skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have weird feelings towards KSR. His Mars trilogy is awesome in imagining a realistic kind of future that wouldn't be so awful to live in. He is interested in alternative forms of social organization and does a good job of depicting them (he is obviously sympathetic to local egalitarian governments but in his novels they are often quite realistically hampered by indecision and lack of consensus).

Yet I couldn't but feel disgust towards his later novel Aurora. Spoilers follow.

In the novel a group of colonists on a big generation ship (a transparent metaphor for the spaceship Earth) fly towards a nearby star. Near the end of their voyage they encounter lots of ecological problems that they don't quite know how to deal with. When they arrive they are dealt the final blow - the most hospitable planet contains a deadly pathogen that shatters all hopes of establishing a colony. The author is clearly unsympathetic - their problems are the retribution for the hubris of their ancestors. The solution to the problem is emphatically not science and tech, which is helpless (it even can't quite pin down what the pathogen really is). What is the solution that he approves of? Fly back to Earth, quit thinking about anything so arrogant as star expansion and lie on the beach enjoying the surf.

Yet we don't have anywhere to go back to. Sure we must temper our hubris but the only way to solve our problems is forward.
Not just the workers, all news devices will come pre-installed with the mentioned app.
It’s possible this virus might have escaped before they got around to studying it. Given how contagious it is, it might have gone straight from a bat they collected to a technician to the city.
It is now mandatory for both public and private sector employees.
I hope that the "great majority" are thinking like that, but if the great majority is quiet, then it is hard to gauge their opinions. So far, I have been disappointed by the atmosphere on various discussion forums for outdoor hobbies, where someone posting "Here are my plans for whenever this situation finally passes..." is quickly downvoted by the rest of the community and elicits a few overt reactions along the lines of "It is irresponsible to even think about the future until we have a vaccine!". Plenty of people seem to think that there is a "New Normal" that makes plans, hopes or aspirations not just invalid but even morally objectionable.
I dont have that experience. People who asked simple questions or "senpai notice me" were not the ones helping everyone out by the end of class.

Mostly, first group were people who did not paid attention or were not used to think for themselves. Plenty of times it takes like 15 seconds to find the answer if you think about it. People who don't bother to think rarely start to be able to figure out on more difficult concepts by the end of the class. The dichotomy between people who ask simple questions and the ones who don't care is false one. There is massive group of people who think for themselves at least a bit when they come across issue.

"Senpai notice me" people tended to be orthogonal to quality of knowledge or willingness/ability to explain. Full disclosure, I asked these questions when the "participation" was necessary to get points. It is a bit stupid when you know answer, but still needs that participation point ...

None of that has anything to do with quality of lecturer.
The second biggest flaw: they don't account for the quality of the civil service.

Some countries can do it, some others cannot even at gunpoint because skills and discipline are not there, and you can not create them out of thin air.
Maybe you should stick to assembly?
They are government employee, not a usual citizen. What is the relevance of that data after the lockdown? (They will be coming to the office every day like before)
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I'm tending towards Python for anything more than a single line shell script, because I find it easier to keep Python scripts tidy and well-structured. Not saying this is impossible, but I find the bash syntax for nontrivial operations hard to learn. This probably also applies if you replace bash with awk and python with perl.
Document almost everything you do. Spot on. That’s something we missed entirely.
>US Justice system is a nightmare.

I would stop calling it a justice system, we have a legal system for which any "justice" is by pure coincidence
Sure it could be done, but this is also a PR-event to advertise for the Aquarium and a way to show off the eels to people.

At least it worked on me, I spent 2h digging through wikipedia and Youtube about Garden Eels.
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Climbing the abstraction ladder does not lead to Heaven. Rather to Noah's ark, according to the law of leaky abstractions.

Java has this reputation of being a lot of boilerplate code, and indeed when you compare it to Forth code this is striking. For instance this is the code to square the top of stack:

: square dup * ;

I don't know much about Java, but I guess it something like:

Stack apply(Stack s) { int tos=s.pop(); s.push(tos*tos); return s; }

Of course this is not fair at all because Forth has no type checking, no OO and gets its terseness from the point-free style that stack-orientation allows.

But this example is symbolic of one thing: Java needs a lot of baggage to be viable. A state-of-the-art GC. A state-of-the-art JIT. A complex lexer/parser. A mildly efficient Forth interpreter/compiler can be written by one teenager.

If your job is to get some sort of interpreter running on a brand new hardware, then Forth is probably the fastest way to get that job done. Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, has funded a company on this - company that is now more than forty years old.

This extends to more common use cases. As most processors come on the market with a C compiler, if you have a Forth interpreter written in C, you can have it running right away. Even before you have an OS for it.

But you can benefit from the OS and the large number of C libraries too. Writing library bindings for a Forth system is often trivial; the hardest part is to decide how the API should look like on the Forth side (often library APIs are too rich and you want to only expose the useful subset for you).

So "stack-oriented programming" leads to simple interpreters and compilers, which in turns gives a lot of flexibility, which is very valuable to get things done.
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I have used Deliveroo quite a lot recently to order from convenience stores because there was a free delivery offer.

Otherwise I no longer order anything through them because it has become too expensive: for most places the delivery fee is about £4 for me now and Deliveroo charges a 50p service fee on top of that.

For food I order from my local pizza places. They are not on Deliveroo and delivery is free as it has always been.

Now, I suspect that people in general are not confident about how the food is prepared and handled at the time being. My wife bans me from ordering food for this very reason...
> I am constantly encountering people that Absolutely. Will. Not. Admit. Ignorance. Or. Fault. Even when it’s quite clear.

IMO this is one of the fringe benefits of a good math education. Almost everybody who does math for long enough, especially if you work in small groups with your peers, will have a moment of "oh, I see, I am totally wrong and you are totally right" and find out that being wrong does not make someone a bad person. And you will see your peers do the same.

It's one underrated side effect of clear and unambiguous reasoning. Yes, many things are grey areas, but there's value in a place where you can't throw up a muddle of goalpost-shifting and rhetorical tricks to run away from your own errors.
So Schmidt is done banging lines of blow and fondling 25 yearolds hotties (not that there is anything wrong - just truth) and now will save the military? Horah!
Huge mortgage because they build them out like Disneyland? Used to be restaurants had a couple pictures on the wall, vinyl covered booths and bent-steel frame chairs/formica tables. Now they've got to have a slice of redwood tree in acrylic for the party table, antique kitsch all over the walls, leather seats and a bar that's a cross between a church organ and a cuckoo clock. A million dollars in 'environment' before you get to the kitchen.

But if the foods good, there's a way. The answer to margins when you've got a product that people want, is always the same: raise the prices. Value what you have, and market the hell out of it.

But what do I know.
Clickbait title for the actual article which is "I don't like the TG bot platform docs"

The other complaint is that the API doesn't use REST properly. Judging from the docs, it looks like a JSON interface for a SOAP API. It's not the most favoured technology but it's not the end of the world either. Besides, there are SDKs which abstract most of the complexity away, if necessary: https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples
The steganography your talking about really only works in digital formats, not printed

in this case "code messages" can be just as easily hidden in the text of the letter (in fact probably easier) then in the printed out image
Yep India tops the list of Internet Shutdowns, they shutdown the internet for petty reasons like "school exams" so that kids don't cheat or the paper won't "leak" to shutting down internet whenever there is a mass agitation. Kashmir is an entire different thing, its been more than 8 months that the entire state has no full access to the internet.
Healthy fast food is not that appealing (to current consumer preferences).
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Well that was easy. And it even remembers it per-site.
Talk to customers and potential customers of the existing solution, see if I can convince them to buy a prettier solution for more money, and when the answer turns out to be no (as it is in 99% of cases), move on to my next app idea.
This is simply a non-realistic toy visualization created to propagate the groupthink that is already so pervasive.

the problem with this simulation is as with all models, it treats everyone equally likely to need medical care (this is how the ICU bed capacity is drawn). That is not the case a least bit. Millions of people have recovered with minor discomfort and they have all predictable traits (say age) that clearly indicated their preponderance to risk.

Show me a model that accounts for this, then I will take it seriously.
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We went to Angular 8.

It allowed us to have both systems coexist whilst we made the transition.

Other options are VueJS or ReactJS
This is also very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism
Yes. By the time I realised my second example is redundant, it was already too late to edit the comment. Thanks for clarifying.
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In Clojure, and I assume other lisps as well, you can use the < operator in the same fashion. By merit of prefix notation it's also unambiguous regarding precedence.

user=> (< 1 2 3)
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> I suspect most air conditioning contractors and electricians would be called 'startups' if they worked in software.

But do they provide innovative solutions and aim for growth?
"seems to", "is drenched to me" -- your comment is just the usual padding without content. All you're saying is that you don't like it, but have not a single thing about it you can correct.
> avoids the worry of toxic metals.

And, more importantly, of overfishing. When I looked into supplements a year ago l, the algae capsules named "Opti3" had the highest EPA & DHA / Cost ratio and are fully vegan.
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I guess if you say "x == y == z" you may also say "x is y is z". But certainly the mixing of the two chaining types is confusing.
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You can get over 1.5% on 3 year CDs: https://www.interest.com/savings/cd/rates/
It's OK if the App exists but try to differentiate on something other than pure design and UX. This is pretty hard to pull off first time, especially when you're not a really experienced designer.
People defend the government until government doesn't need any defending to stay in power. I truly believe people in most threads genuinely want their party to win. They are doing it for themselves and image of India. They don't want to look inferior to foreigners.

Indian schools teach patriotism from nursery.

There is a reason why you have an hour long morning assembly to indoctrinate young kids into pledging loyalty to their country. Spreading misinformation about the nation along the way with skids on Fridays. You will often hear teacher calling hindi national language or misguiding people about the cultural values.

The history class is ridden with errors. People pretend they have read mahabharat while they haven't. People pretend they know Gandhi while they don't. Maybe they do, but they seem to ignore everything from him being pedo to possibly engaging in homosexuality with German solider.
Exactly! TensorFlow is the only Python data analysis package I've used that doesn't automatically convert things in the background. I was helping a friend with STATA the other day, which doesn't automatically convert, and I realized I've gotten so used to that behavior in R and Python.
Oddly, no. Most service companies are a lifestyle, not an attempt at an empire. Witness: when the owner retires, the company goes out of business. Unless a family member wants to carry on, most often they just lock the doors and walk away. Instead of trying to sell the business.
OH, yesss India has it's version of "50 cent party", and a huge "IT Cell" which deals with targeted campaigns against any one who speaks against them.
But there's also a huge section of the population who do it on their own, maybe it's ideological alliance.
> a high-ranking gang leader directed accomplices in Georgia

Small world! I knew a couple of the people that carried out this kidnapping, as well as the FBI agents on the other side of it. Jakym Tibbs, aka Jak, got 52 years, and Jevante Price, aka ATL aka Flame, got 20 years. Played a lot of chess with both guys. Melton, the gang leader that ordered the kidnapping and was directing the kidnappers to murder and dismember the victim, was already serving a life sentence when this occurred. They moved him to ADX Florence after this happened.
What the Proponents of ‘Natural’ Herd Immunity Don’t Say
It also documented in this study: Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641067/
I think that these gripes are insignificant compared to the main claim that the platform is dying. I'd advise to not make bold statements such as 'a token in the URL path is unconventional and prone to errors'. Is it prone to errors? As prone as putting it in a header or query param? I'd say that they're exactly the same.

'This is confusing, non-standard, and creates additional complexity'. Is it confusing and adding complexity? All you have to do is look down the list for what you want, it's hardly complex. It's not as if they're naming methods 'obtainChat', 'getUser', 'retrieveLogs', etc.

Which leaves the documentation on the website, which I find quite easy to follow. But let's say it is confusing and it's not as good as it should be. Does that mean the platform is dying? I didn't realise that designing an API to not use all HTTP verbs was such a big deal.
This is why the discussion should focus on impact to average life expectancy, not raw fatality numbers.
I don't have much hope even as an Apple user. Apple will bend over because it has done so before in case of China. Apple will be in no mood to let go of the huge inroads it has made into the Indian smartphone market in the past one year.
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Because we were a 4-person company at the time starting to hire first employees and I realized I can't trust new people as much, so most certainly you cannot anymore do things like input_array[0] and committing to master because i took measures immediately after it happened, so that is not a problem.

The problem is that the person(s) for whom I had to add these baby bumpers not to do input_array[0] will - and has - screwed up much bigger on everything that is slightly more complicated than that, too. Because if you are an engineer and you don't care, then no amount of padding around you will make you curious, careful, detail-oriented, non-lazy and capable of tackling hard problems that life throws at you every day at a tiny startup.
> Americans, on the other hand, tend to pounce on admissions of failure or ignorance, and engage in shaming and humiliation of the person that admits an issue.

It's specific to company cultures, not Americans in general.

My first job out of college was at a dysfunctional company with a lot of internal competition. Making a mistake or taking responsibility for a failure was something that would be remembered for years and brought up at every opportunity. I remember my manager coaching me through covering up a simple mistake because he knew another team was eagerly waiting for me to slip up so they could attempt to take over our almost-finished project.

My second job was the polar opposite. When someone made a mistake, other teams jumped in to help fix the problem and kindly educate the person about how to avoid the problem in the future. Mistakes were a learning opportunity, admitting fault was a show of leadership, and the only real way to fail was to be chronically careless or to lie.

The biggest difference between the two companies was that the first company felt like a zero-sum game. We always felt like we were competing against other teams for bigger slices of the company budget, limited attention from executives, or just to keep our jobs through the next round of layoffs. It was every team for themselves, and other teams' mistakes were an opportunity to take them down a notch.

Meanwhile, the better company operated like everyone was on the same team. We all succeeded or failed together. Mutual respect an taking responsibility for your actions were not only encouraged by management, it was a requirement if you wanted to work there. I've tried to model my management style after this.
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I run a data science department at a corporation and this is exactly how we handle our massive amounts of data. It's rare that we're using a billion+ data points in one model so we use SQL to get the data we need in the format we need and move forward from there in R.
Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from over 4k women
> Doctors, including Hart, were realizing that myriad illnesses—consumption, phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, Koch's disease, scrofula, lupus vulgaris, white plague, King's evil, Pott's disease, and Gibbus—were all in fact cases of tuberculosis (TB). TB usually attacked victims' lungs first; Hart was among the first physicians to document how it then spread, via the circulatory system, causing lesions on the kidneys, spine, and brain, eventually resulting in death.

> Hart became interested in [X-rays] potential for detecting tuberculosis. Since the disease often presented no symptoms in its early stages, x-ray screening was invaluable for early detection. Even rudimentary early x-ray machines could detect the disease before it became critical. This allowed early treatment, often saving the patient's life. It also meant sufferers could be identified and isolated from the population, greatly lessening the spread of the disease.

Incredible. Developed a fast means to accurately identify the most common killer in America, allowing doctors to treat it and isolate the infected.

How many more would have died if no one has figured this out until even a year later.
Decoding whole tracks in memory seems pretty wasteful (and then getting entire waveforms on top, though this part can probably be limited). I guess it's okay if you're looping a thirty-second track but not so much if it's twenty minutes, like mentioned in another comment. Makes me wonder if compressed audio can be used directly in such cases.
Plenty of startups are doing the same thing as giant companies that nobody is calling a startup. SpaceX started out building rockets just like everyone else in the industry. https://boomsupersonic.com/ designs and builds aircraft like say Boing.
Thus news should not be a business. The business model of news is diametrically opposed to informing the public. We’re better off sticking to nonprofit journalism.
Definitely. From a buyer’s perspective, Atlassian is awesome. It checks every single box of requirements a development team could give to an “IT department”.
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If 'real journalism' wasn't long in its grave. Remember '60 minutes'? All rigged to make the reporters look like geniuses, and slanted to make every poor schlep look like a conspirator.
Yet Wikipedia is the one creating actual economic value
That definitely explains a lot; I thought $10/lb for the type of meat they were describing was kind of crazy (for someone complaining about margins, anyway). ~$6.30 USD/lb feels far more sane.
Analysis of large log files. Granted, today Splunk and other tools are more used.
Good thing I lost my job during these crises /s.
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