skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couchbase NoSQL database adds relational capabilities
X in <CONSTANT> is just the inverse of <CONSTANT> in X. Each is appropriate at different times. 0.0004 is the same as 1 in 2500. I feel like 1 in 2500 is more intuitive, and that's generally the case for rare events, because it is oriented around answering the question "how rare is this?"
Got it. So perhaps after the Duplicity files have been incrementally uploaded to the remote datacenter, for the cold storage backup of those files rather than simply duplicating the Duplicity files I should unpack them and then rearchive them into a single flat encrypted archive.
People who actively use the term "neurodivergent" to describe themselves are more often than not part of the crowd that is proud of these traits. They are generally well aware they are atypical but do not view themselves as having a disorder. People who call themselves Autistic, ADHD, etc. would be considered neurodivergent by definition, but are much more likely to view their condition as a disorder and want to seek help.

The ADHD subreddit actually banned all use of the words "neurodivergent", "neurotypical", etc. awhile back, which I think was an overaction, but they were trying to get the sub back to a place where it could be used for advice to manage ADHD, not a place to play identity politics and tell people they should actually be thankful for their disorder.

You have a good point that high achieving individuals are less likely to be diagnosed, and high intelligence does seem to lead to some of these issues more often than they are seen in an average individual. However, the vast majority of people with these conditions are not part of that very small "gifted" category, and I think you'll be hard pressed to find "gifted" people in the neurodiversity movement. Historically these individuals have been left out of accomodations and wish they had received appropriate help for their impairments.
Interesting! Are you planning to market your product(s) as a drug, a supplement (or other less-regulated category), or both? (E.g., some fish oil is marketed as a supplement, while other fish oil is marketed as an FDA-approved drug [1].)

>Taken together, our founding team has ~100 years of combined experience in microbiology and ecology, food science and chemistry.

Minor nitpick: Without knowing the size of your team, this sentence is really hard to make sense of. Having 100 people with 1 year of experience each is a lot less impressive than having 10 people with 10 years of experience each.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescripti...
There's no long term strategic plan - people are mortal and time out of boardrooms just in time for their golden parachutes to open.
Haven't read those specific books, but "keep the species at the level they were when discovered for preservation" is a very common trope of such things, and usually mapped on how humanity considers that "preserving a species" means keeping it exactly as they were when first discovered.
Did you tell this story on On the Metal? It sounds familiar, and I'm pretty sure I haven't looked at that AMA.

(I hope the podcast comes back, by the way!)
> Users will just be frustrated for a bit until they train themselves to pick the category that maximizes the effect of their downvote.

If each other user can choose what downvote categories they want reflected on their site, this dynamic doesn't work the way you are describing.

> examine why people downvote. Because categories won't change that.

It seems to me like forcing people to label why they are downvoting would be very helpful to examining why people downvote.

> It would be like the emoji committee not including an emoji for penis. That worked well, didn't it?

I think it worked really well? Like, I wouldn't mind a penis emoji, but it turns out we've got an informal penis emoji and it works great? What do you feel did not work well about it?

It seems like you are thinking that I am thinking that this system would...prevent bad downvotes or make people think twice or...I dunno, be better? I was not thinking that.

The idea is more about forcing people to contextualize their downvotes in a way that can be observed and reacted to by the community at large. It would be a way of talking about why people downvote without making a particular person defend themselves. It would, hopefully, add another layer to the communal sense of why people are engaging in the way they are.
I had the same problem with the books. If the sophon is that omniscient and that powerful, it could do far more than just mess with experiments.

I also never understood the wallfacers - why can’t they communicate via encryption, using a private key stored in each individuals mind alone?
It perhaps it doesn’t matter and ignoring it is the best course of action?
Yeah, as a CEO I find it gross. I don't make the most at my company by a long shot - I own stock, which carries more risk, but I chose to take this path. If the company is over budget I'm the first to take a pay cut, I would never try to extract that from my employees before I did so with my own funds.

The reason developers are paid a lot is because they're worth a lot. That's it.

IMO If you're a CEO that's what you sign up for. If you can't handle that, find another job.
Where do you get the idea that people "have equal chances"? I and my wife both have great jobs that both pay us well, and allow us to have the time to spend with our children where we are not stressed out about making end meet. We had the money to not think twice about sending our children to daycare, and then when the lockdowns hit, to a service that saw to them both being successful in online learning and with the ability to socialize with a pod of other children. I send my kids to piano, dance, swimming, and gymnastics lessons every week, and we will be back to German class once a week in the fall (maybe Hungarian again as well).

All of those things are absolutely giving my kids unequal chances above some of the kids in their school whose parents may be working several jobs an even then just barely making ends meet.

And the fact that my parents could provide much of what I am providing my kids to me was a big contributor to setting me up with the chances that allowed me the path I had to this successful career. Certainly I worked along the way, but others who worked just as hard (and were just as talented) did not active the finial stability that I now enjoy. And there is every reason to believe that the chances I am giving my children will wind up paying off in enhanced chances for their children.

On a statical basis (there are always outliers) wealth creates wealth. And the slaves that were released 150-odd years ago were released with nothing. Then we spent most of the time since that trying to make sure they had no voice (clear voting suppression), no property rights, no way to buy a house (redlining), inferior schools, and so many other hurdles and outright barriers to their advancement. Not to mention clearly unequal policing.

Looking at this pattern, how can I not credit, in some way, that my family is white? That in the 1950's and onwards they benefitted from the GI bill that help guarantee their mortgages, where black veterans were almost completely denied those same benefits? Because my family immigrated to the midwest initially, we were not one of the few families that directly benefited from slavery, but surely we benefited in aggregate from the work that was the only work available to black people at unequal pay.

We have made great strides in making the letter of the law more equal. On painting a patina of equality across our society. But the moment you scratch that surface and look at the outcomes it becomes very obvious that the real work of making a just society is far from done.

The one that always gets me the most are the repeated studies where they send the same resumes to companies, but change out the names from white sounding ones to black sounding ones, and suddenly the call-backs on them drop precipitously.
Isn’t that like treating the divisions of a company separate?
Also consider that quite a lot of people work within Amazon's greater sphere, with degrees of dependence ranging from significant to absolute. Eg all the people employed in parts of the ecommerce industry where amazon wields most of the power. AWSland. Etc.

Since everyone is using government works as the comparison, government employees + government contractors, and those in the government contracting sphere.

so, yeah... they're big. At the very least, amazon jobs are now a standard of sorts. What they do and/or don't do as an employer is what's normal.
I tried it once but installation was incredibly slow. I had more luck with PNPM.

For standalone projects there’s probably no benefit to be had.
Fire Erupts at Tesla Big Battery in Australia During Testing
Space is just time rotated 90 degrees
Another B-tree-related post I appreciated recently: Evolution of tree data structures for indexing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27963753

I'd be interested in more posts on LSM trees.
Plants do just fine on sunny days without rain. Can that be extrapolated to mean that the permanent cessation of all rain would not affect plants?
it doesn't seem to have an adjustable lumbar support area, as in, move it up or down? wouldn't that be a requirement since everybody needs the support at a different position?
Yeah, the design by committee approach of Swift isn't helping either. There are some weird language decisions being made
I'm on mobile so forgive me for not giving more extensive code examples. In my case, I'm building my app with React, TypeScript, and react-jss. I've got an enum which stores my common media queries and I just use it in the style declaration.

button: {
[MediaQueries.Medium]: ...
}

I can't use CSS variables for that but I personally don't think it's useful to let the user redefine those queries anyway
Bryan Lunduke: The End of Linux Is Nigh [video]
Is Covid a fake virus?

It’s a choice between getting Covid and getting the vaccine. It’s only a matter of time before one gets Covid if one isn’t vaccinated.

The only caveat is with the delta variant and whatever next even more virulent variant comes along due to the mutations that occur as the virus continues to spread freely (due to lack of vaccines induced herd immunity), vaccinated people may get it without a booster. But So far data shows the breakthroughs are hospitalized at just a fraction of the rate as unvaccinated.

In a world where Covid wasn’t doesn’t exist, of course taking the shot makes no sense. But Covid is like getting all the proteins in the shot, plus thousands of extra ones from the live virus trying to infect all your cells.

If one is hesitant of the vaccine, one should be 1000x scared of Covid. All the concerns I’ve heard people express about the shot are 1000x more applicable to actual Covid. That’s what doesn’t make sense to me about the people concerned about the vaccine, if they evaluated Covid consistently it seems that there would be no question of whether to be vaccinated or not.

I’m legitimately confused why people with concerns about the vaccine don’t have the same concerns about Covid, but instead assume the best about Covid while assuming the worst about vaccines. Why do people do that?
If you're not Australian (and therefore it might not be news), I think the lede got buried. 14% fully-vaccinated rate? WTH is going on down there? Even the reddest of red states in the U. S. are still at 34%.

"No country has got their pandemic response 100%."

OTOH, most countries aren't bordering on a single digit vaccination rate, either.
So, according to you, european countries should not be able to have laws and apply those?
Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google should not be regulated? They should be able to do whatever they want to do?
Still seeing people in support of such imperialism is quite sad to be honest..
Audio and chatlogs of Chris-Chan discussing sexual relations with his mother were posted online and he has been removed from his home by a court order.
I think part of any (perceived?) performance advantage comes from not being as safe as npm in terms of dependency resolution and lock file preciseness. I seem to get very little out of Yarn, considering its downsides, while npm on the other hand is the standard package manager and simple to use.
Luckily, there is no shortage of philosophers, especially on the internet.
I haven't actually used Rome, but their installation guide mentions both yarn and npx, so that possibly means Rome is agnostic on them

https://rome.tools/#installation-and-usage
An interesting idea would be to imitate filesystems and provide an actual "current working node" concept to the application. The current working node is a hint which contains a pointer to a BTree node. This could be the leaf node where some item was previously found, or one node higher above the leaf level.

When the search for an item fails from the current working node, it falls back on earnestly searching from the root.

If a node is split or merged by insertions or deletions, then if any current working node pointers to it exist, they get invalidated or updated somehow. (The B-Tree object could carry a small dynamic set of current working node items which it can update when the tree mutates.)
Industrial Engineer to Software Engineer
damn those perpendicular-time crystals
I congratulate you; if you cannot have an ally then a worthy foe is almost as good ;)
If you work in the book world, in a ton of small businesses that sell through or buy from amazon, they are a monster. Their delivery drivers seem to be everywhere these days (we have I think two deliveries per day in my area - one pass is as late as like 10PM - not your parents USPS).
Good point. I am indeed synchronizing the borg file. I have however my script run borg check before it synchronizes to the cloud. It would be better to synchronize the source files but the encryption and deduplication are what's keeping me from doing that.
If he were actually "calling" executives in other companies to get them to agree to lower wages and benefits, that would be illegal activity in the US. Companies are not allowed to conspire to fix wages.
I really appreciate yours and parents line of reasoning.
There's nothing intrinsic about crons in the same container that prevent you from rescheduling containers on other nodes, fearlessly restarting, or whacking random containers. What they're doing, how they're handling state, and their lifecycles might.

Study your requirements. Whether you run your crons in the same container or a separate container depends on your system's behavior and failure/recovery scenarios. There are complexity tradeoffs--moving the cron scheduling outside of the container suddenly means you have moving parts outside of your container to test, instrument, monitor, and maintain. If you're already doing that, it's not too big of a deal, but if you aren't then I would think twice before adding all this complexity to your architecture, and make sure it's really worth it.

(I can't tell from the article which approach works for their specific use cases...I'm pushing back against the general advice to "avoid cron in containers". I would default to using cron, and only move those processes to separate containers if you have a concrete reason to.)
This CEO apparently hasn't been programming computers and doesn't understand as Steve Jobs said, which is in software you have some people who are much better at it than others. They should be paid their value.

Apparently his firm has no board members that have programmed computers for any length of time because someone on his board would have pointed this fact out to him.
"He should have shut-up when told to."

I believe the outrage originates from believing that he should not have been told to shut-up in the first place.
Inter is not a good font at all... maybe for super short text/labels, but for larger ones it has bad kearning.

If anybody wants a good example of how not-good looking Inter is for headlines/articles check out: https://thehill.com/

I think part of the popularity is that it is free, and it is a decent enough grotesk font to do the job, but you wont get great results with it.
> We want to take this work a step further by inviting and incentivizing the community to help identify potential harms of this algorithm beyond what we identified ourselves.

What more needs to be done here? Twitter got caught out with bias in their image cropping algorithm, and now they want people to further elaborate on how/why this is?

> For this challenge, we are re-sharing our saliency model and the code used to generate a crop of an image given a predicted maximally salient point and asking participants to build their own assessment.

Seems like a very exhaustive endeavour just to point out algorithmic bias and re-iterate what went wrong, but in more detail.
You spoiled it for me, I am on 1/4 of the first book :S
I laughed out loud reading the small penis wiki
IE supports ActiveX controls that you can write in literally any language.
If you insist on looking at it from our perspective, how about curiosity? Let's see how far they (us) keep trying to make sense out of this nonsense. Trolling in the name of science I guess.

People from North Sentinel Island might ask themselves the same question about us.
To be fair (based on his LinkedIn profile) he was also a software engineer during the first 5 years of his career.
We have a few ideas on how to manage this but totally agree that maintaining quality is critical (and hard!)
> The employees are bad! bad employees! how dare you ask for good middle class wages! how dare you! Shame on you!

I'm all for solid wages and better benefits, but let's be honest, a college grad who makes $100k to start is not a middle class wage.

Edit: I should clarify, I'm not saying a new grad _shouldn't_ make that. I'm saying it is not a middle class wage for a someone just entering the market.
Man, don't let the academic cult of Focault define what "the left" has to mean. Saving-the-planet and not-eating-the-poor do sound like good ideas. Thanks for seeing past the apparent ideological difference though.
If agricultural workers are people working under the guidance of other folks then managers may also include the "self-managed" i.e. any independent farmers including those that rely heavily on automation. There's also probably a fair chance that subcontracting can mess this up with multiple farm hands hired onto a farm all counting as agricultural managers.

It feels like agricultural worker is actually quite narrowly defined to only be unskilled people specifically requiring oversight and management.
Oh man, that's a cool approach.

Down the rabbit hole I go...
He has a point – which is that with remote work proving feasible and high salary expectations on the coasts, a lot of companies will be looking for talent elsewhere – either in the middle of the country, or on the same timezones outside of the country.

He's not saying much though, because salary / benefits expectations and what a company is willing to offer are all part of the free market dance, which takes some time before it reaches a "final" state.

A company that will reduce salaries tomorrow will find itself in a difficult position – difficult to find new people, maybe bad publicity etc. But over time (years, a decade?), salaries will likely normalize due to companies hiring cheaper developers piecemeal.

Not all tech jobs are equal, and while some engineers will always be able to charge a premium, others won't. Similarly with good managers, PMs etc.
CrossBuilding Unikernels on Mac Without Docker or Vagrant
Great! Will reach out
Mostly kitchen and bathroom remodeling.

For some reason, plumbing is one of the few types of work where it doesn't seem to be as hard to find someone (at least in the Bay Area). Unless, as happened recently to me, you have a leaking shower drain in which case you are completely hosed.
God, this is why these terms and conditions are so long.

1) Yes - they say they will use your data in this and other ways.

2) The T&C's and the presence or absence of this statement in them is NOT meaningful to any ordinary users - these things have had to get so long they are not useful anymore.

3) The ads and suggestions targeting you are obvious on these sites. There is no secret.

Note - their T&C says the following:

"We receive and store any information you provide in relation to Amazon Services. "

"We use your personal information to display interest-based ads for features, products, and services that might be of interest to you"

This is as clear as can be.
I'm saying that the reason cities are such expensive places to live is because a lot of people want to live there, because their work is there. If you aren't actually working in the city, you're paying a premium for something you're not using.

There are very good schools outside of cities, as well as good hospitals. There are also plenty of beautiful towns with tons of shops and whatnot within walking distance, or a short bike ride. And they are a lot cheaper to live in than a city.
It's the market. Not everyone can be an engineer, the demand for engineers / tech specialists is growing, ergo it's a seller's market. If you can't afford it, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
> it isn't clear what it means if anything

What it indicates is what the Fed knows and has already signaled: monetary policy is going to be largely ineffectual in the near term.
Kind of reminds me of the corpo start in cyberpunk 2077
Olympic dinghy designed by layperson – over 200k in existence
The real question I have is how you think an algorithm doing synthesis is creative.
This is replicating a 1995 research, the new bit here appears to be the use of software to analyze facial expressions.
I troll people I don't like all the time
Shuffle a deck of cards and draw a hand of 5 cards.

The odds that you drew those exact 5 cards are very low. You were lucky to draw those cards.

However, the odds that you end up with 5 cards anyway is 100%.

Its the same with your career. The odds that you ended up taking the exact path that you did, with all the serendipity and chance involved, is lucky. But the chance that any halfway decent programmer ends up with a high paying job is damn near 100% right now.

There are a lot of forks in the road on the way to success. Looking back, each of those forks looks lucky to you because they landed you in you current success. But you could have taken the opposite road at any of those forks and still been successful.
Yes the author of this article seems not to know statistics very well and is comparing apples to oranges, and why did wapo let it get published with such glaring wrong logic. Being an opinion piece doesn’t mean throw out all standards.
I love the smell of the fig tree.
He’s saying the quiet part out loud, but this is almost certainly not a rare opinion.

It was long enough ago now that people new to the industry may not know, but Google, Apple, and others were illegally colluding for years to reduce employee compensation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
Salaries in Israel aren’t that high. His employees will easily find work in another company. What a dumb move by him.
And this is why folks hate the GDPR. AS soon as we have to jump through 10 more screens to do anything people are going to be even more annoyed at the cookie and now GDPR wall you have to fight through to use websites.
It’ll be snapped up by all the landlords who have had years of profit taking to build up cash reserves to buy additional stock at a premium. That’s what is happening now.