skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate that we need to specify what day and maybe even hour a news source was written, because data goes stale that quickly.
Thanks, soms interesting inside-baseball lore there. I should probably just suck it and get used to the -g syntax, I guess. It does seem like a superb grep implementation.
Yeah it still sounds like a pretty easy problem (I work at a super operationally heavy company and at time my workload has been 90% ops 10% eng). If the 300 count includes all the support agents then I maybe I can see it but the common Silicon Valley practice would be for none of those people to actually be employees of the company.

On the other hand my company has zero marketing, which obviously won't be the case for Patreon - I have no idea what headcount levels are involved there - at Google marketing had a ton of people like running promotions and campaigns but again the entire bottom layer was TVC's...
Maybe the point is that they are not reconcilable and the writer wants you to think what Patreon wrote in the blog post was a lie, hence the however in between "Around that same time" and the patrons exiting the platform.
I'm partially with you - this maybe good.

But saying all investment (special reference to China ones) is good, is taking it too far. It is already proven that China is new financial colonist [1] [2], infact last week India Govt passed a notice that any investment from China would be scrutinised.[3]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/186743b8-bb25-11e8-94b2-17176fbf9...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/08/04/c...

[3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/ind...
Standing military in the US is also 0.4% (1.38M/328.2M), v.s CA's 0.17% (67,000/37,894,799) of population.
I am more inclined to believe that a lot of people are dumping their donations right now. Listen to a few podcasts that rely on it, and it will be clear.

I know that my patreon subscriptions are unfortunately the first to go of all my expenses right now. I only do them to inspire certain creators to keep going, but in some cases I don’t even listen to them or use their stuff anymore, I just liked donating so they could do what they love. But when things get tight, I have to survive first.
> How do you reconcile the two?

This sounds like a riddle / koan.

Business analysts pulled these metrics from a data warehouse and the semantics don't line up.

I've worked on growth and data science teams, and there ought to be a book "How to lie with data science" as a successor to "How to lie with statistics".

There's been situations where I've seen the same metric queried in two different ways with contradictory results. The slight of hand here is that the query is query, and unless the metric is defined as the query, the metric is not the query.

I remember Nassim Taleb proposing that books are fractals and can't be summarized / compressed.
Wow, you certainly had me fooled - I thought it was obvious sarcasm (and fairly amusing at that).

I think you should consider that patients aren't generally placed on ventilators until they are already nearly dead. Concluding that ventilators kill patients is similar to concluding that going to the hospital increases your risk of death. Correlation is not causation; significant covariance often occurs in the real world.
In general it should be assumed that the R0 in a prison population is effectively the prison population minus 1[0]. They're basically the worst possible case for a highly infectious disease.

[0] Yes, this is hyperbole, but not by a lot.
The phrase doesn't mean the poor don't have principles, it means they don't have the same luxury of making decisions purely on principle.
COVID-19 doesn't care about your politics. It just wants to infect you and it's good at it.
I, too, had that problem, but pins and random math problems aren't so good.
What works for me is taking a random piece of text, converting it into binary and using that as the challenge text (to retype). Typing so many 0s and 1s would require a lot of focus - I'd never dare even try changing the configs.
Depending on your usecase BigBlueButton might also fit your bill
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
All this innovation and we have come to the point where cars cruising waiting for summons is a better solution than just parking.
Oh wonderful. I have 4x12TB RED disks in my Synology. I wasn't aware of this at all until seeing this post. Guess I'll be looking to slowly replace them before they go belly-up. Unfortunately, it seems with each swap out I risk the very problem this is all about.
It does not mean the poor don't have principles. They definitely do. They cannot afford to live by them, or they lose their livelihood. Indeed it is widely acknowledged in academia. that the poor are much more generous per $ of income than the wealthy. (Will have to search for the reference... Will edit it into the comment later.)
Well I would think the Army as the road out of poverty thing is not as big in Canada as in the U.S
It sounds like you could use a therapist, if that's an option. Most people don't find themselves completely overwhelmed by these interactions.

I'm not saying that to be mean or make you feel bad: it's normal to have trouble dealing with some situations. But it means that just reading a book about workplace soft skills seems unlikely to help here. The sort of thing that helps might be more like exploring why this criticism is making you feel so bad, in what sense it threatens your self-esteem, that sort of thing.

It's hard to comment on the part about you upsetting people without knowing what you did, how they told you about it, and what you did when you found out. I guess my general comment would be that a quick and sincere apology when you do find out that you've hurt someone usually goes a long way.
I'm with you on the political thing, but the middleman is great for reducing friction. I personally do not like to think about X number of expenses, which means X receipts in the email, X credit card numbers to update, etc. Patreon was one expense. What I would give to have one organization handles every charity I might donate to (and then have them hide my mailing address from them).

At very least it would be nice to have a piece of local software that acts as a "middleman" by integrating with (let's say) Stripe or Bitcoin, and I set up subscriptions that way.
Look into Art of Problem Solving (AOPS).

https://artofproblemsolving.com/
Anecdotal I know but I went to an entire school for “gifted” students in Texas in the 80’s.
I'm willing to take those limitations. While Pluto is just Goofy, we could start with the other planets. What would Jupiter's clouds look like? Venus? We receive much more information from the orbiters of these planets, so hopefully on future missions (please let us keep them going) we can get these images. Honestly, I'd be happy to receive a JPEG from a modern DSLR just to save space, but obviously the RAW would be ideal. After all, if we're doing this, let's do it.
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Excellent, thanks for following up!
I really don't understand what's the problem with async local storage. This is a very awful context, for example it is very easy to spawn a new routine and "leak" transaction for example to a worker.

We tried different ways to do so and easiest method is just have some specific "Context" object and pass it as first/last argument to every function. This is really very easy once you will start using contexts. You already passing something like transactions and other specific data, nothing new, just opaque .

We have built really tiny library for this: https://github.com/openland/context and it is working great. We had zero issues with developers not passing context and very short learning time.
This sounds like quite the opposite of the future I (optimistically) think we're moving towards: reclaiming our streets for pedestrians and cyclists.
They aren’t saying poor people revel in their inherent immorality.

They are saying poverty forces people, against their will, to break their moral codes and principles. It’s one of the worst things about the power dynamics of money: not being able to afford an iPhone is a laughably trivial concern compared to having to work instead of spending time with your children, when you know how much of an impact your absence will have on them, for example.

I was glad to read it as a pithy and sobering comment, even if I didn’t agree with the rest of the post.
Which state are you in? Public resources differ quite a bit by state.

Privately, I would look at: https://cty.jhu.edu/
Because of the prevalence of UTF-8 and its consequences/pitfalls?
You really should link to screenshots of your results so people can judge for themselves.

I just submitted all your searches to google.com from Australia, and the results were nothing like what you described; all the results were very diverse.

This is to be expected, as Google has been criticised for years for reinforcing stereotypes in image search results, and has gone to great effort to adjust the algorithms to reduce this effect.
I don't see a conflict - what you're describing is very consistent with the paper. No problem-solving until algebra starts, then focusing on using algebra to solve 'word problems'.
To be fair they weren't using Pentium for high performance processors for a while. It's not like they put out 2c/4t parts and called them i9.
I will give you a datapoint, among many. The Indian govt. recently awarded a critical contract for modernizing the Indian Air Force to a company owned by Anil Ambani who is the brother of Mukesh Ambani, owner of Jio. The Anil Ambani (who has since declared bankruptcy) company had zero experience in defence or aeronautics, yet it was chosen over India's state owned HAL which has decades of aeronautical expertise.
"China avoids software dependency on outsiders by creating substitutes: TikTok to replace snapchat, Weibo instead of Twitter, WeChat & RenRen for Facebook. Indeed, there is an alternative Chinese version for almost any platform."

Huawei would use Google if it could, rather than going to the expense of having to produce an equivalent. It can't use Google because the US is preventing it from doing so.

First Rule in Business: "Never turn away a paying customer."
No one ever says "happy" or "relieved". I just find that strange and very telling. They even go far as to downvote the very question.
Thanks for this, well worth $3.61 CDN.
There is going to be plenty of opportunities in commercial real estate with all the companies that are going to be opening up soon.
It's astounding to see the amount of aggressive misinformation being posted on every HN thread about Coronavirus - it's being downvoted fairly quickly but I have to wonder - is it possible we're getting brigaded in some kind of organized fashion?

Or is this just the classic engineers thinking they know better in all fields, rather than just the one they're educated in?
It's mainly due to his disregard for any rules that may exist.

The telecom regulator in India bent rules in favor of Jio:
https://m.economictimes.com/news/economy/policy/vodafone-gro...

Rs 11,000-Crore ONGC (state owned oil and gas corp) Gas Shifted to Reliance Industries Fields:
https://www.ndtv.com/business/rs-11-000-crore-ongc-gas-shift...

They literally took out full-page advertisements with Modi's image on it:
https://thewire.in/economy/modi-reliance-jio-advertisement
Awesome work! Well worth the price for a nice, simple utility I feel like I will use everyday.
Last I checked the United States isn't an anarchy with roving bands of unopposed, murderous gangs.
this is great. I wish the gifs audio looped more eloquently though, it's distracting when it breaks to start again.
> It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they have to be on them

This is not quite true. [0] Ventilators are one option at that stage of disease, and some doctors are moving away from them because of their negative effects.

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/08/health/ap-us-med...
Java strings are immutable. Java variables with a string type are not. It's really not up for debate. You can't mutate a string in Java (you can in Ruby), but you can mutate a string variable by reassigning it.
Only in some very limited areas. I guess private programs exist too, but your parents would have to have knowledge of them plus the time, money, and wherewithal.

I am absolutely certain nothing like this was available to any kid in my schools growing up.
Of all the things one can accuse Oracle of, an ineffective sales process is not one of them.
From within Dutch universities, rankings are considered very important (more by the non-academic staff than by the academics). The general public doesn't really care all that much yet, but they do more and more each year. It's especially for international (student) recruiting that the rankings (national and international) are important, and that's seeping through into everything else for last 10 years or so now.

(not disagreeing with you, just adding some nuance about the direction of things)
Banks only don’t do it on third party sites as they very rarely have third party endpoints. If they did, they would do it there too. If you want an example of another payment processor that does this - Authorize, PayPal, WorldPay will all do this too.
I'm not chasing every 1488 windmill. I don't freak out that some random number came to 1488.

I'm saying that when someone says "1488 - Questionably racist thing" like here https://www.coloradohometownweekly.com/2020/03/19/louisville... , or wears a 1488 jewelry, or gets a 1488 tattoo, that person is broadcasting that they are a white nationalist.
Based on what? Numbers generated from a government agency so incompetent they contaminated their own tests with the virus they were trying to test for?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coronavi...
Right. I did not mean this as knock against Firefox.

At one of the FAANG I previously worked at, it took an hour to compile JavaScript.
Nothing easy or quick, no.
I would love to have a roomba. However, there is always some toys from the kids or Lego laying around. Is any of the robots smart enough to stay clear of the toys or maybe even gather them in a central place?
AP classes aren't really close to the same in my experience. They may technically be on par with entry level college courses but none of the content is so difficult than anyone else couldn't do it. If anything we just have low expectations and do very little to foster any critical thinking skills in most students. You could be below average in terms of natural ability and not have a problem with AP classes just by actually giving a shit.
Classic example of Poe's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law).
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Sure, but that first job is likely to determine the rest of your career, if your career path is somewhat traditional. So the school reputation would still have been quite important overall (especially if you wanted to aim high and get hired from a top employer right out of university).
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I am not sure what other options are there. Government owned companies? Because I don't see that working with [0] government censoring it's citizens and being so incompetent that it needs to have an internet shutdown all the time. Other countries face similar issues but they don't shut down the whole internet for their incompetence.

Indian government itself participates in disinformation campaigns, denies statistics coming from the outside (given india has done nothing on that front and only cut funding), practice blatant discrimination and spreads religious nonsense.

[0] https://internetshutdowns.in/

Oh and the nice bill - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Data_Protection_Bil...
Are you making a real web application? Or just a Chrome application? [2019]
Based on the fact that it's a virus.
The flu often stresses our health infrastructure to its limit and 0.5% is 5x deadlier than the flu.
Well, it did. We're going to see how unsustainable our secondary education system is without the children of rich foreign families to sustain it.
It was on the TV too everywhere. All the damn time.
Look how Erlang handles this. Crashing on error is the encouraged policy. A managing process will notice a crashed process and restart it.

Basically crashing is the safe way to release all resources in a problematic situation, at the cost of terminating the process. It's easy when you don't have shared resources at all (Erlang's case), and harder with threads: one threads crashes and frees its resources, another tries to use a shared resource already deallocated. If this can be avoided, life becomes vastly easier, at the cost of higher resource consumption.
> Why is that person employed? This was during the best market in the history of mankind and I was questioning that, and now everyone with a talent more relevant than customer "retention" should be just as annoyed, given how coveted a continual flow of oxygen is now

This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is peak software developer entitlement.
Well I never! I shall look forward to being surprised by whichever public awareness campaign begat We don’t dial 9-1-1 over a photo of a revolver.
Isn’t their leader an extreme nationalist? How does it get worse than that?
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I would love to see this decoding ability to be added to something like ImageMagick. It'd be just for the lulz, but to be able to say "Of course we can decode Voyager imagery. Can't you?" would be fun. I can't imagine anyone wasting their time on it, or the maintainers to accept it.
Well, awesome :)
Ditto, intubation is a pretty brutal course. Try to imagine suggesting that blood transfusions lead to low blood pressure.
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Because some people find other things in life after securing financial freedom. Ceo work is extremely stressful
Your Twitter reference has nothing to do with what you described above. Nice try with the rumor mill.
I'm curious why the model doesn't work.

I didn't get a chance to use Maven but I loved using ReachNow, Car2Go and LimePod in Seattle before they each shut down.

I would think the biggest strength of free floating car sharing would be the utilization rate of of the vehicles compared to private ownership.

Looking at the vehicle availability maps, it was clear that there were a lot of trips taking place. Of course some cars ended up in low-demand areas, but on average it seemed there was a lot of rental activity.

I am really curious to know what didn't work, from a business model perspective. None of the shutdown announcements have provided any specific details.
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I think that you’re on to something in the latter part.
Not only was he a genius, but also an extremely hard-working person, oftentimes spending nights in the editing room after hours of exhaustive work on the set. Kieslowski's attention to detail was remarkable - see an analysis of a scene from the movie "Blue", narrated by the director himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-k6sIN-2K4

He attracted top talent to his productions, including actors, cinematographers (Slawomir Idziak, whom I had a pleasure to spend many hours with), and composers (Zbigniew Preisner). Although most of his work was created in the times of USSR and communism in Poland, he continued to push the boundaries of filmmaking with the limited resources he had access to.
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Ah mir publications, One of my favorite book during school was elementary mathematics by them.
https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Mathematics-G-Dorofeev/dp/...
That's a good way of thinking about it.

The fundamental of Tip is that every piece of text has a relevant set of actions.
He is neither a researcher nor teacher - typical academic parasite.
Makes a bet on trendy advanced task and, if it works, lets you be a coauthor. If it does not - no big deal some naive student spent 1/2 year on something virtually impossible w/o deep industry experience.
> ... only that there’s been more than a decade of massive improvements which is not reflected in your comments ...

Oh ok. I see the confusion - I was speaking specifically about Opera (Presto engine) versions. Not the current Opera Chromium clone. And the point I was trying to make is that it was a much, much better product than its competitors. And if it had survived, with the original team still working on it, it still would be better than Firefox / Gecko and Chrome / Blink of today.
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Talk about the IBM Microsoft breakup of OS/2 and Microsoft taking their OS/2 code to make Windows NT. How it was originally called Advanced DOS before the OS/2 name.
Sometimes you just have to draw the owl.
>who literally is the Government in India.
Don't agree with that. Ambani is a Congress (opposition party) sympathiser and openly backed their Candidate in recently concluded elections. Agreed that capitalists are above politics, but what you saying "literally is the Government in India" is over enthusiastic and generic without bringing substantial reference. Remember his brother is almost bankrupt despite support from current and previous Governments. And BJP, the ruling party have made several rival entrepreneurs their patrons (Adani). Also since the economy grew substantially in modern times and donations are much more widely spread out, the political parties are not answerable to few handful Capitalists who have their own way unlike in the 80's politics. Ultra rich may have their say in policy decisions (lobbying), but it's an overkill to state they run the country.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabh...
> Is there actually a big fixation on university rankings?

I've sat in department wide meetings where deans of engineering compared their schools to 'the competition,' both in terms of US news rankings and their own preferred metrics. Usually to bemoan how unfair it is that Texas is a petrostate with 10x the population that can fund top tier engineering schools.

But by and large, the tiers are static and a uni in the #47 slot isn't making to the top 10 any time soon. Might not even make top 40. For undergraduate education I think you're right, nobody really cares. There's really three categories of schools: private schools / ivies, flagship state schools, and the rest. I'm guessing if you asked employers to rank schools, they would largely match selectivity -- how hard it is to get into the school. (or more depressingly, how good the athletics programs are doing lately)
Smart companies should consider how they're going to retain their talent as priority number 2.

Priority number 1 is surviving.
I’ll use this as soon as there’s an override my aggressive reward system that rwmequites double or triple the amount of dopamine to reach the same satisfaction as neurotypical individuals? until then I’m a slave in the sea of my own mind, and a wiki walk is in progress.
There is also this assumption that if you get COVID-19 and survive that everything is all fine. But we are seeing permanent neurological and physiological effects in at least a few people.

I still wonder if possible long term effects are being factored into the decision making to just let healthy people get COVID-19.
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