skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A few people I hired this or similar ways became my friends and we still connect, get coffee, etc.

Becoming a friend or not is not a causal relation to competence, but rather to your preference. And in this context makes me doubt that what underwater said in his comment might be the real goal: >They're good for determining if the test taker is the test author, and not much else.

More plausible that you only wanted to hire, well, people just like you (and that's why you became friends). Not withstanding the glaring obvious survivor bias. But if it worked, who am I to question it.

> If you want to hire warm bodies to write code then this is not a good way.

Yea but my point wasn't (or yours either) to hire warm bodies, but people that "speak up their mind, challenge manager". And we are talking how efficient(or inefficient) this is, and how many false negatives this method produce. and if your pool of applicants is big enough, it will produce true positives anyway, irrelevant of the efficiency of the filter.

Personally I think even "agreeableness" personality test mumbo-jumbo would be a better metric/filter for gaining people with "speak up their mind, challenge manager" characteristics.
Does something moving fast weight less? Would it get less G if it would spin really fast ? Or does speed only affect "speed of time" ?
Can only be a demo, this has been even done in Excel.
The top comments of this old thread are retrospectively hilarious because sone frontend guys argues about wether SQL is not easily composable and exchanges trick about how you can securely and dynamically concatenate SQL statements.

But nowhere to be found is the concept of prepared statements that would gracefully help then write nicer code.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html

And that is a lightweight in-code solution for those who are repelled by database procedures which is yet another way to solve theirs issue with SQL.
What surprises me is that so far none shoehorned Postgres on top of FoundationDB.
"iddqd" maybe? IIRC that is god mode in doom. It's been like 20 years, its getting a little foggy.

Edit: I recalled correctly, IDDQD was the cheat code for god mode in the original doom.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iddqd
Yes, I for one, was confused.

I wondered why you should plan an event which will "destroy" your company anyways.
> My lights are hardwired to a switch on the wall.

Oh you mean like an ethernet cable?
Genuine question: did you check that domain before you posted your comment?

Because if it didn't exist, well, it does now. It's sitting on one of those existentially-depressing parking pages. And ironically has a hilariously broken (go and see) HTTPS cert.
None of the kit I have can do GRE encap fast enough for the tunnel to be a good alternative to the native v4 I have.
This is a very well written project. Easy to navigate through the codebase and a pleasure to read.
Here you have stats for 1950 per age brackets https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/feb/wk3/art03.htm

Basically you have more then third of women working in any except oldest one. Third of women is a lot of women, a lot of households.

Moreover, people kind of tend to forget that women needs to eat even if husband died or got sick, even if they are single, even if husband is unemployed, even if husband is alcoholic, even if husband is in prison. People also kind of tend to forget that having to marry anyone just so that someone feeds you is one path toward disasterous abusive marriages you are trapped in (where you still have to pretend everything is ok for appareances sake).

And 1950 is when economy was the best, male employment was like 95%. And you still had women who were married and they worked and their income mattered to family. (Surprising example is Rosa Parks who worked for money and loss of income was issue to her and her husband.)
> first of all if you only have 100k pageviews a month you're probably not even making $599 from serving ads

You're talking about something entirely different from what the parent is.
This sounds like a useful service. But let's get our terms clear:

> no debt

You get money now for money you are expected to give back later. That's debt. (It's not a loan as such.)

> no discounts

Their own screenshots show an example where you only get 94% of the expected annual dollar value of your contracts. That's a discount. (That you grant to your investors, not to your customers.)
LuaJIT uses it's DynASM library for both static and JIT code generation. DynASM is implemented in a mixture of Lua and C, and Lua is of course implemented using C. So LuaJIT actually depends on a C compiler to generate assembly. Plus, not all of LuaJIT is implemented using assembly, only some critical hotspots (e.g. the bytecode interpreter loop). The rest is just C.

DynASM is actually really cool.

I almost forgot: apropos bootstrapping, because LuaJIT requires Lua to build, it includes a single-file, stripped down version of PUC Lua 5.1 which it can build to bootstrap itself if the host lacks a Lua interpreter.
Yeah, the final output is just LLVM IR, so this is about useless for anything.

I'm not even sure this is the correct abstraction layer for an HLS tool (even though it seems 2 out of the 3 mayor players use it, albeit it is precisely the leader who doesnt use LLVM).
Panels are almost exclusively sand by weight. When panels are at the end of their life we either recycle them into new panels or simply store them somewhere. They're not particularly difficult to store safely. Right now there is not much recycling going on because there simply isn't the volume of old panels available to make this interesting from an economic perspective.

To cover nights in the Sahara we use some of the absurd excess energy we get from covering the whole desert to make some Hydrogen or Methane and convert that back to electricity. If we don't want PV and gas synthesis for some reason to we can also just store heat in molten salt in solar-thermal installations and drive steam turbines. That's just a bit more expensive than PV today.
If the goal is to have a raycaster you ought to have thin slices.
I'm a designer and front-end developer. I'm building a fullstack project by myself in Node and I'm using MongoDB.

Can someone tell me why is it so bad?

I've searched for concrete answers but I got none for the moment yet from time to time people say these kind of things and I worry.
On this note, reading Vaclav Smil's "Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate" [1] has been sobering. I had a similar presumption that this isn't a technological problem but rather of a policy conflicts (and subsequent perverse mechanisms including corruption).

In fact, it is actually a technologically challenging problem. This book is a decade old but I would assume that nothing has drastically changed over the past decade, and the energy demand has probably only gone up. Highly recommended read, if not already!

[1]: https://www.librarything.com/work/10653100
well so far Zig looks to be one of the very few lang that got the async/sync two color functions sorted out.
What if you didn't need relational queries and was dealing with a large volume of data that needed to be sharded?
What we haven't solved in the value creation equation is the people factor, whether in software, construction or medicine.

It does get easier to address at scale. When applied to construction, the at-scale approach used to increase predictability is primarily available through a) pre-fab construction under conditions approaching control b) repeat buildings, the classic cookie-cutter houses. There's a reason why they're popular with developers.

A custom house will take longer and cost more than the estimate, on average. There is research on this in both small-scale and large-scale construction.

As a personal anecdote, I & partner built our own permanent dwelling (check my posts). It went over time and over budget, and even then, we had to compromise on features.

Don't forget that central heating /AC and "proper" insulation are not a standard feature in Japanese construction. Neither are cellars nor sound-proofing. Their plumbing is rarely winterized, and they often have the classic approach of kitchen on one side of wall, bathroom on the other. That's one bathroom, and a much simpler plumbing setup than multi-units popular in Europe or the US. These are just some factors in a long list that significantly simplify projects in Japan and make pre-fab a strong contender.

The Japanese consumer expects less and pays the same if not more.
> What's worse about Google Cloud SQL?

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35904358
So, while this looks like it's more about breaking up the human-visible color spectrum into more discrete parts than RGB, and not stretching it out into infrared/ultraviolet. Still very cool (especially since even within the human band there's a lot of resolution missing), and honestly I'd love to see what happens when you map some of those other colors into RGB to see what the world looks like. What colors look smooth to humans but would appear splotchy or unmixed to other eyes, I wonder?
It's (essentially) factoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)
The later part of the article points out why it isn't a no-brainer.

Selecting choosing and preferentially supporting people based on their faith tradition, as a proxy for individual merit, has its negatives.

For example, the "tangle of religion and work at the Los Angeles bureau", when the FBI bureau is supposed to be a secular workplace.

For another example, blacks were a sort of second-class citizen in the LDS Church until 1978; unable to join the priesthood the same way non-blacks could. Even now, black members are relatively uncommon in the US compared to the national demographics. And women may not be ordained priests in the LDS Church.

As the article mentions, "most people working for the FBI are white men." Preferential recruiting for Mormons, if not done with brains, has the secondary effect of reduced recruiting for blacks.

Preferential support for Mormons, after all, is what lead the judge to determine the FBI "made personnel decisions which favored members of their church at the expense of Hispanic class members".

Perhaps one of the unsaid factors is that Mormons are more willing to work in an organization like the FBI with a white, male-dominated hierarchical power structure, without rocking the boat? A.K.A "good cultural fit"?
> I think the political side of it "screwing hedge funds" is a bunch of BS.

You're free to ignore or downplay whatever facts you'd like, but it takes a lot of will power to turn a blind eye to the political and protest aspect of gamestop's stock purchases.

You're talking about a bunch of small WSB-like retail investors who purchase half a dozen stocks with their disposable cash because they feel that contributes to evil hedge funds of the likes of Melvin Capital to lose half their cash on their manipulative shorts. You're talking about people who look at gamestop's stock as a high-risk investment where the payoff is not cash but screwing big financial companies out of their cash.

It's like you're watching a parade or a protest march and you're there wondering why all those idiots are just standing there instead of running to win the race. The point of a protest march is not to ensure that your everyday flow stays neatly predictable, is it?
A puppy would be called a "chiot", if someone wonders.
What benchmark do you want me to run?

(Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)
In the US, people tend to forget the stated purpose of copyright (etc.) in the Constitution:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

The purpose is not to fairly compensate authors, inventors, or publishers; nor is it to ensure that their works can't be used in ways the author or inventor doesn't approve of; nor is it to ensure a legacy for an author's heirs; and it certainly isn't to give a company (Disney) a perpetual exclusive right to a character (Mickey Mouse). Rather, it is a limited-time incentive that is granted for the express purpose of "promoting the progress of science and the useful arts."
I really don't think this is the answer at all.

Any true Google competition will need a world class crawler and ML like Google.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. It mentions that homeopathy is a pseudoscience because it would be a glaring omission for an encyclopedia if it didn’t. Homeopathy is a medical system that works as I described above, and it just so happens that it’s totally junk as well. Its usage in the context of those that practice homeopathy is not the definition that describes it as being bunk.

Similarly, “based” is used to mean the opposite of “cringe”. It just so happens that most “based” content is what others might call cringe; the video I posted above is satire of exactly this. However, it doesn’t change the meaning of the word, and in fact the joke falls apart if you redefine it this way.
Fwiw, the amount of money that Google is pouring into GCP,
including their own transoceanic fiber makes me believe
they are committed to it more than “other” endeavors.

I thought this way too about another fiber-rollout business of Google's. It didn't turn out the way I expected.
I glad you like it and thank you for your feedback.
I will update the landing page with more clear presentation soon.

Stock photos are a good option too, but we will be focusing only on 3D mockups.

You can now buy a lifetime deal for a one-time cost, but it's limited. I will think more about one-time payments in the near future.

Thank you!
It’s one thing to be wary of experimental new consumer products like many Google has tried and discarded, but I can assure you I have personally observed vast amounts of money poured into GCP in the enterprise realm and even if they retire a GCP product here and there, most of the myriad products in GCP will be around making money for quite a while!
Source on the racist thing? I’ve watched a number of his videos, mostly to learn various Linux tools. I’ve generally enjoyed his content and found it inoffensive; just way off the beaten path.
Super nitpicky, but... sunrise and sunset are not equally distant from solar noon, because of the eccentricity of Earth's orbit around the Sun. Since the orbit is an ellipse, Kepler's law means that our orbital speed is constantly changing.
https://xkcd.com/1737/
I don't know. You cited a youtube clip with usage of a word as a definition of a word, which I accept, actually, as an interesting and useful source. But you deny the wikipedia language I quoted as acceptable input to this conversation? Why is your youtube context more right than my wikipedia context?

Words have multiple meanings. Clearly based is one of them.
I set a timer on my phone. No internet required. Never missed it yet
Exactly.

I'm just complaining about the "everything is a webapp backend written in a scripting language" mentality that pervades everything in IT now.
For sure, and to me it's definitely worth getting the nicer drivers with efficient idling and interpolated 256-microstepping.

Conceptually though, ignoring any power saving idling features or other fancy algorithms, stepper drivers basically want to drive a constant amount of current through the active phase (which is what you're adjusting with the potentiometer). In order to do so, it needs to overcome the voltage drop of the resistance of the windings, and the induced voltage of any changing magnetic fields. The resistive voltage drop is roughly constant, while the induced voltage is proportional to the speed of the motor. Power is equal to current times voltage. The current is constant, and the voltage increases proportionally with velocity, and so power should go up proportionally with velocity. The motor gets hot regardless of what it's doing because of the constant resistive losses, but the total power goes up the faster the motor is moving.

Motors are a lot more complicated than that in reality, and higher end stepper drivers don't actually drive constant current at all times. Semantically, a stepper driver's promise is to move the motor one step "quickly enough" after each pulse on its step input. A clever stepper driver will only apply current when it's actually needed to produce useful torque. Torque is only needed when the motor/load needs to accelerate to get to its target position. Ignoring the rotational aspect, force equals mass times acceleration, and power equals force times velocity. For a maximally clever stepper driver, power is therefore proportional to the product of acceleration and velocity. The motor only gets hot when accelerating regardless of velocity, while the total power goes up when accelerating at higher velocities.
I've learned that the most productive way to see a job is as an extended college course that you happen to be paid for.

And once you're no longer learning, it's time to "graduate" to another one.
Ah crap, you are right. I was not aware that COVID stopped the DST decision, thanks.

I was actually quite admiration of the EU to have made a decision, something they never do. But the the reality of this deeply dysfunctional institution hit again.

To be clear, I am all for the EU as a concept, it is just that one can hardly expect the bureaucratic dinosaur that rules it to make swift decisions. Not to mention that the anti-EU parties that are not elected in the member countries, do get elected to the EU parliament. This is a heap of nonsense.
It is also interestingly solved in Unison language (using "algebraic effects"), although it's just an early alpha version.

See https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/
"We believe that Ray will continue to play an increasingly important role in bringing much needed common infrastructure and standardization to the production machine learning ecosystem, both within Uber and the industry at large."

Poll: if you are writing a ML library, do you want to try Ray as the distributed runtime? If not, what else?
If you've got the money, I'd suggest Original Prusa, since I got one I've never used my Creality CR-10 again. Even though the CR-10 isn't a bad printer at all, the Prusa provides the overall better experience. :-)
As an American, I have no idea. I actually don't think I've ever seen a recipe that didn't have explicit tea/tablespoons before, that's really weird.
An aux heating system would not be necessary for an EV semi: most of the cited 40% of range lost suffered by passenger EVs is due to cabin heating, but an EV semi would actually produce enough waste heat in its powertrain to comfortably heat the cabin[1] (just like a diesel semi!).

There are also some range and power losses due to increased internal cell resistance when the battery is cold, but the effects of this diminish as the battery warms up with use. Actual range loss for an EV semi in the cold should be minor, probably similar to the range loss for ICE semis in the winter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26419981
Go into QA. Less stress, not that much less pay. Devs turned QA are always in demand in my experience.
These days MongoDB is mostly a subset of what SQL servers do. If all you need is a document store you can simply make a table with a JSONB column and get that. If you later discover you do need relations you can do that with e.g. Postgres but not with MongoDB.

Historically MongoDB has been known for dropping or mangling data in some unfortunate ways, I'm not entirely sure what the story there is these days but personally I wouldn't trust it ever again. Data integrity is too important.
Nice idea but I'm confused by "based". What's that?
The article doesn't give any insight into the cause of the performance issue because they coudn't work out what that cause was:

In another instance we noticed degraded performance of our applications and managed to trace it to our MongoDB cluster. However, upon further inspection we were unable to find the actual cause of the problem. No matter what metrics we installed, tools we used or commands we ran we couldn’t find the cause.
If you just need a key-value store, a database like MongoDB is rather oversized. Redis or and a bunch of object storage system (now that they actually include locking) are much easier to operate.

As soon as you're back to needing complex queries (with or without relations, Postgres it is again.
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
I wonder if evolutionary pressures for such an interesting predator scale for size? Could a similar but larger aquatic creature evolve or is this strategy restricted to a size domain?
But what is the price justification:
Zaphier $599 per month vs. $3.99 per month for IFTTT ?

I know that IFTTT is a quite long on the market, do not know about functionality comparison.

https://zapier.com/pricing

Even cheapest Zapier plan is $19.99 per month.
Idk, Oracle RDBMS is from 1979, and Java is quite the poster child for legendary backwards compat.
> News is entertainment

I'd say it strongly depends on what sites you visit.

Boulevard-, sports- and celebrity-news etc. definitely are entertainment. But journals which uncover wrong-doings, research difficult topics, write long articles?
It's not that bad. I have used both and while I wouldn't choose MongoDB anymore, it did its job as needed.

For me, the main problem with MongoDB is that it is "schemaless" - which doesn't mean that there is no schema, just that it is not explicitly stated and enforced. This leads to problems later when schema changes and you need to be extra careful not to end up with inconsistent data (good luck with that). But this is solveable, it just takes more effort than necessary.

If you are using MongoDB for a small-ish project you should be ok. And if your project becomes big, you will need people who know the difference and will be able to migrate (if needed) anyway. So no worries, and good luck with your project! :)
In what scenarios does one work on data without any relations?

Honest question - perhaps I'm too used to think in SQL but even with e.g. a completely flat bunch of documents one usually needs at least access control (i.e. document owners, which is a relation).
I still feel somewhat that Mongo is blamed for things that it is not supposed to do. Removing millions of records surely is not a usecase that Mongo is comfortable with. Or if you absolutely need a schema to protect developer doing silly things, then traditional relational database is surely way to go. Mongo is superbly quick to serve read-heavy applications. I did one project with Mongo & Sinatra and the app was able to reach high transaction/second rates compared to the hardware stack it was running on. Of course we faced issues to design trustworthy design for very high scaling. I think it is one culprit with Mongo, sharding and things. But anyway, we as developers and architects, just need to have right tools for the task we try to solve!
Even if they are legitimately asthmatic, then it means you pretty much need to be asthmatic now to compete at the very top level. Anyway you look at it it feels wrong.
(2017)

5 years is a lot of room for change. I remember Gmail having to restore a bunch of email from tape a decade or so ago.

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As an aside, the advice that

> If you are having the issue *stopping* or restarting an instance, try adding and then removing an IP address to the Acess control list. After that you should be able to stop the instance.

was particularly curious to read though. Huh.
https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html - there is at least one CAD company ;)
As objects move faster their (relativistic) mass increases*, the invariant mass however doesn’t change.

*Relative to an external observer.
A mandatory browser extension? Is that some kind of beta testing telemetry thing? Because that would be a no-go for me.
Relativity and galactic rotation might explain away the need for dark matter