skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you reach the heliopause it's pretty clear that you're completely outside the sun.
I disagree. Some points are really valid. It adds complexity to your system, especially at the server. It is a costs/benefits thing, not only benefits. The benefits are minimal for simple CRUD-like applications.
Good find, thank you. That contains a ton of information that would have made the article a lot more useful.
Centralising state across tabs with in a Service Worker
Not sure about most masks, but the one my dad has would be super uncomfortable to lay on his side
That i9 CPU dissipates 45 watts of heat, on average:
https://ark.intel.com/products/134903/Intel-Core-i9-8950HK-P...

I don’t think it’s possible to design an ultrathin laptop around that CPU. That’s just too much heat. Many desktop CPUs are close to that, e.g. AMD’s Ryzen 5 2400G can be configured to be 45W too.
They are completely different scenarios. There wasn't ample evidence of who was doing it (not publicly available at least) and there wasn't one candidate who particularly benefited from the attack (that we know of). People start becoming concerned when a visible impact from the hacking starts to occur. If nothing was released from the DNC hack in 2016, then I'm guessing there would have been less outrage about Russian interference.
> The logical next step then is drone strikes on US soil? I mean, why not? What's the legal difference?

Because of the way the 9/11 AUMF is crafted, there's no legal difference, just as there would have been no legal difference between bombing Japanese forces in WWII that happened to be found on US soil and bombing then in Japan or some third country.

There are, however, practical and political differences, which is why, e.g. when German unlawful combatants were identified in the US in WWII (after two of them turned themselves in to the FBI, who they had trouble convincing of the reality of the situation, and fingered the rest of the group), the government didn't send an assault force and level the neighborhood, but instead the FBI picked them up (and then handed then over to the military.)
> Sable is used by 400 teams across Amazon and handled a total of 5.623 trillion service requests, or 63.5 million requests per second, during last year’s Prime Day, according to an internal document.

63.5 million requests / second. That's impressive!
> It's basically fermented fish

I’ve personally only ever heard it described as exactly that: fermented fish.
I really don't understand how you can say this with a straight face.

In 2008 there was no evidence that any foreign government was trying to usurp the democratic process in the way the last election was. And Obama/McCain and their campaigns didn't have dozens/hundreds of interactions with Russian actors. And they definitely didn't owe hundreds of millions to Russian oligarchs.
It wasn't a disaster. Some people didn't like the final choice. Some liked. A useful feature was added, this as far from disaster as it can get.
Could you please work on making your comments more substantive? Broad claims without evidence just kick up silt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can’t tell if this is satire, bald cynicism, or a heady mix of both :)
A command latency over 30ms hurts a lot. And I don't even play competitively. 250ms was not noticed? Absolute nonsense. A quarter of a second is gigantic when it comes to latency.
I was referring to Vancouver, BC, Canada that the GP was sharing a purported zoning map of. Many US cities would at least allow duplexes in such zones I would think (my experience being from the NE US).
Correct. Breaking or risking the SLO will instead lead to stopping new features until reliability is restored.
There’s a particular global system that’s very reliable — Global Chubby — and to keep people from putting it in their serving path they just regularly take it down for like an hour per quarter.
This is amazing. Here's how you cook them: heat up some water and add salt. Put the rice / beans in the water. Remove from water. Eat. Can be done in 15 minutes and is not any harder than boxed macaroni.

You can do a big batch of this and then later get fancy by throwing it around a frying pan, maybe add eggs and spices, and still be below $1 / meal.
This can also be achieved without political action.

E.g. in 3 last companies I worked for they have an unlimited vacation policy. It is not required by any legislation, but it's somehow in vogue now, I heard about many companies doing the same.
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Exactly. These days this is exactly how Google works. Ask an AdWords, Analytics, or AdSense user who slowly realizes that Google has full access to their business data for any purpose.
Well, on my LOS+microG device I use Firefox, but my apps use SystemView and that's basically Chrome (which skews these stats). By using Firefox I use two different rendering engines, increasing my attack surface.
> There's also the issue that a lot of folks simply don't know how to cook.

I think this is the "Part 3" to the list above. Rices/beans/potatoes can yield many, many different dishes. I can afford more expensive choices, but most of my meals still consist of these basic, cheap foods.
The sort of legislation I'd be interested in seeing is more similar to SB 827 than it is to existing zoning laws. Namely, don't allow cities subsidize job growth while keeping housing constrained, or additionally, upzone for office/industrial space and then downzone housing.

And it's absolutely a battle between residents and businesses. Cities subsidize multinational companies to grow within their borders and then allow them to contribute very little to the infrastructure needed to support these people. Due to the lack of proper transportation and educational investment, enabling high numbers of new comers just leads to more congestion and overcrowding.

If we had employment head taxes (or any other sort of program that could solve infrastructure challenges in a 1:1 way with job migrant growth) around solving these sorts of problems, they wouldn't be problems.
Your IT department may have removed Candy Crush and other bundled applications. That is what we did.
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Many people do like living in densely-populated, urbanized environments. The SF metro area isn't Wyoming and pretending that it is won't make it become Wyoming.
I read the first example of Lily on the site. I found nothing offensive in the language at all - in fact there's a lot to like particularly the readability.

Side rant. Unfortunate I can't get past the decision to use exception handling to deal with non-existing keys in map. I'm of the exception-disliking school which is thankfully growing but I guess not yet universal. For me
using an exception to indicate the lack of a value corresponding to a key in a map (is it really exceptional for this to happen?) is a textbook example of exception-abuse where the code is obfuscated by the non-locality of the control flow.
> Several new languages (eg Typescript, Dart) have optional type systems that still bring significant value to the table.

I think it's too early to say that this approach has proven to be successful - indeed another reply says that Dart has switched to a stronger type system with required types, which I'd take as significant evidence that optional typing is not a good tradeoff. Certainly my experience of the checkers framework in Java was that optional types are the worst of both worlds.

> But honestly, I'm not going to lose much sleep over these particular issues in Java. Bad code gets refactored.

I'm worried (or rather, I would be worried if I hadn't seen the bug reports, which seem to be being taken seriously and fixed in the compiler). If they can happen in bad code, who's to say they can't happen in good code.

> A bigger complaint should be made that generic type erasure makes libraries hard (eg, the number of places you have to pass around Class<?> or TypeReference objects to let the runtime know what to do). But that was a clearly a compromise decision and everyone knows about it.

I'd argue that the only cases where you need that are when you're doing something you shouldn't (reflection). But I guess in a language without typeclasses there are problems that have no good solution.
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The comparison people will make will be against iOS, which will be able to provide a seamless and consistent experience due to the same default apps on each device.
Agreed, I was excited to find out whether data about the bugs could have been used to predict future bugs.
not sure if satire
Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience
Picking nits, but yes
Sometimes, but largely no, and I (mainly) enjoy my work too. But I now have a young family, and was feeling like I didn't have enough time for them or my side projects.
Quite a few over the years. .NET, Java mostly in the early days. Sometimes I would just write a parser in whatever language I needed.
I don't know, but I can speculate. For example, there is no evidence I'm aware of that the hacks were politically motivated or that the results of the hacks were used to assist one candidate or hinder another.
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It's somewhat surprising (and not really) that more companies are not competing with each other seriously on real benefits like this to attract and keep talent.

Most jobs provide no real extra benefit. They have a bunch of fake gimmicks like "snack room" or "monthly social event" (read: mandatory team building event but free for the company).

Four-day week for five-day pay is a serious and tangible benefit that a smart company could provide and it would give them a strong hiring/culture advantage for a long time.

That's a 20% reduction in work hours. To me it seems very doable if you build a good high-productivity culture in the company. Meaning everyone kind of knows they have less time to screw around so you save all that for your 3 days off work, and 4 days it's high productivity work.

If this increases productivity by 10%, the cost to the company is the other 10%.

Also consider that 1.5 hours is 18% of the work day. Many companies easily and carelessly waste that much every day.
Or this from 2004: http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1318
I have not watched the video. All of the defenses of type erasure I have read boiled down to backwards compatibility. If generics had been there from the start, the JVM and the compiler could do more with them, eliminating casts and allowing things like List<int>, getting rid of arrays entirely as a special case and allowing the compiler and JVM to optimize accordingly.
That's what I've wondered. Maybe the solution is to build land out in the ocean like Dubai has done. It would cost billions, but building enough housing to meet demand will already cost billions.

I don't know, building a mile high building in the ocean doesn't sound so crazy anymore for San Fran.

Like this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Tokyos-mile-high-sky...
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Movies have always been bad. Always. Look at how many movies are made in Hollywood each year. Hundreds and hundreds. Maybe 10 each year are worth the time to watch. Maybe 1 will end up having enduring value. The rest just disappear.

Tropes get recycled, new genres come and go, are rediscovered, and then fade. Formula has always been important in cranking out the volume of productions. The odds are stacked against any one movie being a success, either critically or financially. Who would have thought that Spielberg would follow up Jurassic Park with such a stinker?

The studio system was no ideal world; actors were stuck in their contracts and had horrible bargaining power. Censorship was the norm, writers were not given much leeway. Today's movie industry is far healthier, with more outlets, more customers, and more opportunities.

The problem today isn't on the distribution side, but on the production side. Creating a movie is just so expensive. Same problem facing the video game industry. Think you can create a movie for $4M? That's the inflation adjusted budget for American Graffiti. Or Star Wars at $47M. Not a chance. The FX alone would probably cost that. Rogue One was over $200M...
Yeah, it's rare I drop out of a game due to an error now, but during DirectX 5 it would happen multiple times an hour.
> Academics studied the trial before, during and after its implementation, collecting qualitative and quantitative data

All the quantitative measurements given in the article are about the employees' happiness. Of course they felt they had a better work/life balance! Of course they felt less stressed! Of course they said they had more time to spend with their family!

They'd probably feel even better getting paid for five days and working three - and why stop there? Why not two, or one, or zero?

I don't doubt that most people in white collar jobs can be just as productive in four days, with the right incentives, as they currently are in five. But it would be nice, if only to justify the headline, to see metrics from the company's side rather than the parenthetical mention of "employees performing better in their jobs". Did they set up more trusts? Did they draft more legally rigorous wills? Did their customers report higher satisfaction and bring more repeat or referral business? If the "studies" aren't complete nonsense, the numbers were measured for these things. But then why aren't they reported with the same breathlessness as "overall life satisfaction increased by 5%"?
and if you're unemployed (or unemployable) do you lose the ability to use the insurance? does it get cancelled if you don't pay?
Thanks for your kind works. I think I just heard someone whisper "memento mori".

If I'm understanding your idea, it sounds like you want to use a compiler to a) collect all the useful/best control flows into some kind of library that you then b) use to generate code when compiling any other language. Like an ouroboros of compilers. Then you want to have some simpler programming interface on top of that which can be expanded into great code?

In my notebook I've been calling Optic an up-piler because it turns raw code from multiple languages into the same higher level abstractions. So on a spectrum of processor instructions -> ideas it's further to the right than the host AST. Sounds kind of similar to what you've been working on for part A.

What confuses me about your idea is how I as a developer would benefit from it? Are you a drop-in compiler that will compile my code into something 'better'? Can you just take some code I wrote and refactor it into a better format that does the same thing as before? Will the way a project compiles change over time? I'm not sure if I want the nails in my log cabin going form 20mm to 30mm overnight. Shouldn't break anything but you never know...

Happy to chat offline sometime aidan@useoptic.com Think we'd have some fun convos
> I guess what meant here is that one should never make mistake of assuming that a highly reliable system can be built.

Wrong guess imho. It means building highly reliable systems requires knowledge and experiences. Trying to build them and solving the problems step-by-step is one way to understand how it can be achieved.
I will start to use this in rock-paper-scissors-infinity.

But first I have to deeply realize that I'm just one out of all possible ones and that I exist infinitely times and also infinitely times where I finally have a beard.
> Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android

So quietly that they pitched a story about it to Bloomberg.
So everyone's wealth is free for the taking?
I'm in the UK, and was working for a medium-sized Norwegian-based company that has since been gobbled up by an enormous Indian outsourcing company. I'm not sure how easy it would be to negotiate at the new company, but at the time all I had to do was ask. I also doubt it would have been quite so easy at most companies in the UK.
Obviously I don’t know what I’m talking about, but it seems like such attack is only undetectable by cold gps device that has been offline for longer than some period of time, long enough to explain time shift by clock drift.
You have to be joking right ? Because this is pure idiocy.

You can visit job sites through your mobile phone whilst your having coffee or lunch and attend interviews when you're claiming to be sick or have some family commitments.

If I am looking for another job I can assure you I am doing it 7 days a week and having an extra day off isn't going to change that.
> It just doesn't make any sense to retain someone indefinitely if they're not going to produce anything of value

They likely will. Whenever a new projects starts, engineers can be recruited for it from the pre-vetted internal pool. Hiring and the ramp-up time for new hires would cost more. Yeah, if you're an ossified compnay rarely starting new projects it doesn't make sense. But if your Google this is not the case...
Seems unlikely. Developers are already using the DOM model outside of the browser entirely a'la Electron because in modern times it's such a productive and accessible development environment. I can't imagine we'd try to bring back the pain of Flash. What we have now is drastically more portable and a delight to use compared to that era.
Almost all of the terrorist attacks in the US in any decade after the end of the revolution were domestic.

There's one blip in that whole history where you can't say the same thing about casualties from such attacks as about attacks.
I go occasionally, usually when I am going to make a larger electronics purchase like a laptop, camera, etc. I still like being able to check out a physical copy of something and make sure it is what I am wanting.

I still like the breadth of options on Amazon and being able to get a lot of items to my door in 2 days. It actually happened yesterday where I went to a local shop and they didn't have what I wanted in stock, either wait 2 weeks for them to place the order and have it delivered or just get it off Amazon and have it on my doorstep on Saturday.
Lawsuit accuses Los Angeles startup Pinscreen of misrepresenting its technology
I find it odd that people are so upset that others are looking out for their own quality of life and financial investments. They are under no obligation to make things better for others yet worse for themselves. Very few humans would actively engage in similar behavior if the roles were reversed.
Yeah going by that graph it appears that ~1.5% of bugs are fixed in 24 hours, ~5% within a week, ~10% within 30 days and only ~13% of bugs are fixed at all. That leaves 87% of bugs still to be resolved.

From the graph of total bugs vs time. It appears like at the current time ~10% of all bugs have been reported in the last 30 days. Even if all those bugs were magically fixed tomorrow, that would only be ~20% of bugs within 30 days so we can claim:

"Bugs discovered through Instabug are unlikely to be resolved within 30 days" and "1.5% of bugs discovered through Instabug are likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported"
The type system should give guarantees. I believe these cases violate the specification, and I think the specification is right to require the typechecker to check all code rather than just most code: a type system that works 100% of the time is much more useful than a type system that works 99.99% of the time, because it means you can blindly rely on it rather than having to double-check it every time you do anything critical and then maintain all those double-checks.

If we take the view that these are bugs in the Java compiler, then of course a bug that's rarely triggered is less bad than a bug that's triggered all the time. But both are bugs all the same.
Everyone's wealth is already being taken, but spent in fucking weird ways.

The US government pays more for healthcare than some other western countries, but gets worse outcomes across a range of measures.
Not at all related to the article: I wish I could own an IP address. I realize why this isn't a reality, but seeing the URL piqued my interest.

I looked into it once and it seemed very, very expensive.
Well yeah,it's essentially pinned... The client needs a cert signed by the master after all. If you exchange the master cert, the signed certificate is no longer valid

You only need a 'real' CA if your service is public facing.

Heck,even a Windows AD server uses self signed certs

/Edit: after re-reading your comments I get the feeling that were really talking about different things.
The self signed certificate becomes the base for your chain of trust.
Everything signed by this is allowed to talk to the master. This verification happens on both sides. A client getting an unexpected certificate will refuse to talk to the master just as the master won't talk with a node, unless it's got a signed client cert.

Because the master cert is self signed, it's easier to just throw everything away and recreate the hole chain of trust instead of bothering with revocations.

Finally, there is no benefit in using an official CA if you are in control of everything accessing the resources.

Am I making sense now?
Wasn't something like it actually done in classical Athens? http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy... bottom of page:

"The solution was simple. I offer to exchange everything I own for everything you own. If you refuse, you have admitted that you are richer than I am, and so you get to do the liturgy that was to be imposed on me."
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Well, I'm a Google SRE so...
Particularly visible in the graph of radioactivity from various times. Fukushima isn't even a visible blip - it's just that our tools are unbelievably sensitive.
If you can afford it and are in a country where it's available, I can recommend using Hello Fresh or one of their competitors. It's both more cost effective for us (no waste) and they basically teach you how to cook a wide range of meals. I was a decent cook before we started but being exposed to a wider range of grains / beans etc has made me a far better cook.
Google: "An SLA normally involves a promise to someone using your service that its availability should meet a certain level over a certain period, and if it fails to do so then some kind of penalty will be paid. This might be a partial refund of the service subscription fee paid by customers for that period, or additional subscription time added for free."

"Partial refund". That's a very low standard for a service level agreement, but typical of Google. Your whole business is down, it's their fault, and all you get a partial refund on the service.

A service level agreement is really a service packaged with an insurance product. The insurance product part should be evaluated as such - does it cover enough risk and is the coverage amount high enough? You can buy business interruption insurance from insurance companies, and should price that out in comparison with the cost and benefits of a SLA. If this is crucial to your core business, as with an entire retail chain going down because a cloud-based point of sale system goes down, it needs to be priced accordingly.

See: [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226123605_Managing_...
Heh, well it is called the Temple if Elemental Evil - so that is to be expected
> They'd probably feel even better getting paid for five days and working three - and why stop there? Why not two, or one, or zero?

As someone who went from working a 5-day week to a 4-day week, I feel like a 4-day week is a 'sweet spot' - I'm just as productive as I was working a 5-day week, but when I work any less than 30 hours a week (e.g. when I take a day off), my productivity always goes down.