skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as I said, did a hundred things. I designed database schema without picking up a single book on database. First implementation was 100 DB accesses per Story fetch, and it blew the cap on my BaaS in days of development. LOL. Quickly figured out what's wrong via API documentation, redesigned the schema (I didn't even know what the word schema is, I thought it's just Excel table rows & columns). Shrunk it down to 0 accesses for query actions (query also fetch basic metadata for 50 Stories at the same time). Probably got all these done in 2/3 weeks, a quarter of the time someone goes thru a DB design course?

It's really hard to even recall dozens of these experience and shrink them into stories and putting words to these. In the startup world, it's called 'Get Shit Done'. In the monolithic FAANG & FAANG wannabe world, I dunno what it's called...
Does seem like a bad idea to have an air force base right on the coast.
Yes, you can run any Linux program on it. It has Wayland which converts x11 to the Chromeos windowing metaphor. You can install things using apt-get on your local instance of Linux or use -X with ssh and it just works. It's amazing.

But the sound issues, sigh.
One could alternatively never reuse addresses and decommit pages once the last object on a page is gone. No need for VT.

You might run out of address space eventually, that might be a good moment to drain current workitems and launch new ones into a replacement process. This would work well for things like web services since each request is relatively short lived.
My comment corrected the assertion that the top 3% take home 80% of the income - and was written without bias (the marxist comment was added after the downvotes).
or did you mean at virtual 8086 could be generalised into a wider virtualisation system?

Yes, if you look at the way V86 is implemented, it wouldn't be too hard to extend it to full virtualisation --- something like a "VMX mode task" would've been ideal.
This is a fantastic article.

I have a Green Card, so have read and know more about US Immigration policy than anyone should ever wish to, and I had no idea that the EB-1 was this attainable, and I've actually sat down and read USCIS's EB-1 page and parts of the policy manual.

I genuinely believe there's going to be someone out there that reads this having previously dismissed the EB-1 (just like I myself did) and gives it a shot. The visa is definitely set up to seem out-of-reach for non-celebrities/field specific rock stars.

Another example of this working, Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss) earned an EB-1 while being a mid-tier model with no huge acclaim. Although she was assisted by her agency and similar, so they may have a marketing budget to get her name/acclaim out there.
No. They believe you can measure an infinite number of trials (say # of heads vs tails) and whatever ratio you get is the probability of heads.

However it's problematic because you can measure a million coin flips and get heads every time. It's not possible to actually measure an infinite number of trials - you need to imagine it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Alfred App https://www.alfredapp.com/

I cannot give it enough upvotes!
What actions do you have set up? Would you mind describing it in a little more detail? (Particularly the Drafts stuff)
a::b::c is ugly compared to a.b.c whether you put it in an expression or in a use statement and ::<T>()? is not that rare (ex. rdr.read_u16::<BigEndian>()?).

You asked what bothered us, not what was unusual :)
Hugely appreciate that!
ChromeOS has always been based off Gentoo. It's still a slapped on browser, but if I remember correctly there are things you can do to toggle regular Linux apps on, or you know, you could also just install another distro over it.
Yeah I wasn't talking so much about machine vs human readable, but whether the results for various CPUs are available, published somewhere in the git repo or elsewhere. If not, then it's just a tool for getting the results yourself, on hardware you have - which is also very nice, but a different type of resource as compared to Agner's published guides for 20+ CPUs, and the uops.info tables, etc.
I mean, If there were appreciable amounts of it (i.e. not on the scale of kilograms in or around the earth), so that it could have a measurable impact on planet orbits, we could gain information on its distribution within (or interaction with) the solar system. That's why this density estimate is interesting - it sort of determines what the smallest scale is at which we'd have a chance of observing interactions/structure with dark matter.
There's a niche market for such products, in which a high premium would be paid for a product that successfully meets the needs of its purchasers. Unfortunately, successfully is defined by the high floor of convenience provided by multibillion dollar companies, so I understand that it's tough to compete with that.

I've participated in adjacent niche markets where consumers 1) most likely work in tech 2) have needs that 99.9% of people don't care about 3) are willing to pay a premium 4) have the means to pay that premium.

It's too bad that there are so few businesses willing to tap into this market. Part of me believes this is a marketing issue, though. I've yet to see a campaign that really nails our core concerns and does so elegantly.
>as opposed to risk taking and thousands of hours of hard work.

one might say it is a privilege to get to do those things.
For FAANGS, I bet half my interviews didn't even go to my landing sites. And no way would any of them have downloaded the app to see the complexity and performance of the application. I'm purely evaluated on algorithms and data structures. If so why bother with the projects? It's much cheaper to just spend the time to study algorithms and data structures. I'd argue I learn 1/100th of what I did. But if companies only look for what's missing out of their list of attributes (and a lot not even relevant to the job at hand), and discount the 99 other things that I have demonstrated to excel at, it's not only demoralizing, it's plain stupid.
Don't forget that more engineers can increase wages too. You seem to be stuck in a bit of a simplistic lump of labour idea about supply, demand and salaries.

More engineers means there are more companies that can grow, which increases opportunities for integration and building on top of. Think of engineers as more like fuel for a fire: the world isn't sufficiently automated, and the way we automate it is by applying engineers to the problem. The more we throw at it, the hotter it can burn; and the rewards depend on the value of the thing being automated, not mere supply and demand.

If we only had one engineer, they would not be worth the billions of amappgoosoft put together. It's very far from a zero sum game.
Is it regular x11 apps with ChromeOS' own window manager / skin theme or some weird hack?
the issue is though is that we have to make sure everything is safe, when passing custom install scripts through bash, in the future it could get hacked and end up running malicious commands, mainly the issue is that it just fetches and runs a script, which sometimes people blindly run these
I was fully expecting this to be yet another blog post about a fairly mundane technique, but this was actually rather clever. It's also now something I'm going to double check at work on Monday to make sure we're not vulnerable.
Being a coder, i have a ton of friends who all aspire to create indie games in their spare time. I also know a couple of artistic friends with similar aspirations. I wish there was a platform for these two sets of people to ideate and join forces. Lists like this help, but it doesn't begin to answer all of the design/environment/modeling that is necessary for most games.

Even if, like the random saas projects many of us have in mothballs, no released project comes of it, almost everyone involved would likely make out positively from the experiences gained.
I don’t quite see the need for LayoutProxy, or a layout method. Why not just extend UIView with a category which defines properties that add constraints when assigned to?
Increasingly, I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't create data you can't destroy; "smart" thermostats, cameras, and whatever else all seem to create a bunch of data and upload it to the cloud. Once there, it's out of your control, and can be subpoenaed and used against you.

I remember the brief period when teaching internet literacy involved teaching people that any text, photo, or video, uploaded to the internet should be considered public, regardless of how the access was limited at the time of upload. Now, people[0] are buying smart devices and uploading all kinds of stuff without even thinking about it.

To a lesser degree, we see the same situation with Event Data Recorders in cars. They record data that can be used against the user in the event of a crash. Are most people aware of this? I doubt it. Having sat on a couple of juries, I've witnessed how ruthless lawyers can be about picking apart an innocuous action to support the case they're making, whether there's malice/negligence/whatever behind it or not.

Maybe we ought to treat creating data as a special case of "Don't talk to the police"[1]

[0] Lay people, the HN crowd is probably making an informed choice. We aren't the majority though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Not OP, but I've had much success with making complaints to my state's Attorney General Office. I wrote about my experiences in a LPT [1] recently. Some states' Attorney Generals are more helpful than others, but in Ohio, any resident can make a consumer complaint in a few minutes online, and in my experience, businesses big and small suddenly take your greivances very seriously once the AG's office is put in the loop.

[1]-https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/9ci4qe/lpt_get...
One last thing: you are right about there being billions of people in the world. Make friends with some of them!

Also, do your best, but don't believe that you alone are responsible for saving the world. You've got help out here, and we're in it together.
"The Pointy-haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB or "The Boss") is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
http://flatkill.org/ claims that “The sandbox is a lie”:

> Almost all popular applications on flathub come with filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions, that is, write permissions to the user home directory (and more), this effectively means that all it takes to "escape the sandbox" is echo download_and_execute_evil >> ~/.bashrc. That's it.

> To make matters worse, the users are misled to believe the apps run sandboxed. For all these apps flatpak shows a reassuring "sandbox" icon when installing the app (things do not get much better even when installing in the command line - you need to know flatpak internals to understand the warnings).

I have not used flatpack. Is this description accurate? Also:

> Up until 0.8.7 all it took to get root on the host was to install a flatpak package that contains a suid binary (flatpaks are installed to /var/lib/flatpak on your host system). Again, could this be any easier? A high severity CVE-2017-9780 (CVSS Score 7.2) has indeed been assigned to this vulnerability. Flatpak developers consider this a minor security issue.
I definitely hurt my social life a lot by leaving Facebook. I don't try to hide it by saying "only real friends that will send me mail or call me matter!" because as someone in their mid 20s/college, a lot of serendipitous social stuff happens on Facebook (maybe now IG). Some people I've met even give you their IG username rather than their phone if they just met you.

It is entirely normal to have friends you aren't super close with but still want in your life. A lot can be reached through iMessage/SMS but a ton of stuff happens on social networks nowadays.
I am from a rural area of the country and paid for college in part by working for a farmer up to and during wheat harvest for several years. I completely agree with you.

America's fetish with the preservation of small family farms is incredibly destructive both environmentally and economically. People seem to have this romanticized concept of farmers as Ma and Pa working hard every day just to scrape by and raise their 6 kids. In reality these are businesses with massive amounts of capital tied up in businesses that are only sustainable with government subsidy.

Let these businesses fail, create economic incentives to use the land for more productive purposes like carbon sequestration.
My thought is that the projects will be what really sets you apart. Everybody can say they learn quick, they are self starters. And these are often touted as the 'most important attributes'.

But it just boiled down to algorithm challenges which is mostly down to how much time one have 'wasted' to excel at them.....
Fair warning.. Jordan B Peterson's name is on this pdf. So it may not be actually any good. (Judging on what he writes in his recent "Loved by the Alt-Right/white supremacist" best sellers and those "Watch Jordan B Peterson Destroy/Demolish a SJW" videos on youTube).
One factor this might have missed is overall higher wages in California and other places with a lot of Asians.
In my experience it's the target that takes the most time to load; the shortener itself is usually quick.
They see an easy target. Us nerds are too nice, so we Neville Chamberlain to their demands. Finance is full of type A dicks who won't give that stuff the time of day.
This is awesome, I'm really hoping this spec becomes adopted by all major IRCd's
Project Crostini. "Native" Linux is Debian, run inside of a container, which is in turn run inside of a restricted VM. You don't get root in the VM, but you get access to commands for manipulating containers. Inside the container you have full access, but no devices.

Current limitations: you don't get accelerated graphics, no sound, and can't access USB or SD storage from the Linux container (yet). Things that look really good, you can install .apt packages from the Chrome file manager, and anything with a .desktop file shows up in the Chrome launcher.
Looks like there are a bunch of patches with accelerated graphics coming in, and audio should be coming sometime too. Better storage should be available once they re-baseline on kernel version 4.18+, as that has non-root fuse mounts.

BTW, the reason for a lot of limitations of for security, so that a Linux app can't possibly negatively affect the rest of the system. For that reason, they don't have a mechanism to run Linux programs on system startup -- you have to purposely launch any apps.
For me the requirement is: plain C interface, usable under MIT/BSD or less-restrictive license

Something gets bonus points for not needing other libraries or static data, so I could put it in a kernel, but usually I don't really need this.

For example, Judy is LGPL. Darn. That alone is trouble, but Judy makes it more questionable due to non-trivial code in *.h files.

Any good options?
The joy of piracy really is the getting and the having.
This is not intended to contradict your point, but the first video is an obvious marketing fluff piece almost certainly funded by the Chinese government (China Daily is not an independent news source). It is designed to manipulate foreign opinion in favor of China and distract from their pollution problem. The video does not represent scientifically persuasive evidence in favor of your point.

"As we get closer, I can feel the temperature change. Here it's not just cool, it's actually a little cold."

Well no shit; those mountains you're strolling through peak at 7000 feet and higher [0].

[0] http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/Hebei-7042315/
Its just my email: http://almaer.com/blog/its-just-my-email-password
hey mojomark! I'm with the team behind the glasses. It sounds like you might know a thing or too about optics. We're looking for engineers and researchers that can help us solve the hard problem of blocking OLEDs for our next product. A lot of people think it’s impossible but we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Any chance you’re someone that can help?
No, I think that's the route DeepMind and the rest went with. Jeff Hawkins seems to want the more biologically plausible model.
> I want ArrayList(T) to work whether T = i32 or T = ArrayList(i32).

This will work fine. Do you have a more specific example?
I would strongly suggest watching the Netflix documentary "Dirty Money" series episode on the HSBC/Mexican cartel fiasco. It goes into many of the details of how it went down and how it was discovered.
You seem to be underestimating the value of your citizenship. I know of an Indian friend who had really good credentials but was refused. I guess a hidden criteria is "white and western"
> After his “Naughty by Nature” and “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” tweets, do you believe that his twitter behavior has been curbed effectively?

Obviously not yet. But if Tesla fails to curb Elon Musk, I'd expect the SEC to continue to clamp down.

Remember: Tesla's settlement was to agree to clamping down on Musk's tweets. If Tesla violates that, then SEC can bring down the hammer again.
My take on legal punishment of banks that commit these sorts of frauds: the only method of punishment that strikes me as likely to actually make them feel the pain of their acts is to also pursue indictment of specific executives that knowingly allowed activity that was very evidently shady to continue. Multimillion and multibillion dollar fines levied against giant corporations are ineffective for the very reasons stated above by others, they're proportionally absurd for these kinds of corporate actors and the costs of these fines are mostly an abstraction (no one bank executive or group of them really feels the drain from their own pocket) that most likely get subtly passed onto customers anyhow.
I basically implemented join tables to keep track of reputation, along with a periodic reputation calculation algorithm that accounts for freshness and other feed prioritization metrics. Without knowing the words 'Joint Table' or 'Freshness'. This is one of the hundreds fo things I did. I can harp about marketing, conversion funnel. or UI/UX design. or Customer Validation and Lean Startup...

But all I ended up getting is 'Cool App'. But 'Your technical competency because you can't finish implement a working Trie in the 30 minutes that's left after you spent 15 minute talking about your cool project.'... So basically 99% weighting is on the algorithmic puzzles.
This isn’t true. Emacs interns strings in a global obarray, which is a simple array with linear search. I hear emacs scales well.
Whether their hireable isn't the problem. They legally can't be employed by you. You would have to employ then without tying their employment to their SSN.
hey db48x! I'm with the team behind the glasses. It sounds like you might know a thing or too about optics. We're looking for engineers and researchers that can help us solve the hard problem of blocking OLEDs for our next product. A lot of people think it’s impossible but we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Any chance you’re someone that can help?
HTML is not valid XML.

Some parsers may survive, but it's different enough to break most of them.
hey newman8r! I'm with the team behind the glasses. It sounds like you might know a thing or too about optics. We're looking for engineers and researchers that can help us solve the hard problem of blocking OLEDs for our next product. A lot of people think it’s impossible but we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Any chance you’re someone that can help?
No... I don't think what Galileo was preaching was verifiablely false.
Yeah. Gonna do my last 'standard interview' with yet another FAANG, and the last FAANG I'm gonna apply to, coming up Tuesday. Startups excites me a lot more anyways... Just that they have a lot less openings and budget & logistical support for relocations.
That sounds like the same authoritarian justification for hiding URLs in browsers and such --- "we'll tell you if it's safe, you don't need to know"...
hey dreamcompiler! I'm with the team behind the glasses. It sounds like you might know a thing or too about optics. We're looking for engineers and researchers that can help us solve the hard problem of blocking OLEDs for our next product. A lot of people think it’s impossible but we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Any chance you’re someone that can help?
To some extent, but I also think people severely overestimate what it takes to be notable. We live in such an extreme consumer culture that even a small amount of effort added to what you are already doing will set you a part from a lot of people. That doesn't necessarily mean you get a visa or that it is possible in every snarky field. But if you can write, speak, organize things, help people out and have a good attitude about it, showing up counts for a lot.
>I'm in my late 30s now, after two decades as an entrepreneur. My brain was quicker at 21, memory was slightly stronger (slightly faster, easier recall), and I had greater endurance at working productively in very long stretches.

I'm in my mid 30s. If my brain was quicker and my memory better when I was 21, it's certainly not enough of an effect to be noticeable. This corresponds to what more current studies say about when cognitive decline tends to become perceptible.

What has changed, is the demands on my time. Also, as you said, endurance. I can't sit at a computer for hours without stretching or something will start hurting.
As a Canadian, I'm surprised the author didn't mention a 3rd way - work for a US company on a TN visa that will sponsor you for a green card. This is doable (albeit a little riskier) despite the common conception that it is not.

A few articles/forum posts on the topic for those interested:

- https://www.prizant-law.com/tn-visa-professionals-and-applic...

- https://forums.immigration.com/threads/i-am-no-longer-curiou...

- https://forums.immigration.com/threads/gc-from-tn-visa-throu...
Apologies, looks like it's a local saying:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doco

I'm being an egg (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Egg).
Can you define that standard? What's the threshold for being verifiably false?
I'm doing live demos either in-person or on video calls. The Unicorns/FAANGs doesn't give a damn. Heck, some don't even give you the space/time to do such demos. 10 minutes behavioural grilling, and then 45 minutes algorithm puzzles. 5 minutes left for you... Shouldn't be called an interview. Should be called it what it is, a straight out standardized exam.
or you could just make a helper function that ignores errors and call that. We're just arguing about defaults. Zig is of course a general purpose programming language and you can always build less precise tools on top of more precise tools.
hey lmilcin! I'm with the team behind the glasses. It sounds like you might know a thing or too about optics. We're looking for engineers and researchers that can help us solve the hard problem of blocking OLEDs for our next product. A lot of people think it’s impossible but we’re willing to give it our best shot!

Any chance you’re someone that can help?
Keeping it Casual
I think you're right that comparing to profit isn't right, but I still contend that comparing to revenue isn't either. What I meant is looking at per-unit profit margins (i.e. excluding things like R&D) - if just producing whatever they're selling costs 99% of revenue generated from it, then 5% of revenue on R&D looks pretty high - they're drawing on capital to do so. If, on the other hand, those costs are only 5%, then they're stashing away an enormous portion of revenue despite R&D and thus they're R&D spend looks pretty low.
> I grew up in Appalachia (pronounced "app-uh-lai-cha" by us)

Isn’t that the usual pronunciation of it? How else do people pronounce it?
I was leading a team of 4 (the rest are part-time). Definitely humbled in how crappy of a manager I am. But learned a heck lot tho. Stuff that doesn't translate through an algorithm puzzle yet again...