skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why a Slack group is a bad idea. I'm in a half dozen or so, and every time I open Slack I see the icons for all these services. I am much more likely to visit the website of one of my Slack groups than I am, say, one of the Facebook groups I'm in. I'm not even in Slack every day while I spend an embarrassing amount of time on Facebook.
We are on our way! Plan to release RocksDB implementation with a next alpha end of this month...
That's... not how money works.
It says they want to replace the head guy and restructure the agency. This is why:

> A 2013 press release from the House Services Committee (HSC) criticized the CFPB for what was described as a "radical structure" that "is controlled by a single individual who cannot be fired for poor performance and who exercises sole control over the agency, its hiring and its budget." Moreover, the HSC alleged a lack of financial transparency, lack of accountability to Congress or the President, and expressed particular concern about excessive travel costs and a $55 million renovation of CFPB headquarters that was more costly than "the entire annual construction and acquisition budget for GSA for the totality of federal buildings".

Of course it sounds bad that they want to shut down a 'consumer protection' agency. But those sound like legitimate concerns. At a minimum a restructuring sounds like a good thing.
I disagree. Google uses 1/4GW worldwide and that's less than a watt per user.
email is so complicated. There are probably 3 people in the world who know how to properly run an email server.
Marta 0.1.2 is out with Touch Bar support (File manager for macOS)
The thing I always forget is just how cold it is up there. You remember when your physics teacher dipped things in liquid nitrogen and smashed them? Well it's 70 degrees colder than that.

And then there's the radiation, the liftoff stresses, vacuum welding, and the complete inability to repair the thing after launch.
Why do you have to specify that N>0?

Seems to me that this ought to be sufficient:

the list [_|Ls] has length N if N=N0+1, and the length of Ls is N0
I made a 3D NES emulator for the HoloLens about 8 months ago http://n3s.io and I pleasantly surprised that a few MS employees reached out. Some were doing internal hackathons and wanted assistance, others even contributed to the code base, but I was particularly shocked when a HoloLens dev that helped run their tutorial + social media reached out to encourage (and offer resources) to get the app on the store.

My response was "no way that'd get through", but they insisted on me trying anyway and said they could try to push it through. I didn't bother for a couple other reasons (the open source libretro core I was using would need to be reworked for their managed app environment, and HoloLens performance was actually pretty crap no matter what I did), but a few days later the other emulator controversy started.

I was expecting this outcome and really don't blame MS. Glad I didn't try to port my own app over (which would also work on Xbox and desktop).
Monopolistic oligopolies, which every Late Capitalist state has moved towards, are just another form of central planning. Real world markets, not the fictional ones of Hayek's rhetoric, devolve into ineffecient authoritarian distribution systems just like the collectivist systems he so despised.
It explains what we experience perfectly well. In the simple case of a 50/50 coin flip, there will be two equally real future versions of you. One will see heads, one tails.

You don't need to dive into quantum mechanics to understand this concept; instead, consider being cloned twice while you are asleep, then killing the original.

Your current self knows what will happen; you'll fall asleep and wake up as either one or the other, becoming both but never being both.
What's the "rootkit style"? My searches for "rootkit style installation google play" did not result in anything meaningful.
Normally, yes. Due to process variations each chip has a slightly different maximum frequency for a given voltage. Usually chip makers test each chip, sort them by how fast they can go at a standardized voltage, and sell the faster ones for more money under a different model number - sometimes also fusing off features like multi threading.

It sounds like what Microsoft is doing is standardizing on frequency and giving different chips as much voltage as they need to hit their performance targets. So everybody buying one of these consoles gets the same performance but some people will have more power hungry consoles than others. Possibly those people will get better heat sinks?
In California, I don't believe you can file against a local branch. You'd need to file against BofA at their central legal location for service, which I believe is in LA. However, I think (though not sure) you can still file the case itself in the county where you reside.

I know this because I recently filed a small claims case that included Chase as a defendant, and this was the process.

The small (<10k) amount of money makes this a bit difficult because that typically falls within the realm of small claims, and they don't move quickly with court dates. My hearing date was about 3 months after filing. Maybe there are special procedures for things that have to move quickly like this?
Reversing the Lies of the Sharing Economy
I started working on a very similar concept a couple of years ago, I called it PatronPie(.com). Patrons could specify a set monthly amount they wish to spend, then divvy up the "pie" by assigning percentage-based slices to their selected recipients.

Participating recipients could have an "Add us to your PatronPie" button on their sites that would give them a small, adjustable default slice. Patrons could edit their slices and monthly amount at any time. Monetization was easy, I just transparently took a percentage of each month's transactions by having a set slice of pie permanently pre-allocated to PatronPie.

I suspended the project when I discovered how hostile credit card companies are about letting an entity move funds in this way. Obviously it's possible to get special permission, as there are companies that do it, but I lacked the time and resources to push through the hassle barrier.
They're really just too very different things, on many, many levels.

For general computing purposes, an Intel i5 based system would be significantly more performant than this, but the Scoprio is highly, highly optimized for its specific task.
Excellent. How am I supposed to interpret this, or being able to write code? Even Erlang is much more readable and understandable at the first sight. :)
I would guess because it's new and probably doesn't have 100% feature parity yet
There's actually been a bit of a 2 stroke resurgence in the last few years. Yamaha still has brand new ones rolling off the line
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Responsibilities include building, configuring and maintaining application servers, webservers, supporting content updates, monitoring site availability, and enforcing system and operational policies and procedures. Works as part of a team to ensure that customer experiences meet organizational goals.

Our platforms & tools include Adobe Experience Manager, Apache, Node, Linux, Jenkins, Github, Jira, Confluence. If you have at least 4 years of professional experience building any or all parts of modern integration/delivery stacks, you should take a look. Specifically interested in experience working on enterprise-class CMS (specifically AEM, or Oracle, Teamsite, Sitecore, etc), but open to considering other types of experience for the right candidate. Multiple positions open for a variety of experience levels.

Must be on-site at the Sprint world HQ in Overland Park, KS (a suburb of Kansas City, MO). Health, dental, and vision benefits, 401k match available.

Process: HR screen - manager screen - tech assessment - team interview - offer.

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4 aliases and 5 settings (2 require other software, gpg signing and difftool)? I tune more things in my browser.
I think I missed something. If information is exchanged when machines are on the same network, how does the guy in New Zealand get updates from the guy in Hawaii? Is there a server involved, or does the New Zealand guy have to wait until he is on a network with someone who has already connected with the Hawaii guy?
Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now.

This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we did a performance pass on our mobile website"
This is an awesome idea. I remember reading about kite-based propulsion systems for large ships a few years ago, do you see any overlap with that area?

How do you deal with the possibility of the kite breaking free of the tether, or breaking up in the air? I guess it could be quite dangerous if there's a populated area downwind.
Hayek's solid original academic work in economics (price signals) has been absorbed and further developed in mainstream economics. Political philosophy aspects of Hayek's work (Road to Serfdom) are not anything spectacular.

"Teaching Hayek in a school" instead of basic economics would be teaching fringe ideology.
This seems like really great work.

I could have sworn this was done already but looking at all the search results that came up the alternatives seem awful at first glance. At the very least this project is better at marketing.

As an aside, does it bother anyone else that the 8-ball demo has two extra pockets in the table?
>Note that none of this means I'd be rude

Not calling a knight Sir, is rude to THEM. They earned it,they were recognized for their achievement. To not call them Sir is rude.
but hacker news isn't really about social content. Some of that might creep in for some users, and yes the karma thing does pollute motivations for some, but I've never thought of it as a social network. Some networking is done here, but only indirectly I think.

Maybe I'm not thinking about it right or use it differently than most :P
You had version control systems in the 80s? I had cassette tapes and later 5 1/4 inch floppy disks!
Sure, but remember it's p2p and no different from me composing an email and BCC'ing my 50 friends and family.

One this I didn't mention was that there wouldn't be any public posts so definitely more social network than social media.

Anyways, just an idea at this point, though a prototype would not be that hard to put together as an experiment.
Funny how now both Facebook and Twitter has "lite" versions.

Maybe a lightbulb should brighten somewhere and ux people would realize that lite in contrasts is not the same as lite in memory and CPU?!

(fat chance, they are too hung up about their "art")
Are emacs package repositories a security risk?
Ask HN: Searching for blogger/tech personality
Hi HN,

I am searching for a blogger/tech personality that was mentioned on HN previously.

The article I remember reading was regarding her running everything on her laptop inside of Containers.

I believe she may have worked on Kubernetes or maybe Docker? and had published her config files on Github.

Anyway, I hope you can help.
Thanks
5 tough lessons learned from building over 40 MVPs for startups
Unfortunately they didn't have a screenshot of Forza running at Ultra level settings, which is mentioned in the article as being achievable, because I think the line would be blurred even further.
> You only need ~100k subs to be profitable

While providing unlimited data? MVNOs seem to generally charge $10/GB, and I assume there's a reason for that.
A big part of it is the type of graphics card. FirePro (the kind in workstations) are much more expensive than normal general purpose graphics cards, which are again more expensive than custom SoCs which can be developed barebones for a specific use. Reason being that a calculation error that results in a dead pixel is fine when you are playing a video game. It'll be there for 1/60s and then be gone, never seen again. The same error in a disney film or a 3d scene rendered for a poster needs to be pixel perfect, so workstation class cards have a much lower threshhold for error, and cost accordingly.

(Also, and this is just conjecture: its possible that Apple intentionally overprices their pros as a sort of "look this is premium" cost, while the goal of an xbox is mass market sale).
Good question. I'm curious too now.
I think you misunderstand what the phrase "for all intents and purposes" means. It doesn't mean "literally, 100% true" it means "for true enough for this argument". What network does your blockchain run on? It still relies on Comcast to get to my house right? Because you want it to run over the Internet? Maybe you're using AT&T? Probably L3 is in there somewhere, but you're still relying on a centralized piece of equipment somewhere, and you're probably going to have a .com or .org to advertise it, and you might have a Wikipedia page or a Facebook group or collaborate development on Github and chat with your team on Slack and exchange files on Dropbox and send messages on Gmail and you log into all of those services with... your globally unique email address. Possibly using a domain you own, with the mail exchange hosted on a server you own that you set up specifically for this project.

Maybe I'm missing the point, and I would look to you to explain to me what that is. But I guess congrats, you don't rely on ICANN anymore...
Yep, that's how it works.
This Startup Went Up Against Ben Thompson's All-Encompassing Aggregation Theory
What would be his answer when I tell him that a nine-to-five hour job would mean more free-time and vonsiderably less stress to me while being at least as productive as now, constantly sheduling things for latency instead of throughput?
If you make a decentralized, encrypted, potentially anonymous network some users will use it for bootlegs and probably worse. That doesn't preclude or outweigh all the legitimate uses.
Lindy Effect.
It was a little obvious but probably only for someone who lived there.
It sounds like the author is unhappy with the fact that web apps have a middle layer that speaks with the database over a terminal emulation.

Ignoring the fact that it happens to make a very nice boundary for an abstraction layer...

> Databases only talk custom binary TCP protocols, not HTTP. Not REST

I take it the author hasn't heard of SCIM?
Silicon Valley has long way to go on gender diversity
"I'm all ears" is simply a common idiom for asking you to suggest alternatives. Not sure why that upsets you?
My first thought is that this guy has not lived in a populated city during rush hour. Growing up in Houston, its a part of life. As soon as school is out, traffic is reduced by at least 1/3-1/2 on major freeways according to my built in road rage o meter. In suburban hubs, traffic is reduced in the evenings as well but that is more static throughout the year. Just recently during spring break my commute halved in terms of minutes in the car. I see other problems with his "study" as well, since it was a state of emergency, other people stayed home as well since they anticipated terrible weather, so as a datapoint its not very useful.
Markets in the capitalist sense, with people having to sell labour-time for wage in order to survive to a market of bourgeoisie is also a recent invention, a little over 200 years old. There's no reason to think it's the 'natural state' of humanity as some people have said.

Edit: Clarified what is being sold.
You're right actually. The post doesn't mention whether it was the bank or the sheriffs office that goofed on the name. He also mentions something about his credit union being more competent. That suggests it may have been the sheriff's office that mixed up the names if two separate banks had garnish orders.
Look, we all know there are much harder jobs than a 9-5 office job. However, I think an interesting question is:

How necessary is the job? How much does the job satisfy human needs, or contribute to human well-being? If it simply doesn't, if its only function is institutional, why should we consider it anything less than barbaric, or even perverse? Institutions such as businesses exist to serve people, after all, and doing things the other way around has been at the heart of some of the 20th century's major atrocities.

http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

>Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments, I came up with one possible vision of hell. Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at. Say they were hired because they were excellent cabinet-makers, and then discover they are expected to spend a great deal of their time frying fish. Neither does the task really need to be done – at least, there’s only a very limited number of fish that need to be fried. Yet somehow, they all become so obsessed with resentment at the thought that some of their co-workers might be spending more time making cabinets, and not doing their fair share of the fish-frying responsibilities, that before long there’s endless piles of useless badly cooked fish piling up all over the workshop and it’s all that anyone really does.
As a single datapoint, it took about fifty years in the UK.
Thanks. We're going to production soon with ArangoDB. We have tested 3.1.17, and 3.2 Alpha. 3.2 Alpha seems to be much more efficient with RAM. Would love to know more about what changed in this area.
I agree that it's cleaner, but it's not particularly good for usability. Placeholder text is usually a light color and screen readers have no clue what's going on.
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A typo that results in a matching social security number?

Unless an incredible coincidence occured, the bank did not match the SSN.
Job meaningfulness is not related wether it's 9-5 or not. And some jobs, wether we like it or not, have to be done at specific predefined time. There're no jobs that have to be done by slaves or children though.
I'm pretty sure there is never a good use-case for centralized price controls. As I mentioned, the biggest problem is that it causes shortages. There are tons of historical examples of this happening in other markets (for example: rent control resulted in a shortage of affordable housing in NYC and Toronto, only making the problem worse not better, as landlords had no incentive to invest in new properties).

Having shortages of medication is a serious risk.

The need for price controls is usually caused by other problems... lack of competition/monopolies, a weak economy, lack of a proper social safety net for poor people to afford basic necessities, etc.

But my comment was hardly just about price controls. It is a critique of the default instinct people have to look to centralized control (typically regulations) to solve problems in a marketplace.
Why would contractors get profit sharing? They're already paid higher rates after accounting for benefits, risks, and taxes. If you undervalue yourself as a software dev contractor and bill 25-30 hours a week you can make a quarter million dollars a year gross.

I get where you're going with the WM example, and that's a fair one, but probably not comparable to a tech company like this. Nobody is going to be working for $10/hr or less unless it's fair for their standard of living. Likewise, industry level pay is important and if a good CFO commands $2 million a year but you can only offer $1.1 because you have a bunch of people making $50k, you're not going to get a good CFO, or your hiring pool is going to be artificially limited to those who don't need or care about the money.
Don't know if it's still the case for new consoles, but the ps3 was highly subsidised when it came out. Something like that would account partially for the price difference.
It uses special privileges to run the installation in the background. Google Play Services is frequently called a "rootkit" because of stuff like that.
The data is so sparse that we have no idea if the kids were indeed the critical factor, or if they were completely irrelevant and the change was due to something else entirely. It doesn't really read as a hypothesis with statements like "People without kids were largely unaffected."

On a somewhat different note, it may not be the same there, but around here (Fairfax County, near DC), school opening times are staggered fairly substantially in order to make better use of the bus fleet. Schools here start anywhere from 7:10AM to 9:20AM. This will also spread out car traffic, not that the school district does that intentionally.
In this particular case, I believe there are 3 reasons:

1) Size - turning each op into a couple of bytes means that the size of your template is significantly smaller. If each instruction is 4 bytes, I could get ~20 instructions in the space of just one function with a setAttribute call:

function t(e) {e.setAttribute("id", "bar")}

Size is much more important on the web than it is in other places especially as the next billion people start using the mobile web.

2) Parsing speed - given the size of the JS that templates produce, you start running into JS parsing performance. Just by volume you're going to eat an insane amount of time not just downloading the JS but then trying to turn it into something executable. A correctly implemented bytecode VM could easily beat the cost of parsing.

3) Scheduling - If you just produce raw JS code, you don't have much room to dictate how it executes. Since glimmer's goal is to never miss a frame, they're going to have to take control of the work that gets executed to make sure that they always pause at a frame boundary. That's a much more straightforward thing to do in a VM, where pausing work is just a matter of yielding the interpreter loop. This gives you complete control over how you schedule the work from the ground up. Have some huge dom tree to render? Split it across 10 frames without doing a bunch of control inversion.

In terms of cost, I haven't looked at their implementation, but I assume these guys did their homework. You can implement interpreters that execute instructions in a few nanoseconds without too much effort. If you really put in the effort, you can do it subnano, but that's outside of the scope of handwritten JS. Even if the overhead was 20x a normal call, the cost of the operations this interpreter is running makes that a rounding error. The DOM is slow and the other benefits almost assuredly outweigh whatever tiny cost they're paying at the per instruction level.

There are lots of other potential benefits as well: opportunities for specialized optimizations over the bytecode (you could basically do your own domain specific jit), ease of implementing the base VM for different targets, and so on. There are relatively few times when writing your own interpreter probably makes sense, but it seems like this architecture would give them a ton of headroom to do some great stuff down the line.
Information can also be exchanged using legacy internet.. ;)

kidding aside: we just introduce a few instances that act as exchange points (also called "pubs").

I played a little with the idea of using tor hidden services to directly connect to people, so that you don't need another computer that runs all the time.
LinageOS is the successor of CyanogenMod, they just started a few months ago.

The website and everything else is still new and very much work in progress. I guess their main focus was getting up the core infrastructure before making a cute website.
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