skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to work with Teams every day and I can honestly say I've never worked with anything that bad.
The UI is really slow, it's hard to find things, Notification settings do not work at all, I had to mute everything because otherwise I'd get pushes everywhere at the same time, even if I literally had the conversation open. App constantly breaks, doesn't load images until reset, has insane input lag(try pressing enter to send the message and start typing the next one...) and ram usage often skyrockets. I can often fetch a coffe when I switch tabs between Chats and Teams.
Their API is also convoluted and not thought-out which made making a simple Slackbot clone very difficult.
I think the biggest part of its success is the fact that it's just provided with Office 365. I honestly don't see how anyone would pay for this as a standalone product...
maybe we should train some sort of conv net model on bad handwritings, and see what kind of magic we can pull on the downstream tasks
Somebody else finding the Monkey experiment a good one but wrong for the Authors cause?
I mean, the cold water was an artificial external influence and just the opposite of something fundamentally impossible.
To be precise, exactly the exact kind of obstacles against which youth has rebelled at all times. Its not the same as the changed circumstances he relates later in his article to.

Galois: Was shot in a fabricated duel (like Lermontov and Pushkin BTW). The setup exploited certain concepts of honor and - kind of ironically - hot-tempered youthness, susceptive to this.
Exactly. The best parts of Teams are the ones I was already using perfectly fine with Lync/Skype. The rest of the interface, chat rooms, apps and everything else are atrocious.
Your examples are only ideas, he is talking about actual systems. In fact his points still stands for the actual experiments that validated the most recent advances in relativity and quantum mechanics..
That or rare diseases. There is something quite medical or anatomic about a lot of them.
Related, apparently he claimed in an interview that the company HQ had a large (3 MW) solar installation, and it hasn't. Why lie about something so inconsequential that anyone can find out is false by looking at it?
> "Where else but in this nation could one freeze processed whitefish into a brick, cut it up into deep-friable strips, and ship it to a landlocked region like Kansas for immediate consumption?"

How about anywhere else in the world? I know fish-sticks were pretty popular (and heavily marketed) in Netherland in the 1980s. They may have been invented in the US, but they exist elsewhere.

I remember they used to be somewhat popular with kids. Whether that was because of the marketing or because it's a convenient form (boneless and fried), I don't know. Adults generally prefer slightly more 'real' fish.
Any offline method works. Transfer by handshake, travel with it in your bag from the main office, or injected as a chip under your skin since birth, any such method. :)
I can corroborate this: "If you take on a problem, one problem, like really take it on and try to develop it, you will find 100 PhDs worth of work in short order. Mind-breakingly hard problems abound when you actually try to solve hard problems in the world."

Every area that I explored deeply because I had an almost "irrational obsession" yielded new general insights about the world. For me it has been, among other things, smart volume control via signal coherence, typically only applied in radar applications. This opened up a whole world of signal math that I would not have stumbled on before. And there is plenty to develop there for the future of communications.
"You gotta increase inequality to fight inequality!"
Your McCarthyist fear and paranoia and the President's cynical manipulation of the same don't trump people's First Amendment rights. The court upheld that principle, thankfully.
I'd be interested too. I can't find the stats atm but I wouldn't be surprised if it were around 50%. Still, my hypothesis is it mostly survives because of iOS. Sites must work with iPhones therefore it takes little if any effort for macOS Safari to be supported.
>> Get So Good They Can’t Ignore You

From my experience this is fiction. If those who control the means of production don't like you or your personality, they will ignore you and actively work to suppress you.

This happened to me. I was constantly overlooked for promotion and ignored in spite of an impressive proven track record and being a workaholic.

After 2 years of delivering a lot of value and working like crazy, I quit the company in a dramatic way.

I was so frustrated with my job that I had a breakdown and insulted the CTO in front of the CEO before quitting.
I burned that bridge because I knew subconsciously that these people had already been suppressing me a long time,
that if they wanted to get revenge after I left, it wouldn't change anything; they'd already been sabotaging me the whole way through.

I was right about that because after I quit, the project's community ended up supporting me and I was able to continue my work outside of the company (I suspect my ex-bosses did try to sabotage me BTW).
So yes, they can ignore you no matter how good you are and how hard you work. Members of certain minority groups within the company will understand this notion very well though it can apply to anyone. You may have to seek support from an entirely different group of people.
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> Experience has zero value in business context.

I wish you luck fundraising.
Banking in Your Command Line
Unless they fuck up - for example a botched site migration that causes massive losses and ends up mentioned in the financial pages.

A number of UK banks have had disasters TSB, Santander caused by not having enough older more experienced developers.
I could also add to that list that they probably copied the buggy call code from Skype so I have the exact same Bluetooth issues and crappy sound as Skype.
How to catch a spy that is using a numbers station – The KGB Experience
Hello everyone. This is a translated excerpt from a desecretized KGB operations manual that offers an example on how their counter-intelligence division caught a spy using a numbers station for one-way communication.
Don't worry guys, gm carefully studied whether they are a real company and everything. Kind of like how they get the ev market and are going to crush tesla and make an attractive and successful business selling evs.
I have been using borg for a while and it has been a joy. But I was under the impression that you had to trust the server if you aren't mounting the remote repo, but are running borg on the server too (like the author). Before commenting that here, I had a quick read of the docs.

Turns out, I was wrong! [1]

> If you use encryption, all data is encrypted on the client before being written to the repository. This means that an attacker who manages to compromise the host containing an encrypted repository will not be able to access any of the data, even while the backup is being made.

borg is even more amazing than I thought.

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html#...
I have never managed to get a JVM to use less than 100MB RAM. The application in question needed significantly less than 32MB of Java heap. Meanwhile equivalent lua programs can do just fine with 1MB RAM.
You can have both. My old microwave had physical buttons (upraised so you could find them by touch, and that 'clicked' down when depressed) under a wipe clean plastic coat. It worked very well.
Of course it depends on the situation. If you are saving for retirement, you will be waiting on the money for years regardless.

If you will need the money in the short-term there are other options/indices (e.g. bonds) that are safer given market volatility but will yield lower returns most likely.

If you want to speculate and try timing the market, I'd suggest mentally separating the money into a different category and accept the possibility that you may lose it or end up with terrible returns. I would try not to consider category that as "investment"
Sodomistically.com.
> Imagine going all in

> "a basic proof of concept"
There is so much risk associated with anything that Oracle touches, I suspect some very large organizations run the other way without really looking. Instead of Java, they switch to GoLang, and costs be damned.

The real damage that Oracle caused by their Android lawsuit, and by their JDK licencing scheme change, will reverberate for long time.
Are you hiring for any positions in Cheyenne as a result of acquiring the license there, or is everything purely remote? The jobs site makes it look like the latter.
Facebook says obeying laws that protect the privacy of their users would make it impossible to operate. Who would have thought.
I don't like the label "old".

There is tendency for some people to stop progressing and change their demeanor as they age and that's what I call "old".

On the other hand if you keep being inquisitive, energized, continue learning including from your own mistakes, you are getting "experienced".

--

- What does a company pay for when they pay large sallary for an experienced engineer?

- They pay for all the mistakes he/she made at her previous job.
> So if it initially runs the script between 0:00 and 1:00 and the script takes 1.5 hours to finish then the next run will be between 1:30 and 2:30 the next day

Shouldn't it be between 1:30 ans 3:30? I'm just nitpicking, of course, that's a nice solution.
Anyone apparently can merge with a SPAC (an existing company that is already a listed stock) by basically buying a very weak company. After the merger now you are on the stock market! There's no mechanism of testing the company before the merge, it just happens if they have the money to buy the weaker company.
Spring Boot Kotlin is worth giving a go. It has rapid prototyping abilities, but underlying Java promise of easy refactoring, great tooling. I recently refactored entire frontend and parts of backend code without ever having to restart server.
I read the article. The author noticed that MSVC's STL has slower iterators in debug mode, because it does extra checks. Instead of reading the manual and turning off the extra checks and/or reading the manual and turning on some optimizations in debug, he re-wrote it in C, which doesn't have the extra checks to begin with, and was happy because it compiled faster. All the optimizations in release mode came from better algorithms or allocators.

I can't say I'm particularly convinced. Yes, C++ debug builds can be slow. For most of us, that's ok. If it's not, make your "debug" build configuration a release build with the optimizer turned down (but not off) and incremental build enabled. Preprocessor definitions, symbol generation, optimization, and incremental build are all independent settings - if all you need from debug is symbols, incremental builds, and the inliner turned down (so stacks are retained) - then configure your compiler that way.
While we are here, anyone knows a resource explaining the general interface decision made by the teams designers?

Asking for a friend who still struggles to understand the rational for the top menu selection, ordering and naming. And also just why?
Ruby is getting a JIT in 3. So it's happening. I'm always supportive of small projects and this is no exception. Still, it is going to get crowded out by the generalized offerings of Ruby 3.

There may be some benefit to ultra specialized for this project to live in still but the audience is going to be quite niche.
We use it as for on-prem deployments where cloud deployments use S3, also useful to spin up for local dev with Vagrant
I am under 30. I find it very frustrating and unfair to see older programmers being displaced or misstreated because 1) I need to squeeze out every damn ounce of wisdom these people have in order to accelerate my own progress and 2) one day I'll be in their place. I want them to be treated the same way I will be treated.

I have a real life example of the five monkeys story. A company I used to work for had a pile of legacy systems in php4, mysql 5.0 and a frontend working only on IE8, no ci/cd, no tests. Almost instantly I was lead to beleive this system is a black hole that can't be saved due to the technical difficulties plus management issues. The head of IT was there for almost 20 years watching tons of developers contribute to this mess and failing to take meaningful action to address the problem. Thus he had insane clarity of all the problems, but also was pesimistic about any possitive outcome. With his experience on these systems and my determination (probably stemming from my youth) we managed to upgrade php to 5.6 (almost compatible with 7), mysql 5.5 and most of the front end could work on latest chrome in a year (+ a great deal of performance optimizations). We both left that place having layed out a solid foundation for the people who were left behind to continue this modernization endavour (which I've learned was carried on)
Don't you offload the authentication to the postal service in this case?
Take care of the big 3: Dental, mental and genital.
You are hoping they actually build what you told them to - from bitter experience.
This has nothing to do with age, and little with experience.

You mix up knowledge, skills and proficiencies.

If you watch 10 youtube videos, you might gain the knowledge of building a kitchen, but you neither gained the skills of using tools, nor the proficiency of planning and building a kitchen.

Those are very distinct things, which pedagogues are aware of.
I imagine the alcohol concentration in the air is extremely low, making this quite hard work.

The article mentions "ethanol-capturing equipment used by brandy distilleries in California", but i couldn't find anything about capturing emissions from ageing. There are a couple of systems for capturing alcohol emissions from fermentation, but that's a different problem:

https://www.aromatica.io/process

http://nomovo.com/
Most have SDIC insurance.
Tips for Component Based Development
That's a bullshit measure! What number of people make more than an arbitrary threshold value does not say anything. Maybe all these people made $90,000 seven years ago, and $100,000 is just the new $90,000 in 2017. It's a large organization, I'm surprised they had only 11 people above $100,000 in 2017.
What point do you think you are making with this citation?
> We need to stop trying to pin the blame on one group and take responsibility all together.

Even if you go vegan, thrift all your clothes and minimize your consumption, you have such a tiny footprint compared
to corporations that naturally value profit over the environment.

Blaming people for what corporations should be held accountable for is counterproductive and distracting. We should focus on enacting laws to protect us from the damage corporations are doing to the planet.
Keep in mind that even if you value them you'll eventually forget them given enough time in the ranks of the managers.
The 15-minute launch video gives some good info about both the Lumi and the smaller Note Air, although the included promo videos for each product are somewhat exasperating.

https://youtu.be/KebhYxNBeJ4
I guess GP's point is that everyone in the same financial situation as themselves should contribute, not just that they want to contribute individually.
I solve this problem by buying a Synology (a popular, idiot proof NAS). Other trusted solution is QNAP.

Yes, it’s cool to set up a FOSS FreeNAS server with ZFS pools. However, one look at the forum posts of people losing data due to misconfiguration tells me it should be considered a toy project.

All of my important files live on the NAS as a source of truth. This means I passively make sure the data is there, every time I access something.

It’s backed up using Hyper Backup to the cloud, in encrypted format. I verify restoration once a quarter. I also keep a HDD around that I manually backup to once a quarter.
Looks like Nir Eyal (Author of Hooked) was interviewed for 3 hours of this documentary. But, none of his clips made it to the final version.

https://twitter.com/nireyal/status/1307577732448964608
That is besides the lacking of the standard lib the second most important point why our team decided against Rust.
And the number of teeth on two interacting gears is usually coprime, to distribute wear more evenly.
Sure they can. They communicate using it. They have rights.
It depends on the work and the caliber of talent. It also depends on the state of the organization. Some fields require specialized skills, and experience is highly valuable. Programmer is broad term. Not everyone is building crud apps.

Inexperienced people can build small orgs into business crippling holes.
Who knows, apart from regulatory capture, whisky may cease to exist the way we know it. Rapid aging processes are becoming more and more common every day.
So it is not really an alternative! :)
Both follow from caring about other people and the process of solidarity.

If you don't actually care about other people, and you're already on the wealthy side, then why do you care about environmental damage? If the sea level rises, you're not going to be in the flooded area? If the forest burns, do you care if you've got filtered air and fire insurance?
>>When they go home they're just playing Fall Guys and rewatching Blade Runner, wishing Cyberpunk 2077 was out already.

I meet that description and reading this thread I was beginning to think I was much less motivated than my peers.
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Another way to put this concept is: The best resume is your name.
Meanwhile, all the people who saw this coming years ago and never bothered developing for Apple: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was it because nobody spelled it out for you? Or because you thought it wouldn't happen? Or because you thought it couldn't really hurt anyone supporting such a shitty developer relationship?

Or because really, you thought you could still make a quick profit before you got screwed over?

Surely the next megalomanical super corporation will be fair to humans, or something.

Just to make it perfectly clear; Just because there's a lot of people using a certain platform, doesn't mean that platform actually supports those people. It's not a vote. Flies didn't vote for the spider's web. Look at users/consumers/etc anywhere they get the shitty end of the deal too.

So developers lose, consumers lose, Apple is the laughing third. And "Apple" isn't even human, but mostly made of pieces of paper, enslaving humans.

Meanwhile developers develop, and consumers consume, keeping them both in this ecosystem circling the drain.

You realise that there is an actual possibility that at some point, a few of these megacorps will win, at the same time, just cutting off our access to general purpose computing forever[0]. A battle that is already partially lost on certain fronts (chips). That's what you're risking playing stupid games.

Yes I'm getting a little bit annoyed because it's been pretty obvious for at least a decade now.

[0] yes Google/Android is also not supporting you being a dev on their platform, they WISH they had the power over devs that Apple had, and would make the same anti-consumer / anti-developer choices in a non-human heartbeat
I agree. Green movements predate the dominance of climate change as an environmental issue; they began in the late 1970s in Germany as a brand of socialism. The "four pillars" of the original German Green party are listed on Wikipedia as Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Grassroots democracy and Nonviolence; later expanded by the green movements in the US in the mid-eighties in the following principles:

Decentralization

Community-based economics

Post-patriarchal values (later translated to ecofeminism and Ethics of care)

Respect for diversity

Global responsibility

Future focus

I think this marriage between actual environmental concerns and a socialist ideology is the reason of the so called "rejection of science" by the right. The fact is that the actual science of climate change comes with a hefty baggage of left-wing ideas that found a pressing technical issue to piggyback on. If the choice is between accepting or rejecting the whole package, conservative/ libertarian people will reject it entirely.
Stripping a language down to the point we can learn it in a week is a bad tradeoff, because we'll never improve after that. The toolbox will always be empty, best treated as a codegen target for abstractions in some more insightful language.
Whatever advice an older person can give it is problematic in that it is only one point of view, and might be wholly inapplicable to your life given the fact you are a different person raised in different circumstances. You’d be hard pressed to find a counsellor having heard you rant for 100 hours give you advice. They only give you tools.

I’m older and I realise myself that I need advice, I’m not in need of giving it.
Sounds like rats abandoning ship to me; he must've made a ton of money off of the IPO.
This is such a weird article. 99.9% the reason any organization is using Teams is because they got it for free with their Office 365.

I get it, they worked on it, they want it to be great. It's not. It's just an anti-competitive bundle.
Quite a lot of the top 0.01% is oil wealth and reducing CO2 is directly against their interests.
Of course this is it. That libertarian-inspired quip is as old as it is not clever, but I don't imagine we'll ever stop seeing it posted.
What you are saying is true but even when you use optimized frameworks like Micronaut and stay below e.g. 50MB java heap usage you still end up using more RAM than what the Java heap says. Even the most optimized Java program on the planet will be beaten by a carelessly written C++ program. At least in terms of memory usage. I know it because I once wrote a React app with a C++ backend that also included sqlite. The C++ version needed 4MB of RAM at worst. Meanwhile the Java version didn't even include a database!
If Colin knew that he would have proved Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer as an academic, would he have regrets about leaving academia? This is clearly an academic (no pun intended) question, but I say it to illustrate a point: it's hard to know if you made the right choices in life, since you don't have perfect information about the course of alternative paths.

I have been in academia and industry. I suffer from 'grass-is-greener' syndrome right now in industry, and am pining for more research. But I don't know if I would have felt the same way if I were stuck on a postdoc-to-postdoc treadmill.
How is the ecosystem? For example - if I want to add auth, social login, profile picture and admin dashboard CRUD, are there mature packages that can be leveraged for these features?
Here's an example where neither person is wearing glasses.

https://twitter.com/LOVEMUNY/status/1307789227535499266

It also includes an example where the black man is wearing glasses and the white man isn't.
The average carbon footprint of someone in the US is 16 tons, in Germany it's 9,5 tons.
Am doing something very similar (with a heavier emphasis on neologistic words) with my project [0] :)

I highly suggest reading the guide on brand names [1] before you register anything.

[0] https://zlipa.com

[1] https://www.nickkolenda.com/brand-names/
> I solve this problem by buying a Synology

My NAS was a Synology too (The one where I lost a lot of my data, despite Raid1 + offsite sync). No dry-run restoration from the cloud was my mistake.
I used to use Borg but I switched to restic, they're very similar but restic doesn't require a server (you can use BackBlaze B2).
Such as? (genuinely curious) We've been trying hard to get memory consumption down because we get OOMs in our CI frequently. (Our largest compilation unit compiles for 3 minutes and peaks at just under 6GB memory)