skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal finance.

I never took a budgeting class in high school and college, my parents lived paycheck to paycheck (still do), when I earned my first internship I was making over $1000 per pay period, that was a lot of money for someone who had only worked part time jobs for $10/hr before hand.

By the time I got my second internship I earned more than my mother, who was the breadwinner. Once I was converted to full time I had more money than I knew what to do with. It took a few months to stop making stupid purchases, learn how to budget, save, and invest. Painful lesson.
I would argue taking outside investments to finance Cruise is a great strategy for both Cruise / GM. Because:

1. as a self-driving module supplier, the more adoption from the market the better - it's an endorsement and it helps Cruise to build better products with more data points and more customers.

2. it reduces GM's financial risk if Cruise folds (unlikely); also it also improve Cruise's Survivability if GM is in trouble. As an auto module vendor, diversification is key.
> That's not BS.

It is BS.

> a) most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living

No. Most american don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for peanuts. As maerF0x0 said, raise the wages and watch how many americans love back-breaking manual labor. It's strange how the tar oil fields in south dakota are able to attract workers from all over the country.

> and b) most Americans also want food to be cheap.

Don't all humans?
Is it really best practice to finish your html first and only then add CSS?
It would even be really difficult to do on purpose.
tl;dr always make production setup the same as staging.

We once had a production-only crash inside our Elasticsearch setup (we had written plugins). On preproduction it was fine, development fine, etc. But on production it would crash with NoSuchMethodError coming from the Jackson library (I think it was floatValue()). After several hours and rolling back/forward, I took a shot that there was something clashing with the class in the JVM (which I didn't know was possible at the time as I was a fresh dev). After backtracing for a while, it turned out that our production ES environment had some AWS autodiscovery plugin installed. This plugin depended on the AWS SDK, which depended an AWS common library, which depended on a Jackson version just old enough to not have floatValue(). It appears that this was being loaded first, causing our plugin to crash because we were calling a method which didn't exist in their version.

Turns out that I actually filed a ticket for the SDK to update (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/issues/411) but I think we ended up just migrating away from floatValue() altogether. As a younger developer, this definitely opened my eyes to the need to ensure parity across test environments (I remember this happened whilst I was on a tz that had me trying to debug this at 4am).
Your reach should exceed your grasp. Bigger dreams, bigger goals, bigger risks, bigger wins.
Plots. Pulling performance numbers from log files, simple statistics, curve fitting and moving averages.

Even from JSON or XML.
It’s crazy the contortions americans go through to avoid having welfare while still trying to have welfare. But god forbid we just have actual welfare.

Been living here 4 years, still don’t get it. Prob never will.

I’m supposed to only buy expensive produce so the cheap stuff can be left for those less fortunate? Why don’t you just use some of the exorbitant taxes I pay to help the less fortunate directly? Smh
Tiny apts, upscale hacker houses and high-rises: How SF tech workers find home
If I'm pulling an all-nighter coding, it's sure as hell going to be on my own project. I think that's the context of the convo
Don't read the marketing department's descriptions of the product. "Its an AI driven, machines learning tuned, blockchain, smart contract jamboree!" (ok, I added the jamboree part). News to me. Also, don't go on the the business trip sales pitches. They literally just make up promises without asking the devs the difficulty/time line.
Author here.

Step-by-step introduction to transfer learning - a practical way of using deep learning for image recognition.
No more cats and dogs - we use an extraterrestrial dataset!

And - Keras vs PyTorch, side-by-side, to see API and philosophical differences. Which is better?

Repo: https://github.com/deepsense-ai/Keras-PyTorch-AvP-transfer-l...

Play with code: https://www.kaggle.com/pmigdal/alien-vs-predator-images/kern...
> But the total beet supply remains unchanged? Affluent customers are now buying the ugly beets, does that mean more pretty beets go unsold? Can they be donated?

I doubt it. This is fresh produce we're talking about, the unsold "pretty beets" will be offered for sale on grocer shelves until they're close to spoiling and them get trashed as food waste.

One of the probable advantages of the "ugly beets," from the food bank perspective, is that they could affordably get access to them earlier in the supply chain while they were still fresh.
Life, by default, is suffering.

The surprise is not the fact that there is suffering around the world, but how we managed to achieve the level of prolonged peaceful co-existence that we have today.

We should act in such a way that suffering or chaos is reduced---however small such reduction may be.

Suppose you had a choice between watching T.V. and washing the dishes. Watching T.V. means, perhaps, that your spouse will need to do the dishes. You can reduce overall suffering by choosing to do the dishes instead of watching T.V.

Given that the default path of most processes is chaos, we should always act in a way that prevents this.
It isn’t the most capable person who gets promoted. It’s the person who can make their superiors believe they’re the most capable.
Make sure you put a tax distribution requirement in our LLC's operating agreement if you have a partner. I'm on the hook for a huge amount of revenue with no money from the company to pay the IRS.
> in the end you have to start developing that pattern against pattern type of thinking in favor of composing note against note & note after note.

I think there is a typo, or this is ambiguous. Are you saying you should use "pattern against pattern type of thinking" (and what is that?) or that you shouldn't? You should use "note against note & note after note" or you shouldn't?
I've used both services in the past. Vettery doesn't seem to vet your technical skills the way Triplebyte does (3 hour long technical screen for me). All the companies I've matched with on Vettery asked me to go through a standard phone screen or two whereas it's waived for Triplebyte-partnered companies.
> I say that as someone that finds that line rather nice.

It is a very nice line.

However, it's dated to the point of losing its meaning.

Like rotary phones :-)
Highest income tax in the nation didn’t stop it from growing to begin with.
This is usually true. There's two saving graces, though:

1) Just having the contract sometimes gives people pause about what boundaries they're willing to cross.

2) A contract can help you salvage things that are not the relationship once the relationship has gone south if you choose too.
You figure out something you can sell them.
I went to a state university in Oregon...

> You could enrol for a course and only turn up for the exams

And aside from a few exceptions, this is exactly how I approached my studies. I'd show up on day 1, the day of each midterm, and the last day of class before the final exam.
The drone penetrated the wing and broke spars. It is very easy for such an impact to also destroy control surface cabling, wiring, or hydraulics which certainly can cause a plane crash.
> Some may claim we have a case of sour grapes. This is capitalism at its best, they might say.

Based on this biased article I agree.
The sheer volume of the sky at all times is even more incredible!
The book "Impro" by Keith Johnstone is really kind of brilliant in this regard. It's technically about improv theater but universally applicable.

I found it's study of status quite good. So much can go wrong for people when they fail to maintain a harmonious exchange of status when interacting with others. This book describes how important status is in comedy and breaks down some old Marx brothers skit to analyses the humour in seeing somebody have their status diminished.

It's been a while since I read it, but it's stuck with me and I remember developing a new sort of awareness of my interactions with others.
Accept all negative criticism advice as well as you possibly can. If it's just someone being an asshole it's very easy to know that and just ignore, but if it's real it's the most valuable feedback you can get.
Turning that on its head, if you removed all of userspace and just left the kernel, would it be truthful to call what remains Linux? I'd say in common parlance that is what's called "the Linux kernel", and what people mean when they say Linux more thoroughly refers to the work of distributions than it has anything to do with the kernel

Linux of the early 00s was popularized on a platform of "Linux is about freedom, Linux is about choice". At least one half of that is entirely due to the distributions.
> I don't like seeing groups shoehorn welfare into other areas. If you've got an income (or cash welfare) problem, fix that.

I'd prefer a better solution, but when one isn't available (and likely not forthcoming), needs of real people outweigh my economic principles: These people need food.

It's the same in engineering: As much as we would wish otherwise, sometimes the 'right' solution isn't available and we need to deliver, so we provide an imperfect solution that works.
Brexit has little to do with the EU's stability, and more with the stability of the UK political system.

Let's not forget that the EU is not a nation-state on the same level as the US, but a supranational type of goverment. (and currently being the only one at that).

Brexit is a lot easier to achieve politically compared to texas seceding because the US is an inherently far "stricter" type of political entity.
Sounds like they're really mad they didn't partner up with Imperfect Produce when they were given the chance.
Imperfect Produce's reply: https://help.imperfectproduce.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500456...
Never write something in e-mail that you wouldn't be happy seeing forwarded to the person you're talking about.

Always keep records of what you've said and agreed, people will have a different recollection of events down the line, and a written record is very handy at that point.
FB Says No Evidence So Far That Attackers Accessed 3rd Party Apps WithLogin
What's interesting is that Honda is a company that has always prioritized being in control of its own destiny. What made them interesting in the past is that there are many examples where they'd engineer their own solution to a problem, rather than license IP.

Quote from Mr. Honda:

"We [Honda] refuse to depend on anyone else. We will not copy foreign products nor pay royalties for the use of other companies’ patents. We don’t intend to get support from the government, either. I’m making it clear that we will do it our way." [1]

Notable examples:

- Hondamatic transmission [1]. For better or for worse, it was only until recently that Honda started using transmissions from ZF like other automakers. Arguably because automatic transmissions are on their way out, and they're focusing on other drivetrains.

- Honda's hybrid drive: They developed their own two-motor system rather than license Toyota's (Rather brilliant) solution like other companies. Their first system in the Insight (gen 1) not withstanding.

- VTEC

It seems like there's going to be an inevitable commoditization of car manufacturers in the future. Equally interesting is GM ceding some ownership of potentially game-changing tech.

[1] https://world.honda.com/history/challenge/1968hondamatic/ind...
>The main way you get ripped off is when the monetary authority decides that inflation should be higher, and that devalues your money.

Inflation doesn't cause devaluation; it is devaluation. It's an increase in the exchange value of goods to cash.

And whether or not you get "ripped off" by inflation depends on what side of the trade you're on.
Fair point, but I have a lot of respect for how Norway manages it's oil money..

State wealthfare fund and research in various techniques to minimize pollution from oil production.
Business decisions are financial decisions but the narrative you will be fed will be personal.

Open office plans, culture fits, promotions, etc. are disguised financial terms made by someone in business. Open office means they're trying to save money, culture fit means "how often will you listen to me" and promotion means "up or out"

The quickest way to shut someone up or shut someone down, is to provide them with numbers and facts corroborate by 2+ other people.
Lol "We donate waste food, so people who reduce waste are bad"
I stopped reading at "food justice." GTFO.
I... see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

Imperfect produce has managed to create a market for food that was previously not able to be sold. Good for them.

Does this mean that we may have to restructure social programs as that food becomes sold rather than donated? Sure might. That's ok though.

I'd also like to clearly point out that the author misquotes their source for the amount of food donated. The California Association of Food Banks states that they have donated 164 million pounds of fruits and vegetables. That's not 164 million PER YEAR. That's 164 million since they were founded in 1995 - or 7.1 million a year. Additionally, the Imperfect produce comment saying 150,000 lbs specifically calls out "From California farmers". While the food banks numbers are simply totals (they likely purchase and redistribute, as well as take donations from out of state sources). There's probably fudging on both sides, but I find this article fairly disingenuous.
> a scheme that systematically undermines access to food for the least advantaged

That's quite a claim. Evidence please?
"We’ve had questions about what exactly this attack means for the apps using Facebook Login. We have now analyzed our logs for all third-party apps installed or logged in during the attack we discovered last week. That investigation has so far found no evidence that the attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login.

Any developer using our official Facebook SDKs — and all those that have regularly checked the validity of their users’ access tokens – were automatically protected when we reset people’s access tokens. However, out of an abundance of caution, as some developers may not use our SDKs — or regularly check whether Facebook access tokens are valid — we’re building a tool to enable developers to manually identify the users of their apps who may have been affected, so that they can log them out." - Guy Rosen, VP Product Management
>that food isn't really waste, let's redistribute it if it's going unused.

But this is exactly what I got from the article, that the supposed wasted food isn't being wasted. And so the consumer activism behind the appeal of these products is misplaced.
I'm kind of torn on this because I can see both sides of it. Some cities charge an insane amount to license a pole, others charge less. Should a small town be able to charge a $50,000 per year rent to put up a cell tower? Doesn't seem right, but in a densely packed city where space is tight maybe it makes sense to stop companies from dumping infrastructure. Then there are the time deadlines. Every worked with government that doesn't have a time deadline? For instance ever applied for a permit that has no final issue deadline? They can sit on it for a decade and you can't do anything about it. I don't agree with the FCC, but I also don't think cities should be able to stifle the industry. I don't think there is a great solution on either side.
> No.

Yes.

> The US legal system

The US legal system is not some global shining paragon of how a judicial system should operate. See the shitshow around Kavanaugh how the highest court of the US judicial system has become a plaything of partisan politics. Remember that for a proper trias politica, there needs to be clear separation between the two.

> a free press

America is 45th in Freedom of Press rankings, behind Burkina Faso, a country that was a dictatorship until 2014, under military control until 2015, and still somewhat in turmoil.

> a long-standing calvinist work ethic

Most of NW Europe has 'a long-standing calvinist work ethic'.

> continued financial infrastructure investment

It is not as if the rest of the worlds' financial infrastructure is in disrepair. The reason why the US has such a huge finance industry isn't 'continued upkeep' but the absurd freedom the financial industry gets to do whatever it wants. The strange thing is that the US doesn't even have the most lax regulations - they just have absurdly weak enforcement of those regulations. For a prime example look up how absurdly lightly HSBC got away with their criminal behaviour.

> These things have proven impossible to reproduce - in aggregate - anywhere else.

There are two reasons for the US dollar being the main reserve currency: WWII and the petro dollar. Your claim is pretty much a perfect example of American Exceptionalism.

'American exceptionalism is an ideology holding the United States as unique among nations in positive or negative connotations, with respect to its ideas of democracy and personal freedom'
Android Native Player with full pre-roll and mid-roll support
What’s the difference between a MOOC and doing all the problems in a textbook?
Right.
'In the case of crude oil, the main futures exchanges are the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) where West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and North Sea Brent crude oil are traded respectively.

These exchanges trade what is referred to as 'light- sweet' crude oil and a single contract, or 'lot', calls for the purchase or sale of 1,000 barrels of oil. Traders can buy and sell oil for delivery several months or years ahead'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/2790...
no - I meant, outside of Kubernetes, in the past (sorry, my wording in my post was a bit confusing). My app used to just be something I would ssh into and then do a git pull, but whenever I had to upgrade packages it would be tricky. Then I tried Docker with docker-compose and I had similar issues with environment variable changes. Kubernetes is great; all I do is kubectl apply -f new_config.yml and everything just works without downtime. I only very recently learned about Helm when doing automatic SSL upgrading, but it looks cool too.

In general I really don't think k8s is the monster people make it out to be. I did all this on the side over the course of a few weeks, a few hours here and there. I know I'm only scratching the surface of what is possible, but everything just works fine, and my .yaml files are pretty self-explanatory.
My project management muscles arr being trained to be risk averse, and my 'move fast and ship ' muscles are kicking in to make releases multipart and piece meal.

It werks
yeah it sounds like it. One day I’ll actually dive in and learn that stuff.
Stretching is probably mostly hype. E.g., https://www.painscience.com/articles/stretching.php
1. Unit test everything, document everything, it is ALWAYS worth the cost (at least for a minimal test + mini design/spec/javadocs and the likes)

2. Don't do premature optimizations / Measure before optimizing

3. Keep your cool when asked for estimates for something with unknown requirements / unknown team. Losing your mind or temper is never worth it.

4. Beware of the silver bullet new framework, right tool for the right job, avoid they hype on one hand and learn to move on when a technology dies out. (Hi Flash/VB/Cobol/Mainframe developers, I know you still have job security for a few years... but not forever...)
Someone's been working on it today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Strickland
Or stop having the exorbitant taxes and be all right with bad choices people make because every "poor" person I know always has money for booze and cigarettes.
Lol that is a lie or your computer is an utter piece of shit.
Thank you for introducing me to this. I used Google Cloud with Nvidia GPUs for scientific computing wirh CUDA in the past and found it to be a painless procedure, but knowing there are pre-baked VMs optimized for machine learning makes me feel even better about using Google for ML work.
Start each day with the thought: "if I got fired today do I have what it takes to bridge it through to the next opportunity, and would there be companies out there in need and willing to hire me".

If you can't honestly answer that with "yes" you are either accommodated, or running risks higher than you realize.
You save 25 times your annual salary (or savings rate depending on understanding and frugalness). With 25 times your annual salary you should be able to comfortably retire.
> Nagasaki is the most obvious example. But see the effects of bombing in general.

It's hard to take that as a serious argument for US imperialism since that particular war wasn't even started by the US.
If the ship is sinking, don't bail harder, get your butt onto a ship that _isn't_ sinking ASAP. It's much better for your mental health, and it's the logical free market thing to do....reallocating resources to more effective companies.
FireEye Unmasks New N. Korean Hacking Group APT38
It's hard won.

When I manage to get a team to create a code base with good tests it turns out that it's easy to change and resilient in the face of sudden requests for features.

A poor test infrastructure doesn't do this, building a good infrastructure is a skilled task. But worth it!
> It didn't really make sense then either. No sky looks like television static.

If you'd like to be literal about it, dense snowfall, perhaps?

Anyway, the point, I think, was that it shouldn't look like any sky today, but rather like a futuristic sky.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation didn't think so:

https://www.eff.org/document/eff-letter-opposing-california-...
Sales. You know, as probably every programmer out there you finish your product and you think that clients will start flocking in because you've build such a fucking great service. And then reality hits you in the face and you realize that the hard work just started. You have to go and talk face to face, listen to their needs, adjust your service accordingly, pamper them because they can't understand half of what you're saying, publish and then repeat.

The good thing is that once you get the grip of it you feel invincible. All the fear and the doubt you used to have while building a product disappear because now you know how to approach clients, and if you're smart enough you won't even start building a product without first having some feedback from potential clients.
Any links for this absurd claim?