skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at Makeblock so I will chime in. We design our robots to be a tool for educators that, as you mention, helps them make classes so much more engaging.

The number of students who will be able to learn, and be interested in learning, to program or to engage with scientific subjects when they see their instructions executed by their own coding companion right in front of them is so much greater than those who will find an IDE exciting. I started programming in QBASIC when I was around 10 but got bored pretty quickly as writing text-based games isn't that exciting, and started playing games instead. I probably could've been a lot better at programming today if I'd had something to keep me engaged.

We have a whitepaper available that is written by an organization that have created their STEM courses around our robots, for those that are interested: https://educators.makeblock.com/whitepaper-how-to-design-ste...
They’ll do what we’ve seen companies do time and time again, use their deep pockets to position themselves to take best advantage.
If there is a community of users who understand this design pattern for diagnostic, porting it to linux is a good thing because it improves those people's ability to perform diagnostic analysis.

I don't see a downside. I see many upsides.
This is literally the only time I've heard anyone say anything good about Skype since they were bought by Microsoft.
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The crux of the issue is that every big metro center in North America gave Amazon a list of incentives they were willing to provide. Next time Amazon negotiates with any city for any development, it can mine this private treasure trove of extremely potent information about how much each city is willing to bend over.

Wouldn't you agree that knowledge is power?
They also don't make pedestrians or cyclists disappear from the roads -- these are ever-present in NYC. It's gonna be a hassle for self-driving cars.
I don't know what you're talking about with "houses". This is NYC and LIC we're talking about, we're talking apartments, and the place is chock-full of new high-rises.
We can agree to disagree.
Web creator Berners-Lee launches contract for better internet
Even still, that's only 100k jobs. There's already more than 4 million jobs in the city alone. A 2.5% increase in jobs is just not going to change that much. Cyclical employment changes alone are much, much larger than that.
There aren't going to be 10k people looking for houses all at once. It will take them years to ramp up to 10k employees and many of them will already live in the area and will just be changing jobs. Many of them will also be young and single people who want a small apartment and not a whole house.
Alternatively, we could stop pushing for government regulation of absolutely everything considerably possible. The desired culture of micromanagement is not productive.

The phrase "unchecked algorithms at scale" does not mean anything, it's just written to look scary.

Now the discussion of breaking up (or regulating) tech companies appears to have expanded to Apple and Netflix (re: FAANG) for some reason.
Where are you getting the 10K number? 50K will be split evenly between the two HQs. That's 25K per HQ.
That's horrible. "There ought to be a law!"
So, it's as good as a "good" flywheel? or as good as a middle of the road lithium-ion battery? That's interesting!
The meaning of poetry is what the reader wants it to be just as much as what the author intended it to be.

A single scene in the Netflix show "Daredevil" taught me more about the arts than anything else in my 34 years. An art dealer tells a man "I tell them it's not about the artist's name or the skill required, not even about the art itself. All that matters is: 'How does it make you feel?'"
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My problem with adding plugins or extending my environment much past the default is that eventually I have to deal with a co-workers non-extended default installation. I end up relying too much on the add-ins.
They wouldn't crack the top 15 even if they put all 50k new jobs instead of splitting it. NYC itself is big as is, and the NY Metro area is unparalleled.
Excerpt: "NASA had offered a quarter-million-dollar prize to the first research team that could figure out how to extract oxygen from the moon’s surface, a precondition for establishing lunar bases. Sadoway proposed using an electrolytic cell—which produces an electric current to break down compounds—to extract oxygen from lunar rocks. The by-product was molten metal, a realization that led him to explore the possibility of using a similar approach to process metals back on Earth."

Two for the price of one! (Well, potential solutions to problems that is! One, how to generate oxygen on other planets, and two, how to smelt metals on this one while generating less carbon emissions. Well played!)
Is that scientists or "scientists" because the air-quotes matter quite a lot.
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store
mods, I went with the caption vs the clickbait title, if it needs to be something else mod away.
I actually wonder a bit about NYC in that regard. It's a distinctive place that definitely isn't for everyone. Obviously a lot of people want to live there. I know folks who could never imagine living someplace else. But NYC has improved (if you have money). So maybe it is a place it's easy to attract people to live in.
Not my area of expertise, but I would guess all companies with multiple offices do this all the time.
Paul Graham's thoughts on this, if you haven't seen it:
http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html

I don't know if I agree. It just seemed relevant.
Right. You said if a few is three, I responded to indicate that it’s looser than that, and you then basically assumed I’m a liar rather than considering that the “if” might be wrong.

If you’re not interested in a bet, why did you reply to me to ask if I’ve made one?
Or, you know, its proximity to the largest cloud operation it has on US soil? With easy access to light rail, metro rail, and National airport.

You can lobby from pretty much anywhere with a budget and a hotel ballroom rental.
The framers put in protections against tyranny of the minority, yes. But it's not the electoral college (which Madison and Hamilton tried to get rid of after they saw how it behaved) or fptp voting, or minority rule.

You don't protect against tyranny of the majority by allowing minorities to dictate policy, that's just regular tyranny.

You protect against majorities by requiring supermajorities for all the most important functions of government: constitutional change, impeachment, and censure.
Not just in trouble, but it can really turn you into a terrible person in some cases where you end up with a lot of praise and luck, like the Zuckerburgs, Pol Pots, an inordinate amount of people working on Wall St, etc.
That 20% includes Fab, which is more than half of Intel's value. Apple partnering with TSMC meant even if they could get all of Intel's market it would still only growth of 10%. Apple would be much better if they spend time designing chips for their own macOS and sell more Macs.
There are plenty of people who want to do basically anything you can imagine.

Statistically, we are as a society, drifting closer to urban cores. I too dream of buying 50 acres in the midwest for about 100k or so - so don't get me wrong I get the appeal. It's just more or less not what is happening.

> And one could reasonably describe the whole trend of suburbanization as people moving to the middle of nowhere,

I disagree with this. Suburbanization is a way for people to live close to urban centers with the employment prospects (although with a commute, contributing to congestion, emissions), without the benefits (and negatives) of living in an urban core. I have never been to a suburb that is in the middle of nowhere...if it was it wouldn't be sub-urban.
RO doesn't catch everything, and are kind of a maintenance hassle. You need to be religious about changing the filters, back-flushing, etc. In the end, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle. We have a counter-top water distiller. It does 1 gallon at a time. Over the years, I've gone through 4 of these machines, I think. But I do trust the resulting water.

(I don't mean to shill, but before someone asks, I have an earlier version of this one: https://waterwise.com/product/waterwise-3200-countertop-dist... )
To make things clearer, what is your definition of a transportation desert?
Tim Berners-Lee unveils 'contract' to protect and strengthen the web
If you don't want to be in place A or place B, how you get from A to B won't change things.

For my own self, everywhere I want to go is served by the subway system. Often poorly, but that's a rip on the political history of the MTA, not on the nature of subways in general.

If you closed the subways, New York would seize up and die. In fact we're going to get a taste of what a minor arterial clot is like when the L shuts down next year.
NYC, FinTech
VA, Defense
If you draw a circle centered on Washington DC that includes New York, I believe that circle contains 25% of the people in the US.

The land area doesn't really matter that much.
I keep a log, just a simple text file, where I spend 5 minutes to 30 minutes after I finish a book to write my thoughts on it. Title + Author + 7/10 (or whatever) overall rating and a few paragraphs.

The log might mention how I came to the book, what the big themes were, and for non-fiction, I write down the page number of important points that I might care to reference later.
I hate when people use the word bubble but I think we finally have a real bubble here. Google opening a new campus in San Jose, Amazon in NYC. I mean, how expensive can it be to live in one of these already expensive places? We’re at a breaking point where salaries offered by tech giants aren’t keeping up with the price of real estate. We’re talking engineers, etc. not even able to afford a home. Now if you don’t work for a google or an amazon etc. How do you survive in these places? We need stores, transportation, plumbers, gardners etc.

I see a bubble here. It’s gonna get ugly soon.
I'm not defending the original comment, I'm just replying to the one I'm replying to. Whether or not that commenter has read both the dissent and the majority opinion is 100% relevant to their comment.
My view is you should live in places that create strong feelings. Living in a place that feels like the aftermath of a cosmic shrug isn't good for the soul. I grew up in Darwin and I still love it. I live in NYC and I love it. I've also lived in Perth and felt ... nothing.
Anything that makes a classroom more like the workplace of the future is a win.

I think we have a much higher probability of humans assembling robots in an office environment than needing to use a book or to know cursive.

Not that we have a high probability that humans will build robots in an office.
> you probably don't trust us to be your moral authority and we reciprocally don't trust you to be moral authority for us.

Yep! That’s correct, and it’s also fine. I believe in my moral authority and I’m working to prostheletize it, and you can do the same, and whoever presents the more compelling case can shape society. Just because we disagree is no reason to declare the whole initiative unsolvable, or invalid. We should both keep advocating for the type of society we want.

> your radical views

The position I’m advocating is explicitly one of moderation: that free speech absolutism isn’t as appropriate a social creed as the much more subjective minimization of suffering. It is strictly less radical than the one it opposes.
It's using ajax to fetch the actual article. Seems a bit strange since it's static
You're not being dismissed. You're being corrected.

The GP, along with many other people, are trying to get software professionals to standardize on a definition of simple that means something like "composed of a single element; not compound" or "easy to reason about".

Under such a standard, it makes no sense to talk about "simple to use" vs "simple to understand". You can talk about "easy to use" vs "easy to understand". The latter might mean "simple". But "simple" never means the former. And you never say it's "simple to X" for any value of X.

Under such a standard. The degree to which people are converging on this standard in actuality is not clear to me.
Can someone explain Ray Tracing to me like i'm five?
Assume that this 5 year old loves playing a lot of different varieties of games and would be glad if his favorite developers end up making better experiences for him using ray tracing.
Try https://www.notion.so/

Don't know about others, but out of a few dozens of tools I had looked into Notion was the only one that "clicked".
Here is what your Chinese scam robocalls are saying
Yeap. A relatively lower paid person should be able to help reduce the workload of the higher paid person. Makes good business sense.

Welcome to rigid software not built for adaptability.
San Jose is among the most affordable urban locations in California.

Tech talent doesn't want to live in the sticks. Especially young tech talent.

I understand them because I am one of them. What good is a nice compensation package if I have to live in the middle of nowhere?
States oughta not give out that data.
The purchase price is not above the market. It is the market.
Yeah. It comes down to river crossings.

People complain about Manhattan, but attempts to build out Brooklyn, Jersey City, Long Island City and Stamford always end up falling short of the original goals, because of the commute.

People from Long Island, Connecticut, Westchester and New Jersey can get to Manhattan with a single mode of public transportation (because they only have to cross one river.) When you move to any of those other locations, you eliminate a large chunk of potential employees, because their commute effectively goes up by >50%.
This is not the way to do FP in Java though. Even before lambdas were introduced, you could do FP in Java. This is actually the whole point of GoF design patterns such as Interpreter and Visitor, which together with Composite are the way to write recursive data definitions (and functions that operate on them) in Java (or C++). The whole idea of "Little Languages" is FP, representing operations as data, as an AST.

How to do FP in Java is very well explained in the MIT OCW course 6.005 "Elements of Software Construction", 2008 [1], in particular in lectures 10, 11, 13, 14 & 15.

Remember that you can create closures with inner classes.

As for the fact that in Java you could have state inside, say, a Visitor, the program can still be FP, if you know what you are doing. The point is that when doing FP in a language like Java, you are adopting a definitional approach to FP, which is totally legit: any operation is FP if it is deterministic and has no visible side-effects (a corollary is that then it wouldn't have any observable state of its own, it would be reactive). This is sort of a "if it walks like a duck ..." approach to FP.

In fact, this is exactly what is going on when you are doing reactive programming in a non FP language like Javascript, where there are no restrictions to doing destructive assignment anywhere. This doesn't stop you from doing reactive programming, as long as you follow certain guidelines (because the language won't stop you from infringing them and having state).

How is this possible? The reason is that the OO computation model subsumes FP: anything you can express in an FP language, you can express in an OO language, and then some (although not as naturally, there is more plumbing in the way).

The reverse is not true, and this is a good thing, it is exactly what allows FP to have all those desirable properties.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Indeed, cars trained on data gathered in California and Nevada are going to need a fair amount of tweaking to understand that pedestrians are a bit pushier hereabouts.
Have you peed today? And what of the undermensch in the warehouses?
Note the part where I said I wasn't that naive, but someone can dream. Are you really telling me I'm the one thinking of people as numbers, not Amazon?

My employer is planning on moving several hundred people about ten miles from their current location. The only reason aren't quitting is because there isn't enough competition in the tech sector this city.

It would just be nice if there were cities with livable housing costs AND a competitive tech sector.
>> "For those unfamiliar, Long Island City is across the East River directly east of Upper East Side in Manhattan."

This doesn't really help if you're not familiar with NYC geography...

I had to check Google Maps. It's across the river southeast of all the famous stuff in movies.
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But in this case, this isn't just about "what the reader wants" versus "what the author intended." It's about "what the words actually say." The poem tells us that in the moment, the narrator sees that neither road is more or less traveled than the other, and only in the future will the narrator say he took the road less traveled by. We don't need to know anything about Frost or his intentions to see that this is what the poem says.

So you might say that the meaning is not as important as how it makes you feel. But unless you're going to just come out and say that words have no meaning (and what would you say such a thing with?), the meaning of the poetry is somewhat independent of what the reader wants it to be.
The dream is definitely not trusting certs which haven't been written to a log. I think that the path is actually in sight too. The CAB forum seems relatively on board.
I think you're right. Other commenters are forgetting that there's a lot of soft power in DC.

Yes, employing lobbyists is one way to flex your muscle in DC. But owning a newspaper and employing lots of people in the area is another way.

Imagine you're a mid-level bureaucrat facing a routine decision that could help or hurt Amazon. Now imagine that your spouse works at The Washington Post, your college-aged daughter is an intern at Amazon, and a local non-profit you care about just got a donation from Bezos. You can imagine how that could perhaps sway your decision.
You could try using a site like toogl.es

https://toogl.es/#/browse
I liked both, but I found the Paris Review article more satisfying.

This line in particular:

"A role too artfully assumed ceases to become a role and instead becomes a species of identity..."
Bless thee, corysama
To reproduce, or utilize [it's a feature not a bug ;)] Whenever I forget my password to enter on a secondary device and don't want to unlock the keychain, I just go the site, logout, let it autofill the password and paste my lame script in the console. Whee!

var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
if(inputs[i].type.toLowerCase() == 'password') {
alert(inputs[i].value);
}
}
You are communicating in a thoughtful, reasonable, and logical manner.

Now throw logic and reason out the Window.

Amazon is a business that raised a lot of growth capital without making any profits.

The CEO thought it wise to buy a publication critical of the leader of the political party in power that supports their ruthless push for efficiency at all costs.

It’s also really hard to leave Amazon if you invest at scale in using their ecosystem.

They may flip a coin and decide that losing Uber is worth being a player in the coming transportation as a service economy. An industry that is widely expected to be high volume high margin. It’s ecavtly what they seek to bleed every penny of margin out of with their ruthless efficiency.
If so, storing a season's worth of heat might not be so feasible. A home in northern Europe needs about 30,000 MJ, so that would be 53,000 kg of norbornadeine.

If the system absorbs energy during the day and releases energy at night, it might work with quite a bit less (maybe only a few hundred kg). It's interesting that the article doesn't suggest that. I wonder if there is a reason that wouldn't work--not enough solar energy in the winter, perhaps?
why should property owners do that?
Hey, seems like you work on a decent product! What’s really annoying though: scrolling behavior on the site (on a mobile). Do you slow it down for a reason?
You are making a bad assumption here: "Any system" ... Chances are we are talking about multiple systems created at different times and by different companies.

I could easily see a case where the timestamp is stored as a string to interoperate across various computer SYSTEMS.

Doing a wide scale fix for this problem is probably cost-prohibitive - assuming it is even possible.
Get used to it; language is always evolving. Awful used to mean "awe inspiring" and terrific used mean "causing terror" and now they both mean the opposite and nobody questions it.
Huh. TIL. I wonder if that applies to me too, though maybe in more of a sliding scale way. At best I can almost kinda maybe visualize things in very small flashes, but it's basically never what I'd consider visual / auditory / etc. I just kinda "know" what I'm thinking of, and that's the end of it.
The threat is that if DC policy makers split up Amazon, tens of thousands of people in the local area could lose employment.
> This would be greatly concerning because Eastern Asians from Flushing are already moving west towards Manhattan and are already encroaching on Hispanic minorities in Elmhurst and Corona.

Jeez, things haven't been this bad since the Huns forced the Ostrogoths into Lombardy.
L4 is now a reasonable terminal level as well, if you, for whatever reason don't want to, or can't push to L5.
This is terrible and reminds me of that South Park episode where everyone murders everyone else 'no secrets'.

In Scandinavian countries I think you can look up someone's income tax - but it's a little bit bureaucratic and that person will also be notified that you looked them up. Not sure if it's necessary, but the sharing logic is necessary.

If you want to know how someone voted, you have to pay $5 for each person, they will be notified, and you can't publish the information, or something like that.

Or better yet - it should be confidential.
With ray tracing, you cast an imaginary ray from your eye to each pixel of your monitor and you follow that ray until it hits some kind of object behind it.

And then when you hit that object, you cast more rays from that intersection hit point:
- to light sources and see whether or not there's some other object between that intersection and the light source. This determines shadows.
- to the reflected position of the initial ray, to calculate reflections.
- ...

It's a recursive process where you gather light values as you go, the combination of which gives you a final color for the pixel through which you shot that initial ray.
Affordable for whom? [1] Rent is extremely high and so is buying [2]

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/san-jose,ca_rb/
[2] https://www.zillow.com/homes/San-Jose-CA_rb/
More people live in those 200 miles than live in Australia, a country of comparable size to the US.

In fact almost as many people live in the tristate area as live in Australia. Brooklyn alone would be Australia's second largest city in a fraction of the area of Melbourne.
I'm in Orange County and we don't have express here. SF and LA are the only places I've seen it.
I agree in principle, but the estimates for my own home on Redfin would beg to differ. The value of my condo at the time I purchased it seems to fluctuate every month. When I bought it I was below Redfin’s estimate by a few thousand, now it says I overpaid by like 30 thousand.