skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all I wasn't talking about source code, I was comparing the output of a C/Rust->wasm compiler to the one of a C/Rust->x86 compiler. Since the wasm virtual machine has a JIT, I believe the compilation to wasm isn't too aggressive with optimizations. And since those make the binary bigger, I assume a wasm output would be lighter than an x86 one. I didn't benchmark it though.

And if you compare the size of the binary output with the size of the source code, the binary is bigger in many cases because of optimizations (and runtime size, for small programs). Additionally, the source code can be gziped with a good compression factor whereas the binary cannot. Then 99% of the time, the source code is lighter to send over the internet than the compiled binary.
he only "owned it briefly in 1987" according to Wikipedia
> From many conversations, and my personal experience, the reliability of prime for two day deliveries has gone way down. It's generally a day or two before the item even ships in my region. Amazon is also failing to handle rampant knock-offs mixed in with legitimate products.

I'm noticing that too. If I'm going to go with standard shipping, they'll wait on it for 2 weeks and then try to ship it the day before the end of the delievery estimation. (I live in Chicago, so theres absolutely no reason to do that other than spite)
I've only had 2 shipping delay issues with Amazon Prime in the last 4 years. Recently the option for 1 day shipping for a minimal fee or free has only made it better in my eyes.

That said, I do live in the Greater Seattle area.
"I like this statement from the replies there: "People here really think a $90k job is owed to them for getting a piece of paper and meeting a few times and answering a few questions right.""

At the same time, these companies are complaining about there being a "developer shortage".
The immediate problems of infrastructure are two-fold: funding and the matching of supply and demand. Ignore the environmental ramifications for the moment and kick that can to your kids like everyone else does.

Supply and demand solves itself. The solution is staring right back at you any time you drive around a city at 5PM local. The funding could be solved by taking more money out of general revenue from income and other taxes. It's not too far a stretch from where we are now.

The argument for congestion pricing could be framed as frustration with either of those two components. First, some people want to pay for their use in dollars instead of hours. Second, some people would rather target the users of the public good to recoup the enormous costs of it. Personally, I try to opt out to the maximum extent because I find the time cost unacceptable, and I would avoid the monetary cost for the same reason. And given the risk of runaway time cost or runaway money cost for a rare trip, I'd rather keep the time. If nothing else, my loss aversion would make me avoid driving like the plague after paying a high toll.

We prefer bakeries to bread lines, and food is arguably more important to life than driving. So why should we want the bread line equivalent when it comes to driving? As far as I can tell, it's because that's the system we're used to, and change is hard.
I agree that shopping at physical stores tends to be a waste of time, with poor selection.

I am referring to shopping at walmart.com, jet.com and target.com, which tend to have many of the exact same small-ticket items as amazon.com, but at cheaper prices and without a subscription for 2 day free shipping. It seems they tend to ship the items from a local store, and thus can use low-cost ground shipping and get it there in two days.
The rich aren't effected and the poor are. The poor also can't afford to live near work & public transit. As that comes in at a premium.

So this ends up not impacting the rich, but drastically hurts the poor.
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Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?
Are there any big-endian chips still in production outside the embedded or specialty market?

Even MIPS and PPC now support a little-endian mode and are usually deployed that way. ARM is nearly always LE or deployed that way, and RISC-V is LE.

Edit: bonus factoid:

Little-endian is slightly more confusing for humans but may be objectively better for machines. On a little-endian machine integer size casts are free -- e.g. casting a uint64_t to uint32_t just means reading the first 4 bytes of it. On big-endian machines integer size casts require pointer math.
This works great in safari, which makes me wonder why they're doing this at all
It's an improvement over the pre-EU situation, where every country was independent and shipping something 100 miles to a neighboring country would require customs declarations and tariffs and possibly complying with different labeling laws, assuming the countries weren't actually at war with each other at the time.

Tax authorities systematically underestimate how much they harm the economy through complexity.
If the conterfit goods thing was really their excuse, they should just eliminate anyone that has travelled to China and bought anything.
I couldn't get them to send me an xbox controller in Hawaii. It's just infuriating. They could at least have the decency to let you filter items you can't get. The mismatch between their listed terms and what you actually get as a Prime customer in Hawaii is borderline fraudulent.

I'm considering putting together and sharing a script that could check your order history and delivery dates. They tend to give a free month of credit for late deliveries, but if I could show them "Well out of 12 months I've had late deliveries every month this year" I should just get the service for free.
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Only a couple times over years have I gotten packages late. Contacting Amazon about it, they gave me a month of prime each time too.

I live almost in the middle of nowhere, except that I'm less than an hour away from a major shipping distribution center.
Take home assignments should be illegal.
It makes the field unattractive even if the pay is high. Doing work without any payment and for hours of your own time. I think it's time that developers realize we're all a bunch of push overs and maybe should unionize for some standard requirements to keep us all sane from abuse.
I wrote an article on the negative psychological impact of commitments in sprints (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scrum-makes-you-dumb-daniel-j...). It's great to see renewed focus on shifting away from a term that has been used to make developers' working lives unpleasant, leads to lower-quality code, and gives false certainty to stakeholders.
It's probably worth mentioning that his drug use has led to some pretty abhorrent behavior. That said I'm a believer that people should be judged on the sum of all their actions not reduced to their worst moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George#Conviction
Thanks for the note! I wrote it in Swift, and I'd guess it took about 9 months from from the moment I thought this could be of value to the first launch. Hard to say exactly, because of the learning curve.
I wonder who the third case is. Bitfinex, perhaps?
Given that prostitution often claims to be the oldest game in town, it's surprising that there are no brothels in this list.
I find it hard to believe that a congestion charge is going to disproportionately affect the poor, especially in Manhattan.

The majority of New Yorkers — and a supermajority of Manhattanites — do not own a car. Those who do own cars have incomes nearly twice as high as those who don't. Only 5.8% of commuters to Manhattan arrive by single-occupancy vehicle.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/21/a-reminder-pricing-ca...
Amazon has a program where you can use the old boxes to ship donations to places like Goodwill. Amazon will pay the shipping cost, you get rid of a box and donate to charity at the same time.

https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2
It sounds like you had equated being smart with knowing things.

My self esteem has also been heavily based on believing that I'm really smart, but I never had a problem admitting I didn't know something. "Smart" to me means my ability to learn, problem solve, and make connections.

One of the most significant factors in my success to date has been my almost eager willingness to admit my lack of knowledge, and to ask others to share their knowledge.

How else are you going to learn new things?
You said production so I'm assuming you are using server version.

The vast majority of issues I was having were around desktop functionality: connecting a monitor to laptop, weird issues with UI, wifi, putting laptop to sleep. Actually one of last issues that infuriated me was them being ok with release that that crashed (froze) every time you started a laptop with a proximity to 802.11n network.

Imagine trying to use your laptop to take notes in college and it froze few seconds after it booted up repeatedly. It took me a while to find out what the problem really was, then found the bug, realize that it was opened before the release, yet they still went with the release.

To make things even more frustrating at the same time they refused to include OpenOffice 3, because it might not be stable enough. Talk about priorities.

That was the time I started looking at alternatives, someone recommended OpenSuSE and I really liked it.
American pharma companies spend a lot more on marketing than R&D.
> East river bridges

Making poor people pay as always.
I can't imagine the money and time you would need to do such a thing. Neat.
"What is the actual difference in practice? Like half an hour to pass customs on average?"

It really depends on the airport. As a US citizen returning to SFO I have spent anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours in line.

I am considering signing up for Global Entry.
This is my position on both sides. I'll pick a homework assignment anytime when I have a chance as a candidate. I have lots of life commitments and this is one of the big reasons why I like it. I also like it because it's an opportunity to shine and be creative (it depends on the assignment, of course).

Yes, it's not perfect because you can end up dealing with somebody who doesn't like how you comment your code or they don't like your tests... It's actually a good thing in most cases because it also filters out the companies where you wouldn't want to work anyways.

It's an opportunity to have a meaningful and relevant conversation.
> The very same democrats who mock Trump supporters for not denouncing him when he said "Grab them by the pussy"

What does that have to do with Obama? Trump wasn't in the picture when Obama did any of this. This whole "what about you?" kind of rhetoric is utterly useless and pointless. All it does is reinforce football team politics.

Look at each case without trying to diminish one case by saying someone else did something worse. Obama messed up or deliberately did awful things and his actions have got nothing to do with anything anyone said or did about Trump later.
Is devops really meant to keep microcode patches up to date? Isn't hardware and OS security sysadmin work?
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There are no EU level regulations on drivers hours for vans, bikes etc, only for lorries (and those have enforcement problems in parts of Eastern Europe which means rogue operators are effectively free to operate across the EU with individual countries unable to take action).

There are GB regulations (which stipulate among other things max 10 hrs per day) but these are not practically enforcable on self employed drivers as there are no tachograph requirements etc.
You cannot expect a company to cater to such a small population. You choose to live there, you choose the consequences.
Not only is it not just a problem in tech, it's not just problem for women and minorities.

Focusing on tech is fine, but claiming there's a unique problem of demoralization, underappreciation, shit management etc. to only "marginalized people" is what makes this article highly questionable.

All that "toxicity" applies just as well to white males in tech.
That’s the only reason I haven’t canceled. I’m grandfathered into the old style membership sharing instead of the new household style sharing.
It's not acting like a native application, the open file dialog is the native open file dialog that'll display differently depending on the OS/platform you're on.
Valley View Mall is one option that was proposed. There are plenty of spots.
A dirty secret (?) is that a lot of the stairways you encounter are not built to code, either because they were built before current codes were put into place or because they were modified after inspection. A common practice is for certain required elements to be included in a way that makes them easy to remove. My girlfriend pointed out an instance of that to me recently — if you looked closely you could see that a handrail (the round bar you can hold onto while you walk on the stairs) had been mounted to the guardrail (the panel that makes it impossible to fall off the stairs sideways) and then removed. She said it was probably added to pass inspection because the guardrail, which was a very beautiful metal design, did not technically qualify as a handrail. Either the stairs failed inspection and the contractor temporarily fixed it up by adding the handrail, or more likely, the designer anticipated the inspection issue and included a cheap handrail for the owner (or more likely the contractor) to remove after inspection. Some people welcome the challenge of designing to code, but some people just resent it and circumvent it whenever they can.
I can't begin to count the number of times I've worked with an idea person who can't comprehend the details; or a product manager who can't work through high-level corner cases and expects that the computer can read his mind.

This is a good read for either of those kinds of people.
There are several such databases, the largest of which is TCGA (https://cancergenome.nih.gov/).

They have sequenced >32k patients across several dozen cancer types.

Here's their getting started guide: https://docs.gdc.cancer.gov/Data_Portal/Users_Guide/Getting_...
Well that's an interesting solution! Japanese culture is not without its faults, but it is just so damn fascinating. Sigh... I need to go back.
For guitar nerds, there's a whole online business by a guy named Troy Grady about fast picking techniques (he has a ton of extremely polished videos on YouTube - start with whatever "Cracking the Code" videos are up). He decoded the seemingly-magical techniques that allow players like Yngwie Malmsteen and Eric Johnson to play at what feel like impossible speeds, and illustrates them. (tl;dr the core trick is "pick slanting", striking the strings at an angle so the pick goes in and out of the plane of strings, rather than across it, and then switching strings only when the pick is "out". That, and "chunking", breaking into units of fixed length on a single string and using the fixed length to do a clock reset on the beats).

For a guitarist, it's almost impossible to explain the myriad tiny details that go into something as seemingly simple as picking a note. Troy's analysis of instructional videos by great players, where they obviously don't understand what they're doing, is kind of amazing. And a real eye-opener, for those of us who have played a long time.
My partner is an accountant, shortly to be a CPA. She's capable of making $90K a year. If she, or anyone she knows in the field was told "Hey, here's a set of books. Bring them back, balanced." was a part of her interview experience?

There wouldn't be an interview.
That’s exactly what the title says.
Nope, it is not. Not anymore than the straight radiation you would get from it.

When you talk of radiatoxicity what is usually meant is the hot particle theory which says that a bit of radioactive material lodged in one place is more likely to cause cancer, because the radiation given off repeatedly hits the same tissue. It turns out that in cohort studies done this is not true. Specifically people who have inhaled plutonium, an inadvisable thing to do, actually have lower rates of lung cancer.

Pu-238 has some radioactivity, although not as much as many fission products. Radioactivity is bad. But the fear over plutonium toxicity is actually overblown beyond the baseline radioactive dose it provides.
"Be in a timeless industry” - then there should be at least one brothel in the list..
The problem is that pyramid schemes need to be stopped ASAP to limit the damage they do.
Bitfinex isn't in USA and doesn't service US customers AFAIK. Not that it's not possible they're being charged with something, but it seems like a stab in the dark to guess it's them.
I agree. But not doing the interview, most of the time, prevents one from getting the job.
I mean, there is a bit of precedence for the fear. It's not that we can't deal with the fission, it's that we can't have really really smart people on deck at all times. The consequences of big failures are pretty bad and pretty newsworthy.
Not impressed. I downloaded the python book, chose a section at random (chapter 15: dictionaries), and found an error on the first thing I looked at.

The book says that:

d=dict(**otherDict)

only works if otherDict's keys are strings, but in reality it also works if the keys are integers:

>>> dict(**{1:2,3:4})
{1: 2, 3: 4}
Sounds to me like you've never experienced poverty
I've lived and worked in a half dozen countries. The guy is just stating that he wants thoughtless drones to work as much as he demands for as little as he can pay them, and also not care about anything other than work. He's using slightly different words. There's nothing about his "worldly experience" that makes his statements unique or insightful.
I can absolutely expect them to honor the terms that they themselves defined for a service that costs more than $100/year.
Well yes, i think the one i read was a blog or travel story from someone that visited the place.

BTW, i believe the city in question is Chongqing. But sadly i didn't keep a bookmark of the story itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing
Are you hiring 50% plus of the candidates that did the homework assignment for you? At 10% hiring rate, a candiate will have to do 20-30 hours worth of assignments for all the companies they interview, and I haven't once gotten an assignment that takes less than 5-6 hours.
I pay for Prime yearly, so this does not affect me. However, in the last couple years, the quality of service has decreased dramatically. When Prime first rolled out, it used to be that I'd receive my packages on day 2 like clockwork. These days, I'm lucky if I receive packages in 4 or 5 days. Additionally, with inventory co-mingling, Amazon has become a dumping ground for counterfeit and damaged products. I've wasted so much time this past year sending stuff back (sometimes repeatedly) because I've received something that was damaged (usually not during shipping) or clearly fraudulent.

The upside of course, is that Amazon's customer service remains top notch and any issues that I have are ultimately resolved to my "satisfaction." It'd be nice if I didn't have to spend so much time in chats with Amazon customer service.
The web design company (http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/) seems out of business though :)
I think these take home assignments can cause undue resentment toward a company mostly because how the interviewers handle the process.

I interviewed with Algolia as a solutions engineer. Initial phone screening, followed by a pair programming session, followed by a take home assignment. I spent a good 4 hours on the take home assignment and as those hours passed I began to get more frustrated in the amount of time I was investing in an opportunity I still wasn’t sure about. They were still mostly faceless people and the team still a mystery. They poked holes over Skype in some of the ways I implemented their requirements. Never got an offer and I’ll never forget that time I wasted. Looks like their questions are still up...

First this:
https://github.com/algolia/solutions-hiring-assignment/blob/...

Then this:
https://github.com/algolia/solutions-hiring-assignment/blob/...

Part of the time sink was learning their product which I had no experience with. The second was deciding which of their js libraries to use (I picked the wrong one first so that wasted a good hour). One hour learning/setting up Algolia, loading data, etc. One hour writing meticulous html/css. 30 min writing js for the wrong Algolia library. 30 min writing js for the correct library. One hour answering the final written questions.

I interviewed with another company (Clara Lending) that actually had a very similar process but we reviewed the take home assignment during the onsite interview. I think I respect that company a lot (even though I didn’t get an offer from them either) because they gave me the reciprocal time in person.
Amazon is choosing to offer Prime in Hawaii
> It's an opportunity to have a meaningful and relevant conversation.

This sounds like the key and something many who complete take home assignments don't get.

[edit] Thanks for taking the time to add a bit more context.
>This is not true. Color lines were reinforced in ww2. It didn't recede. Black soldiers were routinely attacked by white soldiers. And japanese american soldiers couldn't serve in the pacific for a variety of reasons ( including being killed by their fellow white american soldiers ) and in europe, japanese soldiers were essentially killed off by their own white commanders in suicide attacks. Feel free to look up the death rates of japanese american soldiers in europe. It's horrendous. Pretty much a war crime.

Why is it that we forget the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Which cost 10-20mil+ Chinese civilian lives? Which was also an extremely grotesque human rights atrocity of an unbelievable magnitude.
Not everyone who gets scammed learns. Many people become "rubes" again and again.
> Personally for Apple I asked specifically to be given one of these instead of the whiteboard, as I get overly stressed in a “pop quiz” type setup. They still ended up pop quizzing me twice, and one of them I didn’t do well on.

I get a brain freeze when the clock is ticking. I've been practicing with ticking clock but its still hard.

None of the companies showed even 1% flexibility with their process. They say its a standard and they can't compare candidates if they use different methods for everyone.
CFTC complain links:

http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7675-18#PrRoWM...

http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7674-18#PrRoWM...

Second fraud is very common on bitcointalk. Many people who have gotten rich off bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies don't know how to spread their risk. They are not exactly investment savvy. So they routinely fall for fraudsters claiming to be expert investors. These fraudsters solicit coins to be converted to fiat and then invested in real estate or some other commodity.

This obviously is a bad idea because if you give say 1 BTC @ 10k USD, two things can happen:

a. BTC price increases to 15k USD. Now the fraudster needs to pay back 50% more in USD. So, the fraudsters routinely come back claiming the investment was a bust or they got hacked.

b. BTC price decreases to 8k USD. Now fraudsters need to pay 20% less. So they will come back claiming some family emergency and paying back all outstanding BTC obligations.

And I have tried explaining it to people on the forum only to be drowned with "This is FUD" posts.
So one have to parse a system specific file to get some insight...
How does it work well? The roads have never been busier.