skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Nokia 7 plus) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Mobile Safari/537.36 and it works fine here.
The line being discussed in this thread can be abstracted to the question of useful labour in the LTV; if we are discussion the LTV then we are discussing the theory which was advanced by the Western European political economists, and the objections which they countered or in some cases didn't counter.

At the very least, it seems ignorant to discuss a theory while not taking into account the established literature on the topic.
Please read the question properly before writing your answers.
I may be missing something, but I can't find any example in my mind which indicates difference between passing in Java and Python.

And it's pass-by-value for all types, because for objects an address is the value.
If you're taking them and the symptoms don't go away, then obviously they don't work. I don't understand why that's a question?
I think that's pretty common. Often it's a framework that's sort of a subset of a bigger framework.
I think if this was sprayed into the insides of your car, you'd probably never use the car again and/or never steal packages again either. The trauma resulting from the smell might just be enough.
People want an easy scapegoat. Either that, or jealousy.
An interesting part of the article says

"SpaceX’s existing business faces headwinds. It expects to see declines in launches of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket for 2019 and perhaps 2020. Global demand for launching commercial satellites, its core business, is stagnant, with some satellite manufacturers and customers looking to permanently exit the market segment."

Commercial satellites is broad - does the above mean that the market is stagnant for high orbit geosynchronous? If that's the case, then the advantage would be to Electron - but that assumes something about the profitability of low orbit.

A reference, where the WSJ got this information, would have been nice.

Otoh there are capabilities - and many distinctions between SpaceX and Electron. On the other though is the market and demand and you could have something great but if its market isn't likewise then you're going to be hampered not on the, shall we say, supply side of the rocket you offer, but rather the demand side.
It's a symbolic milestone, that's it. If a company's stock keeps plunging eventually you have to decide that it's time to talk about it, having it cross the $1 threshold seems like a decent time.

It gives an excuse to make an article and recap the events that lead to this situation. As someone who didn't follow this story closely it's useful to have this bit of context.
I would not trust anything that polygon would write. If anything, it was never as simple to create a game before as it is now, if you look at Steam it is basically an indie renessance.
I’m really surprised... you don’t have any online grocery shopping in US?
I have been buying groceries only online for years and I wouldn’t definitely call work to click a couple times more on the ingredients that you need for some meal.
If you are particularly lazy you can even create shopping lists for every meal that you need and add all of them with a click.
There was a popular discussion on this topic somewhat recently on HN[1] when a Wired article from 2008 entitled To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm made the front page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17706776
Some already do this [0] and it's 10000x better than Blue Apron/Plated/Hello Fresh. Also they don't have the same perverse incentives that BA/P/HF have. Kroger might make a profit off their meal kits but they aren't 100% reliant on that revenue, in fact I'd bet they don't really care that much if you but the meal kit or all the parts of the meal kit because you are still buying it in their stores.

[0] https://www.kroger.com/b/preppared
Or Blood Meridian.
Agree and it's already happening. At the higher-end stores where I live there are a whole bunch of meal-kit options when you enter the store.
Firing Frankness
> You are dealing with people who have decided the expected value of a package on a porch is positive, even though they are not the legal owners of that package

Just not sure I'd trust them them to decide that exacting revenge on me for setting off a glitter and stink bomb in their car/house would have a negative expected value?
A library implementing a thing I don't think should be on the hook for educating people what the thing is.

And, it's a matter of continuum anyway and where in the continuum your 1-liner should draw its line; web pages for programming languages need not (and should not) explain what programming is, how computers work, 2's complement, bits, etc.
The left are creating divisions that don't exist anymore. That were solved decades ago. It has gone from "equality for all" to "more equality to those who didn't have the same equality in the past." It is complete lunacy.

The best thing for people to do is reject both this idiocy, and the idiocy of the far-right which wants to revert things back to the old way. This is what the people in the IDW are aiming to achieve - to bring people back to having discourse rather than bickering and widening the polarisation.

We have racists and sexists on both the left and right. We need to denounce racism and sexism in all of their forms, else the problem is only going to increase
Patagonia is in business to save our home planet
If you want two meals why not get two meals instead of expecting one meal to provide two - doesn’t seem like a reasonable expectation to me.
I donated to my hometown's charity to buy Christmas gifts for children in my town who live in poverty.
Depends entirely on whether you think Starlink will succeed or not. (And by proxy, BFR, because Starlink cannot be economically deployed on F9.)
+1 for without distraction
Stripe Atlas: Writing copy for landing pages
I wonder if this would make a good startup. Allow people to share footage of thieves stealing goods. Allow varying levels of geolocation and let people suggest identities. Not sure what other precautions would be needed to protect from misidentification.
Reading / maintaining / working with other people's code?
Cheetah Conservation Fund, Oxfam, International Anti-Poaching Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, Thirteen, SUNY University at Buffalo.

Respectively
https://cheetah.org
https://oxfam.org
https://iapf.org
https://hrc.org
https://thirteen.org
https://www.buffalo.edu
Motivation is a super important factor for me. The gap between what I can accomplish when I care about somethin versus when I feel it is an obligation or requirement is huge. Thankfully the latter, combined with being smart enough to cover mistakes, has been good enough to keep me from failing things or getting fired, but it's a definite challenge.

Confuses the hell out of employers, too. "You did a great job on X, you really improved things, but when we put you on Y, you totally halfassed it" - because X was my idea, and Y was forced on me. I respect the (social) contract that you are my employer and I should do what I'm told; I know at least mentally I should try to excel on any task given me, but it's just so hard to invest in those kind of things.

Anyone can get demotivated; it's just that the gap for me is bigger than people are used to. I'm not blaming my employers here, to be clear - thinking that way does me no good, anyway(+). While the vast majority do a terrible job of recognizing the motivations of employees - and anyone can get demotivated - I'm going to be way worse at this than the average employee and it's up to me to compensate.

Another strategy: I learned early on ANY social context is motivating for me. So I try to schedule regular checkins, even if the org doesn't mandate them. Even a few minutes of a manager explaining the next project will yield much better work than getting a ticket thrown over the wall. Constantly engaging with others and feeling like they are personally depending on me is one of the most motivating things out there - so I have to keep reminding my bosses that YES, I do want to be in all those meetings.

I will say on the subject of learning - I mostly agree with you. I learn all the time in a huge variety of fields, and when I need to learn new tech to accomplish a task I relish it. But if I try to make myself learn something because it would push my career ahead? Force myself to devote some number of hours to a project in a new language, something like that? It's like pulling teeth. I can't get into it.

(+: In general, if the world discriminates against you, is difficult for you, etc - whether or not it's truly worse for you or a perception you have, it doesn't matter to you - what matters is how you react to it. Sitting at home crying how about how it's not fair will never benefit you.)
It’s quite impossible to prove anything from first principle, unless you were an eye witness yourself. A society needs a certain amount of trust, or what is often disparaged as “proof from authority”.

People rail against trusting institutions like, say, the New York Times. But they will far more readily lone their car to their spouse than a stranger, even though the latter action relies on essentially the same mechanisms: knowing the person/institution’s track record, and knowing they have an ongoing interest in preserving the trust you put in them that outweighs any incentives to defraud you.

That’s because the first is easy to state —one may even call it the alt-right’s version of “virtue signaling”— while actually following through in daily life would show how unworkable the suggestion is.

Also: have you traced every single fact that went into your agreement with the sentence you shared back to its source, and verified their accuracy?
There's definitely a novelty factor--sometimes it pays off and other times it doesn't. I think "the standards" for American cuisine have the least payoff. I like that they would rarely repeat the grain/rice. It's likely a lot cheaper for them to acquire something popular in Italy in bulk, interesting to try in a controlled setting, and if I want to make the recipe again I can swap it out for white rice.

> The only reason I'd use something like this is if they did a lot of the pre-prep so it really is a quick meal

That sounds like a different market than Blue Apron is going for. From what I've seen they seem to be focusing on people who like getting whole fruits and vegetables and you cut and peel them yourself. People who are interested in cooking, but don't necessarily have formal training. Other meal kits will probably be a better fit for a quick, weeknight meal with little to no prep.
Could you please read the guidelines and start following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If they're not already discomforted by all that's happened, I would not expect this (relatively) minor event to make a difference.
FYI - article is from November. He's still bullish...
> It's a symbolic milestone

It's actually not symbolic at all, it's a very real (negative) milestone that has ramifications for the company.
Like this: https://myedmondsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MVIMG_2...
What's really weird to me is that you can go to the store and get food that's basically ready to serve after you warm it up.

You could eat steaks, fish sticks, brats, chicken, pork, chicken nuggets, fries, a huge variety of vegetables ready to be steamed from the frozen section. You could eat that every day and pay a quarter of what it costs for this stuff to be hand picked for you.

You don't even need to season any of it and it's delicious fried up in olive oil and butter and a little salt.
> I wouldn't want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.

Which is perfectly fine as long as he keeps inspiring employees (and the world at large) so that they are even ready to "follow him into the gates of hell carrying suntan oil..."
(https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-work-with-for-Elon-...)
This has more to do with who has what teaching resources pre-made to sell than something any thought about the merits of a programming language.
But all of the things you advocate for in your previous post are things that could be achieved with less pain.

Even the fuel tax, while the goal is to drive change, you can drive change by rewarding the desired behaviour (e.g. a revenue-neutral gas/carbon tax that paid back to low income folks), rather than punishing people. Maybe not as drastic a change since you don't get people not driving because they can't afford it, but it would incentivize doing something else to the same extent.

Or we could be much more aggressive about moving people to electric cars. Or we could simply invest more money/energy into making public transport better.

We could say try and convince people to fly less, or we could legislate carbon offsets for air travel.

So while, yes, serious change is needed, I think we really need to think about this from a political angle, rather than a moralising angle.

I would avoid even touching the diet angle if you want people to listen to you and not write you off. Meat does contribute noticeably to global warming, but food is culture, it is the hardest change to achieve, so we should really leave it to last, politically. It would be far better to deal with meat in an overall carbon tax solution, rather than singling it out as a thing people have to change.
Which wouldn't be as much of an issue if their were a lot more rental units being built each year - we have the same problem here in Toronto - changing zoning laws to allow taller purpose built rental buildings would massively help but NIMBY's don't want to lose their view!
How do you read the wall street journal articles for free?
Check out Brandolini's Law for a slightly less short examination of this idea, but the tl;dr argument against this is that any effective refutation of a "bad idea" is necessarily more costly to produce and less likely to be remembered than the bad idea is. So unless we want to have some paid antishills to astroturf our platforms with the not-bad ideas, we need to come up with a better way.
It does hinder affordability for the people living in the apartment as well. It makes it look unreasonably expensive to move to anywhere else and incentivizes them to stay put, even if their heat doesn't work or if they are too old for their fifth floor walkup or any of the other reasons people move.
I don't really mind either, as long as it isn't making life difficult for other people. Most of the people pulling cans and bottles out of the trash near me push the bins back into their holding case and close the door when they're done.

This happens in front of police officers and I think it's not terrible for anyone. I've only ever seen trouble when some officers intervened when someone dumped the bin out on the side walk to sort through then absent mindedly walked away.

It'd be really nice for us as a society to put together some more productive employment opportunities for people down on their luck, and I am always happy to see (and tip well as a result) a cafe near me that has someone in rough luck put out the chairs every morning and carry heavy things. It's expensive as an employer to do that, their reliability tends to be lower than someone with a stable housing situation, but it is worth the cost in the long run - so long as we don't foist the entire cost burden onto small business owners.
This would require that you have an exhaustive list of priorities typed out in a grammar, for each language. Word embeddings is a more semi-supervised learning. There is no way grammars could cover all the cases in a scalable way.
It sounds like grocery stores could provide that service pretty easily now that they have online shopping. Send them a recipe and they put the ingredients into a shopping bag ready to go.
That's really good to hear. I don't have Kroger near me now unfortunately. I might contact some local grocers and suggest this as I really think this model of cooking could improve my quality of life significantly.
There is also formatted string literals from 3.5 to 3.6. 3.5 won't run if you included them in your 3.6 code
A downside of that approach is that sometimes authors implement bastardized versions of basic concepts and thus learning frameworks ends up warping the developer's mental model. Case in point: Qt's take on the MVC design pattern.
You're conflating privacy violations with advertising.
And for JS. If you disable in linter some awkward features left for backward compatibility, modern JavaScript is pretty cool language.
> You're actively excluding power users.

The more I read of this thread, the more I think that's the point. They don't care so much about people with reading devices and are catering to a (they hope) mass-scale audience.

Rejection of the existing market might backfire, though.
Saying "citation needed" doesn't work when it's one of the fundamentals of the field. But hey, Hackernews, I'll google it for you:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41638856?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

http://econ.sciences-po.fr/sites/default/files/file/yann%20a...

https://voxeu.org/article/trust-and-economic-development

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7e3/e958b4b7387707a5ae32fa...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2906280

http://www.oecd.org/innovation/research/1825662.pdf

https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/IMG/pdf/Huck2.pdf

I stopped midway down the first page. But this quote is great, so I'll include it:

"Conjoint action is possible just in proportion as human beings can rely on each other. There are countries in Europe, of first-rate industrial capabilities, where the most
serious impediment to conducting business concerns on a large scale, is the rarity of persons who are supposed fit to be trusted with the receipt and expenditure of large sums
of money."

- John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848
> I wouldn't want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.

There are people great for depending on, and there are people great for following. Even if from far away. They are still great. Just in a different way.
You're right in that the further you get from "the labor theory of value" the better you do, like mixing a bowl of Doritos with a bowl of celery. Smith admitted a little bit of market valuation, and in doing so was a little bit better than completely wrong.

Quoting from your link,

>For the modern reader an alternative version of Smith’s calculation may
seem more natural: the ‘labour commanded’ by a commodity represents the time you would have to work (say,
at the average wage) in order to buy the commodity. In both cases – Smith’s version and the modern one –
the calculation of labour commanded is the price of the item divided by some measure of the wage, usually an
average.

Clearly, N hours of work at an average wage W is just a roundabout way of expressing a quantity of money NW, and from there Smith believed in market pricing.
nods head and agrees

But I still love Python XD
Yes, that is, in fact, a fact.
Yeah, this is why I would be a lousy package thief, I'd love to find a cool gizmo like this and take it apart and figure out how it works. Not some boring iPad or game console :-)

If you wonder "Who would carry a portable spectrum analyzer while walking along a street of Christmas light displays in order to see what wireless systems were being employed to control them?" that would be me.
Had the same deal with a guy running a startup factory. I'm pretty sure he couldn't program his way out of a paper bag without frameworks, which is why the alternative wasn't even on his radar. With people like that running the show, it's really no wonder we're going downhill fast.
My experience has been that most of the recipes I’ve received are single pot/pan recipes
Anecdata and probably subject to some sort of bias, but of the only two people I know who have interned there (one personally, and one via open source contributions), the first was specifically called out as "the smartest person I've ever met" by our founders when we were acquired, and the second is Sergio Benitez[1].

[1]: https://sergio.bz/
The biggest drawback to D3js is the awful prose used in the documentation. I understand most of it now because I've worked with the library for nearly five years.

Still, for the newcomer, it's trial by fire.

Besides the data-binding aspects, what I do love about D3 is not just it's modular design, but it's simplified API for interactive with DOM elements. I use that more than anything nowadays.
Nvidia Jetson brings edge computing to robotic manipulation
The term "ridiculously affordable" is really a rich one.

Anyways I think you're implying that removing rent stabilization would have a net downward pressure on prices. While that may be true and it seems reasonable, I'd like to see some data to back that up. You do realize that a major reason rent stabilization exists is to protect people from being evicted out of their homes as the price of the surrounding area increases, right?
I agree with your characterization of "pop" and "giant collections of studies" -- there are a lot of books like that turn out to not be very good. I honestly felt that way about Dan Ariely's books, which are heavily recommended. I found it hard to get through them.

For writers with a pleasing style and are deep on content, I would recommend Michael Pollan's books and Jared Diamond's books. Those are two of the authors that I've read 4+ books from. They are really synthesizing information and not just describing a list of studies.

I've also read 4+ books from Jon Krakauer and Anthony Bourdain. Although they're not about "synthesis", I think books that are "narrative" are better than a lot of the pop non-fiction books you're talking about. It's concrete and lets you draw the conclusions, rather than trying to force some canned conclusions upon you.
"It's just that the level of distrust is factored into the price."

Right. That's called "reduced economic efficiency".
Facebook has one data blind spot: its advertisers
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/7wrj1m/when...

Is this not him being a proponent of "race science"?
But this is obvious, otherwise leaving Facebook wouldn't be noteworthy at all. That's ultimately why he's on Facebook in the first place. If Facebook were ineffective at providing people with network effects, it would not be necessary to get people to leave it.
Perhaps it was upvoted because there is a prevailing sense that something in Python isn't right, and even though most people seems to disagree about what exactly isn't "right".

I "hate" python for my own (much more petty) reasons, although the horrible naming conventions struck a cord with me, so I upvoted this article, with the hope that I'd be able to learn something from the discourse it creates.
The difference for me (maybe this is regional?) is that for “blackbird” the stress is on “black” whereas for “black bird” the stress is on “bird”.
Breaking: Old, white man quits Facebook.
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

Please don't create throwaways to start flamewars. Users that do this repeatedly get their main account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Use your Linux terminal to celebrate a banner year
Recently they’ve been moving towards preprepped or semi prepped ingredients such as presliced beef and chicken, prechopped kale. Not sure if that’s a pro or a con, but it does make the recipes faster to prepare
No, I would choose to avoid people and companies who support such racism.

But thank you for playing the role of "guy who argues in bad faith." I think we're done, here.