skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless your company is blatantly paying women less, which is wrong, then there are more factors involved than simply sex and pay grade.

Your second paragraph is completely logically disconnected from your first
By looking at that code without knowing much of the context in which it works, I assume self('begin_batch') and the like are "signals" that set some state or are used for logging. That behaviour could be achieved using other mechanisms (perhaps some metaprogramming magic or an observer pattern).

And while I can appreciate it can be quick to see where the signals are sent, the use of ; and having two things in a line still aren't convincing me.

Even more, if I were to run the line_profiler here, I know it'd report weird numbers precisely for having more than one thing per line.

The other thing that I dislike is opening blocks and closing them in the same line. It may be force of habit for me, but that screams unreadability at my face.

Rounding up, all I see is behaviour that can be achieved through other mechanisms, and dev/tools unfriendliness. And notice I'm not sayin anything about PEP-8, because:

a) There are parts of it with which I don't agree either.

b) Many people use PEP-8 as a sort of "silver bullet" and argument-ending-remark. That's not what it should be, it should be a _guide_ to be used when it helps, and ignored sparingly (with reason and consideration of _why_ you decide to ignore it, in the sake of readability).
Please look around, here you can find hundreds or thousands of people probably never used advanced algorithms for their lifetime except once or twice for their interviews. And you can see some who uses these daily who never implement them out of their heads but with intuition, preparation, effort, books and research. Oh and don't get me started that they all are compansated for.

Which type do you think these interview methods are optimized for?

These methods are waste of money, time, brains for both parties.
I am disappointed in Scientific American for publishing such shoddy work. Anyone can cherry-pick one piece of evidence per point to make themselves seem well supported. That doesn’t mean they are.
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I think 'Device Creation' applies to something to do with embedded products, and won't apply to 95% of Qt developers. But I could be wrong.
> The only reason I'm posting here is because this is where your message can reach people

Actually you're posting it here because this is where it can reach the niche group interested in the subject, and that you're also interested in belonging to. That's a lot different than "go where the people are" because nowadays there's just too many people online, and unless you're doing mass marketing you probably don't want to talk to all of them.

To me the most attractive part of fediverse is exactly that, small niche tribes, so very low levels of noise, off-topics and nonsense. It's not ideal as a general-purpose marketing channel, but for users on a receiving side of it (and that's most of us) it makes it even nicer.
Pleroma worked on a real time chat implementation for a while, but iirc they went back and forth on whether to use ActivityPub for it and never ended up building anything. IMO, it would require a few extensions on the client to server side, but the server to server side is already flexible enough for you to build a pretty good chat.

as far as streaming more generally, mastodon has had real time streaming for all of its main views since day 1, so it's definitely doable. using mastodon actually feels more real-time, in my experience, then using Twitter—its more directly comparable to seeing new posts and notifications come in on Tweetdeck. The latency between two different mastodon servers is generally a second or two, which is plenty good for microblogging. Obviously more steaming focused impls could do much better.
> Because politics. Trains are very national in the EU

Ah, of course, it's the 'free market' that's the solution. I mean it's complete shit in the UK, where I live, but am sure that's just an outlier. The U.S. healthcare industry is a strong proof that the private model for essential services works flawlessly and now there's Reds again running in the election campaigning for 'Medicare for All'. Outrageous.
Musk isn't an engineer.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see much value to this "spreadsheet"? The data is unstructured, a cursory glance shows some very questionable outliers, and the number of emojis doesn't really inspire confidence.

What is the purpose of this list? Bragging rights? In which case, fine. But if it's anything else, the approach will need to be drastically refined. Collecting salary information on Twitter doesn't seem like a terribly reliable starting point. And it's impossible to compare, for instance, a US salary with a UK salary without a hell of a lot of context. 100K != 100K, even after currency conversion.
Where is 1,000kg coming from?

I looked up one of my flights (actually only about 2,400km) using that calculator and only got 230kg (83kg of C02 and 173kg of "contrails, ozone formations, etc."). This flight was on a A321neo.
PlantUML, probably.
Backward compatibility. Your example would impose additional constraints on the %d specifier that would likely break existing code. What if you want an int immediately followed by literal ”64”?
I think you can reasonably expect a FSD to perform on the level of a human. Asking it to go above and beyond that is too much. When it comes to situations that give humans trouble you would rely on the same extra tools and processes that humans use.

* Car double parked. Do I cross the center line to go around them?

* Semi with its hazards on in a left turn lane. Do I make a left turn around it?

You would err on the side of caution, but ultimately you would go with the help of 5G remote assistance so that the passenger can stay napping.

* Stop sign that's been bent and it's no longer obvious which street it refers to.

How would humans handle this? They would rely on previous knowledge of the area, aka maps could help.

* Cop directing traffic by hand at an intersection.

Not challenging at all imo, this should be trainable.
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The lower cost for healthcare gap is about $5,000 to $6,000 per person in other developed nations vs the US.

It doesn't come close to offsetting the far higher US skilled salaries figures compared to Europe.

When US university costs were far lower circa year 2000, that also didn't imply a narrower gap with Europe on skilled salaries. University costs are a phenomenon caused by the US Government destructively backing ever higher education loan increases, causing a spiral of fees by universities. It wasn't caused by higher US wages (which have existed for a very long time).

That is better explained by a simple fact: the US has far higher economic output per capita than Europe.

Before this decade is out, the US will double the GDP per capita of France, Japan, UK. Unless they all snap out of stagnation soon. It's not that the US is growing super fast, it's that most developed countries haven't been growing much at all for the last ~12-13 years.
It's a pity that it's almost impossible for a non programmer to find a C/C++ job nowadays. Much of the deeper knowledge takes too much time and effort to master from outside of the field so I guess most people don't go this way.
That's how the EU works. You get a warning/advisory, and then you're expected to do the right thing.

If they hadn't done this voluntarily, THEN they would have been fined.

We try to regulate before it goes wrong, instead of running after them. It works better that way.

But if you want to believe that FB voluntarily halted the rollout of the feature, for no other reason that they believed it fell short of privacy guarantees ... Yeah no. FB couldn't give a shit about that, without external motivation.
The submission is about Elon Musk's company so it makes sense to talk about Elon Musk. Discussion about other billionaires would be off topic.
A mix of things.

There are storage options which fit different criteria. Some are very responsive to changes in demand (supercapacitors, inertial flywheel storage), but have high costs, bad wear characteristics, and low total capacity.

Some are responsive and immensely efficient (high energy-in:energy-out ratios), such as pumped hydro, but suffer from siting and environmental restrictions.

Some are slow and inefficient but scale wonderfully. Thermal energy storage, either for direct heating or for generation, is a case in point. District thermal energy storage has been used for residential & commercial space. Molten salt thermal storage can bank heat for weeks, but suffers Carnot efficiency losses of about 70%. It's cheap, simple, and non-toxic (though will sting if it gets out).

Compressed air energy storage is a lot like pumped-hydro, though it might possibly scale better and be suited to use in exhausted natural gas reservoirs. Here a problem is physics and Boyle's Law: compressed gasses heat, expanding gasses cool. This means either that you're losing a lot of energy to the environent and freezing your regeneration equipment, having to deal with high temperatures in storage (the possibility of triggering explosions in spent-gas reservoirs might be a risk), or have to re-heat expanding gas to prevent freezing in turbines.

Fuel synthesis -- hydrogen, natural gas, or liquid hydrocarbon analogues -- is an option which provides very-long-term storage capacity (proven to 100s of millions of years), but is inefficient (about 15% round-trip), and has proved uneconomic or impractable to date, despite over 50 years of research. I hold out some hopes for this.

Load shifting, and moving to a model of dispatchable demand rather than dispatchable supply might also apply.

Battery storage is another option, and will likely see some use. It's expensive, is limited by chemistry, and most of the options suffer from considerable side effects or risks. Some of the more interesting alternatives I've seen, liquid metal and molten salt batteries, both reasonably well-suited for large, static, grid-scale infrasturcture, have proved highly problematic. See Donald Sadoway's start-up, Ambri, pursuing a liqud-metal design touted loudly a few years earlier: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ambri-is-still-...

LiON is proven, but its light weight makes it favourable for mobile and transport applications. There's a limited amount of lithium that's readily available, and reserving that preferentially for where it's best suited is probably wise.

Among the problematic aspects of batteries: electrolyte scarcity, toxicity (lead-acid, etc.), high-temperature designs (liquid metal / molten salt), reactivity, fire/explosion hazards, and fundamental energy-density limitations, are all constraints.

My read is that all sides of the power equation will change markedly over coming decades: supply, demand, transmission, storage. We've been spoilt in ways we don't yet appreciate.
How is my point any more or less valid than the one to which I was responding?

I was simply offering that I don’t perceive the language as sexist. You do. That’s fine.

Similarly, I would offer that I don’t find your sarcasm productive in a civil discussion.
Good luck.

Just throwing this in case it can give you some hints:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410650/ (McAllister/Desprez team)

endocannabinoids can affect regulation of cell proliferation which seems to slow the growth of tumors and spread of metastases

In some talk, Pr Desprez showed scanned of a stage 4 woman (lung+mets) where the spread had stopped (no knowledge of her fate since, I'm not claiming miracles)

If I was to fight cancer and was able to get my hands on cbd concentrates I'd try it. It's not very expensive and may help (it also improves appetite and nausea IIRC)
Light rail may be more expensive than a bus, but it also tends to provides a higher comfort level (in terms of vibration/acceleration).
Yes, this is indeed the only reason I couldn't use this otherwise great tool yet.

See my comment here: https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/issues/11#issuecomment-5...
Even at (way) sub-light speeds, it's probably possible. Whether it's automated self-replicating ships (possibly carrying humans as gene sequences), or generation ships (seems pretty hellish!), a number of people have estimated mathematically that it's doable. Estimates vary wildly, of course, as there are many unknowns, but basically exponential growth gets unintuitively fast. Some links (there are many more pages too):

https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-self-replicating-spacecraft-coul...

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/scie...
Well, High speed trains don't run 300 km/h. At least not in Europe. Most of the time they run slightly above 100 km/h. Source? Experience.

We would need a European infrastructure project for:

* major new transnational lines

* separation from passenger and cargo lines

* self coupling/decoupling wagons

And when you are on it, build some Thorium reactors to power them.

Relevant:

https://www.thelocal.se/20200116/sweden-reveals-plans-for-ov...

https://www.cargobeamer.eu
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Good point, the 'ink' is silver but there is no mention of whether it can be successfully soldered. I wonder if the ink lines can at least aid the flow of solder.
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There is a lot of data showing that salary differences for women and minorities are reduced in environments where there is more available information about everyone's salaries, to the point where I thought it was generally taken for granted. I absolutely believe that the poster was sincere in his intent.

If you haven't considered this before, here's an article that covers some of how it can help: https://www.bustle.com/p/sharing-salary-information-at-work-...
This is the explanation that makes the most sense to me. I'm not sure what the fix is - having multiple companies sharing the same track seem dubious but maybe that's answer. Either that or let a bunch of companies put down redundant lines.
The Netherlands had the highest ticket price in the EU. When I lived in France I'd take a TGV on a regular basis but in NL train are not fast, don't go far (connections abroad are bad except to or through Brussels) and very expensive.

Dutch rail infra was designed as a commuter network, and it shows.
Patient schnoz blasting right on undressed port catheter? Tsk tsk.
I had not heard of ECL before. Thank you for popping in with this.
The interview must be weird after that. Candidate is now confident he should have more but the recruiter is still trying to extort him to a point.
actually, it's a solution that scales pretty well. I help run an medium sized mastodon instance, and I managed to silence every spammy news aggregator with a couple hours of effort, It only takes a few seconds to respond to reports of new ones, and now the couple hundred people who use my server don't need to worry about RSS spam at all. Small communities allow for more effecient moderation.
Oh, we’re trading anecdotes? Well, I know a lot of people, including many involved in hiring at various large tech companies, including myself.

I’m sure they have programs to encourage diversity in hiring, but I seriously doubt they’re telling you they “blatantly discriminate” against white men and that white men have to perform much better in an interview in order to be hired. That’s an incomplete and simplistic story.
It’s not only about incompetence, it’s about letting someone go who did their job very well, but are no longer needed and keeping them around anyway.

The story is legendary about all of the infrastructure guys that were let go at Netflix whose job was to migrate them to AWS.

Is that a bad thing? Can you imagine the opportunities you could have if you said that you were instrumental in the largest cloud migration in history?

I can’t remember her name but there was a top ranking official at Netflix hired by Hastings personally. She was instrumental in helping Netflix in the DVD era. But she knew she was going to be laid off when they started focusing on streaming because that wasn’t her area of expertise. She went in and got “quit fired”. She said there were no hard feelings.

I first heard about this with an interview she did on the Internet History Podcast.
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> They are proud of it and see it as not only a plus, but a social benefit, which causes people to be very boastfully vocal in social situations

If the companies are proud of it, wouldn't they be boasting in the media? I've never heard about anything like this.

What I have heard of is lowering the bar for minorities to be offered an interview and educational opportunities offered to only minorities.
Maybe it's just the hostname. Try 'hostname' on the terminal and see if https://www.howtogeek.com/tips/how-to-change-your-computer-n... makes a difference.
We have very little actual knowledge of pre-historic humans to speculate about their sexual behaviours (and as with all other human behavior, I'm sure there is and has been great variance in this).

In any case bonobos would not write Kama Sutra even in 20,000 years. Your timescale and argument is way off.

Downvoters: I've no more apples for you.
I do have a child. And she goes to a $55k / year private school. My point still stands.
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> I really think billionaires have a place in our society

I think a discussion of other billionaires is on topic considering the OP's message.
>The timing is particularly ironic, coming after a decade of particularly rapid progress. The survival advantage conferred by immunotherapy is very meaningful

Can you post some resources that support this with numbers?

>this piece is a remarkable sequence of exaggerations, fallacies, cherry-picked data, and hand-waving.

Could you point me to the fallacies and exaggerations in the article?
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Globalization is an inevitable consequence of better connectivity, faster communication, and tighter logistics. Why would it "go away"? Additionally, why is globalization a bad thing when it comes to energy generation and consumption? The fact that it is possible to sell energy across national borders, for example, makes energy markets more efficient and wastes less energy.

Edit: To directly address grandparent, oil made globalization possible. It no longer is needed in order to continue having global communities, just cheapest for shipping.
Sometimes a human makes a spelling error by accidentally placing a hyphen in the middle of a word.

From context, hopefully other humans will recognize the slight error and comment on the topic rather than walk away totally befuddled and comment only on the error.

Do you not understand what I am saying in the comment? It's too late for me to edit the comment, but I hope the meaning is clear despite the slight error.
That's an excellent point. Why hand over complete control to a computer when we can have both? Each has different strengths, so an almost-SDC with a human at the wheel will surely be better than a true SDC. I think that's a much more likely future.
I'd say let's do both; let's try every approach, in rational proportions.

There is likely an optimal ratio of spending between humanitarian causes and existential risks. What is it? Is this ratio, and others that have the potential for shaping the future of humanity, openly discussed somewhere?

If so, where?
Having worked on the spend side of things and at high stakes (9 figure budgets), targeting and how to improve it is extremely intellectually stimulating. More than anything else I've done in my career, even. This is especially true when you have constraints, like being in a regulated industry such as legal marketing.

The only problem is that it's hard to command a salary commensurate with how good you are at it unless you're in business for yourself AND the one spending the money.
Sarcasm can be a useful tool at times but it is very much over used these days. You'll likely find your point better received if you are just straightforward with it.
> 1. Could the green-house gases produced to launch a civilization to Mars be the final straw that breaks our eco-system's back?

That seems very unlikely to me.

> 2. What are the moral implications of terra-forming Mars and moving a small population there, knowing that the population remaining on Earth is doomed?

Even if we spent half of our resources on sending people to mars and hurting Earth's biosphere in the process, Earth would still be much more habitable than Mars.

Heck, even worst-case scenarios for man-made climate change "just" reduce the areas where humans can live on earth (and that's a huge catastrophe for everybody), but there's literally NO PLACE on Mars where you can survive at all without pressurized residence etc.
EU intervention. It worked for getting rid of roaming prices for mobile phone carriers in Europe, and that also requires cooperation between different carriers. Why wouldn't something like that be possible for rail?
Just to rule things out, do you have a Huawei phone?

What version of Mac OS are you running?

What shell are you using? Bash or ZSH?

What terminal application are you using? Iterm2? The stock terminal app?
Watching Eric Weinstein's The Portal episode #18 yesterday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnkGymKuuI - where he presents the DISC (Distributed Idea Suppression Complex), made me frame this in a different way: what questions does the cancer treatment industry avoid? Why aren't all cancer companies, organizations, also researching or putting funding towards prevention? The answer is obvious to me, however why as society don't we require a sort of tax to counter (and fund) what the industry isn't aligned to do profits wise?
I am not talking about asshole design. Users know that there is an app store (proof: the huge usage of messengers like Whatsapp). If they want the app they know where to find it. There is no need to applying asshole (or braindead) design to the site.
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I used and programmed the 6600, including in assembly language. They were incredibly fast for the time at numerical calculation. I used them for electronics simulations in SPICE, and they were great for that.

However, they had 60 bit words and no way to address data directly within a word. By convention, characters were six bits long, stuffed in 10 characters to a word. So while this machine was incredibly fast for its time for numerical calculation, it was painful to do text manipulation. You had to pack and shift characters into words, and unshift and unpack. You could do interesting things with great cleverness, but it took a lot of work to do simple things.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.