skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish you luck on this, but I don't see it helping a lot of candidates. There's a large number of (and will always be a large number of) "ambulance chaser" boiler room recruiters working in a very large English-speaking country that shall remain nameless, and they'll often cold call me up for the same certain roles (that don't pay well) as the last one 5 minutes prior.

I could write a whole book of these stories (as I'm sure many others reading this post could as well) but I'll recount one of my favorites.

I had interviewed with Abbott Diabetes Care in Alameda, CA, and gotten a job offer, but went with a different opportunity. Fine.

Recruiters would still blow up my inbox and phone with that role for months to come. And being employed, I was getting really short with them. Like, say "not interested" in half a second, hang up in a second, super-rude short. The trouble was it took 3 minutes squeezing the details about the job out of the person before I could get there.

One recruiter with a very thick accent was being exceptionally coy with the details after he cold-called me. The role was in "California", and then once pressed he said, "Alameda, California". Alameda's not all that big, and it's a bedroom community more so than most Bay Area cities, with the exception of a couple business parks next to the airport, where Abbott is.

I asked, "is this with Abbott?" "No, no, no.."
"Ok, who is it with? What's the company's name?"

It's with.. (shuffling of papers).. "uh-BOT".

"That's Abbott.. Dumb ass." <click>

40+ years old and I'd never called anyone dumbass on the phone before.
Someone knows if this is a good fit for a dev machine: Rails, React, PostgreSQL & Elastisearch? VS Code?
I think what happens with visualization libraries is similar to what happens with things like cars or clothes, there's a lot of diversity because people have different tastes, if it was only about features there would be a lot less variety, but since it's very subjective there's a lot of very similar choices with slight differences and people choose one or another mostly based on personal preference.

Then for other things people will choose based on more objective factors and therefore almost everyone will reach the same conclusion, so you will get only a few choices.
>In terms of over-engineering (I know, keep using this term), the true pinnacle for me was the first gen Lexus LS400

1UZ-FE, 1JZ, 2JZ are legendary engines. You can still buy overbuild cars today, but you will pay serious premium for it (Land Cruiser)
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever.
Sorry for not responding forever... I thought doing that would block all, while I'd still like to allow some from apps I use like Gmail and Google Calendar. Just tested with Calendar, and it turns out the allow list still allows even if set to blocked! Thanks for letting me know about the setting, I've set it to blocked.
> In extreme cases, they'll duplicate your hardware and software setup at their expense and run in parallel until they can duplicate and solve the problem.

I knew there must have been a good reason they overcharged everyone for everything...

In all seriousness, I imagine this is the type of thing you can do when you have (or traditionally had) close to a captive market for specific things (government contracts) that allows for massive profits. It's easy to throw a few tens of thousands of dollars at black swan support events so you can point to those as examples of what you're paying for when people point out that you've been repeatedly found to violate contracts and fraudulently misrepresent yourself.[1]

1: https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/07/30/whistleblower-details...
Well said.

Any thoughts on researchers like Piotr Wozniak (Supermemo founder) who gave up on publishing and academia?

"I no longer care about publishing in peer review journals. I don't perish if I do not publish. Some of my old publications from the 1990s are listed here. I consider peer review to be a constraint on creativity and dissemination of inspiration (see: Problem with peer review)."[1]

[1] http://supermemo.guru/wiki/Piotr_Wozniak

edit: here is a specific article of his on peer review:

http://supermemo.guru/wiki/Problem_with_peer_review

Its too bad I can't find somewhere he is publishing his raw data, but besides that I appreciate his ability to operate like he does.
Bug grub: Sainsbury's to stock edible insects on shelves in a UK first
Boosterism is more popular with taxpayers (a category which more or less all voters fall into) than your comment lets on.

> I am glad that both sides agree that this is wrong.

Saying so don't make it so? Of course there are large camps on both sides that dislike this kind of deal, but I don't think boosterism is universally unpopular with voters. This wasn't a shady, "backroom" deal. Governor Cuomo and Northam have both been extremely open about their support for luring Amazon with benefits.
Why not just create a jobs program directly, rather than inefficiently and with many middleman taking their cut?!
I think this is the point many people are seemingly missing.

Ask any family restaurant/bar owner in a seasonal tourist destination and they’ll explain why locals must be one of the first considerations before you make drastic changes. Particularly if an important reason for opening was a personal preference to serve locals over tourists in the first place.

It’s incredibly interesting to see how few people understand that someone may open a business with priorities other than massive growth potential.
The next capitalist revolution
>Too far: it's uncommon to see a 30-year old Japanese car (built in 1988 or before) that runs at all, much less that has working power windows!

Camry V30s are pretty bulletproof
An Introduction to Objectivist-C
For the record, I upvoted you and I think its important everybody should read what you wrote. As you mentioned, companies need to be consistent with their product offering just like how we expect people we interact with online to be consistent as well.

If I criticize Company A for doing something, and goes around and does the same thing then it'll be very hypocritical of me.

The product-market fit you mentioned doesnt just happen for startup, but for big companies as well. A dollar is a dollar everywhere you go. Just like you found it was OK for your company to sunset a certain product, big companies also decide to do that.

Also, please dont put words into my mouth. I didnt say you dont have a right to say things. You do. But when you do, and please be open to replies.
I also highly recommend using labels[1] with billing data to get a better understanding of spend.

1: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-mana...
Wasn't Manning caught by bragging about leaking? It wasn't Wikileaks' fault that Manning chose to discard any potential anonymity by being recklessly boastful.
Not palatable to 20th century American cultural mistrust of government aid.
That's simply not true. Chef burgers and diner burgers are not the same product, which you can verify for yourself by reading Yelp reviews of the restaurant we're talking about and seeing the shocked comments from people who expected a transcendent chef burger experience from this place which only ever served diner burgers.

I'd rather have a good diner burger than a chef burger, but the whole point of the story is that the author of this ranking had one intention, his readers took away another, and the result was problematic for the restaurant.
Two ICO Issuers Settle SEC Charges, Agree to Register Tokens as Securities
Vendors aren't considered threats under HIPPA which, tbf, is pretty rational because if you don't trust the entity that wrote the software or made your hardware you've got much bigger problems.
Python visualization needs a visionary like Hadley Wickham. Once you get used to the clarity of "Grammar of Graphics", every other plotting library feels like a clumsy tool.

Also, people pointing out the diversity of needs behind the multiverse of plotting libraries in Python probably aren't aware of the large number of extensions built on top of ggplot2[1]. In python, they end up being completely new packages.

1. http://www.ggplot2-exts.org/gallery/
> Both companies have agreed to return funds to harmed investors, register the tokens as securities, file periodic reports with the Commission, and pay penalties.

Paragon Coin: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/33-10574.pdf

CarrierEQ: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/33-10575.pdf

The refund clause:

> Respondent will … distribute by electronic means reasonably designed to notify each potential claimant (“Distribute”), a notice and a claim form (the “Claim Form”), both of which shall be in a form not objected to by Commission staff, informing all persons and entities that purchased AirTokens from Respondent before and including October 5, 2017 of their potential claims under Section 12(a) of the Securities Act, including the right to sue “to recover the consideration paid for such security with interest thereon, less the amount of any income received thereon, upon the tender of such security, or for damages if [the purchaser] no longer owns the security” and informing purchasers that they may submit a written claim on the Claim Form directly to Respondent
I'm not convinced that joining the scientific community is an adventure or that this genetic difference exists. The differences can be explained without using genetics.

For example, there is a popularly held opinion that girls are bad at math. Girls who believe they are bad at math might try less in math courses. Girls that receive lower grades in math from trying less might be intimidated by the math requirements of a science program.
I think there's a serious point to what you're saying. I was bought up in the UK so I have metres for short distances and miles for long distances. If you say to me 5 miles I instantly know what you mean. If you say 8km, I have an academic understanding but not really an intuitive feel for what you mean (other than 8km=5mi, feel 5mi).
In particular I GM in mind. A clear cut case of corporate welfare going to a badly ran corporation, but which had strong political connections.
Nuclear secrecy is truly a gem of information for anyone with an interest in nuclear weapons!
Airlines can voluntarily ground their planes. Manufacturers can recommend it. Generally, only a government agency can force it and they only do so in truly extreme circumstances (often requiring multiple serious incidents). More commonly in the US, a directive will be issued to airlines telling them to carry out some remedy (fix/replace a part, change a procedure, etc.) and a window of time in which to complete it. They don't speculatively ground entire air fleets every time there's a potential problem.

For example, in 1991 a Boeing 737-200 crashed in Colorado with the loss of all lives on board. In 1994 there was another crash of a 737, in Pennsylvania, again killing everyone on board. In both accidents the investigation pointed to unexpected movement of the rudder.

Several other cases were identified where pilots claimed the rudder was moving unexpectedly, but they were able to land safely.

The follow-up took several years of investigative work, and eventually identified a situation where a servo could jam and deflect the rudder.

Despite two severe crashes and many other suspected non-fatal incidents, that generation of 737s was not grounded; the remedy, once the cause had been determined, was an order from the FAA to replace the servos, with a timeline by which the replacement had to be completed.
I think this paper's methods are suspect. They are 'measuring' politic spend/targeting in 2016 by assuming that price increase for a specific targeting segment = more targeted political spend to that measured audience. But political spending is a tiny % of FB spending. I strongly doubt this method gives any actual insight, first into what/who these campaigns spent/targeted in 16, and second on the persuasion effect of that spend. Also how would you control to only FB ad exposure effect using the survey data mentioned in the paper...

I actually buy FB ads for political candidates as a big part of my business. We've done some 'lift/persuasion' type experiments where we do 1:1 targeting with a control group and do an IVR to measure changes pre and post exposure. This feels like the best way to do this experiment - but that would require academics to work with actual spenders (or to spend themselves).

I actually really wanted to use FB's new attribution reporting with voting results this year but our accounts weren't given access until like a couple days before election and it wont let me look back in 'time' (e.g. we uploaded 'votes' as a purchase with the voted date timestamp, but FB will only show attribution window from date we setup the reporting tool, which is after the votes...).
Your friends don't like it when you invent reasons to antagonize them? How odd!
> You conflate "losing your exclusive status" with the push to equalize representation in workplaces.

I am not. You have done that for me and incorrectly.

Firstly, It's absolutely appropriate to inform children that people of all backgrounds can, should and will become scientists and mathematicians and to encourage children with these interests to pursue them. Separately, it's entirely appropriate to be suspicious of behaviour as a society that artificially filters some subset of humanity out of a field they would otherwise be able to contribute to owning to individual talent and ambition.

> There isn't an infinite amount of jobs for any particular field or workplace at any one time, if you pursue a campaign of equality of roles going to men/women in a male dominated field, your going to have to reject some men who otherwise would have qualified.

This viciously cuts the other way too. If you leave a systematic inequality in place you prop up otherwise untalented schlubs who edged out people of merit. In my own field, software, I've seen talented software engineers leave companies that needed them because of continued, unwanted and rebuffed sexual advances by some EXTREMELY mediocre software engineers. These dullards then merrily added negative value alone in their pit of reinforced homogeneity. More effective HR would help in this particular example but, hey, so too would having a shop that wasn't almost entirely of homogeneous background in the first place.
There is no catch for the maker, I made it as a free useful tool and there is no monetary benefit for the hunter, the only benefit I can say is that they will be able to collect hunt requests in a simple way rather than makers blowing up their twitter and email, also it will show how many requests a hunter received so a makers can be more sensible and make requests accordingly.
I think there are 2 fundamental problems with Desktop Linux:

1. Linux doesn't even have a rock-solid gui toolkit on which different environments can be based:

a. The one which runs on Ubuntu by default and which is probably used on 90%+ installations of desktop Linux is GTK which is utterly a major nightmare to develop GUIs with.

b. The Qt library which powers KDE is simply not used all that widely. The flagship desktop environment using Qt is KDE which is downright ugly in its default installation.

2. Once problem 1 is solved, people should realize that a usable desktop is not just the Window manager and 3 apps which are blessed by the desktop environment team. It is 100s of thousands of hours of using by many users. It needs stability for other apps to develop around this ecosystem, both Mac and Windows have had a rocksolid GUI library powering their ecosystems for decade+ period and apps develop around them.
Without stability and a new shitty GUI library every 2 years, Elementary OS or not, the desktop environment situation on Linux will continue to be shit.
I'm one of the weird people that actually really likes imperial units. For instance:

1 foot -- base 12. This is a superior base to 10. It can be easily divided into 4ths, 3rd, and 2nds. Base 10 can only easily be divided into 2nds.

1 inch -- an easily identifiable unit of measure for smallish things. About the width of my thumb. A pretty good unit.

For low precision, inches become 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/6, 1/64, etc. Each one is half the size of the previous one. I actually like this one a lot. An eight being half of a quarter is a really easy way to work with things when you're building stuff. Think about drilling a bolt hole in the center of a piece (half the width), or drilling two bolt holes with something in the center (divide those halves in half again) etc. Fractional is really good for building stuff.

For precision: thousands of an inch. Harder to visualize, but precise (has the same problems as mm imho). Millionths of an inch when you get into serious metrology.

Okay temperature: In imperial units:

0 = REALLY cold.
100 = REALLY hot.
50 = somewhere in the middle. Put on a sweater, but not dangerous.

100 = about the temperature of a human body.

Water boils at 212F and freezes at 32F. There are 180 degrees (degrees!) between freezing and boiling. 180 is, again, base 12. It's the 15th order of 12.

I actually love imperial units. I greatly prefer them to metric (even though I do use metric very frequently, and can see the appeal). I think I just actually prefer base 12 to base 10.

I also think that F is seriously superior to C.
Minorly unfair on Mint since it is a 2 versions old screenshot being compared to present day version of Elementary.

Personally by far prefer the Mint paradigm: it is clear what is running and what is a launch icon without studying icon shading/overlays/dots..etc.
I mean, if you are there with friends, you grab a beer, sit around and talk.

Or as the article says, someone yelled out a silly time to make people go away.
“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

:)
No one knows what that is
I mean, you are a local, right? You know all those places. If I am in town for a few days for work, WTF am I going to do? Go to the one place someone told me about or I saw on a list? Of course.
It was a Conspiracy Theory created by a journalist who wrote that non-media companies were sending fake news, with no evidence to show for it. Whatsapp, which is supposed to be E2E encrypted, is the most popular app in Brazil and the government wanted Facebook to censor information, but they said no. Obviously there were false messages about every candidate in the election, not just the one the above guy didn't like. There was even a deepfake video. I can't stress how dangerous it is to ask the government to classify what is true and what is not. This is totally different from the facebook case in America because there it involved ads. Here it was messages from individuals. But sadly the left was advocating for censorship while calling the others fascists.
Increased supply reduces prices doesn't it? If I notice BurgerKing and McDonald's are about the same price, I don't conclude that BurgerKing's prices have no impact on McDonald's.
Ok, I see your point regarding Factorio, but most games have predecessor and ancestor that were similar in spirit but maybe not as advanced. Transport Tycoon certainly had many of the features, but they weren’t nearly as simulation heavy as Factorio (not that it needs to be, mind). I’m quite familiar with OpenTTD, its a great game, but the advanced signalling stuff you mentioned wasn’t in the original and was added much later (TTD was 94 as you say and OpenTTD started in 04, many of the advanced features added even later). But I take your point!

> There’s a large community of players who strongly disagree with you.

A game doesn’t have to be large or have much gameplay depth for people to sink a lot of time into them or to play them at a very highly skilled level. There are people who sink hundreds (or in some cases thousands) of hours into all sorts of games, including modern shooters which I’m sure you agree are often quite lacking in depth. The videos you showed didn’t show depth in the game, they showed very skilled players who clearly played a lot. I’ll give you an example: does flipping a coin have depth to it? Because given enough practice, I bet I could flip a coin in a way that it will always come up heads.

> Today, there’s just so much competition

The examples you’re giving are on mobile, which is a cesspool of remakes, clones and garbage copies. Of course, so is Steam. The “strike it big” examples you’ve given are also on mobile, where games that can idly occupy someones time while they commute or whatever do well. Outside of mobile, there exist successful indie games that are more sophisticated games that made it big. But you’re right, for every great innovative game, there are 10x trash games that made it, but most of them are on mobile. I don’t know of any examples on PC or console (aside from big budget AAA games) that are like Flappy Bird or whatever and did really well. Instead you see games like Factorio, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Spacechem, World of Goo, Spelunky, Terreria, Bastion, FTL, Super Meat Boy, Rim World, Prison Architect and Braid.
Does not happen anymore if you go for a distro like Mint.
Insider Trading Data Explorer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux
It was a few months ago and I don't recall the details but I tried installing both, and Pleroma's intall process was noticeably easier. So it's just my experience.

Mastodon also has this reputation on its own platform.
No, it's not. Avogadro's number is a constant, but it's not fundamental - the only difference is that it's defined in terms of fundamental constants (namely, the Planck constant) now. It's still an arbitrary number defined in terms of the mass of a gram.
I think the null hypothesis is that insomnia is uncorrelated with mortality, and the meta analysis failed to reject it.
hek Na
Pay is not the only issue when choosing a job. Job Stability, stress and work life balance are also huge factors rational actors should consider.

Science does not simply pay poorly, the job also sucks.
There's probably a way to exploit this for geofencing purposes.
See also the TSA?
hek Na!
Ah, my bad. I jumped to conclusions because HoloViews has both bokeh and plotly backends.
I'd argue exactly the opposite, the reason there are so many is that it's really hard to write a good data visualization framework. Data visualization encompasses a vast range of different tasks that are often only loosely related, and it's extremely difficult (if not impossible) to write one library that serves all uses well. Add on top of that the fact that you have different output types - web, interactive analysis, print etc and you end up with a situation where you get lots of different libraries optimized for different use cases.

And that's not even counting differences of opinion on aesthetics...