skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ideally advertising would be a way of leading all buyers of mousetraps to the best mousetrap. Instead it is a way for the lesser mousetrap manufacturers/ the lazy/ the actively evil to foist inferior products on people via emotional appeals.

I think this shift was largely due to the influence of the ideas of Edward Bernays, cousin of Sigmund Freud and arguably father of spin/Public Relations., which is largely a re-branding of Propaganda.

As an example of his work in an effort to get more women to smoke in public they were re-contextualized as "torches of freedom" and women were paid to smoke at the Easter Parade in New York. Somewhere along the line a shift towards selling a product (cigarettes) and selling on someone's unconscious desires and motivations. (to be seen as hip and with it)

Car marketing is one of the easiest places to see the change. Looking at early 20th century advertisements more of a focus is placed on qualitative benefits, such as cubic inches of trunk space or longevity of the engine or value for your money, compared to modern advertisements that focus convincing you that the car will make your roadtripping family happy, or make you appear successful, or environmentally conscious.
Did "true freedom" exist in the pre-modern world?

If you lived in a social group, you were certainly subject to the group's rules and decisions (laws and government), including rules about contributing to the group (taxes) and most likely would end up owning favors or property to others at times (loans).

If you didn't, you would likely spend the great majority of your time trying to subsist. Well, for a few years until you got sick and then you would die. That might be true freedom to some, but not something I would choose.
Jokes on you, some of the people I know who smoke regularly are very successful, smart and thoughtful, and some are morons.
Why do you think it is so common for little kids to love to spin and spin until they get super dizzy? They are experimenting with altering their consciousness.
We attended a meeting of the Seattle Mycological Society this past summer and our novice ears perked up at the discussions around names. You would hear speakers attempt to use the scientific name and set off debate, but use the common name to achieve understanding, and then would proceed to use some descriptive term in the event that it was sub-species or variation. So, while perhaps scientifically frustrating in its lack of rigor, using those common names plus descriptors certainly fixed it for everyone apart from the practicing professional mycologists.
Bugs is just riffing on "moron".
> Who does that?

Appeal to authority/tradition as an argument for ignorance? Not very compelling.
Note, however, that MEMS oscillators (which modern iPhones use) and quartz oscillators are not the same thing. SiTime's MEMS oscillator is made of silicon, not quartz.
I don't have any data but I don't think this isn't true at all. I have read at least two articles describing the extra lengths publishers are going to in order to compete. I have bought many beautiful hardbacks released since e-readers took off.
Sorry to hear, though I'd like to mention that there is a fair amount of scale you can get out of a single TimescaleDB node. We scale with disk space so you can throw more disks at it; we have production users who are in the hundreds of billions of rows and 10s of TB of data on a single node. Also with support for streaming replication you can spread out your read load and get HA support. But yes, we will have more to say in the coming months about clustering though.
Why use Wikipedia infoboxes instead of Wikidata items?
> I also never found REPL-driven development to mesh well with my workflow.

> In Scala, for example, entire classes of error that I just shouldn't be able to make don't exist.

guess what programming practice allows to almost entirely avoid those classes of error?
What are the performance issues? People (e.g. Instagram) deploy scaled apps in Python, which is far less performant.

Bleacher report obsesses about information push latency, and they use an all elixir stack that deploys to at least a million users.

Not to mention WhatsApp.
Why the downvotes?

The parent post claimed without any evidence that white males systemically take advantage of white privilege. This post gave a counterexample while being open about the fact that it's anecdotal
Seems to break on browsers older than last week too.
It is definitely related to sleep. Cannabis disrupts NREM sleep, where memories are ushered from short term memory into your hippocampus. Matthew Walker's excellent book "Why We Sleep" goes into this in some detail, highly recommended.

Edit: I should add, many substances disrupt NREM sleep in addition to cannabis, such as alcohol, caffeine, and sleep aids.
If it's illegal, get the police involved. The company shouldn't even know.

If it's not illegal, perhaps it's time to change the law?

A company shouldn't be policing it's employees like this. The police should do it. That's why they're called the police.
Agreed, if these anecdotes weren't stated in the same manner empirical evidence is typically stated I would not be concerned.

It makes for a muddy discussion at best.
Although your chances of dying in Cardiff are probably less than in Tel Aviv.
Hopefully we can be more reasonable than that, but you’re right that’s it’s totally subjective.
The book by Mazzucato is "The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy"
Let me add to the sharing:

A developer, EU, central-europe country with a single room flat rent around 500$.

2011-2012 - 4k$/ year - QA engineer intern in fortune 500 corp (part-time)
2012-2014 - 10k$/year - QA engineer (part-time)
2014-2016 - 20k$/year - QA engineer
2016-2018 - 30k$/year - Senior QA engineer
2018- - 36k$/year - Backend engineer, 3 day weekends, but some on-call duty

I would like to figure out how to get to one of those 100k$/year jobs in reasonably close future :-) Not sure how would I justify that just now with my current skill-set (unless somebody really wanted somebody specialized on QA :)
> If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules

I read this three times before I understood what you were saying. At first I read it as "If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition, that is playing by the rules" as if to justify breaking the rules. English is a lovingly ambiguous language sometimes.
deleted and reposted with the correct parent post -- not sure how I made that mistake above.

There's been broad based discussion about most of the major web platforms deplatforming speech they don't agree with. If you haven't heard about it you've had your head stuck in the sand, or more likely you simply agree with it because you agree with deplatforming those with whom you disagree. That's not an abnormal thing, most people would gladly take away their political opponents' ability to speak if they could get away with it. That's why it's important we don't allow it -- it's the "when they came for..." argument.

Your link talks about speech that specifically calls for violence and is credibly not covered by the first amendment. That's a bit different than the free exchange of ideas.
Legal precedents exist, because laws are interpreted / combined, deduced. Sure, it is not regulatory or statutory law (executive and legislative branches). Yet, courts (and police etc) are bound by the rule of stare decisis. Namely, a court has to abide and be consistent with rulings of higher courts. For instance, if a court says abortion is legal, lower courts, police, and the affected governments (e.g. states, municipalities) have to abide to that ruling/case law.

In other systems, if a law leads to contradiction, or is lacking clarity, the court applies specific 'procedures' to solve the issue (e.g. a law can be ruled unconstitutional or void). Here, the court decides on the details to produce a "reasonable" law.

Edit: But yes, you are right: unlike the legislative branch a court may not propose an arbitrary law (they can advise/make suggestions to the legislative branch).
I feel like we're on the cusp of being able to have a qualitatively better technical book using interactive media instead of page flipping, but to date this has not materialized. For casual introductions (i.e. browsing wikipedia) a phone or table is fine, but a technical book that seeks to lead the reader from basic understanding to deep knowledge remains tantalizingly out of reach for anything but a physical paper book.

Being able to rapidly backtrack and sidetrack seems to be the critical issue; paper allows you to do this so easily with a thumb or other improvised bookmark. Hypertext and forward/back navigation and tabs seems like it would be perfect for this, but it doesn't quite work.

Learning effectively from a technical book has to be like lazily reading a detective novel -- you have to be willing to look at the ending. You do this before you're in a place to understand it, and then build up that foundation to the point where it supports what the end goal is going to be. Maybe it's a question of having a writer who can make this idea a first-class one, by repetition and backtracking in a forward direction; effectively first presenting page 8, then 4, then 2, then 1, then 2, then 8, then 2, then 3, then 1, then 4, or some similar scheme to allow the reader to shore up their understanding, while allowing them to skim through parts that seem boring or are too confusing, with the knowledge that they'll have another chance to review the material, without having to manually backtrack.
> This person appears to believe any sort of functioning immigration system at all is the same thing as mass murder

Where is that coming from? It seems completely out of context with what was said.

Trump has been consistently proven to be racist, xenophobic, misogynistic - none of which are a crime - but should be considered seriously when at command of the United States.

These aren't straw men points. There are real victims out there suffering real consequences because of the hate and regression Trump has promoted. Children ARE being locked in cages. To say it's all Trump's fault would be careless and wrong however, but at the same time we wouldn't say the civil rights movement happened without Martin Luther King. Trump happens to be the leader of a hateful movement no one can hide from. It is indeed very grim.
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Does this have a variable viewer like spyder (for data frames, lists, etc.)?
If you are laid off in London your next job will be in London and you don't have to move house. If you are laid off in Cardiff the next job is in Bristol, Birmingham or Milton Keynes. Property prices don't figure into the equation so much because no one is going to buy in a town where the tech scene is small.
Maybe you should allow remote work?
Democratizing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform and Jenkins
Ah, but that's exactly it - a web host's right to exercise their speech DOES have to do with the safe harbor laws, because the safe harbor laws make it clear that a host is not treated a publisher or a writer of content. The reason behind this is because removing content is an 'impossible burden.' You are saying it is not an impossible burden, but definitely doable. That means that you don't have the same logical basis for legal protections.

http://www.dmlp.org/sites/dmlp.org/files/gov.uscourts.tnmd.5...
Did you just completely make that up?

Not even a mention of a source?
Hercade: Video games created by women
Most crystals have better sealing :-). SiTime explicitly(-ish) acknowledges that their older-generation packaging was less efficient on their website:

"How effective is the hermetic seal of MEMS oscillators??

One of the key elements enabling extremely stable MEMS resonators is SiTime’s EpiSeal™ process which hermetically seals the resonators during wafer processing, eliminating any need for hermetically sealed ceramic packaging. SiTime’s EpiSeal resonator is impervious to the highest concentration elements in the atmosphere, nitrogen and oxygen, and therefore acts as a perfect seal. Previous generations of EpiSeal resonators may have been impacted by large concentrations of small-molecule gas. Newer EpiSeal resonators are impervious to all small-molecule gases. Please contact SiTime in case you are planning to use a SiTime device in large concentrations of small-molecule gas, so that we can recommend an appropriate, immune part."

https://www.sitime.com/support/faqs
They already have a similar rule. This alleged misconduct violated that rule. Presumably that was why he was asked to leave the company.
Hey all,

I did a lot of the ML work for this. Let me know if you have any questions.

The title might be a little ambitious since we only have two embeddings right now, but it really is our goal to have embeddings for everything. You can see some of our upcoming embeddings at https://www.basilica.ai/available-embeddings/.

We basically want to do for these other datatypes what word2vec did for NLP. We want to turn getting good results with images, audio, etc. from a hard research problem into something you can do on your laptop with scikit.
You're projecting your own perception onto others.

Let me raise a counterpoint, the cost of living in Cardiff is vastly less than the, frankly, over inflated prices in London.

I'm going to reuse your tone here - who would give up Cardiff to go to London to get the same Salary but pay twice as much for rent?

I'd raise another point as well - you're assuming people prefer the art and culture scene in London in comparison to a more local scene in a smaller city where gentrification isn't as ubiquitious. I'd rather live in Glasgow, where anyone can afford to go to a club or gig than London, where such activities are generally reserved for rich kids.
Your freedom, or lack thereof, is all in your mind. You don't have to pay your debts, it's just that there are consequences for not doing so. Even without government or societies there are consequences to choices.
In my experience, the hacker/DIYer/tinkerer crossover is pretty big. Certainly in my circle of acquaintances.
Seriously. I just bought one for travel and loaded it with ram and I couldn’t be happier.
They didn't mention it in the article but I wouldn't be surprised if it crossed their mind.
I traveled argentina with some friends who were going back to visit friends and family after a few years away. We met so many different types of people, from those at the pinnacle of the wine industry with houses and developments spread across to country, to those that live a subsistence lifestyle basically, living in a Yurt and creating crafts when they need money. There are definitely ways to live without a master - provided they weren't causing any problems law enforcement had much bigger concerns to deal with. Basically if you go somewhere with lots of space and limited government you can be pretty close to having no master. We were between Mendoza and San Carlos De Bariloche most of the time.
Up to 60k p/a[0] for a Senior DevOps engineer is not exactly London wages when the exact same job can start at or above 80k. [1]

Have they also thought that not every engineer lives in (or wants to move to) Cardiff?

What is their remote working policy? Do they even have one?

[0]: https://www.mypinpad.com/careers/

[1]: https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/jobs/permanent/senior-devops-engine...
Lotta people talking about heroin in this thread, but lets be clear, unless you have tried heroin, or are otherwise intimately familiar with its affects, you are probably not qualified to talk about what it feels like.

Not trying to single out parent, just felt like it should be mentioned.
Can anyone comment on strengths or weaknesses of this compared to Hydrogen?
Deployment of the Sapling Network Upgrade
It would be nice if they did a quick comparison to InfluxData and other time series databases.
>For this specific case, Apple devices probably share a common family of MEMS resonator to reduce manufacturing costs.

At risk of provoking a standard flame war...

They had mentioned that Android phones are unaffected, but don't those generally use even more "economical" manufacturing?
https://clojureverse.org/t/roadmap-to-1-10/1581/8?u=alexmill... is a pretty good overview of where Clojure has been going and will continue to go.
Lets skip the Donald Trump bit and get to the heart of the matter.

> [Donald Trump's actions are] so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both.

The problem is not Trump. The problem is the values they associate with him. They don't want people advocating those values on their forum, so they banned expressions of support for Trump.

Are you suggesting they are okay with people advocating those values sans Trump?
How fast is it when it has a TB of data? I realize that this is affected by the machine it is running on, but just curious how long those sample queries in the docs would take to run.
MikroTik can do this as well, though in typical fashion for them, it takes a bit of work to set up.
I wish I had the definitive answer but in my books that line has been crossed in this context.
I don’t think it’s as gray as we might want to pretend it is right now. The state of discourse online seems like some level of indicator something has happened recently that is descending us into chaos. Personally I do blame Trump and RPG.net seems to share a similar sentiment.
do you have to do much tuning to trigger parallel queries? i'm also trying to do this with PostGIS, and it looks like you kind of have to tweak costs and fiddle with things a fair amount to get parallel queries to trigger: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2018/09/parallel-postgis-3.htm...
I believe this approach is also present in the UK where the patient isn't paying for their treatment directly. So I doubt it is to do with making money.
> And I don't mean what Dell does - I'm grateful for what they do, but I really want unmodified Linux to work as well on my laptop as it does on nearly any desktop I've built.

Maybe I've been lucky, but over the last few years my rule has been "buy Dell" and Linux has just worked without any modifications. That includes laptops and desktops (I've replaced everything at home for everyone and at work) and I've never had problems.
The government does not define or police culture.

People are people, and they're free to act however they want, including not liking you for what you say. As long as they are not harming you or infringing your rights, then they are within their rights to do so. This is the price for the freedom you have to also not associate with people you don't like.

We already have anti-discrimination laws and protections but what you seem to be asking for is government to limit other rights and freedoms to protect you "culturally"? Do you not see how that is dangerous and far worse?
Big fan of Giraffe. Using it in production right now!
The base 13" Macbook Pro has the same 2x USB-C/TB3 ports as the new Air. That one also didn't get a processor update this year, leaving it on the 2017 dual core CPU.
Author is implying that ASP is rising for the Macs, but he didn't look at prices in the last 10-15 years.
Hey Alex,

I explored potentially using Calcite when we initiated this project. The syntax is very similar because both are an SQL dialect. Some differences are that MQL largely targets unstructured data (there is no schema for the streams it operates on - they're just streams of JSON blobs).

In addition to that one of the goals of MQL was to have different compiler backends which allows different call sites to operate on different levels. For example the code that runs in our API/proxy/other large services will look at an entire query and only evaluate the WHERE / SAMPLE clauses expecting something down the stream to complete the query. Conversely the client side is a full SQL -> RxJava implementation for the data stream. I can explain more of how this works if there is interest -- it allows us to only egress data that is actively used in queries so devs can log every request and only pay the cost of those for which they are querying.)

Doing our own implementation also allows us more customization, and to compile to a NodeJS backend as well which is a critical ingestion point for our operational data. We support everything on the linked page except hopping windows, subqueries, and DML (MQL is query only, we assume no structure which was true of the streams before we ever wrote a query language for it). Of course we have to implement a lot more of this ourselves which is pretty in line with Netflix's Freedom and Responsibility. We had the freedom to implement our own query language but have the responsibility to maintain it (Calcite would have been sacrificing some freedom to avoid responsibility.)
12000 x 12000 = 1.44 * 10^8 pixels.

120 x 120 = 1.44 * 10^4 pixels.

4 orders of magnitude. And in addition to that, the RAW sensor information from the camera has given each pixel more 'depth'. Often times, each color is 12bit (36bit per pixel). There's more to each pixel than what's displayed on the screen: its not just a JPG you're viewing.
If you describe yourself as being in IT, I suspect that means your job description is very different from that of the author’s. Comparing salaries across different types of job doesn’t make much sense.
Apps for children are filled with manipulative ads
Welcome to Airspace: How Silicon Valley spreads the same aesthetic worldwide
I work for a company, Code Ocean, that aims to solve this issue. We have a custom-UI for installing packages through a variety of package managers, including Conda, CRAN, etc. Here's an example of some Julia notebooks being rendered to HTML with the environment fully configured and accessible https://codeocean.com/2018/08/16/counterexamples-on-the-mono...
Fiction can be moving and transforming. The typeface, cover, colour, and smell of a book can work as mementoes -- when I pick up a book I read when I was 23 it might remind me who I was then, and it might remind me of the journey to where I am now.
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Not quite. It means that our body was built/evolved to process it. We have receptors specifically for it.

The effects of alcohol, on the other hand, is mainly a result of it causing havoc on our bodies.
You misunderstand me. I'm not making value judgements. Success and non-success means the same thing in the end. But while we're here, might as well experience a drive for success? Or smoke up and be lazy, that's fine too. I've done both and don't necessarily prefer one over another. I really don't think pride or confidence comes into play here.
Outside of Silicon Valley/NYC/DC, no one is going to pay your "full stack web developer", 200K. Full stack developers are a dime a dozen and you can outsource your typical CRUD Software As A Service app overseas or "rural source" it to Middle America.
Decriminalization is not legalization, though. It still makes it harder to access the stuff, for example, and risky to grow your own.

Not that it's especially hard to buy pot in Portugal, but still, can't exactly get it at the corner store.
What's the condescending tone for?
Yes but you missed out on why they are doing this. This "whining" is actually about changing public perception such that business can take action to widen its access to a larger pool of skilled workers. The more competitive the talent market the more they can keep a larger share of their profits.
Looks more creative: https://www.google.com/search?q=weed+art&num=50&tbm=isch&tbo...