skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sounds believable, until you consider that the standardize tests are all getting easier, too.
You've made a key point here that I continue to struggle with handling consistently: managing the address/history for an SPA. Is there any prescriptive guidance for doing so that is consistent within a given framework (e.g. Vue, React)?
You can spend your bandwidth on colors or you can spend it on pixels.

(I recall having a 1600×1200 mono display at work circa 1990 when a high-end PC was pushing 800×600 SVGA. Beautiful and crisp, but porn^H^H^H^H the internet killed monochrome monitors.)
Maybe it's valid to think of Python (and Javascript, and R, etc) as a DSL, where the Domain is very large, almost as large as Lisp itself, but not quite, just missing the elegant metaprogramming. A DSL for "easy-to-use coding by non-Lispers".
You Can Stream the World Cup Live in 4K for the First Time
They have the right, yes. But they'll still suffer the consequence of exercising that right, however, in lost readership.
I found this pretty interesting: https://medium.com/criciumadev/serverless-native-java-functi...

Single data point, but nevertheless.

Cold Execution Times:

Java Function -> 660 ms
Native Java Function -> 460 ms
Go Function -> 470 ms

Hot execution times:

Java Function -> 30 ms
Native Java Function -> 30 ms
Go Function -> 30 ms

Container Memory usage of Hot Function:

Java Function -> 17.8 MiB
Native Java Function -> 0.9 MiB
Go Function -> 1.2 MiB

Container Image Size:

Java Function -> 266 MB
Native Java Function -> 13.6 MB
Go Function -> 15.1 MB
done any assembly yet?
There are some:

https://flutter.io/showcase/

But yeah, I know a lot of developers who have started playing with Flutter in the last couple of months, so there should be a lot more later this year/next year.
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Allegro Common Lisp and LispWorks the surviving ones from Lisp Machine days.
As much as the system might be bad, remember the human behind the service.
We went really deep on this recently, as we looked to migrate off Keen.io for that exact reason (only time based queries, also it's really slow).

We didn't look at MongoDB due to too many people on the team having been burned by it in the past, but after looking at a lot of stuff we settled on Redshift with a Postgres database in front of it using dblink and foreign data wrapper. This allowed us to have extremely fast reads of common queries with only a 5 minute lag on data becoming available.

It's amazing what you can build with Postgres. I might write up a blog post about our exact strategy if that would be interesting to people.
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> 24. Mail.ru

Optics-wise, someone dropped the ball.
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Maybe because Lisp Machines alongside Smalltalk invented the whole IDE concept?
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Yes. That is correct. I fail to see your point since that is a large chunk of tech.
I think you intended to post this in the Who Is Hiring thread, whereas this one is for folks looking to get hired :)
@JumpCrisscross how independent are they really? The fact that they will not entertain a thorough audit is in itself instructive. Perhaps central banking is too "centralized" and susceptible to corruption even in a well-run system like the Fed (the fact that the dollar is the reserve currency and they fight inflation ruthlessly too the detriment of employment). Perhaps a p2p software system could help ;)
Two pointers compare equal if and only if both are null pointers, both are pointers to the same object (including a pointer to an object and a subobject at its beginning) or function, both are pointers to one past the last element of the same array object, or one is a pointer to one past the end of one array object and the other is a pointer to the start of a different array object that happens to immediately follow the first array object in the address space.

Can someone explain to me the rationale behind this?
Why not just "two pointers compare equal if they point to the same address"?
Clojurescript is pretty good, too, and can now be self-hosted. So it seems Clojure is not too tightly-bound to JVM.
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That doesn't seem to have anything to do with Cloudflare. Cloudflare isn't handling traffic for those sites. They both appear to be handled by Fastly. Also we are not down.

(Title was "Is Cloudflare down?" which is why I replied).
>There are theoretically better layouts than dvorak, but I think dvorak strikes a great balance between ergonomics and being available and easy to switch to on every operating system.

I disagree, and I'm a Dvorak typist. In any modern OS, Colemak at the least should be commonly available. Workman is a very good layout too, and should be pretty commonly available.

Dvorak's main advantage is that it's been around a long time, but it's not really the best layout IMO. One day I want to learn Workman as it seems to correct the flaws I see with Dvorak, and it should also (just like Colemak) be easier to learn for Qwerty typists than Dvorak.
> Mercedes, Audi and BMW, are producing around 6M cars, of which many are priced similarly or more expensive than Model 3

~$55k USD would be roughly equivalent to a 5 Series/E Class/A6. Combined, about 300,000 of these cars are sold per year in Europe. So to sell 800,000 Model 3s worldwide you've got to replace every single one of those BMW/Merc/Audi sales, and then some.
That's because wages aren't flat. All of the studies which claim wages are flat make one or more methodological errors. The errors primarily being 1) using different price deflators when calculating price inflation vs wage inflation and 2) not including the value of benefits in their calculation of wages. Studies which avoid those methodological errors have shown that wages have kept pace with inflation.
What we learned after 6 years of using Node.js in production
After I leave the store, I realize another piece of my humanity is chipped off. The cold mechanical sheen and faceless voice of the machine does nothing to warm my heart like a "how's your day?" from smiling lips of warm flesh.

Food is now just another objective to tap onto the clipboard. A long passionless journey from farm to mouth, untouched by human hands. Tasteless mass production.

/satire, almost
I'm going to give it a go when I get home - my concern was more for anyone who absentmindedly clicks through to a .xxx at work and gets flagged.
People might not have been aware that by choosing to shop at Walmart and Home Depot, they would help create this cycle, but we're firmly in it and there's no way out. Anyone that tries to train and reward employees more than necessary is not going to survive as a busines, especially in retail.

Retail and other business that deal with the public also have the problem that people are a pain in the ass from the whole "customer is always right" attitude. No one with options is going to choose to work in retail, so they will always be scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of employee talent.
Interesting, I was on Google's DNS. I've since switched and things appear to be working again!

Thanks for the link!
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absolutely, that's IMO the nugget of truth nested within horseshoe theory.
I'm interested in this; how much work is it typically to port a package over?

EDIT: I'm asking specifically a command-line package.
All the more reason to not hire based on schooling background as well.
Terrible ideas in git
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I graduated from RPI summa cum laude, with a dual major, in two honor societies, and went straight to a tech giant, working as a software engineer.

So I have standing to say that RPI has been mismanaged as an institution. Besides my personal experience, RPI's political troubles are well-documented and well-known [1][2][3]. With failed leadership and failed policies, this university has come to sit below CMU which itself is just below MIT.

UT Austin is a fine school from what I heard, and does not seem to have the toxicity of the RPI brand. That is, a second-rate school for second-rate students.

[1]https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Leader-Set-a-Toxic...

[2]https://news.vice.com/article/americas-highest-paid-college-...

[3] https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Troubled-alumni-sto...

Man, does this list goes on.
> Wealth isn't a zero-sum game

I keep seeing people say this but is there not a finite amount of wealth in the world at any given time?

There are also the finite land and natural resources required for wealth creation.
That's a lot of requirements for a junior developer. I guess the pay matches the qualifications as well?
This is amazing news!
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> they will not entertain a thorough audit

The Fed is audited by the GAO, the OIG, outside auditors, and its Board [1]. Its balance sheet is published weekly and closely scrutinized by the investing public as well as every bank.

> they fight inflation ruthlessly too the detriment of employment

The Fed has a dual mandate. Its post-crisis journey has been one of trying to stoke inflation.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_12784.htm
The other day I dropped in on a local scuba store that I've patronised as a customer and/or instructor for nearly 30 years. They've changed hands recently, and had a few new folk behind the counter. I waited for over 5 minutes, unacknowledged, literally 3 feet away, while two of these bozos had a private conversation. Then, when they eventually dragged themselves out of their customer service torpor - it got worse! And not for the first time. So I walked out, and finally decided to never go there again - and to start bagging them (instead of recommending them) whenever I could.

Scuba stores have traditionally survived on markups from equipment sales. Everything else is a loss leader. But now, people can get a wider range, of better equipment, delivered faster, at half the price - via the internet! Yet STILL, bozos like those guys can not be bothered to service someone who's made the effort to walk in the door!

It makes me wonder how many small businesses go under because of good ol' garden variety hopeless customer service, rather than anything else.
There are use cases where users run several applications on a single machine, which could even be shared by several users. They are the desktop PC, mobile phone, old school Unix server...

Now we see a use case (call it "microservices" if you want) where people want to run a single application as if it was alone on a machine, and where the concept of "user" doesn't even make sense.

This second use case is what unikernels are for. It may make a lot more sense to run a Unikernel application on an hypervisor than a whole OS in a VM, and probably than a container too.
It seems like a terrible security model to "trust whatever cell site is in range." Are there any alternatives to this state of affairs?

For example, can your carrier supply you with a whitelist of their towers and then ignore everything else? Or the legitimacy of each tower could be signed cryptographically by the cell providers? Of course you have to trust the security infrastructure of your cell provider, but that seems slightly better than just trusting everything by default. (Disclaimer, I know nothing about cellular infrastructure...)
Does anybody have recommendations for books or documentaries that evoke the general vibe of this era?
I live in NYC, and I follow transit news very rigorously.

This article underplays the extent of the problem, which is that the information they give is just not actually correct.

First of all, the MTA made a big deal about rolling out the subway countdown clocks across (almost) all the stations. Except, for the old BMT lines[0], the clocks are just... not actually accurate! They're literally just publishing the scheduled times, and almost never actually update it to correspond to a delay[1][2]. Delays are dramatically worse across every single subway line than they were ten years ago[3], so by this point, those scheduled times are almost completely useless. Thankfully, the BMT countdown clocks are a different style from the IRT ones, so as a rule of thumb: if it's black text on white background, then it's completely useless, and if it's green LEDs on black background, then it's probably-somewhat-useful, but still not necessarily up-to-date.

Even for planned service changes, they publish information in unbelievably obtuse ways[4]. Yes, they're technically correct. But the point is to communicate things clearly, not to publish statements that are defensibly not-wrong in a court of law.

Just last month, they decided to stop service for the express trains midtown (or run it in two segments - I never figured out which). They didn't tell anyone, so an entire train full of passengers went two stops downtown and two stops back uptown. Because they also held the train before one of the stations, we literally took half an hour to end up right back where we started[5].

[0] For the most part, any line with a letter instead of a number, like the A/C/E instead of the 1/2/3

[1] https://twitter.com/2AvSagas/status/950863996323794944

[2] https://twitter.com/2AvSagas/status/948727423444639745

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/28/nyregion/subw...

[4] https://twitter.com/2AvSagas/status/933826118364299266

[5] https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1000422530736377857