skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also play a devil’s advocate game with your data. Last time I wrote a 4-level join on complex conditions and ctes to find the latest effective non-deleted non-property-deactivated maybe-from-a-group-default-markupped product sale price it worked like charm, really. Until it broke two months later and started multiplicate rows in a frontend. It wasn’t me who designed that schema, if that matters. We already sold that part of business at that time and a poor guy who took that on a support had to repeat my hair pulling investigation into this madness again and how to coerce it into working, while production suffered badly. If a solution was imperative-y, it wouldn’t show such an effect naturally (loop over products, lookup a price by an algo, maybe presort few tables). I would make it like that hands down, but requirements were to use the database as is and no workaround was suitable. Now imagine this error in a financial analysis before an aggregation and no clear human-controlled sum checkpoints.

Don’t get me wrong, I see where SQL shines, but I also see where my (your, their, anyone’s) mind shines and where it will lose its traction and prediction abilities. People are fine with some level of declarativeness, but add some more and it turns into hardest puzzles where formulating it correctly is a hardly provable task itself. While that’s true for imperative code, it breaks along the way of your thinking, and not at randomly ‘optimized’ expressions. UB issues in C language group is essentially the same sort of trouble.
Regular expressions in lexing and parsing (2011)
Actually, snaps inherit from Ubuntu Phone's app packaging mechanism, so it's neither server nor desktop — but certainly closer to the end-user side of the spectrum.

(For server apps, the auto-update mechanism has a really painful consequence, which is that for clustered apps you have a built-in race condition that might kill your cluster)
1) 10m x 10m is enough to supplement a neighborhood, not 3m x 3m.

2) I can see a lot of ladder accidents in the future!
I am going by the claims in the article, which are very specific about how China is, empirically, far more successful at producing engineers skilled in this particular discipline than the US. Perhaps the US education system is capable of it, if it tried. (Actually, almost certainly the US is capable of it, there's nothing about geography or ethnicity or law to prevent it.) But the US does not, nonetheless.

It seems a lot of people are discussing something which is related to immigration but not related to the topic of the article.
You'd name it MINIMUM_NUMBERS_FOR_1ST_PERCENTILE (your name was for the entire if).

To me "if len(numbers) < MINIMUM_NUMBERS_FOR_1ST_PERCENTILE" still reads better and requires me not to need to refer to comments, which I fall back on when I do not immediately get the code.

So maybe the risk is not lowered, but readability is still improved.

(Oh, and I wonder what do you return for a list of all equal numbers when there are more than a 100? If it's that number, why would suddenly going from 100 to 99 change that? ;)
This is still true. Exclamation mostly means "this is dangerous". Array.push doesn't have an exclamation, and libraries like rails use it to signify that a method will throw an exception instead of return whether it succeeded.
The shift from coal catapulted.. it took years. First, technology had to shift to oil as a commodity beyond oil bunkers for battleships. Second, the nation states had to get out from ruinously bad national oil deals which also led to the Pahlavi regime, hatred of the British in Iran, the CIA and other bodies. This was not a catapult. It was a long slow dangerous and corrupt slide.
The light crude people in the US are the main reason the US doesn't have a revenue-neutral carbon tax or similar. I kind of doubt they want the implications of them going away -- though everybody else might.
At the fuel flows they are using, the explosions aren't that much of an issue. These look like wisps of hydrogen and oxygen in a vacuum chamber, not a big jet of fire steaming out of a nozzle. The detonation wave doesn't look like it is contacting much of anything.

They have a sustained rotating ring, a detonation chasing itself around a circle. That's great, its more efficient, but it is a long way from a working engine. They need a properly shaped chamber, a nozzle, and a few other things before they can test for the expected increase in ISP.
> endured some harrowing experiences while in Iraq, including escaping from a terrorist attack by scaling a building ledge ten stories up

This is fascinating :)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...
.\31{width:5%}
.\33{width:22%}
.\34{width:30%}
.\35{width:40%}
.\32{width:15%}

huh? can you tell me what those \31 \33 etc. mean?
Think I made it more confusing, not less, sorry! Did you watch the video - it's clearer after watching it.
Most cities are developing at least a couple bars clustered together, and they are pretty universally well attended by millenials. Previous generations might feel guilt or shame about spending a night at the bars. Modern parents are much more sensible and hire a sitter and rideshare to a brewery every now and then. Some bars and brewerys have a more substantial meal service as well, and it's not unheard of to bring your kid in tow during dinner hours.

To me, its a business that will only get more profitable as younger generations become much more sensible adults around social drinking. Outside of a pandemic, that is. Even my parents generation seems to be seeing a resurgence in going out to bars now that kids have grown up and moved away. My mom now frequents tequila bars with her friends. It doesn't even matter if it's a cold climate. Throw on the game, buy a few heat lamps, and have a special on pitchers.

Drinking culture is seeing a huge resurgence in the 4 U.S. metros I've lived in the last few years imo, although I don't have any particular data to point to off hand. Given the increasing secularization of american culture, and the acceptance of the fact that you can indeed have a bender with your friends on a weekend and still pass your medical school exams, I see no reason why bars aren't the best bet in
Millions of remote desktop accounts are being attacked every week
America is a beautiful land of opportunity for folks in tech. The exploited/exploiter dichotomy is a problem for someone whose primary advantage is being a native English speaker and located in the US. That sort of engineer is already been commodified away by the thousands by remote engineering teams from Gdansk to Lahore to Manila. He has one more generation while the young Asians start up as native English speakers and everyone gets used to remote workers.

On the other hand, the engineer whose primary advantage is his engineering is super-charged by focusing on where he provides comparative advantage.

Yeah, it turns out updating your Coldfusion website to display a notice on Sunday is something a child can do, and making a scalable backend for Dropbox's storage requires immense expertise. If you're the first guy, the writing is on the wall. If you're the second guy, the less time you spend on things that don't require your skill, the more valuable you are.
(It does, however, represent a fantastic framework for an ethnically-based immigration system, if that happens to be the goal.)
This is clearly a C undefined behavior joke. Not the funniest joke in the world but still made me chuckle
Canadian Fintech: National Bank Announces Winner of Its ‘Innovation Competition’
Do you offer tools/services to folks who want to transition off of JIRA? How painful will this be? How long would it take? How many resources will folks require?

These are some questions potential buyers will have, specially if they are transitioning from a tool like JIRA and related suite of tools. It might be a good idea to capture this on the homepage.
It was a descendant of Algol 60. It was the first object oriented language but Smalltalk is different from any language which preceded it in the way it handles object orientation.
It would be great if Docs had transclusion across documents.

The best there is now is embedded sections of Sheets and Slides, but being able to link sections across documents would be awesome for complex documentation.
PH7Builder v15.4 Released
Also adds to it to see where the author have been wrong before. Doesn’t mean they are wrong this time, but a piece of data.
Luma+Sleep+Mattress+$200+Savings
Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides]
It's times like these that I really wonder where all the oil peak guys are who you used to see crawl out of the woodwork whenever anyone talked about oil. Now they're suddenly quiet.

They used to predict doom and gloom due to an oil shortage, but what we got instead was doom and gloom and an oil glut. Where are they now?
During Covid, I have found people have been open to getting coffee virtually and from 8:30 am - 9 am. It’s been a low commitment way to get to know someone better that doesn’t encroach their work day... Frankly it’s less intimidating/commitment than pre covid physically meeting at a coffee shop before work. As such, in some ways I’m engaging more with some folks than before covid.
Economic warfare - end game is causing economic harm to the US and its interests. If everyone loses their jobs in the energy industry in the US, that forces the US to buy oil from foreign entities. The US energy industry cannot exist beyond 3-6 months with sub 20 dollar oil prices.
It's clickbait. They're grossly underestimating the size of a neighborhood, and grossly overestimating the frequency that you can harvest food that can sustain adults. There's also no sources on their claims, so it's just plain old clickbait.
I'd also classify WTFs as something that behaves completely unlike how you'd expect based on knowing many other similar/related languages, also.
With how skewed this is to older population, it really is tough to just look at populations as a whole. NYC had more people over sixty than Seattle has people.

It is odd. This is far far more dangerous than a flu if you are older than sixty. More than just looking at population level IFR implies. Not so clear cut off you are under sixty. Simply put, we don't have the data to say.

I fully agree that we don't want the data the hard way.
The oil rights are owned by specific companies. You can't just drill wherever you want - these oil/mineral rights are owned and can be resold, but it's not as easy as you describe.
yep! :) Glad you made use of it!
But is their ability to produce or sell refined vs unrefined oil effected by the sanctions? Maybe not directly; maybe in how they're able to access funding for infrastructure, for example?
You should consider taking vitamin D. It seems to be a factor in severity of cases according to [1]. You could be deficient in D if you haven’t spent much time out in the sunlight recently (likely for many of us, I suspect)

Vitamin D is essential, many people are deficient, and I don’t think there are many risks in taking a supplement.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v...
no idea what modded means. That's a fair point. so you're saying that maybe the author doesn't know they are being manipulated despite being an expert -- that's also possible!
Depends. It was “the boss.” If they are a critical-path engineer (which, in my experience, is a very bad idea for managers), then they shouldn’t be used as a StackOverflow board.

However, if they are a true manager, then they work on “interrupt,” anyway, and their quick answers may improve the performance of the team, which is really Job One for any manager.

I say this, having been a manager for many years.

It sucked. I hated it, which is why I am pivoting back into engineering.

I was a damn good manager, though. If you go to my LinkedIn profile, you’ll see lots of testimonials from former employees.

One reason I was good, was because I kept myself out of the critical path.
More recent chart (2017 rather than 2012) - this one reports 72%:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Islamic_Republic_of_...

Source:

https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/irn/all/...
That convention may have originated with Scheme, which has non mutating 'let' vs mutating 'set!'
AppScreens, all in one solution to create screenshots for Apple and Android Apps
I would like to know what to do if it fails to deliver results on time on a big enough dataset. Then someone will say hey, don’t use COUNT DISTINCT? But why, tests showed no issues and I don’t care how it’s implemented. What to do with that loop?
Hubbert peak oil theory seems to not really hold water in retrospect. People try to say the peak is just delayed as we're finding more oil reserves or because there's been a big switch to renewables. I think his models assumed a very different metrics for oil supply and distribution that don't seem to apply today. This podcast from a few years back goes into a lot of it: https://youtu.be/0wlNey9t7hQ
Are you saying I'm attributing Silicon Valley's achievements to SF? I wasn't intending to do that. I was talking about solely SF companies because that illustrates the point on its own, but we can make it the SJ-SF-Oak CSA if you'd like. But that sort of blows Europe's tech companies out of the water. I wanted to keep it in the range of comparison.
This seems small and I'm not sure how much it will actually produce...let alone maintenance.
It means:

.1{width:5%}
.3{width:22%}
.4{width:30%}
.5{width:40%}
.2{width:15%}

It's an escape sequence that lets you have non-alphabetic characters to start a CSS selector. See this for more examples:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/35122909/242404
> One: the shop often wouldn't let you buy up their whole supply

Any half-sane shop would love the giant piles of money you're spending and negotiate a way to get you a nice big supply with an even easier pickup process than filling a cart.

> Two: there are likely other restaurants in the area, so that's 20N boxes a day

Even better. Imagine a shop saying they don't* want to ramp up to selling ten times as much product out of aisle seven with no extra work beyond staying in stock.

> Three: lots of countries have resale laws that prevent this

If you buy a shelf-stable food, you can't resell it? Why would a law like this ever exist?

> Four: that's a lot of time to spend every day when you can get a single delivery every week / two weeks instead

This is a better reason, but you'd think the huge volume of the sale would get you at least a mild price improvement.

> Five: the delivery often includes the collection of the used bottles (when using glass) and that otherwise can cost a lot

If it costs money to set things out for recycling, the local government is doing a bad job.
"In a real world situation I'd have googled it and jogged my memory in less than a minute. Since I suspect you were more interested in how I would approach solving X, can you help refresh my memory on the syntax and we can pretend I looked it up to get back to what's important here?"
How to capture heap dumps from Android App?
The Steam Linux client had a very similar issue a few years ago where in certain configurations it would delete / https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Agreed. Worked with a senior who "learned go in a week" then faffed around for months (to prod! because he had the implicit trust of management because he was "a genius") deploying broken software with tons of concurrency bugs because he didn't know how to manage shared state.
You're totally right. I don't really want to build one on my own. I would however be SOOOOO WILLING to spend like 5-10k on a home grow operation. I don't think I have the experience to build something efficient on my own.
Partially. The USA offers some of the best technology for extracting and refining oil, but no US citizens or companies can offer their expertise to Iran. However, most oil companies are international and have headquarters in multiple countries - so quite a few large oilfield service companies can do business with Iran as long as they don't cheat the system to provide USA-based services.

Schlumberger, a French/Texas/Dutch/UK company, earned themselves the largest international sanctions fine ever for skirting the rules. It wasn't illegal for them to work with Iran, even though they are headquartered in Houston, TX. However, they used US-based personnel and assets and now are barred from doing any business with Iran as part of the penalties.

So Iran does find it difficult to get some of the latest technological advantages. That said, their geology doesn't demand super high tech solutions to extract oil. And they could be using 1960's technology to refine their oil into higher value products but they simply aren't, for reasons I don't understand.

The details of the sanctions have changed a lot over the past 10 years. Between 2013 and 2016, sanctions were globally supported and it was extremely difficult for Iran to sell its oil. Now it's just a few countries embargoing Iran, so Iran seems to be able to sell nearly as much as it wants, presumably at near-market prices.
Oil price is down because SA and Russia have a disagreement. Russia want to produce more barrel.

On top of that, the Covid19 happened.

Some theorized that SA and Russian pumping more oil was a plan to kill USA's fracking and shale industry. I'm just hoping it'll force us to move toward renewable so we won't be dependent on these countries.
People can choose to do that, or they can choose to save and invest the money. Norway's oil fund is around 1 trillion dollars.

>...The Government Pension Fund Global, also known as the Oil Fund, was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. It has over US$1 trillion in assets, including 1.4% of global stocks and shares, making it the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
Many games are being played by many players.

It's a much more complicated prisoner's dilemma.

Many of the oil producing countries are nearly entirely reliant on oil sales for their economies and national budgets. Something like, yes, you could optimize month to month prices with high cooperation cutting equitable amounts. But.

For some states it's like agreeing to starvation, no matter what they do prices are too low to pay the bills. Many of them only maintain their power because of oil money. And for some, losing money now means they can bankrupt or seriously disrupt their competition meaning they will make more money over a longer period.

So if you're starving there's a strong motivation do cheat. Everybody else cuts production, prices go up, and you sell everything you can to take advantage.

And remember we're talking about price fixing cartels here. Illegal in much of the world. Opec cuts would mean North American profits, because we obviously don't participate.

It is, as the author writes, now much more likely for some of these oil states to fail completely. Revolutions, civil wars, regional wars. States which had leverage over the US because of oil are seeing that evaporate with this oversupply and price crash.

And longer term, but not that far out is both some of these countries running out of oil and oil demand worldwide tending much much much lower as oil is phased out as an energy source. These oil countries see the impending permanent decline in oil demand and the immediate future is their chance to extract as much as they can out of their natural resource which each year will become less valuable and less relevant.
We'll start over! Live in villages!
400k base salary? Nice. As an individual contributor?
Please don't be coy; just make the point you want to make.

I am not clever enough to know which elephant you are fixated on.
It was a long time ago and most of the equipment was either hubs or dumb switches with no budget to overhaul. That’s a really great bug to have in your equipment out in the wild
I think it might be able to be an herb garden for a small neighborhood. But that's about it.
Escapes for "1", "3", "4", "5", and "2".

Probably a workaround for a CSS grammar issue that makes ".1{…}" not parse correctly?
I'm not sure I follow.

Once prices rise again it becomes profitable to extract again....and all Russia got were their own losses... and if other nations don't play along, maybe more losses.

Ultimately Russia can't stop the US from having a supply of oil anymore than the US can stop Russia.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/surgeon-general-...
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914197
Are they missing all the lighting and irrigation in this plan? I don't see the LEDs or the power supply.
The idea is not to replace your constant 2048 with A_2048_NUMBER. But eg. MAX_BLOCK_SIZE in one place, and STACK_SIZE in another, even if they are the same value today.

Of course, if you are repurposing the code to do something new, you need to be extra careful not to use the constant just because "it's the right number". And sure, it sometimes gets tricky, but using literals will not make it any less so.
So I reverse engineered two dating apps
That's good to hear. I think if you made it clear that the level of service you can provide is proportional to the funding you receive, it would both fix this misunderstanding and serve as an incentive for people to donate.
South Korea Scientists conclude: people can't get coronavirus twice
Where are those numbers coming from? I've always been interested in how much space you really need to sustain X amount of people, but I can't find any real research. I'm probably not looking at the right combination of words, so I was wondering where you had gotten that number.
Right but just as the total number of outstanding stocks remains the same, so does the total number of outstanding dollars. Both the total stocks and the total dollars remain unchanged, they just changed hands. For every loser of money, there is also a winner. Just because you paid too much does not mean that the federal government should come running to bail you out. In the aggregate, nothing is created or destroyed except for illusions.
In terms of simple microeconomics they need to offer more pay. It's supply and demand for labor. The entire temporary visa game is practically designed to warp the economics. Step 1: hire a ton of temporary workers during boom years and more accommodating political times to up the supply of labor, step 2: demonstrate that you can't find new people with paying the going market rate in a market already dominated by those temporary workers, and hence can only continue the status quo by bringing in yet more temporary workers. Well no kidding.

US students who choose to go into other areas which are protected politically (like medicine) are responding rationally.

Also US firms' unwillingness, by and large, to train new hires is another artificial and solvable aspect of the problem.
Location: New Zealand

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Years of experience with Java, Kotlin, Docker. Worked with React, Angular, Jenkins, AWS a fair bit.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/crummy/crummy.github.io/raw/master/Resume...

Email: crummynz@gmail.com

I'm keen for a full-stack position in a small-to-medium sized company, preferably with a customer-facing product. I've spent most of my time in the backend, but I'm comfortable throughout the stack; I like taking a feature from conception through development to deployment. Particularly excited about Kotlin, but I'm naturally curious and enjoy learning new languages too.