jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At my last job I had that conversation several times :( Our website would regularly take 30s+ for a page to load, and we had an hour of scheduled downtime each week, because that’s how long it took the webapp to restart each time code was pushed. “Scheduled downtime doesn’t count as downtime, we still have the three 9’s that meets our SLA, and there’s nothing in the SLA about page load times. Now get back to building that feature which Sales promised a client was already finished”...

Aside from being generally shameful, the real kicker was that this was a "website performance & reliability" company x__x
These projects also have long development periods, they want to be sure everything works so they can't just sub things out at the last minute. So you end up with a system using 10 year old tech.

Will be interesting when missions are being launched utilising the tech of today, like rad hardened neuromorphic chips https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005406/en/Bra...
A take home test is fine as long as it is expected to take < 2 hours. One company expected me to spend a whole day on their test and it's like I'm sorry, I don't have time for that.
The only good thing to come out of this story is that Ars was able to do a public records request and get access to the data.
Having the data available to anyone who wants it opens up enough privacy concerns and potential abuse outside of the 'good guys' that hopefully someone in the city realises it should stop spying on it's citizens.

Unfortunately the fix will likely be to continue the surveillance and to bar public access to the data.
Someone give this to the writers of crappy TV that uses the enhanced photo line I am sure they will flip out at the whole new story lines created by this.

CSI has forever been changed. Bet you it is on next season on multiple of TV crime shows.
And even worse, it's out of character
Sure, but I don't think the case is weak. Much of China's internet blocking is blatantly economic, and whats more: China refuses to officially acknowledge that it blocks these websites at all, it just does.

However, like everyone says, US companies make money in China, while the US wants to maintain a strong relationship, while WTO action would probably just devolve into another pointless tit for tat, so why bother going there?
This is what I'd do for an even more subtle reason. Wrecking his business this way could poison your own well of prospects. The customers of his that you could win just by being better might abandon your whole market segment with a "they're all crooks and incompetents... we only buy from IBM from now on" type attitude once they learn of a bungle this big.
There are certainly issues of concern and needs to be improved. There have been recalls and bans elsewhere also. Ultimately though given the state of the medical industry in the US, if the only choices are get in insurmountable debts or die due to lack of medical care, a third option of affordable medicine and some small risk might be worthwhile.
I agree with the sentiment completely but doesn't Tim-Berners-Lee work for Google, the main competitor?
this is my same question, and others have voiced it. Why do they want to grow this way?
I think that Berners-Lee and W3C get way too much credit for the web. And this is an incredibly arrogant statement by Mr. Berners-Lee.

Facebook has in-fact done some serious web innovation the last years and W3C has completely dropped the ball. Facebook and Twitter have been catalyzing internet adoption and the general spread of information.

Mr. Berners-Lee's obsession about content-silos shows that there is a serious disconnect between the current state of the web and W3C. The web was about content and documents fifteen years ago, now it's about the flow of data.

I know Berners-Lee is a big Linked Data advocate, but the approach that's being taken by the W3C is painfully slow and doesn't take into account the fluidity of information.

This is one of the reasons why developers (and even semantic web developers) have resorted to non-W3C technologies more and more: JSON, Javascript-wrappers, Webkit, client-side routing, non-REST HTTP requests, IOSockets/Coment, streaming apis, etc.

The web is emergent and out of control. Deal with it. Technologies and tools compete for attention and adoption. You snooze, you lose.

As for the 'content silos': Are you fucking kidding me? 'Content' being stuck in Facebook is not going to happen, in fact, the content is going to flow more and more. If you mark something as 'only my friends can see this', it will leak. Don't want to be tagged in a picture? Well, you have no choice. Face recognition will get you soon.

The internet, thanks to social web, is a giant copy machine. There's a huge shitstream of content and your attention and the activity around it is the thing that matters. Who cares about the damn content.

So maybe it's time for the 'Web Founder' and the W3 Web Museum to roll up their sleeves and do something, instead of bitch about the companies that actually advance the web.

So instead of bitching about the companies and people that actually advance the web and change the world, maybe it's time for the 'Web Founder' and the Web Museum to roll up their sleeves and do something...
Netflix have done the same thing with Roku, they like to focus on what they do best
Glad to see startups trying to solve the big annoying problems in society. Banking (Bank Simple) and Health Care are the big ones that I know about, but I'd love to know about more.
I never, ever upvote anything that says "I'm going to get downvoted for saying this..." If you're expecting downvotes, who am I to disagree with you?
It still seems bizarre to me that anyone would argue that e-mail is not protected by the fourth amendment.

The court's decision said it best:

It follows that email requires strong protection under the
Fourth Amendment; otherwise the Fourth Amendment would
prove an ineffective guardian of private communication,
an essential purpose it has long been recognized to serve
This is what I do and it works perfectly. I use VirtualBox and can stop any of the servers at any time and reduce my memory/CPU footprint for other activities. VirtualBox also lets me configure the network easily.
Is there any reason for the random hypenation? Its very distracting.
There is stuff like RSA secure id. they ask for a password, but then also for authentication number... where you have a device that shows you the authentication number. it changes the number every 60 seconds.

http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1156

I'm not sure this would ever be practical for consumers, but it's a clever idea. i've used it to get on vpns at big companies.
Take a look at Wirecard and Cybersource - both support non-US vendors.
I definitely support the "grab a beer and relax" step 1. Download a scheme (I like mit-scheme) and solve some problems from Project Euler. No worries if you make no progress, you're just goofing around.
In longitude,latitude order.
>"The main problem with [iOS] weather apps is that there are too many and 99% of them suck."

The Android weather-app market is quite similar. Lots of apps and they all suck (so far as I can tell). I'd love to find that gem too, but I don't hold out much hope...
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/04/is-it-lisp-or-is-it-me.ht...
Not to be dismissive, but this is a pretty unhelpful approach to the voting problem. The idea of picking a random person is motivated by the thought that the more support a candidate has the greater chance they have of being selected. But then why not just select the person with the highest probability of being selected? The difficulty is that even this "harmless" process is infected. The real upshot of Arrow's theorem is that you can't aggregate preferences: there is no "measure theory" underlying the concept of group will.
Does he have a TV in his house? There goes the Apple HDTV rumor...
How is it bad faith? They are called HR, Human Resources, to any company who employs such a department you are indistinguishable from coal. The goal is to get the coal at the lowest price, if you have to buy it sodas and tell it what a wonderful employee it is to get it to accept low salaries then so be it.

What usually wakes HR up is a detailed spreadsheet of the value you add to the business and that you will be going elsewhere unless you are properly compensated, as well as when they bring other people into it saying "Ok, lets get them in here and get their salary up too" or "fire them if you need extra money, your lack of money to pay me is not my problem, this is a business, I am not your bank, if you need a loan call them."

Grow a pair and walk out on the spot, if you can't then save so next time you can. Thats how you negotiate by putting the business in a position where it is fucked if they don't do what you want, just like a business plays its min wage employees. Letting people put themselves into stupid positions is a two way street.
EFNet and Freenode are quite different, however.
Hmmm...so, yeah, that's problematic.

They definitely should have just fixed the bug. Deleting peoples files feels kinda nasty.
We saw how they treated and Google. They didn't have to tell us anything, the message was received loud and clear.
I think if I was spending this much on a truck, I'd rather they provided 110/220V AC rather than a USB-C socket. Much wider capability and compatibility.
A bit late, but the next major release of clap will include structopt:

https://clap.rs/2019/03/08/clap-v3-update-structopt/
In my opinion the problem is not just legislative but also technical. This is the same problem you have when creating anonymous or decentralized networks and services -- content must be policed and censored to some extent.

I think the solution lies in having an authority model. You establish authority models that vouch for identities and reputations, you build solutions based on protocols and services that use these authority models to establish trust.

Let us look at existing authority models in society:

- The BBB,chambers of commerce and similar authoritative bodies allow consumers to identify a business and lookup it's reputation.
- The state bar associations in America (example) identify lawyers. Public court records allow guaging quality of a lawyer.
- DMV/DPS identify motorists and allow a driving record of a motorist to be disclosed/certified so that others can measure the reputation of a motorist.

The list goes on. My point herr is that the internet has authority models but they don't to the most part identify clients and they don't measure reputation.

If for example I have anonymous network, it would allow identity-reputation vectors of participants to be measured in a way that preserves anonymity. The SPLC can track hate speech activity and maintain a service that allows other participants to cross check reputation before they propagate content from that participant. The FBI and Interpol can track anonymous participants that participate in childporn , a person running a node in this anonymous network can forbid nodes that don't have a reputation certificate clearing them of such activity from connecting.

So back to Sacha's views. Yeah these internet companies should do more but that more is to come up with a protocol and standard where legitimate authorities (such as a news/journalist validation authority for example) to certify reputation diffenrent participants and allow users to opt in or opt out of cebsorship under that authority model.

The internet itself with ICANN, certification authorities,dnssec,etc... Is filled with messes of poorly implemented authority models. Like why is .com not under a commerce authority? Why is .org being sold to private equity? why are CA's validating domains when they play no role in domain registration,hosting or revocation? Things just got pieces togethet instead figuring out who has enough merit to be authoritative on a subject?

Do we perhaps need public funding to sustain proper authorities?

I think the solution is solvable but there is absolutely no time left, this needs to happen yesterday!
Interesting view. The SIMD, Vector, and Hypervisor RISCV extensions, as well as things like OoOE seem to contradict your claim. Are you saying they intended to target the high end, and failed? Or that they never intended to target the high end?
Well, they won the FIA WRC Driver Championship in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. So there is that.
I see.

Are there activities that you would consider productive (you would like to do more) and activities that are non-productive?

There is an idea to assign a positive hourly rate for good time spent and a negative hourly rate to other activities in the internet.

The app would track that time spend and show balance to gamify productivity rise.
What will happen with Freenode now?
The example of Darwin kind of glosses over the fact that naturalists were becoming interested in ideas about evolution. It was controversial and nobody had any real good ideas, but it’s not exactly true that Darwin had no idea where he was going with that.
If you ever want to know where a product is in the Apple refresh cycle, check out this link. I find it invaluable when considering an Apple product purchase:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
http://quanttrader.info/public/testForCoint.html

http://quantivity.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/how-to-learn-algo...

http://quantivity.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/how-to-learn-algo...

http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf

http://www.markjoshi.com/RecommendedBooks.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/by97n/finan...

http://www.stanford.edu/~cover/portfolio-theory.html
"I am 20. My goal is to amass $1m (Australian) by 35 so I can do some substantial things later in life"

Raise your aim higher. Aim for $1.5M by 30 to start with.

The amount you raise to will call for different things for you to do in life relevant for that aim. If you are %50 successful, its %100 for a lower aim.
Please disregard this, I put very little effort in giving you any real information to know anything or understand anything about this situation. That was stupid of me.
I'm an avid reader of the site, and I was in a state of looking for help, but I'm weak in asking the right questions. Thanks for your input.
Some years ago overseas I spoke to a couple, residents of Switzerland, who were looking through a novel of John Irving's; their English was very fluent, both having lived in English-speaking countries, but they had not run across the word "smitten"--though when I explained it and the use, they saw the etymology at once. We ran through a list of other words he had underlined, and I was surprised at how "literary" John Irving is; I had never thought of him as a writer who reaches for odd words, but every 10 pages there was a word you'd never hear in conversation.
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Counterpoint:

http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/radioactive-search-ha...

Describes how a certain player "ROB CASHFLOW" made himself "unsearchable" by including 0x001F between the B and C of his name.
I don't think that Facebook will sink. However, since it's spread itself so thin over so many different areas I think that some startups might come in a become bigger players. It's kind of like Myspace. Facebook did a good job destroying their > 18 demographic, but it still has a strong following amongst teenagers (source: many younger cousins)
I could very well be wrong but Podman seems to have missed the time-frame of opportunity. It was always a knife fight between Red Hat and Docker with regard to tooling. Red Hat wanting to own the toolchain for containers so they didn't have to deal with, and so they could box out, competitors like (now basically defunct) Docker Enterprise.

I've taken a look at podman from time to time over the years but it seems like it's just never formalized, never been polished and almost always has been sub-par in execution. On this list the builds and container control are things that I've run across. I guess - what's the point? The rootless argument leaned on so heavily is pretty much gone, the quality of Podman hasn't (seemingly) improved and now IBM owns Red Hat (subjective, but a viable concern/consideration given what's recently happened with CentOS).

You're more than safe leveraging Docker and buildkit (when and where needed). Quite honestly, given the relatively poor execution of Red Hat with these tools over the years, I don't see the point. I'm sure there are some niche use cases for Podman/Buildah, but overall it just seems to come up as an agenda more than an exponentially better product at this point. Red Hat could have made things better, instead they just created a distraction and worked against the broader effort in the container ecosystem.
I live in Copenhagen at this moment :)
It’s a study. A completely harmless, simple study that does not preclude anything else and shows positive results. What is your complaint? That it isn’t 100% definitive in all cases? That something else is better? That’s not the way progress is made.

Something that detects 10% of cases and is completely free (using a device people are wearing anyway) is valuable. You can be sure that some of these cases would have been missed by all the other tests, simply because not every one of these cases got any test at all.
Savings Account APY != Market Returns. Fyi
> It’s hard to switch your CDN provider in the short term, but it’s feasible that Amazon, MSFT or Google could bump them out of every large enterprise in the long term.

That's what I'd worry about, too: for a large company, there's a fairly large cost to dealing with each new vendor. Once Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. has a CDN which is competitive for your needs someone is going to ask whether the extra benefits are greater than the cost of managing a contract, security, training, etc.
Which has the worse consequences for misuse?

The game programmer who needed better performance can "just" switch to a faster algorithm when the profiling calls for it (and if you don't notice it, well, no harm anyway).

The guy who just needed to generate some cryptographic keys? Rotate everything, and you had some pretty horrible hidden vulnerabilities in the meantime.
Or adequately addressing the pandemic; the gravest error of our time.
> The rich simply store the money in assets like stocks and houses and it never touches consumption.

But these do affect consumption.

1) Stonks going up means that companies have more capital (through stock issuances and equity raises). Companies use this capital to buy things and pay workers, so the dollars end up recirculating through the economy just like if a regular person spent it.

2) Buying houses is consumption. And increases in housing prices causes more building of houses. Which leads to people getting paid for building houses and creating materials which leads to money circulating.

Wealth inequality is bad, and Congress should have done more to help the American people. But the populist "rich people hoard money in stonks and houses so it doesn't recirculate" is also a complete misunderstanding.
The issue with loan forgiveness is that it is a massive wealth transfer from creditors to debtors. People who made bad bets by getting deeply in debt are rewarded, while people who saved and loaned money get shafted. That unbalances the economy and misallocates resources. Which could do even more damage. There isn't really a clean way out. If businesses started preparing & managed their money better while paying off their debts, that would probably be the safest way out.
It seems surprising to me if governments are willing to adopt a digital payment system that does not enable full tracking of who paid who what.
That part I understand, what I don't get is him publicly announcing it under the threat of deleting his twitter account.

It's a raw deal for him, because he left that in the hands of people that just don't care.
Coinbase makes money in a down market because of trading volumes.
That’s because the inflation is mostly hidden in hedonic adjustments and improper basket allocation. You need only to look at the basket fraction that is housing and healthcare to see that inflation is being covered up as it’s too small a piece of the pie. Look at the price of a truck if you want to see hedonic adjustment in action covering up price increases.
Except Amazon had opportunity to move beyond books. Coinbase should be valued nearly as much as Wells Fargo because maybe it will become Wells Fargo?!? Coinbase is tied to crypto inflation. That bubble can keep going but it’s a fraction of the volumes of the large players and I don’t see any long-term competitive advantage if crypto actually becomes useful to daily commerce.

EDIT: And fraction was less than 1/10th of the combined entities. Again, where’s the upside? Are you saying this gets to tens of billions in revenue? Wells is at $80 billion and valued at $150 billion. Is Coinbase going to get to $80 billion in revenue? How?
Not the commenter but which one of these is the defer generating?

// option 1
try {
fp = os.open(x)
fp.read()
}
finally {
fp.close()
}

// option 2
fp = os.open(x)
try {
fp.read()
}
finally {
fp.close()
}

Should we close if open fails? Maybe, maybe not, but with try/finally it is obvious which one it is doing.
Ah interesting. Makes me wonder what watch lists I'm on now.
in reverse. the evolution of the modern financial system is less and less friction for each transaction, lower costs.

crypto: more friction, slower transactions, higher transaction costs. And wicked exchange volatility.

Plus no way to expand or contract the supply to prevent economic shocks.

I like my fiat and central banks, thank you very much.
I've never had a problem with Gmail search and I'm surprised the article writes about 20+ second search times as if it's a common and widespread issue.
No I think I should put my money where by mouth is: I will take another route: asyncless rust should be simple enough to remove that part and make async/await compiler errors. Add this as a new target to rustup and we are good.
Oh I see. This requires the overlay to have enough extra black space on all sides, right? Like this:

#blackout
{
position: fixed;
z-index: 1;
inset: -100%;
background: radial-gradient(circle at center, transparent 0px, transparent 100px, black 110px);
transform: translate(var(--lightx), var(--lighty));
pointer-events: none;
}

document.body.addEventListener("mousemove", function(e){
document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--lightx', (e.clientX - (document.body.clientWidth/2)) + "px");
document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--lighty', (e.clientY - (document.body.clientHeight/2)) + "px");
});

This works too. I'm finding that while the dev tools are open, the transform method drops to very low fps whereas the recalculating method only loses a bit of fps. While the dev tools are closed they seem to be equal on my computer. Of course on a weaker computer there might be a bigger difference.

Thanks!
You're ignoring the fact that many people's perception of what is "a safe speed" is not at all reliable. (Compare: what percentage of people would claim to be better-than-average drivers? https://www.smithlawco.com/blog/2017/december/do-most-driver...)

We have speed limits because trusting people to "go a safe speed" doesn't work, in general.
Why can't we put the decision makers in jail? It happened with Lay, Skilling, Kopper, and Andersen. Hell, even Darby, Bermingham, and Mulgrew were extradited and imprisoned.
Congress apparently doesn't use CACs, and the photo shown of the desktop shows no card reader to stick a card in.
All US ones are yes. Most of their subs too I believe.
Training certainly influences execution and only one of these groups was trained for financial engineering.