skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Generally speaking, scientists and engineers today do not seem to be indifferent to the concept of teleology at all - in fact, many of them seem to have reached very strong (and quite hostile) conclusions about the topic with shockingly little basis."

That's not surprising. There is a long and colorful history of conflict between scientists and a panoply of false narratives. This is ongoing and requires an active defense. If you wish to survive that gauntlet you'll need something pretty compelling; an abstraction camouflaged by obscure terms won't suffice.
That is a ridiculous premise for a lawsuit.

The complaint acknowledges that, as it states in the iOS security guide, iCloud users' data is encrypted before being stored with third-party services. While that may address some of the privacy concerns related to third-party storage practices, the complaint says it "does nothing to address other fundamental concerns about the integrity of the data, reliability of the storage, and assurance that the data stored will remain intact and accessible by the user on demand without being damaged, lost, stolen, or otherwise disposed of by third-party entities."

Integrity, reliability, and assurance? Apple promises none of those.

"Apple does not guarantee or warrant that any Content you may store or access through the Service will not be subject to inadvertent damage, corruption or loss."

"APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO."

Availability? Nope.

"APPLE... MAKE[S] NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE TIMELY, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE"

Do these nuisance lawsuits really earn any money?
Maybe "xkcd"? Not sure.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

> Much of the debate over their importance hinges on the definition of the term, and various philosophers emphasize or deny the existence of certain features of qualia. Consequently, the nature and existence of various definitions of qualia remain controversial because they are not verifiable.
Still some nukes, just, less.
Very true. Even Apple's manual release can take 24 hours to be searchable in the app store. They do make this clear during the release process.
> Teach them how do respond and how to handle these scammers.

Concretely, the way to respond is this:

If you ever get a call that claims to be from business X, tell them "OK, I'll call you back." Then get off the phone, look up the number for X yourself, and call them. If it was really X calling you, you'll get back to where you need to be. If it was a scam, X will tell you they don't know what you're talking about.

Never trust that a cold call is from who they say they're from.
Leo Breiman [0] (inventor of bagging and random forests) wrote a paper called "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures" [1], and since I read it, I see it everywhere. The basic idea is that Statisticians place(d) too high an emphasis on model interpretability ("data modeling" in the paper), and as a result, missed out on the revolution of machine learning ("algorithmic modeling" in the paper). In the author's words (parenthetical added by me), "[T]he focus in the statistical community on data models (simple, interpretable models) has [l]ed to irrelevant theory and questionable scientific conclusions."

In this TDS post, the author says "Statisticians and Actuaries are at the bottom of the heap as a prior role for existing data scientists." Maybe this isn't a coincidence? Plenty of companies had statisticians on staff, but the explosion of data science happened anyway. Why? Because data scientists do the same types of tasks as statisticians, but while statisticians are of the data modeling culture, data scientists are expected to be of the algorithmic modeling culture. It seems that the market is saying that the algorithmic modeling culture is getting results.

The author references "Type A vs Type B Data scientists" [2], which seems to be getting at the same thing: "The Type A Data Scientist is very similar to a statistician... Type B Data Scientists share some statistical background with Type A, but they are also very strong coders and may be trained software engineers. The Type B Data Scientist is mainly interested in using data "in production." They build models which interact with users, often serving recommendations (products, people you may know, ads, movies, search results)." For whatever reason, there is a correlation between Algorithmic modeling / Type B and "getting things done".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Breiman

[1] https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/100921372...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-data-science/answer/Michael-Ho...
Still use vim. You can use something like "5db" to delete the previous 5 words. For more precision, "5X" will delete your last five characters. And if you have a very specific use case, macros are a big help. If you have a very specific and recurring use case, you can script in vim script, ruby, perl, python (2 & 3), tcl, racket, and lua. There may well be support for others of which I am not aware.
On android firefox doesnt seem to work at all. Nor does ff preview. Chrome works.
> gotta be able to solve at least 1 question and make good progress on a follow up to be considered for an offer from a FAANG company

It's a little harder than that. That would be for the screening interview. But on-site, you'll get several algorithm interviews (I had 3 in two such companies, plus 2 system designs). The recruiter told me that you could fail one of the interviews, but you have to nail the four others.

Even if you are well-prepared, I find it quite hard to have consistant results on these algorithmic questions, especially considering the stress of the situation and the fatigue of going through several interviews in a raw. Practicing leetcode problems for months is fun, up to a point (especially if you already have a job).

That being said, I like that the rules are clearly stated and everyone is given a chance. They don't discriminate as much on your background/educations as some other companies.
> maybe we should be careful about what we're doing

> realistically can shift to a whole new paradigm.

I wish it was different, but I believe that a smooth transition (i.e. evolution) from wasting everything we have to "let's all live a little bit more sustainable" is not a choice. The price tag of such a shift in paradigms may be a revolution. For example I could think of a very very big market crash which would reveal any of these dirty bookkeeping tricks which delayed the crash so far. After such a clearing with all assets set to zero, humanity might be ready to try the next social system experiment, whatever that may be.

That would be an event with immediate consequences.

But telling John Doe that "the planet is in danger because it gets a few degrees warmer, may not buy you his support for taking away his beloved smartphone and weekends in wherever...
I think the effect you're describing is real, but... I turned off all of the days except for Saturday and Monday and it was interesting to see that with few exceptions (and those exceptions laying mostly around holidays), Saturdays were rated as having a higher "happiness" than Mondays.
But... if you really regret taking this out, why not leave it? I don't see how it can do harm. I can imagine players linking the account's profiles to friends going "hah, look at this" and creating more publicity, and people being for either Guest or CPU and talking about it... fun for the players, and good for publicity. Why take this out?

And then the post ends there and suggests I should go play the game. But a lot of people already commented that it sounds like an ad.
"analyst that can build their sql query into a scheduled ETL or daily process of some sort. You work in pandas instead of excel sorta thing"

In my experience from my old employer...clients like Google get billed $120/hr for SQL analysts' services; ten years ago, staff earned $20/hr or a little more, and today, they've replaced almost everyone with offshore employees making $3-4/hr.
The Nobel prize for a while until Malala Yousafzai.
No.

But do you LIVE your life WEEKLY?

If you do, I bet you will not waste your time reviewing all those aspects, life is to be lived, not to be reviewed.

I have some things I track, such as money, books(just track what I read on Goodreads) etc, but the tracking automatically, if I read something on Kindle, it's on Goodreads. If my account/broker/whatever money amount changes, it gets updated in a single place. Those things are nice because once you set them up it takes no effort for you to know those things afterwards.

Of course I have my own goals and plans, I also take a lot of time to think, but it makes no sense to also have structure on that. I already have so many responsibilities everyday, I can't waste a single second of my personal time with more bulls-.
I'm not sure there is a 'right answer'. This is a tough question that I do not expect the lawmakers to get correct.

A more valid answer might involve increasing taxes, and actually funding a department within an existing agency so that existing laws could actually be executed. It might involve directing IT at those offices to provide a stable submission interface that would be useful for outside interests such as browser creators and website administers to direct reports of abuse to. That could then be used to actually review the content and forward it to local enforcement authorities and/or courts if necessary.

Offhand, I think that's probably the closest thing to a real solution I can come up with in 5-10 min.
I would find it fascinating honestly. Maybe I'd throw in some tips on how to avoid reinfection.
I would argue that those people have not yet wandered, and don't know what is possible in life.

I have not studied this scientifically, but my experience is that the more places a traveler has been, the greater their desire to explore.
Is the profile header on LinkedIn a robust hiring signal?
Agree. Just-so stories close down exploration. Function stories open it up.

Another way to say it is that Nature does not confine itself to reasons. It just does things, and some of them stick. We can find an unlimited number of reasons that contribute to why they stick.
“Our existing application uses Ruby 1.8 and Rails 2.3”
your point? the poster said that the tax cuts apple gets profit the shareholders, not the employees or workers in the supply chain.

I guess you think we should all be grateful that they gave us a job. They're so good with us.
These days, I see Amazon as a combination of eBay and AliExpress with faster shipping and prices that are ~$2-3 higher.

I still use it a lot, because I'm almost always happy with what I get with those expectations. But it surprises me when people talk about it like some sort of heavily-curated marketplace.

Even so, it sounds like they haven't done what the title describes for a couple of years. FTA: "An agency source said that while this bidding program ran briefly in 2017, Amazon rolled it back and Amazon’s Choice badges are now driven by Amazon’s algorithms."
Uuuuummmm, I strongly disagree.
Have you tried launching early in no regions or excluding every device then enabling everything on launch day?
Googlestan has a nice ring to it. Just buys its own country off the coast and declares independence.
Modern capitalism emerged as a result of English common law protecting property rights and that predates America by quite a bit and includes all the northern non-slave states as well.

The North won the civil war in no small part because its economy was far more diverse and far greater than the South's. It was far more industrialized. In other words, they did capitalism better than the South.
> Situation where types are important in other frameworks is JS part not templates part. Could you give an example where typing is import purely in component's return value?

You will lose type-safety when composing components in template-based frameworks. It is jsx part where types are most important. Instead of getting runtime errors because you passed wrong props you get instant feedback from tsserver and compile error.
Missed opportunity to call this C-- !
No fire would be great, but isn't possible

a very small amount of fire is bad, because it also isn't possible, it leads to large fire later which is bad

too much fire is bad because obviously fire is bad

Goldilocks just right fire is good
It's not necessarily about travel, though.

I actually enjoy working, but there's something deeply unsatisfying about the 9-5 5 days a week grind. It's just so... inflexible. It consumes you; particularly if you specifically have to live somewhere for it (e.g. SF, London) and so you're tied to living there for good or bad.
> I am not an idiot.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say you were. It just sounded like a denialist might have written it (or might not, depending on the real intention), so I figured it might be helpful for you to know that, at least to me, it can be read both ways.
The vendors are starting to combat fakespot by messaging "A" accounts and offering to give them off platform refunds for good reviews. It works because even when they message someone like me, I haven't figured out how to report it to Amazon. They don't seem to have a "report future fraud" feature.
When the Internet Chases You from Your Home
Great solution that is not at all impractical in any way.
It advertises 0 dependencies? Really? It's 86 lines of code and really boils down to 1: "return amount * getRate({base, rates, from, to});". A fucking multiplication. Who needs a library for this anyway? JavaScript and its ecosystem is a joke.
So every company is wrong and you’re right?
"Everyone pees in the sink. Gentlemen push the dishes aside first"
I quite like the way how Cloudflare has managed things so far. It is like Apple being the GateKeeper, they have the power, but they wont use it unless they absolutely have too.

If they started to actively banning and censoring content then at some point they are highly likely to corupt themselves and misuse that power.
I Wish I Could Tell You It’s Gotten Better. It Hasn’t
The need to have the return policy and customer service they have because some of the stuff they sell is just not high quality.
> No, France has extremely subsidized electricity for consumers, but the economy pays the real price.

According to [1], not only are there significant taxes on electricity for households, but non-household prices are far lower, so I don't see where you got this information.

> France regularly needs to import electricity to cover peak demand despite being one of the world’s top exporters of electricity.

Again, this is how the grid works. European countries both import and export electricity to even out demand and production. This is more efficient than building out extra capacity that isn't needed most of the time.

> It also meeds to regularly operate nuclear power plants at below 100% output because the market price often can’t support operations let alone capital costs.

Like coal or gas plants, nuclear plants can be regulated to meet demand. This is a good thing, because demand varies seasonally. A low or even negative market price means production is too high relative to demand. Basic economics.

This is actually a far bigger issue with wind energy, which cannot be regulated in the same way. You end up with negative prices more often, as shown in the article that I linked to you.

> This means if other countries had adopted Nuclear then France would have needed even more subsidies. In a theoretical world with increasing Nuclear production globally, it’s costs just keep rising because demand is not a steady state.

Yes, demand is not in a steady steady, but that's a far bigger issue with wind and solar energy, where unsteady demand meets unsteady output. That would require far more buffering than steady nuclear power.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
> What are you hoping to get out of him?

Sound bites that you can use to get votes. What else?
Not only that but it looks more like they intend to actively monitor traffic in real time to check for things that are problematic according to them and their friends. And people need to realize this is not just for https traffic but also Ipfs and Wireguard. I'm sure it won't stop there either. Defeats the whole point of those technologies to have Cloudflare spying in the middle. This is China 2.0.
Weird... I have ordered a dozen or so memory cards from Amazon and have never received a fake one.
I don't track it formally, but I tend to always reflect on if I incrementally improved or declined or key metrics e.g. health, work, intellect (various fields of interest), relationships, family etc. Then I think about what I'll do to work on parts where i'm declining in the coming weeks.
"If you're going to try, go all the way."

This is beautiful. This is my experience as a 30 year serial start-up man.

When I say to myself - "I will do whatever it takes to make this work" vs. "We'll see what happens" these have always been two distinct universes in terms of the journey.

"Whatever it takes" is always a nightmare filled with anxiety and stress, but the second attitude - I've rarely experienced any kind of real success with.

Both journeys are pain. The first is racked with anxiety and obsession the second is mostly fear and indecision.

The end state of both is relief. But "We'll see what happens" most always ends with some form of regret - perhaps I didn't do something I could have. Woulda coulda shoulda. And then it's over.

"I'll do whatever it takes" is always a crazy ride towards an unknown destination, has cost me far more than I anticipated, and the rewards are never what I predicted to begin with. But it's this universe I rarely regret (and reportedly those that were along for the ride with me).

So yeah, "If you're going to try, go all the way" resonates strongly with me.
In a way, aren't crowded markets lower risk? You already have a lot of validation that it's a thing people will pay for, and you have a lot of examples to show you how (and how not to!) do things.
Except this is completely off topic from the article.
Please stop spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. There is unambiguously zero evidence that any of the constructs you have cited are an accurate representation of reality.
Can we draw carbon out of the atmosphere to make this?
Honestly, when people use it, they really mean "anger that I personally disapprove of". The choice to say "angsty" instead of "angry" says more about the person making the word choice than it does about the person being described.
I assumed new year would be something universal, because there was always a smaller spike right before it that I thought was christmas, so it wasn't big in the rest of the world.
I set my Facebook marketplace location as Nuuk Godthab to stop it alerting me about junk that I didn't want.
I like this a lot, thank you for making this.

I do however wonder whether it is legal and/or doesn't violate the ToS of Twitter or the Twitter api that you use to download the tweets?
I've done one take-home project for a job and it was a terrible experience. They gave me an overnight challenge that in their words was meant to confuse you and was impossible to complete. They informed me I should have realized this and focused on one specific area of the challenge. I spent all night trying to complete it, focusing on a "pace over perfection" approach and then was torn about by their dev team. Of course I explained there would be a difference between a DB, Server, & UI I implemented overnight and what I would do at work. They informed me I was too defensive, attempted more of the challenge than anyone, and that I wouldn't get the job.

tl;dr: I feel you completely and will never waste my time like this again.
I've bought products where I wonder if I am in some alternate reality. They are just so demonstrably awful and did not perform their basic function to the point of being borderline false description.
77% GM is incredible for a cloud infrastructure service!
I'm a bit confused about House committee subpoenas. It seems like they're really not all that important. Some folks, notably Attorney General William Barr, and ex-White house lawyer Don McGahn. Former White House staffers Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson (McGahn's aide) were told not to comply by the White House.

But clearly some people do have to comply, otherwise the subpoenas would be invitations, right? I'm confused about who has to comply, and for who a subpoena is optional.
Do 10-20 person companies generally have the same purchasing pain? I mean, small purchases (no matter if licenses or saas or whatever) are done with off-the-shelf prices, you pick out a plan and just buy it; you're not going to have the time-consuming enterprise sales dance with vendors refusing to name a price until they've had a sales team visit you in person to give a demo and negotiate a custom deal etc - that kind of high-touch sales inevitably requires the price to be large, and if you're not paying these large prices, then you aren't going through all this interaction with vendors and you simply don't have the problem that Vendr is solving.
So someone explain this. The amount seem to be in the low 100k area?
Why bother suing?

Du Val has hoarded all this stock, apparently it has worked, you can argue the ethics of it, but he seems to have pulled it off.
Why not just write off this relatively small amount for a company with $200m revenue?
Why draw attention to yourself and your company?

Is it an ego thing?
Yep. Most of the time for smaller items the seller doesn't even want me to send the item back. It's _almost_ no risk.
If the feature is for unresponsive servers, would SSH really work?
I don't really like arguing analogies. I'm not convinced that a take home + code review is easily gamed.
I refuse to do coding assignments for free and I think everybody should too as well.

The problem I have with them is:

1) Malign intentions: You never know whether they are trying to:

- Purposely waste your time.

- Free consulting. How would this guy do this ?.

- Data compilation. Let's see how a bunch of unemployed developers solve a particular problem.

2) Is too easy to reject a coding assignment based on subjective things since there are so many different ways of doing the same thing.

3) It is easy to cheat. You can easily ask/pay someone to do it for you.

And the core problem is that is too easy to ask for coding assignments. Companies don't loose anything by asking you to spent a week doing the assignment.
A Hidden Privacy Feature on Smartphones
Thanks for providing concrete numbers! Looks like the effect would be too small to notice even if gas were free.
You might share some of yours, instead of just making dismissive comments...
*torn apart
I think if you want to create a business you should forget this tech compensation of whatever. If you don't enjoy tech that much and feel bored, what good does it brings if you make $200k in tech or $40k being a restaurant owner?

The most important thing I would care is if I'm enjoying that more than working in tech. Remember you will die one day and most of the people can actually get by with very little, much little even than $40k. As you only live once, chose what you want to do with your time based that YOLO, not on some number of moneys.

If you are making the business with the sole reason of being richer after X years than you would if you would be working in tech, I think it's very,very,very likely you will fail
As of July 1, 2016, over 80 million Americans, nearly a quarter of the population, was enrolled in Medicaid. [0] (Because someone qualified for other means-tested assistance will almost always also qualify for Medicaid, that's a pretty good rough estimate, though still a lower bound, for the total aid-receiving population at that point in time.)

[0] https://data.medicaid.gov/widgets/x3sw-xby3