risks (perhaps by not bailing them out when they failed). The former means that low-income borrowers can't buy homes; the latter means that the financial system would've imploded. Personally I think Obama would've been better off taking the latter course and letting the banks fail, but the point is TANSTAAFL and whichever course you to take will require some sacrifices, whether in equality, stability, or trust.
Uber cars aren't on the road most of the time. Yellow cabs are. Those taxi medallions are expensive and they operate with shifts of drivers, the goal being to keep the taxi running 24/7, except when it needs maintenance.

It's pretty typical for any given cab to have three different drivers running in 12 hour shifts. That way you keep it on the road all 168 hours of every week. An Uber just requires a relatively inexpesive TLC license plate, not a taxi medallion, so it's typically only driven by one driver, say an average of 40 hours per week.
I feel everyone saying this is completely ignoring what that would mean. You like 10% unemployment? Cool. Here's 25+% unemployment. Sure, a few people might have benefitted in such a way that it would allow them to be the new entrenched banking class, but millions more people would have found themselves laid off, foreclosed upon, and in general completely fucked over through no fault of their own.
From GP:

> API is going to be nearly impossible for the common person to use

Reading what you are replying to and making an argument against that rather than a hypothetical straw man that GP didn’t imply or mean will get you further.
Jsonl has the nice property that you can filter it with a line-based grep, no other parsing needed other than forming lines.
1.0 is 0.7 with all the stuff marked deprecated/etc removed.
Its probably worse that it looks

"Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found that people exposed to air pollution levels well within UK guidelines have changes in the structure of the heart, similar to those seen in the early stages of heart failure."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180803103315.h...
I know it is not the default, but this package has no overhead over the default arrays according to recent benchmarks, and provides 0-indexed arrays:
https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

I confess, not being the default is a big thing. I've definitely had times where I thought "this would be easier with 0 indexed arrays", but it can then be harder to commit to adding a dependency and making that change vs just adding awkward looking "+1"s to all the indexes.
Coming from math/science, there's lots of times 1-indexing makes more sense / is more familiar. It's normal there to start counting from 1, so it can be easier to translate.
Even Google can’t count on being able to ‘bribe’ their way out of GDPR compliance, as complaints can be brought individually. And the fines have to be large, as a percentage of revenue, or they are useless. GDPR is pretty strong on this, but I would have liked the ceilings on fines to be even higher.

I have zero hope that we’ll get anything remotely comparable in the USA, though.
They are expensive, and it doesn't have a built in sensor, but I have an IQAir healthpro compact and have confirmed with my own particle detector that it filters out > 99% of PM0.1 particles, and 100% of PM2.5 particles.

If you don't care what it looks like, you can easily build your own air purifier for much cheaper. All it is is a blower fan which forces air through 2 or 3 filters, with the last being a HEPA filter. You can get all the requisite pieces for about $100.
When going from JFK to somewhere else in queens, yellow cabs are supposed to get a voucher from the dispatcher that allows them to skip to the front of the line when they get back to the airport. The fact that he was surprised when you said Queens implies that the dispatcher failed to do this, which explains both his going back to the dispatcher and his annoyance.
There aren't many poor people commuting into Manhattan every day using a car. You'd be spending way more on fuel and parking than the monthly MTA ticket costs.