skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has its ups and downs. You may want to read for example https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...
Message bus proponents never build large systems. The only sane way is to be pretty specific about data flow with clear mental model shared between developers and ops. Message bus hides producer-consumer relations and with multiple endpoints it's very hard to reason about the system as a whole.
Solid demo video.
> Regulations written to implement acts of congress are considered "regulatory law"...

Correct.

> ...and can be litigated in criminal . . . court...

Overreaching. This rarely happens.

> ...litigated in . . . not civil court...

They certainly can be litigated in civil court. They almost always are.

> ...you can be arrested for violating them...

Extreme overstatement. This is almost never the case.
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All I get when I search that are some press releases from researchers. Where is the actual installation? What’s the actual cost? Does the cost scale linearly to gigatonnes, or e.g. does it require some chemicals that are cheap now but wouldn’t be so cheap if we needed much more of them?
Active learning is definitely a weak area for digital note taking. When I use a computer in this context, I tend to 'take notes' with extreme shorthand and polish it up later - however at that point I've struggled/failed to remember to include some key insight or diagram.
The initial RSU settlement is taxed as ordinary income. If they sell below the IPO price in future (e.g. to cover their remaining taxes) they'll indeed realize a capital loss but it can only be carried forward against future capital gains from e.g. longer-term holding of UBER or another stock, or using the $3000/year deduction for ordinary income.
How about an analogy with recruiting:

Should googles tech workforce resemble that of the broader US? i.e. Would having a workforce that resembles the US signify an elimination of bias in the hiring process.

If you believe that Google’s workforce hiring should be free from bias, than can’t you extend the same argument to search results?

For those in favor of bias in search results, may I ask you to justify why?
This is wonderful use of technology but I wonder if it couldn't be done without electronics? Something like the Steadicam.
> How many "paid positions" does Microsoft Excel replace every day?

I don't know, could you tell me? I don't think that we actually can point to people working in the position of calculator who are rendered unemployed by Excel version bumps. Arguing that we'd be putting Bob Cratchet and other clerks from the 1800's out of work rings of reductio ad absurdum.

MS Excel seems to lack the one-to-one correlation between a worker on a fulfillment line putting things in boxes and a robot on the same line doing the same work (and doing it more efficiently, since the 'bot custom-fits the packaging to the product).

The farm and mining automation example do ring truer, and in each case we've seen large increases in productivity (as well as consolidation) while seeing people in these communities falling out of work and not being able to get back into the labor market. To pick the only mining county I can think off off the top of my head, the effect of automation continues to be felt in local economies:

https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/county/kentucky/harlan

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/coal/article44121909.htm...

> You can't "strive for" automation, while at the same time essentially locking in labor costs by taxing that automation as human labor.

Why not?
I wonder if NFC chip implants people usually put in their hands can be rewritten to work with this. That would be pretty dope to accept payments from people just by asking them to tap your hand :)
http://archive.is/yAqbr
In the past 5 years or so, there has been a bit of a building boom in my city.

The dominant architectural style reminds me a lot of the style discussed in this article. None of it has a concrete facade, but otherwise it would fall right in line. It's ugly, depressing, and distressing.
Finding the cheapest flights for a multi-leg trip with Amadeus API and Python
> It's like saying Burger King offers "the best" food, because it's popular.

Not really; no-one goes to Burger King because they think they are getting the "best" food. They think they are getting convenient, affordable and quick food. You certainly could argue that Burger King is enormously popular because it is very good at offering those three attributes.
Also, criticizing socialism is not magical thinking. It's been a proven failure over and over. Yes, some tiny homogeneous countries have come together and made socialist medicine work, but I'd wager good money that that has more to do with their citizens having a general feeling of all being on the same team, avoiding freeloader problems by discouraging immigration, having larger more prosperous countries in the world to provide innovation and competition, and other factors that America is never going to be able to achieve.
I think the sun is further away in terms of energy required than one would expect. You don't just have to escape the Earth, you also need to cancel or redirect its orbital velocity around the sun to get a trajectory that reaches the sun.
You can't say religion has no bearing in this, as it quite literally says that Priests can't have a wife.

It seems entirely predictable to me that this drives selecting folks for these positions that don't want wives, but want something else.
Kevin Bacon and musical chairs: How market rate housing increases affordability
A couple guys I went to high school with started a smart-ag business related to livestock tracking. Not sure how it relates to what you do, but seemed potentially related enough to pass along.

http://www.performancelivestockanalytics.com/
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Could you expand on that if you don't mind? I'm a self-taught programmer currently in the process of realising just how much I miss from theory, my list so far on theory fundamentals includes:

• Mathematics and probabilities, and their applications to CS (e.g. formal methods)

• Design patterns (OOP, functional programming)

• Data structures

• Algorithms, time complexity

• System architectures

• Software strategies: CI, CD

• Database principles: SQL

It may sound naive, but I'm kind of overwhelmed by all this and it's not helping my impostor syndrome, I may make a repo of the list with links to ressources I've identified for learning as it seems like a common struggle, maybe it'll help someone.
6 years is awfully short for this sort of thing. What we absolutely need to avoid is having justices have to care about reelection, which means we need to say justices can only ever serve one term, which means we need longer terms.
>seems to have a feedback loop

How is that different counting quarters in the newspaper machines? Or copies sold?
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So...a taxi service. Is this silly PIN going to be enough to evade taxi regulations?
Thanks for posting here pixelmonkey! I had a question; I asked the Parse.ly help/marketing people a while ago if you guys were tracking the rates of invalid traffic on articles and they said you guys don't track it. Is that accurate? Or are there any estimates on how much noise/dirt there is in the data?
Doesn't steadicam work because it has a huge added hanging mass pendulum? I'm not sure that would be senior citizen friendly.
I just don't think groceries are the right market for this. For "joy", the differentiator has to be in-person customer service, because grocery margins are razor-thin, and the last thing any exec wants to propose is to modify the ERP (there be dragons) so it generates the clean data that's required for visualizations.

At my store, they are pushing to reduce checkout staff by "encouraging" customers to use self-checkout. It hasn't been going well, but this is a retail-wide trend, and cost-cutting pressures are immense.

Again, because this is so data-centric, the visualizations will generate errors and miscategorizations that will confuse customers more than if they had ye olde dot matrix printed receipt.
Thank you for explaining, that makes a lot of sense.

What's surprising is not that it's very hard to understand the law; it's big and messy and evolving.

What's surprising is that in practice one has to pay money to even try to understand what the experts are talking about. It's impossible to find all the relevant texts to study in a library, for example. That seems deeply undesirable; it exacerbates the problem you described of people being expected to follow the law when they can't possibly understand it.
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271265
I work in automotive tech and i hear this all the time, "why we can't just jump a power wire to there?" People love technology when it works for them, when it breaks suddenly they want to be back in the80's.
You could argue that marijuana leads to a spike in people eating lots of corn (Doritos), legumes (Taco Bell) and tomato (pizza). Not such a bad world to consider.
I think that is showing the different from the average, so the variance in the jitter. It's not the actual latency which is not actually revealed with the Backbone in place.
Must be noted that service meshes bring some of the message bus advantages to the point-to-point architecture.
That is also expected in our Capitalistic system. Greed, profit, and share-holder value is often more important then the end-user.

Boeing is not the only company that subscribes to that religion.
The Hobart building is pretty to look at. But if I'm actually going to spend my time in the building, I would much rather have the floor-to-ceiling windows of a generic modern steel-and-glass tower.

I wonder how much of this design trend is due to the development of better materials (e.g. more insulating glass).
Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult
We have:

- the actual memo published by Damore, with full citations

- his description of the sequence of events that lead to his termination, which has not (to my knowledge) been publicly contradicted.

- Sundar Pichai's own statement regarding the termination, which reflects a false characterization of Damore's memo.

- leaked internal discussions from Google, which show rather abusive behavior towards Damore and others on political grounds.

What other evidence would you like?
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Stack Overflow does not honor Do Not Track [0] and in response to a question [1] indicated that they don't intend to do that either.

Tracking (including third-party tracking) seems like a feature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237062/does-stack-e...
Sounds like fear-based decision making there. If things are that bad, that difficult to get right, then the government isn't going to save you.

Most advanced industrialized nations have a state-run health care system and pay on average half of what the US pays. Health is naturally quite complicated but it isn't impossible to get right. The fundamental problem is that an adversarial system, where every provider has an incentive to wrangle their presentation and to wrangle their position in the regulator system, means, in the specific case of health care, pseudo-competition plus regulation as we have now, doesn't lower costs or increase productivity, it just produces a tide of dubious opportunism as one can see from current conditions.

And a look at present US health would show things are pretty bad - costs are approaching 20% of GDP and given that this is double that of equivalent advanced industrialized nation, that means we're spending 10% of the entire GDP on some combination of waste and inefficiency.
This is sort of a stylized high-level description of how the U.S. government works, but it isn't really true. Law is often made by the courts (we call it precedent). Law is also made by the executive branch (by writing detailed regulations).

It does have to be justified based on existing law and this is important. But often, existing law only talks about broad principles or is contradictory, and judges are expected to fill in the details. In the case of the U.S. Constitution, these "details" can be really huge gaps.
I love it. That's a practical way to force a more egalitarian system (Single payer or not) while not removing insurance companies in the mean time. Thanks for sharing.
All in countries with a lower cost of living.
> “The bottom line: A whopping 81% of the $29.55 billion in equity that Uber has raised is underwater,” writes Felix Salmon. “Investors who bought Uber shares 3 years ago have lost 15% of their money, before fees. The opportunity cost is even greater: Investors in the S&P 500 have seen their money grow by 50% over the same period.

Big lolz.

Invest in a hot mega power-brand company that keeps growing
revenue like crazy and still lose money to the mediocre average.
I don't understand this argument though. Surely if both app customers and app developers sued Apple they'd be suing over the exact same damages?

Either customers have their prices artificially increased, at which point app developers don't have damages as they're getting the money from customers, or else app developers are keeping prices low and taking the damage themselves, at which point customers aren't harmed.
> Because Return renames the file.

Pretty sure the guy you're responding to knows that. The question is why is the key mapped to "rename", when "open" is likely the far more common command?

> On my machine it searches where I am. Just tried it.

I also just tried it; the default is "This Mac". Here's a GIF of another user showing this behavior: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/219410/73670
This is not a "rare case" at all. Judicial opinions frequently cite private materials such as the Restatements, law review articles, Black's Law Dictionary, paywalled scientific literature, and so on.
And if you are truly convinced that it is a life-or-death problem, then you need to be pushing up against that over and over, working to get buy-in. "Well, we tried." is not good enough. And if it is, then there isn't really a problem to begin with.
Work as in a win-win for both the employer and the employee.

And perhaps you mean "most other peoples" [who are on hackernews]
I wouldn't exactly call the ACA reliable with the GOP in charge. Access also depends heavily on which state he is in.
> One of my big fears is the fragmentation of society and a conservative vs. a liberal internet

That's already true - consider a site like Reddit and the perceptions of /r/politics compared to /r/the_donald or the insulated bubble you can easily find yourself in on YouTube if you follow the recommended videos rabbit hole. The bubbles can, and already do, exist on the same platform.
Looking at the state of my apartment I could really use a fulltime maid/cook. I can't afford that right now, but if the difference between the average income for the low income group and the high income group goes up enough, that would be a possibility (assuming computer programmers continue to get paid a high income, whereas maids do not).
If you are sticking to the argument so cleanly, then perhaps you can stick to my answer, which is at the beginning and not the end of the response you are speaking of.

As I predicted, the purpose of this post was vegan debate, and my answer has been completely ignored.
"Designing Data Intensive Applications" is an absolute goldmine for things like message queues but also going beyond understanding the full implications in database selection and other common, distributed-oriented engineering decisions modern software engineers may come across.
Less Social Networking and More Situation Networking
That's not an analogy, but making an bias argument (spreading FUD) without evidence.

An analogy is the train station newspaper example. What you're doing is arguing that all of the Google employees are inserting their own personal bias into search results, without evidence.
> 6 year staggered appointments. So 3 justices terms are up every 2 years. Means one president doesn't get to completely stack the court, but each has a fair impact on it, and we aren't stuck with judges with outdated ideologies forever (unless people vote for it).

That's how the Senate used to work, with state legislatures "electing" the senators.

That was replaced a hundred years ago with direct election of senators.
There is a pipetting robot now: https://opentrons.com/
True, there is a lot of variety there. Around here everything is properly lined and the water table monitored for various poisons, but that's not true everywhere. The methane is a very potent greenhouse gas, and I see little progress on that, even in eco-conscious California. Composting more or less eliminates the methane but I see maybe half of the households in our neighborhood putting out a green waste cart.

Global warming is really the problem, and I will admit to being a huge hypocrite on that. I drive about half the average American's 13.5K miles / 21.K 7km, but fly a lot, probably 20K miles / 32K km. Sigh.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned spreadsheets - specifically Google Sheets or something scriptable and hosted. Recently I've built up a small system which sucks in data from a few places (fitness, task management, calendar,..) and analyses it against several goals I've set. This means I can see how I'm progressing towards what I want without even touching it anymore.

They're a really nice UI for bootstraping projects, and even some small databases. A current project of mine for a client uses sheets as a backing store for an email collection list. Since there's only a few hundred rows, it makes sense at this scale and works really well for non-technical users.
"it's all users, not our fault"

I don't think it's 'aggregate users choice' they use, I think it's ultimately 'page rank' reputation at the core of it.

Also, I think if they were using 'user choice popularity' the news would be HuffPo, Buzzfeed, TMZ, Breitbart etc. - we on HN don't read this stuff but it's very, very popular stuff.

Consider that HuffPo for example is more popular that most news orgs on that list, and they do actually have a lot of in-house content ... so why are they not added? Clearly Google has made some kind of editorial choice.

This is not just regular search, it's news, so this becomes more important.

I don't think there is a way around having some kind of editorial opinion, so it should hopefully be transparent, maybe pliable, possibly even regulated.
I think your quote of 40% isn't right. From elsewhere on the net:

"Former students of the OU appying for a Masters at Cambridge have a 23% chance of getting of an offer. That's a bit below average but shows it is more than possible."

The level 1 courses are less complex than first-year regular uni because they'll take anyone and they have to get them up to par. But it quickly scales up.
I would recommend looking up what antitrust does and does not cover. This is not suitable grounds for antitrust arguments as the law is currently given; if you were arguing 'Apple has a monopoly on Apple-exclusive apps', you might have a case, but even then there are many apps that are cross platform, and those that choose to develop exclusively for Apple are making a market decision that they may be liable for if the cost of production increases because of it.

I don't think you can argue platform monopoly here any more than you could argue, say, that Amazon has a monopoly on AWS-specific services. Since an app developer can choose which platform to use with approximate levels of parity between those platforms and a few distinctive services per platform, it is my opinion that the 'platform monopoly' argument is rendered void. This argument is only weakened in recent years as feature parity increases between Android and Apple ecosystems.
> Also, criticizing socialism is not magical thinking. It's been a proven failure over and over. Yes, some tiny homogeneous countries have come together and made socialist medicine work, but I'd wager good money that that has more to do with their citizens having a general feeling of all being on the same team, avoiding freeloader problems by discouraging immigration, having larger more prosperous countries in the world to provide innovation and competition, and other factors that America is never going to be able to achieve.

If by that you mean the entire OECD then yes, some tiny homogenous countries have tried it. And it works great. Also, diversity has nothing to do with medicine.

> I have spoken with doctors and they hate medicare. It doesn't pay on time, it pays below market rates, it dictates what they can do with their patients, etc. These doctors still see medicare patients out of compassion, but they are losing money on each one.

Lowering reimbursement rates reduces costs, that's how it's supposed to work. Did you think costs just go down while people get paid the same or more? Where did you think the money was to come from? Sorry, America's costs are 2X Canada's, those doctors do need to be paid less.

> Why are more and more doctors turning down Medicare? The answer is simple: Medicare typically pays doctors only 80% of what private health insurance pays.

Great, now all programs will pay the same, much less than today. You do know doctors in Canada make $200-500K/yr right, they're not exactly starving. They don't need to make more, they're public servants.

In the US the mean salary for a doctor is just shy of $300K (range $200-663K). In Canada the mean salary $225K, ranging from $232 to $676. I think they'll manage with the pay-cut.

> So, if we all go only-medicare, how many doctors decide to retire early?

Those who scrape by on $250-500K/yr and save, then retire, like the rest of the 1%.
> The engines on the MAX are forward of the CoG

It doesn't make much difference, most of what you've said is accurate to the best of my knowledge, however the thrust can be as far forwards of the CoG as it likes, that doesn't increase the pitch up moment. Having them lower may increase that moment and them having more power too. But the main issue on the Max is airodynamic lift generated by the nacelles at high AoA.
Because human physiology evolved in an environment in which critical nutrients were sourced predominantly (^exclusively
animal in list below) in the flesh of animals.

Examples of key animal-based nutrients:
Vitamins: A, B6, B12^, D3^, F, K2^;
Amino Acids: Creatine, Carnitine, Carnosine, Taurine;
Heme Iron; CoQ10; CLA; Cholesterol

This list does not include nutrients/vitamins which often lead to deficiencies when sourced in plants, due to very low bioavailability or antinutrients which block the absorption of the nutrients.

So, why do we kill and eat other living beings? Because we evolved this way and it is part of our natural diet.
I simply can't imagine how you spent time learning about relational calculus without performing some of it.

No it is not the case at most universities (I can't speak for bootcamps, though I wouldn't be surprised to hear a greater variance and overall lower average in this area for them).

There are always different teaching/learning styles, but everyone agrees you need to practice to learn. A course about databases without writing SQL, is like driving a car without the wheels.