skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Implement/Operate point of certain subsystems, not theoretical or leadership point. (I take no offense to your comment as it's spot on if that were the case. My apologies if I misled.)

I was implementing an improvement and operating our vision system (doubling frame rate and resolution using an existing algorithm across a scaled up processing system). Because of where our code sat in the overall architecture, that I had control systems coursework under my belt, and that I was "done" with my vision processing project much faster than expected, I took on coordinating signals from a variety of other subsystems [radar, lane keeping, sign reading, navigation, etc], computing an overall speed and lateral acceleration target, steer angle, etc, and emitting those and a series of additional signals to downstream systems that controlled the servos and vehicle. Ernst Dickmanns was my boss's project director. I was in no way a "point" on the overall project, which was by all accounts a serious engineering effort.

This was part of the Prometheus project (~30-35 years ago, not 20):

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Prometheus_Project

[1] - The vehicle: https://driving.ca/mercedes-benz/auto-news/news/three-decade...
Not changing content linking to a competitor's services into one linking to author of the plugin's without the user's knowledge.
Difference Between Testing of Mobile and Web Applications
"Lifestream" logging mostly - starring something in Feedbin, marking something read in Pocket, Netatmo notifications for temperature and camera, weight from Withings, etc. - all go to various files in Dropbox or sheets in Google Docs.

"Best" thing I use it for at the moment is to mark something read in Feedbin if I archive the article in Pocket (after "promoting" it from my Feedbin unread list to Pocket via a Shortcut/Workflow.)
> The compiler produced hybrid PCode and native x86 assembly, traditional for MS applications at the time.

P-Code? As in UCSD Pascal?
> - Remember the last time you felt glad to be alive? Was it related to being productive?

Actually, yes. Is that weird? I can't be the only one here who loves their job.
Depends what "enterprise web companies" means.

Many people have sold their products or services to enterprises, working alone, or with small (< 5 or 10) teams.
Very likely.

But I know that in X years time I can move a copy of my development VM to run as a guest on any OS I might happen to use.

I haven't yet spent any time learning how to use containers, or what their compromises are, so for the moment I am still ignorant of that solution.
Its worth your time learning. Its been an in demand skill for decades now. Compare that to JavaScript framemworks....
They don't obey robots.txt files posted after-the-fact by domain hoarders that have zilch to do with the original content. This is entirely proper on their part.
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There have been various attempts to "neutralize" the French language in the past, without much success. There are many reasons for that, some of them cultural and political, but it's also a problem from a purely grammatical perspective. French is much more gendered than English, nouns, adjectives and certain verbal constructions reflect one of the two genders.

Thus "eroding" an arbitrary selection of words to stop having them reflect gender doesn't flow very naturally in the language. "Une boulanger", "un hotesse", "une acteur" etc... All that is very grating to the ear and somewhat un-french sounding. It basically breaks very common patterns in the language that every French speaker consciously or unconsciously integrated as part of learning French.

Compare for instance:

Un boulanger fier (a proud baker, male)

Une boulangère fière (a proud baker, female)

Note that both the adjective "fier" and the noun "boulanger" decline similarly. If you "erode" boulanger to be neutral you end up with:

Un boulanger fier

Une boulanger fière

Suddenly the pattern is broken. Do we erode "fier" and similar adjectives as well to remain consistent? But then of course it has a cascading effect throughout the language.

I'm not saying that this means that it cannot or shouldn't be improved, I dislike the heavy knee-jerk backlash every proposed reform of French grammar gets (no matter how small and obvious it is, like simplifying some ridiculous rules for the accord of the passé composé) but it's definitely a complex topic.
Thanks for this comment -- I'll put the second strategy in effect (the first one perhaps I'll leave for later as I currently work in an open plan office).

I wonder if this "comment driven" strategy has potential for applying NLP+code generation. I'm sure this is a common enough thought but I'm not aware of the research, does anyone here have pointers?

What I mean is: use NLP to extract intent (where feasible), and then offer possible implementations of the intent.
> I actually chose to exclude any reference to Perl in the title, though it appears a moderator changed it.

On HN, the title of the submission is expected to match the title on the target page, except if the later is a clickbait.
You are lucky. Sadly, this is very much the exception, although we can only hope it becomes more common. Human nature being what it is, people hate change, so companies can gouge existing users and offer incentives to new users to get them to change.
> "Words shoot up like geysers from your pen, tumble in cascades, swirl about, bump into each other, are never at rest". That doesn't sound like someone I would chose to guard a language.

I would not judge based on a single phrase, because I can imagine a very different minds which can produce it. He can be a person who likes to speak, who tries to get a maximum from the language he speaks, who knows language and loves it. Or maybe he just an impositor, consciously or unconsciously. He can love old language and hate any attempts to change it, or he can be happy with some changes while rejecting others.

At last, he can just a few minute ago had a conversation with someone else, who spoke like that and it was good, and under impression of that he accidently did the same. It happens sometimes. So this phrase could be produced not by a special mind, but by a special state of mind and had nothing to do with personality traits.
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In the year 1885 it was clearly obvious to any educated person that the sun was a giant lump of coal burning in the air of space, continually fed with additional coal from meteorites.
>Also, it's pretty wild that you are effectively entitled by law to a 25% increase in salary if you have a child under 9.

That's incorrect. It's at a reduced salary.

If you're on a permanent contract and if your full-time function isn't in some way demonstrably critical to the business, you're also entitled to work fewer hours if you want, unrelated to children.
Integration of Jekyll and Webpack, more enjoyable way to develop static sites
OpenGL is deprecated, not removed, you can still use it in current versions of macOS as long as you are fine with the version it ships (which in general should be fine for a ton of 3D games, remember that something like Doom 3 was built on OpenGL 1.5 + extensions and Rage was built on OpenGL 2.0 + extensions). Apple might break it sometime in the future, but Apple might break any API in the future (i have several applications and games that stopped worked every time i upgraded macOS and the developers had abandoned them - one of the reasons i decided to stick with Windows over the years is that old apps keep working) so that comes with the territory.
> there is no censorship of the internet going on to appease the US government

Actually, there is a lot of censorship going on to appease the US government [0]

I wish there was a free source for this, but for whatever reason, it's really hard to find one for that particular documentary.

Which is all the more annoying considering that my payments for German public broadcasting actually financed the production of it.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/
The articles misses one important factor: Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OKCupid et al. have changed the market in such a way that in a large city, even the homeliest of girls can log on and within hours arrange sex with a guy who she would otherwise have no prospects of a long-term relationship with, but is well above the attractiveness level she would have previously had access to.

I haven’t just read this online; I have seen this with my own eyes, with multiple female acquaintances, none of them exactly venuses, showing me the guys they’ve been meeting up with.

The fact stands that guys are a lot less choosy than girls, and this necessarily includes the guys who are also more physically attractive than most.

As online dating has become the norm, this causes a drought for a larger portion of men than before.
CPI and RPI don't always reflect real world inflation (don't include housing costs) and they are subject to gaming by the Government by tweaking what is included in the basket of goods.

This is UK based from an off the record briefing from a ONS staff member.
It is worth pointing out that the study discussed here was done in 2015, prior to the change. Hopefully the NIH change will get more researchers out of their standard patterns though.
That sounds nice and all but it's wrong in two major ways.

First: GitHub has a Terms of Service which was somewhat-recently amended to make this license grant explicit:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-terms-of-service#...

"Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and 'fork' your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control)."

(Crucially, it doesn't require an open-source license, though.)

Second: even without that, there's such a thing as an implied license:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license

Like, if you write something down on a piece of paper, you can't then sue the owner of the paper for copyright infringement.

Similarly, if you upload code to GitHub, and tell it to share your code, you can't then sue them for sharing your code, ToS or no ToS.
Not In the UK
Yeah, that sounds like just about the worst way a company might go about this. They actively send their people to look for new jobs, and only once they've found one, you give them a raise, hoping they'll prefer this toxic attitude over some fresh new job.

Also, relying on the opinion of other companies to determine the value of your own employees is completely backwards. Nobody had better data to determine the value of your employees than you do. Other employers basically have to make a stab in the dark at what someone's worth, and maybe not extend the contract if the new hire turns out to disappoint. As the current employer, you should know how good your people are.
I really don't believe we want more automation in this area. Think of Youtube or Google play store moderation, do you want that for medical billing? And I doubt even 10% of medical costs could be contributed to regular administrative overhead.
So that's how much I was worth to you,
but you waited for me to leave before
adjusting my pay?

Doesn't everyone already know that?

I mean, the business benefits that pay my salary only exist from the combination of my efforts with the company's existing business. A marginal improvement in X only makes money when combined with an X business, so of course the owner of the business and the owner of the improvement have conflicting interests about how to share the value.
What is your horizon?
Can you afford to lose a big chunk of it? No risk, no return..

If you have a long horizon (>15 years), invest part in crypto, part in index trackers, maybe take a few small angel investment stakes and some REIT.

Shorter horizon but still want to do aggressive?
The half in Crypto, and several early stage companies and keep a half in cash or bonds.
I've heard a similar story. Old colleague had been introduced to a computer with same problem and fix. He looked at it for a while then reached behind it and seated the cable properly and the problem went away. Turns out there's an actual reason vga-cables had those screws.
Mails are also ad-free, and they have no problem showing them in gmail. Same would be possible for newsfeeds. Actually, it would be even simpler, as they know the urls and could link this directly with ads shown in web search or on the specific pages. Though, majority of people using RSS are technical competent people, using adblockers, so likely it would be just pointless.
Married a gold-digger, difficult divorce, estranged from his children. Works in the medical field (though not as a doctor). Can't see that his time in Harrow conferred any advantages
How long until Google will (be forced to) feed back information about searches and visited websites* into China's social scoring/citizens score system and will thereby actively help the government in their effort to oppress any dissent?

* AMP is still a thing, right
Some of files open-sourced as part of CoreCLR still have a .cool file extension:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/release/1.0.0/tests/s...
And my point went right over your head. Especially in San Francisco smoking pot in public transcends class and wealth.
> I have no idea how you people have such nice jobs...

We get nice jobs by switching until we find a nice one.
At this point you are attributing the French academy superhuman powers, the Académie Française have of course exactly the same influence as the RAE: they make the definitive dictionary and then despair a bit about all the shit words they will have to include in the next version.
> if it were ported Go, Rust, or any reasonable redistributable form

I still consider Perl being, from the portability standpoint, the best language to pre-process a single text line that should be translated to a Perl one-liner which is then executed.
You should have read all the way to the end.

"In 2013, Adobe open-sourced the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler as CrossBridge, and released it on the GitHub code hosting website"
The German 'Duden' is comparable in its role to Webster/Johnson. A private dictionary publisher who somehow managed to be regarded as the standard for a language.
Exactly.

Understanding WHY he doesn't want to sign gives the direction to solve it.
I've had clients being resistent on them as well, but addressing the why helped resolve.
Usually there is a fear behind it - getting screwed, getting fired, fear of losing control of their baby etc.
https://voidlinux.org/ taking inspiration [0] from https://archlinux.org

[0] https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/04/homepage-redesign.html
Cool! Really good stuff.

We actually just launched our Product School Job Portal that is specifically designed for people in Product. We also post jobs that are available in London, as well as the rest of the world.

It is important to note that we do our best to cover the spectrum of product jobs. Here you can find Product Owner roles, Product Manager roles, Product marketing roles, and the list goes on.

Great work with yours though!
> It still cooperates with the regime, so the accusation of supporting censorship is valid.

Google is following the local laws, like they try to do everywhere. That doesn't make the Chinese government any more of a "regime" than the US government.

Which doesn't even need to make many laws like that because companies like Google and FB will happily comply [0], with what they expect might ruffle some feathers [0] before having the regulation forced on them.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11184660/facebook-ban-arti...
So "only" 2.5 years of 4-day weeks, with reduced pay.
The current top comment seems to sum it up very well with a bit of personal experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539948
This kind of problem almost made me go crazy once when developing a simple encoder routine. It is the absolute worst.

"sometimes it does work, so a hardware fault is very unlikely and why isn't my software working if the sun is shining?"

I reimplemented these routines countless times...

Seriously, I was slowly beginning to think to look for a new career. Already getting angry again just thinking about it.
> Life and English are both messy but we muddle through.

As a french, it is not muddling that I want but reasoning.
Maybe we should use the Civil Service style and write out in full the first instance on an acronym.
National Technical Research Organisation
a nitpeccadillo - "phenomenon".
How not to hire a software engineer
But that is a really overblown and damaging worry. This study gives us actual facts that we probably need to treat men and women differently to help them both out better in dealing with pain. We need more studies which look at gender differences, not fewer. Justifying that worry because it makes people uneasy is denying reality and pretty unethical in my view.
3840x2160 @ 40" has an appropriate DPI (110) to use typical desktop OS without any UI scaling.

I would go with that configuration unless you have a particular reason that's worth opening yourself up to an extra dimension of hassle.
10 Drive forwards a bit
20 Stop
30 Did we hit something?
35 YES: Sleep for a short time
40 GOTO 10
I guess such employers strategy is taught at business schools. My ISP or mobile operator also gives much better offer to a new customer as compared to the existing one.

The question is if it works, that is if people indeed prefer stability and status quo so much that they are ready to earn less or pay more for a service. Probably this is not that easy to verify, as, for instance, employee might indeed stay and get lower compensation, but would also be less productive (if they fire me, I'll just find something else, probably better paid) and less creative (they pay me less, I have no incentive to improve "their" company).
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Actually, only as footnote on the history of 3D APIs.

PSGL was largely ignored by everyone that matters in the game industry and eventually dropped.

https://sandstormgames.ca/2011/07/22/debug-playstation3/

"At one point, Sony was asking developers whether they would be interested in having PSGL conform to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specs (link here). This has unfortunately never happened however, as developers seem to have mostly preferred to go with libGCM as their main graphics API of choice on PS3. This has meant that the development environment has started becoming more libGCM-centric over the years with PSGL eventually becoming a second-class citizen – in fact, new features like 3D stereo mode is not even possible unless you are using libGCM directly."

Just like everyone raves around Switch having Vulkan support, when most studios are using Unreal, Unity and the main 3D API, NVN.

As rule of thumb, instead of believing what gets posted on FOSS friendly web sites regarding 3D APIs, GDC Vault, Making Games, IGDA, Connect, EDGE, Retro Gamer, and AAA studio dev blogs are a much better source of information.
I know that Perl was earlier, I've worked with Perl before PHP came around. However, I've never seen a shared hosting environment that offered mod_perl, they were all using CGI.

Might be region specific, I've mostly worked in Western Europe, but even the two NA-based providers I've used back then didn't offer mod_perl for shared hosting.

You could certainly get it on a managed server, or set it up yourself on your dedicated box, but PHP's strong suit was the low-end shared hosting options. It ran anywhere, and usually fast.
That has been available since the 1970s. Healthcare is not a very complex compsci issue for 80% of cases. The problem is presentation of symptoms is highly subjective and needs highly complex interpretation that no AI will ever be able to achieve and deal with the liability conundrum
"Use" is allowed, redistribution of the original or derivative works is essentially what is not permitted.
This is hilariously obnoxious. I love it!
As an independent contractor, in the right market, you will in a lot of cases make way more than any level remotely close to yours.

If you are a scarce resource and gives immense value, then you can easily earn more than the managers close to you. And as I said several levels above them.

In a lot of cases managers are more easily replaceable than good individual contributors.
trinity reviving neo with a kiss fucks it up
I wonder how much of that has to do with FB also existing and being considered the much worse offender, thus acting like a "lightning rod" for pretty much the majority of privacy issues?
> The real world...

cites #1 tennis player in the world as an example.

For the vast majority trying to shuffle Jira tickets faster or optimize your vim keybindings for the nth time, they would do better to listen to OP.
I think you are overestimating the actual influence of the Académie then, because it has little. The new words they propose are seldom adopted, and are eventually dropped as they only formalize actual usage. They're not creating a parallel language. The education system is also governed by a different language institution.

And just like Spanish, French is governed by different entities in different countries. The French and Québec councils are the most influent ones - and France French and Québec French are also the most divergent versions.

The French language is only "powerfully centralized" within each French-speaking country. And even then, only among a few countries.

I would say it is actually less centralized than the German language, which has a single institution that oversees orthography in ALL the German-speaking world. The French language has nothing like that.
Yes they do and they have to, if they want to operate on this market. And if they do they accept disadvantages like censorship.

I don't think I like this quality in a search service.
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>> Humanity slaughters billions of animals each year just because they're tasty.

It's very likely that people find meat tasty because it's nutritious, just as we find sugar and plant fats tasty. Your comment makes it sound as if eating meat is some kind of indulgence, like eating sweets.

Meat is a rich source of protein and energy. We don't need any more justification than that to want to eat other animals. There are practical matters of efficiency and of the ethics of kiling animals at scale, in industrial farming, that are far more important and interesting to discuss than the nebulous idea of the morality of eating any meat at all.

At the end of the day- many animals eat other animals' meat. Why is it any different for humans to do the same?

>> At least the research animals have some benefit beyond a single person's satiation.

I don't understand this. Even a chicken is large enough to feed two people. Larger animals can feed a family for several days.