skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you think futurism should be based around black people? Congrats that's racist and ethnocentric.
Maybe this scenario is unlikely to happen given the present situation? Most African countries have barely enough water and you expect them to become tech leaders tomorrow?
One thing you might consider is expanding that "Spring Boot" to "Full Stack". It will give you some options when they decide they don't want a fussy gray on the team and cut you loose.
Natural monopolies in any sizable market don't stay natural. They get their fingers in government or use their relative size in a legal system that favors money to create unreasonable barriers to entry. Once they make it to #1 they no longer have to be the best. Same goes for markets run by a duopoly or any number of entities that cooperate in some way to lower competition.
Very interesting, though I wished they used a wider group than just "self-nominating" students. It would be interesting to see if this improved academic performance for regular students (> 3.0 GPA) who didn't have a goal-oriented plan before, or if most of those students already partake in something similar.
What you've described is called "capitalism", and "progress". Epic Games did not invent GPUs, which are way more expensive than their product; however, try running Fortnite without one. 1FPS and unplayable.
Metered street parking, city lots and underground parking all suffice.

With mixed use you get enough local traffic for restaurants who won’t use up the street parking. Also see uber.
I'm reminded of the scene in "The Return of the King" where Gandalf wraps the palantir in a cloth because he's afraid Sauron might be on the other end.

New step one when seizing an iphone: wrap it in something opaque...
Put perfectly.
I was bad at names. Until I was reading "How to make friends and influence people" and went to a talk of Daniel Dennet where he talked about "installing Apps into your brain".

Most of "How to make friends..." has come naturally to me since I was a child, except for the names.

So I just started, with Marjolein. After the introduction I turned around and repeated to myself "this was Marjolein. Marjolein". After a couple of times it becomes natural.

Being able to call out people by name, showing you remembered their names, is very powerful.
Wouldn't that evaporate rather quickly? (Sure, Niven didn't know that _then_... but science has a habit of catching up to some stories.)
It can be analagous, but usually isn't, not in the vast majority of technical [1], administrative, or purchasing senses.

I'd argue that blades are already bordering on being outside of "commodity", at least in this context reliability, since a single chassis replaces some number of actually-commodity standalone boxes with both shared PoFs and highly-customized designs (especially high density that results in thermal unreliability if not outright failure).

[1] Although some blade systems did offer things like integrated shared switches, they failed to make them cheap enough, so, in practice, it didn't happen. Personally, I suspect there was never enough advantage to putting ethernet or even InfiniBand on a backplane instead of cables, not at blade chassis scale of a dozen nodes.
> Those investment bankers must be bad at math - for overtime-exempt employees, each extra hour worked past 40 reduces your hourly pay rate by 2.5%.

It's not about the OT pay working at an IB; it's about the bonus -- which is often a multiplier of your base salary.
It's true that longs and shorts could both benefit from spreading false rumors. But shorts have an expiration date which can cause them to be much more incentivized to drive a rapid price change.
"Why good employees leave" - I know that myself first hand!

https://imgur.com/gallery/Eh4krvj
Shorting a stock doesn't include the time element of options not to mention the relative lack of liquidity in derivatives as opposed to the equity.

Saying that, for most amateurs I'd recommend selling puts than shorting since shorting has unlimited downside risk.

Sometimes shorting against the box makes sense if you have the asset in another account and can't sell it there. You could short it in your primary account and then move the shares over which make take a few days locking in a sell price. When the shares arrive in your primary account it covers the short position.
> it feels like an atheist's attempt to replace God with Man and then posit him as the highest virtue.

So same basic concept as nitschze espoused?
I have kids and down-voted your comment. Simply because a person has (or might have) the capacity for working overtime doesn't mean this should be a requirement. We're employees, not slaves.
Dark Matter IS the scientific knowledge that came from challenging the consensus.
Do you have fingers forged from the core of a neutron star? :D
I agree. Teleconferencing does not need extra reality for the same reason you text people rather than call. Remoteness is often good. Do I want that meeting asshole more real?
Ditto. And I am much likelier to remember random facts: where they work, where they live, what type of food they like--than what their name is. I assume it's because, at some level, my brain is saying this is some arbitrary symbol that doesn't really matter and I'm not very interested in.
That's...not at all what they said...
Yes, I have built backend services for several e-commerce websites with it, it generally works great.
Introduction to verifiable delay functions
I was working from the idea of a nyquist or sampling rate needed to "perfectly" reproduce a wave form. I know this works for lower frequencies but I have no idea how well it translates to something like optical frequencies/light. You can find frequency from speed / wavelength: f = v/l or in our case f = c / l since we're dealing with light.

I was using 635nm as the wavelength (basically a red laser). That gives you:

3 x 10^8 / 635 x 10^-7 = 4.7 x 10^14

Which should be about 470 terahertz (4.72 x 10^14) give or take a bit. To sample that "perfectly" you'd need to sample at twice the frequency or about 940 terahertz or (9.4 x 10^14).

As to your second question, I know that there are single photon detectors. Past that, you've got me. I don't know if that can be classified as "seeing" or not. As to size, there's https://briankoberlein.com/2015/04/14/thats-about-the-size-o... but that might or might not make sense.

That's about the limit of what I'm willing/able to say on the subject.
Great question. IMHO the ruts we are trying to avoid are sticking only to a previously used solution because of the fear of trying new things. Of course that needs to be balanced with the risks/costs of trying new things too.

As a mentioned previously we’ve found a lot of senior sw candidates who have 20+ years experience working on a huge legacy technology in a huge beaurocratic organization. Some of those people have no problem applying their experience and skills to general software engineering efforts. However others are only fluent and comfortable in that one legacy technology and are not really experienced in the fundamentals. A surprising number of those people exist. That’s who we want to avoid.

Skills we do want are: ability to apply fundamentals to general solutions, ability to consider the costs of various approaches, ability to plan and architect, ability to organize well, ability to communicate well, ability to learn, etc.
It doesn't match all of your wants, but you should consider living in the inner city of a large metropolitan area and working for tech companies there. In Los Angeles, a talented dev/arch with devops can make $185,000/yr with benefits. Another possibility would be turning into a migrant fruit-picker, stick your stuff in a storage facility and follow the contracts around the country, looking for the $200/hr gigs.

Do all of the above, then retire early and spend your time developing your own client list at your own pace at home, working 0 to 10 hours per week.
The idea of non-visible matter as a fix for stellar motion dates back to the 19th century, when our knowledge about the cosmos was far more limited (remember, we only learned about other galaxies in the 1920s - it post-dates general relativity!). That the hypothesis is still viable today with our more elaborate understanding of the universe does validate the idea to some degree: Our cosmological models cut have killed it off easily.

So unless a better model that works equally well comes along, I see no reason to discard the dark matter hypothesis just yet: The universe has no obligation to be filled with a type of matter detectable with the means of today...
Not jumping to conclusions would have been equally acceptable.
I really like both and for different reasons. But I think Rust was tiny bit too late. Just a couple!e years earlier and think it would be well ahead of Rust in inertia.
Is discrimination the same thing as harassment?
I agree with and excited about this development. I'm an academically trained futurist and I'm continually frustrated by the future as being techno-solutionist-driven and mostly Western or some Hong Kong/Tokyo future.

Black Panther, I hope, will help people to be inspired by other ideas of what the future can be - from different cultural lenses, changes in view of technology, changes in ways of doing etc.

It's about decolonizing the future and opening the door to other ways of being.

Here's one of my favorite piece of futures work that I like to talk about. It's about the future of human relationships:
https://jfsdigital.org/2017/09/22/the-future-of-marriage/

Yes, it's still techno-driven and still very San Francisco, but at least its not about flying cars or fancy tech, just different ways of being.
> those apartments will sit vacant and they're have to lower prices

When leverage is involved there is a lag. (If your building requires X per square foot to pay the debt, you may hold out longer for someone who will pay X versus renting for 0.9X.) But that is temporary.

The luxury housing boom is doing that to New York. I just negotiated my rent down by comparing the recently-discounted rent at the luxury building down the street to ours, counting up the amenities, and making my case for moving to the landlord. Not wanting to lose a good tenant in November, they acceded.
Please see my other replies for further clarification. Note you’ve assumed that I’m not an older engineer myself. Perhaps that is your bias :)
C-section babies are prone to certain ailments later in life:

"Giant study links C-sections with chronic disorders" -

http://sciencenordic.com/giant-study-links-c-sections-chroni...

My guess is that this is tied to the reduced exposure to the mothers' vaginal and anal microbiome that occurs during vaginal delivery but which is absent in C-section.

Much as childhood exposure to animals reduces autoimmune disorders in later life, natural birth also likely does the same.

"Study: Children who grow up on family farms and drink raw milk have fewer allergies, autoimmune disorders"

https://www.naturalnews.com/035802_raw_milk_farms_allergies....
Says you. Let's recognize the undeniable fact that it's just your opinion. Same as the people using the word toxic saying it's deserved (your opponents) -- that's an opinion as well. If you are open to discuss your definition then a talk might happen. If not, everybody is stuck in their own confirmation bias.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those types of jobs exist, but usually not with young companies. Look for older, established companies that either have high internal tech needs, or are a tech-based business.

I had 2 jobs that matched your description, each of which lasted 5 years - one was internal software development for a large energy company. The other was working for a small SaaS shop that had been around for more than 10 years.

On the flip side, the least satisfying jobs I've had were open-office startups with inexperienced managers and CEOs. I didn't last a year at the three of those I've done, and I think I've finally learned my lesson to never try again.

To be clear, there is a place in this industry for young startups led by ambitious but inexperienced leadership teams. I think positively of the people from those places and wish them well... I just agree that those of us who have been around this block for more than a couple decades don't fit well in such places.
Can we start with how you define a start up yourself?
> I heartily recommend doing the Carousel of Progress ride at Disney World. It’s a quite eye-opening look at how little life has changed in the last 150 years.

I just say: "Internet".
Brave just recently past 4 million MAU and has made lots of progress the past year: https://brave.com/
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Looks interesting. The performance chart seems a bit misleading, as you can get a good 100 core CPU setup for $20k but a DX-2 costs 20 times that at $400k.
Although remembering people's names is a powerful social tool, you shouldn't infer from the article that forgetting someone's name (a very common faux pas, in the title of the article) is tantamount to forgetting having met someone (the leading "Jerkface" example in the article).

Recognition and recall are two very different things. The article conflates failures of recognition (X doesn't remember ever meeting Y) with failures of recall (X doesn't remember Y's name).
yeah... I frequently fly with guitars. On Southwest, you can pay for early-bird check-in and get a nearly guaranteed A boarding spot. On American and United, you can pay $15 for early boarding. For international and generally on anything larger than a 767, overhead compartment space is rarely an issue.
C-section all in all hurts more and you heal longer after that and you need more help afterwards. Plus it limits how many kids you can have safely.

The dominance of guys shows up mostly by completely ignoring practical considerations.
Can dark matter be reminiscent of past, a time travelling effects of matter..
Excellent approach! Software Engineering rewards (or even requires) curiosity. There is always higher hanging fruit if you're willing to climb the ladder.
> Microsoft has done patent troll shakedowns

You're not a patent troll if you invented the patents (for a 1st-party OS).
Recognizing intervals. There's a lot of free apps for this.
Highrr age of mother during first childbirth and money probably make difference.
Perhaps TokuDB was evolving rapidly at the time they were trying to incorporate it into this filesystem.

It seems like the choices are:

1. Fork TokuDB.

2. Fork the kernel.

If the goal is research, the first one of those would then slow down the research. The second one only gets you stuck on an old kernel, which while not great for end users, isn't as big of a problem for a researcher as having their researcher slowed down.
>I think what it boils down to is "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it."

I think it was Tom DeMarco who popularized this slogan (or a popular variant of it), but he has abandoned it in later years, even going on to give counterexamples. See http://www2.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homep... .
Tl;Dr

Microsoft did a good thing (whatever it's motivation).

Some people want Microsoft to do more.

There is always a danger in this that Microsoft think that their MicrosoftHeartsLinux strategy isn't working and go back to what they were doing before. The 'nothing we do is ever good enough for them,' outcome.
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There was a big warning on the screen saying that you're giving access to a 3rd party all to read all your emails.

This wasn't something buried deep into a long ToS, this was someone explicitly asking you for the keys to your house.

Not sure what you expect when giving access to your emails...
Or maybe they can just place their thumb over the sensor.
I think you misunderstand the threads.

Dark Matter isn’t a thing it’s a place holder it has many candidates some more probable than others it might be that there is only one class of dark matter it might be that there are multiple classes of dark matter.

It might be that all the dark matter will be new forms of matter it might be that some or all of it will end up being baryonic matter.

It also might be that we won’t find it at all in which case we might need to say that our understanding of gravity and the geometry of space time isn’t nearly as representative of reality as we thought maybe dark matter is gravity leaking in from other universes maybe it’s the affect of additional dimensions of space time maybe quantum gravity causes some wired emerging phenomenon that affects the geometry of space time that we attribute to missing mass.

There isn’t a consensus amongst scientists on anything related to dark matter other than based on observations we are missing a truckload of mass in the universe.

And currently people are trying to explain it by looking for new forms of matter, normal matter that is very cold and so we can’t see it, and even attempting at modifying the theories of gravity to account for the observations we see with new relativistic and classical modified gravity models.
land is generally 90%+ of the value out here in santa monica. 1 story tear downs go for $2M in the area i live. the new owners usually want to build their own thing - a big spanish style ranch or weird japanese/modernist house - it's the land that's valuable and scarce, not the access to construction crews and building materials
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Re: EM, the Biot-Savart force law can result in long-range attractive forces proportional to d^-1 instead of d^-2. So if it’s operative at galactic and intergalactic scales (between plasma filaments) and we’re not fully taking it into account, then we may be discounting the most powerful long-range force in the universe.
One note.

There were at least 10 startups that failed to produce LCD projector displays, which are now ubiquitous and cheap.

There were at least 20 startups that failed at non-piercing blood glucose measurement, which is now accessible and not outrageously expensive.

So something will come of this. But Magic Leap is going down.
Only a short has the courage to buy in a real panic (like the 1987 crash). Value investors generally only play the long side. Market makers will withdraw from the market reducing liquidity in times of volatility.
I'd pay some tiny amount for a single article, but I don't want a full subscription if I don't read the Economist otherwise. Also, I don't want dozens of subscriptions for different sites.

I'd like a system when some tiny amount would be deducted automatically from my account every time I read an article on different sites.
I’ve seen it all, from co-founding a startup that went on to have a $40M+ exit, to working at major tech companies, to, today, running a small business.

In my experience, the biggest difference between a startup and small business is that a startup feels intense pressure to scale up the business before the underlying fundamentals are strong. There’s a “land grab” attitude wherein investors are willing for the business take on massive losses the first few years as long as the company is building a moat around what they’re doing that will be difficult for competitors to penetrate later on. The idea is to build as much of a monopoly as you can early, funded by investment dollars, and “turn on” the revenue streams later.

A small business, on the other hand, generally scales hiring/marketing/sales along with their current revenue growth. It’s a bottom-up approach to building a business, wherein you scale as your company’s fundamentals incrementally improve. My current company is a newsletter-based business where we’re making fun of the tech industry (https://www.techloaf.io) where we’ve kept expenses extremely low, only hiring folks as the business improves.

Both approaches can make sense, it’s just all about your goals (both as an employee looking for work at either or as a founder building a company).
The short version is called short and distort. I'd like to see stats on which is more common.
That is not the only thing you can get fined for under GDPR.
https://imgur.com/a/wii2zVT is what everybody gets when starting VSCode for the first time.
Very sorry for your loss. After her first C-section, a relative of mine was told by her physicians that all subsequent births should be the same because that was safer. It's interesting how the standard of care varies between nations.
I wish this article had actual substance and not just a listicle of off-the-cuff one-liners.
"With insider trading, the knowledge of insider traders would be priced in."

Yes and the price would be near 0 (i.e. 'priced in' crazy risk) because nobody is stupid enough to buy shares from those who have massive leverage over them.

Would you play poker against a guy who can look at your cards, but you can't look at his?

Investing is not just 'putting money in a productive vehicle' it's buying and selling based in information. What person would be stupid enough to trade with someone with a massive information advantage over them?

Nobody.

You'd have only Private Equity firms and execs owning shares, where the PE firms would have some kind of leverage.

There wouldn't be much of a market for equity, there certainly wouldn't be any 'publicly traded companies' because that would be pointless.

It would massively depress the market and lead to considerably less investment.
Why do think is the reason that most managers in technology are bad? I tend to think of management as abstraction. A mid-level manager provides an abstraction of the work for high-level management and at the same time is provided an abstraction of the work by the low-level managers or engineers. Assuming that my understanding is right, are these abstractions leaky? is the lack of technical knowledge the reason why managers are bad?
That's insanity. What is wrong with this industry????
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You want utility companies to be a regulated monopoly because of their economies of scale. Consumers would be worse off with two small electric companies because their per unit of electrical price would be higher. Competition can't price away the fixed costs of building a power plant or stringing electrical wires all over town. However the monopoly has pricing power and needs the government regulation to prevent it from unfairly raising prices for consumers like they would to maximize profit without the regulation.

Natural monopolies are bad because they can use their market position to unfairly prevent new entrants to the market. For example, Amazon may buy all of a key supplier's product and prevent the upstart from even having a chance because they can't buy any of that product. The monopoly can raise prices to whatever level they want, despite what the market would dictate because the consumer doesn't have another alternative.
Microsoft’s use of Linux on Azure cloud was in violation of patents in the OIN patent pool, which includes patents held by Google and IBM. Now, not only are they not in violation without having to pay for licensing, but they are also getting a lot of great PR.
a little tape on the camera would do just as well, wouldn't it?
They should be reading the fucking source code. Redux isn't big. But they are stuck in a rut.

IMHO, from the outside, senior developer rut looks like a fear/resistance to change or learning. I'm not sure if what is really going on inside, though. Probably career burnout.

I am the around same age as the guys I'm referring to here, fwiw. So, it's more than just physiological aging.
In my current work we use Zulip and I'm very happy. I'm one of those people who is fine with most stuff and never complain so you wouldn't read a complaint of zulip from me but I honestly really like it. We get real time errors and alarms in dev systems and prob via zulip and its asynchronous model works super good.
try abuse@pir.org, also.

Typically a registry will just fwd it on to the registrar. That said, registrars tend to take complaints from the registry more seriously imo.