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I know of many examples of ethical advertising and/or advertising that does actual good. For example nonprofits use advertising to raise awareness and funds. Without large scale advertising industry, it'd be impossible to reach that many relevant (interested) people. I used advertising to form a local social help group, that'd be impossible without Facebook.
They don't. They have a veto on whether the UK can leave on the terms that the UK wants.
I totally agree. This is good news.
Regional? A suit is the norm in DC for most industries, including software. I've only interviewed one candidate (in DC) who dressed casually. Two or three in suits w/out a tie or a blazer and dress pants. The rest were in a standard suit with a tie.

Bangalore was the opposite end of the spectrum. Not only casual attire but a casual attitude to the interview in general (cell phone on the bus, in the park, etc). I don't know if that would hold for local, in-person interviews, but was true for video interviews (development team is split 50/50 between DC metro and Bangalore, with managers in both locations).

At my employer, arm or neck tattoos would be noticed, but probably not impact a developers job prospects. Management might be a different story.

My wife is in banking and a suit is 100% expected at interviews. And tattoos covered. And piercings anywhere but the ear removed. A face or neck tattoo would likely be an immediate disqualifier for a job at HQ and probably also in their call centers or branches. Of course, they also dress true business casual every day (no jeans, men wear jackets, etc).
> This is really the problem with the entire early genre of adventure games.

One person's "problem" is another person's joie de vivre. I loved the original Zork and all the Infocom games back in the day.

I admit, though, that I don't know if I'd have the patience to play them today. E.g., they required making maps with pencil and paper and taking notes, etc. These days, I just want to kick back on the sofa and shoot aliens with space magic guns.
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Actually we use sqlalchemy internally for the backend-specific code generation
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Now basically make about $6,000-$8,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-13 hours a week from home. I was amazed how easy it was after I tried it…
This. ^ And as a piggyback what makes OpenAI five radically different from when they were trounced last year? They scaled up the computing and trained more hours. Butdid anything change? People are still saying it was its micro not it's long term strategy that won the day. Furthermore people who know OG are suspicious that they threw the match because they said "that's not how they play, they made to many amateur mistakes". I'm highly suspicious about OpenAI especially with how they handled GPT-2. Talking to journalist before releasing anything else. Propaganda is definitely what it sounds like.
Agreed! I'd say the SSD is a real, literal, game changer. Extra resolution is just more of the same really.
Automated discovery of late shipments eligible for a refund, which the carriers otherwise make very difficult to track. There are some services that can do this, but they take a big chunk of the refunds. We save thousands each year.

Many other specialized calculators and templates, which tend to be more foolproof than Excel.
What, pray tell, is the “main circuit for a region?”

Network bandwidth is still going up and up in speed. 100G was very expensive and hard to do only a few years back, now it’s becoming standard. DWDM systems continue to evolve.
Starting a university is in general not a good business, unless, like Olin, you start with a substantial endowment. There is plenty of perversity in university spending priorities and compensation structure without trying to make the equivalence with a two-sided market, which is only a small part of the picture. Moreover, the problems of universities are different for elite private, public, 2nd tier private, lower-tier private, speciality, and for-profits.
I dunno, it seems that these days the accepted way to make money is by nickel and dimeing poor people. How are they supposed to make bank on a family w/ kids that won't constantly owe extra due to delinquent payments? Just a theory, seeing as how the poor and the financially-irresponsible seem to be the best customers of banks and creditors. Might as well be the same for renters.
If your definition of fascism is "solidarity, mutual aid and collective care" then I think you might want to look up the word "fascism".
We're building something similar at work. There is actually an implementation of the very same mechanism using the operator framework. Here's the link: https://github.com/mumoshu/aws-secret-operator

Were you aware of this project? If so, why did you go for this implementation?
I have found that with social media in general it has never mapped to my interactions in person. I have friends I talk politics with, friends I talk sports with, friends I talk music, and etc. Sometimes they overlap, but almost never in totality. Social media gives me people in total, because I don't think people have really learned how to curate themselves, or really understand how the signal broadcasts. Everyone is learning by trial and error, and I don't think we are learning the right things yet.
When they talk about ray-tracing, they don't mean that real-time ray-tracing at 60fps is suddenly possible. We're a decade if not more away from that. They're talking about extremely limited applications for a few effects here and there, in specific scenes. That's what's been demoed so far.

NVidia has a bunch of demos with their newest hard-ware. The "Stormtroopers" demo was rendered in real-time, but on a very high-end >$60k workstation.
Basically. Once the work is no longer being used to profit from, and there's no intention to renew that profit, put that puppy in the public domain.
In the pro-usa way.
That the tech community is _supporting_ this authoritarian turn of events after how hard we fought MS back in the day is horrifying.
And what do you think wolfram alpha technology stack is built on?
People use Mathematica and Python for completely different things. By and large they don't compete.
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They don't read as incoherent to me. Imperative doesn't mean "will happen" it means "must happen" (to achieve some end).

So the quoted comment to me says "it doesn't need to happen (not imperative) but it's what likely will happen (where it's going)". No internal inconsistency.
The XBOX is a proprietary system, if you take the discs away then you have even less control, as the contents of the 1TB drive can be taken away from you, the discs cant, only your ability to access discs can be interferred with.

This sort of model is why i just use steam and GOG games.
I get to keep the game and run/tinker it on my desktop
Ask HN: Roles for software engineers who also like hardware?
I’m a software engineer with 7 years experience at a FAANG company who wants to scratch an itch to work more with hardware. I’m comfortable working with an oscilloscope as a debugger and looking at a power system design as software infrastructure. I have found myself more interested lately in doing something with physical devices instead of, say, cloud infrastructure. It seems that most roles are either one or the other, making it hard to find a place for someone with blended interests and experience. Are there companies and roles for engineers of this persuasion, and how should I find them?
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If you can rent a $6m mansion for $5,000 per month, you're getting a steal. In that case (and especially since this tax policy is pushing prices down further) it makes zero sense to buy.
The trouble with driving (or trains) is that my unthinking processing treats the speed as constant and shrinks the distances. Even cycling 1080 km along the Rhine, from the North Sea to the Swiss not-quite-Alps had that foreshortening, though to a lower degree.
Thank god, because look at those curtains.. !
It boils down to student loans and the ability for anyone to borrow almost any necessary amount of money to get an education when they are accepted to a highly desired school.

The endless supply of money combined with the demand for students to try to secure their future careers leads to constant price increases with no impact on demand.
+1000 This completely ruins using Twitter as an official support channel for a business. I want to be notified immediately whenever my company is mentioned, but enabling email/push notifications so that I'm aware of these asap also means constantly opening Twitter just to dismiss whatever unsolicited spam they're trying to put in front of me. It adds up to quite a lot of wasted time and is a downright obnoxious user experience--in the end I had to disable the notifications and our response times suffer for it. At this point I would definitely pay to have these irrelevant notifications removed.
The flip side of time dilation is Lorentz contraction. As you approach the speed of light objects in your direction of motion will become shortened from your frame of reference.

For example, there are particles from cosmic rays that should not be able to make it to the surface without decaying. However, they're detected all the time. Two valid ways to think of this are:

1. From the Earth's frame of reference time moves more slowly for the particle. This slows down the process of decaying.

2. From the particle's frame of reference the Earth's atmosphere is considerably shorter so it doesn't need to travel as far.

Things get a bit hairy to talk about once you actually reach the speed of light. One way to think of it might be from the photon's frame of reference its entire path has become infinitely short so it had no distance to travel at all.
I doubt most businesses would even care if their salespeople were tatted as long as it wasn't on their face or gaudy (like something lewd/tacky or really big like a full sleeve). An ankle or wrist tattoo seems pretty normal and may be visible a sizable amount of the time.
I would also be curious what are all those things that C can do but e.g. Modula-2 cannot, when it comes to being a "portable assembler".
Critical embedded systems for avionics and robotics systems frequently deal with values that must be within a certain range. Runtime bounds checking can be too expensive in these environments and dependent types would allow for provably correct bounded integers without checks. That is actually a problem I am dealing with right now in some MIL-STD-1553 data bus code.

While I was at NASA I was advocating for using Rust instead of C/C++ and FORTRAN and many people were interested because of the safety/performance aspects. I think it would take some serious ground from them in that area with dependent types also.
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That would be something to replace with something that can't burn. Stainless steel is the obvious, aluminum and plain steel are nice aside from corrosion, and of course one could spend the money for titanium.
They where saying that in the 1970's how do you automate even basic front end development of a web site today ?
This is a great article. Let me add one more idea. This is that the accreditation organizations get in the act and demand that universities decrease the proportion of adjuncts.
LISP will still be there running like a river of molten lava inspiring future generations of language designers :-)
We need to roll back the protections that the social media companies have and make them more like phone companies.
> advanced training of any kind - credentialed or not - you had to go to university

not true. from music, to plumbing, to software, to fiction writing...

meanwhile the training MOOCs provide is hardly equivalent to a bachelor's degree in CV-terms let alone curriculum.

Meanwhile, for example, a Data Science in Python nanodegree may very well be better prep for an industry job than a statistics bachelor's, but the two were never going to be equivalent.
27% of federal spending in 2015 was Medicare, 33% was social insurance (social security, SSDI, and unemployment), 15% was military.

The United States Federal Government is a heavily armed HR benefits company.
Yes, that was the plan
This guy again. Now that Twitter is approaching irrelevance and there are a plethora of external services trying to make the UX better maybe there is the time to rethink some of it.
Depends on local weather conditions. Anywhere that road salt is used in winter, some hard braking regularly is extremely beneficial. Road salt is not only corrosive, it's also hygroscopic, so you really want to clean that shit off.

As for wearing out brake rotors prematurely - even with aggressive braking they last more than 50k miles. So on average you'd replace them less often than every 5 years, and they cost around around $250 for a set of four. Doesn't seem like a very good get-rich-scheme for the mechanic.
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I'm reminded of the PSP Go.

>“It’s about meeting the needs of customers that are digital natives that prefer digital-based media.”

It also helps eliminate those annoying first-sale doctrine rights.

I'll keep using physical media, which I have the right to sell and whatnot.
Wikilens is an old university project by a now Google employee. It already finished when he went to Google.
Make a tool that automatically converts a designer's spec/mockup into a performant webpage with high fidelity? Sounds very hard but certainly possible

To be fair there are already a lot of services that do this. They are just so commonplace we don't think of them as automation. And they don't allow super complicated setups so they're definitely not quite there yet in the general case. I'm thinking of Wix, Squarespace, basic wordpress.
You also have to share it with two raccoons.
No, we look at what makes the rich people richer, whilst giving occasional appeasements and not going too far so as to ensure there are enough "slaves" to do the work.

If it were about collectivism copyright would be about 5 years and noone would get paid more than a few times the median.
Then again, who uses at() inside a loop in C++? That's what iterators are for.
Is anyone using this yet? What’s your experience been?
They should have investigated the ATT->Cingular->ATT re-acquisition because the whole divestiture and reacquire scheme made no sense when cellular was clearly a growth industry a telecoms company would want in on. It had to be a scheme to hide something nasty on the books that conveniently disappeared in the shuffle.
A PhD isn't training to do a job other than research. If it is, it isn't a PhD. Some specific PhD topics have utility in industry, but that isn't guaranteed, and even if a topic does, the people studying that topic won't automatically know how to apply their work to anything a commercial employer would be interested in.

TL;DR: Until commercial employers start to rely on grants, a PhD isn't job training.
> "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Where does this come from? Why do a lot of people keep parroting it?
True, but the GP said that all he does is create some plots and Integra e every so often. Octave can handle that.
Of course... and they'll be better targeted to your precise location for tracking purposes too!
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Sorry, I was confused because you referred to his "preconceptions of Flash Boys as a bad book", and also talked at some length about how industry insiders don't like the book on Twitter, and also alluded to practices described by Flash Boys that insiders want to hide upthread.
Generally when this debate comes up, folks point to this [0] slide as evidence that Apple was a willing participant when is says no such thing. You are correct that the slide you linked to indicates that the data were flowing through the FBI DITU.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)...
I suspect a lot these "lucky students" are from well off families who may well know the landlord personally.

If your a poor "First Nations" student maybe not so much.
Even though I'm not French, not Catholic, not Christian, and have never been to Europe, yesterday I felt this overwhelming sadness and embarrassment about this fire. I was embarrassed that after so many centuries it was my generation that couldn't manage to keep the Cathedral safe.

Though seeing those first pictures yesterday, with the cross glowing as it was, gave me a sense of okayness. "We" responded quickly to a super-unfortunate accident and I believe, based on several sources of comments/Twitter that I've been reading, that we'll be able to rebuild it.

I strongly believe that two-hundred years from now the history books will refer to "The fire of 2019" as a powerful entry of resurrection in the long history of the Cathedral.
You're arguing that the economic expansion was a result of taxing the wealthy? Or, are you saying that because there are ways that this wasn't "the one true capitalism," then that means my whole point is invalid?
By following up with employer, this is what devs loose
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Being genuinely coerced into an action against your will doesn't leave you ethically liable for your actions - you need to have some intent and will to carry out your actions for any culpability in a philosophical sense[1]. As an example, if you were to hand someone a gun and tell them (in a manner which they fully trusted your honesty and intent) that you would shoot them and their friend if they didn't shoot their friend then... you're on really shaky ground philosophically - dismissing any scenario escapes (shooting your captor, disarming them etc...) you're left with three basic options, shoot yourself, shoot your friend, and refuse to shoot and have both yourself and your friend be shot - in this case it is logical and it should be a guiltless action to shoot your friend and preserve your own life (but it's complicated by our value system).

So, excusing part of an action due to a coercion to follow actions is valid, but every time we talk about this scenario in the real world you're going to have more options, maybe you doubt your captor would actually shoot both of you - in that case shooting your friend is back to mostly being your decision - the issue occurs when this grey story is converted to black and white and people paint themselves falsely as being unwilling participants. In WW2 US soldiers could have refused when asked to participate in concentration camps, it would have been severely inconveniencing and that counts for something, but they chose the easy route and that is a perfectly valid guilt.

[1] There is a rather sound argument to be made that evil and culpability is a false construct and that we should refuse to punish any bad actors beyond the point of discouraging recidivism. If there is a common good that we all share as a "known truth" then deviations from that truth can be considered to be impairments about seeing the truth and comprehending it which would lead any deviations from that truth to be understood as a need to enlighten their view of the truth. It's quite an interesting philosophical path to head down.
This was an interesting point which I missed at the time. However this situation would only occur extremely rarely in the normal running where the timestep is set small enough to produce reasonably accurate/continuous behaviour. Basically a state is so intricate and detailed that a coincidence of that kind is difficult to envisage, among multiple bodies, holding space and velocity values. And since going forwards or backwards in time always produces a single solution, (rather than multiple solutions) the idea of multiple plausible inputs still seems reliant on rounding error to me or numerical oddities which get more unlikely the more precision and smaller timestep is employed.
In America, it's permissible for employers to ask for a doctors note; it's less asking for a doctor's note and more that it's so small and no cost to them.
Accessing data and selling data are the same thing. For example; “I’m going to give you access to the answer for a math equation”. When you use your access to view the answer, you have the data and you don’t need access any more! “Ok great, 1+1 equals 2, you can take your calculator back now and I’ll call you up if I need access to it again”.
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> the money-men were thinking that far ahead

I wonder, in all that hierarchy, and in all those networks, who was "thinking far ahead", and who was cynically participating in the endeavor for personal gain, while quenching existential thirst elsewhere. In modern society, the majority of our lives are spent in the latter mode, I think: no one's passionate opus is sugar water or targeted ads, yet they occupy millions of us.

Incredible things can be done by people who are "phoning it in," by firms stacked top-to-bottom with talent whose passions lie elsewhere.

Is it possible that cathedrals, too, were constructed entirely obligatorily?
As a DoD employee....you are incredibly wrong. The DoD paid for my undergrad, then paid me a full salary to get a masters, and they do the same for a PhD. This is a very common thing for them to do.
Keep going! Has potential ;)
Look up "design by contract" for more background on these.

I really hope this will be the next mainstream thing in programming language design, after the current functional wave. Even without fully perfected static analysis tools, just the dynamic checks alone are well worth the trouble of writing good contracts, IMO. They also make for better, more precise documentation.
Students are paying for a reputation based qualification. Sure, you get teaching too, but thw quality tends to be hit and miss, whereas you can get consistently good learning resources elsewhere for much cheaper or free.
Like using LOGIC + Common Sense + Science + Facts + Biology instead of setting ITS rules to LEFT WING regression wokeness
...

Nope they cant do that, they are using WOKE capitalism to be LEFT WING political activists to control discussion ONLINE to support Global Socialist dictatorship to replace democracy
i can see no way to opt out of it either
I'm not sure I'd trust a food activist to arrive at nutritional truths. I'd rather listen to someone with scientific background: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
I use pandas mostly, rarely dropping down to NumPy. Are there non ML/neural network use cases where this library is meaningfully faster than numpy?
Even on the new Twitter Web UI it automatically changes back from "Latest Tweets" to "Home", although I visit the site several times per day.

If only Twitter had separate URLs for the two styles, then I could just update my bookmark...