skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'cédérom' is a shining example of committees trying to justify their existence.

CD came out and they were just called 'CD' in France (pronounced 'cédé') or, if using the actual words "disque compact".

Then CDROM came out, and they were just and only called 'CDROM' in France, but obviously pronounced in French so that it is pronounced 'cédérom'.

The Académie Francaise then woke up and decided that 'CDROM' was an outrageous English acronym and that a proper French word should be used. And they came up with... cédérom. You could not make this up even in a Monty Python skit.

> I never understood why every foreign word in French has to be recreated. Otan, Sida, Ordinateur,

These are not recreated. These are just acronyms and words in another language than English...
Deep Learning's Most Important Ideas – A Brief Historical Review
I've done this a couple of times. All for German companies in Germany. The last one took me a weekend. They liked it and booked me a ticket for on-site. Where they whiteboarded the hell out of me and rejected me on the basis of not getting the right answer fast enough and using wrong syntax in a couple of statements. And there was not a single question about the take-home project.

After that I just decided I'm not going to put the time and effort in that sh*t anymore. I'm not even going to go out of my way to accommodate interviews in my working hours.

Next time it happened I replied back that I'm not interested. For the record, they wanted a silly automation in AWS and kubernetes. Most of the time would go to setup everything up as my future-employer assumed that I had an AWS account and that AWS is the only cloud that matters. (I work on a different provider daily).

Both times it was automotive-related IT. Dunno if that's something to do with it.

My take-away so far: Whiteboard sucks but at least it respects your time while the take-home proj does not necessarily keeps you from wb and is usually ridiculous to a large extent.
Intel is 10 times larger than AMD.

AMD can't ramp up the manufacturing volume it has from TSMC up quickly. TSMC builds capacity to match roughly what it is contracted for. I can just assume that any extra capacity they planned sells for a very good price.

Neither AMD nor TSMC can fully exploit Intel troubles because they can't foresee what happens in Intel manufacturing. Intel is selling chips like hotcakes.

TL;DR Intel has high manufacturing volume and the ability to make money with less competitive product.
My biggest beef with actions there's huge conflation between action and workflow. I've spend many hours swearing at their documentation...

Also I'm not sure it's a great a idea to use their actions actions as it creates dependencies on someone elses repos and Github itself. I feel I should just write my tests in a container, but I think I've hit a wall there pretty quick too.
You're selecting for candidates that either have the kind of memory that lets them recollect those experiences on demand, or can fabulate it. Once word gets out about your interview process candidates will just prepare something ahead of time, as they do for the HR interview already.
I love ARM
Brexit was caused by London to some degree. Their financial industry creates a huge demand for the pound, which hurts exports for the rest of the country. This has dampened standards of living outside the Capitol for a long time now. This phenomenon is also called dutch disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
> On a non-TS oriented DBMS, this query is usually slow and hard to write.

I don't see why this is hard to write:

SELECT max(time) as most_recent_time, transaction_price
INTO newtable
FROM oldtable
WHERE time > $my_datetime
GROUP BY time;

As for being slow - can you provide some references about this being slow in non-time-series columnar DBMSes? MonetDB, Vectorwise, Vertica?
>Long-Lived Trees Are Not Immortal

https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-138...
Wait, did I misread the article?

I thought it said that memorization is good?

> Reading scientists have known for decades that the hallmark of being a skilled reader is the ability to instantly and accurately recognize words.33 If you're a skilled reader, your brain has gotten so good at reading words that you process the word "chair" faster than you process a picture of a chair.34 You know tens of thousands of words instantly, on sight. How did you learn to do that?

> It happens through a process called "orthographic mapping."35 This occurs when you pay attention to the details of a written word and link the word's pronunciation and meaning with its sequence of letters.

I thought this means people recognize the entire word, rather than the letters of the word. Just like how you recognize a Chinese character.

Then you learn to map the Chinese character with the pronunciation.
Fill your shoes with small pebbles. Once in a while, you'll stomp on them and wince. I guess it will change your gait.
For NATO/OTAN, its official languages are French and English. OTAN is not a translation - it is one of the two official names of the organization. Would be weird to specifically choose the English one.
KBC LOTTERY

https://www.sonyprize.com/winners
The post makes a good case for why it's a bad idea to split a business problem into slices. Even though you have multiple small teams, they still need to closely coordinate with each other.

But I can't find the next post in the series which proposes a better alternative. Anyone else had better luck?
If you're comparing performance against a transaction-oriented DBMS like postgres, rather than an analytics-oriented columnar DBMS like Actian Vector, MonetDB, HP Vertica etc - then of course you'll get bad perfromance. The former kind are typically up to 1000x slower than the latter kind on analytic queries.
Augur V2 Is Live
Augur is a decentralized oracle and peer to peer protocol for prediction markets.

contracts: https://github.com/AugurProject/augur/tree/dev/packages/augu...

client code: https://github.com/AugurProject/augur
Adults aren't kindergartners.
Ask HN: Can anyone send mi invite to lobste.rs?
Any lobste.rs users here on HN? Could anyone send me an invite to lobste.rs on tomek [at] graphqleditor [dot] com , please?
Thanks in advance!
I used delicious and i loved it.. i am wondering how it will look now..
You should've read my next sentence.
Here is a link outlining why such crazy ideas are being adopted:
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/
So in the next couple of years, face recognition algorithms will be able to detect us only using the upper part of our face?
If your nose is stuffy regularly, search for "mewing" on youtube. Could be worth trying
> Even though you have multiple small teams, they still need to closely coordinate with each other.

That's what a competent manager/management is for though.
I still use it :) It's been 12 years. Took a break for a while but back as a premium user.
del.icio.us was by far my favorite place to store bookmarks. I hope it comes back similar to the original. Thanks for keeping it alive!
>Some trees can live for thousands of years, but we may not be around long enough to really know whether they can die of old age.
It is though [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Strasbourg%E2%80%93Kehl_s...
The Github button on the top right says "Scissionnez moi sur Github", I found the translation funny.

The tags on the project here: https://github.com/soulaklabs/bitoduc.fr include "Branlette" (wanking), "humour-de-droite" (right-wing humor) and "bernard-pivot" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Pivot)
Is that true either? E.g a metastable glass structure sent to 0k probably still has an entropy?
I believe there is a little bit of comedy around this. If you look at the repo [0] you'll see funny issues tags (even the tags of the repo themselves), for example "merci mais on s'en branle" which means "thanks but we don't give a fuck".

[0]: https://github.com/soulaklabs/bitoduc.fr
Honestly, I would definitely enjoy that. Somehow the discussion on such boards was much more engaging.
Example: semver does not require libfoo 0.4.1 and libfoo 0.4.2 to be compatible in any way. Anything can change between them. It's not until MAJOR >= 1 that the MINOR and PATCH numbers have semantic meaning.

Say libfoo 0.4.1's furbinate() function draws a pretty picture. When libfoo 0.4.2 comes out and someone calls furbinate(), they may be surprised to have all their files deleted and their screen covered with filthy Latin poetry, but it is allowed per the semantic versioning spec.
Thanks for sharing!

It feels a bit outdated, though. I work in a cloud computing shop in Sweden and I hear terms that I couldn't find in the dictionary, e.g. "lastbalanserare".
I was only thinking of it last night when reading the Deja News discussion -- so many useful services that got acquired and ceased (Wunderlist, Skitch and many more)
Interesting.. In Polish this type of English influence I believe was largely constrained (although not entirely) to within IT profession. We have (and use) words for - "file", "folder", "save". Some exceptions that come to mind: "click" and "email". With concepts like "firewall" and "antivirus" we use English terms, but these are difficult to explain either way.
Currently there does not exist a commercial viable pumped hydro installation in the world that buy overcapacity renewable energy and later sells it at a profit. There are a few experimental and proof of concept installations that demonstrate the possibility of hydro as a battery, and at least one operate as an additional reservoir to a hydro dam, but the commercial viability of buying cheap renewable energy to pump water in order to generate electricity later when the price is high is not yet here.

Demand management is also a great idea in concept but the commercial viability is questionable as long as people can just turn on the cheap gas burners. Commercially, turning off production and keep the industry closed when renewable are not producing is much more expensive compared to just paying what ever price society currently demands when burning fossil fuels.

Remove fossil fuels from being viable choice in the energy grid and the economic viability would change dramatically for every other energy source, including hydro pumps and nuclear. Demand management might even become a possible strategy to a point where it can have an significant impact on the energy grid. For now most grids operates by combining cheap renewable with cheap fossil fuels, with the environment taking the real cost when the fossil fuels burns.
Take some time off. A week isn’t time off. Take a year. Downsize if necessary.
Probably not, Maciej (from the GP link) did some testing on Pinboard's collection of bookmarked links back in 2011.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/05/remembrance_of_links_past/
Copying from another culture is not "stealing".

Every culture that ever existed developed and evolved by integrating ideas that it learned from other people.
The repo says that it's "a website to promote french words for computer concepts" (emphasis mine). I don't know about French but how many of them are actually in use? It sounds like another clueless attempt to massively update the already established vocabulary, which to my knowledge was never successful (as a Korean, I have seen a lot of them, a lot).
Take home assignments can be automated the same way as leetcode tasks actually. So there must be something else to it.

I think people underestimate human nature in this case. It's a known thing that many interviewers just do the interviews for the sake of feeling superior than someone else.

It was another trend in the industry to ask stupid brainteasers like "Estimate how many gas stations there are in Manhattan" until Google banned the whole thing altogether. Google judged that these questions only serve to make the interviewer feel clever and self-satisfied. [0]

It's time to do the same with whiteboard interviews.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
How? My iPhone tells me to remove face covering when I try.
The message on del.icio.us is by the same guy behind pinboard (Maciej Cegłowski)
Diigo is arguably better (bookmarks, tags and highlights) and is going strong 10+ years later.
Ah interesting, I missed this nugget, thanks
'digit' is interesting because its etymology is indeed 'finger' (latin 'digitus' that gave 'doigt' in French). In English it retains that meaning in specific cases like anatomy, but has otherwise shifted to meaning numbers below 10, probably from counting with our hands.
The best acronym must be UTC. Let's make no one happy.
We need a similar list for companies without Agile.
A Product Owner’s Blurb on Keeping It Raw and Scrappy
It appears the City State legislated on the basis that the peoples of these inconvenient countries don't exist.

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/38437/rights-of-t...
If anyone had a chance to read a book – is it just exploring and describing observation about breathing or it attempts to answer how different breathing actually works and effects the health?

I remember watching this amazing TEDx talk which gives an on state demonstration of how breathing directly affects blood flow / pulse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc3XdOiGGI

There is another interesting video I've watched years ago with some hints that breathing directly influence mitochondrial activity, but it's in Russian, so not sure if it's worth sharing. Another thing indirectly mentioned was that breathing is the only "low-level" body function that we control conciously to some extent, so its effect on health is a neat byproduct and can be used for "hacking" metabolism and low-level body functions.

Anyway, I'm wondering if there is something more than "conscious breathing can do amazing things to your health" in this book?
Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly.

I like to think there was an alternate reality where Yahoo didn't run itself into the ground, and took its properties: delicious, flickr, tumblr, its massive userbase across fantasy sports, groups, news, messenger, geocities and answers, its email service, and a better-executed alliance with Mozilla and rode them into prominence and relevance.

All the pieces were there, just the management vision appears not to have been.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g , How To Make Everything, a guy trying to replicate (IIRC) a steam engine starting from nothing; i.e. making stone tools first, making pots from clay, using those tools to collect copper ore, making better tools, and so on. Very interesting. He make various kinds of bread over the years too.
Purely out of interest, is there not some possibility to compile code on the device? Of course it would take some time, but you should be able to get at least some % speed up with the right compile settings?

I also wonder whether it would be possible to make executables run without the need to come from the Windows store, possibly by adjusting some registry or manually inserting some "trusted" certificates?
Similar views can be found between Sydney and the rest of New South Wales, and also between Auckland and the entirety of New Zealand (the kiwis affectionately refer to Aucklanders as JAFAs - Just Another F$%king Aucklander, because half the country lives there).

One would suspect such complaints about the friction between centralism and federalism are widespread across the world.
If you select for something irrelevant lika race you ofcourse automatically lower the bar on average (and raise the bar for the discriminated race)
GloDroid Brings Android 10 to Raspberry Pi4, Orange Pi SBC's, PinePhone, PineTab
Verge3D, an artist-friendly 3D web toolkit, just received major updates
Best Subtitles Sites for Foreign Movie Fans
We are just not there yet. For all the people that I can't recognize initially, I do recognize many. And if I can do it, some supercomputer probably can in the future, and the future is coming fast.
WOW!!! :)
Fond memories.
Are the refrigerated trucks being loaded with bodies that won't fit in the morgue just for show as well?
I followed the advice for Paris’s hottest day – it didn’t help (2019)
But is the consensus that ITER will be self-sustaining from an engineering perspective?
Road to Genius: Beginner N.2
Then they just have to look for person with pebbles in their shoes.
True, not sure why I figured FF was not an acceptable LBP.

Possibly because I assumed you'd need a special continuation byte and all of them would be unavailable, but the existing continuation bytes work fine so that's just not correct. FF could even lead to special patterns of continuation bytes allowing for smuggling more data in there I guess.
In spoken French, I think people usually say ordinateur or (ordinateur) portable (for laptop) though.
There's a difference between being needlessly cruel and believing something is necessary and good, despite it creating some problems for some people for a while.
Paid (premium rate) take home tasks is the way to go, after the initial screening.
Poverty is not a natural state.

"Natural state" is not a very useful predicate because, even if you can define it (what hominid and what period) first you need to define poverty unambiguously.

But I'll bite. If we settle on stone age, in my very humble opinion, poverty is a natural state. Someone can argue that paleo people were happy or in harmony with nature or whatever, but then they were at the mercy of elements, diseases and wars. That's poverty to me.

It's artificially created and violently enforced through property law.

This seems a description of a lawless society. By the way, law of the jungle is the natural state. Property law is a cornerstone of civilization.
Premium user since 12years here. I absolutely love Remember the milk and the way it is run by its team.
It'll have your bookmarks, but will they resolve to any pages/sites that still exist in 2020?
I think you could check out expertownership.com for the principles that will help in finding meaning and purpose to work. These are by the benhambrothers.com. They also have an app that you could check out.
Google reportedly negotiating with Samsung to push Assistant over Bixby
That is a good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDTB4eV4F8

It's about Zalando (biggest clothes an shoes online-shop in germany) and a big opensource contributor especially patroni (Postgres HA).

https://github.com/zalando
There. That's it. All this is a far-from-optimal filter for the total strangers. Get a foot in the door with an established insider and you get right to the last interview(s). No WBs, no take-home projects.
I'm not super familiar with prediction markets. Could someone explain how exactly these markets create initial liquidity, how they set the number of tradeable shares, etc?
What's "IaaC"? If that's what I think it is, shouldn't it be "IaC"?
I had to read it twice to notice the contradiction.

I think the cause is more that some religious group i dont care about having a schism isn't very interesting. Maybe i care that they're being homophobic, but i definitely don't actually care which side is forking and which side is staying as the original group. So I don't fully pay attention to the details unless i really force myself.
Had read it, you implied that it might not have been "commonly available" in Asia, which makes no sense. So I noted that people do it all the time (and don't mean "romans only").
> Here's the flip side, they were able to rebuild their entire production from scratch and be back up in about 2 hours.

Are you sure about those 2 hours?
How Do Cancer Cells Achieve Immortality?
I think this aspect is quite underestimated:

> They start to have "managers", not "chefs", etc.... they "recommand", they no longer order.

Swapping English words for French words allow the word-swapper to soften a lot of things.

Having a _chef_ puts the hierarchical aspect first and foremost. There is the _chef_, and there are the subordinates. You might have a _patron_, but then there's a whole baggage of social conflicts between employees and _patrons_. The _patron_ definitely is not part of your circle. But having, say a _boss_ or a _manager_ or _leader_ is much softer.

Speaking of which, how do you translate "management" or "to manage"? If you choose "gestion" you have strong bean-counting implications, and if you choose "commander" you have, again you get military/hierarchical connotations. But "management" is (or perhaps was) devoid of such connotations.

A _crédit revolving_ does not sound scary - no idea what revolving means, something to do with a gun perhaps? But a _crédit permanent_ is super scary - you are going to be indebted forever and ever!
There's a few MapCompare instances for showing many different maps: https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/
Commies? Do you even hear yourself? What is this, the 1950s?
Just like onsite interviews

And unlike an onsite interview, I don't have to take time off during working hours to do them.

My mental model is that I'm willing to spend N hours in total for the job application process. I'm happy to spend some of those hours working on a take home problem as long as that is instead of and not in addition to spending those hours doing multiple rounds of interviews.
I'm still writing it :)
The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives.

And to fix this, you'd need buy-in from major tech companies. All of which don't want to solve this problem.
Most of them are not in use, or quite a few are joke translations rather than something that makes sense.
These companies might also not pay very well (like fb, google, etc). Something to keep in mind.
AMC, Universal Agree to Trim Theatrical Window Before Movies Go Online
It's a bad idea when the slices aren't independently achievable.

The military analog is the fire team (3-4 ppl) or the squad (5-14 ppl), depending on how hungry they are and what the current theater demands.

Squads can be assigned multiple discreetly accomplishable objectives. Each squad is assigned to secure a different building on a street, for example.

No one squad is necessarily codependent on the success of the other squads to meet it's own objective, but when you pull back a level, overall organizational success (securing the neighborhood, winning the fight in the city, winning the war) is dependent on the success of all of the squads.

The article argues, and I agree, that as a company grows, it's easy to shift from discrete squads to assembly line squads. Eg data ingestion => data transformation => data delivery. Platoon / company level objectives, not squad level ones.

I have the analogies, but not necessarily and better solutions.
It's situations like this where I wish there were an OS out there that strictly had Vim-style modal interfaces. All the hand eye coordination and multi-key finger gymnastics required for present UIs just seem extraneous.
The term "two-pizza" teams is always weird to me, like how can you get anything done with only 2 people on the team.
No, because I like Python too, but it would make me feel much better if comp.lang.perl was blocked.
DeText: A deep NLP framework for intelligent text understanding
This is exactly what they did with Opportunity and Spirit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover

I think is is largely due to budget reasons, though.
OpenID 3.0 to the rescue!
Antisèche Ansible
Pizzas in the US are pretty huge - they’re not like a classic pizza for one person as in Italy. I think a two-pizza team is up to about sixteen people.
You'd be surprised to learn that there are many successful two-person companies.
A blood test for Alzheimer's is closer to reality than ever (NYT)
The elephant in the room: fusion is no better wrt radioactive waste than fission. ITER is projected to end up with 30000 tons of radioactive waste.

https://thebulletin.org/2018/02/iter-is-a-showcase-for-the-d...

"Surrounding the ITER tokamak, a monstrous concrete cylinder 3.5 meters thick, 30 meters in diameter and 30 meters tall called the bioshield will prevent X-rays, gamma rays and stray neutrons from reaching the outside world. "