skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former Shopify employee, but speaking based on public knowledge;

1. Liability. A result of "raising prices by $10 is 5% more revenue" is not confirmation that raising prices by $10 is a good idea. I expect a non-trivial error rate, especially since most merchants aren't statistics savvy (forming experiments, doing risk analysis and interpreting data is hard). If Shopify causes this, it's a story. Startups will have room to develop features / legal to adjust to the liability concerns

2. Channels. Shopify is a very multi-channel platform and many stores actually rely on Facebook or Instagram integrations and physical stores rather than their online store. To be able to control prices on all these channels is an engineering challenge, and will also further dilute the value of the data. It'll also amplify concerns about pricing-inconsistencies.

3. Just a high-risk idea. Customers don't like seeing different prices. Merchants don't like running experiments that could cause them to lose money. Merchants also like being "good" to their customers by some measure, and some merchants would consider this unfair.
> What I am saying is that city voices are strong. They get the majority of the funding and influence when it comes to politics,

your experience of the american political system is vastly different from mine. You have a whole house in congress devoted to making sure low-population states get disproportionate representation, the other congressional house and the state legislatures have boundary lines that are gerrymandered to disproportionately benefit and empower you, a rural farming state has the first say in primaries and an incredible amount of pandering from legislators, the electoral college gives you disproportionate power over selecting the president in the general, you get incredibly disproportionate amounts of federal spending (military bases, road funding, etc) - far more than they contribute, I can go on.

Hell, in some cases the states themselves have been explicitly drawn to increase the amount of rural power - the only reason the Dakotas aren't a single state is so they'd get extra senators and representatives.

Again, you are coming off as a member of a rural minority who is crying that they don't have total and utter political power over the urban majority. You already have a hugely disproportionate amount of power, influence, and funding in the American system.

A vote in Wyoming is already 3.2x more potent than a vote in California based on electoral weighting, and the same is effectively true for most other areas of the government that involve voting in any form. How much higher, exactly, do you think that should be?
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Clinical depression is diagnosed when 1) its ongoing over 6 months or more and 2) it's having a detrimental effect on your life or the lives of those around you

Roughly speaking of course
Waiting a week being an insider threat seems unlikely.
If you ever create this, I would be interested in joining.
> basic math/arithmetic

Can I ask for some example(s) of what type of questions you asked?
The list of sectors that require joint ventures and majority Chinese ownership has been decreasing over time. Most sectors do not have such restrictions nowadays.

For several decades, there has been a general trend - which was greatly accelerated by China's WTO accession - of barriers to trade decreasing in China. In popular discussions of China's trade and economic policies in the West, there's rarely any recognition of this fact.

Average tariffs have been reduced to about 3.4%, which is about the same level as the US applied as recently as the mid-1990s. Much of the state sector was privatized and the majority of the economy is now private. Intellectual property enforcement is way up - it's been completely overhauled in just the last 6 years, with specialized courts set up and a very large volume of IP cases being heard every year now. There have been huge changes, which most of the public in the West has little to no idea bout, and which find no reflection in the popular discussion.
The article seems to indicate this is a pretty straightforward situation where it comes hazardous substances.

I'm not sure this is something the company could ignore without potential consequences.

It might simply be a supplier found thing happened, they notified the other companies and so on.
Stripe's interview process was really enjoyable. Professional and was relevant to the role.
Only GitHub
Not as comprehensive as Python.

However, you can write scripts which pull in packages from the internet called "single-file packages": https://dub.pm/advanced_usage

Just tried it myself for the first time:

#!/usr/bin/env dub
/+ dub.sdl:
name "hello"
dependency "requests" version="1.1.5"
+/
import std.stdio : writeln;
import requests : postContent;

void main() {
auto content = postContent("http://httpbin.org/post",
["name": "any name", "age": "42"]);
writeln(content);
}

On Linux, put this into a file, chmod +x it, and execute. The first time it will take a while (downloading and compiling packages). After that on my crappy laptop it takes:

0.66user 0.06system 0:01.25elapsed 57%CPU

That is a lot more convenient than venv in Python.
Well of course it lacks checks and balances - it doesn't have any legislative power. To pretend otherwise is to conflate state power with personal rights. States don't have rights.
Forging squeezes the slag out, thereby purifying the steel. As far as I am aware this was the primary mechanism by which folding steel (which was done about a dozen times, not hundreds; those larger numbers come from 2^[n folds]) strengthened Japanese blades.
"communism lost, except in name alone" - unfortunately not according the CCP / Xi.

They/He still thinks China are winning according the Communism/Socialism principals and not before the Deng's market reform 30/40 years ago.
We means Americans, and more specifically I'm thinking of NY state laws. The existing norms are that felons are not expected to be excluded from society forever and reforms have been made to try to deal with discrimination against them.

I wasn't suggesting that you or I get to decide. Obviously we don't. My point was that collectively, people have decided, and extrapolating from that would be logical. I'm not advocating any specific policy, I'm concerned that people are debating stuff while losing track of or just being ignorant what their fellow citizens and the establishment considers normal and reasonable. I'm not expressing an opinion of my own, but trying to provide what I think is an appropriate frame for discussion.

Did you know that it's possible to lose constitutional rights according to law without being accused, arrested or convicted of a crime? That too is a feature of our society and its laws. Have you ever thought about that? Should it be abolished?
This is why even though memory was becoming dirt cheap, prices started to spike in the last few years. There are also less manufactures now as a result of buyouts and mergers.
To make it even better for customers, Youtube could break the different types of content from the recommendation engines, instead of blending everything together under one list in a way that resembles a slot machine.
> My experience is that economists know more about economics than people who beat up the strawman versions.

And mine is that economists disagree with each other more than with anyone else.

> Your position, as I understand it, is that some other model correctly describes the demand for road travel. What is it? And why is road travel the exception?

What model specifically are you talking about? We have N lanes going from A to B, if we add 1 lane, total traffic from A to B will increase regardless of any other circumstances? Is that it?
Second Stimulus Check: Invest It in Covid-19’s Next 2 ‘Megahit’ Stocks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/jul/27/worldbank.c...

It's only a couple of kilometers from the Kinmen to Xiamen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmen
And both sides are pawns of Israeli influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi#Multinational_tec...
Curious, is it hard because of the backlog or other reasons ? I understand there is a 5-6 year wait for a green card for Chinese born.
The US is neither a stable democracy (incredible levels of partisanship and voter suppression) nor does it have an independent judiciary (justices even in SCOTUS mostly vote around party lines on issues of voting ie power). The most popular media network is Fox News which is openly subservient to the President.

The uptick or racism is not minor either. Racism has been embedded in the American way of life and the fight against it has been long and painful. Being a minority in the US is absolutely a huge risk factor.

> China is routinely kidnapping and torturing anyone who disagrees with them

American police kill a lot of citizens, and incarcerate a large number of mostly POC.

And the current POTUS has repeatedly said he won’t leave office even if votes out, and has speculated openly on staying in office beyond term limits. So please don’t give me crap about China when our country is at the precipice of losing its status as a Democracy.
keep in mind that jeffery epstein's death news was first broken on 4chan before MSM picked it up.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4chan-jeffrey-epstein-...

4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.
The US under Trump is just far too unpredictable and unreliable. China appears more stable and predictable. Case in point: even post pandemic, when the US is withdrawing from the world, China doubled down on its commitment to Pakistan and initiated massive billion dollar projects last week.

If I were Pakistan and in desperate need of financial assistance, I would look to China instead of USA, simply because of the former's consistency (despite all the strings attached to these investments).

Predictability is highly underrated, in international politics and elsewhere.
+1 on datadog.

It's crazy how easy it was to setup and cover all our infra (AWS, ELB, postgresql, cassandra, kafka, haproxy, nginx, etc...). The tool paid for itself with the infra optimizations we could find in the first month of usage.

It makes me sad when I'm forced to work with graphite/prometheus/grafana in my newer company. These can't gather half the metrics and their charting capabilities are so bad in comparison.
>yet you're trying to convince yourself and everyone else that "illegals vote in large numbers"

Not once have I said anything like this. I've been trying to show that it's a valid concern.

>tate law prohibits DMV from sending information for AB 60 applicants (undocumented
driver license applicants) to the Secretary of State. For other applicants, state law
requires each person to declare, under penalty of perjury, that they meet all voter
eligibility requirements, including citizenship.

It took some 15 comments and multiple sources before this safeguard was posted - it's not even on the Snopes page. Don't presume I'm arguing in bad faith or dismiss my arguments as "feelings" just because I disagree with you. This is the only snippet in your entire argument that actually prevents illegals from being registered to vote, which was my entire point of contention. Penalties don't matter if no one is enforcing them.

And finally, once again, I'm not suggesting that proof of fraud exists, or is easy to find - what I am saying is that Wapo's laughable absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I remember coming across the Django part of the project a while ago and thought it was quite nice and pretty. Neither over-engineered nor under. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/tree/master/zerver/lib
Is Dropbox still involved with this at all?
It surprises me that Dropbox didn't integrate Zulip better, or combine it with Dropbox, Paper etc.. to create some kind of G Suite competitor.
I think you have misunderstood the purpose. There is no need for a collection of "the opposite" of this, whatever that would even mean.

Police have arresting power, so if non-police assault them they will simply arrest or kill them immediately, largely without the possibility of facing any consequences. Thousands have been arrested at protests in the last couple of months.

The non-police public have no such powers, and in fact even with video evidence will almost never see justice for police brutality. There is a huge violence problem here and it lies almost entirely on one side.
You can always do multi-label as a multi-task learning model (or just a set of binary models), which is something we (and many others) have explored before! A lot of the adjustments for mainline Snorkel have to do with (A) the semantics of the labeling functions (need to be able to express that something is not class A and/or have a general per-class prior) and (B) all the infra to support what is just now a bunch of independent per-label binary tasks, at base
In this sort of setup, you'd expect there to be a chance of asshole managers; but you'd also expect that those asshole managers would be quickly fired by their non-asshole managers. Being stuck under an asshole would only happen if you were in reality stuck under a whole chain of assholes, leading all the way to the top. And if that was true, the company would be in the middle of imploding anyway.
I seriously doubt this is possible now that WSB is throwing around options like crazy.
The planet starts with a value you paid for it. Which makes the owners at least start with some skin in the game.

I'm looking forward to see how decentralized identifiers will work in practice. It's a step in the right direction, though I don't think it will be enough on its own.
I met him at filming of one of the early seasons (maybe first?) in Vegas - he was warm and inviting even then before he became a household name.

Why do the good people always seem to die young yet assholes live forever? Ugh.

We are pretty much the same age so this also hits doubly close to home for me. Prayers for his friends and family.
Since this is like an inverse Karen move, perhaps anti-Karens should formally be known as Julies.
Playing dumb works extremely well to get out of extortion attempts too.

I've driven through a stack of countries notorious for extortion by Police and Military - Congo, Nigeria, Honduras, Kenya, Guinea - just to name a few.

One of my tactics to avoid paying a cent is playing dumb. It's super easy when they don't speak English. I do my best to understand their (French/Spanish/Portuguese/Whatever), all the while remaining very polite and friendly. It's a real shame when I don't understand they want money, and virtually always they wave me through in disgust.

On a two year drive from Alaska to Argentina I paid one $5 bribe.

In three years around Africa through 35 countries I paid once in Ivory Coast, because I was too big for my boots and let on that I speak French.

Playing dumb has a lot of advantages.

For anyone interested, here's me dealing with a real-life extortion attempt in Nigeria [1]. This was in Nigeria, so it's all in English, but the script is identical in any corrupt country.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RTlDa2cg0o
I think the long-term plan is to deprecate `as` entirely (probably in a future edition). You will then be free to pick between a function that panics, one that gives you a Result, or that saturates, etc. I believe most if not all of these functions already exist.
Yep, going to do all online pricing.
> try this pipe dream in any large city

Ummm, you do realize that in most large cities around the world (including NYC, although excluding many US cities), most people do not use cars as their main mode of transportation right? It's not some crazy utopian hypothetical, it's literally how most dense cities already work.

> It's impossible because total traffic cannot increase due to new roads since there aren't infinite people or cars to begin with.

You don't need an "infinite" number of people or cars for induced demand to apply, you just need the number of people/cars to be >>> the road/parking capacity (which is true for any dense city).
I agree. I can't believe they are spending so much money and effort to preserve code I don't give a damn now and once I pushed to GitHub. And like me, 99% of the devs I know personally.
No. No. And no.

If remembered correctly, FMFM 1 came about in the 1980s; please correct if otherwise. I was in enlisted bootcamp during the 1970s, and excerpts from the marksmanship manual, which is the fundamental skill of a Marine, were the first manual, other the the 'red' guidebook, that I read during my enlistment. These original marksmanship manuals were truly good literature. And they were mostly written by experienced SNCOs.

It is disappointing, although not surprising, to see some former officers jump into assumptions prior to completely reading and parsing the comments.
The pivot Snapchat never made
Because China is buying compliance.

Australia recently pushed for an investigation into COVID-19 and allowed Hong Kong citizens to obtain permanent residency. Both of which China strongly opposed. As retaliation they imposed tariffs on Australian imports, issued travel advisories telling students not to travel there and directly told the government to comply.

Now a country like Australia which is heavily dependent on China for trade and overseas students has in this case had to choose between ethics and economics. And China is doing the same thing with countries all around the world with smaller ones being forced to comply or risk severe economic harm.
Interesting, but I think when riot police in particular are giving you an order it is probably the most important time to disobey.
The context being described is one in which you were just sacked at the whim of a manager. Doesn’t it seem a little funny to wait until the exit interview to ask if it came as a surprise? Maybe they’re going to act in that information somehow, perhaps sacking that manager if it’s part of a pattern of poor decisions, but they’re not planning on doing anything to help you personally, like overturning the dismissal.

Maybe you’re inclined to help them out just to be a good person, and that’s fine; but I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t want to do that.
well in 25 years when the remains of global civilization are pulling the backups out of the ground, maybe you will think otherwise. /s

kinda with you on that one. looks cool, plausibly useful but we'll see.
Excellent video and excellent creator!
The Church had its own religious purview but it took a while for it to become its own political force. In that respect it rose at the same time as the improvements in government, land management, international travel, trade etc. that occurred in the later half of the Middle Ages.

The first comprehensive system of intellectual dissemination came through universities, starting in the 11th/12th c. Those who wanted to study law went to Bologna, theology to Paris, medicine to Montpellier etc. Universities were international places where people used Latin as a vehicular language. Broke student spending their time drinking and living in hovels were legion and became a hotbed of radicalism [1].

By the time the Renaissance came around, there was an entire industry of private education with lay academies everywhere and teachers travelling all over the continent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris_strike,_12...
It would seem that D and Nim have many similar goals and features.
Economists on the Run (2019)
Not even just smarter; we all stand on the shoulders of giants, and every year the barrier to entry falls that much more.
Comprehensions and Generator Expressions in Python
it's probably less effort to just archive the whole damn thing and let the future figure it out than to decide important things to archive and leaving everything else to disappear someday
> I heard about a call center that rewarded customer service agents for short calls

Almost all call centres reward agents for short calls.
Hong Kong: A City on the Brink
Feel free to make a new HN that caters perfectly to you.
I think it's sort of funny that people are idolizing medieval Japanese swordsmiths.

"They folded their blades 200 times!!!"

Yes, because they had to, because the source material was pretty crap comparatively. Not because they were some kind of magical elven runesmiths making densetsu katanas.
I suspect the people of Hong Kong or the Uyghurs will have a different view.
I love how the idea of Japanese conscientiousness has become almost a meme for how we wish companies were run. Other examples you've probably seen come across the webs:

-- Hotel apologizes in advance for a brief 1 minute planned disruption of in-room internet at 4am https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+hotel+internet+apol...

-- Japanese train company issues apology for train leaving 20 seconds early https://www.google.com/search?q=tokyo+rail+apologizes+train+...
This only works for external products. People make internal tools all the time that can be used by many teams. You're not going to get a marketing person to market the tool internally, that's wasted money.

At that point, it's really your and your manager's (and so forth) responsibility to ensure your product or tool is in the right hands and helps people.

My manager was great at taking on some of the burdens and shielding me from above, while still giving me the flexibility and incentive to work with other teams and people to make sure I was the one everyone recognized for the work done, as opposed to the team or him.
This is why I'm only on HN.
Forged, cast and machined parts of equal dimensions have entirely different grain structures.
> > produced good results

> what help are 100% perfectly fine take-home exercises? The only thing that tells you is, that all of your candidates are viable in the first place.

I think you might have interpreted that, in a different way than what was meant.
Crowdfunding Web Platform Features with Open Prioritization
Huh? Have you looked at American press? The history is filled with literally thousands of articles condemning the government in every aspect of its operations.

Including the NPR which comes out with stuff like this: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...

American press is brutal, you like it or not. If US is bombing hospitals in the middle east, there are news papers writing about it. Btw, would like to get the source on this from you while you google your away into another example of American freedom of press.

Incredible how American image on the world has tarnished and people go in with a swoop of imaginations, away from hard truth and facts.

I am not even American.
Oh that money clip is pretty cool. I would probably go for that if I carried cash much - but I pretty much just use cards now.

>> i cannot EDC the thing due to its heft

Ha ha! I EDC'd a WorkChamp for a long time. Super handy. Not that comfortable!
Have you looked at https://eviacam.crea-si.com/ ? Supports Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android, works globally, and runs separately from the browser. (Technically not eye tracking, but close enough)
EU blocks websites from transferring personal data to US servers
But not an example of why voting by mail isn’t secure and could lead us to doubt elections?

My reading of the situation as it happened is that voting by mail wasn’t secure and led to a situation in which an election wasn’t valid. Do you read it differently?
It's used as a generic term in keyboard events to refer to ⌘ on Mac and CTRL on PC, it's rare to see that word used outside of code though.
Yeah definitely- and would love to chat sometime, as this is a space I've at least had less direct hands-on interaction with. There's a line of work in the ML literature on "Positive unlabeled (PU) learning"--basically, setting where there are only positive labels or abstains--with a lot of theoretical ties to what our stuff rests on, I think a tie in here is interesting. Of course, most of these approaches rely on some (to varying degrees) hidden and very strong distributional assumption... anyway looking forward to a chat!