skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One needs to remember that there are many more factors at play. Sometimes the only place you can afford a decent size family home will be in an area with lower wages. Hence it can make economical sense to have to take a higher paying job that requires travel in order to afford to provide for your family.

There are many factors at play in such decisions. "Having a choice" is something you do not always have depending on personal circumstances.
That's because this site is a bunch of nutters. Have a browse through the site. Perhaps they actually have a point, but it's difficult to take seriously when it's a crazy person trying to make it.

Anyone have a reputable link to the story?
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Tesla's console is the embodiment of form over function for UI. It looks beautiful having a flowing button-free cockpit, but I'd rather be able to adjust settings without looking away from the road. Whatever happened to HUDs? It seems like a HUD with a dial on the steering wheel would let you have the best of both worlds.
that the interviewer asked me to provide an alternate imperative implementation of the LINQ statement, just so he could see that I actually knew how to implement something like that rather than just use it

I wonder why interviewers look for these traits when it is very clear that you'll almost never implement a low level data structure.
If you time it right and the traffic and weather's good, you can get through 50% of Germany pretty quick :-).
Flagged because the website appears to be an anti-solar campaign to promote nuclear.

"Renewables like solar and wind require vastly larger amounts of land and mining in order to produce power that is unreliable. Under the guise of protecting the environment, renewables destroy the environment."
I try those watercooler conversations: the rare occasion the bosses aren't avoiding the proles on purpose, they just quickly make their drink then make excuses to disappear. If you touch on an important topic, it's not taken seriously because you're not in a meeting room.

Colleagues on the same level that hang out and discuss the latest new TV series seems that's good, but I don't think the bonds that builds are always strong.
Businesses can fail. That is true as well.

I guess we should never build businesses.
I wonder how their management (whoever has the authority to fire) measures performance. Hopefully it’s not as naive as hours in the office, as other commenters have suggested, because naive measurements must lead to perverse incentives.

I would suspect and hope that, given such high salaries, their retain-or-fire decision is more sophisticated than that.

I think that software engineering productivity is a fairly difficult thing to measure quantitatively. Any simple objective quantitative measure (like hours spent working, lines of code contributed, or tickets resolved) is bound to be too naive.

Software engineering seems like one of those things where it’s easy to subjectively identify very good and very poor performers, but difficult to draw a hard line or even compare two similarly productive programmers.
Hints in the full text:

"...it might be unethical to expose patients to an invasive placebo procedure. However, no evidence of harm to placebo groups was found in a systematic review of placebo-controlled surgical trials... After the follow-up assessments, study participation was complete, and patients and physicians were then unblinded to the treatment group allocation. Patients who had the placebo procedure had the opportunity to choose to undergo PCI after consultation with their physician."

But yes, it must have taken a lot of persuasion to get through ethical approval.
It is entirely dependent on the subject matter. Talking climate science with republicans is similar to talking about economics with democrats.
I think that these new 501c educational non-profits which obviously promote a corporate agenda are one of the most dangerous threats to rational discourse in our day.
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Please read the link I posted, which comes from the people who created the LGPL license:

> If you statically link against an LGPL'd library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application

The only thing that matters from the point of view of the LGPL is that your users are able to update the LGPL parts in your app. This is possible with static linking. Else for instance how would LGPL be possible with languages that don't even have a notion of linking (eg script languages), or which only allow static linking ?

See also : https://stackoverflow.com/a/15322678/1495627
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Has anyone studied if people outside of cushy tech jobs want to commute? particularly people with lower wages and things at home they would rather escape for 9 hours a day. Most people can't afford a home office too.
Every time, that's the argument. "Well everyone should become a founder if they care so much!"

Because it's an excellent argument.

"often unaware the founders hold 60%+ between the 2-3 of them."

Everyone who goes to work for a company knows that it's owned by someone else, dude. The vast majority of employees in this world get no equity at all. Ever.

the collective sacrifices of the company in whole.

As an employee, you are being offered a certain salary in exchange for performing a certain duty. You decide whether it's a good deal or not. There's no "sacrifice" involved.
We have open offices because we need to be close. We have remote workers because we don't need them close.
A transaction needs to be part of a block to be valid. So using transaction validation is a red herring. The validation uses same amount of energy it is required to be included in the block.

But, I see your point. So let's see how this thing will unfold if we talk about blocks (assuming all data is correct):

From the article:

> This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction

So, as per the article a house needs 215kwh per week.

Data Source for the article here:
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Energy consumption for yesterday shows as 24.25 Twh.
Block is generated every 10 mins so 144 blocks in a day.

24.25/144 = 0.17 Twh ~ 168 MWh or 168000 kwh for each block.

When divided with per house per week from article - 168000/215 ~ 781 houses

So the apt headline, as per you is -

"One Bitcoin Block Now Uses as Much Energy as more than 750 Houses in a Week"

I am sure people will love to talk about consumption per transaction if that was the headline.
After 22 years they still can't handle a mailbox correctly, so that's not very astonishing.
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While not at a bank, this part sounds very familiar:

> ridiculously crazy per-job pricing models where the job was never actually completed correctly and would often be charged multiple times to fix it

IMO it indicates something about power and incentives, where somebody in the company -- possibly in sales -- benefits from being able to arbitrary rewrite or ignore rules.

They have enough political clout that supposedly standardized systems must accommodate their fundamentally unpredictable exceptions, leading to software that is fragile or insane.
They also all agreed that Osama Bin Laden was behind 9/11 and not the various other crackpot theories.
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I am surprised at how many cynical people think that asking for Trump to be removed from Twitter has anything to do with censorship or violation of first amendment rights.

Twitter is a private business and its content is controlled by the company itself. If Twitter comes to the point when they would delete Trump's account, that would be the equivalent of kicking him out of your house. It is your house, your rules.

Right wingers tend to conveniently bend the borderline between public and private whenever it benefits them.
Because technology shouldn't surpass real human interaction.
Wanna world from Matrix movie?
> forced labor

You're breaking a signed contract, not escaping slavery. The notice period is usually in the contract, too (or at least it is here in Australia)
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It's not painful by itself - the problem is having to run wildly different environments all at once.
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I guess there might be the occasional reference to the heart being on the left, or to most people being right handed. So among human languages it would eventually learn. But it wouldn't work as Star Trek's "universal translator": aliens wouldn't share these traits with us. I suppose we could get lucky and find an alien textbook describing CP violations.
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Stop referencing Cambridge Analytica. They grossly overstated their results with intent. Everyone seems to have taken the headlines produced from their first post-US-election presentation as truth, without even bothering to watch that presentation. Because when doing so even the most forgiving would get a sense of screaming suspicion. They brag about taking one Republican candidate (Ted Cruz) from the bottom of 20 candidates to... #3 in the Republican party primary. And then the logic of the headlines continue on to claim that this means with 300 likes they can predict you better than you mother. Candidate #3? I promise you there were as many data analytic companies as there were candidates but the difference is that only Cambridge Analytica came up with the clever marketing pitches to promote their strategy and only they had the guts to promote that strategy even though their pony lost the race. And it shouldn't surprise anyone because good marketing strategy, not good data, lead to such sensational headlines. Cambridge Analytica should be treated with the suspicion provided to all marketing firms, because it is clear when looking closely that this is what they are, and one with a rather shady history full of scams at that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-23/trump-dat...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cambridge%20analytica&sort=byP...

Stop referencing Cambridge Analytica. The headlines that their marketing produced just happen to fit so nicely in the techno-evil horror fluff stories we all as liberal leftists (myself included) so desperately want to eat. But find better references, please!
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God I miss working remotely.
Not all of those differences are cross-cultural.
did you test it? how is it?
Do you have any indication that bitcoin is as labor-intensive as traditional banking?
>> These corpora are pretty hard to come by and expensive to produce.

Actually there are lot of texts translated by qualified translators in several languages, for political reasons: EU's commission websites, perhaps some other countries official websites.

You can have a look at Linguee [0] which uses this to provide translation suggestions:

[0] https://www.linguee.com/
> I'd like to look back and say "this year, I made X and Y" rather than "I read about X and Y".

A false dichotomy IMO. What I want is "this year, I understood X and Y", and understanding a thing involves both making and reading (most of the time).
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I'll hasard a guess as to why it happened:

-The failure of the documentation (which failed for various reasons)

-VCs who want their return on their precious dollars.
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Yes.

But species are to some extent artificial categories. Sapiens and Neanderthals were close. Genetically compatible and behaviorally similar (as far as we can tell). It would not be unreasonable to define them all as subspecies or ever varieties within a species.
All of the events you mention were in October after the emails were released by Wikileaks.

The spearphishing attack happened in March.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899#efmAAGAAb...

Also his password was never p@ssword, that was his Windows machine default pass.
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How is hardware switch going to let me (and software I write) do whatever I want with the machine while preventing software from the Internet from doing the same?
That sounds like something that could be tackled further down the line. I see people against any changes.

Even if global warming wasn't a thing reducing pollution is worth investing in for all sorts of reasons.
This is a good point. Still, for instance, the binomial left/right to indicate political position is common across many languages
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Living in the UK, my last job required three months notice to leave on paper. In reality they accepted a month which is standard enough.
There's some promising early stage projects in Rust world. They're all building on WebRender (firefox's new renderer), but without the DOM/JavaScript bit.
They sure have some influence on medias. Also, a lot of events thought as right-leaning get disturbed: MRA conventions, speech from "not the right people" in gaming conventions etc. which have security prices jacked-up because of bomb threats, fire alarm pulled to interrupt it. Also you get the antifa violence which everyone seem to have forgotten.
Fewer obstacles maybe? Also, with a fast plane you either land or take off, or do stuff in practically free space.
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To be fair, all the ads on SO are vetted (I think they did a blog post about it) to be relevant to the target audience, so it's always about tech.
Ok, I normally find myself disagreeing with HN every time Electron comes up. Basically, I think the upsides are worth the size and performance tradeoffs.

However, this seems to be almost an entire server deploy as well as a complete renderer all in one package. That does seem excessive to me for a desktop app.
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I think PM brought wide attention to it, but it's not like it's just some fringe theory of theirs, see e.g. this CBS report [1] from 2012 (after the PM article was published) with Captain Chesley Sullenberger (of the 2009 Hudson crash fame). Many aviation experts have weighed in on this.

Yes they don't have all the data, but they have enough to draw this sort of conclusion, including flight path, status of the plane at any given point, and the cockpit transcripts.

And true. Suggesting the fleet would be grounded was hyperbolic on my part. But I stand by my general point. Aside from happened in this accident, you're assuming that anything worthwhile to be learned from a given incident must be covered in the final report, or it must not be worth considering at all.

This expects too much of accident investigators, and doesn't account for the sort of institutional blindness that happens when everyone is used to things being done a certain way. Of course that was pilot error, two disconnected joysticks are just how planes are flown!

This wasn't the first case of an incident being attributed to Airbus's overdesigned flight controls, QF72 [2]. comes to mind.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=kERSSRJant0

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
The narrative you describe in your post is largely fabricated to rally, enrage and indoctrinate individuals.

It's disheartening how deeply the "us vs. them" mindset dominates our politics. You used the term "they" or "them" seven times in your short post. Seven. Who are they? A few trolls on twitter does not equal a meaningful movement. Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd and not conducive to meaningful discourse.

Having a slang term for "them" (SJW) implies that it's a such a common issue that people face daily, when in reality it's a strawman argument largely fabricated by organizations interested in keeping you squabbling vs examining their policies.

You go on to say "attempted act of censorship by an ex-Twitter employee is a fairly tame example of their tactics" "Their Tactics" as if this incident was part of a master plan orchestrated by a shadowy far-left extremist org. This is pizza-gate levels of delusion.
> [...], stop and think about the consequences of that shit.

Anybody else read it that way? ;-)
Binary logs were introduced on 3.23.

I'm not sure what you mean by multi master replication. If it's support for a single replica to receive events from more than one master at the same time, that was introduced on 5.7 on MySQL while MariaDB introduced its own, different implementation before that, on 10.0.1. If it's the possibility of setting up two nodes as co masters in circular replication, you could do that on 3.23 too.

A lot was done on MySQL after 5.0, like GTID, for example. You can see list of all that was introduced on 5.7 alone here: http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com
We commute because of our growth dependency. This is just another example of simple solutions that cannot be truly implemented because it does not make money/jobs.
We need to reflect what are the objectives of our acts. Right now we are consuming way to much resources in the name of progress! But progress to what? Soon enough we will face environmental changes that could be avoided if we such do less things, not more.
I once met a PhD student in mathematics who was working on the mathematics of string theory. We went out for a beer in one of the standard, alternative places for going out in the 90s in Berlin. He was unusually happy about it and told me why. For the past four years he was never going out, got up at seven o'clock in the morning, drank only moderate amounts of tea (never coffee), and studied and worked on problems until the evening. He had only a short lunch break, he told me, and avoided anything that would make him loose focus. He lived together with a flat mate who did essentially the same thing.

Needless to say he was insanely smart, maybe the smartest person I've ever met.

Anyway, he was overdoing the daily routine, he confessed to me, and missing out on too many other things. I wonder whether he stayed in mathematics, but don't remember the name.

Moral of the story (I suppose): If you want to achieve great things early in your life, routine and a distraction free environment is important. But keep it in a sane equilibrium with social life and find people to occasionally talk about other topics than your work.
I met a driver from Medan in Bali and have been curious to go since. How is Sumatra? Are the people friendly and is it easy to get around?
Because people have kids and working while your >1 to 2 years kid is playing is unbearable? /jk

All jokes aside, as someone who loves remote and work from home to avoid Bangalore traffic, sometimes, not always it is good to meet some face to face.

Sure this can be taken to an extreme too. My last job we had a manager who insisted on doing everything face to face which meant we were stuck in office beyond 8 hours. Then people started adjusting their schedule to accommodate those meetings, then there was barely 3 hours of actual work, 2 hours of prep and 3 hours of "face to face" meetings.
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> Twitter's response was this is not harassment, we won't do anything. I am pretty sure because of my political views

Given Twitter's utter inability to deal with harassment at all, I'd suggest it wasn't anything to do with your political views at all. They're just that shit.
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Maybe the Channels are what's you're after? Granted it's not out yet, but it seems a good fit for your use case.

https://stackoverflow.com/channels
Reminds me of all the Twitter API issues that clients face.
Surely the Neanderthals have been subject to the same selection pressure as homo sapiens throughout the aftermath of the Toba catastrophe nevertheless... No?

Assuming the bottleneck theory is valid to begin with, this was a global ecological disaster - it's not like the Neanderthals sat this one out on another planet : )
You are envisioning employees loudly inserting their politics into the workplace. When in reality it is more like litmus tests that if you don't give the right answer you are ostracized.
All Europe operates in a similar way, the difference is only the notice period, which is shorter (few weeks) in some countries like UK or Netherlands, and longer (~3 months+ once you've worked for a while) in other countries like France.

Of course many companies find that it's not flexible enough for them, so they abuse the system and illegally hire low qualified workforce as "independent contractors" on civil contracts instead of work contracts. Search for "zero hour contracts" for UK, but it's rampant also in Poland, Italy and other countries where unions are not strong and employees' rights guaranteed by law are not enforced.
Indeed, parts of this come across as more of a knee-jerk rant than anything.
I don't think non-fanatics are willing to go through such painful process for a large field of view. Maybe it would be more profitable to start working on a 360 projection screen.
a good 3d game can provide you with the same sense of virtual interaction.
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> I am surprised that Twitter didn't react more strongly especially given your claim that you received death threats on the platform.

They don't care. Many people get death threats on Twitter a day with no action from the Safety Team (see the replies to their "We're humans too and doing the best we can!" from last month.)
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Tell me about it. It's almost as if it's a good product that works well for most people (myself included).
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It was claimed that software for cracking the private keys has entered the black market, so they had to block the sertificates earlier than expected.