skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem is that fsync is too powerful. Most of the time, what you really want is a write barrier --- you don't care about when writes happen, but you do care about their order. fsync is a write barrier, but it's also a synchronous flush.

But don't listen to me. I like TxF too.
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Probably depends on your white bread. My understanding is that any glycemic delta in white bread is primarily a function of the fiber. White bread without fiber is, to a first approximation, sugar.
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Or in short, calling fsync() twice is a tweak under-known: the file itself needs to be flushed, as well as its parent directory.
i would say about half of the leads i talk into trying someone else send a referral, but that isn't why i do it. Our field is so large. It's important to not get distracted. Of course, this assumes you have a plan.
I became senior developer when my financial expectations didn't fit into regular developer salary bracket at the company that wanted to hire me.

No one has offered me lower position ever since.
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I would add (personal opinion of course):

* the ability to communicate
* play well with others
* plan, schedule and estimate
I quit sugar for two weeks and the runny nose and sinus headache I'd had my whole life went away. It wasn't hard. Everybody should try it.
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Go to CNN, Fox News, NBC, etc. and count the number of "scary or negative" headlines/links. You can be the judge on what's scary/negative. I bet you it's probably near 90%.
Very nice work there. Could you share the name of the fulfilment company (or a similar), Google gives me here some rather traditional results. Outsourcing support would be of great help.
I think you mean 'their'
But caching is such a mechanism.

Not sure if this is a flag I enabled, but Chrome allows you to view content from the cache.
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Recently diagnosed diabetic here. Yes, I'm fat, but no excessively so. When I tell people I'm diabetic they're confused as I don't look the type.

What I can say is that I can see the effects of cortisol (stress) on my fasting glucose levels. When my ex does something that causes strife, my glucose levels will be 20-30 pts higher for the next few days.

In general, I ate fairly decently, and didn't consume mass amounts of sugar.

It's my belief, that our diabeetus epidemic is related to more than just our diets. Perhaps our modern living environment is too stressful and makes certain segments of the population susceptible to metabolic disease?
Successful startup founders are not one-dimensional business machines, they're usually smart people who have some kind of different view on the world (which enables them to succeed in the first place). As such, you can assume that they have interesting things to say.

I don't see why you'd deny them the right to speak about topics outside the narrow band of their startup.
It coalesced when the "MSM" managed to get the election outcome in the US so comically wrong. The only possible reason for the mistake was "fake news". It turns out "fake news" has been a driving force since roughly the time twitter arrived. I can only hope the (in theory) REAL media will eventually give up on "first is best" and instead focus on ACTUAL REPORTING. Relaying what twitter has to say about a world event is borderline useless. Put someone on the ground and tell me what's REALLY going on instead of "twitter reports say..."
Yeah that's right. It wears off in about 60-90 minutes. Many of the commonly taken opioids (especially if taken orally) last much longer than that, so if the person experienced a severe overdose it's a good idea to monitor them for the duration (or even just administer small does at regular intervals). However, much of this depends on the initial route of administration. Intravenous would probably wear of the quickest. For fentanyl, Wikipedia says 30-60 mins, but that's at 'medically useful' dosage levels from what I can tell (remember, not all drugs are metabolised in a time-linear fashion).

I'd assume insuffilated Naloxone would last the longest, followed by intra-muscular and finally intravenous. And the inverse would be true regarding how long they would take to have an effect. I don't think taking it orally is a viable option for OD, as it would take much longer to have an effect, and much of it would be destroyed by your first-pass metabolism.

And yeah, me and apostrophes have not been getting along very well lately...
I'm sorry but even I don't follow your logic. AFAICT your parent is simply pointing out the pot calling the kettle black.
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I find the best source for current events news is large general internet forums, if it's not related to some hyper-selective socially slanted cluster like social media groups. You tend to get multiple perspectives, but also a higher chance of having actual people close to or directly informed about the goings on, and hopefully decent moderation to keep the discussion sane.

Real perspective and information is nearly impossible to get from for-profit sources. It's not really what they peddle, but rather sizzle and shock value.
If only it had a decent editor!
I'm going to use just 'back of napkin' numbers to make the outcomes easier to compare and for each I'll round in ways that I assume (but might be wrong about) being more fair.

800,000,000 : Top investment firm guy
200,000,000 : Some random high investment firm guy?
___,_50,000 : Lets call this 'middle class' in a small town
___,_20,000 : Hourly worker: $10 / hour * 40 hours * 50 weeks

Is it really possible for any person to be worth 10000 or more times some random other person? That disparity is ludicrous and in my opinion practically slavery.
Have you read Ryan Holiday's "Trust Me I'm Lying"? I found it a great read on the current media situation.
Pro tip - don't take your health advice from news articles. Also, if the title is hyperbolic, pay extra non-attention to it.
It was specifically about dropping the bombs. I wish I had the book and I could look it up. He said something like 'you had all these lives on the line' and how he respected it was a hard decision to make to drop them.
This very thorough analysis of the potential for wind energy in the US concludes that the great plains have massive potential for fantastically cheap wind power generation, with some sites having potential capacity factors well over 65%.

http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/30/how-steady-can-the-wind-blow...

The point at which energy storage becomes an issue is a long way off if you connect the country with HVDC lines. Building such lines would be a great achievement for this fund.
However, I guess the political question will get hit at that point: will the government be as keen to let private investors build new power infrastructure as it is for them to build new oil pipelines?
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they can and do detect VoIP numbers and reject them. I don't know about yik yak specifically but it's trivial enough that I'm sure they do it too
The question "What Makes a Senior Software Developer?" would only make sense given the context of what grades of engineers are present in a company. The definition will be different for a company with just 3 levels compared to one with 6 levels. I side with more levels. This is because, while we may argue that a "senior" engineer should have these 10 qualities, an engineer with 6 of those qualities is still better than one with just 2 of those qualities. So it makes sense to have the engineer with 6 qualities at a higher level than one with 2 of those qualities.

The question then becomes what are these N traits of a good engineer. The whole process of promotion and "senior"ity is irrelevant to that discussion. And I think most people here would already agree on those traits.
In the web world, make is effectively unheard of, or considered "too hard to use", and thus we end up with dozens of nodejs based build tools that constantly replace each other.

I think static site gen is probably another area where make could be quite useful.
Not now, but in the future. Nobody thought we could fit desktop-class graphics cards into slim laptops, but that's a reality today. Though drones will probably go for custom chips.
> The day the usual website will receive 12 to 20Billions views a month and occupy 10TB of disk space, then we could use wikipedia as a representative example. Until then wikipedia should not be used as an example of how well the usual ad-supported website would fare with an alternative revenue model.

Yes, that was my point — Wikipedia is probably the absolute best-case scenario for a free website that isn't supported by ads, and they're still panhandling. The usual ad-supported website would fare much, much worse, and would probably just stop providing its service to the world.
I firmly believe that sugar not only makes us fat, but also has an effect on the psychological state of certain people (e.g. people with anxiety problems).

In my own experience, cutting out sugar (from anything else but fruit) and wheat from my diet has made a big difference.
HN crowdsourcing is a pretty reasonable strategy for entities that cannot reliably identify & hire 1+ rockstar employee(s) and/or VARs to cover the compute, networking, storage, electrical, environmental, etc. If you can rationally evaluate the HN comments you should get pretty close to the best, cutting-edge advice. Whereas when you are small and you listen to 1 or 2 VARs and/or 1-2 internal employees you can expect, on average, to get average advice. Or advice that was excellent 2-3 years ago but is now out-of-date due to HW/SW progress that the employee/VAR is unaware of.
I think the difference between murdering someone and not putting their website at the top of a search result page is pretty significant. That the Holocaust happened is a fact. Giving correct responses to factual queries should not be a controversial goal.

When I type 5 + 6 into Google search, are people being oppressed when the top result is 11? Would this be similar to murdering ideological opponents if my page declaring the answer to be 13 wasn't at or near the top of the results?
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Don't search, go do something cool,what all people will talk about!
Apologies, but what does this provide that Kafka doesn't already?
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The difference here is that the user chose to walk into those gardens, and can walk out at any time (although I don't use Chrome - is it possible to change the search client?). It's not like Edge forcing them to use Bing.
There's plenty of blame to go around...congress for taking away the power of judges to actually, you know, judge with mandatory minimums, the public , for choosing to believe anecdotal stories of boogeymen over statistics, our political system for letting voters decide judges and DA's (who run on such attributes as number of years sentenced/convicted) and culture that values punishment and retribution over rehabilitatoin
> I suppose it's understandable... nobody should ever be blocking GUI animations on fsync, much less two of them in a row, but here we are.

this is the thing that confused me.. why are apps doing disk i/o on the GUI thread?
I don't think that diabetes is caused by a lack of nutrients.
I find realclearpolitics.com to be a broad slice of articles and videos from "both sides", as well as holding actual raw polling data when questionably sounding statistics are being bandied about. It also links to other non-political news in other areas, showing the major splash headlines.

Its front page is also very information dense, so it's a lot more efficient than hitting all those sites individually. I believe I've seen content referenced there from most those sites you've listed.
"They drove development of the filesystem specifically by Twitter/FB/etc workloads captured from the phone."

Why would Twitter or Facebook apps need to write much to persistent storage? They don't do so in a browser.
Threads are hard, basically.
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Pretty sure you're right.
Or was there some hidden sarcasm we've both missed there?
position-sticky is still only conditionally supported in Firefox' environment, and IIRC still only behind a flag.
Aside from diabetes, sugar cane farmers (which in many African countries are actually children) have definitely died. If not of malnutrition from not being paid enough, then definitely from the lack of proper safety precautions.
If it helps, I recently had surgery in Vietnam at the French Vietnamese hospital in Saigon and was really pleased with the cleanliness of the facilities.

My US doctor so far thinks they did a great job too.

Cost was $3500 US for a broken collarbone, probably would have been > 10x that in the Bay Area.
That was Opera. Chrome took off because it was and is advertised on any Google property.
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So it's a bare-bones message queue? What's the advantage then? Performance?
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Seeing as you know something about Forth. Is it used somewhere in production outside of purely academic setting?
Most aren't looking for an alternative. Why would they?
So WQHD monitors are generally above that price range, but I would seriously suggest you consider investing in one.

Since they have become fairly niche over the last few years only pro level users buy them, so almost any monitor you buy in this space is bound to be excellent and score far above average for things like colour accuracy.

Also a WQHD resolution at 27" is the perfect size to have two text editors at 16pt next to each other. Or An editor and two terminals, or anything really. It's silly how small HD really is and how cumbersome 6:9 is for "getting shit done".

Why not 4K?
Because right now it's still a gimmick and the chances of you hitting a sold-to-chache-in-on-fad monitor is jus too darn high.
China's power consumption has plateaued and it currently has massive over-capacity - so much so that it's halted the construction of some new coal plants.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-to-halt-con...
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Is news killing us?

Also, betteridge's law of headlines.
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My business develops mobile apps for clients. They love when I analyze major announcements from Apple / Google and explain how the new features may apply to their apps. They feel they have a partner, and it typically results in new development for us.
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Not a huge fan of the blog post as it left things in a nebulous state.

The thought of a senior person being someone who finishes tasks on his/her own time seems like a bad metric in the world of pair programming. As a senior developer, I prefer to get input from all of my coworkers rather than work alone. Two or more minds is always better than one, no matter how senior you are.

The thought of someone taking on more responsibilities than the rest also seems like a bad metric. A junior person has the potential to do just as much as a senior person. It can also create an environment where you are encouraged to work hard and not smart.

In software engineering, there is always 10+ ways to solve a problem, but there is typically only one or two actual correct solutions. I like to think of a senior person as the person who can evaluate all the options quickly and chooses the right one. This is a skill that takes a lot of experience to master.
> unless the user yanks the battery out of the back. That is presumably a rare occurrence for your typical user.

I've witnessed a number of phones with the "crumple zone"-alike feature of effectively ejecting the battery cover + battery out of the phone whenever you drop it.
That has nothing to do with what the labs are or are not doing and everything to do with gridlock in D.C.
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I agree with the overall message of the post but not the analysis behind it. It depends completely on the codebase and where you as an engineer are assigned to work in that codebase. There's so many potential ways for bias to be introduced into that kind of analysis (e.g., what if I am a junior dev assigned to copy edits to the static sections of the website?). There's a qualitative perspective to commits that's going completely ignored in this post.
One thing we did a few years ago when we found that a customer didn't use revision control was to bring in a server. A small PC with Linux, Subversion and Trac. We not only could explain the benefits of RCS, but the customer could see changes, att issues, get them resolved etc. When the job was done, the customer kept the machine.

I occasionally bump into old customers and many still run the same server. All of them are today using revision control systems.

So basically we didn't just provide a tech solution, but also brought in methodology and free tools to implement that methodology.
Prison guard unions are public safety unions. They aren't lobbying to get politicians to choose their prison service, their company. They're unions of government workers. The competitor would be private prisons.

> Is there is any evidence that they are lobbying for more

Prison guard unions regularly lobby against marijuana legalization.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/marijuana/

They lobby for prison expansion, more prisons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/california-prison-g...

They lobby against parole.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/what-does-it-mean-that-pub...

Obviously most of this is at the state level. I live in CA and know more about CA. We have private prisons, just fewer.

https://www.privateprisonnews.org/state/CA/
I'm put off by the domain name :p
If I were a petroleum producer, I want to get in the ground floor. If it does make me obsolete, I can adapt and become the big shark in the new ocean.

Did you know BP solar is one of the largest producers of solar?
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I listened to this as an audiobook. It has some good points, but the author assumes that all sugar, salt and fat are the same.

Why does the holy war not also fight against flour? Against corn? Should it not distinguish between "vegetable" oil, olive oil, butter, and coconut oil?
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I think lots of stuff causes disk I/O that you might not even be aware of.

For example, on iOS, +[CLLocationManager authorizationStatus] (checking if the app is allowed to use location or not) has to read a file [1]. Almost no app developers are aware of this.

[1] I've been told this by guys who worked full-time on location stuff, but I haven't verified it myself and can't find it in docs, so take it with a grain of salt
Ignoring local news has its downsides. I didn't find out that someone I knew was mayor of Palo Alto until his second term.
> White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar.

Doesn't seem to be so: http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index
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And who exactly determines the 'true' cost?
I have a decent 5 letter one, zvive.com (zuhvive like survive w/ a z) I'm still trying to figure out a startup to launch on it, but i think it could be a good brandable one.. I wanted to do an online survival store, etc... Do you think I could get some money for it on the market?
Thanks for the link. Puts the lie to my speculation :) Do you have a link for China's wind-powered generation capacity?
Online ads are unique in some ways, but emphasizing their uniqueness might not be the most effective way to have a society-wide conversation about them.

If I picked up a free, ad-supported newspaper from some booth on the street (pretty common where I live), and set up a Raspberry Pi with robotic arms and permanent markers to black out all the ads from my copy, would the publisher have any right to complain? Not any more, I think, than if I had wiped my ass with that paper. As soon as that copy enters my possession, I have every right to rip it apart as I see fit.

Replace "some booth on the street" with "some website" and "Raspberry Pi with robotic arms and permanent markers" with "browser plugin". This should not change anything about the moral and/or legal conclusion.

Now assume that some of the ads on the free paper were printed with toxic ink (malware) that stinks up my living room (computer), or were embedded with tiny chips to track when and where I read which story. Few people in real life would tolerate such ads, but for some reason we are constantly being told that we should allow them online.

I think we really need to emphasize these offline analogies. They are among the strongest arguments that could convince non-technical judges and juries to come up with reasonable rules for acceptable ads.
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Third year nutrition undergrad. Simple sugar consumption as a high percentage of carbohydrates/calories has the effect of chronic inflammation via oxidative stress, which is a factor of diabetes and other chronic disease.

This article briefly discusses inflammation and has mostly sound nutritional advice: http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/what-you-eat-c...

This lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig has been very popular on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM . Unsure of its veracity since I watched this quite a few years ago.

Many other factors should be considered as many have mentioned like micronutrient intake/absorption, physical activity, gut biome, and genetic predisposition.
Depending on the context in which you do this, you've also just wasted 2 days of billable time.
If you know it won't work from the start, you're not providing value to your customer by fake considering it.
Suppose I need to track whether items are in a processed or unprocessed state.

The intermediate developer would create a boolean field on the item, allow constant time lookup on that flag so we can easily fetch all unprocessed items.

A Senior developer would recognize a few core assumptions that would make the boolean field a problem. (1) It assumes there are only 2 possible states (2) It assumes that an item will only have one state at a given time. They would seek out ways to relax those assumptions without increasing complexity. They would likely use an Enum with two states rather than a Processed boolean. That would remove the first assumption with an almost negligible cost. As far as the second assumption, they might decide the cost of removing that assumption is too high compared to the likelihood of it mattering.

A month later, we have to track which items are assigned for processing. The intermediate engineer has to invalidate a previous assumption and convert the field from boolean to enum. The senior engineer just adds an enum.

A month after that, we find out we need to track multiple assignments. Both engineers have a lot of work to do (you can't win them all).

That's the difference I frequently see. Senior engineers can see problems down the road and recognize their implicit constraints. They aren't always right, but more often than you'd expect some decision they made pays off.