skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that necessarily true. I am friends with a couple of my direct reports, but we have a distinction between work relationship and personal. When we are at work it is business, they understand my job duties and I am clear with my requirements as a manager. I have even had to fire a work friend before and we are still real life friends. I think the main distinction is to set boundaries from the get go. Work is work, personal is personal.

Overall, however I would say that my personal relationship with my reports has led to phenomenal gains on both sides. On the personal side its always great to have people who understand your job and can relate. On the business side it brings a touch of humanity so that you're not just a rote machine making decisions, (contrary to some people's belief I see this as better). I think a lot of manager believe they can't make exceptions to rules for any reason, but I find that workers are far more productive and loyal to the company when they are treated with compassion and understanding.
No, Craig Wright is Fakoshi!

https://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/04/logical-fallacies-...
Musk’s Option Haul Swells to $8.8B with Third Pay
Commute can also be exercise/activity time.
> warring fiefdoms to bureaucratic administrative states.

As a warrior at some point you realise that you need "learned men" that can grant you legitimacy through their writings/sayings and who at the same time can help you collect taxes from the masses.

For how things started in Western Europe during the Middle Ages see Adalberon, bishop of Laon [1], and his "oratores, bellatores, laboratores" triad:

> He seems to be famous in French history because of a poem in which he made mention of (the) three orders in society : "oratores, bellatores, laboratores" : the clergy ("praying Church"), nobles and chivalry ("the fighting church"), and, third, the labouring people ("church of toiling"), the last one supporting the others, and all supporting the whole edifice of mankind. This idea was incorporated into the "three social orders" of the Ancien Régime in France.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalberon_(bishop_of_Laon)
Are you referring to Gibbon's work? It's approaching 250 years old and every year of that shows. The most it's useful for is historiography and as a stellar example of 18th century writing. Please don't use it as a history book.

The Askhistorians book list offers more modern alternatives [1] and I'm sure a classicist would have even more up-to-date references.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/europe#wik...
> much of what is known about Novichok is conjecture

Remember when ricin was a thing? at least that's a real thing, though never as dangerous as they made it out to be in the news.
Do you think the 10-20 years down the road thing is just because from the late 90s until now there's been a huge change of paradigms, etc...

But now things are bit more established. If you're a good Java 8+ engineer who's worked on complicated large systems... do you really think that will go away?
>Which is what humans have craved since the dawn of time.

In any political system other than Western democracy power is essential for physical and financial safety, if you are wealthy. Power, of course, can be attractive on its own, but in a Western democracy it can also be optional. In all other political systems it's absolutely mandatory - wealthy people without power quickly cease being wealthy.
Oscar Wilder's quote "“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” has an underlying truth, particularly in agriculture society: such society depends on a large population to sustain itself.

Prior industry revolution, agriculture is mostly a human-labor dominated activity. And the yield of the farm is mostly depends on the climate, and human-labor invested. Any small agriculture nation can easy get destroyed by a famine, or by an external roaming barbarians.

Naturally, the rulers and residents of agriculture society intuitively feel that larger population is more stable and stronger. You can see this from Chinese people and their culture. They naturally likes mingling with their fellow men more than western people in much larger scale. While at the same time, they actually do not have intimate personal-level relationship between each other, beyond their direct family members.

And to effectively manage a large population, without modern tech, demands a proportional bureaucracy.

Then that's the logic of expanding bureaucracy.

Historical China had always have this population boom and dwindle cycle on a massive scale. Records show in Han dynasty, the peak population is 50Mil, while in the 3-kingdom-era, it's 16Mil. Because the singular structure of the society is rather unable to innovate itself. And often they crack under their own weight, and got slaughtered by barbarians/foreign-invaders in an endless cycle (including the WWII).

And that's one reason a lot of Chinese citizens welcomed Trump's hostility: that's an effective pressure to force the nation to innovate. And we actually see the results, for so many years, China effectively did nothing to catch up the modern IC industry. I am not saying without Trump, China wont pursue the tech independence, though. It's just that the tenancy of the society is not as innovative as the west.
Reddit is a terrible place to learn anything about VR. Too many gamers.
USC Suspends Comm. Professor for Describing an Offensive Sounding Chinese Word
WFH parenting is made much harder with daycare workers and school teachers now WFH.
Using a vive controller to play duck hunt on a TV screen
+1 for fb2k, currently using 13MB RAM to play an MP3 with my collection of ~50K tracks loaded in the background.
Sounds like bad advice to me. My manager is my friend and is generally a strong advocate/influence on my success. If forced to make a decision that favors the company over me, I don't see any need to consider that a betrayal or a forfeiture of friendship. To put it at an extreme, I don't require unbridled nepotism to be happy with a manager's treatment of me.
The same was true on MS-DOS, DR-DOS, and OS/2. Microsoft provided a help file compiler with some of its DOS development tools, and IBM provided an INF/HLP compiler and (if memory serves correctly) a message file compiler with the OS/2 SDK (HELP using both hypertext help files and message files on OS/2).
my favorite application of that tech - Roton, a helicopter to space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket . USSR people know it as "Pepelats" http://copy-cats.work/aircraft02/rotary-rocket-roton :)
A no-reply email is more honest, when you don’t have the resources to deal with a high number of replies in a timely fashion.

An emergency notice as well as a really good sale could be such a situation.

Both are good for your customers to know about, but you don’t want to annoy anyone because your email backlog became very long.
The way Elon Musk put it, who rarely says stuff that doesn't sound completely crazy, is that his grandchildren will be running Facebook. It's truly totally crazy.
insert isn't really reserving so much as just getting nextval from the seq, and may have to nextval a second time. I've found for tables like this to NOT use int-pk - I use ULIDs for these kinds (and actually, I've been using ULID for like everything lately)
postgres has insert … on conflict update since 9.5, and sqlite copied that.
I'm confused, you started the argument off by claiming that spreading PizzaGate isn't problematic and then went into a series of arguments for why it should be legal? Can legal things not be problematic?
I hear that one from time to time. It's a consequence of the fact that sequences are generally not transactional, and the fact that the underlying "speculative insertion" infrastructure really does have to do most of the work of the insertion before it can decide whether or not the insertion really should go ahead.

I'm sympathetic, but unfortunately I cannot think of any tractable way of avoiding the problem at the implementation level. Maybe it would be possible to do something with an identity column (as opposed to a SERIAL column or a raw sequence) -- we have access to sufficient context there. Maybe we could skip consuming a sequence in the common case where there is a clear conflict at the start, and the sequence isn't accessed through the EXCLUDED pseudo table. We wouldn't actually promise anything more, but in practice we wouldn't burn through sequences at the same rate in cases where updates are common.

This is quite a significant project, but maybe it'll happen some day.
As a historical note, there are several approaches for hooking multiple devices to a bus before TRI-STATE® logic. Early IBM mainframes (such as the IBM 1401) used AND-OR gates for the bus. Each signal onto the bus was gated by an AND gate to control who was talking to the bus, and the AND gates were connected by wired-OR.

Another common approach was the open-collector bus, for example in the Xerox Alto. The gates connected to the bus could pull the bus low but not high. Pull-up resistors pulled the bus high. In some cases, multiple devices would deliberately talk to the bus at the same time, OR-ing together their values. The downside of an open-collector bus is it's relatively slow to transition high, since you have a low-current resistor pulling it high. Tri-state drivers, on the other hand, can provide a solid current both high and low.

(TRI-STATE is a registered trademark of National Semiconductor, interestingly enough.)
What do you mean by more demanding?
This is literally all the evidence one needs to see the problem here. Their poverty is the result of decades of discrimination.

Not necessarily. For example the Joseph Rowntree Foundation defines poverty as bottom-third. By their method the proportion of those “living in poverty” is fixed, regardless of overall standards of living. To be poor in America is still to be much better off than most of the world.
the oddly shaped food box isn't about the novelty of oddly shaped food. it's about making you feel like your money is doing good. Look! We aren't wasting! We eat the avocados with the brown spots!
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
You can sometimes get better performance or be easier on the db itself if you have some records that you want to update in bulk. `ON CONFLICT` gives you a way to tell the db how to handle conflicts (duplicates/collisions/errors) without having to write potentially slower/buggier application code to handle the situation.
This is about a secondary point brought up: It's clear and unhidden large tech companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon rely on self-interacting ecosystems. This isn't always aligned with making a good product for the user. I wonder how many users are put off by this, and by how much- evidently not enough to stop using the services. What's the balance between raising profits by keeping customers in your ecosystem, and not frustrating them by breaking compatibility with outsiders?

It might be interesting looking at how Valve/Steam does it. AFAIK, they've built their model on working with outside developers. Started as in-house Valve games, and rapidly expanded to a majority of developers, including independent/small scale ones.
The “shock” is not about the difference between GPT-3 against developments on its predecessors.

It’s that itself it’s starting to cross the “Writing Barrier”.

The incremental gain is of little public interest, the social impacts of having an AI that can reliably produce content that is often indistinguishable from human content, now we’re potentially facing a profound change in how we write and in who’s writing we consume.
Specter is really handy for manipulating data structures, and have been happily using it.

I wonder, is it possible to select some subset of a map? Say you have these paths:

(def paths [[:some :path]
[:another :deeper :path]
[:yet :another :one]
[:yet :another :one :deeper]])

And select from a map these paths. You could do it with get-in, but maybe Specter can do it faster? I couldn't find a way to do it with Specter...
Veritasium (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA)
This is one of those posts that is easy to disagree with and it is easy to find fault with the some of the arguments. Nevertheless, it is an attempt, an essay as Paul Graham would say, to understand a thing that is worth exploring. The concept of "proof of work" is one that is much easier to understand now that we have bitcoin. If I look at art movements, it is interesting to wonder if proof of work is mixed in there. Did the collaboration of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne involve proof of work?. And social capital or a social currency is to me worth more thinking.

Thanks for this.
The thing that makes YouTube a bit crap for learning is that content creators are incentivized to make their videos longer than they need to be, so something that should take less than a minute to explain now takes 10 minutes.

I stumbled across a good example of this today while trying to figure out how to undo a camera move in Cinema4D, a software package I don't usually use. Now, the answer to this question is "ctrl+shift+z". But if I search the question on Google, the first result is a 3 minute YouTube video titled "Cinema 4D Quick Tip: How To Undo Camera Move In Cinema 4D", where the first mention of the shortcut is 2 minutes into the video. At this point, both YouTube and Google are purposefully surfacing the least helpful links in order to increase engagement.
Disseminating talking points to friendly faces...

Nice euphemism.
The unnecessary dismissal of these theories as having "no basis in fact" probably contributes to their stickiness. This absolutely does have basis in, arguably misconstrued, fact:

>The claim emerged after a Reddit Q&A in which Gates mentioned foreseeing the use of “digital certificates” to show who has been tested for COVID-19 or who has recovered from the disease . Most of the iterations of this claim misleadingly refer to “quantum dot dye” technology, which was founded by the Gates Foundation. Kevin McHugh, one of the lead authors of the “quantum dot dye” research paper, confirmed to Reuters this technology is not a microchip or human implantable capsule. Instead, it is similar to a tattoo, which would help provide up-to-date patient vaccine records for professionals in places lacking medical records. [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-gates-fauci/fal...
>> All billionaires are right-wing.

Not sure about their beliefs. I suspect they just endorse the party most likely to give them a tax break. This may also explain why many are going against Trump - he's been telling the public they've been given a bad deal and he's spoken against some big pork behavior. Who knows what he might do. Biden OTOH seems business friendly enough.
what DRM?
rip and pirate until you have everything you need
>It was clear years ago that neither he nor Brin were interested running Google day-to-day anymore. I'm actually surprised that every billionaire doesn't do the same after reaching a certain point of success.

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

“I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Of course he foresaw that.

You can exchange money for CPUs, so the system was built so that those with more money have more influence over the blockchain.

The idea of votes being proportional to the dollars you control is very popular in some circles.

In contrast, one-person-one-vote systems tend to create regulation for financial institutions, which is something crypto currencies often like to avoid.
>Cook daily is hard but sometimes a joy and a must if you want to leave healthy.

Hit this on the head. Since I've started working remotely, ~1 year before the pandemic, I've really seen my diet improve. I eat clean. Fresh vegetables and grains are much cheaper than food truck/restaurants. I do put in hours though, but I haven't timed it. I usually can pull off cooking during my lunch break or during the 2-3 monthly all staff meetings I have where I don't do any talking.

What really baffles me about all of this is how full the fast food drive thrus are when I go about on errands.
I've been burned with replace. The problem is that if you have fields with default values they will be set/reset to the default even if nothing changed. What I'd like to happen is that for any values that I don't supply, the table values remain unchanged.
I agree with but a nitpick. CRF is still very much used, even on Transformers architectures as the last layer in tasks such as NER. Many here in the leaderboard use it https://paperswithcode.com/sota/named-entity-recognition-ner...
> Why don't you know whether or not that tuple is in the relation before you start?

Because you've got a unique constraint on some sort of natural key and the service this data is fed from doesn't have any guarantee it'll only deliver the information once. Or the feed can be replayed in the normal course of operation (e.g. system imports / synchronisations).

Handrolling your upsert creates extra failure modes aplenty and is very tricky to get right, which is why built-in support was ultimately introduced.

> In OLTP, this practice (UPSERT) would cause all sorts of mayhem.

So?
I agree with this. And partisanship is largely the outcome of propaganda peddled by the media to sell ads. I know this is a narrow, arrogant viewpoint, but I view all hardcore partisans as victims of propaganda (with the caveat that perhaps "propaganda" is not the best word here...).
What if you sneak into a movie theater to sit in a near-empty auditorium for a 2pm Tuesday matinee. Nobody has "lost" anything, as in your cookie jar example. Does that make it OK?
How is NPR an outlet for state level actors? Which state level actors?
This site really whips the llama's ass!
The past decade has been acknowledged as the Golden Age of Television. Art evolves - and Breaking Bad is as much art as Anna Karenina.

There is a very irritating snootiness in the review that only thinks classical music as art, and just passingly acknowledges jazz - which by the way was denigrated often in vehemently racist terms when it first appeared.
> Wanna try again?

No need. Everything you linked is self proclaimed tweets. By someone obviously very good at selling himself.

I'm sure I can link to Zuckerburg tweeting about how concerned he is about privacy issues. Does that make it so?

I've actually lived like the guy claimed and even worse. You certainly don't have time and energy to write a book. Certainly don't take pics. Seems more like the guy was hipster "slumming" for cred rather than someone truly struggling.

So a classic dropout bum who magically sells a book to start a startup? Like I said, " Either [he is] extremely privilege and/or extraordinarily lucky."

Do you want to try again?

If his story is true, he is extremely privileged and/or extraordinarily lucky. How about this, if every college student dropped out and lived like a bum, what percentage of them would be able to raise $120 million?

Also, lambdaschool isn't a new idea. The idea of tech training school has been around at least since the 90s.
Some fraction of the short interest will choose to cut their losses on the way up. Since that is yet another entry on the buy side of the books, that would act to drive prices up even higher, no?
The problem is people not even knowing that if you use the default isolation level (on pg, read-commited) that you can't do something like "read cell X, modify X in code (e.g. X+=1), write X back" without running into race conditions which you can either avoid by using a lock (e.g. a row lock) or a different isolation level.

No need to know what ACID is an acronym for (I forget it all the time) or how the isolation levels are called, but you need to know what to look out for (mainly data dependencies between read an writes in the same transaction having race conditions you need to "team" and multiple read inconsistencies)
Ah right, the Paper demo guy!
That’s about it for commercial stuff. The trick is really managing it pre-compliance which amounts to renting a signal analyser / SA / measurement receiver and going at it with a near field probe to avoid having to pay for it more than once. Rigol do some adequate kit for less than your mugging from a leasing company now. As for the lab guys they don’t have a tight loop with the design engineers when you are going for compliance testing.

We used stuff in defence sector I can’t talk about even today past saying they have specially designed facilities that rival the commercial sector and fairly capable high end 3D field mapping equipment that cost more than my house did. It was based on commercial kit from Agilent with their own software and hardware.

As for antennas, they’re not really that voodoo. I’ve built quite a few even up to 2.4GHz. I played with 10GHz as well but not successfully yet. Same for radiation. PCB traces are antennas and transmission lines. Impedance control is fun IMHO.

There are design patterns and crib sheets at most large companies that avoid such pitfalls though. Spinning another board is expensive so avoiding this sort of stuff is where your design engineers should be leveraged. Some stuff is indeed tweaking but that’s getting less these days with some of the CAD software around. But it costs real money.
That's a capacitive moisture sensor. It is incapable of measuring pH.
Sure, if there's evidence that the author is not really who they say they are, by all means go ahead and point it out. However, you just seem to be making vague accusations about some grand conspiracy by corporate real estate developers, rather than addressing the article's very legitimate points.

As a young person working remotely, everything the author says reflects my own experience. It is very much a fact that remote work removes a lot of the unscheduled office interactions that younger / newer employees use to learn and advance their careers. I don't know about women specifically, but it is very plausible that remote work hurts social and economic mobility for young people, and for people without a stable home life.

Yes, we should certainly collect data to measure the real impact of remote work, good and bad. But now that remote work is a part of everyone's lives, whether we like it or not, it's also valuable to listen to these individual stories, to get an idea of the breadth of possible outcomes when we get rid of the office.
This is a fair & interesting perspective - I'll admit, I hadn't considered the "shock" factor in this way.
> A Microsoft spokesperson told Variety that the reason for his exclusion is the "comments and opinions" Persson has expressed on Twitter, saying that they "do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang, and are not representative of Minecraft."

Apparently you're only allowed to have freedom of speech if it fits in the tech left narrative. Show me an example of a extremist left person being denied access to a company event, let alone the founder of the company? Seems downright hypocritical to me.
A real friend would understand if you told them you don't want to do something. As a manager I'm not super interested in making people do things they don't want to do anyways. Obviously its unavoidable sometimes, but I think most employees also understand this.