skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sleep seems to be very cyclical and internalized in the body, so it isn't surprising that a drastic change would have such a dramatic effect. I wonder if anyone could gain the ability to only need 6 hours of sleep by very slowly decreasing sleep over a long time (say 6-12 months). But your body will probably never adapt to this 6 hours on the weekdays, 10 hours on the weekends stuff that seems to be common.

The people I know who sleep 5-6 hours a night consistently have been doing it for a very long time and describe the feeling of sleeping 8 hours the same way I would describe sleeping 13 hours. Just feeling slow and almost like being sleep deprived all day.
I would love to do this, but in areas with a high cost of living it's not always possible.
This is basically a way of saying, the rich won’t help you unless you help them get richer.

Which is fine, I suppose. It seems to be a force of nature.
The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. Their challenge was that the difference between what they had to pay an Amazon/Google engineer for their time and what a student could afford was too small to be profitable.

They ended up pivoting to giving the students free access to coding challenges, and changing _the companies_ for a platform to conduct their technical interviews.

[1] https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hacker...
150 EUR you should be able to fly for that price.

Taking the train between major cities is often more expensive than flying in Europe. People choose the train because it's comfortable and convenient, not because it's cheap.

Also 150 EUR is a full price ticket. If you book a few weeks in advance, and are willing to take the 'slow' train you can probably get a ticket around 30 EUR.
That is only the case for call options, which isn't the case where you're concerned about counterparty risk correlation with the underlier. For put option, they'll need to guarantee enough cash (or cash equivalents) on hand to pay you out if Bitcoin reaches zero.

The carrying cost (or at least opportunity cost) is high for holding large inventories of cash, so it's not very attractive from a business perspective to do so unless there's either a market or regulatory demand to do so.
It's interesting to see them relating the trouble they've had with the old game client when thousands of us play on private servers using old game clients (1.12 is common for much the same reasons discussed.)
https://xkcd.com/985/
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There are very good reasons to violate it. Like performance - you would need to make a sub-select or join, which is costly. Also if you are 100% sure that "no one will ever need more spell effects", it is a valid way to go.
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You can't always run a normalized database though; often you need to denormalize for performance reasons. In very massive systems, a normalized database is rare.
tl;dr using 3D maps to build a model of GPS shadows for receiver and satellite locations, and using the relative signal strength for each satellite, plus that model, to come up with a more accurate receiver location.

Original UCSB site: https://tia.ucsb.edu/about-tia/success-stories/shadowmaps/

A more detailed writeup by the original authors: http://insidegnss.com/auto/sepoct15-MADHOW_0.pdf
Why hasn't anyone invest into synthetic petrol that is carbon neutral?
MacOS does this, albeit less intrusively, with full screen apps. (Note that "full screen" means no window chrome, which is different from "maximized".)

Normal task switching is near instantaneous, but full screen apps add about 0.3 seconds of animation to their switch. It's enough to break my concentration, so I end up rarely using full screen even though I prefer it for most apps.
Wasn't that a proposal to increase view point diversity? My understanding was that they wanted more conservative board seats. That's different from the diversity this article discusses.
Virginia has a finders keepers law per the article.
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Thanks for this, ill take a look :)
When was the last time you read about a Car carrying tank of fuel sudden burst into frame?

When was the last time you read about battery explosion?
As others have mentioned, we use the income based split because of disproportionate salaries. It lets us know that we are both chipping in for household expenses while still having some money leftover in our own accounts for personal spending.
The Guardian is really going mad. The article claims this is a myth, but give no arguments of why they think it's untrue. The only thing relevant to crop yields is:

> The UN FAO is clear on this – without crop protection tools, farmers could lose as much as 80% of their harvests to damaging insects, weeds and plant disease.

There is not even a section in the UN report about the benefits of pesticides.
Are they? Seems like the vast majority are enablers, or at the least cowards / usefull idiots. Many espouse the same miopic ideology and feel it is thier duty to aqcuiesce to activist demands.

Look at what happen at Evergreen. Look atbthe holloween costume controversy at Yale. How many speeking events have to be shut down before we start to admit the truth.

Imagine if they were rating black and hispanic students lower in personality scores simply due to quotas. We’d call it what it is, outright racism.
You mean you IHOB on their website.
I’m only 46 (so a bit younger) but I totally agree.

Yesterday night I was looking at my hairs going more and more gray and thought « How can that be ? I still feel like I was a student some years ago ! »
Interesting to see for the first time attrition statistics.

It's higher across the board for men versus women (and the gap is wider for tech roles but no figures were given here). And for ethnicity in 2017, attrition was highest for Black Googlers followed by Latinx Googlers, and lowest for Asian Googlers.
I envy you. Going through it now.
Is there evidence supporting Google denies diverse hires of the same skill levels at others in the position? Or is this just a byproduct of our countries failures and all the best computer scientist applying at Google are actually white males? Should Google attempt to diversity hire less skilled individuals for the sake of changing the status quo? Would that even change the status quo?
I just had a look at the BBC's equivalent report ("BBC Equality
Information Report 2016/17").

Interestingly:

- p38 says that 42.1% of 'Senior Leadership's staff are female

- p39 shows the real number (35.7%). It seems like on page 38 they define senior leadership as around 3000 people, rather than the smaller (and less diverse) group that has the actual senior management job grades (SM1 and SM2).

- The report has almost no historical information. The top level actuals are compared with targets, but the only numbers that are compared with, e.g. 2014, are things like # apprentices.
There is nothing about software that makes patenting it inherently any worse than patenting hardware. The problem is rampant misuse/abuse/poor implementation.
These are really helpful insights. Thank you. Position wise yes, high level newly-minted CTO-ish-type office sounds about right, sorry to be vague. Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part. I have already moved many applications as proof of concept and the savings seen is one driver of this change, and me being the one that moved them is one reason I get to be involved/doing/advising/engineering this. We are not FAANG and not located in cool locales so harder to attract great talent.

The cloud vendors are in fact already offering to take on a lot of this work of transitioning, which I am avoiding to avoid lock in at all costs.

And for others reading it's not UPS/Fedex just to throw that out there, I saw another thread on UPS yesterday trying to move huge organization's ops to 21st century and was trying to think of examples of what I assumed were large legacy companies that are not core tech and those popped to mind. That thread also served as a catalyst as I'm also wrestling with moving a huge orgs ops to the 21st century.

I have taken your advice on email: throwawayacct4q@gmail.com
I guess the question then is which ones to use, whether "synthetic" or "organic".
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Probably, but what's the alternative?
I think another relevant part of the argument is the 6th paragraph:

> Elver said many of the pesticides are used on commodity crops, such as palm oil and soy, not the food needed by the world’s hungry people: “The corporations are not dealing with world hunger, they are dealing with more agricultural activity on large scales.”
I actually like ads. Just not too much of it. It is the same for me from Newspaper, TV or Web. However I just don't want crap, poor quality, not well thought out, repetitive ads.
Normalization is the ideal, but sometimes you have to de-normalize for performance. Big, complex joins can be a performance killer. Most apps won't reach the scale where they need to worry about this, but WoW definitely has reached it.
Is that the guy who inspired generations of architects and engineers to build inhumane car-centric cities, and wanted a six-lane highway crossing through Manhattan? A good example of determined management, yes, but what about the outcomes?
Fibonacci hashing takes the form of "h * k>>(64-b)", where k is determined by golden ratio and b is the bit size of the table. This involves one generic multiplication, which is the bottleneck. This multiplication is not strictly necessary. You can replace it with k=1033 for example, which can be implemented as "h+(h<<10)+(h<<3)". This will be a good enough safeguard against naive hash functions but is much faster to compute.

With "h * k>>(64-b)", the result has a cycle of 2^b. Suppose b=3 and you have input 1<<3|1, 2<<3|1 and 3<<3|1, Fibonacci hashing will put them to the same bucket – it is not that effective. A safer strategy is to use a proper integer hash function like Thomas Wang's 32-bit hash function. Although it involves more steps, it only involves plus and bit operations and probably can be computed faster than generic multiplication.

At the end of day, however, Fibonacci hashing or similar ideas only helps when you hash keys to similar integers but has no effect when you hash different keys to the same integer. You have to use a reasonable hash function anyway.
I am working on an Flutter android app, I find it still very laggy. Even the official Gallery app from flutter team laggy. I am hoping they will sort it out by the time they release it from beta.
Actually Im probably getting ahead of myself, from what Ive seen google doesnt even have a good way to gauge its candidates abilities.
Here's my prediction: if you didn't play vanilla when it was available, you're gonna hate it. If you did play it, you'll go back for the nostalgia but will stop when you realise how tough the grind was. Those players will be late 20s and beyond now and won't have the time for it.

It'll be interesting to see how many of those calling for this to happen actually stick around.
Atmosfair (https://www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/flight/) has received positive press and reviews (https://www.test.de/CO2-Kompensation-Diese-Anbieter-tun-am-m...) in Germany.

Its calculation also includes the flight class, aircraft type, flight type (charter, scheduled) and they documented it as well (https://www.atmosfair.de/en/standards/emissions_calculation/...). We use it to offset our business flights. It's a charity and donations are tax deductible under German law.
There's an assumption in your post that current hiring practices somehow select the best candidates from a pool of suitably qualified candidates.

Anyone who has been hired, or has hired other people, know that recruitment is terrible and includes huge amounts of randomness and you are - hopefully - avoiding terrible candidates from a pool of qualified candidate.

Given that, it makes sense to change the random factors of recruitment that select against women to be selecting for a few more women. So long as you're still mostly achieving the previous avoidance of terrible candidates.
Many of the downsides about 'being old' can be staved off with proper diet, fitness, (don't smoke, don't do drugs) moderate alcohol, and some common sense like don't destroy your knees with running. If you are fortunate by the time you are old you will have wisdom and grandchildren.
That's an interesting bit, since I think of modern web stuff as terribly bloated and flutter as pretty clean.
For extra security it's important to run ROT13 twice.
The article addresses that in the starting paragraphs: there was no real opposition, just an unwillingness to compromise on how to do it.

> Everyone agreed we should have Figlets, but nobody agreed about its configuration.
> In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American.

I've always found it curious how asians are treated as honorary whites when it comes to talking about diversity in American companies. This is the most egregious example.

If you go to Google's own diversity report the breakdown becomes 36.3% asian and 53.1% white. Considering white people maybe up like three quarters of the population in the US they're actually under represented at Google, ironically.

Report: https://diversity.google/annual-report/#!#_our-workforce
There's an implicit qualifier of "in macroscopic, measurable amounts".
Yes, 1000%. I have many friends who went to (and are now principals at) MBB and I hear all their stories and I would not under any circumstances use a large consultancy for this advice, I can guess their advice before even contacting them.
Probably because of ratio of count by vehicles maker to incidents.
Maybe we work in different kinds of companies. In my experience with large corporates, sure we have hierarchy in the form of an org chart, managers and job titles / levels, but management very rarely enforce outcomes or resolve day-to-day disputes.

When it comes to getting coworkers or other teams on board with a new workflow or tool, it's really completely up to powers of persuasion, providing good examples, documenting, and letting people move at their own pace. It can be frustrating to work through, but it's probably for the best, in the sense that it probably is genuinely the best tool or workflow that will win out over time, instead of the favorite of some senior person that doesn't know all the details.
The title cites this as "UN experts", but based on what I can see, it is the work of a single "special rapporteur". I can't find anything that states who the author (special rapporteur) is, and what their qualifications are. Skimming the report and looking at the citations, it seems that the author used cherry-picked newspaper articles to support some of their scientific claims, which increases my skepticism significantly.
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Once again, you're confusing materials and manufacturing complexity for actual mechanical complexity. I remember when I first got a close look at a jet turbine fan blade, and being puzzled by some aspects of it, like the channels that ran all the way through it. (I remember thinking that those channels must have been pretty tricky to make.) But then I realized that these were probably for cooling, like you said. I was most impressed by its relatively complex shape, and by no doubt the exotic material that it was made of and the tight tolerances it held. But in the end it's nothing more than a simple fan blade.

BTW, I had some similar impressions about the close-up look I once got of a large rocket engine nozzle. Then I realized that it was really nothing more than a big coiled cooling tube surrounded by an external shell - pretty simple stuff, actually. And the "de Laval" part of that nozzle, which is what makes it work to begin with, is as simple as can be and is a design which dates back to over a century ago.
From reading their job descriptions, I think think-cell, Contiamo, and Exasol are good ones.

Companies that have managed to maintain a good line of products: Elastic, Mongo, DigitalOcean, Databricks.
OMG, you're actually playing the antecedent game.

All in service to this ridiculous strawman you've set up because you're convinced I'm all primed to call you a racist. About a position you don't even admit you hold.
SPA, or not SPA, that is the question
I like the part in Photoshop, Where you could say for what you wish to use it and it would rearrange the menus or add and remove certain options which are needed for that Use case, this and some other cases influenced my question,

Do you think it is a waste of resources having so many tools which do so many things the same way + a few unique options,

I like the ShareX tool (screen recording) which asks me to install the extra feature if i wish to use Screen recording, (goes back to the previous comenter who mentioned it is basically packages)

I hope i am making myself clear in the questions and comments :D , not a native eng speaker and also didnt really prepare the question well, it just came to me in a rush as it was stuck in my head for a long time, sorry about that,

Sometimes i look at old software and some new one (sublime text) where devs worked hard for our resources where as today, (luckily i have 16 GB) there seems to be a lack for performance or the will to design efficient systems (due to abundance of resources in PCs?)

What did you mean isolating users into groups? I wouldnt want that :D, but i mentioned it as a layer on top of Core things, example

All users want video and web tech - but then some are more specific - these specifics would be the packages they get bundled on top of core features, and the Collective groups of devs work on those

Linux drivers and installing certain software is sometimes a real pain and can vary from distro to distro , if the linux is to succeed shouldnt we collectively fight to avoid this barrier

Forgive me folks its my first time doing this i think i jump here and there ;D perhaps even confusing you sometimes...

I will update the email
Thanks
> too easily attackable. Trivial really, any 10 year old can do that

In another comment you write:

> You can easily brute-force even the worst of all siphash in under 4min.

Can you please write what you mean by those statements? Is it about the "hash-flooding DoS" attacks or something else? Can you share a little more of your insights?
This seems best - offer them the choice.

Don't go "learn to code cloud formation in 30 days or lose your job with no severance".
I RE'd WoW for ~10 years. You'd be horrified if you knew how many hacks and crazy-bad technical designs are in the game. The team sometimes infamously has (or had, as of a couple expansions ago) hundreds of thousands of open issues and sometimes squashes bugs which are several expansions old.

Incidentally, they also quite often create new bugs in super-old content due to changes in newer content.

I mean, the work they do is incredible. But it blows my mind how they manage to maintain this game given the amount of intertwined legacy within it. I'm not sure what exactly caused it to become as bad as it did. It's probably a mix of the game being far more popular than they originally anticipated, the team being incredibly large, and the engine itself not being very accomodating.
> "SipHash was designed as a mitigation to hash-flooding DoS attacks. It is now used in the hash tables implementation of Python, Ruby, Perl 5, etc."

It's also the default hasher in Rust.

Rust's hashing is interesting. Types that want to be hashable implement the Hash trait. What the Hash trait requires is that a type knows how to feed its fields to a Hasher, as a sequence of primitives - it doesn't require that it actually computes a hash itself. It's the Hasher which computes the hash. This is nice, because it's very easy to implement Hash; indeed, so easy that it can be done automatically using a derive macro. The downside is that it's not possible for a type to implement a custom hash that takes particular advantage of its own structure, and so to get a particularly good tradeoff of distribution against performance. The only place to make that tradeoff is in the choice of Hasher, where it has to be made generically across all types.

That said, you can choose the hasher used for individual HashMaps, so if you have a HashMap where you know the keys are integers, you can use a Hasher which just does a Fibonacci hash.
How? Are you planning to prohibit the rest of us from procreating?
What a surprise to find the pesticides manufacturer's association disputes this. I'm shocked!

There's been a few studies since this one. No one seems to have actually required a reduction yet though. I think France has a target. The UK plan consists of nothing but empty words and no plan. Then was criticised by the UK Chief Scientist.
"said a spokesman for the Crop Protection Association, which represents pesticide manufacturers"
Interesting that the huge overrepresentation of asians can be completely ignored and not seen as bad at all while a smaller overrepresentation of men is a huge problem.

41% of 2017 hires were asians [1] while being only 5% of the population [2].

1: https://diversity.google/annual-report/
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
So, you go to big universities, you recruit the output of key Ph.D. programs and you sit them down with the existing team for 3 years. Or 5 years.

If these programs aren't producing the folks you need you set up ones that do.

Unless you are a penny pinching short sighted know nothing accountant.
Indeed. Most likely the way to go would be to build a truck that parcels can easily be put into by a machine.
Thanks, and I agree, being able to gather some high level insights would be pretty interesting - perhaps something I can look into once the sample size is large enough.

Just in some of the initial feedback I've received it's been surprising to hear how passionate folks are about the different approaches - it is definitely not a one-size-fits-all type of situation. Ultimately folks should do what works best for them, my hope is the BudgetDuo will provide a bit of insight to help make some decisions.
Gold sold in India is almost always 24ct (pure). Gold sold in other countries for jewelry is an alloy (usually 18ct) so that it can stand up better to daily wear. So you're technically not getting as much gold.
Yes but i'm talking about the statistic having a potentially invalid baseline because of the method of testing gives some people an advantage separate from physical ability to perceive colour depending on how they complete the test.
I have built multi-cloud, totally cloud-agnostic deployments at my previous company with terraform, for really interesting reasons. At least for tf even if you are spinning up a VM and installing something like postgres on it (cloud agnostic, no managed services), rewriting is required because the order of operations can be different in infrastructure building, different modules, different vars, etc. You can use your code for one cloud as a template for the new one, but you do need to maintain a set of scripts for each cloud in my experience.
> a uniformly random key produces uniformly random output for any input.

This is clearly not true for a simple substitution cipher though, otherwise it couldn't be attacked with frequency analysis
Some of us are in the thirties already.
The special rapporteur is Hilal Elver, a law professor at UCLA.
SQLite with Raft. Nice project.
Relax, we can still procreate with the short-sleepers.
I'm yet to have the privilege to work on a database which I would call truly "massive", so I'm oblivious to how things work in such environment in reality. I've seen the question and the answer you've given repeats many times, but aren't there exists a plethora of tools like table partitioning, materialized views etc. to allow one to have the database in a normalized form and run it fast? Don't they work in practice?