skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I get that the tennis match use-case is meant to be trivial and an example, but I don't buy it.

> Before Streams we needed to create a sorted set scored by time: the sorted set element would be the ID of the match, living in a different key as a Hash value.

I think the sorted set would be a much better choice, because then you could still insert items in the past, like when that admin remembers there was a tennis match last week he never recorded. Same goes for modifying past values, or deleting values. These operations are trivial using a sorted set & hash, not so using streams.

I'm excited for streams and I'm glad Antirez is taking time to blog and evangelize, but this article didn't convince me there's a compelling use-case for streams aside from the Kafka-like use-case.
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you wont change fewer women programmers because, wait for it, women tend to have personality traits that do not go well together with coding.

Of course, feel free to waste your money and your reputation doing this pointless virtue signaling anyway.
There will be benefits to this program for those who participate, and I wholly wish those women who have the opportunity to participate the best of luck.

However, I also worry about the motives behind the program. A huge part of feminism is a push towards gender equality[1]. Discriminating against half of the population while aiming for equality is an odd way to behave.

I know the blog post did not mention gender equality as a goal, but I just completely fail to see how discrimination like this will lead to anything but increased inter-gender conflict and the persistence of stereotypes in the field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
'breaking into the startup world' - sigh... How do you break into being a domain expert via 5-10+ years of experience?

What do people think start-ups are exactly? Random people with no domain expertise coding their way to great products?
> Diverse candidates get two attempts to pass the technical phone interview, non diverse get one.

These rhyme with soviet era policies circa 1950-1960 in Eastern Europe. At universities, there was an admission exam for 'healthy origin' people for the majority of the spots, and then another exam where everybody, including those failing the first time, could compete for the scraps. We all know how that turned out economically speaking.

Seeing the same policies in XXI century USA is surreal.
Indeed, an ideal scenario for actually getting work done is when everyone knows each others abilities, and they collectively divide responsibilities (including leadership responsibilities) as peers.

Others have pointed out various reasons for titles, including:

- communicating one's level of responsibility to those outside the organization

- determining pay bands

- something to put on one's resume

Just for these reasons alone I would still insist on having an appropriate job title. It may not help me get work done, but it still impacts my career.

However, the reason why I like the idea of technical career ladders in general, is that (when done well) they should tell me how I can succeed in an organization beyond just hard work. I want to know that, if I demonstrate some ambition and initiative, that I am doing so in a way that the company will appreciate my work and I will benefit from it.
we totally agree. i think things could be alot better. but even though I have alot of big ideas nothing seems to justify someone adopting such a thing. even completely ignoring the cost of building and testing it.

maybe some foundational advance in real security. better abstractions and performance aren't enough.
And thus, Soylent was born
>> wouldn't even be higher than the third page of the interview list."

Does this mean the first two pages are filled with even better people? Or that the selection process for a government job is somehow favoring people who are less qualified in practice but more qualified academically?
Thanks for displaying Ad hominem 101 !
So, do I read this right?

JPM issues a coin for every dollar it holds of client money - presumably to the client who has to have a wallet. Clients can then move that money to other JPM accounts using the blockchain transfers. As long as they somehow remove a coin from the chain when client walks out of the bank with it, then what we get is ...

Bank Of America and Deutsche can issue BoACoin and DBCoin doing exactly the same thing, and then those coins, all being worth $1 and on the (an) blockchain can be transferred between BoA and JPM.

So we get trusted third parties asserting that a coin is actually real fiat money, and then actual workable cryptocurrency. It seems ... credible.

My concerns are what ensures that BoA and JPM dont issue coins for the same dollar (ie how does JPM revoke a coin)

I would be interested in any feedback - if I understand this right, it might be time to look into github for the python client wrappers again.
I learned early on mutating queries: I type "WHERE" first, then go to the head of the line and type the query.
That's quite interesting, I like it - I wonder if they have plans to shrink that down over time?
I was making $500K/year in my last job, and I never asked for a raise in all my career. IMO, the best way to get market-level compensation is to find an offer from another employer that you're willing to move to. Once you show your employer the other offer, the burden goes to the employer to justify why they should keep you at a below-market rate.
This is a "feel-good" list without any concrete examples.

Check this out instead: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer...

It is much more directly applicable to our field with concrete examples.
Dr. Humphries specifically addresses the issue of those 1 million doctors in her talk.

Your argument is a logical fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
It looks they want to move from a medium that they do not control (dollars) to a medium that they have full control over (their own coin).
> an open and blatant 'women need not apply'

If anything, it's been the other way around for at least as long as I've been alive.
The market dominance is really the key thing here. Just like last time Google was caught pants-down violating it, anti-trust goes like this:

If you use market dominance in one market, to stifle competition in another market, that's anti-trust!

The one market is Search, the other is Advertising.
Sure, but such service could be compromised.

If the system allows customers to verify the ledger it makes compromising the system much harder.
> The Lisp-all-the-way-down part doesn’t seem as useful as it was originally. You could get 80% of the functionality with 10% of the work of a full OS.

You're missing the point. If the only goal was "functionality," a quick-and-dirty hack on top of existing systems would suffice.

However, the GP wants a system that's reasonably comprehensible all the way down, so he can have some confidence that it's not working against him in some way. The accidental complexity of decades of legacy software works strongly against that.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but in my circles (40 and under), no one conflates cannabis use with illegal drug abuse -- the latter implies something like heroin addiction.

Maybe it's also a generational thing, but at parties I attend, it's not uncommon for someone to mention having spent their last birthday having used blow, or mention back to some time they dropped acid, or whatever.

Drug talk seems much less taboo than sex talk; the people who talk openly about sex are either sex workers or poly (and those people proselytize more than vegans ;-) ).

Maybe a generational thing, though.
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Although it's entirely possible that height and/or attractiveness as an advantageous cultural norm also explains this. If height is seen as attractive, and beauty leads to more opportunities in education (more accessible peer tutoring partners, better study group interaction, more likely to get help from a teacher, etc).

But yes, teasing out the actual causes for anything like that seems impossibly hard (without breaking ethical guidelines), thus we have a lot of conjecture.
I tried to describe how this document has many limitations. I also don’t think 36% (if accurate), although better than the US, means Norway has figured it out.

My comment above did not intend to convey that the US has great prisons or that other countries have great prisons. I meant that recidivism is bad and too many criminals come back into the prison system.

Can the US improve? Of course. Can the US learn from other countries? Of course. Is rehabilitating criminals a solved problem that the US is ignoring? No.
The journey to 90% serverless at Comic Relief
Or It became a religion if the idiot was lucky
Bring your own car seat?! And then what, carry it around all day when I get to where I'm going?

Limiting speeds to 20 mph? What? It would take way too long for anyone that doesn't live in the city center to get anywhere!
nope, only edit was to correct my spelling of "aeron". no worries, I often reply to the wrong post in deep threads.
Not wanting to be overtly political, but this was in today's news. If those beliefs lead to trends, fertility rates might not lead to one's desired outcome if others don't believe:

"According to the General Social Survey data, 41 percent of Democrats are without a steady partner, compared with only 29 percent of Republicans. Black Americans are more likely than white Americans to not have a steady partner: 51 percent vs. 32 percent, respectively."

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/lifestyle/article/It-s-not-just-you-N...

I saw one of Rick's show commentaries last week and he's very specifically on a crusade of "Travel defeats ignorance"
Revealing my ignorance here, are you seeing a reference to “A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick” by (pen name) Jonathan Swift?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
This is a great way to get a company to instantly reject you at the interview step if they have one or fired shortly after being hired.

Because, you know, most companies look up the profile of candidates on LinkedIn, social media etc. Unless you actually consider yourself transgender, you would quickly be caught and removed just as quickly.
It says why in the article. You should read it.
Flying from Seattle to JFK is about 600 pounds of CO2. Driving the same trip is 2500 pounds - more than 4x.

Taking the bus instead of the car to work will "pay for" like 4 cross-continental trips a year. If you take a bike instead, it's closer to 10.
Thanks for the link. There’s lots of limitations to this paper. I still think it’s useful in showing high recidivism, especially with your fact checking.

I think 20% is too high, even though it’s better than 30%.
I belive we're hardwired to find certain traits attractive no matter how many people have them. If you move to a country where every man is tall and has a square jaw you probably won't stop finding that attractive, but you'll take that as a given and start looking for other traits.
Anti-nuclear types too. Just think of all the people who died from burning fossil fuels to support Germany shutting down their nuke plants.
Recreating Gapminder Animation in 2 Lines of Python with Plotly Express
huh? a site is a weba app
Considering this is a low quality listicle without much content and is posted by a new account the same username as the domain, it seems somewhat likely that it's using fake votes to get as many points as it did?
> In the case of USDC, Coinbase is handling it.

It's handled by CENTRE who's founding members are Circle and Coinbase.. but the network will grow to include any compliant banking institution.

> because it can in some ways allow them to skirt their reserve requirements

It can do what now??

> and other banks - have a huge incentive to run their own "stablecoin"

Every bank can release their own version of Paypal too. Why would the network effect of JPMC overtake USDC when any regulated bank can become a USDC issuer? USDC is sitting at a 255MM market cap.
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Someone might have 20 years of relevant domain experience and no coding experience.

Also one can't get to 5 years without doing the 1st year. So I don't really see your point.
What is the CDC's allowable ppb of ethyl mercury in an adult vs an 8lb infant?

Now compare that to the amount in all the vaccines in all the shots on schedule from the CDC, and you will see some very plain data that counters the common narrative.
I am not saying they do not work hard or that their work is not inherently worthy. All I'm saying is that society tends to value professions based on how much they fit into and uphold the idealized social hierarchy, and that is much more relevant to the social appreciation of a profession than "hard work" or "benefit to society"
FDA warning: Scores of heart implants can be hacked from 20ft away
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Downvote? Cute, does that equate to social pressure to consume ethanol?
Any alcohol consumption increases the incidence of multiple types of cancers, the primary metabilite (ethanal/acetaldehyde) causes damage to DNA.
I can bond with people over my passion for the sciences, I prefer to avoid increasing my risk of cancers. No NMDA antagonist needed.

"The evidence indicates that the more alcohol a person drinks—particularly the more alcohol a person drinks regularly over time—the higher his or her risk of developing an alcohol-associated cancer. Even light drinkers (those who have no more than one drink per day) and binge drinkers have a modestly increased risk of some cancers (3–7). Based on data from 2009, an estimated 3.5% of cancer deaths in the United States (about 19,500 deaths) were alcohol related (8)."
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
I don't really understand why the article makes it seem friendships ending due to distance only applies to boys.
Has this doctor published anything peer-reviewed?
I'm trying to figure out on what side of the debate I fall on this one.

On the one hand, women have obviously been disadvantaged in many ways, for many years, which is wrong. The gender disparity in software development is well documented, and should be fixed. No one should be discouraged from learning, or opportunities denied because of gender.

On the other hand, a for-profit company deciding to offer free services to individual women, who may or may not be disadvantaged, simply because they're women, doesn't sit well with me either. Frankly, it seems likely that anyone who applies to lambda school (either gender), probably lean towards the more advantaged end than the less advantaged end. So it seems likely this is going to result in women with plenty of advantages already, receiving $9000 worth of education for free, while explicitly denying this opportunity to men, and continuing to disadvantage members of both groups.

So, I guess my question is, why is this morally OK? If this was targeted specifically to disadvantaged people, or disadvantaged women, or if it was a non-profit, it seems like this would be an easier call for me.
Isn’t it very hard to build _any_ profitable company? Or are robot companies appreciably/an order of magnitude harder to make profitable?
A bit of that too.
> I am shorting TSLA stock

Then you are financially motivated to spew lies. Short sellers are probably the scummiest people on the planet, that will do anything to make a quick buck.

Take this for example:
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rfag2r/the-daily-show-with-jon...

> I expect Tesla to go bankrupt sometime in the next few years.

Short sellers have been saying that since 2008 because it serves their interest. Yet, here we are a full decade later.
The third option is where Youtube runs ads on top of the unboxing videos or in line with it. You also have the issue where parents have to sign up children under the age of 13.
The problem is, anyone so divorced from reality as to sincerely believe the earth is flat isn't going to be convinced by the evidence, and no one else needs to be. What even would be the point of presenting rebuttals? It's like trying to prove gravity exists to someone who insists it doesn't.
If ever there were a reason to get politicians on the side of breaking up Google (or any other tech company), I imagine this would be it.
> The only way to really go zero-emissions, which would really benefit everyone (I guess, by this logic) is to just off yourself.

Your decomposing body will release nitrates, methane and all sorts of other toxic crap into the air and groundwater. Not to mention the resources consumed in building a casket and your permanent occupation of landspace even after death. Graveyards are all-around terrible for the environment.

Cremation is a little better but emits a ton of greenhouse gas. Burning formaldehyde and mercury is bad news, not to mention the environmental destruction involved in extracting the natural gas needed to do it.

Even going into space and launching yourself into the sun has a tremendous environmental cost.

Everything we do produces emissions. The closest one can come to a zero-emission death might be a sky burial.
Thank you for this post - it's something I needed really badly to hear this week!
Yes but that's largely due to stock appreciation at Amazon.

You and I both know that the target comp for SDE-3 at Amazon is significantly lower.
I figured. I admit I tend to be pedantic about the US military spending figure because, while huge, it is not nearly as large a portion of govt spending as most people think.
basic needs are addressed by robots, they are just specialized ones called machines. I have robots in my house to wash and dry my clothes and my dishes! It is wonderful not to have to do these chores manually.
You're right! I was being careless and stupid. I was just surprised how easy it was to miss the recurring charges agreement. That experience made me wonder what value PayPal actually offers to buyers (I don't know much about the sellers' side). If people are worried about fraud, their credit card provides more protection that PayPal.
My point is, blatantly saying "X need not apply" isn't any worse than saying "this opportunity is open to both X and Y" and then only accepting Y. Implicit discrimination isn't somehow better than explicit.
> Though I added something I previously excluded for Table 2, which I'm still unable to find in their sources.

The source given indeed seems to be incorrect.

> No that would be Table 2, not Table 1. Table 1 is about "ex-prisoners" that got convicted of any offense again, not necessarily a prison sentence.

Fair enough but that was my mistaken wording, the table in the source still correctly differentiates between conviction and re-imprisonment.

In any event, I remain unconvinced that these rates are substantially better compared to the rates in the US, especially considering how difficult these numbers are to compare.
The more work you can offload to an edge node, the better-- this is a pretty safe general rule to make.

Think of all of the random conditionals that your http routes have; "is the client posting a correct data structure" or "is this a valid OAuth token" or "am I requesting something that I already have cached" or rate limiting or the list goes on and on.

All of that kind of stateless route level logic that may not need to hit a data store is a perfect candidate for an edge worker, because once you have that deployed, you can concentrate more on business logic within your main application.

For example: "I have a valid OAuth token, I have established my identity, now issue an S3 pre-sign request and forward the resulting URL to the browser to download a protected file". Doing that within a worker will absolutely speed up your user experience by a couple hundred milliseconds at least.
The scariest thing for a cloud provider I'd imagine is a VM being able to read the cloud services login/key from an adjacent VM, then using that key to spawn more VMs that steal more keys and so on. Crypto mining allows the exploiter to directly translate that stolen compute into something valuable so there's a profit incentive to do so as well.

The cloud environment as a whole seems a lot more homogeneous, accessible, and easier to profit from than exploiting desktops.
During early years of human development it is actually possible to effect and increase height by physical excercise, more specifically aerobic excercise.
It's hardly an argument ad populum to say that the overwhelming amount of research says vaccines have no link to autism. That's simply asserting an undeniable fact

Moreover, are you seriously asserting the argument of "because one doctor says something, it has to be right"? I'm sorry, but the scientific process trusts the research, simple as that, and I largely trust the scientific process. The argument isn't "I think vaccines are safe because most of the world says so", my argument is "in the overwhelming amount of research that has been done on this, it has determined no link between vaccines and autism".
Are you saying that everyone uses the term "anti-vaxxer" as absolutely conservatively as possible and always thinks critically before labelling someone with it? This has not been my experience whatsoever, and not only with this person-label but with literally every person-label that achieves mainstream adoption.

Given my above hypothetical situation—all current "anti-vaxxer" talking points are objectively false, but at some point in the future something happens that warrants objectively legitimate criticism of vaccines—do you really think many people who have been taught that "anti-vaxxers" are 100% wrong about 100% of what they say, 100% of the time, to the point where criticism is generally silenced or forced into the fringe, wouldn't say, "ah, looks like the anti-vaxxers are at it again!" People in this very thread are literally equating "anti-vaxxers" with literal terrorists. Do you think these people will ever be open to criticizing vaccines, given that they allow themselves to think in these terms?
This will be a fun supreme court decision when it happens in the next 10 years.
1. Who said you have to have 5-10+ years of experience to start a startup? That's likely an advantage, but certainly not a prerequisite

2. Perhaps there are domain experts with 5-10 years of experience in _something_ and them learning to be technical is impactful?
But what about scale? Sub reactors are tiny! Never more than a few hundred MW, with relatively little fuel.

Typical powerplant reactors operate in the TWs.
I use PHP everyday and it rocks for what it does when you use it with best practices. The real problem is with small companies who won’t or don’t upgrade their infrastructure on a regular basis.

Heck, even with Wordpress these days you could use it as an API source and build a modern SPA website. It’s just getting over the inertia of intransigent stakeholders.
I get it, and I agree. But it's unevenly applied set of rules that I take issue with.

Other businesses censored their products but because it was something the masses didn't want censored, that business was mercilessly attacked.
When you show your employer an offer you received from another employer, aren't basically saying "Pay me more" and asking for a raise? I can't imagine going to your manager and saying, "Look, these guys want to pay me more. haha. OK, back to work."
That's an option but I would rather not re-invent the wheel unless necessary!

The current use of sqlite is to allow our scripted code (lua and actionscript) to make queries of the exposed data without having to write C++ code for every possible query and data object type (and implement new ones on demand).

Redis might not be the correct thing for this exact use case (some of the queries are more complex than a simple key or range look-up) but I may be prepared to take those limitations in exchange for a substantial speed and/or memory use improvement.