skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The machine (internet/instacart) is doing work, it's reducing the transacation cost so that you and the delivery person can make a deal. It’s just like an exchange making trading easier, it increases liquidity and facilitates transactions.

“Non market” work seems like another word for labor you can’t afford. Rich people with drivers and butlers or whatever have had instacart forever.

Having a central dispatch to relay what you want to a driver, have them go pick it up and deliver, and then re route them to the next one all while handling incoming calls is probably too expensive to offset the convenience of an individual not driving to Target and picking it up. But with a computer and some programming, you don’t need any dispatch, and you don’t waste time communicating what you need, which drives down the cost of getting something delivered to you so that it’s now affordable. The machine is doing the work of people that would have had to coordinate and pass all that information between two parties. Not to mention the risk of not being paid (taken care of by the payment card networks).

Also, I’m not convinced these many of these “gig” companies are going to be around forever. Instacart might work in a few urban locales with a few rich young people with no families, but it’s far from proven that it’s valuable enough and cheap enough for most people.
That's not what "secondary source" means.
> And the Democrats? I remember the Democrats laughing at McCain talking about the Russian threat.

The Obama administration warned about the Russian threat. The Republican party has been coopted by it. How does that place any blame on the left when it has been the RNC who's allowed itself to be infiltrated by external actors?

> Largely the same?

The GOP had never been in favor of the tariffs Trump proposes. The current platform is entirely inconsistent.
Breitbart is no worse than NY Times or WaPo? I gather you have doubts about climate change also.
We should absolutely not be subsidizing multi-billion dollar companies like this when they have the ability to provide a living wage.
Only if they can prove that you willingly or carelessly neglected your duties as a CEO. These are very narrowly defined, though: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmbH-Geschäftsführer-Haftung
Dijkstra’s in Disguise
This was my first experience with programming at 13! I remember being mystified by the first example in my book:

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> but it is exactly the manager's main job

I would disagree; a manager is not necessarily an engineer and thus cannot mentor a junior engineer as well as a senior engineer could. I'm not saying that a manager cannot or should not mentor, but that a senior engineer should ALSO be mentoring based on shared experience. There's no need for a mentor monopoly. :)

This is a bit off topic, but to me, a good manager is basically an umbrella and a funnel for the team. The manager covers the team and protects them from crap to keep them productive, then funnels their communications and output to the correct places. Basically, the API for sales or execs or whatever to communicate with the team. That's where a manager differs from a senior dev for me -- the responsibilities are completely different.

You can't have a good team driven from the top; everyone has to be working and pulling their weight.

Now, I'm not saying that we should expect people to be rational and social all of the time, just that a large part of mentoring should include "soft" skills like how to deal with other people and yourself when you're not rational or social. This is definitely something that can be learned and eases workplace friction so, so much.

Edit: If this sounds familiar, I think it might be because I tend to harp on this on HN whenever it comes up. I feel like the "soft" skills are under- or completely devalued here sometimes, but they can really make or break a team just as much as technical skills.

I saw this comment on another thread that's sort of speaking to the same effect but from a practical perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18158042
I think it depends what you mean by "savvy". A UX which reduces what the user has to think about to get stuff done is generally positive. That's what an abstraction is, and we intentionally create them all the time.

The counter-example is trite, but it's true: it's a very good thing that I don't need to know how a Xeon is going to reorder the instructions that v8 is going to turn my webpage into after Babel has turned my es6+whateverextensions into something node can actually execute. I can go down the stack and find out if I absolutely have to, but it's a total waste of time otherwise.

I also don't think we've stopped trying to figure it out. We see new languages, new environments coming forward fairly regularly. My instinct is that the reason it seems that way is because the computing field selected for people interested in that stuff early, and more recent incomers are a) people who don't yet have the experience to understand where the limits are; and b) as a population are less interested on the whole in asking those questions, because if they had been interested, they'd already be present. It's also dramatically harder for a single project to become ubiquitous the way Hypercard was, simply because of the size of both computer-using and software project populations. It's a statistical artefact, in other words.
>it feels bad

Even when you win it’s not great because chances are you did something shady and your friends are mad at you. This might explain why I haven’t played/ thought about this game in 30 years.

I like board games (competetive and co-op) but have no desire to play this again.
It would be great to see a variant of this come to smart phones. Having a passcode that logs into a reasonable looking OS install, i.e. same wallpaper as the login screen, default apps only, no payment cards added to the device, no email configured, no passwords saved, basic web history. Would be good for crossing borders.

1Password already has the ability to wipe for travel, would be good to see more of that.
Maybe this speaks more about how Wikipedia works than quality of Breitbart as a source.

First, if you look how credible news organizations work, they need three confirmations from unrelated sources before calling it a fact. If Wikipedia has lower standards than that, then it doesn't really matter whom they choose as a source of information, it still rises the question of validity of the claim if there is only one corroborating source.

Second, this ban seems to assume a position that Breitbart can't be a valid source even if they use outside sources corroborating their claim, and that just goes against journalistic principles in general. But then again, Wikipedia has to my knowledge never claimed to work on journalistic principles, they do have guidelines in place that anyone can verify, but outright banning a source has a negative impact on their validity even if it is for a good reason.

Refusing to use Breitbart as only source is reasonable and valid in my opinion, but accepting any other source as valid enough to be used as a single source raises the same problem, news orgs are wrong from time to time, and that is a fact. So if they really wanted to make a statement, they would flag articles that need more sources and get more sources even if one of them is Breitbart. But positioning yourself as arbitrator of truth and banning sources, even bad ones really doesn't build confidence, instead it just erodes it.

I like that Wikipedia's visual style is black and white, but I'd like it's content principles to be a gradient.
The actual solution here is for municipal transport companies to get involved - e.g. there’s a brand new bike scheme in Edinburgh that was set up by the council-owned bus company and run by Serco under a concession. The bikes are really quite nice - there’s docks all over the city centre and clearly marked spots where you can use the integrated lock to leave them where a dock can’t be installed, they’re quite sturdy and easy to use, and handle the hills quite well. There’s rumours that electric assist bikes are being brought in too. I handed in my bus pass and bought a bike pass (for a savings of a few hundred pounds) within the first week.
Better than 100% loss.
Yeah I agree that’s pretty dumb to tell Congress one thing but do another. I wish they’d just be honest about it.

My comment was more of a general sense of any company, not necessarily just Facebook.
Pump during off peak, use during peaks.

If the wind's blowing while everyone is asleep it would be wasted anyway if you don't find some way to store it.
That’s like saying you’re depriving yourself of a diversity of sources by not reading the National Enquirer regularly. Unless you’re studying propaganda, the only thing reading Breitbart gives you is a chance to be mislead.

If you want right-wing perspectives, the WSJ or The Economist would be far more deserving of your attention.
This is why you're called fake news. We don't trust you and your company of traitors..
> First, if you look how credible news organizations work, they need three confirmations from unrelated sources before calling it a fact.

Based on this criterion, are there any credible news organizations left?
Greeks didnt invent philosophy, technically. The western tradition, maybe, but not the whole itself. And most of them, Socrates included, talked about thw gods a lot of the time. In fact, socrates's way of living a good life is, more or less, the same idea behind the christian heaven and hell concept. the only thing that really changes is, once most philosophers become theologians, they develop advanced theories in trying to explain away the Trinity or the Eucharist.
> Wikipedia is one of the few web information sources that are globally accepted as more or less correct.

Not even Wikipedia claims this, which is why they tell users to never quote Wikipedia but to go to the sources (which all articles are supposed to have) and quote those instead.
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The money for it will have to come from “multi-billion” dollar companies or their owners anyway, via taxes.
I have not read Tyler's original, but would like to dump some of my notes as I read through this.

> I do deny the implication that philosophy should be judged by what gets exported from it—any more than physics or mathematics should be assessed in this mercenary and extrinsic way.

I find this strange. Shouldn't all knowledge be judged on the basis of whether their application yields valid results? If not, how should they be judged?

> I believe the turn away from schools, teachings and doctrines is itself one of the great instances of philosophical progress.

I agree. The existence of "schools" of thought (e.g. the Geocentric vs. Heliocentric schools of planetary motion) is a sign that the field of study is still nascent. Opinions should give way to theories as a science matures.

> It is not the point of philosophy to end philosophy, to ‘solve’ the deep questions so that people can stop thinking about them. It is the point of people to think about these questions, and the job of philosophers to rub their faces in that fact.

What? Yes, it is not the point of philosophy to end philosophy. But it's certainly not this either.

To me, the point of philosophy is to examine those aspects of existence that cannot be examined by other sciences, especially because the measurement or experimental methods or the resources to do so do not (yet) exist.
It’s entirely expected that unemployment this low will increase wage growth.

What’s different this time is that inflation has been so tame this far into the process. At this point in the 2000s boom cycle we saw inflation was ticking over 5%, whereas today it remains tame under 3%.

This means for the first time in a long time the higher wage growth is actually making a significant difference in people’s real income.

Another factor that’s not widely reported is that the insurance marketplaces seem to be stabilizing and rate increases for 2019 are single-digit and some areas are even seeing decreases. Compared to the 20, 30, 40% increases in the early years of the marketplace that makes a huge difference.
No, you're the one peddling misinformation here. It's true that you have to tell German authorities about your foreign business (not just your income from that business) for tax purposes if you're actually operating your business from within Germany (i.e. you're running a "Gewerbe"). There are also some rules to follow you're merely conducting business with German customers, i.e. how to collect VAT etc.

In any case, however, you certainly don't have to "convert" your business into a GmbH.
When administering the test some examiners will tell the subject they failed just to see the reaction or if they will admit to something. All though, it would be a poor choice to do this to someone who had taken multiple screening polys.
Thanks for clarifying that. Of course, nothing in a classroom is a primary source.
Most of the energy that goes into pumping water uphill can be recovered when the water is released downhill through the turbines. Existing pumped-storage hydroelectric plants have efficiencies around 70~80% which is way better than half.

Besides, you get free power if your upper reservoir naturally gets a lot of inflow or precipitation :)
CNN said it was illegal for Americans to read about Hillary's crimes in the Wikipedia. Your Russia scam failed now your rape scam failed too. Keep taking L's we love it.
If you are interested in a voice engine which will be open-sourced soon and works on Raspberry Pi 3, iOS, Android, osX and Linux, you can take a look at what we are building at Snips https://snips.ai
Yes it'd be the same. So either your country become strong and handle your own affair, at a cost acceptable to your population, or you align with country(ies) with that capability that share your interest and belief, such as EU. But depending on your adversaries puts you on a very shaky ground.
All structure is derivative. It's one of those things that once you see, you can't un-see.

I blogged about this a while back: http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/process-scale-invariance-um...

I'm not a religious TDD person. I think it's the only way to professionally code mutable OO. At the business level it's the only way to manage your goals and progress. (ATDD, that is)

But the thing that TDD brought to the table that was missing from the larger discussion is that things exist in code (and infrastructure) for reasons. When you can create as much stuff as you like, it's important to make those reasons explicit. TDD is not a test discipline. It's a design discipline. You write the test first, then the code/infrastructure/business/whatnot is created to support the test. It's not just a fashionable thing to do. It's the only sane way to plan out architecture. Otherwise you're just kind of looking at thing ascetically.

And this is the reason we have such a framework explosion. You write function that does X, then you imagine X prime and X two, then you generalize, then you imagine some more. This is the same thing we see in startups: the desire to build over the desire to meet needs. Worst-case scenario is that people actually like 2 or 3 things out of your 100-thing toolset. Then you're off to the races building another 100.

Blockchain is still struggling with all of that. It's such an attractive tech they'll probably get it worst than most. It's quite seductive to see something you might need instead of something you actually need.
What should I learn?
I'm switching from one tech company to another and had about a 3 month long gap between them. The first two I traveled a lot and read a lot. Now, I want to use the last month to hone my software engineering skills.
I've started reading up on machine learning and writing C++ effectively since my new team uses them a lot. I'm looking for other general things that as a software engineer I should know. What should I learn?
Okay, good feature, not new, though.
Read the article, not the parent poster's mischaracterization of it. The very first paragraph explains the autism+emotion issue.

Also your own sources contradict the claim "Autistic people were never thought to lack emotions".
Given that you apparently didn't learn the difference between a primary source and a secondary source, I'd say the education system failed you.

A primary source is one that "creates" the information of history, e.g. a letter, journal entry, official announcement, or original research. A secondary source (nominally) synthesizes and summarizes primary sources into a coherent narrative.
I sympathize with you, I really do. I've had some similar experiences. But you're overstating the case. Numerous meta-analyses have found that antidepressants do work for people with severe depression, much better than placebo. Unfortunately there's many people for whom they don't work, and even when they work you may have to try many different kinds to find the right one(s). The state of depression treatment is sadly not very good right now, everyone knows this. But it's just not true that there's not "a single shred of proof that these medicines work".

Depression treatment doesn't depend on "chemical imbalance" as an explanation either. Research on whether antidepressants work proceeds alongside research on why they work, if they do--usually studies on the efficacy of drugs are completely independent of mechanism. They study clinical outcomes, not neurochemical or larger structural brain issues.

So even if we had no idea why antidepressants (potentially) work, we could still know that they do work based on clinical outcomes. And it's not exactly true that we have no clue at all. The past 20 or so years the monoamine hypothesis hasn't been the main avenue of research into the neurobiology of depression. These days, it's at best considered one possible factor, not the defining and only factor. There's a lot of research into the structural changes that follow depression and recovery. For instance it's now known that serotonin helps regulate the expression of BDNF, which in turn regulates the growth and repair of brain cells and synapses. So it may well be that serotonin triggers large-scale "repairs" in the brain in areas related to emotional processing, such as the amygdala. Here you can see that the focus isn't so much on individual levels of "chemicals" in the brain as on the structure of the brain and how different natural and exogenous factors affect that.
No one can estimate worth a damn. With experience you realize how terrible all estimates are — unless you are estimating something you have exactly done before, which is more likely with more experience. Everything I have done in my career was mostly unrelated to anything done previously, so estimating would be as effective as using dice.
I'm taking a wild guess based on your domain name that you're in the UK.

It appears to be about 11% in the US, 7% in the UK. So, 63% more in the US, but still a reasonably small fraction of the population. Or, if 11% is sizable, so is 7%.

https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepres...

The question is how many suffer depression without medication, and how many remain on antidepressants after recovering, as an insurance policy. Is there less suffering in Korea? Or more stigma against using antidepressant drugs?
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There is a pricing page with bundle prices going from $100 to $400/mo for companies up to 100 Gsuite licenses, and the customary "talk to sales" call to action beyond that.
This looks like a bonus freebie for gsuite users who up til now didn't care to use any applicant tracking service.
This is some pretty good efficiency. Lithium-ion batteries are more efficient for sure, but also quite a bit more expensive, I'm guessing.

Storing electric energy by just raising some mass seems like a pretty good concept - I wonder why It's not adopted further.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745779 (2 months ago)
More details on the anti-SpaceX smear campaign
I find it very beautiful and interesting about how relationship between soul and flesh.
One counterargument could be that users who ignore updates too often will lose control to malicious software over time.
Main thread/previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129075
Switching to lane splitting at red lights isn't about tolerating you being slow to accelerate.

Cars usually accelerate much faster than cyclists. It can appear the other way because I'm watching for the light to switch much more carefully - so I can make sure the car to my left will see me before right turning.

It's generally about letting people behind me get in front of me. Once I pull over to the side though I need to act like a 'normal' bicycle and pull to the front of the line. That's where people expect me - and that makes sure everyone turning right has seen me so they won't hit me.

It can also be about using the vehicles moving in my direction as a shield against people turning left. I worry that people don't expect me when I'm riding in the lane at a light, and as a result won't properly see me.

That said, if you're use to farm vehicles you probably drive in very different places than I ride (downtown in a big city).
> It was hard for me to get vendors to accept paper money.

In this case, by law (Law of the People's Republic of China on Commercial Banks to be specific), refuse to accept RMB as domestic commercial payment in China is illegal.

It won't help you that much (unless you want to sue them), but you still have upper hand there to ask them to do you some favor.
I have mixed feelings while reading philosophers trying to desperately justify their relevance. It's sad at first, then you start being battered with the verbose fallacies they believe to be good quality thinkin', and you wish they had died out a long time ago.

I do not have the time to address every bit of nonsense in this gish gallop so I'll stick to 2:

1. What is the measure of philosophic truth? It is implied strongly that "success" is determined by acceptance of ideas by others. Usefulness, accuracy, precision, ethics, are not important: what is important is that your ideas spread like a virus. If true, then philosophy is really, like the Sophists of old, just about rhetoric. And if manipulating people through words is your thing, then studying advertising and marketing would be a much more effective investment.

2. A key argument was "philosophy is so much better now than it used to be." I find the fact philosophy is not nearly as bad as it used to be, though arguably true, not very compelling. A better question would be "Is it good enough?" I have not yet found convincing evidence that is the case.
Assuming you're not being snarky I would strongly recommend talking to a therapist if you feel this way. There are many reasons people have suppressed/muted emotions and a good one will help you find yours.

One example of a cause that's not just 'you might have depression' is 'you might be transgender'. One of the most common experiences of trans women is severely suppressed emotions prior to recognizing their dysphoria and before HRT. Some of my favorite things to read on the internet are stories from trans women about the first time they cried (and then usually cried again because they were so happy about it), the first time they laughed uncontrollably, or the first time they felt passion/anger. Super hartwarming stuff.
Is this a politeness thing (aka. most western countries) or a legitimate do-not-do-this thing?

If it's just politeness, then obv. I won't discuss it most of the time. If its more intense then that however, I won't discuss it at all.
> > If you pay a dividend at the end of the year, it’s taxed as capital gains

> Really ?

Yeah, really. At least this is the way it is in Germany. One should note, though, that taxes on capital gains are just another form of income tax and the boundaries are somewhat blurry. In particular, it doesn't necessarily mean you're paying more in taxes only because it's capital gains. (See also: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abgeltungsteuer)