skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly don't disagree, but the idea that someone like me, who has no debt, and who is in no danger of losing my lifestyle should not be allowed to invest because I don't have 'enough' is absurd. I would be in support of requirements where you have to show to the government that investing will not cause you to lose your livelihood, but most people do not need $1million in the bank in order to achieve that goal.

For example, I have several hundred thousand saved, and wanted to invest 20k of that in a business in my neighborhood that was doing a public offering. Because I 'only' make in the 100k-200k range, and I 'only' have 300k in the bank, versus the 1 million required by the government, I was deprived of this otherwise perfectly fine opportunity.

It is clear to me that the regulatory environment we have now is not at all fair. I am certain that my system would cost the government more. However, the government should be happy to take on extra expense when it means the creation of richer taxpayers, and the democratization of capital, IMO.
Lumen: Social Network with React.js and Firebase  Chapter 2 (Update and Delete)
Oh I see --- these are new intermediates that were allowed to be issued. That makes sense but feels wonky because these intermediates were signed after the announced distrusting. I didn't realize that browsers were going to be ok with the old CA(s) signing a couple more intermediates.
The Firefox release was already due to happen a few days after the Chrome one (this was just due to how the release cycles work out, rather than deliberate planning).
I also took terazosin for a couple of weeks due to insane sweating (secondary hyperhydrosis; cold sweating) and goosebumps response (shiver) when not cold.

Overall, the effects of atomoxetine (80 mg/day) are slight (IME) but helpful: reducing by an order or two the magnitude of tracks my mind wants to wander in.

CBD (10 mg 4x/day) has been the biggest help.

Also, I take heavy doses (~200 mg/day ER in the morning) of propranolol.

Mirtazapine (60 mg/day at night)

Clonidine (0.1 mg/day at night)

I would avoid SSRI's at all costs (Maslow's hierarchy of need habits optimization: exercise, sleep, diet, caffeine (which is a mild anticholinergic) elimination, CBT, regular socializing, etc.) because the vestibular and discontinuation side-effects are horrendous and possibly permanently-damaging.
As a Computer Scientist myself, allow me to share my story.

I'm currently 36 and I have 11 years of professional experience as a _generalist_, not a specialist in any way.

This means I can solve any problem of yours, but I'm not your guy for a specific niche your business is in.

Does this mean I'm not your guy for solving your issues? No, it means I am the guy who can help you _find multiple solution(s)_ to your existing problem(s), but...tell that to employers that want to hire x10 programmers.

This lack of specialization limits me from other candidates for so many reasons:

* In tech industry, at the age of 36 I'm considered old, a.k.a useless anymore.
* I know a bit of everything, whereas fresh grads come in the game as fresh, vibrant, energetic
humanoids that bring with them their newly acquired knowledge with an attitude of
"I do whatever my managers tell me for the sake of initial experience".
* I work in a considerable "slow" pace, until I check everything it works as expected, in contrast to
youngsters that "just ship, fix the chaos later".

That lack of expertise causes me nothing but trouble; an extra issue it had caused me is self-doubt.

I never had this type of issue before.

Now, what should you do? Should you study or should you continue with your own self-learning process?

My suggestion would be "yes" _if_ and only _IF_ you plan to get a masters or a PhD degree and you can work for academia or research.

If that's not the case, you don't need the degree.

You should continue with your self-learnt pace, dive in deep waters without the slightest fear, and don't be afraid to ask countless questions, no matter what kind of questions might be or how silly or goofy might sound!

Learn as many languages as possible that intrigue you.

Don't be afraid of learning languages that look obscure to you.

I used to afraid of Perl due to its cryptic nature until I started learning it myself; now it makes perfectly sense.

I hope this helped a bit.
> What do you mean by “free” memory? Actually unmap it?

Sorry, I didn't phrase it well. MADV_DONTNEED is significantly more expensive than most ways that memory allocators would "free" memory. This includes just zeroing it out in userspace when necessary (so no need for a TLB modification), or simply unmapping it and remapping it when needed.

> Also, I assume the crippling you’re talking about here is just the ability to rapidly apply memory pressure?

Right, and if the memory is overcommitted then you can cause OOM very trivially because you already have more mapped pages than there is physical memory -- writing a byte in each page will cause intense memory pressure. Now, this doesn't mean that it would kernel panic the machine, it just means it would cause issues (OOM would figure out what process is the culprit fairly easily).

This is why vm.overcommit_ratio exists (which is what I was talking about when it comes to killing a machine) -- though I just figured out that not all Linux machines ship with vm.overcommit_memory=2 (which I'm pretty sure is what SUSE and maybe some other distros ship because this is definitely an issue we've had for several years...).

There's also RLIMIT_AS, which applied regardless of overcommit_memory.
Standup restaurants have a lot of fixed cost requirements especially with the local health departments. Also there are many local taxes on top of sales tax for restaurants.

Food trucks bypass a lot of this overhead, and it isn't fair to the restaurants. A case of food poisoning can affect a large number of people as well. Lost wages, hospital visits, etc.
“Make all fields in a message required. This makes messages product types.”

This article was clearly written by amateurs.
Open Data from the Copenhagen Communal Area
I'm surprised to find no mention of SES or income in the article. There can be similar Simpson's paradox effects within racial groups between states (for instance, Iowa might have more low SES white people than Texas). I would have expected this to be mentioned in the article for why they chose not to account for it in some form.
I'm not 100% sure that you read the whole article. There's absolutely a reason given why per student expense wasn't considered: "intentions to raise performance are not the same as raising performance." That's a good argument for expenditures not to be included regardless of the impact it may have. Why use a questionable proxy when you could find better ways of actually measuring performance?

The "high-tax, high-spending progressive utopias" remark was mirroring the Paul Krugman op-ed that was mentioned in the introduction to the article.
Notice I said 'neighborhood business'. I feel comparing ICOs -- which usually consist of a team you've never met asking you for money for a product you've never seen -- to an established neighborhood business interested in raising capital for expansion of a proven business model is comparing apples to oranges.
You're absolutely right that it is a sticking point, but custom types can help this. Also, I don't know about you but I don't very often have Infinity or NaN as inputs that I want to see in my schemas...

Also, the JSON schema is an evolving document being developed in the open, it can be improved over time (they're already on Draft 7) -- if numeric types are lacking then suggest a way to make them better.

> And most schema attempts in json are usually less than compelling.

I'm not sure 100% what this means -- jsonschema is pretty easy to read and works pretty well for validation, people are already being very productive with it, what is not compelling?
1. Rust is such a godsend for concurrent programming that any pain associated with lack of GC is worth it. We also have GC like tricks to make it not that bad: https://docs.rs/crossbeam-epoch/0.6.0/crossbeam_epoch/

2. I agree on this one. The basic solution is "well instead of a pointer use a index into a vector" which has some correctness advantages (but less than "normal" rust does), but generally a bit of extra programmer pain.

3. See 2.

4. The compiler takes good enough care of you during things like this that it's basically painless.
ServiceNow Further Simplifies Work with Acquisition of FriendlyData
hope nobody minds a danish site, this came up in discussion previously and people said they would like to see non-English content and that they would just use google translate to understand it.
Can the Wi-Fi chip in your phone help feed the world?
The story may be simpler than initially thought.

“Whereas the Bloomberg story singles out Supermicro servers, Mr. Appleboum’s sentiment is that this is an industrywide issue”

Review the site at: https://www.sepio.systems/solution/

What type of companies stand to gain from the piece?
No, it's single-threaded (it's pure JavaScript after all), but you can index data on a worker thread and then transfer the index instantly to the main thread for search queries. I don't think the algorithm needs parallelization — isn't worth the complexity, it's already fast enough.
Thanks, that's neat! The challenge here is that I also need to validate values (e.g. support minimum/maximum), not just within structs, but also standalone values, which means an UnmarshalJSON directly on the type. I might end up doing something like your example, though. (Rejecting extra fields is on my list!)
I find this sort of sentiment almost hilarious in how out of touch it is.

Time and time again people (mostly men of course) keep asking "but why? why aren't there more women in the field?" Time and time again they keep saying "but I don't see any sexism in the workplace, it's nothing like it used to be, it's practically a meritocracy these days!" Yes, indeed, it truly is a giant mystery.

And yet, at the same time there is a constant deluge of stories about rampant sexism in the industry. Of all sorts, at all levels, at almost every company, and often of shockingly regressive character even up through the present time. There are countless stories in the industry of how women in tech are persistently denigrated, how men talk over them in meetings, how their ideas are ignored until they come out of the mouth of a man, how sexual harassment is ubiquitous, how they are routinely excluded from workplace culture through extremely male-centric activities that include things as ridiculous as morale events or even meetings held at strip clubs.

All of this takes a toll, and that toll is ultimately to stunt the careers of women in tech and to push women out of the industry entirely. Working in tech as a woman is climbing a hill with a much steeper slope than it is for guys. Women routinely get passed over for promotions, are routinely underpaid, routinely do not receive credit for their ideas, and routinely experience more hostile working conditions (through bias as well as sexual harassment). So they leave. They find something better to do with their time because they just can't take the stress and harassment anymore or because it just does not provide the same return on investment as it does for guys.

And we know this. We know this from studies and exposes and a torrent of anecdotes from individual women who have been in the field for years or decades. Some people (guys) have a tendency to write off each and every one of these stories and studies as somehow individual aberrations or outliers which don't have any bearing on the fundamental overall character of the industry, but this is a mistake, they are absolutely representative. The problem of over-representation of white men in tech cannot be solved by "fixing the pipeline" in the educational system nor can it be solved by making hiring processes perfectly unbiased (or even biased towards women) because the real problem is much bigger, it's systemic, widespread misogyny throughout the entire industry. That will take a tremendous amount of work to fix, but once the industry stops treating women as second class citizens (or exotic outsiders) and stops pushing them out of the industry through its toxicity then the problem will mostly fix itself.
I changed the rather click baity headline (16m spent in harrods) coz this is a really big anti corruption deal
in the UK. London is awash with dirty money - it's really screwing our housing market, and this is a step in the right direction.

Now we need laws that say we will jail our bankers if they are found helping launder money revealed under these laws.

And have similar laws everywhere else - Delaware and Nevada I'm looking at you.
ooh I'd love EDN as well -- but I don't think people are willing to adopt S-expressions :(
I have no doubt homelessness in San Francisco is caused by poverty. However, San Francisco is not california. Do your data apply to California as a whole, or just the bay? San Francisco is a very bad choice in city to extrapolate from.
There are enough voices on the net these days that we don't have to put up with this kind of attitude anymore. This sort of stuff was "just the way things were" when we were teenagers visiting forums ran by teenagers. I don't know if the guy is right or wrong, I've just got better things to do than to sift through all the vitriol to get to whatever point he is trying to make.
This is Simpson's Paradox[0]--Iowa comes out on top because it has more white students, and white students in Iowa do better than non-white students in Texas.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
> without making your program potentially invalid

You'd only need the GC to disconnect that local from the stack frame, as anything that escapes would be rooted elsewhere. This can be done by having the compiler/JIT emit a liveness map: instruction pointer ranges indicating which variables uninitialized, live or dead.

Otherwise, exactly.

Rust could do this with zero runtime overhead (as the map would be used by borrowck). This is pretty simple to do but generally isn't, precisely because of this: "this is solely a case of fine-tuned optimization."

If you are part of the 0.1% of the people who is actually solving one the of 0.001% problems where this level of control is _genuinely_ important, then use a language that supports this. Assuming that the method is executing for a very long time (>μs), because this the only time you'd probably care about memory management at this level, any FFI is virtually free.

However, even if you are part of the 0.1% of people who have a legitimate concern for this, and you are working on a 0.001% problem, why on earth are you doing so many allocations and frees? Against your own better judgement? If you care enough to worry about when memory is freed, you should know enough that you should re-use memory as much as possible without involving the allocator.
Example using two races and just ACT scores:

Texas:

50% Hispanic who average 25

50% white who average 29

State average: 27

Iowa:

10% Hispanic who average 24

90% white who average 28

State average: 27.6
Employees are not responsible for every legally questionable thing their company does. That said, I mean, of course a person is responsible for any crimes they may have personally committed. It doesn't matter that your company told you to do it. To believe the law would work any other way is incredibly naive. If this really is how people are thinking about ICO's, then I would strongly urge anyone with possible involvement to go consult briefly with an attorney about that involvement now. Just to better understand how things work. Because right now there is some pretty bad information floating around.

If your lawyer recommends it, then get out in front of the problem. You may even be able to reach a settlement with the SEC. (Which, needless to say, is far better than having to reach a "deal" with the DOJ.)
Does someone have an up-to-date table comparing the different fabs' interpretations of "Xnm" process size? I recall them all having very different values (to the point where one might actually be a whole process size behind, but not admit it for marketing purposes).
<devil's advocate>
Just because many people might not have "the technical preparation" or "they don't know about" driver's licenses, that doesn't mean society would give them a free pass for driving unlicensed and without the required training/testing...
</devil's advocate>

While _some_ of those 1000+ sites may just be brochureware, I'd bet reasonable money that the majority of them are collecting user data of some sort (even if it's just email/password for site logins) - and the reality of website breaches and credential dumps in 2018 - those 1000 website owners are doing the Personally Identifying Information equivalent of unlicensed and uninsured driving.

I'd stop somewhat short of suggesting we should put the people responsible in jail, but if you run a top million website and have no clue your ssl cert is dodgy - I'd probably support calls to revoke your right to run a public website...
Mostly OpenSSH
I work on an Edge Platform team as part of an Edge Foundation that manages both external CDN and internal Tier 1 WAF/Ingress systems. We do Edge computing at both CDN and Tier 1 layers via tenant plugins running LUA/go. We also have an SDN team building Tier 2 solutions, so basically systems operating at the edge of each layer of the HTTP stack.
> Why wouldn't you want a food truck parked outside the neighborhood park?

Noise, smell, litter, crowds, extra traffic, taking up space from people who wanted to use the park, fumes from generators or burners... lots of reasons.

> instead of hopping in a car and driving 10 minutes to apple/chilis/etc

I mean these aren’t really the only two options are they, come on.
repeated(oneof(Foo, Bar))

is not the same as

oneof(repeated(Foo), repeated(Bar))
> I've heard the argument that this situation is unique to japan due to their aging population and low birthrate.

There are many other countries (Italy, S. Korea, others) that have the same aging population and low birthrate.
Well, this is how lengthy arguments start about pros and cons of languages, as there are many many people who will argue these are not problems or can be worked around or are actually preferable for whatever reasons.

But my biggest problems with Python are:

- Lack of strong enough / useful / culture around typing
- Effective limitation to single core through GIL
- Lack of proper solution to closures

Really the first two are the ones that make it for me, a fundamentally crippled language. And they are exactly the things you don't notice when starting out, and the things that limit you eventually.
That's how it works for most people. If the cost of an item is too high, most people don't buy it. With digital media the effects of "theft" are largely overstated because pirates wouldn't buy the game if they had to pay for it. With traditional goods theft results in a cost to the creator due to physical materials costing money to produce, however digital goods have no such cost and thus the creator loses very little to pirates in practice.
This reads like a complaint about vaccines because nobody has seen Polio in like a lifetime...

Just as a reminder: Up until the early 20th century, any large city that wasn't home to a Molasses-based catastrophe had at some point burned more or less completely down, usually killing thousands: Chicago, SF, London are well known.
The efficiency measure sure seems dangerously misleading. My SC high school didn't have the budget to replace broken tables (which were simply overturned until a handy-ish student managed to unsteadily prop them up) and sent seniors home home early via free periods to cover for a lack of teachers.

Was that efficient? I suppose. Was it a desirable education? Not really.
one of the best visual tutorials on the transformer I came across http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
Well the 13th amendment does deny you a right to sell yourself into slavery, so you're not substantiating your claim that these laws don't infringe on your right to privacy and free contract.

In any case, that's an extremely dishonest comparison. In no way is spending money that your past self left to your present self however you wish (e.g. investing in a out-there idea called "Bit Coin" in 2010, instead of wasting it on state-run lotteries that the government advertises), comparable to selling your future self's freedom away. The latter violates the rights of someone who is arguably not you. The former violates no one's rights and should not be prohibited in a free society.
The point of the article is that your assumption, the assumption that people often make, has been measurably shown to be incorrect.
> just never calling free()

So your code would look a lot like it was running under a garbage collector? The OS memory manager is the garbage collector in this case.
We have commissary co-working spaces in Georgia too, but they were pretty expensive last time I checked. I think the law here requires that you have a dedicated space that isn't shared.
> If Hong Kong had been militarily defensible, it'd be in the same situation.

If the UK had really wanted to keep Hong Kong, could it have militarily defended it? No doubt the geography is less than favourable; but, keeping in mind that UK and PRC are nuclear powers, would regaining Hong Kong be worth the risk of war between two nuclear states? PRC might well have decided it wasn't worth that risk.

But in reality, the UK had no real interest in keeping Hong Kong, and were more than happy to hand it over to PRC. (Yes, there was a treaty saying they had to give back a big chunk after 99 years, but if the UK really wanted to get out of that, they could have found a solution – e.g. if they hadn't switched recognition from ROC to PRC, they could have asked ROC for a lease extension. Or, they could have made their switch of recognition from ROC to PRC conditional on PRC granting them perpetual sovereignty over the whole of Hong Kong.)
Care to compare the global market size of transportation versus specialized medical devices?

Yours is a bad faith comparison unless you do this.
Egnyte raises 75m series E led by Goldman Sachs
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. A runaway, climate chain-reaction hasn't happened yet.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.
U.S. Gas Prices Continue to Rise
There's no chance that's close to true. The further left you go, the more ardently people are anti guns in the US. With few exceptions it's a dramatic difference between the center left and far left on gun rights. The far left is entirely anti gun, the center left occasionally panders to win votes out of necessity.

The two most famous Socialists in the US right now are probably Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. Both are very aggressively anti guns.
Hugging people, literally the worst thing that has ever happened
Let's discuss Redhat. I haven't heard of any aggressive patent position. But I do get the feeling they wouldn't shy away from a fight.
The jobs you listed have largely been augmented rather than replaced. You’re also not accounting for new jobs we can’t even imagine yet.

Ten years ago no one would think YouTuber or Instragram model would be viable jobs for some people. Social media directors at companies large and small have to find unique ways to engage with other humans. The guy that fixes cracked screens on smartphones couldn’t have done that in 1999. UX developer/designers craft human interactions to be better.

Automation taken to the end game may create a Star Trek like world where material goods are so cheap as to almost be free. The economy could shift to value knowledge, art, creativity, novel experiences and more.
A food truck seems completely benign to you and me. But I bet if one decides to park itself right outside your window it can have a dramatic effect on your quality of life.