skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite so. The article states "no robust evidence for organics being more nutritious" but that isn't really the argument many have for eating organic veg. It's the pesticides that the non-organic vegetables have been soaked in that are potentially dangerous to our health.
But there is a lot of beneficial R&D that, were governments not paying for it, would never have been done. Surely the kind of R&D that is beneficial but would never get done privately should be picked up by government? Without that, less modern computers, less modern aerospace, less modern medicine, less modern lots of things.
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 'Defective' Keyboards
How about instead of waterboarding them you get them the help they need to understand why they do these things and stop it in the future.
Periodic fasting is quite different from famine, though.
> In, say, the last five years as a manager, and in my organisation of a couple hundred engineers, there were exactly two cases....where a PIP was primarily motivated

In my workplaces I would consider 2 PIPs over 5 years among 200 (highly filtered) engineers to be a normal rate, yet you are implying this is a small fraction of the total PIPs.

I'm not a manager so it is definitely possible that I'm unaware of many instances, but to have a pip for more than low single digit percentages of your workforce seems like a big red flag. Whether the motivation is cya or honest encouragement, a pip still means their current performance is unacceptable, so you seem to be describing a harsh environment (or a large collection of unmotivated employees, but the former seems more likely in this industry).

Can you clarify?
> limiting selection does not make things safer.

True if you are only concerned with the data void of any timeframe. I'm speaking about the public momentum causing the reduction in known poisons. Progress always starts somewhere.
This was mentioned before. Plastic is used in all sorts of applications for its durability and lack of reactivity. It doesn't rot. It doesn't corrode. In certain environments it dries out and cracks but that's about it.

While there's a lot of plastic in the ocean it's relatively thinly distributed. It's not like there's a bunch of bottles floating in one place. It's a bunch of plastic dust in the water column. Any sort of bacteria or chemical that is self sustaining enough to be dropped in the ocean and expected to clean up the plastic would likely wreak havoc on all sorts of things. Any sort of bacteria or chemical that is sensitive enough that it won't wreak havoc in the environments where we don't want it to likely can't be applied in a effective or economical manner in the oceans.
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Yep, you get the point.

Plugin support is a real challenge... anyway we are seriously building a white list of compatible plugins, and so far they are about 90% of the total. For the remaining 10% it is usually always possible to replace them with some external service (facebook-comments or disqus for comments, our Zapier app for mailchimp/drive/dropbox integration, beds24 as booking system, etc)

We also thought about something like your idea (keep a second installation live somewhere to submit the data), but, as you will have to host your real WP somewhere, you will lose one of the main benefits of HardyPress, namely to have your site unbreakable.
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Am I meant to justify all Python-related decisions because I choose to work with it? Does my using Python (or even my membership in 'The Python Community') disqualify me from critiquing on other languages and development environments?

What does your comment add to the discussion other than snark and aggression?
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I don't buy the 10x developer stuff... 1.5x-2x category

Closer to 2.5x, if you're comparing best to median. 10x is comparing best to worst, and that's very believable.

A 2nd edition of Peopleware summarises it; the 10x programmer is not a myth, but it's comparing the best to the worst; NOT best to median. It's also not about programming specifically; it's simply a common distribution in many metrics of performance.

The rule of thumb Peopleware states is that you can rely on the best outperforming the worst by a factor of 10, and you can rely on the best outperforming the median by a factor of 2.5. This of course indicates that a median developer, middle of the pack, is a 4x developer. Obviously, this is a statistical rule, and if you've got a tiny sample size or some kind of singular outlier or other such; well, we're all adults and we understand how statistics and distributions work.

Peopleware uses Boehn (1981), Sackman (1968), Augustine (1979) and Lawrence (1981) as its sources. [ "Peopleware", DeMarco and Lister, 1987, p45 ]
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Since it's already at a trench, it will be among the first plastic to be subducted into the mantle.

It's sad but it's not the most worrisome plastic in the ocean.
I guess I'll just have to accept the downvote as my answer... .
IDs, though.

Like, in the abstract, I agree with you completely.

But IDs.
Almost every email client defaults to HTML. There are going to be people using both encryption and HTML.
One of the attacks injects content into the encrypted messages.
...Shaking head...sometimes I just do not understand what is going on in the industry anymore...

Building self-contained .exes that install with minimal dependencies has been a pretty easy task under Windows since the mid-90s. My entire company was founded on this premise, and has been developing and marketing embedded (as in, compiles directly into the .exe) database engines for Delphi/Free Pascal for 20 years. Our customers range from small shops to very large corporations, and they all need one thing: easy packaging, branding, and distribution. Some of our customers distribute their application to thousands of machines, and most of the time the entire thing is comprised of one (or just a few) executable(s). And these are machines that the vendor has zero control over, so the product has to work in some of the most "hostile" environments one can imagine.

Under Windows, it's simply:

1) Use a standard installer to package your application executables/DLLs.

2) Make sure that you install all binaries into \Program Files.

3) Store your configuration information under the user's application data directory (local or roaming, your choice) in an .ini, .json file, etc.

In most cases, that will get you an installation (and application) that works on any Windows machine back to Windows XP. The only exception is if you need a Vista+ or Windows 8+ API, but you can code your application to fail gracefully in such environments, such as falling back to a different API or just trying to dynamically load it and display a decent error message if the API isn't available.

So, after all that: why is there such a reluctance to do the same thing on Linux ? Why does everyone want to over-complicate things ?
What's the counter? Weapons that disable robots..

Also they already killed someone with a robot,https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...
There was a saying in the valley: You hired a consultant when you needed to fire someone high up.
I see it moving more in the direction of collaboration.

For example, Britannica was done in the way you say, while Wikipedia is a mashup of many edits by many people, and governance is done less by money and more by expertise and consensus of people with reputation.

Who says Game of Thrones needs to be done this way? We can always have capitalist projects. However, they have a totally different flavor. They suck you in, make you watch more and more, just like fb so you can make them money. Who needs these things, anyway? I for example didn’t have TV since grad school. Sure the high budget shows are cool but they aren’t essential to life.

I would even say Copyright can stat but Patents should go. Finding a life saving drug is way more major than producing a blockbuster movie.

Not to mention that a lot of stuff can now be automated, eg music production doesn’t require a 100 person orchestra anymore since you have synthesizers.

In fact, as costs come down we will have a glut of movies people produce in their bedroom. Just notice, there are no longer the “world class” mozarts and einsteins of the world. Now everything is more democratized.
Did anyone serious buy that? I mean, come on. They literally have sci-fi terminator in their hands, except it's better than the movie.
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The article is a bit light on details, but it sounds like this doesn't automatically legalize sports betting. Rather, it allows states to legalize it, which at least 20 states intend to do.
It's great to have video calls but as one comment pointed out, some of the companies selling these systems require the prisons to make them the only option.
What are the advantages of this over something like the following?

mkdir memos && cd memos
vim some-memo.md
Fellow dev and blue belt here who started around when you did in 2015. Happy that you put into words and shared many of the sentiments I've thought about and appreciate in BJJ.

Coincidentally I got my first IBJJF medal (3rd place) in a tournament this past weekend. Achievement unlocked. https://www.instagram.com/p/BisnjNlHWSC/?taken-by=mrdazm
I'm a Senior Software Engineer, and have been at Amazon for almost 2 years. I work in the Retail org in the NYC office.

Overall, I've been happy with my choice to work at Amazon. Compared to most other tech companies I've worked for, the hours are predictable and not that intense. Of course, a lot is asked of engineers during crunch time, but that's the same way everywhere in the industry. I like what I do. I like the projects I work on. I like my coworkers. I'm happy with my compensation.

In terms of perks, there aren't free lunches every day, but most orgs that I know of have some budget for a snack shelf. There are also other perks though - there are are opportunities to learn from other software engineers in the form of tech talks, internal conferences and the like. There are also opportunities to learn about the business side as an engineer.

I've generally found other people at Amazon very willing to help. I've had people outside of my team review designs and give feedback (and I've done likewise for other teams). I'm currently working on a project that's required me to reach out to a bunch of different teams to get input on how to approach a problem, and all of them have either accepted a meeting invite or responded to my email with the info I was looking for in a reasonable amount of time (a couple days).

Amazon has 14 Leadership Principles, and I've found that people mostly take them to heart. For example, it doesn't mean that you can use "Insisting on the Highest Standards" as a blank check to refactor your code to the point that it's immaculate, but it does mean that most of the product people I work with get that tech debt is a real thing and slows down product development at some point, and they will budget time to address tech debt when given suggestions by engineers.

Most of the people who have left our team in the past 12 months have left to go work on other teams. Some of them left to work for a different org, some because they wanted to work in a different office.

Amazon's not perfect, but it's pretty good, and most of the things that are frequently raised as issues on HackerNews are, in my experience and the experience of everyone I've talked to at Amazon, generally not issues.
PUSH/POPF* instructions push the flags register to save comparison results when you need to reuse the registers containing the original comparison arguments. They're well-pipelined, integrated with the stack engine and very fast on modern CPUs, and I've definitely seen the compiler emit them (more on i686 than x86_64 to be fair).

I won't speak to the quality of the generated code otherwise, but this bit of evidence by itself doesn't seem persuasive.

(edit: pbsd is right: per Agner Fog, these guys are slow. It's likely that the L/SAHF trick is the one I was remembering.)
Not a movie, and certainly not for kids, but that's part of the appeal of Game of Thrones.
That is not the case. On a Skylake chip, a pushfd + popfd roundtrip costs 24 cycles.
Did you look into Google App Engine, Heroku, etc.? Those were pretty seamless managed experiences for me, of course you pay for the convenience though.
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"When we were learning about manufacturing at Mac, we hired a Stanford Business School Professor at the time named Steven Wheelwright, and he did a neat thing. He drew on the board a little chart, first time I met him. He said, you can view all companies from a manufacturing perspective this way.

"You can say there's five stages-- one, two, three, four, five. They have all these things. And stage one is companies that view manufacturing as a necessary evil. They wish they didn't have to do it, but damn it, they do. And all the way up through stage five, which is companies that view manufacturing as a competitive opportunity for competitive advantage. We can get better time to market, and get new products out faster. We get lower costs. We get higher quality.

"And in general, you know, you can put the American flag here [puts it under 1], and put the Japanese flag here [puts it under 5] [Laughter] [Applause]. And that's changing, however.

"By the way, just going back to software for a minute, I often apply this scale to computer companies, and how they look at software. See, I think most computer companies are stage one. They wish software had never been invented. I put Compaq in that category. And IBM is maybe stage two, and things like that. And I think there's only three companies in here [pointing at 5] and that's us, Apple and Microsoft, in stage five. We start everything with the software and work back."

Wow. I think this is a great way to look at how companies look at ML/AI: You have Facebook, Google, MS, Amazon trying to use it as a competitive advantage, whereas I'm sure there are some companies (medical?) that wish these systems were never invented.

This also shows why you would want to be at companies that look at software as a competitive advantage: as an engineer you are the profit centre and not the cost centre.
Old commits are still showing the credentials. Recommend following this guide to erase your .env from all commits.

https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-fro...
The reason they don't include the roles of the people who resigned is likely because those people are anonymous sources, and revealing their position risks revealing their identities.
The Q twitter account itself seems pretty uninteresting. I'm just about certain its some sort of automatic string generator connected to a few major news feeds.

The interesting thing is the people who comb through the text "cloud-spotting" for little bits of text that fit their narrative and reposting those bits announcing that "Q is right!"

If all you read is that second order feed from those people, you can see how someone who's not very informed might start to believe. Its like a twisted horoscope.

The really interesting thing is that as the random text from the Q account moves down through social media accounts, it somehow becomes "news"!
The main benefit is activity logging. Compared to Sheets, you can sign up for HubSpot for free and just BCC an email address so everything is logged. Everything else is just basic CRUD.
Something isn't right here. At the time of the Templars nobody ate like this. Nobody could. Rich or poor, holy or not, food changed according to the season. Vegetables were only available at certain times of the year. The rest of the time it would be a combination of bread (grain) and meat. The diet described in this article would only have been possible in relatively temperate climates with long growing seasons. But even so, there would have been seasons.

The concept of a weekly diet, one that can be followed month after month, is a very modern thing. You ate what was in season. You didn't eat meat when there was plenty of vegetables available. You shoved the extra vegetables into animals, which you then ate during the seasons when the vegetables weren't available. This concept of a "balanced" diet between the two would have been impractical and extremely wasteful.

Also, be careful with the word meat in old texts. The meaning changes depending on context. Western cultures generally don't count fish as meat but others do. Similarly, 'game' and even 'fowl' are sometimes not included, with 'meat' reserved for the slaughter of domesticated animals. So a text about people not eating meat at particular times doesn't necessarily mean they weren't getting a pile of fats and proteins from something that we today would consider meat.
When almost all implementation of PGP are broken, can we say PGP is broken?
ICBMs?
It's just cold reading over IP. A tried and true con-man technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading#Basic_procedure
Where are you getting that from? `pushfd` is OK-ish, but `popfd` is microcoded, requires 9 uops, and can only be issued once every ~20 cycles. That's not what I would call well-pipelined.

You could probably achieve the same result (assuming you want to avoid adc instructions, for some reason) by using setc r8 plus shr r8, 1 to get the carry back.
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> ... by 2015, humans had produced 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste

That's about 0.86 metric tons (or 859 kg or 1895 lbs) per person. Crazy.
So there is no solution?
I deal with it in the following way: External calls are only triggered on Commands, never on events.

In order to achieve this, I use process manager.

Say the event "User Signed Up" is dispatched. A process manager will then execute the "Send Welcome Email", the aggregate checks if the user aggregate root is in a state where a welcome email should be sent (something like a flag `welome_email_sent`). Depending on the result of your email provider, the event "WelcomeEmailSuccessfullySent" or "WelcomeEmailNotSent".

It is possible to react to the erroneous event with another process manager and retry.
Let's look at three of the things this article claims are "debunked":

>Green tea - drunk in vast quantities it may cause a
>condition called fluorosis, which can lead to brittle
>bones and teeth

No one is telling you drink Green tea in "vast quantities". Most recommend an 8oz cup a day, which is perfectly safe.

>Kale - this so-called wonder food is goitrogenic,
>meaning it contains substances (goitrogens) that may
>contribute to an enlarged thyroid in some people, if
>eaten by the sackful.

Again, no one is telling you to eat kale by the sackful! Drinking a sackful of water a day might cause problems for you as well, but no one is dumb enough to try to claim that water is unhealthy.
I am curious what that means for fantasy sports companies like DraftKings that ran into issues with gambling laws in the past.
> Its uncovering something that was always there; incompetence is rampant in software engineering.

That's what I took away from the article. Production was setup and they don't know what kernel version it has, or what JVM version it's using, or which C library, etc. Or, now we want feature X, so we need to upgrade dependancy Y. I already did it on my local machine, but Bob from DevOps doesn't like upgrading things on QA/integration/prod without a change control...

Granted, apps have thousands of dependencies now, so keeping track of it manually is impossible. Docker came along and promised that only whatever's in this one config file is what's installed. Easy!

So it eliminated lots of the server-specific configuration management but created other problems.
I believe the recommendation is to use something like Signal or iMessage -- an end-to-end encrypted channel that isn't email.
Indeed. The Grimm fairy tales also include "German" stories that were actually of French origin. At least some of their supposedly rustic native sources were Huguenots, i.e., French Protestants, who settled around Kassel where the Grimm brothers lived.

Personally I grew up reading (and rereading) the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. They hew to the Perrault version of Cinderella. It would not be surprising if Walt Disney read those growing up. They were immensely popular and included wonderful Art Nouveau illustrations of characters in the stories. H J Ford was the artist for many of them.

(Sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang's_Fairy_Books#/med...)
I did this, and I have to say it's easy, convenient, and most of the times on point. The problem is simply that executives do not believe their own workers, as bad as it sounds, or maybe they are incapable of filtering the signal from the noise, or maybe internal politics prevent communication, etc, so you hop all the fences in one move.

Also, it's way easier for me to get actionable knowledge talking and surveying people than making models or any complicated stuff. I still have to polish this knowledge and bundle it in a way that executives can consume it, but most of the times it is what I do.

Executives in Spain tend to be very old-fashioned.
I know the NBA is very interested in making gambling happen and they have some deep pockets to get it there and this is one of Adam Silver's main goals right now. From my listening to NBA podcasts about it, and of interest to HN users is that the NBA wants the technology to the point where people in the stands can bet on their smartphones about things as granular as "will X player make a three pointer on the next possession, etc."
Does “organic” necessarily mean non-GMO? Personally I think GMO is great but dislike massive use of fertilizer and pesticides. And really, that’s mostly for downstream effects. I want to encourage sustainable land use and reduced environmental harm. Fine with me if we need to hack some plants to enable that.

I recognize that genetic modification is sometimes used to enable greater use of these chemicals (eg roundup ready grains).
Also using luigi here in production since 2015. We use it to manage a multi-day pipeline that is essentially semi-automatic (requires occasional human intervention).
The encrypted messages will not be signed, unless the trusted sender is also the attacker or their key is compromised.
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Yes. It has one job!
Does anyone know if this means for general predication markets?

The only reasons I've found blockchain at all interesting is for the creation of combinatorial prediction markets. If gambling laws are getting lax enough in some states to allow centralized prediction markets, my interest will wane to zero.
That's life insurance and maybe health. That's still only part of the whole sector. It's quite easy to explain why property insurance is useful.

Social media at 6% is interesting though, does that include tech companies like Facebook?
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>but the academic culture I came from normalized self brutalization to succeed

What school did you go to? Went somewhere similar.
It will legalize DraftKings I believe on a state-by-state basis. This was a law I understand pushed by Nevada casino/bookmakers who wanted a monopoly on this to protect their profits.
I dunno, a client issue like this seems pretty terrible to me since there is no obvious (to me) way to fix it. If I am encrypting a message, I have no control over what client decrypts it (and whether that client unwittingly passes the information along) without maybe changing the standard completely.

The thing is, If I am reading correctly, it seems like this kind of vulnerability seems totally predictable.