skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also for a long time been a tacit protectionist agreement with Boeing that as long as Japanese airliners buy a lot of jets Boeing will produce a lot of components in Japan.
I agree, they achieved a lot and they stood on the shoulders of giants. The point is that they proved it is possible to achieve these things now. Other companies are emulating what they do and are also getting results. I'm not trivializing their achievements at all.
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I am currently working on an end-to-end test suite, as required by cloudron.io platform, to add it to their appstore,
Likely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise. If there's value to be had by everyone using the same thing, while everyone wants that one thing to be a little different than what others want, a lot of people will "want alternatives" that they can't really have regardless of how the provider behaves.
Another frustrating tactic they have started to use is bait positions with attractive "specifications". They use these to draw you into communicating with them and start offering subpar positions than those initially mentioned in the first communication. The classic bait and switch.

I'm fed up getting messages on LinkedIn along the lines of:

Hi LeBowen
You are exactly what TheWorldsBestCompany are looking for, is it OK for us to have a phone call to discuss?

Of course when you try to obtain any information about the position, you're met with vague details about it, but they have this other position you might be interested in.
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Do the call, cover the topics, say "I guess we don't need to meet now."

Saying no is hard but we all need to learn to do it. If you're not interested, just say so.
Everyone wants to make the world a better place...
For themselves...
At the expense of everyone else.
Well, until I updated my LinkedIn with 'not interested in a new job', I was receiving one or two offer per week. It can sooth the ego, but the messages were nearly always bad: rarely targeted to my skills, no mention of salary/benefits and no clear position offered.
>but not "John Doe at 123 Main Street, Hollywood, California".

How can you be so sure? Between IP addresses and what wireless networks are available you can get a decently precise location for the majority of users. And this is assuming you don't just capture the address and name when they type it in.

Okay, so maybe they aren't using it for evil yet. How many times has a large corporation been able to indefinitely resist the pull of an alternative revenue stream where the majority of the cost has already been paid?
any word on VSCode?
should I be worried and switch back to Atom
A text by Plato was instrumental in starting a psychosis for one of my family members. My point is that anything can act as a trigger. Psychos is unreasonable. Even without any stimuly, anxiety can just come on its own and be undirected (as I have witnessed).
There some truth to that, but not always.

Ideally you would want each time to be fed with a noise free constant current supply. Having each tube on its own power supply would be incredibly expensive but sound awesome.

Buffering the output of each tube would prevent blocking Distortion, but would also be fairly expensive (although now we have mosfets that can handle 500+, so that might not be as bad).

Split audio path about, where the bass goes through cleanly and the treble is overdriven would also sound incredible, but be expensive.

Designs end up being about compromise: the above features will add $5-$35 to the bom per tube, and in the end, a lot of people just end up buying on brand.

My Laney Lionheart L5T has a really cool preamp that uses solid state surface mount components where they don't affect the signal. This drives the bom cost down but sounds incredible (fully buffered fx loop, fully buffered reverb tank).
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> This isn't an argument against static typing but rather an argument against excess.

And also an argument for exposing better tooling when reading git diffs :D
iamelgringo’s comment was pretty convincing. Thanks for referencing it.
The EU has more power than individual European countries at least. This is basically the most important reason we still need the EU.
The good old battle between privacy and transparency! Nothing better to start a heated conversation: Finland publishes all personal taxes https://taxjustice.blogspot.com/2011/11/finland-publishes-al...
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Because the scope of 'certain reindexing actions' is potentially unbounded. Suppose you have a large piece of software that uses plugins, which it finds by reading a 'plugins.xml' file. Now, when you install a plugin from the package manager, you need to modify 'plugins.xml' in some arbitrary fashion. You simply cannot constrain the entire software world to operate in a file-oriented, declarative manner.
There are responsible and irresponsible ways to dump this kind of info. Both result in the public learning what it is entitled to know. (All such secrets are bad of course and should be brought to light.) For instance, Assange has failed to scrub irrelevant personally identifying information from releases in the past which have resulted in uninvolved non-public civilians getting doxxed. All this does is allow oppressive regimes like the current US government more evidence to make the act of leaking even harder. Assange is bad for freedom of information in the current social order because he’s a very convenient story for people who want secrets to remain secrets.
Say 'no'
I particularly love recruiters who insist that you send them a resume in MS Word format, so that they can remove your contact details and stick their agency's ugly letterhead on top (or "improve" your resume for you if they're particularly unethical).

"I'll need your resume in Word Format."

"I can give you a PDF"

"Give me the original in Word Format."

"There is no original in Word Format, I wrote my resume in LaTeX. Besides, why do you need to be able to edit my resume?"

And... ghosted.
At least it ages way more gracefully than early 3D models.
Before web came along, Telcos is where the scale related engineering problems were.

The other places were companies like IBM, and Xerox who had to do new things to stay relevant.
This is a common theory of telemetry but ultimately I don't think it makes sense.

It's a relatively new addition to the landscape and Windows isn't any better or easier to use than the 2000/XP days - at least in ways which telemetry would influence - the genuine improvements are all obvious wins like display compositing, kernel stability, etc.

It also dismisses the point that by including telemetry you've excluded some users, and your automated collection won't be aware of it at all in many cases.

Some won't ever use Windows 10 as a main desktop OS because it attempts to spy on them. They won't recommend it to others or develop for it either.

Other power users will use it, but will opt out. So your telemetry is now completely biased towards non-power-users.

This isn't sour grapes - I wouldn't be using Windows anyway because I'm a free software advocate - I just wonder if they've realised that the incentives line up to effectively ignore some of their "best" users.
Finally something I'm good at!
Fun reading, however why not turn this into an authoritative source for something akin to a donotcall registry?

If something like that got some traction, and you were able to secure some endorsements from big tech players, these irritants would become less of an issue, and recruiters would be more effective in their efforts instead of wasting time with people who don't want to be bothered.
How much working knowledge of quantum computing do you have? I can see why someone not connected to the field might think the article makes good arguments but if you are connected at all to the literature, one can see the article is bullshit.

Many of the criticisms they’re levying here are either made up or misunderstood.
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>We are offering it back to Protonmail for a small fee, if they decline then we will publish or sell user data to the world.

That doesn't make sense. Why are they posting this if they are hoping for some successful extortion? How would extortion even make sense in the first place? You can't return data.
Why is this downvoted, it’s true?
I appreciate the idea - I've had some bad experiences with recruiters myself, and the temptation to shame them to the world certainly has some raw emotional appeal. But I've also had wonderful experiences with recruiters, that resulted in great jobs that lasted for years. So I have some concerns:

1) Specifically seeking out bad reviews is likely to attract angry rants. Yelp has their share of bitter people lashing out because they can, and anonymous content tends to encourage it. How do you intend to combat that behavior?

2) People grow and improve. I don't want to be judged for my work or my behavior from my early days in the field. How are you going to be sure this isn't unfairly capturing the worst moments of someone's career just because they are new at it and haven't learned any better yet?
Oh yeah, plenty of advertised functional programming positions are really run-of-the-mill Java positions, but recruiters have found that noone answers true ads, so its a total bait-and-switch, “do this Java for a few years and they might one day think about Clojure...” spoiler: they won’t
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Yes, eletricity is essential. By "technology" I was refearing mostly to computers/tablets/phones in the classroom.

Also, not all _"third world"_ are equal. Brazil, Senegal and India, to take three semi-random examples, are very different in its structure.

And inside a country, there is also a lot of inequality. I am from Brazil and got basically the best education money can buy (excluding fancy, elitist schools for millionaires).
Nvidia is shooting itself in the foot with their Gsync strategy. They are relying on an extra $200 (for the Gsync module) from what - 1% of their customer base?

Instead of adopting the open standards (adaptive sync or HDMI 2.1 VRR) and adding support to all their cards.

1440p gaming really does well with adaptive sync, since you can less reliably hit 60 fps. A 50-75 FPS window that even the cheap Freesync monitors offers works pretty well.

Otherwise without adaptive sync, it doesn't make sense going to 1440p, and without 1440p, it doesn't make sense upgrade the GPU. Even a very cheap old 980 will run 1080p very well.
Not possible. The SoC only supports up to 1GB of RAM.
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As in, interested in how I did it? I've been considering putting something together in the not so distant future -- throw me an e-mail with your contact details and I'll add you to the (currently very small) mailing list.
I wouldn't know what the early interpretation was - I was there in 2006 as an intern plus 2011-2015 as a full-timer.

But the wording is certainly neutral on who houses and owns the data.

I'm guessing that you're right as to the early interpretation, since that's what makes sense for web search.

But other interpretations are the logical thing to think of first for some of their more recent ML-powered assist/suggest products, and the wording of the mission statement leaves product managers and architects/designers free to apply whatever interpretation makes natural sense in context.
I tried it again today and it worked, so there must have been some other reason it was failing. Maybe one of my lines was out of plane? But then I'm not sure why adding a midpoint on the straight edge fixed it. I must have accidentally fixed some other problem at the same time.

Here's another odd note though, if you have a polyline with a single arc and use properties to set it to closed, it adds a straight edge and you get a D shape. If you use PEDIT CLOSE it adds another arc to close it instead, and it tries to continue tangent at the end, completing a whole circle.
I get these all the time and I simply don't respond to them anymore.

The initial email needs to hook me somehow, and show that you've at least put some amount of effort into personalizing your pitch to me, specifically (you know, show that you've actually read my profile and explain why'd I'd be a great fit for your client).
Is Russia really competitive anymore? It seems like they've fallen behind and outside of putting humans on the space station, and riding out the life of their existing rocket system (granted a highly reliable one) they're potentially doomed to keep lagging under the current kleptocracy.
I recently designed and built my own guitar amp. I highly recommended the book "Designing Preamps for guitar and bass". Absolutely fascinating read and software engineers could learn a lot from the writing style! It's very approachable.
That's not the issue. The issue is that actual, proud anti-Semites have created and pushed horrible conspiracy theories and gross content about George Soros for years, and any PR company worth their salt should know that. Knowing that sort of thing, navigating a message through the broader cultural context, is job #1 for a PR firm. It is why PR exists as an industry.

So, Definers either consciously played into those attacks on Soros, or are incompetent.
This is more nitpicky if anything, but developers are not the only ones that get blasted and ghosted with recruiters.

I'm a DBA, but I also get recruiters always telling me how I am perfect for a Sr. full stack engineer.
After filling questionnaire will I will be able to read experiences of other peoples?
Thanks for this list! And I appreciate that the RTL naughty string contains Hebrew for the first line of Genesis 1. :-)
The title isn't fair to the established international role Japan plays in the aerospace industry or space.

The Boeing 'Dreamliner' is one-third made in Japan. Re-supply missions to the International Space Station have been completed without incident by Japanese craft. Even the largest module on the ISS is Japanese. Japan has been busy.

Before WW2 Japan was in possession of a remarkably large fleet of aircraft carriers with the planes to go with them. In the post WW2 years the electronic components for those planes bombing Korea had to come from somewhere and Japanese people were doing all the hard work making and packaging those avionic nuts and bolts, even if for Western customers in the defence sector. So it is a long history tied into global projects and multi-national companies, not some 'secret effort to get started now'. It is a tale of evolution, not some nationalist effort with no long term goals.

When the USA decided to put a man on the moon there were 400,000+ people working for NASA, directly or with a contractor. The trip to the moon was chosen just because it hadn't been done and it was unlikely that the Soviets were going to do it any time soon. There was no plan for a next step, once the goal had been achieved. Hence we ended up with low-earth-orbit projects and no effort to put a man on Mars or establish a lunar base for further exploration.

Japan has 'quietly' got on with the real projects that are needed when it comes to aerospace and space, there has been no grand-standing or opting out.
Exactly. I have a product that spans multiple devices and multiple architectures: micro controllers, SDKs and drivers running on PCs, third-party devices with firmware on them and FPGA code. They all evolve at their own pace, and there’s a big explosion of possible combinations in the field.

We ended up emulating the hardware, run all the software on the emulated hardware, and deploy integration tests to a thousand nodes on AWS for a few minutes it takes to test each combination. Tests finish quickly and it has been a while since we shipped something with a bug in it.

But there’s a catch: we have to unit test the test infrastructure against real hardware - I believe it’d be called test validation. Thus all the individual emulators and cosimulation setups have to have equivalent physical test benches, automated so that no human interaction is needed to compare emulated output to real output. In more than a few cases, we need cycle-accurate behavior.

The test harness unit (validation ) test has to, for example, spin up a logic analyzer and a few MSO oscilloscopes, reinitialize the test bench – e.g. load the 3rd party firmware we test against, then get it all synchronized and run the validation scenarios.
Oh, and the firmware of the instrumentation is also a part of the setup: we found bugs in T&M equipment firmware/software that would break our tests. We regression test that stuff, too.

All in all, a full test suite, run sequentially, takes about 40,000 hours, and that’s when being very careful about orthogonalizing the tests so that there’s a good balance between integration aspects and unit aspects.

I totally dig why Oracle has to do something like this, but on the other hand, we have a code base that’s not very brittle, but the integration aspects make it mostly impossible to reason about what could possibly break - so we either test, or get the support people overwhelmed with angry calls. Had we had brittle code on top of it, we’d have been doomed.
I don't think it works that way from their perspective. For boiler room recruiters in particular, they maximize their return on effort by blasting email like that. They don't want to waste time on people who are content with their current job and might be all goldilocks-y about potential new employers. They want to be talking to people who want a new job so badly that they're willing to respond to spammy recruiter emails.

Source: At a former job, I was work buddies with a guy from the in-house recruiting department, and he'd tell me stories about just how different his job there was from his previous job at one of those firms.
Having done the sales grind for a bit now, I'll give my 2c:

Phone calls (or any form of live communication, really) are extremely efficient in comparison to email.

Email is pretty much the worst form of communication for most people. A conversation that would take 15 minutes on the phone might take weeks (if not months) to conclude over email, and because of that latency things frequently get forgotten or lost.

You might say: "Hey, if I don't respond to your email that means I'm not interested" or "This clearly isn't a priority for me, that's why it takes so long to respond" but on the other side you'll semi-frequently encounter people who actually are really interested but take a few follow-up emails to respond for whatever reason (busy, OOO, just forgot, etc).

Email is just very forgettable for most people, even for things that they might actually be interested in. You might be an exception. I'm a pretty strict Inbox Zero person, so I feel your pain. Still, you choose the tactic that works most effectively for the vast majority of people, and that's live communication of some kind.
It reminds me of certain Super 8 cameras.
>2) People grow and improve. I don't want to be judged for my work or my behavior from my early days in the field. How are you going to be sure this isn't unfairly capturing the worst moments of someone's career just because they are new at it and haven't learned any better yet?

Or are currently in a bad company which forces/encourages this kind of behavior. I wouldn't mind recruiting company reviews though. Because there would be a few on my blacklist.
> What seems to make a difference is a prepared and motivated school principal.

I work in EdTech in Brazil and can confirm this.
There are a lot of guides to help you figure out whether a recruiter is serious or not. A recent thing that happened to me was that a recruitment agency refused to let me have a chat with their client before I provided some references.

It seemed weird and I really didn't want to waste my references not having even just a verbal confirmation that they were interested in hiring me. I really thought they were asking in good faith.

It turns out that you should NEVER disclose your references with a recruiter before an offer is on the table, in writing. This is a very common technique and it usually means they are no longer interested in hiring you but they would gladly use your references as potential candidates or future leads to get more business.

Very shady ;)

TL;DR: do a lot of Googling of the kind "how to tell if a recruiter is bad".
I think you need both, but an alternative albeit for-profit way of going big without government requirements attached is the patronage model, which funded Leonardo Di Vinci for example.

Several individuals are pumping a lot of money into moonshot projects, and of course Google X type incubators exists. But I'm excited for projects like Elon Musk sending those artists to the moon, because those are the type of unpredictable upsides that could never achieve government funding.
i don't use yelp. it's a terrible service.
Is there an ROI on AI?
I agree that their economy is a mess. However, they do enjoy a monopoly on transport to the ISS currently and that is due to them having better and cheaper rockets than Nasa. This is being fixed of course but that is after a rather embarrassingly long decade of being dependent on the Russians and their Soviet era rockets still being quite awesome. My understanding is that their engines are still quite competitive, even when compared to SpaceX and Blue Origin. So, I wouldn't discount them outright.

If through some uncharacteristic set of events manage to pull their heads out of their asses, they are still well positioned to do awesome stuff going forward. Of course, the current kleptocracy is hopelessly inept and unlikely to get much done on this front. That seems to be the tragedy of Russia.
> In my opinion science is getting less bang for bucks because the low hanging fruit has been picked by now.

This is certainly part of of the reason in physics, experimental verification takes more and more resources. It took the LHC to find the Higgs boson and LIGO/VIRGO to detect gravitational waves. The Nebel committees also tend to be conservative as a later u-turn would be unfortunate. For example, no prize has been awarded for Inflation theory.

While I think the analysis is quite flawed with regards to Physics I do think there is some value in looking at the Chemistry and Medicine prizes. It does torpedo the core assumption of the singularity movement, that of exponentially increasing progress.

Articles like this are best considered as a starting point for a conversation rather than firm statement of reality.
> Using the hexadecimal system contributed to save ROM space by minimizing the size of the graphical data at a time when it was very expensive.

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"They Insisted to know my current salary"

"They refused to talk about compensation"

Working outside of the USA, these two are kind of weird. When I am hiring someone, I want to know their current salary to know that I won't offer them a low salary + benefits package.

I have ranges depending on positions, and if after evaluating someone she falls into the "mid level" category, I want to make sure that their expectations are in line with the level... otherwise I just cannot hire them.

So, people want to talk about compensation but they don't want to have a conversation (which is 2 ways). Or how does it work in the USA?
All recruiters are sales people... not all of them are awful, but there's a large amount of fairly terrible. My two lookouts are the usual high-pressure sales tactics and recruiters that try to be "buddies" with you.
There's no official Shortcuts directory as far as I know. Others have tried to build their own directories, but they are very much opt-in solutions, rather than single global solutions.