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I've been using ORMs for nearly 20 years going back to WebObjects days.

Have never seen, not once, any ORM that doesn't make it trivial to print out the SQL to help with debugging the generated code. And I've never found it particular hard to reason about especially given many ORMs tend to stick to pretty vanilla SQL.
it's almost like you've never read a single thing about the organization. nearly every annual letter and report details their impact.
Indeed, the wikipedia article on RS codes [1] mentions this equivalence between the DFT and RS encoding/decoding.

They mention that both procedures are basically a multiplication by a Vandermonde matrix, with the Fourier transform having the additional requirement of using the n-th roots of unity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed–Solomon_error_correctio...
"You have to remember" - God this sounds exactly like what a Facebook shill would say to satiate his underlings.
Carolers aren't common in Canada but they aren't unheard of. Different places will have different Christmas traditions so you're unlikely to ever get the same smells and shops. If you miss carolers I'd suggest you try getting a small group together and go out caroling.
This is pure propaganda. MIT wants to take credit for the accomplishments of any and every person who did something interesting and useful there. Blah, blah, blah.
Please follow the site guidelines when posting here. Your comment would be fine with just the second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools: The best design tools for everything
In the case when resulting subtitles turn out to be shorter than the input file, subtitle editing software like Aegisub can automatically trim ending times so they don't overlap with starting times.

This could probably be similarly done in the script itself in the future.

If the result gets longer and the times for each line are a bit too short―I guess you'll have to read faster, har har.

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Actually, iirc Aegisub can also do automatic stretching for different FPS, since that's a rather easy case.

However, it's not enough when the subs are from a different media release or an edit―which made me long for exactly the kind of solution like in the post.
Yes, these are the rules of a free market. But if a society or a governing body has additional priorities, rules can be added to such a framework. So, in the end it actually is a question about entitlement. Is a landlord entitled to rent to the highest bidder or not. I'm not saying I'm necessarily entirely against this concept, but I doubt it should be the default situation.
Awesome point. I for one believe that filter steps remaining or yet to be found will eliminate the chance for Alien intelligence. It would appear more certain than ever that within a few hundred thousand years robotic self replicating probes will populate most of the galaxy exploring for us.
For many use cases we don't know the schema up front.

So it's irrelevant whether it exists or not because we don't know it.
Actually, there was an article posted here (I think) not too long ago about a study that showed the positive benefits from sunlight were enough to outweigh the slightly increased chances of skin cancer.

I'll see if I can find the link.
I'm reminded of an exchange from Futurama:

Zoidberg: Goose liver? Fish eggs? Feh! Where's the goose? Where's the fish?

Elzar: This is what rich people eat; the garbage parts of the food.
I worked for Toys R Us. The crappy music they played was synced to the hold music of the store. It was really weird.
I had the same thoughts visiting the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I cannot imagine it being built now.
I imagine it happens. I remember a kidnapping of a wealthy young inheritor in Finland ten years ago... But that crime got so much attention because it was so unique.

Anyway, isn’t it much easier for criminals to pick a target by simply going into a wealthy neighborhood? The American rich are much more segregated than their Scandinavian counterparts. That’s a more obvious target on their back than having tax data available on request.
Hilarious because most NoSQL databases have a predefined schema.
I have been studying this problem as it developed over the past decade (mobile revolution), and am torn between the two perspectives on it.

What desktops and laptops afforded that mobile takes away, 8 usable fingers aside, is the factor of dedicated computer use (reduced context switching with non-mobile), providing a much better opportunity to keep predominant brainwave patterns away from the "fight or flight" state historically associated to rapid context switching.

Therefore there is one categorical problem (excessive computer use) that is indeed shared across mobile and non-mobile computational platforms alike, and we can point to the people who used their desktops or laptops so much that it could be considered unhealthy, all well before the mobile revolution.

At the same time, the modern epidemic exacerbates the problem by not only summing total computer time between mobile and non-mobile, but there is added the additional factor or rapid context switching which is nearly unavoidable with mobile platforms.

If that wasn't enough, there is also evidence that these newer behavioral patterns are bleeding back from mobile into non-mobile computing, meaning that people are now using desktop/laptops as though they were mobile platforms, rapidly context switching when 10+ years ago they simply did not do this.

Altogether, the evidence indicates that you are right overall, the smartphone was a catalyst to a change in how the internet is interacted with which is the real problem by and large, but conversely, we might be able to use both mobile and non-mobile platforms in a way which minimizes context switching and in so doing restores healthy beta brainwaves rather than encouraging the unhealthy "fight or flight" patterns indicative of this modern (first world) epidemic.
Depends. Carnegie is remembered more than, say, Jay Gould (the industrial magnate) or commodore vanderbilt. I suspect how well an individual remembers him has a lot to do with whether they like libraries and have been to a Carnegie library. In other words, he's remembered to the extent he made a lasting impact. (For most people I agree this isn't a large extent)

So, the question with Gates is whether he manages to fund something that materially changes the world in a way people in the future will remember.

Saving some lives? Probably not that meaningful 100 years from now. Funding a technology that solves climate change and/or provides cheap clean energy? People will probably remember.

So it's hard to tell. Gates has funding in both areas of potential, and he's taking a very hands on approach to his philanthropy so he's more liable to get some credit, in the same way library afficionados do remember Carnegie.
As long as you have 25k in the account they won’t charge the fee.

I thought SVB got rid of the startup accounts?

They jacked up our monthly fee to like $100/month and we ended up moving to Chase.
Well, yes. Merely duplicate effort is a great improvement over last century's plan to be able to destroy civilization at 45 minutes notice.

Speaking of which, I believe Pakistan had two mutually distrusting nuclear weapons programs, reflecting the internal conflicts between parts of the state security apparatus.
Coredns/coredns: CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins
Sometimes I use a rain loop for a similar effect. For example:

https://rainymood.com

There are other sites that do a similar thing. This one just has a memorable name.
Google, Verily launch diabetic eye condition screening tech in India
Seems there's actually some debate on the net benefit/risk of this exposure [0]. Yes it raises risks for certain skin cancers but the survival rate of these is very high, meanwhile exposure decreases a collection of other risks whose death rates are much higher.

So I think the right course of action is a little more nuanced than simply saying, "UV increases skin cancer risk therefore ignore everything else as well as magnitudes of net risks/benefits". Should we not weigh all factors?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
Any time period in itself is arbitrary. Our seconds, minutes, hours and days, years are sorta okay.

Though I do see the irony with at the same time shaming imperial units.

We'll highly likely stick with second as the base unit but create base 10 multiples on that .
Types of bugs or failures are not separated into specialized areas, rather it’s one “cross-functional” unit. It’s like building a monolith class in software instead of following basic principles like Single Responsibility Principle and organizing workflows according to independent specializations.

This part is often much worse than the overtime part, because it means you’re expected to sublimate your personal career goals in favor of whatever arbitrary thing needs done for the sake of the cross-functional unit.

When I hear someone describe communication between cross-functional team members as “good” or “effective,” then I know it’s a big lie, and most probably it’s a disaster of overcommunication where product managers or non-tech leadership have a stranglehold on decision making when really engineering should be autonomous in these cases exactly according to independent specialization.
Linked in sibling comment...
That's like half of one engineer. Less if you include all of the overhead of having an employee. That can easily be the right choice.
Regarding character, three things to consider:

a) The impact his wife Melinda had on his worldview;

b) That people are nuanced and full of contradictions;

c) The person you are at 30 and the person you are at 60 is defined by the accumulation of experiences, not the accumulation of wealth.
Well, you're either incredibly lucky or you have zero monitoring and failures have no impact.

I couldn't imagine having to manage 300 physical servers in a team of two. The hardware, OS and networking alone are more than a full time job with 24/7 oncall expectations. In fact that's why I don't do this anymore.

Pretty sure my current company had more failed hard drives this month than you all these years. I remember a shipment of servers once with more dead motherboards than that.
I worked at a department store for a year in the gifts department (think Hummel figures, Precious Moments figures, candles, lava lamps, crystal dishes, various crap like that). There was a CD player that had a single CD in it that played on repeat. It was a CD of showtunes, like Oklahoma, etc. The only song on there I could tolerate was "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, all the rest drove me nuts. I could escape it though, by going to a different corner of the department, so it wasn't too bad.

There was another time I worked in a factory job for a year, and the forewoman would blast the local Top 40 station throughout the whole factory all day every day. I would hear the same songs 3 or 4 times a day every day I worked there that entire year. To this day I get flashbacks whenever I hear Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (specifically the "la la la, la la, la la la" chorus. Drove me nuts hearing that all the time).
"When your amygdala is active, you can’t have empathy for others"

This is an excellent example of those aspects of our existence that are deterministic. No matter your willpower, you may be bound by biology to act a certain way. Part of being a good person is to recognize these deterministic effects and plan your life accordingly.

For example, if you get "hangry" often, keep a food item on hand at all times so that you can address your hunger before you say something mean to your partner et al.
> MySQL's ability to handle many thousands of idle connections without breaking a sweat actually solves this problem, and does so in a very convenient way, particularly in a micro-services architecture, and I really wish Postgres supported it.

There's several PG developers aware of this, and hope to work on this. Getting the resources to work on it isn't trivial, but looks like it might happen. Obviously that's not going to help you short term...
Definitely small for something so powerful.
There is a range of interesting problems here for Postgres. One is related to the costly way snapshots are built which needs to scan all entries in PGPROC to get back a list of transaction IDs. So even idle connections come at a cost. There have been proposed patches to improve the scalability in this area, one being called CSN (Commit Sequence Number) which I think is rather promising: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+CSw_tEpJ=md1zgxPkjH...
You win at explaining Reed Solomon codes, forever.

Please do this for Berlekamp-Massey algorithm! Is it EM algorithm for this problem, or am I smoking banana peels?
Oh well, this is the death of democratic AI and an end of independent researchers :-( There goes any hope of a single Titan RTX producing meaningful commercial models.
They don't stop at putting gates up. They also have more police patrols, surveillance, and awareness of people who are out of place.
I'm not aware of any cryptographic system that provides immutable timestamps as strong as public blockchain timestamps, but I'd love to hear if I'm wrong.

As a sidenote, burdening blockchain with solving the "truthful data" goal is pretty unfair. In many cases this is an unsolvable problem.
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>as literally all humans are currently either on Earth or orbiting around Earth

The fact that this phrase of yours is literally true, and it's already 2019, makes me very sad.
KaiOS budget (HTML5) phones will soon get Google Assistant
How universal are these biases? Anecdotally, I feel as though i have a stronger recall of negative experiences than equivalently good ones. If that is a thing, i wonder if it might be due to, or perhaps a cause of, depression.
"Now this is suppose [sic] to sound like an engineer..."

You just made that up. No-one else is reading it that way, and for a good reason: it isn't written that way.

Also (following on from what pjc50 wrote above), most (if not all) of the managers referred to in your wiki quote were also engineers - so, not only did the author not make the claim you made up, it could arguably be justified if he had done so.
It wasn’t too long ago that Europeans were mostly peasants working the fields, including my ancestors. They rarely ate meat and if they did it would be on a holiday or very special occasion. Killing a chicken means you can’t get eggs and it’s the same for milk producing animals like goats, sheep, or cattle. Not to mention you couldn’t hunt on the lords land. I’d say it’s been less than 200 years since Europeans could afford to eat meat.

The article is comparing Indian food to food that was only eaten by the European elite. I don’t think it’s an apples to apples comparison. It does give us a history of western food as we eat it today. Lots of good food history comes from the haute cuisine of the 1700s to early 1900s.
Interesting! I was not aware of that project before. It looks like it could be worthwhile to incorporate their neural net-based VAD, if it's not too slow. At a first glance, it looks like the main difference is the postprocessing step -- they use some heuristics to avoid trying all possible alignments, while subsync uses FFT as its secret sauce to get away with trying out all of them. :)

I should include in the readme that for >1 hour movies, it usually finishes the synchronization in ~20 seconds, which compares favorably to the project linked in your comment (13 minutes unoptimized, 2 minutes optimized).
About object mapping used in oatpp web framework, to serialize/deserialize DTOs, map endpoint params, and generate endpoints docs.
The one thing I learned in college was that schools outside of my state are pretty bad with "common sense".

"Common sense" is highly localized. My schools had health studies for sure, but no home economics. I had classmates in college who had home economics, but not very robust health classes.

Any and all combinations of learning exist in the USA alone. Each State is in charge of its own education department. Travel just 2 or 3 states in any direction, and you'll have a grossly different set of skills being taught at the high-school level.
This is a pretty common thread with a lot of my blog posts - with the rise of SPA's and the ubiquity of REST APIs, all the difficulties of "scraping" are gone - these services will often open up a route that lets you pull everything in an easy to digest JSON format.

https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/ryan-air and https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/uber-stats are two blog posts of mine that follow a very similar path.
So the paper says that filter-feeding predators might have been the reason, if you are bigger than a certain size you become irrelevant to them. But how does the filter predator become so big without multicellularity? I mean: filter predators always have to be bigger than their food, no? So isn't it rather coevolution?
I posted this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19248873 .
That's a bad one, but I got one better... Pompei by that terrible singer I'll never listen to voluntarily. That song is worse than Kars for Kids.
The series comes out regularly enough to give you all the information you need about the frequency of this shit.
Neither are taxes.
Certainly, many natural things are not good. However, the idea that a complete absence of natural light (which includes UV) is good, is suspect. It reminds one of the idea, in the early 20th century, that getting rid of all bacteria was good. It turns out that there are way more kinds of bacteria than we know, and an excess of antibiotics and disinfectants is almost certainly a big part of why we have ever-escalating rates of severe allergies and auto-immune disorders.

Not that we would wish to have a complete absence of antibiotics. But, the attitude of "you have a virus, so take this antibiotic just in case there's also a bacteria", sounds a lot like "block all UV light from hitting your skin, at all times". I am skeptical.
Is that true?

eg if I'm going to the mall to buy a shirt, I'm not really interested in how many "loiterers" are in the store browsing, I just want to go in and buy a shirt.

If the music's offensive then I'm not going in at all.

I'm sure they've done studies and focus groups and whatever, it's just odd to me that even with all the comments here to the contrary, businesses still think they're going to make more by making their stores unpleasant to go into.

I have quite a bit of discretionary income so I would have thought I'd be a desired customer, but malls are so unpleasant that I do almost all of my buying online.
Joel Spolsky says exactly the opposite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... FWIW, I think Spolsky is wrong and this Greer fellow is right, but I don't have any particular evidence either way (and definitely not enough to convince the sort of person who rises to a position of authority in a software organization) other than I've seen attempts to incrementally add features to massive software go horribly wrong more often than I've seen throw-it-out-and-start-over go horribly wrong.
Impact isn't the same thing as solving problems, which is what I'm interested in.

Yes, I have read none of the annual reports. I did pop over to the site and found this for 2017:

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Med...

Maybe the site's layout is just hiding the actual report, but this just looks like an executive summary, and enumerates no solved problems.

Either way, I'd like to get something that would span multiple years of effort and billions spent. It would talk about the specific problems the Gates Foundation has solved through its efforts.

Does something like that exist?
I heard two and a half talks at last year's BUILD with the folks working on _Windowing_ in Windows and directions things are headed, and the really interesting stuff was all the hints of "we can't talk about it in detail yet, but" stuff and almost all of that was hints of what it even means to be a Window in 3D and how things interact in that sort of space. (Not just for today's version of Windows Mixed Reality, but also potentially how that shakes up all of Windows' base windowing capabilities whether 3D or 2D, how it may drive even 2D windowing moving forward, depending on how things shake out.)

(Something I don't think a lot of people notice, too, is how important 3D is to the Fluent Design System, and not just for Material Design reasons of faking paper stacks for visual interest in 2D, but probably because a lot more of Microsoft is taking 3D very seriously than it currently seems obvious that they are given the current intentional "no hype" approach.)

It certainly sounds like the Windows team has been thinking about all of this sort of stuff for years now, and I'm very curious to see a lot more of it come to light rather than just "we're thinking about it". This article also hints at some more of it getting released as real services SOON™.

I'm presuming we'll hear a lot more about Azure Spatial Anchors at this year's BUILD, and that could be quite interesting based on the hints in this article.
I don't think the general public will particularly care about his behavior a century from now but historians aren't likely to forget or ignore that he's a robber baron. I'd expect the 180º of his moral compass will make his life that much more interesting to discuss for them.
Humanity built the tower of Babel, all speaking one language, and was struck down and fragmented for their hubris.
crypto + currency = greenbackdoor
Further suppose that I prearrange instructions with the storage company such that they are to ship my documents back to me in the US, only if I ask that they be destroyed, and to ignore any other requests for shipment.

Am I guilty of contempt of court if I do exactly as the court orders, knowing that the only way to accomplish the end the court desires is to do something the court has likely already ordered me to not do? The foreign entity could just as easily have instructions to not release the documents until presented with evidence of my death, then release them to my heirs, or respond only to requests from my lawyer that contain the word "cockatiel".

The only reliable and reasonable way to handle it, is for the US court to request extradition of the documents from the French authorities, and rely upon them to seize the documents and transmit them with clear chain of custody directly to the US court.

If the court is aware the documents exist, and that they lie in a foreign jurisdiction, they have no particular reason to rely upon me for their retrieval. It is dangerous to even try, if I am in any way uncooperative.
You can build your own, https://makezine.com/projects/build-hack-and-deploy-detector...

Or buy one
https://www.solarmeter.com/model65.html
It's not particularly hard. Just get a T480. Mine has 32GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD with a 1440p screen.

(I was sure I'd have complaints about the keyboard until I spent a solid month on one and then I raised that the old style keyboard just hurts my hands. It's a little less proof against spills, though the computer underneath is still fine about them.)
Universal, no. But the Darian calendar system has been carefully devised to fit Mars, the moons of Jupiter, and Titan, and as far as i know that's the closest anyone has got:

http://ops-alaska.com/time/gangale_mst/abstract.htm
I know a couple people who let their 4+ yo kids use smartphones and tablets with apps like YouTube kids. I can't wrap my head around it. If there'd be anything exclusively on YouTube I'd want kids to watch I'd probably download it first, check all the footage in its entirety and only then let them watch it, on the TV, not some small screen they hold right into their faces.
I guess this means that thousands of new multicellular “species” are born in the wild each day. Fascinating!