skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends a lot. Usually, if you are a star, not only you're more expensive to start, but also more liable to look for greener pastures after a layoff. So, unless you've been at the company for a really long time, it is better to send you away, because it is likely that you won't stay too long after the layoffs.

Also, there's the whole long-standing goal among managers to keep their head-counts as high as possible. Managers also don't want to become redundant, so, it makes sense to lay off the more expensive people as much as possible, to keep their headcounts high and avoid the unwelcome situation of having a team too small to justify their continued existence as managers.

And, of course, for morale, it is better to convince anyone left that they were left because they are the stars, not because of their low likelihood of looking elsewhere.
Being an American is not really a rebuttal of the above comment. Neither of you speak for all Americans.

America being a world power is factual but not as directly pertinent as other issues. What is pertinent is that America has significantly more diversity than other developed nations. More importantly, there is significant cultural tension between many different groups.

Finally, guns have legitimate uses, and are by-and-large used by legitimate people. Per FBI statistics [0], significantly more people were killed in 2016 by knives or alike weapons, whereas 374 deaths by rifle. Certainly handguns represent a larger number, but the current push is against so-called "assault rifles" which are, needless to say, categorized as "rifles" in the referenced data. Is a knife an in-appropriate symbol?

[0]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
It's possible to create "giant rolled up binaries" for python, too:

https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/xars-a-more-e...
I don't think you can eliminate inequality. So you remove money, then it will simply be replaced by something else. Then there will be someone who has more of whatever it is that replaced money, thus you create different kind of inequality.
And according to the full title of the paper, it is not the black hole that is noninteracting, it is the binary system.
Go is basically Limbo with a bit of Oberon-2 on top.

Limbo did not went far, even though you can still play around with it.
Well, what about just a star or rogue planet that wanders into the solar system, either on a collision course with earth or close enough to disrupt orbits?

People dismiss that as astronomically unlikely, but it must have happened many times somewhere in the universe. The average person doesn't win the lottery once in their life, but someone does.

I believe we're beginning to appreciate that just like there are more small objects in the solar system than large ones, and there are more small stars than large ones, there are significantly more solitary planets than stars or even brown dwarfs, and they would be almost as hard to see coming as a black hole until they got close.

There are many disasters that at least microbes could recover from, but anything the size of Mars that wandered in would, I presume liquefy and sterilize the entire planet. It would be so unexotic and yet humans would be completely impotent to do anything.
Looks like they have been cranking on a pytorch implementation: https://github.com/numenta/nupic.torch
This is great LAN party game.

Although my daughter used to always pick up that damn laser and then shut out the rest of us
Moto Razr reboot images leak, and they seem kind of suspicious
More specifically, it is female fertility and educational achievement. Not quite the same thing, although I don't dispute the overall point.
Yeah, it's just a blog post with no reactive elements, there's really no need for preventing the page from loading without javascript.
Population is sensitive to discuss politically. You don't see a lot of ideas that would help either. Here's a talk by Melinda Gates talking about how family planning can help Africa avoid deterioration due to overpopulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BOTS9GAjc4
Smells like Nazbol down here
I heard a story about when he used to work at Google, he would get pulled into interviews where the candidate was brave enough to write “Python expert” on their resumé. There’s definitely no one better to grill someone on their Python skills than the guy who invented it!
This is a toolkit.
You use whatever parts you want from it.
Both fields are large enough to hold the full name if that is how you roll.

The software needs to have a database layout that supports the superset of what all individual users need.
You’re comparing sentence classification done using transformer embeddings to older results which use inferior embeddings. How do regular convnets do when you feed them transformer embeddings?

Re learning reverse graphics - ok, maybe it is indeed the main feature of your work. I’d need to look into that, because from skimming your paper it’s not immediately clear what’s going on there.

Re convnet accuracy on Norb - I’m willing to make that effort for cifar-10 as soon as you have the results.
This blog post was so painful for me to read.

This is a symptom of "bullshit" going on around in big tech companies. "bullshit" here is an economic term defined in the book "bullshit jobs". https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...

Reading through the post, I was noticing

So much corporate Jargon which really does not mean anything important.

Dehumanizing language when describing people interviewing and being interviewed and its process.

Too much obfuscation of ideas that can be very simply explained.

glorification of simpler problems into heroic challenges.

Delusions of Grandeur.

Today's such jobs are tomorrows layoffs.

I think I will stop here. I have crossed my negativity threshold for the day.
>That would also mean that the universe is continually recording every single instance of time.

This isn't compatible with special relativity. Simultaneity is always relative to the frame of reference which can be picked arbitrarily.
that would be fantastic! We do need all the help we can get.

The website is generated using hugo, you can find the code along with some basic instructions here: https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/tree/master/website

looking forward to your PR :)
Lost in Translation (2006)
More States Moving Ahead with Digital IDs
Even then, would you really want to rely on that?
Why is this a problem (or am I dumb)?
All traits are heritable.
Ask HN: Which PaaS providers do you like or recommend?
Heroku dominates the PaaS (Platform as a Service) space, but I'm interested to hear about people's experience with other PaaS providers. Which PaaS service do you like and what languages do they support?
Incidentally, I think SOMA is free on the Epic store today.
>It's a Texas court.

It's a US Federal circuit court that just happens to be in Texas. The federal circuit judges are appointed by the President, not Texas.

> Texas courts routinely side with software patent holders

Again, wrong. It's the federal courts in the Eastern District of Texas that are the problem in particular. Not any Texas court that has meaningful de jure associations to the state itself.
I just found out a few days ago that `-F` works with multiple files, too. When there's new content on one, tail prefixes the output with a header, telling you what file it is.

I've used that to watch all logs apache and descendant processes could be writing to:

pstree -p $(pgrep -o apache2) \
| grep -Po '[^}]\(\K\d+'
| sed ':b;N;$!bb;s/\n/,/g' \
| sudo xargs lsof -d 0-1000 -a -p \
| grep -Po '\S+$' \
| grep 'log' \
| sort -u \
| xargs tail -F
I wasn't talking about an organization, I was talking about a movement. There are numerous different organizations of various sizes, as well as individuals, who are part of the movement.

None of this is new -- white nationalism has a long and well-documented history. As with all political movements, the exact moment it started is a little fuzzy. Some place it as far back as 1916 with the KKK, but I think that most people place the modern form of it as starting in 1974 with the National Alliance.
Not really. We work more hours relatively to some other countries, but generally don't work that hard. I Worked with people from other countries (Specifically, US, Germany, UK, France), in general they seem to work harder _when they work_ but they finish the day early and take more vacation days.

In any case, it's far away from being a "sweatshop", technology companies are a nice gig.
The FAQ says:

> all while leaving no ptrace and sending no signal

If this is a design goal, I'm afraid it is indeed impossible to take a snapshot of the original process. As far as I know (I researched the status quo 2 years ago when I needed copy-on-write for VM cloning/forking), the only way to make a snapshot of a process' address space is to invoke the clone (fork) system call. If you need to take a snapshot of another process, then you need ptrace.

But you're absolutely right that the unfork functionality itself can be implemented more robustly by doing this ptrace/fork trick.
So I've worked on and shot the "destructive" version; they're not as fearsome as you'd think. The potato seldom escapes the barrel in a single fragment (unless you do a lot of tuning), and if it does, you're probably not hitting with enough force to seriously wound. That's a pretty ridiculous law, and I will probably use it in the future as an example of "nanny state gone mad", so thank you. If you ask me, this is just another case of the weapon looking "tactical".
I was going to say something similar.

We have TimescaleDB in production with hundreds of millions of time series data sat alongside "regular" data - having to deploy a single database instead of Postgres and a specialised time series database is a real boon.

For us, TimescaleDB queries run way faster than stock Postgres. They might well run faster in something specialised, but querying/aggregating hundreds of millions of rows in 10s or 100s of milliseconds is plenty fast enough for many use cases.
6 years of false memories?
(edit: corrected the duration of his LIS)
Did it have any reviews? I haven’t been scammed at all (yet) but I was always cautious knowing it’s not as consistent an experience as in hotels and relied heavily on good reviews. So far so good. I wonder if and how those could be scammed similar to whats been plaguing amazon..
Great to see more information about data out there for people to learn from. BTW my colleges and I created a declarative (SQL) open source (MIT) framework for Apache Spark to make ETL and ML super easy, if you want to check it out it you can read more here: https://arc.tripl.ai . We've recently started combining this with Argo and Delta Lake which is working well for us in the source, lake to warehouse stages.
> It bugs me that YC appears to have absolutely no policy of conduct for the companies they fund.

They do: https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

YC founders are told to review these guidelines before we accept the investment.

From the ethics page:

> To maintain our community, if a founder behaves unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status.
Disclaimer: I have a PhD. I think one problem is that the love of the subject matter motivates people to go far beyond the bare minimum training required to get a job.
I got burned on miss-sold/labeled AirBnBs a few years ago and they did nothing to make it up to me so I RARELY book with them anymore. Honestly with rewards points and such with hotel booking sites, and airbnb prices not being that much cheaper than a hotel, it often is just less hassle to go traditional hotel.
Dex (YC S19) is hiring founding engineers to build delightful personal CRM
There are guys who generate synthetic testing data so you can get "looks like real data" test fixtures. I used to work in CRM with PII and honestly I just put in my own details as test fixtures more often than not where you want to run final integration tests on whether the whole thing actually handles 'realish' data (you have to filter out all the junk `example.com` and whatnot emails in prod). Should've used the synthetic data in the first place because someone at our company accidentally opted out the CTO while testing out the flow and our integration tests broke.
Is it ok to stay in web development if you generally loathe the process and are only in it for the end result?

"Ok to stay"? It depends on what you're really asking, but I'm going to assume you mean, "If you were a close friend and cared about me and my future, what would you advise?"

If that's the question, my answer would depend on your other options. Most of a developer's time is spent developing, not admiring the result, so I would recommend doing something you like more overall (like both the process and the result), provided such an option is available. But then, if it were, I can't imagine you'd be asking. You'd do the obvious thing.

So maybe you're question really means, "I hate it but don't seem to have any better options. Will it get better?" In that case, I suspect it won't get better. If you actually do like the product but hate building it yourself, you might be a good candidate for marketing or sales. I've always loved programming, but I've worked with plenty of people who only did it because it was a "good job", and I've seen some of them switch to marketing or sales where they were much happier.
I don't think that's accurate from what we know currently -- there might be a minimum level of activity necessary to restart the system, but I think we know only upper bound of that (whatever they get with general anesthesia).

But a lot of motions can be removed and then restored.

Maybe if you take a snapshot of that billiard table, then recreate static picture of that and just bump all the balls randomly, they will settle on similar movement patterns the original system had.
Your laptop is not stateless, it is backed up.

What is the difference between running the Dropbox client or any other backup client?

Restic or Borg has fewer sharp edges than Dropbox does on Linux and is generally going to be lesser maintenance.

A stateless system is one that does not keep any (persistent) state.
>I'm not sure why they would grant an export license, that completely defeats the point of the law. Me making a million bucks can't possibly be good justification to allow my transaction to be exempt?

What would they get in taxes from that million bucks? Export controlled things still get sold all the time, look at any country with a weapons industry. The goal of licensing is to control who they get sold to, not to stop them from being sold.
Ultimately only you can make this decision for yourself; if it were me personally, I wouldn't want to have a job or career (or hobby for that matter) that I hated, no matter how much I liked the output.

Which is perhaps why some people start software development companies...?

I have heard of people who absolutely hated programming, but were extremely good at it and made great money, so they continued to do it. But they hated every minute and couldn't wait to get back home.

That doesn't sound like a fun existence to me, but I know honestly I am lucky to have a career as an SWE as something I love to do. Most people don't have that luxury. Most people are lucky if they have a job they can tolerate, let alone love. Many more have jobs they dislike, but they can do them well, and go home later to unwind.

So "is it ok"? Again - only you can answer that, but I would say for some people - maybe many - outside of SWE - would say that yes, it is ok to stay in a job you loathe.
Aha, with that kind of skill and ethics at such a yound age, indeed! Way to Go ;)
For me personally, Firefox energy usage level is still in an unacceptable range [even after the new update]. The fans no longer spin but I still notice how quickly the battery goes down. Safari is pretty much a non-starter for me, feels like I am using a stunted mobile browser or something. Especially with the lack of uBlock origin.
If you want to play it online I just cloned it into repl.it and it worked: https://repl.it/@amasad/snake-go
Kindling this kind of provocative discussions should not be permitted here. The argument that x is smarter than everyone else without ever this being able to be verified is ridiculous. I don't suppose that a kid in Nigeria has the same access to education, resources, foreign aid, easy visa and an immense network as the average kid in Israel.

Of course, that is an extreme. But assigning intelligence to a "gene" and excluding any kind of environmental or societal/cultural reason for this kind of outlier is not very "smart"
I hope in future engineers aren't reflexively thinking "compensation" and "promotions" when it comes to Unions. What's happening with Github here is clearly a labor power vs capital+management power problem.

It's the same thing with the Google sexual harassment problem and the Facebook disinformation problem. Without organised labor power, the employees are realising they've had to sell out their values for a wage.
I love that calculator.

I asked "so if I want to use a black hole to replace a 60 watt light bulb, how much mass do I need?" And the answer is, roughly that of Phobos. It would also last over 10^22 years, so it might even be cost effective!
> They used it to select what kind of t-shirt you want.

Then it's incomplete without a "shirt_size" column.
...at the port of entry, not in random places on the border.
Complainers are the most vocal users. The vast majority are still sharing baby pictures, links to cat videos, and occasionally clicking on ads.
NSO still have multiple ubpatched 0 days in WhatsApp Telegram and most other messaging apps.

Your best bet is to use something obscure so you cannot easily be targeted or not being connected to the same net.

At the Israeli army we had phones that ran completely separate software stacks and talked to a different network for this. Nothing was on the internet.
People are tired of being treated like garbage. They're tired of seeing their peers murdered for being black/gay/etc. They're tired of stagnant wages.

>A little over a decade ago universities started to notice that students, when presented with something they didn't agree with, would attack the messenger in an attempt to discredit what they were communicating.

58% of Americans blamed the students for the shootings at Kent State in 1970.
I expected that there is overhead to distributing the computation, but I was surprised by the magnitude of the speedups available.
Unless using javascript to track people interested in this type of material is a goal of theirs or others with access to the site's source.
A short typing game made with janet Lisp
doo people have open source recording gig ? to ensure nice sound and synced slides ?
Are you talking about today, or the way Caesar treated the Helvetii?
Well. You're free to improve on it them. Maybe doing something useful would help you to control your anger issues, dude.
Don't forget that some disgruntled employee stole the software a few years ago. So who knows who has access to this.

https://m.calcalist.co.il/Article.aspx?guid=3741738
strong disagree, at least for the US. The whole fabric/culture of the country is predicated on immigration and has been literally since its founding.
Totally reasonable, especially for a company like apple! In real terms, it ends up being like half a WeWork.
Killer contacts.

No safety issues here, folks. /s
Lets start an advocacy group that advocates that ads should not be used to spread a political message. We can start by creating a facebook page and buying some ads.
I'm assuming the GPS is accurate. I've driven through speed traps with it just on or over the limit and been fine. My car on the other hand is reporting around 5 kmh higher, depending what angle I'm holding my head at.
> E.g. music. Nobody* likes practicing. They like making music.

The really hardcore musicians in my mind are those who take up electric guitar. The practicing can literally destroy your hands and fingers, but the results and output can be worth it (I'm only a listener - but I appreciate their sacrifice and effort, and love to watch players perform their craft).
Of anyone from TimescaleDB is here: I run a (very) small business using TimescaleDB in production, but don't need any enterprise features and so haven't purchased a commercial license. But I love it!

Do you have a Patreon, PayPal account, or any other means to receive money as a donation, gift or token of appreciation?
John Pilger- Julian Assange Could Barely Speak in Court
What I mean is that it does nothing to help the victims of ICE.

It only helps some rich people feel morally superior. That doesn't impress me much, but I see others find it important. To each their own, I guess.
Many years ago in college I was skydiving with an adrenaline junky friend who would sign up for public speaking at any opportunity just to make himself nervous on purpose. He enjoyed the thrill of having his heart start throbbing, and even liked not being very prepared. While I recommend lots of preparation for public speaking, I do really like the idea of embracing being scared of speaking as part of the fun, and I’ve tried to borrow that attitude and make it part of my own personal narrative. I guess it helped because these days I always jump at the chance to give a conference talk.
The Israeli army makes you code 12 hours a day for a year in some training programs.

Our punch is above our weight because of hard work and skepticism.

That's not the terrible stuff like NSO. NSO is just a clever way for the government (and the US government - don't forget) to export the military technology, regulate it and then claim they did not do it but a private company did.

Virtually everyone in NSO was in 8200, this is a way for the US and its allies to get around military trade issues.
Actually, "--exclude-caches" in restic is just an alias equivalent to the following [1]:

--exclude-if-present "CACHEDIR.TAG:Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55"

You can specify the tag filename, and optionally append ":initial content" (the tag file must start with this content to avoid false tagfile matches).

[1] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#incl...
> Most companies are open about the expectations for the role being interviewed for, the interview process, and preparation tips

When did this happen? I haven't interviewed for a few years, but nothing was open or clear then
I think you two are in agreement.
I do this, and it works just fine - no caveats, it's actually one of the selling points of TimescaleDB.
As is 'bipedal'. But neither of those attributes effectively circumscribe or differentiate the set of folks we're discussing.
https://arrow.apache.org/
It depends. The CIA/NSA probably do contribute to the torture of people, or they did in the recent past, which is abhorrent. But the people they tortured were believed to be violent terrorists, whereas these countries torture and kill people just for speaking out about their government. Both are unjustifiable and unforgivable crimes against humanity, but the latter is still worse.

I didn't say the CIA/NSA weren't unethical; just that they're probably not as unethical as NSO. But I could also be unaware of awful things CIA/NSA have done which are worse than what is publicly known, in which case I cede the point.
It has negative connotations because it describes the act that is against the law. That's literally what "illegal" means. If you think it's OK to violate the law, then the connotations would be positive, if you do not, then the negative connotations are appropriate. You can't have it both ways.