skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you've lived in NC... but there are a few things to that that I think you may have missed:

1. Yes, the fact that this is uniformly a control state, that is a problem. (Given how they are, I wish they had some special exclusion areas) However, a lot of the east coast operates in the same manner. The early hour for last call is bad as well.

2. Politics that you're talking about have very little to do with the tech sector. Despite what silicon valley would have you believe, you can be a conservative and be a productive member of the industry.

3. This sounds like you're pushing a political agenda here. I think a more succinct way to put this would be: Given the demographic that the tech industry attracts, the bible belt would not be favourable to their lifestyle.

4. (Also see #3)

There are reasons for doing tech in NC and it does have a small tech sector.
Software is often a tool to perform science.
If by FULL OF you mean less than a half a percent of the population, then maybe you are right.

Seriously, this is offensive and inaccurate and wrong. It is just as bad as saying all Muslims are terrorists.

Only people who have never been to the South, and let New York media and Hollywood caricatures inform them ACTUALLY believe this.

It is terrible that CNN and MSNBC have followed the Fox News model of peddling fear, but for the opposite side. It leads to this kind of ignorance.

FYI:. I am proud of the fact that I helped two Indian co-workers get green cards and become fellow citizens. I did this at a company in Arkansas. I no longer live there, but they both remain and love it. They are now huge football fans as well.

Wake up and see your own prejudice.
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Now, from the people who hyped 3D TV and VR headsets, the Next Big Thing.

This is a useful technology for creators, but probably not mass market.
> We discuss the possible origins of such an object including the possibility that it might be a lightsail of artificial origin. Our general results apply to any light probes designed for interstellar travel.

Could someone clarify whether it means what I think it is saying - that an Arxiv paper is trying to prove that this is an object sent by an alien civilization to peek at our solar system?
I’m pretty familiar with Singal and doubt he has much of a problem with Gab getting booted from Godaddy. Want me to ask him?
You have very interesting associations … If you are from Canada I would think about consequences of the legalization.
I’m sorry, I didn’t make clear enough I was expressing surprise at your casual sexism.
The nuclei would be positive ions... I don't believe free electrons would be stable in a penning trap set up for positive ions. The strongly positive endcaps (my guess is 60kv) would make it unlikely that they would stay in the same region as the positive ions, though I'm not sure.

The goal is for the ions to act like individual ballistic deuterium nuclei flying along a cyclotron trajectory. The density should be very low most of the time, but spike dramatically very briefly.

That line between high density and acting like individual particles is one of the reasons this device is difficult for me to model.
It is relevant. I think the implication of the commenter two layers above was that the 10th worker wouldn't be fired because if 9 workers were sufficient the business would have only hired 9 in the first place. This may not always be correct. 9 works may indeed be sufficient, but at wages lower than the mandated minimum the 10th worker is better. For that reason, a wage hike can indeed cause workers to lose employment.
lol man. I don't watch sports but I guess you don't play video games, watch netflix, etc.? All are equally wastes of time.
Recommendations if you're on be JVM primarily?
Do you have any experiencing using BGP and/or DHCP with wireguard? It looks like it might be as easy as running dhcpd/dnsmasq on the wireguard interface, but I haven't seen that much documentation on it yet..
*weak security

One can scan the whole IPv4 address space in probably an hour, so you'll find any service you want to find. You might say, "I have a CDN in front of it", but that is just basic firewalling (or reverse proxying) and not really worth of being called "IP obfuscation".
Proof of Authority would be regular fiat or centralised currency right?

For example; Visa is the authoritative source of all Visa transactions...
A recent twitter thread that could be helpful - https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/105620018913060044...

And this from the same thread :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqhjmPdU4AAb979.jpg
MetaPsychics: {Video} MANTRA PODEROSO PARA REMOVER OBSTACULOS
This is incorrect. At least for tech companies, when you are explicitly told that it's not an interview, you can take it at face value (but as always, exercise judgement, and don't be a dick).

Usually they will tell you whether lunch is also an interview or if it's just lunch. From my own experiences, Microsoft typically does a more touchy-feely interview (still a real interview) over lunch, but Google typically doesn't. With the tech giants, you can take this at face value.

That doesn't mean your lunch buddy will be a good conversationalist though. Mine mostly were not (including at AirBnB, but I only point that out for the irony against their stated cultural values). I would sometimes just ask for the last 20 minutes to meditate.

Also that's not an insult or a judgement. Being a good conversationalist in professional settings is hard, and interviews doubly so because interviewees are nervous for good reasons. So I don't judge engineers or even PM's by how good at bantering they are during interviews, because it's not their job to be good at it.
> It is a ponzi scheme where the students pay the teachers, then the students become teachers and the cycle starts over again. Barely anybody who does not play an instrument ever listens to classical music it is a joke

Or, this is the normal way traditional arts and crafts of all sorts are transmitted through the generations? It's not a Ponzi scheme unless it promises supranormal exponential growth.

I learned a classical instrument and it taught me many lessons that I don't I would've learned elsewhere (or at least not until much, much later in life):

- rote repetition and practice isn't sexy, but it works and will lead to steady improvement, no matter how bad you are initially

- there is an effective technique to rote practice, and you can put it to use for any skill that you wish to acquire

- failing many times is part of the road to success

These are all skills that are very applicable to software developers as well.

I'm sure there are people who tried very hard to become classical musicians and now regret that choice, and perhaps some resent those who encouraged them along that path, but I never expected to become a professional and continue to happily play in my free time. Same goes for many of my music acquaintances.
This is definitely the emphasis in music education at the K-12 level, and to a growing extent at the college level as well. I came across this page recently:

https://www.music.wisc.edu/areas/jazz-studies/

Note that it drops a pretty strong hint that you should not major in music exclusively.
> So by making use of the information disparity, and manipulating the perception of the used market, it should be possible to keep prices artificially high.

It seems like this would be really hard to pull off, though, because apparently they're simulateneously keeping prices artificially low.

I can see them keeping the casual buyer and seller ignorant of each other's existence -- especially if they're fixing up the pianos and selling them as 'certified refurbished' (or whatever), so they're not simply buying low and selling the exact same product high.

But wouldn't the whole thing crumble when a few enthusiasts got together and discussed their experiences as buyers and sellers -- or when a few sellers (whether through ignorance or knowledge) publically and successfully held out for higher prices?
Even if I accepted the modern re-branding of the word "racist" to mean the new "power + privilege", which I don't accept, but I understand many people use that definition, the author's statement is still loaded with racial prejudice. He literally said that bad behavior X is "no surprise" because the person behaving badly is white and a man.

You trying to justify this language as not only tolerable but acceptable is part of the problem society has wrt treating people as individuals. And the fact that you're using historical injustices against people to tell me why I need to accept negative language around two immutable physical characteristics that I possess is really over the line. We're supposed to be moving away from that kind of society.
> Or just making a narrower claim that the minimum wage hike increased some workers.

Not only that, it's a specific type of workers, namely those that work for large bureaucracies that can absorb the cost. It seems like a pretty good argument for having the minimum wage only apply to companies with more than 500 employees.
I'm sure he got it!
Exactly! I can't remember where but I distinctly remember some theory quantifying this as almost-1, almost-2,... as a function of the number of finite (or countably infinite maybe) exceptions.
Makes it easier for Amazon to lobby the feds. Not sure how I feel about this.

Also is this how skynet starts: they get some big government contract, it’s some military A.I. thing and then boom T1000s. I joke but still. I agree with the others that Bezos has this place picked all along. I was hoping he put it in Portland Oregon but the local government would have taxed him a ton or insisted on a union and Amazon wouldn’t have liked that.
That’s exactly how it works. Default mods are just that, default.
They may be referring to the phenomenon where HQ's usually relocate closer to the CEO's home.

https://ggwash.org/view/31563/ceos-want-faster-commutes-for-...
This is essentially the same optimization as storing small range integers as "fixnums" whereas the larger ones are heap- allocated "bignums".
Sounds smart and tactical. I guess there’s a reason he’s one of the richest people in history.
I doubt there’s an email scraper that hasn’t added logic to replace [at] with @ etc. - so most of these obfuscations are absolutely useless too.
Speak for yourself, there's still plenty of things I want to do on this planet.
Most math and science students are aware that we aren't headed for academic research careers in those fields. But that's true for computer science students as well.

I have a physics degree, and while I'm not employed as a programmer per se, programming is my main problem solving tool. It wouldn't be a quantum leap for me to move into a programming job if I wanted to do it.

On the other hand, I also have two friends whose college degrees were in philosophy and music performance, and both became programmers.
I'm using a Pixel 2XL currently... previously an One Plus One, Nexus 4p, and I don't recall exactly before that. Mostly following the google developer line. This will probably be the last Google recommended phone I use. Mostly because of ongoing bluetooth issues since Oreo, fixed briefly in the late P betas, but broken again in P release.

I just can't justify the price tag. At $250-400, I'd buy almost every year. At the current price tag, I want 2-3 years out of it. In the end, I'm probably going back to mid range pricing territory after 2019 unless there's something really compelling. All I feel looking at the results is, "meh."

I buy a super cool top end phone, then I wrap it in an otterbox, and in the end, I'd rather have that be closer to the mfg case with a bigger battery. The round to the edge screen makes it harder to use without a case. I think it's a time to take a step back and re-evaluate the place of function with form.
any app can raise a Notification i.e. a message box thingee that appears in the device's Notification Drawer. (this is different from a Push Notification.)

and I think what the OP was talking about was this kind of Notification. i think he was saying that various apps that count on reliably running code in the background (e.g. when the app itself is in the stopped state and not visible on screen) are no longer able to reliably run that code in the background because Android decided not to let them do that on demand in a reliable way (in order to save battery). but that backgrounded code is what had been placing notifications in the Notification Drawer (when, say, the app became aware that there was a new email in your inbox or when a Calendar appointment was now one hour away, etc).

as for push notifications, nowadays, Firebase Cloud Messaging is recommended. your app derives a service from FirebaseMessagingService and marks that service as "exported" in the manifest. and, you don't have to explicitly start that service. and, though i could be wrong, I think that service does not actually run in the background all the time. i think what happens is that some generic Firebase service invokes your app's service when a push notification has arrived for it. your app's service then processes that message as desired, and, if I understand correctly, it shuts back down. i believe Firebase is basically managing your service so that it does not have to run in the background all the time.
Silverware is pretty cool to use everyday. I have a couple of silver German forks from the 1800's that have a nice heft and sharp tangs. I wash them by hand and they stay nice and shinny. Silverware gets tarnished if you don't use and wash it but if you use it like regular flatware they are definitely not high-maintenance. Antiseptic too (I think).
The capital of the Confederacy was in Virginia, but you’ve decided that it’s not in the South.

Let’s try Wikipedia instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States
> This is because your node syncs _all_ the data, including the content that you don't navigate to.

All the data? Isn't it going to take a huge lot when the network grows popular?
You know that Chris from Coder Radio is now a firm KDE/Plasma enthusiast?
Actually Android is open source: The full name, AOSP, stands for "Android Open Source Project", and you can download the source here:
https://source.android.com/setup/build/requirements

Anyone is free to modify, build, and distribute their own versions of Android. How else would OEMs ship their own skins? This also means you can audit Android source for vulnerabilities, backdoors, etc.
Moderation seems like a view layer on top of the content graph, right?

I feel like a feature to blacklist actual storage and distribution of a particular post by fingerprint is going to be needed, because I'm not cool with simply not rendering child porn or someone's banking details if I'm still storing it for 6 months, and transmitting that info for two weeks.
I actually agree with this comment. It's as simple as saying that the medium of the internet is still a teenager, and what can be done with it as a filmmaking tool, per se, is largely untapped.
How is this tolerated as acceptable comment ? No way this would be tolerated if similar sentiment was said of SF but the South is fair game on HN. Everyone in the South particularly Texas is a bigot except the tech elite who are fleeing the high taxes and cost of living of California and other states for the abundant jobs in TX.
> you would be making an accurate observation about race and power dynamics

Accurate observations don't get a pass, unless you're generally smearing the white race. Today, you cannot have a conversation about racial differences in crime rates, IQ, etc. You also cannot make any negative generalized statements towards non-white or non-cisgender groups. However, you can hysterically smear white men as much as you want, without significant repercussions, if any at all [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/the-soullessne...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/video/4622886/cnn-host-don-lemon-calls...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/08/can-americ...

[4] https://pjmedia.com/election/former-tv-ceo-says-u-s-should-b...
A good candidate for ... maintaining the legacy flagship product, in which N software components each contribute their own string implementations, and there is N+1th module implementing conversions from any of those strings to any other.
Probably because I live close to an Aldi.

Comparing Bristol's prices to Sydney's:

Rent: Sydney is maybe 50% more expensive. There is no council tax in Sydney, and the houses are bigger.

Food: In Sydney, groceries are usually more expensive (prices seem to be seasonal), but eating out is cheaper. The overall variety of food is better in Sydney, but Indian food is better in Bristol.

Booze: Beer is maybe 30% more expensive in Sydney, there is much less variety, and the pubs are less cozy. Wine is much cheaper and better in Sydney.

Bills: gas and electricity bills are both much, much cheaper in Sydney.

Transport: I don't own a car. Public transport is better and cheaper in Sydney than Bristol.
Email delivery issues usually come up in discussions around self-hosting. If there was a credible collective email delivery relay, I would pay to be a part of it. Is there anything like that today?
I heard there is a trend of big houses now having two kitchens because everyone lives in the kitchen. One kitchen is for cooking in and getting messy (the smaller one) and the other is a display kitchen where people hang out but only used on special occasions or when you want to get your Martha Stewart on.
Another intolerant and narrow minded statement.
> In Cali, nobody really cared about Thanksgiving, and certainly did not think to care that some people might be alone during this festive time.

So true. The west coast in general seems it would rather spend a holiday alone with the internet rather than with other people.

Being west coaster, I almost didn’t know what to do when strangers would start a random conversation with me. I’m only used to homeless people doing that here.
Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (2k17)
Until your wife gets tired of them. Now I have two beautiful well kept GeekChic tables for sale and have a fancy natural wood dining room table with two halves and glass between them. Very pretty but no gaming capability beyond a large mostly flat surface.
>you at least have to know what client software to run

The beauty of PoW is that you don't. By examining a PoW blockchain one can determine the relative amount of work expended. That provides trust with little to no external information. (All you need to know is the relative difficulty of hash functions and what info is hashed to form a block, both independently verifiable).

With PoS there is no analog. You must get your 'trust' externally, through deciding which codebase/client you want to use. Without external information / sidechannels, you have no way of determining which client nor which history to trust.
If you would like to be pedantic, only a small percentage of individuals use the skills taught to them in their major (or any traditional classroom setting really) in their daily job.

The value of a classical education is that the student learns critical thinking and problem solving in a diverse set of frameworks, which allows them to adapt to the requirements of the job.
You need to apply the marginal tax rate for California workers, which would typically be ~41% (24% federal + 9.3% state + 7.65% Social Security + Medicare), to figure out how much more is needed on a pre-tax basis. You need an extra $2.5k/month ($30k/year) pre-tax to make up a $1.5k/month difference in rent, or $3.4k/month ($40k/year) pre-tax to make up a $2k/month difference in rent, which is more realistic if you want your own apartment.

And that's just looking at the difference in rent. The number goes up further if you account for the fact that everything else is also more expensive in the Bay Area, and if you add in the additional money you need to save for a down payment, assuming you want to buy at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if that $40k/year difference ends up in the $60k-$70k range if you factor those in.

I don't doubt that a $60k-$70k difference in total comp is achievable at FANG. At startups, you probably don't get there without counting equity, which is riskier and far less liquid than equity comp at FANG.
^^^ self-hosted email that can still legally circumvent ISP restrictions and enjoy gmail like deliverability/whiltelisting, by freedom minded sysadmins that self-police abuse in their network.
std::string has a byte length,an allocation capacity, a nil terminator and the content.

A string implementation will typically store this as a structure with size + capacity + content pointer, with the content having a nil terminator. You could technically put capacity as a prefix of the content as well (I believe one of the apple GC string representations stores capacity as well as a reference count in the content block, and uses the reference count to determine exclusive ownership for inline mutation.)

These may have two other representations:
- size, capacity and content all initialized to zero is the only representation of the empty string

- a embedded flag (such as a tagged contents pointer) indicates that instead the string holds inlined data.

In this inlined case on a 64-bit platform, you have 24 bytes to work with. You store the length in the LSB byte of the content pointer (making sure not to interfere with the tagging), and capacity is hard coded and omitted. You then have 23 bytes to work with, which would be 23 bytes of content - but you need to remember to add space for a nil byte at the end of the inlined content, bringing your capacity down to 22.
It's a joke. It's his wife. If you get triggered by the smallest of things maybe don't visit internet. We're not going to change everything to make it your safe space
> It said that while the bulk of the tax increases were at the high end of the income spectrum, many individuals and couples with incomes in the 180k-500k range could see significant tax increases, too.

It's amazing that a non-insignificant number of people on HN don't think that's on the high end of the income spectrum. In most places in America, you'd be considered quite handsomely rich if you're making $200,000 a year. It puts you very, very solidly in the top 5% of earners. $300,000 puts you in the top 1%.

That people think that's "contrary to the general portrayal of the American Taxpayer Relief Act" is bizarre. A comic with objectively high income earners making sad puppy dog faces because 1% of their massive income is gone is a sign that the publisher is out of touch with the reality that typical Americans face.