skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already said the courts will take care of it.

Why is everyone focusing so much on a person that's had their minutes of fame instead of the crimes they exposed?

This whole thread is full of people debating the definition of rape. Is everyone working for the Swedish prosecution or how is this in any way relevant to anything...
https://dataintensive.net/

I can't recommend this book enough. I have a CS background, and still had quite a few "I can't believe this thing has been hiding in plain sight!" moments while reading it.
Teaching based on an older framework still will require learning the basics of the language, basics of analysis and design. As long as the course is well structured and well taught, the students should become empowered enough to aquire the updated knowledge for the newer framework.

Would it be better to base the course on the up-to-date flavor? Yes, if resources allow that. However,the emphasis should still be on developing a mindset that is motivated for extended learning.

Frameworks change, domains change. Learning the basics of a framework will not guarantee a job, learning how to solve problems using whatever combination of frameworks will prepare one better for a career. After all, a perfect entry level is a practical learner.
As a developer who is looking to better my understanding of system thinking, are there any books/courses you recommend reading to help begin thinking in this manner.
Anyone parading around like this is bad news has never worked in an assembly line or warehouse job. This might reduce the workforce overall long-term, but honestly this is hard back-breaking long-workday labor.

Anything that improves the livelihood of the warehouse workers is a win in my book.
Ask HN: Have you moved to a less technical role after failing as a developer?
After a few years of working as a frontend developer, I'm trying to come to terms with the realisation that I have very little aptitude for writing code.

I seem to lack any kind of problem solving ability. I can get stuff done when it fits standard patterns/boilerplate, but anything more difficult and I fail quickly and give up.

I seem to have got by for the last few years by being likeable enough that people are happy to pair with me and basically do the work for me.

I've realised it's affecting my self-esteem pretty badly. I almost never go home feeling like I've achieved anything. I'm scared of not being able to find work in the future. This is in contrast to the people I've worked with who always seem very optimistic about finding new roles etc. I'm not young either (approaching 40) and have no other skills.

I'm starting to think my best hope is to try to stay in this industry but move into something like business analysis or product management. I'm quite concerned about how such a move would be perceived. If I was hiring I'd run a mile from someone who wanted to change careers simply because they failed at their last one. Is there a way to spin this into something positive?

I would love to hear if anyone else has gone through what I described and managed to move into a different role, and how you managed to spin your situation and emphasise the positives.
> Are there any immediate impacts for a company regarding a price drop after an IPO?

From what I understand, nothing _direct_, but there are a bunch of indirect issues it raises:

- Ability to raise later capital

- Happiness of current investors (who may have board seats)

- Happiness of employees who have stock grants/etc, and may not be making much, if anything...

- Retaining talent and hiring new talent

Finally, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if very significant drops can open a company up to increased auditing or attention from the SEC. I don't know what form this would take, and I could be wrong, but if there is something along these lines that could take up company resources or cost money in fines if they are found to have mis-sold some aspect of the company to investors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

> Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution. Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. Critics regard memetics as a pseudoscience. Memetics describes how an idea can propagate successfully, but doesn't necessarily imply a concept is factual.

> The term meme was coined in Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene, but Dawkins later distanced himself from the resulting field of study.[2] Analogous to a gene, the meme was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more individuals, and which can reproduce itself in the sense of jumping from the mind of one person to the mind of another. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-replicator reproducing itself in a new host. As with genetics, particularly under a Dawkinsian interpretation, a meme's success may be due to its contribution to the effectiveness of its host.

I believe memetics is one of the most impactful but underappreciated ideas out there today, and plausibly explains the bizarre polarization of opinions on a wide variety of hot button current topics. Everyone perceives that their opinion/knowledge is based on facts, but very few are even slightly aware that their knowledge is actually based on a hodge podge of memes, each with varying levels of truthiness.
Assumptions Kill Startups. How to ID and Quickly De-Risk Them
Been long outraged at this kind of lock-in problem, wherever it is found. My first thought on reading this kind of article is "what a great opportunity for a startup".

Then, I immediately realize that there are likely no VCs that would fund such a thing.

It seems that every (ok, a vast majority) new business models that gets funded either start with or soon add some kin of lock-in even when completely unnecessary. they tout it as a "cloud" feature, but in reality it is just a DRM lockup.

The real problem is VCs and founders failing to truly compete on features, and instead trying to compete on network effects and lock-in to build an extractive business model -- just lock 'em in and charge the highest rent/rates you can.
Oh TheQuartering I really enjoy how he pretends that only the "left" as he calls it wants censorship. His deletion of comments that provide examples of censorship from the "right" "center" "others" appears to show he cares more about views and outrage than actually presenting facts.

But he should not have been assaulted.
>Many customers keep the tarot card shop down the street in business too.

Right, because there's literally no alternative to fortune-telling magic but more kinds of fortune-telling magic. If there were already a conceptually different prediction service with useful and measurable accuracy, the tarot card place would need to have superior accuracy or some other hook, otherwise they'd go out of business. Ultimately the differences would be measurable and demonstrable.

Marketing team could be selling snake oil, I get it, but snake oil only exists where a real, functioning product doesn't, otherwise there'd be results to compare.
Tailwind CSS v1
I expect you'll find food impairment kicking in hard before then. Also peace impairment, water impairment, topsoil impairment, etc.
> This box robot (…) doesn't ever call in sick.

Any machine eventually calls in sick when it undergoes maintenance and failure. Of course the failure modes are different than with human labor, but the point is machines also fail.
Sounds like Amazon is making the smart business move and outsourcing one of the hardest parts of its logistics chain to contractors. The $10,000 looks like an attempt to bootstrap the market.
I think this is Amazon saying last mile delivery is a huge concern for the company.
There's a pretty big principle-agent problem for these kinds of decisions, too. Choosing a programming language has an effect on the implementing employees' resume strength, not just on the end result that they provide for the company.

A symptom of this is having a startup that uses more programming languages in production code than programmers.
There's a whole genre of youtube channels of farmers explaining what they do and how their tractors work. As a city dweller I find them pretty interesting.
I'm now torn between reading this one first or the Architecture of Enterprise Applications.
I am sure that’s the plan. No health insurance. Easy to get rid of. But they still have total control over them.
> People purchased items that they cannot repair, for myriad reasons

The primary reason being that they are 97% of the available items, forcing any repair shop to get by through fixing the 3%. This results in a tug-of-war between repair shops being too far away (fewer of them) or too expensive, closing in on the price of a new disposable item.

Right-to-fix isn't about me being an expert on how to fix things, it's about me being able to get things fixed by someone other than the manufacturer. This increases the number of repairmen, which increases the attractiveness of repairable items in a virtuous circle.

edit: also in a lot of these manufacturer repair situations you're talking about mailing the item somewhere, not walking to a store and walking out with a new one. A world in which you arrive at a familiar repair shop, they transfer your data to a loner phone, and you get your phone back in a day or two and rsync the diff back - that doesn't sound radically different for the customer than the status quo, just radically cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
What did you think was going to happen? German bombers flying to New York?
I refer you to the children's story "Crying Wolf".
Hardly, Apple is held as a bastion of privacy and freedom of speech, even if that isn't really necessarily true.
Is there an alternative where they don't sign an equivalent TOS and still get the same features? Perhaps they have to pay for the privilege? Or is this a unilateral power grab by the manufacturers?
Thank you for your answer. I got fired from my two last development jobs too.

I didn't like the first place, I haven't got too much help to even onboard, not talking about learning the codebase or the framework. (One thing I will never ever do again is trying to learn a completely different framework at a new job...)

At the second place however I felt I was pretty good. They mentioned areas to improve (productivity, meetings), but most of the feedbacks were good. Then they fired me. They "expected more improvement".

What is the mistake I shouldn't make again? Am I a bad developer, having problems or just unlucky?
http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html

> Fiction: Many believe that paper bags are more environmentally friendly than plastic bags because they are made from a renewable resource, can biodegrade, and are recyclable.

> Fact: Plastic shopping bags outperform paper bags environmentally – on manufacturing, on reuse, and on solid waste volume and generation.

Note: plastics industry website, but also see this NPR post which pulls in several independent studies: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...
Jesse Singal is not "anti-trans", that's a rather disingenious description of his work. He is pro-trans but his work explore some controversies with the current trans-movement, for which he gets a lot of harassment.
Why Ethereum (ETH) Is Dying
California's Infrastructure Gets C- in New Report Card
Well, Robots may be cheaper, but they may also be more accurate. In my 20 years shopping with Amazon, I have very occasionally received the wrong items, so maybe robots will combat that, or reduce the need to double check, etc.

I agree, low-skill jobs are shrinking, but we should not expect companies to solve that. We have a government and we vote. Ideally, we should all be asking the government to propose solutions to this problem, not expecting it to be inside the corporate charter.
There's still tells. 80% realism is still far enough away to be unrealistic. There's lots of places it breaks. I think soon is still at least 20 years away. And 20 years away in technology is basically never. Reality is very very detailed and we've been optimized in our evolution to get to that fine grit quickly.

It doesn't entirely apply, but here's an article (one of many) on telling deep fakes: https://www.howtogeek.com/341469/how-to-spot-a-deep-fake-fac...

Also this short one on playing with a robo-call:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread988484/pg1
I certainly felt like Google does this for their 'Google News' product. I selectively blocked half a dozen sources I found to be excessively clickbaity and it really cut into the amount of news that was shown.

My guess would be that there are three things going on a least;

One is that news outlets are loath to let Google crawl them and post snippets, they argue that Google gets the 'benefit' without paying for the content. (this was used in a couple of lawsuits)

One is that Google may provide the advertising feed for news outlets that are shown, thus a double benefit to Google is that you go to their news aggregator, and when you pop off into a news story you continue to be served Google ads.

And finally, there is the polarization of people's news intake through a limited number of sources. Per my experiment I found after deleting the new sources I found offenses Google was unable to come up with additional "interesting" news sources, they just didn't crawl them or have access to them (or they don't exist I suppose). Regardless of the reason, the additional wasn't in their index to serve up.
Developing Software in a Hostile Environment
This Ted talk gave me hope to reverse climate change and seems plausible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI&t=163s

Does anyone know / have experience whether this actually works?
About time a profitless company gets what it deserves. I've been concerned with endless VC funding for years.

From what I've seen, most current tech companies are not doing well going public. I remember a similar lukewarm response when Snapchat went public.

In fact, I probably would've advised them to stay private. Tech companies have seemed to survive indefinitely bleeding VC money.

My guess is the stock will probably recover after a couple months.
Given enough time, the Earth will be incinerated by the sun as it expands into a red giant. Solved the plastic problem!

Though as you said, I'm sure we'll have a few hundred (thousand) landfill planets by then.
In the future everyone should be a contractor anyway. Health care should be decoupled from employer.
> U.S. consumers may be unaware of the farmers’ plight

Sadly, the vast majority of the US population only really care about things in their own home/backyard. The concept of awareness at even a national level is lost on most.
All of the advantages you list could be provided better without DRM from the viewpoint of the farmer, open standards and all that. The three point hitch is what made farm equipment investments a good destination of the money farmers had saved, not DRM.
I’ll accept that my terminology may be overly general (and yours overly specific), but the fact remains: after Assange spent an entire election year dropping new damaging material on them, helping a candidate they profoundly oppose win power, how do you expect them to feel?

As I say, I’m not getting into the rights or the wrongs of it, but Assange’s unpopularity is no mystery. Whether or not you think he’s a saint, it’s undeniable he’s annoyed not just a lot of powerful people, but an awful lot of plain people.
The largest gain would probably come by splitting the Ad infrastructure out of Google, and forcing it to make their ads available for any search company on the same terms.
Those are overall numbers but it may increase engagement within the 25% which makes the comparison between apples and oranges. If x engages me more more products will be sold.
The downside to computerizing & networking everything is the multitude of vulnerabilities you open.
> We are a selfish species that deserves to go extinct. Have you ever considered that?

Totally agree. The Earth will handle that.
Finally, a .Net Port of Moment.js
U.S. State Department Travel Advisory Map
> Employees who have been with the company several years get stuck waiting 6 months to sell any shares at which point the stock is well under water preventing an exodus of talent.

This is largely only true of employees paid in options right? I thought Uber had been using RSU for a long time, which would prevent 'under water' conditions.
Article author here.

To access the dataset you need to be logged in with a Google account. Details here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/ai-platform-text-clas...
John Deere is also buying or investing in automated farming equipment(Blue River Tech being their biggest acquisition) and farm robotics. They now have a Silicon Valley VC/investment arm in San Francisco.

A lot of new technologies that are being developed are bought out by the big fish and banished to a dark vault to die to kill competition.

Net net..farmer never wins.
This one is certainly a debacle. Uber was the 1 unicorn left. There is no other darling startup that's gonna be scratching $100b anytime soon. This IPO failure ended the crazy run of cash since the '08 crisis.

It was also a debacle because anyone who is not an idiot sees that Uber is doomed. You think their little GPS app is actually an advantage with respect to self driving? There is no barrier for entry, none. They are as likely to lose as they are to win, if full automation is actually a viable technology in the next 10 years (it isn't).
I think this debate is interesting, but I don't expect Apple to be happy about the final outcome. A developer publishing solely on Apple's App Store (and relying solely on Apple features to provide functionality) has no direct access to the customer* - Apple prevents that fairly well. In this case, I feel like, as a consumer, I'm Apple's customer. I think courts, and especially juries, would agree.

That said, I don't see how the App Store is a monopoly. How would "monopoly" be defined to even formulate a case against Apple?

* - notwithstanding that many apps want you to create an account on their systems - Apple does indeed allow this.
>what word are journalists going to use when there’s an actual debacle?

fiasco.
We called them "skids", so yeah lots of variations.
With the current political gridlock voting is not enough. Workplaces -- the very entities that provide the jobs we need to earn a living -- need to shoulder more of the burden they inflict from the zero-sum game that they're paying. They hold a disproportionate amount of the world's wealth and they need to take responsibility for it.
Hmm, that makes sense. Given that though I would say griefing is a sub-category of bullying then, or a tool used by the bullying party (inheritance vs. composition I guess).
And the bits falling off the car within the warranty period, that turn out not to be part of the warranty after all. In my case: a transmission brace that broke under light use in under a year on an F150.
But renewables are more decentralised. I can't stick a coal plant on my roof. Decentralisation means less corrupt monopoly, less need to regulate.
Smash the State
ah the rules of gender stereotyping:

virtuous when it's pro-trans, misogynistic otherwise, and of course, misandry doesn't exist.
I believe that one day boycott will help them reconsider these practices.
Intensional Logics – De Jongh and Veltman (1999) [pdf]
I saw an article today about how farmers are streaming Netflix while running their JD tractors. PR piece for sure. Bread and Circus. Smoke and mirrors.
Thank god I can now buy that $70 iPhone case for $69. Who cares what these uneducated people get paid. Also, everything will be fine when we ring socialism so others can pay taxes to subsidies the lives of these uneducated people. Not me though, I want my stuff cheap and my taxes low.

/s
> These annotations do not appear to be essential to understanding the law

At least 3 judges disagree with this (quoted from the article):

> “The annotations clearly have authoritative weight in explicating and establishing the meaning and effect of Georgia’s laws,” Judge Stanley Marcus wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel of the court
Friend, your specific points are generally correct. Your fears and concerns are well founded.

(To be clear: I don't think that the worst results of climate change ("reduce human population back to a few hundred thousand and we start all over again") are assured, even if we're currently not even close to doing enough; but I think the odds are plenty high, and thus, plenty alarming.)

As someone who has been long dancing with the despair you're dancing with right now, allow me to gently suggest something to you.

> feel-good eco activism

> You're doing just enough to soothe your conscience without actually depriving yourself.

Let's assume that these are accurate. Then, let's assume for a moment that a person who comes to sufficiently understand the size and magnitude of the problems we're facing can go one of three ways.

1. The person has the fortitude and wherewithal to make the necessary changes, and does embrace a completely different, radical personal way of life. A small percentage of people do this.

2. The person embraces the realities, sufficient to motivate them to various changes in action and perspective, but still all together insufficient compared to the total scope of the problem.

3. Fall into despair.

This is a simplification, of course. It's quite possible for a person to items 1 or 2 and also 3.

My point: our greatest enemy here is despair.

It's better to go part of the way, #2 above, and avoid despair than it is to do nothing. It's far better to do #2 above than it is to fall into despair.

I urge you to give all people, yourself included, permission to push through various stages of acceptance and action.
Twitter discloses bug impacting collection and sharing of location data on iOS
Combolist.org – generate fake combolists to use as examples or for test input
I think you are correct in that this is often not brought into such conversations.

I also think that the full extent of this conversation, that consumer interest is currently in opposition with our responsibilities as a society, is rarely considered by the mainstream media as well.
I think that's a lazy argument. Context matters a great deal, and "blind AB tests" don't mean what you think they mean.

I play guitar, and have recorded/produced numerous albums. When I'm playing, I can easily tell the difference between subtleties like which kind of guitar pick I'm using. But listening back to recordings of my own playing that I made, I sometimes couldn't even tell you which guitar I used.

Now, I don't think you're suggesting that all guitars sound alike here. But as an example of the kind of context distortion of the AB test, that's what it suggests.
How is convincing everyone to change their diet a “quick win?” Seems to me converting fossil fuels to renewables is the “quicker win” as it doesn’t require all of humanity to change their behavior.
> if there's nothing to worry about then why spend tens of trillions of dollars to stop it?

Extremely shortsighted thinking. If we're talking about cost, this should be the argument: tens of trillions < the future of humanity.