skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say being "careless" means dropping that 60-80lb package to the floor instead of gingerly doing a squat with it, even 10 of those a day and your back will thank you unless you have impeccable form. "Use existing equipment" - perhaps a familiar phrase, one that protects your joints but not necessarily the packages.
On my boxes, I put biological hazard symbols...
I would think MIT might be a bit special, given that both EE and CS are Course 6 - some other schools have a similar setup (i.e. one EECS department), but many do not.

From a cursory look, it appears there were around ~55,000 CS graduates in 2015 the US, ~11,000 EE, and ~5,000 CE.

I don't agree that a "generation have skipped EE," but I do think it is probably true that CS graduates in general now probably have much less hardware experience/education than has been the case historically (no comment from me on whether that is good/bad).
When I google "game loop"， I found deWiTTERS Game Loop, http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/ which I still not fully understand.
we track errors both server and client side. only errors we routinely see are network issues.
Yup I'm an idiot but I can't seem to delete or edit my original submission :c

Thank you for the information.
They aren’t producing for export outside of those countries.
The speaker mentions it, seems like the return value is different: https://i.imgur.com/Jj2fMZu.png
The kicker is that he will only do that if they use his company, as explained in the article.

While I agree that nuclear energy is basically required at this point in order to ween humans off of lighting crap they get out of the ground on fire, bill's antics may not be the best option (can his company deliver? others have already done so.. so why not them instead? it will require more than $2bn... so tax dollars required.)
The ghosts of technology in today’s language (2018)
People used SVN, but I'm not sure enough people switched that it killed CVS.

SVN seemed like it didn't go far enough to be honest. It wanted to be "atomic CVS", but there were many long-standing issues with SVN.
What is the part that is not clear?
As a .net developer I’ve always ended up doing as per JD 1 year later. I think the .Net shops are more reluctant to try other stacks as compared with other platforms.

> hired for Angular but ended up with Elm/Haskell.

Lucky you! Haskellers generally would love a job doing Haskell, but there aren’t that many jobs
to be fair there could be silent failures, but after 4 years of daily use by people who are experts on these logs, we would have had at least a couple reports of missing lines.

we often download the files post viewing on streams also. mostly it’s exceptions so we’d easily notice missing lines in stacks
I'll be hiding one of these in my PhD thesis for sure.

There is also a wine version, if that is your preference: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/latex-wine-stains/cd...
The war on pollution.... good idea.
I suspect FORTRAN and LISP play their parts here. This is well within their timelines.
> Was society really conned with Facebook?

No. It's just gotten to the point in society where individual decisions are becoming eroded to nearly meaningless and it is now only safe to assume that the average person is a complete idiot and not in control of their own faculties.
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Incredibly, this was an even dumber post than I expected. For its length it's hard to pinpoint any wrong argument made, because AFAICT it's mostly just a semicoherent stream of unjustified assertions and associations, but it does sometimes try, as per

> Oh yeah, and the second problem with the AI doomsday theory is that it's ludicrous. AI is so smart it's gonna kill everyone by accident? Really really stupid superintelligence? That sounds like a contradiction.

Bill Gates must be feeling like a right idiot now, huh?

Anyway, there was one line I did find entertaining in its inanity (the rest, AFAICT, has zero value),

> Intelligence isn't a Platonic ideal that exists separately from humans, waiting to be discovered.
This is minesite automation stuff, so it usually lives in a stainless steel cabinet, ambient air temperature can be over 50C, sometimes sharing the space with high power switchgear. It's not unheard of for the inside of the cabinets to be over 70C if it's mounted in direct sunlight, so most gear is rated to 80C. Then at other times in the year it'll get down to freezing.
This is like extrapolating from the first pilot nuclear reactors to the potential of what they could become: it's just hugely fallacious.

Only small pilots have been deployed because batteries are just getting cost competitive now for the first time, and utilities are super slow to pick up new technology. They're not used to living in a world where there is new technology, but they are slowly waking up.

It's going to be like digital versus film cameras. Once the critical cost threshold is crosses, they will scale like crazy. And batteries are trivial to scale to huge or small sizes. We could start putting them in all substations and massively increase reliability of the grid in addition to switching to 100% renewables. It's just a matter of cost, we know how to engineer and build them. With nuclear, it's a matter of cost, and we know how to engineer, but we don't know how to build or scale.
Krško is a Westinghouse design. I've spent quite some time in the area, and nobody really worried about the power plant. The smell of the cellulose plant in the city center on the other hand, ...
Yes, we surely tried the usual "worker demographic," but got people who can't distinguish volts from amperes and miswiring simplest assemblies even with the most detailed assembly instructions possible...

Electronics assembly requires at least a high school level knowledge of things like physics for a person to just to have an idea what, and what for he is doing, and what each component does.

It does not work as a "fully mechanistic process" where assemblers are treated as brainless robots. It requires cognitive skills, despite of high class "creative" people hating to admit that.
I'm an American product manager- I had offers in the US and 3 EU countries after my last job search (ended up moving to the EU). Good product practices are transferable across borders.
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Literally exactly what they said they wouldn't do. I gotta get off Facebook stat
I agree with most of the sentiment of your comment here,
however I do not think 90% is accurate. I have no polls to point to, but thinking about how certain demographics are seemingly deathly afraid of patrol police in general these days, and given that many people have some friend or family member that may be going through a bad phase, I think it would be more like 50% if you included something like "knowing that metadata from your phone and net devices can be used to spy on your friends and family, do you think it's no big deal if a long list of agencies has unfettered access to your data?

Something like that.

I agree that we need to educate people more about how things like jobs, loans, and other things can be affected by data trails easily gobbled up by many different apps and devices.

In my small amount of speaking to people, it seems to me that people older than 35 don't worry about hackers or fbk, or three letter agency spy on all their pics and messages. However most of them pause when I explain that apps like messenger can steal all of their kids' pics in the background, services like instagram sell me pics off their kids phones for a few cents, and there are some pervs at whichever agency and computer company that can access all of their kids stuff for example.

To me the biggest concern about recording and storing all this information is the ability of corps and guv agencies being able to rewind time and pressure would be powerful public figures or other people into doing shady things in order to keep that recorded data in cold storage and off the next leak that ends up in the wild and reported in whatever-news.

So there are many educational points with all this that people should be educated about.

When I mention that divorce lawyers may have a field day with the flirting pms / dms that their friends may have sent and that have been stored by zucks servers, I often get "wow never thought of that" - which of course could be used to change financial futures, kids custoday, etc.

Then of course the marketers using data to get you to do things, and banks selling your debit card data about sexual purchases and such. There are many important things to consider when it comes to privacy.

How meta data alone can be used to infer relationships and such can be damaging with serious legal consequences beyond the marketing sales.

If polls were run with a little info added about how data can be used. I would hope that less than 50% of people don't care.
I now think of AI as basically deep learning based ML and nothing else. But it's not entirely right to say it's not "intelligent". What is "intelligent"? Is a mouse intelligent? It can't reason, speak, read, or write, yet I'd say it is intelligent because it can respond to the environment in a way which on average maximizes its survival. This is not that different to e.g. a RL system responding to its environment in a way that will maximize reward. Then why would a mouse be "intelligent", and RL system not "intelligent"?
The images are compatible. I’m not sure where you’re seeing otherwise.

What is blurry to you about the purpose of either tool?
I think it's safe to say CO2 levels in your office are already over the limit with coworkers making arguments like that lol

The company saved $25 though!
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The first edition of ECMA-335 was published December 2001, so now almost two!
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> Electronics assembly requires at least a high school level knowledge of things like physics for a person to just to have an idea what, and what for he is doing, and what each component does.

At least in the state where It each, that means they know nothing about physics. Literally, all that's required is an introductory course split between chemistry and physics. Time constraints means the second one usually gets thrown under the bus, and they barely talk about the laws of motion, let alone electricity.

So, basically, these employees probably do have high school level knowledge of physics.
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Is this a Chinese puppet account? Chinese elites value American education higher than anyone, just look at the numbers of international students.
This is a great point. Kind of off-topic now; do you know of any books that take such an approach? The subject doesn’t matter, as I’m more concerned with the pedagogy in this case.

The one that springs to mind for me is Functional Programming in Scala.
The institute breaks out 6-1 and 6-2 (took me a while to figure that because the registrar writes VI-1 :-).

I’ve seen feedback correct this — shortly after I graduated analog fell out of favor (for jobs) so almost all the analog engineers in industry were old guys....so when the worm turned there was a shortage of experienced analog EEs.

I assume this reversion to the mean will happen more broadly for EEs. Then again, China and Europe are graduating a lot of EEs so it’s not like EE won’t be done, just not in the US.
How so? I would classify the ARM M0 (most likely what's in those devices) as a microcontroller-class device. Yes, it's a SOC... but so is the Atmel AVR and almost every other microcontroller these days. I tend to classify devices based on their use cases rather than specific hardware limits since it's a sliding scale over time. (i.e. today's 8-bit microcontrollers exceed what we had with 1980's-era 8-bit PCs on pretty much every front other than RAM... but they generally aren't considered anything more than microcontrollers today)
> [...] his approval ratings were recently higher then Obama at the same period of his presidency

That doesn't look to be correct. Scroll down on this page [1] for approval, disapproval, and net approval comparisons between Trump and all past Presidents back to Truman at the same points into the term.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...
Actually if it makes it any better, you could take "a passion for what you do" as "will put in best foot regardless of how unstimulating and braindead the job is". So not so much as burn out as patience. How does that work for you?
The sconed part "Game Speed dependent on Variable FPS". I'm confused about the parameter of function "update_game()". From the code, I think the time length of "curr_frame_tick - prev_frame_tick" would increase at each timestep beacause of function "display_game()".
Does that mean they’ll have to go through a “Steve Ballmer” phase first?
Russia has shown to improve the skills of mounting 24 nuclear fusion bombs x 30 mach speed - "snow flakes" On Proton[1] derived Rockets, (those to took the turtles to the moon and will take the turtles to Mars,( maybe.) )

attacking capabilities are believed to have evolved in the last 15 years.

And the Proton are the oldest of their rockets, my friend, and is still up and ready in this very moment....

1-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family)
System design
What are the good courses or videos available for learning the system design?
It's about Celia Fiennes' Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of William and Mary

"She travelled around England on horseback between 1684 and about 1703, "to regain my health by variety and change of aire and exercise". At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Fiennes

Download her book as pdf, epub etc: https://archive.org/details/throughenglando00fiengoog

That 1888 edition is the first complete one.
They still exist and are staffed with officers in the building and patrol cars outside, but I've never seen the I-5 San Clemente one actually checking cars. According to some Google Maps reviews, they only use it when a relevant tip comes in, so perhaps I've just been lucky. That being said, I don't drive through the area extremely frequently. It may have been around 5-7 times in the past year.
There's an argument for a fifth amendment violation here.
If your manufacturing process requires your line workers to be making judgements that necessitate "distinguish[ing] volts from amperes", you have a fundamentally flawed manufacturing methodology that cannot and will not scale (as you apparently have seen firsthand).
I now think of AI as basically deep learning based ML and nothing else.

That strikes me as stunningly bizarre position to take. Why do you think that way?
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One cool thing is that you can use it almost anywhere -- an OS kernel all the way up to a game compiled to WebAssembly to run in the browser.
Certainly for most things I would prefer whatever encryption in transit and whatever data is received is destroyed after viewing. Some people think snapchat is like that, and it's a big reason that many people use it like they do.

However I can imagine some use cases where others would want to keep say a kinky fantasy story someone wrote to them, but need to keep it in a form that if discovered may be difficult to discern that it was a naughty message at all.

Like the "calculator app" that many of the younger folks are using to hide nudes... you'd have a "cool cat memes with friends app" - with some of the images shared having extra data embedded...

some parents and others are getting smarter about seeing the most used apps on a phone, so they are able to question why someone used "hidden locker calculator" 8 hours each day. If you had "cat meme share" being used 8 hours a day, you could open said app and show your parents/lover/ whoever the funny memes.. and they may not know that extra info could be embedded for example.

This may save some people doing bad things, but may also save some people from being outted about their <insert small niche not socially well accepted interest / lover / friend here>
I've been using a technique similar to what I described in the original post to teach myself Haskell, and your comment 100% resonates with me. In the case of learning a new language, just getting a piece of code to run and testing it out has been a great way for me to get into the groove. I suspect that writing unit tests might be another good entry point.
>Finding a guy who can program a particular brand of chipshooters took 2.5 months. We found a single guy in all BC/Washington/Oregon area, and he demanded 100k+ for something that I can teach a highschooler to do.

So why did you waste 10 weeks searching for a candidate, when you could have so easily trained an entry-level employee?

It seems like your firm either failed to engage suffiently talented recruiters, or possibly failed to set the compensation offered appropriately.
I guess the tone came out wrong. I understand why we got the HW we got. In this case it wasn't even about cost. The power available to the device as a whole was so low that we were counting microamps. It was all incredibly tight:

Just switching on the wrong SoC feature would bring the entire thing outside the envelope. Even the contents of the passive LCD affected power consumption in adverse ways. Showing a checkerboard pattern could make the device fail.
If you are expendable expect to be exploited. Its why so many programmers go out of their way to become needed - if you are the only one who properly understands critical code in your business, you have leverage. If they can replace you with a week of onboarding you are going to be treated like dirt most places.

Sometimes that means not going out of your way to explain how you implemented a feature. If your company is going to treat you like an expendable money sink treat them like a hostile actor too.
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Could you elaborate why you find it so bizarre so the gp and other readers can find value in this thread? Or is this rhetorical?
You're right; did more research and it makes more sense considering the problem niche it's solving. I jumped to assumptions too soon.
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no:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidentia...
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...
Interesting, you could think of something like that after more than a month long federal shutdown.
Now most of people that were quite vocal supporting President Donald Trump tend to denied that now they did.
>Always listen to what customers tell you, but never do what they say.

Great line.
The solution should be repeat offenses equals harsher consequences.
You can disable FBs access to location services.

And photos.

And contacts.

It was offered as a choice, because when you install the app, it asks for permissions to access those things.
There are two reasons the OP's partner has a good point. First the Chinese Communists are institutionally against the traditionally more educated class that used to run the government, because their ideology label them as inferior and reactionary. Second is the Cultural Revolution which destroyed any opportunity for the worker and farmer/peasant class to get any decent education. Even for Xi himself there was little formal education:widely believed to be either primary school or middle school. His public speeches are sometimes laughably pompous and verbose. Compare him with Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji, who were respectively the party general sectary and prime minister in the 90s and early 2000s: Jiang spoke English effortlessly and Zhu had a habit of quoting English media. These two spent their formative years in the brief republic built upon Dr Sun Yat-sen's democratic ideas. Yes the next gen are going to be better. But it's very hard to imagine why those really good ones would give a fuck about the party bureaucracy and not emigrate like so many Russians do.
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I half agree with this. The problem is: what's the alternative? The reason we have abstraction is because not abstracting also has a cost. Consider encountering a legacy codebase with no abstractions. Yes, perhaps each unit of code is more digestible, but there's so many more units. The codebase is 10x as large, because there's no abstraction. Is it really easier to comprehend that way?

As in everything else, it boils down to an issue of balance.
Re-labeling and re-arranging actions in a sequence seems like a pretty shallow example of "abstraction."
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Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right
At some point parents should have to take some responsibility for parenting their children. Absolutely everything seems to be somebody else's fault, except for the parents.

Kids don't earn their own money. If kids are spending real money in a game then the parents had to okay it.
Probably not, since the main benefits of the military signals are improved resistance to jamming/spoofing, and having a signal that can continue to work if the civilian signal is turned off. If you sell those keys to random businesses they become less effective
This is to a forum site. The actual content is at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/03/being-... .
That's because gambling, by definition, requires money to change hands.
I've tried using that criteria also, and found similar results. Hardly anything out there actually seems to be all that useful (despite their sales pitch or mission statements) nowadays. Most of it is just a me too with a barely different take on something that already exists, and that thing often isn't something terribly needed either. Although maybe I'm just getting older and persnickety.
There's a book, Flow. It was written in 1990, meaning that the research doesn't even involve millennials, but rather the Boomers. It's not even research for productivity; the goal was to find when we are happiest.

In it, it describes that most workers actually enjoy work. About 47% for blue collar up to 64% for white collar. Whereas during their leisure times, it's 20% for blue collar, down to 15% for white collar.

However, the catch is that when at work, they describe that they would rather be doing something. There's a paradox that motivation is lowest when at work, even though they feel happy, strong, creative, satisfied. And that they look forward to periods like watching TV where they feel more weak, dull, and dissatisfied.

The book doesn't have a solid theory as to why this is so. Maybe we have a cultural stereotype that we're supposed to hate work. Maybe we feel forced to do it against our will.

Modern society seems to actually restrict flow. We're constantly interrupted by social media and messaging. We have open offices where everyone can interrupt one another. There's less situations where we can just sit down and lose ourselves in work. A blue collar worker can tune the world out while they cut grass and assemble cars, while the engineer has to deal with a barrage of emails and stand up meetings.

So, it's quite possible that work now is less enjoyable than 30 years ago.
> If your manufacturing process requires your line workers to be making judgements that necessitate "distinguish[ing] volts from amperes", you have a fundamentally flawed manufacturing methodology

This way of "thinking" is what has happened to manufacturing industry in the states.

It works totally fine in factories staffed with thousands of "poorly educated" workers in China, but not in USA. Why?
Yeah, I wonder where the parents are when kids do this. Kids don't earn their own money. But I guess expecting parents to actually parent is too much nowadays.
Because that's exactly what's referred to as "AI" nowadays.