skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never suggested looking to them for moral guidance. I was responding to op's quote "inmates or criminals have a higher rate of mental and physical diseases, as well as bitterness, grievances and other factors that skews their vision of reality, and make them judge situations differently from people who are not inmates".

According to the ACLU, over half of arrests in 2010 were for Marijuana possession (https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers). I can guarantee that most of those arrested were not upper class trust fund kids even though those same kids likely used drugs at the very least an equal rate than those arrested. In addition, once arrested, those without the means to hire a good attorney are much more likely to either be convicted and sentenced to jail time or become stuck in the criminal justice system. Should we doubt the moral character of all those that used marijuana or only those that were arrested and incarcerated?

I did plenty of drugs when I was younger but was never arrested. I was even pulled over while underage and released without being charged even though I had a ton of beer in my vehicle (I was not drinking yet). Is my sense of morality better than those that were arrested for the same crime? Sometimes the system is unfair and those without resources live much harsher versions of it. It does not make them any more or less moral than those that are able to live the nicer version of the same system due to having richer parents or a more desirable skin tone.

With that said I am not defending people who commit violent crimes. Another interesting avenue to explore is why only one person was jailed in the US on charges related to the 2008 collapse. Were the people responsible for that more moral than the people jailed for drug possession?
Trees are easy in Rust. It's graphs that are harder.
>This is nonsense.

You're actually just confirming what the article states and slightly disagreeing with the means to obtain DHA and dosage.

DHA is vital to the fattest organ in our body, the brain.
Point is that they picked the word vegetable to make it sound healthy and palatable. Before that these plant oils weren't used for consumption at all. The term vegetable is merely a marketing ploy. It's not me being nitpicking, it's a nefarious act.
This is true for the bottom ~80% of the industry. The top ~20% of tech companies actually care about quality (as well as speed of implementation). You cannot deliver a shitty solution quickly and call it a day.
20 yrs ago? I am shocked. I thought this was just a 2000 shit. I felt 1900 was a time when there was a respect and a good relation was treasured. Did the one you end up with, treat you right from the beginning? Any tips or advice?

You are true, I am bloodly fedup with this shit. I am not an animal nor have I treated woman badly, I dont find a need to apologize for some other guys shit. This is the same sentiment with all my friends. I am not going to sugarcoat or feel bad for who I am. Like me as I am, if it happens, it happens. I don't mind if I end up alone. I rather be single, than tied up to a monster and awaiting the sweet relief of death.

Plus, if a girl only knows the shitty type of guy, I wonder what is so messed up in her that all the jerks are just drawn to her or may be she just hates to admit it to herself, that she wants shit. I distance myself from girls like that. You cannot respect me, there is nothing. Mutual respect is vital.
"The real problem is that [we] spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times"
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You get what you measure.
Because it doesn't take inyo account CAC, which might be higher than the profits made per customer.
> If you have an use case A, create a handle_a flag. If you have a use case B create handle_b flag even if they do exactly the same thing as more than likely they do exactly the same thing only for now.

A hard lesson to learn, and a hard rule to push for with others who have not yet learned.

Imagine what our species could do if experience were directly and easily transferable...
> And of course there’s always a boss somewhere, whether it’s the client or the bank or something else.

Yes. To paraphrase Don Lancaster, it's better to get one nickel each from 100 different sources than 100 nickels from a single source. When someone is supplying all your nickels, they begin to think they own you in some way and will dictate how you do business (for instance, by requiring you to work in a particular place and time). When you get one nickel from each, then you are free to get rid of the sources that become overly demanding.
Missed a huge opportunity to sell it for $1 per quarter ($1.$1.$1.$1/yr)

People willingly pay $5-10/mo for a VPN that is nowhere near this level.
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You've built a product (warp) based on Wireguard and refused to work with the upstream project - so saying that you're pushing standards is far more nuanced than you make it seem - at best.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500725
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I understand that point. My point is that it is possible to do well without animal products. I am not saying people should do that but there are plenty of examples where it works.
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That does look interesting, thank you for the recommendation.
I got the Dell P4317Q in December. Still $699 at MicroCenter.

It look a bit longer (about 2-3 weeks) to get used to it, and I initially even thought of going back to a 27" 4K, but now I absolutely love it.

Using it with a Gnome desktop and no scaling.

I typically sit 1 meter away (3 feet).

You can feed it either a single 4K signal or 4x 1080p signals. I've been meaning to experiment with multi 1080p functionality, but so far for me it's been used as a single display.

Only really use it with Netflix or VLC for "TV" functions (works great).

When working, I typically split it into thirds (so mostly portrait mode for each application).
Speaking of this, my computer just switched from displaying Chinese by default to displaying Japanese. I was able to configure Firefox back to Chinese, but couldn't figure out how to set Windows 10 back. It only really affects me if I happen to be typing Chinese in Notepad, but still, it's annoying. Do you know how?
How do you check for those things in an interview? I'm not suggesting you can't, I'm genuinely asking.
Symfony is a great php framework too
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Bring back Inbox! And Google Reader while you're at it
Hey! I actually like Ikea stuff.

I don't know any other company that would replace 25 year old kitchen cabinets with new ones due to warranty. After 25 years you might wanna update your kitchen anyway.

Also, even though the cabinets may be "cheap" the design can be really clever. Plus the hardware on the kitchen stuff is high-end and you won't see it until you spend big bucks.

I agree with your other points. I can afford a big house, yet I bought a 1500 sq ft home in a nice neighborhood. No high ceilings and should enough for a family of 4.
>like beheading the King and building a democratic state

Beheading the king has never lead to a democratic state.

The end of segregation as well as suffrage were achieved by slow evolutionary process.

Revolutions and radical means had never achieved anything but chaos, mass slaughter and poverty.
This is far too large a problem for individual buying decisions to make much of a dent. But if you're against trade, maybe tariffs will do it?
Wireguard might be using UDP, but you're still tunneling TCP on top of it. So the congestion control is still there and kicking.
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> This article isn't correct. The human body synthesizes DHA from short-chain omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which can be found in things like hemp, flax, algae, pumpkin seeds, etc.

That's true, but is that pathway effective enough to effectively provide what the body needs for optimal function? IIRC, the ALA -> DHA pathway is quite rate limited.

> I have a hard time believing anything said about the need for certain kinds of nutrients. I've done all-cheese diets, all-meat diets, and all-plant diets for months on end with no serious side effects other than constipation and boredom of eating a monodiet. The human body is resilient and doesn't need to be fed as much as people think.

I don't think a few anecdotal short-term experiments with extreme diets say much about what the human body needs to function well. The human body can be somewhat resilient in the face of malnourishment, but it doesn't follow from that malnourishment is an acceptable state.

It's sort of like this: If you've got a four-server cluster for your application, would you rather it be in a state where two offline due to hardware failures, or would you rather they all be functioning normally? The former might be an example of "resilience," but your users might also be experiencing slowness issues due to the reduced capacity.
I'm Jewish, and everything I've heard about how the Uyghurs in China are treated reminds me exactly of how my people were treated in Nazi Germany.

The comparison is appropriate.
I believed eggs were not fertilized, no?
Could be. The most damning accusations aren't just that he was all murdery or sexually improper, though, it's that he spent all the money. Tiberius has a lot of rumors spread about him for being a sexual deviant and handing Sejanus the keys to the 29AD Fiat Purgero, but I'm not aware of sources that allege that he didn't govern tolerably and with some level of restraint until he disappeared to his villa for the rest of his life. Caligula gets roasted for being a weird sex pest and for being a profligate spender who trashed the economy (the most sympathetic interpretation thereof being that he didn't want to say no, because saying yes made people like him, and making people like him might keep him alive longer/make him more beloved as emperor.

IIRC the purges and the rumors about Caligula mostly started after a serious illness in 37AD, where he might have just literally gone around the bend? But I'm definitely not ruling out the possibility that Caligula was played up after his death, though. If you look back at pre-Republican mythology (it ain't quite history), the seven kings of Rome are all caricatures. Caligula could definitely just be The Crazy One.

In any case, Rome put up with some real wacky characters as emperor so long as they didn't bankrupt the empire.
> waitress, stewardess, actress, governess, baxter

I use all of those other than baxter! Seems only polite; I'd be offended were I an actress and others called me an actor.
You are REALLY going with, "But think of all the GOOD things Nazis (regardless of the era) did."

I mean, there's literally no responses to that. I'll pray for you.
So, given the option of:

1. An economic plan that you disagree with, that would avoid catastrophic climate change.

2. An economic plan that you agree with, that leads to catastrophic climate change.

You prefer #1?
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> Your employer is not your agent. He doesn’t work for you.

No, but I work for him. If an agent working for me would also be an antagonistic relationship, then what use is the agent?

A good employer cares about more than just what their employees cost. At the very least, happy employees are productive employees. Employees that don't feel appreciated are not happy employees.

An employer who will only give you a raise after you've found a better offer elsewhere is a bad employer.
Louis from their team left a very interesting article on Medium and I reached out to them.

Love your product, useloom, btw. That's what we use for customer onboarding.
Ever heard of R&D...?
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> I've seen companies not using source control

> ...all changes are being made directly on the production servers via SFTP

I know this used to be common, but recently? Curious how often this is still the case.
It had been "silent" for about 300 years when Pompeii was destroyed. And before that, it had mainly had small series of low-level eruptions. Basically, for much of known history at that time, it was a safe place to live.
The article says a 90% reduction in cholesterol for the impossible burger, but shouldn't a vegetarian option have 0 cholesterol?
Distributism is great because it is a third way; some are afraid of too much corporate power, some are afraid of too much government power, but distributists are wary of anyone having too much power and are able to provide a solution for that.

However, there has to be a shift in consumers' mindsets for distributism to be embraced. One of the great things that capitalism/economies of scale does is drive prices down. A $100 grocery bill at Walmart could be $120 or more at the local grocery store, and for a lot of people that $20 makes a real difference. People rail against big banks, but don't mind the cheaper mortgages. And so on.

Distributism has a lot of benefits, but in most of the cases that matter, price, selection, and oftentimes convenience are not benefits, and that's what we seem to optimize for. It requires a different set of priorities.
Oddly https://8.8.8.8 doesn't have a legit cert though (even though the cert for 8888.google does have an IP address alt)
Many native English speakers have a certain obsession with France and the French language that doesn't happen with other counties and their languages. It's really strange. For example, in the US, speaking French is considered a particular accomplishment and a sign of good breeding, much more so than with any other second language.

I'm not sure what it's about. Maybe a holdover from French being the language of the English aristocracy during the middle ages?
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China certainly is expanding. It just signed an economic deal with Italy. It's been making economic deals with poor African countries, indebting them to China, for years. It has plans to "reunite" with Taiwan in time for its next centennial celebration. These are just a few examples. You're either ignorant or lying.
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Spend 10 minutes in some of the FB comment threads for a major news article and just look at all the toolbags citing Breitbart and/or Mother Jones as journalism and then come back and tell me that election integrity is media hysteria.

Facebook is the only place some of these people get their "news" and Facebook does nothing to distinguish an opinion blog from an actual journalist. We have millions of people flocking to Alex Jones for information and calling into question the authenticity of Reuters.

That and it's 2019 and we don't even have a secure MEANS of voting. We can make Facebook, which is probably a billion LOC with hardly any security flaws yet our voting machines have default credentials of admin/admin and run on decade old technology that has never been peer reviewed.
This is a really good point.

My understanding is that UPS has partially bypassed this by setting per-route targets which update independently, but within a multi-driver route it could still apply. FedEx dodged it by franchising so that slow workers outright went into debt to the company, but then got sued on employees-as-contractors grounds. Overall, though, I think it's a huge and underrated effect limiting Taylorism. Designing strictly around efficient workers isn't viable if you can't find a lot of them, and using multiple workflows is rarely cost-effective.

There's a story in Rivethead about a car-assembly stamping job that was assigned to two people splitting tasks, but could be done by one person working very smoothly. New guys would do it in pairs, but experienced workers could each do a half-shift solo and duck out to the bar for the other half. As far as I know, time-motion studies never put an end to that, because it was too scarce a skill to schedule and organize for. (Of course, the inability to squeeze out more productivity has consequences for automation, but that's another story.)
The Cambridge Dictionary lists it as "-ll- or US usually -l-". Both are considered correct.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cancel
> assume libido is constant or normally distributed across populations

Ouch.
I've been away from Django for a few years, and hope to come back one day.

One thing I'm curious about, coming from well-typed JS codebases using Flow, is the quality of typings in major projects like Django, Pandas, etc. Are their APIs well-typed? Can I get quality types for my models?
Developers had a copy of code in a google drive... they'd modify it, zip it and overwrite the one in google drive, copy it to the network folder which would deploy it and delete it from the network folder... in 2016.
Yea, but we're talking a tech job here, not working as a barista at your local artisan coffee shop.
I use Django to build https://www.listennotes.com/ and https://www.listennotes.com/api/
And I think it's extremely harmful to delay these concepts for children like we do in the US.

I wasn't particularly smart growing up, but my parents always kept me up to date with the math and science curriculum they had at their respective ages in their own country. At least up until the end of middle school, the difference was astounding and had a dramatic effect on my academic (and thus future) success.
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The article mentions coconut oil which seems to be a big mystery. Some people say it's long chain saturated fat which is bad, but others say it's actually medium chain and good for you.
They explained derivatives to us on the first year of UK university CS degree.

Eastern european curriculum does that on the 10th or 11th year high school.
America doesn't need more acceleration, but nor does it need more deceleration, which is what this policy does. What they got rid of was: some kids are ready for Algebra in 8th grade, and they can take it. New policy is: everyone takes the same class, regardless of skill or preparation.
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I am still waiting for the kotlin and swift version
I think you're looking for the word "adversarial".
It can be rewarding, but there are a couple caveats.

First, management has to be willing to assign you to cleanup tasks, rather than have you work on new features.

Second, cleaning up spaghetti code safely and turning it into something maintainable is often not easy -- it wasn't written to be maintained! No tests, missing documentation, ill-considered interfaces...

It isn't enough to keep your head off the chopping block: management has to be fully on board.
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Sorry I don't want to come off as offensive and I didn't expect so much reaction to a simple denial. VCs have passed us on for far absurd reasons.