skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If PostgREST was a niche project with a single maintainer, I'd argue you're right - it's too risky to go with if you can't maintain it yourself.

But once the project is large and popular enough (and PostgREST arguably is), you don't maintain it yourself anymore. Keep in mind than in any case you're probably using PostgreSQL and Linux: major pieces of complex C code that you probably can't and won't maintain yourself.

To be clear, I do think being able to understand the source code for the system that you're running on and even submit patches or pull request is nice, but this is not what you pointed out as your reason, and it's also never going to be my #1 priority for a production system. For instance, PostgREST looks more mature than pREST and that's a pretty big consideration for a production system.
Links or it didn't happen.
I know this is cold comfort, but every single production data access is audited at Google, and that's after one signs more NDAs than you can shake a stick at to even get logs access in the first place. Each incident, with David Barksdale being the worst, has made them lock down logs, PII, and production access at a level unprecedented of any I've seen (including HIPAA shops).

You're correct that the possibility exists, but any Googler inhales heavily and makes sure their paperwork is in order before accessing prod. The warnings that are displayed are not unlike those when you're removing a nuclear core on a starship. It's scary. They want it that way. You need a damned good reason to even look at subject lines in the inbox (like fixing a bug involving subject line rendering that only appears with a user's specific subject line, for instance), and clicking a message is almost certainly a walk. Like, within the day.

They do take this seriously. I wouldn't call it bullshit. The protections I observed were in place before Snowden, so I imagine it's even more rigorous now.
Ask HN: How to prepare for  Google/Facebook SRE interviews?
I am a devops engineer at a startup and am good at my job. I do everything from automation to distributed systems, AWS, CI/CD, troubleshooting, etc.

My colleagues and founder are very happy with my performance. However, when I research on the kind of questions asked in google SRE interview, I start having self-doubts. I am not sure how much depth is expected from me in each of the areas like troubleshooting, scripting, networking etc.
Ex: for troubleshooting, should I know all the syscalls and the definition and be fully comfortable with strace?

It will be great if I can get some guidance on how and how much to prepare for these areas:

Linux internals

Troubleshooting

Large System design

Scripting

Networking

I am reading the books on Linux kernel development, Operating systems, networking. How much depth should I have to ace the interviews?
> But, yes, people who eschew marriage specifically to make breaking up easy are bad candidates for a successful marriage, almost by definition.

And people who don't eschew marriage ostensibly because they are ideal non-eschewing candidates still experience a prreeetty significant failure rate, despite apparently never imagining the possibility at inception.

You know who has a 0% divorce rate? People who eschew marriage. Exactly by definition.

To quote WarGames, "The only winning move is not to play."

You're defending driving a car with a 30% serious-accident rate while I choose to bike... Think about it.
> On the 6502 memory read could be as short a single cycle…

No, it couldn't. Even a NOP was 2 cycles. Memory access is at least 3 cycles for a zero-page read (read opcode, read immediate byte, read data), or more for the more complicated addressing modes.
My I ask you whether you are connected with Infogalactic in any way? I could not see any disclaimer on your post, but you seem remarkably well informed about them.

Ah yes - answered my own question - it seems likely that you are closely connected with Intergalactic. see this "Show HN: Infogalactic (infogalactic.com)" [1] that you submitted 252 days ago.

I did actually spend 10 minutes looking at the Infogalactic site before posting my reply.

The Introduction page [2] starts out all fine and dandy:

>Infogalactic does not share the highly centralized structure of Wikipedia or the ideological dogma of the Wikimedia Foundation. The primary requirements are for the information contributed to be true, relevant, and verifiable, rather than cited from a so-called “published reliable source”, since experience has proven how reliance upon the latter can be easily gamed by editors and administrators alike. There is no culture of notability, ideology, or deletionism at Infogalactic. The addition of perspective filters and two levels of Context and Opinion to every page means that the average editor's contribution is much less likely to be deleted for political reasons or fall victim to edit wars over controversial pages.

But then I read down to this bit:

>Infogalactic is a private corporation supported by donations and advertising revenue. ...

Sorry, but that doesn't work for me. I'd rather stick with the Wikimedia Foundation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12711029

[2] https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Introduction
> The inverted typed declaration syntax for variables and functions will take some getting used to, but that part is very minor.

Go, Rust, Swift, Ada, Pascal - languages both modern and old also use that inverted syntax and it's not such a burden to get used to.

> I don't like are the lack of exception handling

If done properly, it's possible to do without exceptions and have more robust and readable code - see for example Rust with its Error type and the try macro/? operator, which I've found I much prefer to exceptions.
This is not a real company. I have support requests from May 23 that still have not received any response.
I have wondered about that. I have programmed. I am not skilled enough to warrant calling me a programmer. I did so out of necessity, I kinda hated it most of the time.

But, I hear this about Intel's instruction set - at a number of tech sites.

Intel got their start making memory (SRAM). They had Moore and Noyce, as I recall.

Anyhow, I am not qualified to opine on instruction sets. I am curious as to where it went 'wrong.' I accept your declaration as being likely true - I've seen it echoed elsewhere. But, if you know, do you happen to know where (perhaps even why) it went wrong?

I have tried the mighty Google, by the way. It was no help. I may have not had the correct search terms. I am a mathematician, I only programmed (retired now) out of necessity. In fact, I hated computers for the longest time. I am just curious about the history of where they went so wrong that so many people complain about it.
The solution to that is to go through app review, but without submitting a new binary. Let them review the screenshots. In addition to saving users data, this will also ease Apple's work.
Ask HN: Side business – how to get started?
I see so many people doing side projects or business. I have excellent backend data engineering skills in the data analytics space.

However, I honestly don't know anything about front end and don't know where to start?

I don't feel motivated enough to learn Javascript/Node etc. Frameworks are evolving very rapidly. I am sure how much learning front end will help in day-to-day job as well. I am good at getting things done. When I look at good freelancers they are often charging $50 or more per hour. I don't want to spend a lot of money just to build a website.

Do you have any suggestions on how to get started and what are ways to build a side business?
I thought USCIS stopped premium processing earlier this year due to backlog.
Holy hell do you remember SCO v. everyone?
I agree. While I think AWS is great, and I will happily use it if that is what my customers want, I think that GCP wins on price.

Having Diane Green in charge of GCP is an indication that developing GCP as a business is a high priority.
Was a Navy TBM Avenger Found Near Sebastian, FL in the 1960s from Flight 19?
FB has a pre-selected list of questions about netcat, lsof, df, free, lsblk, mount, ifconfig, who, last, ulimit, grep and nohup.

I talked to them twice on two separate occasions, different people and got asked the exact same questions.

This was over one year ago and things may have changed since then.
Yup they do. That is what I use it for.
Clearance Jobs is a subsidiary of DICE in Urbandale. Chad Thompson their devops guru is good people.
24 frames/second is a minimum. Their FAQ says you can shoot at a high framerate.

Therefore, the best way to interpret "Bitrate of at least 240 Mbps (at 23.98/24 fps) recording" is probably that if you shoot at 24 frames per second, then you must have a bitrate of 240 Mbps. Not that 24 frames/second is the only framerate allowed.
I had around $151k at the day's value wiped out as one data point (my fiat cost basis on entry was lower, not my life savings but not a trivial amount for me). Had a very busy week and didn't grok it was gone until Thursday afternoon. It actually felt cathartic to feel the feeling of losing $150k in the sense I was thinking "ok if I can accept dealing with that failure I can deal with any business fiasco when I start one".. and now somewhat surreal to get it back.
There was about 128,000 in volume, Assuming worst case scenario, it appears that the compensated loss would be ~$40 million dollars. If you assume buy limit order book was triangular it's about ~$25 million dollars. That's about 100-200 days of ether trading fees.
Tech investor admits sexually harassing female entrepreneurs in Silicon
The 6502 definitely reads or writes every cycle! - consult the data sheet (or VICE's 64doc) for more info. This is also not hard to verify on common 6502-based hardware.

Suppose it executes a zero page read instruction. It reads the instruction on the first cycle, the operand address on the second cycle, and the operand itself on the third. 1 byte per cycle.

(For a NOP, it reads the instruction the first cycle, fetches the next byte on the second cycle, then ignores the byte it just fetched. I think this is because the logic is always 1 cycle behind the next memory access, so by the time it realises the instruction is 1 byte it's already committed to reading the next byte anyway and the best it can do is just not increment the program counter.)
Well, unless drug dealing is the next thing to get automated. :/

And even if there ever is a plan of how to deal with all this, I can't help but think it parallels the old sci-fi short story "With Folded Hands".

semi-sequitur: From my liberal bubble, the liberal bubble light bulb buzzes over my head thinking, perhaps that whole short story is exactly what strikes conservatives to the core. It kind of makes sense. I kind of see what they mean. Granted I have no clue what that has to do with gay rights. But for a second I understood. Sympathized, even. Anyway, back to the bubble.
Also gives them a huge reason to operate as a fractional reserve.

This will not end well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621765
I'm sure they have a lot of checks, but that doesn't really matter if:

A) they can be bypassed, as they have been in the past

B) they can be compelled to hand that data elsewhere

So I'm calling bullshit. Until it's impossible for them to look at my data, then they aren't taking it seriously.
There is also a prolific guy on YouTube. He's all about the liquid salt thorium reactors. I don't recall his name, but searching YouTube for that phrase will almost certainly find him.

I believe they have a project in the works. I just watch documentaries, I am not a nuclear physicist or anything. It sounds like it is safe and efficient. We've got a huge supply of thorium.
I don't know you, but I strongly feel that you are making the wrong decision.

Let's go over the points...

Your friend pitched a startup idea. Based on your wording, it sounds like it is more an idea than an actual company. Either way, unless your friend's startup has the legal resources to sponsor a H1B visa and the financial capability to pay you a prevailing wage, you run the risk of not being able to transfer your visa. The government agency can reject your visa transfer, as well.

By declining the offer, you are putting yourself in jeopardy of losing your ability to work in the country.

I assume you are not married, but for the sake of this response, let's assume you are. What would your wife think about this? Don't be so selfish, imagine that others would be affected.

You are assuming that you will be able to work at the startup legally (H1B transfer). I don't believe you can assume this. Does your friend even know what is involved in sponsoring a H1B? Major tech companies have dedicated departments for managing the H1B process for their employees.

Good luck!
If you are not from the US, I cannot express the desolation, wind, dust, and smells of West Texas. Hell even if you are from the US. Imagine a windier drier more right wing Mongolia, with feed lots and oil wells everywhere.
You're calling bullshit on what, exactly? I'm providing you perspective on the very thing you're hypothesizing about from firsthand experience.

What is your technical solution for operating Gmail without any Googler having the ability to access some aspect of your data? It's email on the Web. Handling that e2e is pretty much intractable, and cleartext or nearly-cleartext with online keys has to exist somewhere even without the Googley things they do to data. I might posit that building a functional service with that requirement would be impossible for the Gmail case and many others (but I'm ready to be proven wrong).
Not all species get to survive the thing that ails them. We might agree on the foundation, but disagree on how "potential" the worse part will be on the way to the "final outcome".

The implications of such seem to be in conflict with how most people wish to live.
Mathematically, the DFT is invertable, ie lossless, but practically there will be a bit of loss due to the finite precision of float point numbers. Even though it isn't lossless, the amount of loss should be miniscule as compared to the 16KHz->2KHz loss you are trying to overcome.
Wait I'm confused... The market moved dramatically and quickly, which can happen dealing with something as speculative as cryptocurrency, and yet they are refunding people? Did I miss something? Isn't this part of the risk investing?
I wouldn't bulk classify Uber drivers as marginalized people. I've had some that worked for pharmaceutical companies, retired teachers, etc.
I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke.

> I'd rather stick with the Wikimedia Foundation.

I don't care. I'm only aware of infogalactic because it's an alternative to wikipedia, which I sought out to begin with because of the very complaints you just made...

> "An archived deletion discussion from 2014 states "This article fails Wikipedia:Notability (people), Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and should be deleted." ... etc."
It is probably also illegal for them to compensate some customers and not others. There are FINRA regulations against that.
It matters that you went public. It shouldn't require you to go public for it to matter, but it does, and so it does.
Problems:

1) Flash crash
2) Horrible customer support
3) Delayed Ethereum widthdrawals when the network isn't under stress

They have a lot of problems. They may be happy to spend the money to clean up one of them.
Gambit is a fantastic scheme system. The performance you get from it exceeds even SBCL in my limited use cases. Additionally, Gerbil Scheme (http://cons.io), built on Gambit, has expanded syntax like racket's #lang features for dsls. Several packages have also been create for it for most of the things I need.
Doesn't seem to work anymore, but there was this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656
I use Python a great deal, especially for tooling and prototyping and appreciate the fact that programming is fast, easy and focused on the inherent complexity of the problem. Similar positive experiences with Smalltalky and Lispy languages as embedded languages. But I write a lot of performance-critical libraries for programs that need good C/C++ interop and where C++ is pretty much the lingua franca. Swift, D and Go, for example, all have their strong points, and I plan to do more experiments when I have some time ... after this one last C++ project, though!
Tragedy of the Commons happens without metering. Monetize all the things and give away almost nothing for free if there is an associated cost.
An interview with Vue.js creator Evan You (2016)
> I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke.

Show HNs are for posting your own projects, so of course the parent would assume a close connection from you posting one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html : Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.
Thanks for this. Appreciate the response
I wasn't complaining about the content, just the lack of context.
to back up your point:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/technology/uber-limits-lo...

> The company said Wednesday that it lost $708 million over the first three months of the year on revenue of $3.4 billion, not counting expenses like employee stock compensation. That is a narrowing of the previous quarter’s loss of $991 million, on revenue of $2.9 billion.

revenue grew by ~500M, losses fell by ~300M. this isn't just more butts in seats trying to avoid the rain. this is about increased efficiency; each trip costing less in incentives and efficiency doesn't depend on the weather, or the hemisphere.

anyway, if the trend continues, we'll know more in a week.
The problem with the DFT is not whether it's lossless or not, it's that it may not be the best feature representation for a given task.

Both the DFT and the proposed model apply convolutions to the input, but in the former case, these are fixed, while in the latter, they are learned.

This is similar to how we don't use hard-coded features like SIFT or wavelets, or Gabor filters when we do image classification with a CNN.
If people could get refunds in the US stock market because of flash crashes, algo trading, that sort of doesn't make the market a balanced market anymore.

See 2010 flash crash. "Procter & Gamble in particular dropped nearly 37% before rebounding, within minutes, back to near its original levels. The drop in P&G was broadcast live on CNBC at the time, with commentator Jim Cramer commenting."
Also the Atari ST series, a whole wack of arcade games, the Sharp X68000, a bunch of Unix workstations, dedicated network hardware, etc. etc. And it is still manufactured in a modified form in the ColdFire.

But it still never approached near the volume of sales of x86. And was abandoned by Motorola by the early 90s (when they started to go down the RISC road with the 88000 and then PowerPC)
I agree with nearly all of that except the last paragraph:

>My initial feeling was that Ulrich Drepper deserves a Wikipedia page, but the evidence is that the deletionist might be right.

Should niceness/sociablity/etc be a criteria for notability and hence "deserving" a Wikipedia page?

I'd argue that it should not.

Linus Torvalds, Stephen Wolfram, Steve Jobs - none of them seem particularly nice - but all have achieved great things - and hence they are notable.

The difference from the case of Ulrich Drepper, is that those achievements are documented in a form that Wikipedia will accept as evidence for notability.
Walmart reportedly won’t bid for Whole Foods after Amazon’s huge offer
SMTP is not an instantaneous protocol. Email prioritizes reliability over speed when it comes to delivery. An email alert could very well be delayed to the point that it becomes useless for something which is time sensitive.

Given the synchronous nature of a phone call, it seems like the perfect medium for this kind of alert. Similarly, SMS piggybacks off of the same network and therefore inherits some of the same properties.
Build an anti-spam-spam bot
The US exerts it's influence over the world by the trillions they spend on weapons and soldiers. The idea of a "right" is quite irrelevant. The only relevant question is how much the target country spends on military.
Linux Kernel: Add zstd modules
So is he being charged with anything? Do the women have evidence of any amount to corroborate it?

What are they seeking to happen to him?

This is a serious question... because I do not see a link to the indictment.
Is it? I've been posting here for years (under other names, not just this one) and I didn't know that. I guess I never noticed that people were posting up their own projects and not something they just thought was interesting. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
Dashcoin Failing to Pay Out for Twitter Marketing Campaign
Aaron Roth was my professor at Penn. He's definitely the expert on differential privacy. Fun fact: his dad won the Nobel Prize in Economics a few years ago.
Not GP, but a listing of groups using PostgREST in production can be found here: https://postgrest.com/en/v4.1/intro.html#in-production
AI is absolutely already being applied to scientific discovery. IBM even have an entire product "Waton for Drug Discovery". See also;

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2016/06/artificial-intell...

https://medium.com/@ShaliniAnanda1/ai-and-the-future-of-comp...

http://www.nature.com/news/can-artificial-intelligence-creat...

I can't cite specific instances where it has yielded specific results from the top of my head, but there's no question that AI is already being used in one or more of these areas.
I have an existing MySQL database that isn't going anywhere soon, and might want to utilize something like this with it.
Exactly. There are a lot of problems with compensating customers who lose money. This is why it is unethical for Financial Advisors to do that.
It exists! The technique is called Electron-beam lithography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography), and it's exactly what you described. It's essentially an electron microscope that is used to etch patterns, instead of doing the whole projection lithography song and dance.

I believe it's used in academic research a fair amount, because it gives very good resolution (sub-10nm) and is very cheap (once you own the equipment). But as you said, it's also very slow :)

There's a contingent of hobbyists that run second-hand electron microscopes in their garage... I'd bet they could do electron-beam litho if they wanted to
I don't feel motivated enough to learn Javascript/Node etc.

Well, there are two basic paths.

1. Pay somebody to do that stuff.

2. Learn it and do it yourself.

You've already eliminated option 2, so the equation doesn't seem very complicated to me. Maybe you can find some offshore talent, or still-in-school (or just-out-of-school) folks who would be willing to work for a relatively inexpensive rate? Or you could "pay" in equity and have a co-founder.

I guess you could argue that there is also a hidden "option 3" - invent an artificial general intelligence and make it do the work for you.
2015 EPA

Tire wear is something like 10%, maybe a bit less.
Break wear is much higher at 60%.
Engine emissions is most of the rest.

EVs are heavier so they will have more tire wear. They don't brake as often, so that would go down.
The article does not mention any of the women were direct with him and said "No".

Infact, I would bet that they did not say "no". Because if they did... they would have used that to support their case.

Smart that these women didn't actually level legal charges on him. Therefore they can tarnish is reputation and not experience an investigation to see who is telling the truth and therefore risk their careers.

They even pointed out that it's so common place that they didn't think it was worthy of a police investigation.

Why don't they "come out" about the hundred men that cat-called them this week alone?

Oh right, because they wouldn't get fame or have the joy of taking down a powerful man.