skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! Try to focus your energy on finding your market and less on throwing your product at tire-kickers from Product Hunt, Reddit and Hacker News. As a bootstrapper, you're not looking for affirmation from your peers, you're looking for customers. Definitely put a ton of effort into talking to prospects/customers -- even if you just receive radio silence in return -- it is so important to have these conversations even if they're super rare. Experiment with different marketing avenues to see what sticks.

I wrote about this more here: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/2fa6c5e1eb
How would you phrase the sentiment differently? Or is it inherently white supremacist?

What if the country isn't majority white?
It hurts domestic industry in the other country. The negative effects are concentrated while the benefit is diffuse.

Example: China subsidizes solar panels to the point where all US solar panel companies go bankrupt. The US solar panel industry is badly hurt, even if the rest of us get 40% cheaper solar panels.
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What a find! There are a lot of jobs that are complete bullshit, especially in finance and tech. That hot new app or device isn't a necessity, its decoration. Things got done before slack existed, so why are some brilliant people wasting their time and life working tirelessly to optimize slack? People might get promoted and pat themselves on the back for reworking some aspect of the snapchat back end, for instance, but are you gonna put that accomplishment on your tombstone? Will your project ever come up in university CS lectures, or even see the light of day to be cited by other researchers? The iPhone Xs doesn't do anything fundamentally different than the first iPhone, and people buy new ones every year to do the same emailing, texting and calling, and web surfing they've always done since their first smartphone. There are people who are striving daily to make missiles more lethal, advertising more addictive, consumption more rampant, the environment more polluted, and shareholder profit more exponential.

A lack of fulfillment in the majority of straight out of undergrad private sector career paths is what got me interested in grad school, to spend my time and effort working on a topic that's explicitly not bullshit.
My apologies, Dan. Thanks.
Nuclear power is the only real option we have to limit climate change, that we can put into motion right now. The downsides are the politics associated, glacial construction times, and the fact we still lack proper disposal sites.

Critical thinking skills and more statistics education is something the world sorely needs.
I'm sorry? This seems rather incoherent. Most income in the US does not in fact go to the 1%. (A greatly disproportionate amount does, of course - about 20% - as expected from an exponential distribution)

And if you're talking about wealth... Well, having all the world's billionares give up their money at once wouldn't have much of a positive impact either. (The 1% in the US - not exactly billionaires, $10,000,000 puts you there - had about 35% of US wealth in 2007)
How many jobs do you apply to when you're searching? More than a few I'm sure.

Maybe 10% of them get back to you with an interview request and that leads to a code challenge. It's highly plausible for a senior Dev to be simultaneously interviewing with multiple companies and have 5-10 pending code challenges. That shit adds up...
I am becoming more convinced that we as a civilization will not cut CO2 emissions in time and we will need some type of carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration is going to horrendously energy intensive and we will need something like nuclear power to provide that kind of energy.
>we'll accelerate wealth/income disparity

Do you believe that the wealth/income disparity would decrease if instead of employing one worker to drive a truck, each box was hand carried by 1000 workers? Unless the more cost-efficient delivery companies prevent competitors from entering the (now leaner) delivery market, the result of a decrease in the marginal cost of production is more, better quality, cheaper goods whose price decrease benefits those who are at the margins the most (the group you seem to be wanting to help and who would hurt the most by artificially increasing the cost of delivering goods).

The "Curse" of Machinery https://www.stevebaker.info/quick-guides/economics-in-one-le...

Spread-the-Work Schemes http://www.stevebaker.info/quick-guides/economics-in-one-les...
I get what you are getting at, but this is a terrible question to ask.

Libya is also a very complicated place, and so it's difficult to answer without quite a lot of knowledge.

The question reeks of that ridiculous 'American can-do neo-colonialism can solve anything' kind of problem, and in that context is basically offensive.

Any answer, given by any candidate could only totally gloss over the most important in a ridiculous and igornat way.

"Bad answers had the exec consolidating power and crushing opposition." ?

This is exactly how pretty much all leaders in the the Middle East establish power. Do you think they are stupid? Or maybe that there is some kind of underlying systematic issue here?

Secondarily, is the ugly reality of the answers: you can't 'build infrastructure' while opponents are thwarting you at every turn. 'Killing your opponents' in such a situation may actually be a rational thing to do. Of course it sounds very outrageous to be talking about this in an interview, moreover, it's doubly shocking coming out of people without that kind of relevant (i.e. military) experience.

This question is just loaded with problems, I suggest you adapt it to some other more neutral context.
https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/vehicle-and-dismoun...

As I understand it it's the algorithms that analyze the radar data that are the secret (literally) sauce. I didn't work on any of that. I just plumbed various data from A to B. I don't know much other than it was really damned good for being "legacy" at the time I was working there.
> Criticizing a software update is "losing my cool"?

Making as assertion about someone telling a lie comes across as that, if you're given the benefit of a doubt and assumed to not be someone that calls people out as liars with little evidence unless you get carried away.

But perhaps calling people liars is a normal mode of communication for you, and you didn't lose your cool at al. That's definitely one way to interpret the comments so far, given how you equate "criticizing" to how you've presented your position so far.

I think you had good points initially. I also think that when presented with facts about this specific situation you've allowed you argument to devolve into a stubborn stand based on technicalities while belittling others.

> So instead of making personal attacks for no reason, how about we criticize bad, unnecessary software updates together?

Indeed.
Labor organizing is a bad thing because laws as they stand allow unions to over-ride the contract liberty of companies. This gives them enormous power that lets them engage in rent-seeking behaviour. There is plenty of economic scholarship on the efficiency hit companies take from unionization, and plenty of anecdotal examples of major American industries crumbling after coming under the thumb of powerful unions.
Clojure vs. the Static Typing World (2017)
waste disposal is not as big of a problem for modern reactors
Author here. Currently working on a debugger. (Threw the old crappy one out.) Backtraces are working. Some of the remaining work is going to require long, uninterrupted concentration that is hard to come by due to taking care of a six-month-old baby.

I have over 50 unreleased patches. There are some bugfixes, including a compiler one, involving dynamically scoped variables used as optional parameters:

(defvar v)
(defun f (: (v v)))
(call (compile 'f)) ;; blows up in virtual machine with "frame level mismatch"

Patch for that:

diff --git a/share/txr/stdlib/compiler.tl b/share/txr/stdlib/compiler.tl
index e76849db..ccdbee83 100644
--- a/share/txr/stdlib/compiler.tl
+++ b/share/txr/stdlib/compiler.tl
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
,*(whenlet ((spec-sub [find have-sym specials : cdr]))
(set specials [remq have-sym specials cdr])
^((bindv ,have-bind.loc ,me.(get-dreg (car spec-sub))))))))))
- (benv (if specials (new env up nenv co me) nenv))
+ (benv (if need-dframe (new env up nenv co me) nenv))
(btreg me.(alloc-treg))
(bfrag me.(comp-progn btreg benv body))
(boreg (if env.(out-of-scope bfrag.oreg) btreg bfrag.oreg))

There is now support in the printer for limiting the depth and length.

I added a derived hook into the OOP system; a struct being notified that it is being inherited.
I still don't see how applying for a job is abuse.
While nuclear is certainly going to be around longer than coal, the impact is just as catastrophic, if not more so than coal. The reason it is hard to see is that the cost of both of these technologies is going to be with us for thousands, and tens of thousands of years.

It may also be that solar, wind, and geothermal will also have similar cost integrations over time, but it seems less likely.
Hadn't heard of Scaleway before, but their prices look very reasonable! Are you a customer of theirs? Any issues with reliability?
Is it increasing, or is it being identified more often? I have teenage and early 20s age children. They and all of their peers have been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and a host of other mental illnesses. When I was growing up I can't remember any kids in my high school (I had a graduation class of 900+ students) being diagnosed with any sort of mental illness. I've wondered if the frequency with which people are experiencing mental illness has increased, or if the rates have remained stable but diagnosis and reporting levels have improved.
The gotton gin processed picked cotton, necessitating more pickers. This machine picks tomatoes, reducing needs for pickers. After picking, all remaining processing for tomatoes is highly automated/ bulk operations (trucking, washing, canning or packaging and distributing as fresh produce).
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Part of the Conversation
SF isn't really putting facial rec on hold though, they'll just use other biometric identifiers. They also already have pervasive cameras and license plate recognition so they can track people really easily. This also won't stop federal agencies from doing camera sweeps.
Even Astronauts Binge-Watch TV While in Space
How do companies that sell shares on public markets prove they are providing what people are paying for? There are independent firms that audit their financial statements.
It's not nit-picking - that's very interesting. Thanks for the correction.
You need to get the community organised for a hunt. I recall one that happened when a rogue retransmitter managed to spill religious radio onto TWR2 frequency at local Airport
Is it coincidental, that something so complex, and multi-faceted, with both huge potential risks and benefits, attracts floods of simple-minded and "I told you so" comments, from even this very intelligent crowd
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I'm very pro-nuclear, but I still think this is an extremely unfair comparison. If you actually talk to anti-nuclear advocates, they have reasonable concerns about safety, disposal, oversight, and proliferation.

Now I don't think those concerns override the fact that nuclear fission is our best stop-gap as we slowly transition to renewables. But that doesn't mean everything anti-nuclear folks say is bunk.

The whole anti-vaxx movement, on the other hand, is based almost exclusively on lies and propaganda. Maybe it's because the anti-vaxx movement grew via social media channels, which increased its toxicity substantially.
I think it is a PR move - but might be good for us. If there are lots of companies willing to offset their carbon emissions, this creates a market for solutions. And if there's a market, then there's a reason to invest in product development (I'm thinking about carbon capture solutions).

Same thing with switching to renewable energy. Higher demand pushes prices up and therefore fuels innovation and development of new projects.

I don't see this making any difference for the company itself (except the PR benefits and on the negative side the costs). The real benefits come from actually reducing carbon emissions. It is possible we will in the future have something like a carbon tax. If this happens, companies that have already cut their emissions have an advantage. Also, this can start affecting the share prices already earlier as investors will start counting in the possibility of carbon tax happening.

Disclaimer: I have no idea how carbon intensive their production is. In some industries, the actual emissions are meaningless and true carbon opportunities/risks lay elsewhere. In the case of Bosch, it might be for example the switch from developing technology for combustion engines to electric cars that has the real effect.
Here's the text, if you'd like to follow along: http://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/
Conspiracy theories (flat earth etc.) are twenty-teen trolling devices. Don't feed the trolls.
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Sony and Microsoft to explore strategic partnership
I find it very likely to be wrong when statements say xxx is the "only" way to do something. Particularly with nuclear which has strong evidence in the US, France and China that plants can't be built in sufficient time to make a difference at this point, while it's pretty clear that renewables and storage are not only feasible, but more cost effective and faster to rollout, as well as to advance technologically vs nuclear.
I think that both of you are right, to be honest.

There have always been stats people that code, and coding people that do stats.

Most of the useful (for structured-data problems) models are pretty old, and you can solve an awful lot of business problems with linear models with carefully chosen features.

(it is perhaps worth pointing out, that with the exception of ReLU, CNN's in their modern form have existed since the 80s).

But on the other hand, the large-scale hiring of people to do this work is pretty new, as well as the volume of data available to even moderately sized services, so there's a quantitative change that is somewhat qualitative.

I'm also interested in the fact that there is no mention of A-B tests in the OP, given that the need for this is relatively new, and something that probably pushed a lot of companies towards needing more quantitative people, which led to the current nature of "modern" data science.
What about transportation? I always thoughts they use these horrible rock hard tomatoes because they don't get damaged during transportation, I never really thought about picking. I was slaving 14 hour days a lot of summers picking strawberries in a foreign country and I can't recall we ever talked about the damaged during picking. The main thing was to keep the damaged ones away by either throwing or by eating them.
Also noting that Cloudflare is an internet company for which the competitive landscape and ability to have losses is vastly different than an airline or a beverage manufacturer. There is a reason that old school companies are like that. And to think it's wrong in some way does not consider the situation that they are dealing with trying to keep market share in a business with very thin margins.
Is the Akamai (largest CDN in the world) partnership with Microsoft announced last month related?

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2019-press/aka...
Forced technology transfers and IP theft.
When Yosemite Mountaineering School classes went out to the rock they used nylon ropes, in 1975. I was never more than a student of climbing but everything that has been mentioned in this thread was being done, and written up in books you could buy at Kelty, in the mid 70's. Dawn Wall was climbed with 300 bolts on its first ascent (but bolt usage was ahead of its time). The 'harness' is the main refinement I would say was lacking. YMS classes were taught to put on, and the books described, the swami belt (not unknown today, but not preferred?) made on demand from webbing. Cams were advertised but chocks/nuts were the standard.
The main problem is becoming dependent, which allows the situation to turn into an example of bait and switch once the other party doesn't have as much incentive to retain the status quo.
There's only so many offsets to go around though, right? So demand for them _should_ produce demand for new energy if enough of the offset demand... right?
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We already know how to safely operate nuclear power plants: the US Navy has been doing so for decades with no incidents. We could have imposed a similar level of discipline on civilian nuclear power plant operators back in the 1970s, when commercial plants started being built in the US in quantity. Or we could have done it after Three Mile Island (which harmed no members of the general public but clearly showed inadequacies in the way civilian nuclear plants were operated). The fact that we didn't is a political problem, not a technical or operational problem.

Furthermore, even the operational problem is now nonexistent with newer reactor designs. Older designs, like the reactors at Three Mile Island, required the operators to correctly execute a fairly complex procedure in the event of a problem to prevent the reactor from being severely damaged or destroyed; the TMI operators failed to do that. Also, as Fukushima showed, older reactor designs require reliable backup power for decay heat removal. Newer designs have neither of those requirements; you can literally pull the shutdown switch and walk away and there will be no problem.

So while I don't disagree with what you say about complex systems in general, I don't think nuclear reactors, with today's designs, are even that complex. We know how to design and build them so that it is impossible to operate them unsafely. We just don't have the political will to do it.
...duh? Hasn't it been known for years that processed foods are engineered to be more addictive and thus more fattening?
> This is the mentality of intellectual inquisitive people and needs to be promoted as it's currently under attack.

It's weird you say this because it really seems more like the mentality of people who want a state sponsored megaphone to shout, "Debate me you cowards!" into.
Diagnosing more people does not necessarily mean diagnosis is improving, especially when the criteria are purely subjective (and there are perverse incentives for pharmaceutical companies to diagnose more people)
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I disagree - the education system itself is deeply unforgiving in how it functions. From even the most basic level of school scheduling being directly at odds with teenage biology, all the way to how students are ranked and filed purely based on test scores. These kids in poor neighborhoods usually (statistically) don't have the support that even the best students need to get through school. Of course there are always exceptions, but this is just what I've observed.
The White House’s ‘Tech Bias’ Reporting Form Is a Masterpiece of Trumpism
I would have worded this headline differently, in a way that focuses on what I see to be the core issue:

Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Management Limits Its Deployment

It's not that we're afraid of nuclear power, it's that we're afraid that nuclear power will be managed as poorly as our other basic infrastructure is.
> ... there remains a gulf in understanding the difference between the technology's statistical risks and the dread it evokes ... that dread about nuclear power leads respondents to choose 40% less nuclear generation in 2050 than they would have chosen in the absence of this dread."

Education on nuclear statistics and modern nuclear technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor) would be useful.

Though I wonder if we're stuck for a similar reason many are afraid of flying, but not of driving - despite driving being significantly more dangerous statistically - the idea/story of a plane crash is vastly scarier than a car crash.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but nuclear energy fundamentally requires a strong state, at least one capable enough of maintaining facilities and disposing of the waste.

Looking at human history, the assumption that some state power will always be able to manage it seems rather naive. There have been long stretches of feudalism, warfare, and all-out anarchy and indeed the current relatively stable forms of government are not the norm historically. If all it takes to cause a nuclear meltdown is a brief lapse in order or relative peace, then that doesn’t strike me as very anti-fragile.

Furthermore, nuclear power requires and perpetuates government control over things in a way that say, solar energy, doesn’t. Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on your political persuasion, of course.

That said, one could probably also make the opposite argument that nuclear power would lead to more incentives for peace and stability, in the same way that arguments for Mutually-Assured-Destruction argue that nuclear weapons prevent warfare.
By your definition, the spirit of free speech is perfectly fine in a company town where anyone criticizing their employer loses their livelihood.
Given my sort of 'maker' inclinations, I find these articles amusing. The "3D print a gun!" ones were similar.

Basically they come down to, if you learn how a system works, or how something is made, you can learn to implement or influence that system and/or build that thing. Back in the 60's the click bait was "kid learns how to build an atomic bomb!" This was pretty eye catching but really it is just physics, material science, and a bit of math.

That said, so many people rarely look past the surface of things, seeing something like a cell phone as an opaque magical brick that can do wondrous things. And yet all that the phone does, and how it does it, are knowable if someone chooses to invest the time. (admittedly it is a lot of time if you don't have the basics).

The headline, "People who know how radios work can affect systems that are based on radio." is so much less scary.
Then I think you will like https://tkatchev.bitbucket.io/tab/index.html

"It's statically-typed and type-infered.

It also infers memory consumption and guarantees O(n) memory use.

It is designed for concise one-liner computations right in the shell prompt.

It features both a mathematics library and a set of data slicing and aggregation primitives.

It is faster than all other interpreted languages with a similar scope. (Perl, Python, awk, ...)

It is not Turing-complete. (But can compute virtually anything nonetheless.)

It is self-contained: distributed as a single statically linked binary and nothing else.

It has no platform dependencies."

I am a little suspicous that you may be the author ;)
I often wonder how much the difficulty of chewing a food effects how healthy its consumers are. Processed foods are "pre-chewed" and easy to eat very quickly.
They have "reasonable" concerns, but the comparison is spot-on.

Their narrow-minded paranoia has by-and-large resulted in the alternative being coal, which is killing almost a million people every year, and that's just yearly deaths, not the cumulative carbon released into the atmosphere which we'll be paying for for the next thousand years at best.

Just like someone not vaccinating their kids isn't right just because they can point to some miniscule fatality rate as a result of vaccinations (e.g. infections, adverse reactions to vaccines etc.). Those tiny numbers are drowned out by the death rate of not vaccinating.

So pick the shittiest Soviet nuclear design you can think of. If we powered the whole world on that and had 10 Chernobyls every year it would still suck less than coal.