skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly true, which is why embedding postgres would be great. It's very easy to hit the performance limitations of sqlite and then be stuck with the choice of either poor performance or forcing users to setup postgres like you experienced.
The article doesn't really show the alphabet (their picture has the stroke marks overdrawn so it's hard to see). Here's the unicode page with images of all the characters: http://www.unicode.org/errata/Adlam-Ebima-chart-2019-05.pdf
Let’s not forget Flex and Air. These two were way ahead of its time. There is still no technology out there that would match the simplicity of these two combined.
That part is underneath a primary heat shield:
https://i.imgur.com/CovYbor.png

You can see it dropping off @ 5:20 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWusG5EW3dU
If you need a specific place, church is a good example. Priests tend to use “г“ in common speech, because they use it in prayer.
10 minute block times, no path to proof of stake or any less resource intensive consensus protocol, dominated by ~19 mining pools, some handful could arguably collude to launch a 51% attack, and block rewards halving in 2020
This kind of people doesn’t contribute to defecation crisis, and they tend to not stay homeless for very long anyway (unless they start doing drugs).
They use Mcaffee where I work, and have done for more than 10 years - it's an absolutely horrible resource hog, and keeps my laptop's fans permanently whining like it's about to explode. Things got better after the switch from mechanical disks to solid state, but the 12 or so processes it has permanently running (yes, really) still use more CPU combined that anything else. And it's never found a virus, as we catch everything at the email server, and I know what not to open in any case.

I'm not sure why anyone would use any other than Defender TBH. I wonder if perhaps it's licensed separately for enterprises?
So why does the "I don't want to help people I don't like" attitude affect the healthcare system, but not immigration policy?

That is why I don't think the explanation holds water. Plus, Americans do support universal healthcare: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/most-americans-now-support-m...
I use Alibaba to source my products and while the suppliers are usually good, and sometimes better than first world countries (my Chinese supplier is leaps and bounds over an Israeli competitor, for example), alibaba.com is horrendous.
> Build. More. Homeless. Shelters.

Making the existing ones safe enough that the homeless don't actively avoid them should probably come first.
They likely are not, but I wasn't saying they were. I was responding to someone who was claiming that these types of homeless people don't even exist, which is far from true.
Might explain why california has a cancer causing warning label on everything.
check out the shapes of the hangul characters: they attempted to make the letterforms suggest the shape your mouth makes when you make the sound.
> The West Coast has seen a huge influx of homeless people

Your source shows an INCREASE of homeless people, but not necessarily an INFLUX, i.e. it's not clear whether the newly homeless are in fact "arriving" (from out of state) or have been prior residents who lost their shelter.

Anecdotally, I don't think I've ever met somebody who had a PLAN to move to California to be homeless there. But I've met a number of people who moved to California with limited financial resources and precarious employment prospects, and subsequently became homeless.
Rome exists in a gray area between "single integrated device" and "9 integrated devices tightly coupled together."
Agree with the first half of your sentence. Did you vote for NSA tracking?
There are two sides to this:

Flash was performant in the sense that it allowed you to run decent graphical games at an acceptable framerate.

Flash was unperformant in the sense that it stole all of your computer resources to do it, and didn't play well with other elements on the page that needed those resources.

But GP is right that when canvas started getting pushed as an alternative to Flash, you just couldn't do as much with it. I remember seeing people online talk about how Flash could finally die, and then I'd load up the demo projects that they linked to, and they'd chug at 15 fps on my computer -- a computer that was more than capable of running a 30-60fps bullet hell flash game.

You have to remember that the game developer community's experience with Flash was, "you go to a page, full-screen my thing, and then play it." They weren't worried about how Flash interacted with the rest of the web, they just wanted good framerates and audio controls. The web developer community's experience with Flash was, "you go to my page, and suddenly everything slows down because Greg in marketing wanted to make a funny ball bounce around the side bar." They didn't care about whether canvas was hitting 60fps with hundreds of sprites, they just didn't want their webpages to freeze.
The fact that SQLite is much faster than file systems is not surprising at all. But there’s one surprising result there.

> All machines use SSD except Win7 which has a hard-drive.

And yet Win10 is much slower than Win7 in all tests (note they have latency on the graphs).

How’s that possible? For a drive spinning at 5400 RPM, average random read latency can’t be smaller than 2.2ms, this is how long it takes to rotate the disks 180° which is an average. An SSD should do much better than that.

I have a couple possible explanation. Either that particular Win10 machine, 2016 Lenovo YOGA 910, has _extremely_ slow SSD. Or there’s something wrong with software/drivers/config of the PC, like an antivirus, or wrong chipset drivers.
> ALL WORK, including troubleshooting issues, fixing bugs, and answered questions should go through the Product Owner.

I would not want to work like that. Makes you feel like a code monkey or ticket jockey.
> You'd also be amazed at the quality of resumes a high, advertised salary will bring.

This is so true. The best devs are making above market rate and are busy and content with their current role. By not including salary most of these people will simply ignore you, because of the time risk involved in finding the number. Non disclosure only works if your salary ranges are generally known (eg faang).
hi,

yes; my question is absolutely serious.

Do not see what your implicit between-the-lines written statement is pointing out to, like "all-of-you-are-bad-guys-if-you-do-X-or-Y"

Thanks for participating.
You can solve this problem by picking a specific block height, and not confirming the result until it has at least 6 confirmations.
Burning it for energy (especially in cogen plants) is killing two birds with one stone if the alternative is having to dispose of the plastic AND burn fossils for the heat and/or electricity.
The same argument could be used for not showing PDF files in the browser.

IMO, browsers need to concern themselves with HTTP. Anything else gets handed off to an application that's designed for it.
How is this much different than a paid smaller version of LeetCode?

When I was prepping I got the most value out of LeetCode for solo prep, followed by mock interviews with sites like Pramp.com, Gianlo.co, and PracticeCodingInterview.com.

I don’t know why tech companies don’t just admit that this is all pretty much standardized at this point. Just build a standardized test, or certification, and get it over with.
Computational International Relations: What Can Programming/Internet Research Do
Allergies require exposure to the allergen, and since far more people have significant dog exposure than have significant horse exposure, dog allergies are much more common. That's why there is very little online about horse allergies; there is also very little online about panda bear allergies.
My cynical take is that we just have to wait out the boomers. We changed and grew in every way until they took over and everything stopped. I think it will restart when they retire.
Subconscious bias is the most insidious form thereof. This is why I'm a huge fan of stripping resumes of all but the most pertinent hard facts. Technical skills, projects worked on, publications are all relevant. Hobbies, family status, a photograph are all opportunities for subconscious bias to infiltrate the hiring process.

Often even education is no longer a useful signal. I've found myself looking away from educational information on resumes for all but the most junior of applicants. A candidate with even a couple of years of experience is lightyears removed from the school that has granted their degree. Likewise, a person with a similar number of years on the job but lacking a degree is similarly removed from their humble beginnings. There's no need to flaunt education.
The code for my most recent case is here:

https://github.com/pedrocr/syncer/

The db code itself is here:

https://github.com/pedrocr/syncer/blob/24d70fd452aa6b1463090...

WAL is being used but that's not enough to get a mixed INSERT/SELECT to not completely starve reads without first caching INSERT and batching it.

>In the single-node case, I have yet to see SQLite (when optimized) run slower than any other SQL implementation. I do agree that SQLite with 100% defaults will easily be overtaken by Postgres, and that if your use case requires that more than 1 node persist transactional data you should definitely be using Postgres.

This is single node with WAL. If there's something I've missed I'd love to see it (or get a PR). But the research I did when I wrote the code seemed to indicate this was a known limitation of sqlite.
While I agree with you in the history, I don't put trust in a corporation to necessarily keep doing the right thing when conditions change in the future.
If your tribal leaders support something, you do. Tribe comes before religion, race, or any other consideration, though admittedly many of those are correlated. In the end, for around 90% of Americans, its about R vs D.
We have a long way to go in packing the RAM next to the CPU to reduce speed of light latency.
Erlang and elixir are two more memory safe languages that comfortably handle binary. See Armstrong, Pogramming Erlang, Ch. 5, "Advanced Bit Syntax Examples", with partial parsers for MPEG, COFF, and IPv4 on pages 83-89.
for a lot of deep-seated structural reasons, the US tends to be pretty bad at implementing most citizen-facing services. it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that we would also do much worse at universal healthcare than the europeans. for the services that the US does actually offer, we tend to spend more money and produce worse outcomes.

> (BTW, in practical terms, putting liberal elites in well-paying, politically-connected industries on your healthcare system is a great way to make sure it doesn't turn into the VA. America cares deeply about our happiness. It doesn't care about our veterans and sort of wishes they hadn't survive, so we could just remember their sacrifice instead of actually facing up to what we did to them.)

this is a pretty common talking point, but I don't really see this happening with the systems that already exist that wealthy people have to use. I, an upper-middle class white person, still have to take at least a half day of PTO any time I need to go to the DMV. my dad, wealthier than me, still had to spend a whole day at city hall disputing a $40,000 water bill (the city doesn't even have a functioning water meter on his property because DPW paved over the access; it's been "estimated" for twenty years).
> I imagine the batter's job was to mask the "weird" texture and flavour.

I thought the batter was originally there as a crust in which the fish would steam in its own moisture, and some people claim it was originally discarded after cooking, until people started to eat it as well.
Every small thing counts when you have big data which is exactly why you need performance everywhere, if Rust can help with that I don’t mind switching my team to that.

The problem are usually when you do novel feature engineering not the actual model training.

But I was a C++ dev before checking the assembly for performance optimization so I guess I have more wiggle room to see when things are not up to snuff. If I got a cent for every: -you are not better than the compiler writers you can’t improve this.

Especially from the Java folks. They simply don’t want to learn shit, which is fine if they just where not so quick with the lies/excuses when proven wrong.
> Like "oh but you might lose your private insurance" is a discussion people in the primary are having _when you would be replacing private insurance with free healthcare_. What sort of positioning is even being had here?

A common fear is that wait times to see a doctor would be much higher with universal healthcare compared to a system with private insurance.

Horror stories about people in Canada and the EU waiting months for a procedure that would be available immediately to someone with private insurance if in the US.

I don’t mean to start a health care debate in this thread. My main point is that there are reasonable (logical, rational) fears that people have causing them to be against universal healthcare. Understanding those fears and addressing them upfront is one way to get past them.
Sure it is, just look at the various phases of German spelling reform. The most recent one was implemented via international treaty.
Perhaps so. Those sort of questions would benefit a company working at the scale of FAANG or Microsoft and actually tackling or researching real computer science problems.

Now would this make sense for a graduate entry level role for a web / mobile app developer position? Interviewers looking for such candidates need to lower their expectations a bit in for positions like that.
Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
I'm not saying that no data science practitioners care about speed and safety, and its easy for me to come up with cases where they should/do care.

My point is that even fast.ai still views S4TF as somewhat niche, and that data science practitioners as a whole still don't care.
I like Bernie, but it's not simple. Canada has 60 shrinks per 100k ppl while the US has 4. Universal healthcare is not going to increase the number of shrinks over night.

Another thing with the "all other western nations" line is the population in the US.
There is really no western or "developed" nation with anywhere close to same number of people.
Unless... you don’t want to meet people who wouldn’t want to meet you due to knowing more about you
Right! I can think of two explanations for this.

One, these non-programmers are somehow not actually doing their jobs, but getting away with it. I've worked with people like that, but only a tiny number. Maybe i've been lucky.

Two, you don't have to be a programmer to be a developer. In this day and age, our tools, frameworks, and resources (ie Stack Overflow) are developed enough that you can actually get some useful things done without having to think mechnically. Knowing some obscure boilerplate (eg Spring annotations), how to use your IDE's autocomplete, and where to go for copy-and-pastable code for various kinds of problem actually makes you a useful team member! Even if you can't write a simple loop to save your life!
Even better would be not to use it entirely - it'd solve far bigger problems with node.
So, it wasn’t obvious to many candidates I interviewed. For example, one candidate tried to create a solution involving 3 nested for loops.
> Almost everybody I know who plays the interviewing game learns just enough to pass the interviews, then immediately forgets it until the next time

Presumably the first time they learned computer science fundamentals it took them some time right? People usually go to college for several years to learn this stuff - or 6-month bootcamps for 40-60 hours/week. Subsequently of course it'll take less time to refresh their knowledge.

> Also, it's two completely different skillsets! There's something very weird about interviewing for X but then demanding Y

I'm not disagreeing here. I just think most companies that use this interviewing style figure that X (easy to measure in 45-minute interviews) is a reasonable proxy for Y (much harder to measure). And Y (writing good code) is easier to train new employees to do as long as current employees maintain standards in code reviews.
Note that telephone service today sucks compared to the gold-plated Ma Bell network. It’s nearly unusable, especially VoIP.
If I look at it reasonably, I share being slightly perturbed though like you, I don’t know that I would turn down $75k. If I look at it with my romantic, fictional eye it almost seems like a DFW plot device. You’ve got a talented letter writer who adopted an unending stream of identities in college, found herself in a difficult marriage and began writing an author in the midst of his struggles with powerful demons. They never met and the author terminated their relationship about a year before killing himself.

Years later, her house burns, her husband finds the letters intact and they sell them. Heck, if she bought a sailboat with the money and toured the Mediterranean, it would be a hell of a pitch...
These people end up with solutions that are sub-optimal exposing them to more suffering than would have been necessary in a civilized country.

The horrifying part is that the overton window in the US is so out of whack that somehow people consider these stories uplifting.
Even if you’re not in AWS S3 works great, especially where you need to serve content direct to client’s browsers. S3 supports either making a file public and available to all, or using pre-signed URLs to provide short term authorisation to access a file to specific clients. No need to pull the bucket at all.
Well, Bulgarian is not very phonetic either to be honest.
One of my main complaints about C++ metaprogramming is that its evaluation can be as complex as the runtime behavior of a normal program, but AFAIK no compiler provides metaprogram debugging tools. E.g., execution tracing or single-step debugging of metaprogram execution.

Anyone know of good tools of this nature for gcc and/or clang?
Yeah, I consider the arabic alphabet remarkably well adapted for the structure of Arabic but less appropriate for many of its other adapted uses (e.g. Urdu, Farsi).

But almost any alphabet could be made adequate. The politics of writing are complex.
You can get a point read with just a single aligned random I/O operation on disk with this. I don't see how a B-tree based storage can compete.

And even more optimizations are possible, like grouping objects often accessed together into a single batch to retrieve the whole group in just one random operation too.
That’s a great idea. Tech interviews are a poorly implemented version of something like actuarial exams. Let’s formalise it and give people a certificate for it - Certified Software Engineer.

I’m only half joking. At least we’d only have to go through the process once.
Excuse my ignorance, isn't this a technical challenge, rather than the idea in itself was stupid?

Isn't that saying shooting sky full of satellite for communication is stupid until SpaceX made loading anything to space 10x less expensive?

I would say the idea isn't worth trying because it clearly wasn't ready, ( I mean if napkin maths already show it is off by a factor of 10 than it really is stupid trying it ) but I don't think the idea in itself is stupid at all.
It might not be sunshine and rainbows, but when i read about Americans taking an Uber to the hospital because they can't or don't want to afford an ambulance i can only shake my head in disbelief.
Someone recommended using my home oven for baking open my headlamp enclosure. The idea is to melt the glue holding the lens in place so you can e.g. add bmw halo lights to your headlamp. Problem is that glue is likely toxic then you’re cooking food in it later. So I wouldn’t try that, esp when an old electric stove w/ oven can be had for $50 that can run in your backyard
I'm having a difficult time understanding the connection to Amazon. The article mostly enamors over how much Alibaba has impressively grown despite the trade war. After that follows baseless(i.e., without supporting evidence) predictions on what the Chinese tech tier would look like in next few years. But why is that relevant to Amazon? Is Amazon simply a poll to measure the size of a company for?

A Chinese company that is growing fast in China is not a great indication that it would fare well in international markets, or more specifically, American market. Amazon's size largely contributes to its hold on American market and its cloud sector. I wish the article would have discussed how Amazon fared in the trade war and went more detail on the comparisons of the cloud divisions.

I feel that the article could've been more focused without the attempt to tie in to Amazon.
There's the other obvious explanation that because the Win7 machine has slower storage it automatically uses a larger cache than the Win10 machine that more than offsets the difference.
Actually, humans and animals have built-in brakes (predefined adult size modulated epigenetically, à lower fertility rate when the food is scarce).

Ecosystems tend to evolve up to a point where the sun’s energy is optimally tapped.

Species that are too agressive tend to die out or evolve into a milder form.

Agreed for the second part of the quote.
> the idea that the folks down the local hardware store made a medical device is simply bizarre

Well yeah it was bizarre enough in the US to be a news story as well.
This sort of comment does no favors to the people who rely on ESAs. Of course every airline is completely competent at the mundane task of keeping living things alive. In fact air travel is safer than certain other forms of travel.
How does a love of dogs and the outdoors (example above) contribute meaningfully to a tech role?

How about a love of dance or photography?

We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching.

What if a hobby included volunteering at a church, mosque, local GOP or DNC fundraising HQ, re-enacting War simulations or practicing at a gun range?

I agree with the posters above who think this is, at best, useless and at worst, a potential for discrimination.
https://www.amazon.com/Oh-Places-Youll-Dr-Seuss/dp/067980527...
> But why is it normal that a 2 year old can't walk and nothing can be done to help him EXCEPT by Home Depot employees?

It's not normal that Home Depot helped. That's why it's a new story.

> Why isn't part of the story mentioning how there's no affordable or free program to help 2-year-olds walk?

Because that's not news - that's how things already are.

News is unusual and interesting things. Reporting that the state of US healthcare is unchanged is not news.
The purpose of slack was to ditch email. Big mistake , email enables asynchronous work focus.
Could the Andrew Yang 2020 "Freedom Dividend" solve the homeless issue? Yes.

Extra $1,000 a month allows these homeless people to move to smaller/rural areas and get cheap permanent housing.

We can even create a program where if you help a homeless person on the street get into an apartment, you get a $250-500 referral reward from their dividend.

Many ways to incentivize people to help the homeless. This solution sounds better than increasing congestion/traffic with more high density buildings to house the homeless in SF,LA,SD city limits.
> Do boring stuff. Use files.

I have the opposite experience. Files are far from 'boring', they have too many gotchas to count. Putting files in the db is for many use-cases actually easier than putting them on the filesystem. By putting all data in the db you have less moving parts, transactions, referential integrity, well defined behaviours, etc. The speed increase is just a nice side effect.
Whatever it is, Cantonese has different pronunciation, vocabulary and even grammar from Mandarin. Which means it takes a non trivial amount of work to adapt a language model designed for one to the other.

Source: I'm a native speaker of one and fully fluent in the other.