skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a "traditional" pay model, nobody knows what anybody else makes and everybody gets what they negotiate for. Presumably candidates' cost of living would factor in to what they ask for.

But automatically and transparently paying people based on their location is weird to me. If Bob has chosen to live in a place where houses are insanely expensive, or if Bob has chosen to drive a luxury car or keep a pet elephant, those are Bob's decisions. None of them mean that he contributes more to the company.

Also, since a company has non-infinite funds for salary, paying Bob more to live in SF inherently means that the company either pays less money to Alice in Arizona, thereby incentivizing her to quit or move to SF, or else doesn't hire Carol.

> One of the corporate advantages of 100% remote is the business can pay your team whatever their local market rate is

What if instead you framed it as "we can offer almost-SF rates to people all over the U.S., which makes us one of the top choices for every dev outside the big cities"? That's a huge talent pool to take your pick from. Seems like a competitive advantage to me.
I don't think so. The filter he uses has to be replaced every 3 months and it costs ~$15 (that particular brand). So you are looking at $60/year in filter costs - all in all not bad! Also, you could stick a carbon pre-filter right in front of the fan (behind this filter) of it to filter out some of the odor-causing particles.
That 10% is including old phones, tablets, computers, USB sticks, and external backup drives. I suspect old tablets and phones are going to make up the bulk of forgotten passwords, but the government is going to request every password for every device.
Zero-cost abstractions in Julia: indexing vectors by name with LabelledArrays
Off point but holy crap! Who designed that main graphic up top? It’s superb! Pure perfection. I want to subscribe to your newsletter
As far as I know temperature is one of the important but not the only important parameter. Density and confinement time can be taken into account as well to get a number that better characterizes the performance of a reactor, iirc.

Edit: I think this is what I meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion
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Meantime I failed two road tests and my instructor said I was overthinking it, I finally gave up and figured I'll wait till driverless cars come around
The US does this with the DARPA Grand Challenge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge). I suspect other countries may be doing this through sponsoring/watching teams from their nation entering international competitions such as the Tech First Challenge (http://business-review.eu/tag/first-tech-challenge-russia-op...).
Yes, bedrooms have the windows open more often, and usually less/no heating. How many hours a day do you have the windows open? Is there a heating source on or nearby? If you close the window, you'll see RH drop quite fast (in most houses). I'm going to try this same experiment tomorrow, I'm quite interested to know.

Still - mold in houses is not a problem in houses in Western/Northern Europe, except for the most pathological cases (for example, mold scores you iirc 2 points in Belgium on the 'uninhabitable property' test, where 9 gets your building declared unfit for living in. Having small holes in the roof or small cracks in the walls (still structural defects) gets you 3. That's how unusual mold is around here. OTOH when I lived in New Zealand, mold was met with 'eh, there's bleach in isle 5 at Countdown, just wipe it down.'. I was like 'wut?'.
So when we push our brigtest kids into CS, it's to advance technology/knowledge. When the chinese do it, it's to weaponize it?
Fewer international students heading to the US
PayPay is a Japanese payment company
I've been a programming since I was a kid in the 80s and for money since the late 90's and I'd struggle with what a computer scientist would consider simple problems.

It's a mismatch of domains.

Computer science !== Software engineering (though obviously there is overlap).

In practice I find that at least 50% of my job is getting requirements out of people's heads into a structured form I can explain to the high speed idiot.

The rest is working methodically, testing and documentation.

I work in the enterprise domain though so obviously YMMV if you are in machine learning, graphics programming etc.

Programming is a vast field with a huge number of sub-fields, find one you are good at and excel in that and let someone else worry about writing the compiler.
1 trillion dollars is 3070 dollars per American citizen. That's like 9% of my annual gross, that's a lot of money.
So many years ago I started my career at a biomedical manufacturer that sold EEG, EMG, polysomnography and transcranial doppler devices. Most of these were built on some variant of UNIX (SunOS, Unixware, QNX) and were locked down to be pretty secure once networking within hospitals became more common.

The new CEO listened to what medical departments wanted, and that was a PC that could perform the clinical functions but also run MS office. So the entire engineering department spent a couple years porting everything to NT.

Then you had viruses taking out diagnostic devices. So virus scanners were installed. Now you had latency issues between the amplifier and ADC conversion and display or other issues (I don't remember all of them to be fair).

Keep in mind that some of these devices were used in the OR. Now, I'm not saying that Windows was 100% the problem, certainly the idea of multi-use contributed, but we never had any of these issues when we rolled out operating systems that locked down what you could do on the device (technicians couldn't even access the OS unless we told them how) and that we could easily secure.
Observability using Abstracted IO
Your comment should be at the top of this thread. This guy never mentions fan performance after applying a strong filter like Merv 13. I did the same and the airflow is reduced significantly. Since other systems use a strong motor, this box fan contraption does not compare in the slightest. You'd have to have it run at high setting ALL the time. Imagine that...
I believe that parent's point is that knowing things like binary trees, heaps, B-trees, queues is exactly like knowing history - in the example problem you give, you're not supposed to invent a solution and design an algorithm, you're supposed to know the (many!) historical approaches to historical problem, know their properties so that you can pick the most appropriate one, and directly use these methods (invented by others, studied by you) as-is instead of inventing your own solution from the basics.
TiKV Uses Lease Read to Guarantee Strong Consistency and Linearizability
You should write dystopian fiction. Also cooking doesn’t need to be hard or complicated. It can be but doesn’t need to be.
We are happy to announce the first Android release of EOS portfolio tracker
Do you know whether it is reliable and precise? Any well known project uses diStorm?
And yet this doesn't happen on Android.
Nope, on my system, without xcode, the previous poster's path is correct: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/sys/syscall.h
>Why is it so underfunded?

- Oil/coal/natural gas lobbyists and interests which hinder tax payer funded research.

- The fact that there is no guarantee we will ever figure it out and no idea whatsoever as to how much it will cost to figure it out. Investors like returns, in their lifetime, leaving largely tax payer funded research as the greatest source of funds... see above.

And then with government-funded research... if a government figures out fusion, what do you do with it? Do you license it to private industry? Do you make state-owned power plants?

If you give it to private it industry, it's going to get to other nations. If it gets to other nations, you lose non-electrical power and create potential strategic issues, which means you are motivated NOT to share the technology.

It sucks.

I wish we could all just get along, fund stuff like this and space exploration, and get over petty politics before our species goes extinct.
“This Is What Happens Larry”: Amazon Finally Dumps Oracle Data Warehouse
I think many people are missing the point by measuring everything against a single benchmark. The fact that many different investment vehicles (alternatives, indexes, mutual funds, PE, etc) produce very similiar returns is a sign that the markets are working properly. If every investment dollar was just mindlessly plowed into SPY or vanilla public markets then other kinds of investments would generate huge returns (like hedge funds in the 90’s). The spread between different investments should be low, because that’s how we know the market is efficient.

As an aside, I also think it’s silly to just take into account returns. For example, many managers add positions that are predicted to have a net negative on the returns of the portfolio compared to some other position, because it adds diversification or is thought to decrease the variance of the portfolio as a whole.
No "faiulure" here...HD has lasted far longer than the average corporation and created an iconic product that still has hardcore devotees.

The electric bike will sell poorly and HD will retreat back into its market for obnoxious hogs. One day when that market goes away, they can sell the brand to some Chinese billionaire and call it a day.

Any company that operates profitably for a generation is a success in my book regardless of how it ends.
They actually do have a wine service already: https://www.blueapron.com/wine

I think with their meal service, there's also an option to pair with a wine that they determine goes well with the meal.
The argument is not about it being practically possible, but whether you should.

Though I also disagree with that.
Of course he can't.
I feel that whataboutism is a term that gets abused a lot in threads about China.

Pointing out that the US does the very same doesn't necessarily discredit or diminish the problem with China's actions. If anything it shows we should be worried about these things on a global scale.
Medical device security was pretty decent in 1997 at the company I worked for. Until we ported everything to NT from a variety of *NIX OS's. Then it became non-existent.
The carried interest loophole has certainly helped as it keeps costs artificially low.

It also short changes social security and Medicare.
I never knew there were 81 wiki platforms. I am hoping you could help me choose one for my needs. I want to make a wiki site where anyone in the world can edit a startup information. Think something like crunchbase. I have a few features planned and need to extend it, preferably in Python.

I also want to be able to put a modern looking UI (most wiki's skin is bad, by default).

Can you suggest me one ?
>I do have a lot of recipe cards that I still use though.

Same, and a couple years of Blue Apron was an incredible cooking training for me. It required me to look up how to prep all those ingredients. And just learning temperatures, how to use knives, how to operate efficiently in the kitchen, what tools you ACTUALLY need to purchase, all things that just take tons of practice I was able to get a pretty solid handle on.

I really feel comfortable in the kitchen after a couple years of Blue Apron.
Hey Simone, thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate your thoughts and your advice make sense.

It's amazing to see people from various communities helping each other with simple tips, we call that a small iteration :-).

I never expected this thread will grow this much. At the moment of posting my comment, the thread was almost empty and my intention was to share as much of valuable information to captaindiego. However, it turned into a reaally big thread and the context of my comment probably turned into something else for later viewers.

Anyway, as we always try to stay transparent I left it as it is. Thank you for your great opinion, I'll consider your words when posting a comment next time.
I wonder how many people buying this do actually have athritis.
From Evernote to Apple Notes
I'm pretty sure you have to tell it specifically to do that. I've done it a couple of times and don't recall ever just having it "happen" when I removed the phone from my Apple ID -- I think it was an option you could select to have it remote wiped.
If he was a cofounder and board member I wonder how "zero warning" is even possible.
I suppose most of these vehicles will be electric, and cost of charging is lower than cost of refuelling...
Not providing a key not in your possession is not a crime.

If I have a locked container that belongs to my dad, don’t have the key or combo because he is incapacitated, am I a criminal for not giving the police they key and combo?

The police can have a reasonable suspicion that something is in that box, why should that make me a criminal?
This game should really be Linux supported so all the kids learning Comp Sci through the Raspberry Pi can try it out.
> The requirement is to pass a one time drug test

Wait what? Where do you live that software developers are drug tested?
Online survey software, built for marketing
Or maybe we need to put more effort in, collect more data, build better models, until we can understand it.

I could build a cabin using basic reasoning. I can't build a skyscraper with just basic reasoning. Does that mean we shouldn't build skyscrapers? Or just that we should leave their design to someone who really put the effort into the "cognitive manageability" of it?

And really, when it gets down to it, a lot of the blatantly irrational opposition to the very idea of global warming comes from "cognitive manageability". For people who still think Sky Daddy made the world in six days and cavemen rode dinosaurs, the idea that their car is wrecking the atmosphere is beyond their "cognitive manageability", and it gets flatly rejected.

When I see the people who believe in the scientific method mostly lined up on one side of an issue, and people who reject the scientific method mostly lined up on the other side, it biases me. Which was my original point, that so many people have flipped out about.
Food, gas, you name it -- it is all incredibly cheap. Plus comparatively low tax rates and high salaries, especially for tech workers.
> If you close the window, you'll see RH drop quite fast (in most houses).

Alas, it does not, but that's possibly because other windows are open around the place and there's relatively good airflow.

> I'm going to try this same experiment tomorrow, I'm quite interested to know.

I'll see how it goes tomorrow with the window closed and various doors closed to minimise the effect of the other windows.
There's not even a way to have a frank and open discussion about this topic because censorship is running rampant in the western world after communists, liberals, socialists, and other savages introduced it to self-retrain and to subjugate the civilized world for the parasites to take over.

It's odd realizing that the future dystopian worlds depicted in things like the Maze Runner (as odd as that may seem if you don't know the full story) are actually going to be quite accurate as the gullible masses self-censor and self-harm themselves into self-subjugation. I keep trying to explain the very clear plans the elite have, but the rabble mobs are quite consistent in their rejection of "heresy".
I feel like one day, central banks are going to be attacked by private banks and the means of attack will be cryptocurrency. The aim will be to get rid of central bank deposits and seize control of the payments system - once the central bank deposits are gone and we're cashless, this will become easy. They could even base it offshore to avoid consumer protections. If we're lucky when this happens, it will be a test of the remaining power of nation states. If we're unlucky, they'll roll over as the most basic means of exchange is privatized.
> You could argue that the authorities have presented you with a device that has had the password changed. If they actually do this do they just get to lock you up for however long they feel like?

I am strongly against compelled decryption, but haven't come across this argument before. I think it's a brilliant point.
A key part of true "rights" is the ability to do it anyway: you may be subsequently punished by an oppressive state, but you don't need compelled assistance nor permission to do it.

One can speak, publish, make weapons, be quiet, associate, ... and encrypt, all without asking or compelling others first.

Rights are natural, existing without someone else saying so.
All these comments are good. Also ALWAYS watch out for 'Quick Win': When you do something quick and dirty, mark it up for 'refactoring' (i.e. Tech Debt). When your list of quick and dirty builds up, go and clean it. Do not accumulate tech debt, try to keep it low otherwise you will pay full price later (examples up here).

Another great tip that saved me from tons of refactoring: "The wrong abstraction is worse code duplication". Meaning sometimes duplication of code is better than trying to create the wrong architecture (as long as you mark it in your quick and dirty list).
You don't see a difference between giving prize money to university teams vs recruiting children under the age of 18 and then putting them through a 4 year program where they are expected to enter AI research for military purposes and the candidates are explicitly vetted for loyalty to the government before entrance?
Do scientists use farenheit? Genuine question
Outrage Over Deplatforming Is About Money, Not Free Speech
The question is - have you, realising that you are under police investigation, attempted to destroy information which that investigation is interested in.

Not "Do you have a lock on your phone" or even "Do you have a lock on your phone which causes it to self-wipe after 5 incorrect password attempts" but "Did you, when you realised the police were on to you, deliberately wipe some data to stop you getting into trouble."
> Well, I assert that encryption is a type of arms

I wouldn't. Arms helps you kill or hurt people. Encryption hides information. Both functions can be used as a means to protect yourself, but its really a stretch to compare arms and encryption. Da-Vinci's mirror writings were as comparable to a rapier than AES-CGM is comparable to a hand gun. That is, not at all in my opinion.

As a citizen, I would argue that the right for encryption is closest to freedom of thought. My private thoughts don't have to be confined to my brain, I should have the right to memory prosthetics (I mean a computer) as well.

(Edit: of course, the decision to classify encryption as munition was ridiculous. How it combines with the second amendment (which I happen to mostly disagree with), is just a fortunate coincidence.)
Killer bots will be treated just like nukes: world powers will justify their investment in the technology by saying that the other side is also doing it, and when it becomes clear that there are only two or three powerful countries that can wield the technology, the "international treaties" will come barring everybody else from developing it.

I'm not saying that everyone should have nukes, I'm saying the EU, US, China and Russia should be making those treaties right now instead of later
5 key differences between MySQL and TiDB for scaling in the cloud
Google could finally have a chance with social! Use their software camera wizardry so that photos, especially low light ones look infinity better on Snapchat (on any platform) than competing social networks. Integrate stories natively into Android, under a different brand that shares the network with Snapchat to solve the cold start problem.

Does it make a lot of sense? No, but I think it makes some sense.
Building Docker Images with Heroku.yml Is Generally Available
For getting started with dockers on your home server, try Unraid OS. Its terrific and takes all the pain away. I consider myself a docker power user now, but i still use Unraid at home because it works great.
Show HN: Cheapshot, a multiplayer GPS game
He's suggesting some sensor checks, not giving a total framework to account for every edge case. If you were to implement something like this, you would take many cases, including edge cases, into account.
> but I can never quite get over how ridiculously cheap food is in the US.

Keep in mind there's a LOT of subsidies for farmers and livestock. Part of the price is because it's baked into our taxes.

Granted, we also have more than 900 million acres of farm land. That's more than 1.4 million square miles. For perspective only 6 countries are larger than that in total land area (7 if you include the U.S.)
In the southern part of India, it is common to have Idlis (fermented rice steamed dumplings) for breakfast and most households make Idli batter the previous night, and let it ferment and raise. The more the batter raises, the softer the Idlis are (and sour), and the mother often summons the kid to stir it with their bare hands. It is always the kid whose microbes help the batter ferment the most. This dubious honor fell on my hands, no pun intended. Most nights, before we slept, my mother used to shout out to come and stir the batter.
I don't know but there were a lot of disabled people praising Whole Foods for their peeled oranges back in 2016 when that whole backlash happened.
I dont know how experienced you are cooking, but I have not had the same experience you have had with blue apron at all. Never took many pots or pans, and certainly never took 2-3x as long to pan-sear meats. My guess is you just aren't managing the heat appropriately. Their times are consistent with anything you would find with other recipes online.

We also did Gobble for about two weeks, there is no comparison in the quality of food, Blue Apron is SIGNIFICANTLY better. Gobble was FAR easier to prepare, for example, you would get pre-seasoned, and pre-prepared beef for a meal. Obviously that's very different than cooking a raw cut of meat yourself. But, as you pointed out, the tradeoff was in the quality of the finished food. Not even remotely close between the two.
It's a little less expensive, but I wouldn't call it "far" less expensive unless you're prepared to stick to the lowest-cost ingredients like rice and beans.
Skip to third from last paragraph for any reference to the actual study.

Otherwise, enjoy commentary like “Those magic words apparently always get you far on Wall Street.”.

Sometimes I wish the researchers were actually quoted in these.
Analyzing the DNA of DevOps
I believe that if you have a Parquet file meeting certain criteria, it's directly parallelizable as multiple Spark partitions without any shuffling. The splits would occur at Parquet row group boundaries, I believe.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27194333/how-to-split-pa..., https://parquet.apache.org/documentation/latest/, etc.

Whether it's better to have multiple Parquet files or a single parallelizable Parquet file is dependent on your environment and application. At my company, we've tended to have a single row group per file (and one HDFS block per file), in part due to historical reasons.
Pardon the displeasure, but that sounds utterly naive. Sure, the elite that control ever more with every passing day are just going to accept a distributed financial system that threatens their ultimate goal, world domination by a neo-aristocratic master class that lords over the mixed master race of peasants they created through "diversity" and "equity"?

The far more likely scenario of the "cashless" society, aka, slavery, is that "laws" will be "passed" that make unapproved, aka, uncontrolled "currency" illegal. Your life and your worth will be nothing but a number on a screen, if you are worth anything at all once automation and robotics and AI make humans lose inherent value. There is no point in humans in a de-industrialized, post-human future of the master class served by robots and a few flesh servants.