skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Marsh from 2005-2015 in both corporate and the store. We were always skeptical of Sun, the CEOs that would cycle through didn't grasp the basics of grocery, and as an organization we failed to invest in basic infrastructure that would reduce our overall costs which are huge in the 2% margin grocery business.

At the store we had registers with an OS from the 80's, a common thing if you look around, but we never invested in developing anything beyond the 80's unlike our competitors. We didn't ever implement a JIT style logistics program, which with massive in store staff cuts led to poor merchandise orders which in a perishable business kills you. Management in general was _highly_ skeptical of new technology and prone to spending a bunch of labor hours on repetitive, easily automated tasks (by my accounting at the time, I could have automated more than a million dollars of labor costs with a week of effort - something I brought up with management and demonstrated but was ultimately shot down, I wasn't some super genius - we had folks literally copying and pasting for 8 hours a day).

Marsh was a good company with good people, several of those in the article I knew from my time in corporate. We had folks that would kill themselves working 60 hour weeks to keep a store afloat. It sucks to see what had happened to them.
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Pretty sure all those Chinese high-tech factories' robots are either bought from Germany, japan, or Taiwan.

Don't get me wrong, Chinese do manufacture these robots too，but from the Chinese news reports I've read, the durability just isn't there, and they relies on either Germany or Japan for key parts.
Why bother with text when ASN.1 solves all these problems too?
Do you allow candidates to use their normal workflow (which is dependent on access to Google, github and q&a sites) or are we putting people in an idealized workflow where the dev has to know everything? I think many developers and interviewers think using Google and StackOverflow is a sign of weakness. It may or may not be, but it is normal in many developers workflows.

Thoughts?
I’m holding out hope it’s the skull from a dead Celestial.
We're going to need to compare electricity usage against some new appliance. How about GPUs :P

The probe takes as much power as one high end GPU.
Sigh. Yet another sans-serif font family.

Yes, they are easier to design, and easier to parameterize, which is nice for you, the designer. But they are not nice for me, the reader. Using a sans font says to me that your comfort is more important than mine, and that your time is worth more than mine and everyone else's, combined.

In Firefox, I have disabled web fonts, and use Libertine everywhere. That choice is denied to me in Firefox on my phone.
Swedes are shocked when I tell them that their beloved piece of British culture is next to completely unknown in its native land.
Is there a reason other than weapons lobby that blocks humanity from adopting thorium reactors?
Technically I'm not supposed to reveal the exact questions they ask because they have candidates sign an NDA that covers the questions they ask during an interview. But it really shouldn't be too surprising the type of questions they ask, basically similar to stuff you see on sites like Leetcode or books like Cracking the Coding interview. Although very heavy on trees and graphs as opposed to the easier linked list/string/array type problems. Since it was an embedded position, there was on interview round where they asked some stuff about device drivers and Linux Kernel internals. Overall I thought it was a pretty bad interview for how "smart" Google is supposed to be. I thought Amazon actually did a much better job with interview questions, although they were still very algorithm-heavy.
Still amazing to me that owners and equity firms get money before pension funds. The literal theft - a pension is part of your income, and being able to sell off a company without paying off pension debts literally means retroactively stealing wages from workers.

Remember that banks, etc all have insurance on their debt, apparently that doesn’t matter - companies are simply stealing from money that is not theirs, and that’s apparently ok.
Most (probably 99+% of them) piston airplanes are direct drive, meaning the prop hub is directly bolted to the crankshaft flange as can be seen in the last photo in the linked article.

Cessna 421 is one of the common geared engine aircraft. Twin Bonanza, Navion, late Widgeons, R985s, and others also have geared engines, but they’re the vanishingly small minority of piston aircraft.

Common types (Cessna 172/182/210, Beechcraft Bonanza/Baron/Skipper, Piper Cub/Warrior/Arrow/Seminole/Seneca/Apache) are all direct drive.
Taleb's book The Black Swan has sections comparing heavy-tailed prob. distributions with thin-tailed prob. distributions. The thesis is that you can't tell whether a distribution has fat tails until a fat-tailed event happens (which he calls a black swan). Also goes into the flaws of using induction, the flaws in ascribing causes when there are "silent witnesses", and so on. I don't think there's any specific practical advice. It's more "If you work in economics and other areas, your research may well be doomed." Taleb's advice is often "Don't do this", instead of "Do this".

I'm reading Anti-Fragile now. Can't off the top of my head give you advice on experiment design or statistics. [EDIT] It's more about designing systems that benefit from the unpredictability of the world, instead of building systems that are harmed by unpredictability. [EDIT] It's an important companion to his previous book, because it gives positive advice on how to make decisions in a world that isn't amenable to understanding because of complexity. It effectively gives positive advice, instead of just negative.

There's also SITG that I'd like to read. And there's a "Technical Incerto" which looks like a work-in-progress, but involves concrete statistics.

[edit] He's also tweeting the contents of a new Data Science course he's teaching at NYU. Be warned that Taleb is a bit of an arsehole on Twitter.
> I am sure I am not alone at chuckling at the idea [...]

You might want to hold back on your condescending laughter for a bit. Neither vim nor nano allow me to insert a control character by pressing Ctrl+key, so how am I supposed enter the FS character when editing a text file? Besides, there are other operating systems besides Unix and Linux (cough Windows cough).
I have a very difficult time believing what you say. You may believe it, and hey, maybe there is some odd causation for you, but in general, if carbs and fiber caused depression, then depression would be massively widespread, especially in the countries where rice is a staple. However, that is not the case.
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An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
Being on premises even mitigates two of the major tradeoffs with server side rendering, latency and matching demand to computational power and bandwidth.
For most disciplines, there are places on the web where esoteric information can be found. Wikipedia is very strong on math and computer science topics, and I recognize the feeling that you are describing of realising how much there is to learn. The hyperlinked nature of Wikipedia amplifies this.

The phenomenon of professionalization has probably made computing less of an intellectual activity, and more of a routine business. Is that what your perception is? It doesn't help that the signal-to-noise ratio is now much lower.
None of those are even close to teaching colleges. MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston University... those aren't just R1s, they're top-tier R1s. Located in one of the most expensive cities in the country, no less.

I'm talking about places with words like "south eastern" and "central" and "state" in their names. And SLACs with endowments below ~100M. In other words, I'm talking about the vast majority of universities and colleges -- the ones that aren't (literally) Harvard or MIT. Places that don't have phds programs, and maybe don't even have sizable masters populations.
There's one thing here I strongly agree with:

> There is no point developing new programming languages unless they're radically different from existing languages.

95% of the time, any language from the past few decades would work fine for what I'm doing, and I run into far more problems from languages changing than from languages lacking features. (Python 3 is the poster child for this right now, but I don't think it's even the worst offender.) One of my favorite languages is Common Lisp, and that hasn't changed since the 1980's.

There's also something here I strongly disagree with:

> Programs are composed almost entirely with the mouse rather than keyboard, and type inference and other checks take place while you edit your program.

If there's one thing that's true of all programmers today, on any platform, it's that they love their keyboards. You'll never get anywhere trying to get them to edit a program with just their mouse. Graphical programming languages are cool, but they need to incorporate keyboard editing. Like any IDE, you should be able to work with a mouse, but not required to. Put "graphical representation" and "mouse-only editing" in the same boat and the latter will sink the former.

I've known a couple programmers who hooked up foot pedals to their editors. I know nobody who's ever written programs with just a mouse. So based on my experience, you're going to have a tougher time selling anyone on this than if you'd made a programming language which required you to use your feet.
If you're building an airport you can presumably also build other infrastructure. I am not saying it needs to be reach it in 20 minutes via HSR, just that distance is not the problem infrastructure is.

Dulles airport was built 30 miles from DC in what was the middle of nowhere at the time even though DC already had an airport. "In 1965 Dulles averaged 89 airline operations a day while National Airport (now Reagan) averaged 600 despite not allowing jets." Dulles still does not have a subway link to DC, and it's not the closest airport yet it still sees 21 million passengers a year.
> From time to time I have reason to drive through or fly over (I know, hypocrite) West Texas, and passing through the oil fields one can literally watch the world burn. It’s unreal.

I suggest you take a flight over to China.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=cjsdgb406s3np_#...
There's a gap between a programmer and a mathematician. In future, new generation of programmers are also mathematicians, i think.
Indeed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794489
You should go get screened! I just finally got diagnosed at age 38, and it's shed so much insight into my life. Plus, medication can really make a real difference.
In Canada, pensions are close to the top of who gets paid out in bankruptcy. Doesn't help a lot, they just sell off all the pieces and pay off insiders before entering bankruptcy.
But what do you eat? Mostly fat and protein?
For someone who is just doing port blocking it's less obvious. The port numbers are the same on v4 and v6.
esp32 + button + lipo ~= [9,15]

Nice thing is you could easily have multiple buttons and lights for feedback.
Someone should do the same thing for filing complaints about homeless camps in San Francisco.
(None of these are affiliate links)

https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complex...

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsma...

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Softwar...

https://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Enterprise-Application-Archi...

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addiso...

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineeri...

And just because it’s asked at every interview.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-Addis...

I’m focused on AWS these days, but a lot of these principals are universal.

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-A...
I don’t see how it argues against exploring and learning about many programming techniques / language specifics / etc. By all means any practicing programmer should be investing to learn about these things.

It’s kind of like martial arts. You are encouraged to learn a huge variety of skills, mostly fundamentals but also esoteric advanced things.

But when it comes to actually using them in real life, you should try to avoid needing to use them at all costs, and even when you are absolutely forced to use the knowledge, use the simplest, most straightforward way to address only the problem at hand, never in excess or for personal interest.

It’s about self-discipline, to orient your code for the mind of an inexperienced novice despite the fact that your simple code might be solving state of the art problems.
Very impressive.

I have very similar requirements in that, I want my personal notes stored in an accessible plain text format (such as markdown). These plain text files which are then able to be sync'd across machines.

I ended up editing note files in a dropbox directory using sublime with the MarkdownEditing and FindInProject packages.

This results in a very clean plain-text experience, which is high extensible.
Depends on what your goal is. If you have children and you want to avoid accidentally seeing porn or being delivered a malicious ad, DNS based blocking can be a great tool. Also if you just want to improve the general security and performance of your home network.
When Sun bought Marsh Supermarkets, the company had three retirement plans. One for the top five Marsh executives, one for the store employees, and one for the warehouse workers.

Only the executives’ plan, however, was fully funded under the sales agreement: With the completion of Sun’s purchase, Marsh’s top five executives were to be awarded $14 million in retirement payments, according to company financial documents. Among them: CEO Don Marsh at $7 million and corporate counsel P. Lawrence Butt at $2.2 million.

Meanwhile, the other two retirement plans — the worker pensions — were short millions of dollars.
I'd take it like this: a rocket (doesn't have to be a big one) ride from London to Tahiti, land through whatever sporty means might be a delicious option, take off again from Tahiti, rocket around the globe a couple times for fun, then land back in dreary old London for business.

Gimme a good suit, and I'll land myself. ;)
I’m currently reading this book about the history of the DSN.

https://www.amazon.com/Uplink-Downlink-History-Space-Network...

Fascinating stuff. I wonder how they will manage the priority of getting that data back over the next two years? Timeshareing on the DSN has been a problem since the early 60’s.
Using the Amazon EC2 to determine key strengths of DES, AES, SHA2, RSA and ECC [pdf]
For an official guide on how to activate WeChat Pay without a China mobile number, what payment sources (primarily debit or credit cards issued by a mainland Chinese bank) are accepted, and what identity documents are accepted (including non-Chinese passports), you can go to WeChat's official Help Center site in English here:

https://help.wechat.com/cgi-bin/newreadtemplate?t=help_cente...

Perhaps the official docs offer a more clear explanation.
> people have limited time and resources, so don't be too hard on them (or they'll be less willing to help and investigate in future).

yes, clearly knocking out 911 service for millions of people isn't a problem. won't someone think of the poor programmers??
P-Hacking: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/
How does that scale? It's more than just 'branding' or pretty colours. What about actual featureS? There's the standard say there's the standard 'airline' app, that handles booking flights and then the lifetime of managing that booking. Reserving a seat and so on. Airlines build the data and the APIs, OS vendors (?) build the frontends.

Then Singapore Air or whoever comes out with a new product/service - you can book time in an onboard shower. The 'standard' doesn't allow for ancillary service bookies, so how does Singapore Air get this to their customers? Go through the 'standards body' and wait for that, rather than just building it into their own app that they control end-to-end.

In reality, there are too many variations between different companies offering the same service, that it would be rather infeasible to have a single contract they all follow (without compromise) to develop these provider-agnostic client apps.

In a way, browsers and native mobile SDKs is the solution to that problem - browser/OS vendors have created clients for common APIs and widget toolkits to create interfaces. The 'hard work' in delivery an application has already been done (no need for the bank to worry about HTTP, or building widgets like text fields), leaving them to delivery 'just' the layer on top of that.
Hex works too (tested on OS X):

ping 0x7f000001
PING 0x7f000001 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes

or, as a URL (tested in OS X Chrome, and the URL formatter of HN also shows it, with Chrome hover showing 127.0.0.1): https://0x7f000001/
Dictionaries are used ALL the time.
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A CD-ROM rots fast due to the deyes, but what about a normal pressed CD of aluminum? Those should be pretty stable. I have only seen those destroyed with sunlight.
Time management. Not only can it help you when dealing with deadlines, it can also help you manage multiple projects at once. Knowing how many hours to put into project A or B each day to still meet goals is pretty important. It can also bleed into your out-of-work life as well. Blocking off time to relax/learn/workout is important to get the most out of your day. It is definitely something I have struggled with but have seen results when actively trying to manage my time.
How I wish this was presented in blog post form instead
Think >60% acceptance rate, low 100MMs endowment.

(Even at 400K, "highly paid administrators" doesn't pass the smell test.)
Why not? Every space scientist would give thier entire career, every dollar ever spent by nasa, for even a hint of such a discovery. When gravity wave detectors were first turned on every scifi fan was hoping we would see warp drives buzzing around. That sense of wonder, of unlimited possibility, is the real reason we explore such distant places.
Actually, VIM does support this. Type Ctrl+V in insert mode followed by whatever you want to insert (e.g. Ctrl+\ for the ASCII FS character). VIM will insert the literal value of the control code into the buffer.
This is how the light from your phone breaks your internal clock
I've had commutes as far as 35+ miles / 1 hour, and as short as 1 block, and I can report that shorter is always better. Once you walk outside and cross the street, you're going to work.

You don't say what "difficulties" you had but I suspect that a difficulty solved by making something arbitrarily take 30 minutes longer actually has some other root cause. Nobody complains that sending email is 30 minutes faster than walking to the post office.

You don't say how you're commuting, but a sizable community of people commuting by car has a real burden on society.
Yeah it's definitely a numbers game. One of the distributors I contract for found that their upstream parts manufacturer stopped making a certain part, and they bid on and won the rights to the design and patent. The distributor did some research and found a Chinese (Taiwanese) manufacturer who could manufacture them at scale, sent a sample and a CAD packet, and about two months later received a 100 piece sample set for QA to go over. Every piece passed QA testing flawlessly, and was nearly indistinguishable from the original part. They placed an order for 400 more parts, and when those came in about one in four had issues making it inoperable. The quality control on the purchased, final product was horrible compared to the nearly perfect samples.

As a bonus, soon after the deal was finalized they discovered a Chinese vendor on eBay selling the (highly vertical market) part for a fraction of the retail price, but higher than their cost with the new manufacturer. It was obvious what was going on, but how do you sue a Chinese manufacturer who can close shop at the first sniff of lawyers and reopen six months later under a new name? They have the designs so they may as well own the IP, at least in China.

These are the kinds of mistakes a small business makes when trying to gamble and cut corners.
If you need time to unwind, take it in the evening before you get home. You still save time in the morning and can use that unwind time to exercise.
As another commenter says, any semblance of the private student loan industry was wiped out shortly after the financial crisis. All the US student debt is now essentially backstopped by the US Federal government (in quasi-government run institutions like Sallie Mae).

What will happen when this bubble bursts is that we will bail out the bad loans using US taxpayer money. This is another reason why universities can continue to raise tuition rates: they know there is significant political support to having the government "help students pay for college". The government tipped their hand regarding being open to outright forgiveness of debt by including a rule that they do full debt forgiveness if you go work for a non-profit right after school. This turns out to be a fantastic deal if you go to medical school. You can rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in med school loans, go get a job at non-profit hospital for several years (and get paid market rates for your skills!), and then saddle the US taxpayer with your med school loans.
It’s only ok because they’ve written all the laws for themselves. Of course the common person would not deem this to be ok.
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I’m gonna need a source for that Syria claim
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I'm not the best with Python, but if someone gave me that answer I'd feel like I avoided a land mine. Dicts, and analogous data types, are incredibly useful.
You might want to get some tests done on your gut microbiome. Fiber is really important for long term health. Inability to digest fiber is often indicative of gut flora issues.
Everyone could just link outline.com/<article> for WSJ posts
My experience with this type of intricate UI engineering is that often agencies and UI/UX consultants sell this romantic idea and fail miserably to execute on it. It is either that the agency way over extends itself on the theory that they leave no room in the budget for proper execution or the front end devs do not have the experience to do it right.
Perhaps, but the official docs (following your link) explicitly says: "At the current time, "Wallet" is only available to users registered in mainland China, Hong Kong, South Africa and Malaysia."

In other words, the official line is that I shouldn't be able to use WeChat payments.

The whole point of my blog post is that this official line is wrong.
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