skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh my, someone is doing a little Milchmädchenrechnung here it seems.

Of course your "fact" isn't completely wrong in the sense that low performers cannot easily be fired if firing is difficult. You ignore, however, all kinds of other effects:

Even high-performers value working at a company, where one is safe from being fired. So you accumulate not only low-performers, but all kinds of performers.

Organizations have a high rate of confusion when they try to separate high-performers from low-performers. I once stumbled in a situation where during a reorg I could observe team leads pull their prefered employees from the pool. This were two team leads, and in the same department so everyone knew each other quite well. It was revealing. For one, some of the colleagues I consider most competent (and performing) were actively ruled out by some team leads. Others, that I felt were not contributing much were fought over. Of course, the two team leads had differing opinions on a couple of employees, which made assignment easy.

Since you mention firing. I rarely see firing happen due to on-average lower performance. I have seen people being layed off (to polish the budget) but it never seemed to be the case that the people layed-off were really low performers. Only a handful of people I have seen being actively pushed out of a company for performance reasons, and usually this was by offering them a compensation package.
Or unlocking a massive engine of productivity to raise standard of living across the economy. Did literacy kill the careers of priests and monks?
The results for ElasticSearch are from 2015, curious to see how relevant they are now especially given that the team has been working on addressing these issues in the interim.
This page needs some work my iPad doesn’t render it properly. The Linux box didn’t like it either.
I am overweight but not obese. But this is not an anecdotal issue, the literature is crystal clear on this.
I don't know. I think things like producthunt is the long tail. It is the people who don't have time in a good environment or access to talent so they do whatever they can instead.

And I don't intend that to be an elitist statement. It is like the difference between playing an instrument and being in a band. You might be better by yourself, but it really the ecosystem that is going to take you to another level in terms of success. I think that sort of ecosystem is harder than ever to access. Especially with the rise in cost of education and housing. It is hard to start a software band these days.
The reason the name "infrastructure instruction" was coined for this article is that it includes instructions such as "int", "rdtsc", which do not deal with only input and output, but deal with more complex things inside a CPU, such as timers and CPU privilege levels.
Or Toronto, aka "NYC on your favorite TV show"
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Can we list some good data searches to suggest below this comment?

I would love to see some cool data we might be able to use.
I never connected the decline of extended families to the church, but that sounds fascinating. Any recommended reading?
How does the competition compare? https://nightingalehealth.com/ ?
Thanks!

The main reason I'm using Twitter for this is that it's a bit too preliminary for a blog post. I don't yet have as good an understanding of the history as I would like. This way, when I discover new stuff, I can simply add at a tweet to the thread.

But TBH I think Twitter is underrated as a publishing medium. For example, I've had probably 10x the number of responses from other people as I would have gotten in the form of blog comments.

In any case, I'm definitely planning to make this more organized once I'm happy with my level of understanding. At least a series of blog posts; probably a paper and/or online lecture.
So to get the same as with Netflix today I now have to subscribe to 50+ services?
I’m surprised no one has offered one yet. They are super cheap these days.
From the repository -

"Granted, most PDF readers (besides Adobe Reader) don't implement most of this stuff. But Chrome does implement JavaScript! If you open a PDF file like this one in Chrome, it will run the scripts."

https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments

Doesn't work in Firefox for me. Try in Chrome if this is all you see on the first page.

Move your mouse down here!
also, README below...
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This is actually probably based on Tensorflow Playground - https://github.com/tensorflow/playground - made by some of the Distill.pub people :)
I wish I could remember where I read this line, but it's lost on me. "We want to hire someone who rewrote Quake to render it's graphics in ASCII, just for the fun of it." (I'm sure I mangled the quote, too.)

I love this, it's hacking for hacking's sake.
It is not as diverse for major film. Most of the film in the US comes from Hollywood.
Is it beyond our capabilities to come up with a new composition of concrete that involves finer grains of sand?

Maybe it is not as strong, but it seems like necessity should involve some compromises.
> This looks like a networking protocol, but this is actually process for electing the main node in the network, which will eventually revert it back to the mean of centralization. Let's see how Mastodon scales.

I don't entirely understand why you assume that one node will come to dominate such that it will be equivalent to a centralized system?

The term "federation" is borrowed from political science for a reason. Just like in the USA, multiple federated states who share broad-strokes policies maintain interoperability while also maintaining their own sovreignty.

The main difference is that, if you want something smaller and less overbearing, it's a lot cheaper to move from mastodon.social to some small instance than it is to move from California to Vermont.
In 1921, Canada developed a secret plan to invade the U.S
BCD instructions are slower than emulating them with more traditional operations and were rarely used in 32-bit software (16-bit is a different story). Most people would recompile their software and never experience this as an issue.

The removal of the segment registers was the only one that really reduced capabilities - VMWare's original solution became impossible because of that. However they were replaced by hypervisor instruction sets which are much more capable. The proposed solution in this article would never have fixed this though - which again is why its true but misleading.
This sort of thing is the reason there are so many Canadian channels on satellite radio in North America, and also why there are so many Canadian-produced shows on pay TV channels like HGTV and Food Network.

It's also why the version of Dire Straits' Money For Nothing that plays on most SiriusXM stations is the sanitized, politically correct Canadian version, not the real version that was played on American radio in the 1980's. Though that version does play occasionally on channels like Deep Tracks.
The mammoth on The Flintstones had a human voice.
Just to be clear, $100M is what they are looking to raise, not their valuation. Their last valuation was about $700M in 2014, so presumably, they are looking for a valuation that exceeds that, most likely in the low billions.
They have a 75% profit margin. $120mm profit from $160mm in revenue.
I guess it’s clear whose JOB the act is all about ;)
Reading between the lines, there are not enough good programmers to hire. Supply and demand are driving this effort.
I’m just amazed people make their own keyboards. This hasn’t sunk in yet. I’ll have to look into this. There’s an old electronic typewriter I have somewhere that could be adapted. Maybe some sort of USB thing?

Or just recreate a click keyboard with something like the cherry keys. Possibilities abound.
Perhaps the EU should be under anti-trust investigation for actions detrimental to consumers.
> The "killer app" here appears to be a lack of resources beyond established relationships. Because of this, whole families were willing to spend their time doing work that most Americans feel is not worth their time.

I really dislike this argument. It makes middle-class Americans sound like a bunch of ungrateful churls, because they think that <some job> is beneath them (at the price the employer is willing to pay, but that part is always left unsaid).

I don't call my landlord an ungrateful churl, because he thinks that my <sub-market-price-offer> for his apartment is beneath him. Yet, this is a consistent argument whenever an employer-employee relationship comes up. No shit, I don't want to pick strawberries for $5/hour, when my rent is $2250/month. That's not because manual labour is beneath me.

The thing is - at a low enough price point, no work is worth anyone's time.

Those family members were probably working for below minimum wage. Surprise - their business was successful, compared to one where you have to hire employees, and pay them a minimum/living wage, and have an inflexible schedule of interest payments to whomever fronted the money for you to start the business, etc, etc.

It's not culture. It's economics.
Maybe that's the intended effect, reducing American cultural influence.
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It's an indirect lie. Fat is what causes you to gain weight, and then excess calories. If your diet is not in excess of fat and calories then you can lose weight with sugar, but no, it doesn't have some magical weightloss chemical in it.
`malloc` is part of the standard library. the underlying implementation is environmental specific, or implementation specific depending on the host application.

Generally speaking `mmap` is the system call that

* Allocates memory

* Moves allocations around

`malloc` is the common entry point into a library that attempts to ensure you invoke the `mmap` system call as little as possible.

trying to use it as if it were malloc() would, on such systems,
cause any allocations less than a page to require a whole page.
And since this is a rather common case, you'd be using a ton more
memory.

This is a misconception [1]. Malloc is governed by hardware limitations. If you ask for 50bytes, it'll give you a full 4KiB page, because hardware can only segment memory in 4KiB chunks. Actually some allocators will attempt to _use_ those non-allocated regions of the remaining ~4046 bytes for other allocations in order to be faster (less systemcalls), this is why sometimes writing past buffer ends can give you garbage data instead of segfaults.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45458732/how-are-memory-...
Here's the source code, via Paul Kimpel:

https://github.com/retro-software/B5500-software/tree/master...
Slightly off topic: this quote from the SEC filing document:

"Immediately prior to the completion of this offering, we intend to change our corporate form from a Dutch private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) into a Dutch public limited company (naamloze vennootschap) and change our corporate name from Elastic B.V. to Elastic N.V."

As far as I know, Elasticsearch has no headquarters or offices in The Netherlands. I assume the company is only registered in The Netherlands for tax avoidance.

If my assumption is true, despite that I like their products, this makes me a little sad.

EDIT: my bad. I missed the tab Europe and Asia. They do seem to have an office in Amsterdam.
s/cigarettes/tobacco/ and it's still a crapshoot as to which is more powerful.

Both are plantation crops and benefitted from slave labor.
Ok you are right I missed that. However

Once apple has the keys to the kingdom what is stopping the government making apple give the government such keys ensuring that no warrant is required.

What is stopping users from using software that is ACTUALLY secure.
I protested a couple issues, but I appear to operate by myself. Was fun.
I think in that case, you can't work for yourself illegally.
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Indeed, but not just pseudonyms, as over a surprisingly short time, you'll almost certainly uniquely identify yourself. You really need to be using and rotating "burner" usernames on a quite regular basis.

Unfortunately, some sites forbid this to varying degrees. HN perma-banned my primary IP address because I was rotating several times per year. As is their right. But savvy people will generally stay in lurk mode as a result.

Maybe that's the future: Most posts by bots, most humans reading only.
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The story totally checks out. I moved from Boston to San Francisco in 2006, did a cross country drive. Back then we only had flip phone, so I would use my laptop and The Microsoft Streets software with a GPS. Every day, around 3 PM, I would pull in into the parking lot and locate a Motel 30 or 40 miles ahead using the GPS and Streets software, and call and book a room.

8 out of 11 motels I stayed in were owned and run by Gujjus (Gujaratis, originally from the state of Gujarat in India). I was really surprised by this, because until then, I was only used to seeing East Indians working either in Tech or in Gas Stations, 7/11s.

Being a 1st generation Indian immigrant myself, almost always the owners would relate to me and tell me their immigrant story. And yes, almost all of them said the same thing the story mentions, i.e. borrowing money from family to buy a run-down / cheap motel business, live in it and work on it. One of them even shared their Gujju dinner with me as I'd arrive late and all the restaurants were closed in the Area ( Eureka, CA)...

Not all of them carried the business forward though. 1 guys son was working to be an Airforce Pilot and another's daughter was going to Law School. As told by their fathers neither one wanted anything to do with the Motel business, but they put in their work as kids, working at the motel while off school and such.

After moving to San Francisco, I met another Indian-American "Patel" , born to Indian immigrant parents. He too had a family run motel in Portland and would tell me stories of how everyone in the family had to pitch in to make it work. Gujjus are hard working people and I really admire their work ethics and grit.
I wasn't aware that Chrome did that, but I'm generally wary of Google anything and always have been. I'm a longtime Firefox(/DDG) power user, since it was Phoenix. I never left even when Chrome was hot, of course I've done testing on and off over the years but was never impressed with Chrome. I'm one that if just accepting anything, would use a platform's native browser (Edge, in my case) before Chrome, as native browsers have performance/power advantages due to their non-crossplatform nature.

I'm not happy with the changes they've been making but it's still the best browser by a longshot. If you're just taking defaults, Chrome is acceptable but it's not flexible enough for me.

Even with the bad decisions (removing native RSS support was a huge blow for me), Firefox is still better than it's ever been. They need to be careful though as paradoxically as it is, they're also on a knife's edge of ruining it with the face of that being this Pocket thing.
No: Paul Kimpel's emulator is written in Javascript, and runs in the browser (complete with control panel displays).
It's also used in more musical contexts, as with horns and trumpets -- for instance, "to toot one's own horn". (Animals with large trunks, like elphants and mastodons, would be considered to trumpet.) The fact that a fart makes a sound like that of a trumpet merely makes it a convenient bowdlerization.
One interesting thing I've read, is that frequent disinfection (like in hospitals) actually increases the prevalence of highly resistant strains.

One reason is obvious - those better adapted survive and pass on resistence genes.

But the second reason is more interesting - the disinfection will kill the lesser resistant bacterias, so the resistent ones have less competition to worry about, thus they can concentrate their evolution efforts towards resisting the disinfection. Each extra gene a bacteria carries has big costs on it's fitness, so removing the competition increases the available budget for resistance genes.

I know the article is about viruses, I don't know if viruses compete between themselves in the environment.
I used to put together deal documents similar to this when I worked in finance. It was literally my job to think about potential risks and then list them out.

"Hey boss, this investment has possible earthquake risk, but that seems very remote; do I have to put that in?"

"Yeah, put it in. No one reads the document anyway unless it goes to court and in that case, you can get dinged for leaving out stupid risk factors, but not for having them in."
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There's obviously a
difference because
people differentiate.

Sorry, but I'm not buying it. In exactly the same way I don't differentiate between being maimed by a flamethrower, versus being maimed by battery acid. The presumptive idea of innate wisdom of the crowd doesn't sway me.

Ask most people choose between burning their face off with a chemical or fire, and they'll likely choose fire, but getting your face burned off is categorically bad. Why distinguish.
See the answer I gave maxxxxx above.

Further, progsbase is not a brand new language, it is (mostly) a subset of most existing languages. The selection of the subset is new, but not the contents. This is why the progsbase repository contains examples that can be translated into Java, C, C++, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Python and Visual Basic.
Of note is the link below which indicates how you can have your dataset indexed.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/dataset
>> every HS should have a curriculum like yours if not even more aggressive.

Everyone thinks that their field should be better emphasized at highschools. I think kids should get some background in law (not laws, law) given they will have to go on and obey laws for the rest of their lives. But I know that isn't going to happen. I used to teach 2/3rd year university kids. Highschools need to spend more time teaching kids how to read because, atm, they aren't. I was facing people in their 20s who had trouble reading more than a page or two at a time, who couldn't string together sentences into coherent paragraphs. (Also, basic numeracy.)
- Why don't you try taking a long vacation? Stay in some hostels in South America. Meet some new people along the way. Maybe work remotely from there after you travel.

- You could try microdosing LSD for the low-level depression.
Not really. If main ignores abi for example by not saving callee saved regs, you'll crash. Ignoring abi is never safe unless your entire project is written in asm
> Indian food is labor intensive and uses expensive ingredients

Labor intensive yes, but expensive ingredients? Maybe saffron, but it's used very sparingly in only a few dishes, and a little goes a long way.
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IMO, Paul's notes http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/DE.aspx are a lot easier to use.
I really liked the /idea/ behind google plus where you could put people into circles and selectively post to them.

- Family photos go to everyone in the family circle.
- Articles about politics go to people in that circle (who might also be in my family circle)
- Articles about technical topics go to people in that circle.

We all have different interests and contexts in our lives - like I might want everyone (close friends and acquaintances alike) to know I got married but only my very close family to know I got the flu last weekend.

The part (well last I used google plus which was a while ago) that was missing was sorting that the other way - so when my sister posts family photos it shouldn't show up in the 'news' group that I also have her in.

The interface for google plus sucked, but they got the right idea.
C89, C99, Python 2, 3 were only examples as the table header says.
> I’d say it’s succeeding as much as facebook is.

Maybe I'm defining succeeding too narrowly, and sorry to be rude, but what universe do you live in where this is even close to true? Some quick googling shows the network hadn't even cracked 100k users in Feb: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99469840739197657

> FB is essentially a growth engine designed to drive MAU numbers as high as possible

Right, and it does that by providing a better (a matter of taste, perhaps), cheaper product than Mastodon via specialization of labor, and through network effects, both of which depend on centralization.
You're not getting this at all. They are incomparable at so many levels:

1. There is a vast difference in population density, total population size, and total land mass, as discussed up thread.

2. Switzerland has a homogenous culture that has been extant for several hundred of years at a minimum and you could make an argument for over a thousand years. The western half of the US wasn't settled by Europeans until 150 years ago.

3. The U.S. has had both massive immigration from abroad as well as massive internal migration for the last 200 years. Aside from a few cities in the north east and south, there is essentially nowhere near the level of cultural continuity in the US that exists in most European countries.

4. Aside from the shared language, the cultural differences between various regions of the US are akin to the differences between Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe. Do Hungary and Germany agree on most political issues? Do Sweden and Italy?

5. The US culture is dominated by a settler/pioneer mentality because, up until about 50 years ago, if things weren't great wherever you were, you just uprooted yourself and moved West to find new opportunities. Nobody has been able to do this in Europe at a comparable scale for 1000+ years.

6. Switzerland does not have anywhere near the level of racial heterogeneity that the U.S. has. Not only does the US have a huge, underprivileged ethnic group that is descended from slaves, we have obtained a new huge underprivileged ethnic group in the last 60 years.

[edit] 7. Almost forgot to add: most US infrastructure, especially on the West Coast, was built during the automobile era.

So, no, they are not even remotely comparable.
Yes, as I said above, I should probably have required a new API.