skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad they can't cross water on their own (you know, Manhattan being an island and all that).
Nice.

One thing that I miss and apparently is still not there is the ability to use '*' in place of '1,$' that was in the MWC Coherent version.
Further down the rabbit hole, there are questions being asked about how much of the creepy content for kids is even being produced by actual humans, or to what degree:

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Did Bloomberg change the title? The current title, "What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle", seems fair.
if they're trying to monopolize psilocybin, they probably should have chosen something that isn't replicable by a teenager with access to a pressure cooker and a pasture
As an Engineering Manager my answer would be: Show Me.

Develop a portfolio of 2 or 3 sites that showcase the type of work you would like to do.

The internal tool usecase is a great one, and having the embedded experience to create a web front end or dashboard will definitely help. If you have some embedded projects at home with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi, write a front end for that that uses key web technologies. Then write some blog posts about it, point to your github with the source and then you have something to put at the top of your Resume/Cover Letter/Email to the hiring manager.
>Your wife has a normal response to ads when the topic is interesting to the viewer. That's the holy grail of "relevant ads": the boundaries of the "ad" get blurred and the message of the product being sold is better received.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that it's normal to love "relevant ads" when you know that it's actually an ad and not organic content? Because I personally disagree, I absolutely hate that and I feel scammed when it happens to me.

It's fundamentally dishonest because it plays on the trust you have for the person doing the "ad". They betray this trust by pushing a product for money, not because they genuinely like it.

Now if they actually say something like "okay, this is a sponsored video but I actually genuinely like this product" I can give it a pass. But if you don't actually care about the product and are just pushing the script given to you by the marketing dept without any obvious disclaimers then it's plain and simple scam in my book. Actually I expect that it's probably illegal in many places, especially when it's about gambling websites like in TFA.

Now if you're saying that it's normal to like this content if you don't know it's an ad then yeah, I agree, but that's the scam.

>Women buy Vogue Magazine for the ads of fashion. It's not just a female thing. Some males bought Computer Shopper[1] specifically for the ads. Why would consumers pay for ads?!? Because they're relevant to their interests.

It's not the same thing, those are explicitly ads. The equivalent would be those fake articles that you can find in some magazines (especially the free newspapers they distribute in the subway in my experience, but also in online publications) where they mimic the format of real articles to push an ad. I actually fell for those a couple of times, generally you only have a small disclaimer in the top or bottom margin saying "this is sponsored content" or something similar. It's clearly meant to deceive.
I would assume graduates that obtained high paying jobs would be more likely to complete these surveys. Of course they could include how many graduates were polled and how many responded.
How do you explain then that many states have almost no regulations on small child care operations while others have extremely harsh and specific ones?
If you have a Ph.D in STEM, why would you not be applying for senior scientist roles?

You're far overqualified, and at the same time nearly unqualified, for a junior developer role. That doesn't mean you can't get hired, but it's going to be harder than applying to something your academics highly qualify you for. Find a role where you can advise junior developers -- I work with multiple scientists with advanced degrees, they code some but their real role is to make sure we know what we're coding up and why.
So, the thing that is still buzzing in my head now and not mentioned in the article (maybe I didn't read carefully enough), what actually gets released into prod after a change is reviewed and merged.

If the monorep contains let's say five different products and in a day only one of them gets a merge, then Blaze still builds all five and all five are released (based on successful integration testing)? OR only releases the changed product (and any other ones which depended on the changed one)

EDIT: Also, the "canary" server is still for testing ? There may exist practically a set of canaries running very different versions ? Is there any correlation or any version "roll-up" constraints between various canaries ?
Powerbanks are cheap. Just hook your phone to a powerbank.
I used to watch boring Saturday morning TV shows as a kid, because I knew they would have Atari 2600 ads during the breaks. It was the only exposure you would get to them as a kid in the 70s/80s.
If it is undervalued, it's probably because it's a safer environment that many people work with. It's hard to write css that's going to leak information or allow root access. There aren't a ton of performance gotchas either. However, I believe an expert who can make things right on the first try instead of tinkering and copypasting their way around should fetch a good salary.
This is a natural product. One can grow it in the basement of one's home. One can gather it where it grows wild. (Ask me how I know!) No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it. Any restrictions at all on this product could only ever be tyrannical. Let's not abide tyranny, ok?
Dumb question - why does the central bank need to raise interest rates if everyone says that doing so will likely cause a recession, and virtually every recession in the past has been preceded by a central bank raising interest rates?
For about 15 years I developed control systems for the Oil industry. All of my projects had ed built into their OS for cases when I had to telnet into them to do debugging and maintenance for clients. Most of our other projects relied on FTP as the only way to handle "offsite" file editing which often was too difficult to deal with as these devices lived in some of the most remote locations on earth with some of the crappiest network connections.
Honest question:

If you "transfer" billions of dollars to "Bermuda" or some such - where does that money actually reside? Wouldn't Bermuda have their financial systems hosted in, perhaps, Switzerland?

If you were to cut off internet to the actual island of Bermuda, what actual financial impact would it have on those funds.

Would they be effectively quarantined to Bermuda? Or are they just legally labeled as being under Bermudian financial jurisdiction in whatever financial cloud these DB fields physically live?
Fast.com is down
Wait until I tell you about Hacker News, which contains many advertisements that people like and discuss all while claiming to be against this type of advertising.
+ many items can be bought very cheaply (cents) for TF2 if you want to have some fancy hat or skinned weapon on marketplaces (most of my TF2 items are << $1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUEnagP69c

This happened a while ago so I don't remember everything, but I believe the company was like an Uber for therapy, rather than providing therapy directly.
Past experience in those states, perhaps? Scandals reported in the media within the state but not nationally that meant the state electorate demanded regulation?
Turns out the monthly price was raised from $116.50 to $121 in 2017, so I'm guessing you moved here since then. I'll confess that I don't buy the monthly passes because I bike to work every day, and thus don't take subway nearly often enough to recoup the monthly costs.
Yes, I'm also like that with backend development. I write simple Go programs and bash scripts to provision all my infrastructure. Love it.
Does YouTube have enough (any) moral compass to avoid making profit in preference to promoting gambling to children?

If they're not fined more than they profit then they're not going to change it.

The incentives of YouTube and Youtubers are aligned against the better interests of society; but that's true of a lot of capitalist activity -- the only way it is going to change is via mass action of the populous (direct action [which might be as simple as changing viewing habits], or legislation).
Indeed. Still doesn't change the fact that they are deceptive and manipulative.

If I want to be a good homo economicus and update my information about the market, it's probably not the best idea to do so via a means that is by definition one-sided and actively tries to undermine my attempts at rational descision making.

You wouldn't consume data from a web service that actively tries to hack you.
A few months ago Pewdiepie posted a video[0] that roughly took the piss out of Better Help and their practices and pointed out the irony of an online counseling service that claims to be a cheaper alternative to actual therapy, but still lists in their terms of service that you need actual therapy and that what they offer is only supplemental in nature.

So basically they're engaging in borderline false advertising targeted at people who are by definition emotionally and psychologically vulnerable and compromised.

And the youtube side of it is that a whole host of youtubers promoted this service on their platforms.

Not to mention that their terms dictate they can sell your data. Which obviously is unexpected from a“medical” company.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PLgOaVXmGU
There are the odd few, including Harry Roberts, but they're the exceptions. By and large, you're not getting into the industry knowing only html and css when (given the amount of easy-to-access online resource) it's so easy to find devs who will learn those plus more.
I once broke a system's libncurses.so and my only access was over ssh due to distance; neither nano, vi, vim, emacs, would work.

ed saved me that day.
ad-hominem much?
Except they created a market place without restriction to sell / trade those items. So yes Valve is to blame. The whole thing with auction house on third party sites is Valve fault, not sure how you can defend them.

Also it's not only cosmetic since you can have weapons / items in those crates.
If you want to get involved and for your voice to have value then you have to educate yourself on the subject. Unfortunately too many of my former colleagues in the games industry (I'm now in a "games adjacent" industry too) fail to do this before complaining about C++ and have the same attitude of "it's not fair that I should have to know what I'm talking about before anyone will listen to my complaining seriously".

Videos of all CppCon talks from the last several years are freely available on YouTube and if you took the time to watch them you'd see that many of them are by working programmers and not academics, quite a few of them in the games industry. You'd also learn that the committee is quite focused on simplifying the use of the language and on finding more usable ways to get the benefits of template metaprogramming. You would also find explanations of many features that are more accessible than standards papers and occasional explanations of why standardese is the way it is - nobody, even the most academic speakers, claims to find the standard the most accessible way to learn about a new feature.
I must say I take a huge amount of joy watching a corporation try to bend over backwards to monopolize a fungus that has been enjoyed by humans for millenia. Is it a surprise that a capitalist industry is more motivated by profits than by the production of useful goods and services? Of course not: but it is good comedy. Maybe laughing at the absurdity of for-profit healthcare will be what saves us all from crippling depression!
Opponents had citied a specific paper that was demonstrated incorrect. That does not disprove all downsides, but does disprove a specific argument.
Sometimes you gotta do that. The Caddy blog is run with Hugo after every git push.
Part of the point is that the competitor chooses the routine based on what they can get the most points for. They are marked not only on quality of execution, but technical difficulty of the routine.

Crudely speaking, what this means is that a competitor aims to perform the most difficult routine that they can do perfectly.

This is not dissimilar to weightlifting.
Outlook has always been shit, but at least it has been shit in the same way for the past 15 years.
How interesting!

I wrote an encrypted pastebin that uses IPFS: https://hardbin.com/

I run a public gateway for it on the hardbin.com domain to make it easy for beginners to use without running their own IPFS node.

Earlier today I got my first ever takedown request for a hardbin paste! CERT-Bund ("the national cyber security authority in Germany") gave me a link to a paste with encryption key and asked me to take it down. I have blocked the link in my nginx config, but I don't know whether that was the right thing to do or not. I'm interested in hearing opinions either way. Obviously it can still be accessed through other IPFS nodes.

The paste contained a bunch of German political party names, alongside links to RAR files, which I presume contained this leaked data.
Lots is possible with fancier crypto. BLS signatures allow non-interactive aggregation, making storage size truly independent of historical transactions, but require faith in less well researched pairing-based crypto. RSA accumulators are discussed in another comment. Right now, Grin's design is conservative, relying on the same security assumptions as Bitcoin. The one crucial difference is that money supply is fully verifiable in Bitcoin, while Grin allows undetected inflation if the ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem) gets broken.
This is deeply racist. Just because she's Vietnamese and not white, your unconscious bias suggests to you that she's a victim of human trafficking?
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The hardest bit you are going to have to overcome is the ursge to step in and do the job yourself. Up until now your career has been built on your ability to get things done. From now on, your career will be built on your ability to help others get things over the line themselves.

This is not to say you should down tools and never touch code again, far from it, but you should strictly cap the time you spend coding for at least 12months as it's too easy to fall back into the habit of feeling productive becase you have your IDE open. If you spend too much time coding, you are avoiding your real job. I generally pick up bugs, scut work or the occasional prototype. I also enjoy clearing up some technical debt from time to time. Either choose quick tasks that no one is relying on, or longer term items that wont cause any blocks if you are delayed.

Related to the above - as manager, you are no longer in the best place to decide on a technical solution. It is your job to make sure that the best technical approach is decided on. In fact you can generalise this to management as a whole - its not your job to make decisions, its your job to make sure decisions get made.

You fail if your team fails, you succeed if your team succeeds. Therefore do everything you can to remove impediments, and shield your team from shit that distracts them wherever it comes from. Encourage them to speak out when they think something is wrong. Play the role of facilitator in meetings to make sure every option is heard and discussed. Have regular informal one to ones with your staff with no fixed agenda - just ask them how they are getting on and how they think things are going. If you have a good connection with them, then you can ask them what you personally should be doing better to help them. If there is little to no trust, then expect them to clam up and say all is great and you are awesome even if you are not.

I loved the transition to dev manager because I was able to make a bigger difference to productivity than if I was doing coding myself. Bigger longer term impact, more strategic but less of an instant 'sugar hit' from tech related fun.

One final piece of advice that I was given by a CTO. He asked me who my team was. I replied with the developers and QA who worked for me. He told me I was wrong, they were my 2nd team. My 1st team was my peers. The other dev managers, QA manager, support team manager, product manager, project manager and ops manager were my team. We needed to start working more closely together as a team rather than in our own little 2nd team silos. What a difference that made to my perspective.

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Did you read the article? He was quoting someone else, and was non-committal about whether or not he agreed with it.

But hey, at least you got to knock his programming chops amirite?
Bias is ever-present. Even a listing of "facts" is biased by what's included in the list, what order it's displayed in, what features are listed, etc. If you read/watch all of these types of pieces as opinion, you'll likely end up with a more accurate understanding of your choices.
I see, thanks for your input. I was a bit concerned about going in on contracting and losing the option to get a job later.
The PhD shouldn't be a cause any issues, just show it is recent. The fact it isn't in engineering/comp sci won't help you get in the door but it shows you can complete a difficult task. I'd highlight on your cover letter how you feel your experience with your PhD work is relevant in terms of software to where you are applying.

It will probably be harder for you than some others, but I don't think if you are decent skillset wise where you'll have major issues. I'd look for jobs where you are sending your resume not to HR but to the hiring manager directly ideally. HR is a filter, and it is hard for them to know what is valuable or not and so they use things like the lack of a degree or relevant work experience as the first filter, understandably. Hence getting directly to a hiring manager will be better.

Also, you might ask some of your professors that may have contacts within the field or maybe they can refer you to a CS dept prof that can help you. Getting a warm intro to a company wouldn't hurt you. A little networking could go a long way here.
This. Determining when the effort should be applied is the tricky part.
Games are still hit driven and get cancelled/re-purposed during development. You can spend a lot of QA engineering time developing systems to test functionality that never ships (case in point would be Fortnight - the original shipped game did not need to be tested against the current 100 player game instances and huge load but they could have spent a bunch of time testing AI systems that are no longer any part of the game).
Maybe: See what a program does before deciding if you really want it to happen
Releases are controlled by each team. For example, my team has multiple binaries that run in production. Some of them are stable and don't receive any active code changes but are pushed every time we do a release. But for those that don't get direct code changes, they will still pickup any changes to shared libraries.

Canaries are live/production traffic only. When a release is deployed, it goes to the canary instances of a job first, and it will take a small subset of traffic. This allows the job owners to see if the new binary has any adverse effects before rolling out more widely. More details about canaries can be found here[0].

Once important thing to think about with Google's source control is that it is closer to SVN as far as versioning goes. There are no (for the most part) feature branches or anything like that. Everyone is always working on HEAD. when you do a release, you will start near HEAD when cutting the release.

[0] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/testing-rel...
There is a kids' channel called Ryan's Toy Reviews that branched out into Christmas surprise gifts this year, at £50 and all sold out. We had to ban the channel at that point.
Audience is mostly minors.
Because it was done on an 'as needed' basis, the distinction I would make is that these shutdowns (IIRC) were to deal with acute issues. A more regularized schedule, where shutdowns are part of normal operation and are documented well in advance might lead to a situation where problems (like those on the L) are less frequent to begin with.
Another fun one (from the many examples above!) is a new paper I am working on at the moment as well, but in the intersection of physics and math: it turns out you can phrase a bunch of physics problems as optimization problems, then use some very simple tools in optimization to derive fundamental limits of how well any device could ever perform.

The preprint is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12936

An associated blog post is here:
https://guille.site/physics-impossibility-results.html
Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language
>(Immigrants, by the way, tend to have more babies than do native-born Americans.)

Interesting, and do they also tend to rely more on government assistance to raise their children than do native-born Americans? Because that would seem to add to the problem of a declining tax base as more old people need more government services. Maybe we should consider admitting that not all babies have equal potential, and quality is important as well as quantity.
For the USA, this probably isn't a problem as long as we allow immigration the way we do now. Here's the population pyramid diagram for the USA:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

For Japan:
https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2017/

For the whole world:
https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2017/

Ideally, the "pyramid" would be a cylinder, with all ages being roughly the same distribution. This would be a population that is not growing or shrinking. You can see that Japan's younger population is less than it's older population, for the whole world there are many younger people than older... and for the USA it's pretty close to a cylinder.

So will this demographic time bomb hit America? Probably not.
Should a kid of 8 even be able to watch those video's without violating the terms of agreement Youtube requires users to accept? Or are these video's available on Youtube's kids channel as well?
Mexicans will be able to buy cannabis gummies from the end of this month
Nope, just out of date. $116.50 was the price prior to the increase to $121.

The commuter tax deduction lets you buy the cards with pre-tax money deducted from your paycheck, which is a substantial reduction up to 45% or so depending on your marginal tax rate. Of course, because it's using pre-tax money, it's giving a bigger discount to higher earners, which makes it the opposite of progressive, which seems opposite of what's intended.

Separately, seniors/disabled people pay half fare: http://web.mta.info/nyct/fare/rfindex.htm
At least in my country, there are two main camps on college funding.

The first camp believes education shouldn't focus on graduate earnings, and shouldn't cost anything.

The second camp believes student fees are unfortunate-but-currently-unavoidable, and so long as they're in place we should ensure students make informed, rational decisions before taking on a lifetime of debt.
No, it's not. Southeast Asian, specifically Filipino, Thai, and Vietnamese women are the most commonly trafficked ethnic group worldwide.