skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it is the animal kingdom. And being something as lethal as a lion probably has its advantages there.
Its a Cervelo S5 that team "Dimension Data fo Qhubeka" was riding few years ago. Let me introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanuel_Gebrezgabihier
Wow! That's pretty interesting. Do you happen to remember the names of any?

And maybe there isn't anything universal to societies that's considered as "right".

Sort of opposite -- things forbidden -- I've heard from some biologist that the only universally forbidden behavior (no society has ever generally permitted it) is incestuous relationships.

Everything else, you'd find some society somewhere that's okay with it.

That makes sense from a biological perspective, too, that we as a species would be hard-wired not to allow it. That might be as close as an "in nature" thing as you might find, something our brains are hard-wired to discourage.
They most definitely aren't dirty, but also there is nothing dirty in wanting money. Practically everyone needs money to survive, and if you want to have more money than just survive I don't think there is nothing wrong with that, if you acquire that money ethically.
I can't say anything about "normal", but my own personal anecdata are that laid off employees are normally offered some kind of assistance. Only a couple times in 30 years has it been me personally, and in both cases I was offered help (that actually resulted in me getting another job within that organization, actually). In many other cases, some kind of networking assistance is given. When AMD was closing fabs in the SV area in the early 90's, they gave blue-collar employees 6 months of retraining, since they were unlikely to find other fab jobs in that area. So it does happen, even in the U.S.
Can you provide more details about "Apex"? Is this a staffing agency or a company? I'm also curious about what happened during your internship that made you consider a different career, if you don't mind and are able to share.
Linode is a for-profit business. Won't they need filters on sites hosted by them?
I never saw an issue with this. Council tax pays for things like garbage collection, local services and street cleaning. Unless those things are disproportionately more expensive for expensive houses(and I strongly suspect they aren't), why would they pay more?

Like someone else already noticed - when you buy a house for say £20m, you will pay about £3 million in stamp duty, which is insane already. Owners of expensive housing already pay a tonne in that tax for the privilege of owning it.
My guess is that either no registers will be callee-saved or one group of 8 registers will be callee-saved (in the current draft, you can group 1, 2, 4 or 8 sequential registers, but only starting on a multiple of the group size, so register groups are always going to be contained within one of the four 8-register maximum-size groups); this will require dynamic stack allocation since the vector length is not fixed.

The saving sequence would be something like this (after setting up a frame pointer if needed): "vsetvl t0, x0, e8, m8; sub sp, sp, t0; vse.v v16, (sp)".
What is the startup's burn rate, and how much capital is left, or more generally 'how much more funding runway is left?'
Sometimes you have to realize that there is no way to solve such a situation. I think the best situation in this case is to resolve it through the court system.
It's incredibly hard to convince people to give up power on their own unless they have a certain disposition, there's no disincentive in doing it, or there's no consequence to them when keeping it. They need to be given a clear consequence if they don't.
The two body problem (2 professionals in academia finding jobs close to each other, for some value of close that is reasonable for daily life) is famous in science in general. It is, unless one of you has a Nobel Prize, unsolvable without one person making a change of career.
A warning for folks considering working in China (love to hear this debunked if untrue):

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2016/09/the-china-stock-option-...

> no foreign person can own stock in a Chinese domestic company not already listed on a stock market. So any such option or stock transfer is void from the start. Foreigners are not permitted to be shareholders of Chinese domestic companies, nor does China recognize the concept of nominee shareholders.
I like the approach Houston has taken: no zoning. Many say it won't work, but it does. HOAs pop up in some places if they really don't want commercial.
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> they're helpful to know you can get laid off before your options vest.

of course you can - that shouldn't be a surprise.
There are issues with building the kind of skyscrapers you see in the FiDi or Midtown, but there is till plenty of room to grow. Huge chunks of the West Village have buildings of only 4-5 stories when it's definitely possible to build 3-4x higher.
A couple examples of AI engineers moving to Tokyo (I know it's different) and sharing some thoughts on Twitter:

- David Ha w/ Google Brain: https://twitter.com/hardmaru

- Adam Gibson started Skymind in Silicon Valley and moved to Tokyo a few years back: https://twitter.com/agibsonccc
related Tom Scott:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdQ7gxU6Rg
I'm not disagreeing with anybody else's test results. Just want to say that MongoDB has matured a lot and people should test out the newer versions to see how they fare.

Kind of in line with the article, I think that people should methodically check what works for them... particularly for something as serious as a database. It would be a shame if somebody decided against using something because they heard about an issue that has been fixed and/or improved in more recent versions.
Yep, the same way we write code and think “what are the implications of this function were called from a weird context,” so too do PR/communications folks “engineer” statements.
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You can implement Stripe such that the merchant never sees the credit card number.
It was awhile ago so I don't remember correctly, but you might be right. I just remember thinking this was rooted in the debt he had to pay, and removing his ability to pay the debt, while ostensibly serving to teach him a lesson, didn't seem constructive. Perhaps it was the correct thing to do, perhaps not, it just seemed sad.
Well, I've heard people saying that everything from the Pulwama attack to Balakot airstrikes was orchestrated by BJP for electoral gains. So reading the grand parent wasn't surprising.
I was in a management discussion at a prior company where people were actually making technology decisions based on how our stack would look in job ads and whether it would excite potential candidates.
>Rent control is good for the people who already have housing who don't see their rents go up, but it's bad for people who might want to move to an area.

I don't see the problem. "Wanna move to the area" is a choice. "I am forced out of my house because of higher rent" is not.
>Rent control is good for the people who already have housing who don't see their rents go up, but it's bad for people who might want to move to an area. It's very much a "pull up the ladder behind you" sort of policy and in the case that the article addresses it will tend to weaken coalitions in favor of reducing housing prices for new home buyers/renters and will tend throw currently homeless people under the bus.

You could defray those negative effects by building lots of public housing and/or heavily subsidizing new construction.
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That sucks. When I graduated (mid 90s) I had heard of some pre-tenure profs in physics working as waiters over the summer to make money.
I’ve never used Mongo. How many of people’s complaints revolve around NoSQL (Ex AWS DynamoDB) vs Mongo specifically?
Certainly, I agree. But the parent comment said "10 years or the life of the creator". If copyright expired the day of the creator's death, it would encourage murders. Better to have just "10 years from creation", but much worse to have "10 years or the life of the creator."
It's at least somewhat typical in mass-layoff situations where the problem is business-related (i.e. not enough money or work) and not individual related (i.e. performance or personality). We had a round of layoffs at the Fortune 200 auto lab I was working at close to a decade ago and everyone that was laid off was offered contract agency placement (which guaranteed a job within, I believe, 1 month) and most were offered interviews at the Big 3 and a few smaller shops in the area. Most of the 30 or so that were laid off at our plant went maybe a week without work (which their severance more than covered).

I haven't seen it in the smaller companies I have worked for, but then again a 30 person layoff would be every single employee at those companies so they don't typically happen.
Miri is an interpreter, and so it works dynamically. Think ubsan.

> why can't we look at the AST and see that a and b alias?

The exact aliasing rules for raw pointers are under discussion at the moment. We may be able to look at the AST in this case, but in some cases, that requires control flow analysis. ASTs aren't great for this, but MIR is built around it, hence miri. (That said, I don't think that's the primary reason Miri works on MIR, it's more that MIR is kinda like "core Rust", the simplest possible expression of the language itself.)
thats is a great interview. the right level of detail. The interview starts ~10 minutes in. Thanks for the recommend!
How is relational more powerful than OO/Functional if you can’t define an infinite dataset with it?
No, it is not true. Everything is up to an orthogonal rotation. It is not an SVD (though, even for SVD, usually only the first few dimensions have a human interpretation).

Instead, you can:

- rotate it with SVD (works really well, when working on a subset of words)

- project it on given axes (e.g. "woman - man" and "king - man")
My son said that most of the kids that actually hang out in person do so to party with drugs or alcohol. He chooses to stay home and rebuild motorcycles and play games.

Its as if all the casual socializing has moved to digital.
Yup.

a proper debugger is still not a thing.
I think it's fair to say that it might take some time to regain trust. Just want people to know that the software is being improved and large strides have been made in this area.
Code of conduct doesn't apply to national security issues. Not sure what Mr. Gupta is implying here.
Why do you care if someone wants to support childrens' hospitals? I personally think getting a building that could save the lives of children is worth putting a guy's name on that building.
Ask HN: Is a 10Gb Docker image with the haveibeenpwned db on it a bad idea?
We have a site with sensitive data on it, and need to verify that when users create a new password that the password has not been previously exposed in a known breach. The way everyone seems to be doing this is by downloading and searching the 10gb haveibeenpwned database for sha1 matches of the candidate password.

We know that it's best practice to keep docker images small, however this seems like a tempting solution for an annoying problem: simply make a 10Gb Docker image that downloads the haveibeenpwned database (which is ~10Gb) as part of the image, and expose a searchable API. Sure it would be slow to deploy an image that large on Kubernetes, but it seems like it'd otherwise be easy to maintain.

How are you checking passwords against haveibeenpwned / similar for your users?
I have to agree. These are the type of stupid laws I read that completely turns me off of a country. What other ridiculous laws would I have to endure if I were to visit?
well some people are surprised that their boss would lay them off specifically so they wouldn't have to pay out a benefit. Not everyone joins a company understanding that management is the enemy.
Welcome to Galt's Gulch, where everyone is just too important to do any of the real work!
You transmit in the channel you're in usually.
I think PG will exhibit the problems that skeet was referring to because PG stores the UTC time and not the local time. If someone makes a change to the timezone rules then the times your columns are referring to will stay the same in UTC time which might not be what you want.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-datetime.html

"For timestamp with time zone, the internally stored value is always in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, traditionally known as Greenwich Mean Time, GMT). An input value that has an explicit time zone specified is converted to UTC using the appropriate offset for that time zone. If no time zone is stated in the input string, then it is assumed to be in the time zone indicated by the system's timezone parameter, and is converted to UTC using the offset for the timezone zone."

'timestamp with timezone' is kind of a gotcha. i guess it combines two things into one type that are logically one type but it also might mislead someone into believing the type is something else.
Not in Physics, but I bailed on a PhD in Chemistry back in the early 80's and became a programmer. I still do it today, but wonder what might have been if I could have finished it back then. We have a programmer here with a PhD in Math but that's even less well paying if you want to do theoretical stuff. Sadly doing original research in any field is not a great career option.
Tech jobs have little to do with SFs housing problem, tech is just a convenient scapegoat. In the 80s the blame was finance.
They can be free (edit: or rather the patent burden can be eliminated), and we can fund research in different ways.

Dean Baker has been banging on about this for years.
Thanks!
It lists logins as an option. Does this sync sessions of just credentials?
Also countries like Germany have VERY massive employee protection. Once you're out of the probation period (usually 3-6 months) the company needs a very good reason (down-sizing being one) to fire you. Not even you slacking off, not doing job can immediately get you fired as you first need to receive a few warnings. The US is very bad regarding employee protection, other countries handle this differently.
I always enjoy a good Julia Evans article, and this one is no different. She has a very approachable, personable way of explaining technical things, which is missing from many monoid (and related) tutorials.

I'm confused by this opening line though:

> Monoidal categories are also called “tensor categories” and I think that term is a little less confusing

Why is that? What is special about the word "monoid" that makes it more or less confusing than "tensor"?
> By the same token, the incentives are skewed when it comes to the cost of problems. Say air pollution or homelessness gets worse. You might think that would degrade the quality of life in a city. But don’t leap to that conclusion too quickly: To the extent land is truly scarce, the main effect would be a decline in rents and real estate prices. Landowners would be worse off, but the typical city resident might find that the cheaper cost of living offsets the deterioration in conditions.

There's a seemingly endless legion of morons moving to these mega-cities that can't afford to live there. I don't know what their ambitions are, but it's obviously unsustainable.

Fortunately, I think CA and NY are going to tax themselves out of existence in the next generation or so. Everything is cyclical, and I believe these cities are anomalies reaching end of life.
Applied physicist here. Did my tour of duty in fusion. Been working in the medical physics industry for quite a while now as my perpetual 'day-job'. On the side I work on superresolution communication and various energy ideas.
It sounds like you need Adyen. You can process intl PayPal through Adyen as well.
People who are extremely active on, or addicted to Twitter keep mistaking Twitter for actually being the real world and not just a glorified internet forum with some celebrity users.

Just because someone lost their job doesn't mean an ex-colleague can't post about Netflix or their interests on their social media anymore. Twitter isn't an office space they can do what they want.

I get that Twitter must feel a lot more real to people who post 30 times a day, every day for 10+ years but to that majority of people it's just a silly distraction they use to post things to their friends, not a work environment.
Wow, I didn't expect this reply. I had the exact same thought after I read this HN thread [1] from 3 weeks ago about coordination-free distributed consistency [2]. Is this what you had in mind?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316737

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distri...
To be honest, don’t don’t it. Unless you’re of Chinese descent and speak the language, you won’t be able to advance in most companies. The work culture is alien to most westerners and the benefits to your career are negligible.

Mostly depends on what you want out of your career but speaking as someone that lived in China and worked in Chinese tech companies for seven years, including being the first foreign hire for a large mobile games company, it’s not something I’d recommend mid-career. Maybe just starting out or if you can be hired into a c-level role.
Once you technically solved the problem of sending satellites to orbit using a rocket - you already have the wherewithal to target them as well. ISRO achieved this eons ago. Apart from boasting rights - nobody can really use this for fear of reprimand from UN and world powers. The gist is - don't make space your arena of war - future generations will not pardon you!
In Belgium, the 2008 crisis struck 3d animators and cgi artists really hard. Most people I knew in the field could never get back into it.
What keeps you up at night?
> It's not your employers job to find you a position

I find myself agreeing with this more than the initial tweets even as I sit here having recently quit my last job without something lined up quite yet.
Since it wasn't mentioned in the bloomberg article, whoever has been paying attention knows that shutting down backpage has made sex workers less safe and more dependent on pimps. Prostitution should be completely legal and brought into the light, not pushed into the shadows.
PG&E could be in trouble...

First, that big Camp fire last year; now, if it turns out they’ve been producing electricity that has been used by criminals... eek
And get the same problems, plus the new one, leap seconds (timestamps ignore them).
Apex is salesforce’s programming language for everything you do in the back end.

It’s like a bare bones Java.

I’ve been working in salesforce for almost 10 years and apex still makes me question if I want to work in software every single day.
One would have to be a very immoral individual (OP?) to be even thinking about working for a dictatorship that has enacted concentration camps, shut down all kinds of religious activities, and jailed pastors and democratic demonstrators alike. Not to mention the extreme social credit scores and AI-assisted censorship and monitoring of people living there.

Why not check out other countries? Taiwan, South Korea or Japan perhaps if one is interested in hardware.
I, too, hope that the Belgian government succeeds in this. I guess my point is that it is probably cheaper at this stage for FB to put up a legal fight than to actually implement the necessary changes.

I hope that gets fixed!
Will you share slides from the last board meeting?
We mostly used it to encourage bowel movements and it never left us disappointed.
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[0]: http://sheetjs.com/

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Thank you for sharing! I know this exact arc very well and have referenced it a few times in my life (sent to friends, talked about it, etc). Death is not usually an easy topic, so when this arc is relevant, but maybe not to death, I use it to discuss what is finite.

Personally, I found the the more I looked at concept of most/all things being finite, the more appreciation for those things, people, moments, food, jobs, projects, etc I have. I haven't become a mindful monk by any stretch, but it has both shaped and improved my outlook in many ways.
Can you cite some knowledge and links for us, beyond "go back through history"? :)
He's still alive...
This is what happens when you try to build in SF. Note demand 3.

https://plaza16.org/visiondemands/
He can use it such that the model's predictions are still manually verified by him before actually submitting them or whatever. Seems pretty harmless to me.
Citation requested.

Is there any evidence of this in the legislative history?
step 1: read articles on how to manage your time better on Hacker News
I read the Kannada translation of the book "Fun with Physics" back when I was in primary school. Didn't understand large parts of it but that didn't stop me from repeatedly reading the books. As high quality as the content was I absolutely loved the high quality print, glossy and gorgeous paper, and really beautiful and durable hard cover. The illustrations were also of high quality. They also had a very distinct smell.

Another Kannada translated book I read (countless times) is stories from Russian history.

Needless to say Russian books are a part of my childhood :)
I think this may have been the result of banking malware (e.g. Zeus back in the day) which was hooking OS calls to capture keyboard input and steal passwords.
I'm not sure whether the on-screen keyboards would be vulnerable in other ways though.