skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit suspicious that it would break in two places at once. There was a panic in 2015 about Russian ships and submarines supposedly placed to be able to cut cables. You can imagine the havoc they could cause if they carried that out, perhaps combined with destroying a few satellites.
"Our products were built to solve problems that big companies have."

That's really the crux of the challenge. Vendors like Atlassian can win over an enterprise one seat at a time, and co-exist with competing tools in other departments.

But a solution close the hardware, like Puppet, is a company-wide cultural decision. There's a propensity for the enterprise to choose one winner.
I think you're grossly under selling the emotional response the larger public user base would have to being associated with paedophilia. Albeit, even if it's tangibly associated via an app.

Unfortunately that's the nature of the beast. You and I, in addition to our peers would probably see it as an endorsement (as you coffecfly stated). But we're not Joe Bloggs.

The feeling of disgust is so easily manipulated amongst the greater public.
An analysis on AlphaStar's superhuman speed
There are several initiatives (such as Open Banking) which are mandating certain levels of access.
Please troll somewhere else.
Any junior has the title of "Vice President"

It’s partly that sure, but it is also that to enter into financial contracts on behalf of the company you need to be an officer of the company, and VP is the lowest reasonable title for such an officer, and entering into such contracts is a bank’s core business.

VP is mid-level too, you would expect a VP to have 8-10 years experience usually. More experience than many who call themselves senior software engineers!
Coal is a relative small contaminant. Check the documentary Salmon Confidencial and you’ll find that farmed Salmon is contaminated by the food provided: contamined eels from the Baltic Sea. Even the cod has started to suffer genetic mutations. The Baltic borders 4 countries, the water takes 30 year to fully renew and it was contaminated by Chernobyl disaster. Not to mention the amount of antibiotic that can produce new resistance bacteria’s that might kill you. We’re reaching the point where aquaculture will the safe method to consume fish.
That's right. It's smart to get the opposition on board instead of having to duke it out with them.
It was merely a philosophical digression that clearly went nowhere.

I'm not sure how you could've assumed I meant "all" left-wing thinkers. Only that a significant amount have talked about it.

You're very much welcome to go-to Anarchist or Marxist circles and argue for the modern policing system though.
I have seen the Indian manager phenomenon in 3 separate companies. Literally everyone other than me was Indian previously in my management and adjacent chain. All of them were financially intertwined. When one quit they all quit. I was only there because they hadn't hired me. There was not a single person that they hired that was not Indian. This is definitely a real phenomenon.
Not long ago there was an interesting article on research that showed that if we simply replaced fossil fuel infrastructure with clean alternatives as the former reaches end of life, that would be enough to hold warming to under 1.5 C.

No need to force early retirement of fossil fuel infrastructure. If you've already got a coal plant, a gasoline car, etc., it's OK to keep using it, as long as we can commit to your and everyone else's future plants, future cars, etc., being clean.

That's assuming we start this immediately. If we don't get this going until 2030 the "replace at end of life" approach, applied everywhere, should keep us to 2 C warming.

Here's the article, which includes a link to the research paper which is open access [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/how-much-will-curren...
> You sound like a person who has difficulty operating in an uncertain environment.

Not at all. I deal with uncertainty all the time. What I don't like is people inventing answers, just so they have an answer. I think you'll find this "intolerance" increasingly as you deal with people higher and higher up in management. People's time becomes increasingly the most expensive factor by far. Let's stay focused here. That paragraph in the article is advice about what to do when "someone asks you something you don't know". I'm still firmly in the camp of a simple "I don't know, but I will find out for you." YMMV.
Nope, you need peaking not base load power.

Base load refers to lowest cost per kWh sources that fail to meet the demand curve. That actually describes wind and solar very well.

PS: Wind + coal don’t work well together. You end up turning off the coal plant fairly frequently which is bad for the systems and eases cost per kWh.
I found this analysis by u/SoulDrivenOlives very interesting, so I thought that maybe here people would both find value in it and add in some of their thoughts. I recommend reading it all if you're interested in the recently displayed AlphaStar SC2 AI.
650 is L6 which is maybe 5% of the Google's population. The median pay would be around 300.
The core argument there is that charismatic leaders tend to (intentionally and unintentionally) manipulate emotions of teams or groups in such a way that strong emotions are transformed into focused and determined team or group action. He also offers (in)famous examples, like Steve Jobs or Napoleon Bonaparte (and even Jesus) who operated emotionally dominating as leaders.
Thanks, that is indeed an interesting detail. However, you have to assume they use your data the same way, they just do not ask for your consent.
Temporary access via fixed aim vsat terminal and geostationary C or Ku band transponder capacity is actually a lot more expensive than o3b services, in $ per Mbps. But an o3b terminal is much costlier in terms of initial purchase cost, and perhaps this project doesn't meet the Mbps threshold or contract term length to make it worthwhile.
For $1 I'd agree most of the user base would commit to paying it too.
No it's not freeloading.. What I mean is that some sites actually provide value to me so I want to pay them back somehow, but not with ad revenue.

99% of the places I don't feel bad for "freeloading". It was probably a poor choice of a word.
Pushing for green energy and good deeds with the current administration makes me fear for the health of Bill Gates... is he running out of time and considering desperate options? ... now that I think about it, we all are running out of time ... :-( ...
>But you see a pattern in all the people who stay. They don't love the work, they love the money and the prestige of the work. After a while, it becomes your identity...

Sounds like what I saw in the medical field.
In saas enterprise sales there's much more focus on the post-sales lifecycle.

Because the model is recurring revenue, elastic with workforce, and up/cross-sell, there's huge focus on account management, service levels, and delivering actual value.

If those aren't getting to the customer, it's likely they didn't actually need your product, or … their product didn't need _you_.
The feed is in the works, but its content body will only contain the abstract, not the full paper.
Embedded Phase-Change Memory Emerges
No, you intentionally give fb a photo or a piece of text to share. They hoover up everything else.

For example, they will record your physical location when you send a message or share a post, as well as randomly several times per day. They will also record which photos, posts, and ads you linger on as you aimlessly browse.

This is information that most people are not sharing intentionally, and it's not optional. Fb uses this information to build a profile on you that's separate from anything you share intentionally.

It's being referred to as spyware because most users aren't aware that Facebook does this, and wouldn't have agreed to it had they been offered a choice.
The government abuses laws set to restrict its power? Color me shocked!

If a first border line was insufficient, they will eventually complain about the second one being insufficient as well.

Just how many do you think they need to be satisfied?? (answer: no amount will do, because the answer to how much $whatever$ the government needs will always be 'more', and limitations will always be abused)

If they really want to bother people in say St Louis, MO that's not near a border by any stretch of imagination, they will create some legal fiction like any airport being a potential border.
In Tcl, procedures are bytecode-compiled when they are created, which is generally when the files containing their code are sourced.

Code outside procedures is not compiled, but interpreted line-by line as it is executed.

So if you care about the performance of your Tcl code, put as much of it as you can into procedures.
> whose works are generally performed on vastly superior instruments, in far more formal and much larger venues than the composers would ever have used. Chopin for instance very rarely performed in venues larger than a rich person's salon and his instrument was much less powerful, had less sustain, and even more notes are added to the keyboard over time.

Chamber music actually sounds a lot better with historically accurate venues and instruments, albeit the latter is not generally possible. In fact there's a bit of a refocusing on chamber music lately in the "classical" world, now that the quality of recorded media is better and big concert halls have become less important. Performing Chopin's music in a huge, modern-day concert hall means trying to turn it into something quite different than what it actually was when Chopin wrote it.
" When you pause history, any videos that you watch while history is paused won't show in history and won’t be used to improve your recommendations."

is a lie
I also lost couple battles with enterprise sales. Somebody makes a decision and engineering has to deal with it.
I have to say, I’ve used Git for many years now and I’ve never, ever, ever wished for this, nor even knew it wasn’t possible. So this seems like a silly thing to claim as an advantage for Fossil.
I think it's more that people felt quite bitter about being smeared with the tepidly disgusting "project fear" soundbite when criticising what brexit was hoping to achieve before the referendum was held.

Expect to hear every time "project fear" was right, because,
despite the fact that nobody who voted leave will change their mind it's still incredibly cathartic to hear it.
Perhaps I could emphasize things differently. FWIW, besides the fact that having a foreign key constraint in that schema would prevent the badness from happening, the even bigger reason why scenarios like that are unlikely is that, realistically, for Tobi to reply to a comment, he must have seen that comment he's about to reply to, and it's very hard to imagine a scenario where he'd see it but still have the response transaction not read it (cause if the txn read it, the two transactions wouldn't be independent any more and so they'd be well ordered). The foreign key is just one way of ensuring that the read happens.
... write to Congress, today!!...
Guess I got my terminology wrong, but I meant sort of base steady power capacity in the way that fossil fuel plants are. Yeah, I know coal doesn't spin up and down well, but gas does.
s/Renamed/Aliased/

I also would rephrase this as a missing feature from Fossil rather than a feature that is missing from git.
Bad idea. We have plenty of much cheaper sources of green energy. And lets face it nuclear is far from green. Offshore wind energy is so successful that it is now negatively affecting solar as well as nuclear and fossil fuels. Furthermore, the greatest current innovation vis-a-vis energy is energy saving which is much cheaper than building new reactors.

I should add that there is such an energy glut in the world nowadays that companies that make turbines for nuclear/coal/gas plants are in dire financial straits. (See GE and to a lesser extent Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries).

What we need now is a good storage solution, or a flexible on demand power plant. Nuclear is very bad for both of these goals.

BTW Mr. Gates' offer is not that generous. He says if the tax payer puts billions of money in his company he will also put a billion of his money in his company. Well gee that is great for you but what does the taxpayer get out of it. What if a stranger comes up to you and says "Hey buddy, if you pay $5000 to fix my car, I will pay $1000 out of my own money to repaint it."
Yet all that and there's still a shit ton of illegals.
Maybe someday they'll enforce existing laws.
> I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Yeah but again, have you ever needed it? Because you can say the exact same thing about preserving every sequence of backspaces, deletes, and key typings into an editor. But when was the last time you or anyone needed that level of granularity?
Sales sucks. I have always preferred selling to consumers and handling support in a humane and friendly way.

I simply don't have the moral fibre in me to fuck someone out of their money like a "b2b" guy does, or car salesman does.
Indeed, turns out I may also have described "gaslighting," https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/here-there-and-every... , which is perhaps why I sound so grouchy.

Like a startup whose leadership in effect says, "we just raised way too much money and have no path to market fit, let's just gaslight the talent until they attrition out and we can blame them for the time lost, while hopefully our competitors will establish a market where then the board can find a greater fool to buy us before we have to raise another round."

Please, help me be wrong. :)
Hello Schoen, my name is Doctor Sbaitso. I am here to help you.

Say whatever is in your mind freely, our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave.

So, tell me about your problems.
> I'm no Android or iOs dev, so I might be wrong, but to my knowledge there is no feature to push an app update specifically to a narrow set of devices?

Yes, it's possible to target "narrow set of devices" by using Device Catalog. An excerpt from the ToS:

> Google Play Console Device Catalog Terms of Service

> By using the device catalog and device exclusion tools in the Play Console (“Device Catalog”), You consent to be bound by these terms, in addition to the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement (“DDA”). If there is a conflict between these terms and the DDA, these terms govern Your use of the Device Catalog. Capitalized terms used below, but not defined below, have the meaning ascribed to them under the DDA.

> 1. The Device Catalog allows You to review a catalog of the Devices supported by Your app and search the Devices by their hardware attributes. It also allows You to exclude specific Devices that are technically incompatible with Your app.
I doubt they were spies, more likely private investigators. Maybe I am too naive here, but I don't think that spies, who had dedicated a long time of their life to training in acting and impersonation would act so amateurish. They would likely prepare quite some time for this very situation. If a spy acts in such a way that it endangers his/her identity so easily he/she would probably have been given a desk-job as analyst by then.

Sure it can always be that their vetting-process is shit -- but I doubt that a real intelligence agency would create such an easily falsifiable legend. From what I have read about the topic there are whole departments dedicated only to the task of building robust identities, companies and so on [these companies wouldn't only have existed on paper].

Retributions are also not very likely (at least in Canada). Anything that would attract the ire of the local or federal police and further endangers other operations in the country in question are very unlikely for such an insignificant target. Even at the height of the cold war keeping agents undercover was considered more important than conducting operations.
Gates is worth ~$100B. The US federal budget is ~$4.1T per year.

This is like asking someone with a 4 Gbps connection to transfer some files and offering to burn a single mini CD to help them.
What if you don’t have any leverage? Just take what you’re offered and work on becoming an invidial with leverage?
Yes, it's funny that you mention CT because BT actually uses CT under the hood :)
Gently, friend, the 555's less than 10 cents at Digikey in medium quantities [0]. One of my hardare cow-workers happily placed one on the same board alongside a sub $ ST ARM MCU. Sometimes the 555's still the best option.

[0] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/texas-instruments/...
>Yes. I did do that. And I stand by it. Collectivism demands empathetic bonding between people at extremes of ability and contribution. The whole 'from each according to their ability' bit is inherent in the 'to each according to their needs' clause.

That doesn't mean those who oppose collectivism (particularly the "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" style) don't have empathy. There are many here for example who support vigorous free market competition (both in goods and services and in labor) run by supply and demand but also advocate a basic income out of empathy to make sure everyone is ensured a minimum humane standard of living.

>But I do also really believe an economics story here: fairer wage structure with less super pay for geniuses and shit pay for everyone else makes better sense. More people can spend disposable income so the economy does better overall and the company is more profitable.

There are plenty of companies that have a primarily tenure-based system of pay and promotion. At least in tech, those legacy incumbents tend to be far less successful and profitable than the merit-based companies disrupting them. I know which kind of company I'd rather work for.

>I've worked with genius programmers and they're not team players and whilst it's exhilarating, the outcome is mixed.

Systems for career advancement / promotions are never perfect, but rarely do they just hire and promote the smartest geniuses. Generally, being a team player is a very important part of career improvement / advancement.

>The boring programmers make staid reliable systems. They sell because they work.

That's not why IBM software sells.
Very nice. I had looked into using tasks for TCP servers written in dotnet core C# recently. I find it mildly annoying that some of the async socket IO in C# is not easily awaitable, but after working around that I found it fairly easy. All in all, I see a good future for dotnet core. I can recommend the Jetbrains Rider IDE to go with it.
So the abstract view should be useful and free from noise, but you want to be able to get at the noise anyways. But to what end? What's it to you if I typo and make other silly errors during development? What if I never commit until I'm done?

If I never commit until I'm done you will not see my mistakes, but if there's nothing like `git add -e`, then I won't be able to split up my commits logically and so the upstream history when I push will be devoid of useful detail. Even if I do commit early and often, I will almost never do all my work in the order and logical splits that makes most sense for others to see after I'm done... unless you give me a powerful rebase facility.

No rebase -> no clean history upstream, only lots and lots of merges with pointers to messy history (where authors commit early and often) or shallow history (where they commit only when done) in branches you'll almost never want to see. This is the worst possible outcome! The only logical history organization here is "the large merge commit". You get far too little abstraction on the actual history and far too much noise if you want more detail.

There's also the risk that, because you cannot separate bits of work as "done" and push them separately, your branch will accumulate ever more change and reach a point where you cannot continue without doing much more work, and then you won't be able to easily salvage any of the work done to that point in that branch. This one is a big deal to me too.
> Don’t these people have any hobbies or ability to entertain themselves? Is going in to work their favorite thing to do or simply the only thing they know?

Why are you so snide towards them? What's wrong with them enjoying their work as a hobby and entertainment? Why is building whatever at Google invalid as a joyful activity someone might chose to do, but building a model aeroplane or anything else outside work would be a valid hobby instead?
From that page: the harmonic seventh is '"sweeter in quality" than an "ordinary" minor seventh'. Well, as an ex- trumpet and trombone player,[0] what it sounds is out-of tune, and is generally avoided, although the out-of-tuneness can be compensated for by adjusting the trombone slide. It doesn't sound particularly bluesy to my ear. Sure, sliding around the flat 7 and flat 5 areas sound bluesy, but just that note as a melody note sounds very flat.

[0] Playing brass instruments is a matter of using your lip to find the various harmonics, and using the valves to flatten them by various amounts.
Oh okay I thought Terra power was working on this magnetic tape thing

It's called ybco tape
I don't know what you mean.

In general upstreams in Git do not allow history rewriting. It's only the forks (local branches) that allow history rewriting. This is just fine.

Also, when upstreams do accept non-fast-forward pushes, there's `git rebase --onto` for recovery by downstreams.
This has very little to do with the GDPR. The GDPR allows the use of cookies under various provisions, and does not necessarily require user consent. These popups are about the ePrivacy directive (aka "cookie law"):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Commu...
I think you are wrong. You are both talking in the future tense but you seem to be doing thinking what is now will be the same later, and it won't be. Companies are starting to catch on, many forced to evolve or die but many are simply looking for extra margins, and they will exploit any technology they can.

A great example of this is car insurance companies. I had a friend who is a very careful driver and was looking to maximize his cost savings, so agreed to use an app that would track things like hard braking, average speed, etc, and at first he was complaining about how stupid the definitions for hard breaking were, then after months of data the insurance company actually raised his rates with the justification that his driving times were during peak traffic hours (you know, when everyone drives to work and back) and therefor he was a higher risk.

I told him before he started that would be the outcome. Simply because I extrapolated the insurance companies wanted to be able to use data they defined to make extra money. Not working? Redefine the data.

Not to mention the fact they are probably also making a bit Morea on top selling it to a third party (and even in anonymized, I think we all know how easy it is these days to deanonymize data)

People will start caring because it will affect them, but I'd they don't start caring now it will largely be too late or at least a much harder battle.
Tangential to the main point of the story, but why were this CEO’s homes up for grabs when his company collapsed? Isn’t liability limited to the company?
Is there a public list of what Google does and doesn't consider sensitive?

Or is that - just guessing here - considered too sensitive to share with the public?
BBC considers setting up international base in Belgium after Brexit
I would rather say it's like helping someone with an already
Probably a large percentage, but they're not programmers. I think you'll find far greater support from programmers for efforts (including unionization) that would improve the plight of non-programmers, particularly contingent workers, at top companies.