skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checked it on Pingdom, from Melbourne, it failed after one minute of trying to load, with 585 requests and 3.4mb.

I always find it difficult to imagine what kind of process leads to that result. The developers can't be happy about it, surely. It has to be a case where management and everyone else throws things they want into the project, a big concensus party, and you end up with a bloated monster at the end.
Do people who work 40 hours a week get promoted?
Maybe but your evidence is annecdotal. Good engineers leave huge companies all the time but it is usually balanced by inflow. I guess we have no evidence of inflow as compared to outflow of good engineers.
> Any implementation ideas for that perishing? Starvation? In the streets or organized in ... camps? Or something quicker, the arena perhaps? Suicide booths? "Perish" is such a comfortably abstract term...

If a given person is smart enough, they will see that their strategy isn't working, sell their tools and use their remaining resources to learn something new. Not-so-smart types will try out crime; that's what police, courts and prisons are for. Even-less-smart types will indeed starve.

Thing is, anyone who reaches this point is clearly incapable or unwilling to perform any valuable task.

(Or in the meta-sense, to learn how they can perform a valuable task... w.l.o.g.)

At which point the obvious question arises: what is gained by doing anything more than getting such people out of society's way as efficiently as possible?

Or: why are you loading your question in exactly the wrong direction? The obvious answer is "whatever method is most efficient". Perhaps whoever runs an arena can collect enough admissions fees to offset cleanup, land, and other expenses. But it's all - as are so many things - a question of facts-we-don't-have.

> Personally, I suspect that one day, unlikely within our lifetime, ethics will evolve to the point where it becomes acceptable to pay people for getting sterilized. This could turn into the biggest boost to average education since mandatory schooling.

I already hold these beliefs; I merely lack the resources to do this and everything that is more important. (Which is quite significant, really; "improve society-at-large, effective after I am dead" is about as far down the priority list as I can think of.)

Provided that the exchange is voluntary, mind you - if this scheme were to be conducted via government then dystopia could easily follow suit.

But in the absence of such a downfall, this is the only form of "danegild" that I think is really feasible.
I'm medically handicapped. I sometimes go through periods where I struggle with neurological impairment.

During one such period, I complained to my son that putting my damn shoes on had become the hardest part of my day. He said "Shoes! How the fuck do they work?"

I died laughing and snickered about it for weeks. Some acquaintance had recently been a jerk to me about something I had said that they didn't get and had given me the pity treatment instead of laughing with me (not at me). My son's joke sympathized with my frustration without pissing on me and it was very, very welcome.
This is what gets me about housing in SF. OK, it's a hot market and a typical home is $1.5M. I get that.

But that same $1.5M home is probably a 1920's floor plan (one bathroom, no storage, tiny bathroom) and hasn't been updated in decades.

If you want what most of the rest of the country deems a middle class house, you're looking at $2.0M+ unless you're living in a neighborhood with shootings.
NT had POSIX subsystem too.

What Linux (and NT POSIX to certain degree) allowed, was to move the existing investment in software from hodge-podge of mutually incompatible, but expensive UNIX systems, to somewhere else.
But Amazon's war chest is near infite. Jet had half a billion in funding but was barely making a dent (while bleeding money) against Amazon and its unprofitable for anyone else pricing. Amazon barely makes a profit with their streamlined system so how can anyone compete with that.

And we've seen what they can do when a competitor emerges like diapers.com. They bury them in the ground Walmart of the 90s style.
>> As a general matter, you can't prove a predicate true or false by automatic means.

Not in the general case, sure, yet in practice I'm sure we've all written plenty of code that terminates just fine. [Edit: I'm talking about imperative as well as logic or functional programming code].

The question then is- what does it mean when a program terminates? In the case of principled approaches like logic or functional programming, you have a pretty good idea what that means (e.g. a logic program proves a theory true or false). When an imperative program terminates, it's a very hairy affair to say what, exactly, termination means.

[Edit 2: Actually, if you think about it, there's nothing we can really achieve in the general case (including machine learning; see language learning in the limit). In practice, on the other hand, we're doing things, alright - by continuously relaxing principles and fudging limits as necessary (see PAC learning)].
Wow, I didn't know that! I thought the tracking protection was just about the DNT header and I didn't expect that to make much difference here. However, even disabling that, I only get ~200 requests. There's still a lot missing... is it still blocking things under the hood?
A text file?

I tend to just write stuff grouped by category into a text file, with timestamp tags (today is 180717). Nothing i tried was more comfortable and portable than that.

Standard search function of text editors take care of tags and searching. Picking a text editor is great customization.
How Fantastic Negrito went from sleeping rough to stardom
Interesting to note that the SSD is literally 4 chips permanently soldered on both sides of the motherboard, they don't even bother with an NVMe M2 drive. So you can't upgrade your hard disk to a larger one ever - you have to choose when you buy it.

I guess that contributes to it being the fastest ever hard disk in a laptop:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/2018-macbook-pro-fastes...
I didn't mean it quite so literally. The point is that those who do get cold sores regularly would know what it is and wouldn't normally seek treatment or get tested.

So that's why I think the people included in that study must be somewhat atypical.
And after all these years there still isn't a good weighted (by number of ratings) SORT option for those star ratings.
Same here.

IMHO, Slackware is close to the local maximum in the space of imperative distros. I think adding dependency resolution is the only thing it misses vs Arch or Void. But like those, it's barebones and it ships simple lean binary packages. Going back to Slackware was a brisk of fresh air when Ubuntu and friends got too complex. Sometimes things break, and it's hard to understand why due to the overwhelming amount of things they ship with.

There's nothing like having total control of what you are running, and Slackware is really good at this.

I think the future are functional distributions like NixOS or GuixSD. For many use cases, they are just ready for prime time. For others (e.g. R or Julia), where heavy patching / wrapping of packages is needed, there's still a bit of work to be done.
Some of the comments here suggest that the Google's perks are bad because they corrode work/life balance and encourage employees to stay longer.

Having worked at some of the FANGs, I can say that this effect of these perks on work/life decisions is very very small. Most people enjoy the perks and do what they were going to do anyway. Most of my teammates won't stay for free dinner because they'd rather spend time with their friends and families. Most people work from home all the ~once/week.

When work/life balance is bad, it's because of a desire to perform or managerial pressure; not because you get free food and an on-site dentist. Generally the perks are conveniences and genuinely nice to have, and if they are part of a sinister plot to exploit workers, they are pretty bad at it.
If you are big enough it's hard to miss you.
I've heard a theory that the slow southern accent was due to a hookworm outbreak. So maybe historically at least there was some validity in the assumption.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/how-a-worm-gave-the...
Why even care about this meaningless distinction? Households can give other households guns. What's important is if there are enough guns and ammunition for every person, not how they are distributed unless it's extremely skewed to a very specific part of the population.
Again: who is "we" and -more importantly - how do we decide which/how-much resources to grant?

Write a nice letter to the Gates Foundation? Steal from the productive and call it "taxation"?
Lisp-1 fails to prevent the situation that the left position of a form is treated specially, both syntactically and semantically. Yet, the evaluation-strategy is sold that way to programmers: "look, symbols all positions of a compound form are treated uniformly".

It is not true syntactically, because special operators are recognized only in the leftmost position, as are function-style macros.

But it is not even true when all symbols in the form are variable bindings. Because at some point, the function is called, and that is not uniform. The leftmost thing is treated as a function being invoked, and the others as arguments being passed. These are different categories. We take the leftmost object and activate its ability to behave as a process; and we don't do that for the other objects. That's effectively a different semantic space.

Objects potentially have two "semantic bindings": a binding to the ability to behave as a function (denoting a process which takes arguments and produces values, and possibly side effects) and the trivial binding to the value that they denote; e.g. the integer object 3 to the abstract integer three. These bindings are two spaces, effectively. Therefore, Lisp-1 doesn't get away from two spaces. It resolves the leftmost object of a call form in the "function behavior space" and the remaining objects in the "value denotational space", in order to bring about a function call.

Lisp-2 has a cleaner story/explanation of operators. It simply embraces the idea that the left position and argument positions are different, through the entire evaluation stack, rather than trying to pretend they are the same.

In a Lisp-2, you cannot write an expression which refers to an operator as if it were a variable. Whereas in Lisp-1, meaningless nonsense like (progn progn) is possible, in a Lisp-2 this can exist with a meaning. The potential that we can give any form meaning is a core theme in Lisp. The fact that we can bind a progn variable so that (progn progn) works is more "Lispy" than having to give up and conclude that it's an absurdity.
I appreciate the edit for anyone whom has not experienced goatse as it also put my age in check.
would make sense: space, environment, reality, decision, hope .. not unrelated IMO
Only a minority speak English.
Show HN: Server Driven Rendering for React Native
we strike a ton too, especially in quebec

just look up province names + strike
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Honey has the same basic features of camelcamelcamel, but they present it more as a warning of recent price changes than the drill down chart of ccc. I use both
Lessons Learned from Roblox's $2.4B Valuation
That's true, but it's also by design. If winning five counties would be enough to win the election, then it would very much change politics and the kinds of issues we find in presidential politics (Iowa, etc.) would disappear. It's not perfect but it's very much preferable to a popular vote system, even though sometimes a candidate wins who we don't like.
Thanks, I might even go for a hardcover then,it's around cdn$100 from reputable sellers on amazon, if truly a successor to APUE that's worth it.
There is consumer choice. If there's anything the Internet has taught us, seemingly unstoppable companies usually have the most spectacular explosions.
>it's an entirely contrived problem he invented to be a tiny little bit richer.

That would be why.

Amazon exists to make Jeff Bezos and the shareholders as rich as possible, full stop.
It depends on whether or not the mansion is located on the top of a hill.
So it's an example of, "being poor is more expensive than being rich"

Any other pluses to doing it this way?
If you get fired or laid off, then you get another job.
Agreed. What does he or his allies have to gain from this? Sinclair is known to force programming on the station disguised as local news in line with Trump. Pai's known for a series of positions that deliberately favor Sinclair, so I'm always questioning what the ulterior motive is. Did Sinclair do something to raise the hackles of the Republican party in spite of otherwise heavy heavy slant to the party line?
Low observable aircraft can use passive sensors for some purposes, and can also accept data links from other offboard radar platforms. The latest radars are also difficult to detect and can be turned on for a few seconds at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_r...

Future radars will probably be designed to emit signals that look like random wide spectrum noise, and then rely on advanced signal processing to assemble the reflected "noise" into a useful picture. It will be challenging for adversaries to detect those emissions in a useful way.
Easy litmus tests to measure a person’s worth stand in a very awkward contrast to your purported “humility and compassion.”

Of course, you’re talking about decisions on whether to interpersonally engage and your advice seems fine and good until the last sentence.

Let’s be honest:
This is a selfish pursuit and “humility and compassion” are the wrong words. Open-minded works so go with that.

But look into humility and compassion. Our society is is desperate need of the real thing.
A lot of the ads were shown prior to Prime Day . They were to drive traffic to Amazon on Prime Day and not to promote product the day of.
This is an interesting question and I'm still pondering on the implications.

I am generally in favour of people signing up for this (or not opting out as the case is now) because it very well may save their life one day. Emergency departments especially will benefit in being able to look up details on the patient. It's amazing how little most people know about their own health history.

I suppose it may also help me if I end up in ED unconscious and have some health condition they would need to know about. That situation is unlikely, and even if it did happen they could call my wife, who is also a doctor, and she'd also know what's important in my history.

So for me, there's very little benefit I see. Couple that with my distrust of the Australian Government's ability to outsource their critical infrastructure to American companies (facepalm) and have it actually work (facepalm), I'm leaning towards opting out.

For patients in general, I think the benefit to them will outweigh the risk of their personal data being stolen.

If only our government wasn't so inept with IT (we have plenty of good developers here. Why not make our own teams to build things?) I would be able to recommend this health initiative to everyone.

Edit: autocorrect fail
LLVM Weekly – #237, July 16th 2018
Netflix shares plunge as subscriber growth stalls
Oh, the memories. Like many others in this thread, Slackware was my first. I still smile thinking about the bootstrapping process I managed to figure out (I was ~12 years old at the time). We didn't have much money, which meant we didn't have a whole bunch of floppy disks laying around. I managed to scrounge up enough of them to get the A series and a subset of the N series (just enough for PPP and FTP). Once I got a working setup, I dialed into our ISP and slowly downloaded extras until I had a usable system. First X, and then a graphical browser, and then the rest. Fond fond memories.
I honestly don't understand how twitch even exists. I play video games on occasion but can't imagine wanting to watch someone else play.
I think they meant that if you're on vacation you maybe shouldn't be looking at the computer.
Well your kids can't afford to buy their own home so they probably live with you and help with expenses...
It depends what the stream is for them. If someone is streaming a game they would be playing anyway in their spare time they probably don’t care too much. If someone sees it as their ticket out of a job/career they hate I can see where the frustration would come from.
If they have no use for their money they should give it back to the shareholders who then invest it into companies that actually need it.
You didn't answer the question, did you?

The OP's point was that the "crisis" exists in regulations which allow the farmers to use as much water as they currently do, not in available water supply.

It's not a simple question, really. Do the farms need as much water? Does the state need as much agriculture going on? "Call your governor" is not helpful here.
Felix Dennis called it “point at the sky” cargo-cult success modeling. Even so, Walmart C suite and veeps were notorious about whom could arrive the earliest and appear to work the most. OTOH, 37signals would say “fire the workaholics.”
I'm going to guess copy-on-write is 90% of what makes it fast:

"To be fair, Apple’s relatively new APFS file system is designed to speed up file copies using a technology Apple calls Instant Cloning. But a win is a win."
And also on your office's acoustics.
My on again off again wander into the world of streaming/letsplaying/podcasting improved my ability to speak infinitely. Before I started I was the guy that spoke in mumbles or from behind a hand in front of my mouth
Fisker outsourced everything.

Fisker who?

Valmet Automotive build the A Class Mercedes, they used to build the Porsche mid-engine products and plenty of other quality cars. It went badly wrong with Fisker.

Outsourcing is no magic bullet, design, management, sales, marketing, supply chain management, finance and plenty of other stuff has to happen.

The bit we only ever see on the news is final assembly - the production line. The sub-assemblies are not shown.

There was a time when things like seats were made in house by the auto makers. Over time the likes of Johnson Controls have ended up doing all of that. The 'persons needed to make a car' goes down dramatically if you have a guy and a forklift dropping off the seats at final assembly with those seats coming from a supplier. If you have a gigafactory sized floor full of women and sewing machines making seats, dashboards and steering wheel covers then 'persons needed to make a car' goes up considerably.

There was a famous strike in the UK where the women that made the seats went on strike - allegedly they were not getting equal pay. Ford could not sell cars without seats in them so it was not a good situation.

The real reason for outsourcing some parts and not others is because the outsourced components can be better than what you can make in house, even if you are Elon Musk.For instance, in a crash you do not want that plastic dashboard to shatter into pieces that can kill the driver, you want it to disintegrate more gracefully. Although the Tesla may be with its own funky design the interior is almost certainly mostly outsourced to the same companies that make all the other interiors but specified differently.

The example in the Munro teardown of the rear view mirror, that is something that can be specified correctly for a contractor to make, for someone on final assembly to just glue in place. The other brands - GM and BMW presumably have traditional embedded electronics driving the thing, not some high end 'PC' tucked under the back seats. So they have to specify a more convoluted mirror.

Tesla did learn from the original Roadster on what they needed to do to build a car. There was a poor cultural fit between what they were trying to do and their 'leaded petrol' friends at Lotus etc. were doing. As evidenced by the unfortunate Fisker Karma there is no way to magically build a car just by getting the whole thing outsourced.
Even with better conditions, if the rate of pay isn't enough for an employee to earn a living (food, shelter, amenities) even when employed full time, it's inhumane.
Dart + Flutter is for building native iOS and Android apps. Fuchsia will surely be a target in the future, but it is not THE host for Flutter apps.
There is never just one project. So these employees can keep improving the original project and create new ones. Do you think these consultants will do all that maintenance? Many projects fail before release and others just last for a few years. A government owned software department would be a great way to save money and improve all aspects of the application life-cycle.
AWS employee and bar raiser here.

>Something no one has mentioned yet, could it be that the engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be?

In many regards, yes. The bar had to be lowered to meet the demands of growth. We've also taken in a lot of hires from companies that have brought their culture and friends with them. The culture at Amazon is not what is was even 2 years ago. It is in many places day 2.

No one also seems to notice that Amazon retail often suffers widespread issues like this. We can count on SEV1's happening during peak as things blow up badly. This has happened several years in a row, and sadly the themes are pretty much the same across all: forgot to scale (yes...really) or some stupid system bottleneck. It doesn't help that Amazon retail has a good amount of its workforce based in India and seemingly disconnected from the Seattle based leadership.
Dumb question, but how would it fare on a ppc64le box like the (OpenPower) Power9 Talos II? https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prerelease.php
As someone who watches a lot of Dota (at an esports bar with strangers who may or may not know dota) and plays very little, you’re half right.

In football You don’t need to know, exactly, which way the plays are going to go and why, but you do need to know the rough constraints of the game and what is physically possible to perform.

Some of the things that happen in dota are utterly impossible to follow unless you have, at the very least, a knowledge of the (on average 3) active abilities of the ~110 heroes.
As someone who previously worked in the government of an American state known for its bureaucracy and corruption, there are a lot of people on the inside who dislike bad processes and bad apples just as much as users do, but they're not empowered to do so, either through inertia or lack of funding or whatnot.

The quintessential examples are transportation departments and urban planners. A lot of them are aware of newer developments in those fields, and that the current paradigms are problematic and misguided. But rocking the boat will just result in the status quo and leave the person without a job and no references for any future ones, especially if it is potentially unpopular.