skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to develop these fields when we can import oil instead.
This is interesting, I'm mostly hearing the opposite experience. What made you decide to make the switch back?
> Manage to save a couple hundred, car breaks down, kid gets sick.

I know that I'm supposed to address the strongest interpretation of a comment, not the weakest one - but I genuinely cannot tell what your point might be here? That having 200 bucks saved up when that emergency hits has no value? That it's better to have a broken car you can't afford to repair, and maybe lose your job as a result? It literally makes no sense to me.
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Point of evidence: the gradual replacement of the term "author" with "content creator".

Your point is only one possible logical reason for why he would use the term "content creator" instead of author. Perhaps "content creator" is simply the term his previous employer used for authors. My previous employer called them "technical writers", I am not sure what the marketing department called their writers. Would that make me dismissive of her degree or the humanities in general?
I was more referring to the essentially mandatory third party packages that you need with react, react router, redux/whatever you please, something for your styles, something for forms etc. With angular you just use what comes out of the box, but either way you have to learn whatever the thing is so the effort seems to be the same. Not sure what you mean about abstraction and componentisation vs other frameworks.
In case of embedded firmware, all impls will be in same unit. In case of a program with linked libraries, only main program will know sizes of all possible impls.
There is a fundamental difference between disk I/O and network I/O that cause them to be treated differently.

For disk I/O, you have absolute control over the number and type of events that may be pending, allowing you to strictly bound resource consumption and defer handling of those events indefinitely with no consequences. Similarly, you can opportunistically use unused disk I/O capacity to bring future I/O events forward with little cost e.g. pre-fetching. The worst case scenario you have to deal with in terms of disk I/O is self-inflicted, which makes for relatively simple engineering.

Network I/O events, by contrast, are exogenous and unpredictable. You often have little control over the timing or the quantity of these events, and the only limit on potential resource consumption is the bandwidth of your network hardware. Not only do you have to handle the worst case scenario in these cases, you also have little control over what a worst case scenario can look like. This leads to very different design decisions and interactions with the I/O subsystem versus disk.
I'd share your sentiment if she were, say, complaining about her literary talents being wasted working on ads, or as an elementary school English teacher.

But as she's working in an Amazon warehouse for just about minimum wage, so I don't quite see how one would see a sense of entitlement quite as prominently as you do. I could just as easily characterise the sentiment as "desperation".

After all, the "American Dream" isn't, at its core, just about rags-to-riches. It's also about a society where everyone can find opportunity that at least approximately match one's aptitude.

For the so-called "Great Generation" the situation was starkly different. While graduate degrees mattered less, opportunity was abundant. And someone somewhat diligent and not too stupid, as one without a doubt must be to keep a job in a warehouse while publishing essays as she does, would have found a way into the middle class[0].

To see this change and react with the sort of told-you-so glee of others' misfortune, possibly informed by some anxieties around "the two cultures", strikes me cruel.

0: only valid for white men, of course. So some things do get better with time.
Just seems like inevitably people would figure it out.
If you can’t quantify the benefits then how do you know if it’s worth doing?

Everyone else has to justify their programs with a cost/benefit analysis. I don’t think software should be immune.
That would really suck in a power outage.
Yes -- that is a future option. It's a time commitment, but perhaps next summer I'll post a new section on the book webpage with more exercises and solutions to existing ones. (Those who have taught with the book asked for more problems too.)
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She doesn’t seem entitled. Her plan was to start a business, not have a job drop in her lap. But entrepreneurship is also a bill of goods we sell young people. If you need money to buy food, don’t become an entrepreneur. At the end of the day, the economy is pushed forward by people employed at large corporations to produce the goods and services other people need. Reconcile yourself to that reality and position yourself to get a job working in that machine. (Unless you're special: you have independent financial security or some extremely marketable skill or credential.)
No kidding...that’s pretty obvious.
Someone recently commented elsewhere that they were tired of paying for streaming access to a bunch of shows nobody wants to watch, and they wanted access to the most popular movies/network shows/whatever.

I didn't comment then, but FWIW: some of the best shows available are now streaming originals from Netflix, Prime, etc. If you haven't checked out specifically any of the Netflix originals, you're missing out. It's a complete replacement for the non-sports watcher.

As posted in response elsewhere below, here's a list of Netflix's best work:

- Stranger Things
- Narcos
- The OA
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Marvel series. All of them!
- GLOW
- Ozark
- Altered Carbon
- American Vandal
- 13 Reasons Why

Also good:

- Atypical
- Love
- Flaked
- Maniac
- Master of None
- Chef's Table
- Making a Murderer

This is by no means a complete list, you can find that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

I tried to skim through it and provide my own short list of what I really liked, so this is just one person's opinion.
Remember Flickr? >..<
Not always true a many of the high status high paying jobs out side of tech prefer traditional non STEM degrees.

A degree in some of the traditional liberal degrees History, Litrature from good Uni (Ivys' Oxbridge ) is still viable.

I used to work (at one of the big publishers) with a younger colleague who had a first from Oxford in English - she has now moved into the City and probably earns as much if not more than some of the developers
tl;dr: many animal species were introduced to radically different habitats (rabbits and dogs in Australia, pigs in Americas, etc) and changed the balance there drastically and not to the better.
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Capitalism beat Communism in the 80's but it really seems Chinese 2.0 Communism is whipping its butt. I'm very jealous that they get to ride Maglev trains and I can't even get high-speed rail. :/ In the future it's going to be good to be Chinese, unless you like Democracy that is.
I watch Inside the NBA almost religiously - it's such a perfect show sometimes.

It's not your typical ESPN or Fox Sports commentary show where an anchor talks about a player's "tenacious tenacity". It's a show that presents itself as a place where four friends talk about a shared interest.

To accomplish this, they need to be comfortable talking to each other without being confined to the sports equivalent of political correctness - to have unconstrained degrees of freedom in criticism, humor and general skylarking. This happens oftentimes to the point of controversy, with Charles usually being involved at the center of any such controversy.

This story is beautiful, but to anyone that is a fan of Charles Barkley, it is unsurprising. He's always been a beacon of genuineness through his time as a player, as a commentator and this article simply extends that same light to his personal life.
Doesn't hold a candle to the VIC-20 user manual:

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User's...
This is a lovely and charming story...but. The whole premise is that the relationship between the suburban dad and the celebrity was somehow weird and unbelievable. I see that, but it's a shame we can't turn the world on its head somehow so that it would be just everyday normality. Celebrity culture has elevated some people to a kind of otherness. But they're just people.
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Thank you, from the sample pages it looks really interesting and beautiful, uses the printed page very well and looks like it would be a joy to hold.

The table of contents looks interesting — how did you choose which topics to cover? Were they influenced by what would be easy to illustrate? My knowledge of number theory is limited to the (very) early chapters of Burton's Elementary Number Theory or Niven & Zuckerman's book, so I'm wondering how this book differs in its choice of contents. (The presentation of course is outstanding.)
The world is already an imaginary world with farm critters...but there is no separation between nature and science...science kind of emerged from the observing the natural world.. I am not sure complex and advanced science can be explained in short stories but I am hoping to create curiosity and excitement...and wanting to learn morez
At the most fundamental level, the radiocarbon date is calibrated to the historical dates given to ancient artifacts:
http://www.amarnaproject.com/documents/pdf/ocr/Binder12-Chap...

There are additional levels of calibration above that one, but that is the main way the dates are arrived at.
You might enjoy the first "How to remember sizes" section of this my page[1] (very slowwwwly loading - it wasn't intended to be public). The microview/nanoview pair of story frames provide a tangible context for handling things down to atoms, with or without numbers. Though, "barely tested implies barely works".

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms
dang it, was just up there for kubecon and would have loved to visit such a place :-(
On a meta-level, you could maybe look into articles and such about education itself, and see if that improves both your own writing, and maybe even weave in some insights from it:

http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

edit: wait, the first one is about machine learning, haha. Sorry, I was looking through my bookmarks using keywords. Might still be interesting though..
web2py was “the first truly full-stack, integrated, get-it-all-here, framework for modern web app development” years ago and still thrives.
Even if they didn't provide signed firmware, they wouldn't be actively resisting anything. Actively resisting would require them to take actions to block developers from creating an open source driver.

But as you admit: not only did they not actively resist, they actively helped out by providing something that they were under no obligation to provide.

I don't think you have a clear understanding of what "the worst" and "actively" means.

It's fine to be disappointed with a company deciding not to support open source in a way you'd like. But let's not go overboard with hyperbole? Have you ever complained about Microsoft not open sourcing the Office suite? About Oracle not open sourcing their crown jewels? About Apple not open sourcing iOS? About Broadcom not open sourcing the RPi drivers? And a million other companies, large and small, not open sourcing their money making products?
It's paranoia.

In order to argue that it's sensible, you have to first demonstrate a disimprovement in affairs warranting a change in policy, and secondly show a causal link between "outsiders" that your border control is targeting and those disimprovements.

Even if you could manage the former of those two (which I don't believe you could, though I might be mistaken), the latter is definitely not the case.
The original Macintosh also came with a cassette tape in the box, with audio lessons on how to use the "mouse" to move the "cursor" around on the screen, and how to "click" and "double-click" it to make a "selection" -- new terms and new concepts for the vast majority of early users. And, of course, everybody had a cassette player.
I don’t think people keep behaving like it’s not true. They just have different priorities.

Yes, “something you have + something you know” is more secure, but security is not a binary thing, and people’s real world behaviors need to be accounted for.

Before biometric authentication was available in cell phones, I had no passcode at all. My device’s security was just the physical security of the device itself. Constantly entering a passcode was just too much hassle, let alone a proper high-strength passcode. Moving to biometric authentication massively improved my security. Lots of people I know were in the same boat, or maybe had a four-digit passcode equal to their birthday and/or ATM PIN.

It’s not foolproof but it’s good enough for almost everyone.
Jubilee only applies to debt owed between two Jews. Any costs or consequences of the jubilee are absorbed by gentiles downstream. The 2008 financial crisis is a good example of this.
Related meetup:

UBER : Big Data Infrastructure and Machine Learning Platform
https://www.meetup.com/SF-Big-Analytics/events/257037259/
> Linux is not UNIX and that’s intentional

Isn't that the recursive acronym itself? :)
I am praying this is a joke.
this is wonderful. it's especially interesting how dramatically different Apple's idea of what a computer user is and wants to do vs. how IBM viewed it. They are coming at it from two fundamentally different mindsets.

a full PDF can be found here: http://www.maccaps.com/MacCaps/DIY_Information_files/Macinto...
> Anecdotally, folks who feel comfortable with .NET, but who find eg; React+Redux bewildering, also feel constantly confused by Angular and can get themselves into trouble without close guidance.

Makes sense, the modern frontend frameworks are pretty similar anyway, despite the amount of noise about their differences. If you find react hard you’ll probably find angular hard and vice versa.
I hear what you are saying...but including why nonviable tech isn’t translating can leave a door open to create a search for that missing magical ingredient. Every story must start with a quest. The hero must go on a quest and fail. Until ..one day..he succeeds.
Uninsured deposit accounts in a fractional reserve system are extremely risky to the banking system as a whole. Perhaps he meant that?
Agreed. That is why I said variable up to around 100,000 ISP. For low thrust application having high ISP is great for saving propellant. The key feature for a fusion rocket is that one can have tanks of deuterium as the propellant you can mix into the plasma that is also the fuel.

I think the general public has just completely given up on seeing any kind of new, radical cool tech but with the decline in the anti-tech baby boomer generation a lot of progress of long dreamed projects are starting to happen. SpaceX has lead the way with reusable rockets.

Here is a link to a video from a real company that is actively researching and building fusion rocket prototypes[1].

[1]Fusion drive page: http://www.psatellite.com/tag/dfd/
[2]video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk

And here is a link to a technical paper if you are interested[3].

[3]https://w3.pppl.gov/ppst/docs/Cohen2017ibis.pdf
That idea is easy to come up with but impossible to implement. Netflix, Amazon, and probably Apple have no incentive to be bundled.
I moved to Poland mainly for cheap booze and smoke. The latter aren't cheap anymore due to convergence with the EU. Alcohol is still cheap though. Some places sell beer for less than half a euro on special nights. It's always fun to take visitors from Norway to such a place and watch their jaws drop.

My Polish friends always wonder why I would leave San Francisco for their country. Poles love America and San Francisco in particular is a symbol of civilizational achievement. There's even a popular song about it. Well, one of my friends went on a work trip there and stayed at a hotel on lower Market for a week. When she came back she told me "yeah, now I understand why you're here" (or something to the effect).
Yes, people really prefer. You can get rid of the silly comments, for one thing, and express the idea by naming the functions properly.

With a printout? Well, if you allow functions to be so long that you have to print them out, then you probably a lot of other problems with your code base.
I think that if "First bit," "Second bit," etc can be called out that explicitly, I don't mind big functions that much.

The trouble comes from functions where the various bits are all mixed together. This means that comments cannot easily name the sections (for me, one of the main advantages of a function is that it must be given a name), and you cannot easily narrow your reading to just the part you care about.

Another advantage of smaller functions is that some of them end up being general enough functionality to be worth sharing with other code.

Finally, it's possible to test doFirstBit() independently of the other logic in big().
I didn't read Cubbic as calling the author a "hater". They were just observing that a lot of Minecraft hate exists.

If you hate a game and dismiss everyone who plays it just because some of its fans are annoying, you are being just as irrational and identity-obsessed as the fans that piss you off.

And, yes, I've seen that happen a lot.
Or you could pay a piano tech a couple hundred, then have nothing to worry about for the next few generations
And also you sometimes don't have capacity to do all the analyses you want at the start. Throw all the computational power you want at it, but if you don't have enough humans down stream to make decisions from it, then storing that data for later use makes a lot of sense.
Your bio is the most cringe inducing thing I have ever seen.
> If we didn’t have a perverse glorification of education in this country

Is this true? I suspect large swathes of this country detest education. Nobody seems to be voting for better funding of schools - hell look at Oklahoma where school is only open 4 days a week. And that's an entire state!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-state-bu...

While there are certainly people that champion education in this country, there are many that condemn it.
They wouldn't, and that was intended.

It's obvious this law would restrict economic development, but the Hebrews made that tradeoff for social stability.

The main feature of the Jubilee law was that land could not be permanently sold, it could only be leased for up to 50 years. This together with their inheritance laws guaranteed that each clan or family group would have an economic base in perpetuity.
It wasn't just that one word. Telling someone they "want to play the victim" is also a personal swipe, as is "this is 100% your fault" and even "you're clearly leaving out some important detail". In fact, your comment consisted of nothing but swipes!
A huge pet peeve of mine was that I'd google for something I once saw on Reddit, or maybe I just wanted to see a certain discussion. Google would identify the correct post, but then I'd either get it in AMP or new-redesign format, both of which present a terrible loss in readability (for the most part).

With AMP in particular, there was no obvious link back towards Reddit itself. And with the redesign, the actual discussion was interrupted with sections showing what other posts you could read on the subreddit. Similarly, both lost the essential hierarchy and it was really hard to follow the threads of discussion.

The whole thing was dreadful compared to using the decade old Reddit design. The modern stuff is crap.
It has hardly ever been that clean cut in practice. And the attempts to enforce the strict divisions have not been pretty.
exactly .... which kind of makes those proc pointers not as useful because you need to carefully manage lifetimes/etc yourself and failures are, well, not defined
Of course the company has a moral obligation to protect their consumers, which is why the company warns against using tap water in the first place. The question isn't whether or not it's worth it for the company to try and save lives, it's whether an additional explanation will actually save more lives. The fact that there's a real potential image hit to the company makes the case that much more difficult to make to decision makers.
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that the argument that only "marketable" skills are valuable is a farce. The United States is a cultural black hole and this article exemplifies why. Engineering, the STEM fields, and tech are also cultural wastelands. This is a major issue for me -- and one of the reasons I'm trying to get out of tech.

Even if we ignore the fact that some of our greatest thinkers often had "non-marketable" proclivities (Newton was also an Anglican theologian, Einstein worked as a patent clerk, Bertrand Russell wrote poetry, C.S Lewis was an author, etc.), there's something deeply human about being able to put pen to paper. But, for whatever reason, we are losing sight of why poetry, music, and art is valuable. This is a wide-ranging problem and no one seems interested in fixing it.
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(as a one time Algol68 implementer) my take on Pascal is that it's all the easy to implement bits of Algol68
In the end it's a story of a dude who ran into another dude and they hit it off over drinks and dinner. Then over the years they'd catch up and share stories of their lives and their children.

But the difference here is one guy is a celebrity and probably had a very very busy day to day schedule. Even then, he'd make time to meet up with Mr. Wang when they were in the same town.

I think the story is interesting because the two men came from very different backgrounds, yet discovered lots of common ground (minority skin color, achieved success despite modest upbringing, pride in their children). It's a story of a good friendship, one where you'd deliver a glowing eulogy at the other's funeral, if it ever came to that. I mean, I'm not sure how many folks I have outside of my own family that I'd have enough to say to deliver a eulogy. Maybe I need to make more friends?
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OITNB is one of their first originals, and I wouldn't call it their best work.

Here's a list of their best work, IMO:

- Stranger Things
- Narcos
- The OA
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Marvel series. All of them!
- GLOW
- Ozark
- Altered Carbon
- American Vandal
- 13 Reasons Why

Also good:

- Atypical
- Love
- Flaked
- Maniac
- Master of None
- Chef's Table
- Making a Murderer

This is by no means a complete list, you can find that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

I tried to skim through it and provide my own short lists of what I really liked, so this is just one person's opinion.

Orange is the New Black and House of Cards were the first two originals that I watched, and I remember liking House of Cards, although it is very slow, but I stopped watching OITNB after the second season.
Which is nonsensical since we are talking about collecting data, not changing theories because of the data.

"Oh look, Uranus is doing that odd things again. Doesn't fit in with Newtonian mechanics or my current pet theory so better throw it out."