skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It costs nothing to store wine”. Well except the amount paid for it and having it sit around not doing anything.
Is there an open source alternative to QnX?
So you're okay me posting all your personal information, every byte of it, in a public forum? Are you also okay with me telling 100k of my followers that "I wouldn't be surprised if someone shot Tycho"? Or that I ask them more directly to harm you?

It's just "journalism" you know.
I find this difficult.

I'd consider myself an expert with PHP (and various frameworks), JavaScript (NodeJS and React), SysAdmin, and MySQL, but also "good" with C++ (modern), CI/CD / DevOps, AWS, K8S, and other random technologies like MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Druid, Redis, etc...but find it extremely difficult to find career opportunities. Mostly because I feel that having such a broad resume could lead to the assumption that I would demand more compensation than an average employee, which is something that has actually been confirmed by a hiring manager.
Like "tulip"
"The point is that most restaurants aren't crushing it, margins are thin, and a middle-man taking a cut doesn't help."

Yes, I agree with you. See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780385
Okay, so wait a second. Hold it right there. @nerdponx is onto something here. This is really important.

You take your fingers, and take your 100+ key keyboard, and you think about how reliable your structured articulation of codified text syntax can be, when storing files on a file system the UNIX way.

Take that same philosophy, and make that happen with spoken word, and a language that has ~65,000 words. Phrases over text files, spoken through the air, instead of written down, saved and interpretted.

If that were what these speaker/microphone combo systems were about, and they weren’t internet connected, and exclusively piping profitable surveillance data home to some corporate data center to mine for buying habits in aggregate, this would all be very different.

Anyway, the future is fucking stupid, and I hate it. I hope JavaScript bitcoin mining eventually sucks so much accidentally wasted computational energy into some quantum computer with an unterminated while loop, that it conjures a black hole and erases us all.

Just my two cents.
3.5 million new cars are registered every year in Germany alone. If we can replace a significant amount of that with cheap, shared, swlf-driving electrics it'll be a massive step towards carbon neutrality.
Our IT department was running regular WMI scans of our computers

This seems like a big part of the problem.

While I recognise that IT departments at Google-sized companies do have some extra worries, I do feel that we’re gradually losing the “personal” from PC, and that seems pretty unfortunate.
Thx. I remember seeing it when it came out, and again some years later. A classic.
It didnt strike me as a bug, but a Windows brokeness workaround (windows doesnt release allocations).
The GUS Max came out in 1994, the SoundBlaster 2.0 came out in 1991 and was a significantly more limited card than the GUS (no wave table synthesis, no 16-bit audio or stereo)

In 1994 the state-of-the-art SoundBlaster would have been the AWE32 and it was $399. You must be misremembering :)

Sound cards did not drop to anywhere near $20 until the very late 90's or early 00's and those $20 cards were bottom barrel stuff that would have been less advanced in many ways than the GUS Max even then.
>This going private thing is a strange idea. Sell Tesla to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund? The one dedicated to keeping oil a viable industry? Does he want Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as a boss? That makes no sense. Softbank might make sense.

I had the same thought.

>Part of Musk's problem seems to be "Only I can fix it". Tesla desperately needs a chief operating officer.

I think this comes kind of packaged with software engineering mentality. In software you can try and fail a lot and learn almost anything in a matter of weeks. And you can span up systems way more complex than what other industries are working on alone in your basement in a matter of weeks. Everything because text is much more malleable than any of the working products in other industries. You can plan a house quickly, but you can't build it, see where it failed, change those parts and redo half the architecture because you started out bad.

In manufacturing with that mentality you go bankrupt.

This mentality gives people coming from software a kind of hubris about being able to do anything alone. I think Musk is badly infected with that mind virus.
OSX capturing and buffering the password input on the login overlay is definitely nice, compared to windows 10 dropping inputs until it is ‘ready’ for the last 2 characters of my password.
Ubuntu w/Gnome is possibly the worst offender. I actually like Gnome a lot but anytime I leave my PC on for more than a day the UI gets incredibly sluggish. Just moving windows around gets choppy and there is a annoying pause whenever I click the application launcher (happens even without the animation).

I've also found macOS provides the smoothest experience. I haven't found W10 that bad, but I haven't used it that extensively. I really only boot into Windows to play games these days.
It doesn't absolve him of such an absurd, spiteful, and malicious action, but he did apologize: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185?s=09
Yes. Poorly stated on my end.
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All the concerns in your comment are real, but they can be boiled down to one simple fact: Moore's law is dead.

Our processors are now not advancing nearly as quickly as people can create solutions for them. Case in point - Virtual Reality, which has technically been on the market for years, but out of reach for most users.

If processors are not improving, everything else slows down. Graphics, games, and the internet ten years from now will look pretty much the same as it does today.
The United States finally starts to talk about data privacy legislation
I think your tale begs the question: How will your son's (or any other child's for that matter) notion of personal privacy be shaped by the use of technology from a very early age? I think we'll have to wait and see, as this will be highly interesting.
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But it's a fundamental requirement of elections that nobody should be able to force/bribe someone else to vote for a specific candidate.
The writer is a she.
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Well the government in ZA is still as crooked as ever, its not one event ;)
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Actually the reason might be the same, those programs also scan allocated memory space of user programs.
Gitlab CI/CD and docker compose. https://youtu.be/RV0845KmsNI
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We underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology at our peril
Ask HN: How to start career in programming?
I'm 26 living in Berlin, I want to start career in programming. How can I get started? What advise you have for me?
The only gov system that sucks more than TSA is Immigration system. Imagine what TSA would do if there were no voting right to Americans.

TSA is so despicable that I would rather drive 7 hours to Vegas than catch a $99 flight.
This. People apparently have a little self reflection, if at all. Let's get something straight: every person is a piece of shit, in some ways, granted some a bit more and some a bit less. Your project manager is a piece of shit in some ways, the new intern is, in her ways, your parents are, like it or not, in their own little ways. And finally you are a piece of shit, in your own distinct ways.

But of all the pieces of shit we have talked about, none of them are creating companies which can vertically land 70m by 3.7m rocket boosters from orbit. Compared to utility of Musk's initiatives to the society, he is actually a pretty nice person. Heck he is okay even in normal standards. Please consider the contents of both scales and judge responsibly.
Python 2 is still the only python provided out of the box on Mac.
They also bought twitch, which I'm sure they have some business ideas to increase twitch's userbase past gamers and to target mainstream audiences.
The C++ (and many other languages) model of threads and locks have clearly proven overly complex and bug prone. It's incredibly easy to write software with race conditions and incredibly difficult to debug.

The best advance in recent years, is recognizing that most latency is due to network access, and using single-threaded, but asynchronous models like in javascript. It definitely does not remove race conditions, but makes them much easier to understand and debug.
If a company is able to censor pictures of breast feeding mothers, or even worse, of iconic historical pictures[1] on an industrial scale, they should be damn well able to moderate speech, which leads to genocide and mass murder and of which they're warned multiple times by a number of organisations.

Fucking hypocrites doesn't even start to describe such behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
Looks like you want to integrate a SAT/SMT solver with a convex optimisation engine :)
It's worse than that, I think. Part of the security is that each key has to be unique, as I understand it. So to compromise security, all they have to do is make duplicate keys...
you need a proxy, blog author manually cuts out ISPs after encountering spam/heavy traffic
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Comparing to a general purpose CPU, I remember from the olden days that a 486 DX4/100 was just BARELY able to decode stereo MP3's if you used a well optimized MS-DOS playback program. In a multitasking environment like Windows -- forget about it!
Priority inversion.
The article states that this problem actually came from service workers (and how MS allocates pages so V8 can spawn this them). Service workers are specifically designed to circumvent issues regarding UI lag from a single thread..
A novel probabilistic forecast system predicting anomalously warm 2018-2022
Mmm. I guess my memory is bad. I really thought the GUS came before the SoundBlaster, but maybe I didn't have a GUS Max but a GUS.
How do I know that the vote I'm verifying is the one that's used to count votes?
Always replace "free" with "I'm paying for you". I don't know what's "obvious" about me paying your tuition fees. For once, I may be happy to fund your auto-mechanic studies as I know I'll need you to fix my car. But if you're studying ancient Akkadian I'm less inclined to pay your bills.
The book is called "limits to growth", and it's a work of the Club of Rome. You can watch this video to have an idea of their work [1]. At first it's a very strange idea, afterall we work and consume everyday in order to grow the economy. But every healthy system as a homeostastic point, a point where it doesn't need to grow, only to be maintained.
We are now a fat society and we need to get our health back, we need to degrow. We need to work much less hours and consume much less. Reducing working hours is a great leverage point. People will start to have time to care about the community, and take care of their own health. Maybe have more time to take a walk instead of using the car. This can improve health and environment but will not contribute to economic growth, healthy people that don't use cars are not good friends of economic growth based on GDP.
English is not my mother language, Ursula Le Guin had an eloquent post about this on her blog, but was removed to be on the last book. The post is called "Clinging to a Metaphor" (the metaphor is economic growth) and the book is called "No Time to Spare".
[1] https://youtu.be/kz9wjJjmkmc
first,chose one language
second, use it make you world
Not just UI programming, almost all programming is single threaded. What programmer wants to deal with threads, really? They only do because they need to get more performance out of a chip.

And that leads us to the real problem. Chips are not advancing at the rate they should. Additional performance gains come from adding multiple chips to the same die, not making the chips faster. This forces programmers to think about parallelism, which makes everything harder.

In the mid-90s, chips were improving so faster that you wouldn't need to consider special tricks, you could just wait 3 or 4 months and a chip would come out that handled your application.

Now single processor performance is basically at a standstill and it's up to the software developer to spread work in parallel to make things faster.
Narcissists gravitating to positions of importance is an age old truism. Very few people are cut out for the kind of work Musk and people like him do, so I am inclined to be utilitarian in cases like this. Musk might be an asswipe, but his initiatives could have a major positive impact on the future of humanity, so I'll let him slide for the time being.
What he means is that, discussion about this is futile, nothing gonna change and life continues.
Being an asshole about it is easier. But you don't have to be. Someone who can be principled without being an asshole is a true gem.
This is strange. I run a 6 year old PC with win 10 on it. It has 4GB of RAM. I use an SSD and an M.2 drive. The thing is snappy as hell. I face zero lags, jitters, or switching delays at all. I get the feeling that writing things to disk is causing delays.
> Part of Musk's problem seems to be "Only I can fix it". Tesla desperately needs a chief operating officer. They have a VP of manufacturing, Gilbert Passin, who's a car guy, but he does not seem to be in charge. He's not the one living in the plant. There are people who have fixed broken production lines. Musk is not one of them.

Basically, Tesla needs Gwynne Whitwell or her clone.
Hi Bruce. This is a fantastic article, but I needed to read it twice to understand everything. Very dense in information, and sometimes the order of things make it hard to follow. Sometimes you tell us what you did (e. g. modified the virtual memory scanner) before telling us why (what CFG is, how it works), which was confusing.

> It turns out that reproducing the slow scanning from the sampling data was quite easy.

This was the first thing that went over my head. Going from one stack trace to reproducing it is quite the jump. Maybe add a sentence "The interesting part of this trace is NtQueryVirtualMemory, which is used to scan process memory." Might be obvious to you, but for me that trace was "just a bunch of Windows stuff" at first.
>Loses $24M in anonymous currency that's unbound by state

>Sues telecommunications conglomerate for $224M over loss

Is this guy ill or what
US/EU citizens can visit some cities in China for 3-5 days without a visa if you then proceed to a third country and only have 1 stop in china.
I have the same problem at home. Oddly, my computer at work doesn't have this problem. Both run Ubuntu with Gnome.
Completely agree, most trials should be reported fearlessly after completion and not have speculation or the court of public opinion loom over the judge/jury beforehand.

Yet it seems to be abused here in order to protect cozy relationships between a certain big business and the government. Whistleblowers proven correct should be held up on a pedestal and highly respected, not thrown to the wolves with little chance of future employment.
What browser?

For the last couple of years it seems I'll get some issues on some Google properties if I dare use a different browser than Chrome.

For a while it was search results doing interval training on my CPU, while the page was supposedly idle.

Last it got to the point where I started troubleshooting it was calendar that acted up.

You'd think a company like Google had resources to verify the UI across at least the 3 or for biggest browsers across the three biggest desktop platforms, -but it doesn't seem like.
/anecdata

My friends and I seem to go out a lot less. It's more fun to 'tailgate' at home with takeout and a nice TV. Going out to the bars is a lot less appealing than hitting up the liquor store. It's so much more fun to get wine drunk and order random stuff on Amazon than it ever was to go to the mall. Going to the nice grocery stores and cooking for each other has pretty much replaced fine dining. We used to hit up the barcade pretty frequently but retropi has got us covered. A lot of spontaneous hangouts take place on Discord where we're not even playing games. Why would we want to go to a movie theater and pay like $28/person when I can make boatloads of fresh popcorn, grab some bulk candy, and make extra plump weenies with our nice TV and surround sound? Video game nights have replaced things like bowling.

It's not that we're being less social, it's just that stuff at home-ish is a lot more worthwhile than the typical canned activities. Plus, doing something in the same room as other groups od strangers wasn't really being all that social anyway.
>>He said he had been working up to 120 hours a week recently

>>Mr. Musk said he had not taken time off of more than a week since 2001

>>There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn’t go outside

>>This has really come at the expense of seeing my kids. And seeing friends.

>>All night — no friends, nothing

>>But from a personal pain standpoint, the worst is yet to come.

>>It is often a choice of no sleep or Ambien

These are dangerous levels of stress. The work alone even without all that big company, big expectation pressure can wear you down.

I can only imagine what he must be going through. You don't have rest or sleep, on top of it there is a perennial pressure of saving a big company, and you are also chasing your world altering plans. I guess almost any minor irritation, let alone some thing like the being reminded of short sellers of the impending doom, could trigger a uncontrollable response.

I've been there, you just look for any hint of hope, and you feel like lashing out at any thing that is interfering in the path to your cause. You are irritated all the time. Criticism, even genuine largely looks like conspiracy. And you mark any one standing in your way as a enemy.

I'm a nobody to offer advice. But it looks some one needs to sit him down, may be even family, and ask him to relax. Before some big failure happens and some more serious mental issue hits him in the face, and it forces him to hurt himself.
I remember old Mac OS 9. If you started a print job, and held down the mouse holding down a click, the printer would just stop. The entire system wasn't properly multi-threaded.
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maybe twitter itself will be around. But as a private platform, it can block content and boot people out at its discretion, which is a different can of worms...
> slow 4G

That wouldn't work in Australia, 4G is considered fast for most of us :)
Actually in many places if you suddenly gather a group of 20 angry people there is a high chance you WILL be listened with attention by the State for security reasons.
There are a bunch of hurdles to clear: the ROFR, usually a co-sale agreement, there may even just be outright restrictions on transfer. But these can usually be worked through by simply talking to the company. If they want to exercise their ROFR, cool, the employee still gets liquidity. If others want to co-sell, I might buy more or you might have to prorate. Transfer restrictions are usually just about the company not wanting a ton of randos on their cap table they don't know, and can often be talked through.
FB sucks at nlp, only good at images.
How do such tactics differ from the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC? Are those operations not journalists? Assange is in a cage because, after being cleared of any wrongdoing vis-a-vis the sexual assault complaints, a "special prosecutor" decided she had to speak to him in person, i.e. get him in a venue subject to U.S. extradition.
Firefox has some extensions that do kind of similar things, but the one I loved disappeared in the move to multiprocess.
Have to give it to Apple for acknowledging the difficulty in writing responsive (as in no lockups) applications and designing multiple developer framework solutions to solve it (Grand Central Dispatch and NSOperationQueue).

Both those are designed to enable developers to easily offload work to background threads and prioritise queued work for the user. No open-for-interpretation thread priorities, but named QoS priorities (User Interactive, User Initiated, Utility and Background). It makes much more sense for that abstraction.

We just need more developers to make use of it.
The situation is usually worse with just having to go through security at the airports alone. I got my greencard a while back, and got global entry immediately after, and i dont really know how i managed to travel without it. It is even better at the immigration, you jist type a number and you are in and out in < 3 mins. All for the price of 100$/5yr.
Brave browser. It is exactly the same as normal chrome on Android, but it has an ad blocker.
What? High demand made a degree skyrocket to $300,000? Half of Europe provides free education and doesn’t have a quarter of a million cost per student even close.
Downvoted? Someone wants more fart apps. Secure funding now!
Ok, that is amazing. How long before llvm has dna support?

Once that happens you will be able to make a self hosting dna builder, and have a bunch of high level languages along for the ride :)
I advise you to ask yourself are you good at problem solving, reading, and thinking about things logically. While I believe that it is possible for everyone to learn to program, they may not like it in the end. If you can stand being stuck on a problem, troubleshooting for hours to days, then finding out the solution was something fairly simple in the end without being utterly infuriated, this might be the job for you!

In terms of actually learning, I remember this being posted sometime ago, perhaps a good place to start.
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university/blob/...

Edit: Actually thinking about it this is probably a good point following taking one of those coursera, udemy, or codeacademy courses to give you the absolute fundamentals, then build up from there. The repo posted above contains a lot of the actual computer science related material you would learn in a classical university education.
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Ya, I just built a new windows 10 rig. I went for single core speed over more cores (i7 8086k) for the very reason of stamping out any UI lag.

It's buttery smooth and I get no noticeable lag. Exactly 7 seconds from power button to login screen on a cold boot too.
Are these the things that Assange has done? Regardless, wikileaks is one of the most powerful forces in bringing to light information that the public should know. The fact that the founder is holed up in a foreign embassy because of a nakedly corrupt government prosecution while no “achktual serious journalist” defends him says it all.
You're thinking about it wrong. Working 120 hours a week at a normal job is torture. Working 120 hours at something you love is just living.

The 120 hour/week estimates are likely over-inflated folk-lore, but still, when you have a passion for something and care, it's not work, you're just living your life the way you want to.

Many say Elon long work-weeks are super-human, they're not. He's just loves doing what he's doing, so why do anything else.
Perhaps Assange started out good and recently turned bad or perhaps he was playing a game all along, but he's lost nearly all of his credibility in the last 2 years. At one point I'd trust WikiLeaks over most media out there. Now I pretty much can put more faith in Fox News than Julian Assange. Strange times we live in.
It looks like there is a js library built for this purpose (https://www.npmjs.com/package/batchelor), but it's not 100% compatible. I'll work on getting them to play nice together next week. Thanks for the note =)
The religion of the country makes a difference? Wow.