skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are going to have children. By "subsidize childcare" I mean childcare during the day so people can work.

As far as the DMV office that seems like one of the better run places. You go in, fill out paperwork, they give you a ticket, and you sit in the waiting room and when your number is called, you do an eye test, take a picture, swipe your card and you are in an out.
The decision space for macro is very limited, but correct execution of it extremely important.

The basics (Spend your money, don't queue units, don't get supply blocked) are trivial. Executing them perfectly for 20 minutes, during a stressful game, is impossible. The best players in the world can't do it.
When talking about Neruda's life, don't leave out the fact he had a mentally challenged daughter. He had her institutionalized to never visit again in her entire life. He was a great poet, lived a lavish life, had many women and an eccentric lifestyle. But he was no role model, in fact, he was far from it.
Why does Trump keep hiring people who are implicated with Russia? Why did his son meet with a Russian agent @ Trump Tower? What is the deal with Trump "special" relationship with Putin and why did he secretly meet with Putin for hours without a translator? Why do we often learn of US policy from Russian media before the White House? Canceled sanctions on Monday is the latest example.

These questions are not nothing.
Why Isn't Automation Creating Unemployment?
Yeah no way I’m gonna trust my passwords to the kings of unwanted bundle ware.
On the IoT device itself, sqlite would be a good choice due to its simplicity and the fact that it's small enough to fit and run.

As an aside, I find that I can use sqlite for 90% of the DB needs I have. For the other 10% (multiple writers, more granular locking, more concurrent connections, richer data types such as inet), then I use Postgres.
What's the focused offering provided by them? Does their system more scalable, efficient or cheap or is there any technical limitations of the AWS products? Personally, I don't think $500M matters if their customers (I'm assuming most of their revenue comes from enterprise customers because that's how it works usually) churn in a few years.
If you're looking for more strategic gameplay instead of micromanagement, Starcraft isn't the best game to pick. Lowering the importance of high APM for a game like Starcraft through the use of smart macros is just a hack, why not just play (or design) a game that doesn't need any of that. Of course, the obvious choice is any turn based game.

But even if you want to stay in RTS land, one of the more recent titles that comes to mind where micromanagement is not as important and strategy/planning is very important is Ashes of the Singularity. Spoiler: the game may seem "slow" compared to Starcraft but that's also part of reducing the importance of high APM.
This is a quick intro to the architecture. https://blog.hasura.io/how-hasura-works-in-doodles-ba03d6ce6...

Ah! I was super confused when I read Postgres.
I love how Wikipedia helpfully informs us that 'Biologically, according to studies of the human sex ratio, it is more likely for any one person to be born into the male sex than the female sex.' as though it is somehow relevant or has anything to do with the actual paradox being discussed...

NOTE I've since edited the Wiki page, and deleted the sentence - since it isn't relevant and there was no citation for the claim!
The way I've described scuttlebutt to folks is that it's "what if Facebook felt like Usenet in the 90s".
I alway like to consider unlocking the tech tree the most. That’s why we want a lot of people working on a lot of problems. We can’t predict which discoveries will make the most difference.

Consider all the problems you need to solve to “cure death”.

The US GDP is $17 trillion. If people starting spending billions on a more youthful old age, we’d get more research. More venture capital would go to aging research.
I like the quote from the professor: “Prison breaks in Iceland usually mean someone just fled to get drunk”
Honestly they need to do more of this to make a compelling reason to vote for them.

Just some key points I think they need to seriously try to enact

-legalize it

-universal healthcare

-New Deal style infrastructure programs

-re-negotiate cap and trade

Got any others?
This is suspicious. They have the VPN traffic, now they want passwords. Encrypted of course, but still. The trust just isn't there. The company is too young. I don't trust them just because they have great design and UX.
This seems nice. Besides a bunch of fanboy comments coming from the creators and devs, why is this exciting to the rest of us where things like the capability to join tables in an rdbms is trivial.
Hans Asperger 'collaborated with Nazis' in WWII
Prepared statements will still be noticeably slower in most deployments. Almost all drivers are synchronous, and each individual query is a round trip to the database. This tends to dwarf parse and planning times unless you have a sub-millisecond ping time to the database.
Combine that with stack ranking for evaluations and firing the bottom 10%, though I think they quit doing that recently.
This is an interesting discussion. I don't believe collaborative and competitive are actually at odds with each other, think professional sports teams as the most obvious example. Yes, you absolutely want collaborative players who will maximize the potential of the team, but you sure as hell want them to be competitive too.

I'm personally a very competitive person, and I love being part of a team that wins. The collaborative vs competitive mindset feels like a false dichotomy to me.
Or human rights, or nuclear non-proliferation, or treaties against using chemical weapons, or... I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Amoral autocrats ruling medieval slave states will keep doing what they do. Should Swarm relocate from SV to NK?
Don't see any problems with what you posted. It's commentary on a commentary site within the community guidelines of that site. There are good posts there, I am sure, just as I am sure there will always be noise.
Sponsored article with clickbait title.

tl;dr: VW (via American subsidiary "Electrify America") has put out a vaporware announcement that:

• Their proprietary charger plug will supply 350 kW possibly at 800 or up to 920 Volts and 350 Amps using a liquid-cooled cable

• May build 1000 stations (over an unknown period of time)

• Mention is made of the IONITY charging network in Europe, without mentioning compatibility
> In my experience there is this huge pool of unqualified applicants applying for every job no matter what the actual job requirements are. The applicants that got a call for an interview 1) looked at the technologies listed in the job requirements and 2) put their experience with these technologies on their resume.

I think this is a result of the (frankly) BS practice employers have been using for years of inflating the qualifications required for positions. I can't count on one hand how many postings I've seen for mid-level developer roles that require 5+ years of experience writing Python, C++, C#, Java, and JavaScript; oh yeah, you've also got to know Angular and React, and "bonus" if you know Vue.

Even before I became a developer(I first tried to get into animation), the advice from older folks and career specialists was to "just apply to all the positions you want even if you don't meet all the qualifications", and I'd bet good money that a lot of people are still hearing this advice from various channels.

Now that everyone is just shotgun applying to everything, the advantage is largely gone. But because everyone is doing it, and individual must do so or they'll be drowned out in signal noise.
So from the Lucene perspective, the idea of a filesystem is pretty baked into the format. However, there's also the idea of a Codec which takes the logical data structures and translates to/from the filesystem. If you made a Codec that ignored the filesystem and just interacted with FDB, then that could work.

You can already tune segment sizes (a segment is a self-contained index over a subset of documents). I'd assume that the right thing to do for a first attempt is to use a Codec to write each term's entire posting list for that one segment to a single FDB key (doing similar things for the many auxiliary data structures). If it gets too big, then you should have tuned max segment size to be smaller. Do some sort of caching on the hot spots.

If anyone has any serious interest in trying this, my email is in my profile to discuss further.
This was bound to happen. As a Chrome extension developer, I would love to have a way to prove that an extension was created from a specific git commit hash with no modifications. As it is, even if you read over the extension's code on GitHub, there is no reason not to suspect that I added something malicious when I submitted to the app store.
Like we have defensive programming: assert this field is not a stupidly large number. Perhaps we can encode our assumption as probabalisic asserts, and defensively encode that our assumptions are not violated. E.g. the current distribution looks like my training data.
Supply and demand. Whether there is an actual shortage of a good depends on price.

The extremes:

Is there a shortage of talented engineers willing to work for minimum wage? Of course!

Is there a shortage of talented engineers at a price of, say, $5M a year? I guarantee not.

So there exists a market wage somewhere in between at which supply of talented engineers must equal demand. If you think there is a shortage of real talent you might not be at market rate for that talent.

Using your example, there exists a market rate for an engineer who doesn’t know how to program Hello World. You might be surprised how much that is!
Isn't this where the "states rights" Republicans should be piping up?

To cite an ongoing example of legalization: what Canada is doing is allowing the provinces to set up their own systems under a federal framework, of sorts. This looks like it will result in an array of different outcomes, ranging from a fairly liberal system where privately-owned retail can exist (like what Alberta is doing), to monopolies on par with what already exists for alcohol in many provinces (like Ontario and Quebec). Of course there are already disagreements over whether some provinces are already butting heads with the federal government over their respective implementations. For instance, the federal provision calls for allowing some home grow, while some provinces seem keen to ban that outright.

But it seems that there should be room for such a compromise in the US, where the federal government mostly gets out of the way and lets each state decide what they want to do.
Anything that lessens the power of the criminal "justice" system, I'm all for it.
About the first point, you are expecting total combustion of a solid. That is hard to achieve. By your theory coal should also burn cleanly, and it evidently doesn't.

With enough temperature and a high oxygen pressure, graphene will burn cleanly. But also will your furnace, and my bet is that both will do so at roughly the same temperature and pressure.

About the second point, oxygen does not react well with graphite because it's entire surface does not let its electrons go very easily. Graphene has similar properties. Water does catalyze the burning of graphite, it may very well do that to graphene too.
This whole thing reminds me of a shitty superhero spoof movie from the 90’s - Mystery Men - one of the characters’ superpower is that he can turn invisible when nobody else is looking and he is naked
Obviously, there are no true Scotsmen. But whatever you think of it, unity is widely used by indies, especially in mobile and VR.
So you don't negotiate salary but you're completely fine giving 10-20% of your possible salary to the recruiters?
Not sure how markdown improves rational discourse but I'd like to be enlightened here.
The other side of that coin is many orchestras now do auditions blind - nobody evaluating the artist can see the artist, they can only hear them. The numbers indicate that this eliminates most of the bias orchestras traditionally had for visual attractiveness/friends of the orchestra/white males.
It sounds like with RStudio and Two Sigma they've got startup capital at least. I hope others join them in funding this important work!
I haven't read the link yet, but I'm curious if anyone here knows of any research comparing Three-Valued Logic or SQL NULL to Category Theory and Haskell's Maybe monad? They seem very similar to me: like mapping Nothing, the SQL NULL is "contagious". It doesn't crash your program. I'd love to find a paper comparing the two, but maybe they are just two untouching worlds of research. Any thoughts?

Sometimes I think, "It'd be cool to define some custom types for Postgres that are Maybe<Text>, Maybe<Integer>, etc." But then I think, "Actually, that's how the built-in types work already!"
This reminds of a story about Rudyard Kipling. Apparently, some students hear that he was paid 10 shillings per word and sent him 10 shillings asking for a word. Kipling replied "Thanks"

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-02-23/magazine/tm-10830_1_s...
When I was at Apple, the resumes filtered by HR were a huge pool of unqualified candidates. Gems were among candidates rejected by HR. Wasn't easy getting that list.

HR is a compliance function. By some strange fluke, it gets inserted in the hiring process in large companies.
I suggest read committed, and increase it to serializable only if necessary. serializable transaction isolation means your code is responsible for catching the serialization exceptions that will occur and handling them (retrying the transaction, generally). Devs just don't do that, and don't even know how to trigger the exceptions in most case. So you end up with apps that work fine during CI and staging, but start failing under load. And it might not be possible to retrofit the correct exception handling without a massive re-architecture.
Couple of points here

Firstly, this is still years off and you seriously expect Tesla not to be developing the Mega-charger? Well here's a big hint, it has a fucking massive electric truck that will need to be charged somewhere and a supercharger is not going to cut it

I like the fact I can go to any gas station and not have to worry about which nozzle fits my car, why cant all these guys just agree on something, I thought Tesla had open-sourced its patents for this so anyone could make the supercharger adapter or was that just BS from Tesla?

Tesla seriously needs some competition, I'm seeing a digital camera replacing a film camera moment of history in action with EV's but the auto makers and gas stations are still scratching their arses or in denial or just promising us cake tomorrow, until I see this in the flesh it is nothing more than a marketing FUD.
They long ago decided to make substance control federal.
Even in areas seen as having many employment opportunities, the employers can be very picky, and their criteria are often arbitrary and opaque. I think even on the Bay Area, companies are more picky about who they hire than candidates are picky about what company they join.
More info on this in this issue: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/issues/129
Come on now. These are the same “deficit hawks” who had no problem passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut and another trillion in the budget. And the party of Family Values that has its leader a man who cheated on his wife multiple times. And a law and order party that has no qualms about attacking the FBI and it’s leaders, most of whom are Republicans. What faith can you really have in what they say anymore?
Beautiful AI: Intelligent way to make presentations
Most Republicans on the federal level want to stay out of the way when it comes to decriminalizing marijuana.

Except for the far right....

https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/02/renewed-war-on-mariju...
That's how it was for the company I currently work at. My interview was basically me demoing my side projects, and my projects happened to be related to audio(I currently work at a radio station) and one of them happened to be doing the same kind of dynamic preroll insertion with audio streams that they do. I essentially was hired on that basis.
Boehner Benefits from Pot. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It
I'd also wonder if it's a net positive - being forced to stay on the plane and hope that it ends well vs. potentially jumping early when it turns out to not be necessary. Untrained, panicked people jumping out of a moving plane sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I don't know that you need the "dysfunctional" qualification to that statement.

It probably suffers from the usual problem: people want to work at a place that is too good for them (whatever that actually means) and companies want to hire people that are too good for them (again, whatever that means).
Same could be said for asbestos as well as the undiscovered but numerous carcinogens and toxins we currently use in mass quantities. Every century has some type of widely used, but toxic, chemical discoveries. This century won't be any different.
What is "a society". Who makes those rules? How far away from the will of the sovereign is the latest ABC..XYZ agency? Who oversees the regulators and law enforcement in a transparent way? Can/should one country's official dictate what other countries do or who they launch into space?
Did they do something to correct the intern not being hired or they just wanted extroverts/loud people?

I've erred on the wrong side going the other way, recall one interview on a team where I thought something was off with the candidate because they were so abrasive and then they got into a shouting match with one of my teammates (we thought they were fighting in the conference room), but when it came down to it I didn't want to be the only no and reject them. That was my fault because they turned out to really be a sociopath after a couple of months.
G.E. Makes a Sharp ‘Pivot’ on Digital
hydrogen gas is two atoms

... which makes it a molecule.
Is there anything from a developer perspective that we could do now? I guess anything thats voluntary could be bypassed by a malicious party either way. Reproducibile builds published in a blockchain? Then a chrome plugin that only loads the blockchain builds?
I saw your email, will reply later. But, here, briefly:

* say who it's for. Maybe "a tool that lets business owners automatically test their websites" or "site admins" or whoever is the target. That's to grab attention and let the prospect see "ah yes, I am in this category". Then you can discuss specifics.
* pricing off the homepage is fine. It just should be available somewhere. Free trial usually involves signing up for an account, so I didn't even click. I'd want to be able to estimate the annual cost for my team before signup

Your site is similar to Pingdom, but more specialized in checking site funtionality, right? You could check out their messaging for ideas.

Edit: your page is actually pretty good btw. It was your Hacker News comment that I skipped past. Only hesitation on the site was not knowing pricing. Beyond that, I guess also knowing whether I need it, but I probably do.
tl;dr TimescaleDB is a does batching + partitioning better than postgres (including postgres 10) can, automatically, and turns postgres into a grade A time series database. I'd love to know how TimescaleDB plans to monetize.

That said, I actualy did read the article, and it was excellent. I was a little put off by the "IoT" (buzzword fatigue) and like 2% over-editorializing (to set the stage for timescaledb) but it makes sense given that the poster is the CTO, with a company to promote, and the fact that the people who might read the article are varied.

Inside the article is a link to a post on why PG10 doesn't quite stack up[0], which was also a great read -- the naive engineer in me immediately asked myself that since PG10 offered improved partitioning why I would need TimescaleDB if I had PG10. Obviously PG10 doesn't offer the chunking, and it doesn't offer automation of the partitions that TimescaleDB does, and it degrades under number of partitions (which is bound to grow with time series data of course).

[EDIT] - Ignore the sentence immediately below this edit - write performance is the graphed metric in the article. Sentence left in for posterity. Turns out PG10 writes degrade horribly as partition size increases.

They did not graph write speed in the article though, which was a bit disappointing, so I assume the difference was negligible (in the end, you are writing with postgres to multiple chunks/partitions, no matter how efficiently/automatically they were created, so it's probably the same).

I've been itching to use TimescaleDB for a while, really glad to see it get exposure like this -- I'm just about ready to go all in on it, I already love Postgres and TimescaleDB means now I can do more awesome things with Postgres.

I'd like to hear the profit model of the company though -- how does TimescaleDB plan to make money?

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-data-postgresql-10-vs...
Wrong, forensic doctor Aurelio Luna, Director of the external service of forensic science of University of Murcia found traces of a cultivated bacteria in the exhumed body of Pablo Neruda. This is enough to raise suspicions about his death.

Remember that assassinations in hospitals during this period were not uncommon. It is also suspected that former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva was killed by the regime during a hospital stay.
That's not how it works. The company pays the recruiters commission. It doesn't come out of your salary at least not for a full time job. I know market rates for my area. I can guarantee you I'm not underpaid by 20%.

For a contract job, where the company pays the recruiting agency and they pay you, yeah you can get a larger hourly rate by going straight to the company.
A user directly. I don't think vouching for the comments does anything because they're already shadowbanned. (I may be wrong.)
It's worth noting that the training-time inference-time distinction matters here. Most of the fancy tech you've heard of recently (Semantic Seg, Pose, Localisation etc) can be pretty easily optimised for fast inference, and indeed it's not really so much of a research focus because it's so tractable (see MobileNets, v2, etc). Training, however, is still quite daunting.
I work for an actual tech company, which actually told me to look into a couple of ML projects to improve our operating efficiency, which actually produced good results and had an obvious and short path to being put into production... and which were promptly shelved.

Business people make no sense.
But the question being tested is whether a given string is in the bits that have been transferred over the internet. The number of times it is seen is not what we're talking about here.
Ah, you're totally right, I bet an email would work in particularly unfortunate cases.
> I wrote a long blog article this week about what I think the interview process should be, will be posting it soon. There are ways to fix this process.

I really hope that's true. Every solution I've heard so far is unrealistic at best, like using take home assignments, as if no one would cheat or complain about those.
Yeah, I sort of assumed that the Berry paradox was going to be the point too - Anyone who found the shortest bit sequence could never display it on a web page since that would cause its transmission over the Internet, making it ineligible...
For the very smallest scale of IoT device, most of them phone home to relay hubs, and the data gets passed to some other machine/bigger processor -- I think this article is more about running TimescaleDB on the bigger processor (or maybe even a relay?), not on the actual IoT device itself.

Though TimescaleDB would improve the efficiency of RAM use I don't think you want to try and run a database on an IoT device with very limited RAM to begin with.