skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the scale is larger than that. Amazon got over 100 cities to bid on the project. Entered into deeper negotiations with at least 20 of those. Got many cities to spend hundreds (or thousands) of hours putting proposals together, pitching teams, crunching numbers, offering deeper tax incentives than anyone else can get. In the end, they chose the location they were going to choose anyways.

So it was a colossal waste of time for 5,000+ people across North America. Burnt a lot of goodwill. Many cities learned a valuable lesson on dealing with these big multi-nationals as a result of it. So it won't likely happen like this again.
Most people aren't 'gifted bomb making materials and plans' while being coached by law enforcement. The implied facts paint a hazy picture at best.
> Why pay someone $$$ if they can't actually do the job yet?

Senior devs have to come from somewhere.
NSFW Image Detector Using Create ML, Core ML, and Vision
Cassandra hasn't changed their license like MongoDB yet?
I don't know where you got that impression -- every new Go proposal document posted to HN garners a significant amount of Google criticism. The most recent example I can think of is the fairly widely-argued criticism of the "go mod" proxy. Not to mention all of the criticism over Google's consistent mishandling of community concerns.
Yes indeed. You can access your model via the Metaflow client inside your service - https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/client. We are looking into releasing the hosting component on Metaflow in the future - https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/issues/3
I think Rust strings are all Unicode native, though they can be transmuted to bytes.
What to Do If You Are the Dumbest Person at Your Job
There's a lot of replies negative about remote work, so I'll weigh in the other way. Caveat, I'm not 100% remote.

I live a 20 minute drive from the office, but most of my work tends to be with people at other locations (mostly working from their homes, scattered in timezones +4 to -6 hours from me). There have been days I've been in the office and pretty much spent half the day in video calls with people located elsewhere, and literally the only human-to-human interactions at the office are in passing while I get coffee or lunch or go to the bathroom. When I do talk to people in the office, it's often at least started over Slack (if not entirely conducted there) as we tend not to interrupt whatever people are up to.

As a result, in the past few months I've spent more and more time working at home. I've found it's way more productive for me, including being easier to get into flow. It also saves me ~40 minutes of commute per day, and the time to pack or go buy lunch. Most people don't notice either way.

I think the other thing that works for me is I have a wife and 5 yo at home. There's a lot of replies talking about getting depressed being by yourself in the same place for 100% of the day but I don't get that. At the least, I'm doing either drop-off or pick-up from school (often walking), though generally it takes me 2-3 days before I'm at the point where I really need to leave the house for sanity reasons.

The biggest negative is that I tend to end earlier than I would at the office, and pick back up later in the evening, but this doesn't really bug me (and I don't do that every day). I try very hard not to work more than 40-ish hours in a week, as doing that just leads to burn-out (been there, done that).
None of the big tech companies have avoided "wading into politics" since 2016. Tech is far too big and inextricable a part of society for any competent CEO to think they could hide on the sidelines.
Yeah, nice marketing spin and an attempt to downplay the wasteland nature of Tumblr as of today.

As others mentioned, it wasn't the ban of porn that made Tumblr lose a lot of users. It was the heavy-handed nature of the ban plus the fact that the flagging algorithm was -- and still is -- extremely buggy and unreliable. The amount of injustice that many honest content creators suffered there lost Tumblr a user goodwill that spanned back a decade. Tumblr will never regain that.

And I seriously doubt the "20% lost users" number is realistic. I enjoyed the erotic and pornographic content of Tumblr but didn't leave after the hammer hit; however, my engagement with it heavily dropped.

I doubt they included that in their imaginary 20% lost users. Sure, technically maybe only 20% left but I am pretty sure that many like myself just didn't bother uninstalling the app or deleting their account. How convenient that user activity wasn't mentioned in detail in this post.

They can say whatever they like. Of course they will downplay any negatives, it's their job. But Tumblr is pretty much dead in the water (read: irrelevant).

Which is a shame because Twitter and Reddit definitely don't deserve the extra active users they gained from the exodus.
Principles for the Application of Human Intelligence
I think that GCP is obviously better for people working inside Google. I was amazed when on my third day I took the all day end to end class and was blown away by how “not difficult” it was to use Borg, the global file system, web based dev tools, etc.

But, I have always enjoyed using public GCP more that AWS.
No, nor do I know of any desire to do so
While not in one place, I, and many people posess most of those completely legal things.

Gotta wonder about those guys with 'Decorative Swords' tho... /s
Ignorning the fact that many engineering orgs can't hit 10% let along 18%; you've already lost if you've restricted your pipeline to "has a CS degree". Statistically your company isn't actually hiring for jobs that need higher level CS theory. It's not assigning malice, but pure negligence. There's a huge population of competent people with amazing ROI for your business and, especially companies with pockets as deep as FAANG, ignoring them because it's perceived as less risky to hire another (cis/het/white) guy is bad optics at best.

Ironically, in my experience, the companies who figured this out a decade ago are the major finance companies. Hire anyone with a pulse, put in the effort to train them, be the only company on the block that isn't active treating these populations like shit, the you get retention rates that are unheard of in tech (especially for such comparativly shitty jobs by metric of pay and interesting things to do). Talent is there, tech companies just choose to ignore it and play into the existing biases ( and out right misogynistic streaks) that already exist.

Maybe 50% is a perfect ideal, but, don't let perfect be the enemy of better. We absolutely should be loudly shaming those at the top that "just can't find talent".

#rantsFromAnAngryTransWoman
Glass is pretty inert, full stop. It would depend on the voxel size but I imagine as long as you have more than a few hundered atoms per voxel/bit you will have survivability on the order of millenia, even in high radiation environments. Someone would have to do the nuclear cross section calculations to get a real bit error rate but glass is very tough stuff.
This is ridiculous. Tell us what the company is, we as a community need to know so that we can avoid this bs.

Also as others have said, you should start shopping around for a new position.
They should - high entropy dns names and frequent subdomains should be indicators to watch for. The bad news is they can be noisy and not get the attention they deserve (never saw a SOC that wasn't swimming in alerts).
But definitely it’s the girls’ fault, am I right?
Every release will get complaints. They have to wait to see if it is more than normal.
To the devs:

On mobile your header and the additional donation banner (which I don't see an easy way to remove) take up about 45% of my screen, so it's very hard to see what's on the page in question.

I understand you want donations, but I don't even know what this is yet and it's pretty hard to find out given the very tiny window into your content. I'm not the kind of person to donate to something without knowing what it is, and at this point you're actively dissuading me from finding out. That's a good way to get less donations and less users.
Got it, thanks! I did not realize it runs in a VM, ok, that indeed makes sense to call it a different kind of application.
Rich Data Visualizations for Ant Financial’s AntV L7 Platform
We do know that more egalitarian countries lead to significantly pronounced differences in choices between male and female. That directly suggest that males and females biologically like different things.
2nd link (C++) appears broken, but I'm interested!
I was used to germany too. when i moved to new york i always impressed to see how messy the system was. I’ve got lost many packages :(
> I'm curious what their continued involvement will look like.

Page and Brin, combined, are currently the majority shareholders of alphabet. Each controls 27% of the voting power ( 54% combined ). They are still in charge. They just won't be involved in the day-to-day operation of the company. Sundar will still report to Page/Brin and the board of directors.
So far most major AWS instances I’ve paid attention to have been ultimately caused by their own Rube Goldberg inspired infra. Nothing at AWS just is something,
it practically all relies on something else at AWS, and when there are outages at the apparently lowest level, the issues are wide spread.

With such convoluted systems, fat finger syndrome seems to be a not insignificant factor in their downtime, and the interdependence just makes it blow up.

But sure. If you want to trust everything to aws you go right ahead and do that.

As for rising prices - I have no idea - no company has done anything until they do it the first time. AWS doesn’t really need to increase prices to be a more expensive solution for the vast majority of companies using it.

If you don’t rely on proprietary aws “solutions” in the first place, there’s no extra “time and cost” involved. It’s just running your setup process - whatever that may be - with another location, another vendor, whatever.

Like I said if you want real HA you’re going to be running in multiple vendors all the time - it’s not something you’re going to say “well shit aws is down again let’s go sign up for azure”.

You’re going to sit back and eat crumpets because your site is running fine in spite of aws or azure or whoever’s latest brown pants event.

And to be clear I’m not suggesting using aws is a smart move over bare metal or even just regular rented virtual machines at a normal facility - the concept of HA across vendors applies the same.
What does it mean to be able to pull over 10Gbps? With one object or many objects in the same prefix?
Short stories for kids in hindi, Google बोलो, apps एक उच्चार सुधार ऐप जो short
I miss Atlanta.
seems shallow to blame those copying SO when SO itself doesn't police input, and is actually blatantly in violation of copyright itself.

one example is the 2nd most popular question about inputstreams and strings. that #1 answer is itself lifted from an Oracle blog which, from what i can tell, has no license and so is basically unusable from a legal perspective. it could e.g. only be usable for educational purposes, non-financial, or only by Oracle employees. who knows without a license?

it's goofy and inappropriate to think that its license somehow "infects" the content and turns it into CC-by-SA or whatever it is.
How to Improve the CS Curriculum and Have More Fun
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It doesn’t require the physical keyboard. The AWS console has a virtual keyboard, that should work for developers who want to learn about GAN but a musician will get the best experience with a physical keyboard. It should work with other MIDI controllers though only the AWS keyboard is officially supported
> The IPA was invented because beer shipped to India acquired off flavors due to the longer travel times. It is almost by definition bad beer.

More porter was shipped to India than pale ale. Would you consider porter by definition a bad beer?
I donate mostly for religious purposes.

> They ask you (O Prophet in) what (way) they should donate. Say, “Whatever donations you give are for parents, relatives, orphans, the poor, and (needy) travellers. Whatever good you do is certainly well known to Allah.” (Al-Baqarah, 2:215)

There's an awful lot of charities that give to the poor and orphans. Islamic Relief covers a lot of that - wells, sanitation, orphan support, disaster relief, education. They're rated highly on Charity Navigator.
You mean hide read channels? If you hide unread, how will you find your new messages?
Coffee and coaine are not actually worlds apart in terms of mechanism of action, they both act on the same brain pathway though coffee has a limited ability to activate this pathway in comparison to cocaine.
All outsourcing that could have happened has already happened. No matter what people say about H1Bs undercutting salaries they are still paid much more than equivalent employees overseas. Why wait for visas to become scarce to move the business overseas and save tons of money?

It was huge in the late 90s-early 2000s and partly explains the current situation with the lack of programmers since everybody told their kids that software engineering jobs will all be gone by the time the graduate with their, then useless, CS degree.

It appears the efficacy of outsourcing had been overestimated a bit and many jobs had been "re-shored" since then. And yes, there is still substantial outsourcing business I just don't see how it can expand any more.
> "The CHS [Confidential Human Source]

Anyone want to guess which other animals the FBI has convinced to talk?

Because there are some dogs and cats that might solve a lot of crimes.
Sure we can hope, but in reality if Google is not profitable someone else will take its place. If Google does not cooperate with Chinese government someone else will take its place.

Will humanity benefit if, say, Comcast buys the morally pure but financially struggling Google, or if no one is challenging Baidu in China?
The difference between US and "a lot of European countries" is that we have global financial power and they don't. If the US truly wanted to have a wealth tax, we can make it globally binding for US companies/citizens. Meaning you can't offshore it or hide it "legally" in foreign nations because we'd sanction both the individual and the nation. No tax haven or nation can afford to risk being banned from US markets and the international financial system which the US created and controls. But the US is a captive nation controlled by the wealthy, so I won't be holding my breath for a wealth tax.
With many objects under the same S3 bucket - say for a flow or a run (with many tasks).
There was some talk of terrorists using Club Penguin to communicate years ago. It's not really a new concept to use weird channels like that for illicit communication. I remember hearing about ISIS recruiting in clash of clans.
I actively participate in a couple of local charities and give of my time and expertise. I don't donate money to anything because I'm too poor. I can't make ends meet as is.
Cross-Country Cannonball Record Broken – 27 Hours 25 Minutes
Not that game, just run nethack.
It's a FUD marketing campaign by the meat industry because of declining sales.
When I was a kid I tried to make porous plaster brick with baking soda and gypsum. I think I used chalk instead of gypsum because it didn't set. However it was porous and when I saw holes inside I felt as if it was dangerous (maybe even evil).

I had to wait till the internet happened to find out what was that all about.

I have to repeat this experiment some day. I probably got less sensitive since then.
Minneapolis was in the "northwest" until the thirties or later.
I agree, it was good to see the option to generate Python code that can be reused, tweaked, etc.
Wow, I hadn’t heard of the Surinam toad. That’s so weird and a little creepy.
Are there global warming denialists on r/SSC?

Are there so many global warming denialists on r/SSC that it repudiates the concept of rationality?
And hack(6) :D
> A friends brother also met someone online from “Amsterdam” around 2003 who would acquire some choice product if you sent him cash. Nothing was ever sent back...

I thought those were the ones that got reported to the FBI.
Parents seem clueless that they are raising a generation of sheep when it come to government (and corps) invading their privacy. It really is a shame that parents teach them to be suspicious of anyone with power to force them to do anything.
There's Replete for Clojure https://github.com/replete-repl/
Tridactyl [0] lets you open text fields in your preferred $EDITOR with a keybind,
open YouTube/Vimeo/etc links in MPV, etc. on top of adding Vim navigation to
Firefox.

This comment was written in a floating Neovim window opened by Tridactyl.

[0]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/
Ironic that this is a Facebook project
Um, no, this is not impossible, us editor folks have been inserting 0-width space after the tag and selecting it for years.

The team the size of Slack should/could have easily worked around that.
No, it isn’t a waste, since many companies only hire from the narrow pool of top tier universities, as she pointed out.
> given that those are all concepts created by mathematics, which women have long excelled in - after all, women were the original "computers" before we had machines to automate calculations.

Doing rote arithmetic is nothing like doing mathematics. Doing manual calculations is nothing like being a programmer. The activities have zero resemblance. Also, advanced mathematics degrees (i.e. Masters and above) have the same gender parity as computer science. Undergrad mathematics degrees has a more balanced gender parity, but this is explained by a large proportion of those women going on to become teachers.
> What are top tier universities doing to keep being competitive with those low cost boot camps?

Students from top tier universities go on to jobs where their education is actually useful. (Usually; there are always a number that don't quite make it.) Somebody has to write all the system software, database engines, compilers, and frameworks that the boot camp graduates use to do their jobs.
What ever happened to digitizing all of the world’s information?

That still feels like at least a 100yr mission.
You don't replace the human code review. You supplement it. An AI that can replace the code review would need to be an AGI that "sat" down with your team and understood the architectures and meaning in your code. If it can't say "WTF?" it can't do a full code review.
Chronicles from a Death Foretold

Fortunately also a Death Postponed.
Slack will cease and desist you for making such modifications.
How does this compare to other major players, seems a bit pricey
Utf-32 allows for constant time indexing of a codepoint which may be important. Utf-16 is the worst of all worlds with its bloat and surrogate pair nonsense
The only catch is that it's a minor lottery which model drive you're getting.

For instance, I got all white label WD80EMAZs (256MB cache, non-SMR, same firmware as the Reds) in this batch, so I had to insulate the 3.3V pins.

There are also true Reds, 128MB and 512MB cache drives, helium filleds, 7.2K HGSTs slowed to 5.4K, and other variants.
>software engineering had a historically larger amount of women which faced a decline post-80s.

How much resemblance does software engineering pre-80's and post-80's have with each other? Furthermore, how much generalizations can one make when the sample size is small? Presumably when computer programming first became a distinct activity, the pool of players were significantly smaller than it currently is.
I never claimed gun ownership reduced gun violence overall, but excluding suicide it doesn’t seem to increase it either.[1] At the macro scale, I only mean to say it makes hostile government action less likely. Likewise, at the micro scale, I only mean to say violent confrontation between individuals is less likely when both parties are armed than when only one is armed. This much to me seems self evident (and underpins the macro thesis as well). At the micro scale, I might agree that there would be less gun violence if neither party were armed, but mass confiscation will never happen in the US. It would be ineffective given the lack of a central registry and it would likely incite civil war. In that light, even barring the macro thesis, it strikes me as prudent to be among the armed. With, of course, basic safety training.

[1]https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/everybodys-lying-a...
Hmm I'll say agian. DUH
I'm personally not super picky about the particular terms, those would work for me.

Yeah, writing extensions for browsers appears to be increasingly unpleasant.
I picked up his Poetry Notebook back in 2015 but never managed to find the time for it. As I've begun exploring poetry once more anyway, it is long past time to finally read the book. Rest in peace and thank you for giving so much of yourself to the world.
If you want to water down the definition beyond recognition then snail mail is a social network.
I agree Cost Explorer leaves a lot to be desired compared to what third party vendors offer, but CUR can give you more granularity.

Options seem limited from providers in general since Azure and GCP haven't done much better in this regard - GCP cloud billing in particular felt less far along than the other two providers.
No PM anywhere gets credit for Dark Mode adoption in 2019.

The other 2 amount to solving self-inflicted problems.

You are kind.
For what it's worth i agree with this. A realistic example of what i would describe as unbiased is, say, telemetry data from a radio telescope, or a neutral reading of a poem or story.

Tools are unbiased.

I think the real danger is actually in the notion that "bias" is something done to deceive, and I have encountered people who imply this quite a bit in real life

By way of example: I have a strong bias towards the nationalization of infrastructure. Many of my opinions and arguments are designed to support this end because, for reasons I would love to explain I believe it's the best course of action. I am, if anything, prone to never letting anyone leave my company without droning on and on about this! There is not deception involved. People certainly do hide their biases, or lie about things in order to support their arguments, but this is not something inevitable with bias.

Ultimately I think everyone needs to deal with the reality that we ALL have biases and we ALL inject them into our work. This is actually ok, because its part of how we work to build the world we want to live in.
It's a crowdfunded project where some of the backers opted in to receive a device from an early batch. What's so unacceptable about that?
Rats and stool pigeons squeal to the pigs.
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Honestly, there’s so much drama and turmoil there, I wouldn’t want to be there either. So many other productive things they could be doing.
I think that's the point. The bias leans towards those who don't give
Sounds like you need a new boss, not a lack of WiFi on airplanes.