skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rising sea levels are a concern in the long-term, but what I'm most worried about in my lifetime is the collapse of the industrial food system due to rapid warming.

Basically if the Earth warms faster than plants and science can adapt, it's a real possibility that a very large chunk of the arable land that currently feeds eight billion people worldwide will become useless. The fear is that we won't be able to grow wheat or rice where we used to, due to heat and drought (Great Plains) or floods (Southeast Asia) or whatever else.

Sure, we could just start farming Siberia and Northern Canada, but it would take decades to establish all the infrastructure necessary to do that, and in the meantime we'd have to deal with truly massive famines, political destabilization, and the collapse of many states. Not to mention the fact that crop yields will inevitably be lower in arctic latitudes due to shorter growing seasons.

Our entire civilization is built on a global, industrial food network, and it's more precarious than you think. Most countries don't have reserves of food at all, and the ones that do only have scant reserves. If methane releases cause the Earth's climate to lurch warmer in a short enough period of time, a couple real good crop failures will cause the network to collapse, and our civilization (or at least a few entire regions) will collapse in short order.
Yep, it's WordPress: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-login.php
Hiring a more experienced person to help you sounds like a great idea, actually. Your pay is not be based entirely on actual merit, but must also take risk into account. Once you've demonstrated the value, then you have the power to command more pay. In my experience though, you get the big raises when you switch jobs.
I don't think water levels are the issue but runaway temperature changes. The thing with complex dynamical systems is that they have phase changes. Most models seem to predict phase changes right around a few degrees of change.
I wonder why people here praise free competition on a global market as a primary value when they talk about their products and services, but support competition limiting when it comes to the labor market in their own country.
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Or may link to the "Docs" section? It mentions a paper that connects this to APL:

"APL on GPUs - A TAIL from the Past, Scribbled in Futhark

A paper describing an APL compiler (apltail) that operates by translating APL into a typed array intermediate language (TAIL), and from there into Futhark. While the Futhark details are light, the paper demonstrates a simple use of Futhark as a target language for a compiler. We succeed in achieving decent speedup on several (small) APL programs."

The introduction of the paper says it only "compiles a subset of APL into TAIL" though.
...Here's what the rest of us put up with that aren't in SW engineering/development/IT.

Step 1. Put in 300+ applications (200+ in Nor Cal Central Valley area, 178 in PHX area)

Step 2. Wait for responses and get a 2% response rate in Nor Cal/central valley, and a 17% response rate in PHX...with the exact same resume despite being top 25% of the class, extra curriculars, and having a decent econ degree)

Step 3. Of 90% of the places and recruiters that contact they will either A. Pay you substandard wages, B. Make it clear that you are replaceable and they don't actually care about workers or work/life balance, C. Ghost you after contacting and interviewing you or D. Some combo of the above.

The worst one I've had is the same corporate recruiter lie to me multiple times over a part time job with no benefits, who brought me in for an interview that made it clear that they had no quality control, no work life balance, poor workplace communication, and expected workers to be treated like crap and be OK with it, oh and the best part is, that company was a major household brand that does $5bn in revenue annually.

So yeah, I've had recruiters treat me like crap, tell me I'm worthless, and companies string me along, while I'm trying to scrape by and eat...not that I've got a chip on my shoulder about the entitled attitudes that are represented by this comment on HN.
I know you believe they are sociable. But how do you know that when seemingly most 9f their activities are structured? Would they adapt well if the structure wasn't there?

I'm assuming you've never taught high school. I haven't either. I do have a lot of experience teaching in higher ed though. I was recently paired with a high school teacher and visited his classroom. I doubt I could teach high school. It's easy to denigrate them but apparently they didn't do too bad with you.

Personally I think think it's absurd for soneone to think that they can teach without any training. There are outliers and seemingly you are one of them. Though you'll never know if you were a benefit or hindrance to your childrens' education. They are clearly successful so it's bit important whether or not it is because of your teaching or in spite of it. One thing is certain though. Your experience is not normative. What you've done has been successful but is it replicable for anything beyond a small percent of families? I'm skeptical.
It's strange, I don't recognize that Sweden.

In computer-type jobs it's normal for men to take plenty of parental leave, and no stigma. Many work reduced work weeks too, right up until the youngest kid is 8 years old.

I know builders and such who do the same. And I've seen a few young female builders around too.

So I'm racking my brains trying to think what type of people in what type of job can be skewing the statistics.

Sweden is not a prejudice free country, but it's way better than Britian and, from the awful impression I've got from many short visits, the US.
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But I really can't give up org-mode!

...and inline LaTeX/image previews!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hf5x3p9bne3tqbg/Screen%20Shot%2020...
IMHO one of the following things is at play here:

1) They have low-quality standards, so they expect something that barely works

2) They don't expect you to actually deliver, only to drive the project from point A to point B, but they didn't tell you just in case you could drive the project to point C (that could be a little exploitative, but that doesn't really matter).

3) They don't care about the result because it's part of a program that runs for <reasons>.

I would bet for (3). Either way, If I were you, I'd just do my best within the constraints they gave me, trying to fulfill the minimum requirements and then move on without taking this too seriously. Take this as a learning experience, at this point you shouldn't care about the money, under regular circumstances. Take it as a learning experience.
I've never heard of whiteboarding a chemical reaction mechanism. Usually since most chemists at a comparable 'engineering level' to programmers are phds, a seminar is expected, and the candidate has something ready to go. It's an opportunity for the team to learn something new while assessing the critical thinking skills of the candidate during the q&a
> Do you have good links you can share in regards to vpp and leveraging of dpdk?

sorry for the late reply. here are a few presentations:

1. https://dpdksummit.com/Archive/pdf/2016USA/Day02-Session04-T...

2. https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-bmwg-10...

you might be able to find videos on youtube as well. lemme know if you need some more info, and i can dig some more.
"Poor white males might skew more sexist and racist.."

[citation needed]
They must have a different definition of "top" talent. I'm thinking of people like Daniel Bernstein and Fabrice Bellard. The list is really very short.

But of course that definition is useless to a VC fueled, exponentially growing trainwreck/unicorn that wants to hire hundreds or thousands of "engineers".
Does Larry Page abuse the H1B Visa program? Does Larry Page perpetrate H1B Visa Fraud?
because the web api (PostgREST) has a strict control on the types of queries the client is allowed to execute thus preventing DOS attack against the db that force it to run complicated/unoptimised joins or function that use a lot of CPU
I received an empty email once (an airline).
I am not permitted to enter into a "more money, less leave" contract with a willing employer.
It might be that the vacancies are just there to create the illusion of growth. Because if you're hiring then you're clearly growing. I recently interviewed with a company that straight-up told me that they don't have any positions right now but might in the future. That same position I was interviewed for got re-advertised a couple of months after my interview.

Come to think of it, I know of several examples(startups) where the company was actually failing and about to run out of money and they still advertised but couldn't possibly hire. In my opinion, that's purposefully wasting people's time.
• Wikimedia keeps detailed statistics which look like what you want, but I haven't dug too deep so it may be lacking in some way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Web_statistics_tool

https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/

• There is also an API: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

You could probably get an estimate of edits per day by requesting versioning metadata (i.e. each version being an edit) on a sample of documents.

• I think it will be essential for you to run tests using the actual configuration that you plan to have. Server hardware and the software stack and their respective configurations are a significant factor in the cost of running something like this and are nearly impossible to estimate. There are cases where modifying a single configuration flag can multiply the requests per second you're able to serve.

• Additionally, you should probably factor in business-level projections based on the market your project is aimed it - ask yourself: will your project be as popular as wikipedia? Will your users have the same ratio of pure consumers to editors as wikipedia?

Consider identifying user characteristics in your market segments which correlate with whether someone is a pure consumer vs. an editor.
"the FBI will raid their warehouse and hold all the inventory as evidence until they complete their investigation"

Considering the strained relationship between Bezos and Trump, I can actually see that happening.
PostgreSQL has built-in strict control also.
> the badge will be there, red and proud with a big number on, and you'll see it at every cmd-tab

On KDE, I'd use the "Filters" setting for either the Task Switcher (Alt+Tab thing) or the Task Manager (taskbar), or both. They can show or ignore windows from other virtual desktops, screens, or minimized ones. [Or "activities", but I've never used that feature, and I'm not sure what it's for.]

I usually keep Skype on my second screen, covered with other work, and have the task switcher set to only scroll through not-minimized things on the current screen.

Edit: So "Activities" are something like super-virtual desktops, and appear to be exactly for this purpose, to separate different tasks.
Whenever people moan about enforcement of white-collar-crime laws, I can't help but think about the last scene in The Wolf of Wall Street: after a short stint in prison, DiCaprio's scummy businessman is still rich and admired, while the FBI guy who took him down shares a cheap subway ride with other poor, tired and depressed workers.

Incentives are wrong all over the place, Reaganism made authorities fundamentally powerless. Why would any civil servant sweat prosecuting big businesses, when he can just close an eye and wait for a revolving door to appear shortly after?
It was great, and Borland wasn't the only one.

C++ is almost gone from the GUI space, that is how well it has done.

The GUIs from desktop and mobile OSes have moved into other languages, leaving C++'s the role of just talking to the GPU and little else.
> We are in some ways less intelligent than we were 10 years earlier. We sometimes process complex problems a little more slowly, the maximum complexity of our mental models is a little lower, and

I believe this is dated, latest research indicates different types of intelligence as we age - https://qz.com/857430/researchers-have-identified-the-types-...
That's great to hear, but source? I've bought food from Amazon, but I'm really hesitant to do so anymore
> This is why flask get away with it: it's not as well integrated, but it's not big.

Flask does get away with it, though it's so unintergrated that as soon as you need anything beyond super super basic you're better off with something else.
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>> Schools are incentivized by the ridiculous out of state/country fees they get when they accept international students for their Masters programs, regardless of a students actual abilities or whether the three year Indian/China/U.K. Bachelors sufficiently prepares them. These people always graduate, because money.

I've personally worked in a University Department that was tasked with marketing to international students and can say that this is entirely true. To the point that the school reserved a certain number of spots exclusively for out of state/international under the guise of diversity. In most schools it's not even where you think it is, recruitment and admissions had little to no control over us. We had a direct line to the top and were actually the ESL program, we gave students who graduated (the ESL program) a guaranteed spot in whichever college they wanted within our university, and we would take basically anyone who paid.

So if you wanted to short circuit the regular admissions process and are willing to pay you'd apply to our ESL program >> spend 4-6 months there >> pass through because $$$ >> enter your bachelor program of choice at a fairly high state school.
"close to statistical significance" is one of those phrases I dislike because it's almost designed to deceive. To the trained statistician it means "not statistically significant" but to the average reader it suggests there's something more there than there should be.

What we can safely say is that this study did NOT support the hypothesis that there is gender privilige for men within the lower classes in landing top law jobs, and that it would be interesting to repeat this study with a larger sample size.
After doing a few moocs, I wished I could just have a form of automated testing for any subject. So I can compete every time I feel I have a new intuition.
I feel a bit dumb asking this, but your explanation doesn't make it clear to me why you can't think of a bind on Maybe as a flatMap on a List with 0 (Nothing) or 1 (Just) elements. Could you elaborate further on how thinking of a bind on Maybe as null propagation eliminates it also being interpreted as a flatMap on a restricted-size list?
Regardless of what you think of Kalanick there are legitimate questions about the business model. I see many people claim things like "They lose money because they spend on R%D". I have not been able to see the most recent year but leaked numbers from prior years show that even if you cut R&D to zero they still lost money. In the more recent year I have not seen the breakout for R&D but the losses scale with revenues by quarter which is not what you would expect to see if they had a fixed R&D budget cutting into profits.
I also see many wildly overoptimistic estimates of how much driverless cars would increase their margins. For example you see absurd statements like "driverless cars can produce revenue 24 hrs a day". Demand for rides is not constant 24 hrs a day. To meet peak demand (which is critical to their competitiveness with alternatives) you will have many cars idle off peak. That means parking (costs money) or driving empty wasting money. Many others have pointed out some of the many costs currently born by drivers that somebody still has to pay. You can debate the exact cost of all those things but it is definitely not zero.
I am not saying it is impossible for them to make changes and make money but until I saw detailed numbers and a plan to increase margins I would not invest my money.
The software also doesn't consider the two strings given as an example above equivalent, and for the same exact reason: they're sequences of different code points.
Yes, each of the Big Four isn't really a single company, that'd be too vulnerable to lawsuits when (let's face it, not if) they screw up. Instead they're a network of companies licensed to use the same name.

Mozilla was asked (I do not know if they actually did it) to have one of their London people stroll over to EY's headquarters building in that city and explicitly let them know about the Hong Kong EY's failures so that there's no opportunity to later pretend EY as a network didn't know this was a problem.

The nature of audit work, both for the Web PKI and for business accounting means that "capture" is a big problem, the auditors get paid by the company they're supposed to audit and further work is conditional on giving a good report, so, why look for trouble? Failure is inevitable.

If you're wondering when it became the Big Four, the Big Five had one more member, they audited Enron and signed off accounts which bore no resemblance to reality, then when they realised it was being investigated they destroyed all evidence of what they'd done. The resulting scandal destroyed them, although the US Supreme Court eventually decided that the people who ran the audit firm and gave orders to cover up what it had done were innocent...
Charles Scwab does take fees in a way, their robo advisor requires a certain percentage of your account be cash. This cash in turn is invested for their own profits.
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Was this in Japan? (I just read the first few sentences of the bio on your blog). If so, how different is 30k USD there from market rates? And what country are you from originally?

I wonder if anything is at all different because of differences between Japanese and US culture with respect to discussing compensation, what is typically expected of workers, and so on.

(Not trying to poke holes in your story -- just genuinely curious!)
You are right in saying that the docs lack "the big picture", but that will be fixed soon(ish).

The big picture is that it's not PostgREST alone that accomplishes this "big claim" of eliminating the need for custom APIs. It's the combination of using openresty(nginx)/postgrest/postgres/rabbitmq together that gives you the possibility of "defining" apis rather then "manually coding" apis.
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Right, but that's unrelated to the efforts to get men to take up more leave (increasing the "use it or lose it" for men), since even if the time was all usable by the mother, you couldn't enter into a contract renouncing it either. So I don't see how it's germane to the point you introduced earlier.
They have started doing just that. From [1]:

An immigration attorney for two information technology companies today
admitted that she submitted phony documents and obstructed a federal
investigation as part of a scheme that fraudulently obtained foreign
worker visas, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Sunila Dutt, 39, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty before U.S.
District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to an information
charging her with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and obstruct justice.

Like you said, they need to do more of those though.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-atto...
Leaving immigration aside -- there are order-of-magnitude compensation differences even among white US-citizen programmers. I.e., some are paid 50k a year; some are paid 500k a year. How is it possible for someone to figure out what they're "worth" in this environment?
They also seem to usually not go out to happy hours/events with the team to get to know one another as often, so they're excluded a little more, which leads to fewer people getting to know them.

This, right here, is why Silicon Valley has problems with diversity. As a rule of thumb, the only people who actually want to go to happy hour with their co-workers after 8+ hours of taxing mental work are 1) young 2) white and 3) extroverted. In other words, they fit the "brogrammer" stereotype. I've never really liked going out with my co-workers after work. When I'm done, I want to go home and decompress, not deal with another two or three hours of enforced social interaction.
I applied once at an Indian/US firm from HN thread. You won't believe how unprofessional they were. I never got a single reply back until I emailed them, and I had a coding exam where I created an app, they said they'll reply in a week, after a month they said "sorry blah blah", that too, after two emails of mine aaking " you said a week, what is the status?".

Rather than going through this ordeal I'd prefer if they reject resume directly.
I largely agree with you regarding the popular view, but I wanted to point out that this article focuses on the gender "twist" because that is what is new in the research. The author of the article cites near the beginning an acclaimed book she previously wrote apparently focusing solely on class (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10457.html).
no it does not, it has control of what data a user can access, it has no control of what types of joins he can do using the tables he has access to or what functions he can execute.

For example anyone can do "select md5(bigtextcolumn) from articles" and kill the db if one would expose the entire sql language to the web. PostgREST protects you agains that.
> unfortunately you cannot restrict a directory to forbid mixed scripts or confusables

That's fortunate, not unfortunate. I want the files corresponding to documents to be named according to the titles of those documents, and said titles often do mix Latin and Cyrillic scripts in a way that produces "confusables". So as a generic rule for all filenames, it's a no-go - it will significantly affect perfectly legitimate use cases.
>There is a partly-formed attempt to spin off a Grey Tribe typified by libertarian political beliefs, Dawkins-style atheism, vague annoyance that the question of gay rights even comes up, eating paleo, drinking Soylent, calling in rides on Uber, reading lots of blogs, calling American football “sportsball”, getting conspicuously upset about the War on Drugs and the NSA, and listening to filk – but for our current purposes this is a distraction and they can safely be considered part of the Blue Tribe most of the time

Damn that hits close to home
By dismantling domestic privacy laws the US will lose control of the internet
Good, I need a job here and I don't have the wherewithal to migrate to a Scandinavian paradise. Might as well hack it out here without all the added pressure from brilliant foreigners coasting on their intellect.
Pure self-interest, I would imagine.
There can only be one canonical normalization, not two. NFC is the canonical one, NFKC compresses ligatures differently.
I actually installed slack in my backup mobile and that is always on. I just put the phone is silent mode & it's inside my drawer. When I want to respond, I open slack on my laptop.
So what you're saying is that the market system in which we operate promotes and rewards gender discrimination even among people who wouldn't discriminate otherwise.

So you agree with the concept of patriarchy in feminist theory.
How do you use them in a public space, where others are trying to do the same thing ?
It's funny they you're getting downvoted while above you are there are several anecdotes that apparently do prove the plight of the poor white man.