skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example would be an app for associating a device without a screen on to a wireless network. Think IoT devices or Alexa. Saves the user from having to type in the SSID which is a pain.
I said cash flow was part of the equation.

But, assuming a company had an insurance payout for their property: Then they go from cash flow A + property's worth X, to cash flow 0 + property's worth Y + insurance money in a bank account. Under your method because Y is undefined you assume it's X and then add the insurance money to the total valuation. That's really not what happens.

I don't disagree that cash flows could increase the value of the company. However, the value of assets really are part of the equation and get updated when the value of those assets change.
Let kids be kids and let them do kid’s things. Even if your passion is coding, you must not impose it.
I have 1,500 for a family of 4 and it's fine. The youngest's bedroom isn't all that big but it's hardly a cell. The layout is crap, it's a 1950s split so that 1,500 square feet is divided over 3 staggered levels. One room, half the bottom floor, is as big as a one car garage and is just my office. The main floor is open living room and dining room, with a separate kitchen, then 3 beds and two bathrooms upstairs. We have never noticed feeling cramped, though I would definitely enjoy the extra space in my friends' larger houses. In our case we bought on the edge of a park a five minute walk to every school my kids will need until college. So we can suck it up. (And if it gets too cramped, we'll build another floor.)

It's only bad when the kids go nuts and spread their mess out over the ground floor. You just have to learn to be tidy!
You could start simple by putting a rubber band around your wrist and pulling the the elastic band back and slapping it on your skin each time you're getting the urge. That'll help you become mindful about how often the urge happens, what time of day it happens etc.
I wish this was a thing, but it's not.

I worked for a company that did some layoffs of some good people. They're capable, but their bullet points don't match many jobs .... so they're looking for and endlessly long time.

These are great people more than capable of learning. At their previous jobs as a team they did more work than teams 3x their size.

I know a few places that turned them down in favor of folks who matched the bullet points... but not the job.

It's difficult to watch as I see news of places "desperate to find workers"... but refusing to hire good people.
Can anybody expand on the link between autonomous car driving vs autonomous truck driving in terms of challenges faced. If they are similar, not sure why there is this kind of forecasting seeing how autonomous car driving is pretty much far from over or even usable. If they are vastly different, I don't imagine trucking is any easier than cars (maybe it is?)
Mr. Oppenheimer is one of the most interesting film makers I've had the chance to meet and hear in talks at Q&As. I strongly recommend his two films, and if you can ever find your way to see "Titicut Follies", do it. I saw it at Telluride with an intro by Oppenheimer and was blown away.

"Titicut Follies" is a documentary by Frederick Wiseman about a mental institution in Massachusetts, in the 1960's. It's a haunting film about the way the patients are treated, it's quite extreme and sad but fully worth a view. You've never seen anything like it, and probably can't imagine how truly horrifying it is.
Bigger houses tend to not get dirty as quickly. But it is more nooks and crannies that need attention on an infrequent basis. So many houses I step into have parts that have never been cleaned since they took ownership. Wow it gets nasty!
Financial engineers like this one need only to keep the thing out of bankruptcy for two years after the last asset extraction and the extraction's in the clear.
> Nor will I forget reading about his management philosophy where different Sears departments have to compete for money in the budget. Money to advertise, to purchase inventory, etc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-...)

I thought this was somewhat common.
You can write a novel about a fear-based evil clown monster named "Centsmarty" that pulls kids into the sewers and does horrible things to them, and sell it all you want. Plot is not copyrightable.

It just can't contain any uniquely identifiable sentence fragments from any other novel. And you know people will be checking it particularly closely against the sentences in "It".

And you'd better be sure not to say "Pennywise" anywhere, as that would be a trademark character. The bridge of the Enterprise-D is a trademark set design.
https://granolashotgun.com is an interesting blog about the sustainability of these communities.
>What a waste of driver, truck, and trailer resources

You think it's bad at face value, try considering it in the context of the DOT's rules on working hours.
No dude, Apple has an excellent track record for privacy of customer data. They don't share anything with anyone else, intentionally. It's a walled-in garden. They have always, and continue to, view themselves as a hardware company. They make money on hardware sales. I mean look at their margins. Any such activity, if called out, may lower their hardware sales.
thanks, indeed last time i checked (a few years ago), flexbox weren't really widespread. I think i'll stick to that.
As someone who still makes phone calls and writes letters, it seems like a step backward. Most people have nothing to even discuss once they 'get together' as they have shouted everything remotely interesting about themselves and their lives into the void already.

I have letters I treasure and will keep to my death. Emails? Not so much. The impression, the personal touch is missing. We as humans notice that sort of thing even when we pretend its all the same.
So if Google accidentally caches random JS malware, they suddenly become at fault for "hosting" it?
To be fair, so is Dewalt, and that doesn't seem to have hurt their reputation.
This is driven by depressive, anhedonic mechanisms, rather than anxious or dissociative ones.
Try these:
On the rise of Al Qaeda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Exploration of lives of John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Money
You're right; the sears catalog was the biggest, most efficient store on the analog internet and they absolutely killed the competition in supply chain and efficiency.

Toys r us it's another company that was well positioned to dominate but never took advantage of their competitive advantage
I smell bullshit. After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Thankfully one can’t get a gun easily in Europe, otherwise I won’t probably be writing this... and I haven’t experienced even an appetite loss, not saying about social etc. After SSRIs I’m not that anymore, but I’m still ready to give up at first chance, just I know at worst I lose a job and a house. But death.. for good or bad, it doesn’t work that way.
>but there's going to be a ton of city truck driving jobs that are likely to remain the domain of humans for decades to come.

This. Someone has to wheel around that pallet jack loaded with beer. Someone has to hand the clipboard and pen to the person signing for the delivery. Someone has to tarp the load.

At some point the tech will get good enough, a switch will flip and meat based steering wheel holders sitting in front of dry vans on interstate highways will be replaced with semiconductor based steering wheel holders.

Everything else will change much more slowly.
There is a category of documentaries I never see mentioned in these lists. It is the kind which often is shown in Sweden under the name "Dokument utifrån" and is about foreign affair events that are current or about a year or few years old. These productions are, I guess, often from the BBC but also french, dutch, german etc productions that I assume are made by television companies associated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union)

They often include interviews with people who "were there when it happened", such as ministers, diplomats, military brass etc.

Do people get what I am trying to describe? I kind of fail to do so, I feel...

Edit: I just checked what is up next in this series. It is this italian documentary about events in Egypt, "Our man in Cairo"

http://www.gaea.it/video.asp?id=9143

Quite illustrative to what I mean. I haven't seen this one but it seems interesting
All CSS "frameworks" should be thought of as utility libraries, including Bootstrap. If you apply the framework classes directly to your HTML, you've tightly-coupled your HTML (which is already tightly-coupled to your information architecture) to an implementation detail of your presentation code.

Most frameworks support some kind of re-use of CSS declaration blocks - use that feature to build your components from the primitives they provide, but also add a layer of indirection by putting those components behind a semantic class name. Voila, loose-coupling with all the productivity benefits of the frameworks.

<button class="login-button">Login</button>

.login-button { @apply .btn-primary; }

.btn-primary { @apply .font-bold .py-2 .px-4 .rounded; }
Don't forget, FAANG are looking for minions that fit the assembly line in 99% of cases. Not original thinkers or people who are multi-talented, wearing many hats.
Google's Keith Enright dodges China questions at Senate privacy hearing
We have a little more than 1500 but not much more. Our two girls had to share a bedroom and they grumbled a little but we have a policy to not negotiate with our kids and in the end it wasn't a problem and they learned to get along. Now they are almost out of the house and we don't have a large empty home to deal with.

I also have a one-car detached garage with no space for a car. If there's one thing I could change it's more space for storage and a shop. On the other hand it forces us to not accumulate too much junk.
Seconding Parcel. Such a joy to work with compared with Webpack.
It's bizarre for a few passionate women, subject to survivor bias of having survived an allegedly women-hostile education-to-CS pipeline, to paint Reges as a part of the problem. One would naturally expect them to vehemently disagree on account of their own experience -- not unlike Reges uses his own experience in his journey to develop a nuanced understanding of the debate and to foster a more inclusive environment for women and other historically underrepresented groups -- but then why dismiss his viewpoint as selfish and anecdotal, while theirs is exactly the same?

It's ironic that Reges' carefully crafted letter drew as much ire as Damore's sophomoric, easy-to-nitpick essay, when his entire letter is a trap laid bare. Given his keen awareness of the possibility of his employment's termination and his mention of displeasure of what he sees as chilling effect in tech and academia against voicing criticism of current sociopolitical headwinds, he's armored a reasonable discussion with indications that he knows some people will call for his head. And unremarkably, it happened in the one response that addresses his points the least!
Yeah. Pretty much all major corporations that employ un-skilled labor force their employees to watch anti-union training videos. Unions are bad for the stockholders.
> "Did you code for fun in high school?" might be a useful question now, because software development as a field is so young that high school students can try out significant work easily.

This just makes the same kind of mistakes that the article is saying to avoid.
Cutting trees, building something more or less permanent with the wood, and planting new trees seems to be the most useful. Most timber used for dimensional lumber comes from managed forests that are continually re-planted as they are cut, not old-growth clear-cutting.
The sad thing is that even if 100% of the people with personal websites would do the same, it probably wouldn't change much.
And yeah, I'm firmly in the "this old computer should definitely render web pages if it's good enough to run video games" camp and if the people working on current browsers argue that it's complicated, with all the scrolling and JS and stuff.. Well good riddance, web of 2018 - it was absolutely fine in 2008.
I agree for most scenarios. However, when building out a team, you can't hire a bunch of people you're going to have to train. Sometimes, like I had to recently, you have to hire an individual that has the skills you need at the moment who can help mentor and help others learn the tools and frameworks needed.
> There are no more 'revolutions' left for physics?

Sounds like how people were talking around the turn of the last century. Then came special and general relativity and quantum physics in about 20 years' time. Not to mention similar revolutions in math.
Also, you gotta watch out for all those people telling you to "think for yourself"... you're walking right into their trap!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned HBO's 'Going Clear', which dives deep into what's happening in the Church of Scientology.

Granted, the topic is probably not the most surprising, but it covers a wide range of issues and scary on-goings within the group. Maybe I'm just young, but I didn't know the full extent of what they do and how they do it. 'Going Clear' does a fantastic job of informing the viewer while giving a voice to those who've escaped and are now dealing with the backlash.
There's a cap on the amount that PBGC will pay per person per year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo...
Easily-Googleable answers arrived at by industry scientists and approved by a captured regulatory body. From scientists educated at industry-funded institutions. Who as professionals, bite the hand feeding them only at the risk of becoming unemployable in their industry. (and saddled with student debt) Their studies published in peer-reviewed journals where every peer receives money from industry in some form.

This is far from an adversarial system of proof that is required by hard Science.
I said "opposite opinion"

Then I provided data. I don't care about anecdotes
For something bite-sized I enjoy the netflix "Explained" series.

And maybe "Dark Tourism" still fits this genre?
Anecdotes are evidence, especially if they are personal anecodotes of things they actually experience.

A lot of people on HN seem to have this bizarre rejection of any evidence that wasn't collected by objective experimentation--something which isn't possible in this sort of context. So you do the next best thing: you survey people, and their responses (i.e., anecdotes) form the data. As with experimental data, in the real world, different things will happen to different (test) subjects, which is why you need to collect sufficient data to have a representative sample.

In this case--why does it matter that Scandinavian women are less likely to choose a career in STEM? How is that relevant to Silicon Valley, or the US computer programming industry? Why does it matter that women have a 2:1 preference for STEM jobs--that's just a reaction to the initial problem, namely--why aren't women pursuing STEM jobs?
> Basically that neo-Nazis have tried to brand themselves as “just practical people against excessive political correctness,”

Don't conflate the alt-right with neo-nazis. Neo-nazis are people who explicitly define themselves as such. Other people who have the mindset that leads to things like nazism don't realize it. They really aren't trying to hide anything; they just have certain fears and concerns that the left isn't empathetic enough to address.
I’m curious what people use the office for.

I’ve seen people run actual companies and they needed a ton of space to keep legal documents, spec books, and a professional grade printer to copy binders of docs. They were fully utilizing the room.

But I doubt most people run companies, and personal docs usualy fit in a single box. Most people also use laptops, consumer printer/scanners are pretty unobtrusive, if people even keep one.

All of that would fit in half of a cabinet, so what I am missing that goes into an office room ?
Great initiative. Site loads fast, text is readable, adblocker has nothing to block - what more could you want from website?
You might want to look into optimizing SVG files, as Inkscape by default leaves a lot of unnecessary metadata.
You asked when it would be ok for a leader to tell someone they should be aborted and I gave you an example. Don’t throw away the example just because you don’t like it or it doesn’t fit your theory.
I regret that I will have RSI pain in my arms for the rest of my life. Chronic pain is depressing.
> I'd argue neither Washington nor Lincoln initiated hostilities

Why did Lincoln resupply Fort Sumter? If he did not want to initiate hostilities, he could have evacuated it.
Modern TypeScript aims to add typings to JavaScript, so eliminating a core language primitive—even a rather appendiceal one like null—is probably out of that scope, especially because some js libraries do differentiate between null and undefined.

I highly recommend using TypeScript's strict null checks mode as it makes undefined and null their own distinct types and requires that you explicitly state when a field or argument is nullable. The programming experience is somewhat similar to working with 'optional' types in languages like Scala or Swift. See the 'nullable types' section of this document for more info: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
Photoshop STARTED OUT as a photo editor but it has grown to become a sprawling beast that has long since incorporated painting tools. Photoshop does not target any one niche any more; it can do photo editing, it can paint, it can animate, it’s got some vector capabilities... there’s a ton of professional artists who use Photoshop for a painterly workflow.

Do not be fooled by its name. That merely tells you where it began; it does not tell you what it is useful for after nearly thirty years of adding on one feature after another.
Not just privacy though. The larger point of starting the GNU project was to allow for freedom to prosper. Stallman understood an important thing about software : it is a great servent, but a terrible master. He realized that being unable to study the software we use, to modify it and give those improvements to others would mean that it would end up as a tool of oppression.

Today, how much control do you have over the technology you depend on ? Search engines can bias search results to get you to think in one way and not another. Social networks can censor you and control what type of information you are allowed to see. Your data is locked up in data centers of Big Tech and they could pull the plug any time causing you a lot of damage.

The irony is that some of these companies were built on the software developed by FSF
I wonder how much of this demand are multi-generational homes (e.g. parents, spouse, kids all in the same house). Those are very common in, say, Chinese families.
This feels like the trillionth time I read a rant like this, but that doesn't make it less true or important.

I really wonder from time to time if it's just me, having become and old grumpy "get off my lawn" grandpa unable to cope with the world keeping turning and moving forward.

"You can't write everything from scratch every time"

"That's just how it's done today"

"Cmon, people aren't running IE5 on a pentium 2 anymore"

"SPAs are so much better UX. Everything should be an SPA!"

heavy breathing with red face

It's funny how this guy is complaining about a 7 year old laptop; any non-flagship mobile device from 4 years ago is almost unusable on the web.
Driving the trucks is the most obvious part of a trucker's job, but not the only one. They do a lot of other important stuff: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/02/wi...

> These people have local knowledge that is not easily transferable. They know the quirks of the routes, they have relationships with customers, they learn how best to navigate through certain areas, they understand how to optimize by splitting loads or arranging for return loads at their destination, etc. They also learn which customers pay promptly, which ones provide their loads in a way that’s easy to get on the truck, which ones generally have their paperwork in order, etc. Loading docks are not all equal. Some are very ad-hoc and require serious judgement to be able to manoever large trucks around them. Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge.

I would expect that even if trucks became autonomous, a lot of truckers would survive the transition because people would still need to do a lot of that stuff.
I think my favorite part of the whole "Sears flushed itself down the toilet" story is that crappy management can play the "We got outplayed by Amazon" card to shrug off responsibility, meaning no stingy management at other companies and corporations will learn from this mistake
thus I said I am so grateful that I had a teacher that pointed out there was an amazing language just past cute turtles.
Out of curiosity, as someone who is looking to have on hand some quality tools, who would you recommend?
Craftsman used to fill a void. It was for the home hobbyist who needed something that would last, but wasn't as expensive as snap-on or bluepoint.

Now if I'm looking at craftsman, I'm either going to an estate sale to buy older items, or I'm going to harbor freight for a disposable.

There doesn't seem to be a company to fill that home hobbyist niche anymore.
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This is amazing to me, where I live (suburbs of Dublin in Ireland) an average 3 bed family home is 100sqm (~1000sqft), I would consider a 150sqm home (~1500sqft) to be quite large, so the idea that it’s a size that you might just about manage with 2 kids is sort of horrifying.
Please name something that is not a chemical. That is what my chemistry teacher taught me first day of class.
How about when you come across a comment like yours?
Remember that Reddit is also a website with a global footprint.

Many other places in the world find the near constant mass shootings abhorrent, feel the US’ obsession with the AR-15 is an abusive relationship, and that the arguments around "guns = freedom" or any discussion of controls around weaponry defy all logic and reason.

The USA is a very small part of the global population and are apparently only around 50% of the Reddit user base.

For every user who feels Reddit should allow their logo to be associated with guns there are likely 2 or 3 who feel they have a moral obligation to not to promote them.
> how do you represent "this exists or it doesn't exist" in the type system if you can't do a union type of "X" and "null"?

Like this, pick your flavor:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.nullable-...

https://wiki.haskell.org/Maybe

If you don't want to follow links: Instead of having nulls, have a type which is either a discriminated union (not possible in JS) or is a (isPopulated, value) pair, and accessing the value is an exception if isPopulated=false.

Granted, that would be an extremely breaking change for a JS-compatible language, which would make it in fact incompatible. But answering the question, that's it.
Nobody, anywhere, for any of these projects, has ever suggested that bad code be accepted just to make someone feel better. That has always been an excuse used by the anti-CoC people, and has always been without merit.
Happy 20th, Google!

20 is an interesting time of life for any legal entity. I hope you renew your vision of "don't be evil" for your next 20!

With love, me