skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, up until 3200 MT/s the IF has a lot of impact.

> the old days when CPUs used a Front-side Bus (FSB)

They still kinda do. It's not the bus, but there is one clock called BCLK (base clock) now and almost everything is derived from it. It's not adjustable on cheaper boards, but with a good board you can absolutely do the same adjustment :)
Can you please explain the term "Diversity Religion"?
Computers are very fast at sorting even 10s of 1000s of numbers these days!
I can see everyone's extremely happy about this, which is great. As someone who's never used it, I'd like to know more about FoundationDB and how it compares to other offerings such as MySQL or Postgres, and which use cases is it most suited to. I would especially love to hear the thoughts of those with direct experience of using Foundation DB. Thanks!
Charity also doesn't mean zero salary, does it?
Yeah, you don't have to set it up to actually do the scheduling. It can just connect the two in a private message and say something to the effect of, "You two figure out when to meet this week."
Why dispose them? They’re a great carbon sink and as long as we don’t make short graphene chains I think they’re also not toxic for the environment. The process described uses methane (greenhouse gas) and if the process would be done with renewable energy it could even perhaps be carbon negative?
As a practical matter, you get held in contempt of court until you decrypt stuff, and God help you if you're in the UK where they can hold people if they have a suspicion that you're hiding something.
If scale is a function of read/writes, very large. In fact with relatively minimal (virtual) hardware it's not insane to see a cluster doing around 1M writes/second.
I spent 4 or 5 years doing Powerbuilder apps, both for an Enterprise employer and as a consultant. I grew to know it inside and out, which made for a valuable skill for a while. But, as the article said, the web came along, and I hardly noticed when I closed up my Powerbuilder IDE for the last time.
Judge: “No problem, we take cash.”
The amount of times I've heard interviewers go "Oh I had this super experienced guy who but in the interview he couldn't even do some simple programming problem". To me that is a failure in the interview process. I've seen this when I've interviewed people. If people don't do well when their resume implies that they should, I'll discuss it with them and say we want to get some kind of confidence in their abilities. Then work out a way to do that. This has worked out really well in my experience. I've ended up with devs who are quite different from me, one person of note (who we employed), was much slower at solving problems but far far more methodical and exhaustive in approaching problems and often notices very subtle details (which is a good thing in firmware development!).
doesn't the answer boil down to marketing?

It is talking about expressing shared values (trough open source and mentoring) value (personal accomplishment) and warm fuzzies (being a fan of the company, product, etc.)

As to how to do that; learn it or hire someone. As you likely only have your hours to sell I'd say the case for outsourcing becomes compelling.
What is it with buying an RPi zero?

It has been out for a few years now but is never in stock anywhere for the advertised price of $5 ,it's sometimes available bundled with loads of crap you dont need for 10x this price, also you cant buy a qty of more than one anywhere.

If they've stuffed up the pricing and trying to reduce their exposure I am pretty sure a lot of people would be happy paying $10 instead.

I'm pretty sure there are more Tesla Model 3's being produced than Raspberry Pi Zeros :-)
In that case, why not say 13.5:9 instead of 3:2? Or 14.4:9 instead of 16:10? People confuse me.
Yes, they're not necessarily charities, but _in general_ they pay much lower than for-profit organizations.
And FoundationDB has held our data durable through all of this.
By how much does AVX-512 slow down your CPU? A first experiment
Yeah, this has killed etrigg.com
This is the format at almost every single company these days.

1. Initial phone screen with recuriter - 30 mins

2. Phone screen(s) - 1-4 hr

3. (optional) phone live-coding on coderpad - 1 hr

4. Take home assignment - 4 - 8 hrs

5. Full Day onsite interview - 2-3 days if traveling.

Rinse and Repeat for atleast ten interviews minimum you are looking at almost 1 month of pure interview time. Add on practise time for algorithms and puzzles.
I'm not sure I understand how you arrived at your first point. It seems to me that at a suitable temperature and oxygen content atmosphere, it should burn about as clean as natural gas. Why would you expect otherwise?

I also do not understand your second point. Surely, it is oxygen that is the missing ingredient in the burn rather than water vapor. What does water vapor provide to increase the rate of combustion?
This is definitely something to keep in mind, but we keep the requirements for the microservice extremely light for this reason (2 API endpoints). A solution submitted in a week with many extra features can be just as appealing as a solution submitted in a day with the bare minimum. It's not primarily about how much work is put in or how fast it is done; rather it is about the quality of what is included.
AKA hazing.
Show HN: Live preview of markup documents in MarkupKit 4.1
Switter was back online with a new CDN within a day because it's run from and (previous CDN aside) hosted in places where sex work isn't seen as a crime. They grew to tens of thousands quickly because they could tap into the existing federation, so they didn't need a marketing budget or sales team like Twitter.

People can make their own thing under their own geography-bound laws while still connecting with a global network. That's really neat.
> I have no idea. I can't tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn't - nor do I actually think it's important."

Well that was in 2007.

When did ISIS start showing up again? How were they funded?

Maybe the USA should be more conscious of where billions of dollars are disappearing to...
It sounds like the best path forward might be to document the NodeJS serialization format in perfect detail and create a test suite to verify all known corner cases. Until that's done, alternative implementations will be unreliable.
Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on the Russian arrested for laundering the stolen bitcoins: "“What he did, Mt. Gox is a victim of this, which means that all creditors are victims of this, and I am too a victim of this.”
> What baffles me is how intelligent people want to live in a society where the only people who have a choice about having a gun are lawbreakers and law enforcement, thereby putting themselves at the mercy of criminals and the response time of the police.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but it seems to me that more guns simply mean more opportunities for shooting people. Let's go to the other extreme, and have everyone carry a concealed weapon so they can defend themselves. (Let's exclude former criminals, and whoever didn't pass the psych evaluation).

The only outcome I can see is a ten-fold increase in shootings. If someone snaps for some reason, and they have a gun, they can do quite a bit of damage. I can see them killing a couple people before their surroundings react and shoot them back.

Now it's a whole spectrum, and a "no gun ever" may have some downsides too. Still, I like to live in a place where guns are not easy to come by.
The story of ispc: Origins
Imagine if this took place on the blockchain :)
I would add most companies do not have the product/engineering/ux talent to approach this problem. Stripe is in the unique position that its talent can execute on several internal “projects” that each individually could justify an entire company to build. Most founders / leaders care deeply about their enriching their teams’ camaraderie and collaboration -- even if only from a cynical rational perspective of onboarding, productivity and retention efficiency (though I would argue from talking to many of them there is also a benevolent side to that). It is an hard problem to get right and Home nails several important details.

Disclosure: I am a founder of https://slab.com that is also addressing this as a scalable SaaS solution.
Susan Kare, the Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile
I'm at a "tech" place, but we're very small (8 developers).

Laptops, printers, email, document storage and so on is part of the software development team's responsibility -- so we outsource all of it, and spend a little time on it roughly every 6 months for a new system or similar.

"Hey, I can't print". "Here's the helpdesk number for the people we pay for printers". (Some people were annoyed at first, but understood when they saw the developers' salaries compared to what we paid for the "boring" services.)
Is 800 transactions per second good? It seems like a low number but what do I know. I am impressed that Europe's largest betting system only does 800 transactions per second.
Faecebook
There are some (for the Octocopter from Workhorse)

http://workhorse.com/surefly
The top players in a field with a lot of commercial potential can claim high salaries, even for doing quasi-academic research mostly on things they want to research.

That said, I'm reminded the champion of the effective altruism movement made his name arguing that charities ought to rigorously audit their efficiency in turning donations into results before recommending $30m of foundation cash went to this particular speculative nonprofit research project his roommate and future brother in law happened to work at...
This is absolutely true. Our company's website leaves much to be desired (and I'm in charge of it!) but we do not solicit or receive leads from it.
So a tiny handful of top performers - plausibly few enough that you could fit them all on a schoolbus - in an ultra-hot technical field are raking in huge sums, for the moment.

Unless you are a top professor at an R1 research university or have a PhD from an R1 university studying under the other top minds in the field or are otherwise in the most elite fraction of the profession, it doesn't sound like this is particularly useful information for the average practicing or aspiring data-tician. What's the typical salary for someone with, say, a two-year professional masters?
Hey thank you!

I really appreciate it that you took the time to write that out.
While Google and Microsoft are not included, JSDelivr (StackPath+fastly+CloudFlare+Quantil) compares themselves to MaxCDN (now StackPath which is the official jQuery CDN) and CloudFlare (the cdnjs provider) here: https://www.cdnperf.com/cdn-compare?type=performance&locatio...

KeyCDN has an online asset performance tool that we can use to compare the hosted jquery.min.js files. The numbers included here are results received (to the San Francisco location) in ms of [DNS lookup time] / [time to connect to server] / [overhead of TLS connection on individual asset] / [time from client HTTP request to receiving first byte from server]:

Original, jQuery CDN:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://code.jquery...

8 / 2 / 79 / 85

Google:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://ajax.google...

32 / 2 / 132 / 155

Microsoft:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://ajax.micros...

128 / 3 / 122 / 130

Microsoft ASP.NET:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://ajax.aspnet...

128 / 3 / 114 / 120

jsDelivr:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://cdn.jsdeliv...

64 / 3 / 118 / 129

cdnjs:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://cdnjs.cloud...

64 / 2 / 118 / 125

Yandex.ru:

https://tools.keycdn.com/performance?url=https://yastatic.ne...

32 / 139 / 667 / 993

When I tested them, only jsDelivr and cdnjs/Cloudflare recieved green results (under 200ms time to connect and under 400ms time to first byte) from all 16 worldwide test locations. Averaging the results between these two across 16 locations, I would go with jsDelivr who had a faster average TTFB. The fact that they are combining CloudFlare, Fastly, StackPath, and Quantil (who I had never heard of until today) might explain their global results.
>With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut.

Wouldn't be too hard considering the amount of valid concerns regarding her practices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
The metaphor there is trying to gouge/scam someone by pretending like the shininess of a penny is tied to its value. I can't read the article because of the paywall, but I'm a
hahahaha you made me slap my forehead, someone did tell me that the other day and I forgot to fix it. thanks for reminding me!
You might like https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

Feel free to open a Github issue with any feature requests.

"RSS feed of replies to a comment" is a particularly good one. I'll definitely look into adding that.
I've gotten a couple of 24 hour tests - they were released electronically so you are timed from when you choose to start to when you turn it in and both times was graded on how much time it took you - more than 24 hours and you failed. One of them had two puzzle questions and I understood how to one of them in an hour or so but didn't figure out the trick for the other one until I took a shower a couple of days later but since I could only do one of them I immediately just told them I would pass on it.
If I understand correctly, the legal system can’t force any kind of transfer.

It can, however, apply penalties for not doing what it says.
This is pretty sweet assane101!

I've only been playing with this for a little while. I love how you already had in mind that this would be used on the phone, so that the controls at the bottom can interact.

I'm sure those may be easy to implement, but its nice that you had that fore-thought.

Is this just a hobby project, or do you plan to expand upon this idea?
I'm not seeing any lorem ipsum at this url.
Maybe? But even something as simple as an analysis of human height has genetic/ethnic, nutritional, age and gender components, not to mention historical differences. If your input is name, and your output is predicted height, knowing and testing for bias in your data sources is definitely important.

I think where people get caught up is that they don't see the world at large as biased, because they view their understandings as essentially correct. For example, we expect judges to rule fairly on every case, right?

To pick a non controversial issue, likelihood of parole is apparently effected by how recently the judge ate https://www.economist.com/node/18557594

Now, parole data accurately reflects how people were paroled, so predicting likelihood of clemency requests is a perfectly valid use of that data. If you were doing machine learning to try to help people get paroled, you'd want to leave that bias in as a predictor, because it's unfair but real.

But you'd probably want to adjust that data to correct for the recently having eaten bias if you were writing a system for parole recommendations for new judges based on past judicial decisions.

You wouldn't want people to be more likely to be denied just because they came before a judge before lunch. And if you don't test for a bias like that, how would you be able to tell that the machine learning algorithm had it? And it wouldn't even need to be direct... seeing people A-Z in court could mean a bias based on name.

Long story short, bias is a real issue, and you need to be aware of it and test for it, not assume that your input data isn't effected by human error.
What does "$60 Trillion exposure on derivatives" even mean?
So the feed is public like Twitter?
Awesome! Thanks for the response. So Im assuming Stripe doesn't use any outside vendor for HR people management and that it's a home grown product?
Haha, nope, not Todd.
yeah this is correct, I get sales through word of mouth and resellers, the website is really just a holding page
Sorry, realized it wasn't public. Just updated, should be there now!
Progressive enhancement is largely a myth.

A lot of libraries, JQuery, Lodash, Angular, Vue, React, Bootstrap's JS, module loaders, etc aren't simply offering "improved interactivity" they're offering core functionality. In essence the site runs on these libraries, if you remove them there's nothing left to regress too.

I've worked in several companies and never seen progressive enhancement used. It might have made sense back in the IE6 era when JavaScript was just for whiz-bang, these days JS libraries are holding the whole site's data context/state and generating Ajax as needed (Vue, Angular, React, etc). That's core, there's nothing progressive that can be removed from that.

Progressive Enhancement only makes sense for small toy sites or for academics to play with. Even Netflix's famous examples are about web services going offline, not losing core JavaScript libraries.
I wouldn't have paid.. at least not in a single transaction.
This is stupid. They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. It's easier and saves everyone time.
Exactly. The previous poster doesn't seem to grasp the nature of stress and its variants relative to the social or work situation.

To echo your point, fixing a bug with someone you just met standing over your shoulder clock ticking, is nothing like fixing a bug at your regular place of work.

In an interview, if you don't perform the task well, you can fuck off back to the street where you came from. In your job, you get to ask colleagues, consult previous project code, refer to in-house or external documentation, and calmly analyse to figure it out under your own "in the zone" steam.
This looks like an amazing product. I'm stunned they're sharing this sneak peak as simply a way to encourage engineers to apply to Stripe.

Does anyone have a sense of whether they intend to ship this as a product? It's incredibly validating for what I'm building right now.
I'm not an AI researcher (although from my internet reading that's not a hard title to claim ;)) but I feel that ML/DL can't go much farther than they already have. The concept of "we just need more power" is an obvious fallacy to me.
If you can't tell in a ten-minute casual conversation whether or not someone is grossly lying on their resume, you probably shouldn't be an interviewer.
Degrees don't matter. (Business focused) results and a track record of delivering do. Still impressive remuneration though -- he must be adding tens of millions in profits to the bottom line.
> All weapon makers share responsibility for the deaths involving the weapons they make if the makers claim the object was created to kill people.

I quite strongly agree with this statement. Indeed some inventors, like Alfred Nobel, have felt this way.

Would you mind arguing why it doesn't hold up to scrutiny?
Know of any ideas around using this for long term Time Series data? Wonder if maybe something like OpenTSDB but with this as backend instead of hbase (which can be a sort of operational hell)
Agreed that many, if not most, of the trackers on most websites are at the very least overkill, if not actively negative. I disagree that I need to be reminded that websites use cookies with a modal or popover every single time I visit a website that I visit daily.
Nominet's WHOIS GDPR Policy
What would you have the AF/Navy/Marines fly instead? The Harrier is so far gone we've had to buy the entire remaining fleet from the Brits. The original Hornet the Marines use is on its last legs, and the Super Hornet is nowhere near good enough for near peer competitors.

F15/F16 can soldier on for a decade or more as long as they're out of range of S-300 and above SAMs. There aren't enough F-22s in our inventory, and no prospects of re-opening that production line.

The AF and USN are investigating a 6th-gen fighter, but that will be a long ways off since money is being spent like crazy on the B-21.

And back to the development process; modern aircraft are more complex, and do take longer. You can't just go back to a design/devel project from the '60s anymore than game developers can crank out a AAA game like Dave Theurer Atari did with Tempest.

And if you look at aircraft projects around the world, they all take forever. Look at Rafale, or Eurofighter, or Su-57. Developing aircraft has to include political considerations, (look at the TFX proj) as much as technical.
It doesn't make them wrong but it does make them careless. If you build something on a weak foundation, knowing it will all come tumbling down sooner or later you'd better make sure beforehand where to go when the floor gets pulled from under you. With that I do not mean 'the Bahamas' but rather an alternative for the external dependency which can take over its role with as limited an impact for customers as possible. Doing so is not just good stewardship but it might also reveal new opportunities which otherwise would have been overlooked. By making things like Facebook optional you both reduce your own dependency on their antics as well as Facebook's power. The former is good for your own personal well-being, the latter is good for everyone else.
Which large scale open-source or commercial software is using s-expr today?
They wanted it done by Monday. Then I got to choose which day of my weekend I wanted to sacrifice: I chose none and I'll begin my new position at a company that respects my time Monday.

To be clear: I've been given take-home "challenges" that take 2 - 3 hours each. Including at the company I wound up going with. I have no problem with these. If you expect me to sacrifice a full day of my time then you can pay me or find someone more desperate than I am.
Microcode is indeed distributed through Windows Update as well. And packages on other OSes. And applied at boot time.
Sure, his statement contradicts the classical definition of market, but we all know markets can become divorced from reality during bubbles. I'm assuming that was his real point.
Not RSS but there's an email notification service for HN that is very nice http://hnreplies.com
> I’m just intrigued as to how you have developed this perception of GDPR and data protection law looking to regulate small one man blogs out of existence?

There are huge industries with vested interests against privacy and consumer data protection and they have deep pockets. That person, if not instrumental in spreading misinformation, must then be a victim of it.
Oddly enough as someone who graduated with a Bachelors in 2013, I never would have thought I would have had hands on experience with PowerBuilder. But my first job out of college was a company that sold a product built in PowerBuilder and they hired me to do some work to gradually phase in newer web technologies. Said employer actually paid to have a PowerBuilder consultant/trainer come in and give me (and some others) on site training. Of course by this time SAP already owned PowerBuilder.

To be honest, I don't hate it. It wouldn't be my first choice as a tool, but it really wasn't bad. It certainly made trade offs...but I can't remember any time I thought a design decision was "terrible".