skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I visited a cat convention first time 3 years ago, since me and my wife have gotten "a few" cats. It was incredibly striking just how similar cats can be. Every 10th booth there was a cat looking, and acting like one of our cats. Down to the looks, whether they sat straight or crooked, the sounds they made and what catches their attention and what they ignore.

It was almost scary that those cats didn't recognise us. I had to hold the "what have you done to my cat!" down more than a few times.

I often wonder if people are similar. That there's really only 1000 different humans or so, and the rest are copies that recognise different people and places. Because for cats, that's definitely the case.
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are you Foo the Flowerhorn? :)
See the movie Logan, of all things, for a pretty well-conceived (though quietly ominous) take on this.
Yep. If you move around in google faster than "normal" humans it's flagging that behaviour more lately. I suspect some malicious (i.e. made by content thieves) web scraping instrumentation frameworks have added more natural human behaviours to their capabilities but still operate at a higher-than-"normal human" rate and those of us who are highly adept at legitimately utilizing google now fit into that new classifier slot. It's been super annoying.
Milwaukee, Dewalt and Ryobi work very well for me though I prefer the more expensive corded versions.

Ryobi is what I used for the lighter stuff.
Many retailers fail. There are few surviving department stores and weaker bug box stores get culled frequently.

Sears was unique as it was a legacy company who screwed up at every turn. The smart move for the shareholders would have been to spin out the business units and sell the valuable real estate.
WebAssembly is used here to compile Chirp's proprietary software from C into something the browser can understand.

There is years of research and development behind Chirp technology, which makes it robust in noisy and extreme environments.

So it is definitely possible to produce something similar in pure JavaScript, but it would be no where near as resilient.
What are the ups and downs of your business
Retired mathematician rocks math world with claim that he's solved $1M problem
For a brief period Flow had more type algebra (type unions and intersections) and better inferencing, but Typescript has greatly shrunk the gap between type system capabilities where the differences are much fewer, and rarely anything that matters for most projects.

Flow was popular for the ability to put all of its type annotations in JS comments and not need a transpilation pass. Typescript also added a mode that supports that.

Flow was popular for the slipstream integration into Babel as the type-stripper was just an "ordinary" Babel plugin. Typescript now supports this as well.

So for the most part a lot of the old impressions that Flow was the better approach are out-of-date, and par-for-par Typescript is an equal approach (if not a better approach, depending on your preferences/needs, and due to things like the fact that there are vastly more Typescript type definitions than Flow definitions in the npm wilds now).
I know HN doesn't really do "this" or "me too" comments, but I want to underline this isn't just another option, this is the canonical option. Jason Scott is really an important and respected archivist and the IA should really be the first port of call before anyone looks at sending disks elsewhere.
Adam Curtis' short "Oh Dearism" (https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism/) 12 minute mini-documentary is a good ramp up to his longer movies and is a critique of the failings of television news media in the late 20th century. My favorite of his is "Bitter Lake" (https://thoughtmaybe.com/bitter-lake/), a haunting "how did we get here" view of the middle east. His 3 part miniseries "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" (https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...) is a pretty good examination of 1970s silicon valley ruh-roh cybernetics culture and how it collided with the rest of the world vis-a-vis objectivism, finance, etc.

Somebody in this thread mentioned Wiseman's titicut follies, a lesser known but equally fascinating documentary of his is called The Store (http://www.zipporah.com/films/19) and just follows and examines the goings on at the Nieman-Marcus flagship in Dallas during holiday season of 1983.

Another favorite documentary that's more like watching a really good lecture is Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself ). it's a survey and exploration of the history of Los Angeles and its relationship and portrayal in hollywood and pop culture in general.
That was one of the initial things I was unsure of back when this was more of a side project. I sent the first batch of images from my siblings to print locally, unsure how they'd look. Surprisingly they looked pretty awesome even though the resolution of the images seemed low. They're not pro-quality, wedding photos but they are solid and solve the problem for the audience (old people). Carriers have a tendency to downsize images too far, especially if you send 5 or 10 images at once. When this happens, our bot complains at you. The limits of MMS can be a bit annoying so I recently rolled out email support. This also allows us to support enlargements which we can't do with MMS. Still, having a unique number is sweet because SMS is the first option when sharing a photo (on iOS, at least) and it's easy to snap a photo, send it to NanaGram, and close your display without getting sucked into the notifications abyss.
Fortunately I'm not the kind of person people would be searching for, but this just seems impolite. Posting to an internet forum on a topic that interests you is not an opt-in to have random internet people or reach out to you asking for free advice. If I were a domain expert I wouldn't want to be searched for on Reddit using a tool like this because the implicit goal is to then be spammed about it. If I wanted to be reached out to, I'd say so on a web site somewhere
Introducing CloudFlare Registrar (2016)
All of the elogs are data mined big brother style.

Guys who run the same route with the same cargo every week and usually get waved through weigh stations get stopped and checked out because they decided to take their bathroom break on a different leg of the route.
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> My biggest argument for it is not having to name every thing.

This x 100. As a guy who is the only American on a team with a bunch of non-native speakers, taking away naming responsibility is a big win.
I don’t get why people are still defending this method of CSS. When - or, perhaps I should say 'if' - your webapp has to scale you will realize the enormous amount of problems you’ve created for yourself using this method of CSS.
Yes, and at this point, it seems that the more useful model is to look at the govt as an extension of the corporations.

My generalization is that for a society to function, while some concentrations of power are necessary (at a minimum to allow specialization, e.g., infrastructure, policing, military, legislation, executive functions, etc.), the key is to minimize and actively avoid concentrations of power.

The largest and most dangerous concentration of power in modern times is the corporations, as we are seeing with Cicizen's United, decision, regulatory capture (FCC, Copyright law extensions, current dismantling of EPA, other regulatory agencies, etc.).
Good points. I'm not against using TS, I just think the it should be aknwoledged that it does have costs. The nice thing about TS is that once included you can use it as much or as little as you like (for function signatures only, for instance).

I also think project scope and team size is important -- the larger these are, the more I would consider TS.
I spent a lot of time digging into this article. Very interesting and provocative reading for this Bay Area resident. Thanks for sharing!
What about the web browser itself?

AFAIK chrome and other modern browsers use resource-consuming features like preconnect.
Superficial readings cause facile dismissals.
> You don't want to kill your workers. If you do, soon there will be no workers to mine your coal, or man your rigs or whatever you need them for. The ones that work for you now will die out and the new batch will see the death rate and go do something else, flip burgers or fix cars or whatever.

Mining towns are not places where there are lots of jobs available. Frequently, mine jobs were the only jobs. Even taking a job supporting the miners often meant working for the mine; if the miners are paid in scrip that's only redeemable at the company store (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store), say, you're not going to be able to get a job in retail working anywhere else.

So the mine owners felt they could afford to view workers as disposable resources. If the mine owns your whole community, where else are you going to work?

> Not to mention, you'll get the worse publicity possible, as an industry, that of uncaring, selfish assholes who kill your own workers.

They just didn't care about this. Many still don't! Don Blankenship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship), for instance, got 29 of his miners killed in 2010, and had the nerve to run for a Senate seat in the same state eight years later.

> And then the suits will start coming in

But you can afford the best lawyers, which a bunch of poor miners certainly cannot. And probably the judges in the state are all members of your country club, and your money funded the campaigns of all the people who wrote the laws. Not to mention that you own the only newspaper in town. And if you want to hire a bunch of thugs to come in and beat any worker who complains within an inch of his life, local law enforcement isn't going to stop you. Heck, they might even join in to make an extra buck.

The system in these communities was rigged against the interests of labor in a dozen different ways. In lots of them, it still is.
Here's a link to the study: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/giv...

> The term ‘give-up-itis’ describes people who respond to traumatic stress by developing extreme apathy, give up hope, relinquish the will to live and die, despite no obvious organic cause. This paper discusses the nature of give-up-itis, with progressive demotivation and executive dysfunction that have clinical analogues suggesting frontal-subcortical circuit dysfunction particularly within the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate circuits. It is hypothesised that progressive give-up-itis is consequent upon dopamine disequilibrium in these circuits, and a general theory for the cause and progression of give-up-itis is presented in which it is proposed that give-up-itis is the clinical expression of mental defeat; in particular, it is a pathology of a normal, passive coping response.

"It is hypothesized" is the closest it gets to evidence. This level of research seems to be that journal's specialty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Hypotheses#Peer_review...

This article is a press release that drastically overstates the already weak claims of the paper itself.
I understand the blank mind feeling. I was on a phone interview with Oculus 2 weeks ago and had a simple circular buffer question. I was expecting something a lot harder, frankly, and hadn't practiced writing a circular buffer in a while. I was doing fine until I got half-way through and wanted to refactor my code. Since we're under time constraints I tried to push through and use my existing design choice but it started the anxiety train rolling. In a couple minutes my mind fogged over and I literally couldn't comprehend the code I had written a few minutes ago. The interview ended poorly and I didn't get the job. I finished the code after the interview, along with some test cases, and the whole thing worked great. It wasn't that I didn't understand the problem, I just couldn't implement it with someone breathing down my neck.

I interviewed with Nvidia a week later and almost had a similar issue but in that case the interviewer sensed my reaction and managed to talk me through things. I managed to recover and now I'm scheduled for an on-site.
> The smallest audience you can upload is an audience size of 30 people. Also, this audience size needs to be 30 people which Facebook can identify and find. So, if you upload an email list of 30 and Facebook can match only 20 of those email addresses to Facebook profiles then it will reject your list, so in most cases you need to upload a list of about 60 people. You then need ensure you upload a list of only females or males which includes the one email address of the person you are targeting (the opposite to the one person that you are targeting). Lastly you need to choose the gender in the demographic filtering which matches the intended target. Here’s a step by step example below

"Sniper Targeting on Facebook: How to Target ONE specific person with super targeted ads" https://medium.com/@MichaelH_3009/sniper-targeting-on-facebo...
Cool! I’m looking into it right now.
I started using FB well before I joined Google =]
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Bayer really messed up with their Monsanto acquisition. Right when sentiment against the company reached a breaking point, and people finally began imposing a concerted backlash.
this is getting real meta now :)

Thanks for the explanation.
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If you like overwrought writing without a point, but with bad spelling and a thesaurus actively involved in the writing process - why, this one should cover it.
Verizon is in a process of eliminating 10K managers.
>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/verizon-offers-separation-pl...

Art Institutes are disintegrating
>https://www.republicreport.org/2018/dream-center-closing-num...

Under Armour has massive cuts - 400+
>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-under-armour-layoffs/unde...

Wells Fargo announced 26K cuts (10% of total workforce)
>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/wells-fargo-plans-to-lower-h...

Sears is about to close
>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/sears-laid-off-200-more-peop...

The list is much longer, you can just use news search and you'll see a ton of stuff...
That is a very good idea, though the development and standardization of the current series of intermodal containers was about a 20-year process, and that's with _enormous_ assistance from Vietnam War military logistics planners, who desperately needed a non breakbulk solution to supply line issues that were not solvable with the tiny conex boxes they had on hand.
It really doesn't though. Descent, entry and landing on the moon is completely different than Mars. You have you use entirely propulsive breaking to get rid of your orbital velocity. On Mars for very large payloads propulsive breaking is needed but aerobreaking is a huge part of it too.

The Moon is not practice for Mars. It's a waste of time for political posturing.
Yeah, that idea that you are responding to is the daily reality for a lot of software professionals. Especially if you replace the noun “public” with the noun “management”.
I get the sentiment but I have two problems with this.

1) Different stages of companies require different hires. When you're starting out, find the hungry ones. They'll get better at programming if they care, and they'll build a lot of stuff. Once you have real customers and are growing like crazy, hire experienced people to help you scale.

2) There is a difference between the "interview process" and the screening process. I agree that thinking about "Can this candidate do the job?" and "Will this candidate be motivated?" is the best way to go. But I don't have time to sit down with the ~200 junior engineers who sent me their resume on Indeed in order to figure that out. Hence, I filter by 5+ years of experience, and track record of working in multiple programming languages (don't screen specific languages though). Are the metrics perfect? No. But in my experience they weed out the people who are too junior to be successful on my team.

Interestingly, I think that if my company were bigger we might go back the other direction. Once we're on a stable path, and we have a few senior engineers who want to go into management and/or do some mentorship, we can afford to bring on more junior people and help them grow into great engineers.

There are many stages of companies, startups especially, and in some situations it makes perfect sense to use some plain old metrics.
What VPN do you use? Are you going through VPN as a matter-of-coarse to browse the web?
You’re 100% correct on the cascade being bad and causing incidental breakage. The people downvoting have clearly not run into these problems yet or it would be obvious to them that your reply is in no way wrong, lol
The situation of top students in top firms isn't necessarily representative of the market. You'd want to look at the compensation of the median student, or if you're including the top students, then look at the weak students, say, 20th percentile as well.
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It's important to use a language built on strong theory, but the language shouldn't force developers to use exactly the same theory in building their own software. Developers should use the most appropriate theory for their program's problem domain; only minimal adaptations should be required for the language. Otherwise developers end up trying to work out a general theory that fits both theoretical models, which is rarely a good use of time.
I definitely noticed a similarity to DP. Resonated with me.
In my experience, nootropics can be very helpful during first few weeks of trying to break a bad habit. You also need will power / other methods mentioned on this page, but proper nootropic can prevent giving up and going back after 3 days.
People are mentioning Dewalt and Milwaukee here, but if you want a lifetime set of tools for a reasonable price I think it’s tough to do better than Makita. I paid around $250 for a drill and impact driver over 10 years ago and they are still my daily drivers, never once slowed me down.

Reason I bought them is because I asked exact same question you are asking to a bunch of hardcore blue collar guys at the factory I worked at, and they recommended Makita.
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It would make sense, and is therefore done extensively. Glyphosate got approved in a much more lenient regulatory climate (almost half a century ago!) than what we have today but even so its initial approval required safety studies. Furthermore, it is subject to constant scrutiny and its recent reapproval by the EU was discussed heatedly, despite its stellar safety record in the decades it has been used.
I've worked in both. I'm of the opinion that early on in your career it really doesn't matter, you could do either. There are far more important things to think about (company & personal growth trajectory, coworkers & culture, learning opportunities, etc.) when choosing a company.
Typescript has been great for me (someone who started with Javascript by writing code essentially through trial and error). One of the other benefits of TS I get surprised a lot less by what the "this" keyword evaluates to.
https://alfred.camera/ has worked really well for me.
They've actually been supporting monopolies and oligopolies by large, barely-innovating companies or patent trolls seeking to maximize profit at everyone else's expense.

https://www.eff.org/issues/patents

Reform is desperately needed. Further, most startups or software we see on HN didn't happen because someone was reading patent databases all day. They usually just make stuff out of a need or want, try to grow it with iterations and marketing, and make money off that. Most use patents defensively or just to increase money in acquisition/IPO's since buyers think patents are important. Why buy them if innovation already happened? To stop others via patent suits from innovating and stealing their market share. Patents hurt innovation.
Whatever your moral point, someone has the opposite moral point. If you cave to one, your stand for the other and vice versa.

Also, if a creator wants to censor someone's use of their IP, anyone telling the creator that they're being the thought police is being a dunce. At some point the creator's desire for freedom of speech and the secondary party's freedom of speech will be in direct opposition. Someone has to lose, and its their IP, so the general understanding is that they can take their bat and ball and not let you play with them.
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I usually can find several consumer-grade insecticides that make no mention of the active substances they contain, the health risks, and security or no-entry intervals.

If informed professionals need this information, won't lay people need it as well?
I think that a hybrid should be developed:

Trucks autonomously deliver themselves between cities/ports -and there are a bunch of Drivers at the local hub who then pickup the truck and do "last mile" delivery operations.

People shouldnt need to drive from Oakland to Reno, as an example.

Then, truckers could go to work 9-5 and be home for dinner with their families every night.
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Awesome resources! I might give any of these three a try.

Yeah, now that I think of it, I do remember using Blosxom on my own web server a long, long time ago.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on who Sears's peer companies are. I meant to compare Sears to other large department stores, though Best Buy is obviously more a peer to Sears's appliance/hard goods departments.

It's hard to find data from 2003 (when Lampert merged Sears and Kmart), but flip to page 3 of this PDF: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7105653.pdf. All of those retailers except Sears are still healthy companies.

In regards to the examples you brought up, I think there are some questions about how comparable they are in terms of retail niche and scale. The Circuit City example I'll concede. They sold a lot of similar products as Sears.

-Mervyn's

From their wiki:

>Based on 2005 revenue, Mervyn's was the 83rd largest retailer in the United States.

It seems that Mervyn's is more of a regional chain? Not a national retailer.

-A&P

If this is the same east coast A&P that I know, this was a grocer. Doesn't really seem to be a peer of Sears.

-Marshall Fields

They were acquired by Macy's, not shuttered. Shareholders may have taken a haircut from the company's peak share price, but they weren't left with nothing. Sears trades at ~$1 as of today.

-Borders

If you mean Borders the specialty book seller, I don't really see how this is comparable to Sears.

-CompUSA

A specialty computer retailer, that to my memory did not even sell appliances? I don't see how they're a peer to Sears.

-Toys R Us

A specialty toy retailer vs a department store? I'd also note that there's been widespread debate about whether Toys R Us was done in by its debt-laden LBO (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/toys-r-us...). Also worth noting it has not been a public company since 2005.