skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the guy is handsome then it's flirting.

If the guy is ugly then he's a creep.
I'd say that factual thing to focus on is density of people. If you apply Metcalfe's law to IRL connections of people you just meet out and about, it's very appealing for those working on a startup and being stuck on a problem. You very often accidentally run into people in SF that can either help with that problem, or fund you so that you can work on it longer. Just this afternoon at an SF Museum, I ran into 2 investors with a net worth both north of $50 million. This simply hasn't happened in the East Bay (more middle class than wealthy people), nor down the Peninsula (not dense enough).
Organic modeling in Solidworks seems to be extremely difficult. That being said, the Power Surfacing plugin has a good reputation:

https://www.npowersoftware.com/NewPowerSurfacingOverview.htm...

Skilled operators can likely work near-magic anyway, given sufficient time. ;)
You could be right. At the same time as unrealistic as it may be, I feel during interviews smart qualified people just screw up and have brain farts all the time.

An interview is almost like public speaking combined with an intense time based coding competition without allowing you to use an IDE.

I think a good number of these guys are lying. I agree with you. But I also think a good number are honest and actually failing.
Good time to buy stocks at reasonable prices.

Is it true that 63% of voters believe the president will be re-elected?
The "abc | def | 123" is just a textual display of the data, not the data itself. Each row of the table is a structured record, like you suggest.
1. Thanks! The font is actually just Times New Roman! I like serif fonts but wanted to use a common system font.

2. Great tip! Just added it.
This seems to be a simple article but it touches a very specific, usually forgotten lesson: no company was big from the beginning. And it had to make money at some point, or at least be so viable that people would throw money expecting returns.

And they don't have a full, complete product for the first 100 consumers.
San Francisco beat them to it. People openly shoot up heroin and and smoke meth and nothing happens. I see the same people often right in front of BART escalators selling drugs. It’s created a situation where cops claim crime is going down because the numbers are going down, but that’s because they just ignore the problem and don’t report what’s going on. California legalized hard drugs with Prop 57 and Prop 47 allows people to sell $1000 a day and it’s just a citation. So now there are multiple blocks where tweakers and junkies are selling stole luggage from breaking into rental cars and robbing tourists... Welcome to hell. Cops only give speeding tickets and enforce laws against normal folks. San Francisco is a miserable place for normal folks.
IMHO, the politics has created an industry of homelessness. SROs or other business are created by political fiat to cater and keep people homeless.
Looks better on the resume. Both are great tools IMNSHO
Make better tents. And public toilets.

That is the obvious answer.
I don’t think there’s any world in which “the news” is opinion about who deserves what. That’s opinion. “The news” is fact based. Your statement was opinion based and your reaction comically lacking in self awareness.
Same, but I don't really have that many different use cases as a developer. I wouldn't want to be the tools guy maintaining it all for 100+ developers though :)
And this is how men turn into orbiters.

You carefully calibrate your approach while she sleeps around with much better looking men who don't need to.

It's pretty sad.
Further analysis: https://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/14-years-of...
> Much of "modern" philosophy is totally bullshitesque, no empirism, no intellectual rigor / epistemology, add to this complex subjects studied by people with no knowledge about them and bullshit artists (which is a real skill for selling your books). In parralel of the unification of science happening in the 20th century, a few philosophers actually remembered that philosophy is the love(Phil) of truth (soph) (which indeed is antithetic to BS and to multiple incompatible theories).

This really isn't the case. Analytical philosophy today remains extremely strong on rigor. What many philosophers think they study is how to apprehend the world in a sustainable way. There isn't much focus on cutting-edge empirical facts, since the focus is to develop a framework robust to new possible empirical developments, and there was never a focus on empirical facts throughout the history of the tradition.

> They read totally nonsensical texts (that use figure of speech melted with sophisms), they do not understand that they do not understand, and then call the author a genius, an "intellectual"(post modernism would perfectly fit such a category))

Philosophers don't really care much for such a writing style today. Academic philosophers read past authors for their philosophical content and tolerate the prose because what they seem to say is valuable. Write a philosophy paper like that today and nobody will read you (if you're a student, your professor will fail you), since today's philosophers value the clarity of an argument and don't care much for talking over each other with ambiguous language.

Today's philosophers also don't really naively imbibe the thought of past great figures of philosophy. They are great since they pioneered a very useful mode of thought robust enough to survive the ages, though needing modifications.
Just because you can't see where the data you're plumbing touches the world doesn't mean it doesn't have impact.

I work on one of the edges of those engineering efforts. On one side I see first hand how detached engineers at Google are from the things they build and on the other I see people's lives being defined by using those products / services. That impact is real and I think it's at a level that very few googlers respect because they're not lucky enough to be on an outside edge like me.
You can nitpick.

But I'm pretty certain most, if not all, African Americans who worked for racists were fired if they found out that they were part of the civil rights movement.

As Jordan Peterson says, clean up your room before you go fixing the world. Go up from Shoreline towards 101 and see the number of homeless people; what exactly are these enlightened Googlers doing for them other than ignoring them and driving away with their expensive Maserati's, Tesla's etc. and complaining about how expensive it is to live in the bay area. How about NIMBY laws? The list goes on and on..
You are seriously underestimating the price of a Rolex.
I never understood what the big deal is about the warning on the lockscreen. I've seen that before and it didn't bother me.
“Our platoon officer took a PIAT to have a go at this tank“
> I also wonder if there's a universal central reason behind why it is important to understand someone else's argument if their conclusion differs than yours.

In fact, if you can't argue for their side as well as they can, you haven't really understood it, so you shouldn't argue.
No I would say it's a little snarky but in a time of overuse of political correctness that every little bit of rebellion helps.
I so wish my company would ditch them and use opensource alternatives. I'm so tired of feeding of the beast, yet we just get deeper and deeper in.
Living on earth, there's always a fallback option, right back to the stone age. On some other planet, at least in the solar system, there isn't going to be any lower tech option when something high tech fails. One widget that you can't produce locally fails and everybody is dead. So I can't see how a colony ever becomes self-sufficient, at least without some "magical" future technology that amounts to enhanced biology.
The intent is pretty blatant
I thought this was an interesting point even if "similar number" was an exaggeration by an order of magnitude. Then I clicked through. Holy shit. If anything it's an underestimate. Hundreds and hundreds of American car companies that lived for what looks like an average of two or three years, clustered around 1910. Seriously, worth taking a look.
I love those Japanese Panasonic laptops with the circular touchpad that are still inexplicably sold with optical drives.

I don't think you can get them outside Japan anymore(?) but for me they will always be the archetype of "good quality business laptop".
Aside from whether or not he was being an ass, he was incorrect. The license are rights the author grants other people. The author can release binaries without sources or under any license they desire; just because they also release it under the LGPL does not compel them to provide sources when they distribute it.
Seriously..

If you ask nicely, argue your situation constructively and the developer still consider the best path isn't what you described, just fork it or pay someone to do the legwork if it's that critical to your mission, jeez..
i think we agree on the facts and disagree on the interpretation. smoking rates have gone down because the goverment has tried to eradicate it. so far, without a ban. it has been pretty successful. this doesn't say much about the success of a ban, but a lot about the government's ability to protect us from ourself.

the effectiveness of bans is far from univocal (which you see to admit by using a condition which would let you move the goalposts whenever i find a counter argument), and a ban on new nicotine products today would be completely different from the ban on alcohol in 1920s America. success doesn't have to be 100% for it to be good policy either, as the ban on murder shows.
For ancillary roles, sometimes they do use contractors.

However, for code that needs maintenance of any sort, it makes a lot more sense to bring the expertise in-house. Maybe it's more expensive in a myopic sense, but by being able to retain an individual that already has context (not to mention, who was also probably hired with a higher hiring bar) has more gains in the long run.

Just think about all the companies that tried to outsource to India or China in the 90s/00s and got bit.
Ever heard of a bar of a club? Still a very good way to meet potential partners. Also people date people they meet in activities all the time - close friend of mine met her partner in her martial arts class.
Hmmm our confluence is pretty snappy I never notice any real lag. Especially compared to most web sites off campus. Jira on the other hand...
The HN title doesn’t match the article title which is less controversial.

Even with the article title it’s click baity.

I’m 100% on board for dearming the American police force, if only for its racist undertones but this study shows a) black men are getting dreadful health care, mental health care & crime prevention but also b) American cops are killing lots of people they shouldn’t.

We don’t need Bad headlines yo point that put.
I thought you were describing San Francisco.
The infrastructure they've built their business on is crumbling. Every so often I'm running late and think to myself "I should just drive" (by which I mean take an Uber). I check the driving times in Google Maps and it's as long as waiting for the subway and walking. There are just too many people on the roads for cars to be a competitive mode of transport; people only drive when there is absolutely no other option.

The product has also gotten worse. People used to be happy driving for Uber, and you didn't have to pay a fare to both the taxi company and the driver directly ("tip"). Now Uber is just like taking a taxi; the driver is miserable (and let you know it), and they don't get paid unless you pay the fare AND give them extra money. It's a pain. I pretty much never use a taxi or Uber for this reason; it just seems evil to force someone to do work they don't like for very little money. That can't be good for Uber's growth.

(I love their open-source contributions, though!)
was it ever on ground? uber was always under water, financially speaking. whole uber idea consists in making money out of not being regulated in regulated markets, through exploitation of loopholes in regulations. not very sustainable.
>>It's common sense. Anything that revolves around government, elections, laws, etc.

Go ahead and google 'Taiwan' and then 'Canada' or 'Japan'. Taiwan (in the right sidebar thing) is listed differently compared to the others. They're listed as "Country in $X" - Taiwan is not.

That's political. Or is it not? It's "just search", sort of.
It seems none of this turn people into peon services at behest of capitalists are really sustainable other than for deceptive tactics to bilk more money than customers are willing to pay by for instance stealing tips in order to make them seem like they are sustainable or growth businesses.
Both your links deal with leaking information to the carrier (signal).

But the issue in the parent post is about leaking information to the people you have in your contact list.

These are very different issues. And it looks like signal hasn't considered the second aspect and the implications.
Now write that code with tools having durability. In OOP that is trivial and require no code changes elsewhere.
Someone seems to want to live there.

Population of San Jose: 1.0 million.

Population of San Francisco: 880k.
More power to him. This is hardly a social media blast.
What about not ruining everyone else’s lives and the public health issues these people create? Not a fan of conservative ideology, but surely there is some level of personal responsibility and accountability they have towards the public? And when they betray that buy shitting on public areas or leaving needles near playgrounds, I think it’s not only reasonable but necessary to incarcerate them—for their own good and the public’s.
Objective-C's virtual calls are exactly the message passing I mean. They're a direct copy of Smalltalk's.
"Amazon overall quality has droped in recent years."

Not to offer up my receipts or anything, but Amazon has about 70% of the time shipped me a counterfeit item. 1080p microscope? Best it gets is 1366x768 on a Windows XP 32-bit driver. Plastic welding kit for a 2002 Ford Explorer? Nope, wrong plastic welding rod, wrong nylon type. Meant for Mazda, not Ford.

I won't touch Amazon after that bullshit. I'll buy directly from a known supplier, in this case, O'Reillys. They sell the plastic patch kit. Thanks, guys. Saved me $500 on a bullshit replacement fee.
> ARG_MAX, maximum length of arguments for a new process

> or why do you get

> command: arg list too long

> [...]

> It's only the exec() system call and its direct variants, which will yield this error.
They return the corresponding error condition E2BIG (<sys/errno.h>).
The shell is not to blame, it just delivers this error to you.

https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/

Additionally, see also https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/120842 which speaks a bit about Linux specifics, and how Linux behaves a bit differently from a lot of the other operating systems in the Unix family with regards to limits on the length of arguments.
I don't know anyone who has ever returned a fridge. I know plenty of people who have bought one though. Can't say I find your argument all that convincing as a result.

A more effective ad targeting model would advertise fridges to the friends of someone who recently bought a fridge though, due to a) keeping up with the Jones' effect, and b) friends are likely at similar life stages, ie. getting married, buying a home, etc.
Ah damn, I botched that one. No more commenting while walking the dog.
That attitude is carefully encouraged to keep unions away.
No it wouldn’t. They wouldn’t use them. Junkies reuse needles they find on the ground because they don’t care... they aren’t going to go to a specific place to wait in line to shoot up.
Went through AP comp-sci 20 years ago too. We learned with C++ via DJGPP. Can't recall if the AP test was in C++ or pseudo code.. Certainly covered data structures, recursion, graph traversal, and etc.

High School. Something to consider for those complaining about basic data structure questions in interviews :)
Thanks for sharing these. It's funny, I had exactly that series by Naval in mind earlier. I think the database tweet is really useful (reminds me of a lecture slide).
I don't agree. I think it's a positive. Not everyone agrees with your utopian public transportation and cutting back to as minimalist a life as possible.
Lack of adequate housing supply is a contributing factor to homelessness. If you are just throwing people in jail and not addressing issues of that ilk, it rapidly becomes unsustainable.

Criminals in jail are a burden on society. Functional, productive, tax paying citizens are assets to society. Rehabilitation is not charity. It's enlightened self interest.

I'm not advocating for kind of bleeding heart "charity" here.
bravery is not needed in hn, all things that offends a delicate establishment bubble mentality is always censored here.
Do you think there is no objective standard by which we can judge consistent, completely insane, detached behavior?
It is a different word, so I think anyone glamping probably wouldn't be put off by saying it isn't 'camping'.
Isn't science, by the nature of funding, necessarily political?
No, I don't, but years ago [eons], hosts files tended to redirect to 127.0.0.1, which does incur a penalty. Directing to 0.0.0.0 [invalid IP] does not (or not any more).
> I’ve always thought of a program as just a more elaborate series of step by step commands...Just haven’t made that mental leap yet, probably because I’m so used to thinking the other way.

Yes, it's a hard mental leap the first few times. And there's another leap to logic programming that is almost as large as the jump to functional programming.

Perhaps a physics analogy would be useful.

A physicist may use a local, kinematic view: the object is here and has this velocity, and this force on it, so in a fraction of an instant that will make it move this much, and in another fraction of an instant it will move this much more...

A physicist may also use a global view: if I consider the set of all possible paths that start at point A and end at point B, what distinguishes the one an object will actually take?

Both are useful, and things that are obvious in one are usually quite obscure in the other.
In SF it was outside the Overton window.
I can’t believe I’m mentioning The FPlus here, but here’s a very NSFW and satirical podcast about...well, people with a squirt gun fetish. https://thefpl.us/episode/305
I agree, the buses are usually empty to half full. Unless you get soldiers marching people out to buses the US to go work for the "greater good" everyone is going to use cars until the traffic jams become simply too long.
I think you're going to discover something very quickly: it was never about any of that stuff. Everyone who believed that has trouble running companies that sell solutions to that.

Free X > X for $Y. That's it.
Police enforcement at gun point then. Are you good with that?
Every Popeye's experience I've had seems to be a greasy, soggy mess. I keep giving them new shots for some reason, and I keep getting disappointed.
My wife was introduced by a mutual friend in 2000. Married 4 years later. The year before I had tried dating websites such as Match and they were atrocious. Fake profiles, delayed email responses, bad dates based on what the programmers thought would ideally "match" people up.

I imagine the smartphone and dating or hookup apps are so much more sophisticated today. Or maybe I dodged a technological bullet?
The+Lion+King+(2019)
No. It's a 2nd screen to complete login. It also breaks mobile clients such as materialistic and is plain evil anyway
Of course. Density begets density. Housing is just like highways, add more, and demand will catch up.

NYC is way more dense than the Bay Area. It’s not exactly a cheap place to live.
I really like the idea of transparent charities helping spread access to information.

The most difficult challenge will be demonstrating effectiveness relative to other charities operating near this space. Computer Aid International focuses on refurbishing used computers and providing them to those living at income levels 1 or 2, spending only around $42 per recipient. Room to Read specializes in building low cost libraries and schools, serving communities at a cost of $5 or $25 per child respectively, and they are really highly rated on transparency and effectiveness.

I think you can justify the focus on Internet and Georgia, but I think you should be mindful of where the bar is set and aggressively try to push towards that. That might involve some hard choices, like whether Chromebooks can help as many students as lower cost options.

Emphasizing that donors choose how much is allocated to administrative costs seems like another odd choice to me. If you are serious about that, then you could get in an unstable situation. Donors could easily have unsustainable preferences here, because they generally lack experience running charities.

If you're just trying to convince donors that you are not wasting their money, I'd focus instead on independent audits on effectiveness. Then be vocal when you make hard choices about expenses, like through a blog of some kind, so you can show you're trying to save money where possible, and trying to spend money in ways that will maximize your impact.

Spreading access to information can be incredibly powerful, so I hope you find a way for your program to take off, thanks for taking on this challenge.
That's interesting! Can you please elaborate a small bit?
I was surprised at how much quality some of the people cranked out. I suppose a logo is tightly scoped, especially when the directions were "make a ninja pope". I didn't even need to do much back and forth. I got what I wanted with some Minor feedback eye colors and pose.
> a minority group and found each other on the intranet.

Interesting. When your company is big enough, the intranet becomes a community that mirrors the Internet in general...
Releasing a model is in no way like releasing the data. ML models are fundamentally compression algorithms for data sets, when you look at them from an information theory perspective. They are lossy encoding.

Furthermore, it's a huge field, of which NLP is a significant, but tiny, subset.

The vast majority of models being used in the real world don't generalize thusly, because the data sets and processes they're linked to are bespoke.

The middle ground is the black-box model (perhaps with technical safeguards against decompiling-equivalent, or hosted as a service). It provides the ability to statistically prove bias, while protecting the majority of privileged or private information.
EVs include e-scooters, electric tricycles, airport tarmac vehicles, etc.
A person has died from a vaping-related condition
At least in some mass transfer occurs.

Also, think about the way teleportation in computer games works.
> tl;dr: Landlords are taking $1 of every $8 in venture capital investments

That's lower than I expected. Wouldn't be surprised if that's sustainable.
This one is $400. I've used it to scan people with pretty good results.

https://structure.io/structure-sensor
This was so so my experience.

The people that contacted me were, in the majority, some of the most entitled assholes.

I quit reading the email address associated w/ my open source project, and one user tracked down my (then) work email to demand support!
a lot of people want to make things scriptable.
This has been my thought for a while now. I have reasonably pared down on news and social media. However, I have tried to create regularly at least 4 or 5 times now but it hasn’t stuck.
Well written essay and good motivation.