skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even have to check to know that this "research" was funded by one of three groups...

1. The Corn Industry because they want us to believe that high-fructose corn syrup is just as healthy as natural fruit sugars

2. The Dairy industry because they want us to believe drinking fresh juice is just as bad as drinking anything else

3. Big Pharma because they don't make money on healthy people. They need us to keep buying prescription drugs so that they remain profitable.
Game engines often use region-like allocators for data that only lasts a frame -- check out the "tagged heap" in http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2015/presentations/G... for example.
“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

— Christian Heilmann (@codepo8) https://twitter.com/codepo8/statuses/79531211327930368
Hell, it's what Microsoft was doing fifteen years ago, and I have no reason to think it has changed. Change teams? You have to go through the same loop and same hazing as a new-hire candidate. There might be a little less paperwork, I don't recall.
I think its reasonable for the likes of google and facebook to consider the most important trait of their hires to be their intelligence. Even if most people at these companies are really just CRUD developers, you never know who the next big idea will come from. Consider how many products came out of google that were side projects of one of their engineers. Hiring smart people is an investment in these companies' future.

The problem is when the random nothing-but-CRUD companies/startups think they need google-caliber engineers.
I really appreciate you sharing your experience. What made you decide to be hikikomori?

It's never too late. Tell your parents that you want to change life. Turn their support into something positive. Go out of your house to buy pizza, ice cream, whatever. Get your body moving, the mind will follow.

Try to stay in your room without digital devices... for one week. It will clear your thoughts and force you to deal with reality. You will feel bad, at first. But it's going to get better. It's the beginning of your new life. Isn't it exciting? A whole new journey lies ahead of you!

Take a long walk in the countryside, far from other people. Nature is truly amazing and hiking scratches that same itch of sensory overload (Internet and gaming).

Everyone makes mistakes. But you should not be defined by them. You're living a defeatist narrative. Get out of that narrative. Forget your biases and expectations. Don't let other people define you.

If you want to keep in touch, post your contact info.
Most parts of the PostgreSQL extension API are really stable so if it is a simple extension one should not be too worried about the project being inactive. The extensions I have written have not required any changes at all when upgrading PostgreSQL.
I don't understand what distinctions you are drawing. I don't know what engineering-scope vs CS means.
This is great news. I have Google Fiber at home, and I've never had a speed test yield less than 940 Mbps up and down. Compared to Comcast, which was giving us "250" (read: "25") Mbps and had connectivity and uptime problems, Google Fiber is consistently fast and available. There was one afternoon early on where it was down for a couple hours (construction related), but we've had no problems since.

I hope they continue expanding to new cities so the other player(s) there are forced to compete.
Yeah, who needs a job or that pesky /money/.
The setup I normally use now if I know how much I want for an item is to do fixed price listing and not an auction and set it at an upper bound of what I would like to get but allow offers so it's sort of like an auction.
Awareness of it is becoming part of the culture in Japan too, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K. and the anime derived from it come to mind.
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> You have to recognize the people who are just cargo culting, of course, and not waste time with them.

That's the thing: so much of modern conservatism is just cargo-cult thinking. Lower taxes (esp. wrt the mythical Laffer Curve which is making a comeback now), deregulation, market economies as an intrinsic good as opposed to a tool (which conveniently shields them from criticism). And so on. And that's just on the economics side.

If you operate according to the maxim "that government is best which governs least" the logical conclusion of that is "that government is best which governs not at all", which is basically what we're getting from conservative politics these days.
I wouldn't call it perfect, or a work of art. I would call it a very pleasurable experience in deep systems development that just happens to exist in a place that we can call "the client side."

Things to start doing with this include:

-Semantic web capabilities that are integrated at the deepest system levels.

-Super efficient modules written in C++, targeted for the WebAssembly platform, which can includes all sorts of real-time machine learning pipelines.

-So much other crazy shit that so many web developers are independently working on, but there was never a real place for them to meet online to put their work together, whereas now there is.
Not just that. PostgreSQL also offers a clear advantage if you need to access both full text data and relational or geographical data in the same query.

On the other hand what you say is true, ES is much more flexible in what it can offer in full text search.
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Steve also told us no one wanted 5-inch(!) "Hummer" phones. To test our faith, he also said 7-inch tablets were too small and would require users to file down their fingers to use them.
Amazon recently opened new office in Boulder (i believe) and started hitting up a lot of folks in the surrounding states. I live in CO, but my company is in KS and I started hearing a lot of chatter among our interns that they're grabbing kids left and right from schools in the area with mediocre to below average computer science programs. In fact, one of the kids who interviewed at our place ended up taking an offer from Amazon, which i kid you not was around $100K more than what my company was offering for a new grad with no prior experience and a degree from a school that doesn't even make it to the top 100 in the nation.
Fruit is certainly nutritious. You are healthy. If you eat too much fruit, you may not be healthy. In moderation, you will still probably be healthy (and happy; fruit is delicious).
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That was my first thought too. My second thought was that the most effective recreation would be to build a SPICE model [1], and whether that SPICE model could run in near real time on a modern CPU. A simple SPICE model should be straightforward based on the circuits in the article.

From memory, the SPICE transistor models take things such as transistor feature sizes as parameters, so it might be possible to get a surprisingly accurate model from the die photo?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE
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If we find vast amounts of gold in asteroid, the price of gold will fall to just above the marginal cost of recovering that gold as long as it's lower than its current price -- this is some very basic economics.

A good example to consider is aluminium. In early 1880s, the price of aluminium was around $10000 of today's dollars for kilogram -- actually the price of ounce made more sense, as you very rarely saw pieces of aluminium so large to weigh a kilogram back then. For example, the capstone for Washington Monument, weighing 9 kilograms, was the largest single piece of aluminium ever cast at that time.

Then, in 1888, the modern process of aluminium was invented, and soon its price rapidly fell by orders of magnitude.
China is pretty big, and for some citizens the ruling party may as well be on the other side of the world.
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I think it depends on the person and the requirements. I've written tens of thousands of words on an iPad, used it to do programming exercises for job interviews using Pythonista as well as prototyping bits of work projects and hobby programming, created character sheets for a homegrown tabletop RPG, filled out PDF forms, my kids draw and paint on their minis as well as write fan fiction in Wattpad.

There certainly are limitations due to the form factor and Apple's lockdown of the platform. Pythonista and other dev environments would be a lot more useful with less strict code sharing options. Still, you can do a lot with these things.

Maybe it's because I don't own a laptop, carry the iPad frequently and use it on my daily commute.
I think it's a stretch to assume that this translates directly.

The Chinese government competently used a combination of crony capitalism and state-run-enterprises to sustain steady economic growth. It's well understood that government policies encouraged and supported the free-ish market.

In North Korea, the markets which have sprung up have happened despite the government. If it is increasingly seen as incompetent, that's clear distinction with the situation in China, which was run by fairly ruthless technocrats (since the 90s).

It's also quite a stretch to think that the farmer's markets in North Korea could possibly transition into the huge industrial giants which have powered China's economy.

I think most of the west would be more-or-less OK with a Chinese-style regime in North Korea -- a competent, responsible, undemocratic politburo more interested in economic growth than pointless military threats (China does not weekly threaten to nuke San Francisco, with 80s-era animated illustrations).
Oh, so you're published. I'd be curious to see some of your research, if you'd like.
If you give it a try, you may find your brain more adaptable than you think. Mine seems able to parse the same code in my editor (with this font) and in web-based repository viewers (with some other monospaced font) without problem.
That's a big "if". So far it seems like a unified China puts them at an economic advantage since they have the muscle to drive beneficial trade agreements through. So long as the ruling party keeps them all placated they'll have no reason to defect.
100k more for a new grad? That can't be right. Five years back, the new grad offer was 90k, plus 45k of stock over four years. If they're up that much, things must be getting desperate.
I have RISC-V hardware (got a handful of HiFive1 boards) and they're definitely the fastest arduino compatibles to date. If SiFive made an SoC for Chromebooks (maybe in collaboration with a large manufacturer like Samsung), I would buy them and suggest them to friends. I would love to have a big and wide RISC-V desktop workstation (couple hundred gigs of ram and a couple dozen cores) once all the prerequisites are in place, but that stuff takes more time it seems. The Shakti folks over at IIT Madras seem like they'll be the first ones to tape out RISC-V workstations, servers, and HPC nodes.

Privilege separation models are finnicky, so it's probably not a good idea to rush that.

I think that if we can all throw our weight behind RISC-V, the availability, diversity, and good functioning of computer platforms will improve drastically.
If it was a habit and you "changed [it] fairly easily", then it either wasn't a habit or you have an exceptional ability there, one most everyone doesn't have.
It's a good strategy. The best engineer I've ever worked with went to a school I'd never heard of. I've worked with plenty of people from Cal/Stanford who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
How would adding that feature kill the platform? I'm not sure what the contention is here.
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Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years. But they were right
This link is full of counter arguments the author even concedes. If this is so serious why doesn't openssh team remove the feature?

There is no excuse for denying mosh users existing patches/features and the above link changes nothing.
What is the problem with rapid metabolism? Isn't that a good thing, so long as you have the varied nutrients to ensure the long tail of metabolism? E.g. A mixture of fructose, glucose, and more complex carbohydrates.
What is GP? Why do you use an undefined acronym for your case in point?
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It could. I have a couple of apps that will render HTML to PDF server-side for users to download.

Rendering LaTeX to PDF would be far less fuss, however, when you already have the HTML templates it is the path of least resistance.
Yes, I was implying tech companies, I should have been explicit.
I hope they come to my neighborhood in San Francisco. I recently tried the wireless internet provider that was just set up in my building. It is so janky, I can't sign up for recurring billing. I literally have to sign up again every month. When I called the guy who runs it, he said his payment gateway doesn't support recurring payments. Sigh.
If it's my responsibility then I need access to the systems, otherwise I can't perform excercise that responsibility.

How does alert creation and maintenance not fall under ops? They sound like the sort of ops people that devops teams were created to replace.
It's to create a disincentive for spammy listings - every retailer would constantly flood eBay with repeats of the same items etc to drown out the competition.
This is really messed up.
A common problem with government funded projects which neither health care or education is immune from. In some cases money goes to someones friend (corruption), and in other cases it goes to people that are sincerely trying to make society a better place. The problem is to minimize the corruption. Oversight programs are one way, certification is an other, and in cases like medical funding there are boards which rules on a case per case and are governed under ethic rules (ie, money can't be given to anyone that any person on the board has a personal relation with).

There is however no perfect way to do it, and neither political party would want to take a extreme side. The right do not wish to stop medical research funding (private pharma can't survive without the government supporting the industry) even if some will be wasted on incorrect definition of "reliable". The left would not want to stop oversight programs and just hope that everything will work. As such we get some form of middle ground.
As someone who struggled with math and hated it in high school and now loves it but still struggles with it I got a lot out of this article. It brought to mind this EdX course: "Effective Thinking Through Mathematics"[0] which I also found valuable.

Has anyone read the author's book[1] and can recommend it (or not)? It only has 2 reviews, a 5-star and a 3-star and the latter review is not helpful.

[0]https://www.edx.org/course/effective-thinking-through-mathem...
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Rediscovering-Mathematics-Classroom-R...
Hi Kyle, I was wondering if the lyrebird github implementation will be open sourced as currently I am hoping to work on improving the current implementation by incorporating prosody into speech synthesis, thanks!
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I identify with this a lot, even though I go to college and have a job. But it's a very, very thin line between the life I have currently and complete isolation.
I think there is more to this than that, though. Software companies usually run R&D at about 10% of revenue. So, these support contracts are really returning only 10% of their cost. And the companies who are buying the support contracts are are usually big. The money they spend on 10 developers for support could pay for 100 developers once you add in license fees, etc, etc.

Long, long ago when I worked at Nortel (a now defunct, but then huge telecommunications company), they used to pay millions of dollars a year to Cygnus to support a particular embedded version of GCC. This, despite the fact that Nortel had more than 10k programmers on staff including a compiler team!

I think the real reason these support contracts exist is because companies (even large ones) don't want to dilute their focus maintaining projects that are peripheral to their core business. It's not so much a technical problem, or a money problem -- it's a management problem. They can't scale out to handle every little thing.

I think OSS is a red herring in this conversation. Most companies just don't care about that. They don't want to support it themselves (even if they are big enough to do so), and they need to have confidence in the company that provides the support. Build that company (hint: you need to be sales heavy!) and you could sell Postgresql just as easily as any other database. Of course breaking into an entrenched area in Enterprise software is always going to be difficult, so I'm not sure how successful you would be with this particular product, but you get my point, I think.
Is PayPal being subjected to those laws? After all they are not a bank.
I totally agree that engaging with the community is immensely valuable in technical pursuits like law and coding. I'm sure a lesser amount of engagement is also beneficial for skills that are somewhat more subjective, like art. These are great ways to stay apprised of the state of the art and to keep a pulse on the zeitgeist.

However, I think that the author is correct that a lot of fansites/forums/groups for [what are normally considered] casual interests are full of very obsessive people whose advice and opinions are not worth taking seriously. In some cases, these people may be completely non-functional and detached from reality.

It's really important that we step back and allow ourselves to see and enjoy the whole picture, instead of allowing the bubble of our online hangouts to color perceptions too much. The big picture is usually much wider, much less exclusive, and much less angry, and it's really healthy to appreciate that, especially when a community starts piling on.
Is this guy talking about OO as described by smalltalk? Because he says that objects are bags of functions, not data, but in languages like java, c# and c++ objects are bags of both.
I still remember how Time Warner miraculously discovered another 100 Mbps practically the day after Google Fiber announced that it was moving in. And TWC had the audacity to pitch it like some kind of gift, like they were making this great investment in their customers and upgrading them “for the same monthly rate”. Oh what crap they unleashed: the happy commercials, all the great things they were doing for customers, as if it wasn’t completely obvious that the only reason any of it existed was the threat from a real competitor.
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Please change to a higher factor. PostgreSQL's default is a bit outdated and too low for modern computers.
That might be a fact but it doesn't really support the OPs original idea right? "centuries of tradition and institutions to make it work well."
Germany was well functioning democracy since the Bismarck unification.

The UK has nothing to do with it.
That's rather overstating things. They were limited, yes, but they were fine for doing email, taking notes, and playing text adventures, which was pretty much what I wanted them to do. This was the late '90s; nobody expected a pocket device to have a full-featured web browser and a massive library of apps. The batteries in mine were for good several days to a week of normal use. 480x240 greyscale was plenty for text-only work. They were certainly less powerful than a laptop, but they were also a lot cheaper, at least at the prices I was seeing in late '97. And they did well enough that several different manufacturers released several generations of machines each, over a period of years.
Word itself will diff Word documents beautifully, and there are alternative solutions as well (Workshare/DeltaView, Change-Pro, etc.) that are even more powerful.
The thing is, in general, if you are promoting some change, you need to show that it brings benefits.

So the onus is on promoter - to show benefits.

The onus is _not_ on everyone in the world to show whether the idea works or not.
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(ex) Nuclear physicist here... (computers pay better)

The Wikipedia page isn't bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem

> Its Lagrangian is rotationally symmetric: from this symmetry, Noether's theorem dictates that the angular momentum of the system be conserved,

Let me explain that in human terms. :)

Let's take an example of a moon moving in a circle around a planet. (We're assuming a spherical cow here, as I know the orbit is actually an ellipse).

If the gravitational well is rotationally symmetric, then the moons orbit has to go at the same rotational velocity, all around the circle. The moon can't change velocity willy-nilly, because something has to change the velocity, and we just said that the gravitational well is symmetric. Which means "smooth", and no "bumps" in it.

On the other hand, if the rotational velocity changed, you'd know there has to be "bumps" in the gravitational well. Because something has to change the velocity.

It's a simple concept in the end. If something happens, something else has to cause it. If there's a cause, there has to be an effect.

Noether's principle is really the "next level" of cause and effect. If certain kinds of causes happen, then certain kinds of effects also have to happen. And if you see certain kinds of effects, you know they have to have certain kinds of causes.

But it's sexier if you spin it with math words like Lagrangians and Hamiltonians. :)
I think the main thing to focus on isn't that there's a direct correlation between economic growth and political liberalization, but rather a "genie out of the bottle" effect where societies will consistently mobilize to preserve their new standard of living, which props up and exaggerates political forces believed to provide that standard of living. Sometimes this leads to civil liberties, other times it leads towards nationalist or imperialist sentiment. But history shows that our tendency is to take on increased complexity as a way of getting something for everyone: regulated markets and civil liberties are both modes of complexification.

A lot of the big shifts happen during a crisis: Europe's social democracies, the liberalized markets of Japan and South Korea, the USA as superpower: all of those were forged from the global crisis conditions of World War II and have only gradually drifted off their various trajectories.

And, to the extent that the world has a crisis now(and we have a whole bunch of events conceivable as crisis scenarios), it isn't going to resemble the last one: the premises are different, and the means of resolution are likely to be different too.
Word itself provides a compare function that works very well, and there are alternative tools that also provide versioning functionality that can be combined with various document management tools, essentially providing GitHub for Word files (see, e.g., Interwoven iManage, etc.).
It was used in a 2000 era web app. Neat.

http://cs.nyu.edu/~bacon/phd-thesis/diss/node35.html
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Is it even possible to waste time? Consider meditation. Widely considered to be a valuable and healthy activity, it literally consists of doing nothing.
Beautifully written article.

I'm reading Julian Jayne's "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" at the moment and was glad I had started to read it before reading this article as there were some fascinating jumping off points in both directions.
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At first, I thought you were a bot. After a second reading, I changed my opinion.
BLAH. I was really hoping for SSH CA support. I want that on windows now already. Yes OpenSSH (with CA support) can run on windows 10 under the linux subsystem, but it won't yet support X11 forwarding, and PuTTY does. I need X11 support and CA support, and I haven't found anything under windows that does that.