skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- on-demand pricing

- no capacity planning

- simple programming model

There are monitoring/observability tools for serverless (CloudWatch/Epsagon/Thundra/IOPipe)
If using Firefox, you can now browse the web and search it with some animals, the Fox and the Duck.
In fact the money probably benefited some normal people. Tons of university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds invest in hedge funds.
Seaman's Eye: Sometimes the most valuable asset is a well trained eye
Keep in mind that news articles are not supposed to replace an investigation report and are only to give more of an outline of the subject. It's just for us laymen and puts very little burden on the involved parties. Certainly less than the official investigation report.
I'm interested in the Atavist Magazine itself. An evolution of the magazine industry. From its About-Us, it looks like it's a side project for its editors. Given the labor put into this article, Atavist appears to pay traditional investigative-journalism fees for its stories. Supported by subscription.
Not Poirot, but still Christie: And Then There Were None / 9 Little Indians (same novel) was one of my favorites
You cannot unsee it lol

But on a serious note the developers should indeed look into this. I recall this comment from HN [0] which highlights why neutral branding and naming are important.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702513
There are still millions of Windows boxes so in the future there could be millions of Edge users.

If Microsoft doesn't completely fuck up privacy again there won't be any more reason to switch to Chrome.
Yes. The only difference is the unit economics. You pay per request in serverless whereas you pay "constant" amount in Heroku. Don't think it should be too hard for heroku to introduce price per request plans since they already have the infra for it (ala sleeping/waking dynos in free tier).
> I was introduced to sci-fi last year and pretty much stuck to it throughout 2018.

If you're looking for additional science fiction suggestions:

1. American War by Omar El Akkad

2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

3. Artemis by Andy Weir

4. Daemon by Daniel Suarez

5. Old Man's War by John Scalzi

6. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

7. Red Rising series by Pierce Brown
Vorple – User Interface Library for Interactive Fiction
Very interesting, will check it out!
Certain jobs aren’t as valued as others. Hence less pay and benefits. Is there something unethical about that?
> Getting more than a handful of people to read it is hard.

1. advertise book (HN)

2. develope following (Social media)

3. write book

4. Profit? :-)
!m is enough, for another 33% saving :-)
It's used by people who oppose further commercialization of the Internet by large advertising entities.
How? I'm at work (so tracking me personally by IP is probably hard since there's hundreds of different people using the same IP) and using an incognito window. Using a different browser (that I used once or twice), incognito again, gives me the same result.
"flak"

https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/8.8_cm_Flak_18/36/37/41
Bad blood: couldn't stop flipping the pages, reads like satire. Seeing the names of the most powerful people in the US and how they enabled Theranos' rise to prominence made me realize how much we fetishize geniuses and how little popular experts know. Books like these remind me not to pay too much attention to how people frame their success

Leonardo da Vinci by Isaacson: I went into this book expecting to be blown away by how much smarter Da Vinci was than me. Instead I was blown away by how human and hard working he was and it taught me valuable lessons on how to structure my time and life to work on things I care about. This book was instrumental in my decision to quit my job

Modern Robotics Mechanics planning and control: Because it gave me the mathematical foundation to understand how robots work. It's dense but brief so well worth the attempt. Robots was something I've been wanting to get into since I was a kid and seeing a concise treatment like this one with good intuition, mathematical formulas and code reminds me that these days I can learn anything I want
And my personal favourite - REMOVE.

I made like 5 diffs in the last week where I just removed old shit that wasn't needed. I felt absurdly happy after each one.
just switch your default search engine to DDG, and append !g when you prefer google (or !s for the anonymous startpage version).
Finding Unusual Voters
Digital Ocean. We compared AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Digital Ocean. While the latter isn't an apples-to-oranges comparison like the other two are, we found that the price, ease of use, and reliability made it the best choice.

I'm not yet sure about support since they don't offer any phone support. But it can't be worse than Amazons where I once literally had to yell at the support rep to stop talking because he just kept repeating himself, over and over, and wouldn't let me move on.
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan: A good introduction into the history of psychedelics, the war on drugs, and the re-emergence of research into the potential medical benefits of psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, and DMT.

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi: An introduction into Alderian psychology. The title refers to the "freedom" one feels when you accept that some people will dislike you and to concentrate on those who like you and not try to win over those who do not.

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson: Life advise told through stories that mix science and common sense.
> My point is simply that I’m not sure a purely municipal broadband is the panacea we all hope for. In some cases it may be better to stick with the devil you know

No, the answer is to elect better politicians, like AOC, resigning yourself to a corporation is a TERRIBLE idea!
That's the stretchiest pun I've seen in years. Nice job.
About gestures: firegesture seems to have just vanished, so Im using easystroke (linux). It works with any app, not just firefox.
I had to start it a couple different times - It is a hard read no doubt but truly truly worth it!
You can easily truncate or pad to convert between 64-32bit as long as the 64bit end stays in the lower 2GB.

You could do everything else in userspace if you really wanted. At the cost of safety, type handling and optimization from the compiler as all it would see is 64bit pointers being typecast and generic 32bit numeric data. Whatever you were looking to gain would be lost in extra work, and you can forget about debugging. But theoretically...
There's a galactic scam for you: sell beings real-estate that they can never use nor inspect. "A Xerzigian Prince offered me a great deal on some used galaxies..."
I work with Tom on Loki. When we said we wanted to focus on Kubernetes, we meant we wanted to correlate metrics with logs and focusing on Kubernetes lets us do that well.

Having said that, this will work for any logs as long as you can tag the logs meaningfully. We'll soon be releasing packages for all major distros and journald.
Are the US going to go after the European officials/ companies who are actively working to sidestep Iran sanctions right now? It's the exact same thing yet on a far larger scale. This whole case has nothing to do with enforcing sanctions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/europe-ac...
It's the same people, week-in, week-out. They get badges for practical reasons (access, compliance, security). It's the same people. Yes, it's through a contract agency - but so are the developers. And administrative staff. And some of the programmers.
It's good to have a handful of really old buildings, but in the US what attracts undergrads is modern new dorms, gyms, and dining halls. Students might like walking by the scenic old buildings on campus, but they spend most of their time in what are basically luxury apartment buildings.
Let's start saying "duck off" to the ill-informed

duck.com will surely inspire the sick dolan[0] crowd

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3-vC2z7hI
There isn't any reason a municipal network couldn't reach rural customers using wireless.

The trouble with subsidies is, what happens if there is nothing to subsidize? In sufficiently rural areas there may be zero existing providers, and still be zero providers even if you offer a modest subsidy. But if you offer a large subsidy then the costs quickly get out of control as less rural areas that needed some but not that much end up claiming more subsidy than was actually necessary, and regulatory capture encourages the government to shovel more public money to private providers.

You also have trouble with suburban areas that can justify fiber but not twice. If there is only going to be one provider with no competition, better the municipality than Comcast.
But in which order do you ferry the animals across the river so as to not have the fox eat the duck?
They don't sink, but unplanned time travel remains an issue.
>insider trading is (generally) trading on material non-public information

No, this isn't how it's defined in the US. It's completely legal to trade on material non-public information that you collect on your own via research (e.g. satellites looking at retail parking lots).

In the US, it's only illegal if you use information to trade that violates a fiduciary duty (e.g. using non-public information from a CEO).
The difference is that in this case because this is a more "local" power you, the consumer/voter, actually have the power to hold them liable. Imagine living in a Town with less than 2.5k people living in rural midwest and comcast screws you over, what are you going to do? They only answer to Stockholders and "big fish" markets.

Elected officials care and respond to votes and the smaller the area of control, the easier it is to get your voice heard.

I wish competition would be enforced rather than this all-or-nothing approach.
That's entirely the point and I wouldn't be surprised if this person were a Comcast lobbyist. The goal is to have the public enthusiastically absorb the cost of infrastructure, then introduce inefficiencies designed to sour the public's opinion of municipally-owned internet. The lessees would be able to throttle their own service and blame the infrastructure while raising prices and blaming the cost of leasing. This plants the seed for the public to consider divestment of infrastructure to "lower costs" and "improve efficiency". Then your telco du jour swoops in and offers to buy it all at a fraction of what it would have cost them to invest in the community themselves. In the end the telco ends up with a steal and the residents end up holding the bag.
Exactly, as are Old German and Old English - that's why I was pointing out the Germanic relation there and the meaning behind the word :)
If you want 32-bit pointers for compression, it seems more like the job of a "32-bit malloc()" like interface. The malloc_32bit() would return a pointer in a 32-bit 4GB space, and you just add a 64-bit pointer to get the true address.

An add takes 1-clock cycle (latency). An L1 cache lookup takes 4-clock cycles (latency). So an add + L1 lookup would be only 5-cycles of latency. Skylake can do two memory lookups per clock and many adds per clock (I think 3 adds per clock?), so it wouldn't take many resources at all.

The actual memory lookup takes ~100+ Cycles if its outside of the cache.

It seems like this problem can be 100% solved in userland without needing kernel support. For something like following a linked-list chain, I'd expect almost no change in speed due to out-of-order executions and memory latency hiding techniques of the CPU.

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64-bit user space should remain the default, if only for ASLR / security reasons. Its actually trivial for CPUs to traverse an entire 32-bit space (4-billion isn't a big number: most computers today are ~3GHz, or 3-billion operations per second...)

So if you want your address space randomization to actually have any security what-so-ever, you better use the 64-bit (erm... really 48-bit) address space.
P.S. "3 C++ programmers for 6 months", in the context of adding developers to a team, is usually a sign of horrible project management. Software development just doesn't work like that, c.f. The Mythical Man Month.
Parchive: protect archives against data corruption
I thought you might be my neighbor but since you talk about Comcast and I am in Africa I guess we just have the same issues with local government.
Implementing a beam-racing ray tracer from scratch on an FPGA
Same here. Looks to me like it can even indicate 2 different states.
dgg.gg also forwards to duckduckgo.com
> Another problem is that the job while rewarding is not very lucrative.

Why is this a problem?

Let's not forget, we live in a capitalistic society. The job of the capitalists is to exploit labor. The cost of labor is a direct result of the market demand (or not) for a more complex or, by your point, a more robust product.

It need not simply be a market reaction, though. A vendor can create the market for a more complex/robust product. But still, their job is to exploit the available labor so if the people capable of such are available at a lower cost, so be it.

> I have a higher chance working on a web connected gadget to become a millionaire.

As others have noted, perhaps true but the numbers are so small it may as well also be zero. However, as you should now be pointedly aware, the perception doesn't match reality.

Question: do new grads (or let's say up to 3 years experience) working on SSD firmware, making $90k, have to clock in 60+ hours / week and live in insanely high cost regions where their $120k startup salary qualifies them for housing assistance programs and they have to live with at least one if not more roommates? Or is $90k (per another comment) quite good in relation to the total picture?

IOW, my guess is that you are not competing for talent on salary or total comp. My guess is you are competing on general industry attractiveness. The entire mindset around embedded vs web/consumer programming is different. So I think to frame it as a compensation problem is wrong, and by misframing it you will never "solve" it.
1. Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda - Great insight into how Apple teams develop products, and creating a “demo culture”

2. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - Gripping prose and an altogether incredible storyline

3. It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and DHH - Some great lessons in here (interspersed with other not-so-great ones) for creating a “culture of calm” within organizations

4. When The Bubble Bursts by Hilliard Macbeth - Insightful look into the fragile structure of the Canadian real estate market (a bit hyperbolic at times, though)
Pretty sure opera.com still allows you to download recent versions of their web browser for most major platforms. How is it "gone"?
> Who could afford to suddenly hire the 200+ engineers it takes to maintain Chromium?

In that scenario one of two things will happen.

Either Chromium will only be needed in some shape for compatibility with older sites. At that point you don't need 200 people to maintain it, just a small team to fix portability issues and security problems in the sandbox, while the "real" browser is whatever the next Firefox or Safari is.

Or, Chromium is critical to the web somehow and needs to be actively devloped. I find it hard to imagine a scenario where that'll be the case but you can't come up with the salary for 200 engineers to work on it. What Google pays Firefox for the search bar alone is way more than enough to cover that, whatever the dominant browser "distribution" is could do something similar, or move to a hybrid "open core" model with a license fee.

> The real problem is that Google will have de facto control on all web technologies[...]

Yeah that's a problem. But this is why I'm saying the comparison to IE6 doesn't make any sense beyond the trivial statement that in the 00s this one browser was really popular, and now we have this other browser that's going to be dominating in the late 10s and early 20s.

The problem with IE6 wasn't that Microsoft was aggressively pushing their own alternate standards (although there was some of that, e.g ActiveX), rather it was that what dominated the web was effectively abandonware.

This is not at all what's happening with Chromium, quite the opposite. The fear is that Google will start moving too fast in some direction that's in their interest but not in the interest of the rest of the web.
Building Docs with GitHub Actions
The polls were not that bad: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-are-all-right.... It's just that the outcome of US presidential elections can be changed by relatively small shifts in a handful of swing states.
Agree, this name is terrible and I think that it seriously damages whole search engine/company and lowers it's popularity.
This name gives impression that it's something made for fun and one shouldn't expect serious results out of it. Moreover I think that it actively prevents popularization - you mentioned that after your recommendation response is blank stare etc. - for me and I suppose that for many others it works differently: I don't event recommend it to anyone because I know/predicted result similar to yours.
True, although exit polls such as here probably can be more reliable than asking days beforehand, especially to capture voter turnout.
Books Read:
Never Split the difference by Chris Voss (FLIPPING AMAZING! This book is so good I didn't want to share it here.)

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
(Fantastic Look into how we as humans work and how to deal with each other and ourselves)

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
(Enjoyable and entertaining)

The Martian by Andy Weir
(The Audiobook of this was AMAZING! The book is still amazing especially for technical people)

The Hard thing about Hard things by Ben Horowitz
(I think it would be a great book for people who are already running companies.)

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
(It had some interesting parts. Wasn't a bad book, but also not crazy memorable)

Boundaries in Dating by Henry Cloud
(I found the advice for the christian dating relationship to be a honest eye opener. This book taught me a lot about myself.)

The Launch Pad by Randall Stross
(How I found Y Combinator and Hacker news. I really enjoy the startup community and love the fact that this introduced me to it)

The richest man in Babylon by George S Clason
(OMG EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS BOOK!!! It teaches you about handling money in one of the most entertaining ways I've ever read. It was crazy good and I reread it often.)

Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

(Great read about the interesting problems solved and the fight for survival to one day bring about a worthy ideal)
>On income tax, but these rules around what gifts are allowed to go to TVCs are there because that is happening already and going untaxed.

Income tax is still paid for the employees income though, its just that Google pays a vendor firm, and that vendor firm pays the employment tax, and the vendor pays income tax on their income from the vendor firm.
Engaget has an annoying cookiewall, could we have literally any other article based on the same press release please? (Or ideally the underlying PR)

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-foveros-to-usher-in-indus...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/intel-introduces-fov...

(maybe underlying PR?) https://newsroom.intel.com/articles/new-intel-architectures-...

Responding to the actual technology, the key is what they call "Foveros" or "active interposer". Previously chips were limited to having interconnect on one side: the traditional solder bumps. It appears that not only do they have through-silicon vias working but they have combined this with having logic on the die - typically this is a problem because the more complex the logic is, the less flat the active side is. The actual layer thickness will vary across layers and across the die by tiny amounts.

This is basically the silicon version of mezzanine PCBs: you can stack a fully-capable logic chip directly on top of another chip, usually for handling the IO. The example then also has some DRAM stuck on top with standard package stacking technology like the Raspberry Pi.
Some good ones I read this year:

- _SPQR_, by Mary Beard. Engaging book surveying the history of ancient Rome, mostly Republic and early Empire if I recall correctly.

- _To Explain The World_, by Steven Weinberg. History of physics from the ancients to about the time of Newton. Don't skip the technical notes! Actually do the problems!

- I reread _Wolf Hall_, by Hilary Mantel, it was as good as I remember. This time through, I also spent some time on the Internet tracing the histories of the major characters before and after the events of the book, and it really enhanced my appreciation of it. (I also read, for the first time, its sequel, which was fine but not quite as good.)
Intel introduces Foveros 3D die stacking
Do you expect a better answer for the second than "use a framework that parses the input in a way that escapes the input such that it's not interpreted as a command"?
In addition to the sibling answers about collecting interest and brokers, lending stock to short sellers is a good thing if you are a long-term investor. Shorts put some downward pressure on the price and give you an opportunity to buy more at a reduced cost. Additionally, if your thesis on the company being good is true, those shorts are eventually going to be buying back the stock after it has appreciated, ultimately creating even more upward price pressure in the long-term.
This is exactly what I do as well. Date range filter in on Google is excellent to find old news.
It is true and that's probably the most unclear part of the original blog. I think the author has given some kind of advice -- use a vnet based on host-bridge -- not sure why he just commented out from the script. In my understanding, if I am working on a laptop, I can just set SNAT rules which allow traffic from a private network to go out to the internet. Given that the number of connection won't be large (no more than 400 connections, or 500, a usual number of open file for one process), it is acceptable that the new connections can wait until a period of time.
This is fixed through tax legislation, where there are "bright line" tests for whether or not someone is an employee.

When I was a contractor in New Zealand, I had an external office, my contract allowed me to subcontract, I used my own equipment and I didn't go to the parties.

When they wanted to send me overseas? We negotiated a new contract which included paying me hourly rates for the flight hours.

Unmentioned in the Canadian and New Zealand documents, they also typically consider length of service as a hint. If the contractor is with a single company for more than 2 years, that's a hint that they're not really a contractor.

USA [3]:

1 Behavioral Control (instructions, when, rules, evaluation)
2 Financial Control (equipment, expenses, profit)
3 Relationship (contracts, benefits, permanency)

Canada [1]:

1 Control
2 Tools and Equipment
3 Ability to subcontract
4 Financial Risk
5 Outside office and/or staff
6 Able to increase profit

New Zealand [2]:

1 Intention test (what both parties intend?)
2 Control vs independence test (who sets the rules?)
3 Integration test (are they part of the team? uniforms/parties)
4 Fundamental/economic reality test (who pays what?)

[1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publi...

[2]: https://www.employment.govt.nz/starting-employment/who-is-an...

[3]: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...
Doesn’t the chaff need to be of certain lengths to match the frequencies of the incoming radar. I thought I read something about that in one of my previous wake cycles
Rosette: Solver-aided programming language
Here is their PR page for it https://newsroom.intel.com/articles/new-intel-architectures-...
Water, gas, and electric utilities work great. What is different about internet?