skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US Senate Warns Israel over Deepening Ties with China, Serious Security Concerns
How does this compare with Azure Cosmos DB?
The range isn't really a problem: all you have to do is have "battery stations" where you swap out the batteries in a few minutes. This has its issues (related to ownership of the batteries, and also standardization), but technically it's completely doable. They've had lead-acid batteries for over a century now, so if society had wanted to make EVs the norm, this could have been done.
Yeah, I think this is the single aspect that everyone finds unintuitive, everyone can understand it not having infinite precision or magnitude. It's probably a very reasonable design choice if we could just know the reasoning behind it, I assume it will be mostly about practicality of performance and implementing the operators that have to work with the encoding.
And people work on those teams. We are talking about the expected abilities of such individuals. How do you assess these abilities? What is expected?
Why would I, when I have tabs, and know that if I force-kill Firefox or Chrome, I'll get the "Session restore" screen the next time I run the browser? That's essentially "local bookmarks", but with much better UX.

(Yes, I do really force-kill browsers without mercy when rebooting. It's an effective strategy for ensuring I'll get at least some of my state back, and is more convenient than "session manager" features that keep coming and going.)
If the customer didn't pay the VAT, they'd end up paying their taxes some other way and still have less money to spend on your products.
Land is just that, the land.

Property is the land plus the structure on it.

It’s the difference between land value tax, assessed on only the land, and property tax, which is assessed on the land and structure.
It's called "cloud feudalism". Amazing how accurate that term is, during feudal times, the king was free to change their terms, and if you disagreed you could shut up or get out of the kingdom, which was a difficult process and meant cutting off ties with people and business partners (or letting them know about your change of address). And if the king said "You, you did something I disliked, out!", you could protest all you want but that would fall mostly on deaf ears.

Of course "deaf ears" is nowadays support emails being handled by copy-pasting bots.
They will not be able to get around know your customer laws. I don't know why people insist on thinking that they can get away with money laundering if they rub a little crypto on their financial transactions.
> The main difference between a software engineer and a devops engineer isn’t writing code, it’s the kind of code they write.

The other main difference is on your team. At my company we would expect that from a software engineer working on the platform, creating tools or shared libraries. A DevOps Engineer at my company would handle the orchastration of shared tools, (i.e. where is Jenkins hosted (VMs or Docker), how it scales, upgrades from Nexus to Artifactory, setting Dynatrace on prem with hooks into multiple cloud providers, the list goes on forever.)

Let's not assume all companies are the same, when probably half of DevOps roles are not about programming in an OO language and you can't easily or usefully unit test something that is like a configuration for mount locations across cloud provider
I'd recommend blocking off at least 6 hours for this. There are so many interesting exhibits and informational placards to read. It's well worth it though.
Yep but it is important to have arguments. I'll show mine, and then it's your turn to convince others. So this is the timeline:

- I start the Redis project, BSD.

- I get sponsors.

- Finally the sponsor becomes Redis Labs.

- I continue to develop Redis with my private roadmap,
still BSD.

- Redis Labs creates modules and other forks with enhanced capabilities, that were mostly out of the scope of the original project.

- Redis Labs changes the license of such add-ons to a proprietary one.

- The project on Github that everybody is participating to, and the only one I continue to develop, remains BSD.

Given the above, it's up to you to tell exactly what went wrong with Redis. If you believe for the story to be right that I had to force Redis Labs to license their code in a specific way, I think your reasoning is odd.
Just curious, which XEP is offline messages?

In Matrix, clients are supposed to implement the full Client-Server API. If a client leaves out e2e then it cannot claim to implement the matrix protocol.

Given that 1.0 of the full matrix protocol was published only a few days ago, it makes sense that anything other than the official implementations are behind. E2e in the official implementation is not that old either.

Even the official implementations need some work to be useful. For example, cross device signing is not there yet.
Where did you get this number?

A really, really big (like the biggest FAANG had last year) ML cluster would use at most four or five DGX-N’s to train a model, because that is the current scaling limit for CNNs.

Each draw 3500W:

https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx1-user-guide/introduction-to-...

3500 * 5 is 17,500W. A US space heater maxes out at 1600 watts.

Training for a week (5 days) is 2100 kWh, which is less than 60 gallons of gasoline, or 2-6 tanks of gas, depending on your vehicle:

https://www.convertunits.com/from/kWh/to/gallon+%5BU.S.%5D+o...
Also, feed cows seaweed to eliminate methane emissions: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/43225/
Who thinks credit card transactions suck?
You'll always need VMs says, surprise, VMWare
To a point, but like most things in software my experience is you look up someone who's already figured it out and copy them :) Granted you have to understand the code a little more and be able to apply it to whatever system/hardware constraints you're working with.

But just as higher level Software Engineers rarely have a need to implement recursion/graph traversal/etc, in embedded its even rarer due to the relative expense of such operations. I'd say knowledge of signal processing and how to power/performance/memory-optimize code would in general be much more valuable.
That’s catchy, but provide credit where it’s due... https://twitter.com/sarahjamielewis/status/11394299139229573...
>Another reason: Even today the energy density of batteries is SUBSTANTIALLY smaller than that of fossil fuels.

That's irrelevant. The thing people keep forgetting with fossil fuels is that most of that energy is being wasted to just produce heat. With an EV, 95-98% of the battery's energy is being used for propulsion (unless you turn on a heater of course).

In short, you're comparing apples to oranges.
Because you want to be able to actually buy stuff other than drugs with it?
Sure, walk away. How sure are you that the next role is going to be better? Another friend of mine changed jobs six times in two years. Now he's having trouble getting taken seriously.
There are two huge confounding issues here which make it impossible for me to conclude that Mg has an effect of depression based on the studies I've seen:

1. Magnesium may treat anxiety rather than depression. This is analogous to various SSRIs which arguably treat anxiety better than depression[1]. Anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, and both doctors and patients may be bad at differentiating between the symptoms, leading to "I feel better"-type reporting. This might mean that Mg supplementation is a good thing for depressed people because it treats their anxiety, not because it treats their depression. This alternative hypothesis is particularly compelling because magnesium deficiency has a variety of well-understood effects on muscle tension[2] which mimic physical symptoms of anxiety.

2. Magnesium is frequently supplemented concurrently with vitamin D, vitamin K, calcium, and zinc. All of these are known to be active in humans, and vitamin D in particular has been correlated with depression and seasonal affective disorder.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/07/ssris-an-update/ (see under the bolded "fourth" comment--SSC has a bunch of posts on this topic).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_deficiency#Diagnosis
>Try to keep this off Reddit and other similar sorts of things.

so much for that
We're in a trade war with China, and yet "our greatest ally" has been cozying up with China for years.
Technology acceleration programs, microchip fabrications (while Israel designs hardware backdoors into x86 chips; the DEC, or "Deeply Embedded Core").
Google "In Beijing, Netanyahu looks to ‘marry Israel’s technology with China’s capacity’", "Netanyahu Xi", "Israel China trade" etc.
How does no one else see this? And why are we still sharing our technology with Israel?
There are some semi-tenuous, but nevertheless interesting connections between this metamathematical line of thought and contemporary work on "grounding" in metaphysics.

I've long held the suspicion that there is some critical unargued for assumption in many of the relevant academic circles, here, that if reality 'bottoms out' somehow it has to bottom out in a monadic fashion. I've often wondered, why can't it be structure all the way down?

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I should add that many/most grounding theorists likely hold some sort of monadic view. I only mention grounding because it is seemingly closer to a 'structure all the way down' view than the predominant views within analytical philosiphy on what is fundamental.
People are using the wrong term here. Stablecoins (what Facebook has made here) aren’t cryptocurrencies in-and-of themselves; they’re systems that expose regular fiat currency to smart contracts, so that you can pass e.g. “5USD” from one contract to another without it losing value; or so that exchanges don’t all have to have their own relationships with physical payment-processors and banks, instead just allowing you to “buy in” and “cash out” in stablecoin assets, which you can then take to some other service to trade for physical dollars.

As such, stablecoins have entirely different requirements and properties than regular cryptocurrencies; for one, you usually want one big well-known entity backing them, because for the stablecoin to be stable, someone needs to back the coin with liquidity.

“Liquidity” is something Facebook obviously has more of than most others, so they’re an obvious party to build a stablecoin.

(Really, though, the best stablecoin for USD, would actually be run by the US government. There’s no reason for them not to do so, and no reason for people to reject them doing so. One could even interpret running a wrapped-USD stablecoin on any popular-in-the-US blockchain as being an obligation of the US Mint, given their mission. They’re currently failing to “print money” for these US markets!)
Paywalled, worse than adware.
I can certainly do infrastructure work. You better believe I hide that fact from my employers :P
You're not. You have no guarantees. Is staying in a volatile role where you're not sure what your job will be next week better? You are in control of your own destiny. Don't let someone else be.
That’s my impression too. I would expect more handcrafted code on embedded systems and you need more awareness of computational complexity and memory needs.
There are enough gateways into programming that if a child is even remotely predisposed to it, they'll come across it at the right time.
Opaque...? :)
This. Also capex and opex have different effect on taxes, since the government usually wants to stimulate innovation (subsidize capex).
You are looking at the wrong number :) That's the total amount of forks on GitHub. Whereas only 15 of them had any commits by people who forked the repository. Among those 15 people:

- One is a regular GIMP contributor.

- One couldn't wait another day for a macOS build of version 2.10.12.

- One patched file association on Windows and submitted his patch to the upstream project.

- Some of the others worked on their pet peeves, and some of them discussed it on the upstream bug tracker.

You might want revisiting your definition of a fork :)
I think their point is that the Order of Operation matters for global currencies, but not for mutual credit systems like theirs. But don't quote me on that.
The only thing that puts you in control of your destiny is not having a job at all.
I have used OutSystems for almost a year, I think it is almost the best in this area. But I still don’t like it in many ways. Its normal paradigm is simple imperative programming, and usually over abstraction. Some simple logic flow just easier to be read in text.

I can conclude OutSystems is not a completed solution for general purpose development, it is just a platform which provides simple template, components, programming. For systems which are data entry (what they call digital transformation), it is ok with an crazy license. However, if you want to implement some business logic, you are better to implement them in general programming language.

The components system really show what is leaky abstraction. For some plugin I have to understand what is doing behind. For native Cordova plugin, it is crazy to debug.

In a short run, it saves time, however, in a long run, it don’t have any advantages due to two reason: Its development speed will not able to catch up with technology trend, therefore, sometimes of its advantage is no longer an advantage, for example it have components, but frontend framework also have many components.
(Its component framework just copied from the open source, it is hard to find the documentation of the embedded version)

The eco-system just sucks, very few plugins because its plugins are not easy to make, and many of them are not supported by the Outsystems so most likely the plugin author will answer your question on the forum.
Iran and the United States Remain Mired in the Past
Italy: it’s complicated. We have effectively three separate police corps that do most of the work (carabinieri, guardia di finanza and polizia) and the first two are nominally under military control. Military personnel is forbidden from political involvement, but they still exert a degree of influence (the carabinieri are effectively led directly by government, and for historical reasons have a larger presence in remote areas than the other two forces, in order to enforce control; because of this role in “keeping the peace”, they often have the ears of rulers, so to speak). Civil police (polizia) has unions, typically led by ex-policemen, which are politicized.

Policing in Italy is still mostly stuck in the “authoritarian” phase, for umpteen reasons that would be tedious to list here. Suffice to say that a country where the largest police force is effectively military police, is not exactly a model.
Where do you live where your favorite spots happen to have superchargers?

I've looked into buying a Tesla and part of the reason I dismissed it is because here in Western Europe the supercharger stations are all in some bleak industrial estate by the highway usually next to a McDonalds or 1-2 restaurants.

I recently did a 1200 km drive between the Netherlands and Denmark & back. Looking at a map there's a supercharger every 100 km or so around that route, but having looked at some road trip videos on YouTube from Tesla owners their long distance trip becomes all about planning around the charging times.

I.e. I might drive for 6 hours with brief 3-4 brief 5-10 minute stops along the way, and maybe have lunch at some nice restaurant in a forest by the highway. Also, if you have young kids you really appreciate being able to loosely plan stops. I.e. "kids are asleep, let's keep driving" and "they just woke up, let's stop in the next 5 minutes for lunch".

Changing that sort of trip to introduce the variable that we must stop for 40 or so minutes (for 80% charging) in specific charging stations along the way might work for some, but I can't see how to plan around it without a lot of hassle. I'm not going to seriously consider an electric car unless there's something like Tesla's proposed battery swap where "refueling" takes less than 5 minutes.
This brings up a point not exactly spelled out in the article: the old GFS used a spectral method, not finite difference.
Failing at a crime is still a crime. If you try to rob a bank but get no money, you still tried to rob a bank
XR Talks: Internet Trends Report, the AR Angle
That makes more sense. I couldn't see how mis-estimating by about factor of 2 could account for $193B:

> 25 GW to 30 GW range "for the foreseeable future," less than half the amount it once expected.
I have been successfully using Node-RED for quite some time now (https://nodered.org/) :) really like it so far, great tool to quickly add simple and complex health checks to your systems and automate various tasks that no necessarily deserve to have their own services. Kinda like your own FaaS platform (mine runs on an Intel NUC).

Luna looks great and I actually think I initially saw it and then I was looking for it but couldn't find it, ending up with Node-RED. I might give it a try, however I didn't see any mentions of how it integrates with Git :/
Toyota is the only company pushing hydrogen as a fuel for cars, and it's puzzling why, because they really don't have many advantages, and a ton of disadvantages compared to BEVs.

Everyone else is working on BEVs, including the Chinese.
Visa, Mastercard, Uber, and PayPal Invested in Facebook’s Crypto Project
I feel like interviews are more of a legal IQ test than anything else. If you are smart and spend a couple weeks grinding LeetCode, you should be able to solve most of those types of problems pretty quickly, so those types of interviews filter out those who either aren't willing to spend time on LeetCode to get the job, or those who aren't smart enough to quickly match up the interview problem with the ones they have seen before. And of course it also filters out people who get really nervous during interviews, or who just happen to get a problem they haven't seen before, but if you are a big tech company you can generally afford false-negatives. IQ is a pretty good predictor of job performance, so from the employers perspective it makes some sense imo, and it also avoids a lot of room for bias accusations.
He does, he's married to Tim O'Reilly's daughter and now runs an incubator that could be viewed as a grown up version of Zero Prestige

https://otherlab.com/

I used to Kitesurf with these guys when they were still at MIT. Awesome bunch.

[edit] apologies, I thought you were talking about the Zero Prestige founder and now realise you're talking about the parent's anecdote. As someone who builds his own kitesurf gear, electric vehicles, maintains an old house and has a wife & two rambunctious boys - it's totally doable.
Obviously you can group people according to generic similarity. That could only be false if there were no generic variation.

The point is that there is no independently motivated means of grouping people according to their genes that will make, e.g., the racial classifications of current US society fall out as a result. You will get clumps, but you won't get one clump corresponding to African Americans, one group corresponding to Latinos, one group corresponding to Asian Americans, etc. etc.

People who are obsessed with linking these non-genetically-defined classifications to genes are, almost invariably, racists. What other motivation could there be?
Yes, you can force it on all games if you want. I'm currently playing many games on the latest version of Proton.

It might be named a bit confusingly though, I'm at work and don't remember exactly but it might be worded something like "Override proton version for all games" which also enables it for games not explicitly marked as compatible.
Oh I completely agree, but like it or not such questions have become the unofficial Software Engineering SAT. Part of being an engineer is working with/around other peoples' bullshit. If the furthest that extends is a dumb interview question or two, that's a dream job. :)
Do you nap in this phase, or just have a few days totally dead?

Onset insomnia is (or was) my main thing. I tried this and remember feeling totally dead. Couldn't get through it.
If it only goes between depots on highways, isn’t that the opposite of last-mile?
The whole point is to make your team heterogeneous*, so in terms of skills you need to staff for all your needs.

"We'll use python on GCP with PostgreSQL as a backing database"

Well, then you need an expert in GCP, Python and postgresql. This can be as many people as it takes to have those skills covered.

As for responsibility, well, that goes for where your skill is. If you're the resident postgresql expert then you're expected to be responsible for supporting people with it.

It's likely you'll need to worry about patching the OS and stuff like that, but I don't think you need a dedicated person to be responsible. The point of DevOps is mostly to bring down the silo'ing, not to eliminate a particular role.

But it certainly appears employers are salivating over the idea of hiring less specialists, or simply rebranding sysadmin to "devops".
Based on the role you expect them to do in the team?

Hire the software engineers with an appropriate interview process covering development practices and coding.

Hire the system administrators with similarly appropriate interviews.

Hire the database administrator with their own appropriate interview.

Is this that hard?
Amd 2500 pages of documents does not look that impressive when you have 2500 people in staff.
Sleep is a fundamental need for the human body, on par with food and (ok, maybe lower than) oxygen.

Maybe you're blessed with effortlessly getting enough of it, which in case congratulations. A lot of the people around you are not.

One thing I'm not saying is you should maximize sleep. Just get enough, and get good quality. Maybe that's our misunderstanding.