skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a self taught hobbyist you may not have had much structured exposure to fundamental data structures and algorithms and complexity analysis. I think that type of thing is easier to learn when you already have some experience so you can relate it back to real world problems you have encountered as you describe doing here. Now might be a good point in your development to dig into some of those fundamentals if you have not done so much in the past.
Perhaps, but anecdata like this is telling of an underlying political sickness that is affecting people (if they're true)
It's just one case of many in a system where financialization and extraction have taken precedent over companies competing to provide fundamental values to consumers. There isn't enough competition, there isn't enough access or willingness for capital to take risks (how many farmers with deep understaning of the ag market have access to capital to start a rival tractor company?).
Get good at math. It'll serve you well and never go out of style.
Easy PWA install on desktop with Chrome Canary
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton
If you disclose the criteria, people game it. Any ‘objective’ scheme you come up with will be overrun by scammers in weeks without constant updates from google.
How to Grab Life by the Throat: 7 Habits That Led to the Life of My Dreams
Hard disagree. That’s like not taking someone’s position against excessive government budget deficits seriously because they don’t voluntarily pay excess taxes to pay down the debt.

Climate change is a collective problem and will _only_ be resolved by collective regulations and incentives. This is not a problem we can all just “chip in” on and have it magically go away.
Many years ago I asked google to provide a “reverse popularity” view for Google News via some customer feedback mechanism. Got back a noncommittal “interesting idea”. I understand it would be hard technically and all the reasons why it doesn’t exist. Still wish it did... are there any interesting solutions to this technically? A “show me stuff I would no normally want/seee” anti filter bubble tech?
They really need to wrap the books with a piece of butcher paper or something. I keep getting books that slid around and got scuffed to heck by contact with the boxes. Since I have been buying more pricey collection quality books, I have been sending them back :|
Publish a PWA to Play Store
London moped gang jailed for string of raids and robberies
If you manage a site that supports reviews or comments
from unverified posters (here, non-patients) consider
the ways your site could be exploited.
This seems like a terrible career move. You have one big customer who has full power over you. Soon they’ll get squeezed left and right. The only way I could see this work would be if they could deliver for other companies like Walmart.
This might be a local thing, but in my experience shops work hard to obfuscate the receipts as much as possible. If they're competing on price, their tactic is usually to promote a few random products they have the best price on and then hope you'll pick their store to buy all your groceries. For that reason, they are absolutely against giving you raw data, because that would allow you to make a shopping list and find the store with the best total price.

I remember some people tried to do an app that would let you scan receipts and make comparisons, but they gave up. Even stores from the same huge chain would have different prices for the same item and a different name on the printed receipt as well. I don't want to get into conspiracy theory territory, but it looked very deliberate.

Eastern Europe here BTW.
People are already hacking JD equipment with firmware found online. I don't have an exact answer to your question, but this thread seems over-blown. Somebody will know how it works, or learn how to work on it. I trust the ingenuity of this nation wouldn't leave us with an unmaintainable or unhackable tractors without "John Deere" the business existing, in the same way the technique for jailbreaking the latest version of iOS comes relatively quickly. The country that went to the moon can reverse engineer a tractor. It's not like we need to prove P = NP or not to start getting people fed again, to fix the problem.
How do you feel about conservatives ignoring news sources because they’ve been labeled “left-leaning”?
if everything is a debacle then nothing is a debacle. what word are journalists going to use when there’s an actual debacle?
Designing for correctness – How to make illegal states unrepresentable (2012)
I just had to look that up:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/03/lamborghini-...
> HR is loath to be in the crosshairs, so they’ll probably tend to try and hire milquetoast staff.

What?

The traditional solution is for people to not talk about politics about work. In corporate America breaching that line is often regarded as much more serious than any of the particulars of the politics being discussed. Not because anyone is "milquetoast" (seriously??) but because people are paid to get work done.
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And here we have over 1,000 pages of meticulously edited correspondence covering just three years of his life, buttressed by the announcement that further letters omitted from this or any of the seven earlier volumes may be found on a dedicated website. This accumulation of attention might be described in various ways, but “posthumous privacy” it is not."""

Well, in compensation, it is fair to bet that only the most madly devoted of Ph.D. students will read through it.

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The annotated edition of The Poems runs to 2,000 pages in two fat volumes.
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For what it's worth, the edition of his poetry published during his lifetime runs to 240 pages, according to the Barnes and Noble website. I assume that the remaining seven eighths of the new edition runs mostly to arcane commentary. I suppose that it may include poems Eliot did not bother to collect in his lifetime.
Honestly, if you believe that markets work, then all you have to do is tax the shit out of carbon emissions to internalize the externality and let the invisible hand sort out the details. Unfortunately, that's politically impossible in western democracies (see France's gilet jaune movement), so instead we're just going to keep going off the rails until it's [even more] too late.
Agreed! I was going to mention the music but I know some people hate it so I figured mentioning it wouldn't really strengthen my case (:. Personally I think the very unique, heavily stylized art and music (especially the latter) add so much to the game. Plus, the dialog is actually really embedded in the world.
I don't mind ad-supported content, but I don't want to see this Taboola/Outbrain garbage. So I created a short blocklist (compatible with uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus) for these clickbait ad networks. Pull requests are welcome! :)

https://github.com/cpeterso/clickbait-blocklist/
I believe he played the narrator/conductor guy on the TV show after Ringo Starr (although I don't know what, if any, differences there were between the UK and US versions).

Always thought that was amusing when my little half-brother was watching it during my breaks from college. If only you knew who that guy was, little bro...
Great point. I would happily follow the rules and I do.

Evidently though, the other person went ad-hominem with a very aggressive reddit-esque comment on a simple reply I gave. No one chimed in to flag that comment so I had to speak for myself. I just hope a moderator would have sprung into action sooner. That being said, it's nice you guys are making effort to keep the board clean from becoming `that`.

I'll just keep away from inciteful comments the next time. I really wish there was a report option here too.
debacle-gate
Muwahahah! Perfect. I'll try that next time I play.
> The: you must believe everything that comes out of my mouth because I identify as these groups who have historically been oppressed narrative has changed.

Right, but clearly not so much that Fox et al aren't running under 25% of more respected outlets numbers. If it had have changed that much, the vast majority of people wouldn't be flocking towards the latest micro update in a macro story that by and large hadn't changed in weeks over the latest update on a culture wars proxy story.
Yeah, this is kind of faux outrage. John Deere doesn't even have near the monopoly that GP is eluding to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tractor_manufacturers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tractor_manufacturers
Farmer here - 200 head of grass fed cattle plus hay operation.

Just to be clear, the problem described in the article does not affect many (probably most) farmers; it primarily affects large scale grain operations that have harvest combines that use a lot of onboard computers.

It's a bit dramatic to frame this as "US farmers are being bled". Guys who grow grain on huge farms in the Midwest are not happy about the implications of the TOS they signed with Deere when they, grownups who can read, bought their tractors a few years ago. There, fixed the headline for you.
On my blog I'm free to delete any comment I like, and I'm not beholden to the government to explain why I did it. That's simply the Constitution at work. How big, in your opinion, does a publisher need to be in order for their First Amendment protections against forced speech to be stripped away?
A minor difference: if you want to manage your own risk, you should assume could be lying about taking a birth control pill, whereas you can easily verify someone is wearing a condom.

If I was uncertain whether someone was truly on the birth control pill, I would insist upon condoms if I wanted to fully hedge my risk.

I do see the point you're trying make, but it's a complex issue. I could easily make an argument for the opposite case, that it is rape. But I think being able to verify a condom is being worn makes the situation different enough to treat differently from lying about being on the pill.
I think Elon is correct with an important caveat.

If you are pursuing the Tesla self driving car business model which is selling a mid range luxury self driving car directly to the end consumer (and potentially operated for 4-6 hours a day as an autonomous taxi) then the cost of sensors is paramount.

If you are pursuing other business models such as Uber and Lyft and Waymo, where the taxi will be purchased as a fleet, fleet managed by the operator and operated 24x7 for 5 years straight, then the cost of camera sensors + LIDAR suite will be full amortized over the 5 year life of the car and therefore be somewhat of a rounding error in the total investment return.
Those are probably all the companies using Java 8 right? ;-)
Isn't that what the bubble wrap is for? Although they don't fit well in the smaller standard book boxes that Amazon uses...
@deelowe, By using the word "mixing" up you are implying that I have confused two separate things, which I didn't.

They are not two separate things. Google enjoys the status of a platform in all of its products.

The links I provided talk about YouTube and other platforms and demonstrate how they act as a publisher and not as a platform and the submitted article demonstrates how search results are skewed towards a direction.

Can you please point where my argument is flawed?
So do I. If there's hope then I reckon that this is it—or something like it anyway. Of course, we still face another major challenge and that's the silicon itself. It's now dead easy for manufacturer's to change the firmware/microcode within CPUs, GPUs etc. without end users' knowledge (and possibly to their disadvantage). How we tackle this problem I'm not quite sure. :-)
I would recommend learning the SOLID [1] design principles. I've found them to be a very helpful guide when designing software components.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
From TFA: "IPO investors have lost $655 million, while investors from 2016 and 2018 have between them lost $2.27 billion."
So they raised something like 8 billion (I forget the exact number)? So they have that cash.

Are there any immediate impacts for a company regarding a price drop after an IPO?
It shouldn't be a shock. There's overwhelming data supporting the idea that tax incentives for low paying jobs never end up paying for themselves.
> many of us

Well, it’s a spectrum, isn’t it!

I’ve said it a couple of times already in this thread, all is well as long as daily suffering is at a minimal, for anyone that happens to be involved.

Mobile device (constant access to information specifically) is a big problem for me, that is for sure.

I remember playing computer games competitively impacted me in a really negative way when I was younger as well, much in the same way.

The “feeling” in my brain and mind is pretty similar (phone vs gaming) and it seems to create a really bad disconnect emotionally.

This “disconnect” leads to a kind of apathy and when in that state pretty much nothing of value can happen.

I’m currently making a routine of handing my phone to my partner when at home, as I’m unable to handle it.

There’s just so much interesting stuff all over and “interesting” trumps pretty much everything else, often at the expense of relationships.

For a concrete example I described a typical grocery store situation in another post.
The consensus opinion seems to be, from this thread and elsewhere, "While Google is not doing anything wrong by standards in this case, because they have the power/potential to do something wrong by standards we must oppose this as well."
SaaS startups are changing the founder/investor dynamic
> I swear keeping window would have been preferable. Or calling it global.

The tc39 proposal for globalThis mentions that `global` was preferred, but it broke major websites that were for whatever reason relying on setting their own values for `window.global`.
It cannot happen under the Japanese copyright law. I really can't understand the US law system in general.
The next obvious step after message queues and distributing work would be streams.

Here is an excellent introduction to unified logs and stream processing by the author of Kafka at LinkedIn:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
In IPO terms, and given the huge amounts of money and valuations involved -- not to mention all the VCs nervously watching and wondering whether they'll get to pass their own cash-burning investments off to public investors -- this is unquestionably a debacle.
I'd recommend statistics specifically. Comes up everywhere and it's easy to be wrong about if you don't dig into it.
Non-Profit Point of Sale System Achieves What Square and Shopify Can't
Speaking as a technical development manager, I can say that many people have far less than adequate exposure to SQL, and that training people to use SQL effectively and safely is all too often a common requirement before letting them loose on the database.

There are so many ways people misunderstand and misuse SQL and relational databases, it's honestly staggering.

So, I second the OP. Learn SQL, and you'll stand out.
Lawyers and judges reference a huge variety of materials in their opinions. That doesn’t make all those reference materials “part of the law.”

These annotations do not appear to be essential to understanding the law. They appear to be explanatory aids.
Read the curriculum of an undergraduate computer science course and read up on the things you haven't heard of. Some courses will even have lecture notes available.

E.g. these four pages are the university of Cambridge masters in computer science:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1819/part1a-75.html

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1819/part1b-75.html

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1819/part2-75.html

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1819/part3.html

(Or a MOOC, but the links above are easy to browse text, syllabuses and lecture notes, not a load of videos.)
This is great. We should use this.
Listing items in order of cost alone is a win. The bar plot is a nice touch. The category breakdown is also nice (minus he bubble plot).
I feel like this would help people budget and reduce waste.
Top 10 debacles of 2019.
Video link of the packing machine that Amazon is using:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rP1wjEsbak
The issue would be in transitioning to any alternative. Equipment is super expensive - and tractors are wayyy expensive, especially if you're a small-scale farmer with only two or three of them. Plus, if your equipment quits working, farmers would have a hard time selling beyond salvage value and would have no way to make more money (aside from existing inventory) to buy new equipment.
Such a shame that this is the top comment here. People at that level are watching their job options shrink at an incredible place. Qualify your statement; robots are only "better" because they are cheaper.
Being bullied as a teen is associated with growing in areas of income inequality
I see this and am reminded of when you guys raised the price for your pro plan from 5 to 20. How long until you get great adoption, followed by a 4x price increase?
If anyone here needs an intervention it’s graycat

Doerr and Khosla probably soured SV on cleantech
>Even if climate change would be a hoax (which it is not), then why would it be a bad thing to make changes to prevent it from happening anyway?

Because those come at significant cost, and if there's nothing to worry about then why spend tens of trillions of dollars to stop it?

I mean you might as well use Pascal's wager to argue for religion if you're only looking at potential benefits and ignoring costs.
I recently got to set up a hunter’s tree stand in the middle of the woods with a directional waveguide WiFi “cantenna” link to their house... because Netflix.
All true. There still should be repercussions for weaponizing HR to make someone's life miserable when your only evidence is "accusing his column ... of making them ‘unsafe’" or feeling “shaken up” after a conversation with a colleague. The right response from HR, in absentia of any further evidence from the complainant, is either to recommend to the supervisor to deal with it tactfully or refer the complainant to the mental health resources he needs.
> The federal government of the United States claims this as well, for example see Gilmore v. Gonzales.

That's not entirely correct: http://volokh.com/posts/1134369043.shtml

> Now, just to be clear, I have no idea whether the TSA's decision not to publish the text of its regulations is a smart one. I can understand why they don't publish the names on the No-Fly list, but it's not obvious to me why they can't publish the regulation or rule (or the relevant part) requiring an ID. Maybe this is a misguided law, or an appropriate law being implemented in a misguided way. I don't know; as I said, this isn't my area of expertise. Further, I think reasonable people can disagree on whether TSA's practices are a big deal. Some will find them deeply troublesome, and others won't.

> At the same time, I think it's important to recognize that this dispute appears to be significantly narrower than Kevin's post suggests. First, Congress isn't passing any secret laws; the undisclosed authority is a regulation, not a statute, and the TSA's requirement is widely known. Second, no one is being arrested; as I understand it, the issue is only who can be let on an airplane.

> Finally, the court isn't being called on to interpret a law it has never seen. DOJ filed a motion attempting file a version of its brief under seal. According to the government's claim at oral argument, the version of the brief filed under seal would have included the text of any regulations TSA follows. The Ninth Circuit rejected the motion without comment, however, and if one judge's comment at oral argument is any sign, it may be because the actual text of the regulation isn't essential to the case. As best I can tell, then, DOJ hasn't filed the undisclosed regulations with the Court because the Court rejected its motion to do so under seal, and the alternative, filing it in open court, would have defeated the purpose of having the text of the regulations unpublished.
Robot tractors and harvesters the size of a house.
If someone was to add their own ...umm... improvements to the software, or perform shoddy repair work on the hardware for steering, then there would perhaps be negative effects.
Interesting, I wonder if this could be used to dodge the "employee vs contractor" problem that companies like Uber have.

Instead of having 100k contractors that might be employees, convert 100k contractors into 40k small transportation businesses with an average of 2.5 employees each.
Math is a bit too broad. From personal experience, the most relevant topics for programmers are Linear Algebra and Discrete and Combinatorial Algebra.
It seems that the wine(s) would be grouped together and the cheeses would be grouped together, possible with the veggies and possibly not. So the price disparity between a $100 bottle of wine and a $13 bottle of wine would be apparent, but it wouldn't affect the relative bars for the cheese or veggies.
Same. What a disaster of a thread.
Once they burn the $8B and have to return to the markets for more capital, the terms start to look much worse. It's also pretty bad for employee morale if the only people who get a decent exit from their shares are the VCs & founders.
FTA: "The opportunity cost is even greater: Investors in the S&P 500 have seen their money grow by 50% over the same period."

At this point, any retail investor can buy into Uber and experience better returns (or fewer losses) than post-2016 investors and staff.
Another example how DRM is a crooked tool that should be banned.
I'm sorry, but this is such an irritating argument. In the absence of any coordinated action, why should I make my lifestyle worse just so you can use up my portion of our shared CO2 budget?

This is the exact same argument as "well if you advocate for higher taxes, why don't you voluntarily donate more money to the government?" It's a dumb argument in that context and still a dumb argument in this one.

The key part of shared sacrifice is that it's shared.
Articles about Amazon are quick to mention the workplace conditions or robots automating something. Rarely do they mention that machines equal lower prices for the consumers 9 times out of 10.

You can think what you want about Amazon but I’m not complaining that I have 100’s of options for my phone case, all for 1/5 the price of the previous days buying them at Verizon or Apple.

Edit: would be awesome to hear about Amazon’s pricing practice from an employee
I feel this is a misnomer. The carbon to grow the corn the cows eat comes from the atmosphere. Corn doesn't create new carbon. Cows don't create new carbon. Some of the carbon does get released back into the atmosphere as the corn is harvested and the cows eat it.

The reason fossil fuels are so bad is that we are releasing carbon that has been sequestered for thousands and millions of years. We need to stop increasing the max supply in the atmosphere and slow recapture what is there so we can reduce the ppm and start lowering the greenhouse effects we have created.
I certainly don't want them on my CVS receipts.
> You could do the same for a roll of a dice and the toss of a coin. Or do you think that computing the joint distribution of a coin toss and a dice roll doesn't make sense because they are defined over different spaces?

Of course it doesn't! You first have to define them on a common space (the Cartesian product), and for that you have to specify their joint probabilities. One example might be that you model them as independent. Otherwise we wouldn't know how the coin and the dice relate. Sure independence is usually a good default assumption, but it's still a necessary step.
Exactly. If some users perceive Google News as somewhat biased, it's likely to be self-reinforcing-- by nature of how Google's algorithms evolved over their corporate history.