skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens (2009)
Same thing in the real Silicon Valley. Wasn't there adoring stories about "dedicated" people sleeping under their desks or in parking lot vans. Doubt everyone is banging out kids to move into their $3600/month studio apartments.
Really? I've never seen it in the US, except in the form of wooden coffee stirrers.
Probably because there is a health implication there, the possibility that people could get dehydrated and not have easy access to bottled water.
App functionality and price are identical. It's a very niche app with dedicated community though, so piracy is not such a big factor.
At some point the problem will become large enough that the UN will have to step up and start imposing sanctions on polluters. But we can hardly take a stand against others without fixing our own problems.
Boeing’s Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft
What if .5% is the biggest single chunk of plastic use you can eliminate in your sphere of influence? Should you:

a) Do nothing, because it's "only" 0.5%

b) Eliminate 0.5% because it's something you can do.

> It's just virtue signaling and the so-called 'solutions' lower our comfort

Oh, right, I see. Yeah, I mean you'll be comfortable for the next thirty years. Who cares about the next generation, am I right?
Mini-City Inside Tel Aviv Tests Advanced Tech for Cities of the Future
The author is missing an important point: dietary sources of cholesterol are from animal byproducts only.

> Cholesterol comes from two sources. Your liver makes all the cholesterol you need. The remainder of the cholesterol in your body comes from foods derived from animals. For example, meat, poultry and full-fat dairy products all contain cholesterol, called dietary cholesterol.

> Those same foods are high in saturated and trans fats.

from the American Heart Association:
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/cholesterol/about-cho...
ELD info?
I believe they're descendants of ALGOL along with PL/1 and Pascal, which explains the similar syntax.
And if you're on the go? Eating as a passenger in a car, etc.
If you make something like this possible, apps will use it. My problem is both with the app using this malfeature, and with the system providing it with no way for me (phone's owner and user) to override it.
>I could memorize "goed" just as easily as I can memorize "went".

It wouldn't have anything distinctive for people to latch on to, so they would be constantly trying to derive it from the general rules for regular verbs.

E.g.

(a) all verbs regular -> instinctively go to (slower) rule derivation instead of memorization of all verbs, even for the most common ones.

(b) most frequent verbs being irregular -> instinctively retrieve them from the (faster) "lookup table" of memorizations, and bypass the rule based derivation for them.

I.e having the clear distinction of irregularity makes it faster to go directly to that kind of "constant" memory.

That said, this is not my theory, read it years ago in a cognitive/linguistic pop science article. This seems to say more or less the same thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_and_irregular_verbs#Li...

In studies of first language acquisition (where the aim is to establish how the human brain processes its native language), one debate among 20th-century linguists revolved around whether small children learn all verb forms as separate pieces of vocabulary or whether they deduce forms by the application of rules. Since a child can hear a regular verb for the first time and immediately reuse it correctly in a different conjugated form which he or she has never heard, it is clear that the brain does work with rules; but irregular verbs must be processed differently.
It’s a good opportunity to point that Ada defines “bounded errors” and “erroneous execution” as distinct things.

TLDR: reading uninitialized data in Ada is safer than in C.

Reading an uninitialized OUT argument is a bounded error, which is much less dramatic than C’s undefined behavior: the semantics is that you’ll read an arbitrary value (which is obviously bad as far an program intent is concerned), but otherwise the language constraints still hold.

This is very different from erroneous execution, which is very similar to the famous undefined behaviors in C, in which all bets are off and anything can happen.
Kong is indeed a lot more than just a load balancer or proxy. We provide an ecosystem of functionality on top of high performance proxy core to allow you to better manage how your APIs, services, and applications interact with each other and with the world.

You could use us as an alternative to Istio, or you could integrate us with Istio. We provide additional control capabilities on top of what Istio does, and also service decentralized and centralized deployments. Basically, you could use Istio for a mesh (or use kong for the same mesh) and then use Kong to connect all your legacy apps and services into the same control platform. That way, you get global visibility and control at multiple layers - so you can get as granular as you want or as macro as you want.
Miniduino USB – Arduino Pen Drive
That makes sense. I've never spent my life savings but I did behave in a way that was both way out of character and quite shameful once as a result of an inconvenient flight schedule. It's weird how people speak of sleep deprivation as, well, not exactly healthy, but not downright dangerous. I guess that's how they talked about cigarettes back in the day too.

Perhaps there need to be more pushback from us tech workers when we hear about, e.g., all night hackathons or polyphasic microsleep experiments or the need for nap rooms in offices to compensate for all those 2am coding sessions or something. That some people definitely experience adverse effects where the consequences can be hard to control and some people's lives can be literally wrecked by the thing.
What about single use made from bioplastics? Are they that much more expensive?
I had the same interpretation as you but after rereading and looking at their comment history I think they are actually quoting you to concur with you, i.e. the white nationalists are the slashdot crowd
Stack Overflow is like Reddit's equivalent of /r/programming. There are tons of other Stack Exchange sites on everything from Cooking to Electrical Engineering to Role-playing, I encourage you to check them out.

That being said, it's true that they all use the same approach: Concise questions and answers without any extra discussion.
This turns out to be very dangerous for the mother. I saw a documentary about a group of women with a similar condition and one almost died because her pelvis broke during delivery but she didn't realize there was a problem until weeks later.
I thought about it and couldn't figure out why it's obvious. Care to share some light on that?
In modern times yes, here's some interesting reading on the guilds licensing originated from - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Barbers
And what if you have motor control issues that makes it impossible to wash cutlery to any standard of cleanliness?

I've said it before, and I've said it again: these anti-plastic laws are actively hostile to people with disabilities.
I feel the opposite: SO posts are often the launching-off point for me to find the even more detailed stuff. Your feeling that things were somehow better when they were worse, is I feel, misguided. Developers learning answers to specific questions allows them to be better faster.
Monkey C
I don't know what to make of it. Has this always been here? Has it surged recently? I really don't know what to think.
I'm not understanding your point. Are you suggesting that there are people who hate Facebook but they're so addicted that they can't quit? So what? They should seek counseling for addiction. If someone hates Facebook but can't muster up enough self control to quit that's entirely their own fault, their addiction to it certainly doesn't imply that they are entitled to it. If you lose your wedding ring in a bad beat at the casino, that is entirely your own fault, you don't get to blame the casino for being addictive.
What you call virtue signaling other people call a form of morality. Just because not everyone is doing something doesn't mean that it's not the right thing to do. And even though it doesn't guarantee other countries will follow suit, it's disingenuous to suggest it doesn't make ANY difference. It helps normalize these policies in the global mindspace. Plastic pollution is death by a million cuts. Even though any specific action might be negligible, if we continue piece by piece to remove plastics and encourage investigation and investment into alternatives we can slowly make progress. There are also compounding benefits, if we discover alternatives in one niche it could end up having benefits down the line on other, more significant causes of pollution.
The zoo of frequentist statistical tests in the article tend to give results that are easily interpreted in misleading or wrong ways (but kudos to the author to prominently include Bayesian methods). Uncritical usage of these techniques is the #1 reason behind the replication crisis in science.

Bayesian methods should be preferred as the default.
In Beijing, it’s often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself
Goes both ways tho. The US military has been the major export client for Belgian arms industry.
> But note that right to repair does not automatically equate with "easy to repair without special tools and knowledge."

I'm okay with that. I just don't want businesses to be able to deny access to their manuals, threaten to void warranties for 'abuse' for performing an action that their authorized techs do all the time without any adverse effect on the hardware, or remotely kill software used in the hardware because someone replaced some atoms arranged in a less than ideal manner with some other atoms arranged in a more ideal manner without paying the business themselves to do it.
"Don't discuss this issue -- discuss some other issue instead!"
The Slow Winter – James Mickens (2013) [pdf]
Nope. I'm in the US. I have never seen benefits come to employees from unions. I've been in the teachers union. My wife has been in the grocery union, and my brother works at a place where the union started in a warehouse (Teamsters?). I've not seen anything work out for the employees, but lots of process and rules that mostly benefits the union leadership and the union as an org at the expense of everything else.

Edit. There is one case where I have seen benefits. My brother in law is a heavy machinery operator and works similar to a contractor does in tech. He goes in, does some work til the job is done, and leaves. He likes that he can get jobs through the union and that his wages were way higher in the last recession.
Typically you have ~2 weeks between being notified and interview. Have personally witnessed a lot of teams where one founder couldn't make the interview in the time frame. For the actual YC program both the invitation letter is much stronger, you probably have an established US entity and a strong reason to be in the US. Less likely you get denied a Visa.
"through vendors" (sloppy reporting, passive voice)
US: Chinese ownership of Grindr a national security risk
And so very often as a beginner, I stumbled across someone's question that I also had, which was somehow deemed unacceptable by the bureaucracy so there were no useful answers, there was no link to where the 'correct' question with the correct answer was, and because there was often different exception, or a different library was being used, or something along those lines, I didn't have the skills to find it. So, maybe it's time to abandon that strategy and concentrate on actually helping people who need it.
Exactly. OP comment is thinking that professionals are the one spending the most money. I strongly disagree without knowing any statistics but I'm going to assume by looking at the sheer number of macbooks that young people have to look at youtube and iphones to have cool photo filters are their major market. Like I said, I don't have any statistics, but I'm willing to put money on it. The ones that have money can afford the high end stuff but they are always not professionals
I'm not surprised in the least. The industry is full of stories that started out as rumors but have ended up proven as true about the lengths they will go for more or better information.

I've heard an apocryphal story that I'm still waiting for truth on. It was of a soybean prop trading firm quant who reverse engineered a cross-town rival's trading strategy, allowing them to front run their strategy. The way that they did it was taking a number from the firm's name, and using it as a random number seed, and then using that seed to find the randomized order sizes would result from their iceberg order algorithm. They would use those sizes to match to l2 passive limit order flow to try to identify activity coming from the firm. Once they discovered the direction the firm was going, they'd place a huge market order and suck up all of the liquidity that the competitor was trying to acquire passively, effectively moving the market before their competitor could fill their position.

Stuff like this still blows me away, but it's just crazy enough to be true.
She has to feel some pain, otherwise she would have severely damaged her fingers, toes over the years like people with diabetic neuropathy or leprosy do.
>"The above analysis is trivially simple. Just data preprocessing simple correlations and filtering, using the most high-level overview the data allows for regarding food intake and health. The possible effect of different foods on longevity. No massaging of the data, no exposure to birthday paradox spuriousness, no statistical tricks, questionable adjustments for, etc"

There is also no controlling for anything! It seems a no-brainer that higher "Saturated Fat" and "Animal Protein" intakes correlate with higher income/access to modern health care infrastructure. Which means the author is really measuring an underlying latent "prosperity" variable. The author almost groks it with:

>"The correlations speak for themselves, the top X correlations for longevity are relatively strongly correlated amongst themselves. It is likely that multiple of these columns are indeed major contributors to longevity, yet given the inter-food correlations, it is quite impossible to isolate these from the variables that are just along for the ride."

Once the author controls for the prosperity that is the causal for all the correlated "dependent" variables, it might turn out that a Vegan diet is better than a non-Vegan diet. Or it might not. But this piece adds no value to the conversation, IMHO.

*As lspears points out, even worse is the wrong endpoint. Prob of making it to 80 != lower chance of death from Western diseases (heart attack/cancer).
This is the first time I've seen anybody say "The US has plenty of tech workers" – every single IT company I know is desperately trying to hire people, all the time. And this is at multiple tiers: innovative consumer companies, government contractors, small web design shops, large companies looking to bolster their teams.

And regarding your H1b comment, I have posted about 10 jobs in my career. In every single one, 95% of applicants were "foreigners" (work visa holders, new college grads) – the sufficient talent pool just isn't there locally, we have to fill it with more immigrants coming to our shores. And we weren't at all looking at cost at that point.

The only class of people I constantly hear are starting to feel the pain of being less in demand in IT, are older people.
In China, you're mom or mother-in-law will help you raise the kid. That's also why the retirement age in China is 60 for men and 50 for women (55 for women civil servants).
That's the comment I wanted! My thing is tightly integrated with Visual Studio, but the same approach would work for typescript. How many folks are talking to relational DBs with typescript? More and more I suppose?

Dapper has swept the world, but it still makes you maintain your own POCO, and your SQL is still in string literals, which has to be just the weirdest cultural practice. With my thing, because your SQL is in it's own file, we can constantly validate it, as you type, every time you save, every time you rebuild your queries, every time you run your tests.
Amazon buys stuff.
Google itself changed a lot. 13 years ago it was amazing to work there. In 2008 there was a feeling of slowing down luxury expenses, but the real change was when Larry came instead of Eric Schmidt as a CEO: he's boring (and Sundar is just his puppet) and forces boredom on the employees.

Eric Schmidt had a great way of saying no to employees while still making them excited about the possibilities ahead of Google.
I understand what you're saying. I made one myself and I'm not really familiar with soldering or electronics at all..the instructions that come with are very very easy to follow. I'd say while yes it can get messed, because of the great docs the chance is definitely low. Just an idea of how new, this was my first time soldering anything..ever ! The best advice i can give, is to test the keys you solder while you go..but the docs already say that would be a good idea
Dedication almost always translates to "doing stuff you're not getting paid to do". How exploitative this is depends on context. If you're volunteering at the local community theatre, it's not really exploitative. You're there for your own reasons, probably doing something you like. However, if you're asked to be dedicated at your job in a multimillion dollar corporation what's probably happening is they're trying to save on labor costs. And they're doing it by keeping headcount lower than it otherwise needs to be to get the job done.

This becomes really apparent when you consider contractors. Nobody ever screens contractors for "dedication". They find one whose rate and qualifications are acceptable and pay them for their time. Likewise with other professions like lawyers.

It's weird how this has become normalized for many rank-and-file tech employees though.
I wouldn't say that's always true.

I've been at plenty of places that keep 'baggage' employees around because "They paid their dues", or "They were with us during the tough times", or "they've done a lot ffor this company"

Usually the smaller the company, the more attachment there is to those employees. No matter how useless they are at the current time
My guideline has been to love people, not institutions. Not through any fault of the institutions, but rather through physical reality, they can only be as dedicated to their members as a person can be to individual cells in their body.
When I read "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, I found myself using many words from the slang language he invented, an amalgamation of Russian and English. (The slang language got minimal treatment in the film, you'll have to read the book). I'll have to read The Wake to see if it happens again.
I still remember "horrorshow", it means good or cool, comes from the Russian "khorosho".
Indeed. And that's a sad testament about humanity.
I do have ask about this desire to "change the world", as I constantly question my own motivations. We all generally think of it in a positive manner, but have most SV companies actually done that objectively? I'm not so sure. I think when we say "change the world", most of the time we really mean, get rich doing something impactful (negative or positive). If we all really wanted to change the world we would go work for non-profits cleaning water for African children or something. By this I mean, there are things that are currently objectively changing the world in a positive way and can certainly benefit from people who have analytical and software skills, but they don't tend to pay very well.
> every single IT company I know is desperately trying to hire people, all the time.

have they tried increasing the pay?
The biggest problem with these is that there aren't any bioplastic options right now that don't set off one food allergy or another.
The general point of the analogy is that the risk of vaccination is sufficiently low that eschewing it should be equated with reckless child endangerment.

> how many children have died in recent years from not getting a vaccination

There's actually not a straight forward answer to that question, because its an (unintentionally) loaded question. Lets focus it specifically on Measles. The natural death rate from measles is not high. Couple that with herd immunity that most non-vaccinated children benefit from, and high quality medical treatments available in (e.g.) the US, and you'd expect it to be low. Definitely higher than the death rate from vaccines, but low. But that's excluding both morbidity, and side-effects of Measles. There's this false belief that getting viruses (like Measles) and surviving them make you stronger. The opposite is more common -- Measles in particular opens you up to re-infection from things you already had because it partially wipes out your immune system. Some viruses are not as bad, others are even worse (e.g. might tilt your immune system towards cancer). After all, viruses are hijacking your body's cellular replication machinery and if they happen to muck with some other stuff in the process, what do they care? Do you think that is a fair answer to your question?

As for honest debates, you'll find a great deal fatigue on the vaccine side, because frankly vaccines have decades of studies, evidence, and readily available information supporting their use. Of all the medical interventions available, they are the cheapest, safest, and most effective measures available, and perhaps the greatest breakthrough medicine will ever have.
Monitor and Improve GPU Usage for Training Deep Learning Models
The down vote button on SO is supposed to be for posts that you believe nobody will get value from because they are confusing or wrong, not that you personally didn't get any value from. It's misused though.
I can fathom having a portable case for a set of silverware, that you clean when you get home.
Huh. Looks interesting, but there are some odd limits. The 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet seems unusually restrictive, but I suppose if you can palletize the shipment then you get 60" x 48" x 60" (1.5m x 1.2m x 1.5m).

The main restrictive thing, to me, is the list of prohibited items. Everything from stamps to watches to poles, perishables, office equipment (calculators, computers, printers, telephones...), medicine, liquids, furniture, mattresses, appliances, electronic equipment of any kind (explicitly mentioning TVs, radios, stereos...) engines, motorized vehicles, fragile articles... the list goes on.

I literally can't think of anything that would fit those requirements that would be large or heavy enough to need to be moved by Amtrak.