skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maternity leave in theory has the same disadvantage, as generally women take this more than paternity leave (though I think that's changing) - it can be combatted by public denigration of companies that consider men to be preferable hires on the basis of lower risk of disruption and lower costs.

Thus I don't think it'd be a problem.
exactly! I wonder how much things actually go both ways in mindset of social justice warriors of these days.
I wonder if History Channel will update their website with this information? It seems like if they actually give a damn about history, they should.
I agree with your argument that since consumers are the ones who demand the product, they are the reason such companies exist.

However, customers typically have little information on how many greenhouse gases are produced for a given product they buy, and especially not when it counts -- that is, in a store before a purchase -- so they cannot be reasonably expected to vote with their wallet.

One solution might be a combination of:

1) Labeling all products with the emissions that took to create them, so customers can easily vote with their wallet. Perhaps display them next to prices, perhaps with a label like Nutritional Facts on food products, or like a warning when some emissions threshold is exceeded, like smoking risks on cigarette cartons. Customers should not have to watch documentaries or do research on which companies are environmentally friendly and which aren't, but rather have that information given at purchase time.

One or both of:

2a) Subsidizing environmentally-friendly ways of production (perhaps even just for a time) so that these companies can survive against their coal-burning competitors. This way, customers voting with their wallet don't have to pay extreme prices for alternatives just because they think reducing greenhouse gases is good for the world -- with subsidies or tariffs, we could make alternatives somewhat price-competitive.

2b) Taxing goods made with too many greenhouse gases (i.e. the reverse of 2a).
If there are, they would be as difficult to recognize as germ theory to a 16th century doctor. We simply don't know enough yet about the mechanism.
I remember when the 1999 solar eclipse passed over Austria -- there was a huge hype over it. Newspapers came with cardboard glasses for looking at the eclipse.

I was a bit underwhelmed when it actually happened. The sun turned into a circle, and then it turned back into a disk. But I remember that I was surprised that crickets started chirping (which is obvious in retrospect -- they though it was dusk)
I almost miss the days when everything was about Hitler. At least then it had the veneer of being historical.

Now it's about ice road truckers, pawn shops, and things hillbillies like.
Men don't get a day of pain and cramps each month so I don't see why we should get the day off. Periods aren't fun, and I don't think men deserve a day at the golf course in exchange.
Loans = higher principle price is false. It could be true in some cases, but it was not in mine.

I negotiated a cash rate. I had the cash in my hand, and I got the lowest possible cash price, after talking to 6 dealers. Once I had the price printed on paper including all fees, I then said sure I will do the 0% APR loan. My price did not go up a single dollar.

Options 3 and 4 I could take that cash I would have spent on the car, and put into the stock market. It would have generated me 5-6% return, on average, over the life of my car.
In 2014 it was a year and half before bitcoin started growing again.
that's the assumption that a desk job is 8 hours straight productivity.

but manual labour might hedge towards male employment, that's true.
Apple to build second renewables-powered data center in Denmark
It depends on what you're currently using, how you're using it, and why. There are plenty of things from the easy but expensive (reserved costs) to the hard (rearchitecting). Depending on where you are in development and how much money you have there are plenty of things you could potentially do.
Looks like Qubes make you pay to get certified: https://puri.sm/posts/ "The costs involved, requiring a supplementary technical consulting contract with Qubes/ITL (as per their new Commercial Hardware Goals proposal document), are not financially justifiable for us."
> Google Plus was a very real competitor when they launched (right around the time of Facebook's IPO)

Has Google Plus at any point ever had as much as 2 percent of FB's active users? If not, what metric do you use to consider it a "very real competitor" at some point in time?
Obligatory George Carlin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM
Programming is already a complex machine learning system:

- The Reinforcement function is a human programmer (organic evaluation function) that transforms human needs (requirements) into an executable language (code).

- The organic evaluation function is made more efficient by shared knowledge where the evaluation functions can learn from each other (Stack Overflow, HN, etc.).

- The organic evaluation function is also made more efficient by improved organic processes (sleep, food, exercise, etc.).

- In addition, improved variety of executable languages can allow the organic evaluation functions to decrease input-speed and increase accuracy of translated requirements.

So, the level of automation is simply: To what extent are humans required to explain their own needs to machines.

Pure automation would seem to indicate that machines could interpret all human needs. But in reality, that would mean the machines are simply no longer listening or care about what a human thinks it should do.
Mining is about flop/$, rather than flop/s, so overclocking is actually rare. The best mining GPUs are the ones that are most efficient, not most powerful; overclocking usually trades efficiency for power.
> is there an i7 alternative for ARM

Qualcomm will first minimize its risk going into the PC market by making its mobile chips a bit more optimized for the PC market. But if that goes well and all, it may eventually go "upmarket" with higher-end chips, which will require their own R&D and so on.

However, I don't know if that necessarily means we'll have a more open alternative to Intel. Evidence so far seems to show that Qualcomm may be an even bigger bully than Intel was or is, so I would not look up to Qualcomm to being a savior for the market, but more like the tyrant that replaces the previous tyrant.
This is spot on. The strength and weakness in doing something as complex as safely landing an airliner full of people is all in the capability of the human mind to use technology. Especially in flying, I think (I did this for a career, a whole other career ago) it's easy to have everything going smoothly, then some "minor" thing be out of expectation, but hey things are going smoothly, so dismiss the minor thing because here's this other thing that does look just right, and ... and ... suddenly several mistakes have compounded.

It's sometimes harder when there's nothing impeding you at all to do everything right because the routine-ness of habit takes over. Being busy (but not overwhelmed), while more mentally and physically tiring, is sometimes easier, because you pay attention to the right things at the right time.
Well, you could load only the gems required for the environment: http://bundler.io/groups.html

Or maybe have more than one path for gems and change load paths between environments?

Or keep tests in a separate image from the production image under test? Similarly, build tools could live in a different image/layer.
I was really hoping we would have some common syntax for comments accross all languages. Something like doxygen + markdown, standardized that works for everyone, with a tool in all stdlibs to handle it.
In my case above it was for the wife, so it was a Honda CRV.

Small Japanese SUVs had a very very high value retention for the first 4-5 years.

Something like maybe the sticker price new is 25k, but what you really pay is closer to 21k new. A 3 year old would be going for 17-18k. After the maths above, it ended up costing more per year to buy used.
The best option right now is to use Rockchip ARM devices. With a few little compromises you can run a pretty much free architecture: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/c201.html
Why not? Well, a caveat: I will always use an RDBMS when the data is inherently relational. In a "serious application" (I realise the term serious is hyperbolic here and I shouldn't have used it) this is true most of the time.

If it weren't true, then of course I might consider using DynamoDB or similar. But I think these situations are few and far between.

I'm often wrong though and happy to learn about some counter examples if you have any / have my assumptions corrected.
Programming was in its infancy 50 years ago. Things tend to change drastically the first few decades but then the rate of (significant) change slows down as something matures. Take aviation for example. Think of how rapidly aviation technology advanced between the Wright brothers first flight and 50 years later. Now think of how aviation has changed over the last 50 years - sure there's been some advances, but nothing like the changes in the previous 50 or the first 50.

Programming will certainly continue to make advancements, but I wouldn't expect the advancements of the next 50 to rival the magnitude of those of the last 50.
Drinking more coffee can lead to a longer life, new studies say
On-the-fly migration with MongoDB C# Driver
the usual hype cycle - https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=ethereum,bitcoi...
I think the whole point of Qubes OS is t not trust hardware because of potential BIOS or ME backdoors.

Joanna Rutkowska, Qubes founder, is the person who brought up intel ME as a problem in her paper Intel x86 considered harmful (https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf).
Things like this are being tried. SeaTac airport has a taxiway which is large, parallel, and frequently (enough) mistaken for a runway.

> SEA-TAC personnel have been very proactive in trying to reduce the problem, including the installation of an unlit, nonreflective elevated lighted X at the threshold of taxiway Tango; broadcasting a notice on the Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) not to mistake the parallel taxiway for the adjacent runway; posting warnings on aeronautical charts not to mistake the taxiway for runway 16R; and the development of numerous training aids and brochures that explain the problem to transient pilots traveling through SEA-TAC.

(Testing of multiple methods begins on page 5)

http://www.airtech.tc.faa.gov/safety/downloads/TN07-54.pdf
Also culture. Seriously don't underestimate culture. In Eastern Europe/Russia "no" means "no" (and is often followed with "why are you asking me to dumb things" or "are you stupid?". In India, they have 200 different ways of saying "yes", with only a few of them actually meaning something along the lines of getting the things you need done actually done.

This isn't a slight, it is simply culture. There are many cultures where saying "no" is rude or offensive. Unfortunately, this is very difficult to translate remotely, and requires a long time of cultural assimilation.

I manage a lot of "offshore" staff, and have done for about 10 years now. I'll have the Eastern Europeans/Russians any time, also because frequently the outright or muttered "are you stupid?" is followed by a "here is how you should do this", which many times turns out to be a good way doing what I want done.

My team can call me stupid as much as they like, if it results in a better product/service.
Neither do all woman.
Direct your "so?" at the original poster who pointed out that a particular land was acquired by force, as if that was somehow notable.
I use Wordpress, too, because I'm more interested in publishing content than in dinking around endlessly with the latest fad in content management tooling.
> Again, maybe it is just me and need to spend more time learning it.

I had the exact same experience : after my first reading of the Rust book, I though I understood what's going on but once I tried to actually write something I was totally lost. I stopped using Rust for several months and when I came back, I read the book again and this time I had no troubles writing stuff and the concepts of ownership and lifetime became really clear.

I think the concepts behind the borrow-checker are really straightforward[] once you've internalized them, yet they are really unintuitive to the beginner. It's quite paradoxical.

[] except when the borrowck is not yet smart enough : http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/04/27/non-...
Why Go and Rust are not competitors (2015)
What is quantum computing and what could it mean?
> based on their gender

Based on their sex.

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html

> Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs.

> Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.

May as well link some script from the Life of Brian to demonstrate that you can identify (gender) as a woman if you are a male but where's the foetus going to gestate (sex).

http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm
nothing special here, just a 16GB card got marked as 64GB, this kind of scam has been there for ages. You got hit by dishonest marketing BS from big brands all the time as well, buying from reliable brand and its recommended (overpriced) channel doesn't solve the problem, it seem to become the standard way of doing business in storage (what is the likelihood to get a fake RAM/CPU/GPU to this extent?). I think that is actually the most scary part.

I was lately trying to buy a new SSD, surely you want a NVMe SSD, so I picked up the Pro version of this top brand SSD, as the spec is the best of the best you can find on the market. Did a simple test, fsync performance is actually worse than the 2 years old SATA SSD from the same brand and that SATA was a EVO module. Sure, they didn't advertise fsync performance, but do you think it is fair not to mention/disclose/report such very poor fsync performance when it is actually slower than their own 2 years old product?

I didn't waste my time to argue with anyone, got it refunded and bought the EVO version of the NVMe SSD as I thought I just forget about the fsync performance and save that $100 difference. Got the fancy EVO NVMe SSD, did a sequential write test, the throughput performance dropped like 40% after certain amount of writes. Carefully checked the product spec, there is some text on the box written in some size 2 font basically telling people to expect such performance drop as there is some cache style design there.

Well, at least I got this very good random IOPS spec, right? Did some tests myself, guess what? The advertised IOPS performance is only true when running in situations considered as rare or even abnormal for such consumer grade SSD - you need a very long IO queue depth. In plain English, if you just buy this consumer grade SSD and use it in a consumer setting, you are not going to get the advertised performance.

Fake or marketing BS? If the whole idea is to fool me to pay for their over stated stuff, then what is the difference?
That doesn't make the name any less stupid. It's exactly like calling automatic cars "gearless" because you don't need to manually change gears.
I put up an extremely offensive (yet legal) image or video, then link to it from a conservative forum. I then log the date/time and calculate how long, if at all, my server remains online. If it can handle the DoS or DDoS, phase one is good. If the provider doesn't cave to demands to remove the site, then phase two is good. At that point, I would call them a good server provider.

If you are referring to benchmarking, I might do a few quick tests with bonnie++ and openssl speed tests for the server itself and some iperf3 tests for the network throughput.
This viewpoint is amazing. It's so brilliantly obvious that it's an American saying this statement due to the horrible laws that are so far in favour of the business it's not funny.

In Australia (for example) where I am, annually we have 20 days of leave and 10 sick days by law. Those sick days are available for use for any personal issue be it period pain or mental health. I understand in Europe the leave schedules are event more in favour of the worker we're by no means progressive with the levels of leave we provide.
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I think AWS needs a good UX designer. I find that using AWS can be overwhelming at first. Here's a few suggestions:

1. Take "Amazon" out of every product name. Have a look at this list for example: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_lim... This adds nothing but clutter to the page.

2. Stop calling everything "Simple". If it's simple, people will be able to tell for themselves. Calling things simple potentially makes people feel dumb if they have a problem with it.

3. The sheer number of offerings (over 18 groups with multiple items) on the "Services" tab of the AWS management console is overwhelming. I'd have a designer see if there was a better way of organizing things.
>We cause these companies to pollute by creating a market demand for their products or services.

We do. But, what is your point there? Are you saying that individuals have the ability to group up and stop it by not buying? Because that would be true. But, there's always that problem of realism that gets in the way. In theory, yes, we could pretty much solve or do anything as humans. Does that mean its realistically possible? No. Corporations have grown up with capitalistic countries, and are ingrained in its culture and work.

Sure, I'll stop shopping at Walmart. Until I see my grocery bills go up, and my savings dipped into to pay bills. Its the same story for many, many others.

People don't know any better, and even if they did, and we all grouped together, these conglomerates have such a gargantuan amount of money stored away that they can bet it won't last. They'll win that bet. Employees go on strike, get new ones. Employees try to form a union, close the store, re-open a month later.

When you consider the absolutetely massive size of the money and assets here, the very notion that its 'our' fault, is true, but its reasonings misleading.
It's a tricky one, but on the whole I'm against 'positive' discrimination. It's still discrimination, it can still create contempt and undermine hard work (they're only in that job because they're [a], a smarter [b] probably didn't get the job, etc.)

It applies to maternity/paternity leave too. Until maternity and paternity leave are required to be equal by law, there will be a bias against hiring women, due to the simple mathematics. If the 'risk' is equal for a man or a woman, the bias is eliminated.
So why oppose clarifications on what 'original' means in this context?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender
sounds a lot like bunch of servers somewhere out there, under watchful eye of 3-letter agencies
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Sick leave? As far as I know that's exactly what it's for. It also has the benefit of not discriminating whether it's period cramps, migraines, a broken leg, food poisoning, or depression.

EDIT: I'm German. Sick leave is completely separate from vacation days here and not limited (although you get less money after six weeks because your health insurance takes over from your employer). Generally I find that one of the only acceptable solution to the problem at hand. Giving half your employees extra days off is a bad idea, conflating vacation and sick leave is a bad idea, and forcing employees to come to work when they're unable to is a bad idea.
I just don't care anymore - I keep windows on VM it's way easier (eg. WSL doesn't support docker). I don't use any other Windows app except: VS (from time to time) and Word. VirtualBox is more than enough for this (my host linux desktop is beefy machine though)
No doubt there's a potential for abuse, and there's middle grounds to be had. I've also caught hell from a PM for a project being 'late', even though I had 0 control over actually getting DB changes in, because the DBA was a) on vacation, then B) sick, then C) backed up on other work. But apparently, it was my team's fault that the project relying on a SQL database was not launched "on time" (a deadline I had no hand in making, nor did I agree to either).

The policy of "only DBA can make any changes to anything, and all schema changes have to be discussed, reviewed, vetted and approved by DBA" has benefits, in some situations, but also problems.

I had a DBA question why I needed pagination. "No one has ever asked for it before, and never needed it, and I think you're building your application wrong if you need that". After a few weeks of contentious meetings, we got hand-rolled stored procedures for each specific table/query, but they also took days to get to us.

But, hey, you know... at least the tables were normalized and we had "proper" indexes. We just took weeks to get done what should have taken a few hours to prototype (because, during the time we were building the tool, the team we were building it for ended up buying some third party service because we were taking so long).

We've all got war stories of incompetence on all sides (dba, dev, pm, whatever). This is why I advocate "middle ground". I trust a DBA who's actually done a bit of raw coding in their life. I trust a developer who understands the basics of SQL and DB workings (again, 'basics' are fine). I trust the estimates of a PM who is engaged with the team on a regular basis. I trust the views of a business analyst more if they actually show up to meetings and listen to the parties involved.
Most GPU manufacturers allow RMAs to carry between card holders. If you own the card you can RMA it. Out of 1/10th the cost of the GPU, some paper work, and some time waiting for a package in the mail, you get a brand-new-old GPU!

I'd love to upgrade from my GTX 750 ti (that I picked up for 60$ and an order of Chicken Tenders & French Fries) to something more high-performance.

Also, if you're not doing a 100% duty cycle, and replace the thermal compound on the card, even a well used card will last a few more years. If you can pick up the cards as sub-$70 it's still worth it.
They do, or at least the big-scale places who know what they’re doing do. When Gmail or aws-east-1 or something goes down for hours, nobody is fired: they figure out why it was allowed to happen and change procedures so it can’t happen again.
Now I'm wondering if you consider it sexist against men, who are denied this benefit. Or against women, who are (once again) stereotyped as weak and unreliable?

I guess the answer is "both". But I can't shake the feeling that this is actually much worse for women than it is for men.

In principle, I don't even have a problem with some groups getting a few more days off, or other special arrangements. Some countries have rules for minority religions, for example, allowing them to celebrate their respective holidays. But I can't really imagine any women thinking that this would be a good idea.
You mean Knuth was right?
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Hopefully now I can buy a 1080ti which increased 30% in price in the last months on Amazon DE.