skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be right regarding computer associates: but getting a degree in something like welding is just increasing the number of firey hoops someone has to jump through to do a job he can be trained on the job for, or in a union apprenticeship program.

I myself learned welding on the job: at a muffler company, and again later in a government lab. The answer to social problems is not always "more school."
For a couple of semesters I roomed with a guy taking an electrical engineering technician course at a college while I was taking an electrical engineering degree at a university.

We were both surprised at how similar many of our courses were. The big difference was that the standards for pass/fail were lower at his, and that he didn't have any of the 300 or 400 level courses where all the interesting stuff was IMO. And I didn't have any of the hands on courses that was the interesting stuff in his opinion. He had an advanced soldering course. I had an "optional" 3 hour tutorial in it -- it was optional in the sense that you didn't have to attend, but you'd fail your labs if you couldn't solder...
I only hear about wework hear, via the media. If this was a penny stock, we'd call it a pump and dump scam.

I know tech people all over the US and Europe and literally no one has ever spoken the word 'wework' outloud to me.
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Tangentially, billiards is a great game to play after a few hours in front of a screen, as your eyes focus on the balls and holes at different distances.
It's more complicated than that... They also have a different arm that buys the buildings.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-the-workspace-giant-want...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

By "content" I was trying to convey all the personal and professional output that I'd like to be seen (writing, social media posts, stackoverflow answers, HN comments etc)
I mean, in post-modernism then exactly everything is art. So there's little point in including it as a category..
>the quality of the engineering and the quality of the documentation simply don't happen anymore outside of very narrow niches

Wasn't Bell Labs a narrow niche at the time?
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It seems like this bias towards discrete choices is built into language. For any adjective, one must decide whether it's appropriately used or not.

Nonetheless, it's possible to acknowledge uncertainty more than we usually do.
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The EEA free trade and common standards have significant exceptions for agricultural and fisheries products. Norway and so on are not subject to the Common Agricultural Policy or Common Fisheries Policy, and can put significant tariffs on EU products in those areas AIUI.
Maybe you're right. I know displaying in hex was way faster than displaying in decimal and seemed fast enough, so I stopped there. I didn't test rendering speed specifically.

Doing a million digits in the console (with no status updates) took about an hour and doing it in that page took just over two hours.
There was talk years ago by Paul Graham perhaps at one of the Pycons. It was about not being afraid to do what other big companies do and take them on. When it came to search, that big company was Google, of course. He predicted that over time, due to various reasons, Goole will move into personalizing the search results too much where they'd stop being useful or interesting. "It's true if it's true for you" is the phrase he used. And it seems to me that he was essentially right.

So, say I search for corn, but Google thinks corn is bad for me, cause I've been eating too much of it, and potatoes are better, so they just go ahead and substitute corn with potatoes to help me out.

On one hand it's nice, they think they understand what I really need. On the other hand, it's very bit creepy when it goes overboard.
Can I ask why your organization bothers with DNSSEC, when virtually nobody in the industry does? Can I take a wild guess that you're located somewhere in Europe? DNSSEC is a dead letter in the US.
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I think a big perception issue in the general public that the money people are chafing against after doing their homework is that WeWork isn’t a tech company.

Economically they’re more like a b&m retailer, where the shelf space being leased is for workers, not mannequins and clothes.

Their reach to individual pockets is orders of magnitude smaller. Big clients can abandon them as a supplier in a few weeks time to setup a new office.

WeWork does not have the long term emotional buy-in potential like an Apple or Facebook. It’s a business to business business. Not going to hook a billion individual users on their gadgets and services.

There’s a non-zero chance the property market implodes, and shifts to remote workers seem very likely to expand. Still need phones and software. Not downtown offices with cucumber water.
From working in adjacent companies and doing marketing I can guess what the objections were to that:

1. It specifically mentions another company -> this often feels like a jerk move or from a branding standpoint something that diminishes your product. There's another front page HN article right now that leads with this:

https://alexdanco.com/2019/09/07/positional-scarcity/

2. It mentions nothing from the actual product/features which makes it hard to learn from the tests.

3. Some honest diversity questions with choosing that stock art guy as the face of the company. A tech company I worked at found out that we could get leads about 15% cheaper off of Facebook ads if we targeted only men and excluded women from the audience. We made the deliberate choice to use the less optimized combined male + female audience because it felt so ethically wrong to do otherwise.
There seems to be a lot of indication that WeWork, if there are any problems, could be in the worst position of their competitors.

That seems like a recipe for disaster, and if their competitors survive any downturn, an opportunity for them.
For something like two years I've been using bing more and more. Google is filtering/censuring the results so much about anything remotely controversial, i.e. torrents, streams, politics on a certain political spectrum, news etc... Basically Google is telling me I should not be using its services anymore, and I'm ok with that. Bing will at least let me find the links I tell it I want it to find.
What an amazing story, thanks for sharing
The only person in the movie who met Honnold before he started free soloing was his mother, and she seems fine with him doing it. Everyone else knew what they were signing up for. If anything, they're the selfish ones because they want him to stop doing what he loves.
> "techniques for interpreting statically typed languages" - gives a bunch of super basic articles/questions about statically vs dynamically typed and compiled vs interpreted languages. DuckDuckGo actually gave better results for this.

But is there any good result that includes all those words and which Google failed to find?
Because that's a silly idea?

Because people will horde their inventions to themselves and reduce the rate of progression of civilisation?
For someone who has been so adamant about cycle-accurate emulation I was surprised to see such ad hoc color transformations being used. Has anyone in the emulation community tried to accurately estimate the end-to-end response of these systems? Something along the lines of using a colorimeter with a reference monitor (like a Sony PVM CRT) and homebrew ROM that generates test patterns.
I read "as low as" as "Crazy high amount of".

Is this the new scam? Announce an IPO with crazy high valuation knowing full-well it's not going to actually IPO that price, then when you adjust it lower (still way, way high valuation) people get a sense that it's a good purchase because it's so deeply discounted.

They've literally reverted to department-store style sales tactics for IPOs; now I've seen it all.
This is a technique often used in gambling games (poker apps minigames etc.)

They offer a series of actions that let you lose or gain x% n many times in a row, with an equal chance of each. The fact that +x% doesn't cancel out a -x% compounds on the difference in lay person expectations to produce horrific odds for microtransactions.
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American culture is more individualistic than most Western European countries, not less. There is no connection between puritanism and frustration at people not wearing a helmet.

In fact, my bike-loving, safety-loving friends never say they're angry at someone riding without a helmet. Usually someone just calls them an idiot.

But as others have said, in any country with a social safety net, someone's injury/death ends up taking resources away from others (hospital bills, loss of productivity, loss of repaying the cost of your childhood, not taking care of parents or kids, etc.)

There's nothing bizarre about seeing someone who abuses their safety net as selfish or irresponsible.
There is also determinant. Which might have been a better choice.
It's basically a tariff.

There is no European tech company that's going to compete with Google. They could ban Google entirely and the result would be Baidu etc. coming in and doing the exact same things.
Oh I see, we've shifted the goalposts from Linux on the Desktop to Linux Apps on a proprietary OS on the Desktop.
According to their S-1 [1]

We are a community company committed to maximum global impact. Our mission is to elevate the world’s consciousness. We have built a worldwide platform that supports growth, shared experiences and true success.

[...]

We start by looking at space differently: as a place to bring people together, build community and enhance productivity. Philosophically, we believe in bringing comfort and happiness to the workplace

[...]

Nine years ago, we had a mission to create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living. We believed that if we created a community that helped people live life with purpose, we could have a meaningful impact on the world.

[...]

Each of our spaces is designed to make our members feel welcome and at home, and to encourage a sense of belonging. We believe that individuals are more productive when they are able to express their full and authentic selves, so we aspire to be as inclusive as possible.

As a grumpy cynic personally I don't really go for that stuff, but they've put it in the prospectus so presumably they think other people do.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...
The receiver name is likely to be used within the method, and always defined at the top of the block (and recommended to be consistent across all of the receiver's method definitions). So locality and consistency are great, improving the readability of the code.

Names like "self" and "this" proscribed by other languages begin to have issues when you start dealing with nested definitions and closures. Allowing them to be explicitly named in Go avoids these ambiguities.
hm. what could the strategy of roi be there?

- data mining/db of the locations of plenty of artworks?

- mining aided search for new kids on the artblock?

- finding lost/stolen artworks?

- what about simple copies?

i have no real clue ...
I remember someone posting her thread about Lambda School. I didn't find it very convincing. Definitely not convincing enough to justify her now calling it "trash".
See also false dichotomy.
The perspective is wrong I think, unless this is a one-way road.
Corporate tax in France was (until recently) 33%.
The government was seeking 1.6B which means it’s estimation of Google’s profit for the years in question was closer to 5B.

Hopefully this kind of fine will void the tax shenanigans Google uses to offshore their profits to Ireland as well as its reduced tax rate there.

Make money in France, pay taxes there. Doesn’t seem like to much to ask.
Paying for welding school is just one way you can go. Apprenticeships will pay for you to go while paying you. Also there's non union options where the company teaches you while paying you. If you think about it, with the proper guidance and motivation it's not impossible to do both, learn the trade and take a night class or online course with your community college a term at the same time. It's really unfortunate how the trades were looked down upon in the past. I remember in high school it wasn't even an option since all the adults would kind of hide that option from students since it wasn't what "smart" people did.
That has some value. How many people get stuck for a simple flat battery ? Having a way to avoid that is pretty nice to me. Depending on how costly is the option.
I got the cheaper Dash model with the narrow plastic deck for US $200. If I were going longer distances (more than a mile/1.5km) then one of the more expensive wider-deck models would definitely be worth it.
The description of play in the article corresponds most closely to (straight) carom billiards rather than a variety of pool (or even three-cushion billiards). A run of forty is creditable; runs of 100 or more aren't uncommon among good players. There's a billiard table just behind the foreground pool table in the photo of the Quadrangle Club.
The devil is in the details (who is selling shares, lock-up period, etc) and in how the stock does over the next few years, but...

-Having a high price allows the company to raise money in the IPO with less dilution. A high price is also good for anyone selling stock in the offering or selling stock after the lockup (assuming the price remains high until the lockup)

-Having a low price causes more dilution for the same amount of capital raised, so this is worse off for the company stockholders. It is good for people who want to buy stock in the IPO though.

-Accurately priced IPO is harder to define. Some say an accurately price IPO is one that pops up 50% on the 1st day. Others say that IPOs with large pops are not great because they show the company left money on the table.

-Ultimately, the most important thing is that the company and stock perform well over the next several years. Bankers make their fees on the IPO, but pretty much everyone else wants the price to be stable or rise through the lock up period and then wants it to keep doing well!
As much as I think VisualBasic gets a lot of unfair criticism, I really don’t think the OCX model is something worth admiring. Sure, when it worked it was great but all too often they would fail between OS updates, language patches or even just installing other applications if they happened to use different OCXs. What’s more, those bastard files required registry hacks to work.

If anything, OCX is an example of how not to do shared libraries.
> But this is an 80% discount in a span of 6 weeks

Discount is the word they want you to hear in your head. The valuations are all imaginary. By setting such a high previous valuation, people now look at the current valuation in the context of that, instead of what it should be: $0.
It did finally show up in our PHD, but it showed up as having been resolved:

"[08:52 AM PDT] Between 7:49AM PDT and 8:27AM PDT EC2 experienced elevated API errors for instance related APIs in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 region. Existing instances were not affected. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally."

It was in US-EAST-1C.
> Huawei can address the security concerns by using established open source software (which they seem to have).

If you don't trust the entity publishing the binaries, then having it simply publishing sourcecode is not a way for you to gain confidence because there is no practical way to be sure that the binaries they deliver are the published code compiled by a non-modified version of an opensource compiler.

They have to provide a way to do reproducible builds.

https://reproducible-builds.org/

There is also a huge challenge when it comes to enable the customer to audit the hardware.
Ok, so who's going to pay the philosophy major? He's not necessarily worth that much. On the other hand, he's worth a lot of he learns something more practical. What would you classify as human flourishing? I think humans have flourished because of advancements in digital technology. Also, "society" is not a concrete individual that can do valuing. Again, who's going to pay a philosophy major?
No, because by the time they release anything the iPhone that was just released will be at least half a year old.

This might be a feature worth upgrading over, but who wants to upgrade in the middle of a cycle? The only people who would benefit are those who already have this new iPhone anyway.
How do you know if it's art without the placard! - https://everything2.com/title/No+Knife
That’s really cool!

Haven’t seen these yet, but Target has a pretty cool system that is app based. Easy to see how they could hook in cars.
I was expecting that too but it could also be a savvy attempt at gaining credibility.

The real thing I was thinking was that productizing the activities of a growth team would be ideal. If you could build a software product that efficiently managed the process of the growth team you could make a good value proposition. e.g. one person ($150k/year) using one tool ($100k/year) is significantly cheaper than the $650k/year he quotes.
I'd say it's about intent. Depending on the context, "x * 4" is less clear than the bitshift (For example, when packing multiple values into an integer)
I'd make the follow small modification to the parent's quote:

I's always a good idea to be skeptical of someone making claims you should raise lots of capital to rapidly scale your business today or in the near term, as opposed to other strategic alternatives when that person is selling capital for a living.
ABET accreditation is still a very important thing to have. I am not terribly surprised.

Sounds like you'd learn more in a (non-ABET, even) community college for two years, at an absolute fraction of the cost, if you wanted to retool after undergrad.
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51 pounds?
The person in the anecdote was second to last in their high school class and got fired for missing too much work. No one thinks such a person should be sleeping in the gutter, but let's not beat ourselves up over the fact that they're not making 6 figures here.
One possibility is that the disease is carried by humans and affects dogs more heavily.

When I lived in Norway mild flu symptoms would spread through society and quickly, especially when the weather would start to turn cold and dark.
If the author of this blog post reads this:

Based on your earlier article, you mentioned the issue of spam. Slack is even worse than IRC for spam controls, I've seen spammers be hugely disruptive when the admins aren't around. It could be partially solved with bots, but that doesn't stop PM spam.

I looked at the docs for mattermost, riot.im, and rocket.chat.

Seems like rocket.chat has the best docs and lots of fine-grained control about permissions and also has rate limiting. Mattermost also has rate limiting (but API level only?) but their docs are horrible. Riot.im doesn't seem to have any controls.
This article tries to characterize Google's use of open source. The general conclusion is that Google only uses open source to further its own interests. There's no altruism. It's predictable really. I mean what else would I expect a corporation to do?

But, in Google's case, this open source behavior is noteworthy because Google likes to cultivate the public image of a "good actor" (and certainly a better actor than other corporations), and because Google generates a colossal revenue stream, dwarfing almost every other corporation's. And this is why their open source strategies are problematic. If we could fully remove the veil we would quite possibly see that Google is not good at all. We might just see another greedy, stingy corporation.
There's a great answer here on search engine studies but I want to point out the position the parent comment is making: most people don't know the difference between using a search engine like Google and using the WWW itself. Domain names, URLs, protocols, search engines, links, paid placement, they're all just annoying babble between you and the cat pictures you're looking for. Fortunately, you can learn the clicks and the typing you need after a few tries and then it's just muscle memory to repeat at will; you never have to figure all that stuff out.

If you work in "the industry" you owe it to yourself to watch "real users" for a while. Sure we're talking about anecdotes here but you should have your own.
I don't think the author did enough research here. I think the article misrepresented and undercut the value of trade schools. For instance, it is perfectly possible to become a welder without attending college. In fact, the standard method is to simply start an apprenticeship and work up from their much like a plumber or electrician.

Also, it completely disregards the fact that most experienced tradesmen eventually go into business for themselves as independent contractors. However, since an independent contractor files as a business owner and not a welder (or electrician or what-have you) they would no longer contribute to the statistics for their actual trade.

Overall I would give this article and its author a 5/10 in terms of quality... not really worth reading imho.
Not necessarily. I worked at a company where if you missed two days of work without calling in to let them know, you were fired. You could stretch that to about 5 days if you always called in.

I'm not making a judgement as to whether those are reasonable terms, only pointing out that such jobs exist, and could be similar where this individual worked there.
Did Google admit wrongdoing?

Edit: I thought it was common knowledge innocent parties settle lawsuits routinely. Is that not the case in Europe?
In the We Co. case at least, selling the stock at a $10B valuation won’t do SoftBank much good when they’ve plowed $9B into the company.

It’ll be interesting if they indeed have taken out these loans against We stock. And especially how much.
I'd almost install it to see if magnus-the-app would recognize magnus-the-artist[0]

[0] https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/magnus.htm
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I misread that as "Get a good mistress", which is also good advice.
3:2 aspect ratio on the matebook x! I have said for quite some time that I would wait with buying a laptop until someone else than MS had that aspect ratio. I guess this means I will be getting a new laptop.
I read this and all I could think was how terrifying it would be to have someone like Tom Colbert take an interest in your life. What a horrible person.
And that's not how to interpret the 95 and 99 thresholds.

Depending on what proportion of "Version B" ideas are truly effective, your false positive rate (what the author is concerned about) will be very far away from 5% or 1%.

At the 95 threshold (p-value of 0.05) you could have that >50% of what you identified as an "effective" version are not really effective (false positive). This is a good article to build the intuition around it: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/p-value.html

In the end it will also depend on how costly it is to have a false negative. The author hints that in this case is very costly.
It's probably because of "personalized results". If Google knows that you listen to Nirvana it will assume you want to hear the song, instead of showing you the MOST RELEVANT RESULT, that is the freaking Wikipedia article about the metal. They lost the plot, sometimes things just work and you should not overthink it, the original Google page rank algorithm is a beautiful insight into how distributed knowledge graphs work and self organize. Now they destroyed it's usefulness.
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