skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not familiar with Inspiron devices. I am however surprised that you could get such a level of warranty for those. I thought they were the cheaper ones. I haven’t had to use my Latitude’s warranty yet just like I never had to use my ThinkPad’s warranty throughout its 8 year life, so that should definitely help reduce warranty costs.
And you are not going to tell us about it or give us any links to read. But you think we still should believe you.

All that makes me think that things actually have not changed, but you don't want to admit it, and so you are claiming they have changed. But perhaps I am mistaken about that.
I hear this all the time, but every time I ask for the data (I have actually asked people whose job is to do marketing for businesses) I'm told "just trust me."

I am not saying they are lying, it would be truly surprising to believe such an elaborate house of cards could stand for so long. But I am asking for evidence.
I'm a self-taught developer with haskell in my arsenal, although that being said I have an MSc in theoretical physics which probably helps me appreciate the power of its paradigm.
By that reasoning, every double taxation treaty that contains some sort of exemption is exploitative.

The Mauritian treaty does not contain any abnormal clauses that are uncommon in intra EU treaties and for example, most US-EU treaties.

Double taxation treaties are a way to incentivise people to invest in a specific country. Generally both countries exempt (or promise to partially exempt) booked income from the other country so that it does not get taxed twice. It does not exempt them from all taxation whatsoever.

But an example: if as a UK resident you invest in the US and book a capital gain on a shareholding, you won't pay US capital gains tax. That will be exempt. But you will pay capital gains tax in the UK.
How are carriers going to kill cable with 5G? Won't they still want to charge $10/Gb? If that's the case, 4G is already faster than a lot of people's current connection at $50. If you use more than 5 Gb per month, it wouldn't make sense to go full mobile.

For example, 30 minutes of TV every other day is already pushing 8 Gb...
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The JS stdlib is abysmal, which is ridiculous given the cost of netwotk.

No uuid, no hashing, no zipping, no threading, limited random generation, super basic data structures...

So I have no hope for better date handling.
There definitely are! Eg Jezen Thomas. Hopefully in the future also myself :)
Sure, but I think you need more details in your description if you want to make a specific point.

Per my other post, right now it feels like Person B just took an extra hardship for no good reason whatsoever other than its a hardship. If that's their norm, if they keep taking unnecessary hardships, they'll just constantly accomplish less for no specific reason.

If this is a hobby, a challenge they set for themselves, then this is no longer about specific accomplishment but about challenge itself. But then it doesn't apply to the course - which aims to produce a result with less hardship. Which is what most of us most of the time seek - I have a car because it's less hardship than walking 57km a day in rain to my work. I have an apartment because it's less hardship than living in a tent in a big city. I wear warm clothes in the winter because it's less hardship than being very cold constantly. I read articles because it's less hardship than watching long protracted videos. If I aim to learn something and that's the entirety of my goal, I will absolutely seek out the most efficient path there without.

Back in the day, back in the old country, my math teacher insisted we all use a book of logarithmic and trig tables. It was couple of hundred pages of numbers. It accomplished exactly the same thing as a calculator - it didn't enable us to learn anything more or figure out result ourselves - it was just harder than a calculator - a hardship for sake of hardship. The prof never ever could understand that it brought us no benefit over a calculator - and time saved could've been spent actually learning something extra or something better.

So there's a place for self-imposed barriers, occasionally, for specific purposes. But they're not inherently good or to be sought out - especially when you have an actual, specific goal and objective you want to accomplish.
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There is no such thing as self-taught, (doesn't even make sense). No one opens a computer, figures out how the processor takes instructions and invents their own language. If you went to college, you listened, you studied, and you practiced. If you did't go to college, you studied, you practiced, and you had to have found someone who will answer your questions.

It's hard for everyone to enter the industry, especially now, college or not. It's not about how smart you are, or your identity, or your environment. It's how bad you want it, how hard you'll work for it, and if someone is willing to help you.

As software engineers, degrees or not, focus on that last part. Be there for someone learning, studying or just trying to figure it out. Feels great to see a finished product. Feels even better to teach someone how to fish, (code for money). I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for people along the way, giving pointers, telling me where to look, telling me what not to do. I was a gawd dang line cook. Be that helpful person.
There's a huge difference between taking the easiest path through a degree (mostly Cs, the easiest electives you can take etc...), and someone who pushed themselves while in college. That's why if the degree is a big part of someone's resume, I ask for a transcript.
I know people, who were very surprised to hear, that FB can read all their personal messages as well.
That's because the academic knows not to produce low quality content. The untaught often does not. I'm still reeling from having to maintain spaghetti code that some untaughts have churned out in my career.
Dell can do the same. Or better. I've had a repair guy show up at my house at 9am on a Sunday morning to take care of a motherboard issue.

I also like Canon Professional Services. Annual fee but free maintenance on up to 10 camera bodies and lenses, 30% discount on any actual repair work, with free shipping both ways, and will begin NBD, _and_ they will overnight you a replacement to use while they repair it).
Why is advertising efficiency inherently harmful? I'm not sure I'm following
wow, i had no idea someone in what i assume is rural South Carolina is willing to undertake a pretty substantial convenience/time cost - drive 40 miles (and back?) to purchase directly - in order to better guard their privacy.

wonder if he also prefers cash? although this article is google-focused, not more generally on privacy which would presumably involve defeating credit card companies with cash.

i'm wondering what order of magnitude of people would do the same across the country. tens of thousands?
They go very strictly by the water indicator stickers.

You blatantly admit that you spilled water on your laptop but none of the stickers changed color because that's not where the water landed? Congratulations, you're still in warranty.

One of the stickers got triggered by using the machine in a humid environment and your machine fails for a completely unrelated reason? Too bad, all repair will be refused unless you pay for a new logic board.
What are the odds on the carriers actually doing that? I've been predicting that for like 10 years.
This almost begs for some solution where you could buy names previously checked by the system to be appropriately uncommon.
That is the issue with closed ad inventory. On ad exchanges (which are slowly dying), you can use a host of third party companies (such as Integral Ad Science) to run more or less sophisticated verifications on the quality of the inventory.
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Just because I can afford to buy a second machine when the first one fails, doesn't mean I should have to do so to compensate for a trillion dollar company's shitty support.

If I lost my laptop, then yes, I would bite the bullet and buy a new one.

If I need some trivial issue to be fixed by replacing part of the panel, I shouldn't have to go buy a new one to use for one week.
>Just let me profit or opt-out of the sale!

You'll get like $5 just once. It's valued at nowhere near $20/month.
(disclaimer: I work at a big tech firm, but I've had this opinion before working here)

I'm confused by the lengths people have gone through to "protect" themselves from internet giants while freely giving away their info to credit card companies, traditional retailers, small businesses. Credit card transaction data have been sold for years without most of us knowing about it. Small startups, boutique stores rarely have the security or data governance resources to ensure your data is stored and used properly. Data breaches are common even at large brick-and-mortar retailers.

Given the state of data security outside of big tech, my best option is to trust only big tech.
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So you do have a academic background (especially math)..
Except if the API's have different semantics and you can't reconcile them. Then your new API can't be significantly different from your old API or your old API gets broken on the edge cases.

That's the situation we are in with file systems API's now.
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Every founding team / management team should be doing this or something like this. Even early on. Pre-CFO. Angel stage, seed stage. Whatever.

When the "easy" money stops - which at some point it will - and raising "the next round" gets hard, cash flow is going to matter.

The concept that burn rate ticks down toward or "months until death" march to the next fundraise will not be an effective plan in that environment.
Does demagogue go down your throat better?
What's your explanation for why they would make such a claim if it weren't true?
If the concern is around library size, sure, I'm on board with not needing MomentJS in many contexts. But my bigger worry is around people doing time based math/logic themselves. Don't do that. Use a library.

Timezones (there are way more than you think); daylight savings time (it's far more complex than you think); leap seconds; Logic around "is X plus 30 minutes after Y?" (you haven't considered every edge case).

Libraries in these contexts will save you from outages, bugs, etc. They've considered these edge cases. I primarily work in a Java world these days, and the java.time additions in Java 8 are (imho) more important than the Lambda additions. (And yes, there was Joda-time before, but the Joda author has explicitly said you should use java.time.)

So sure, if you're just getting the date in a specific format you can forgo MomentJS. But as soon as you start to want to do more things, maybe weigh in whether it's worth the size or not. That library is large because it contains a lot of important knowledge.
If you mean dates as just dates (no time part) then I agree 100%! So many environments think that if a date is good, then a date+time must be even better so just have the latter (and perversely call them "dates"). We'll just set the time part to 0, what could go wrong?

Then we get off by one dates when truncating the timestamp back down to just a date, when it happens in a different context than where the original timestamp ("date") was created and so falls on the wrong side of midnight, usually having gone through UTC in some intermediate system (if it didn't start there) with original context lost along the way. Had we really just wanted instants and not dates there would be no problem with that conversion, but a date is not an instant!
I'm in a similar situation. Dropped out of uni because it bored me, easily got a dev job (I was really lucky), worked for years as a developer, and then an architect.

I eventually did study part time for a degree, mainly out of belief that it might help with future career opportunities, but also because I might enjoy it.

I got a 1st, with honours. TBH, the only part I truely enjoyed was the final project. The rest was mildly interesting at best, and a bore at worst. I found 80% of it easy, 10% difficult (maths), and 10% challenging (the final project, but only because I made it challenging).

In retrospect, I don't think it's really made any difference to my career, as I'd proved myself long before getting the degree. I don't necessarily regret it either though - maybe the most useful thing was getting me into the groove of reading academic papers, which had benefited me greatly, both work-wise and in my personal life (health issues).
Feel like we're talking about slightly different things here. Bravery has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about what you, as a human being, gain from going through a challenge. A challenge that you need to actively work at overcoming. Your example of your dad doesn't qualify here. That's just dealing with pain, not actively developing a new skill over time.

Let's say I, as a non-runner, decide I want to run a marathon in 6 months. Everything that happens between now and then - setting a goal, learning how to train, putting in the work every single day, fighting through the foot pain, skipping out on that ice cream, etc. - will serve me well beyond the singular race.

That's what I'm talking about. My original post was referencing silly marketing language that improving yourself shouldn't feel like work. Imagine someone stated that "training for a marathon shouldn't feel like work." Yes, it motherfucking should. Otherwise you're just skipping out on the stuff that will make you a better/stronger person in favor of some outcome that doesn't truly matter in the long term.
Cashflows are, which is what GP is talking about.
> measured from the POV of profit made by advertisers, is not a good thing for people at large.

Why? Sorry this statement is not self evident. If I have the perfect ad system, that only targets people who will buy my product at 100% rate and no one else, why is that not a good thing for people at large?
Because you've claimed that you made substantial strides in algorithms that nobody else has supposedly done. Why not get a free PhD out of the deal? If anything, you can show it to a professor and they should be able to recognize it. After all, you could be advancing the field directly.

Honestly, if you think writing a two to three page paper is "a lot of effort", I doubt you've done what you've claimed.
Interesting to discover the author is a classmate of Zuckerbro and claims to have invented Facebook. Which seems to have led to a career of writing articles like these.
>namely, genocide, a role in putting a fascist, white supremacist in the White House

A lot of people stopped reading the article right there.

Writers like this only reach a certain audience.
I've had a similar experience to other poster, but relative to tech stack.

I learned .NET and Javascript early in my career. Every single job interview I had at a .NET shop brought up my lack of a college degree as a possible barrier to "handling" or being "good enough" for the position (their words). Not a single one of these companies invited me back for another interview.

Never had the same problem with JS, and now I happily work as senior-level engineer (using Python and Javascript) while encouraging other more junior engineers to take up and pursue the JS ecosystem.

U.S. East Coast.
This is just Tesla claming they invented something like when Apple does the same thing for something that others have been doing for a while. It's PR.
That doesn’t really hold up. Reporters at the major non trade outlets complain about PR people constantly - conspiratorial to somehow tie this to a grant from J&J (?!) and not Hubble’s shady practices and user harm.

Meanwhile, why are you promoting Daysoft so aggressively?
Ask HN: How do I teach coding to someone who can't learn?
Throwaway for various reasons.

My girlfriend is trying to learn to code. She has been doing various online courses for several months now and she is still an extreme beginner.

She wants to learn, and she is stubborn as hell, but things just aren't clicking for her. This is the case with a lot of things for her, not just coding. She learns by memorizing, not understanding.

I have tried to sit down with her and help her through the courses on Brilliant but she systematically focuses on answers rather than understanding.

I've also tried to teach her myself, which worked best so far but, though I have 15 years of experience programming, that doesn't make me a good teacher. She also needs something she can do in her own time.

She's extremely perseverant and doesn't want to give up. I don't know how to handle the situation. I want to encourage her but I don't know how to help her. She has to learn how to assimilate and understand before she can even work through a CS program.

Any advice?
The basic attention token (https://basicattentiontoken.org/) seems to have the right characteristics and incentives to fill this role. Any ideas why the others have failed so far? It’s hard to insert yourself as a value-adding middleman in an existing marketplace unless consensus agrees the current configuration is in crisis. It’d be interesting if anyone could find a way to do this for Amazon’s commingled counterfeit inventory, for example.
My assumption is they have a problem with calling Trump a fascist white supremacist, and may find the "genocide" a bit too hyperbolic for their taste.
That test is using Wifi, not LTE.
This looks great! I've been searching for something similar for a side project and I think I'll give Poli a try. Thank you.
In my experience, the difficulty is spending the time and energy to set these things up for family who might not be as willing to stray from the path of least resistance.
Surely your phone is still repeatedly in touch with Google servers because you've got all that Google software on there. Just because you haven't signed in with a google account doesn't mean Google don't know who you are.
It's not your phone company that's making money from your location data so much as the third party apps (Yelp, Weather Channel etc.) that you have installed on your phone for free. In order to use those apps, you often have to consent to them sharing your location data to ad-tech companies to help them serve ads to you if you're in specific areas.
Bonus work:

Make sure none of your friends upload a photo with you in it, which basically means they don't take your photo with an Android phone.

If somehow your picture does get onto an Android phone, somehow make sure you aren't labeled.
About the only thing you've listed that could possibly be construed as being fascist is being vocally anti-free press, and he's done almost nothing to hinder the press beyond tweeting about them. Making false claims about immigrants does not make anyone a fascist. Telling people to go back to their country of origin does not make anyone a fascist. Vacationing does not make someone a fascist. Failing to condemn white nationalism, or even being a white nationalist, does not make anyone a fascist.
Just 8% of U.K. VC'S Know What it’s Like to Work at a Startup
When I leave home I turn off all networking. I'll turn it on if I need it, but then turn it off again until I get to work. Same when heading home in the evening.
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In this context we are talking precisely about the things that you cannot learn that way (at least, not efficiently).

It's obviously true that you don't need to know these things to perform your current job, but that's not what the OP was talking about.
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... Which isn't a causal estimate of ad effect at all, as most conversions would happen anyway regardless of whether or not the ad was seen. Incremental conversions unfortunately are usually 1 or 2 order of magnitude smaller than raw number of correlationally-attributed conversions. Which makes most incrementality-based ROI numbers of advertising campaigns be negative.
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Yeah, I always find it bizarre when people make these naive claims. Of course number of impressions are a proxy for reality, but when the rubber hits the road advertisers know what value they are getting. They are leveraging the microtargeting and the cookie tracking an God knows what else zuck has cooked up. Facebook, Google etc are fundamentally profitable places to advertise -when done intelligently. Smart, repeat advertisers pay Facebook a lot of money for this privilege.
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I have some knowledge of folks who have ad spend on facebook. For niche / targeting spend, facebook was totally amazing at least a year or two ago. The returns on facebook far surpassed the returns these companies saw elsewhere. I don't use facebook, so was surprised by that.

Do people really not evaluate return on ad spend against revenue?

In this case the client saw a direct link between marketing and revenue and I'm not sure why they would care if some of the views were from fake accounts. Views on the bus stop ad might be from someone homeless or other unlikely purchasers.

"Facebook reported advertising revenue at $16.6 billion for the final quarter of last year, up 30 percent year-over-year."

I guess all these companies are idiots for advertising on Instagram and facebook (I find this totally hard to believe)
Don't you need an Intel-signed pubkey to intercept anything using HDCP? How do you get around that? Or has HDCP been cracked?
-even though Facebook has all the incentive to falsify numbers

It's worse than that: Facebook has little short-term financial incentive to reject third parties who proliferate fake FB profiles.
I thought part of the fun of having a cat is the claws. I really don't understand how people could mutilate their supposed loved ones like this, it's barbaric.
You sure about that? - "EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations" - https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-att-data-aggrega...
That honestly does not sound like a lot of money for a company anywhere near Apple's scale.
Not to get off topic but there are still plenty of ecomm/mail order companies that'll take a phone order. I understand this guy's concern. I don't understand why he's driving (and likely being tracked along the way).
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Re: Most companies I've worked for have done all kinds of things to pad usage and retention stats in order to appease investors

My violin for investors getting screwed is much smaller than that for consumers getting screwed. (Oh wait, I have Amazon stock. Crap!)
You are sure he was never at a university? And why are you drawn to Haskell?
For me I only had to deal with it a bit at university and I found the concept interesting, but could not imagine non math people to use it for anything as a language of choice