skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO; I think setting up lightweight aluminum rails, and run a framework of multi-purpose bots along that. Since the technology is getting lighter and lighter, it seems you could even do this and use LESS material than these gargantuan tractor/harvester/combine units. It may not even be necessary to plough fields anymore, when a smaller automated unit could just operate on the least amount of soil necessary for the plant to thrive.

Also: no more chemical weed killers.

Do this with bugs, and get rid of insecticides as well.
Thanks! I am talking more about courses online that are specifically designed to educate.

I think most books are 90% of business/self help is filled with stuff to make them a saleable book. Fluff. No one will pay $10-$50 for a 3 page PDF. But I prefer the 3 page PDF. Ironically often information in that format is free!

Seeing a psychologist > self help book. Making money on a side hussle > reading 0 to 1. Doing a course on freecodecamp > buying a coding textbook. Etc.

Books can be great but there has to be a big reason to commit to reading 300 pages. History books I will accept for example.
Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor
Is anyone able to actually articulate an example of a political or societal topic that is supposedly obviously of the type that shouldn’t be discussed at work?
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FWIW I think that whether someone wants to use mutable objects or swears by immutability should be their choice, especially for interoperability with legacy code. It can be much easier to 'just go with the flow and be careful' in a legacy code base vs trying to have a clear separation of where immutability has been introduced already and where we still don't use it. Not everything is green field (in fact most stuff isn't) and not every company gives you enough time to always Do The Right Thing (TM).

Copying objects is a well known need and there are countless libraries that try to help you with it. All with their own problems, notably runtime errors vs. compile time safety or pervasive use of reflection.
Erlang was originally built from Prolog, I believe.
Which is bound by laws too.
perhaps you should take a look at the link; there is even a nice meta analysis https://hcqmeta.com/
I'm sure Apple can design a rugged phone if they wanted to. A rugged phone designed with shock/vibration/drop protection in mind is not the same as a fragile phone with a case on top.
Oh I just plopped £2 into Google and ran with that.

AR$270 looks much better laid out as well, thanks.
Not that I’ve seen. Maybe it’s regional. I’ve always paid my property taxes directly to the county. Once a year when I was in FL, two installments in CA. The lender just takes principal and interest in its payment.
D_wnv_te ratio here is a decent indicator of the proportion of readers who are out of touch with the experience of being a teenager in an environment run by administrators who are violently hellbent on making sure no one is allowed to do anything they did as teenagers.

Either you get it or you don't, but I'm not sorry for using HN's "B-word". Before you click the button, do some introspection.
> bringing people back into the fold of widely accepted facts and norms

> held onto truly shocking beliefs

Can you see the extreme subjectivity in your comments? Why should your opinion of what's a norm or shocking be the ultimate judge? What if its your ideas which are actually shocking and violate the norms? For example, you should believe in a god because that's normal and if you're an exception, you need to be brought back into the fold of believers.
Private student loans are exempt too...
our sanctions do not prevent civilians from importing food, that is a function of worthless money
Roku should just drop them. The YouTube experience on Google's Roku app is hot garbage compared to a web browser with an ad blocker.
"loans can be discharged in bankruptcy."

To me the idea that in a 'free country' today you cannot clear your debts through bancrupcy sounds crazy, it's a practice that belongs in history books along with debtor prisons, bondage, endentured servitude, feudalism, having public holiday 'execution day' and slavery.

In the UK we used execute people for vagrancy.
Oh yes. There is nothing quite like "it cost us money" to suddenly change leaderships' priorities. I've watched as product priorities went from "keep bolting on features" to suddenly "we should rewrite this problematic monolith" when thigns fell over and money was lost.
I don’t think it is a straw man. They say “remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society”, I can’t think of many things that are not remotely related to these or quickly can turn into them. So it does seem to be restricted to work and the smallest of small talk. Which is fine to me. Those kind of discussions pre-WFH I had during breaks and after work activities with co workers. So now it is just trough other channels than the main company communication one.
It's the difference between working in a push vs a pull shop.

In a push shop (e.g. most non-tech businesses / legacy tech), one is forbidden from working on a thing without management signing off on it and pushing the task to you.

In a pull shop, management communicates priorities (increase reliability) and engineering teams pull tasks to fulfill that.

Believe parent is talking about the former, which is always a cluster&#+@ of technically clueless middle management.
Part of the problem is that no, we do not know what they are referring to. Lots of murky lines, lots of people with bad experiences that what for them is essential is considered over lines, worry that it'll be used to silence internal discussion of things the company does, ... (and of course if you impose it on a company used to something different, it's potentially a massive culture shift)

The "you can take it to private channels" can play out either way I guess: it can be a completely valid replacement of using company channels, but it is an additional hurdle if you have no signals to go by who to talk to. And if you actually have a problem with work channels getting out of hand, I feel like it's a gamble to hope it works better in the dark.

If my employer told us we had to move the more social/less technical chat channels outside of company infrastructure, I'm not sure that'd be better overall. And sort of odd to go with each new hire "oh and btw there's this second chat without the bosses, come join".
gasoline? I'm thinking ethanol derived from fermentation of the parts of the plant that were not shipped to market.
> it's not even one of the successful cartels.

which are ?
Frozen heads and virtual heavens: sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson rides again (2019)
I find that extremely difficult to believe.
Of course it’s sarcasm. Why do you think that’s an excuse?
> • If something fails where you thought it would fail, that is not a failure.

Well, if you thought you'd get a negative result (or failure of something) and then a negative result occurs, the result is still negative, it's just that your expectations were not betrayed. You may have successfully predicted the negative result, but that doesn't change the result was still negative.

Can someone explain this? It doesn't seem to really make much sense.
> Specifically, the bill says the money raised through the tax will be used to fund K-12 education, early learning and child care, in addition to providing all children with an education.

Why do people even bother to say this? Cash is fungible; if you raise $10 from this tax, you can simply cut $10 from the education budget and voila: the tax is funding education.

OK, I know why people say this.

As for opponents:

> Opponents of the tax have called the measure a job-killer that could hurt small and multigenerational businesses.

Of course the law has various provisions to exempt this, unless your multigenerational business pays family members more than $10MM a year in salary.

Another loophole for the latter: instead of selling your stock, borrow the money secured by the stock. If the stock goes down and you have to sell in order to cover, that sale will be tax free under this law.
A few of the more highly touted studies I read even showed that early use of hcq by mildly sick individuals at home had better outcomes when compared against already hospitalized people who were already very ill sick with covid, regardless of their later treatment. But when larger studies were done that actually tried to compare apples-to-apples, they didn't show much effect. I agree, that is an odd thing to call a "culture war", unless he meant science against wishful thinking? And hcq perhaps may even have some effect, but just not one worth the cost of the drug and the risk from missing out on better treatments that are available.

I wonder why OP wants to believe in hcq, if they'd like to respond?
I'm not sure one years data point makes for a trend. Especially not 2020.

I have no data to back it up, but it seems likely that the people who can afford a luxury car are also the people that could afford to stay home during the pandemic. Personally, I'm finding it hard to justify a new car when I'm 6 months overdue for an oil change and not even at half the miles. :-)
americans: why are you so addicted to credit ratings? ban them.
I think you're conflating self driving cars with ride-sharing here. Yes, getting rid of human drivers would lower the cost of ride shares and hence increase that market at the expense of having your own car, but the vast majority of current car owners will still have their own cars. Hell, we might even see car ownership increase once you can have your cake and eat it: all the comforts of your own car plus an AI doing the actual driving.
This looks like a small snack. Swap the milk out for almond milk tho.
Not traffic deaths, in the US at least (likely due to clear roads leaving people to drive riskier):

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-health-traffic-coronavi...
The time it takes to become cold enough to freeze is pressure-dependent. "Room temperature" can be assumed in the case, or hell, I could have told it it was 21°C. I only wanted a ballpark figure to base a rough plan around ("This will take around this long, so I have this much time before I can do X"), which was certainly within the power of Wolfram Alpha to give me.

The point that this example is trying to illustrate is that Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine ("Find this out for me"), it is a definition engine ("Given these definitions, what is X"), and while it advertises itself as the former with the examples given, doesn't especially succeed at it to any specific degree.
>When, of course, if the company had any interest in making things better the regulator would never have needed to get involved in the first place.

This is ridiculous oversimplification. Can you elaborate at all on how the company has "no interest in making things better"? It's an interesting attack on the 'character' of a corporate entity, that's almost impossible to disprove.
That’s usually a nice side-effect. This is a bigger trend developing in tech, I think ... the exact contours of why various C-levels are pushing this now is yet to be seen (not every company policy change to this effect was announced on a blog post, it’s happening elsewhere too).
No problem.

Part of the issue for me is that I’m attempting to wrangle statistical significance into the discussion, when I haven’t properly stepped back and frames the issue properly. Like you I need to know more about the science as well in order to give a helpful answer.

Suffice to say that statistical significance is only relevant when there is a specific statistical parameter that you want to make a determination about. And in this case I’m not entirely sure what that would be.

Looking specifically at the value you referenced, I think a more useful tool you could look at would be trend decomposition.
> The driving electronics often fails before the LEDs, but they've minimised that with these.

I find a regular supply of cheap LED bulbs with that issue in the bin.. They really should put out a stupid modular model so you can swap the circuit for 1$
You are actively misinterpreting what they said.

a) They explicitly state that employees are allowed to actively discuss these things, just not in group chat.

b) They explicitly state that this isn't "some high consequences zero tolerance policy" and that the consequence for violating the rule will be that you are reminded of the rule.

It's sad that this is the top comment.
In case it isn't obvious, she's making a joke on racist stereotypes.
Edit: definitely read the article, it's quite good.
No, it's quite literal.

Evolution is the process that preserves those who survived and left progeny, and chaffes away those who don't. The only measure of success in it is the survival.

It does not mean that attempts to make some rational models is worthless; quite the contrary.

Of course, there are many who tried things like these and failed; maybe many more than those who prospered. But there are those who tried something opposite, and fewer of them, if any, have prospered. So these inclinations of prosperous people have something to them, though not a guarantee.

If you take many such accounts of successful people and correlate them, you will find certain similarities; they, of course, are pretty well-known.
Don't get me wrong, I've used Lombok and liked it from the working with it and what it saves you aspect.

We do use spring and I've used it for a very long time now. Nothing is magic and not understandable about wiring if you do it right. Unfortunately there are a lot of projects out there that use it in exactly the wrong way if you ask me and then I'd agree with you.

I used to be in a company where we used XML config and everything was wired explicitly. The XML part sucked but with SpringIDE (eclipse at the time) it was Ctrl-clickable to find what's what.

We use Java config with Spring at my current company and I can Ctrl-click my way through it all and find what's what. There's a small corner of 'package-scan'ed stuff that is evil but we are cleaning that up.
> I don't think schools should get involved in off campus speech or activities. However, we are seeing more and more of it. This case isn't even that extreme compared to others. There are people being suspended from actual school for non-threatening photos with guns or even just liking a photo of a gun.

It's a symptom of a bigger problem in that U.S.A. schools and companies can terminate for arbitrary reasons.

Such would never hold where I live and most other places where an expulsion from school requires approval from an independent government organization or a court which of course will give the defending party ample opportunity to tell it's own version of events and defend itself.

The U.S.A. seems culturally built upon a mentality that one should fear government, but never citizens, and consequently has developed an idea of “Free speech is only from the government.” whereas in most developed nations, freedom of opinion is a more active right that the government also attempts to safeguard from private citizens and schools.

There is a whitelist of reasons in most developed nations wherefore one may be terminated, not a blacklist wherefore one may not, and “saying controversial things outside of work, not in any way associating oneself with one's empoyer” is usually not one of them.

> If you're saying f the school and f cheerleading and the goal of the cheer squad is to promote school spirit and pride... (she wasn't suspended, given detention, or kicked off the softball team) I know I would have been benched or cut if I talked about throwing a game or not trying my hardest and those statements made it back to the coach. It's not like they were monitoring social media for this.

Luckily I can't be let go for this either.
more importantly, why is it in any economic to install solar cells on a home instead of at scale on a solar farm?
My parents(grandparents also) don't mind working a Roku. The same can not be said for a web browser on the TV.
I don't see how being 14 is an excuse. People mature at different rates, but I reasonably believe she knew right from wrong. After all 14 is way past mens rea for much more serious topics.
I specifically came into the comments to see about this, and am disappointed. It’s the biggest feature PWAs can provide and would really reduce the pressure to create native apps.
There are no federal laws against discriminating against the poor as a company open to the general public. I suppose you could require everyone who enters your restaurant to show proof of $150,000 or more a year in income. Bad business idea, but probably legal.

One might be able to construct an argument that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act with regard to disabled people, but there are so many exceptions, particularly with telecommunications, that the ADA is often toothless. See the recent court decision (likely to be further appealed) that the ADA really just applies to physical premises of a company, and so a non-accessible online shopping site is not an ADA violation: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/appeals-court-ru...

I suspect there is little in the media (or in the courts) on this precisely because people in such a situation are socially disenfranchised.
cut towards your chum, not your thumb
Why is “fact-checking” always defended based on clear-cut examples when in reality fact checkers routinely wander into much more debatable territory?
> And god forbid you're NOT part of that channel, because then you're the "one person who doesn't care" or some such

is this a serious thing actually happening to anyone?
A lot of these "keep all politics out of work" stances feel inherently reactionary and could passively ossify some pretty gnarly social issues.

I've been in software for 30 years, I can't imagine management attempting to formalize how racist & sexist it was back when I started. Pretending it's fixed now so we can all just move on is a pretty big yikes from me.

Sorry that it makes people uncomfortable or could get in the way of profits but even though I don't enjoy it either, thats what progress has to feel like.
Whether you see an issue with it is orthogonal to the legality/constitutionality of the matter.
That makes me think that this also makes crop-rotation obsolete. You can plant 20 different crops in the same field, in repeating sequence. The bot will take care of them as-needed, and next season, move everything down one slot.
If grocery store duopolies are any indication, fast follow strategy is great for when the rewards of being second significantly exceed the rewards for not being in the top two, but that's all you're going to get with fast follow.
Right, this is how it should be. If that is a deal breaker then find a different employer.

Work is not a forum to compete for your personal views. It is a forum to exchange your time for money or equity as per your contract.

If you feel it should be different, make sure you are holding enough equity to set the rules or as I mentioned, find a new job that agrees with you.
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I second that SO much !!!!
Everything is perfect on that phone.
Agreed, but it was given a temporary emergency approval due to the pandemic. We need long term data on technologies before we immunize hundreds of millions of people with it.
We've asked you before to stop breaking the site guidelines like this. If you keep doing it we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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this was very relevant to me and something I didn't know - the employees found out at the same time as the outside world. Jason and DHH seem to not have bothered getting internal consensus first before going ahead with this thing. (confirmed with sam)

live feed of employee reactions https://twitter.com/i/lists/1202647
You seem to not be aware of how Lambda School operates at all.

It in no way resembles the college financing model, and in fact the purpose was to succeed in precisely the way it does not.
If these topics are really that obvious to everyone then they should be written down (because it definitely isn't to me). On the contrary, they are pretty explicit about not allowing ANY discussion "remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society".

Now that I think about it, banning some kinds of political talk (discussing pay disparity, forming a union) is probably illegal.
Then read your contract. Discussing these things does not change what the contract you signed says. If you don't like it, renegotiate or leave. If your negotiation is an ultimatum on these points you should probably consider it equivalent to deciding to leave in most cases, but maybe if you have enough leverage you will win.
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>What does training look like?

The same way how human learn/train.

Observe how most people behave then imitate.
yes, this seems like a natural progression.
Here's a link to the redacted protest: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.spaceref.com/news/2021/BlueO...
Funny how easy it is for assumptions to be wrong - I'm also IND, and I oppose disinformation from whatever side is the source, or none. IDGAF about the party.

Yes, RUS sources are the current major problem, as that 'govt' has been running an active measures campaign to undermine western democracies for close to two decades.

And those measures extend into both parties. They are specifically designed to maximize polarization, as polarization undermines democracy, and the assault on the truth makes everyone more malleable. People don't need to specifically buy into the dezinformatsiya (that's a mere bonus), the win is when people give up and say that the truth cannot be known, so disengage.

The fact is that one major party has fully bought into the active measures (and driven out those who don't go along), but the major wing of the other party is just as dependent on those measures, and that wing is also just as inclined towards authoritarianism if they get power.

The current fight is not between the parties, it is authoritarianism vs democracy.

Fighting dezinformatsiya is key to maintaining democracy and avoiding authoritarianism.
I highly recommend refactoringUI if you're a dev looking for practical advices on how to make better UI.

Also, from experience, back-end folks often think of UI as fancy color scheme, but imho what they most often get wrong is proportion and spacing, so this is probably where I'd start to improve. For instance, read on visual hierarchy and white space.
It's ok, although I have a tendency to wear myself out mentally when I take stimulant meds.

Certain kinds of programming have a very high activation energy. In each programming session, it can take a lot of time (sometimes hours) before I've gathered enough context to start making progress on a problem. Once I start making progress my motivation is usually self-sustaining. Sometimes I can't focus long enough to get to that point, and in that case the stimulants do help.

However, I also become very reluctant to take breaks and lose the context I've built up, so I often end up working quite late. I feel exhausted and sort of disoriented sometimes after these sessions. I can't do days like that too often without sacrificing health, relationships, etc.

In 2020, meds didn't help me at all. I just ended up being really focused on some useless distraction or cleaning my house or whatever. My problem was more fundamental than "I can't focus long enough to build up self-sustaining momentum."

What don't you like about programming on meds?
> If the goal is safety

If the goal was safety, a computer assisting a competent driver would be the best. If the goal is private profits for a few individuals, then a computer that doesn't take a paycheck would be best.
That only works when you set the height explicitly.
Could you comment a bit more about Trilogy? From what I understand, they provide a bootcamp as a service to be offered by other institutions, such as universities around the world.

Do you have any personal experience of their deception or lack of quality?