skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
POWER6 had stock clocks that went up to 5 GHz. I wonder what the most someone has overclocked one of those to is?
This is what I've studied, and taught in informal unpaid and paid settings. A presentation with audience teamwork is my favorite method.
Google removing the extensions is good but aren't there be legal forces to be used against this also. Find the publisher and jail them. They are clearly doing illegal cumputet access to the user of the plugin.
Some of the woodworking videos I've seen solve this by speeding up the video during the boring parts after you get the general idea. That way you can see there's no man behind the curtain. The ones that include the sped up audio as well are fun.
Her work is extremely important to the Mac and to Apple, but I don't like hero worship articles. It was a team effort, and there were a lot of people responsible for making the Mac (and Apple) what they were/are.

When people wrote lots of hero worship articles about Jobs they missed the contributions of Kare and others. This quote does the same thing:

> “If the Mac turned out to be such a revolutionary object––a pet instead of a home appliance, a spark for the imagination instead of a mere work tool––it is thanks to Susan’s fonts and icons, which gave it voice, personality, style, and even a sense of humor. Cherry bomb, anyone?”

Her work is important and great, but she didn't do it in a vacuum.

It seems like every profile of someone nowadays has to make them out to be a singular genius who's work is of individual, utmost importance. It's not enough to just say "Hey look at this cool stuff this person did!" They have to be singularly responsible for something.
> the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth

I take it you never used google talk via xmpp.
Value is always subjective. That's why both the seller and buyer gain in voluntary transactions. Eg. If you sell your used car for 2000, it means that you value 2000 in cash more than the old car. The buyer thinks the old car is better than holding 2000 in cash.
Thus the exchange benefits both. Adding value to both. The price is the same, but there are no losers. The same logic applies to voluntary job contracts ( non slavery). You don't have to like the salary, but that's your least worst option. economics has a term for it called 'substitute'. We all prefer to use the better substitute among choices in front of us. Doesn't mean the choice is the perfect one or a dream job.or even a living wage, just that that's the least worst option. also wages aren't determined by the capitalist plutocrats, it's determined by among others, competition between workers and their opportunity costs
This _is_ the usual trade off, but what makes FoundationDB so crazy is that it's a CP system that has a performance profile that AP systems would have a hard time matching.
Designing good multi-paradigm languages is very hard. I'm a big fan of Mozart-Oz and Common Lisp, and I think Odersky did a really good job with Scala. In fact, given that Common Lisp is languishing and Mozart was never a serious real world contender, Scala fills in a niche where there are not many competitors. C++, just for some use cases, Julia for others, and .NET.

The fact that many organizations working on massive datasets have embraced Scala proves there are not many alternatives around, sadly.
Good comment about not going on for half an hour. I have failed interviews by going from introvert mode to super excited mode and going on for way too long.

I see that in a lot of engineers. We are just not good at reading social situations.
You fired for someone finding bugs in your code?

This is beyond ridiculous and you're creating a hostile environment for your developers. It'll come back and bite you in the future.
Sad that this happened to the OP - some good coaching would have helped to smooth his transition into the team without raising hackles.

>>"But I don't like to criticize without showing a better way, so I decided to immediately start fixing the most glaring issues...that involved quite extensive changes"

Is where things probably started to go awry. As soon as I read that, I knew exactly what happened and why.

If anyone else faces similar struggles, take 5 minutes to read this fantastic Steve Blank post. Although it is related to selling, it provides great insight on how Engineers, (who win arguments by "being right" and "clearly showing a better way"), can use other tactics to influence and "win over" a team:

https://steveblank.com/2009/06/25/convergent-technologies-wa...
I’m pretty sure we have a rich body or work on information theory, Boolean logic, and circuit design. Also boolean computation is not ‘loosley bound’. It’s perfectly reproducible.
This doesn't mean they're using Scala to develop, necessarily. Some architects at the company I work for decided we needed Kafka, but there isn't a single line of Scala being written by anyone here.
I AM MASTER. YOU FOUND ME. DARN IT.
So heres the problem I'm seeing here. Liberal is not the opposite of Conservative. Conservatism opposes Progressivism, Liberalism opposes Authoritarianism. For the most part people in the US are liberal, they believe in general equality and freedom. Progressives are also generally liberal but also tend to stir the pot and want change. It is also very possible to be conservative and liberal, which a large minority in the US are. I'd also argue there are a lot of authoritarian conservatives and authoritarian progressives. But I think most believe in the basic principles of freedom and equality that define liberals.
When things aren't working their best, the #1 thing that has to change is the team, not the technology. Change the team and the technology change will happen automatically. Try to change the technology while alienating the team, and the tech changes won't get done or won't stick.

One way to change a team is firing/hiring, and I bet many readers' minds probably went there first. But firing and hiring are very expensive, especially in a time-constrained business, because time has a cost. And only a few people have the power to do that.

Another way to change a team is to alter or improve the people on the team. The value of influence--the ability to change the minds of people around you--is underrated by a lot of people, especially engineers who spend most of their time in a headspace where things are quantifiable, black and white.

A new person coming into a team that builds technology, who wants to change the technology, needs to focus first on changing the team via influence. This is a skill that anyone can learn, but it has to first be a skill they recognize and value.

The lowest person on the totem pole can't fire anyone, but they can certainly influence people. In fact, the ability to positively influence the people around you is a key skill for anyone who wants to grow into a leader in their profession.
You can take “messaging” out of that first sentence.
What sort of security do these employ though? Could these end up being like police radio frequencies where anyone can tap in and watch? If anything that might be beneficial because you could then have independent sources verifying a feed's integrity? Then again could someone override those frequencies and broadcast whatever they want you to see?
From the article:

> This accusation lead to another confrontation where I became aggressive (the guy attacked me personally), which probably was the last drop for them.

This leaves a lot of room for interpretation. If he got physically agressive he would be fired on the spot pretty much anywhere.
Quick, someone put a blockchain on it. Battery-free blockchain Internet-of-Things sounds like a several million dollar ICO to me!
I don’t know is this is a good troll because I’m replying or a bad troll because it’s so obvious.

There are Many people who work at many companies doing real development with Scala that goes all the way to production, handling real user traffic.
In article they speculate that maybe this happened because deep diving can kill you
Yes, my company is using Quorum to build a permissioned blockchain amongst industry parties to exchange data for various value-add purposes.

We have done a lot of analysis and can see large benefits of using Ethereum based private network in this way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/04/02/unitedhe...
I find the common cause of bad code is changing requirements. If someone is given the choice of a change that takes 1 hour or 1 week it's very hard to stick with clean code. Make a change and then undo it more than once, and it's easy to leave a few if (false) bits hanging around that don't break anything today.

Next biggest issue is a changing team. If you don't really understand some bit of code it's often safer to code around it than mess with it.
I was held back from using Scuttlebutt because of how convoluted it seems. I browsed the website for 30 minutes and I couldn't find a concise, written explanation of how the protocol works. And now this? If I subscribe to a pub I see all crap everyone is posting? What's the point? I'm better using twitter

I really like the idea of a distributed social network, but it needs a simpler, straightforward protocol. And it needs to be free of clutter.
Yeah agreed that Apple could be doing more with their Mac product line. I would like a better MacBook Air (with retina and less bezel around the screen....more like the Dell XPS 13) and a more powerful reasonably priced Mac Mini.
> Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.”

Gosh, cmd+S / ctrl+s doesn't work? Am I the only paranoiac that saves work every few seconds? Are all developers like that?
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers [video]
Link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZePj70B4IwyNn1ABhJW...
Wow, that was hard to read. The writer really doesn't seem to understand any of the fairly huge missteps he made that led to his dismissal.

Being technically competent isn't the only factor in job retention. I feel like this is an especially difficult fact to accept for some of our tribe.
Will this now now third party services will be able to send rich messages to a phone number? This could be a good or a bad thing. I occasionally get random messages from my carrier or ad spammers, not looking forward to them including images or media in those.

On the flip side, if you are a startup, you would be able to send rich messages to your clients without having to integrate Facebook messenger, Whatsapp etc etc
I believe that any student buying Bitcoin for 1000 euros while receiving student benefits from the Finnish social security system should have all of their benefits immediately revoked. Same if they decided to invest 1000 euros of social security benefit money on ivory.
Right, but he's just simulating existence, not solving it.
You read it wrong. You poison others. You kill innocent people
It doesn't mean anything if you are "right" but nobody will listen to you. To effect any change you have to not only be "right" but also be able to convince others around you of what you are trying to do.
I think the use of monolithic here is that CockroachDB is higher level than FoundationDB. The project was not designed to be your do-everything-DB that you layer different systems on, but has a specific goal and is intended to be used directly.
5 seconds of googling reveals that this is bullshit. I didn't even need to resort to google translate: https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/en/name-days/finnish-names-act...
> I identify as male, and if someone kept using she/her/hers pronouns or it/its pronouns to refer to me I'd be offended and rightly so.

I agree, you'd be right to be offended. But "offence" is not the real problem, the problem is that you can then have someone charged and fined just because you were offended. How do you justify that additional step? Why am I not free to identify you as a Datsun, if I so choose? Is it really a human right, a moral imperative, that I must address you in a way that you prefer, rather than simply a matter of etiquette?

I'm familiar with the gender and race issues at play, and about the issues surrounding C16 and various people's takes on it, and Peterson was actually right about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01ebidd1IU

And he's hardly the only one that raised concerns about it. And I don't mean sources from right wing news outlets. There are already a few cases of comedians being fined for jokes which, while probably a little cruel, still seems like a troubling implication of these kinds of laws.

> The left simply has nothing with the scale or history of those groups.

Indeed they don't have the history. The scale has been increasing though, and the ultimate trajectory should be obvious, and you should find this trend troubling.

> But re: organized campaigns to harass, ruin people's lives online, etc., again a twitter campaign is nothing like bills to deny you control of your body (reproductive rights). It's nothing like a racist criminal justice system. It's nothing like a society where LGBT people experience mind numbing levels of sexual assault

Except you're being disingenuous in ascribing all of these to the right, and also to some form of organized or malicious intent.

While I think abortion restrictions are stupid, from the right's moral framework it's literally murder. So this is not a malicious campaign to restrict women's reproductive rights the way you've framed it. You're simply not dealing with their philosophy on its own terms.

And while the racial disparities in the criminal justice system are absolutely alarming, are you suggesting it's overtly, maliciously and intentionally racist? As in, right wing policy makers specifically crafted laws to keep minorities down because they believe them to be inherently inferior? Or is it possible that there are certain puritanical beliefs emblematic of the right, like disapproval of mind altering substances, that just so happen to correlate more strongly with minority demographics?

Which isn't to say that that overt, explicit racism isn't also present and influencing such policies, but you're grouping a lot of people into this malicious category and calling them all "right wing", and I'm not convinced that that's warranted.
Not only do they keep cancelling chat projects but this one isn’t even end to end encrypted. What’s the point. Either release a superior product or just let it go.
Humans Are Underrated, F*CK AI
It's trivial to avoid it in data science, with even modest to large (although not "Big") data in the few TB range. My data science team's entire stack is basically Python, with a smidge of Java and Rust for infrastructure (soa, pipelines) development.
The carriers are idiots. It's where innovation goes to die.

We had to pull them kicking and screaming into the smart phone and data era. (Remember When AT&T sent a paper copy of every image you downloaded on your iPhone in a bill?)

Quite frankly the core problem with Google's strategy is involving then at all. Instead, go the manufacturers and campaign against supporting sms at all. It's insecure, slow, unreliable, monitored, among many other things. Push the manufacturers to an open Android messaging api that runs over TLS (or double ratchet) and bypasses the carriers completely, but the manufacturers can still rebrand.

The other issue is Apple. For as much as they claim "privacy is a human right", they have been jerks about making sure iMessage drags it's feet using secure technologies to communicate outside of their ecosystem. Apple wants to ride a white horse on encryption, but in reality they're having an opposite, negative, effect on the vast majority of the world's population.
Orkut was great ... but not exploitable in terms of commerce. It lost almost all its market share in the industrially developed West, but was huge in BRIC countries. Not the target demographic Google was looking to exploit at the time. And thus it got killed.

Google is primarily a marketing company. They need to make money off of their products. In that context, all the products you reference, which I agree were pretty great, were not useful to Google. So they got killed, or allowed to languish, in the hope that they would at least drive new users into the Google ecosystem.

I do have to disagree with part of your assessment of Google Photos. You are 100% accurate ... it's a file dumpster with a UI that I routinely forget about. And that's perfect. I do not need to have a relationship with my software. But it quietly functions in the background, and periodically rewards me with an animation or AI-generated image? Hey, that's pretty cool. I'll share that with my family and friends. And that's what Google wants to see.
Many people self running a real estate business are interested in a sustainable income, not necessarily growth.

At 50 properties, your friend probably could start leveraging a team and either get more properties and more income or simply get more time for himself and still have enough income. But, a lot of people will have topped out at 10 or so properties, if you're paying other people to do the work there, you may not be making enough income to grow your assets.
Running code on the Ethereum network is pretty expensive, so I imagine a private network would be much cheaper. Of course, just running your apps in a more centralized fashion is significantly cheaper. There may be some edge cases where you don't need the same levels of trust as the main Ethereum network but also don't have complete trust over the participants.

I've always been a big fan of the technology behind cryptocurrencies, but have also always struggled with the use case for private blockchains.
Yes, most houses in the US and Canada are built using these types of materials. Specifically they are:

- A poured concrete foundation. (Sometimes blocks are used.)

- Dimensional lumber - spruce/pine/fir cut to standard dimensions for structural members (rafters, studs, joists, posts, beams).

- Engineered lumber - structural lumber that looks like plywood, strandboard, or combinations thereof but is designed to bear significant load in horizontal or vertical structural applications. This stuff lets you build stronger structure in less space than simple dimensional lumber, and there's a huge range of products for different applications.

- Panels - OSB or plywood manufactured panels (typically in 4x8ft sizes) are typically used for roof decks and wall sheathing.

- Housewrap and siding - to seal the exterior against water and air leaks, and provide a nice-looking exterior covering.

- Insulation - because there are nice big cavities inside of a wood-framed wall, that's a natural place to put insulation. Fiberglass is the most common, but foam, cellulose, and rock-wool products are also frequently used.
Yeah, NEVER be overhead if you can avoid it.
> With SMS I know that I can send a text to anyone.

Unless their phone is turned off, or in a different room, or they’re in a different country, or they’re outside cell coverage and have wifi only.

I’m not arguing googles shit is good, but sms is a fucking woeful alternative.

I send most “messages” from my laptop, and about 1/3 are “international”.
On Coursera it is called "Social Psychology" offered by Wesleyan University. I don't see any upcoming sessions, but there may be an archive somewhere.
Discord Valued at $1.65B in New Funding Round
I find trying to describe what I want another person on a computer to do an incredibly frustrating experience. I can't imagine how awful it would be under interview conditions!
Sometimes a contractor, who has been on lots of jobs and seen everything, can tell immediately that things are not going well. They can see a way out. And 6 months is a long time to watch the walls fall in around you.

I'm in such a situation now. A large rambling app that shouldn't be an app, written in a spaghetti style. Ever more features compounded by a boundless bug list, growing daily. All addressed by too small a team, clutching at 'agile' to make some measurable headway. But its a forced march into a gale, and losing ground all the time.

Contractors were supposed to come onboard to help retool and redesign. But got roped into bug lists and creeping features and daily standup meetings that take 45 minutes. Work is evaluated solely by 'momentum' and tickets closed and other futile things.

So we all turn, turn, turn the crank, because crank-turning resembles work and we're getting paid.

Six months are just about up! So what should I do next? Say something now? To whom? These guys are all marching in formation off the cliff, and have no bandwidth to entertain philosophical discussions about the nature of gravity and the sharpness of the rocks at the bottom.
There used to be a message on my phone that hangouts was deprecated in favor of messages for SMS. This message would pop up ever week or so after I acknowledged it.

Fast forward a couple weeks, I decide to delete hangouts and soley use "messages." Phone service stops working. I call google fi. Apparently Google Fi depends on the hangouts app to be installed. I complained that I wanted to use hangouts again because it grouped hangouts and SMS, reinstalled hangouts, and everything starts working again.

The message about deprecating hangouts has NEVER showed up again, and I get to use my phone as I wanted to in the first place. Hopefully my little piece of happiness in hangouts doens't get bombed on soon by some eager project manager
He was fired for doing an unsolicited code review, which the grandparent did not ask for nor deemed necessary. Plus the wording implies the grandparent felt attacked - as the thread earlier mentioned, you shouldn't barge in and go all Steve Jobs and yell THIS IS WRONG! THIS SHOULD BE FIXED! right off the bat.

I do understand it though, and when you're fresh in a project it's easy to go for the low hanging fruit like that. But, be subtle about it, ask if it's welcome, that kinda thing.
^ I don't remember writing this comment, nor do I recognise the username, but I must have wrote it :-)
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You are correct that I introduced the collapse of the entire ecosystem. That's what garbage in the ocean does. Which is why it is fundamentally different than garbage in space. Because garbage in space is not going to make life on planet earth unsuitable any time soon. Which is also why it is not "much much worse" to have garbage in space than in the ocean.

Keep downvoting me though because that's how people handle being disagreed with buried in replies that no rational people are reading.
I recently got a copy of "A Field Guide to American Houses", from which I learned the term "vernacular architecture" and that all the house names you hear on TV (Victorian, Cape Cod, Ranch ...) are just one slice of architecture, "polite architecture", and historically not a very big one. The way most of us think of architecture today, an architect designs the building to some (not necessarily well thought out ;-p) philosophy and then you go and build it out of the appropriate materials.

In vernacular architecture, someone woke up one day and decided to build a house. They built it house-shaped, from whatever materials were cheapest and most available in their region at the time, using whatever techniques were common in said time and place. The patterns of vernacular houses in different times and places are fascinating; you're shining a flashlight through the region of a peoples' brains where the archetype "house" is stored and seeing what it looks like.