skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need raw values for serialization over the wire and to files. And for any kind of compression. And for searching (it's hard to build indexes in Unicode because of uneven symbol widths).

You could convert to a different character format but at some point you need raw values. If you want to be able to read text created by something else (text editor, browser, different OS) you have to expose raw access.
I know a >40x developer. We started trying to get load of that single person, because they were heavily overload, were a single point of failure, and were doing so much that it was impossible for other people to grow new responsibilities.

We replaced part of that person with 2 teams of 20 people doing a small part of the work that this person was doing before. This person is still part of the two teams, in an advisory role, although they started as team leaders, but part of their job was now to grow new leaders that would replace them.

This person is still a >40x developer, still overworked, still doing way too much. Now we are trying to replace another of their responsibilities, with another 20 person team.

I'm pretty sure that once we do that, this developer will still be a >40x developer, just doing other things, that at some point, we'll need to replace.

FWIW, this person just does too much, because all that much must be done, and nobody does it, so they just take on it and do it, really well, and really fast. Most of this stuff doesn't even interest this person. There are some things that interest them, and that's what they want to focus and work on, but they still do all this other stuff.

So "replacing" them is actually something they want, but it takes time to recognize these problems, figure out how to solve them, grow people that can do the job, etc.

When I look at these two teams, and all the work they do, the only thing I can think of is wow, we didn't even know this 40x dev was doing to much. The dev didn't have time to complain, or write reports, or anything, because they were to busy doing all the stuff and putting out all the fires. It was only when they started saying that they would like to focus on this or that, and if we could find someone to take on this or that load, that we realized that no single person could take on these loads.
How is that not a valid word choice? Regime - Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.
Yes using dog whistle terms like "political correctness" is a bit of a bad sign.

in the future I could see some tech companies being considered CNI requiring security vetting - for senior / sensitive jobs.

Which of course would suck for those who came in via h1b and of course Mr Thiel who is a first gen immigrant would have a hard time passing DV / TS clearance.
Also CRISPR is being used for diagnostics, similarly to PCR. It can detect certain DNA sequences or select regions of the genome for targeted sequencing.
You can use MTurk on phones I assume? Even very poor people often have smartphones and data where I am living (Tanzania).
https://outline.com/zq5nfd
Number 5 especially. I've beem working towards financial independence to enable this.
FWIW, I've had a similar experience. So I was curious who sold my information and did some digging (was it my realtor, insurance agent, or title agent?). I asked each of them, they all denied it, but told me:

When you buy a house, all your info is public information on your county's website (most up to date counties). Unfortunately, I don't think you can stop them from publishing that information and having bots scrape that data to send you junk mail.
Yup. I loved the almost analog feel to it, very industrial. Much like a Pagani Hypercar
Honestly, adding legislature into code is a losing game. Let the developer just deliver a flowchart engine so that even unpaid interns can get to modify the logic.

In my opinion, a whole part of being a productive developer is about empowering people without the technical chops. If someone getting paid 10% of your salary can complete your previous responsibilities, you're technically a 10x developer.
I'd think it's so skewed that it makes the results worthless. I wonder if anyone's done a study on it (e.g. get an actual random US sample vs. a MTurk sample and compare the results).
Your point about "regime" is dead on. I never heard the phrase "Obama regime"; it was always "administration". Our media has a sickeningly blatant leftward bias, unless you go to fringe conspiracy sites which are no news at all. There are a few good ones, but not many.
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I was more continuing the binary digit theme, but at the same time it is a more common note. £50 notes are generally for doing crimes, buying cars or making shopkeepers stare exasperatedly at you.
Regime means "Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system." so it is a fitting use of the word in my opinion. The comments about fat people / etc he actually said and give a broader view of his speech.
Does Florida even have any non taxpayer subsidized entities offering flood insurance for homes? I thought all coastal regions were subsidized by the National Flood Insurance Program.
I think the OP was making a point about the £10 being binary: a 1 and a 0
I don't think I got any of it wrong, but in case I did I'd appreciate if you could point out my mistake(s). :)
I would assume that Amazon already does this. If a task is trivial enough for an AI, they would do it themselves and get the posters money before the job gets forwarded to the Turks.
Maybe it's a start.
It's more ethane than methane, but ethylene can be made from methane.

http://siluria.com/Technology/Oxidative_Coupling_of_Methane
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Seriously. I can't believe the mail doesn't violate some kind of FTC regulation about impersonating your mortgage lender. So many of the mailpieces were designed in such a way that I almost believed it was coming from the lender and not some third party company that wants me to buy a warranty.
I _think_ I understand the rationale behind `undef` in LLVM, but I still think it's a bad one, since it can, and does, lead to very surprising behaviour.

> LLVM propagates the `undef` outward through the expression until the whole condition is `undef`, and then it arbitrarily picks that the condition should be false.

I think this illustrates what I find counter-intuitive about this whole mess; any function of `undef` shouldn't itself be `undef`. `undef < undef` is false in my head. `undef < 150` is just unknown, not undefined, since we don't know what `undef` is.

> Basically, it helps to be able to replace "cond ? some_value : undef" with "some_value"

This feels really contrived; in what setting would this actually be useful?
> And a BA isn’t worth much regardless. Half the people I knew in college now work at coffee shops.

I agree with everything you said but just wanted to point out that in the comment you responded to, “BA” means “Business Analyst”, whereas in the sentence you wrote that I quoted it seems that you took “BA” to mean “Bachelor of Arts”.
Hm yea, so where does the water for the desert of CA come from? Isn't that what is being subsidized by USG?
> Yeah I agree, I assume this is actually the main reason he is so well known and celebrated today. Mere obsession with computers would make Godel, Alonso Church, and others with equivalent models of computation just as famous.

I absolutely disagree.

For one thing, Turing didn't just invent a model of computation - he invented what is seen, in some sense, to be the precursor to the actual, physical computer (the Turing Machine).

But more importantly, in addition to doing that, he actually built one of the first actual computers. And he did that in order to break the German encryption in WW2.

I am a huge fan of Godel's work, don't get me wrong, but Alan Turing was far more important in world history, and indeed in math/science history (though Godel is of course hugely important too).
Looking for it. BTW... I am never going back to Huffington Post. Wow... the "privacy controls" are sooooo broken....

Sorry. Can't find it. It was really interesting, though. I found a similar article here: $500K and scraping by - https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-yea...

It's interesting how they justify $23K a year for food for a family of 4. But the thing is, I know lots of people who spend that kind of money on food and can't imagine being able to spend less.
Fascinating story about your manager! Its great that you have the self-awareness to recognize your own contribution to the situation.
Regime caries a negative connoation which was previously used to often describe tin-pot dictators. I always heard of the "Obama administration", which has a much more positive connotation. It's subtle but evident partisanship.
Happens in Wisconsin too, but when you get your drivers license you have the option to opt out at least.

https://www.channel3000.com/news/dot-sells-drivers-personal-...
I think it's a joke, "£10" could look like a binary number.

Alternatively, there are a lot more £10 notes in circulation, and the previous £10 note had Charles Darwin.
It might have had something to do with the reports of Google helping the Chinese with touchscreen tools used in PLA fighter jets.

Google denied these reports.
Right, I have my wrist basically fixed on the desk and move the mouse with my fingertips. Only when I go very long distances on a large screen I occasionally lift my hand. Alternatively, I lift the mouse and drop it a few centimeters to the side.
It really doesn't seem like there is anything you can do. Sure you can talk to your representative, but why are they going to bother dealing with something that such a small margin of their voters care about?
Large, secured loans are recorded in public ledgers by law. I believe the motivation was to prevent people from going around and securing multiple loans with the same asset, before credit-scoring agencies existed.
£40 headphones accessory is a bonafide long-haul flight hero
Another option, now that MS open sourced .NET core, is to use C#

They learned from Java's terrible sins. Features include value types (you can even use them as generic params!) And no type Erasure.

Besides massive improvements the language is nearly identical to Java. Only reason I'm still in Java land is the huge ecosystem.
Pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect' and gets it wrong
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>It try's to proxy one with another and fails, because really they're two independent variables and life is complex.

The use of data from credit reporting agencies is not to predict the outcome of lending to a specific person, but to predict the outcome of many, many loans to many, many people. For which I would say it succeeds, as the entities utilizing it seem to be economically successful due to making a smaller proportion of bad bets than entities who would not, for example in the linked article.
There was a period of time while Steve Jobs was still alive and part of the company but had bigger things on his mind prior to his remission.

We saw this with the release of the aluminum unibody MacBook. There was no product differentiation other than the FireWire port. There were probably a few products that were far enough down the pipeline that couldn't be killed when Jobs was back for a brief period of time.
CIA does not investigate things inside the US. That would be the FBI.
Good point, I should have at least mentioned that there is an "abstract machine" when I introduce this strange kind of memory. Thanks for the feedback!
The word "regime" has negative connotation meant to convey oppression and tyranny. To call the present Amercian administration a "regime" is a slap in the face to hundreds of millions of human beings who have suffered under a true regime.
Isn't 120v the norm in the US ? In France, every home has a three phase 400V coming from the utility, then you choose if you want single phase or three phase in your home.
That thread certainly tried to box 10x devs into stereotypes. People like Jeff Dean or Steve Wozniak don’t really fit into it (but Linus Torvalds probably does). However, I’d say a many types of work require synthesis from one brain which has obsessively prepared itself over the years. I doubt if any amount of team work by usual musicians or painters could have produce 9th Symphony or The Starry Night.
Opinions on a coworker they look down on, most likely.
Mark Carney is Canadian and was previously the governor of the Bank of Canada. We've been doing this sort of thing with our money for a long time now. Looks like he brought the tradition to England.
We'll still have physical cash, it might be as useful as sovereigns and other 'collectible' coins the royal mint produces though. But then when was the last time you saw a £50 note?
Down payments with 1000s on big things like cars is very much accepted here.
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Actually, pair programming is a way of doing code reviews. Some teams consider pair programmed code as already reviewed. I don't have enough experience with pair programming to confirm this, but it is an interesting idea.
Sorry, I may be wrong - I am not a native English speaker, although read and communicate a lot in English. I do not hear often the use of “regime” with “good” countries and leaders - say, Obama regime, Merkel regime.
The foundation of the MS empire is MS Office. People use office at work because it's the path of least resistance, due to fewer conversion errors (no conversion when you are using what everyone else does), and because that is what they used in school. Have the kids learn on LibreOffice, and MS Office only has one shaky leg to stand on.
Well, the title of the submission seems to imply that if car2go simply reversed the decision on background checks then we could indeed have good things...
When I met Bob Morris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)) in the 1990s accompanied by his wife I was disappointed that she was Anne and not Alice.
email addy on my hacker news profile.
People pushing the “up” button
He cofounded Palantir. Not sure his libertarianism goes much beyond a desire to reduce his tax bill.
I don't want to get into politics much here but I have to respond to this. I'm not American but from where I stand I see that Trump is trying his best to turn his presidency into a dictatorship. He also admires and enjoys the company of actual dictators. So using this word as a form of criticism is not unfounded.

Also, it's not the general rule, most articles I see use 'administration'.

And I don't think it's the media who has a leftward bias, rather the Republican Party has moved way way out on the fringe. If you look globally, the average Democratic office holder would be a right wing politician in most other countries.
Well, with Republican state governments cutting all traditional income means (read: taxes) how else are they to afford to run?

This is 77m dollars. Yeah its horrible that your data is being sold. But there's no privacy amendment in the USA. And state budgets are suffering.

Seems like raising taxes and voting better people would go quite a ways to stopping these practices from becoming normalized.

(Edit: for those of you who've -1'ed me, it represents the same game theory that plays out in the electorate for those states. Most states are run by Republicans - fact. Any politicians, primarily Democrats, whom suggests higher taxation are blackballed. Nobody wants higher taxes. Yet, the states can't print money, but still need it. This is how we get into these situations. Game theory 101.

And the -1's, show that. Because, how dare I suggest raising taxes and making these crooked uses of information=>money exfiltration illegal.)
Along the same lines as "Bangle Butt" on later BMWs.

I suppose you know you've made it as a designer when there is a phrase with your name in it.
You don't actually have to till, you just make slightly more money in the short term by doing that.
Also noticed this recently - whats driving this? Non-developers looking to prototype or build actual products without developer involvement? Democratisation of technology?
Call your reps. Seriously. It makes a difference.

Write an op-ed for your local paper.

Volunteer to register voters.

Subscribe to investigative news outlets and donate to ProPublica.

Attend marches and rallies.

You aren't powerless, but you have to exercise your power whether it's on the winning side or not. All battles in a democracy are losing battles until they aren't, but the tables don't turn unless people join.
He’s always been that way. He’s a vindictive asshole.
> Unfortunately no, that's not and has never been how undefined behaviour works. Undefined behaviour anywhere in your program invalidates the whole program and can lead to arbitrary behaviour anywhere else in your program (this has always been true with or without trap representations).

I even have a post about this. :D
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2016/01/09/the-scope-of-unsafe.htm...
Most counties redact your name from their public website. But they don’t actually need that anyway. Your credit report has the address of the house and how much you owe on the mortgage.

And the credit agencies will sell your info to anyone.
Replacing an inadequately descriptive term with an incorrect term doesn't really help anyone.

There's an important point in the article about the cascade of unforseen consequences that occur when you start tweaking genes using CRISPR - and that it really isn't the straightforward silver bullet many make it out to be.

But the use of the word malware is there exclusively for the clickbaity headline.
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After she held him down and had him beaten with a red hit iron poker? He was a physically weak man "fighting" a much stronger woman. If a weak woman hit her husband and then he held her down and had her beaten, you think that would be ok?
Doesn't envy require me wanting to be like him?
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The last time I saw a £50 note was in about 1997. I pay with cash a lot. I think it's fair to say they don't get used all that much.
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It falls on the product team.
User experience?

I use proprietary office suites (both Office 365 and Apple Pages) because they’re much more intuitive and pleasant to use than the free alternatives.
> The war on drugs is and has always been racist, it is targeting minorities and filling prisons. How it is precieved is a different thing.

You're missing the point: do today's voters tend to think of it that way? In my opinion, no, they do not.

So if you go around arguing that the war on drugs is racist, or exclusively for the benefit of prisons, a lot of people know it isn't racist for them, and that they don't agree because they have an interest in prisons, and you will not change their mind.
From the app standpoint it is, but not from the actual implementation algorithm.
Do you have a source for that? I'd never heard that, and it doesn't fit with everything I have read about Turing. According to most articles I find in a quick search, they say he was convicted for "Gross indecency" because homosexuality was illegal at that time.
How can you compare SpaceX with Bird? One has a giant moat of billions in R&D and one would not expect it to be profitable until the actually Hard To Make product exists. The other is literally a board with wheels + a battery and small motor. To say Bird's market is easy to enter is a huge understatement. Worse--the companies themselves are just commodities that will be aggregated by Uber/Lyft. I already find myself just opening Uber to see whatever scooter is closer. I am--and I'll make a not so big jump here, other people too are--not loyal to one brand at all.
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You're implying that treating two politicians from the left and the right differently is intrinsically a symptom of "sickening" political bias, when in fact truly unbiased objectivity will always make one of those people look worse than the other. What I find more sickening is how often people hide behind the idea of neutrality when, hypocritically, expressing their hatred for the media and people of the opposite political party. I think it's a much worse problem.
If you mean the tradition of choosing historical figures to feature on bank notes, rather than the tradition of boasting about it at office parties, we've been doing the former sort of thing a long time before Mark Carney's arrival. Probably the latter thing too.
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As I said, I'm not saying the law is just, I'm saying that most people don't support because they intend to perpetrate your perceived injustice.

The vast majority of people are not moustache-twirling villains who think that drug laws should be enforced in the way they are, for the particular purpose of punishing the downtrodden or profiting prisons at any cost; so when your argument revolves around that, the people who know they don't support it for that reason are not going to be convinced.

You're arguing against the cynical, bigoted schemers who influenced the law, not the people who've accepted it for the public messaging (which has been, beyond a certain point, not recognizable as racist); and those ordinary people are the voters who decide elections.

This is not the world of John Lennon's Imagine; where bad things only happen because people choose to be evil, and everything can be solved by choosing not to be evil.

Ordinary people do the wrong thing because they've been convinced by faulty or incomplete arguments, or they've ignored the arguments altogether. Ordinary people do the wrong thing because they are wrong.
The skeptical part of me says none of this actually happened and that the article is just a piece of publicity stunt. The other part thinks the author is too careless/not paranoid enough: he just guaranteed himself a spot on a watchlist by publicly admitting that he deceived the officers who interrogated him.
Blank page, and outline.com doesn't seem to like the site. Anyone have a tl;dr?
I use the 50 EUR note in Spain quite often (every week) without any problem whatsoever. Obviously if you are gonna pay a 1.30 EUR coffee with a 50 EUR note you might be asked if you have a lower one...

That problems happen if you try to use the 100EUR one and obove.
I don't know. I first heard of the 'Turing Test' at school, long before I knew about his conviction. And his work during WWII gives him a bit of a hero status, even for people who aren't interested in computers.
Keepass on my work laptop (Windows).
KeepassXC on my personal laptop (Manjaro Cinnamon).
Keepass2Android on my smartphone.
MiniKeePass on my iPad.

I've moved from dropbox to google drive for synchronizing my keepass database because of the recent changes to dropbox, where you can only sync 3 devices for free accounts.
Those are all great to think about but seem rather lacking as an answer to the question.