skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're misinterpreting me. I haven't talked down about them. And definitely don't think of them as a competitor.

My point was that those questions I mentioned above are important to Dgraph users and I don't think Redis even projects itself as a persistence-first DB. I might be wrong. Either ways, our audience is quite different when it comes to enterprises at least.

I know the founders of Redis Labs, met them as well and they're awesome people.
Not really relevant but, if we we had an arbitrarily super fast spacecraft, how would we prevent it from hitting a small rock and exploding?
Amen. On what planet did they think there would be more people than dollars worth of damage?
You're privileged enough to be in the right industry in the right location, with the right skill sets and experience, at the right time. If things were different you'd get no holidays, no job security, etc. I know people in tech on the east coast of the US who struggle to get two weeks leave and struggle to change jobs. Four weeks is something the rest of the world just takes for granted. I also know people that have been bankrupted because of health costs, this was my uncle who was a millionaire and had the best insurance money could buy. His wife got cancer, they fought the insurance company, sold the business and the car collection and houses, she died, he went bankrupt. It was very sad.

I used to work in the bay area but ultimately decided to come home. Here in NZ in the tech industry I earn a couple of hundred thousand which is admittedly less than I'd learn in the US but while things like employment protection aren't important to me right now I also take comfort by the fact that if I get hit by a car ACC will cover my loss of income and rehabilitation, I simply don't have to worry about getting sick or injured. I also take comfort by the fact that everyone, be it a barista or a barrister, has the same perks (like four weeks paid leave, sick leave) and protection that I do.

Another example: a company I worked for in NZ was a US multinational, they did a big restructure where they laid off thousands. Because of employment law most of the lay offs were people in the US, South America, and Asia. Europe and New Zealand were almost completely unscathed, it was just easier.
To be honest, this response feels a bit aggressive and dismissive to me.

Many of my coworkers (myself included) entered the profession through bootcamps. Others came up during the PHP/Wordpress to Ruby/Rails era of web development, and never had a reason to learn languages like C++ or Java. I don't think there's anything to make fun of, or apologize for in this scenario.
You just cited an epidemiological study and an evidence review based mainly on epidemiological studies. What do you actually believe?
it looks like just a bunch of AA batteries. now this "e-bike" is just a bike.
This is very interesting... I am a vegetarian who has been eating a ton of legumes the past few days and I've been having a bout of what I suspect is IBS. I should cut back on peanuts and see how it goes.

Coincidentally, I also had sleep apnea at one point, though exercise exercise (very minor weight loss) made it go away.
X-Files theme resumes!
Wouldn't there be little-to-no soil? So their roots would be anchoring in rock AFAIK?
Evolution of Netflix Conductor: v2.0 and Beyond
TL;DR An industry's last attempt at relevance, just before its departure might be bad, but do we really care?

The title sounds like click-bate, implying a near-monopoly that will be devastating. Yet, the subtitle clears this up real quick. "Buy two or three more years to figure out how to make money in digital."

Unless this large company can move really really fast, the merger, and the company is already irrelevant. In two or three years social media might be gone, morphed into something else, and the players replaced, absorbed, or even wiped from our memory.
Both comments are right on target. "[they] simply facilitate the buying process" and the question "how they plan to cope with not having inbound leads" are pure gold and articulate my frustration with enterprise salespeople. They would not typically be the types to play the long game at a startup when they could be making real money.

thanks guys
It's called Smalltalk.
I would add the caveat that you stay off any slope greater than 25-degrees or below the runout of any slope greater than 25-degrees or below slopes where the ridgeline has cornices unless you've got at least AIARE 1 training.

If you don't know how to measure slope angle, you probably shouldn't be on anything other than the gentlest of slopes.

Avalanches kill.
> Rng

I really think names without a fairly obvious way of saying them out-loud should just be avoided/deprecated. I can't pronounce this as "ring" (because then you'd think I was referring to a ring, not a rng). Do I just spell it out? R-N-G? I'd rather just call it a non-unital ring. That involves more letters but is much more descriptive (to a mathematician, anyway).
We believe that trial employment at any level is effective and beneficial to both sides. For candidates it allows them to get a better feel of the work before committing, and for employers, you get a better sense of the person's skill level in your environment. We personally have hired senior engineers doing part-time trials, and this has been effective for us. This is something we could possibly expand into in the future.
> but now they moved the URL bar to the bottom of the screen. Why?????

Because on a phone, your thumbs are already down there. No need to stretch to reach the URL bar. I can see users switching to Firefox because of that convenience.
I don't see the upside of the crapton of billboards I pass daily, or the flashing, potentially malware-inducing garbage I would see everywhere on the Internet if I turned my ad blocker.

Advertising has ridiculous externalities; this is what makes it similar to the toxic waste scenario.
We don't use them. We get used by them.
Up 56% since December. Given their lack of cash and assets, shares ($16 billion market cap) are indeed the better option for compensating the people that they've harmed.

One share per person at a present $139, would almost work out (120m share float).
So I can't claim to be an expert in this subject -- I've got an acute interest in it but am no professional.

Regarding monounsaturated fats I was going off of some offhand knowledge -- while the AHA agrees with the claim generally[1], it looks like the truth may be more complicated[2].

Regarding the general un-healthiness of red meats:

* There are [3] numerous [4] studies [5] showing a link to an increased mortality rate.

* Red meat was categorized as Group 2A (probably carcinogenic to humans) by the WHO[6]

If there's more claims I made here that I can help to cite I'd be happy to.

[1] - https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...

[2] - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/monosaturated-fat...

[3] - https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1957

[4] - https://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2517494

[5] - https://web.archive.org/web/20120313084043/http://archinte.a...

[6] - https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
> Scroll snap is a useful feature. The way you can tell that it's useful is because a ton of sites are already doing it, but in a manual, hacky way with JavaScript. This works better and uses less code and CPU. A win all round.

Useful in the same way that popup windows are. Developers certainly liked those - they were such a useful tool to annoy users with! And now "real" popup windows are blocked and developers create them the hacky way with JavaScript. The circle of life.
The sail acts as a reverse thruster, transferring the momentum from the air molecules to the craft. Same physics behind jet engine reverse thrusters - it just redirects the air in a different direction.
Supposedly, if you are orbiting the sun, you can turn a solar sail in such a way that you can brake against the solar wind, thereby moving in-system rather than out.

But the sailing analogy breaks down for turning. A boat is pushing against the water and the wind. That gives it the ability to do things that you can’t in a vacuum, like move faster than the wind. For ‘turning’ you have only thrust vectoring, right?
I recommend time-boxing how much time candidates will have to spend on your process. People coming from an alternate career path still have to pay their bills through their current job and tend to the same responsibilities as anyone else. Asking them to do days of unpaid homework (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16874015) may not be a luxury they can afford.

For the take-home portion of your assessment, consider paying the candidates for their time at an entry-level annualized salary. Many companies would balk at this idea because it is more expensive, but it demonstrates respect for the candidate.

Looking at the website, I don't see many details about what the assessment actually includes. I think it would help to be forthright about the structure of the assessment. Does Hatchways or the employer determine what the assignment is? How does one create a rubric for scoring a submission, and how is quality assurance conducted on the effectiveness of these rubrics?

I think it is only fair to tell candidates what area of expertise they are going to be tested on a week ahead of time, so they can prepare as they see fit. As for this bit: "ability to follow a spec, code quality and how quickly the task is completed" - it would make sense that different companies would place different weights on each of these factors, given that some of these parameters can often be at odds with each other.

Also - a particularly tricky area: how do you give feedback to candidates? Do you help them succeed? Is it enough that Hatchways gives the feedback, and not the employer to avoid lawsuits? Having done some take-homes in the past that were rejected, I received absolutely no feedback on what could have been done better or what was missing. Candidates who continually to struggle and don't pass any of the interviews aren't necessarily morons or inept - they just need someone to point them in the right direction.
It's always going to be a balance. Capitalism drives innovation and investment but making money at the expense of everything else isn't good for individuals or the environment. Socialism might be better for the environment or individuals in theory but it's not good for investment or innovation.

Like with most things in life being a purist is damaging, you need to be pragmatic and let capitalism do what it's good at and temper it with socialism when it's counterproductive.
I see the use for generics all the time. I came from Ruby, where we have enumerable so you get standard constructs like map, find, first, last, each_cons, etc. Because Go lacks them, people constantly reimplement these things with less intention-revealed code using ad hoc for loops. Ugh.

Thus you see very little use of collection pipelining in Go.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/

Generics are such a powerful and useful idea. Bring it on.
Stripe Connect makes all of this stuff veeeeery easy. No need to test up trust/FBO bank accounts/etc. for client money - just allocate money to accounts held in the name of the correct parties.

Source: built a fairly large insurance company with zero client money accounts by using Stripe Connect

Disclosure - we are locked into processing card payments with Stripe only, but have no incentive to say nice things about them
How was the solution not to trap the cat? Or shoot it? I realize its distasteful, but natures red in tooth and claw?
Considering the students who complain are almost entirely wealthy white kids, I’m not seeing the power imbalance.
Your argument sounds an awful lot like "how dare you do anything escapist when there are big problems in the world."
I seriously hope you folks succeed. All the luck to you! Here's my non-traditional story:

I've worked on my own personal projects for 10 years, always looking for new challenges. I've dropped out of college after 2 years since it was crystal clear to me that I learned much more when working on my own stuff. I would learn new things in college, but at a much slower pace. I guess it was useful to learn calculus...

Anyway. Financially I never needed a fully paying job, so I could spend all my time doing my own research. From web security to docker to bsd to aws/gcp, I've managed to gather a lot of personal experience on many tools. Similarly, I went from PHP to Erlang to Haskell and back. For a brief period I even managed my own team!

But now, 10 years later, I just started looking for my first job and boy, do I realize my resume is empty! I have some code on github but none of my projects are famous or noteworthy. So far, most jobs I've applied for said I'm not qualified, and I don't blame them if all they looked at was my CV.

To solve this I'm working on (yet another) project, a distributed KV storage with built-in MQ capabilities, automatic clustering and transparent sharding, eventual consistency through the use of operation-based crdts, written in my favorite language for distributed systems (Elixir). Hopefully I can use it to get a job, but I think proving one's experience and knowledge should be easier.

Interestingly, if I had gotten a job when I dropped out (~6 years ago), I would probably be a specialist/senior engineer on some specific tool, but I wouldn't have the range of experience I do today.

Sorry if I digress, just wanted to share my non-traditional "case" (to be fair, you asked for it!)
Why do you think there is more competition to LHR than domestically? The airport has been maxed out for almost 30 years, it is incedibly hard to get landing slots there. Also the weather over the atlantic makes flights longer and use more fuel.
No they most definitely are not. One implementation receives a message. The other categorically rejects it. I cannot substitute them.
To piggyback this a bit: I highly recommend YouTuber Shaun’s videos on this topic

[Stefan Molyneux’s Fall of Rome - A Response]
(https://youtu.be/BHW3Y_p2llo)

[Immigration and the Fall of Rome]
(https://youtu.be/WqCCx4wj79o)
I wonder if that has more to do with the nature of work in recent years than actual preferences. I would love to take longer trips but usually can only ever fit in 2-3 day trips because of work.
I thought the conclusion to my first post (which you complained was missing) was quite obvious - that if we conclude, in the case of male/female imbalance, that it's because of residual sexism (prejudice/discrimination), then in the second case (liberal/conservative), it would be reasonable to conclude the same. And (tying it back to geebee's comment that I was replying to), it's probably discrimination on the part of college administrators, who lean even more liberal.

I thought that inference was pretty obvious - so obvious that I assumed you understood it when you made your comment, and that you therefore just didn't want to admit the point. The alternatives were to assume the worst of your honesty (the course I took), to assume the worst of your understanding, or to assume the worst of the clarity of my post. In charity, I should have chosen the last, but... I didn't.

At any rate, you said:

> Well, since female is something you are, while conservative is something you think, I imagine the reason for the latter discrepancy is probably quite different from the reason for the former.

The "discrepancy" we were talking about is differences in the rate of hiring. My comment was (trying to say) that, if we suspect discrimination for the male/female imbalance, shouldn't we suspect it for the liberal/conservative imbalance? Suspecting bad faith on the part of your comment, then, you certainly seemed to be saying that it was OK to not hire conservatives, but not OK to not hire women.

But, presuming good faith on your part, then what were you trying to say?

> Well, since female is something you are, while conservative is something you think, I imagine the reason for the latter discrepancy is probably quite different from the reason for the former.

So what do you think the reasons are? How does what you are vs what you think affect the situation? You complain that I didn't conclude my point, but you left a lot to the imagination also.

> I'll say this much: I do think it's wrong to not hire somebody because they're female, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong to not hire somebody because they express some arbitrary opinion that I think is bad. For instance, if somebody told me in an interview that "women should be legally considered property, without any rights of their own," I would not hire that person.

I would hope you would not hire that person! But do you think that the liberal/conservative imbalance in social science departments are because almost all the conservative applicants are deplorable?
Equifax running out of cash? GOOD! Bankrupt the jerks.
Doesn’t look like the actual airframe is degrading, it’s the nose it’s likely the composite RADOME that is degrading, if it’s even material degradation the damage looks almost like a bird or an object strike.

The description of the internal structure also seems to be quite similar to other RADOME even marine ones.
> Most ads isn't about manipulation, it's just about getting your attention and reminding you that this product exists.

I'd wager you're wrong, unless of course you are an ad executive which it doesn't sound like you are?

Maybe, maybe, most ads by dollar spent is about brand awareness.

But for sure, most ads by quantity are about manipulation.
Yes, though Scala can hardly be an example of simplicity.
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You don't scream. You talk to people. They talk to other people. If your message is worth it, it'll organically reach those who'd benefit from it. Also, you could post your message in places where people interested in the kind of problems you're solving come to look for solutions. Trade shows, product catalogs, storefronts, and their on-line equivalents.

> don't pretend they'd survive without ads

I don't see why Facebook and Google couldn't work with a non-advertising-based business model. You might end up having to actually pay a little bit for it, though.

> In real world public spaces? That's an even more toxic form of advertising and far more wasteful.

And it's already saturated. This needs to go too.
Entertainment and relaxation are necessary, you are right. However, both can be done in ways that are at best productive and at least not-counterproductive.

Entertainment does not have to unproductive. People who play sports or do other recreational activities are working to maintain their physical health while having fun. There are games of all sorts you can play to help you improve life skills or even physical and mental abilities.

If your relaxation requires someone else's work, it is counter productive (think resort-type venues that need staff to operate). There are plenty of ways to relax and unwind that don't take away from other people's efforts. Visiting a nature park or a museum, for example. The work to maintain natural resources or to educate and inspire people is necessary beyond simply pleasing people.
You're not allowed to require consent in exchange for access to content.
As someone who moved to Melbourne (and doesn’t have a car), I don’t have the love for trams that Melbournians do. They’re slow and disruptive to the rest of the traffic. At the same time buses aren’t stuck on rails and usually get you places a lot quicker. They’re also easier to get a seat on as the Melbournians I know hate buses and refuse to catch them.
This is actually a common misconception about how jet engines work. The engine is not pushing against the surrounding medium (the air), it is operating purely due to the conservation of momentum of throwing combustion byproducts at a high velocity in the opposite direction. This is the same principle upon which a rocket engine operates, the difference being that the jet only needs to bring along fuel for the combustion reaction, thereby massively increasing the efficiency of the engine by making use of ambient atmospheric oxygen.

In fact, a jet engine could in theory (ignoring things like heat rejection) operate just fine in space if you brought along a massive bag of air and hooked it up to the intake duct. But then you've basically just designed the world's worst rocket engine :)
It was a fungus far before it was a game. :)
I pronounce it /r@N/ -- i.e. like 'ring' but with the 'a' in comma, or the o in button. Although if it was a Rng formed by a pseudo-random sequence, then R-N-G would be apt ;).
The HomePod isn't working out because:
a) it was way late to the market, and
b) Siri's technology lags behind Alexa.

Which supports my argument about lackluster innovation. I can say people won't pay $1200 bucks for a laptop with specs they could get for $800, either, but I'd be wrong because they do.

You might argue the AppleTV was innovative at the time it was released, but there were already very successful game consoles that had much the same functionality plus the games. Even if you count it as an innovation, it was announced in 2007.

Innovative products are not always successful. Now, if AppleTV had incorporated Alexa-level voice control technology back in 2013, that probably would've been innovative and successful.
To be fair, the author has already made this point.
True, they protest working for the US armed forces. But working for Communist Party of China‘s own army is apparently ok.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-google-idUSKCN1...
Canada replaces 500 year old rainforests with saprolings. We do a decend job rotating tree farms, but there isn't any way get back our ancient trees (besides waiting a few hundred years).
The Coinbase Mission, Vision and Strategy
“Anonymous” Data Won’t Protect Your Identity
You pronounce it as "rung".
>a plane will know a radar is active long before the radar can detect the plane.

The other bit of information that might be perhaps missing from some (other!) explanations is that this arises entirely because the ground station has to receive a radar reflection _of the original beam_ from the target. Given that power goes as 1/r^2, this means that in practice range drops off sharply for the ground-based station as 1/r^4. Meanwhile, the aircraft can just _detect_ some sort of blip-over-thermal power spectral density coming from somewhere. Given identical amplifier performance (which, with good designs, should be limited by physics) and you end up with the attacking aircraft "winning" from a back-of-the-envelope point of view.

This ignores the fact that it can be traditionally quite easy to confuse radar by "just" transmitting the "right" signals at the right time. There's a good 1960s video that explains a lot of the basic ideas here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFqaaqqph0
5 out of 25 are pilots now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtCDSnIzGQ
Yeah that’s why it’s called warfare and not conversation. You’re tricking the person into doing something they don’t want to do by overcoming their defenses and reasoning to work against their own interests.

You are either a zen monk or have a huge blind spot. Who else would offer this sort of advice?