skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nitpick orthogonal to your main point, but I would argue anecdotally that there's no way elite schools have an average undergraduate IQ "multiple standard deviations" above the mean - unless by multiple, you mean "two". Any integer over that, and at 4,000,000 students graduating high school a year, and 3sigma working out to ~1/1000, there literally wouldn't be enough smart kids to go around, especially considering a majority of those students probably don't go to T10 schools anyways due to the fact that college isn't an idealized market.

Having gone to an elite school for undergrad, I'd argue most students were around 2sigma or slightly below, but almost universally also had 2sigma levels of work ethic, self-discipline, and goal-seeking.
Lots of comments here of the format "every store does this."

No, no other store operates this way. Walmart and Costco do not have a little flea market of third party sellers inside their stores who run their own logistics. This would be more like Amazon being both an anchor tenant and owner of a mall, and requiring that every other store within the mall provide all their sales information, then rapidly evicting all the successful stores and replacing them with knock off stores that they also own.
import is part of ImageMagick and "saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen."
I like this idea a lot, I just dumped a tiny shell script named 'tellme' on my mac:

#!/bin/bash
$@ && say 'The command finished.' || say 'Danger! Something blew up!'

To give me a quick way to run commands and hopefully enough words to catch my attention.
You might as well recommend them the Alabama State Defense Force too, it's about as related to ASDF the version manager as your example of the Common Lisp ASDF.
Yes, now they are. Tesla circa 2014 was very different.
That's the cancer my dad has - non-smoker, just a surprise stage 4. He's had great success with a few different inhibitors over the years.

His doctor's approach has been using them to reduce the cancer to near-zero, and then radiation (and in future, chemo) to knock down any stray masses that get a foothold.
I wonder if it would be a conflict of interest for a brokerage that focuses on retail investors like TD Ameritrade to buy the platform. Robinhood and the other upstarts are eating their lunch with UI improvements, but anyone who can type in a stock ticker has figured out Yahoo Finance over the last decade.
I haven't seen any indication that Yahoo handles AOL mail but I don't see internal stuff.

The setup page for ext access to verizon.net/AOL accounts has a verizon domain for SMTP & POP and an AOL domain for IMAP.

eg: pop.verizon.net smtp.verizon.net imap.aol.com

ref: https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-other-email-ap...

Hopefully this indicates that control over all verizon.net email accounts will fully revert to Verizon. Well, more like a blind wish. AOL mail management has been a little onerous - like mandating quarterly login to the webmail portal, else get locked out of POP access.
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This has frustrated me so much, as I spend a lot of time optimizing web performance. Gtag.js is pushed by analytics, however after loading it then async loads analytics.js. It is very inefficient, especially for sites that do not much more than track page views. It is the worst scoring factor on sites I optimize because there’s very little you can do about it without hacks.
It wasn't impossible, but nobody did it. The lightbulb had been possible for many years before Edison commercialized it and made it feasible for the mainstream.

The way you are looking at things, the iphone isn't really an upgrade over the blackberry or palm pilot.
It would be nice to re-implement the Savings System that used to be in place. It would help the "under banked". Hell, even go radical and support USDC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...
Could you provide a tl;dr? What does its title mean?
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When Costco sells a product they’ve already bought it (a retailer) on the other hand when Amazon sells something they’re just acting as a middle party for the item in most cases.
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That was my point - that Google isn’t ACTUALLY well diversified compared to its contemporaries.
I like the idea of Simple Analytics but that pricing model is out of reach open source projects like PortableApps.com. Separating out by page views is tough when I only need a single user and don't care about support. $600 a year for up to a million page views per month and "contact us" for more means it'd probably be at least a couple thousand dollars a year.
More popular languages enjoy a bigger ecosystem and with that, more tooling.
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No, proof-of-work crypto prices are based on supply and demand. Simple as that.
Isn't that also incorrect? It would presumably pay the normal corporate tax on it's profits. It's just that Amazon reinvests it's revenue and thus has no (or little) profit.
The republicans have been attacking the USPS for at least 2 decades of my life. Meanwhile the dems were mostly just neutral on the whole thing so it has deteriorated. I don't think anyone is blaming the postal service. This is clearly the result of republicans attempted to slowly degrade service to make commercial services look better.
They're not unrelated.

Why do we have a space program at all? Earth observation is one key mission, and we use it to study climate change. Satellites are a big part of that.

We also have a space program to educate people. It keeps the US on the forefront of technology. We develop tech learn new stuff, with spinoffs both in terms of tech and in terms of people who go off to other industries (and bring insights from other industries). That starts with STEM education.

Diversity isn't directly related to the point of a space program, but it is a government program that has a long history of excluding anybody except white men. The Russians put a woman in space almost three decades before the US did. The STEM pipeline has been leaky for women and minorities, and the space program's STEM focus makes it a good place to keep an eye on why that's happening. We need as much talent as we can get in the space program, and irrelevant factors like race and gender should not be used to keep people out.
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My favorite version of this trope is a video of a computer screen taken from a poorly held phone. Bonus points if the video is in portrait, cropping off important bits of text.

Sure, not everyone's comfortable with a computer, and they think they're clever with a solution. I still get annoyed when I get one of these videos.
Amazon sells products and facilitates others' sales.

If Amazon carried the entirety of their inventory themselves like Costco or like Walmart used to be (before the expansion of their own online marketplace), it would be a distinctly different situation.
Yeah I agree, so what I did was (and it took a bit of time), I whitelisted all the sites I hit that with and since then its been good.

It took about 2/3 hours of work though.
Semi-dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991766
BTW, MacOS has this feature for menus in all apps: at the top of the ‘Help’ menu is a search field. Also invoked with cmd-? (i.e. cmd-shift-/ on my keyboard). The highlighted menu item is then triggered with ‘enter’—so for touch-typists this is way faster than using the mouse.
Even if rust becomes a full replacement, it might take half a century before the last C++ project stops being maintained. In the meantime.

Investing your time in improving C++ is a safe bet for a long-lasting meaningful impact on software [development]. C++ will outlive Bjarne.
Yes, I know. But again, it’s not even close to normal. There are a LOT of engineers outside of the bay and the fangs.

It’s a bit like saying that finance pays well in Manhattan. Sure. But most people in the USA who work in finance are making mid/high 5 figures. Wall Street is small.
Does it bother you that the dictionary has both grey and gray?
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A little background to give context: I do automation and analytics consulting for small businesses (who aren't usually technical in their focus), but I think this advice can still be applicable to technically-oriented companies as well.

Well-established tools remove a lot of the headaches around maintenance, bugs, and lack of features that could slow down your operations. They tend to be pretty reliable and have all the options for easy license management, support teams that probably has had a similar ticket sometime in the past, and enough official documentation or forum activity to support many of the requests you might have.

For this reason, Office 365 and Google Workspace would be the best bets for email and all other common business apps (storage, word docs, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.). Almost everyone has encountered the platforms, know how to download and install apps on various devices, and will be asking for all the apps that come with Office 365 and Google Workspace. The platforms also scale easily to thousands of employees if you end up getting to that point. Biggest bang for the buck in my opinion.

Basecamp for project management. If your staff isn't technically inclined, then AirTable for all those "not a spreadsheet but not a full-blown application" projects that always pop up.

The rest of the tools are completely dependent on what type of business you run. In general, no-code/low-code tools can get you a very long way and make it very easy for employees to take care of low-hanging inefficiency fruit. They're great for both technical and non-technical employees because they can do certain things so easily. Zapier or Integromat are examples that will provide the possibilities to connect tons of existing apps, but also will allow your technical team to develop other solutions with their APIs and code steps that other team members can then use as well.
Using "going postal" as evidence of anything basically completely destroys the entire point of your post as "going postal" happens all over and might be more properly called "going school shooting" as it is relatively rare in comparison.
HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969364
All of Amazon's "we're not actually a monopoly" and "we're not responsible for defective products" arguments are based on this. They claim they are very much NOT a Costco or Walmart.
Musk said he'd be launching a mission to Mars every possible window starting 2024. Including manned missions. I believe he was going to send an experimental mission to Mars before that.

My point isn't that these companies don't get there, it's that they take much, much, much longer than estimated.
"I don't like the ice cream, I just want a bucket" -proceeds to shovel a whole bucket of ice cream into their face.
> Another key element was to open a process to convert squatted land into legal property. Many times formal land ownership was not conforming to lived reality, and some legal title nobody was interested in any longer was blocking legalization of actual use.

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Accurately measuring the performance of someone who is not interested in demonstrating their performance seems like an impossible task for anyone but GLaDOS from the Portal series. ;)

More seriously, random pattern matching questions are the best you can do to control for the not-caring factor, because they eliminate the advantage of test prep. The SAT has a significant test prep factor, which I agree is highly confounded by "culture" (a byword for how much your parents make you study) and the circumstances and opportunities related to test prep, including the motivation of the student, and the availability of a place to study and study materials. IQ tests are significantly more meritocratic than algorithms interviews or the SAT.
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SQL syntax sucks for doing non-trivial data analysis. I've tried it. Verbose, no composability or code reuse, not really portable across different databases, no easy interoperability with other tools, limited editor/IDE support, etc.

I guess if you have huge amounts of data (10m+ rows) already loaded into a database then sure, do your basic summary stats in SQL.

For everything else, I'll continue using SQL to get the data from the database and use Pandas or Data.Table to actually analyze it.

That said, this is a very comprehensive review of SQL techniques which I think could be very useful for when you do have bigger datasets and/or just need to get data out of a database efficiently. Great writeup and IMO required reading for anyone looking to be a serious "independent" data scientist (i.e. not relying on data engineers to do basic ETL for you).

I'd be a huge fan of something like the PySpark DataFrame API that "compiles" to SQL* (but that doesn't require you to actually be using PySpark which is its own can of worms). I think this would be a lot nicer for data analysis than any traditional ORM style of API, at least for data analysis, while providing better composability and IDE support than writing raw SQL.

*I also want this for Numexpr: https://numexpr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide.html, but also want a lot of other things, like a Arrow-backed data frames and a Numexpr-like C library to interact with them.
Rust syntax is weird. Weirdly good and sometimes bad.

I'm currently designing my own toy language and writing the compiler (to LLVM IR) in Rust.

Representing the AST with Rust's sum types is so simple. Visiting that AST through pattern matching is great. But the "enum" keyword still bugs me.

The way you define product types (tuples, records, empty types) and then their implementation, just awesome. But the "struct" keyword still bugs me too.

It feels "high level" with some quirks.

Then you have references, Box, Rc, Arc, Cell, lifetimes etc... It feels (rightfully) "low level".

Then you have traits, the relative difficulty (mostly for Rust newbies like me) of composing Result types with distinct error types, etc...

It feels "somewhat high level but still low level".

Sometimes you can think only about your algorithm, some other times you have to know how the compiler works. It seems logical for such a language, but still bugs me.

The one thing I hate though, is the defensive programming pattern. I just validated that JSON structure with a JSON schema, so I KNOW that the data is valid. Why do I need to `.unwrap().as_string().unwrap()` everywhere I use this immutable data?
Having so many students involved in Rust was huge. Definitely the most rewarding thing about working on Rust was seeing students get involved, grow, then turn that experience into a career, while seeding the industry with Rust talent.
I am not arguing with you about the utility of each definition, I'm just pointing out the difference in use and why you keep talking past each other.
There's two dead companies in that title, and the only live one owns content.

Fair point: in a rapidly shifting marketplace, owning the well / mine is the best bet.
What is Bitcoin backed by? What commodity could any currency be backed by that isn’t subject to the same volatility?
For the same reason we have land lines still. redundancy is a good thing.
My point really isn't about luddite vs. anti-luddite, I'm talking about performance and how it affects users. Also, you're right that less performant or less elegant tools win out sometimes (like the good old mac vs windows debates before macos and apple in general made a come back) and that is due to a variety of reasons. That's fine, life is complicated and many factors affect who wins in life, it doesn't mean we can't still ask for better things though.

Still I don't know what bearing of all this has on the point I made above.
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A nice thing about yyyy-mm-dd, in addition to being the standard, is that since no one uses yyyy-dd-mm it's unambiguous
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The reason why they are heavily marketing their mmWave 5G is because they are charging an additional $10/mo/line for access and implying (falsely) that most folks with a modern phone will experience a much faster and lower latency connection at most times. In truth, consumers will only be able to connect to the mmWave network on a handful of outdoor street corners in a few metros - the frequency band (60GHz) does not effectively penetrate walls so you're not going to get it indoors.

"Oh, I like mobile gaming, I guess I'll upgrade" - and just like that someone is locked into an additional $120/line/year of spend for a service they will almost never use or benefit from.

So - mostly it's fraud.
Nice article. Pandas gets the job done but it's such a step backwards in terms of useability, API consistency and code feel. You can do anything that you can possibly need with it but you regularly have to look up things that you've looked up before because the different parts of the library are patched up together and don't work consistenly in an intuitive way. And then you end up with long lines of().chained().['expressions'].like_this(0).
$ %blow
No such job

We had fun times.
Don't understand why you're being downvoted. Really dunno.
I'm not sure how Costco works specifically, but that's not the case in all retail. At GameStop, game publishers only got paid when their games sold not when they were put on the shelves. If there are 100 disk cases put on the shelves for Call of Battlefield and none of them sold, eventually GameStop would return them and the publisher got nothing.
As simple as that huh? Wonder why that hasn't been tried before.
Can someone help me understand this from an investment perspective? AOL and Yahoo were worth a combined $400 billion in the 90s. Was investing in either of those companies essentially a fail? Were all those investors wrong or did they somehow recoup their investment through dividends and such over the last 25 years to justify that market cap?

Currently the market is telling me that Facebook is a $900+ billion company. Will investors ever get $900 billion back?
Ah I feel your pain. Their tracking system is on point though. It's kind of interesting watching a package bounce around randomly across the country.
I think the main message is that the EU should have the capability to build/understand/evaluate/reverse-engineer/secure/replace/maintain/innovate telecommunications stuff. It doesn't necessarily have to do everything at the same time at every regional/national telco.

But - according to Bert - it'd be great if the manpower at least would be here, in the EU, not scattered around the world. At least as long as we have these things like countries and geopolitics.
> I know their audience mostly runs macbooks, but that's a different problem to solve).

I disagree with the assumption "their audience" mostly use Macbooks, but regardless.

This sentence from you really describes what you're getting wrong. You assume a audience that they are targeting, and then ignore providing any sort of solution for that audience and even acknowledging that you know there is another problem that does need solving, but you're only interested in providing solutions that fits your idea of the problem.

All of those things you've mentions requires an already installed toolchain for managing packages. "curl | bash" is popular because the small footprint and relative ease of making as safe as many other distribution methods.

Not to say I also vastly prefer my package manager I use. But I do realize there is world outside of me as well, that have different problems and might require different solutions with different tradeoffs.
I imagine you're getting the downvotes because the covid point isn't really relevant to the thread at all.

They're talking about road layouts.