skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really would hate to have schools actively try to be the arbiter of what people should use rather than reflect the marketplace.

Does the fact that 'the market place' is clearly manipulating the decision makers temper your hate somewhat?

> ... because schools are not qualified to make these decisions.

By schools, do you mean various nation states' departments of education? Because policy (and curriculum) is set there, not at 'the schools'.

And government education agencies tend to be highly conservative in their thinking, partly out of political expediency, partly because of the trend towards vocational training. There's also the ridiculously long lead times in effecting any kind of policy change within education, no incentives to regularly reconsider alternatives, ease of submitting to the market's desires, etc

In any case, I disagree. Schools / education agencies need to be making these decisions, if not in whole then at least in part, as 'keep doing what we did yesterday' is horrendous policy if it's not backed up by empirical evidence.

And in this specific example, teaching students how to consume software, rather than how to discover -- or rather, removing any option to explore by insisting on non-free tools -- is failing their duty of care.
Your sentence is just so surreal to read for a non-American. I think you got used to a different state of security, and your normal is dangerous to me.
The problem is that all the low hanging fruit of offshoring labor has already been picked, so to bring up that point again and again is disingenuous.

We're talking about jobs that have not been able to be offshored for some reason or another.

If amazon could offshore these jobs to some low cost country they'd do that in a heartbeat but these are residual low skilled jobs that simply couldn't be easily outsourced.

And the poster above is arguing in favor of more low skilled immigration to dilute the power of the low skilled worker.
It's not an attack, it's a statement.

The OP here is literally saying "I want cheap shipping and I don't care if the companies providing it actually hurt people just to save a few cents".

I can't think of any way to respond that isn't pointing out that holding that position makes you a monster.
I get the comment is a bit snarky, but if you dig into this guys site it's required that you have worked 3+ years at a "top tier company" with a rotating ticker of FAANG and other giant SV behemoths on it's front page ad, which IMO is fairly pretentious and warrants a bit of a call out.
I'm impressed by the blog post and how it clearly addressed a lot of the concerns I had about a cloud based service.

Does it not support Elixir? I tried out and was impressed by the older version of TabNine, and could have sworn that was with an Elixir project.
With the right time : https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs?t=1564
Sure, I am interested.
It would be great if you can spin it off ?

Thanks,
Alex
But the regulation strongly influences what the market will pay. The trend of allowing companies to have employees sign non-competes for relatively low skilled jobs, for example, depresses wages by impeding competition for labor.
Depends on the definition of wet. I can't use touchid for a bit after washing my hands. It doesn't matter how much I dry then. This makes using fingerprint unlock on any device really hard while cooking.
Researchers Find Black Nano Gold Can Convert CO2 Emissions to Fuel
Let's jsonfy the data
https://gist.github.com/spookyahell/1c688efc3bc0096517542350...
I agree with this, especially for long tail terms but I also think it is getting better with time. If it helps, you can use !g to search with Google.
Wow, you didn't even get paid for it? Crazy.
Once you get to the actual story it goes away, at least with Brave on Android.

Very distracting, and I skipped past the foreword because of it.
Historically yes. But this is Google, a “liberal” company which ostensibly is open and accepting or at least tolerant to all?
You mean the entire premise of the article we are all talking about?
And what an awfully designed webpage. I’ll never know why Cargill is bad simply because of this utterly incompetent web designer who is making images take up half of the page even when scrolling.
No it doesn't. The basis of the claim is a set of clearly communicated shortcomings.
All the concepts a non-degree dev learned at each stage of their career
Speak for yourself. You must be envious of a whole lot of shady people if your bar is so low. I don't even know how you keep track of them all, let alone prevent all that envy from eating you up inside! I've got much better things to do with my time and aspirations and stomach lining.

(By the way, every wanna-be Instagram/YouTube/Twitter influencer has "multiple campaign fronts". And "ambitious product ideas" are a dime a dozen and worse than worthless. They distract you from practical product execution.)

Maybe you too should take his excellent advice and "compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today", instead of envying him.
In high school I was part of a club that was, in retrospect, very well run. And yet some things were a new adventure every time.

For their annual events they would go around trying to get local businesses to donate goods or at least sell us supplies at wholesale prices. In some cases they could write it off. And we'd do the same thing every year, starting with places we had previous success with, but often with different people on both ends of the transaction. It was a crap shoot, and every year the game plan was a little different depending on what we got and how much.

Now if I were much bigger, and I needed 100,000 cans of something, and I wanted that to be reliable so people don't starve, I skip the locals and I go to the manufacturer. Now my alternatives are 'free or 75% off' instead of 'free, 10% (employee discount) or 50% off'.

I could end up saving $20,000 a year just on peas. You going to begrudge someone drawing a salary looking for deals and relationships like that? Logistics is hard. Everyone discounts just how hard, but Software Developers are exceptionally bad actors about this.

Reminds me of a story I read about Microsoft millionaires starting their own companies and totally screwing the pooch on logistics because the MS logistics machine worked so well that it was invisible. Out of sight, out of mind. Offices don't magically appear for new employees. Neither do desks or machines or ethernet jacks. All that shit is some support person dotting a lot of i's and crossing an exhaustive (and exhausting) number of t's.
I interpret this comment by how I feel about the idea. I have no words to describe how awesome a hack this is!
Fellow DDG user, but your observation about Google Searches is interesting... It may be the case that your limited use of Google is contributing to the poor assumptions it makes about your queries. The more Google tracks you, the better it can anticipate your intent.

Of course this is at the expense of privacy, filter bubble, etc. Still funny to think that Google may be over-optimizing around the presumption of an available browsing history. If true, Google could very well be degrading the anonymized experience on its sites. Could backfire in a more privacy-conscious future...
Why do someone’s own choices about their own body remain valid when you agree with them, but not when you disagree with them?

I have given you a break: I have given you a logical, rational, sincere position, without snark or subterfuge.

I did not argue for dismantling OSHA; these are moral statements independent of any national law.

If anything, I argued against using violence to force people to do things (which is what OSHA, among thousands of other governmental organizations of every flavor around the world, do as a matter of course).

Using violent coercion to alter a consensual agreement between two adults interacting voluntarily is immoral, and denies the agency of the people agreeing to trade on those terms.
The top 10 tech companies are interchangeably flamed here and all over the internet and for good reason. This isn't a google problem, you just happen to be in a google thread.
The !bang feature I use the most is !w for wikipedia, however I don't use wikipedia enough to justify making it my default search engine on the nav bar.
Hearing this was pretty refreshing and encouraging. Thanks for posting that, and I mean it.
To generalise:

Perhaps most sufficiently complex domains are sufficient to build complexity-compounding realms.
From my personal experience, I played for like 2-3 weeks. You get a starter set with mostly mediocre cards (card based UI) and then one decent and then a great card (defensive player for me and a few other people I know; don't know if it can be someone offensive).

From there, you can do little skill things for points which can be turned in for either more cards or contracts. These are mostly skill drill type things and not really "I'm playing a football game as my team vs the Bears" or something though there are some. Don't know if the events refresh so you can unlock more points as I only played a few weeks. So there's the no pay options of keeping things going as far as I could tell.

One week I got a Greg Olsen card as part of some event promo thing. Worked very well as a tight end in Ultimate Team. A week or two later it was around Super Bowl or something and received Dak Prescott. So solid passing tandem. Then, after a few games, contracts are coming up. At first it was Dak and it cost a lot to keep him. Then, I had burned so many on him that I didn't have many left for whoever it was that was my DE (it was a moderately good stats guy. Not great, but serviceable). So I lose him and the second string guy takes his spot. After a few more games, another boot falls and more attrition. Lost Greg Olsen because I was a few contracts short and just quit because it was basically a team of second string players by then.

Dunno, I'm all for a GM/player hybrid mode, but I'd rather feel like I'm gaining something when losing something on the GM end.
It is a seemingly incorrect claim. Google has semi-recently, publicly said they still use PageRank as one of their signals.

https://searchengineland.com/google-has-confirmed-they-are-r...

https://twitter.com/methode/status/829755916895535104
Why Buying a Barndominium Home Is a Great Investment
Neither DDG or Google return any LinkedIn results for me unless I also add LinkedIn to the search, in which case I get the same results for both search engines.

Google knows what you want before you even ask. You might find that convenient, I find it unsettling.

I guess it’s not as bad as Facebook; at least Google doesn’t spoon feed you.
Most metals can be used to successfully make thermite when paired with appropriate metal oxides. It is a very simple thermodynamics equation that determines which combos work well. The main considerations are the net energy release of the reaction, which can vary widely, and the amount of energy required to bootstrap the reaction, which can be extremely high. Classic thermite -- aluminum and iron oxide -- is a middling combo but has the large benefits of being dirt cheap and low density.

Designing exotic thermites is a literal direct application of the elementary reaction thermodynamics that you learn in basic chemistry classes. Bootstrapping ignition is a bit more involved and often multi-stage.
> There’s often an overwhelming amount of confusion that people feel when their train-of-life suddenly runs out of rails. Nobody else is now telling you what you should do.

Nobody was telling you what to do, prior to receiving your windfall. Sure, society forced your hand a little bit (you had to work to put food on the table, and a roof over your head) but that doesn't fundamentally change whatever non-financial challenges you were facing. Maybe your lack of wealth masked it, since you were too busy to really think about any of it. Later, the author says:

> The ultimate discovery is that nothing fundamentally changes when you have a lot of money. ... So now you have to face the fact that you’re in control of your own destiny and that you get to choose what you want. This is actually true for everyone

I haven't experienced a windfall ever, but this is how I'd imagine it occurs to receive one. You're still the same person. I suppose this is comforting information, since I imagine there's a decent number of readers here who will eventually experience a windfall.
“Where Wizards Stay Up Late” is a fantastic book that has some good insight on Lick’s imagination and contributions to technology. And LOADS more!

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832...
I don't think it's malice or stupidity, but rather a desire to fix people's problems and get it right this time. xkcd sums it up best: https://xkcd.com/927/
Would love to see it on Safari books.
"One such example of how he did this was his famous 1963 memo which began: "[to the] Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network." In his mind, Lick was referring to a human network. He continued: "It is evident that we have among us a collection of individual (personal and/or organizational) aspirations, efforts, activities, and projects." The challenge now was to exploit "the possibilities for mutual advantage". He went on to describe a connected system that would keep all the research projects together, a network focused on human thoughts but connected by wires. In essence, the early signs of the Internet."

Not to take anything away from Licklider, but in 1909 E. M. Forster was already envisioning something like the internet in his short story The Machine Stops.[1][2]

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20190102114403/http://archive.nc...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
I wonder if this puts them at risk of losing the "USB" trademark because they're not actively defending it.
Per the Thunderbolt FAQ [1]

> What is Thunderbolt 3?

> Computer ports with Thunderbolt 3 provide 40Gbps Thunderbolt – double the speed of the previous generation, USB 3.1 10Gbps, and DisplayPort 1.2.

I'm curious: which active cable did you use that didn't support DP?

[1] https://thunderbolttechnology.net/tech/faq
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
Yep, very happy I don't have to deal with that.
If I think about it, I feel pretty dehumanized myself each time I click through a clumsy AWS GUI for a set of shoddy services that my company pays 60k a month for the privilege of running our operations and storing our business intelligence on the computers of the one entity that has not only the financial muscle but also the lack of moral scrupples to use that intelligence to enter our market and outcompete us.

Jussayin'
Would the final revision include any chapters by Sasha Goldstein? I’d love to get his insights on it.
I work for a local church food bank. We don't get these amazing rates they talk about. Does anyone have information on where we can go to get this? We run the food bank out of our local church and have a weekly meal where we buy the food for a fresh meal for 50+ people every week. We also provide a small food bank including toiletries, clothing, and blankets and would love the opportunity to do more.
That is a horrible example, homesteaders give their children an appropriate amount to purchase goods, a better example of parents who fall victim to their children purchasing in app purchase would be a homesteader that gave their child access to their family fortune while believing a child could make a correct financial decision.
These will be really cool for use in autonomous solar-powered systems. Can use sun's heat to make these do 1 work cycle per day, maybe a few if it's windy.
I wouldn't say it'd be unsurprising to build a turing complete game - building a game (or like, any software) is an exercise in reducing the functionality of a computer, if a machine can originally do X things then your program can do Y things where Y ⊆ X - I think that programs maintaining turing completeness sort of need to go out of their way to be so feature full.

For instance, HTML[1] is (IIRC) not turing complete, the computation power once you step into a layer of pure HTML prevents you from ever assembling a turing machine - no matter how many gigs of HTML you can pump out you'd never be able to produce a turing machine[2].

[1] Pure HTML, HTML + CSS apparently is turing complete.

[2] This disregards merely using HTML as a data definition format and using other logical components to enable the construction of a turing machine - a turing machine's tape is as simple as can be, so we don't really care about storage formats that can replicate the tape portion, we care about things that can replicate the full machine.
> then maybe most laws of physics support computation

Well since we know the laws of physics can be used to implement a Turing machine, we therefore know the laws of physics support computation.

If I remember my college computability course correctly, any system that can be used to implement a Turing machine is itself Turing complete. Even if by no other means than to implement a Turing machine.

Besides you really don't need much: Branching, jumps, and a way to read/write. Voila, turing complete.

Infinite memory is helpful, but we consider computers Turing complete despite not having infinite memory. If you take infinite memory as a hard requirement then the entire universe together is not Turing complete. But that isn't useful so we often waive that part.
And it completely ignores what the company has done for Minneapolis and the surrounding area. But it’s easy to disregard local knowledge when Internet outrage is the preferred reaction.
>Last I checked Spacemacs required mirroring all the packages just to get somewhat close to a modern plugin installation experience.

Not sure about Spacemacs as I use vanilla Emacs, but assuming you have use-package installed (and MELPA enabled if the package you're looking for is from there), it's just a matter of adding use-package declarations like this to your config:

(use-package magit
:ensure t)
You must hate Hacker News then.

Well actually the bragging here often doesn't even get a veneer of humbleness.
Securing 5G Networks: Challenges and Recommendations
I've never heard of this, and it's completely insane. It sounds like satire.

Stay away from companies that do this if you can. It indicates a deeply broken hiring culture.
IIRC, titanium fires were a problem during the development of SR-71, too.
> Anyone who tells you that, “I had a perfect childhood” is either lying, in denial, or deluded.

Wow. Anyone else feel that is rather over-cynical? Edit: Duncan holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, so maybe he has a sampling bias? The Psychologists I have know well were all very abnormal (selection bias?!)

Personally, I had a lovely childhood, and nothing traumatic ever happened to me. Maybe that doesn't mean "perfect childhood" but I could use the phrase without cringing. Maybe I am just lucky: one ex did give me a peculiar nickname because she felt I had never experienced misfortune!
I'm saying that DDG can be "good enough", and that not having to click around on a results page can save you time if you know what you're doing.

I understand that for some people that's not enough of a time savings to make a difference, but I know DDG well enough to be able to `!` things and almost always immediately get to a successful result. I treat it as an extension of my brain at this point.
Because it's a term I'm not familiar with, but you used twice, I looked up "twice exceptional". For anybody else wondering, it "refers to gifted children who have some form of disability."
Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post
How do you deal with different sections from google docs? As in, how do you format these into markdown or latex sections?

I've been working with psychologists and I've taught them the basics of a latex document, but I see how extracting the sections they have written from a google doc could be useful.
This fails to include Thunderbolt in the discussion, which is a major omission.
I've found better success with DDG if I give it keywords instead of questions. Over the years I think I've stopped viewing Google as a web search engine and started treating it as a "type any question and get an answer" service.

One could argue that the underlying goal of searching the web is to get an answer to a question, but one of these services is much better at taking a question and turning it into a result than the other. DDG feels like early/mid 2000s Google. Type keywords that you hope to find in close relation to each other on pages across the web. Meanwhile, Google has become _terrible_ at that. It tries to figure out what you want with such vigor it ends up ignoring parts of your query. In that regard DDG has been a better service for me.

Every now and then I won't find what I want and I'll throw a !g on the end of my query to Google it instead. Can't win 'em all. I'm just glad they're trying.
I try to tip well. If you think I should tip better, make your case. If I disagree, I’ll make my case. I can guarantee you that if that happens, my argument won’t be that I’m tipping the market rate.
Great car, the French Honda Civic of its day. Turn a corner a bit too fast and the doors opened.
We might both be guilty of over generalizing. Farming practices differ very widely across cultures and time. Farming in post colonial America was often done on big areas of land that was often handed out for free (or very cheap) and the markets were far away. This is in contrast to farming where land was scarce and small and a the markets relatively close (2 hours walking).

In the latter case bringing a freshly slaughtered goat, a couple of basket worth of grain, or textiles, to town three days a week, and sell in a public market is not uncommon. In the former case it is unthinkable.

In the case of rounding up animals I can see bicycle being quite useful if you have a small stock that you grace in large swaths of shared uninhabited lands. At the start of the gracing season you might not use the bicycle, but during the gracing season you might need to move them from one area to another, then it is definitely handy to be able to bike to the first area, herd them to the next one, walk back, and bike home.

Note that neither of my examples were ever common in post colonial America, but quite common throughout Europe and are still common in sub Saharan Africa.
Not exactly a special set of glasses, but probably as close as you're going to get right now: https://www.buycott.com/

That said, the idea that you can enact change by making "good consumer choices" is probably one of neo-liberalisms greatest, most insidious triumphs. It subverts democratic ideals to make us feel like we have power, while diverting our energy away from pushing for the kinds of systemic changes necessary for meaningful impact on big problem (e.g. putting the responsibility for reduction of plastic pollution on consumers, rather than on manufacturers via legislation).
"Throughout its history, Cargill has exhibited a disturbing and repetitive pattern of deception and destruction. As this report details, its practices have ranged from violating trade embargoes and price fixing, to ignoring health codes and creating markets for goods produced with child and forced labor. Under pressure, Cargill has reformed its practices in many areas — which shows that it can change when it wants to. But contrary to its view of itself as a leader, it usually comes in dead last. It has remained a laggard across multiple industries, trailing peers like Louis Dreyfus and Wilmar."

I'm sure one can argue with the piece's conclusions -- Cargill almost certainly will! -- but your summation doesn't seem to be supported by even a cursory reading of the report. The environmental advocacy group that put this report out is not making the case that Cargill needs to have an IPO.
Yes, though adults can also be 2e.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional