skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't leave. He was fired for unknown reasons.

But according to Zuck not due to "controversial political views" (Palmer is a passionate libertarian who supported Donald Trump, several Republican senators and the Republican party both in California and Washington.), but that's quite interesting because after word got out he supported Trump he was silently stripped of management responsibilities at Oculus ("In the wake of the revelation, Luckey’s role at Facebook was quietly reduced." -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/31/palmer-lu... )

Also was a big disappointment for me personally, I got interested into Oculus due to his work and that of Carmack.
No, you're thinking of "universal income". That's what the commonly accepted definitions of "basic" and "universal" are. basic: Necessary, essential for life or some process; Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. universal: Common to all members of a group or class; Common to all society; world-wide.
1. Hacker News

2. Reddit /r/programming

3. Indiehackers

4. Twitter

5. NYTimes
Re: 800,000 people went to Guizhou to see the "big pot"

Just wok right in...
I would much rather see people working on solving the affordable housing shortage in the US than on basic income experiments. Because of the high cost of housing across the US, a single childless person cannot live on $1000/month in many places. There are cities where rent on a one bedroom apartment is nearly $1000/month.

If you don't solve the affordable housing problem, basic income doesn't have any hope of ending poverty. If you do, many people who are currently living with terrible distress could make their lives work.

If you are only going to work on one of the two, affordable housing should be the priority. If you want do both, cool. But I'm not really seeing affordable housing given anywhere near the attention that basic income is getting.
Right, the liability is not "we are going to send a letter that says you're too old/you're a woman" or something blatant like that, the liability is that a very well-meaning person sends a thoughtful rejection letter and it can be inferred in the language - true or not, and this is the kicker - that there is discrimination going on.

You are doing a nice thing by being detailed, but you are basically introducing nearly unbounded downside for the upside of being nice. Most companies don't find much value in this calculus. It doesn't make it the right thing to do, but it is understandable.
Link to AWS page: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/vmware/

Interesting. Does this signal that AWS believes some enterprise workloads will remain in private DCs? This is certainly a big value to those running on-prem databases.

Anyone have an idea on pricing?
Top Facebook communications exec Rachel Whetstone is departing for Netflix
Why I quit a startup incubator to become and indie maker
Fine you can't flag your own message as important, others have to tag it important.
How international students can start a startup in US?
Could someone advice how international students can start a startup in the US? It seems like a really complex process and also no proper advice available with the continuous change in immigration law.
> "Or, less aggressively, they would retain enough reserve power generation capacity to replace the electricity. For example, have gas plants that can be spun up on demand if the nuclear reactors were shut off."

If your country has the capabilities to build reserve power plants why allow the Russians to get all the profit from the power market ? You could just spin up your gas plants indefinitely.

Nuclear power is also not cheap, and the main cost is associated with risk (disposing of waste, etc), I am sorry but if their is one area where you cant be cheap its nuclear power.

Also the countries that Russia seems to target are poor countries with weak governments like Sudan (not to mention Sudan's main cites are all far away from the coast). Most poor countries these days are located in perfect places for solar energy, which is anyway cheaper than nuclear.
Yes, digraphs involving z are quite common in Polish so it's not as bad as it looks. Still, English would never have a string of them like "szcz" ("shch" in English orthography).
Tether pump and dump analysis [pdf]
Mojave drops support for DTrace probes in Instruments, so this process may already have begun.
"I'd rather the drive enter a read-only state rather than becoming a brick"

Totally agree. However, all of the SSDs that have failed on me all got bricked. I have never seen one that went into read only mode which was disappointing.
Seems like OSM has a future. This is great. Only sad thing is perhaps some day we won't be able to have the fun of making contributions ourselves, if the big companies handle all that for us like Google does. In the mean time, though, I can make an easier case to people as to why they should care about this, since it's now used by Apple and Pokémon Go.
Seems to be missing the key ingredient of the best tasting chocolate chip cookies: espresso powder.
There are other major benefits of kqueue() when using sockets as a client that have essentially "forced" me to use bsd instead of Linux/epoll...

The way epoll() is written triggers so many syscalls that things like socket clients can get triggered for every single packet. Whereas kqueue coordinates with other socket options set on the descriptor, such as not returning until x bytes have been received and/or the server has closed the connection.

...not to mention how much more it's tied to across the IO subsystem.
I don't know exactly what the demographics of Hacker News are. But anything that's Android-only is likely to get a look from me and no install-- because I am an iOS user.
One more thing, why did you lock and delete the whole thread instead of just deleting the comments you found offensive? Was the dev.to post also something that shouldn't be discussed in Elm communities?
I've personally experienced this with a YC backed company that still posts job listings on here.

After 2 full days on-site with said company, I got radio silence. Not even a quick "thanks but no" email.
Depends where you live. It's certainly possible to live on $1000/month in many areas of the US. It's not going to be a lavish existence, but it also won't be complete penury.
As far as I understand, this means office politics, a little bit of oneupmanship, talking behind back etc etc.

Again, I apologize for mentioning this as I have no first hand knowledge.
Well, with Firefox people were complaining about the removal of ALSA support, with the reasoning that people who liked that were also likely to have telemetry turned off. So a downside might be that your usage patterns are not taken into account when using this or turning off telemetry in regular VSCode - though I'd claim that that is to be expected and completely reasonable.
My initial reaction was shock and disgust.

My reaction after mulling it over for awhile and reviewing some of the material is.... contempt and disgust.

So there's that.
Are you saying ants and bees feel thankful?
How can I, or anyone else for that matter, be sure they are safe to use and represents runtime behavior of the latest ever-changing (read: breaking) OSX?

The Hackintosh community has plenty of very knowledgeable individuals who know what they're doing. If someone was trying to pass malware around they would be found out and ostracised very quickly.

You can also find the direct links to Apple's servers if you search. Hint: InstallESD.dmg and swcdn.apple.com .
the old adage, comes to mind...
those who can, do. those who cant teach...
the holding of a degree is viewed as indication of intellectual discipline...
such discipline is legally required in fields such as chemistry, and administration of a chemical production facility...
in practical terms a PhD holder is vetted by other PhD holders and is expected to be one of the people that creates the leading edge from wetware between the ears...The masters work at the bleeding edge, and bachelors,, well lets say "ill take mine double double please and keep the change"...
don't just trust the drive's SMART attributes - try to independently confirm when and how the drive is failing

techreport did a long-term experiment on this (but with limited samples): https://techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
Not to support his fairly trashy post in particular, but I believe his comment has utility.

As an infrastructure person this post was concerning; this company is collecting a lot of data and has a lot of access, which I wouldn't trust. I also would not be thrilled if I was a paying customer having these details shared (even without attribution, as in the article), further reducing trust. I appreciate these kind of real-world detail posts, but it's not appropriate if it's not your infrastructure.
> I actually have no clue what the last one there is (Bing)

workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch
> But in a sensible world, is that really where the instruction scheduling should be? And if it can be done in hardware, I don't see any theoretical reason it can't be done in software.

Hardware instructions can take a variable amount of time to complete, depending on their inputs--particularly branches and memory instructions. That means that the set of operations that are ready to execute is a fundamentally dynamic property, and software can only make a static decision.
Atomic Design and Our Component Library
> "Rosatom, in a statement, insisted its plant was 'invulnerable to tsunamis.'"

> - Coastlines near cities are expensive real estate (not to mention anyone with property there allowing a literal power nuclear plant blocking their view ) - it takes important real estate from ports that are much more useful for docking ships, etc. Its possible to build a separate port far away from the city; but then you have to pay the extra cost of building some extra infrastructure to deal with the ship, at that point its just easier to build your own power plant.

Both of these are pretty easily solved by floating the plant a short distance off the shore and laying a power line along the sea floor. Tsunami's aren't an issue till right along the shore and the ship would practically disappear if it were just a bit off shore.
I wonder if multiple smaller scopes electronically "connected" would be cheaper than one big one.
Why I quit a startup incubator to become an indie maker
Id rather get a rejection email than just not hear back. If you dont bother responding with a rejection after an interview you are a coward. And shouldnt be interviewing people.
John Coltrane and the End of Jazz
I've had this happen to me after a half-day interview. I chalk it up to incompetent and uninterested HR staff.
Netronome Webinar: Demystify BPF JIT Compiler
Same here.

OP, please share the OS of those 17,000 users, if possible.
Who funded this study and what are they to gain with this result? Research seems to be used as a bargaining chip always when trying to influence public opinion and regulation (Tobacco industry, dairy, etc).
VMware: The Hybrid Cloud Leader
I’m not a designer, but the new logo looks meh.
> You don't have to assume that poor people are lazy in order to be worried about how the money will be spent. It takes an equally shaky assumption in order to believe that the money will be spent as intended.

The intent of most UBI supporters is that money be spent according to the perceived needs of the recipients. Centralized control of use is an explicit non-goal.

In fact, one big argument of UBI supporters is that aid recieved even in restricted form will often be redirected in that manner with overhead for the mechanisms of repurposing the benedits, in any case, such that attempts to control how aid is spent are often just expending extra public resources in administrative functions with the net effect of reducing the value of benefits without controlling their use.
I guess cigarettes are also to blame for our lousy 12v outlet design?

Pretty much. There's some business school case study waiting there about network effects, or backcompat, or something. Someone a long time ago needed 12VDC for their new KarDooHickey(tm), but how is the user easily going to get 12V to the device? And here we are.

VWs and BMW motorcycles used/use a Hella plug that is similar to a lighter plug, but was actually designed to be used the way lighter plugs are now. Our '81 VW camper van has one on the dash. Sadly, despite being a better design for the purpose, BMW motorcycles are the only vehicles I now of that still use them. I can run a 75W electric jacket off those plugs, something I would not try with a lighter plug (it might work for a while, but not reliably).
Hacker News clone built with AMP
This is fantastic. I see it's mostly written by the author of the project. Why the heck isn't it in the repo's Readme?!
Google recently hiked enterprise license fees for access to translation services pretty substantially. I wonder if we'll see similar competitive momentum in that market.
Humble Book Bundle: Machine Learning by O'Reilly
Without a doubt the private sector is far more responsive to negative attention than the bureaucrats congress and most state governments have abdicated their responsibilities to.
My take on this is not going to be popular but here goes:

This is a path to communism and historically there's no moral justification for it. IT IS WRONG, SO STOP IT. Doesn't matter which way you drape it, work MUST be done for compensation/remuneration to be received, otherwise people die en masse. It is known.
> There are cities where rent on a one bedroom apartment is nearly $1000/month.

And I think the reality of this statement is lost of many folks, because it's not just large cities that have this problem. I live in a moderately sized city (~100k people) and rents here are nearly $1000/mo for an average one bedroom apartment.
I'm really digging how the top entry is the Shakespeare Mangle, a cipher machine for conspiracy theory gibberish.
Hey, I'm one of the devs at Rave.

I posted some general responses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852736

We're aiming to make the process as simple as possible, so anyone can make mashups/mixes, and will add on customizations over time. Our focus first and foremost will be to make sure that the core process is solid before we add on to it.

Our AI does do more than beatmatching as well. Though a lot of that is going to be more evident in our mix AI, which we've been focusing on recently.
I think the fear of not being able to find a job is a large part of the reason people don't just move somewhere cheaper when they can't afford housing. There are of course other reasons, e.g. community, for staying in expensive areas, but I think people would be more likely to move to where they can afford housing if they have an guaranteed income stream. Theoretically this would also decrease demand on the low-end of high-price housing areas, lowering prices.
my triplebyte rejection was surprisingly insightful. I don't know whether it's cookie-cutter, entirely handwritten, or a combination of a few macros, but it makes sense to me.

https://pastebin.com/AGPyzmgU
What about building up?
It seems most designs are relatively two dimensional.

AMD's High Bandwidth memory and Samsungs high density NAND seem to open up another axis to continue doubling transistor count in a given area.

It'd be interesting to see things be engineered this way as devices are starting to become too thin to be comfortable.
Allegro CL can be configured to be case sensitive [1].

[1] https://franz.com/support/documentation/10.0/doc/case.htm
No. Reactors don't fail or explode anything like atomic bombs. The only way this could house a nuclear weapon is by having a hidden missile silo somewhere in it and they already have nuclear missile subs for discreetly placing nuclear weapons close to their target.
And for Scala, there's Kiama https://bitbucket.org/inkytonik/kiama
> I believe that centuries from now, Earth will be a garden of Eden again, as the surplus resources get turned to making it beautiful, rather than just fending off starvation.

All of human history up until the middle 1800s was spent at the malthusian limit: barely enough food to feed all the people. We are living through an aberration at the moment caused by a drastic increase in food production combined with a decline in birth rates. What I am saying is that birth rates will bounce back.

My family tree looks a lot like yours: lots of dead ends. My father has 6 siblings and my mother has 3, for a total of 11 siblings (including my parents). Collectively, all of those siblings would have to produce 20 offspring to maintain 0 population growth. But there are only 7 offspring in my generation. That represents a huge pruning of my lineage.

But.

All of the children in my generation are the offspring of parents who decided to have children in the age of birth control, women in the workforce, etc. And all of the children in the next generation will have gone through another round of intense selection. If you just play that out for a few generations, you're left with a population that has a really strong pedigree for fertility in the face of Modern Life.

You might think this is no big deal, but I can tell you that there are people out there who have a really strong innate drive to have children. I am one of them. So is my wife. We'll start working on our 4th child next year. All of the other people we know with 3+ children have markedly different personalities from the people we know with 2 or less.

Once resistance to modern life starts to gain prevalence in the population, it will spread incredibly rapidly. Take a look at the Haredi Jews in Israel. In 1990, they represented 5% of the Jewish population in Israel. Now, 30 years later, they account for roughly 30% of the Jewish population under 20. What happens when you play that process out for another 30 years? I'll tell you: what happens is that the Haredi are the Jews in Israel.

The same thing will happen with high fertility people in the rest of the developed world. You're just not seeing it because your vantage point is from a part of the tree of life that is being pruned. But there are parts of the population that you're not exposed to. They're religious and conservative and hard to notice because they're too busy raising children to be visible on social media and in high culture. But they're there.
Mining Your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices [pdf]
This is great! Google has recently spiked fees drastically and it will be good to see more alternatives with high quality data
We have a blog post with some recommendations based on what we've seen at Triplebyte: https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-pass-a-programming-interv...

I think it's a pretty good starting point. I also like Cracking the Coding Interview and I think there's definitely a place for timed coding challenge sites like leetcode - especially if you've been in a role where you're mostly working on larger-scale problems rather than on producing smart, working code quickly on the fly.
I just thought to myself, I don't do this, but actually, sometimes I do without even thinking about it.

Like, it should be decomposable, if it's cell tissue.
Rumblings of an Old Men
It would be kind of cool to start small with entirely verifiable hardware for the first bootstrapping stages.

I am phantasizing about a sort of ceremony in which the whole bootstrap process is done live in front of an audience starting with a discrete computer (using e.g. this board as a CPU https://monster6502.com), absolutely no electronic non-volatile memory and the first programs read into the computer from punch cards or punch tape. This would be used to create later stages for more powerful hardware and the end result (after maybe one or two hardware switches) is hopefully a minimal C compiler or similar that can be used to bootstrap production compilers like GCC. Ideally, this binary is shown to be completely identical to a binary built by a typical build process.

Even if such a ceremony is ultimately not very useful, it could still be seen as a kind of artistic performance.
It's interesting that you pat yourself on the back about it, I think the whole Triplebyte interview process is poorly thought out, including your email comms.

I did your online code quiz and got sent an email about doing a 2-hour technical interview, without really knowing much about what the job I was supposed to be applying for was.

On the interview, since I didn't really want to waste 2-hours on something I didn't want to do, I asked the guy a few questions about the company only to learn he's actually a freelancer interviewer, has little direct relationship with triplebyte and doesn't really know anything about me.

I carried on for a 2-hour quick-fire interview with a guy that was obviously trying to fill in a questionnaire rather than actually gauge my ability, questions designed by people who likely have no real-world experience in the scenarios they describe ("how would you architect the amazon.com frontpage?" is not a 2-minute answer)

About 15 minutes in, I was sure that even if I had wanted the job in the first place I wouldn't have taken it; and I had forgotten about it when I got an incredibly patronising email explaining how, if I do some online code puzzles and study hard, I too can get a job. Gee, thanks.

Granted: a bored, funemployed, grumpy dev is probably not your target audience, and I'm sure this interview style works to filter out people fresh off college, but the email was definitely the most ridiculous part.
> When someone can’t answer an interview question about relational databases, it might be that ... they know them inside-and-out but aren’t used to answering questions on the fly, or that our question didn’t use the vocabulary they’re familiar with, or that they misheard the question and answered a different one.

Ultimately, that means your interviews have bias. (Even though it appears you try very, very, very hard to avoid bias.)

Honestly, I don't think interview feedback is a good idea. It just encourages gaming the system. I'd rather that feedback come through a neutral 3rd party. We just haven't set our field up to do that.

Why neutral 3rd party? Because of the above situation! The 3rd party could just say things like, "looks like this was just a bad interview. Don't read too deep into it, and keep trying." The 3rd party could also push back on the employer if the interview ran poorly.

And no, recruiters are not neutral 3rd parties.
Isn't Uber pivoting from the self driving car market, to the bikesharing market?[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849364
If you don't solve for affordable housing first, then basic income dollars will simply be sucked up by landlords and contribute to even more inflationary pressure in the rental markets. There's already evidence for this in neighborhoods where Section 8 vouchers are predominant.
I have both "177 Wear_Leveling_Count" and "233 Media_Wearout_Indicator" on an old Samsung SATA II consumer SSD. On a newer one, there's only Wear_Leveling_Count, but there's also "241 Total_LBAs_Written", which gives an interesting metric:

$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | awk '/177/ {print $2,$4} /241/ {printf "%.3f\n", $10 * 512 / 1024^3}'
Wear_Leveling_Count 097
4151.677

Just 4.1TiB written so far causes a 3% decrease in drive "endurance".
I doubt that liability is much more of an excuse- how often do disgruntled candidates actually sue corporations, in any context? If a company doesn't want a candidate, there's not much value lost by them burning bridges with them, by refusing to send them feedback, or even a rejection notice. This is especially true for big companies who receive a lot of candidates. And for smaller startups, they simply lack the time and energy to give detailed responses to people they pass on. A failed candidate is of marginal use to a company.