skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly think this mindset creates what I call "The Reverse Peter Principle". I've seen this happen when very inexperienced leadership implements this system based on hype from other companies. You end up having a lot of engineers doing random stuff that's not part of their job description just to try and get noticed/promoted, and nobody is punished for shirking current duties as long as they aren't just completely slacking off or something. You stop getting rewarded for doing the drudge work and crushing your current role, because you start focusing on the future over the present.

I think it all mostly boils down to skilled versus unskilled managers and internal career planning. If a manager is promoting people who aren't able to execute on the new role more often than not, then they are bad at recognizing when people are ready for more responsibility, and they should work to improve that skill while also working to plan things better with their reports and set expectations. To me this doesn't say that there's a fundamental problem with the system that needs to be alleviated through process change.

And on the flip side a skilled manager would be better able to keep everyone on task in their current role even while they are planning/demonstrating for the next role, if you're doing the "no peters" thing.
Blockchain Companies to Play a Big Part in the Decentralised Future
> It's the most detailed and closest to reality way to simulate neuronal dynamics

Nope, you can keep going with the same logic: HH is just an approximatiin of the molecular kinetics and what you really need are the FEM models in 3D with all the protein pathways etc etc.

But this leads to an entirely intractable project. The science lies not in reproducing the exact neurons bug for bug, but keeping only the necessary details, within technical possibility, for explaining some observed phenomenon. LIF and AdEx neurons seem like a good compromise for neuromorphic hardware.
Oh, sorry. My third-party app previewed it just fine, but I've just tried it in the browser now and I promise I'll never do such thing again.
I like it. Do you work remotely for US companies in Canada?
Did they? I remember studying about that in Elementary school. Maybe most people forget history from Elementary school I suppose? We went over the Civil War and the World Wars for quite a while in Elementary school.
> The myth that you need tons and tons of water has actually led to over-hydration

Absolutely false. Do you have any evidence for that statement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)

Whenever I see this kinda stuff, I can't help but think of the "Ugly American" trope and how it seems like it's an insanely (and desperate to be) visible minority of the whole world now
Enough with the whataboutism. Everybody knows about the dirty business the US gets up to. It doesn't excuse Chinese authoritarianism and human rights abuses.
Agreed on the matrix comment. In fact the government of France thinks so too! https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...
Economic sanctions prevent these regimes from entrenching themselves and growing. And if it didn't, the Iranian regime wouldn't be seizing ships and harassing our Navy to protest the sanctions. They work. And bad govts have crumbled using this and supportive efforts. Are you sympathetic to the underclass dissidents getting tortured and killed or the small fraction of Iranian upper-middle class elites complaining about the USA sanctions and not fully condemning the murderous Ayatollah?
Better filters are much more expensive, because they need to incorporate the influence of so many more pixels. A simple Lanczos-3 which is far from perfect requires evaluating 7x7=49 input points for each output point.
It wasn't really open sourced. It's open in the sense that if you pay a bunch of money, and sign an NDA, you'll be given access to the source... which has always been the case. Some sales bro bought MIPS and slapped an "open" label on it. IMO, it's current steward has done more to kill it then ARM and RISC-V ever could.
The US didn’t lose any territory.
Your pay as an IC will plateau. It may plateau at a nice comfortable level but plateau it will. It’s a log curve not an exp curve. Younger professionals in the first 5-10 or so years of their careers are just seeing the extreme left of the log curve, where it’s steep, and conclude they’ll get 50% raises forever. Trust me, you won’t.

Management comp paths tend to be more linear.
Apple acquires Intel’s 5G smartphone modem business for $1B
I would think that pharma companies currently instead just advertise in American media and trust that the word will get over to consumers in Europe...
> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to live in or move to an area despite local incumbent's wishes to not have their neighborhood change?

Lets accommodate the people who own land, propose building upon it and meet and all relevant zoning codes and regulations but are denied because reasons:

```Marty Medina said he wished an agreement could have been reached which would have allowed the development to advance but he was unable to detail the specific size and scope of a project that he would have supported. “I don’t regret my decision because I have to live with it,” he said. “But I just wished for a different outcome.”```

...

> through use of pejoratives like "NIMBY" serves to distract from the plain truth, which is simply that people are acting in their own self-interests.

The two "selfs" are not the same. The one group is literal millionaires (home owners) while the other is the working poor/middle class who would prefer to avoid 2 hour commutes.
You're describing the caricature of capitalism by people who oppose it and saying "we fought for it". That's silly, regardless of whether your description is accurate or not.
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The managers werent the ones who flipped the switch with HR to start the firing process and provided the evidence to make the decision?
Your opinions here are very arrogant. You are presuming that lack of evidence is proof of a negative. Pretty sure that so far outside of the scientific method that it's as much quackery as homeopathic "medicine"

You are presuming that the physical is all there is to existence. You fail to consider the possibility that there are portions of reality that we don't have the physical capability to perceive or the mental capability to truly understand.

There's a difference between saying "there is no evidence of X" versus "there is no evidence of X, so X is impossible"
I haven't heard of a modern tech company of any size that allows a team lead / direct manager of ICs to unilaterally fire a report without some decent amount of process and involvement from others.
Maybe the pharmaceutical companies can help by flying these overworked doctors to Hawaii for an informational conference.

or possibly just delivering takeout to them at the hospital so they can relax and research new treatments while eating.

(seriously, drug companies give doctors free takeout)
I honestly expected this article to be another "damn kids, get off my lawn" post, but reading it, I 100% agree with the author and I'm kinda horrified to see some of those scenes.

I'm lucky enough to have been to some of those places in the past (Wanaka, Angkor) and while there were some crowds, it wasn't anything like depicted in the article.

It's the essential conundrum of tourism. The more people that go to a place, the more they ruin what made the place special in the first place.
I've spent a few years studying biological modelling and simulation (of plants) but I've never heard of this distinction. Is it specific to neuroscience? What exactly is the "bottom" in a bottom-up approach?
The description of A2 standard features sounds very similar to the new Linux multi-queue block device framework.

From quick look at latest Linux source code, there are couple mentions of "blk_mq" in drivers/mmc, but there seems to be no actual support for multiple queues (unlike e.g. in drivers/nvme).

Does anyone know, if those are supposed to be same things? Does SD driver actually need new firmware to support multiple queues or is it something, that can be implemented on kernel side in software only? At the very least, it might be possible to use a third-party reader as long as it's kernel drivers are updated to take advantage of multiple command queues.
>> Unicellular organisms have zero or one nucleus. If they have two or more nucleus is multicellular

Hmm, is that true? Looks like there are unicellular organisms with multiple nuclei:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinucleate
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I am not certain who you are assigning "entitlement" to. I believe you are talking about non-residents who gripe about the Bay Area's laws and policies which protect the interests of incumbent residents to the effect of excluding non-residents by setting an artificially high (financial) barrier to entry. Please correct me if I am mistaken.

I find this position extremely odd. I am unaware of other examples of non-federal (county, city, etc.) US governments and respective constituents opposing non-local residents relocating, for any reason (including "culture/way of life/standards of living"). I have seen this before in the Bay Area--I was refused an apartment viewing earlier this year in San Francisco because I am from New York.

I think this relates to the Constitution's "Privileges and Immunities Clause" [0], which an 1832 federal court case, Corfield v. Coryell [1], ruled that all US citizens enjoy the right "to reside in any other state...; to take, hold and dispose of property, either real or personal; and an exemption from higher taxes or impositions that are paid by the other citizens of the state." I am not aware of any Bay Area laws which explicitly violate any of these rights. However, I do not see how Prop 13, which "prohibit[s] reassessment of value... except in cases of (a) change in ownership," required for non-renting non-locals, "or (b) completion of new construction," [2] i.e. new housing developments, does not indirectly violate non-residents' "exemption from higher taxes." Note that I have zero law experience, I just googled "discrimination based on state of residence."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privileges_and_Immunities_Clau...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfield_v._Coryell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
Unit test telemetry instead of bending your APIs
It's pretty meaningless to look at P/E for tech companies and compare it to a retail company.

But for those companies it's also pretty impressive, market beating growth.
Oh. OK, I am using a different VM. With Firefox and no add-ons. So I guess that something was blocking 'visited' style.

Edit: Not NoScript.
This is an important point. The stock market doesn't try to reward companies with higher share prices, it tries to find the correct price and stabilize there.

If your company is expected to do well, that performance is already built into your stock price. Doing exactly as well as expected, even if you've doubled your profits, won't cause your share prices to change at all. Because everyone already expected you to do that, so they were willing to pay more money to own your stock even before the official news.

The only thing that changes the stock market drastically is a surprise.
Unfortunately ChaiScript needs to be header-only because it's like 99% templates.

You can put all your ChaiScript-related code into an isolated implementation file, and try to avoid touching that file as much as possible. But that only works well for long-term projects, where once you get all the bindings you need set up, you can coast for a while without touching those files.

For short-term projects it's a nightmare because you're constantly touching the ChaiScript files.

There's no inherent reason a header-only library should significantly impact compile times, aside from the fact that the authors usually don't have the foresight to make it efficient. It's also very difficult to find information about how to make templates more efficient at compile time.
I appreciate how you said “tends to sell itself”.

Before I got in the industry I thought “what the hell does marketing do?”. Then once I saw what they do, I realized, no, most drugs don’t sell themselves, there is too much inertia for doing the same old thing.
Modern Americans live better than any king or potentate did in medieval times. Far better. We have fruits and vegetables out of season. We spices from around the world. We have miracle cures to disease and vaccines.

And what does being on the clock mean when you're a serf? You're always on the clock.
> or should it be read as "the system logs don't have the year"?
That's the case. RFC 3164, which specifies the log format, is the only one usbrip can read, and it doesn't have an option to specify year.
I don't understand your use of the word cynical here. It sounds like you might mean "bad faith or uncharitable reading."

Ironically, that framing of my remarks strikes me as uncharitable. I did start by asserting from the get go that I was picking nits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Usually, but now I work unpaid on my own venture. I made an exception for a couple months last year and worked for a Canadian company at US level wages. They let me go pretty quickly. I think I was too expensive for them.
Along those lines you could say “when you want something sweet eat something sweet” but that wouldn’t be good for your long term health.
I find this report raises my hopes for Giant Meteor 2020. For this asteroid we had a couple days notice, perhaps it would be nicer if we get can get early confirmation for a 2020 run.
Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought
You're right this document neither terrible nor exciting, but I'd disagree that this document is "open".

As others commented on the falsehood inherent to "Two Tracks / Becoming a manager is not a promotion", a blurred transparency tends to be more deceiving than an obvious opacity. Or rather, being bull-shitted can be worse than being told nothing at all.
>> the space where more weak cores can be utilized but not GPUs is pretty slim

Yeah I think that's what it is. As you said that I realized that I do actually have a few customers that can benefit massively from many cores, but they're just using MANY, MANY cores and it's all CUDA. I don't see many people going for the compromised approach of say, Xeon Phi.
I think this holiday would be an excellent candidate for Mondayization - it's unfortunate it lands on a Saturday next year
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mondayize#English
I didn't mean to imply that managers can single-handedly fire whomever they want. But empirically good managers can get bad engineers fired, but good engineers can't get bad managers fired nearly as easily (if at all).
From what I've read municipalities dislike residential because of the increased costs, not because of the poor tax revenue. Both commercial and residential can bring it windfall revenues at today's market prices, and Prop 13 applies to commercial property, anyhow. Residential simply has higher infrastructure costs--schools, heavier water & sewage usage, etc.

Plus office complexes don't enrage NIMBYs the way residential projects do. Dense office space equates with rich commuters; dense residential space equates with young and poor people. So commercial pencils out better fiscally, and politically there's less pushback.
> OSI

I understand OSI, but it's not a useful model in this circumstance, because it draws no distinction between the HTTP layer and the business logic served over HTTP. The complexities of that interface is what we're talking about.

> HTTP status codes reflect the result of the HTTP request itself, not the next application in the chain, if one exists.

Let's say I request /robotz.txt and I get 404 Not Found.

How do you maintain that 404 is a result of "the HTTP request itself" and not the HTTP server handing the request to the component that looks on the filesystem (or in the cache, or in MongoDB, or...) and not finding the resource?
There is an option to go into consulting. Outside of the top of the IC ladders at the giant tech companies, they are the highest paid ICs around.

But that keep in mind you don’t have to keep progressing your career. There are risks to not doing so, but also rewards.
That's a weird criticism. Even when your goal is learning, unless there are no better options it's unusual to take an entire course in something you have only passing interest in. A community college only has so many courses; not very many will match up with the passions of the average person.

(This is ignoring people that take a course for social reasons.)
Talking to my European colleagues, it’s not that different from the US (although the specific rules can differ).

Personal and non-personal promotion is how it’s done in Europe.
You should read "the honest truth about dishonesty" by dan ariely where scientific studies of conflicts of interest found folks fall for this stuff unconsciously and repeatably.
GP is talking about all drugs, not just prescription drugs.
Are you claiming Iranian tech elites don't use VPNs or Tor?
I don’t agree that consciousness came first. Before I was born, there was a large amount of time when I and my consciousness did not exist. Yet the objective world as we know exited then.
Who are the “blue-check-mark crowd”?
Canadian here.. why do we keep seeing these stories about how the US invaded "canada"?

wasnt "Canada" created as part of the British North America Act (1867)?

Didnt canada do a big "150" thing in 2017?

The US invaded "british north america" in 1812.

The article is also mistaken when it talks about "canadians" defending British North America. They were british citizens.
The article says that people are illegally clearing land they don’t own.
Does your claim include the keyword "abortion"?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/13/abortions-near...
It's not even obvious what "center" means in this context. Or for that matter "travel" and "get to."
I've never heard of this idea. That's fascinating!
Would you call a thermal model of a brain (3d heatmap) a "model of a whole brain"?

The only "model of a whole brain" we have currently is the one of C. elegans, and even that's debatable because it does not model chemical processes which modulate neural activities, and therefore does not provide an accurate input/output mapping (in general).
Thank you. I understand the joke now.
You're right, but that's also kind of the point I'm making -- that your emoji can get stripped or broken purely because a random site or step in your display process decides not to handle the full Unicode.

Unicode emoji relies on sites/platforms:

A) choosing to support the full Unicode set

B) Being up-to-date on the current spec and having glyphs to display for the entire set

Regardless of whether or not it's easy to support -- many, many sites and platforms in the real world don't. When they don't support the full spec, you get invisible characters that can't degrade gracefully, can't be read by screen readers, and that break copy-paste.

I still run into garbled text online that's the result of people copying and pasting smart quotes between platforms that won't render them. Platforms are never gonna catch up to a living spec that is regularly extended, so it's preferable to avoid "novel" Unicode characters and use something that degrades gracefully instead.
So your position is every potential permutation of fraud must be explicitly enumerated or its allowed?

And that making up fake people and booking reservations he never intended to use does not comport with any definition of fraud?

That's not how contracts work.

It's OK to admit this guy defrauded the airline and violated the terms of his contract without liking airlines or their business practices.
Yep, it's working for me now. Latest Firefox on MacOS. Maybe check if the "test" CSS class appears in the source for you. If not there's probably an obfuscated class you can target instead.
My whole point is that space travel doesn't presuppose a universal decision maker, who would decide things like "it's better not to bring our problems to other planets".

To not have space travel, everyone must agree not to do it.

To save the environment, everyone must agree to do it.

Anything that everyone must agree to do probably won't happen and seems "difficult" to me.
You're absolutely right about TEDx, but I'd apply GP's comment to TED proper as well. They're inspirational and sometimes aspirational, even if it costs them rigor. They give you the feel-good talking points without ever delving into any challenges or complications involved with the topic of the talk.
That's not just a hypothetical. From the article:

> It also landed hours after Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, personally stepped forward to block consideration of a package of election security bills.

The Republicans are rejecting election security bills precisely because Russia has intervened to their benefit, and will probably continue to do so. President Trump has also openly asked for interference from Russia, if memory serves.

These attacks are acts of war and we need to start treating them as such. That won't happen as long as those attacks benefit those in power.
I personally feel that some of the answers regarding consciousness and sentience may be found when we finally destigmatize psychedelics and allow structured, ethical studies and real analysis. Anyone who has had a really profound psychedelic experience knows that there is something more to our minds than we all realize. We barely know how it works, and it can't easily even really be explained to one who hasn't had a psychedelic experience.

Note that I am not advocating reckless exploration of psychedelics. A person needs to do a lot of research and self-reflection to put themselves in the mindset to even consider tripping. But for those who can handle them, there are paths to self-growth and self-repair that are unmatched in modern medicine.

Personally, my (unfounded but by personal experience) belief is that what we know as consciousness or sentience is driven by a specific balance of psychoactive substances that are naturally metabolized in the body and brain, and many neurological disorders are due to an imbalance in those substances. DMT helped me take great steps towards fighting ADHD
I mean, society is likely going to collapse within the next 50 years due to destroying the environment. This isn't just a feel-good, virtue-signaling issue, there are actual reasons to want to not harm the environment. Like you say, though, whatever the next bad thing is will also be bad, so it's very hard to actually make a difference.
If a company claims to have “parallel and equal tracks” ask them how many VP equivalent individual contributors they have and how many manager VPs they have. Ask then what the CEO-equivalent individual contributor role entails.
currently struggling with 5), I think I will give my business a real shot this year
Ditto, it was taught as a stalemate.

I don't remember if they taught the White House was burnt down in my history books.

I remember reading a article much later about someone from the US Patent Office begging the British Army not to burn down the Patent Office due to all inventions and history recorded there. They didn't, and that is my strongest recollection.
You might enjoy David Foster Wallace's delightful article "Consider the Lobster" http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ma... :

"Up until sometime in the 1800s, though, lobster was literally low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized. Even in the harsh penal environment of early America, some colonies had laws against feeding lobsters to inmates more than once a week because it was thought to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats. "
Based on everything I have read, as well as my own personal experience, I think you are exaggerating the seriousness of the situation. Do you have any evidence of this being the case?
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