skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company turned itself on its head by shutting down all discussion on the topic.

Maybe. Or maybe the company was already turned on its head due to the internal conversation. Such a radical reaction from the founders suggests to me that this was the case.

> I haven’t seen any evidence that anyone was calling for singers job before nor during the meeting.

Accusing someone of racism or white supremacy is effectively calling for them to resign or be fired.

> All that happened was that a bunch of employees formed a committee that brought a bunch of issues to the fore.

Right, but again, we don't know if those issues were valid or not. The "funny names" list is not nearly as damning as they seem to think. Given how much information has leaked to the media, I would assume that the strongest evidence they have of racism would already be public. And I have not seen strong evidence.

> All this amounted to the company backing up a senior employees behavior reflexively at the expense of lower level employees objections.

If "backing up a senior employee's behavior" means allowing him to disagree with others about whether his behavior is racist, especially in the absence of evidence that it is racist, then I think they were right to back him up.

Singer's resignation resulted from the show trial of accusations and media leaks, which is a well known playbook for advocates of social change.
Twitter has about a 50% chance of telling me that every time I follow a link there. Hit f5 a few times, maybe a ctrl+f5 and you'll probably get there.
It's still nagging to accept new ToS in the UK (but perhaps what it wants consent for is different here than elsewhere)

Edit - on my version the wording is
"The terms go into effect on May 15, 2021. Please accept these terms to continue using WhatsApp after this date."
To a great extent, Coates's career was accelerated when he joined the Atlantic. They actively promoted his work and let him work for two years on "The Case For Reparations". This is not to say that he wouldn't have written popular books eventually anyway. I just think it had less to do with outside cultural developments. Ihe Atlantic may have helped drive those developments, in fact.
Simpleton here:

One, the first thing the professor does is put things in "human terms", the issue is plain that the mode of conveyance used in the textbook is wanting. And this is coming from "Author in Action" videos provided by Pearson, ostensibly from Sullivan himself. I think a portion of this issue is derived from being "too simple to state."

Two, calculation takes precendence over everything. I've seldom been offered the opportunity to actually apply any of this myself in real world practice. What's worse is that when professors have included "working" problems they're quickly glossed over, to me it seems like this is absurd - as a non-math major this is precisely why I'm in the class, for application. This branches into arguments about the math taught being entirely abstract and stripped from a model, which makes it infinitely more difficult for someone like me. What compounds it is none of the work asks things like "why do we use exponential functions in the calculation of half-life?" instead, you just translate to TI-84 and plug your answer in. I'd quite like to see more applied concepts, and less calculation. It'd also be nice to self-direct, but I'm sure that's in reality impracticable from an assesment standpoint. I noticed repeatedly that I quickly grasped certain concepts, but was forced to repeatedly compute similar problems, time that would've been better spent working on points where I was lacking.
This really underscores the CEO who commented (paraphrased): "We're not a payment provider company who happens to detect fraud. We're a fraud detection company who happens to accept payments." :(
inb4 the Australians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulmont_Magnum ;)
There's a handful of services that use XML protocols, but certainly not a lot.
The top of the page states that /p,t,k/ are non-aspirated. These sounds are always aspirated in English when word initial (in most if not all varieties of English). That means that the only difference between /p/ and /b/ here is vocal chord vibration of the latter, which is not what you expect to hear word initial as a "Standard American English" speaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirated_consonant
The Linuxcare bootable business card always used ISOLINUX and it was very pleasant (as it could read ISO9660 filesystems to find various objects on them, such as kernel and root filesystem images). I'm not positive what other systems used.

I think LILO was less widely used on live CDs because BIOSes had trouble letting it access CD-ROMs. My recollection of the details of the exact problems with this has grown a little hazy, though.

I think more modern systems are able to use GRUB in a relatively media-independent way, but I haven't followed this area enough to understand how GRUB is able to be so media-independent.

CD-ROMs and some other boot media use something called the El Torito standard (https://wiki.osdev.org/El-Torito), which is so named because a bunch of computer industry people -- I think in 1993 or 1994 or something? -- got together at a restaurant called El Torito to hash out the details. This describes how the BIOS can find the OS boot loader within the ISO9660 filesystem on the optical media. The tools for making an ISO9660 image had an option where you could indicate which file should be the El Torito special next-stage image, so I think we were supposed to indicate the ISOLINUX output this way, and it would get the right location (and maybe other metadata) so that the BIOS would be happy to boot it.

El Torito support in BIOSes was surprisingly universal considering how relatively unofficial a standard it was. In particular, ISO9660 was published by the ISO as a work product of a formal committee, while the El Torito extension was, I think, just some people who met at a restaurant this one time!

Edit: 1994 in Irvine, CA, apparently, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#El_Torito; if the coordinates in the article are to be believed, the restaurant is still there, at Main and Mercantile, literally right across the street from SNA airport. Which might, in turn, be the reason they picked that restaurant?
Off the shelf software probably isn't going to be very helpful with an electric drivetrain though.

(the diagnostics; if the car makes the data available to log that will probably work okay)
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This has nothing to do with agile practices. Micromanagement is micromanagement. The people you are apparently working for and with will micro manage regardless of any process.

I also suspect that you do not actually work in a team. You probably work with other people that are loosely grouped together. I doubt you are actually working together on a common goal though, if you do not see value in standups for example. If there's no value in knowing what your team members are working on, you are not working closely together,you aren't helping each other etc.

I suspect you have a product owner that sees standup as a progress report to them and that tries to exert their micromanaging power through it. I also suspect that you don't have a Scrum master that protects the team from this rogue product owner.

I would take such a PO to the side and explain to him that if he doesn't stop this practice they will soon be disallowed from being in standup and that they have one chance to stay in standup and at least listen. Meaning unless asked a question by a team member they better keep their mouth shut.

Am I at least somewhat close?
Starting a project like this from scratch must have been a bold move for the team involved. I imagine that, in a pitch, the outcome of this tool seemed too good to be true and they actually delivered it. Well done!
Designed to fit in one half of your briefcase!
I believe you are thinking of the CDKs. The SDKs are all fully language native.
Then I suppose I've inadvertently bolstered my argument: you shouldn't look to the internet for 'intelligent discussion'
or govt solution: keep raising taxes and letting violent criminals out and allowing third world quality of life
What exactly does "more powerful" mean?

The F-22 can supercruise (without afterburners) above Mach 2, and has nearly all the same avionics package as the F-35. Both the F-22 and F-35 have thrust vectoring, and the most advanced stealth coatings, materials, and shaped airframes. If we compare just the F-22 and the J-20, the F-22 has a better TWR, can out-climb, out-run and out-maneuver the J-20, and has a larger payload capacity. The J-20 seems to indeed have better ferry and combat range, however US strategy does not require the same range due to air bases being present around the world and possesses advanced aerial refueling capability - making static range a moot point. I also highly doubt the J-20 matches the F-22 or F-35 in avionics.

The F-22 production line was discontinued nearly entirely because - at the time - the DOD, and more importantly Congress, believed the F-35 would be cheaper and replace most of it's disparate fighter/attacker aircraft (which turned out to be far from the truth, unfortunately). However, the US operates nearly 200 of these fighters and plans to maintain them for decades.

> All of the F35 variants are hampered by the necessity for vertical takeoff. Commonality between the three planes is incredibly high and tradeoffs crossfeed.

This is sort of true, but not entirely. If you look at the three F-35 variants, they are pretty much three different airframes at this point, only really sharing avionics and the shape of the aircraft. It was indeed foolish to think you could build a one-size-fits-all multi-role fighter/attacker to replace purpose-built aircraft like the A-10, F-15, F/A-18 and F-22... but that doesn't make the F-35 a complete turkey.
Have you taught in a classroom? I have over 20 years experience teaching mathematics at community colleges and what you write sounds great but also sounds like it's from someone who hasn't taught in the classroom.
Here are some things I would recommend:

1. Find a teacher that is knowledgeable and passionate about math. Grad students might fit the bill. Engineering grad students also. Low level math (e.g. calculus, differential equations and below) can be taught by anyone in STEM, it doesn't need to be a trained math teacher. Engineers, physicists, or chemists often do a better job and passionate ones might be easier to find. Passion is important, because a good teacher will be a window onto another world, that you are invited to explore. A bad teacher is a window onto a brick wall. I used to tutor undergrads in math and the worst students were the math education people. I was often told "I hate math" by these students. I would even plead with them to find another subject, that it was unfair that someone who hates math becomes a math teacher, but they insisted that they love "teaching", they just hate math. Welcome to the US Public school system.

2. Include history in the math education. This depends on the personality of the student, but for me, I loved learning about the lives of the people who made mathematical discoveries, and the circumstances of those discoveries. To this end, I recommend books by George F. Simmons, for example:

* https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Applications-Historical-...

* https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Gems-Memorable-Moments-Spect...

3. Look at the Russians. The Soviet Union had an amazing pedagogical program in math education, with fantastic books, puzzles, newsletters, etc. Some of that survived the turn to capitalism, and today they still punch above their weight. Some resources:

* http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_198102_bran...

* https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Puzzles-Mathematical-Recreatio...

* http://docshare02.docshare.tips/files/17782/177829869.pdf

4. Interdisciplinary approach. A great way of studying math is to present some problem in physics or engineering and develop the mathematical techniques to solve it. This is how much great math was discovered.

5. Ask questions. Rather than telling students techniques and then watching them use those techniques, you can create a dialogue where you start by asking specific questions and guiding the student to discover the math on their own. This of course requires a smart student and a smart teacher, but it's a very effective way to really learn a topic. This was famously done by the Texas Topology department in the mid 20th Century.

6. Teach concepts. If you cannot get the student to discover concepts, you can still emphasize the teaching of concepts. For example, there is no reason why a 5th grade math class can't begin to cover concepts such as simply connectedness, or Euler characteristic, or hamiltonian circuits. These can be done with simple pictures, yarn, paper and scissors. Then encourage the student to generalize to other shapes. Similarly in geometry classes, working with a ruler and compass creates a more memorable hands on experience for young students and can be a technique to introduce them to early theorem proving, for example bisecting a chord.
I feel like OP might be thinking of gRPC, which seems to closely resemble the use case Smithy is tackling.
Anyone in this space would already have been using apache or nginx, which are in C or C++. How mature are rust's HTTP implementations?
100% this. "API is forever" is a saying for a good reason, and writing good API takes a lot of extra work and planning - and we still frequently get it wrong.
Characterizing the HK situation as a military invasion is so disingenuous it makes me heavily question whether you are approaching this in good faith. Especially when you are juxtaposing with a nation that has documented military incursions all over South America, Asia, and the Middle East. To have the gall to call destabilizing multiple South American regimes, the Vietnam War, the Iraq campaign, etc. "self-defense" is beyond appalling.
I'm not sure how much I believe that. It seems likely that this census was incredibly compromised compared to past censuses, and the 0.4% decline is well within what I'd consider a plausible margin of error.
Finally some good news for CA natives. It sucks not being able to afford to live where you grew up. Maybe this will ease the housing market a bit?
Dude, America has come a long way since internment. America is by far the least racist large country and levels of violence against Asian Americans, although being hyped in the news are neither statistically higher than other races or than they were in the past. It’s just people making you afraid for money.
I had an occular migraine once. Scared the hell out of me. 95% of my field of view became blurred, and almost as if I was looking through extremely cracked glass. No pain or headache but I had an incredible sensation of pressure centered behind my eyeballs. By the time my wife drove me to the ER, it had subsided completely. Maybe an hour after the onset.

At the time, I was 4 weeks deep into a 6 week crunch (the worst of my career) where I was pulling successive 90+ hour work weeks. Have never worked over 40 hours since moving off of that project. Have never had an occular migraine since. Truly hope I never experience that again. I can't imagine going through them every few months...
I'm not a C programmer. I copy/pasted. It appears that it got munged.
> and letting violent criminals out

Of all the problems we face, insufficiently low incarceration rates aren't one of them.
The set of people who can teach themselves mathematics by reading a good math book is quite small.
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I don’t understand. They signed the Paris Accords.
This biggest problem is lack of housing. The people leaving are those with lower incomes and less education, whereas new arrivals have high education levels and high incomes.

This is evidenced in the booming housing prices, which seemingly never stop accelerating despite being many multiples more of median income than other places.

This is a planned process, Californians have consciously chosen to become exclusionary. Does great things for the housing values, which is easily leveraged into purchasing more real estate or pretty much anything else.
As far as I know, we don't know the exact mechanism by which binaural beats are produced, but it does seem to be from FFT information.

The hair cells in our cochlea function essentially as a great big FFT -- this is well-established -- and so our source neural input begins with that. The brain doesn't have access to the underlying waveform at all, as far as I'm aware. It is incredibly sensitive to the timing from each ear though (just as FFT includes phase information).

You can read all about what we do know here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal_encoding_of_sound

Our brain does perform advanced signal processing to condense sets of overtones into a single fundamental frequency, which even works in the case of a "missing fundamental", and binaural beats are conceivably explained by this mechanism. Though it could be a different mechanism at work as well, related to how we process audio spatially.
What happened in the 1990s in Britain?
When is it actually desirable to imperatively program your cloud provider rather than using something like Terraform?

Obviously there are services meant to be consumed from application code, but the infrastructure provisioning stuff?
I also use CLion and it's very nice. I feel like IDE support is about 80% of what I'd like to see. Some rough edges, especially with the debugger.

But competitive with other languages like Go or Java.
We also had the entire worlds resources to do it.
Systems programming is just the recommended domain.

Personally I think having a strong type system with an IDE that instantly tells you if the data is the right shape is very valuable when interacting with network interfaces.

In Python you either send the request at runtime and see what the server responds with, or you read the docs, both of which are at least 10x slower than an IDE telling you nearly instantly.

Rust's type system can represent null and polymorphic types quite well, both of which are quite common in JSON-like network interfaces.

Macros work well for code generation that is often used to convert a network api spec into code.

Of course you can do types and macros in Python, but neither are primary features of the language so are not as well supported.
If you're a great company to work for, you won't have any problems hiring. It really is that easy. Friends, Recommendations, Word of Mouth...
Yes I'm sure bezos intervened in the news room because he thinks the little free library folks are damn commies
It's not fire-related:

- state income tax

- real estate prices

- threatened wealth tax and pursuit across state lines

- family court system heavily stacked against men

- policing and homeless issues in major cities

- water supply issues (half of proposed projects stalled for decades.)

It should be interesting to see how big the hole is in the state budgets over the next few years - could be breath-taking.
You're not scapegoating a problem onto a specific group if that specific group actually perpetrated or benefited from the problematic behavior.

Again, "other people did bad things" isn't a valid excuse for doing bad things.
FYI, from my understanding this is an extremely common behavior for most op-ed boards ex adding a headline when none was sent in, or editing the submission itself for length/formatting/etc. Most groups will require you sign something allowing them to review and publish the letter and may request sources or your own connections to the topic to identify and disclose a conflict of interest. This generally makes op-eds more reliable gauge of public opinion and viewpoints vs a blog style opinion article bashing an industry rival.

Some groups like NYT have retired the term 'Op-Ed' name in favor of something like Guest Essays as it better conveys the intention of the submission:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/nyt-opinion-oped-...

It's also important to note that local papers may print what is provided vs editing for spelling/grammar or even fact checking a submission. Larger publishers who by simply printing it add weight to the original may exercise a higher degree of involvement. For a look at the NYT process when you submit a piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opinion/op-ed-and-you.htm...

Anecdotal, but every letter I remember I or my family wrote to the local paper was edited in some fashion, most often for length. Short articles were the least touched, if at all, as they had the least content to make fit on a page of newsprint. I think it's also near impossible to get a non-partisan source either simply because that term is applied to basic human decency these days like how it's apparently partisan to wear a mask.
> The second driver of excess mortality is reduced health care utilization for many causes;

Wouldn't that still be technically tangentially an after effect of covid? I mean no covid, no reason not to get to the doctor, so if covid didn't exist you might survive those, no?
Are you saying this is a scenario where O(1) is possible? Then "good big O" is O(1). Code that is O(n) is a mistake.

If you're saying the fastest method is O(n), then sure, no method can guarantee fast processing of the entire list. But that fact sure isn't python's fault!
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What is the per capita number? That’s more proper measure ...
When it comes to flying many people will choose worse service or worse flight times if they get a lower price. $100 per ticket can make a big difference in a price sensitive industry.
No, private industry in America has gotten the message and America is decarbonizing at a rapid rate. Alas due to china decoupling they will rely more and more on coal especially out of n Korea.
Italy has a huge older population and a lot more lax on cigarettes... older smokers = raised chances of death...

USA on the other hand has excess obesity across all metrics (I'm one), so if it hit younger ages harder here it's probably due to obesity epidemic raising death chances.
> Social and psychological forces are combining to make the sharing and believing of misinformation an endemic problem with no easy solution.

There's nothing new about misinformation in the US. We have a long history of trying to influence each other for monetary, political, or other purposes. (See 19th century newspapers completely ignoring news not favorable to their chosen parties and candidates).

Maybe it happens faster now with social media. But the effect has been with us before and will be again.
I was a migraine-per-year person as a kid and migraine-per-quarter person for much of my adult life.

I kept a food log and identified that a caffeine and chocolate combo to be a consistent trigger.

In addition if too bright of a light shined in my eyes(let’s say a car door shut and the sun reflected off of the door’s window as I looked at it) it would also trigger a migraine.

After working to limit those triggers I’ve found that I don’t get migraines much anymore. Adding in sumatriptan when they do come on has been helpful.

If you find yourself with migraine symptoms I definitely recommend trying to identify the triggers, food, stress or otherwise.
This pattern leads to some feature incomplete rewrite being done slowly.
It seems very unlikely that this census is corrupted. It’s also a census so the margin of error is not within a plausible margin of error.