skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like saying some company that was barely profitable only survived because of lower corporate taxes at the time. While technically true, it's just stating the economic reality that everyone dealt with at the time, and doesn't really impart much useful information. Any other company in the same market with a similar offering could just as easily have taken advantage of the incentives offered.

> Tesla has relied on CA ZEV credits to stay afloat at several points in its lifespan.

What are you trying to express here? I think you believe it is self explanatory, but it's not to me. Tesla took advantage of government incentives just as any other company with a similar offering could have (and did!). The original statement was that Tesla accelerated electric car deployments. CA definitely deserves a lot of credit for spurring that with incentives, but Tesla goes hand-in-hand with that. The incentives are also to encourage the market to provide good offerings in that space, which it responded and did. The reality shows that the major auto makers have been slow to respond with lackluster offerings until very recently (if even then).
I gather from their wonderful pseudonym that he/she has a different attitude to “sweat of the brow”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov
Do you know him? He is the subject of constant hit jobs from his enemies.
Somewhat related but Ring has a Neighbors app where you can share video with other users in your area (or request video from certain times). The site is not working for some reason (https://ring.com/neighbors) but it stirred a bit of controversy when launched.

This sort of gets at your idea of a platform to identify people.
At their pricing 1-day's kcals for someone on a 2k kcal diet is $25.68 to $39.96 a day depending on the plan.

I spend $45-60 for a WEEK (depending on sales and meat close to sell-by date) and I'm a 300+ pound powerlifter!
VOAT turning into a cesspool of everything that was being banned from Reddit is another example of that, too.
I don't remember any innovation around real estate that changed our lives within the past few decades (or millennia even).
I'm a complete layman whose only knowledge of the financial system is derived from podcasts and magazine articles, and hindsight is always 20/20, but wasn't this always an obvious sucker bet?

As I understand it, a hedge fund is supposed to be, well, a hedge. It's not supposed to make more money than the market when the market's doing well. It's supposed to be uncorrelated from the rest of the market, with the hope that it can maintains or even gain value in the event that the rest of the market tanks. An asset class that could reasonably be expected to substantially outperform both a bull market and a bear market isn't a hedge against anything, it's just a strictly superior asset class and we're pretty good at arbitraging those out of existence in relatively short order.

With that in mind, doesn't this basically devolve to a bet that at least a whole decade's worth of economic growth was going to be consumed entirely by a massive recession? That's not wholly unprecedented, admittedly, but it is a lot rarer than I'd be comfortable putting any money on at flat odds.

What am I missing?
Requiring a type definition, Python's Array type more closely matches Java and C# Lists than Python's List type.

In Python, Arrays are sequence types and behave very much like lists[1] In other words, even in Python, arrays have similar semantics to Javascript Arrays not Java Arrays.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/array.html
It's trying to sell you to the newest enterprise fad of "CQRS" and "event sourcing" :). If you don't know the meaning of those terms, or don't feel compelled to learn the meaning, then the product is likely not for you.
Technically all true. I'd still do it. Screw them.
Your `f` is not a method, but a top-level function whose first parameter happens to be named `self`.

You can't call `f` as a method of any object, because in Python (unlike Ruby) the top-level namespace is unrelated to the namespaces of any classes.
I agree: as much as I love the Fibonacci numbers, it's better to teach recursion with something like (say) implementing directory traversal (printing all files under a current directory, like ls -R) -- some problem both where the recursive nature of the problem itself is obvious, and where it would be more awkward to implement without recursion. I'm looking forward to seeing what problems he thinks really merit recursion.
I'd buy meal kits from Whole Foods, etc as a way to learn to cook. You could probably get me to even pay subscription fee if the quality was good and you can deliver via the Whole Foods home delivery couriers. You have all the ingredients available, seems incredibly easy to do for a big innovative chain.
That's assuming a very loose definition of Christian Conservatism.
PSA: do not piss off engineers with too much time on their hands.
I think this is their biggest weakness: grocery stores are all starting to offer this service, on demand. Grocery stores don't even need to devise the meals themselves, they can outsource that to a third party, and just handle the ingredient gathering component. On the other hand, this improves the utility of grocery stores greatly!
That makes sense, thanks! :)
The semantics are identical.
I've never heard that politicians thing - do you have any references on that?
An excellent point. To corroborate it, there was a challenge issued by Jon Bentley to Don Knuth to write a program that Doug McIlroy would then critique. The program was to parse a file and count the frequencies of words, outputting a list of the frequencies sorted highest to lowest.

Knuth wrote -everything- from first principles, custom file reading, parsing, the whole nine yards. At the end he had a 10 page WEB literate programming document that solved the problem. McIlroy, in his critique, wrote a six line shell script to do the same thing

tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |

tr A-Z a-z |

sort |

uniq -c |

sort -rn |

sed ${1}q

McIlroy pointed out that by using generalized abstractions over small tasks, file reading, parsing, sorting, etc. you can write software that can be re-used and solve the business need in a reasonable timeframe. If we did everything from first principles then nothing would get done.

The merits of McIlroys argument in the context of Bentley's challenge are another matter, but I believe that his point is a good one in the general case, we are hired to build software that meets business needs, and most of the time that does -not- mean hand-crafting purpose-built data structures and algorithms.

For more on the Knuth, McIlroy story: https://franklinchen.com/blog/2011/12/08/revisiting-knuth-an...
Because of ECC it doesn't read a single sector at a time. And actually even 32K is not large enough for good performance, you should go higher, maybe 1MB.
Yeah that's better. More subtle.
> * I asked him, "If you're never allowed to use a text editor/IDE that highlights braces or the space between them ever again would you still prefer braces to indentation?"*

Being visually impaired and also having coded since before syntax-highlighting editors became standard, yes. A brace character is something that's easy to visually perceive; whitespace isn't.
I do not understand how citizens can benefit by the government installing cameras and face recognition software?

Can you explain in more detail what do you mean? I hope you do not suggest citizens install also cameras and put the videos on the web, then we have private companies and citizens tracking us not only the government. And I assume when a minister receives a bribe he will not be meeting with the person in a public place.
I agree with this. There are countless examples of this in real life: Lewis Carroll (accusations of pedophilia), Roman Polanski (great filmmaker but charged with statutory rape), Woody Allen (another great filmmaker but cheated on his wife with their adopted daughter who he ended up marrying), Winston Churchill (helped defeat Fascism but many think he caused the Bengal famine that caused death of many Indians).

People have trouble with having two opinions of someone: one in terms of their professional achievements and another of their morality. I think it's a bit similar to doublethink.
You've outlined why grocery stores are going to take over this market, just like they did for roasted chickens in the 90s. I posted about this a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14706793
That provides some interesting context to that attitude, thanks.
This can go horribly wrong quickly. How do you deal with the public going after the wrong people? Does the poster take responsibility for all harm done?

This is what Reddit tried to do with the Boston bombing.

How do you handle deep fakes?
Video: Total War: Rome II devs built all of Europe–and the AI ignored most of it
>You can't use bank accounts: FDIC insurance only covers $200k per bank. You'd literally need 5000 different bank accounts to hold $100 Million safely.

Not that it’s a good idea, but there are other ways to insure cash than the FDIC.

One example, apparently Massachusetts offers unlimited insurance for banks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depositors_Insurance_Fund

(Also, 100M / 200k = 500, not 5000)
They do have Amazon lockers all over the place. Most 7-11s that I've seen seem to have them.
Is "Frankness" in the title a double entendre that I missed until just now?
As much as I love certain aspects of the US, companies like Blue Apron just serve as a reminder of the absolutely twisted and unhealthy relationship that Americans seems to have regarding their daily meals.

I know people who eat out multiple times a week (with their spouse), every week of the year, and other people who eat out every day during lunch. I guess it's somewhat understandable if you're single and maybe even working at one of the places where they have catered lunch, but if you have a family at home and have to actually pay for restaurants yourself it's a huge item on your monthly expenses.

And that's just the economics of it. Let's not even talk about how having catered meals for nearly every occasion distances you from the act and ritual of preparing a meal together with your family, taking the time, sitting down and enjoying it.
Refactoring suggestions welcome. I don't think there's enough room for an if-clause, definitely not a for-loop.
hah yeah, perl5 was basically perl's renaissance. the web took off and perl was basically used to glue it all together. they did go crazy with perl6 though, and i think a lot of the reason why python took off was because of the hole the perl developers left and google liked python.

it seems the performance problems in python can (and are) being fixed. the big downsides i see are the 2to3 mess (which seems like it will be solved with time), weak concurrency support in the default implementation and the lack of the ability to do much real static analysis.

makes for great interactive glue though!
Arson, with people inside a house can carry an attempted murder charge.
This is a beautiful description of immortal time bias.
I'm going to plug a few great non-fiction books that are easy(ish) to read and deep on content. I'm sure there are a lot more out there.

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Coming Into the Country - John McPhee

The Unwinding - George Packer

Anything by James C Scott (Thinking Like a State, The Art of Not Being Governed)

The Righteous Mind - John Haidt

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Regardless of how you feel about his current public persona, this book published in 1976 is an absolute classic)
I thought someone measured twinkies to be the best... That was a few years ago though, we may have found something by now that's even better. (or worse, depending how you look at it)
Hey OP, great job! While I see your notes that you've cleaned up your solutions after the fact, what you've published is remarkably clean, concise, and beautiful code.
Pizza, esp with sausage on. It's basically just fat, and costs very little to buy.

A Big Mac is actually only 500 cals, a double Whopper 1100.

Pizza can end up being 6000.
15 articles about leadership for entrepreneurs [reading list]
In the first example the named interface would be easier for me to read in a large project than Func<List<int>, List<int>> and with actual code there for implementation the two lines to define the interface would end up being a tiny fraction of the total lines of code. An interface would also provide better documentation opportunities for someone trying to write a mock or new implementation.

The code in the article isn't outlandish or particularly verbose.
The problem with this point of view, is it's the same people doing this over and over, just causing distress everywhere. For a couple hundred dollars of theft they cause both the loss of the item, but also all sorts of other trouble for everyone else. And the corporation's costs do eventually make it to the consumer as higher prices due to higher cost of doing business. In addition, it is a drain on all of us that we have to take steps to protect ourselves. It's worth the $150/hour to keep this kind of behavior to a minimum.
Police and profitability should not be mixed. Whether it costs $50 or $500 / hour to work on a case technically should not even be an issue. The cumulative effect of a lot of small-time crime on a society can be as large as a bank robbery, even if the robbery is a much more serious crime by itself.
No reimbursement, no deal.

In general, I avoid situations where the other party has nothing to lose when/if they waste your time. Example: Online tests before you even talk to a manager.
Soybean oil from CostCo
https://efficiencyiseverything.com/the-highest-calorie-per-d...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the police have no responsibility to protect citizens [1]. You cannot sue the police for failing to respond because they legally don't have to respond.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
That's going to depend but if you mean something that isn't highly processed stuff like rice, beans, wheat, potatoes.

Check out subs like

- https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/7dollardinners/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndVegan/
Spot on. Just a heads up, there is a decent amount of work on using convolutions to condense the initial representations and can reduce computation time equal to your max pooling. A lot of these tasks can be done via hyperparameter search over CNNs, so you can easily reach parity using a CNN-LSTM approach w/ the same number of parameters.
I think you've highlighted a problem with the business model. I had a similar experience. I really learned a lot about cooking from my first couple of years with Blue Apron, but now I'm at the point where I don't really need it any more. So as a "training wheels" for home cooks, it's great, but they have a built-in retention problem. Also, the recipes have gotten a lot simpler (and frankly not as appealing) over time. It's probably partly cost-cutting and partly people complaining about recipes taking too long to prepare.
Judges have ruled multiple times that police actually have no responsibility to protect you or investigate on your behalf. It's a best-effort SLA.
Your sort solution limits which algorithms can be used, because you can't pass in a Func which might need an additional parameter anymore.

This is why most C# developers would use an interface for this. With an interface you add extra parameters or dependencies to the constructor of the concrete implementation. If this example wasn't sort algorithms but password hashing algorithms this would be clear.

So yeah.. it proves my point... writing good C# is not that easy, requires a lot of experience and mistakes before someone knows how to write SOLID code in C#. Thanks for helping my point!
> not indiciative of a greater societal illness?

Pretty much been a thing since people have large enough societal groups (larger than Dunbar's number), that some anonymity is allowed. We just get to share these events via our high tech electronic networks and everyone gets to see it.
I've been flown to interviews at least a half dozen times over the years, mix of startups and big companies, every time travel (flight+hotel+meals) was covered as a matter of course. I would absolutely turn down an interview where they weren't paying for travel, it suggests they are not serious about the process.
> I guess wouldn't you file suit against the police as they are now responsible?

The police (and government agents more generally) are not legally responsible to victims for decisions not pursue crimes, or not to prevent predictable future crimes.
Why the article got dupe?
True. "Doctors with Borders" would not be as helpful for sure
A reasoning that doesnt require (too much) arrogance: contracts and business rules hold despite changes in context. Plans change, people leave, things are forgotten. But the contract, and its limitations, go on.

Since amazon was only looking to get its investment back, but not a profit, then clearly the intent of both parties was to eventually have it release to the public. Whoever on amazon’s side pushed the deal presumably thought they would be sold, but it clearly didn’t happen. It’s much more likely this has been sitting on a backburner somewhere, left as some forgotten plan, than some kind of long-term strategy to induce sales.

Thus, by virtue of an ill-written contract, we’ve entered a situation that no one wants. Amaxon no longer cares about it, the museum presumably prefers releasing it, and the public can only benefit from it.

By virtue of that same contract, there’s an escape hatch that might bring us back to a state where everyone is content.

It would make sense to exploit it.

Ofc, this is assuming Amazon doesn’t care. But amazon is a company, and the larger a company is, the less distinguishable it is from a government. And governments certainly have control over things it has collectively forgotten about, as it only rarely operates a single, like-minded, cooperative organism.

And amazon is indeed a very large company. It would hardly be unsurprising for Amazon to not even be aware this contract still exists.
Hi, this is a great post, thank you for sharing your experience. I have a colleague who is in that company focused rut. He is a great bug fixer and such, but his confidence has been shattered because he knows he is in this rut and isn't sure how to get out of it.

I am rapidly approaching my 40's, and lately I am fearful of ending up in the same position. I was wondering, if I could ask you, what can I do to make sure I don't end up like that? I'm a full stack programmer with a great job, but we are very vendor locked.

I feel like I already made one step in the right direction, where I don't focus too much on frameworks, but more on the soft skills. For instance, instead of reading a book about d3.js, I started with a book about the underlying fundamentals of data visualization (Grammar of Graphics). Instead of focusing on tsql, I focus on database architecture and indexing fundamentals. Is there anything more I can do, though? I guess I should really explore finding another job.
Perhaps clarify which IRA you mean in the title.
There is something called "Mindmaps", learn about it, it is very useful.

With mindmaps and using the "pause" button in a podcast you can take notes WHILE you listen or read that are minimal. The trick is that you do not need more than a few words-images-sounds in context to reconstruct all the podcast or video or book.

What is context? Imagine you have a screw and a piece with a hole on it. Where the screw goes? There is only one possibility. You do not need to store the info "where it goes". You can reconstruct it on real time.

With multiple elements interacting, reduction is enormous,in fact neurons work extracting connections of key elements. Take japanese "r, l sound", because the language does not make the distinction,a monolingual japanese could not differentiate between a "Ra" sound and "la" sound. The additional info is of no use so reural connections prune it.

You hear the additional info, but discharge it.

With context you could reduce information to remember more than two orders of magnitude(100-1000 times less).

What you do normally is forget most of what you hear. I believe re reading entire books or podcast is completely realistic if it is a good book that is important to you. There are not so many.

If you have read lots of books or podcast you know which ones are essential.

For me for example it could be "The C programming language" or "Structure and interpretation of computer programs". I have created a C and LISP compiler so those books are sacred. For Einstein, it was Newton's or Faraday's work.

I read books that I could reread 5 times and I learn something important and new every time. As I get deeper, I become a master that could understand concepts and ideas that myself as a novice could not grasp.
> It's just as bad as C/C++ allowing clobbering over memory.

That's a good parallel.

> My point was he's using inexperience and/or familiarity with C/C++ as a reason to "hate" it.

I have less familiarity with C/C++ than Python and I hate it because it's not about language perspective. It's bad language design, for such a high level language. Inclusion wrapped with execution is unsafe and has an easy fix for most language interpreters. Don't allow execution during a declaration. If you want to do metaprogramming, there are other ways that don't break the paradigm (rewriting files before inclusion, chaining programs, etc).
Yeah, we don't go out to shop much. There are reasons. We tried bundling up Amazon purchases into one big purchase per week, but it'd still come in {n} boxes via {m} carriers. And that's just from Amazon.

I wish there was a way to centralize it into a single staging area for the region and then deliver things in batches, but that won't satisfy the "I NEED IT ASAP" kinds of people.
Kroger is starting to do these meal kits. They are within 5 feet of the door and serve two, and all cook in 20 minutes.

I just don't get the point, though. I can move past the box and into the Kroger, using the box as a shopping list, and buy the exact same ingredients for half the price, only now I must spend 5 minutes dicing a tomato instead of slicing open a plastic bag containing diced tomato.

The best way to get quicker in the kitchen is to cook with common ingredients, and prep things in tandem. Keeping your cooking within a certain cultural palate is a good way to limit the amount of different fresh ingredients you need to maintain, and simplify your cooking.
For $30 dollars/day, you _can_ find someone to spend 3x15 minutes vomiting into your mouth.
because an article about this is already on the front page, and you should have checked for duplicates before submitting.
How well is papa Murphy’s doing? I found it really odd that I get the ingredients home and then cook again. Now Blue Apron is just making a generic company out of the papa Murphy model. I don’t find it attractive. When I saw that they are going public it just felt like a way to cash out of their short term popularity.
I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but "6 Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" by Mark Lynas[1] is his attempt to summarize what the climate-change research says will happen. It's organized into sections corresponding to degrees centigrade of warming. It's from 2007 though, and there's a lot that's changed since then.

There's also [2], a website which attempts to do the same as "6 Degrees" in an abbreviated format.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees:_Our_Future_on_a_H...

[2] http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm
Eike Batista got up to $35 billion (on paper), just before he went belly up.
I agree with you on hiring people that know what they are doing instead of people that just know how to use the flavor of the month.

Sadly, my experience, at least as a candidate, is the opposite of yours. But I'm in a country where most work is off-shored work, and I guess this do play its part.