skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. I'm just weary of all these "mini optimizations" that all these cloud providers are about to start doing differently.
I hope that the folks at the forefront of trying to unionize the game industry are talking to existing entertainment unions. I suspect there's a lot of similarities, especially when you get into absurdly huge projects like a sprawling open-world game or an animated feature.

(And by 'animated' I include pretty much every effects-laden action film. IIRC there is not currently an effects worker union in Hollywood, while there is an animators union - guess which craft sucks less to be in?)
Great news for another Turkish company acquistion, I wonder what was the acquisition price.
> , and to everyone's benefit.

Why? I've worked on large codebases in Coffeescript, ES6 and Typescript. Whatever this whole community sings and believes, but Coffeescript still wins for me. ES6 is still trying to catch up but will probably never reach the beauty and ease of Coffeescript. Both are transpilers, only ES6 with Babel is a total horror to manage (just upgraded a large codebase to Babel 7..).

Typescript takes about 2x the time to write if you want to create all your typings properly. I hear you say; only in the beginning, later it will speed up the development process. I've never seen that in reality! I've actually never seen a proper codebase in Typescript. Show me a Typescript codebase not using the type 'any'! In a decent system language you can't get away with that, it's just a fake sense of security.

A good codebase should not be dependant at all by Typescript or whatever hype comes next. Writing a good codebase is IMHO a craft and should not depend on the language or a bunch of tooling. If Typescript is way to go, what about Python, Ruby, abandon it, deprecated? Are those inferior languages compared to Typescript? Typescript is just another hype, very smart play by Microsoft btw.
There's an even easier crazy loophole called a 'postcard' that goes right directly to the person, in physical form even, sending your message direct to them!
In all of the games Alphastar was slower than TLO in the build order. I agree that TLO could have been faster, but this was definitely not the deciding factor.

I think the main factor was Alpha* just had incredibly accurate assessment of exactly what part of it's army it needed to defend/attack and was very careful.
You seem to be saying that if the scheme somehow becomes more successful than expected, they stand to go into the red. Maybe so. But this is surely the case whatever source the "excess" or unexpected returns come from.

If you're claiming that the scheme is currently funded in such a way that something like a 3% improvement in return rate (fraudulent or genuine, OBRC can't tell) is a problematic financial event, then I suppose I get it.

The externality argument based on the cost of landfill (made by another commenter) is sensitive to whether the bottles come from out of state.
Your due diligence to research and drive change if needed.
:-) https://www.google.com/search?q=swat+chicago+hood
Remember this story from not too long ago about getting rid of older workers at IBM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16648000

Here's a choice quote:

"But, the new documents added, employees had to waive the right to take their age cases to court. Instead, they had to pursue them through private arbitration. What’s more, they had to keep them confidential and pursue them alone. They couldn’t join with other workers to make a case."
Oh cool I will check those out for sure thanks!
You are in a unionized desk job? What is the industry?
Thank you for a well written response.

I think maybe we agree on something. Religious fanaticism can break any good process. I see Scrum as a place to practice flexibility. Example: I have a dev team that is only two devs, a husband and wife team. We don't do standups because they are together all the time and don't need that feedback and daily planning.

I'll be adding someone to that team soon and will need to add some formality so that feedback and daily planning are sufficient.

I have no room for fanaticism in my processes. It breaks stuff.
Just wondering, why are union dues mandatory even if you do not want to join a union? This to me is the biggest reason to be anti-union.
I think the part that you may be missing is that View 1 (embedded view) is hosted on DocuSign's domain.

So the view may be designed by the client, but it's not hosted by the client. It's hosted on DocuSign.

Then View 2, is the "dashboard" view which of course isn't designed by the client.

In an ideally designed embedded View 1, it should not be possible to get to DocuSign's "dashboard" (View 2). Sessions should be tracked in DocuSign's API and View 1 refreshes should return the user to hosted View 1 or should return an error.
>I'm a big fan of TLO, but he's currently not even in the top 50 even with his main race

For what it's worth, this comment reminds me a lot of[1]:

> FYI, Fan Hui, the current European Go champion that Google DeepMind defeated, is ONLY a 2nd Dan Go player. The Highest Dan ranking in Go is 9th Dan!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983898
They don't restrict it across the board, I use many of these operators all the time without issue, the only time I run into difficulties is doing very specific "Google dork"-like queries repetitively.
This is the good old, but ultimately petty, Pyrrhic victory of wanting to make sure to punish the few freeloaders.
That's a good point. Not going through the standard CS track and straight into software engineering has probably given me broader experience and skills (both soft and hard) that I wouldn't have developed as well otherwise.
What is Facebook's market? Social media or advertising? If the main "clients/users" are the typical average Joe, and the service is free, does it count as a monopoly (At least in terms of anti-trust laws)?
For me the barriers have been implementing the server (especially with authorisation logic); consuming it as a client was the relatively easy part.
As others have pointed out, Michigan has had a 10 cent deposit since 1978 and consistently has redemption rates over 90%, even hitting 94.2% in 2014: http://www.bottlebill.org/legislation/usa/michigan.htm

The fear that these rates were the product of fraud even lead to amendments to the recycling act in 2008, namely adding a state-specific mark to bottles. Yet the redemption rate remains over 90%.
It's not about that, though. It's amazing that Postgres is taking off like this!

I just want to be cautious that the more we use services like Aurora, the more we're relying on our cloud providers to maintain stability with the core Postgres API/internals while they do some fanciness under the hood to optimize their hardware (if that makes sense).
Labor cost does not determine a product's sale price. That is a disastrous myth. Demand changes selling price. If a company cannot price to sell to their demand because of capital or labor costs, the free market has stated that the business is not viable.
The platonic ideal of a union makes sense, however the practical realities are rarely so perfect.
Academic career paths are completely broken, which is why universities can and do get away with it. The problem is not that these instructors aren't "people of talent."

This article is mainly concerned with the humanities, but it covers well the issues at stake:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Shame-of-Our/239...
Honestly I bet it's a learning algorithm that they used to identify bots, rather than something a human decided.

Spam detection algorithms usually have a training set. One of the features could have been "uses_feature_x", which, according to the training set, is known to have a high probability of being a spam bot (because humans rarely use those features)
It seems prudent to unionize and protect yourself while the business/sector is employee-friendly rather than have to unionize if the employer is taken over etc.
The historic links between unions and political machines and unions and organized crime suggests that the concept of workers fixing a bad union is great in theory but nearly impossible in practice.
we now have closed source Amazon Aurora infrastructure that boasts performance gains that might never see it back upstream (who knows if it's just hardware or software or what behind the scenes here)

The performance benefits of Aurora over Postgres are mostly because Amazon rewrote the storage engine to run on top of their infrastructure.
Why do you think so? I think they're better than equivalent tests, and in fact help bring about better testing.

A lot of unit tests will revolve around checking types. If you don't have to runtime-check this, you can focus unit tests on semantics and integrations assuming the underlying data structures are correct.
By men youean man. And isolated events with individual employees who arguably had alot of power -- given he founded Android -- is a non issue in this argument.

Google or any company has no responsibility or should be required to publicly shame employees who misbehave. And it really is non of your or my business that any of that happened.

The rest of your conserns seem valid though.
What standard of living would you be proud of?

The US has the world's highest median (middle income) household disposable (after taxes and services paid for) income in the world. [1] This correlates pretty highly with standard of living measurements, which is much more vague.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
s/slashdotted/hug of death/g

:D
This may just do it, and it has one of the smallest formfactors I've seen in a mixer that supports 18 channels.
>dom·i·nate

>verb

>have a commanding influence on; exercise control over.

>be the most important or conspicuous person or thing in.

Bacteria have a huge effect on all life, but they don't "exercise control" as they are not self aware. Their influence is comprised solely of externalities. Humans by comparison exert far more control over the environment around them. We shape the world to our purpose. I think humanity wins here.
This is exactly what Richard Sherman said about having an agent.

Turns out, you do need someone to do that for you, in fact you're almost always in better shape if you do get an advocate.
With Protoss, he's not remotely near that. And that does matter if you intend to make huge a press release in the shape of "DeepMind AI beats top pro player". We'll see in an hour if that's what they're going for.
We do not dominate Earth, we're just destroying it. Just as we think we are intelligent beings, we're actually incredibly stupid.
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I'd argue that domination requires agency. We want to dominate the earth and are doing it. Bacteria maybe more prevalent, but they haven't wiped us out yet. We on the other hand have wiped out several strains of bacteria.
I really like how good the article looks when printed. I enjoy reading long, in-depth articles much more when I can read them in print. Unfortunately many blog posts need a lot of tweaking until I can get an acceptable print result. This one looks good enough without any trickery.

Thanks to the author, for caring about the paper people. : )
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18869755

The HN community did a little bit of reverse engineering.
I should clarify, google is rife with visual noise, especially for simple queries. As an example, try googling "how to clean rain gutters" in both search engines. You'll need to scroll half down the page, past "Suggested Clip", past "People also ask", past "Videos", to finally arrive at the 1st search result. DDG also shows videos, but doesn't require scrolling.

EDIT: I forgot about ads because I use an ad blocker! If you don't use an ad-blocker, you'll also have to scroll past a large section of ads.
> At whose cost? Do developers even less productive than that next tier deserve stability? Does the worst employee deserve stability?

Yes.

They don't deserve the best jobs at the fanciest companies, of course, but every single human being alive deserves stability. That's the baseline. If we as a civilization cannot provide that, then we need to keep working at it.
It is pretty cool, thanks!
Many previous threads, but not for a couple years.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Richard%20Feynman%20and%20the%...

(We changed the URL above from https://web.archive.org/web/20070228104914/http://www.kurzwe...)
Exactly. Eventually eroding REST away to "RESTful".
These are called "reverse vending machines."

They are a pain in the ass though because they are always filling up and/or jamming and then you have to call and wait for staff to come fix it. If you are redeeming a whole cart of bottles you're going to have to call the staff over at least a couples times. They are always in use so you have to wait. The rooms they are in are nasty and sticky. The bar code reader doesn't always work the first time (and sometimes doesn't work at all for some bottles) so you're constantly refeeding them into the machine.

They get a TON of use, so they go out of order frequently.

My grocery store just got brand new ones and they are better than the last ones they had still have problems.
All I'm saying is that it looks like Azure and Microsoft are about to do the same.
Are you implying that performance is proportional to hours worked? Research shows that this is not the case for most people and that returns past a certain work/life balance ratio are marginal or negative.
there is a LiquidMana coming on now ;)
> Why do bottle bills tend to get high amounts of participation once enacted? Environmentalism is more popular than folks think. The bigger reason, though, might be that a culture of recycling has become popular.

Another reason is that the tax punishes those that don't. One wonders what the redemption rate might be if it was 50 cents a bottle? Or if you fined those that don't recycle them?
Show HN: PyLops, a new Python library for efficient large scale optimization
Game prices have already increased via less consumer friendly practices. Predatory monetization schemes like lootboxes (i.e. gambling), DLC (mixed bag), cosmetics, always online DRM, company specific storefronts, digital sales, "early access" and releasing unfinished games have all reduced costs and increased profits while sticker prices remain static. Sticker prices have even gotten better sometimes since many games go on deep discounts quickly.
Unionizing in a non-shitty sector will give the workers a way to help ensure that the sector continues to not be shitty, both by maintaining a baseline for what a union shop looks like, and by contributing money to politicians who will work to pass laws that help keep the sector free of shittiness.
I agree about the apples to oranges comparison. ED is, as you say, a medical condition. The "dysfunction" in the name indicates that things aren't working properly. In contrast, no one has ever been diagnosed with being fertile, because being fertile is not a dysfunction.

I do want to suggest, however, that a change of language is warranted around this issue.

You write: "there are women that need to be on birth control for actual medical reasons in that they have complications with PMS and this mitigates things."

These women do not need to be on birth control. They need to receive hormone therapy, which happens to be, in a lot of cases, the same medication used for birth control.

I know it sounds like a distinction without a difference, but it's actually quite a meaningful distinction.

I would not say that a newborn girl with chronic pulmonary hypertension needs to be on erectile dysfunction medication. Rather, I would say that she can be treated with sildenafil, which happens to also be the active ingredient in Viagra.

Similarly, a woman might use hormone therapy to avoid menorrhagia, and a side effect might be that it decreases her ability to become pregnant, and she may or may not be happy with that side effect.

When you make this language shift -- "birth control" applies to contraception, which disrupts the body's natural fertility, and "hormone therapy" applies to treatment of medical conditions and dysfunctions -- it helps resolve some hot-button issues.

For instance, if a woman works for a religious employer that does not cover contraception, I would imagine that employer would have no issue with her receiving appropriate hormone therapy for a medical condition such as menorrhagia, even if a decrease in fertility is a known side effect.
"Unfortunately, we do multiple operations on Bigtable in one request to our api and we rely on strong consistency between those operations."

I feel like "strong consistency" is misused here. Strongly consistent is relevant only in a distributed environment. Its usually solved by using paxos/raft between the replicas. Bigtable only has had best-effort replication, so I am not sure its being mentioned here. I think they are looking for the term serial, that their queries have to be executed in a specific order for a particular user request.
Why do I have to do due diligence and drive change for something I don't want or need in the first place?
There are some serious bad actors in the game industry, Rock Star being one of the worst.

Where I've worked we valued work/life balance as much as possible. Did we have a bit of crunch close to a release? Yep, but it was short and a few weeks at max. Most of us enjoyed it due to the extra camaraderie.

If there were a unionization effort that focused on 1) a hard 40-50 hour cap on work hours (or with paid overtime) and 2) enforced profit sharing plans, I could support it.

The current main unionization effort basically says "things will be better for everyone" on their FAQ. Total bullshit.
As anyone who's tried MDMA knows, it's exactly like how it's commonly described: you get very strong feelings of love for and connection with others, especially people you're already comfortable with.

As for the sexual side of it though - just be aware that if you're male it's pretty common to get ED while high on MDMA (citing VICE [1] seems appropriate here). Of course, there's plenty of other ways to have enjoyable sexual experiences. But maybe if you're a guy and accustomed to the, uh, "usual way" of carrying about your business you might get a little disappointed.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppa9nm/drugs-and-dicks-pi...
> No it's not.

> A union could conceivably be a bad thing or a good thing

> As a society, we make decisions against the will of individuals for a greater good all the time.

You are contradicting yourself. If a union could be a good or a bad thing, then one cannot use the argument that we do things for the greater good without presupposing that a union is a good thing. You are indeed assuming your own premise as true, which is indeed a logical fallacy.
This is such an easy, garbage take on the article.
What’s the best one for a New Yorker to get involved with?
> Their chess AI beating Stockfish involved some at least a bit questionable setup.

I believe their eventual Science paper addressed these concerns.
> That is true, but that doesn't mean that two levels of trust is not a privacy concern merely because everyone does it.

I feel appalled after reading this. If you genuinely hold that belief, I hope your circumstances are merciful towards you.
Women generally make less money than men. Raising a child alone when you can barely support yourself is a serious hardship. These stats are out of date and for illustration purposes only:

If a woman makes 2/3 what a man makes, he makes 1 1/2 times what she makes. If it takes 90% of what she earns to just scrape by and only 10% of her income is discretionary funds, he has many times as much discretionary money as her. If she has a child out of wedlock and has to raise it alone, childcare will be far more than her current "fun money." So having a child out of wedlock can ruin a woman's life, even before we get into potential medical complications, what if the child has special needs? etc.

If you have a one night stand with a stranger and a pregnancy results, he may never know he fathered a child. She may find herself pregnant out of wedlock with no means to contact the father, thus no hope of even asking for child support.

Women generally worry quite a lot about unintended pregnancy because it can so completely derail their lives in an unrecoverable fashion. (IIRC) Getting pregnant unexpectedly is one of the three biggest risk factors for plunging a woman into poverty, even if she's always been middle class, is well educated, etc. The other two are divorce and widowhood.
This presents a more interesting problem than the article realizes. Computer Science has long suffered from overstuffed first year courses.... but only first year. By the second year, the vast majority of students have changed majors or otherwise left the computer science field. With even greater overcrowding of first-year courses, it probably makes it even harder for a person earnestly interested in computing to get in. At least when I attended school, every single person who gave their reason for choosing CS as 'I heard there was good money in it' was gone by the 3rd semester. I'm not entirely sure, but I've always suspected this might be due to the fact that while you can BS your way through an essay, you can't really do that with a compiler. Either that or a fundamental psychosocial resistance to hard-line logical thinking.

In any case, perhaps they should factor this in somehow and do a bit of preparatory work to give potential students a real sense of what the work and subject is actually going to be like before they fill up the first year courses and just waste everyones time before dropping out?
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That's why you buy a pack of latex gloves. I don't see anyone redeeming bottles/cans without wearing gloves.
Frankly just being remote is sufficient - HashiCorp (for example) was almost entirely remote for engineering for a long time (and may still be, I haven't kept track).

Some people ended up in the Bay Area, many people appreciated being able to live and work elsewhere. Not least, Europe.
Nearly half of GD is always on the way out of the industry to be replaced with idealist, young Developers with a passion for working 100 h shifts and sacrificing themselves to implement lewdboxes.

You can unionize the gamdevelopment industry as much as you could unionize the actors or the model industry. There is always somebody new, who is willing to give anything to keep this emotional distorted market place going, effectively dropping labour costs to zero.

Union protests against having to nibble on the Weinstein to make progress? Fire all the actors, replace them with new ones.
Gamedesigners strike in the midst of death march? Well, they shall be replaced after the march with "motivated" personal anyway.

In a distorted market, participation equals loosing the game.
In practical terms, math is a language, i.e. a medium of communication, which helps us model physical and real phenomena. There are certainly theories in math, but most of the "math" that matters is pretty matter of fact. It may not cover the entire spectrum but most math models do well enough to help us explain real things.

Of course I'm not really talking about the more esoteric fields of math.
In the UK Alexas and Google Home are pretty cheap and a lot of friends have them.

As another poster said, it's an easy market for them as the language is the same.
And this is a benefit to prevent lock-in. Amazon’s OLAP database, Redshift, is protocol compliant with Postgres. Even if you won’t get the performance benefits of Redshift if you move to a standard Postgres, at least you don’t have to change your code.

Now you can move to Azure without having to change your code.
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That's exactly the SEO use case though. I mean, it's not exactly a secret that grey/black-hat SEOs want to do this, the problem is that the limits Google places on it inconvenience every power user too!