skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one from my high school in a southern capital city went to the ivy league as far as I know. I was a top student there, ended up getting my phd in cs from a top 20 research university, but not the ivy league. I have been on the west cost for 25 years working in top tech companies as a dev and leader (faangs etc) and I have never met a single person from my undergrad school - I have met people from my grad school. Should I have had a chance to go to an ivy league school or mit etc? Perhaps, I did apply but was rejected. I felt like because I was a white kid it didn't help me out there. Today I have so many people from mit, harvard, cmu etc working for me.

But I did just fine, there was plenty of opportunity to succeed in other ways. But would the schools have benefited with a single person from my state or city, instead of more people from a big city prep school on the west coast? My family was much poorer than the typical white rich legacy at an ivy league. But i was white. Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference and I'm fortunate, I doubt it hurt me.

I don't feel like I had a bad experience, but I'm just throwing this out there for the people complaining about prejudice because they are asian. My current company is full of successful, well educated asians, yet there were almost no black devs at google. Same for women. It was partly because there weren't any to interview or hire.
When i started working on project, i found a stackoverflow thread where most of people said that using

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can create lot of complexity
COBOL was never "hip". It existed to do work, not to excite or entertain. It's the parcel van of languages -- not a Tesla, nor even an SUV.

But for a lot of needs over the past 50 years(!), that parcel van does a reliable job.
Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need
Might be, that's a mistake! Though a updated my README
The file descriptor table too.
see also the financialization of the economy, where money chasing money is far far more valuble than building actual real things, in the real world.
Netflix bandwidth usage is pretty predictable and limited, as it's a realtime service that requires a human at the other end to consume the stream. Probably limiting-happy ISPs will sell you a Netflix worth of monthly traffic allowance at a reasonable price.

(And to nitpick, nothing really prevents unlimited traffic today with LTE - some places have multiple operators offering it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finnish-like-unlimited-mobile...)
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> Wireless connectivity is provided through a shared medium. For comparison you have wired networking where every customer has a dedicated medium, the wire, for themselves.

Isn’t wire also a shared medium? It’s not that there is an end-to-end circuit when you connect to another machine on the Net; your packets will be send along with others’.
Did you come across this on Codementor?
Hi Nick, thanks for answering questions in here.

Elsewhere you said

> We've further refined this idea by creating an independent non-profit body known as the Civil Council made up of well respected journalists and academics that can step in in situations where a vote was clearly motivated by political bias and not made in good faith.

Isn't this still centralisation? Either the Civil Council would not be necessary, in which case it's odd that you're setting it up, or it's still a centralised entity that has the final say and you might just as well skip the blockchain - or is my understanding incorrect/incomplete?
Having too little people isn't too bad, in my experience. There's a lot of things you could do, that you won't be able to do, but nobody will have hurt feelings when you don't do their thing when you don't have enough people to do it. If you've got too many people and you're still pushing back on features, you're going to have a lot more hurt feelings.

Plus, at least in my experience, if you know you're not going to have time to redo something, you do it right the first time :)
Disconnecting
Yes. The technology is here. I'm kind of amazed that no one is successful at creating a bearable and understandable UX for IPFS and the likes.
That was a really fun read. Reminded me a bit of when I used to read Bukowski and friends back in college. I should start reading more non-technical stuff again.
> it still seems shocking to me that human labour would ever be wasted on something so trivial

On the subject of "so trivial", how much time have you spent in the tropics during summer?
Apple #USB #Restricted Mode feature will make hard to crack devices
I didn't know these existed. Thank you so much!
That is how I learned cursive. Trying to write one line hundreds of times, the only efficient way is cursive.
negative reinforcement encourages negative behavior in subjects with varying results but systematic abuses you'd find with the likes of British boarding schools where a theory suggests homosexual power dynamics often found in such environments void of women produces predators (Jimmy the SAville) or the horrible Ceauşescu's Natalist policies that resulted in the ban of contraception and abortion in hopes of an increased economic output from an increased population (wtf) resulted in an entire generation of unwanted children growing up under state apparatus....

positive reinforcement I think is better.
This thread is a great example of why I love hackernews. It's these curious ones.
How is the BBC of all "the worst" element of public media? Compared to what? I have not yet seen a better public media outlet (there are some good pan-European collaborative projects but nothing of the scope of the BBC).
Source on that claim? Here's a comment chain where the author admits that his library is noncompliant: https://probablydance.com/2017/02/26/i-wrote-the-fastest-has.... Also note the complete lack of a standards test suite.

This library uses Robin Hood hashing for speed. As my original link explains, standard implementations use chained buckets so that users can cache lookups and to have better worst-case performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9675964
I think the idea is to respect the spirit of our laws and you won't get punished. Taking a risk here is fine, but make choices which are moral/ethical and aren't abusing your customers and are generally a positive for the economy. Do that, and if the laws turn in your favor, you'll probably do ok.

Government, good government, isn't trying to crush the entrepreneurial spirit. They also recognize that startups deserve a different legal arena than more established companies.
This article is nicely written but some figures to summarise data would be nice !
Shocker. The Department of Defense is actually primarily interested in "offense".
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But practically, Massive MIMO, small cells and 30+ GHz frequencies effectively mean that it's possible can provide more bandwidth than near-term consumers can use with 5G in most situations, if you just throw enough $$ at it.
There is an implicit but unspecified if clause to OP's sentence, possibly if I knew what the point of any of it was.
Does it though? I've worked with a really fantastic team and manager before, but the utter meaningless of the work, day after day, got to me in the end and I pulled the pin on it.
Like steam for movies.
Show HN: Beat the stock market with plans you can enter automatically while away
Hi HN,

I submitted an Ask HN earlier with a response so I figured I would throw up a web page and start posting some of the plans that I was working on for the market [1].

I started posting some plans to Reddit last week to create a log, you can see them here in my profile post [2].

I use a customized system which monitors different data from the different providers for the underlying stocks I am monitoring. It looks at volatility, spreads, and everything else it deems relevant.

Ask me any questions. Please feel free to provide feedback as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17270396
[2] https://www.reddit.com/user/marketgodfather
[3] http://plainsitemanagement.com/index.html
Min $50/hour.

If you also build custom plugins in PHP/JS with jQuery and so then probably a more.
It is not because you use a large prepackaged starting point that your skills are less valuable. In this scenario your ability to build anything on top of WP to get the job done is what differentiates you from the competition.
The 4th generic added to Go will be our memorial.

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Horses can run 30+ MPH, and humans have a tough time getting to 15 MPH. Still, over a long race, humans are faster than horses -- just need a race of several days! Lots of tribes in Africa discovered such things long ago.
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As data point. You can get "real unlimited data" plan for ~10EUR in baltics
I use an oled display on my phone. Black is really nice on it and I wonder if that changes things. Also I see this defense of not using black as an excuse to have a poor contrast ratio. I really enjoy black on white or vice versa because you can't beat that contrast.
This is a good point... But actually they call themselves ride sharing instead of commercial activities.
Well, except if your kids want it. Disney is probably in a good position there
I suspect there is some truth in this, in the same way we are commercialising everything in real life we are doing it online as well.
Comparing yourself to people on the internet is pointless so I'll skip that. I've been working for about 5 years and out of the technical people I've worked with I'd say I'm a better programmer than exactly one.

At times it's because of laziness (didn't read up on X), at other times due to temperament (I refuse to hold on to easily googl-able information), but frequently it's because of limited working memory or lesser ability for abstract thought.

I'm aware of impostor syndrome but I'm not sure this is a case of it.

This isn't stopping me from contributing on every team I'm a part of, getting consistently good feedback, getting interviews however. I feel in general, as you can get most things done given enough or even close to too much time, then you are generally valuable.
> remember that no country had achieved freedom from oppressive monarchs in Europe

Not totally true [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England
As someone who works in a central service unit not directly affiliated with academic research, I was given the chance to touch the lives of probably generations of students.

Emphasis on "touch", not necessarily "change". Still, it sometimes gives me goosebumps when walking through the halls and seeing all the people who are "forced" to use my work.

Pay is not great, but conditions are otherwise excellent.

(Founder/ Dev/ Lead of an electronic exam infrastructure at a large German university)
The beauty (curse?) of his case is that it will likely be a long time until we know for sure.

If he’s half as smart as a lot of people give him credit for being, it will take even longer to get to the answer.
Progress is a myth (or illusion, if you prefer) that forces reductive narratives. This is a fantastic example of that: the land-owning white man now has legitimate rights. However, one of those hard-won rights was the right to own your fellow man. That seems less like progress than marginal changes that improve life for a few, written in blood.

To see something that most would agree as progress, you’d have to consider a much larger time period, over a much wider demographic than the founding fathers managed to consider.
You seem quite defensive about keto and missed most of the point of my post. I wasn't writing about keto specifically, I just needed a few examples and that was one that came to mind at the time. You can sub in "eating nothing but sauerkraut and grapefruit" or anything else that springs to kind. My post was about self-experimentation in general. The "scares" you refer to, I did not claim were a result of a low carb diet - they were examples of the types of long-term issues that some of us would like to avoid. Unfortunately the impact of diet & lifestyle on those can be decades in the making - not to mention that some, like Alzheimer's, don't allow for do-overs - which makes it rather hard for an individual to employ self-experimentation to avoid them. The fact is that an individual won't be able to determine if consuming more or less of vitamin X or mineral Y will increase or decrease their probability of developing condition Z via self-experimentation for most of the scary conditions, let alone if vitamin X needs to be present in combination with compound Z, etc.

> choose your poison: do you think it's safer to be fat?

This is a false dichotomy. The choice is not keto or obesity. And losing/maintaining weight is one of the short-term & measurable goals I was alluding to. It's trivially achievable in a fairly short time with various approaches and keto is certainly one of them. Many of the others require less self-discipline than keto however, and a number of those have orders of magnitude more man-years of aggregated long-duration testing behind them.

> But don't believe the army of liars that's been spreading FUD consistently over the years.

That's good advice, but how do I identify which one is the army of liars and which one is the army of truth? :)
I think you're being a bit too jaded about this. It's less about the recommendation and more about the reach and discovery. There are numerous restaurants, vacation spots, and businesses that I would have never discovered on my own. Seeing a post for me is less about "oh I want to do what that person is doing" and more about "oh I didn't know that restaurant existed". This is incredibly valuable.
Is it? I'm not aware of the Oxford Comma being useful in a list of two. Maybe it's because we have the "Comcast and Disney"?
CF then A+. I think SEC gives pretty good choices already.

But majority ICOs just choose avoid US investors and SEC
Very much my experience too.

The only thing I found that worked for me in the end was what I call the "just work less" approach.

How?

Cut expenses to the bone, and then cut some more. Go contracting. Aim to work for money maybe three months a year.

I found the non-work portion of the year involved travel, reading, family, writing, and tech projects done for the hell of it. It worked, and my life felt much happier, and more in balance.

One of the biggest problems with the industry (aside from the generally meaningless nature of most of it) is the traditional 40 hour week. It just burns people out too fast.
You can associate lifetimes with handles just fine.
> Wireless connectivity is provided through a shared medium. For comparison you have wired networking where every customer has a dedicated medium, the wire, for themselves. This is what makes all the difference between actually unlimited and capped plans.

if you are willing to sacrifice on mobility aka fixed-wireless-access, there are companies that are trying to do this e.g. via beamforming, which essentially tries to make wireless a 'switched-media' rather than 'shared'.
It means he has a globe
haha - brilliant, and spot on!
> Isn’t wire also a shared medium? It’s not that there is an end-to-end circuit when you connect to another machine on the Net; your packets will be send along with others’.

not since you have had ethernet switches.
I love how he says that the result of seven riffles is “likely” to be unique, when in fact the result is very, very, very [very x 1000] likely to be the first time any human has seen that ordering of cards.
I worked at Theranos, and this is a glimpse of my story
why isn't there kids.youtube.com ?

why youtube kids must app-only ?
Is very much relevant, because it is an uphill battle in C and C++ communities to get certain groups to adopt better type safer abstractions if that isn't the case.
> It is very possible for the entire team to walk out on you

Possible: Yes, I guess. Probably: No. @3-10 people when growth is at or above expectation then the staff are almost always loyal to their invested interest unless there is a very big scandal.
Ready to be downvoted to hell, but I’d rather not force feed by kids with hours of unsupervised video. Any video at all
They are. And you see which capabilites are provided to the requster application on that account page
"But if there is a company, and it raises money by issuing a token to the public, it has the same securities-law obligations it would if it raised money by issuing stock or bonds."

And there's the rub. Sometimes, it's hard to tell.
Henry Ford created a car body from soybeans over eighty years ago:

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...
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One downside to this approach as far as I interpret it,

widget_handle widget = widget_manager_new_widget(manager);

is that it appears to require the user to either remember two values,

widget_tweak(manager, widget);

or the developer to push a variable into (at least) file scope,

widget_tweak(widget)
{
actual_widget = widget_manager_lookup_widget(manager, widget);
}

That's not super nice.

Most of the benefits described can be had by using pools rather than a naive heap allocator.

Seem like a nice way to hide bugs, though.
His problem though is not with side projects is it? It's the 40 hours cranking out meaningless crap in the office that's the issue here.

I've had no problem finding meaning in my side projects - the job I do for money though always seems to degenerate into a daily grind.
Exactly :)

My point was that EvilCorps using the metadata from GitHub was an unavoidable eventuality IMO [and honestly, it would probably be a Good Thing for developers, but whatevs...]. As it stands, that dataset is now going to be owned be a single EvilCorp. One who has a distinct mercantile incentive to exploit, instead of resell, that data.

If the concern is corporate exploitation MS ownership is more likely to reduce the number of exploitative partners to 1. Ironically a net win, for those sensitive to metadata reuse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330660
Unrelated, but I just checked his other posts about design and I miss 2012-era design so much. Nowadays everything seems flat and boring with no personality.
Nobody hit a ball through his windshield?
Technically yes, but the traffic for a whole city fits through a single strand of fiber with room to spare.
Searched thread for "Kafka", was not disappointed. Magical realism with a dark sense of humor..
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Not sure if you are sarcastic... exercise is great - if you ever did it you know. Meditation actually might be counter productive, recent studies show it's better to sleep then meditate.
This shows everything what is wrong witg race quotas. They are racist in it's core.

It also mocks the idea that underpreformence of certian ethnic grups is because of "racism" and "white privilege".
97% people in India are poor by global standards http://idronline.org/addressing-inequality-in-india/

They'll wait for 250 years
Don’t say “poach”
I think the designers (Apple) have targeted a certain class of apps with Swift, XCode and the underlying libraries (Cocoa). A majority of their existing developer base will likely benefit from what they've done. But from the point of view of new developers and someone who's just trying to use the hardware in an effective way, this is not a step forward.
I agree that this "meaning" is a hard thing to put your finger on.

But you know it when you see it.

I think it's maybe not so much about the actual work as how you feel about the work. I have worked on side projects that are not too dissimilar to the day job, but have felt far more meaningful to me - it's sometimes hard to define exactly why though! I used to think it was about helping others, and it is true that does feel meaningful, but I think there's more to it than that.
I think that maybe you missed it -- it means that he can find it on his Management Globe within 20 seconds.
https://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=36156
and not enough coupling arguments.
They looked incredible because he had scouts and fixers setting up the places before he went there. If you know some of the developing countries he filmed in, it is quite obvious -- and rather disappointing -- just how inauthentic his local encounters were.
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I think there is meant to be only one "manager" per object (thus, handle) type.
Why is it _always_ Bach? Every single time I hear the entirety of recorded music's history being dissected, Bach is the first - often the only - example brought to attention. Have this many people subjectively decided for themselves that Bach deserves this credit? Or do schools of music have a habit of teaching that Bach is objectively the best, as if it's a fact grounded in science?

Bach is to music as Shakespeare is to literature - if you don't nod your head in agreement like a brainwashed zombie when either of these men are stated to be the best in their respective fields, you're automatically dismissed by the crowd of "elitist snobs", for lack of a better redundant phrasing.

I don't side with contemporary works either. The current era (90s+) is so disgustingly cookie-cutter, superficially manufactured by record labels to shovel down our throats in bulk. The 50s through the 80s fared somewhat better; the studios still heavily controlled every aspect of the artists they signed, again following an (as-of-yet unperfected) recipe. At least back then, _some_ of the music managed to weave a story capable of evoking emotion and meaningful thought. I would agree that something has largely been lost over the past century: music no longer being composed, instead being "arranged"(?) to fit specific molds.

tldr; I suppose: a) Fuck record labels; and b) Stop with the "Bach is best" culture.
Cynical as it might sound I actually think this is a good approach. :)

Even if you can't RE you can go contracting and reduce hours dramatically, or do some other work outside of the industry.
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I was an ivy league admissions officer for a few years after college.

I promise you your application was viewed as "well, here's another really smart asian kid who's otherwise unremarkable from the other 1000 we'll see". Meanwhile, hers was treated like precious gold.
Of all the KPIs for development teams, how-f-ing-long-will-it-take is a pretty 'key' one, IMO.

It's not the only factor, it's highly product dependent, but it is very relevant to most outward facing activity...
Same in Austria (but 20 EUR instead of 10). LTE is a competitor for ADSL and Cable here and LTE providers sell WiFi routers that use LTE instead of ADSL/Cable as uplink.

I recently replaced my home ADSL connection with LTE (for 20 EUR a month: https://www.yesss.at/tarifoptionen/unlimited) and get approx 2x the download bandwidth and 10x the upload bandwidth for the same price as my previous ADSL connection. Even when there's congestion (which doesn't happen a lot) it's still significantly faster than ADSL.
A battery fire should have been detected by the BMS. It would be sampling an array of temperature sensors in the battery pack multiple times per second, and any temperature out of range events would be captured. This is either a huge failure of the BMS, which should have detected the fire and triggered a derating of the motor and disconnetion of the battery from the powertrain (which didn't happen as the driver was flagged to pull over by pedestrians), or this wasn't a battery fire.
Stopping the importation of slaves did not stop the growth of slavery by itself. Those born of chattel slaves became slaves themselves from birth.
Interesting. But in a modern Linux graphics library I would expect the usage of libdrm to paint instead of the /dev/fb interface.