skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"XYZ is a business, and can set whatever policies it wants..." is one of those thought terminating cliches that one uses when one wants to try to derail any discussion about corporate ethics and governance, stakeholders vs. shareholders, discrimination, abuse of customers, etc. It pretty much adds nothing to the discussion, and in fact detracts from it.
Is it though? "facebook should have done this, zuck should have done that, why would facebook do these". It clearly sounds irrelevant when you think facebook as a corporation, which is something people clearly forget.
> challenges with Rust are written off in an off-hand way and its features exaggerated

I think people are pretty straightforward about Rust's challenges. The borrow checker can be a hurdle and probably needs more work (although it is getting a big boost soon with non-lexical lifetimes). Compile times are not great. The macro system is powerful but can be confusing. People from some mainstream languages may have trouble wrapping their heads around the type system.

Regarding its features, these attributes:

* it can do low level, fast code;

* it's not garbage collected, but is memory safe;

* it has zero cost abstractions (and, conversely, it doesn't have ridiculous, unnecessary, slow abstractions);

* it doesn't ignore the last thirty years of innovation in programming languages (by which I mean it has a modern type system, closures, variant types, and a few other things);

* it doesn't have 30-40 years of cruft;

* it has a standard and very high quality build/packaging system;

* its developers are thoughtful and have good taste;

* it has a reasonably big community and has a good chance of catching on even more widely;

are huge. You say you think its features are exaggerated, but to my mind, what's to exaggerate? That list looks pretty great to me.
You could also possibly use BAMS and ignore a negative space. You'd also likely save a few bytes on your location data as well (unsigned short instead of float).
Why would they sell it? That undermines the fundamentals of the product.
Here's a recent discussion recommending a specific site that might help you as a resource, but I don't see much there regarding locality.

How far can you go with MySQL or MariaDB?
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14892184 (Aug 2017)

> dmux This is a great resource RE indexing: http://use-the-index-luke.com/

There is a detailed PostgreSQL optimization comment there that may be more what you had in mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14896154

> olavgg: Use multi-column/functional/partial indexes, as this will help you design a database where most of your 'hot' indexes can fit in RAM. If you have too many indexes, you will do index scan on disk, which is painfully slow. I[n] many cases a full table scan (sequential read) would be faster instead.
So it's that other 10% to which racist terrorism is a sensible response.
You could see what the folks at Hackaday.io are doing.

https://hackaday.io/list/3746-programmable-logic-projects
It’s not the dominant career path because there are too many applicants for too few jobs.

In many fields, academia is the option for a career in research, and a viable career in academic research means a professorship.
This is going off topic a little bit but it's interesting. Do you actually know what those aspirations are? Are you able to read original sources in Spanish? it might come as a surprise to you but this whole thing is built on extreme in-solidarity and those aspirations amount to "we want to contribute less tax to poorer regions" or "we didn't like that our unconstitutional law was declared unconstitutional". The central government actually ceded to those aspirations for 25 years and it was when they got too unjust for the rest of the country when they said no more.
It's significant, especially when locality is related to temporal locality (ie: most reads will be relatively recent writes).

The biggest upside is serving more reads from the in memory portion of indexes after things start having to live on disk.

Occasionally, locality also nets a win on relevant query results residing in contiguous storage blocks- but fast queries should be reading tons of data in the first place.
If there is one thing that people know deep in their guts today, its how long an ox could plow before tiring.
New York voters have no First Amendment right to snap ballot-booth selfies
Survivorship bias should have beeen mentioned in this article when talking about the fact that older employees are more likely to do well than younger ones. Given the smaller percentage of older employees (versus what should be expected), it is likely those that do survive will be better than average.
> treason and sedition

What is this? Treason to what? Something they do not believe in?

Sedition? By definition, but not necessarily with the negative connotation of your word choice.

Regional vs national government? This is exactly what Catalans are trying to sort out.

Taxpayer's money? This is one of the issues that Catalans are complaining about (rightly or wrongly)

Your whole arguments boils down to: "things are as they are, and trying to change them is bad because that would mean things do not stay as they are".
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Hey guys, I made a new site (arkitdev.co) to collect all the tutorials, articles and code repos about ARKit, since I know many of us are super excited about playing with this new tech and seeing what we can come up with. :)

Feel free to submit your own links, although the form can be bit buggy at times. Currently I'll have to manually review and add a "maker" to each of the posts, but that will hopefully change in future versions.
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My solar city installation of the solar panels was a breeze.
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> He later changed his methods to something you might read about in a book like How to Win Friends and Influence People.

This anecdote is actually mentioned in HtWFaIP! About halfway through, in the chapter "A Sure Way Of Making Enemies - And How To Avoid It". (I was reading it this morning - underrated book)
It's the first time since I'm alive a language that is higher level than C/C++ can compete with C/C++ in the benchmarks.

If you have experienc with large C++ code bases you probably know how impossible it is to write safe code. Also after you use only unique/linear types, single inharitance (which is advised when working with a big code base), you are writing something that's easier to express in Rust than in C/C++.

Inlined asm will stay of course, Rust doesn't try compete with it.
Lets also remember that as you progress in your career it takes longer to shift between levels.
Lovely bit of fuckery. Customer support and ease of installation usually make or break products. That said, Tesla is probably experimenting several things by letting David be the Guinea pig.
Apple now sells an iPhone dongle with a headphone jack and charging port
It really does just boil down (in my opinion) to code size. A small program is going to have fewer bugs than a large program. And Clojure programs can be quite small compared to the same programs written in other languages.

While I too am attracted to the static typing in many ways, I have found in my own experience of working in C++ full time for a few years (with some non-trivial work in Swift as well, which has quite a strict type system), and then Clojure full time for a few years, that when you measure all the other features of a language, typing alone does not make a big difference.

It's kind of like the argument some people make about how the cost of your rent or mortgage is the best indicator of your cost of living. There are so many other factors, and some of the lowest cost of living I've personally experienced has been in places with considerably higher rent than average, due to the offset of other factors.
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Those are not where the tribes lived. That may be where they are now.
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I never forgot about when Yahoo! helped China throw dissidents in prison.

Won't forget this either.
Torts rooted in libel require financial damages. Our revenue has increased (companies banning us increases our legitimacy among our readers) so we have no plausible claim to damages. Cloudflare could literally argue that they did us a favor in court and get the case dismissed.
runkit is server side. Therefore the evaluation is not instantaneous. Also, you cannot manipulate the DOM.
And nobody will report that because it is not "news". Therefore we will see a disproportionate amount of bad installation experiences reported. Actually, expect _all_ of the bad experiences to be recounted publicly, while the happy majority stays silent.
After four years, our bootstrapped business can now pay my co-founder too
It indeed is. Check out the open source community edition https://erpnext.org
We're trying with http://vulcanjs.org
why do they have bad ones? they shouldn't. don't try to blame the media
> why there is such social expectation.

Do you consider laughing at people at random to be socially acceptable? Why would smiling be fine but laughing not be?

Now the question becomes, _why_ do some cultures have the social expectation that an impromptu smile is acceptable?
you do know he went to harverd.....
That seems dishonest to me. They're saying that some results are more significant after the fact. Is there any mathematical justification for why this is OK?
Oh man, if you think that's bad, try filipino spaghetti sauce. It's practically frosting.
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Are they really counting raindrops though, or just estimating rainfall intensity?

I'm guessing the latter --- in which case, I'm not sure I'm a fan of the sensationalism....

Regardless, is there a good resource for the modeling done in this?
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> What this means is you can't tell whether an experiment launch has gone badly wrong.

Personally I prefer automated testing to tell me if a feature has gone badly wrong, not conversion numbers. Then I find out before I launch too.

Or do you mean that the UX is so badly designed the users cannot use your software anymore? In which case, maybe there are bigger problems than real time analytics
and i thought that i'd just learned new US English idiom :)
Wow. I really thought there would be more energy in an earthquake. That's just like a smallish nuke.
DNA in the dock: flawed techniques send innocent people to prison
It's been mentioned in other articles, but the ability to induce birth allows for mothers to avoid birthday on holidays. They can plan, and with assistance, schedule a delivery a day earlier for example.
Microsoft bets on fuel cells to reinvent power-hungry data centers
Sure I can, I am Spanish and Catalan, so I can read the Catalan version too (not particularly interested in any of both versions). Whatever the Truth behind all those complex questions is, at some point this becomes a matter of opinion. And opinions are measured at the voting booth.

Modern societies should be flexible enough to allow for friction-less changes: there are no holy cows.
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Since Go makes concurrency easier and encourages its use, there’s going to be a lot more concurrency bugs. By contrast languages like Python don’t even have proper parallel threads, so fewer people will write concurrent python programs and fewer bugs will arise. This is a confounding factor found in one sort or another throughout the survey.

It’s good that they did this research but unfortunately they couldn’t account for everything.
That is great and all but I would still classify this kind of behavior as predatory and taking advantage of the young.

Payday loan places are also pretty transparent about the situation.
See elsewhere in this thread. Cultures where smiles aren't common usually have something social attached to it. I.e. bloody historic past, constant instability and so on.

So I don't see here anything out of the ordinary. It's quite an expected effect on human emotions.
Think back to grade school after you learned how to do long division. Then pretend you didn't have pencil and paper, so you had to do it in your head. If someone interrupted you right in the middle, wouldn't it be hard to get that context back and continue? It would for me. At that point, I would most likely have to start again at the beginning.
How interesting. I never have any anxiety regarding learning something.

It's a source of excitement and interest.
As astonishingly accurate as Google's maps are, they lack a lot of resolution and data for under-developed regions like Oceania and Central Asia. The quality of the Soviet mapping projects were such that they're still competitive with a lot of the commercial offerings today for the more remote regions of the planet.
I would argue that it is (also) warfare waged against the citizenry by established domestic political parties/players.
Also many production-grade compilers (GCC/G++, Clang, OpenJDK, V8, and almost every new language that's come out since the 90s) are open-source. You can go read the commit logs & source code to see how they work, if you're diligent and willing to slog through them. There are certainly tricks that professional compiler writers use that aren't covered in textbooks (the big ones center around error-reporting, incremental compilation, fancy GC algorithms, and certain optimizations), but you can always go consult the source to learn about them.

I thought the thread was really about domains where the bulk of knowledge is locked up in industry rather than being about rigor, but I'd put control systems in that category as well. Also information retrieval (Google's search algorithms are about 2 decades ahead of the academic state-of-the-art...the folks at Bing/A9/Facebook know them too, but you aren't going to find them on the web), robotics, and aerospace.
Because they actually can deliver on this, there are plenty of would-be buyers, and there's little regular folks can do about it. They know people won't stop using their services, because they're too critical in day-to-day lives.
I'm a visual learner, so I like to see things visually - but also do my own research by reading about abstract concepts.

There also needs to be a level of discussion with other learners to keep motivation. Can't wait until AR does all the stuff I want.
This isn't a "oh, I waited for two hours for the cable guy to show up!" situation. This is some next-level incompetence.
I never thought this argument rang true. Many countries with great mineral wealth are quite poor and dysfunctional, and many with little such resources are wealthy and successful anyways

Agreed. I was replying to a point about South Africa being richer than its “black governed” neighbours. In fact, all shared a similar colonial history and achieved independence within a similar time period, and they were, in fact, all white ruled till relatively recently. The difference between them was the vast mineral wealth in South Africa. Ignoring this would be the same as comparing, say, Yemen and Qatar, wondering why the one is poor and the other is extremely wealthy, and deciding that Qatar’s success comes down to it being a Sheikhdom.

The transition to democracy probably did happen more suddenly than planned, because the assasination of Chris Hani by a right-wing extremist in 1993 brought South Africa to the brink of civil war, and the apartheid government pretty much lost control at that point.

And the problem with the civil service was even more pernicious than inexperience-there were multiple Bantustans that were deeply corrupt, and their civil services had to be integrated into the newly created provinces bringing the rot with them. Coupled with the ultimately self-destructive apartheid Bantu Education system, it’s no wonder that the government struggled to cope.
I'm pretty sure they already kinda started, only, like top-level credit cards, it's invite-only and not advertised, but done only for "special friends" on "special occasions". People with don't believe correct things have been losing accounts on Twitter and Facebook for quite some time already.
Could you explain the process so we can compare it with the steps the OP went through?
Great link, thank you
> In my opinion an office full of head down developers who don't feel they can talk to anyone, is a horrible environment to spend 1/3 of your life in.

I agree with that. But I also think that being in an office full of developers that can't use their "inside voice" is a horrible environment to spend 1/3 of your life in.
The extremes in the graph are interesting - Japanese think smilers are the stupidest, Germans think they're the smartest but not that honest. The Swiss think smilers are very smart and very honest, Iranians think they are studpid and dishonest.
> Yes, it was agreed and allowed under local law. Catalonian's referendum was not. It's not legal. Needs to be agreed upon.

There is no way Catalans could organize a legal referendum. That's something which is not going to change in the foreseeable future, specially having seen how the Spanish government has been behaving the last 15 years.

Whenever you say to Catalans: this is not a legal referendum, you loose all legitimacy if you do not suggest how this can be made legal. And by that I mean a serious, well intentioned proposal, not simply a way of kicking the problem down the road, as the often repeated "let's change the constitution to allow for a referendum". This is positively never, ever going to happen, so it can be considered a joke.
I like the notion of Bi-Pb eutectic designs myself, but LFTR is much more likely in the near term.
why are there so many photos of Putin smiling?
Fascinating study, but I think a lot of the conclusions in this study are self-evident. For example:

"However when compared to the average, as a group, languages that do not allow implicit type conversion are less error-prone while those that do are more error-prone."

A lot of the conclusions are along these lines: languages with explicit type conversion have less [type conversion] errors. Well, of course...

Still worth a read though, and makes a strong case for functional, statically-typed languages.
For Facebook, the users are not consumers, but the raw material. The advertisers are the consumers. Of course, Facebook won't want to lose the eyeballs, but the way most people use FB would almost not changed, maybe very slightly - so within a small margin, nobody would leave.
It certainly does introduce side effects (by default, for Apollo or Relay):

* A network request is kicked off if the cache doesn't contain the data the component declares a dependency on.

* other components that depend on any part of the requested subgraph will update when the response comes in

* query observers (which HoC'd components really are) will similarly fire, potentially triggering other side effects in your application
Women in crypto
Shameless friend-promotion: http://tinyfpga.com

I spoke to the creator today and he's planning a tutorial/example IP series - probably open to suggestions if there's anything you're particularly interested in.
How many datacentres does the average "small local business" have?

For the price of hardware we're talking about, it'd just get replaced.
Not OP but similar situation.

> Do you have a manager you can sit down with for ten minutes and explain this dynamic to?

Yes, he disagrees with my position.

> It's possible your colleagues don't fully understand the implications of their actions

My colleagues do fully understand.

>...how dysfunctional some office environments are

We just moved into an newly built open office plan RIGHT next to finance (finance has our "loud laugher", you know who I'm talking about). Someone thought this was a good idea....
It's pathetic is what it is. I've read he's also studying Chinese. It's really really pathetic, and if such tactics influence the Chinese administration—and we know that they do from Hollywood sucking up to China in recent years in the most abhorrent of ways—Chinese administration is pathetic as well.
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Mine was surprisingly quick and easy as well.
I hope that part of being accepted into a PhD programme involves the ability to realize that there’s not much room at the top.

Personally I loved my PhD experience even when I knew that the race to tenure was not for me. In many ways the reward of a science PhD on the jobmarket is large. At my current company we are treated as superstars among both engineers and management, and there is plenty of ways to make use of whatever lessons learned. (Disclosure: experimental particle physicist working in the European defense industry).
It’s obvious people are able to influence some contol over this, I huess through inducement (or just holding it in??).

Avoiding holidays was the obvious trend, but there were two others I saw that made me chuckle:

1. People avoiding February 29, so they don’t give their kid that 1-in-4 birthday pain.

2. The spike on February 14! People want their kid born on Valentines (cute, but not really romantic...)
Lucky you. I would love to be able to make that move.
That's a false equivalency. Yes, Russia has a horrible human rights record. That doesn't speak directly, in any way, to the rattling of sabres over alleged (or hypothetical) political sabotage.
Stasis Fields and General Products hulls?
Here you go: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf

Seems to be from 2014 and has the exact same list of authors, I think. (Hosted in ~filkov which I'm assuming is the www_public of Vladimir Filkov.)

No idea what changed since then.
Doesn't seem to work on Safari ?
It's President Xi (the current president) who he asked, not President Hu (the former president). Regardless, I agree it was a shameless display.
I’s love to know that too. I assume some part of the September bump is “festive cheer”, which would still show in Australia. But it’d be fun to know how much was each.
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Firstly, thanks for your detailed insight.

We are trying to hire our first full time employee and it's been challenging for me personally to fully go by our gut feeling when it comes to the culture fit aspect. We don't want to be limited by the biases of the founders. It led me to think about what truly defines us at this stage of the company. Any thoughts on getting clarity about this?

I agree to your point that the true core values will be defined as the company grows.
The key is to keep the price of filing the same. So when you have a $20k budget for patenting, you will still only file the same number of patents. Then the one-pager will have to be succinct and to the point. If it doesn't convince the examiner that it's novel, the patent gets rejected and the application fees are wasted. Most patents today are just legalese with a zillion combinations of embodiments of the main claims. Just keep it to the claims and be specific.
Ling is a special beast since erlang is basically begging to be it's own runtime os.