skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I was saying that the smartest kids I knew ended up in the research universities (with a couple of exceptions). The ones a step down were usually the ones at the Ivies. The quality of an education at a research university far outstrips their reputations (particularly if you're optimizing for departments), while a big chunk of the value of Ivies is the reputation.

Ivy admissions criteria make a lot more sense if you realize that they're engineering the makeup of the anointed upper-crust of the next generation (which only the most naive idealist would think is tightly related to merit). Tech is an unusually meritocratic industry (for now), which is why, at least in my experience, the brand power of the educational institutions on your resume aren't that great a predictor of success in the industry.
Another bold (/s) move by the “don’t be evil” company. What they stand for seems more and more brazenly corporate profits.
The first comment said that the culture is so good that devs don't leave even with capped salary. The next comment said (politely) that maybe they don't leave because they are for some reason unable to command top-tier salaries.
actually you are right
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FWIW, the version where the lower part is like マ is also used in Japanese. Different calligraphic styles can have big visual differences.
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I looked for this years thread and couldn't see one yet so I figured I would start it off with one from Thinkgeek.com: https://youtu.be/cip3eNm2PU4
A year ago I had 1 year of experience with the company's tech stack, product portfolio and clients. Now I have 2 years of experience. If that isn't worth an extra 30% in value to the company, I'd rather provide that value where it's appreciated.

Sure, after a couple years there are definitely diminishing returns, but the company (mistakenly, IMO) thinking they can get the same value from a fresh hire as from someone who's been there for a while already is what has set up this whole culture in the first place.
Or, better still, an Archive.org snapshot of the commit that added this very code: https://web.archive.org/web/20190331195338/bitbucket.org/pip...

(As a resident geek, I was asked to look into this by a friend)
R134a is being phased out in automotive AC systems due to its high global warming potential. It’s being replaced by R1234yf, and in the newest systems, CO2 (aka R744).

I would hope it’s not being used unnecessarily as an aerosol in things like air dusters!
Huh, according to Jim Breen's dictionary (http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic) 'good, fortunate' is '礼' (rei). '令' (rei) is listed as 'command, decree'. The official character that is being used is '令'.

Is there some rule or convention that explains why 令 means 'good, fortunate' here? Is it due to the usage in the 7th century poetry that is referenced in the article?
aufs performance is bad.

Just use overlayfs and your performance issues are history. Works perfectly on Ubuntu 16.04 and I hope nobody needs to use significantly older systems.
This directly runs counter to the idea I was going to pitch.

Send in the troops and have the Core of Engineers actually build out infrastructure and cities to bring them up to modern code in a maintainable way. Also pull in some locals for education in how that stuff is done in the process and try to do knowledge transfer of "This is how you build civilization that does not get flattened by a hurricane."

Given the political history, I doubt that would go well. Is there a foreign military power with a similar skill set that could do this task?
Google has a long long history of failing in the medical space. They tend to overengineer their products in a way that makes sense if you’re a computer engineer, but not if you understand anything about the healthcare system. Facebook has no legitimate history developing these products either. It’s more involved to develop health products than it is to sell ads. And when it comes to deep learning, optimizing your ml for 2D rbg is not the same beast as volumetric 3D data.

And besides, let’s say tomorrow they have a method to do it tomorrow: how do they prospectively scam patients? How do they deploy the algorithm in a clinical setting? For any of this as a product to work, it would have to be integrated into a mri controller. Unless I’m eating my words at RSNA this year and deep mind is presenting their work, I’ll remain highly skeptical that this is going anywhere beyond a PR story that’s been sold to the media.
1. Maybe, but that should be a tradeoff that is made consciously with some analysis and care, instead of just jumping over a low FDA bar, which is what everyone in this space seems to be doing. I think there are enough abnormalities that can be fatal which a net would just fill in (e.g. aortic dissection?)

2. There are thousands of different abnormalities. From what I understand about the FDA validation process for this sort of thing there would be only 10s of abnormalities. There are likely, many, many of them that are quite obvious to radiologists. And once again, this would be a question that should be studied carefully when people's lives are at risk, instead of just assuming that it will be fine then going ahead to "move fast and break things"
global $wpdb;
$prefix = str_replace('_', '\_', $wpdb->prefix);
$tables = $wpdb->get_col("SHOW TABLES LIKE '{$prefix}%'");
foreach ($tables as $table) {
$wpdb->query("DROP TABLE $table");
}

Essentially for those who aren't familiar with WordPress databases - this drops all tables relating to the WordPress install
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In case someone is wondering what 996 means: Expected hours of work are 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

I think that's far past the point of being productive.

People's brains just can't function at a high level for so many hours. Maybe a lot of the time is spent socializing, like Japanese salarymen do (e.g. having drinks or eating dinner together).?
I was one of the first 5 employees at a YC unicorn. They haven't had an IPO yet, but it's getting closer. My original offer was for 0.5% of the company, but I didn't vest all of my shares before leaving. The shares are currently worth about $1.5M, and I'm hoping that they will be worth about $3-5M after the IPO and lockup period.

My salary was $120K and I relocated to SF from a different country, so I don't really feel like I took a pay cut. But the cost of living was extremely high, so the money didn't go as far as I thought it would. Especially because my spouse wasn't able to work on a dependent visa.
Stories like this are why I do not donate to charities at all.

It is just too hard to verify that my money isn't going to pad some dictator's pocket.
Is this related to C# having this structure where everything is split into hundreds of csproj files and multiple solutions?

And this must be related to needing to have pdb file or being unable to debug.

I wish those two things were not the case. And nuget.

I find C# wonderful except those particular decisions give me pain on a daily basis.
If you want, the MTA is hiring. Or, you can start a union at push for pay raises for your industry.

Putting that aside, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_transit_cri... points out that worker salaries are only one of many costs for the MTA, and not the predominate problem:

> On November 18, 2017, The New York Times published its investigation into the crisis, with over 1,000 readers having submitted stories about the effects of the past year's subway delays. It found that politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, at the mayoral and gubernatorial levels, had gradually removed $1.5 billion of MTA funding. ...

> The New York Times described MTA funds as a "piggy bank" for the state, with the issuance of MTA bonds benefiting the state at the MTA's expense.[16] By 2017, a sixth of the MTA's budget was allocated to paying off debt, a threefold increase from the proportion in 1997. The city's $250 million annual contribution to the MTA budget in 2017 was a quarter of the contribution in 1990.

> This lack of funds was not only due to the gradual reduction of funding. Other actions by city and state politicians, according to the Times, included overspending; overpaying unions and interest groups; advertising superficial improvement projects while ignoring more important infrastructure; and agreeing to high-interest loans that would have been unnecessary without these politicians' other interventions.
Maybe they should make it clear then that all Google accounts/services are disposable like used toilet paper. See how that goes over.
Probably should have been steamrolled by Uber but managed not just to survive but to thrive. One key to success is that many believe the product is better, at least in part because riders and drivers seem happier. Very fast growing and huge revenues and gross margins. Along with Uber has pioneered a very successful and desirable transportation category. Good enough to complete a good, successful IPO.

I don't see much health value in ability to short over-valuation.
I don't think Guido's Twitter has much influence in China.
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The video doesn't actually live to its title, as there's an important link missing, but here's what I got:

They did very well for a long time, but then the 80s arrived. Suddenly there were better shows (Transformers, GI Joe) during the entire week rather than just weekends, and they lost a lot of market. They later went to Cartoon Network and created some new classics (Powerpuff Girls and co), but for some reason (not explained) that wasn't enough.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

No need to rely on third party service.
So what does short pressure do and how does that relate to the sentence you quoted?
It looks like the company involved is based in the U.K. and also seems likely this software and their usage of it is a violation of the Computer Misuse Act.

One of their competitors should consider filing a complaint with the relevant authorities, so this gets formally investigated.
tons of wordpress themes and plugin are complete crap - even popular stuff. nobody reads the code or knows how to read it. it makes claiming bug bounties on wordpress sites easy.
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Not sure I understand what you're suggesting here.
You mean it's not enough to trust in average accuracy, you want trust in specific instances of application?
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The square / single-glyph version is only used in some / limited contexts, in most contexts (including the emperor's eventual posthumous name) heisei would be written and displayed "normally".
> As fitting a portrait of our present era’s wealth distribution as any.

Wishing to buy a $172k real estate property is hardly a problem or a sign of income inequality for a US citizen, where the average home listing price is about twice that value.
I wasn’t making a personal attack against the OP. Just disagreeing with their assessment of “freak out”.

Also being a long established user doesn’t invalidate my point about it being an alias account. It can’t be a fresh account because those don’t have the necessary karma to -ve vote
Marin is full of the worst kind of NIMBYs (even by Bay Area standards). That said I support the idea of building more low-income housing in San Rafael (even in Lucas Valley) but I doubt Lucas' intentions were an earnest attempt at providing meaningful low income housing to Marin County.

One of the biggest problems, IMO, with densifying that area is that there's essentially zero public transit beyond the bus pads (one in each direction) on CA-101. The "SMART" train runs about a mile east of 101, but there's no Lucas Valley / Smith Ranch Rd stop. If there's anything that Marin is worse about than housing it's transit. And if there's anything worse than suburban sprawl it's suburban sprawl without any infrastructure to support it. Marin ought to charge for access to the park and ride lot and use the money to fund both a SMART "station" and a shuttle bus to run down Lucas Valley Road to the station. And then build the spite housing.

Oh well, at least he's not freaking James Hetfield.
This is a cultural heritage of East Asia countries.
I would think it's much more indirect than that. We know women have much more robust immune systems than men do, presumably partly because of the rigors of pregnancy, dangers of child birth, and demands of child rearing. And this is true across species.

What was immediately fascinating to me about this article was the relationship between the immune system and pain sensitivity. Women suffer from autoimmune disorders much more than men because of their stronger immune systems. Makes one wonder if differences in the pain pathways are adaptive to the stronger immune system.

Regarding painful child birth, from an evolutionary perspective it would only matter if the pain itself resulted in less reproduction. The pain is rather fleeting, all things considered, and worst for the first child. And there are many ways for natural selection to mitigate any negative impact on reproduction, such as flooding the woman with hormones that make her forget it, increasing sexual desire, etc.
Have you ever heard of Banoffee Fruit?
Thanks this comment is useful, client side integration is integration after all, and I think if it was simple, you would have it done differently (if I understand your words correctly - "cheating").
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Any large examples of this? Only one I can think of is Mondragon Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
I never had a raise as an employee more than 5%. I only once moved jobs as an employee for less than 50% and I tended to stay for 18 months to 3 years.

I've been contacting for 8 years now, have nearly doubled my rate over that time mostly with the same client and never been told they won't pay the rate rise (number of employee devs who been there longer is zero - they haven't had pay rises). I've probably nearly found the limit without calling myself something other than a developer, or giving up being remote.

Someone told me at the start of my career that dev jobs don't tend to give pay rises and to just suck it up and move every couple of years if you want the rewards. I think they were about right, short of contracting which changes that relationship. It sucks but companies are wired to take advantage.
Oh boy... Well, doesn't do me any good, so never before told, but I guess I only have so many stories to tell before I get hit by a bus, so... Briefly:

2007-2009 Satellite project at Stanford. Very modest capabilities. Prof had idea. Design and operating system by adjunct. Hardware by LMT volunteer (the real hero). I, also volunteer, wrote control software, did radiation testing at UCD LinAc. Bunch of students too. Then deployed to Afghanistan, heard nothing. Came back 3 years later, went to random meetup: person I've never seen presenting talk about founding company with brilliant undergrad who built a tiny satellite that could read license plates from space. Wait... what? Oh that guy. Hmmm... well, I wouldn't have done it, but hey, the pitch worked. $100M funding... wow. $500M acquisition by Google... eyes wide open. AFAIK, others not involved. Hope HW hero got something: quiet, humble, fast, obsessive, helpful, learned so much from him, but seems to have disappeared.
I’ve been doing an increasing amount of Node development in WSL, and the thing that helped me the most where it regards disk performance was adding an exclusion path to Windows Defender so that it wouldn’t constantly scan my WSL working tree.

Also, I get it that some kinds of testing “feel better” when done locally, but... why not have those run on a cloud VM?
> Is this related to C# having this structure where everything is split into hundreds of csproj files and multiple solutions?

I agree that having lots of projects is a pain in the ass, and projects should be used for organizing code into deployment units not for logical separation. But this isn't a feature of the language just a decision(I believe a poor one) a previous developer on your project made.
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I don't know anything about WordPress, but isn't a plugin supposed to alter the content of the site using their software? If it didn't, why use it?
The splitting is entirely optional though? You split if you want to produce more binaries. If you keep everything in a single project, you get a single artifact.

Having debug symbols in the binaries also seems like an odd choice to do (at least by default) as they can eassily be 10x the size of the binary.
https://m.xkcd.com/1958/
I just happened to what a How It's Made about Worcestershire sauce last night and it sounds like they have a common origin.
Although interesting, I think the example is a sign of over self improvement. When your only way to do more work is going to the toilet less often you are overbooked big time and there will be no way to get more productive, no matter what angle you look at it. Quite contrary, you will be less effective (!) on the long run. It is a vicious circle.
The what, as far as I understand the video was 80s toy tie-in cartoons such as Heman, GI Joe and transformers that ushered in a new style of animation and a new way of financing them, ultimately leading to HB dropping in value and getting purchased.

What the video doesn’t touch on is:

Who are these studios animating them? According to the video, the entire tv animation market was more or less HB. How could these studio rise out of seemingly nowhere and produce high(er) quality animation?

Why wasn’t HB part of these tie-ins? According to the video, they owned the market. Aren’t they the obvious choice to ask to produce, when you want a cartoon about your new toy?

Why didn’t HB pivot towards more action animation in the 80s, when going up against TMNT and Dino riders?
Charitable or spiteful? Why not both? This seems like a great outcome considering how sorely affordable housing is needed in the Bay Area.
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"In fact we don't even agree on how to spell basic words"

Yes the US seemed to go with Webster, while the rest of the anglosphere went with Johnson. Not quite as simple as that, as there were a few different waves of reform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_re...
In this particular case, '令月' means[1], a good month.

https://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BB%A4%E6%9C%88-660939

If we have to trace back even further, it can date back to the ancient Chinese classic, the Classic of Poetry, where it is being used as good/respectful:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%A4%E9%97%BB%E4%BB%A4%E6%...
> some people must decide how this standard should adapt with the evolution of the world

Actually, no. Neither English, Spanish nor German have a dedicated powerful centralized institution that makes those decisions for the language, and I guess Chinese doesn't either?

> But the decision they make are not arbitrary decisions based on their personal feelings, they are guided by the etymology of french.

French differs strongly from other languages in how current developments are integrated, think ordinateur, portable and not having a word for uploading stuff. They might be guided by some principle, but it leads French being an artificial and very strange language that's hard to learn and differs more than necessary, from English especially.
I've been eating ketchup for 40 years. I've never kept it in the fridge. I hate putting a thick cold sauce on hot food. I've always assumed that the vinegar and preservatives were enough to make it last for the short time a bottle of ketchup lasts in my house.
It is clear to any mind of intelligence that you cannot give something less information and expect it to give you back better decisions.
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I'd recommend reading the article.

Before the image itself, there is "a School Zone sign, crosswalk, an extended curb and a sign by Preventable that reads: You’re probably not expecting kids to run out on the road". It's hard to imagine that anyone would be going fast enough to cause any damage.

Furthermore the image was there only for a week. I somehow doubt drivers would suddenly start to ignore children, after they saw fake image of a child five times.
Correct. I misjudged the feedback. See you then.
I had no idea C#88 was a thing. Thanks for sharing.
Perl is actually executing the text transformations. The python is a translation layer between the bsed syntax and the Perl command, so you get the performance of Perl with a very minor time cost for interpretation done in Python.
Yes, the microcancer idea is correct, however in most of these cases the cells also produce signals that notify the immune system that they have gone out of control, which then promptly kills them. It's also why patients that suffer from a specific type of skin cancer( can't recall the name) are usually HIV carriers while that type is very rare in the general population. So the cancers that we do see in the general population ( i.e. not immunosuppressed) are usually the ones the immune system can't deal with.
(a) How you structure larger applications into projects (assemblies) is largely your own problem. If you have a component that's intended to be used from different projects, then it sometimes makes sense that it gets its own project as well. However, you can just as well cross-include the source file if you want. There aren't that many things that explicitly require separate assemblies.

(b) Debug symbols have to be there for you to be able to have source-level debugging, of course. You can always debug the assembly code, of course. For Microsoft's tooling, PDB files are the debug symbols that link the assembly code to the source code. Other tools sometimes embed debugging information in the binaries. And if this information isn't there, you can't have source debugging either.

(c) No one's forcing you to use NuGet, although I wonder what you particular problems are with it.
I remember when home computing was full of neat hobby OSs. It was fun. Then somewhere around the last 20 years everyone stopped writing kernels and just built Linux distros instead (and these days you don’t even see that much variety in Linux any more either).

Anyhow, this project looks really inspiring. At least from a quick cursory glance. Looking forward to digging a little deeper tonight.
The hardest parts are getting those customers and keeping them. When you are high functioning like me you can do almost anything in IT, but lack people and social skills. People and social skills are needed to market and use public relations to get those customers and you have to emotionally connect to them. You have to keep them satisfied or else they leave and go somewhere else. You have to let them know what needs your products and services meet, you have to find ways your product and services save them money and time. This is why 9 out of 10 startups fail, can't connect to people enough to get them as customers.
Unrelated but anyone knows why the URL is not "SEO friendly"? I'm guessing they don't bother because the content is behind a paywall anyways?
This is super cool, TTD always has a special place in my heart. Any technical explanation why level generation is so much quicker? Not even a loading screen
I don't see any info about a license.

Strongly recommend using some standard FOSS license before plenty of people add commits and it gets a big mess clearing up the licensing situation later.