skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to build and maintain the infrastructure (rail and overhead power lines.)

The ability to navigate the road freely -- trolley buses often have trouble circumnavigating badly parked cars in their way, sometimes causing the driver to get out to reattach the "prongs" to the wires.

Also, trams are somewhat prone to "tram jams" caused by one faulty streetcar blocking the railway. And they simply cannot get around a badly parked car.
Of course all things being equal a company that can borrow effectively unlimited amounts of money for free has an advantage or one that can't borrow.

But specifically how does that relate to start-ups and hurting growth?
You are being rather reactionary. If the premise of your questions was true, I would indeed find the situation as ridiculous as you do. But the problem was not just the stupid letter, it was the tone deaf way in which they disregarded any feedback in the conversation that ensued. They were hired to be mentors for these students (separately from their faculty positions) but made no honest attempt to listen to them, which resulted in everyone being frustrated.
Thing I learned about the two bad professors in the school of engineering I went to was the Chair was beyond sick of their shit.
I accept your reason, and will avoid further comments here on this topic. But I wish to clarify (to you) that I did not call anyone names. I called the term Islamphobia "stupid", because nothing good comes from using such a term.

It's not a real word. You allowed the comment on a tribute thread, to imply that Australia is to blame for the man's death, due to its racism/phobias.

A psychopath was to blame for NZ, not whatever that linked PDF on parent comment accuses Australia of. As an Australian, I can assure you we are hurting down here and in shock. But I will refrain from this point.
It is a common concern with reforestation, it seems: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/this-is-load-of-...
Sadly this feeling is only going to get more common
In Common Lisp, DEFUN runs side effect code at compile time. For example it notes the function in the compile-time environment, it may record its definition/the location of the definition, ... It also may rewrite the code it defines: for example by adding some declarations, etc.
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why would you ever close tabs?
From your comment I am left to believe we are not talking about the same event? Could you describe what you think happened? Do you think this whole debacle was really over one stupid letter? As I described elsewhere, the letter just started a conversation. The tone deaf responses in that conversation is what escalated the situation.
I for one was not speaking for US Telecoms whatsoever.
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Okay, but if you have macros, you might as well use them. The idea is more about exploring what can be done when designing a less powerful language, without macros.
I used to have microsoft@<isp> as an email address, and would occasionally get complaints about blue screens or other Windows related issues. People did not know how email worked in that time.
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Couldn’t you make the apps free to install, but then allow in-app payments to be made as a donation?

You would want to carefully control your messaging to make it clear to your prospective customers why you’re going this route, otherwise they might be scared off the free-to-play model, but it should still be do-able.
I assume there were many more trees in the same watershed before man chopped them down for pasture and cities.
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If I had a dollar for every explanation of complex numbers that is basically just "A complex number is a real number plus an imaginary component, where i = sqrt(1)" I would almost have enough money to go back to uni and study math. It's far enough through the curriculum that most people get through the class by symbolic pattern matching and algorithmic question-answering rather than actual understanding (I studied EE), and I am pretty certain that even most (note, most) professors only really understand them as a quirky trick of our mathematical system. Ask them to explain it in English, not just as a mathematical definition, they all seem to come unstuck.

This old but very good lecture series really helped me - I can at least accept that complex numbers are not some ficticious hack now - but I confess I still dont have an intuitive grasp of complex numbers.

https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU
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If I understand the Wikipedia page for SGD correctly, it’s the Robbins Siegmund theorem.
Thank you for responding,

My thought process was,
Larger the number of job postings, easier it would be to change companies (provided one has good enough coding skills).

Can you please elaborate on how to identify niche?
Depends on how you view borrowing. They don't get access to fixed rates, and have to sell off promises of future revenue in exchange for money up front instead. It's all financing in the end, whether you get it from bond issuance or equity issuance.
I don't agree with the pattern discussed here and actually like smart models (I want to tell my model "do the thing", not write and babysit a bureaucratic coordinator service. But, since you asked, it's common in other frameworks like Spring to have a "service" layer that sits between your controller and model layers. The service layer has the logic, and the models are just storage.
> Where did this Lisp runtime come from, and why would one expect it to be tuned for anything but running Lisp programs?

In this case, it's running a program which very itself easily runs Lisp programs given to it as a source code data structure. That we normally don't expect. For instance, in C language run-time, though it of course supports running compiled C programs, it doesn't provide a straightforward way for one of these programs to itself process C programs. A C program that interprets a decent subset of C is pretty complicated. It has to provide a number of data structures, of course a parser (because C programs don't have a data structural representation) and memory management for the parse time and run-time and so on. The C-processing C program can't even ask for a function by name so that it could resolve a function call out to the native run-time. This is possible with some operating system extensions (dynamic symbols). That just solves the name resolution problem: then there is the problem of dynamically constructing the argument list for a function call and executing it. This requires a library not supplied in the C language such as GNU ffcall, or libffi. Think about it: a C interpreter for C needs to use a FFI mechanism (first F == foreign!) to expose the C run time to the interpreted C, and that FFI is far from a standard language feature. Lisp just resolves a symbol and calls apply and that's it; nothing is foreign: no visas have to be issued, no passports are stamped.
Half that value.
I agree! Let’s all wear flannel and be slackers!

You’re doing a throw back to the nineties comment, right?
Now my friend is swearing at that. He had to work that night. :D To understand the problem.
Economic signaling is a thing in economics [0] and it isn't talked about much as while they are jobs that do "require" college degrees while not really using the education taught and thus just essentially use it as a signal, most economists think lots of useful concepts taught in school are used in higher skilled jobs requiring degrees and thus aren't just used as a signal.

This guy likely just picked an economic topic that isn't talked about much and wrote a book about it to sell his brand/make money by focusing on the minority cases and using clickbait articles like this where he equates all college degrees as useless signalling and thus not worth the cost of education to promote it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
Agree with a lot of these, particularly the ones that prevent misclicks (changing the data "underneath you" when you have something else selected, or "enter" doing something unexpected).

However, strongly disagree with the sorting and preference guidelines. In general the autocomplete should match the intention of what the user is trying to accomplish which is going to vary widely depending on context. Sometimes that's the shortest lexical thing, sometimes geo matters, sometimes recency of usage matters, etc.
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confirmed... worst website experience this far in 2019! and I tried both Chrome and Safari!

Seriously Volk Fi: fix this asap (like before you continue working on your business)
How is wildfire automatically a bigger threat with more trees? Is it because with more trees given the same quantity of water, the drier wood helps the fire spreads more quickly? Or perhaps the forest is more densely populated? But that doesn't increase the vulnerable area. Pardon my ignorance, I'd like to know more.
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Most days May through September experience an average high of actual temperature of around 120F each day with 100% sunshine. Its the heat index that brings it up to about 140F. You have to understand that during the summer here there is relatively lower humidity during peak sunlight which refracts less light before hitting the ground. The ground here is also highly reflective of heat, which is felt at least 5 to 6 feet off the ground (the height of most people).

Another way to look at (and there is a lot of data on this) is which nations produce the most CO2 per capita and then work backwards asking why that is.
People who live near wind turbines prefer them to solar and fossil plants
100 tabs open on my iPad. Probably a similar on my iPhone. Far more on my desktop. The problem is that nobody has come up with a decent way to handle tabs.
Correct, Creative Commons recommends using alternate licenses for code. See “Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?”, https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

Creative Commons licenses are good for documentation and manuals.
Software engineering talent is in extremely high demand and the supply is limited. You can find a job that pays well and provides excellent work-life balance. A good engineer that enforces very strong work-life boundaries is a still better than no engineer and that's the decision many companies are faced with. But you won't be paid or professionally respected quite as much as those that put in the hours - which seems like a perfectly fair trade off.
Just anecdotal; I bought the previous gen x360 because reviews said it had good battery life. I find it a terrible machine; I get maybe 2 hours of battery out of it since I bought it; I went back many times and they say it is my usage (Chrome and Visual Studio) but other laptops do not have the same troubles. Also, it seems to have incredibly inefficient standby battery usage; again HP says it is normal ‘for my usage’. I would never buy again.
Thank you for responding,
Can you suggest technology tracks, which current C++ Dev can migrate to without much effort.
And still be relevant and in demand 5-6years down the line
I used to have a poetteringware mask, but I had to let pulseaudio slide (but without udev and systemd (eudev works well)) because I couldn't find support for my non-standard setup anywhere for alsa.

Your point is super valid and it makes me sad, I donate/try to support as much as I can but the amount of developers that are apatheic to niche cases is increasing day by day.
Hydrogen is a mistake anyways, they should make syngas instead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas and then Substitute natural gas (SNG) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_natural_gas

And if you check the articles people already make those. I guess their "new thing" is using grass? switchgrass is usually considered the best plant for this.

I don't really understand why they are reinventing things that already exist.
Last LG I bought came with some vanilla non-Chrome browser preinstalled. I don't know if from AOSP or from LG themselves. Has that changed in the last years? If not, how does this affect companies like LG?
Let's face it, most of those student are frustrated affirmative action type of students with chip on their shoulder. They don't belong there and whatever they achieve in life is dependent on keeping those handouts based on identity and outrage.
There's a difference between disagreeing, and being brought to tears by the fact that a college professor's wife said that adults should be able to pick their own Halloween costumes and explicitly calling for said professor to be fired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMVx2C5_Wg

This video was surreal, I had trouble convincing myself this wasn't some sort of hoax.
I don't know. You're making the leap to suggest that 33% of Americans are responsible for 90% of the innovation. I don't think that's the case at all. It's probably more like 0.1% of Americans are responsible for 90% of innovation. Or in other words, 32.9% of the population of Bachelor degree holders don't add any more innovative value than the 67% of non-Bachelor holders.

Or to put it another way, there isn't a direct correlation between Bachelor's holders and innovators. Sure there are some ridiculously smart people out there, and probably most of them have some formal higher education. But their education probably isn't what made them ridiculously smart; instead it was probably their education that helped shape their thinking and possibly opened some doors.

And of course there are many examples of innovations that came from people without degrees. Many technology company founders that we would today consider innovative did not necessarily hold a Bachelor's degree.

In short, I think your connection that 33% of Americans are automatically innovative just because they have a degree is quite the stretch. A degree doesn't have any correlation to ones aptitude for innovation.
Possibly a better example, with a DC-10 instructor on the plane as a passenger being pressed into service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
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Bad faith doesn't require lack of sincere belief. Perhaps the most common form of bad-faith disagreement is when you disagree with someone and are unwilling to really listen to what they say for fear that it would cause you to rethink your current sincere belief.

What I'm saying is that it seems likely the students understand exactly what was written in that latter and how the argument in that letter could be steelmanned, and that they also understand their own point of view in depth, and they should not be dismissed as people so wrong as to be un-serious debaters.
Not a "weird" take. Conflict resolution is never simple even when you involve people who know what they are doing. It takes training and a whole lot of discipline to produce good outcomes.

Throw people who are untrained into the situation and invite our polarizing media to the event and bad outcomes are more or less guaranteed.

Christakis isn't a trained psychologist. I am a fan of his work on network effects and he didn't cause unnecessary further escalation, but he still wasn't the right guy to send into that quad. Send in a Marshall Rosenberg and the outcome would have been different.
Every software company I've heard of in the US offers equity...
If there some sort of language barrier because half of you in this sub-thread are talking about escalators and the other half elevators.
Leave it to humans to develop convuluted engineering for problems nature already solved but we destroyed, just to avoid solving the real problem: we eat way too much fish and meat.
The comparison of how much faster our electrified trolley busses here in hilly Seattle compared to traditional busses is pretty stark, the instant, linear torque is really hard to come close to equaling with a combustion engine.

eBikes with mid-drive motors like the BBSHD also have this kind of torque, it can be really fun to ride them due to that. With electric motors, you choose between torque and top RPMs based on how thick your wire is, the thicker the copper the more torque you'll see (and consequently, lower top speed).
Ctrl-, (or Ctrl-T) in Visual Studio (...not VS Code) drives me nuts in this regard. It takes about 2-4 seconds before you can safely select an option without fearing it will be taken away by sleight of hand.
On Gboard every time I try to type the word "don't" I type d-o, see the suggestion in the middle, and start reaching for it while I press the "n"... only to have it type Don, the proper name of nobody in my contacts.
In Europe the culture you're describing is pretty much non-existent, yet far-right parties are on the rise everywhere.

I don't think there's a causal relationship, perhaps it exacerbates the issue yes, but it's not the cause of it.

I think far-right rhetoric is just too easy to digest, a clear group of enemies is identified for you (just like it is for the people on the left you described). And digging deeper and analyzing an increasingly complex socioeconomical situation, where things interconnect on a global level, is becoming harder and harder, so the inherent tribalism in us drives us to adopt those easy answers.
Practicality is an issue though. Mostly because of our current regulation, must be said.
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> The problem is we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work. Money isn't the problem.

Money IS the problem. And the root is an inability to have continuous political will.

The issue is that San Francisco never voted to schedule replacement of 10% of escalators every year.

So, San Francisco voted to go from almost zero spending on escalator maintenance to a large single burst outlay which will go back to zero after the aforementioned 7 years.

What do the escalator mechanics do when the spending goes back to zero?
A few of us built a webgl game backend in Java. It was fun but optimizing to make everything always work within 16ms was hard. In our case it was especially complicated because we shared state over websockets back to the clients.
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What about the tribalism and outrage culture on the right, that various civil rights movements has been fighting for decades, now? The right's been outraged over all sorts of things, most of which having no effect on it (Gay rights, for one - the amount of outrage that people opposed to them have voice over the years is staggering), has engaged in decades of tone policing, and is incredibly tribal.

Does your theory explain why having to put up with decades of this sort of thing hasn't galvanized a Trump-of-the-left into power?
Not advocating against electric cars so much as for research into more than just electric cars.
It certainly can be. It doesn't have to be thought. It really depends a lot on your team. I've worked on teams where building large scale, but minimal, well tested systems was their bread and butter. I've also worked on teams where hooking up existing frameworks was what they were comfortable with and any footstep taken outside of that activity was marked with considerable rancour. Not invented here syndrome is also a real thing and sometimes people sit there building "game engines" instead of "games" ;-) On the other hand "Invented here" syndrome is also a real thing and sometimes people completely panic when faced with the thought of writing something novel. You need to go with your team.

I think it was Alan Kay who summed it up best: If your team is capable of building a compiler, you must build a compiler. If your team is not capable of building a compiler, you must not build a compiler. That matches my experience exactly ;-)
> In the Bay Area, in San Francisco specifically, voters allocated funds to fix or replace every single Bart escalator. The best hope we have for completing this job is 7 years. Yes you read this correctly 7 years. The problem is we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work. Money isn't the problem.

There are 35000 escalators in the US. If a typical escalator needs to be replaced every 35 years, that works out to about 1000 escalator replacements a year.

I can't find offhand any data on this, but I'd expect that most escalator installations are only a few escalators, and so that the demand for about 1000 replacements per year is pretty steady.

Thus, I'd expect that there would be about enough mechanics to handle 1000 per year, without much excess capacity.

BART has 175 escalators. That job is big enough that to do it in one year would take over 17% of the nation's escalator installation capacity. That seems like a job sufficiently out of the ordinary that it is not surprising that it has to be spread over a few years.

I used 35 years lifetime, which I got from the escalators in a manufacturer's brochure I found--it had one that was rated 30 years and one 35-40, so I took 35. But these were heavy duty escalators. Other sources suggested 25 years, or 15-20 years. If you use a lower average life, you get more mechanics needed per year.

Regardless of the lifetime used, I expect that the year to year demand will be pretty steady, and BART's 175 will still represent a very big spike.
This tool is called jlink. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/jlink.htm
The student's concerns about costumes were heard, some advice was given apparently, and that's all any academic organization or otherwise should have to contend with.

That's the end of the story.

There's no reason for the faculty to have to address it further.

Whether or not responses were 'tone deaf' it subjective, and certainly besides the point with respect to anyone being fired.

Students who bullied the staff should have been admonished (or possibly expelled), not the other way around.
The whole article reads like middle-aged man's crying for attention.

Well, i guess could be worse though. For example, over a decade Yale's professor (now moved to Oxford) Stathis Kalyvas has even tried to whitewash the greek military dictatorship.

Anyway, it's only a healthy sign that young people don't stay silent to racism.
Developers wanting to get paid while refusing to buy their tools are also to blame.

In the end, working for such corporations is the only way to actually be paid when one wants to have a daily job in software tooling.
Collective control over the collective direction of the collective labor. Unions, at least in practice, are only good for the majority of the laborers and definitely not good for independent control over your own work.
This is a complaint to the EU...
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> Not everyone is cut out for college.

Actually I quite think it's the opposite.

We should be saying, "Not everyone is cut out for escalator mechanic."

Those who aren't cut out for "real" work and traditional vocational education end up going to college to get useless marketing or business degrees. Plumbers, electricians, heavy machinery operators, drafters, are all making really good money historically due to the demands you're describing.

The "easy" path these days is to go to college.
Strange, our production code is full of streams and lambdas. It probably depends on the type of product.
Maven is an incredible system. It can do so much and yet, even though I've setup countless apps and services, I can never use it without looking literally everything up.

Maven and spring are the worst parts, for me, when dealing with Java. I don't mind the language at all.
It is a problem with reforestation since its very beginning, not sure why China is singled out here for repeating the West’s mistakes.