skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently moved to the US and I hate its coins. To the point that I consider all of them unusable. When I get home, I leave all the coins that I received as change on a plate by the door, hoping someday I will bring all of them at once somewhere to change for bills (I believe there are machines that do this).

My complaints:

i) They do not have numbers on them!! You have to read words to know the value

ii) To make point i) worse, they have nicknames printed on some of the coins!! They do not write "ten cents", it is "one dime". They do not write "twenty-five cents", they write "quarter dollar" (even the unit here changes)

iii) To make points i) and ii) worse, there is no default place where the value is written. $0.01 is a horizontal banner. $0.10 and $0.25 are round-based by the edge of the coin. $0.05 is round-based, but not by the edge of the coin, just slightly above another text that is by the edge.

iv) The coins do not obey a coherent progression of value and size. From smallest to largest the coins are: $0.10 < $0.01 < $0.05 < $0.25

v) The colors are all the same, except for the $0.01 coin.

So when you have a bunch of coins, you have to properly spread them in your hand to be able to compare their sizes (which is hard when the items are circles), account that there is no size-value correlation, and if you do not remember by size; you have to read a tiny sentence, lost in the middle of several other sentences, with no typographic differentiation of where they are.
The Do Nothing Machine at the Museum of Craftsmanship
This sounds like an argument against rubrics or ladder requirements in general, not a particular problem with mentorship as a requirement.

If you want employees to mentor others, call it out as a thing to encourage. If you don't do that, people will be less inclined to do it, instead focusing on raw technical impact or whatever.

Why call out writing good code as a requirement for advancement if everyone should do it anyway? Well, not everyone values the same things. Making values explicit isn't bad.
> I was in a Best Buy recently when I forgot my headphones on a trip, and I was dumbfounded at how bad the gear was. It's less about good gear now, and more about Beats headphones and gold-plated cables.

Stocking something high-end and good is a losers bet. People who know what "good" is are going to get it online.

You want to stock the cheap stuff that moves, and the gold-plated stuff that suckers buy.

This is the sad reality of retail in the age of online.
That's a valid disclaimer, but you have completely failed to interact with what I'm saying.

It's like you've found a typo in a mathematical treatise that doesn't really effect the correctness of the treatise, and gleefully declared the entire thing to be incorrect.

365,000 Americans on the Union side died to end slavery in America, and that conflict was inexorably set in motion by our founding documents that stated that all men are created equal---a revolutionary idea at the time. Today's American government is the same government that eradicated slavery (i.e., the Union).

Regarding Native Americans: The U.S. was the first country in history to declare outright butchery of other ethnic groups barbaric, yet gets the most blame for doing it. The Europeans were still doing it long after the U.S. (e.g. Germany, Russia). You are just trying to find ways to rhetorically "bring down" what was historically the country that actually set the precedent for not brutalizing people. What the U.S. did, and then immediately declared barbaric, the rest of the world had been doing for all of time (and much of it continued, and now continues in China).

edit: Also, the Native Americans didn't have property. They just all used the land around them. Property is something you get when you have organized property rights. If the Native Americans had had that, they would have been set up like a European nation. And if the colonists had slaughtered and taken over something like that (an organized nation), nobody would complain, because that's what European nations had always done, were doing, and continued to do afterwards. It was always survival of the fittest in Europe. It's only when people want to America-bash that Americans are held to a higher standard than everyone else.

Also, American women had property rights; don't know what that's about. I imagine there are nuances we could argue about but let's not.
They probably waved it off.

Since their solution is to sue their customers and affiliates in increments of $1,000, sounds like a pretty dumb business model.
Those are sometimes called swamp coolers in slang, and are pretty common in the US where it's dry enough to be effective. But that pretty much excludes the entire east coast and Gulf areas.
Yeah, it's really strange.

50 quid now is worth substantially less than 20 quid was when I was younger and 20's weren't weird then.

It just has this weird stigma. ATMs don't dispense them. I used to carry one around for emergencies, and people would comment on it (ooh, look at this flash prick, etc).
Bitcoin has mainly thus far mostly allowed for some geeks to get rich and some criminals to move around money. It's actual impact on society is best described as it wasted a bunch of electricity.
From Asia’s Finest to HK’s Most Hated: How HK Police Lost the City's Trust
‘It’s Just a Nightmare.’ Despite Tariff Delay, Toy Makers Are Worried.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/us/politics/china-tariffs...

Pick comment:
"And as an American and company manager, I personally signed the checks for the tariffs for product components that my American company imported from China. Not the Chinese producers, nor the Chinese exporters. Me. And then my American customers paid these import taxes when they purchased the goods from me.
Americans pay for tariffs, not foreigners. China may eventually see decreased demand for their products, substituted by Viet Nam or India, etc., but when Trump says that China is paying those tens or hundreds of dollars in tariffs, he is baldly lying to our American faces.
Americans pay these GOP import TAXES."
I’d say that conservationist-environmentalists just want us south Asians to remain poor and backwards, denying as they do the importance of air conditioning, large-scale industrial agriculture, and GMOs. That might give them too much credit for having thought through things, however.
I agree, of all the different kinds of UK notes the latest Royal Bank of Scotland notes are my favourite designs [0] [1]. Make sure to look at both sides. One of the confusing things about bank notes in the UK is that there are 5 totally different designs for each denomination: Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Ulster Bank. This can lead to some confusion when you try to pay someone with a rarer note as they may not have seen them before. Scottish notes are usually OK. Good luck with Ulster Bank notes though.
[0]https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotlan...
[1]https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotlan...
> Imagine breaking your body doing blue-collar work only to be deprecated once what you do is inevitably automated, leaving you with no transferrable skills or employment prospects in middle age.

Man, I wish plumbing was automated. It's not going to happen any time soon though and plumbers will quote exorbitant prices for their work for quite some time.
I think ”Legs may get broken, vertebrae may be compressed.” doesn’t just refer to the sentence immediately preceding it (”you and the seat part company, and you land—hard”), but to the entire paragraph, starting with ”Ejecting at up to 65,000 feet from an aircraft flying at 700 mph is a violent process.”
Under 30: Africa’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
My (top tier) school forced me to take a medical leave of absence, which required a doctors note to get back in and finish the degree. A very expensive endeavor.

Edit: Ah, it says that right in the article. Yeah it sucks, I wouldn't trust the schools mental health services again.
There's actually an interesting experiment to run, which is as follows:

- take some non-uniform a continuous distribution with finite support.
- discretize it into a N-bucket histogram
- apply the alias algorithm
- display the result
- increase N
- rinse and repeat

The resulting animation is likely going to be interesting.

I suspect it won't be stable at all and might veer into the fractal at some point.
Title changed from Fusch, thanks.
First US President to step foot in North Korea. No other President before him has done that.
I wish it was only fair "competition."

Even at the best schools (especially at the best?) it is a lot about family/friend relationships, corruption (ymmv by field).
I think it's parenting. Parents started to become overprotective somewhere in the late 90's and it's only getting worse. Kids don't learn to deal with setbacks anymore. So the real world overwhelms them.

There's a book, The Coddling of the American Mind, that explains the problem much better than I do.

"First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life."

https://www.thecoddling.com
I think it's better to submit this as a link. Submission without link have a penalty and it's more difficult that they reach the front page.

Also, to sort alphabetically the test of ~200 students the method I use is to split the pile in 6 smaller piles (something like A-C, D-F, G-L, M-Q, R-T, U-Z). Then split each pile in subpiles one for each letter, and then sort the subpiles. Sometimes the subpiles of one letter are small and fuzzy, sometimes it's useful to split a subpile of one letter in half. You can call it radix sort if you like.
They're part of a complicated initialization process that can only be answered with this beautiful diagram.[1][2]

[1]: https://blog.flowblok.id.au/static/images/shell-startup-actu...

[2]: https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.ht...
https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
This is just my anecdotal experience but the Fry's Electronics stores in Texas are way better than the ones in California. They are better stocked, better cooled, and have nicer cafeterias.
New MacBook Pro Patent Reveals Solution to Troublesome Butterfly Keyboard
AC also uses significantly less electricity and fossil fuels than Heating during the winter.
This is the worst possible advice.

It shows you are a narcissist, incapable of learning from experience, incapable of accurate self-analysis (identifying weaknesses or areas of improvement).

It also shows you struggle with soft skills, because you have completely misunderstood the point of these questions and are treating them as an opportunity to 'win' the question or 'beat' the interviewer. You are showing that appearing clever is more important than being smart.

You think the questions are beneath you, you think honesty is beneath you, and that interactions between people are defined only by the letter of the law and not its spirit. You know very well the intent of the questions, but you play games with your answers?

No one is looking for an answer here that says "I have no weaknesses and have never failed". Which would be a better and more honest answer than the "clever" answers you are suggesting.

You might as well be saying "I decline to answer because I am too smart to answer this question. Where's my signing bonus, will I be receiving it today, before the end of this interview? Because I have won, yes? I won the question by giving a non answer that makes me look great, so I am the cleverest! Therefore you must make me an offer immediately, yes? Because I am so clever! I beat the test! I beat YOU!"

a/k/a "no hire".

Follow this advice if you wish to remain unemployed or (arguably worse) hired by an idiot, into a team of fellow idiots. Which if you answer this way is where you belong.
I use Stylus with "Hacker News Readable Dark" and it works fantastic.

It doesn't constantly break, because the site is simple and unchanging.

Thanks to HN for that.
I'm wondering how that would even work. Do they blindfold you and take you to a mystery location!?
Two hour delivery is expensive, and online stores are much harder to search and navigate than well-stocked brick&mortar (it's not impossible to do, but nobody does it).

In the end the cost for the person to pick up and deliver an item on demand like that goes somewhere and that in particular is something that doesn't scale away. The margin improvement from having a warehouse instead of a box store won't make up for that last mile delivery charge, especially when the box store can do the same kind of delivery and benefit from impulse or high margin items from in person shoppers.

Amazon is like wading through sewage to find what you want, and rarely if ever do you find something you weren't already explicitly looking for.
Do it yourself if it's so easy.
A megawatt is a million joules per second. It’s a unit of power, not energy.

Mixing up watts and joules is like mixing up miles and miles per hour. It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding.
The "bottom dropping out" means at minimum a great depression, quite possibly wide-scale violence.

Economists almost always hand-wave away the financial (let alone human) cost of forcing people can switch jobs or careers, then complain people are "irrational actors." I assume they do this because economists are actually bad at economics and so should find jobs more suited to their aptitudes.
In practice I found retros very useful in my last Scrum team because we iterated on our process to make retros useful.

#1 was clustering similar sad faces.

#2 was as a team, agreeing on actions we could take on those clusters.

#3 was tracking how well we did on performing those actions.

If it's just venting, it's not overly useful.
> I ended up using optical flow

Optical flow for scene detection? How does this work?
Yes? That's pretty much the story of every single capital-intensive project in history: first there is a present need, then goes the massive expenditure, then comes the completed project, then appear various positive and negative unintended consequences.

Some things can be boot-strapped, others cannot.
What sites does zoom break? I've been on a 2x DPI screen for years and never noticed anything. The web is pretty good about this, even "pixels" are actually just length units not physical pixels.
What wasn't working for you, and what did you change?
Sounds interesting - do you have a source for that? I guess that would be country /location specific? Here in the UK most people use zero energy for aircon, and loads fo heating - but I'm sure in most of the world this would be inverse.
Not mentioned in the post: Fry's web presence has always been terrible. Absolutely, hopelessly, utterly terrible. A lot of people in this thread have brought up MicroCenter as a strong counter-example--I'd also throw Best Buy into that mix. Different product line at Best Buy; but, if you look at the web presence, these companies are doing great with Buy-Online-Pickup-In-Store. I often use Best Buy for items that I can't (or just don't want to) wait for even the 2-day shipping from Amazon.

I cannot recall a single time that I was able to find what I was looking for on the Fry's website--including many times I was able to walk into the store and find an item sitting on the shelf. That was even 10-15 years ago and it never improved.

There are a whole lot of reasons that Fry's is on its death-bed; their clear lack of commitment to a strong web presence to drive instant-gratification shopping is an important lesson for other brick-and-mortar retailers.
Would they have? I don’t pretend to be an expert on plausible alternative history, but as the USSR reached Berlin before the UK/USA/French forces, I can easily imagine that without Turing’s work the Iron Curtain would’ve been either through the English Channel or along the Rhine, while the Pacific war would’ve gone the same way.
Totally agree about the getting job part, but as someone who got a job in a big bank as a software developer as well as getting a graduate degree life still sucks.... when not only I feel like a wage slave but my friends who have even better jobs feel like wage slaves and are constantly looking for the next job it’s depressing all around...
Came in to find the obligatory blockquote markup request.
Thanks, sadly i can't now add a link to this. When I edit it the URL field is blocked.
I think the logos for “The Brief” and “Inspiration” were mistakenly swapped.
I bet we all read the same Eric Raymond book/article.
Hillary Clinton led the effort to reform health care during her husband's first term in office [1]. I am literally claiming that Hillary did things that she actually did. I'm sorry you weren't aware of history. That Hillary led this effort was actually noteworthy less for its failure and more for the fact that this was the first time a First Lady took a publicly visible hand in core policy-making.

I don't think Donald Trump is truly fit to be president, and I don't think the modern Republican party represents my views. Nor do I think Hillary Clinton was a suitable choice either. But disagreeing with the modern Democrat party is often met with derision, even if it is reasoned objection.

I actually remember the political discourse during President Clinton's first term, having been part of it back then. I remember the speeches Hillary Clinton gave as chair of the task force, including the notion that it was tragedy to allow so much of the economy to flow outside the purview of government. The notion of regulatory capture is not new [2].

It is my opinion that the purpose of the ACA was to lead to single-payer. It was the kind of boiled-frog strategy that Democrat party leaders had been using successfully for decades at the point ACA came a along.

The restrictions on doctor-owned hospitals are part of the law [3].

That the law would cause increased costs and dramatic deficits was predicted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) [4, 5].

The way I formed my opinion was taking all of this into account, including the model Hillary's task force put forth in the 90s as being what Democrats actually wanted. It is a reasonable opinion that if the ACA didn't deliver all of the things from the original plan, yet it opened up many unsolved problems, that the intent was to "continue reform" and make the "natural solution" a single-payer system.

I do wish we could have discussion without every comment on politics becoming a college paper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

[3] https://www.cms.gov/medicare/fraud-and-abuse/physicianselfre...

[4] https://www.cbo.gov/topics/health-care/affordable-care-act

[5] https://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/cbos-obamacare-predictions...
I struggle with Google search. I've tried using it like people used to use AskJeeves and sometimes that works and others it just fails.

For this search using the words "bank notes" first in the list of search terms ruined the results.
There's also the Isle of Mann Bank.
Sure, but the mobile layout could do with some concrete improvements. Specifically, the up/down arrows are too small to hit, and the comment text area should fit a few more lines of text. I feel like Bambi on ice when I scroll around in it on my phone.
Anti-handcuffs Protective wear to slow down police speedcuffs
EDIT: upon rereading you seem to believe I claim computing backpropagation on computers is time travel?
Thats because all this thought that Frys was a victim to Amazon is complete bollocks. Every Frys Ive been in since 2010 has been poorly stocked and full of employees who know absolutely nothing about what they are selling... You go into MicroCenter - Every Single Time - Stocked to the teeth with everything you wanted and a bunch of things you didnt even know you wanted - and the folks who work in the store are super nerds, who impress you with the depth of their nerdiness. Worst part is the 30 minute+ line to check out around Christmas.
Nothing our enemies did not already know.
Any US president could have presented the Kim family with a photo Op. This is not a meaningful accomplishment.
I wonder if that was the same one I went to for the first time back in the 80's? I was kind of blown away by a store that both chips (potato) and chips (silicon).
For a bit more corroboration of that analysis, this is what SunCalc says the sun direction would be at that time (9:44:20 UTC, 14:14:20 PM local time) pinned at the base of what (i believe) is that specific launch pad. Elevation of the satellite will affect the apparent angle some, but this is pretty convincing:

https://imgur.com/bSDLBmI
Just to be clear, I shouldn’t expect this to work on a phone, right?
The End of Agile: A Rebuttal
Here's a breakdown from 2007: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=139417...

More in-depth analysis:
http://www.energysolutionscenter.org/assets/1/Page/GHP_Posit...

In general, it appears that it's slightly better for carbon emissions to live in a warmer area with regular AC than it is to live in a humid temperate area that requires both heat half the year and AC the other half, or a cold area that requires heat most of the year.
I personally support raising awareness of the suffering of innocent Venezuelans and how tech companies are exacerbating that suffering. It would be interesting to see which employees of be tech companies will die on the hill of protecting talented, industrious Venezuelans using American web services to thrive in a very oppressive economy.

Conversely, when it's something abstract, like a machine learning research program that barely works or a search engine that doesn't exist yet and that nobody will use, people are ready to make careers out of talking to the press.
Is it on the rise or are people feeling more comfortable about reporting these things compared to decades ago?
John Maynard Keynes homosexualed much more openly and aggressively than Turing ever could, yet for some reason, was spared the same fate.

Pause to look around, and it becomes clear that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Legally, until someone properly tests that in court, then it is not even really law yet. Also, as a legal conceit, it doesn't continue to apply to people after they emigrate from the US.

I feel also, that you can't really go around telling people that they are banned from emigrating due to what they know, unless you also have a labyrinth containing a minotaur, fed with captured foreign citizens.

Although, I have to say, it would not greatly surprise me by this point to learn that this was in fact the case.
When reading on an iPad, tapping on links is nearly impossible.

A better responsive CSS file wouldn't make the site any slower or degrade the experience for laptop users.
> Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?

Because Facebook's users are not its clients, but rather its raw material. In fact, one wonders if even minor advertisers aren't more important as sources of data than of revenue.

So, Facebook does not feel obligated to serve (if it can all be said to serve) the people of Venezuela.

> So, what's the deal with these services closing their doors to 30million venezuelans when the sactions are targeting a defined list of individuals?

Perhaps it's virtue signaling to US politicians and deep-state officials to indicate their loyalty.
Getting elected as the first black president in a country founded on the enslavement of black people is a pretty impressive accomplishment in and of itself.