skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a startup and then switched to a bigger product company: Zoho.

If there's one thing I'd take away for the rest of my career from Zoho, it would be frugality in adopting the latest of tech.

When NoSQL was all the rage, the company stood firm that relation databases had rock-solid mathematical foundation and stayed away from the bandwagon. It paid off.

When every other company wrote blogs about rewriting their software in NodeJS, Ruby & Python, the company stood ground with statically typed languages. It paid off.

My own team, Zoho Writer has a strong policy against incorporating third party libraries without good reasons. This way, the product is nearly a decade old, but the JS size has remained surprisingly small, all through its evolution.

I believe staying frugal in adopting the latest hype, can only be reasoned about in hindsight.
I've always loved C&H. I bet Bill Watterson would have loved the freedom of webcomics.
The problem is that housing needs change.

In fact:

> Once you've got enough rooms to cover everyone's needs
(kids don't have to share a room etc)

This would have been considered opulence 40 years ago.
I think it can be done in a much simpler way: "What do you need?" If he says, "nothing" then you reply "Ok. Let me know if that changes. I'll help in whatever way you want." and then move on. He's not going to budge right now, but he might in the future. You've planted a seed with him that you're available. He might never reach out. There's nothing else you can do that is productive but accept that.
Grouporn might have some...
I got an ad for McDonalds on this
The pattern in general is used by more or less every database in the form of write-ahead logging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging
> a mamaRoo

That's a swing. A fancy swing, but a swing nonetheless. We've had those for decades and before electricity cradles existed for probably as long as we had furniture.
I quite like the image of an idea floating somewhere near me so that I can 'think at' it!
Schmidhuber did way more than LSTMs. And they still are SOTA on many tasks. You clearly are not very familiar with the field.
It has fucked up so many times I stopped counting to be honest. They are very valid advantages and goals that are worth to defend and indeed some very good policies. But it just doesn't seem to work as a vehicle of democratic formation of will.

Lacking any form of real opposition withing its organs, it should be reduced in scope to a large degree.
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Mongo but I remember having significant performance issues with indexed arrays, particularly for compound indexes. They weren’t solvable by any tweaking, it was a fundamental problem with that feature, to the point where we wondered why they allowed it at all. It’s possible they’ve fixed it by now.
> As the author suggests PayPal might be more popular because not everyone has a creditcard

Or a credit card that's not otherwise accepted. My main card is a JCB card, which is poorly accepted outside of Japan. PayPal will accept it though. I have VISA cards as well but either with pathetically low credit limits or they're debit so I avoid using them.
The beginning of the robotic takeover according to Manna :) https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
You're giving people a financial incentive to give sensitive information to sketchy websites. Now all of your embarrassing, pervy interests can even more easily be tracked to your personal identify.
yeah bikes and longboards were really popular until we could drive
I'm always disappointed there is no standard for just sending markdown emails. They work fine as plain text, are future proof & any can easily be styled up an email client to fit with the rest of its design.

Always a shame to have to go full HTML email, just for some light formatting.
Aaand of course. What else could it be, but the economic power moving to write laws to benefit themselves, stifle competition, overrule the will of the people, and impose their rules on all of us.
if you go around worrying about every little thing like this, you will never live
I think you're seeing this in physics because, in terms of experimental accessibility, the low-hanging fruit are mostly picked.

Most parts of the Standard Model are verified to 5σ at all energy levels that are accessible to us in everyday life and in contemporary particle accelerators, so it's increasingly unlikely that we've missed any obvious mechanisms.

If we're going to find some completely new physics (in the same way that quantum theory and relativity theory were completely new at the turn of the 20th century), it's probably going to be at energy levels that contemporary particle accelerators cannot yet explore.

EDIT: That's not to say that we know everything that is to know about the accessible energy levels. There's so much in our theory that's yet unexplained, e.g. for all I know, we still don't have any idea why time works the way it does.
This was voted in 2 years ago and there are still no plans to actually implement it.
India shoots down satellite in space; Modi hails major breakthrough
“Non-Blockchain Games Involving Money Must Die”
What’s the rationale for this? Is kids even looking up porn an issue anyone cares about? If you’re old enough to search for porn (I had my first foray into porn at 11 or 12), you’re probably old enough to watch it right? Maybe girls look it up a latter, but boys start getting curious on the cusp of puberty.
I was merely pointing out the causal relation of vaccination vs life expectancy. Do we agree so far? Doesn't that mean there will be a higher proportion of vaccinated to unvaccinated people over time, because math?
Programming a voice controlled drone using Node.js and ARDrone
Bill Watterson retired at 36
If you need limited document storage capabilities I'd recommend just using S3 alongside a traditional RD like PostgreSQL. You can simply store object IDs in the primary database but the actual document/data in S3. I used this methodology for a cloud platform I built that required the ability to store large 3D models uploaded by users. Metadata was stored in PostgreSQL then the actual data in S3. This also facilitated generating a acquisition URL on the server which could be triggered client-side so that after initial creation, there was almost no primary server overhead (bandwidth or storage) for retrieval.
We had figured out the issue years before that episode. We did write him a nice application note / errata describing the issue.

They were just declaring static/global variables that they didn't know were forbidden.
> I think the reason you want them connected is the ability to channel private capital towards achieving medical progress.

And yet, despite having that connections, not only in the medicine but in all branches of technology, most impactful discoveries of last century come from tax funded university research not business.

Business is best at researching how to reduce the cost of manufacturing and distribution of a thing. Which is very important by itself. But when it comes to finding new stuff business usually falls short because it's too risky.

> inherent and huge pot of money

Size of this pot of money is direct result of how much the company will be allowed to charge for the drug once it's discovered.

Comapnies are so risk averse that you have to make this pot of gold disproportionately huge by allowing them to charge whatever they will manage to squeeze out of the market.
(5th year PhD student)

Working on my thesis analysis (collider based HEP), squeezing in time for OSS development and prepping for a jump to software dev.

I love physics, but academia is in a rough place right now. Almost everyone I know pursuing the academic career path has nightmare stories.
For me as a reader, it used to have a value add that it was a great experience for reading. Clean interface, minimal formatting, columns not too wide.. basically, it just got out of the way and made posts easy to read.

Recently, it's lost a fair amount of that value as they push towards installing their app, etc. It's by no means the worst, but I'm no longer happy to see that a post is punished on medium vs $personal_blog.
Ah that's fine, all the landowners will be living in NZ compounds with armed guards soon enough.
The thing is this: When you are shunned, you don't get to learn to fit into groups better. You are simply left out. No one picks you until adults step in to make sure you are included, and if you are lucky the adults aren't part of the shunning.

Luckily for me, Girl Scouts was only somewhat bad one year. We moved, and then I hated the activities which focused around makeup and "girl stuff" instead of crafts and camping and things. My shunning was in school itself, and unfortunately the teachers didn't help at all.
> Not that physics has no theories, but I dropped out of studying physics myself over a decade ago, and at that time it felt a lot like the balance in physics has shifted towards having to measure and process disproportionate amounts of data with so much precision that has to be automated, or like you said do a ton of really complicated modelling. It feels a bit "stuck" that way.

The reason for is just how damn good all the Physics Theory is. People keep having to look closer and closer to try to find a place, any place, where the theory "fails" (in a sufficiently spectacular fashion) hoping that that might point the way to new phenomena and new theory. There's a giant multibillion dollar hole on the ground in Switzerland who's main purpose was to find a chink in the armor of HEP or help point the way to new theories. It failed spectacularly, but they're already talking about building a bigger one :)
Yes. While i am in favour on many basic ideas of the EU, in in current state it is doing far more harm than good and i do not see that changing. The bureaucrats in charge seem incapable of reforming the institution. Therefore: abolish and rebuild.

Honestly for me this looks like history repeating itself, i see many parallels to the USSR:

* Unaccountable bureaucrats with names largely unknown to the public are in charge. 99% of EU citizens could not tell you who the presidents of the EU council, commission or parliament are -- or even what the difference between those three entities is. Hell, even many political commentators couldn't tell you.

* Anti-EU fores within the EU are "bullied" out (think about the european constitution referendums in France, Ireland etc.). There is a "make them vote the right way or change the rules" mentality.

* Pumping out a vast number of laws, rules and regulations. Dairy farmers have been subjected, in the last few years alone, to 1,100 separate, specific new laws.

* In the former USSR the citizens of individual countries were told that they should forget about their
former national identities. They should, they were told, consider themselves members of the USSR rather than citizens of Ukraine or Estonia. Exactly the same thing is happening in the EU superstate.
Same. That comes from experience. 2 out of 2 of the places I've worked professionally that took CC payments directly initially had CC numbers appearing in plaintext application logs.

It's harder to make that kind of mistake in a Paypal integration so if I'm buying from someone outside of my comfort zone I'll look to use Paypal.

Stripe also makes that kind of thing more difficult to do accidentally. I've occasionally had a look to see if a company used stripe.js before putting in my details.
Domino's has even less menu choice than McDonalds... But you do make a good point. I went into the flagship mcd's in Chicago the other day and those touchscreens, while not tinesaving at all, do allow you to get deep into a big menu and make all kinds of modifications. My friend accidentally ordered a bunless burger. As for me, when it said mcgriddles were sold out/greyed out, I simply ordered a sausage biscuit but subbed mcgriddle for the biscuit (the counter guy later told me they were still sold out and offered me a free mcdouble instead).
That 70's show isn't great literature, it's great satire. I agree 100% on how watchable it (still) is, especially how well they did with the timeless aspects of it. When the show first came out, I watched it with my mother (who would have been their age when the show was set) and she couldn't believe how spot on they were the feel of the era. The music and drug use (and the older generation not really understanding it all), traditional jobs starting to disappear, the coming of age, women's lib, etc. Teenage me could still identify with the kids, and now I feel for the parents.

It also really helps that all the actors were obviously having a blast making the show.
Usually quarks are confined in composite particles of two (mesons) or three (baryons) quarks. However they can also in certain conditions form particles of 5 quarks (the pentaquarks).
Money aside, there is a sort of more systematic reason we see physics MS/PhDs bailing to industry.

Though theory groups in general tend to use computational simulations as a tool to complete calculations, groups that develop novel computational methods and techniques tend to be headed by younger, more junior professors. These groups are typically well-funded and do very exciting (trendy? cutting edge?) work with distributed computation, machine learning, neural networks, etc, so they tend to pull quite a few students.

While these computational groups tend to bring in funding and are well-staffed by excited grad students, the junior professors leading them tend to be marginalized by the more traditional, seniority-focused establishment. Which is to say, a new PhD might have a lot of trouble landing a prestigious postdoc because a) their adviser might have been too young to have high name recognition outside their field and b) departments might place limits the amount of staff for these more junior professors/young groups doing exciting computational work. This is, of course, on top of the overall scarcity of jobs in academia.

But there's no such job scarcity in industry-- especially not for stats-smart programmers with years of experience a) wrangling data in python, b) writing fortran that runs on distributed clusters, or c) designing algorithms to solve /approximate hilariously expensive problems. Advisers know this and point some of their students who might thrive more in industry than academia towards that route.

(Anecdote: And of course, as a physicist who builds models/simulations in industry, I can speak a personally a little re: thriving. If you're someone in love with solving disparate problems, you're unlikely to find that in academia. Some of us learn in graduate school that we can't spend our whole lives-- or in my case, more than a few months-- solving one problem. Academia just... didn't seem like something that would be worth fighting for.)

I assume that this will gradually change as there's turnover within physics departments and we get more computational-first professors with seniority (or even in leadership). There are a few departments with better-known professors you can see it happening now. Universities are spinning up incubators and institutes for computational research. Physics departments are just slower to adapt to new developments, and the hierarchy of theorists can have more to do with seniority and internal politics than it does with technology.
I've really always considered copyright timelines of more than a decade to be way too long, honestly. Same deal with patents. Once the initial impact of the work is concluded, I don't see any reason not to open it to public domain. Where did this copyright timeline come from? Who decided on 70 years in France?
PhD 2008, now a data "science" generalist
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All copyright owners are greedy penny pinches. There's no special law for the Eiffel Tower, this is how copyright works by default.

Last week The Vessel opened in New York City. It's an enormous sculpture you can climb, six stories tall, takes up half a block and it's clearly visible from Jersey. It's illegal to take pictures of it without paying royalties for the next 109 years and 51 weeks, because that's what US copyright law says.
I am a physicist working as a physicist! My field of experimental particle physics, at least, is very hacker-ey: we develop instrumentation hardware, low-level data acquisition software, database and web apps for experiment operations and monitoring, and the like, beyond the data analysis. Of course, there are many industry opportunities for people with this kind of experience. In addition to the issues pointed out in other comments (small number of academic positions, salary differences), I think there are two cultural factors that are helping people transition out of academia: an increasing awareness on the part of advisors and institutions that students need more broadly marketable experience, and a corresponding decrease in the stigma of leaving academia. As one example, I routinely see notices distributed for Insight data science programs within our community.
I found developing with MongoDB a pleasure, until its lack of transactions became problematic. Fortunately, the project I was working on didn't go very far.

At the time, I concluded that MongoDB was the "Visual Basic of Databases." It was very easy get something simple running, much like Visual Basic classic was.

Quite honestly, something ACID-compliant with a MongoDB-like API is really needed for small-scale projects and prototyping.
When was creation? If they change out the light pattern for a new one, or add blink tags to it or have it light up in a playful show involving multi-colours and timed to some inspiring music is that a new creation?

I'd guess that these aren't large enough differences to afford a new date but I almost feel resigned to the idea that this is exactly what will happen.
Then don't live in a city that reeks of urine and has garbage all over the place. Cities are ancient relics of a time when human beings had to have their atoms in the presence of each other to communicate rapidly. Don't live in one unless it has the quality of life you can accept. If you keep supporting sub-par cities, they'll never improve.
In Islamic societies, the tyranny of the state is supposed to be checked by the power of religion. Unfortunately, we can all see how well that's going!
Advertising your own apps/games in a different app of yours is still an ad.

If you click it, it will probably point to the play store to install it like any other ad.

Change the copy to "install more of my apps" and they will allow it.

Yes since they employed lots of manual labor, many false positive have hit me as well. And it's very frustrating.

But this is just another empty "Lets hate on Google".
Following the guidelines this IS a deceptive ad.

Simple reply them in the policy form and they'll get back to you why within 2 days.
A subducted crust would be like a reverse or upside down mountain, right? Is it accurate to call them mountains.

Like the difference between chutes and ladders.
If it's failable, it's not a bug.
Days since a car killed a pedestrian/cyclist in Montgomery County MD
Optimisations for PostgreSQL Serving Rails Application
Yours is a very generous assumption, having in mind that Facebook preferred to take over, improve and upgrade PHP, compared to moving away from PHP.

I'd think the code that serves your core business needs and brings in the real money is very conservatively managed -- and judging by the circumstantial evidence we have, I believe that's exactly the case for them.
Also Flickr, Twitter, imgur, Reddit, ... have large amounts of porn - are they going to be age-gated the same way?
Hah Hah, no.
I always thought about building something like this. Excellent work! Even serializes to JSON. Really nice.

It would be nice to integrate it with Python's standard logging system similar to how structlog does this.
On the other hand he would have hated the economics of webcomics... shameless promotion, social media, merchandising, patreoning, ads, etc...
Copyright law is completely bugged. Copyright should last 10 years or the life of the creator. And putting lights on a tower shouldn't be copywritten.
Well, somebody’s passport number.
I've always wondered: what's wrong with a child watching porn? (real question) Is it bad psychologically? Do we have study to back this up? I've been exposed to porn at quite a young age, say 10, never though it'd armed me.

edit: Thinking about it, I've found one reason: porn tend to be misogynistic hence makes a poor education. But then, blocking porn doesn't solve the root of the problem. Also, we all know what prohibition do when it comes to kids: makes it even more desirable.
I got my masters, then pursued a PhD for 6 months after which an opening in computer graphics came up in the industry. I abandoned my PHd and started a career as software engineer.

The reason was I sucked in physics, did not find my PhD position motivating and loved computer graphics.

13 years later I'm a valued technical contributor in a team in an ISV creating a valuable global software packages in the CAD field.

Middle class income, could probably make lot more in US with my skillset but family situation really is not awesome for expatriation.

I'm doing OK.

With physics skillset you can pretty much make your career what you want it to be. You just need a proactive attitude to read on other fields. You need to understand the other guys mindset so you understand the overall game going on. It's usually not nefarious (although it can be), but most of the time the rules that are used are not the vocalized ones. In this empirical physics is a wonderfull philosophical background. Organizations have certain dynamic rules which half of the people are not aware of. You don't need to "play the game", but you need to understand the rules so that when the wind blows into the direction you want to go into you can grab the opportunity.

I had a pretty good idea where I wanted to be 13 years ago (R&D in a position that values quality over quantity and speed with a great team) and that's pretty much where I am now.

You need to know where you want to go, and go there. No one will guide your path. Physicists are an outlier but that math and mindset is really an asset. Just don't get stuck in fixing bugs in some legacy monstrosity, that is absolutely soul crushing. But such a position can function as a stepping stone if you are operating in the industry you want to work in.
Honestly, every government is going to “fuck up so many times” that most people stop counting. The pragmatic reality is that you have to keep counting anyway, because it turns out that a million fuck-ups in a term of office really is better than a billion fuck-ups, and if every other party/multilateral org is making a billion fuck-ups per year while the one you’ve got is only making a million, you should vote to keep them, because voting them out would just mean voting to hand their decision-making power to a sibling or to a higher/lower level where more fuck-ups would happen.

(At least, this is true in an elected democracy, because of the required elements of politicking and bureaucracy that make democracies go. For the same reasons dictatorships can be worse than democracy, they could also—presumably—be better: a benevolent dictator could exactly express the will of a united people with no politicking or bureaucracy fucking things up. Though I don’t think that we’ve ever actually had an historical example of this.)
Bacteria are a different beast as UV radiation kills them vary easily. The odds of surviving a single day at altitude is fairly low. Combined with a low probability of reaching that altitude, let alone coming into contact with an viable host after such a journey push this into extreme territory.