skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To simplify your question:

Why does Bossbert write the Job Description - because he thinks he knows something.

Why does Catbert edit the Job Description - because if they do not then they have a hard time justifying their value.

Why does not Dilbert write the job description - because a job description that reads 20 pages is a bit much.

I recommend a website called Glassdoor. I used them to avoid a job, I was unemployed, and this company was interested in me. Reading on glassdoor, everyone thought it was the best place to work. Everyone except the IT people. They thought it was just atrocious, and the turn over rate was over 100% in IT. No thanks - I would prefer to remain unemployed verses entering that mess.

Alternatively you can go on linked in, see who works there, hopefully you know someone who knows them, get an introduction, and find the real dirt.
Java and Oberon fit easily in a ARM Cortex M, which some embedded companies are happily selling, there is no reason why a Go implementation could not exist as well.
On average I agree they are on par. Sometimes OSS is better (ffmpeg), sometimes commercial stuff (adobe after effects).

In this specific case I think it might be beneficial if you can spend a lot of money on gathering training material and tweaking the network. But then again someone here mentioned the quality 4chans fake porn has reached, so maybe I'm wrong after all.
Oblig: https://xkcd.com/206/
How is it different than what happens now except for the fact the the benefactors of the current system are a relatively small group of banks vs a common citizen? Seems to me that a system that benefited everyone would be more politically tenable than one that benefits a select few.
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You need very high frame rate to make fast animations feel smooth and natural. I suppose older Android phones had quite low frame rate and required slow animations to feel smooth.

Imagine moving a window 500px over 100ms in 30FPS, that is just 3 frames! It means your window will jump 166px per frame. On average resolution display this translates to a few centimers jump per frame. Not very smooth.
It had two methods of retrieving data. The first was what was known as a navigational database:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_database

This was something that was popular back when you used tape to store data. A record contained navigational references that told you where the next record was, allowing you to fast forward the tape to that position without reading everything in between.

The 2nd was POSTQUEL, which was a QUEL language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
POSTQUEL was the preferred and recommended way of querying postgres.

These were both on their way out even in the early years of Postgres (mid-80s). Navigational databases are from the 60s. SQL was invented at IBM in the early 70s, and adopted by Oracle and DB2 in late-70s, and by the mid-80s they had gained significant market share and most databases that used QUEL had moved to SQL around that time.
I have been making a thing over the past few months and I have just published my BETA release, its a desktop productivity application for snippets and live templates and I intend to try and sell for actual money, but first i need to work out if what I have built is any good - I would really appreciate it if you had a look.
Isn't that a bit strict? It seems that "x is a young man's game" can be read either in an empirical ("historically, only young men do x") or normative ("only young men should do x") sense, the former of which might be slightly inaccurate because there are exceptions, but otherwise seems fine.

A view held by some seems to be that since even the empirical observation may "perpetuate" the situation, stating it is "problematic" in itself, but I don't suppose this is what you mean here.
Well, maybe that is true, but if you read the reactions, the text is interpreted way further than what is written down there. Also some of the responses are outright rude and uncivil.
> The actual approach is a perfectly reasonable business strategy,

It is, as long as you have reason to assume that you will be ABLE to automate the tasks.
For many of these tasks, there is NO reason to assume that.

My feeling with AI tasks is that either they work reasonably well after a short time or they will never work well. (At least not until the next AI revolution.)

If a company doesn't have a good enough AI system for their task after a couple of months of toying with it, I will be Very sceptical that they will ever have one.
Can't you easily obfuscate that by making the video intentionally grainy and low-res and passing it off as "caught by CCTV" or "found footage"?
Braess’s paradox
he was literally trying different things and seeing what they do to him. he says so in the interview with Hamilton Morris in an episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia on Viceland.
If you want to learn more about this David F. Lancy's book, The Anthropology of Childhood, is excellent.

Very short version
Children everywhere desperately want to be helpful, to be productive members of society with a useful role. They learn what to do and how to do it with very, very little in the way of explicit instruction and for almost all skills in almost all societies none.

Schools and formal instruction are a product of literate societies and schooling, both teaching and learning are unnatural behaviours that absolutely have to be taught.

https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Childhood-Cherubs-Chatte...
NVME and GPU accelerates I/O major SQL workloads
More debt for Ontario
Parts of the Thames that flow through Oxford are called “The Isis” (presumably after the Goddess), and there are (or at least were) a good number of Oxford things called that
The GDR had its electronics RND and factories in and around Dresden, so now they have Silicon Saxony https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony
What would a functional approach be?
I'm scared. I can't trust anything I haven't took myself. The problem is that other people not even know that this technology exists and if you tell them about it, you're a lier.
A little bit about the company

That's a cookie cutter Internet ads DSP shop with few buzzwords painted over on top, namely the alleged "smart AI algorithm." Something now standard.
Normality also includes the distribution of the substrings in the definition, it's not just "every finite string of numbers compares somewhere"
This is great news. Hopefully we will see others follow.
How does that justify lying about it?

If you're going to lie to your colleagues better have a very good reason ready. "They won't help me if they knew the truth" is not a good reason.
The system I've been working on in the past 6 months is non-trivial and written in this style. Roughly 2/3 of the code is in core and 1/3 is in shell.
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That's why any sensible person would know not to trust the mass media at all or at least view every coverage with a load of skepticism. It's obvious from how the way they cover tech and programming is full of misunderstandings and forced narratives. Easy to imagine how things can be similar for other fields as well.
Lots of people think about the low rev multiplier but maybe a) the founder, all being quite young, just wanted out and do something new, b) the money is all in cash without strings attached or c) they have a sense that with the GDPR in europe and similar laws possibly coming up elsewhere their company and revenue might plateau rather soon.

If someone offered me >10 million, I'd take the money and run.
>locally scoped, mutation-heavy, imperative code is fine as long as you can wrap it in a deterministic, immutable interface for general use.

Yes! Clojure supports this via transients. What's even better is that you can write the loop using immutable data, make sure it works. Then just

1. add a call to transient in the initializations,

2. add a call to persistent! in the end and

3. add a ! to each function that modifies the transient, e.g. conj becomes conj!

The benefit in doing it this way is that the language will catch and flag as errors any "mixed" usage - calling a pure function with a mutable argument or vice-versa.

https://clojure.org/reference/transients

http://www.hypirion.com/musings/understanding-clojure-transi...
Tautological masturbation
> You then transfer that credit asset to somebody else to pay them.

So the matching deposit disappears from the liabilities side of Lloyd’s balance sheet while the loan remains in the assets side? That leaves the balance sheet unbalanced, doesn’t it?
Yes, thats the point of this history lesson - we are still committing these crimes, on a regular basis, with impunity.

The only ones who can do anything about it is civilians. But, none of us seem to be too bothered by the 300,000 innocent lives lost, because America needs war.
Some applications for this kind of tech:

- Porn, yeah, first application you can think of, there are already some startups doing it.

- Doubling actors, and applied to sound, maybe you could translate from one language to another but kind of keeping the accent and tone.

- Propaganda and misinformation. Now you can get your enemy to say and do whatever you want, on video.

- Photo-realistic games. Create a rough 3D model of an scenario and train the AI for it. Instead of photo-realistic rendering with math, render it with the AI based on a rough render, in real-time.
Debt is not money, but it has a flipside, the debt claim, which can be readily converted into money at a (central) bank. That's the fundemantal if somewhat hidden mechanism of our monetary system.
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What media would someone collect now to be used in the future to reproduce the likeness of loved ones? Video clips of them moving? Talking? Different poses of pictures? Reading the dictionary out loud to get vocal patterns?

Heck with impersonating the POTUS. What about a lost friend, sibling or parent?
You might care as an investor, lest great consumer experience come from burning through VC. As an anology, if Uber claimed to have self driving taxis, but actually had people hiding in boxes driving them, that would be investment fraud.

The promise of AI has always been not better experiences, but similar human touched experiences for a much cheaper cost.
Well, that's the exception unfortunately, especially of you're on the winning side. Even in Germany, which is often held as a prime example on taking responsibility for their actions during WW2 afterwards, quite a bunch of medium to high ranked officials got away.
Another example is Japan. Even fewer were prosecuted and punished for their war crimes there, even though the US were paying close attention first. It became less important after it turned out Japan could be a great ally for the US's involvements in Asia, so a lot of them could get off the hook.
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If there was justice in the world, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Obama would all be in The Hague, in irons.

There is no justice in the world.
MySQL workbench is still 10.000 miles ahead of PgAdmin. About three years ago the latest iteration PgAdmin 4 came out, which I tried on and off for a few months but was so buggy it was unusable for me. It might have gotten better since then.

It's a shame, psql is awesome once you know enough to use it, but GUIs is how people start using RDMSes, and it's about the only thing that MySQL is clearly superior to PostgreSQL.
All of America's wars since Vietnam have been horrific war.

You should put as much energy into observing the victims of Americas illegal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, too .. America hasn't stopped killing innocent children.

Americans, however, have stopped caring about it.
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What to me was a surprise is that people in a politically oppressed country, were happier and mentally healthier, than some fat potatoe chip eating people running around with rifles in a politically "free" environment where everyone blames their misfortune on the next person with darker skin or foreign accent, manipulated by consumerism and lead by an erratic maniac.
Word on the street is that Apple's ZFS integration was mostly finished and it was going to be announced at WWDC. Sun opensourced ZFS under the CDDL. But then Oracle bought Sun, and Apple's lawyers wanted to make sure Oracle wouldn't try to sue them over ZFS somehow anyway. Negotiations between Apple and Oracle for a clear ZFS license fell through. Without legal go-ahead the feature was pulled from macos at the 11th hour and buried.

When ZFS was opensourced under the CDDL, lots of people complained that they should have chosen a clearer, more permissive opensource license. Other people said it was fine, because the license was good enough and Sun is full of good people. The way everything played out, its clear the first group's concerns were valid.

Its a huge shame. ZFS is a fantastic piece of engineering. It was ahead of its time in lots of ways. It would take years for btrfs to become usable and for apfs to appear on the scene. If not for the weird licensing decision, zfs would almost certainly have landed in the linux and macos kernels. We almost had an ubiquitous, standard, cross platform filesystem.

For more history about Sun and Oracle, this talk by Bryan Cantrill is a great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Cyrillic is not that hard. I learned basic reading Cyrillic from traffic signs while transiting Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia, over the course of two days.
Maybe it's just me but this really seems like quibbling over semantics. Cash is fungible: banks need cash in order to lend it out and they get cash from deposits. The rest is just bookkeeping.
I've done a little research into rescuers during Holocaust. You may find that interesting.

http://250bpm.com/blog:125
They appear to have stolen the plot of the film "Shooting Fish". Trailer - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120122/videoplayer/vi276031106...
> Hedging against currency movements is fairly trivial and doesn't cost much

The cost is essentially the (risk-free) interest rate differential that you were trying to capture in the first place.
That's equally horrifying in a different way.
and yes, i realise this is not a closed beta, I changed my mind and made it public but had already published the link...doh!
When I press page-down I want to scroll a page down immediately, not wait 250ms before eventually arriving at a page down. Page-down always scrolls the same distance, so you don't need any hints about how it scrolled; you just move your eyes the same way you always do. If something is messing with the scrolling to make it act in a confusing way (I think Javascript might allow this), that doesn't mean you should use animation to help people understand the confusing behavior, it means you should fix the bug that allows the confusing behavior.
Yes but there's 2 issues:

1) not in the same concentration/dose (patient will need to change the dose by breaking pills)

2) not according to the UK government (which has never approved the cheaper drug)

So now the big question is, suppose this goes very wrong for a patient, who is responsible ? The doctor ? The patient ? The government ?
To be clear, what are you trying to convince me of? The target keeps moving. Are you trying to convince me that a blockchain is needed instead of Git for a currency like Bitcoin? In that case I agree. In fact I conjecture that blockchains are only useful for cryptocurrency. Or, are you trying to convince me that a blockchain is useful for businesses for something like “the supply chain” or whatever, without any cryptocurrency? If so, then I disagree. But please be clear.

If you’re arguing for the latter, then try to explain to me as simply as possible how a blockchain with “proof of authority” is better to Git with signed commits. Or CT. Or Keybase. It seems that these business blockchains are inefficient, append-only Merkle trees. It’s not particularly novel, and replicating the database across all nodes of the network and constantly engaging on a consensus protocol to agree on the state of the network while all peers are trusted anyway with proof of authority seems quite useless.

If I am wrong, then the blockchain people can do themselves a favour and make a simple comparison chart of their solution compared to possible alternatives. But I don’t think they want to do thst. I think they baffle non-technical people with words like “decentralised”, and “cryptographic signature” and polish it nicely until people believe in them. Just try reading Alex Tapscott’s book “The blockchain revolution”. I think it is snake oil. The emperor’s new blockchain.
The vast bulk of Adobe's advantage is in UX, not technical algorithms. Which makes perfect sense because that tends to be the case with most F/OSS software—technically brilliant but with an face only a programmer could love.

Yes, Adobe do have some remarkable algorithms that would be difficult to replicate (e.g. heal brush and content aware fill) but these are a small minority of Adobe's software advantage.

The one that irritates me the most is vector drawing programs: open source programs (and even paid competitors) just can't touch Adobe Illustrator for the sort of work I do. I'm sure at least 50 percent of it is familiarity and muscle memory, but I've desperately tried switching to a few different options like Inkscape or Affinity and left wildly disappointed.
Reminds me of Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_in_the_Trees
It seems mundane when you live in NM. But I spent a decade in LV, NV. I’m very grateful to be back in NM. This place even had a Burning Man celebration before California afaik.
Eventually everyone will be targeted. I have an unannounced web server serving a domain in the middle of internet nowhere and I get script attacks all the time. If some how this gets commercialized with no regulation criminals will open up shop for business practically the day after. Its like CRISPR: sure it can do some powerful things but so can your adversaries to you. I hate to think of the internet as a cloud of adversaries but that is really what it has become.
...and I am using Clippy from old MS Office 2000 era! (and yep I am using Comic Sans as one of my main fonts! (sortof))
I agree, I built a small UI for work and used animations (with 200-300ms transition times)

Then out of curiosity I disabled them all on a release and the feedback was pretty much the same except I got a few "it's much faster" responses.

Fwiw internal business application not consumer but lesson learnt.

Personally I very very rarely think animation is an improvement.

Except where you are using animation to cover loading times and at the end of the animation the UI is ready perhaps.
I've been involved with postgres from before it had SQL, at Ilustra we added SQL in a parallel effort to the postgresql open source project and I'm not sure I'd agree with your points:

Specifically, POSTQUEL was not really obsolete, it's just that the market had picked SQL by then. Compare the fates of git versus Mercurial. Mercurial is not obsolete, but git is the clear popularity winner.

Second, I don't recall at all a navigational interface to postgres and the idea that this was a primary access method in postgres is quite surprising. Do you have a reference for this? I'd be very curious to read it.
I've been reading Greenwald for years and don't recognise that description at all. But it comes from the New Yorker so this is perhaps not a surprise.

It's worth being extremely careful paying any attention to American media on the topic of Glenn Greenwald. He is essentially the only journalist in the world who routinely and strongly criticises other journalists and points out their lying and manipulations. In recent times he's written a series of articles showing how frequently US media's stories related to Russia collapse, are retracted or turn out to be fraudulent.

He also got the scoop of the decade when Snowden went directly to him and Poitras, news non-entities, because he simply didn't trust other journalists at all.

I suspect by now most Washington/New York based journalists hate his guts.
With the instance types they're using the migration isn't really an option because the point of the i3 instances is the locally attached NVMe SSD disks where the database files are.
I get a not found page for this (https://github.com/Johnny-the-Progger/Smooth-Tab-View).
I have the utmost regard for Germany. I cant think of another example where the entire country acknowledged their own wrongdoings with sincerity. I have no skin in the game, but in some weird way it makes me feel proud for them
Lubos Motl’s take on the paper: https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/09/frauchiger-renner-qm-is-i...

(Tl;dr: “People who still try to prove an inconsistency of quantum mechanics in 2018 are cretins.“)
> WebRender is already turned on by default for many users in Firefox Nightly…

Are you using Nightly?
It is on a whim. "Hate" clauses are essentially put there to let companies or governments make decisions on a whim. Try nailing down a precise definition of the term and then applying it consistently and you'll find it's impossible: either you can't define or it you can't apply it consistently. These clauses are always and everywhere a form of selective discrimination.
That is pure unresearched wishful thinking.

They would fly helicopters up to farmers on a field who would look up at them in confusion and do nothing. Then they'd turn on a siren and when the farmers scattered they shot them all down for taking "evasive action", making them "combatants". There'd be reports of raids with hundreds of "viet cong" killed and a few weapons recovered. The killing machine was about body counts. Kissinger ordered "anything that flies on everything that moves." Villages were leveled in indiscriminate, massive bombing campaigns that exceeded twice the ordinance dropped in WWII. Millions were killed.

If you really want to research what happened in Vietnam start with Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves.[1] It's a polemical title but it's based on a ton of primary research, e.g. the Pentagon's War Crimes Working Group and the National Archives and interviews with over a hundred veterans. And that stuff will make any good soul polemical.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250045061/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
Yeah, Greenwald has gone off the deep end over the last 2-3 years. He's pretty much paralleled the fall of Wikileaks, where they made some important points at the start but have fallen into the orbit of Russia specifically and anti-americanism generally.

Whatever you think of the Democrats or American foreign policy, there really is no call for actually defending Russia and their foreign policy, or downplaying their attempts to subvert our election system, and that's where Greenwald has been for the last couple years. He generally views Russia as a countervailing force to American/Democratic power and thus a necessary evil. Which, yuck.

There is still important work being done on exposing American mass surveillance and other such topics, but it's not being done by Greenwald, who mostly seems concerned with sniping on Twitter at this point.
For their to be an evolutionary reason for it, it has to increase fitness in some fashion. Roughly speaking, it has to increase the chances of propagating your genes. It seems very unlikely that the character of "near death experiences" could have an impact upon fitness.

Saying that something doesn't have an evolutionary reason is not the same as saying it's just coincidence. Our bodies (including our brains) are very complex interconnected processes. There's going to be all sorts of effects when those processes break down, and even if those don't have an evolutionary purpose, that doesn't mean they're just coincidence.

This is a factual matter, which has nothing to do with an argument being bleak or not.