skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What group of assholes believes that? It's sexist bullshit.

If you're surrounded by that, it's got to be incredibly unhappy. Some thoughts (unsolicited, I recognize):

- to make space in your life for better people, start deprecating the toxic ones.

- there are lots of positive groups of men. Not always, but places to look: Dojos, Freemasons, sports groups (not necessarily very athletic groups, either).

- some independent fun helps. A motorcycle is fun.

- or start bodybuilding to get some of these assholes to fear you a bit. People compliment those that they fear.

Unsolicited, given, but HTH.
See "Can I post a job ad?" on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is such a terrible, terrible attitude to have and is exactly why many have started describing recent cultural shifts as "toxic". This attitude is very reminiscent of the GOP/Trump's tactics during his presidency, and is almost a direct endorsement of such actions.
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No, these are architects in 2001 looking back at earlier machines that influenced them.
The tourism industry in Victoria alone is directly worth $26B/year[1]. The main tourist areas outside of Melbourne are being evacuated today, in the middle of the prime summer holiday season.

In NSW tourism is worth $40B[2]. The situation is similar there.

Say this costs between 10 and 20% of that. That is roughlt $10B in direct costs this year alone.

Additionally your 10% additional cost of energy is nonsense. Australia hasn't had a functioning energy policy is 10 years, which is the primary reason costs are so high. Any kind of policy which both sides of politics agree on (at least roughly!) will provide investment certainty and cut that cost.

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[2] https://invest.nsw.gov.au/sector-opportunities/tourism
Splunk just acquired streamlio and most of the core devs got sucked up. While pulsar is a great product - are you not concerned that these guys are getting paid $$ bank to do something else now?
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Black on green silk screen text is an unlikely choice. Still early days however so probably fixed in next revision.
I've fixed this problem a few times (on different drives) by giving the drive a not so gentle thwack with a hammer. The trick is to hit it on the long side, which tends to dislodge the stuck heads/arm. If you hit it on the top or bottom, you're likely to break something, and hits on the short side aren't likely to achieve anything at all.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21915160 where Maxmind employees responsed in the thread
I'm doubtful one exists for android or iOS but I can imagine it wouldn't be that hard to implement with a smartwatch signalling to a phone (instead of a laptop). The only trouble a developer would have with implementing is if they have sufficient access to APIs that might be private and the ability to run a background service using the APIs at a sufficient interval.
You’re arguing sonething very different. Amazon acts very unethically (well, business is business, but still) and it’s never been a problem.
I sincerely doubt they are sustaining 50k msgs/second. Likely that's the MAXIMUM throughput.

No way they would actually hit that sustained throughput for the entire month.

Even the other justifications about wanting to reference messages after delivery do not to me justify migrating off SQS/Kinesis, especially not at cost of 5 months development effort.
People flag posts like this all the time, sometimes out of loyalty to their employer or a general distaste for hearing from ex-employees, especially of companies they have an emotional connection to.
> Hitting a pedestrian or cyclist is almost always deemed an accident, with no fault assigned (or, if fault is assigned, a $200 fine is the result, not loss of driving privilege).

This is common also in Sweden, but parallel green still generally works well. So enforcement cannot be the only explanation.
> First off, why are assumptions independent?

Because I've defined them that way. I mean them to be independent choices you could make when designing your model that could be varied to fit the data. If two aspects of the model are not independent; i.e. they are covariant in some way, then there is some common parameter that explains them both, and that parameter is the one that should be seen as an input to the model.

> We can roll a die 100 times, 1000 times, 10K times [...] That's what we mean (if we're frequentists)

We're not frequentists.

You can't "re-roll" the 2016 election 10K times, either. There was only one, and there was only one way it could come out; we just didn't know enough to say what it would be before it happened. All the particles in all the voters were obeying the laws of physics at every moment; never was there any freedom for a different outcome. Nonetheless, even though there was/is only one "ground truth" that could ever be, we assigned probabilities to each possible outcome, given our incomplete knowledge.

This is a pretty standard application of probability. State estimators (e.g. the Kalman filter) are doing the same thing— you have some noisy readings of reality, and you use Bayesian logic on some assumed probability distributions to pick the estimate from the space of possible "ground truths" that has the highest probability of being the right one.

Concretely: I'm measuring roll rate, local acceleration, compass heading, barometric pressure, and GPS, all with significant error, and I want to know where my quadcopter is most likely to be at the current moment. There is only one true answer to that question, the quadcopter is in one place, not 10,000 places (or 10,000 flights), there is a single ground truth. But Bayes will give me a probability, given my readings, that any given estimate is the true ground truth (and some math will help me solve for the highest one).

In this case, instead of assigning probabilities to possible election outcomes or system state "ground truths", the "configuration space" is models of reality. But all we've changed is the domain of our probability distribution; the math doesn't care what kind of thing our "ground truth" represents. And it doesn't matter if reality contains only one "ground truth" or many; the fact is that we are choosing between many options (and we are ranking them by likelihood).
It doesn't matter who they pick, deniers are great diverting attention to smearing the person to take focus away from the issue, just take a look at how many still "herp derp al gore".
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Well put - the way he wrote the "science" was fun and used in novel, clever ways to further the interesting situations and ideas and analogies, which is why it was awesome. Plus it was neat reading a book that was first Chinese and then translated. I found the subtle differences in tones and characters fascinating.
Someone dropped dead on the Canberra airport tarmac from smoke induced respiratory issues as soon as the got off the plane.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/woma...
The last bit resonates with me. Work has to be something we need to do for about 1/3 of our lives. Work is service. Even if we get paid for it, work is what we do for the betterment of collective. 1/3 of our lifetime ought to be for family and kin and our own. The remaining 1/3 for self development. To become better than who we were yesterday, last month..the year before. It’s a continuous improvement.

But I see people do nothing but work. They start at 7.00. Work all day. Outsource family time. Scrounge for a little bit of self care time. Sleep little, enjoy in chunks of time once a year. All for a price.

Most of what we work for goes to the government. Yes, taxes go for betterment of society but because no one has a say in it, it can also go towards things some of us don’t believe in. War, for example. I can’t divert my tax dollars towards space exploration rather than bloody wars.

We need a formula for life and living. A formula that gives us true and lasting freedom.

[..] When Page became CEO in 2011, he became “obsessed” with reading about why companies fail from being too big and sluggish, Stapleton said. “It’s sort of sad that a lot of the things he was afraid would happen, actually happened.”

Stapleton, who held a number of roles close to the founders, recalled Page walking around offices with a chunk of metal that he said was from his grandfather’s auto plant in Michigan. It supposedly symbolized a point in time when auto workers felt like they needed to protect themselves against management. Page showed it as an example of something he hoped would never happen to Google.

“He always said how much Google needs to be upfront and progressive in how it handles people and processes and HR,” Stapelton recalled. “He had such an optimistic view of technology and how Google could really transform how people live and free up humanity to pursue the arts.”[..]
Interesting. Did a little reading. It does seem that in the last few years, McDonalds has cleaned up it's food a bit.
I wish politeness counted for something (truly; I'm mostly a very polite person, too polite even). Looking back through history at those conquered, not so much. I'm unsure how to reconcile the need for politeness when the system (whether that be a political or societal environment) doesn't attribute weight to it. It doesn't count for much with a boot on your neck. "Do no harm but take no shit".

How much should one be willing to sacrifice for the high road? Everything?
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Well - they were. Now they're not. Why is that shocking?
> the fundamental problem with Google's performance review process is that you get to choose who reviews you

Except this isn't true at all.

Your manager reviews you. Other people write feedback (you choose these people, though people can write unsolicited feedback for you). Your manager should be obtaining a holistic view of your work rather than just relying on the solicited feedback.

Further, there is an oversight process where managers must justify their ratings to other managers. This attempts to prevent the "your manager likes you so you get a good review" problem.
Indeed. There are certain jobs I wouldn't take, or that would have to pay me at least 100,000 more a year to be associated with their moral ambiguity (for me it happens to be facebook)
As someone not in the financial world, this is one of the few times equities research has mad sense to me. It's still a bet but having that kind of research to bet off of is really interesting. Another time was that article about measuring the shadows of tankers carrying oil outside of port.

I appreciate the insight.
I am not a neurologist nor a doctor and I am entirely guessing, so I should not even comment, but some people may not be affected by small amounts of amino acids like this depending on their diet, gaba receptors, existing amino acid intake such as already drinking green tea or using arginine or citruline, or other medications. It is entirely possible that your α waves are already elevated from something else or that this amino acid isn't metabolized correctly.
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Whether it works or not it's a psychological manipulation, and it should be unacceptable to force it on people. Absolutely dystopian.
Google's founders used to be quite "deeply involved" in the day-to-day business, and the company didn't suffer for it. Maybe this has something to do with it becoming "unrecognizable" shortly after they checked out altogether.
Counterpoint: Microsoft has been Fortune 250 for 20+ years, and a F50 for almost 20 years.
In a hard sense maybe from selection bias and counting only full time and far fewer who don't pay the rent. Maybe uo to like 5% or so if you can count academia among developers.

There is a sizable chunk who would prefer to work with non-properietary software if only for the ability to take a peak. The likely winner by raw numbers would be the "apathetics" who go wity whatever works.
>Let me put it this way: the big-pharma drug manufacturing (and more generally, medical-equipment manufacturing) pipeline is set up such that the only thing about a drug that should be able to kill someone, is if the drug's active ingredient itself has a bad interaction with their body.

"Should be" is a giant risk factor... "Don't worry Mrs. Jones, this drug shouldn't be able to kill you unless you have a terrible allergic reaction!"

Big-pharma has shown, repeatedly, that their sole motivation is not altruistic treatments of human aliments... it is that of any other corporate entity. Profit. I don't think that is inherently evil either.

Medical cannabis could kill you... you are right, but I would argue that you are much more likely to be killed from alcohol or tobacco related events.

For just one data point: I've worked in EMS for 14 years and I have never seen a cause of death that was directly the result of using cannabis. Unfortunately, I have lost track of how many people I have seen die that were the direct result of alcohol ingestion. Same for Oxycotin and other opioid based "medicine" prior to everyone and their brothers walking around with narcan.
Humans can biologically only sustain 150 friendships at a time
I would be extremely (but prepared to be) surprised if Phoenix + Hasura were faster in terms of latency than Phoenix + Absinthe, since one has to enter and exit two vms and the other doesn't, unless you're suggesting the frontend issue graphql results directly to the hasura backend, bypassing phoenix.
If you videoed any of that, I'd love to watch it on youtube (or somewhere).
Actually no, I wouldn't make that claim; while a futex based adaptive mutex is a very good default, spinlocks can be still approriate for some applications.

What I'm saying is that if your use case is such that you expect enough contention to consider using TATAS (which is actually a pessimization in the uncontented case) and look into optimizing sched_yield, probably a spinlock is not appropriate on the first place.

Edit: hence a spinlock shouldn't bother with yield and just do a tight xchg spin (I haven't measured it inna while, but heard rumors that pause can severely harm acquire latency on very recent CPUs as it will quickly put them in a deeper power saving mode than in the past)
> But the 1st, and more broadly, the Constitution, is the only issue that does matter.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/matter

Under the Verb definition, I see no reference to the Constitution.

Also, in places where the Constitution does not apply, does nothing matter?

Perhaps you and I have different meanings in mind for the word matter?

> No one cares if you can’t get an audience.

a) No one?

b) How did you come to know the feelings of all people?
You just gotta tax the externalizes. Markets don't care unless you make them. The City needs to just make the ban/tax and trust that the private sector can stop moping and figure it out.
> A year or two from now and the advice will be _completely_ different.

Could you elaborate on that? Sounds interesting.
Life isn’t risk free. Just because you can’t predict something doesn’t mean it’s inherently gambling.

But if that is your definition of gambling then every human gambles every single day just by living.

Personally I don’t think minimizing risk as far as I can is a particularly enlightened or interesting way to live ones life, but to each their own.

Certainly this past decade rewarded risk takers.
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I've not much to say other than that this is a great little library! I used RQ for a small project recently and found it to be pretty easy to use. As my project grew bigger I also found it contained extra features I didn't realise I'd need when I started.
That sounds good in the same way that anti-vax rhetoric sounds convincing but is actually not based in reality.
Politicians just aren’t willing to get involved with the feasibility and the nitty gritty of what it would mean to break encryption. Or maybe they aren’t technically minded enough.

They ask for what seems like a reasonable request - let us read terrorists’ emails if we have a warrant, without affecting everyone else. Anyone non-technical would probably vote for this no problem.

They don’t understand it’s just not possible without creating some impossible to keep secret master key. I guess politicians are used to giving other people problems and just expecting them to figure it out.
Sorry, for some reason I assumed you were still grandparent. Which, given that, makes my response make no sense.
It paints a misleading picture.

When this demo first came out, it didn't have the right reply header to enable pipelining in the browser. Now it does, but browsers have removed pipelining support. Pipelining is a part of HTTP/1.1.

If you download a firefox from before they removed pipelining you can enable it and you'll see that there's essentially no advantage to HTTP/2 for this demo.

This demo could measure connection establishment time and bandwidth, and simulate pipelines. But I think they don't actually want you to know that even a 6-connection 1-deep pipeline is just about as good as HTTP/2.
I'm growing to believe that the greatest folly of humankind is the idea of permanence.

We love to cling on to what we have and fight against anything that might remove it from us. Even when we would benefit from the loss.

So it is with companies. Just because Google was an amazing toddler doesn't mean it's an amazing grown-up. Plenty of our angelic youngsters turn out to be grade-A assholes or psychopaths a few years later on.

Which is to say, the google that we knew back in the 90s and 2000s is dead, and has been for a long time.
What drives me crazy about this is how it shows that some employees are expected to bust their asses to meet deadlines, but others (legal) are not -- oh, if legal won't be done in time, we'll just move the deadline, no problem.

While some people -- healthily or not -- are willing to bust their butts (with or without extra compensation) when they think everyone is in it together, it will generally kill morale and willingness to do such when you realize when someone else 'doesn't have time', the deadline is moved, it's only you expected to work evenings and weekends and extra hours to meet the deadline. Why is your work-life balance less important than theirs exactly? (Only because they can get away with it...)

And while not always as stark as your example, people are often shown this all the time, that not everyone's inconvenience is in fact treated equally, that the "deadline that can't be missed" really only applies to some people, and is moved for others.
Them shunning benchmarks is pretty lame.
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I've used this method after the fridge/freezer method failed. It seems less likely to cause data loss than using a magnet to move the head as in the article.
I use Android, but I thought iOS had good defenses against this kind of attack NSO's Pegasus used, as described in Forbes in this article under "A malicious text arrives". What's the UX after a user clicks the link?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/11/21/exclu...
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> the hard disk drive started emitting a ~10Khz whine

This sounds like the head crashed and physically scraped the platter.