skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction is mostly because a lot of developers lack the fundamental understanding of downstack problems in 2019. It’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that they’ve rarely had to and in so not doing have built themselves a mental Jenga tower that requires time and effort to stabilize and build a foundation beneath.

Companies hate that. Investing in people who will leave is bad, they think. Put them in their box and let them do what they already know.

Which is why they hire me and call me an SRE. (I don’t use the term. My current title is “principal engineer”. I’m not an engineer, though. Neither are most people here.) And I’m not saying downstack ignorance is great. Profitable for me, sure. But it’s a natural response to companies’ unwillingness to invest in their people. They want them pre-made. Hence the made-up titles for people with breadth.
Today you still can use and create an offline account. If you’re offline. People here don’t read the original thread.
Read also the book;

"Empire in Asia: How We Came by It. A Book of Confessions" by W.M.Torrens for a hard-hitting look at what the British actually did in India

https://archive.org/details/empireinasiahow00torrgoog/page/n...
It never ceases to amaze me what was accomplished in the 1930s and 1940s.
HN doesn't appreciate confident arguments that are based on zero or anecdotal evidence.

It also doesn't appreciate goalpost-shifting (from safety record in terms of crashes, to in terms of nukes going off (???)).

More generally, fanboyish rants about how $FOO is the best $BAR ever made tend to draw particular attention.

And lastly, complaining about downvotes is in the actual guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> that they have been carrying nukes about for the past 50 years and that we havent seen a singular nuclear accident with them.

As other commenters have noted, this is more a testament to the phenomenal safety of nuclear weapons; they've been blown off the top of exploding ICBMs, hit the ground and the water at high speeds in crashing bombers, and generally gone through a LOT of abuse without going off.
Or you know, iCloud? The thing that most people here probably have.
TO be clear I consider Apples level of inter-group secrecy insane. When Apple switched from PPC to Intel I had friends who worked on apple's dev tools (like gdb) who learned about the switch the same day I did. That's over the top.

Apple doesn't have divisions; it would be unremarkable that GE's jet engine business didn't know what GE's medical MRI division was up too. But Apple has a small number of products that essentially share a backbone. Yet features are poorly integrated; Mac photos is ahead if iOS's in some ways and behind in others suggesting less shared code than would be more efficient, less buggy, and less confusing the users. The Mac has a whole en ("ink") infrastructure which is more powerful than what's on the iPod despite the iPod having much more common pen support. And let's not get to security architecture...

At the other extreme Google has (mostly) a monorepo. They have their own problems but act to improve connection between the company. Cisco used to and probably still does have a number of common architectural structures across its product line. Etc.
Right, that's a completely different issue. (And much harder to measure, never mind address. Even defining it is hard; do you count the NPV of pensions, for example?)
If you have your infrastructure team on call instead of your developers, you are screwing up.

In almost every reasonably shaped organization the majority of bugs are shipped by developers, not infra/platform/SRE. Localize the pain to the agents who cause it or it will never go away.
NLRB elections have a lot of requirements. E.g. the NRLB has been back and forth on whether graduate students can form a union: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/20/nlrb-rev... If everything goes smoothly it takes a month or two: https://www.laboremploymentlawblog.com/2015/03/articles/coll...

NRLB elections are legally binding, so the CEO statement there is basically "we will follow the law".

The process Nathan is referring to is something a lot less formal where they pass around a petition to form a union and it gets a bunch of signatures. Not recognizing such a petition is consistent with Kickstarter's stance of not supporting unions.

Apparently there's also a 50% rule where if 50% sign authorization cards for the union then they can ask to be recognized directly (https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/authorization-card/), but nobody seems to be discussing that, probably because actual support for the union is low and getting even the 30% for an election will be difficult. In May there were 28 public supporters (https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/evjb47/workers-accuse-kic...), but KS has 152 employees so they'd need 18 more employees just for an election.
I forgot about those surveys we filled out. The professor left the room and a student had to volunteer to take it to the department sectary.

I was in school around the time RateMyProfessor came out as well. I'm surprised to hear it's still being used as well.
Unless you live in a world where money grows on trees, that happens in public systems too.

There are finite amount of resources and keeping a patient overnight, when it could be out-patient, means another patient, who needs that bed more, has to go without.

It’s not due to profit. And actually, the hospital would likely make more profit if they could keep you overnight.
As an engineer, you don't find his presentations interesting? The fact that he doesn't read from a transcript / teleprompter and instead describes things as he sees them, without the fine-toothed comb of a corporate marketing department is refreshing.
It also lets you build bloody good ones. The 3950X will be a ripper when it's out, couple that with a PCIE4 nvme, 3600 MHz DDR4 and you'll have screaming performance for a relatively modest budget that'd cost you a mortgage and a firstborn under Apple - if at all possible.
All true. At my current gig, the infra team is on call for pretty much everything. That's how it was when I started, and it's taken time to deal with stuff like alert fatigue and better surfacing of metrics and logs. But we're now in the process of moving to all first line pages going to the dev team (because they ship most of the bugs in the first place). If there's an infra problem, they can call us then.
Summary Articles on this rapacious thievery;

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/Br...

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-t...
I believe the poster you're replying to addressed this point:

> If you come to me looking for a job and didn't go to college, why? Did you drop out? Why?

You, clearly, dropped out because you had an amazing opportunity that you jumped on, not because you decided you were "done with it" and aren't capable of seeing things through until they're done.

I think the important question is "why?" -- for basically any career decision!
For a more general overview of world trade during the early modern era, I recommend Fernand Braudel:

https://www.amazon.com/Wheels-Commerce-Civilization-Capitali...
I'm surprised no one has talked about diet here. Not a single one. There are many cases of cancers being completed reversed by change of diet, many cancers survive off of glucose and so switching to a fat based diet has helped many people go into remission as well as dull and intensify the effects of chemotherapy.

Cancer is a living biological cell after all and will prefer certain sources of energy over others. Starve it of it's primary energy source (glucose) and it will die. Human non-cancerous cells on the other hand are very versatile and can survive off either fat or carbs. Sad how the first thing people would rather do is try chemo than give up off their carb and sugar addictions.
Brilliant

So we can send a fleet of Tesla to a bank robbery as gay away cars and have them block. Our getaway?
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Even if you’re talking about real wage stagnation, inflation (as measure to adjust for real wages) has been very low.
IANAL (linguist) so I'm sure you're right. My point is that hen wasn't promoted to use to refer to actual people but to eliminate the annoying "he/she". A construction which often was forgotten when referring to a profession which has a stereotypical gender. Ex: Doctors become "he" and nurses become "she". That was the problem "hen" tried to solve.
Happy Nextcloud user here. If you don't want to host it yourself, there are different providers out there (click on 'change provider'):

https://nextcloud.com/signup/

Hetzner doesn't seem to be listed there, but they offer Nextcloud as a service too: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
It'd be helpful if you're gonna post something that sounds like pseudoscience to post a source with it. With all of the studies covering inane things, someone has got to have studied this.
Are you talking about online microsoft account or something windows specific? Because that's not true, my password has been 40+ characters for a long time and I change it pretty often.

For local login you can use a PIN, or set up windows hello, if you don't want to type in the long password every time.
Go watch the landing fail reel, or Crew Dragon blow up. I guess you’re on team Starliner goes first? An electric car in solar orbit? He’s actually trying to conquer space! Go stink on the Solar City deal, but leave the rockets alone. He produced a real working reusable ICBM booster!
Or even better, which Texas already does, is just defer taxes until the home is sold.

If your house has gone from $200,000 to 700,000, having to pay $150k in deferred property taxes doesn’t seem over onerous.
CloudWatch works fine and Epsagon's sales tactics are dishonest and shitty in addition to being spammy--I'm still waiting to hear back from a "Cassie" who I don't think actually exists as to where they sourced my email from for their cold-email marketing blasts.

I'll never do business with a company that gross.
This is an alternative to maximum tolerated dosing chemotherapy (standard) and it is called adaptive chemotherapy [0]. The aim with adaptive chemotherapy is to just stop the cancer from growing larger and using the growth advantage of the chemosensitive cancer cells to keep the resistant cells under control. This approach is much easier on the patient. I would look very carefully at this approach if I was ever in need of considering chemo.

0. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160224164357.h...
To augment what Duskstar said, "twice as fast" is what counts: to get something to orbit with a steeper gravity well, you need more of a velocity change.
Bits of programming advice for new programmers
Delphi, C++, VB have been viable since 1995, Smalltalk since 1995, Objective-C since 1996, Python since 1998, Java has been viable since 2001, C# and VB.NET since 2002.

PHP only became viable with version 3, around 1998, and having most ISP only offering a choice between CGI (usually C or Perl) and PHP, naturally drove most cost oriented devs to PHPs.

Those willing to shell out more, could use one of the above options.
One of the nice things about marrying someone from a very different background yet with many shared interests is that life together can be really fun. That particular conversation (what are the most important inventions) probably spanned more than a decade. It was not the only such. Sometimes a topic would go into abeyance and then one of us would read something that would reignite the topic for a while.

I don't think either of us would have ranked the JSC #1, but in the top 5 or so, sure. It's not like one can definitively generate a proper ranking, but some things are clearly top 25 but not top 10, for example.
Umm... that statement has nothing to do with what I said.

Taking away anonymity from platforms always governments to target any individual that steps out of line.
AI Exponentially Accelerates Drug Development
CGI yes, ASP certainly not.
If the Earth were 3x heavier, birds wouldn't be able to fly, at least not the way they are now. Sparrows can barely get airborne when they're full, let alone at triple their weight.
There's always also e.g. Orbital Pegasus.
You got those examples and mixed up
Oh that’s so annoying, it’s the only 100% reliable way I’ve found to not have my user folder not named the first five letters of my truncates username.

Edit: oh it’s not gone, it’s hidden
When ever I lock screen it get black so i have to type password blindly. So overcome this I put laptop to sleep with wake up locked option disabled. So it wake up logged in immediately for now.
I think people are confused here. It is not about going to college, it is about selecting field of study. A plumber don't need to go to college he just need a vocational training by doing hands on. But a mechanical engineer/scientist has to go to college to study something deeper. Udacity and coursera are filling up the gap for college courses, but you need expert professor guidance if you want to do some research.
Also, maybe more significantly, BPA (a endocrine-disrupting, estrogen-mimicking plastic) is absorbed through skin from touching thermal-printed receipts. And has a variety of other environmental effects, e.g.

"A 2009 review of the biological impacts of plasticizers on wildlife published by the Royal Society with a focus on aquatic and terrestrial annelids, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, fish and amphibians concluded that BPA affects reproduction in all studied animal groups, impairs development in crustaceans and amphibians and induces genetic aberrations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51979440_Bisphenol_...
So along this same line the PSP Parker Solar Probe is exploring our gravity well in the other direction, and in some ways will be more gone forever than voyagers.

I think the Jovian Moon Io is very low, look up an eclipse photo from Juno; it would be key to exploring low Jovian orbit, just like Venus kicks PSP and Jupiter kicked Voyagers.
Heh neat. I guess this is what scsh does.
No and yes.

Don’t hate the politician for trying to keep their job. In that respect they’re no different from any other person.

Yes, if you can convince politicians that you’re more concerned about the actual damage to your privacy than the hypothetical increase in the probability of a terrorist attack, then go ahead. Do it. Convince them. But my hunch is that most people are far more terrified of dying in a terrorist attack.
I'm thinking of going down that route, but for various reasons I NEED Outlook and Office a lot, although my main work is development and could work on another platform.

If you do this (as I did in the past) you're now juggling N Windows VMs to avoid ONE Windows host system..
This is why I am hesitant to use Tor, efforts to monitor it are probably several folds stronger than normal clearnet.
I'm a big fan of Linux, and have a Linux desktop set up next to my Windows desktop. But. They've been talking about Linux taking over the desktop for the last 20 years. It's not going to happen next year either. And not the year after that.

The only hope we have of the MS Windows / Apple OS X duopoly on the desktop to break up is if the trade war escalates and China starts working towards getting a third ecosystem going. -- Problem is that you'd expect the Chinese to care about privacy even less than the Americans.
But you don't have to say: "I'm subjectively of the opinion..."

I also do find the original commenter's use of 'subjective' at the very least, odd, and the thrust of their remark is, subjectively, quite strange.
How do you do sound? That’s the bit I’ve been stumbling over. Having a separate receiver and therefore another remote is not something I’m keen on.
Human brains survive exclusively on glucose, according to your theory they’d die too.
No. For now I am not using any doc generator. Its just a static page.
Is macOS usable without without apple account? Last time I was given a MacBook at work it seemed that updates go through their appstore app which requires apple account.
I'd also add that I believe the usage in the title here is a little obscure -- I think almost any generalist programmer (i.e., not someone who exclusively works in program language VMs or in system VMs) would assume "VM" refers to a system-level virtual machine.

At one point I interacted with the JVM and its quirks on a daily basis, and I never started referring to it as "the VM", it was always "the JVM".

I suspect in large part because they're not that different from a systems perspective, I assume "VM" to mean the more generic of the two!
The same is true for python. I spent some time trying to write a CSV parser in guile scheme that was as fast as python's (mistakenly believing that python's CSV parser was actually written in python). I wrote a fast-ish streaming FSM-parser (about 100loc) but only managed to be about 1.7x as fast as python's CSV module. Browsing the python source I realised that the python parser was written in optimised and nicely buffered C.

I could probably compete with python if I used guile's lower level C-procedures, but I sort of lost interest after that :)
My guess is the Sun probably has more... it’s really big.

What if it’s just like fossil fuels and there’s enough energy there for us to smear ourselves out? Oh cool, kinda like fission then!
Realized after buying a windows laptop you can’t get bitlocker or drive encryption without having a MS account or paying for pro. So security isn’t a feature, it’s a paid add-on.
It's not. That thing is called the rocket equation and the law is logarithmic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

So basically in your example, if the Earth gravity was 1.3% stronger, payload would be ~37.8t instead of 40.
If you run pihole and have a good router, doing an “if port 53 and not from PiHole, block” fixes a lot of these dirty devices.
It's hidden, not removed.
> 4 famous men came to this conclusion.

No links provided. From there we get the leap

> most rational men always come to the same conclusion (the age of consent should be abolished)

Motivated reasoning much?
Did you write this whilst ‘driving’ yours?
Green Children of Woolpit
That s not what s happening. Paper Newspapers have a frontpage for a reason: only titles, not the content. If you want more, buy it
That is in no way reassuring.
Edit: Most likely you intended the comment that way.
I agree. Samstave's original comment was... befuddling. And the more recent reaction stranger still.
Awesome, I love to see how there's coming more and more frameworks for interpretability. It's incredibly important, especially when selling your solution to higher-ups.

There's another solution named LIME which seems to take a similar but more general approach, I like this more tailored idea as it'll probably give a better interpretation of the NLP questions.
Way too many unknowns to give meaningful advice. However unless you believe that you've developed a money printing machine you can do the following: Say you spent 1 year developing it. Say you believe your fair salary for that year is XXX pesos and you've also incurred YYY pesos in expenses. So calculate the final price as (3.14 * XXX + YYY * 2 ) and offer to sell at this price.
I removed Windows when installed Ubuntu.
App updates and OS updates are in separate places.

in MacOS, the Apple account is about syncing the iCloud stuff with your Mac.
It's a meritocracy in the sense that boards want to hire executives with prior experience running large companies or large divisions. How many such people are available for hire and didn't run their last company into the ground? It's a tiny number.

On the other hand, I worked for a president who was brought in to run a brand new division, ran it into the ground within a few years, was forced out of the company under rumors of financial improprieties, and was recently announced as CEO of another company. So, who knows? Maybe boards are just stupid.
AFAIK, the removed it in version 1803 or 1809 but added it back in 1903.
The _exclusively_ claim is incorrect - the brain can and will use ketone bodies when they are present.
There was recently an article about the alien-ness of octopi, but to read about a guy doing this, he seems more unhuman than even those. Someone who can find life that disposable just for a bit of fun, will always be utterly beyond me.

Just a note, I understand that serial killers almost exclusively stick with their own ethnic group. If you watch the (short) video, that becomes very apparent here. The photos in the article don't show that so well, the video does.

"were almost all prostitutes, drug addicts or those he didn’t think would be missed."

Christ, the ultimate throwaway culture. Well done James Holland, you did a job I could not face.
This is great thank you! Do you recall how you managed dosage with the capsules? Also with vaporizing does she use a dry herb vape or concentrate/oil/pen? I’m nervous about giving her a coughing fit.
mac OS is plenty usable without an Apple account. It was still possible to install OS updates through the app store without an apple account. Now in Mojave it has become much easier, as they have moved OS updates to System Preferences.
Hm interesting, do they charge interest on the accumulated amount?
seconded. Love my reface dx
Sudoku may be a poor example for illustrating some of the overarching points of this series of blog posts, which I take to be that modern SAT solvers are, as someone described them in a previous thread, "little diamonds of engineering", that they embody decades of research, that you can exploit their power cheaply and easily, and that it might take significant effort to beat them if you have a non-trivial problem.

Since specialized solvers do thrash SAT-based solvers for conventional Sudoku, the author focuses the example less on absolute performance and more on simplicity, rapid prototyping, and comparison to casual non-SAT implementations. But conventional Sudoku is a small problem, and in most cases the SAT-based solver makes so few decisions that it doesn't benefit much from CDCL. Consider here[1] the comparison to JCZSolve(ZSolver) that the author mentions in part 1 of the series:

For 17-clue puzzles (which are generally very easy), JCZSolve is 50x as fast as Minisat, and it makes on average ~1.9 decisions per puzzle compared to Minisat's ~3.0. But if you look at the hardest dataset JCZSolve is only 10x as fast as Minisat, and it makes on average ~365 decisions per puzzle compared to Minisat's ~121. I'm not aware of a highly specialized and optimized Solver for 16x16 clue or larger Sudoku, but given this trend my guess is that it would take a lot of effort to write one that's faster than what you get with Minisat for free.

[1] https://github.com/t-dillon/tdoku/blob/master/benchmarks/GCE...
Perhaps install cinnamon in a VM like VirtualBox and let him roam over that first? See how he feels.
Totally agree, no one has ever been inspired by this man!

In fact, he has actively put spaceflight back 50 years by making everyone disinterested in going to mars.

What we need are more people in suits who give us made up numbers.
The meteor framework uses it for dependency resolution in their package system.
> 3) cross-platform FSI supported via NET Core

Last time I tried, I couldn't get FSI working on Linux without Mono. Did something change recently?
> As an alternative view

Is that really an alternative view? In a liballocs world some large part of the problems Cliff Click describes would be solved; everything is 'native' and playing by the same rules. The 'foreign' part of FFI would have no meaning.

The cynic in me wonders what value liballocs delivers that is so compelling as to motivate many disparate systems to adopt it. People are entirely content to muddle endlessly; inefficiencies and unnecessary complexity are usually deemed not worth fixing until they register as high costs.