skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about proposing a false question under the pretense that you're going to take it regardless of the answer.

Your assumption that Instagram can grab anything they want just shows the normalcy of this type of behavior. Maybe we, as the consumers of these products, should step up and say that is not cool? If you do it to that person, what is to stop you from doing it to another in the future, to me?

I think it should also be a signal to any one that creates a brand, a business, on Instagram. Instagram can instantly snatch your livelihood without even contacting you.

I'm proposing people being human and remembering that just because a URL path might be a technical creation, there is still a human being behind that and we should treat people as we want to be treated.
Currently, the existing form also has a bias - towards CS and top CS universities. Yet I keep working with great self-taught engineers from a variety of disciplines, some of whom don't even have degrees. Maybe a shift in hiring wouldn't be a bad thing.

As for how, you could focus more on logical thinking, user experience considerations, technical writing, or other, softer skills.

For a lot of grads, we already have to re-teach them the language, as universities don't seem to give marks for consistent style/using linters/unittesting/best practices/comments/writing documentation etc. In the time it takes to break these bad habits, you can definitely teach somebody who's technical and done a basic programming course a lot of things.
But instagram.com/sussexroyal is a much more memorable URL than instagram.com/y2q9g6uo, and being able to find someone from remembering their handle is much better than remembering the handle and then wondering which of the multiple people called sussexroyal you're after when the search results come through

Needless to say, the most prominent and memorable identifier being non-unique has all sorts of uses for trolls and spambots too.
Thanks, let me know what you think :)
I would appreciate an intro course on this.
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So that was a rabbit hole if there ever was one. The Thai code of conduct got me. I think it was Thai, anyway.

The arguments they make for the actual system make sense to me and I want to see what else exists on the OS research front.
Being paid by the employer is an accounting gimmick meant to make the rate look lower than it is.
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You are questioning the study methodology without bothering to read it. The burden is on you to actually understand what you are talking about.
Deductions don’t affect FICA or sales taxes.
But, unless they're driving an electric car, wouldn't we expect that they do in the form of gas taxes?
Definitely have a look at https://tlsnotary.org/ !
But we already do that with homes, so why not be consistent and do it with cars?

Anyway, making walking and cycling as crappy as possible by giving people congested, polluted, dangerous streets is pretty inconsiderate to poor people as is.

And the article specifically mentions waivers for low income people.
Technical books are the exception for me. My entire library of physical books today is almost entirely technical books. Fiction and nonfiction are all ebooks. I read about a (fiction/nonfiction) book a week and am almost always also working on a technical book in the background (I run a technical book club in my company's engineering department).
The scale of mobility is different, in the USA you can be much more wealthy. That's thrkwd direct comparisons like this off. If every is relatively poor then mobility is really high and uncorrelated with parent wealth.
I've never gotten burned out from working too hard. I get burned out by having no say or control over what we are working on or how it's done, and by getting stuck working on low-value tasks for prolonged periods of time. Those projects are the ones that make me not excited at all to come to work.

It's usually because the client / product owner has no idea what they're doing but still insists on making all of the decisions with no input from users / developers / designers. And it sure sounds ridiculous, but it is the norm. Developers are viewed as people who do not want to participate in meetings or planning, and who exist on streams of work to do. If the developers run out of work, they'll go crazy! As long as we "keep them unblocked" and have tasks ready for them, we're doing our jobs and they'll be happy!
>> I generally will hire based on conversation alone (no coding tests)

>> If I can look at your Github, like what I see and you can back that up in a conversation, you're hired.

Wish more hiring managers followed this line of thinking
Same here on a N54L. Officially these machines only accept 8GB, but plenty of people say they run fine with 16GB.
Judging by my retros, I think other dev teams trying this will rapidly find that the answer to all 3 questions can be “no, but there’s nothing we can do about it!” Past a certain company size/amount of bureaucracy, simple agile seems nigh-on impossible.
This is a paper from 1994. C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s.
I don't think it's about morals and it doesn't apply to a product based business. This is about services. What would be odd is if I had to accept any client that walks in my door for custom development services because otherwise it would be considered discrimination.
> Needless to say, the most prominent and memorable identifier being non-unique has all sorts of uses for trolls and spambots too.

Sure, but it has more uses for people who would like to have a reasonable name. This is just the "knives can be used to kill people" argument.
Advocating process solutions over people solutions is precisely non-agile. If people are burning out, then you need to address that.

Estimation is hard. Accurate estimation is even harder. Doing it in the face of noon stationary scope is a fools game.

Who is in charge of estimating how long it will take to correctly break down a problem into accurately estimable sizes?
I just read a marvelous book called Handmade, by a fine furniture woodworker, and something he says over and over is "Go slow to go fast". The sales pitch to the business for a well-controlled agile process is that it maximizes productivity. Shifting priorities and poor planning undermine the productivity of the development team.
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There are still some things I had to fix, for instance: support payments from my parents, which are tax-deductible for them, and that I have to declare; the fact I got in a PACS [0].

If I moved abroad, I'd be worried some things like that get missed for whatever reason ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_solidarity_pact
You really think that? Why do we even have domain names then? Why don't we tell everyone to remember IP addresses?
>Freedom of press is a real thing in USA.

Interesting you think that way. From my observation in China government controls the media yes, but here capital controls the media no less. You can speak freely but the media wont necessarily distribute truth, they are free to distribute what makes the most money.
You're 100% correct in that one can cite completely valid facts and still push an agenda by omitting other facts. I'm actually working on a "fact comment section" feature where any reader can pin facts to an article (facts that still go through the same rigorous and open fact checking process as everything else). Facts which readers deem are important extra context.

However, I'd argue that even without such a feature, having an open standard for facts openly verified from primary sources will add a lot of value to current public discourse.
It's more a way to draw attention to the headline than anything.
>I really don't think running compares in terms of how stressful the sport is on the lungs.

Sounds like words spoken by a person who's never run a competitive 800m race. Maybe if you said swimming just barely edges out running in lung stress... sorry, but this claim is simply comical.
I don't think so. They may have a lead on battery tech etc., but I wouldn't say it's a commanding lead. Given a few other EV options that come close in range, other manufacturers seem likely to keep plugging away on their own tech rather than rely on someone else with marginal & decreasing advantages. On drive train, motors, etc., established manufacturers have decades more comparable experience they can bring to bear on these things.

For me the main question of Tesla is whether or not they can lower the cost fast enough to avoid having big manufacturers gobble up the low end of the market first. Volkswagen's MEB platform, for example, is set to come online with about 150,000 vehicles in 2020, a projected range around 300 miles, and cost in the $21,000 area. Will Tesla's still be nicer? Very likely. Will that matter? Not to people looking to spend under $30,000 for the their next car.
Java has checked exceptions (which honestly is more like error-return) and the innerException property is used extensively to hold the "real" exception and, of course, it's type is just "Exception".

Making the real error types part of the signature of the method means that implementation changes require changing the signature, completely breaking encapsulation. In fact, I'd argue it makes polymorphism completely impossible.
FWIW I reported it to PHPs bugtracker:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77843

I expect that it'll be fixed, not not handled as a security issue, as it doesn't fit within PHPs model of security vulns.
If taking monads to Rust takes such convoluted code, my conclusion would be that it probably isn't a good fit. Compared to this, Haskell is a breeze.
> I watch movies at an accelerated speed

This sounds so depressing I want to scream.
The Planet Money podcast just had an episode on this topic ("Joe Bankman, professor at Stanford, figured out a way to make filing your taxes easy and painless. Then the tax lobby found out about it.")

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
I'm not saying that conclusion is incorrect, but I'm not convinced by the article's preemptive rebuttal to the population heatmap counterargument. To its credit the article mentions it:

> The sociologist Kieran Healy has joked that most data visualization maps of the US show one of two things: population density or the percentage of the population that’s black. This is decidedly one of the latter maps, with the notable additions of heavily Latino counties in southern Texas and Indian reservations in South Dakota and Montana.

However...statistics are pernicious. This is an extraordinary accusation, and before I accept it as true I'd like to see more due diligence to ensure there isn't (for example) a stray, superfluous correlation between population density and Hispanic/Black demographics at play here.

With that aside, this looks like something that should definitely be investigated more thoroughly. Even if this is ultimately a side effect of minority groups being correlated with greater population density (and I don't know if that's true, to be clear), the ultimate consequence looks pretty negative.
>"During such events, massive amounts of heavy metals are formed. This collision, for instance, produced a lump of gold with the mass of our planet in just a split second."

We need to find a localized wormhole and go mine that.
Absolutely, Tesla will be motivated to sell this inventory that can no longer be described as new vehicles. They can easily repair the reported problems and describe them as "re-certified" and you can probably get a significant discount (10%?).
The actual vocabulary used when speaking to superiors in many asian languages also tends to be more verbose and subdued in meaning, as opposed to sharp and concise.
It may surprise some of you but the idea of "elite school" is unknown to a good percent, possibly the majority, of people even in the US. I went to an "elite school" and my GF didn't think much of it. She just thought that it's a school where a lot of politicians and rich people send their kids but didn't infer any special status or qualifications from that observation. In some ways, she's absolutely right but culturally among some circles the idea of "elite school" exists and value is placed on that idea. It happens that the same circle of people who hold this idea are often themselves "elite" or at the very least privileged in some ways. So by labelling MIT "elite" the news article is signaling to people that this news is a "big deal".
I don't think your op was arguing against roads, I think they were more arguing that the cost algorithm is wonky for those roads - for some reason, people that chose the significantly more road- and space- and environmentally- damaging option of the SUV while on that road are paying the same to use it as the bicyclist.
The lang team would be in charge of these kinds of features, and I'm not on it, so I can't totally say. There are certainly members who do want this stuff. However, community sentiment is all over the map. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/b6bu2c/idiomatic_mona... is the reddit thread on this post, you can see a number of different opinions expressed there.

I personally want to see examples of real Rust code that has a problem that this solves. I get monads, I like monads in Haskell, but I'm unconvinced that the additional complexity is worth it in Rust.
It’s changing pretty quickly at big companies; most of my friends are in a similar position. If you’re already working on a global team, it doesn’t matter much where you sit.
I always browse in Private Mode, but NYtimes has started to block reading in that mode.
This is an amazing case of whataboutism.
My worry with a mandatory one-week vacation every month is that people won't take the vacation - they'll use the time to make progress on features or other work-related projects. Burnout isn't solved by a simple "You must spend this time away from your keyboard and this time at your keyboard," and some of the most difficult burnout for me to work through has been when a problem has seized hold of my mind and I've felt compelled to keep working on evenings even when I clearly wasn't making progress.

If you end up in a situation where the document on paper says everyone's taking time off to surf and paint and the actual practice is that some contributors are doing work during this time—and, almost certainly, not getting punished and in fact getting promoted for doing so (perhaps because they commit locally and rebase so nobody knows they were working during this time)—you're going to end up with way more frustration, burnout, and uncontrolled work schedules than you ever started with.
Technique buys you so much more speed and/or efficiency in swimming compared to cycling or running. Those that lack good technique will thrash themselves into a tired mess in order to keep up with the others on the swim.

Some swim coaching, and subsequent drills in your usual training, would soon get you on your way to enjoying the swim part of a triathlon and stop it being horrendous.

The cheap and less effective method is simply watching/studying this video every time before you go to the pool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HhNlysFDs and then watching it afterwards and thinking about your own stroke.
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I think I missed the part of the Constitution that prohibits a telecommunications company from determining which devices can operate on its network.
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Berkeley, you're nuts. This is super cool.
thank you for saying this !
The environmental "externalities" world is exactly like this! Saving generations of [insert-charismatic-species] from extinction in the wild is NOT PROFITABLE and will, in certain cases, be HIDDEN from investors and regulators.
Must it be a crushing burden on the poor?

I'm not advocating for a purely consumption based tax system but, if we were to have one, it seems to me that a small amount of ingenuity in the design of the tax scheme could mitigate that problem almost entirely.
I've got some 'Best of HN' comment sections printed out and stuffed underneath the mattress.
You might only be able to handle restartable network exceptions. In my case, that might be a single base type. So I put a try block in where I can handle that exception (where my network code starts) and I'm done.

Do I need to check the return type of the thousands of methods that might make up that operation? Nope. Typed errors make me do a lot of work passing stuff around and declaring types that literally don't matter. If somebody adds a new method that does another network call, I'm still good and I didn't have to do anything.
I agree with cimmanom. Alot of it is definitely subconscious.I would say it doesn't matter, but I can think of many times where I saw a resume and completely dismissed the person because I couldn't quickly understand where the important information was.

When I am reading through hundreds of resumes, I really just want to see the important information about someone's work history quickly to make a decision whether to add them to the pile or not.
Have you wondered why Xinjiang is like this now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party
I mean, are they really proportional to weight and power? My Cayman weighs less than 3000 lbs, uses very little of it's power, in traffic, and gets 12-16 mpg (around 30 in no traffic). My rx300 weighed nearly 4000 lbs and would get 21-23 mpg in no traffic. My rx300 saw almost no traffic whereas my Cayman sees a lot simply because my last job didn't care whether or not I came into work (unless there was a meeting I needed to go to).
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True, but don't neglect leg day :)
Any operation of this size is going to have a multitude of issues. There is literally no way to do this cleanly.
Tesla tried this with Toyota on the Rav4 EV, for which Tesla provided battery and drivetrain. Toyota decided Tesla was so hard to work with that it was worth ending all future partnerships. Tesla also provided the full battery and Drivetrain for the Mercedes-Benz B-class EV and Daimler ultimately cancelled the project to bring the technology in-house. I don't think the issue is that Tesla is unwilling to be an OEM, but that their customers are unwilling to out-source development of extremely competitive technologies to a relatively volatile supplier.

https://insideevs.com/insight-toyota-tesla-partnership-marre...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15340139/bye-bye-baby-b-m...
I've done the same thing with a Synology NAS. Both Synology and the Intel CPU datasheet say it only supports 8 GB of RAM, but put 16 GB in it and it will use it.

The Synology web UI only shows 8 GB and it breaks the graph display in the memory usage monitor (although when I first installed it, it used to show 16 GB but after some update, or random reboot, it stopped. Haven't tried rebooting to see if it's just random)
Indeed - but as noted in the article, you'd likely be exempted in that situation, and having less congested streets on which to walk, cycle, take the bus, or drive would be a great benefit.
> I will always find "Approval" to be unsatisfying because I want to say I like A more than I like B.

This is the "expressiveness fallacy".
https://www.electionscience.org/library/expressiveness-in-ap...

tl;dr

Total information throughput for a voting system is a function of THREE things:

1. Amount of information you can express on a ballot.

2. Accuracy of that information (which is distorted if the system gives you an incentive to dishonestly/tactically vote) .

3. Tabulation efficiency — how effectively does the system utilize the info on the ballots (for example there are numerous ranked voting systems from IRV, to Borda, to the entire Condorcet family; and IRV is extremely lossy) .

When you factor these all together, Approval Voting does surprisingly well, especially because it's so good at #2 and #3. See this graph of performance as measured by Bayesian regret.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

Essentially what's happening is that the people who's approval threshold sits between candidates A and B (i.e. those people who only approve one of them) will, in a statistical sense, have about the same A-vs-B preference as the people who voted for both or neither of them. So the aggregate effect doesn't really suffer from your inability to express a ranked preference for all candidates. Voting is statistical.

To really drive that home, note that you could switch to a better voting method and STOP VOTING, and STILL get better election outcomes. The tiny impact your vote has on the process is statistically negligible. The properties of the voting system matter vastly more.
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All of this is why my primary use case for ebooks is actually borrowing them from the library. It's super convenient because I don't have to worry about returning it on time -- it'll just disappear from the my device! But if I'm going to buy a book I almost always want a physical copy. (I've bought digital of a few of my favs that I often re-read on vacation but I do own physical copies of them too)
Exactly. I'm still waiting for a day I see a full-throated defense of a car-centric system that frankly doest rely on myopia about the second-order effects of the system. Sure, given that you're in a city designed around owning cars, owning a car has advantages: that's almost tautological. But policy needs to think at the societal level, which includes all the effects that you take for granted as part of the background. Without the criminal waste of valuable urban space that cars entail, the odds that GP would be taking a 45 minute trip would be far lower.

The ubiquity of this kind of myopia makes me worry about transit policy, and I've seen little evidence that voters are capable of or willing to engage in second-order thinking, especially when their incentives are involved. Though I suppose it's not like our transit policy could get much worse....
Ah yes, ships in 2020, a full 7 years behind Model S and with no available specs to compare.
Lol! I was joking about the domain, but I checked your profile and really dig what you're doing. Followed!
My mind doesn't take 12 weeks off a year on a schedule dictated by management, and it certainly doesn't take the remaining 40 weeks on on a schedule dictated by management. I'll work a lot better doing 6 hours of work a day every week than 8 hours of work with no slack for three weeks straight.
Somehow all the stuff that’s trivial in any other civilized country becomes “fantasy” in the US
Well, considering that the streets were for walking and drivers stole them, that seems a tad unfair.

Here's what they looked like before: http://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/c/3/a/cc3a56fafeaa6119/S...
Daniel Miller is not the author of this piece. It is in fact Umair Haque, who (although I agree with the overarching point of this particular thesis) tends to churn poorly reasoned pseudo economic drivel designed purely for mass appeal.
I am not a Chinese dissident. China is not going around the globe putting people in execution vans there. So my personal consequences of Chinese surveillance are rather limited. The possible impact on my life is in no way comparable to the possible impact of the same by the US. I would like to not be mistook landing on no-fly lists, being banned from international banking as well as from making business with any company.
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