skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emotion, reaction, state of mind, whatever floats your boat. I think I got my point across.

As for how to get into the curiosity mindset, and how to push away the other states of mind, I don't have a full answer for you. My personal strategies stem from a somewhat related area of study: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I'm able to push away the negative thoughts like disappointment/jealousy/anger and substitute it with curiosity. I don't necessarily find inspiration or other "positive" states of mind something I need to push away, I'm just aware that it's fleeting.
> There is no snowballs chance in hell that a company will tolerate absence of their management staff that is longer than 4 weeks.

I've worked in places where, at any given time, at least one something-something manager was on a one-year sabbatical. One of them literally requested it -- and got it -- in order to spend more time with their daughter, who was going to college the following year, since that was their last chance to spend quality time with her for a few years. Lots of people in a non-management positions have trouble attending their kids' graduation ceremonies if they're out of state -- getting a whole year off to see them off to college is pretty much science fiction.

Yes, they generally didn't leave smack in the middle of a project, but there's a lot of no man's land in-between projects.

I don't understand how any of this is surprising. Justifiably or not, benefits and perks are clustered around leadership positions, that's literally one of the reasons why people are seeking them.

Plus, in many large companies, it can easily take 6-12 months to recruit someone for a leadership position. Granting three-month vacations to the people you already have is a really good idea.
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Yes, I will pay few bucks too for, local only storage and optional login.
> And they buy them in servers from OEMs who volume buy even bigger number of chip than any of them individually.

No, they build their own servers. They definitely aren't racking Dell or HP servers.

Even Amazon's x86 based servers are extremely custom. That whole "Nitro" system isn't exactly a USB stick, and AWS is often using customized variants of Intel processors in their servers.

Let me repeat that: Intel literally makes custom processors specifically for AWS.

> If they were buying directly, Intel would have even more leverage to milk them, than if they stood behind the back of some beefy OEM.

That's not how bulk buying works... at all.

The scale of AWS is so much larger than you seem to think it is.
I am a counter example or at least not part of your "most" group! My dad's birth mother died of TB in the early 1950s. TB doesn't always kill before you've handed down your genes and it doesn't always kill either, nor does everyone contract it.

By the way, she was a healthy, vigorous woman struck down in her prime. She lived in a reasonably affluent part of southern England, well away from the worst pollution but not too rural and the NHS was up and running. TB is a right bugger and can work very quickly. At least TB is mostly curable nowadays: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tuberculosis-tb/

When it comes to disease, do not let your guard down.
There is no mention of hydrogen fuel cells which can be co2-free. I like the idea of electrofuels But we have a long, long way to go (as well as a long way to go on competitively-priced green hydrogen).
You can treat this as an art piece. This product is for designers mostly and one of my goals was to impress.
I've read your rant multiple times. You haven't exactly demonstrated good reading comprehension. Nor do I believe your personal attacks are justified.

If you wish to argue that blacks do not score over a standard deviation lower on IQ tests, you're arguing against a mountain of evidence. If you wish to argue that this difference doesn't have pretty serious real-world consequences, you're arguing against another mountain of evidence.

You can choose to argue that IQ is culturally biased. I have to admit that culture affects people's IQ. But in turn IQ measures mental abilities that will help you do well in a technologically based society. So if particular cultural ideas help kids grow up with better IQs, those ideas are worth adopting. If specific family interventions have a positive impact, they are worth considering as well. And if you refuse to do that for kids, you bear a share of the responsibility for their future failures.

Seriously. IQ is a better predictor of your future success than your socioeconomic background. It is a better predictor than the color of your skin. The good side of that is that people are being judged more on their abilities than their background and race. That's good. But the bad side is that every year in which we see a large gap in SAT scores between blacks and whites, we are looking a future economic gap that will last decades.

As a society, we refuse to even think about that. Which means that we choose to continue the problem.
Barely anything is truly untyped nowadays, I can think only of assembly.
I am really surprised that AWS hasn't already built a competing product like Splunk, Sumo or ELK. Their CloudWatch offering is so obscure and in general not useful.
Isn't that exactly what I wrote? The whole point of elite schools is to give rich people appearance of intelligence by association.

If you take 2000 valedictorians and 500 rich douchebags, have the 500 rich douchebags pay to educate the whole lot, and everyone comes out with a common brand stamp, who benefits?

Answer: Everyone involved!

Taking away federal funding (as if that were politically possible) would slow it down a little bit, but the rich douchebags are really, really rich. They'll just pay a little bit more. I don't know how you're going to stop that without a totalitarian state.
Snowflake's put in more effort around security than I've seen from other data warehouses (that have offered me e.g. AWS SOC3s rather than their own SOC2type2s).

Just my experience. Glad to see them reaching for cash. They're effective at what they do.
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What are the budgets?
Another reason, incidentally, is that there are many people who may be qualified to answer your Java question who may be too humble to step up as a "Java expert".
I do agree with you on publishing seeds for Monte Carlo simulations however the argument against it is also very strong. Usually when you run a monte carlo simulation you are quoting the results in terms of statistics. I think it would be sufficient to say that you can 'reproduce' the results as long as your statistics (over many simulations with different seeds) is consistent with the published results. If you run a single simulation with are particular seed you should get the same results however this might be cherry picking a particular simulation result. This is good for code testing but probably not for scientific results. I think by running the code with new seeds is a better way to test the science.
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Why does lazy-loading of images suck? Let me count the ways...

Lazy-loading sucks for anyone whose connection is not stable or always on.

It also sucks for offlining content you want to read later and archiving.

It's also incompatible with many older browsers, not that anyone seems to care about that.

It's also incompatible with nojs browsers, so most of the images on this blog are white space or blurry preloaders.

Even if everything is working perfectly, the user will see distracting movement as they scroll down the page.

Here is a quick demonstration: http://youtu.be/watch?v=aGy9IL0qtw4
If it's reproducible, my suggestion is to strace the rm command and find out what it's doing that's taking so long; and post it to the mailing list:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_mailing_list
Won't keep up in what way? Graviton2 is already better for some use cases. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-arm64-awss-ama...
Thanks for the feedback! Images and other attachments are supported already.

Dark mode is on my list of things to do. Charging is too :) I wanted to make sure it is useful for folks so I can dedicate time to development and make it sustainable by charging.
>I have no prior experience in it

Well based on the comment I replied to, you communicated that you did! Don't sell yourself short. Talk to your manager; is there opportunity at your current org to do the kind of work you are looking for? If not, look elsewhere; the challenge is communicating that you have the relevant experience (ideally with something to show at your current role (hence my previous comment)).
Politicians who flip sides get attention. Changing one’s mind shows they thought of both sides and they’re not tied to a party. The party you depart will disown you. The other will welcome you.
I hate hate hate this advice.

I am a complete idiot at coding. And one of the biggest barriers to getting good at it is I don't even know how to ask good questions.

Online communities are already toxic places for newcomers. Ask a dumb question on StackOverflow and you get downvoted and griped at. I know I am an idiot! I know I don't understand what I am asking for! This is a cry for help!

>..which is just lazy. If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

When I ask a vague, dumb plea, I am intentionally trying to weed out the pedantic people who would rather write a blog post about how dumb I am than stop to help me. If they have the time to follow up, they will have the patience to help me. Everyone else should move along.

If everyone has to stop and think of a logical and formalized way to ask a question, no one will bother asking for help. Think of every time you have reached outside of your domain - you would be so much worse off if you spent the entire time researching the right way to ask something than just asking for help.

In fact, I will turn it around. If you are not actually stopping to thoughtfully answer dumb questions, you are not actually teaching anyone anything.
Sure, goes both ways. But at scale would reflect systemic biases (which broadly lean to white men in many fields).
I'm not convinced that ride shares are unsustainable. The average fare I've paid is certainly greater than the cost of paying the driver's wages and gas for the vehicle.

The difference should more than make up for the cost of maintaining an app in the long term so I don't see any reason that some company can't eventually be profitable in this space.

Flywheel was (still is?) a too little too late attempt by taxi companies to stay relevant and as far as I remember, it didn't even work very well.
It depends on who is doing the tracking and who the dissidents are. I think most will agree it’s in the interest of the country to track “dissidents” who are bent on inciting “race” wars and so on. Violent anarchists probably also get in that list. Basically any seriously credible threat to the state and its citizens.
Show HN: PuffinBASIC – A cross-platform modern BASIC interpreter written in Java
GitHub: https://github.com/mayuropensource/PuffinBASIC

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a general-purpose high-level language from the 1960s. PuffinBASIC is an implementation of the BASIC language specification. PuffinBASIC conforms most closely to GWBASIC.

The purpose of this implementation is to learn how to write interpreters and resurrect an old programming language to work in modern ecosystem.

The interpreter is evolving fast and in near future, I wish to apply modern interpreter building techniques to it.

How it works?
1. PuffinBASIC's grammar is defined using antlr4.
2. At runtime, the user source code is parsed using antlr4 lexer+parser.
3. After parsing, an intermediate representation (IR) of the source code is generated. A symbol table keeps track of variables, scalars, arrays, etc. objects.
4. A runtime, processes the IR instructions and executes them.

Performance
PuffinBASIC is an interpreter, and it should not be expected to have very good performance characteristics. Certain operations such as PRINT USING, INPUT, etc. are not optimized for performance. I have not benchmarked PuffinBASIC primitives. That being said, we have written games with graphics in PuffinBASIC is work very well.

TESSEL - A 2D Tile Game written in PuffinBASIC
Source: https://github.com/mayuropensource/PuffinBASIC/blob/master/s...
Link to YouTube video demo: https://youtu.be/L8xkM-g3Zms

Memory
PuffinBASIC runs within a JVM and can use as much memory as available for the JVM process.

Compatibility
PuffinBASIC is mostly compatible with Microsoft's GWBASIC. Graphics is supported using Java 2D graphics. PuffinBASIC will not support assembly instructions.

Data Types
PuffinBASIC has extended BASIC types and supports Int32, Int4, Float32, Float64, and String.

Reference: https://github.com/mayuropensource/PuffinBASIC
Or just pony up the $5/mo for Pro... not as fun as re-engineering your CI pipeline, once again.
What is the difference between a "Data Warehouse", a "Data Lake" and a plain old managed SQL Server instance I run on Azure?
At my office everyone does the hello ritual. It's so ingrained if there's more than about 10 mins between responses, people will start the hello ritual again. I once asked someone I thought was becoming a friend if we could skip the hello ritual since we're good friends. They were extremely offended. I gave up and just perform the ritual.
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So what? Either people will find meaning somewhere else, or they won't. How is that different than any historical economic revolution, or indeed just the way things are now? There are plenty of people who already don't find meaning in work.
Vigyaa.io is a 100% anonymous platform where there are absolutely no trace of your identity. So users can be free of any fear of judgment or vulnerability.

I watched a movie called "Dear God" a long time ago. A crook is sentenced to serve the community by working in the post office sorting room. He finds a pile of mails addressed to God. He starts to read them. That Idea stuck with me since.

Here is the link to the IMDB page of the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116059/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

So Vigyaa.io is a digital incarnation of that idea. User is 100% anonymous. Anonymity takes away all the vanity of presenting your best version to the world. It makes you comfortable in your own skin. It rips away any kind of incentive for you to fake it. And thus you get to see the TRUE version of the people who post. I believe that it is a very rare thing in today's social media lead world.

The stories you find on our platform are so honest that it has become a one of a kind place where anyone can share anything that they are not comfortable sharing with another sole until now.

We moderate the content for any kind of spamming/ solicitation posts or that can be hurtful to any segment of the larger community. If we miss anything that is still offensive users can report such posts and we have them removed.

Our only goal here is to unburden your hearts and have a place to connect with humanity at large.

Please try it out and share your feedback. Ask questions. I will try to answer to my best.
I have a senior who tells me to hire people who are naturally curious(in-spite of any skill shortages). Your explanation is bulls eye to that theory.
I used to work at CDS a couple year back, worked with both Tim and John (The people who responded to the GitHub issue).

I'm glad to hear that his interactions with them were relatively without friction. A big part of what they're trying to do is lead by example for how modern software development can take place somewhere like the government (Taking a lot of cues from GDS and 18F).
Interesting point, I don't believe I've heard about Chinese ARM processor, but I do know that China has MIPS based processors, and they're using VIAs license to build x86 chips.
Manager? How high up were they?
Police small arms are equal to military small arms, but usage is different.

Police get better ammunition for destroying human flesh, due to treaty restrictions on the military. Police can get all of the military small arms ammunition.

Police normally leave rifles locked up in their cars.
> We usually work on challenging problems

At least for me (as someone who's more often answering the questions at my company), this varies quite a bit. Certainly sometimes there's a deep technical problem or an issue requiring genuinely tricky troubleshooting, but often it's a new hire who is still getting up to speed and didn't realize that there's some command that they need to run that will solve all of their problems. In a case like that, I worry about an environment where they feel afraid to ask a question unless they've already fought with the problem for a long time, and where they feel obligated to post an extensive write-up of the steps they've already tried. I would call that an "opposite extreme" since they're significantly less productive than they would be if they had been more willing to reach out for help early on. That's my main concern with the article: it has a tone of scolding people for the way that they ask questions, and I worry that it would cause people to be afraid to ask questions even when it would be best for them to do so.

I think the ideal approach is a balance: some initial detail on the problem, but with an understanding that deeper details can come in the follow-up (which might be over chat or over a call or some other medium).
Social justice and "fairness" is rarely one of the main goals of a meritocracy. The main goal of a meritocracy is peak performance. NFL teams select the "best" quarter-backs not because it's most fair, but because it will produce the most wins. Universities grant tenure to the most productive professors, because that will enhance the University's reputation. Hospitals hire the best doctors, because they can save the most lives. A society should delegate its most important responsibilities to its smartest/most-knowledgable members, because they can best lead society through worldly challenges.

Which is not to say that Social Justice isn't important. It is vital. But you don't get to it by hiring the wrong people in the wrong roles. A meritocracy excels at producing wealth - Universal Basic Income, Universal Healthcare, Unemployment Insurance, better Public Schooling... these are the kind of Social Justice programs that best distribute the wealth back to society.
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Soft skills. Having everyone around you like you is more important than being a good programer.
Wow, Sales + Marketing pretty much 1.5x their revenue ($265M), swinging them from +50% operating margins to -150-200% net margins. They are really trying to cram this product down people's throats, huh?
Even though academia is not perfect, it seems like going through peer review is on many dimensions better than not doing so. For instance, you get feedback and you document your reasoning and approaches for others to learn from. The only argument against it that I could see is added cost in terms of resources and time invested but for something like a blockchain it seems worthwhile to take the plunge.
Has anyone else had nothing but trouble with Artifactory? We are furiously migrating away from it to Github packages for our internal NPM repository. Their uptime has been abysmal.
> 90% of the features at 10% of the cost

How'd you swing that? We are fairly large Sumologic users, and it's more like 80% of the features at 80% of the cost.
There are some problems with that though. Let's pick your first example and say you are a statistician/programmer. The problem is that whenever you talk to your peers, which are either better statisticians or better programmers, you will have a hard time earning their respect.

Also, most people will know intuitively that it is easier to diversify than it is to specialize.

And by combining skills you aren't going to make it into the history books. However, hard work in one area may actually get you there one day.
I don't mean he allowed the model to update from new results, I mean the model would update, he'd be unhappy by its results so he'd change it so the outcome reflected his own biases. If you do that you produce a bunch of mathematical rationalizations for probability distributions that you invented from scratch.
Something I've struggled with for a long time is finding the point of trying when people better than you have failed. The only answer I could come up with is because "you aren't them." Going for my PhD in AI, going to give it my all, and see what I can do.
You mean like they offer EA Play (Game Pass competitor) on Xbox Live?
You're conflating the principle and the implementation. Meritocracy is good in principle, but your specific metric is bogus. Feel free to criticize the implementation/metric, but that's not a valid criticism of the underlying principle.

As an analogy, safe driving is a good principle. Assessing the safety of a driver by past behaviour ("this person hasn't crashed in a while") is decent but biased metric. E.g. "drunkenness" might be a better metric. But the choice of metric doesn't (in)validate the underlying principle.
Thereat model to their own citizens, yes.
>> In this case, a CISO certainly is aware of the CFAA.

That is a fair counterpoint
Me being negative really I think there is significant push for an American company to purchase ARM so that Chinese companies can no longer license the ISA?
Snowflake is the best all around DW product out there. It commonly gets compared to Redshift, but Amazon built Redshift on top of ParAccel's technology. Snowflake built its database from scratch. Most of the Snowflake founders have PhDs with an emphasis on distributed systems and I think you see that in the product.

I can't say enough good things about snowflake, and I have plenty of criticism to throw at hadoop, redshift, asterdata & vertica.
I would assume https://www.khronos.org/sycl/
A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing else, and if the answer was "no", why you wouldn't just say what you were going to say so the person would read it when they WERE there.
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the old tutorials were better. Roll-a-Ball is still the best intro.

honestly just think of the scene as being analogous to a browser DOM and learn which methods the game engine invokes on the objects and in which order. That's described here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html
Snowflake is better than Redshift but BigQuery has improved greatly in the last 2 years to fill in a lot of the missing gaps. I find Snowflake is the best at dealing with unstructured/JSON data and handling interactive results on smaller datasets while BQ is great with serverless scaling and very large computations.
Not to be rude, but jumping into comment sections about your competitor's S1 and replying to comments praising them looks pretty bad.
I almost guarantee the delay in the build out of their Waukee Iowa data center is so they can fill racks with server grade Apple Silicon.
> completely inaccessible to the mobility-disabled?

>>Completely inaccessible to a mobility-disabled person without help.

Same thing.
Very good question for psychology & neuroscience. We are yet to find why some are born with a state of mind of "why" & "how" while others have to try to learn it(and yet, might not perfect it)
The statistics are useless. They tell you nothing about the percentage of unhappy marriages. Only the ones where it was convenient enough to be able to separate. There is also huge cultural stigma against divorce in most places. This is why cities tend to have higher divorce rates - it's more socially acceptable.