skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While reading this account with interest (I'm never played this game) I realized this is how it must feel to a non-bitcoiner to read so much jargon and descriptions in just one short account.
apparently, my bad. my earlier reading of rails from years ago was that this was runtime inflection, not at generation time.

it still, imo, adds some cognitive overhead, and other orms I've used (grails/gorm, for example), don't try to pluralize. you can pluralize by hand if you want to, but the default is just to name a table whatever the class name is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonostomatidae Bristlemouth fish are the most numerous vertebrates in the world by far. They live exclusively in water between 800M and 4500M. There are 100s of billions to quadrillions of them.
Ask HN: Project ideas for PhD student moving to industry
Hello,

I'm finishing my PhD in CS in a couple of months and I'm applying for software engineering jobs with no luck.

I get rejected from entry level jobs for being overqualified, and from more senior jobs for lacking industrial experience.

I know C++, C, Python, a lot of algorithms and some ML, some data mining.

I pass most of the hackerrank style interviews, but then I get rejections for not having enough experience.

I have two months of writing and some other boring stuff. I can dedicate 10 hours a week for improving myself for job applications.

Any ideas?
Should I do a programming project?
Any suggestions? I have interested in Algorithms, security, storage systems, ML, and DM.

I appreciate your help.
How to manage your RocksDB memory size in Apache Flink
Dj from MongoDB here. We have, obviously, been keeping up with this and other threads, but we've also been busy testing out Amazon DocumentDB's correctness and performance. While we're getting that together to bring you an official response in a few days, complete with test results and methodology, I'd like to pick up on a couple of points and some inaccuracies that have been repeated in various threads:

This move shows MongoDB’s approach to document databases is compelling. We’ve thought so for a long time.

A cloud-hosted, truly global and managed MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, has existed for the last two and a half years and has been serving more and more satisfied users every day with some massive workloads.

MongoDB Atlas runs the full implementation of MongoDB in the cloud.

Many features of MongoDB are documented as not being implemented by DocumentDB: these include change streams, many aggregation operators including $lookup and $graphlookup. But beyond that, well let’s just say we’ve been staggered by how many tests DocumentDB has failed (no spoilers!).

The MongoDB API is not under an Apache license.

MongoDB drivers are still under the Apache license. The MongoDB server used to be licensed under AGPL and is now licensed under SSPL. The source code is open to all, as it has always been, at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

DocumentDB is not cheaper than MongoDB Atlas. Preliminary estimates show this to only be the case with very large collections and very, very high read/write workloads.

There’ll be more next week over on the MongoDB blogs.

Dj
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>They are not blocked.

Self blocking in response to a law to avoid the penalties under the law is being blocked by the law.
We have a lot of people who can say "no" but much less people who say "yes" and help to achieve things.
I agree. That's the only one that seemed worth looking up.

https://wowcube.com/
Another one for Scala/Play which coincidentally can also be Java/Play, although I would choose Scala hands down. Play was inspired by Rails, too.
How's the rent in downtown Miami? Last time I passed through Brickell and checked what rentals were going for I almost passed out?
So how would you like to install such a tool on a corporate device?
Is docker an option In your case?
Is downloading and reviewing the scaffold script sufficient (before actually starting it)?
Yes you can, and you don't need to be sport professional

https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-sec...
The grammar of modern English is its strength. Its spelling is its curse.

When I first started learning Russian I couldn't believe how easy it was. Once I could hear and pronounce the differences between ы / и and ш / щ / ж I could guess how to spell or pronounce a word and I'd be right like 90% of the time. I don't even hit that with English words I know, but rarely use.

But the ridiculous spelling situation in English is caused by the same thing that lead to it becoming an analytical language with all these helper words in the first place: It's a disastrous mismash of at least 4 different languages.

Our grammar couldn't grow to handle the complexity. In a Bayesian free energy sense, the complexity got pushed into the language instead. But this actually makes English much easier to use for commerce because partial speakers can stumble word to word without having to think it all out first. It's a smoother learning curve.

With Russian it's the opposite. The grammar is how the words all apply to each other, so the word order is very flexible. Instead it's used to indicate emphasis, which is why Russians can sound kinda displeased when they talk. Well, one of the reasons why, anyway. It's why their literature is so great. We have to do all these gymnastics to avoid using italics to indicate emphasis, whereas it just falls out naturally.[0]

Longterm life goal is to get to at least a strong B1 / weak B2 with Russian and to read the classics slowly. Right now I'm stuck with side-by-side English-Russian short stories.

[0] Though our language does have the advantage of a huge vocabulary, so though our literature might not be quite as good as Russian it's still pretty great.
But that is the thing. The regulation is still in effect, even after they gave the permission.

The identifiable information still has to be encrypted. They still need to specify exactly where the information will go and why. And if a new company wants to access the data or even wants to use the provided Information for something new, Facebook has to ask permission again.
Once again telling the user why that company needs permission and why as well.

It's doubtful that the current blanket prompt is enough. But it remains to be seen wherever the law will be enforced and it's of course possible,that nothing will change and regulator's never act on the law
GDPR is still fairly new, and it usually takes a while for the full consequences of complex new legislation to be felt.

As an American who spends a lot of time in Europe, what I have noticed is that a majority of local news sites in the US block me from accessing them using IP geolocation.
They could lower their tax rate by taking a smaller share of the profits.
Fascinating reading the comments on Reddit and here. "Diff'rent strokes" = understatement of the century to date.
> no horror stories

law need to be tested trough time, because it will be used by the next party in power for hundreds years, whether you like the party in power or not.

the only reasonable way to reason about law is full on pessimism.

it's like we already forgot the tyranny that was going on less than a century ago and was acquired through escalating legal abuse.
Well said. I doff my cap, you obviously quite like cycling. :)

1500w though, that's very high, like Greipel territory. I wasn't quite thinking of that when I had my rant.
Do you consider it equivalent to reading fiction? I spent a lot of time on that.
What's your PhD in CS subarea?(dissertation) Are there any jobs in that area? Why not teach?
Prior until very recently, the war declaration mechanic meant anyone could declare war on any player-created group. This meant if you wanted to take a half a dozen of your buddies and form a corporation just so you can mine together, any larger group could declare war on you and camp you until you quit playing. This would force people to stay in NPC corporations because you cannot declare war on NPC corps.

CCP finally decided this is not how they want the wardec system to work. Now, a corporation can only have war declared on them if they own a structure in space. Most small corporations have no need for, or enough money, to anchor a structure in space. The idea is if you have structures in space, you should also have the means to replace them if they're destroyed or be able defend them in the first place.
I don't think it's that weird, I've heard horror stories about working at many big companies - Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Netflix... Typically there will be other people responding to the stories saying that they didn't have the same experience at those companies.

As I said in my original comment, a lot depends on your manager and your team. It probably also depends on your location (my experience was at the Vancouver studio) and when you were at the company.

While it does seem that some companies and industries might be worse than others depending on the culture, in general it looks to me like you're better off with the best manager / team in a 'bad' company than with the worst manager or team in a 'good' company and not everyone is going to have the same experience in the same company.

Being on a central technology team at EA I think meant less crunch than being on a game team with hard ship deadlines. Friends I know who worked on game teams at the same studio had more crunch periods but they also typically got more 'comp time' (an EA term for extra vacation time given after ship) and might also get bigger bonuses. I think they sometimes got more pressure to work overtime.
Ask HN: Why are we still using text editors to write code?
Software has gotten more and more complex and distributed meaning code is no longer in one place/repo. Yet we rely on code editing capabilities that have not changed much over the last +20yrs. I am seriously puzzled. I thought that by now, we would have progressed onto something else. Than again I find myself using VIM for almost a decade unable to think of what could be truly superior to wrangling some characters in order to produce a functioning program.
Fitbit's Mid-Range Is Turning into an RMA Nightmare
Numerous customers report returning their Charge 3 device several times, one reports receiving another customer's data on their replacement device.

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-3/Sad-Face-or-Fitbit-logo-001-on-display/m-p/3189983/highlight/true#M29795
Getting started with Docker Compose
Same with my blog: there are perhaps 40 people who actually comment vs thousands whose presence is subliminal.
Crazy to think that it has been 15 years since I first booted up Metasploit. I can recall the screen glaring back at me -- with EFnet in the background -- in my dimly lit room like it was yesterday.

Man, those were the golden days no doubt. :)
Probably because structured text is expressive, portable, and almost universally readable. And my voice isn't good enough to sing code into being without syntax errors.
I put this on here because I saw anime.js on here earlier. I'm trying to pick a decent SVG animation package at the moment, hoped there would be some users of this who might want to share their experiences?
Was the problem that Hard Knocks didn’t patrol the inside of its wormhole?
The Halo Sport 2 electrically shocks your brain into helping you learn to juggle
Related: "The best response is no response."—Dr. Maxwell Maltz, "Psycho-Cybernetics"
I wonder why we find stories like this so compelling. We see it time and time again: players work long and hard to destroy things that other players worked long and hard to create.

I'm not mocking those that find these stories compelling. _I_ find them compelling. But when I stop to ask myself why, I dont have a good answer. Why is a successful attack (and less so, a successful defense) so much more compelling than the initial construction?

Why is an Eve battle that destroys tens of thousands of dollars of value (or more) more gripping than a minecraft world with tons of detail?
GDPR has had a very detrimental effect on user experience, with never ending popups and warnings about crap nobody understands. And being in the EU there's several US publications we can no longer access.
C++ development environment with Docker and GitLab
Looking at it from a different perspective: creating content requires lot of work, while consuming content requires little to no effort. Hence, looking from this perspective, it's natural that the majority of us are content consumers and not content producers.
Did you just refer to Hard Knocks as a "smaller alliance"?

They've arguably had the most strategically advantageous position in the game for years now, and have exerted a lot of control over all of J-space.

Wormhole mechanics heavily favor the defender, and they have the most lucrative resource nodes in the game.

If we want to discuss real estate, stratification, and tiny renter alliances getting rolled or Borg'd, okay. But Hard Knocks does not fit in here.
What would putting a single cap directly between power and ground be? Wouldn't that be a short circuit or boom?
The United States Is Underpoliced and Overprisoned
> Their voters don't read Reddit, Twitter or anything in English

That's a bit patronizing, and a view of internet users that belongs to the '90s. These voters might (for example) like memes and forums very much, but not value them enough to shift political alliances over a proposal like this. Not everyone lives 10 hours a day on the internet.
C++ is largely backwards compatible to C, but idiomatic code is very different in modern practice between the two. A somewhat dated blog post I wrote on the topic a decade ago:

https://blog.directededge.com/2009/05/21/c-and-c-are-not-the...
Ask HN: How To Approach Ethical Considerations Of Non-Profit Startup?
Hello HN!

Our startup intends to compensate people who opt to not have children, and we want to be absolutely sure that we're operating ethically (ensuring those who opt in aren't coerced, are fully informed of their decision and any consequences, etc).

We're interested if anyone has experience engaging ethics professionals, whether for a non-profit startup or other situations that called for ethics considerations.

Thanks!
Show HN: Packex – explore package.json
I always viewed it as a transaction--go to the news site and read the news, in exchange they will sell data on what articles you're reading, etc.

I was fine with that transaction. In fact, I would rather have them sell my data instead of charging money.

Consumers have a choice on whether or not they want to go to these sites, it's not like they are forced to give away their personal information to news sites.

I would say the GDPR blocking news sites is a net negative because it denies consumers the choice to read news stories.
The politics of EVE are incredible. I just don't understand how anyone finds time, though.
And don't forget if you want a drag n' drop UI -- someone has to code and maintain it regardless.
Rolls-Royce Is Building the World's Fastest Electric Airplane
> we had this exact same argument over GDPR, but no horror stories have descended

Romania has already deployed GDPR as a weapon against its press [1]. I also have a short list of anecdotes of economic activity (start-ups and other new market entrants) that would have happened in the EU but, in large part due to compliance costs–including GDPR–wound up happening outside the EU.

[1] https://euobserver.com/justice/143356
Ah you're combining the goons and init? I suppose you can do that but this is about something init planned and executed, not the goons. And the article says

"Over 550 members of The Initiative logged in to answer the alliance’s call to battle. Elsewhere in EVE, allied fleet commanders in The Imperium and in Snuffed Out were asked to provide additional numbers to help the operation."

The Imperium is a coalition of corps with the goons but it's not exclusively made up of goons as far as I know. So it's kinda of disingenuous to dismiss this as a goon op when they weren't directly responsible for it.
That honestly sounds like a horrendous place to work. Paying people below market rate is exploitation, and making people work with a Sword of Damocles over their heads is a good way to increase the suicide rate.
Perhaps controversial to say, and I'm a huge fan of Paul Graham and his thinking, but this article has not aged well. Or perhaps my understanding of organizations has simply matured. I think the biggest problem, for which this article was a lagging indicator, with working for large companies pre-2008 was that they hadn't really figured out how to work with technology yet. Disclaimer, I've never worked for a truly huge firm, but I get the sense folks are getting closer and closer to figuring it out. We've learned to build and support disruptive units inside of larger ones, managers are more often technically skilled and able to properly support their employees, and we've adopted more agile ways of writing software. Or maybe I'm just lucky to work where I do!
The answer: Low carb high diet food. https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/10-healthy-and-high-fiber...
this seems like the plot of "edge of tomorrow," [1] but in nethack form.

so neat -- i love that the RNG space fits into 100GB (all nethack games that ever will be).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow
LA Times was blocked before but now loads fine in EU. The other two are still blocked.
> IT unions

I think I'd have a bigger chance of meeting a unicorn than a member of a "IT union".
I thought I was good in Nethack, being ascended a couple of time with a valkyrie and once with a samurai. Then I started in uni where people ascended all the characters quite frequently in the guild room computers.

You just need time and imagination.
Because it's often applied across borders, and in cases of late, potentially by independent bodies of different countries. IME, it's often brought up on any large set of laws, especially those governing freedom of information, and why most people discourage large encompassing new laws over meager ones or none at all.

The real question is why people take the it's-very-common approach to belittle people's concerns.
Howard Buffett's Border War: A Billionaire's Son Is Spending Millions
> Perhaps controversial to say, and I'm a huge fan of Paul Graham and his thinking

Does Paul Graham have cooties? What happened?
Sizing the Economic Value of Eclipse Community Collaboration ($8.7B)
> *High tax isn't a problem by itself. The problem it that high tax states in the US don't turn around and deliver a proportionate amount of public good.

I certainly agree that there's waste, and more taxes leads to more waste. To your point, though, about "proportional amount of public good", I think there's a case to be made that higher tax areas do generally enjoy better services. An example is in quality of public schools, which is very important to me and my spouse.

NYC and its suburbs (including Westchester and Nassau Counties) are very high-tax areas. If you look at the US News ranking of public high school quality[0], you'll find that 42 of the top 50 public high schools in New York State are in NYC, Westchester, or Nassau; 3 more are in southern Putnam County (just north of Westchester) or western Suffolk County (just east of Nassau).

There are legitimate questions to be asked about how much signal is in USNWR's rankings, but the quality of schools is one of the things that keeps my spouse and me in the NYC metro area.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?st...
In my experience (and this is explicitly anecdotal) ... it seems like liberal memes tend to either satirize a politician's actions or repeat opinion-based editorial info, while conservative memes are more often explicitly fake ... yes, satirical/op-ed memes obviously exist there, but I see more obviously false and easily-debunked conservative memes.

For the conservative, those op-ed memes can tend to be interpreted as the oft-quoted "fake news", which is where I'm guessing the "both sides" sentiment comes from.

Again, that's just entirely my anecdotal experience.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I can see most of the obvious impetus for this, but don't feel it's going to work out very well at all.

I'm not sure what a smarter version of the legislation would look like.

Maybe it works out, but there is some downside risk here which involves a brand new 'lawyer economy'.
I saw one at Turkey Hill yesterday, with the text banner. The banner was pretty sweet. You'll find them all over the place. I'm pretty sure a lot of places are still using these systems like department stores and whatnot.
Does the EU parliament even have parties?
>Apple implementing a spec designed by Microsoft!?!?!

Mind you, the current recommended file sharing protocol on macOS is SMB. (since Apple have deprecated AFP)
Not true. They won’t do it in the air but they will certainly do it after landing in the USA.
It's possible to infer causation from correlation without experiments if you add some general assumptions.

One trick in causal discovery is additive noise. If X and Y are noisy correlating variables and X is causing Y, assumption that the noise in X is present in Y but not vice versa may reveal the direction of the causal arrow.

Causal Discovery with Continuous Additive Noise Models http://jmlr.org/papers/volume15/peters14a/peters14a.pdf

Nonlinear causal discovery with additive noise models
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/3548-nonlinear-causal-discovery...

Humans seem to have causal reasoning ability that is very ad hoc. It works well in practice but it's not principled. There is not enough time to do experiments to establish facts. Correlation is causality seems to be a good heuristics.

I think that that AI will eventually learn to build causal models in the same way. Build a quick and dirty causal models with unfounded assumptions and see what works. Hold multiple effective conflicting causal theories that apply in different situations without any consistent model.
Here is a better DIY link:
http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

And here's a where I did asked previous questions on the topic:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/76097/what-a...
I'm brown and did it in 2005. The pilot and FA's were very nice!

In the planewatcher community it's very common to ask if you can talk to the pilots after you land. Apparently they're usually amenable to chat with plane bluffs!
Mastering the Craft of Making Jerky
> DMCA: there will be no abuse

https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/18/8803571/sunday-times-inte...

> GDPR: there will be no abuse

https://euobserver.com/justice/143343

> Art. 13; there will be no abuse

yeah, let's be optimistic!
I've done embedded a few times in my career (usually higher level, embedded Linux) though I also did some stuff with PIC microcontrollers for a bit.

The pay sucks, but it is much more enjoyable work than web development. There's a lot less BS to deal with.
> This is exactly the ongoing problem with the EU they don't distinguish between large corporations and small businesses

Personally, I don't think laws should discriminate like this, and if a law is not good for business overall, it should be shuttered, not targeted. There are exceptions of course, but I don't think there should be on the internet (or information in general).
I'd encourage anyone convinced by this comment to do some research into the antisemitic and white supremacist comments which representatives of Gab have openly, publicly made.
> you aren't critically engaging with or commenting on the quote

He's using the quote to make an unrelated point. This wouldn't be considered copyright infringement anywhere you have an impartial judiciary.