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< numba and numpy do not interact well at all

Can you please elaborate on this? Not challenging you but trying to understand the nuances.

Numba tutorial says otherwise:
https://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/dev/user/5minguide.html
"Numba likes NumPy functions"
It probably means all of the above.
You should be able to read the code and understand how everything works.
Ask HN: Do Web Browser Built-In Spell Checks Use Local Dictionary?
I am curious if enabling the spell check in Firefox/Brave/Chrome/Opera sends text to an outside source to be analyzed or if the dictionary and computation is done on my machine.
A strategy shouldn’t dictate WHAT needs to be done, it should layout where the company needs to get to and achieve. So in this micro services example, it’d be more appropriate to have something like “increase team independence and throughput”, of which microservices is a _possible_ solution amongst many others.

In terms of roadmapping, I like to use the phrase “futures, not features” to remind folks of the proper content for them.
I mean, perhaps comparing R to panda is too low a bar.

If I read "Having many different ways to express the same logic makes it hard for developers to understand programs of heterogeneous styles" in a vacuum, the very first thing I would think of is R.
I think everyone misread, including me.

Everyone thought he was saying "are you sure it suggests that? It seems an odd to me because flesh grows over time, so it is a really bizarre conclusion if true!"

But OP didn't mean that. Instead this is what OP meant:

">> The successful seeds were all several centimeters long, 30% larger than modern date seeds, suggesting dates that were significantly larger than modern varieties.

"Actually, maybe it's not that the flesh was larger - but rather, the seed was! The flesh could have remained the same size."

OP then justified why he thought this was just as plausible, by mentioning wild bananas (Google image search "wild banana seed") as an example of large, ugly seeds in a same-sized plant.
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I once forgot that a vendor added their own adjustment to a bidding algorithm we had in place. It was significant for certain regions. I created a bidding model without taking the adjustment into account, pushed it to production, and spent ~30kUSD extra in a few hours before anyone noticed the unusually high bids coming from our vendor. We put controls in place to prevent this afterwards ;)
Oh, look... a paywall. (closes tab)
Look up Operation Mockingbird on wikipedia.

The same is still going on in spades.
Ah, it was a bitmap image. But TIL about 16colo.rs, which is really cool.

The screenshots you've posted definitely look interesting to poke around with. Do the keys press as you type? :D

1GB is sizable but not too out of reach for those interested. Sounds like there are a lot of assets/interesting stuff elsewhere in the project?

I wondered about a good "somewhere" to put it online for a bit - I don't have a good answer for this. I checked itch.io, which apparently has a 500MB limit that can be expanded to 2GB on request. (https://itch.io/t/324861/need-help-with-size-limit-on-game-u..., https://itch.io/t/46291/uploading-large-games-faq). Archive.org would probably work, despite the most likely reaction being at least one raised eyebrow.

(And... hm, user-specifiable disk images are probably something you've already thought of.)
Assuming they aren't coded as well or double enciphered

eg XXX in 21Land is a WW
There is some prior art for this https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579
I learned about SciPy via Numerical Python (Apress/GitHub: https://github.com/apress/numerical-python). That was a ton of fun, especially after I recovered from freshman calculus flashbacks.
In the 1960s you had several passenger airline companies based in the U.S. such as Boeing, Lockheed, and McDonald Douglas.

Europeans got seriously spooked because they were afraid that if Italian Airlines flew Italian planes and such, fragmented markets would prevent any European company from being a viable player in the long term.

So they collaborated on the Concorde, and then the Airbus A300, consolidating the European aerospace industry quite successfully.

It costs a lot of money to train a pilot to fly a new aircraft, and on top of that you have mechanics, ground handlers, air traffic controllers and many other skilled people whose operations revolve it.

Thus there is some public and industry benefit to consolidation, but at the moment the competitive landscape looks very different for widebody (B787, A350) airliners where new technology is making it to to the public as opposed to narrowbody (B737, A320) airliners where the youngest design is 35 years old.

(Some of that parallels the lack of competition in the U.S. airline market which is dominated by narrowbody airliners as opposed to international flights on which you are likely to ride on a widebody. If you're going to compress people in all three axes to get them in a 737, why bother thanking them for flying with you?)
Google joins Hedera governing council
Staying Fit vs Work Life Balance
Distributed consensus is not as special as blockchain enthusiasts like to say. Blockchain solves distributed consensus in exactly the same way that Ancient Athenians did: pick a random person to decide [what truth will be/what the state will do] for a period of time.
Then go out of business they must.
There appears to be quite a lot of missing (basic) content. Try searching "Cauchy-Schwarz" (or its variants). Nothing. Same for "Fourier".
I once accidentally deleted a large part of a production private nntp spool (used as a tech support forum for a commercial product) while trying to get replication working to a backup. The same day, I did a recursive chown on a different production server from /. Worse yet, I was so distraught that I left the office without telling anyone in a position to fix it. Since then (over 20 years ago now) I always double check where and who I am before doing something destructive and dry run if possible, but more importantly, clearly and quickly communicate when I screw up.

I ask junior folks what their biggest (technical) screw up has been, in interviews. I think it's a bad sign if they won't admit to it or claim they've never screwed up big-time.
I can't wait until there's a run on the exchanges and they all go insolvent/cease trading. This house of cards has created the most undeserving kings ever.
Yeah, mee too. With KDE 3.x there where many people which were eager in improving abilities and workflows of KDE. With KDE this somehow changed, the focus switched to other things, many people seems to have left and today there seems to be a different spirit remaining in the project. Even today, a decade later I don't get the impression that KDE ever moved beyond what it once was and promised. Kind of a shame as there are still many people doing good work there.
Possibly, but ...

The cool thing in this instance is that the trees are growing, so we may get to observe them first hand.
> No one is locking them into cages and telling them they can't leave. I would bet most everyone who is there strongly believes in the mission.

That's true for a lot of other companies where people here have advocated the employees would benefit from unionization.

For the record, I am conflicted on engineer unionization, and my original statement was intended to be neutral.

As to this specific example, on one hand I understand the drive that comes from having a real mission (as opposed to an MBA-concocted "mission") and how a team who share that drive can execute with amazing speed; conversely, I have seen how poorly teams of clock-punchers putting in the bare minimum can perform.

On the other hand, I have also seen "the mission" used as a means to guilt trip people into overwork or accepting substandard compensation.

Of the two, I lean towards the SpaceX approach being the better one. In the absolute I don't particularly like either of them.

> EDIT: Eh. They aren't paid fantastically but not slave wages either. Additionally this is spread out over three very different cities.

> https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/SpaceX-Engineering-Salaries....

Those salaries look to be in line with what equivalent engineers at Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing are making in those same locations, maybe a bit higher. Thus, if the WLB reports from SpaceX are to be believed, their per-hour pay is much lower. It's hard to tell, though, without a proper breakdown by years of experience. Also, there are certainly teams within those companies where the engineers put in just as much time and effort as SpaceX engineers. Boeing is the only one I am aware of that has unionized engineers, though.
I still get goosebumps remembering the scene in "journey to the center of the earth" when they see a human figure lumbering across the cavern.

Paris in the 20th century was also really cool to read. Almost every Jules Verne book has this unbridled optimism (especially pronounced in the American characters). But this book is dark. I kinda liked it for that. After reading so many Jules Verne books as a teenager, they all started to feel the same.
Nothing valuable, and especially nothing that shouldn't be done with a website.
Cities tend to have a concentration effect on birds, especially during migrations. Central Park in NYC, for instance, is one of the best places in the world for birdwatching in spring and fall. Birds migrate at night, and at first light, gravitate to the first tree they can find. Since NYC is concrete for miles and miles, a very wide area's worth of birds all funnel into Central Park (and other parks, of course) and you get amazing quantities and varieties. The same is true for parks in other cities.
Luck seems a poor thing to attribute this to.

I used to smudge all the time as a righty.

I have taken time to adjust habits in day-to-day activities. Luck seems to apply only insofar as I do not am neurally and physically typical enough that I can adjust these habits.

If you don't like something, especially if it's your own behavior (and writing style is absolutely a behavior), it is likely within your power to change it. Maybe you would need help from a coach or perhaps pharmacological or therapeutic if there is some pathology.

For me, it is always a no-brainer to change things that annoy me.
If you still put your money down for the stock, the value isn't $0 anymore. It's whatever you value it.
>>Real child porn is not a product of the imagination, it is a documentation of real abuse to victims.

Except that obviously some countries take it too far and people have been convicted for production of child pornography for having a picture of themselves on their own phone(say an 18 year old who took a picture of themselves when they were underage). That's not purely theoretical "this could happen, but probably won't because people apply common sense". That does actually happen in real world. And there is no abuse involved, maybe except for the abuse of he justice system. This wouldn't happen if just simply having a picture wasn't criminal in itself.

>>the justification would argue that the next best way to ensure child rapists are caught would be to illegalise possession of the drawings.

Would it? Because I feel that if any one of us came across child porn accidentally the right solution is to burn the machine down and never ever tell anyone about it, since mere fact of having looked at it(downloaded it to your browser) is a jail sentence in most civilized nations. If it was legal I would have absolutely no problem reporting it the police, which I am sure would help actually catching rapists. Which actually brings me to my next point - as far as I know, as long as minors are not involved, posession of pictures of pretty much any illegal act is not in itself illegal. You can go and google a video of couple guys killing another with a screwdriver - perfectly legal to watch. You can probably go on some snuff websites and watch videos of actual rape - not illegal to watch as far as I know. What's the difference? Because someone might masturbate to one of these but not the others? Now I don't believe that for a second, and it's not like the demand argument doesn't apply here either.
Not to mention waste heat.
It's important to remember that in negotiations, both sides strategically establish their initial demands to be much more extreme than what they ultimately expect to receive. That is the case here. The Executive branch is posturing for budgetary negotiations. The NEH will likely survive, perhaps with a diminished budget, as a concession.
Science Won't Settle Trans Rights
Perhaps this is one reason why frameworks like Django are so popular
Part of the problem is that nobody agrees what "clean code" looks like. The only objective definition is "code that somebody else can understand as easily as if they had written it themselves". Which never happens.

Follow good rules of thumb like keeping methods short, reuse code rather than cutting and pasting, and write unit tests (and, of course, use spaces and not tabs). Otherwise, all code is as clean as all other code.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to understand. I'm not really familiar with the pre-WWII method of publication.

How would moving peer-review to after publication enhance trust? It seems to me one of the problems currently is the vast amount of publication. Much of it seems derivative or of little value other than resume padding. While I agree the current peer review system isn't ideal, it does seem to at least provide some throttling of the volume of publications.
JPMorgan in talks to merge blockchain unit Quorum with startup ConsenSys
I'm assuming hosting this isn't free.
We say that, but how much time to people spend just watching TV or Netflix? All of that is "free time". People just spend it without thinking and then lament their lack of free time.
I was just wondering why they did this with an inkjet instead of a laser, but you answered that.

I wonder if they can manipulate the liquid composition to adjust the gap?
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Lidar makers are coping with slow progress of self-driving tech
Battling Malaria at the Atomic Level
I used to beat myself up a lot when I would have an unproductive day for whatever reason (because I was tired, depressed, anxious, distracted, etc). This would then carry over to more days where I needed to be productive, thus hurting my focus and productivity further. Then I realized that, at least in my job, things won’t fall apart if I just have an off day. Now when I have one of those days I’m easier on myself and remind myself that tomorrow will be a new day where there will still be plenty of challenges to tackle and I don’t need to be working at 110% capacity every single day of my life. I now find it a lot easier to just write those days off so that I can come back the next day and focus.

Sometimes we need days where we aren’t “productive” to rest, recover, or process so that we can do our best on the days where we are able to be productive.

I’ll also say that for me having a good, supportive team makes a huge difference. If you have other people who can help you stay motivated and accountable who are also empathetic it’s a huge boon for staying focused and productive.
Dashlane extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store
That's a very apple to oranges comparison, wouldn't you agree?

GNU autotools assists in making source code packages portable accross Unix-like systems, while make is for build automation and has fine-level dependencies (inter-files).

Nix is a package manager, and though is can build your software for you transparently, it is not tied to and specific software configurationand building toolset, can manage buildtime and runtime dependencies (including downloading the sources), caching build results transparently, etc.
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Incidentally, this is a problem I've worked on previously.

https://github.com/paragonie/libgossamer/tree/master/docs
Is the endowment strictly apolitical? That's the only reason I can think of that they would want it closed.
Bingo. DownThemAll is something I would describe as "mission-critical". I had trouble getting two different versions of Firefox to not interfere with one another in odd ways such as everything running fine until I open a file with Firefox as the associated program and one version would open but have all the settings from the other version and Portable Firefox refusing to save settings or extensions at all. Using Chrome for casual browsing was just less of a headache.
I can never find anything in Confluence unless I had the foresight to link to it from the main page.
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This site, for all its virtues, really cracks me up sometimes. I was talking about the open world of extensions, with an 's,' of which there are many. But apparently all the world needs is uBlock, and whatever the sites and browser companies deign to provide. Some hackers.
Why should I be embarrassed for dumping some weekend coding garbage just to keep HR happy that everyone is expected to have something on Github?

Everyone here knows my stuff long time ago, or is knowledgeable enough to find it, given that my online life goes back to the BBS days, do you think it embarrasses me, really?

Corporate pays my bills, not songs about birds, rainbows and how everyone should stick it to the man.
Indeed, but I was more specifically referring to smth like data.table, which I found simpler to use than Pandas.
I Made a Color Scheme for Programming Using Math
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> than be considered a "blue collar engineer" as I currently am considered by my peers.

I might be completely wrong about this, but I feel you have low-self esteem and you are tying your sense of self-worth to where you work.

Whenever I have heard something negative about Amazon is that they overwork people and there is no work life balance. But almost all of them have said it was worth it in terms of growing and learning.

If you feel that what you are working on has enough impact, and you are learning a lot. Put your head down, fuck what others think of Amazon, and grow as an engineer. After that a lot more opportunities might open for you.
Guix has `guix import pypi PACKAGE`, which spits out a complete definition that you can pop into a file or the main Guix repository.

'guix import' also takes a --recursive argument, which makes it recursively consider any dependencies and produce package definitions for those not already available.
It seems that Brexit is once again used as a scapegoat.

Brexit has been in the cards for almost 4 years now, and they were officially planning to increase their presence in the UK no later than last year [1].

I suspect that they simply concluded that they were too far behind Monzo and Revolut in the UK and decided to focus on the US instead.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/15/digital-ba....
You can really take a deep dive into category theory if you want to analyze what "happiness" is.
So your advice for low stress white collar work is... find one that you can automate easily so you don't have to do it?
## The problem

In 2013, my laptop was stolen, so I had to re-configure everything. At that time, there were thousands of color schemes for programming out there, but none of them were appealing to me. So I decided to create my own.

Fast forward to 2020, Dracula is one of the most popular themes in the world. Still, I felt that something was missing. I wanted to help with more than just a theme.

## My solution

I decided to create a new color scheme using mathematical concepts to normalize lightness and saturation. I also tested the contrast ratio for all colors to afford the best readability.

More than that, I built Dracula PRO to be a collection of productivity tips for developers.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this. And if you have any questions, please do comment
Let's begin at the beginning, Chapter da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709.

Of course, that's tongue-in-cheek. It all began with e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290.
I'm more interested in the E-Fan X aircraft shown. Looks like the BAe 146, which is probably my favorite plane of all time to fly in.
It always comes down to "can you do something better than they can?". For all intents and purposes, the oligopoly is doing ok, is not egregiously expensive for the service they offer, and has first market mover advantage. They are innovating and providing value. There's a real barrier to entry like you mentioned in developing the required relationships with financial institutions to have enough uptake in most of the developed world. Non visa/mc alternative payment networks tend to take off where there aren't already established FIs or where they are very anti-western influence like China.

Best bet here is to target some aspect of the payment lifecycle that one of the incumbents isn't focusing on. That being said, if successful you're more likely to just get acquired than to topple the dominance.

Frankly I don't think it's worth it to try to disrupt this industry. It seems that some player always comes through to help modernize to some degree. Payments are a really boring, yet surprisingly complex space that someone else has already solved (from a consumer perspective).

There are many other aspects of the financial system that might be worth targeting.
Great list. I'm seeing $1529/month + stripe fees (probably 2.9%). Most of that is Upwork and Heroku.
Boeing is done. Trust in them has eroded severely and now they’re paying the price for profiteering at the expense of safety.

Was nice knowing ya!
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Thanks, it gets irksome at some points that a large number of submitted content on HN is paywalled. I can't subscribe to all of these, just to read a couple of articles a month per publication.
They can't compete with Google on engineering. Also, Google attracts better talent and pays more.
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A bit off topic, but is there a name for this trend to put emoji everywhere? I have some trouble to read like that. There is a kind of Madeleine de Proust though, it feel like children book: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/d1/e5/8cd1e583de4c89bf09c4275b2...
Unfortunately, many things are political merely by association in the public consciousness.
To be honest, I've never found the need for delegating a huge number of methods in my own work, but then I've never wanted to add a feature or field to something as complex and featureful as e.g. a DataFrame. What issues have you run into when using method-forwarding/delegation macros?

The nice thing about the Julia ecosystem is that people tend to be pretty willing to step back and define their methods in terms of an interface (Tables.jl in this case) which then allows code reuse without brittle delegation. Having to put so much effort into changing the structure of upstream doesn't seem ideal from a composability perspective though.
This model doesn't seem too far removed from academia; at least in the "ideal" sense, ignoring the realities of attracting funding and academic politics. The turtle would go from PhD student to tenured professors; rabbits might be undergrads or non-academic faculty staff; birds might be people like librarians and lab techs.
It's for detecting life on Mars.

If what you fire the laser at screams in pain, it's probably alive.
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There's a lot of value in publicly, and decisively, slapping down nonsense from time to time. It's the kind of thing that we really need people to do more of.
>Per the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, approved by Congress and signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on December 20, 2019, NEH’s FY 2020 budget is $162.25 million, the agency’s largest appropriation since FY 2010.

Am I reading this correctly? Two months ago the government gave them their largest budget in 10 years, now they are shutting them down (or proposing to)?