skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. I just spent a month trying to buy (not all of that time, obviously) two articles of clothing. I had fairly specific criteria ( black, hoodie + joggers, zipper on hoodie, thick and soft material on both), which most stores could not fulfil.

It was strange. Major sportswear brands make the items I want. I have the money. I'm willing to pay, frankly, much more than the product is worth for most people. But the issue seems to be, somehow, retailers do not stock enough of the kinds of things I want that I could actually buy them.

IOW, the maths of supply and demand seems to be a bit more complicated than one might expect.
The problem when you have so much money to invest is that your customers need to actually invest it. It's much harder to invest $1-$5M at a time when you can just go back to the WeWork pool and drop $2B.

It's like painting a wall mural using fine tipped brushes, rather than wide paint rollers or a paint gun. You get the job done so much faster, but your quality will suffer tremendously.
I'm surprised this concept died out. Take the next-gen consoles, they're supporting games at 120fps/120hz. They could target 60fps (what the vast majority of users will use) and daisy-chain another console for the serious gamers who 'need' 120fps. This could be done through the HDMI cable (which supports ethernet in addition to video & sound), it could even be enhanced to support 8k.

Yes, this is essentially SLI/ CrossFire, something that has been around for some time, and support would be described as patchy at best. I believe the main issue is that it's left to game developers to implement, rather than something abstracted away to the graphics drivers/ GPUs.
That's a fair response. I've given you an up triangle.
Fastmail is no longer owned by Opera, it was spun off in 2013.
If "JS Framework Anxiety" isn't in the next DSM it damn well should be.
Yeah, cool, so very unique workload - I'm not surprised there are apps that fit lambda in a cost effective way, they're just not typical I think.

Thanks for the explanation ;)
> Rapidly moving lead will kill you faster than asbestos

As will rapidly moving copper, or rapidly moving depleted uranium, or even a rapidly moving wooden stick with a stone point on it. :)
How would have JavaScript made them better off?
> Framing this analysis as "subtle manipulations" is disingenuous regardless of how flawed/biased news analysis may be, which is about as flawed/biased as any analysis can be.

But it is subtle manipulation. How many articles have you read about failing schools or school funding challenges, and how often have they mentioned that the U.S. spends among the most in the world per student for K-12 education? As you say, presenting news without context or analysis isn't journalism. But the minute you start picking facts for context, or analyzing the facts, you're inherently incorporating your personal views.
The paper for people who wanna look at which brands, etc:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327574651_Synthetic...

If you just want the brand summary here is the image: https://imgur.com/a/l2mDlNf

Great detail and work.

Note:

> Of all the lots tested, only one was packaged in glass rather than plastic: Gerolsteiner [...] the same brand of water but packaged in plastic instead of glass was also tested [...] While both of these packaged waters have the same water source, there was considerably less microplastic contamination within the water bottled in glass as compared to that packaged in plastic
Just last night I was at an alumni fundraiser for the football program of my alma mater. It's a medium sized liberal arts school, while they've had football for a hundred years, they're known for academics far more than football.

After some hors d'ouevres and cocktails, the head coach took a microphone and came with his ask. What he said was fascinating. He had been doing this for a number of years. About 5-6 years into his tenure, he said, at one of these fundraisers, an alumnus who was general in the US Army came up to him afterwards and said "You're absolutely terrible at this. You spoke for 15 minutes and you never mentioned winning football games. You're the football coach. Don't apologize for wanting to win football games. That's your job for God's sake. These people are here cause they're alumni who like football. They want to win games."

Needless to say, the coaches pitch is now "Here's how we win games if you give us money." But I think the general had the right idea. Companies shouldn't be embarrassed or shy away from talking about how they want to make money, especially if they're pitching to investors.
Question 3 is my least favorite because I feel compelled not to lie. If I decided to lie, I'm sure I could concoct a story to sound really impressive.

Most of the problems I solve are along the lines of 'some edge condition that wasn't accounted for in the code, often by someone else, and I spent a day figuring it out and fixing it' and there's not generally a lot of complexity or depth to it. I'm from a systems engineering background, so most of what I do is preventing large headaches in the first place. I've worked for large companies, so we hit stupid platform bugs, you won't believe this: we actually had dev and stage environments where we caught most things. Most of the problems were 'developers new application version is crap, please fix what we broke' type of stuff.

The other limiting factor to working on large orgs is you generally have actual support contracts with vendors. Oh, my packets are leaving the interface but not arriving at the destination? Well, network team looks into that, cause you know, there's an actual network team. And then when they determine everything is setup right, they forward to the vendor. And then Cisco is like 'looks like these network cards are crap, buffer overflow, new firmware' and then it's problem fixed.

Anyway, writing all this has motivated me to construct something fancy about metrics and latency.
Yup, I'm all for extremely strong typing. In 40 years of writing code I can't say I've ever had any real trouble with strong typing other than when dealing with libraries that reinvent wheels. Weak typing, though--nuke it from orbit.
He’s toast.
> If you live e.g. in the Bay Area, your tap water instead has a good chance of having a good helping of hexavalent chromium

And tastes like crap across the bay. I don't care, but my wife is pretty picky about it. I've tried multiple filters, to no avail.
Of course there are frontiers. It's a paradigm shift for mainstream science and [Western?] medical practice: we are not feeding a single organism, not applying drugs to a single creature. The human body is an ecological niche for an array of critters we know we little about.
Oh, the CDC was always sure to make a subtle reference to THC cartridges, in passing and way down near the end of the article.

I wonder if they're still doing the same now.
STephen Plinker would disagree with this idea that language is the basal layer of thought. Intention and mind first, language as a filter later. It's kinda reductive to say that your thoughts are your words. Words are like structures in the waves of water your mind produces
For me personally, situations like this make me trust science that much more. If someone finds that a previously published paper contained errors, as any human work is likely to, and the response is to go back and correct those errors or publicize whatever was wrong with the research, well that's science working as intended. That's freaking awesome.

What I get really, really, really frustrated with is the attitude that some people have where retractions of stories or articles makes them trust the source less, rather than more. If a journal publishes a retraction, I have that much more faith in that journal, and that much more faith in the scientific process in general.

Similarly: news outlets retracting stories or issuing corrections makes me trust those outlets that much more, because it shows that they care about making a best effort to present truth, and they care more about their reputation as being a source of facts than they do about whatever short-term backlash there might be.

Any media outlet, journal, web site, or other publication that doesn't regularly issue retractions and corrections is not to be trusted. It'd be better if the erroneous information didn't get out there in the first place, but there's no scenario where everybody gets everything right the first time, all the time- it's going to happen.

You can really see the different perspectives highlighted from people posting to social media in response to things like changing estimates of the age of the universe. There's always a contingent of outraged morons screaming stuff like, "now they're saying it's 5 billion years older than they thought it was before, and people continue to trust them?!? All those scientists are such hypocrites for doubting my belief in anti-vax/Austrian economics/chemtrails/Noah's Ark/etc., how dare they!" They act like changing your mind based on new data, or admitting you were wrong about something is a sign that you shouldn't trust someone, whereas I would say the ability to constantly revise your beliefs is a fundamental requirement for trusting someone's judgement. The inability to do so is a reason to not trust anything someone says.
I participated in men's work, not specifically the ManKind Project but a closely related organization. I personally found it helpful doing weekly check-ins and having people holding me accountable to my goals.

Unfortunately, the stigma regarding men sharing feelings is prevalent in western society, and it's not only the men causing it. When I told several female friends about the work they did, their response was: "Are they gay?"
I think the bigger issue is intellectually lazy readers and media which don't really care to understand nuances or spend any effort reviewing and fact checking things.

You can't control labels, no one can control what is labeled science or not, we just need to educate people, demand more of our media, and breed a culture that take more pride in truth, accuracy, precision, and intellect.
That's question one from the article: Based on nothing but what you've learned about this company from the outside, please tell me why we're great and you're great and we will be great together?
He also does a great podcast with Kara Swisher: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719
I currently have the domain registered via NameCheap. I have all of my domains there currently, except for the .rs ones, since it doesn't offer them.

Most "redirect" stuff is "point a DNS record somewhere"; so I have the 'www' subdomain pointing at Cloudflare, the 'words' subdomain pointing at Svbtle, I think 'blog' is pointing at... heroku? Before I moved www to Cloudflare, it was pointed at Netlify, and then gh-pages before that.

I've been meaning to check out the new Cloudflare registrar, but there's only so many hours in the day :)
as a serial victim to sets of questions exactly like this earlier in my life, i've come to realize that 'Culture-fit' is really just a coded honesty test -- and the most deceptive thing about it is that straight honesty is one of the quickest ways to do poorly at it.

in other words, answering '1. Why do you want to work for our company?' with "Because I want a salary and I need to avoid destitution.' is a wholly appropriate answer, but it's wrong.

They actually just want you to evangelize the company for a few minutes and lay on how envious you are of those that have 'the opportunity' to 'be a part of the revolution at X-Co'.
Thank you for the answer! Yes, it was helpful. :) Keep up the good work and thank you again for sharing!
I really wish HN would implement a 'no ny times' policy.
I never said it wasn't - this is manipulative against someone you have a relationship (of some sort) with.
These on demand - fulfilled by gig contracting platforms can _only_ provide value if there has been a big technological change that undermines expertise in a job. Uber works because of google maps knowing a faster route than even the 20 year veteran tax driver.

There hasn't been a revolutionary technology in dog walking, just people who need cash but dont know pets.

There hasnt been a revolutionary technology in grocery shopping, just people who need cash and dont care about the quality of your basket.

etc.
Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown
> "The bottled water is produced close to where it's sold."

Well, not always. Premium brands are often shipped long distances. Evian, Fiji water, etc...
What the person is trying to say is these startups are essentially playing by the rules of "crossing the chasm", "the lean startup" etc, but only in the most theatrical and vapid of ways.

It's an application of the startup playbook on something essentially meaningless.

Wag is an idea that could be well executed in about 2 million - a trendy app, some "social networking" for dogs and their owners, a form of payment and you're done. Moving on in life, left the building with everything working forever kind of done

But this isn't about that, this is startup theater of the absurd and incompetent.

Add on to that the myth that competent execution can be done by bozos if you simply give them more money (people don't magically become smarter with more money) and you get this - ships of well paid fools going through the startup motions.

A dog walking company...
Scientists usually try to distance themselves by saying those are soft science or even pseudo-science. This leads to the embarrassment of the demarcation problem[1] which is that no one can give a bright-line rule[2] to distinguish between the "real" science and pseudo-science. All of the demarcation criteria that have been proposed (such as Popper's falsifiability[3]) are inadequate in one way or another. In particular, they don't seem to capture the reasons a scientist would give about why a particular nutrition or social science paper is bad. The scientist would say things like, "Well, your sample size is small and not representative of anything except psych undergrads, you didn't control for age or gender, the participants and experimenters weren't properly blinded, you tested 15 hypothesis and only reported the p-value for the one that was under 0.05, and even that is wrong because you didn't apply Yate's continuity correction on your chi-squared test, AND NONE OF THAT EVEN MATTERS because the effect size you report is too small to be of practical consequence!" Nothing in there about the hypothesis not being testable; yet this is the kind of stuff that really separately the wheat from the chaff.

So we're left with a "No True Scotsman fallacy" where have to say that some science is "good" and some is "bad" and the only way to tell is to ask someone knowledgeable to evaluate each paper on a case by case basis. Not terrible useful to the layman.

And why do we want any kind of science to automatically get respect anyway? Good science is good because its already been subjected to an incredible degree of scrutiny. It will hold up to a little more. The real problem is disingenuous, bad faith arguments which are allowed to dominate the conversation. The real problem is to teach the general public to distinguish between sincere, good faith arguments and patent bullshit. This is much more difficult than it sounds because bullshit can easily conform to any merely superficial characteristics.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Very soon all you need will be genetically modified yeast. So brewing equipment could get you into trouble.
Missed the edit window but for GPU I meant the Radeon VII not R7. Double checking benchmarks, the RX 5700 XT compares pretty well to that, but 2nd gen Navi will have a new higher end card.
Aha! Now we see why there are so many transgendered people these days! :):):)
This is like a shitty SecretNudge.com
Creating a waypoint system on iOS for AR objects to follow
That's really cool, even if I never find a place to use it.

Anyway you can still sort strings.
This is deplorable and hopefully some day grounds for prosecution by the people who were targeted and manipulated.
> Using average pilots instead of highly experienced test pilots is a sensible step to prevent a repeat.

It wouldn't have made a difference without the training for this specific MCAS issue. Highly experienced test pilots would have been equally unable to recover had they been flying the planes that crashed.

Normal runaway trim is easily handled, but the MCAS-induced runaway trip had the cockpit lighting up with all sorts of errors and warning lights and beeps. The only way to deal with this is to pick up checklists and start going through them... which you simply couldn't do because there was no time.

So using pilots selected at random from various airlines is a great idea and should be implemented, but it would not have prevented this situation. Only training might have.
> Yoga teachers in the West, however, mix pseudo-scientific or New Age BS into their practice ("unite the chakras", "harness your inner goddess", "elevate your spirit") to make themselves be seen as being more than fitness instructors.

This is true for many, but not all, nor is it limited to the West.
@IBAction can replace @ObjC for all selectors. We put it a mandate in our code reviews. There is also NSObjectProtocol which forces (in most cases) devs to subclass NSObject.
>There's also a lot of resistance to electronic banking in... certain circles

In the USA as of 2017, 8.4 million households (6.5% of households) don't have any bank account. [1]

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/
Your reasoning is so far off. Banks don’t control how long it takes to move money, the fed does. Move money between accounts at the same bank, money transfer is instant.

Banks can’t kite money with ACH either, that’s why overnight lending market exists to cover between debits and credits even if they are break even for the bank.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I disagree somewhat with the idea that "mission oriented" jobs must pay the same amount, but it's not an unreasonable idea. Personally I don't think of it as such jobs paying less: I view that more as the baseline. I mean, fulfilling work should be a given. When it isn't, a pay increase acts as a sort "hazard pay" premium.
What about scaling a VC organization ? With hundreds of managers, A lot of institutional knowledge, helpful infrastructure for said company, and deep ties between companies ?

Come to think of it, it has many similarities to Google X. But that's extremely hard to build.
All that assumes you don’t travel a lot. Anything that requires me to mail a physical check is definitely in exception processing territory. Mostly I either setup payments through my bank or pay well in advance if due dates. Means I cover a fairly big float but don’t have much of a choice.
Are they at least using a php framework like symfony or is it all spagetti?
> profit is a reward for providing something people want for a lower price

How do monopolies work with this? If I am a car manufacturer and I buy up all the steel and steel mills, and then jack my prices up, I get more profit, and also am protected from competitors. If there are no power or resource disparities, I could see this working, but at the very least government is (to a much larger extent than the private sector) accountable to people.
Oddly, using w3m avoids their paywall.
>I just smoke flower. Can't fake that.

"microgrit"...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jan/12/drugsandalco...
It sounds like moonshots were the original goal for them, then they realized how much slower and capital intensive atom based innovation is, compared to "bits" based innovation. They wanted to invest in the next SpaceX, then were tempted by the much faster "growing" entities like WeWork.
Can't access what, tap water?

That sounds more like a problem of the local government than factories of bottled water.

>he didn't believe access to clean water should be a human right

Depends on the definition of "human right". You still pay for even the tap water in your home after all.
Actually, parents pass the germ that causes cavities to their babies.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35989527/ns/health-oral_health/t/m...
>Mike Walsh, a general partner at Structure Capital, which was an early investor in Wag, described the brothers to CNN Business as "so smart" that it's "almost difficult to communicate" with them.
Chaos Conf 2019 Recap
Our company trialed Ember this year alongside React, Angular, and Vue for a new SPA. Ember was the worst of the bunch:

- It is stringly typed. All over the place you're globally registering names as strings (or worse, using strings that implicitly resolve to filenames). You'll write `store.createRecord('mymodel')` instead of just importing things using standard ECMAScript imports.[1] This means static analysis is out the window, which makes it labor-intensive to find usages or do even simple refactors like renames.

- It leans on global state and object mutation way too much, instead of using functional state updating. This was the way older frameworks like Backbone, YUI, etc worked. Web development is moving away from this paradigm, and for good reason.

- Static typing support is non-negotiable in 2019 (and 2015 for that matter, but I digress). Support in Ember is just not there, and I don't see much promise for the future either. React and Angular have had good support for Typescript and/or Flow for a good 5 years now.

- One high point for Ember: the in-browser testing beat the pants off any of the other frameworks. We ended up going with React/Jest/Puppeteer, but this meant we (meaning, I) had to write 150 lines of boilerplate that Ember gives you for free.

Overall working in Ember honestly felt like being transported back in time by 10 years. I guess if you're a solo dev it's easy to whip up a quick demo that seems fine, but you'll hit the wall very quickly where the project becomes write-only. I think it's unlikely a brand new build system, no matter how fancy, can make up for these architectural problems.

[1]: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/getting-started/creating-...

EDIT: I regret taking the time to write this. Should have checked submission history first…
Being pretty negative on those companies.

1) Uber strategically is looking pretty good. They are the market leader in most countries and their Uber Eats business is turning out to be quite lucrative.

2) Self driving cars is a long term project so of course Cruise isn't going to have anything released just yet.

3) Boston Dynamics just launched their latest robot and has already seen pretty good adoption amongst enterprise customers. There is a huge need just in the resources industry for technologies to assist with compliance. Let along going more mass-market like construction sites.

4) Light have pivoted to being an autonomous car sensor company. And as we know there is significant potential demand in this space.

5) Nuro actually has more potential than most of the self driving car companies around by aggressively focusing on a single use case i.e. consumer goods delivery.
Plan A – Simulation for a War Between the United States and Russia
Not everybody wants to appease an imaginary entity called "the classification of typical human behavior as a mental disorder", either. Who would classify it, and how would they enforce it? Would use of force toward a country full of mentally-ill people with their potential being crippled by their manipulative leaders be appropriate medical intervention, or would it be starting a war? One might need a monument and a few hymns to the DSM to encourage the troops in this case.