skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take something less fictionally dramatic and more along the lines of reality TV (ala home makeovers/Kitchen Nightmares/Bar Rescue): a team of crack engineers untangling the mess and laying out the best practices for future development. The concept is even ripe for booze sponsorship.
>> China is full of extremely bright, hardworking people. It is not a nation of brain-washed automatons

Thats a ridiculous argument: they are 1.5MM, im pretty sure you can find a few milions smart enough who fit the description of the parent comment.

Its not racist or whatnot.. every nation has its smart fanatics
Isn't Sanders a proponent of a social democratic system, like the Nordics? These countries are the most successful / least failed states in the world by a multitude of metrics. Comparing social democracies to Venezuela is of course just dishonest.
Streams is a Deepmind product, moving to Google Health.

It's not like it was an existing Google product that the data is being moved to.

If Google Health was part of Alphabet but not Google, would you argue it was "plainly not a Google product"?

Or is that still a Google product?

(FWIW: I actually expect the article gets it wrong and that Google Health will be/is a separate LLC under Alphabet but not Google)
Was he/she testing your database knowledge or hoping you'd be able to fix the current issue at hand?
The word has been out that Amazon is a potentially very bad place to work (depending on team) for many years now. While I'm sure they can no longer hire some people due to their reputation it has not stopped droves of engineers desperate to get in there.

A former employer of mine that is nowhere near Amazon success level has tons of horrible glass door reviews calling out the senior managers yet still people join.
How do you change your DNA if these companies sell or leak data? Is anyone offering a mass sequencing process that can safely change your DNA identity? If so, what are the risks associated?
Maybe surveys or something more interactive would work. On Facebook, you can pay $10 for someone filling out a survey.
Is there any way official way to exchange BTC for Venezuelan Bolivar? Is exchanging BTC really any different from the way you would realistically exchange USD? My guess is any currency transaction will use a parallel or black market due to the ridiculous official rates.

https://dolartoday.com/
I downloaded the "raw" data and by looking up the right genes, discovered I'm a "supertaster" (they have since added this as a trait in their own regular results). This confirmed something I've felt for a long time - almost all green vegetables and things like beer taste absolutely vile to me.. but now I know it's "real" and not just me being fussy.
>What do you mean by "high minimum wage"? Federal minimum wage in the United States is still $7.25 which is not enough for someone to live on, especially in a high cost of living area. I don't understand.

He/she means "higher than the federal minimum".

Homelessness problems seem to loosely correlate with cities and states that have higher minimum wage (edit: so do many other things and homelessness problems might actually be correlating with one or several of those).
like you can do on a bus, train, or plane today.

Actually that is kind of a money quote. What is the killer app(lication) of driverless cars (figuratively)? Aren't they a solution looking for problems probably better served by other means?
The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
True, but OP sounded like they were looking for low-risk high-reward projects, at least how I read it.
Are there techniques to write the above in compatible ways?

For example: "replace mod with % operator", can a shim "mod" function be implemented on Postgres?

Do you think it's reasonable to lint/test your way to compatibility before transition, and then remove transitional code afterwards, or do you think it needs to be a long running fork of the codebase? We did the former for our Python 2-3 migration and it worked really well.
As another reply notes, this is a very strange burden of proof you're suggesting. That said...

I don't think modeling Google as a surveillance company is a particularly good model. If you need to pick something reductionist, it's probably safest to model Google as a corporation that seeks to make money, although that's not particularly unique or (obviously) a sufficiently refined model.

I use a lot of Google services, own some Google hardware (phone, smart speakers and the like). But I also have reservations and concerns about Google, and I try to regularly reexamine my relationship with Google to see if I'm still comfortable with everything!

One step I took was to really dig into the My Activity dashboard that Google provides. I was really interested, after letting a Google Home into my life, to see what I could learn. The most obvious step I took was to listen to the recordings Google keeps of every interaction I have with the Home, and ensure there weren't things presented that I hadn't intended Google to be listening to.

But! What if Google is actually recording everything, and then only presenting me with the things that were actual instructions to my Google Home in the dashboard? (Let's disregard network traffic analysis and the like for the moment.) If Google were up to this kind of shenanigans, they would have to be very, very careful to have an appropriately conservative filter in place to ensure none of the secret recordings were ever presented to me.

So, to test this, I proceeded to independently record every interaction I had with the Google Home (just took a quick note on paper) for a couple days. I later went to the My Activity dashboard to see if every interaction was present. (They were.) At this point, I am reduced to a narrower set of options: Google is actually doing what they told me they would, or their super-AI is so advanced that is is capable of covert monitoring and reporting on my activity along with _perfect_ filtering such that there are no false positives or false negatives.

This obviously isn't exhaustive or comprehensive. But I find myself coming back to "why?" The things that Google tells me they do with my data, up front, are sufficient to explain their business activities and revenues. The disincentives around doing anything more nefarious are rather large. I reevaluate the relationship periodically, but I am generally comfortable looking at the terms of the deal (I share some data, they provide me a lot of value) and accepting them.

Honestly, the thing I find far scarier is their absolute shit-tier support and draconian account suspension policies. I found myself entertaining becoming a Google One subscriber even though I have no need for more cloud storage. I was literally entertaining the notion of paying them a nominal fee every month so that I might be somewhat less likely to lose my account and all of the association information for some minor (possibly merely perceived) transgression. That's a bit scary!
PL/pgSQL is close enough in terms of language features to be nearly syntax compatible after some ora2pg-like transformations, aside from autonomous transactions, which apparently are now supported by Postgres 11 procedures (I haven't tried this). Your main problem will be all the DBMS_* package calls... orafce helps a bit, but not if you've gone really far into Oracle-land. Procedures you wrote for DB system maintenance may not have a meaningful translation.

Alternatively, you could pay EnterpriseDB.
AndroGel made my skin start to peel. Injectable testosterone cypionate is far less danger to those around me, less fuss overall, and so much cheaper.
They have tried that, but the government sends out his thugs (some of them civilian but armed) and the casualties happen and people retreat.
If you want it to keep going, support Greenpeace.
It's counter intuitive but sometimes adding supply actually increases demand. Of course at some point you do run out of rich people, but there are a lot of rich people now so that can take a long, long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
It's funny, but who isn't interested, right? lots of wealth and comfort in just 3 short years? sure, sign me up!
I'm not sure I'd call it 'very sad'. We have very strict rules about political advertising in the UK, and I'm pleased that they get upheld.

In any case, the ad seems to be having no trouble reaching people.
He's right about most people and duolingo. It's simply not hooking enough, and most people use it exactly as described.
Will the humans kill Mars?
I have been refused jobs where the person highering had less experience and fewer qualifications than me and felt I was a threat. In one case the technical interview turned into me unknowingly shaming them in front of the CEO because they weren’t using modern best practices.
Criminalizing homelessness doesn't end homelessness.
My friend is a PhD in quantitative genetics and says that 23andMe is basically a shitty horoscope that costs some of your money and all of your privacy.
The Use of Nuclear Explosives to Disrupt or Divert Asteroids (2007)
Who supported this practice and why? Can anyone provide context?
Nice list, very useful!

For me the most annoying thing has been the (+) operator for LEFT/RIGHT (OUTER) JOIN, which does not exist in PostgreSQL.

Generally speaking, PostgreSQL’s syntax feels more logical.

https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/queries006.htm#SQ...
Firstly you would do the same thing you would do in the overwhelming number of cases in which they tell their teacher their father raped them and didn't film it on their iphone.

In most instances the perpetrator wont have obligingly kept evidence for you. This is something like the scenario in which we defend torture by positing a ticking time bomb scenario.

Sure we want to break the terrorists fingers and lock away the pedophile until he brings forth evidence of his evil deeds but that doesn't make it it a good model to arrange our life and laws on.

Logically you would secure the child so he couldn't come to harm. Interview him, interview the perp, other family members, other adults who interacted with the child say at school. Have a therapist/psychologist analyze the child's behavior.

If you believe you need access to the phone/computer you could seize it while its unlocked, attack their phone, attack their home computer and use it to attack their phone, plant a bug/physically surveil them.

In cases where it was vital cops seem to have been able to do this so far. They just wish they could do it more easily.
Nobody wants to hear that there are some people who are just not equipped for an environment A) with abundant access to addictive substances and B) where economic success is dependent on being reasonably intelligent and able to delay gratification.
vegetable oil is generally specified by which type, since some oils (soy, for me) are allergens and could really mess someone up if they randomly eat the wrong kind. it would say something like "vegetable oil (one or more of the following: canola, soy, sunflower oil)"
Wait a minute, let me take my crystal ball...
Seems like a good resource. Thanks
Who do you think makes up the US Army?

The US Army, or any other branch of service for that matter, isn't going to turn on its citizens: it would more likely turn on any leaders that order them to do so.

And don't discount the fact that among the civilians are a good number of individuals who were former military.
And a lot of human time is being wasted waiting for update operations that take much longer than necessary.
In 1979, Chicago tried making a stretch of State Street pedestrian-only (allowing bus/taxi access). It was considered a failure, and was returned to regular motor traffic in 1996.

It’s too bad – Chicago could certainly benefit from a major pedestrian district (there is a small one up in Ravenswood), but the reasons for the State Street project’s failures are debated. This piece is a good exploration: https://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/03/11/why-was-the-state-str...

Hopefully Toronto’s avoids the pitfalls of Chicago’s experiment, and eventually serves as a model for this kind of conversion.
This is where consensus comes in. Projects like Blocknet have the ability where you can request an answer from N amount of nodes and the response will be that of the majority.
Let them bike tour (and eat cake)? Besides the camping, you also relied on the kindness of strangers for showers and other hospitality. I find your response pretty heartbreaking because it illustrates just how big of an empathy gap we're dealing with in the US between the rich and poor.
How can I verify whether these laws are being followed?
The latest tax increased it from 30k to about 60-70k. As to why it's doing so little, there's a variety of explanations. Some say that homeless often have mental or drug abuse issues that keep them from being able to live on their own. Others (including the mayor) say that the money is more than enough, and we need more accountability of what we already spend. 70k is about the median wage of a single person in SF.
> “These kids are all exceptionally bright, but being bright is not enough,” said a BIT professor who was involved in the screening process but asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject.

> “We are looking for other qualities such as creative thinking, willingness to fight, a persistence when facing challenges,” he said. “A passion for developing new weapons is a must … and they must also be patriots.”

I think it's fair to say the students they are recruiting can't have any misgivings about the fact that their projects will have military applications.
1. 12% of anyone's business is really significant.
2. Every step helps.
Stuff like this makes me wish Adobe had just open-sourced Flash. I hope this doesn't start a flame war, but I think that most of the crap that Flash gets stems from the fact that it's a proprietary plugin...if Adobe releases part-of or all of the source code, we conceivably could avoid losing history, and someone could write something that compiles to WebAssembly or something.

I remember when Shumway was announced a few years ago, and I was excited that this might be the solution that everyone asked for, but I suspect the problem was a lot harder to solve than most people thought it would be (unsurprising...Flash has 20+ years of baggage in its codebase, who knows how many weird hacks have piled up).
How big is a Tokyo 1 bedroom renting for $500/month? Are you sure it isn’t a < 50sqm micro-studio with shared bathrooms?
Amount of seawater on Earth: 1.338 billion km^3 (according to Wikipedia). Assuming 1.0 kg/L, this is 1.338 * 10^18 ton.

Seawater is about 0.04% potassium, so this is about 5.35 * 10^14 ton of potassium.

Potassium contains naturally occurring radioactive isotope (40K): the radioactivity of potassium is 31 Bq/g. Hence the natural radioactivity of all potassium in seawater is 1.66 * 10^22 Bq.

For comparison, again according to Wikipedia:

> In May 2012, TEPCO reported that at least 900 PBq had been released "into the atmosphere in March last year [2011] alone"

...which is 9 * 10^17 Bq, or about 1/18,000 of naturally occurring radioactivity in the ocean due to potassium alone.

(We didn't even start on stuff that are commonly considered "radioactive", like all the uranium and thorium lying beneath where you are.)

* Meanwhile we're busy burning fossil fuels, increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by ~30%.
Apple iPhone bursts into fire while updating to iOS 12.1
> This might be due to the HN hug of death however.

FWIW, the site was really really fast for me just now: CloudFlare simply returned a 502 error ;P.
Breath of the Wild has a huge open world and was, in comparison widely bug-free when it came out. Same goes for most Nintendo games. Also when it comes to pure gameplay they are much more polished than all the GTAs and RDR2s. What are they doing differently?

A little insight here, not sure whether this is the full story:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/03/13/zelda-br...

Did the other recent big open world games (Witcher 3, Horizon) have similar issues when they were released?
Yes, all of these problems are 100% caused by immigrants, and no native-born person has ever been guilty of them. No, you're not attacking immigrants. I completely believe your rationalizations.
The brain is not relying on random-wiring, but self-organized neural networks
and AdBlock is the HEPA filter.
South Africans worried after China opens 13th police station in their country
ffmpeg + nginx-rtmp-module & nginx ? Depends on your needs and how complete of a solution you want.
If you suspect they are not, you would file a complaint with your state's insurance regulatory body (the name is different in each state, but easily obtainable through a search) and provide your evidence with the complaint.
I've used both and PyCharm wins for me. Much better ergonomics for handling projects, and some very useful plugins like the DB browser. The pay for version also has support for Django.

However, I'll give Kdevelop another go with the latest version and see if it's improved since last time (about 2 years ago).

I have to do some PHP sometimes (don't judge!) and it would be great to only have one IDE for both. Jetbrains PHP + Python is a bit too much to spend IMO.
Giving people money can work well for those who are just down on their luck, but it's pointless and counterproductive for those who are addicted and/or seriously mentally ill. Those people need active interventions, not passive hand outs.
I agree that removing restrictive zoning requirements from suburban neighborhoods (which prevent the construction of apartments, for example), would go a long way to address the lack of housing, but it wouldn't fix everything. To assume so is to oversimplify the problem. You still need antipoverty programs and a social safety net.

Not to mention that trying to change zoning laws in suburban neighborhoods is to fight a losing battle.

"The researchers combed three years worth of meeting minutes from 97 cities and towns in the region, and found nearly two-thirds of residents who stood up to speak about proposed housing developments did so to oppose them, while just 14 percent spoke in support."

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/08/30/researchers-...
Fuck me, that is annoying!
No. You shouldn't be ashamed of ANY language or technology, as long as you feel it's appropriate for doing whatever problem is put in front of you.

Also remember that at various times, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, COBOL, ColdFusion, literally anything made by Microsoft, Java, and countless other languages that solved plenty of interesting problems and both led to people getting paid but also improving and creating other things have been laughed at.

As a converse, plenty of people have made absolute garbage in any number of open source frameworks, "sexy" languages du jour, etc. either because they were working alone and didn't think they needed help or what they were working on wasn't remotely suited to the tool.

Ignore the haters. It's usually gatekeeping coming from lack of confidence and fear of real competition due to years of poor attitudes in our industry on what makes a "real programmer".
How do you distinguish between A) unnecessarily spending millions of dollars on a single homeless person and B) spending millions of dollars to reduce the otherwise large homeless population to only one?

The best approach is probably not to cut spending to zero and then wait to see what happens. But perhaps it's reasonable to cut spending by 10-25% and then monitor the results?
OK, I guess that depends on how you define surveillance. I think of surveillance as having some kind of relation to the state, for example a private investigator looking into a court matter, a company sharing information with the government (outside of warrants), etc. If we're taking surveillance to mean general tracking, then yes the OP's statement probably doesn't need further evidence.
Listing multiple items does not exclude others.
You just need to work enough hours, do long commutes and be very, very disciplined in all your purchases.

This is an old idea, but it's never been a good or accurate one. I think it appeals to some people because it allows them to dissociate from any feeling of collective responsibility, by placing that on the individuals alone.
Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star
How not to start a business: the post
Tubal ligations:

> At least 60 Indigenous women are pursuing a class-action lawsuit launched last year, alleging they underwent forced sterilizations over the past 20 to 25 years in Saskatchewan.
50 square meters would be very large for a 1 bedroom in Tokyo. My 3 bedroom two hours outside Tokyo was 85m^2 and cost around 2500/month.
I found the information about haplogroups interesting. It shows the migration paths out of Africa for both your mother's and father's ancestors (only men show the father's haplogroup). Not only was the background information about human migration very interesting, but the results also tallied well with our own speculations about parents' heritage.
> I guess I’m a tiny bit surprised that the browsers are de-allocating and re-allocating memory for the re-render of the text box elements, since they don’t change size. Presumably this would be texture memory? Does anyone here know precisely what’s happening there, and whether a render-to-texture won’t work for some reason? Is it normal for browsers to allocate memory for all element repaints, or is this something unique to text typing or font handling?

It highly depends on the browser and the specific painting backend in use. With a traditional CPU painting backend, browsers typically render at tile granularity, and tiles shuffle in and out of a global pool for repaints. That is, when the browser goes to repaint content, the painter grabs a tile from a shared pool, renders the new content into it, and then hands it off the compositor, which swaps the tile buffer and places the old buffer into a pool. This means that the GPU memory access patterns are somewhat irregular.

If the GPU is being used for painting, as for example in Skia-GL/Ganesh, then there are all sorts of caches and allocators in use by the backend. Typically, these systems try to avoid allocation as much as possible by aggressively reusing buffers. Allocating every frame is generally bad. But it can be hard to avoid, especially with immediate-mode APIs like Skia. (I would expect that WebRender could be better here long-term, though we probably have work to do as well.)
I compare the 2017 crypto hype to the dot com bubble, people finally realized the potential but the real life value isn't there yet, lot's of scam ICOs just like all the companies that raised money during the tech bubble. Just like the dotcom bubble people said internet/tech was dead, there are people saying blockchain is dead. I think that out of this batch there will be the Google's, Amazon's, etc that emerge and actually deliver real world value as opposed to just hype
Wow. This is great. I don't know yet what I would use it for but I always wondered where I would get such data. Thanks. Keep hustling !
If anyone is looking to pick up a chromebook, I maintain an ongoing list of chromebook black friday deals that includes most of the relevant specs (except linux/android support)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12L9SM7k-Z6LSsGvdi7do...
Something related to digital nomads and remote work. If you crack this, you'll easily scale to $1M+ if not $10M+.
Do they? I've always thought of games as "few make the millions, everyone else make zero".
I always wonder what is NSFW for developers to look at, at those type of companies
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Great article indeed – thanks for the link.
DJI or other drone companies could be the solution to Venezuela’s problems. Almost happened a few months ago.
There's a lot of bureaucrats and cronies taking their cut, I'd be surprised if 10% of that actually made it to the homeless
Unreal Tournament 2004 was like 7 CDs. I remember having to buy a second hard drive for that game. Worth it.