skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i remember when bluetooth ear pieces first came out they had warnings on them about extended use may cause drying out of the eyeball.

I distinctly remember it on a Ericsson ear piece (single ear fold out).

I've noticed that these devices dont have that warning anymore...
I'm with you I don't understand why people are so quick to call a company a "patent troll" diluting the meaning.
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>“If I can help people suffering from herpes, isn’t it my duty to do so?”

He missed out the 'first do no harm' bit. It's quite important.
> if somebody traveled to one and thereby disproved me

That person would have to travel back as well, thereby making this proof doubly hard :-)
You may me able to architect your application to do well-enough without Foreign Keys yet still require features that key-value stores do not provide, like SQL, triggers, etc.

In the specfic case of MySQL, while still horrifying (I agree with you! but it is one of the things you some times have to do at scale), you can create the Foreign Key constraints but then disable their verification and periodically look for violations, as described here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2011/11/18/eventual-consistency...
Yes it is, since those countries allow people to claim unemployment while not looking for work (via a rather silly rigmarole way of doing so, but still). At the sharp end, there are fewer people in that country who want a job (whether because they'll lose their unemployment if they don't get one or otherwise) and can't get it.
If the zero-energy hypothesis[0] is correct, wouldn't the energy cost of infinite universes still be zero?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
Probably got older too - are brain tumours linked with age?

If this chart is accurate, 3.5 years older: https://www.statista.com/statistics/275394/median-age-of-the...

They really should have looked at rates by a given age.
I attended the IBM Connections conference in Vegas shortly after the Jeopardy! thing and just after IBM started using Watson as a brand under which it lumped a bunch of analytics products. From questions and comments made, during some of the sessions I attended, it became clear that large portion of the attendees (mostly the business people) wrongly assumed that the technology that won Jeopardy! was now being used inside everything labeled with "Watson". People were very excited by this. I never heard anyone from IBM making any attempt to try and rectify this misconception, they just smiled, nodded and played along.
I disliked IBM and their corporate marketing BS even more after this.
It is as good a time as any to wish a pox on all jargon and reflect that a person with no employment is unlikely to be unemployed.

If anyone else is interested, a very light search into the history of when they picked that measure as the standard suggests it has been with us since ~1930. Apparently the nature of complaints hasn't changed much over the years.

[1] davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/origins-of-unemployment.pdf
Should've known what exactly? Cryptocurrencies are a huge success as a speculative asset but beyond that I see a lot of whitepapers and marketing pamphlets but very few actual results. I suspect the average speculator doesn't even use the technology themselves, instead keeping their coins on a centralized exchange for safety and convenience.

When's the last time you've actually used a Blockchain? What is there even to use in the wild today? There are a few Dapps PoCs that rely on 3rd party cloud storage services like Azure because storing data on-chain is too expensive, have a rather dubious business model and probably fewer actual users than lycos.com. Given the amount of money poured into cryptocurrencies these past years I'm not impressed, if anything every passing day without a Blockchain killer app reinforces my belief that it's mostly wind.
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I have the impression that, since the era of smartphones, people actually talk on their cellphones less, and text more. If so, and if there were anything to this article's posited link, then we would expect the rate of tumors to drop again in the coming years. Just a speculation.
These types of articles are fear mongering, pure and simple.

Just like eating a banana every week gives you more of a radiation dose than living next to a nuclear power plant- the possibility of getting cancer from a cell phone is almost ridiculous.
Correct I agreed with you
I think searching and linking to existing questions (internally and externally) would be useful.
Multiverse theories aside, as far as we know our current universe could, or should (depending on who you ask), be infinite. There is no evidence that its topology is closed (from estimates of curvature), so infinitely large is indeed the default assumption.
The article includes this image, which shows all three patented elements, along with a bunch of 1980s/90s hair and typography: https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/7d9a939bf5c3281...

Seems to clearly indicate these patents should be invalidated.
There are other social benefits unrelated to employement (for example for kids from poor families, etc), but in principle - yes.

Now it's not so bad, you can find a job if you really want (it might be bad, but it's there). In 90s we had 20% unemployment and almost no social benefits. It was rough.
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Late to the party, but here's some traceroutes run from AT&T Gigapower with their router entirely bypassed via an 802.1x MitM:

# traceroute 1.0.0.1
traceroute to 1.0.0.1 (1.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 45-18-124-1.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net (45.18.124.1) 59.462 ms 61.348 ms 63.373 ms
2 71.149.77.208 (71.149.77.208) 1.304 ms 1.695 ms 1.957 ms
3 75.8.128.136 (75.8.128.136) 1.329 ms 1.682 ms 1.393 ms
4 12.83.68.145 (12.83.68.145) 2.673 ms 2.661 ms 2.648 ms
5 12.123.18.233 (12.123.18.233) 8.877 ms 12.753 ms 8.800 ms
6 192.205.36.206 (192.205.36.206) 6.663 ms 6.375 ms 6.680 ms
7 66.110.56.158 (66.110.56.158) 6.885 ms 6.725 ms 6.436 ms
8 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com (1.0.0.1) 6.855 ms 6.557 ms 6.662 ms

# traceroute 1.1.1.1
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 45-18-124-1.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net (45.18.124.1) 163.322 ms 163.927 ms 174.243 ms
2 71.149.77.208 (71.149.77.208) 1.346 ms 1.779 ms 2.035 ms
3 75.8.128.136 (75.8.128.136) 1.215 ms 1.214 ms 1.564 ms
4 12.83.68.137 (12.83.68.137) 1.495 ms 12.83.68.145 (12.83.68.145) 2.289 ms 12.83.68.137 (12.83.68.137) 2.283 ms
5 12.123.18.233 (12.123.18.233) 7.783 ms 11.766 ms 11.757 ms
6 192.205.36.206 (192.205.36.206) 6.163 ms 6.160 ms 6.202 ms
7 66.110.56.158 (66.110.56.158) 6.909 ms 6.931 ms 6.423 ms
8 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com (1.1.1.1) 6.922 ms 6.492 ms 7.075 ms

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u14-Debian <<>> cloudflare.com @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15100
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1536
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cloudflare.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cloudflare.com.	53	IN	A	198.41.214.162
cloudflare.com.	53	IN	A	198.41.215.162

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 03 13:40:52 UTC 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u14-Debian <<>> cloudflare.com @1.0.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61685
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1536
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cloudflare.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cloudflare.com.	66	IN	A	198.41.214.162
cloudflare.com.	66	IN	A	198.41.215.162

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 1.0.0.1#53(1.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 03 13:40:39 UTC 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75

I'm not going to paste the output, but `curl https://1.1.1.1/` works as well.

Doesn't look like it's anything onn AT&T's internal network.
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It's not clear to me that it's a bad comparison for several reasons.

(a) I don't think it's typical to make direct contact with a cell phone for an hour at a time. Most calls I make are short and I don't actually hold it touching my ear. That does depend on the noise level though.
(b) Microwaves are much higher power.
(c) Microwaves may be constructed to looser tolerances regarding shielding.

Yes, microwaves are different, but the differences don't uniformly cut in one direction, so I think it's a little too glib to dismiss the hazard out of hand.

Edit: One could argue that in fact your ear holds your phone away from your head, providing an offset analogous to the distance one is observing a microwave from. But this is really a rhetorical answer to a rhetorical objection, when my point is more that only quantitative analysis could illuminate the accuracy of the comparison.

The prompting for my original post is that I was microwaving water to boiling and watching to make sure it didn't superheat - unlike on the stove, it can form a big bubble of steam suddenly. It seems to me that I do this nearly as often as I make a phone call (as opposed to texting and email).
it's a bit absurd if you ask me. Have meeting when you need to. avoid useless meetings.
Quite literally, yes.
I don't really know but I work for an investment bank so maybe it's just paranoia on IT's side.
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Or that those people are more likely to conform to whatever ideal society expects of them at that time, marriage included.
I wanted to read those papers, but I can't find anything about the second one beyond the fact that it exists.
absolutely :)
Again, read the article for what the topic of conversation is. If you're "spinning up an entire Docker container", a Python startup time is going to disappear into the multiple seconds that already takes. You are not spinning up several hundred docker containers per second, on a sustained basis for hours at a time, on a single piece of hardware, constrained only by Python startup time. That's going to be a vanishing fraction of the problem, even if you are spinning up that many containers that quickly, and the optimization for that is already obvious (don't do that, do more per container).

You are conflating what systems scripting is, which would be what would be managing the docker containers themselves, with what the docker containers would be doing, which would be very likely starting up just one Python instance to "do the thing". I don't imagine there are very many systems scripts out there in the world being started dozens of times per second that use NumPy. Anything that did, again, the obvious optimization would be "don't do that".
> I've had my browser set up to nuke everything on shutdown as far as I can remember.

I have this and only log into GMail in a private window (I would do the same for FB if I used it). It's a bit of a hassle, especially since I've enabled 2FA, but it's become a habit and not that much of a hassle (I leave the private window open).
Energy is just a concept in our particular universe. The idea behind the multiverse hypothesis is that everything is just "math all the way down". Other universes do not all have the pieces of math which underlie "conservation of energy", and so on. The equations of each universe determine whether or not it has any phenomenon resembling our energy.
>I think the key take away is that there should be options, what works for one doesn't for others.

Pretty much the same for technical interviewing as well IMO. We'd probably like it a bit more if we at least got to choose the format.
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That’s the whole debate, by forcing people to take one euro jobs, you lower the unemployment stats while increasing your poverty stats.
> “It’s important, though, to understand that this new paper did not examine any new data at all about potential causes for the increase.”

How is this about mobile phones? I think this is pure clickbait and should be removed.
I would expect that the discrepancy that matters - wages vs. cost of living - has much bigger difference if you go from East Germany to Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia, rather than in comparison to West Germany. I.e. purchasing power drops much more when you go east, compared to going west.
"Bias" is a noun and "biased" is the adjective.
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That was my understanding too.

What's the use case here?

I'm hard pressed to think of something big enough where UI automation is too slow, but it isn't a better idea to re-architect the process to not use MS Office or consumer apps.

Maybe finance? I'm sure they've got enormous Excel files...

I work in this space, and individual COM implementations are pretty bad in terms of development effort : utility. Because at the end you have one, single purpose function.
Oh, and of course perhaps the most obvious one. Even if for whatever weird reason we as a society decided to start using cryptocurrency as widely used payment method, why on earth we would be willing to make that huge transfer of wealth to a few cryptonerds instead of forking our own and sharing the coins somehow more equally? It's not like creating your own cryptocurrency is that hard...
I'm not sure how much a simple median would tell you. My instinct is that how much the climate varies over the year might be as or more important than the point average.
Simple answer to your question: It is for _doctors_ to assess if there is any realistic hope of recovery from an illness and if not, when palliative care is the best option. They're not perfect but it's the best that we have.

Terminal illness happens to us all eventually, you have to face that. It happens to children too sometimes, you have to face that too.
I currently have 12 direct reports, approximately 50/50 split between remote and HQ engineers.

Onboarding: I create onboarding documents for every incoming engineer broken down by week with 1 or 2 "people to meet" items in the checklist. There is one person in HQ, one person remote (if available) for a remote engineer onboarding. If the engineer is in HQ, they don't have a remote person assigned but they're tasked to meet with everybody on the team. The expectation is within the first couple of weeks to have met at least once with everybody on the team. There are some suggested questions only if they ask (I like to let people feel around and will ask if they feel comfortable talking to strangers, etc).

Management: I'm fairly process oriented, but believe in very light weight processes where every step in the process has some value to an actual person. When we plan our tasks, I ask for rollups on what we're really trying to do and why. This enables me to talk about people's work and know what I'm talking about. The benefit is that we give coherent answers, and have a list of things that are ongoing that are at a higher level than tasks and lower than long-term plans (2 week segments).

For growth, every half I ask a series of questions about their aspirations for the next 6 months and align them to our company's evaluative criteria. I write it down, share with them to edit and correct (this makes sure I understand it). Then at the end of every month, we spend time in our 1:1 to read through and make changes. It goes from a fictional forward looking statement to a writeup of what's been done. It helps frame the larger items that are easy to forget, and a place to put in the small unexpected wins. At the end of the half it is a great asset to see what they've done and for me to bring into performance review conversations.

For culture and team-building, I push for quarterly get togethers (which turns into every 6 months, coordinating a lot of people is hard). Mostly I try to make sure folks are working together and not just adjacent (working on different things in a team is not teamwork). The team also drives conversations to email or scheduled conversations, so folks don't have to be watching Slack to see a decision that may impact them and be lucky they're around (we have a lot of timezone spread, too).

Hope this helps!
Oh, I'm glad! I have several friends who are UVA grads (graduate and undergrad levels), and so I say it with love. Mockery is the sincerest form of flattery.
That seems to make the argument stronger: TSB customers will get full compensation and there will be legal penalties for the incompetent management. That seems a lot better than “everything is irreversibly gone” failure mode of Bitcoin which hopes that the victims will successfully track down and sue the culprits, as seen in the many failures so far.

It also sounds completely unlike the naive framing above alleging that bank employees are able to take your money
Proving nonexistence is impossible because there is an infinite number of possible explanations for how the multiverse can exist without being able to be proven, and that these explanations can themselves require proof of nonexistence.

The premise of proving nonexistence is the wrong way to assess credence of a theory.

Likewise, proving existence of multiverse is as impossible as proving nonexistence for the reason that the multiverse is postulated as existing independently in an infinite number of permutations that can not interact with each other. If multiverse permutations can exist in the same time and space as another permutation, then matter and energy are supposed to exist in infinite number of states simultaneously, and would be impossible to measure.
This reminds me of the VR craze of the early 2000s. Samsung invested a fortune in 3d tvs after the VR bubble burst (right around the time the Google bought SGI's mountain view campus). Bitcoin is over. It will be a hobby going forward.
How do you run stand-ups with no meetings whatsoever? Is the hope that you get asynchronous communication through slack?
The vast majority of individual contributor developers do not have the freedom to simply block off two thirds of their time at work from meetings. Company cultures differ widely - I've worked places where each of the following were true:

- Meeting organizers actively used the scheduling assistant to determine the best time and room for a meeting

- Meeting organizers picked whatever time and/or location was most convenient for them and whoever made it made it

- Meeting organizers picked whatever time and/or location was most convenient then threw a fit if you declined due to another commitment

If you're a junior dev and your lead schedules a meeting for 11am you'd be hard pressed to tell them to pound sand because that's your programming time. Seniors have more leeway but I'm sure seniors at Facebook or Microsoft still probably aren't declining meetings with their boss because it's programming time.
Since I cannot edit the parent post. Individual freelancers only! No dev agencies / dev shops.
That's not an appropriate comparison, the current administration is no more racist than the last (if anything it is less racist).
The elite code of conduct: Do what thou wilt, but for goodness sake don't say anything about it
how do you manage stand-ups with this schedule? Just try to check-in/co-ordinate informally via Slack?
I've found that many conference "papers" were never actually written as papers at all, they were just oral presentations at a conference. Someone who was there cites it in a paper of their own, and then a bunch of other people copy the citation without actually having seen/read the "paper".
I would be surprised. There is no non-volatile memory being written, this is merely running operations on a processor.
That is true, but I wanted to share another angle that may or may not affect PostgreSQL while it continues to affect MySQL even as it has crash-safe (though not transactional) DDL now: these schema changes are online for the master, but are not replication-aware and can have impact in replication delay on servers down the hierarchy.

For this reason alone I think we'll continue to use schema-change tools on MySQL even if the server itself becomes better at those.

In the specific case of gh-ost, another good point is that migrations can be completely paused, which in MySQL is not true of online DDL.
Pointing out the tech I used at the time is a bit of a red herring for the argument I was making.

The point I should have made was that I focused on the technology instead of the fundamentals of software. I was obsessed with learning the tech that that existed at the time instead of learning how to craft software in general with the least amount of complexity.

I wrote a website that got 10 visits a month with Spring and Struts. I had simpler options but was pretty convinced everything had to be "enterprise grade".

Today, if you had to build it, you'd build a static site.

I learned quite a bit from these mistakes. My argument does romance the idea of a mentor that was hyper-intelligent and cared about my career.

Mistakes are always made. Mentor and mentee alike. C'est la vie.
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That's true, but that's not the definition of a "patent troll". Patent trolls very specifically make all of their money with patent lawsuits and settlements. Nikola Motors is a real company making real products, however misguided this lawsuit is.
If you want to take Algorithms and Compiler courses, Stanford, Georgia Tech and many others have great options online.

I don't think it'll help at all - I've got a bachelors in computer engineering and computer science and masters in computer science and feel pretty similarly to you (and know plenty others in the same boat as I am) - but the option's there. I actually did my MS for this very reason. I enjoyed it very much and learned a lot, but it didn't help the imposter syndrome.
> Who/what created the multiverse?

The multiverse hypothesis (in the style of Tegmark, et al) is partially motivated to render this sort question invalid. You're asking, effectively, "what are the hidden variables behind the multiverse", whereas the idea specifically asserts that there aren't any.

The idea is that what underlies each possible universe is just math, "all the way down".

So the question you're asking is exactly like, who created the sinusoid curve, pi, or prime numbers.

Proving the idea may be impossible. That doesn't make it wrong. If some aspect of reality is not provable, then that can't be helped.

The fascinating thing is that the hypothesis cannot be disproven either. The hypothesis that there is only one universe also isn't provable; the fact that other universes haven't been discovered/accessed doesn't prove it, since lack of evidence of existence isn't a proof of nonexistence.

The hypothesis that there are multiple universes is simpler than the hypothesis that there is just the one. It's more believable, and explains more. For instance, all remarkable coincidences in the structure of our universe are explained via the anthropic principle, which is greatly boosted by the multiple universe hypothesis.
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In his 1985 paper, “Quantum theory as a universal physical theory”, Deutsch writes:

> I have pointed out several times in the preceding sections that the C.I. and the Everett “interpretations” are really different formalisms for quantum theory—in effect, different physical theories. It is usually claimed that although their assertions as to the nature of objective facts are radically different, the two “interpretations” agree about all subjective experiences of observers, and cannot therefore be distinguished experimentally. That this claim is false is shown by equations (40) and (42) which summarize the different predictions of the two “interpretations” concerning further measurements on subsystems one of which has completed a measurement on the other.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c948/44bc9128e77077abdf36a6...