skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redis is a popular program, it makes sense to spend the time to port it. But what your missing is the long tail, thousands of little programs scattered around - or edge cases in bigger ones.

Working on a non-x86 platform makes you a second class citizen, you will experience issues that others have already ironed out on x86. Software has a long tail of niche code not actively maintained but still heavily used. It doesn't make sense to switch to ARM there.
Note that the AND operator in my statement isn't an OR operator
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With serverless, language VM's and other abstractions, I suggest this argument is going away.

People are not generally writing platform specific anything these days, this would be an exception not the rule.

That said, there are a lot of things that need to be done under the hood to facilitate 'our view on the world on ARM' ... and it might take time.

Once AWS starts to release a bunch of stuff on ARM - and the stacks we love and need are solid on them ... I suggest that could be the ARM wave that changes serverland.
Glamorous? How is fishing in the toilet bowl for your wallet glamorous? I don't think he portrayed as anything but squalid.
He was certainly unapologetic about it.
If that happens, a lot of low level programming will be done ARM-first. A lot of Swift and Objective-C code will be built, tested and run primarily on ARM.
Honest question: why is it not viable to run an ARM virtual machine for your development purposes - is it not accurate enough?
You might want to look at crime statistics rather than watching CNN. Yes, there is violence on the right. But there are plenty of violence on the left. The only difference is that the violence one side isn't shown on too much.

And the current outrage today is primarily driven by one side's anger at Trump. Just like the outrage 8 years ago was driven by one side's anger at Obama.

But you are exactly what I'm talking about. You watch CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc and think all the violence and hate is coming from one side. Just like people who watch foxnews think all the violence and hate is coming from the other side. There is plenty of violence and lying on both sides.

But when it comes to outrage, usually the side that loses the presidential election tends to be the more outraged.

I think I asked you this before, but you aren't even american. Why are you so invested in american politics and particularly spinning the politics towards one side? I hear russians are foreigners causing division, but online, I've only come across british, canadian, etc injecting themselves into american politics.
Ptx is NOT architecture specific and is jit into native by gpu driver...
I don't think that's relevant in a discussion about school shootings.
Silicon/Bismuth biochemistry is way more limited than Carbon/Hydrogen Oxide biochemistry in terms of temperature range and stable compounds. Silicon/Hydrogen Sulfide biochemistry does not work at all because hydrogen sulfide does not have the point of least volume.

biochemistries listed here are denoted as bonding atom/solvent pairs.
That's certainly an interesting approach, but in that case I would want to budget a fair bit of time, and not be attached to coding a solution at all.

And again, you want to be aware that you are going to have sharply different experiences depending upon the candidate's familiarity with the basic research.

It would be very interesting to walk through a candidate's thinking about this problem "raw," but it would be grossly unfair to ask the same question of an intern who had studied the problem in the last semester.

I have seen interview questions along the lines of "reinvent basic research," but they typically pick something obscure-ish to reduce the likelihood that the candidate has seen it before, and such things are usually more of the dreaded "whiteboard your thinking," rather than judging you based on the code produced.
Very nice and useful. Well done guys!
An official is elected to represent her district, hence they there was a district-level focus.

No one is suggesting restricting anyone's ability to work but you can't be surprised when people elected to represent a district act with only that district in mind.
I don't think the author is trying to say Bukowski's depictions are rosy ("He is coated in vomit and/or blood with the regularity of an E.R. nurse"), just that Bukowski skews things to lead the reader to "oh, you lovable degenerate", which is hardly a realistic depiction of living with or around alcoholism.
There has just been immense confusion about what blockchain technology is meant to enable because unfortunately, amidst all the hype, a ton of people who don't understand the point of it have started to peddle the absolute non sense concept that is a private blockchain. These are actually better known as databases, and are obviously not a miracle innovation, they’re just SQL wrapped up in blockchain hype. And in most cases you’re just fine with SQL et al between a few responsible counterparties that can go through the court system if they need to but generally trust each other.

The only true innovation is the decentralized public ledger. A properly decentralized public ledger is actually a horribly inefficient way to maintain a ledger, but this is necessary and by construct, because the only way you can have a secure immutabl'ish ledger (no human abstract creation is truly immutable) is to make amending it or the rules it follows highly democratic and expensive to change. The united states constution is a good analogy of a properly decentralized blockchain.

From an economic impact perspective there is only one absolutely major groundbreaking application for this: to create monetary digital vehicles immune from centralized manipulation (read mostly, from inflationary interventions). The market value for money in the world is between 100-300 tn USD equivalent depending on what you count which is ballpark equivalent to the amount of real wealth in the world (that's a coincidence). This is by orders of magnitude the killer use case of cryptocurrencies, which incidentally was Satoshi’s original vision.

After that, you can conceive of all sorts of other applications, but mostly smart contracts which can theoretically provide immutablish programmable transfers of wealth mechanisms, free of intermediaries or corrupt legal frameworks. This has tons of downsides and risks and the max valuation down the line is a fraction of the monetary use case, but it’s a thing that does get plenty of people excited and i'm sure some of it is potentially legit, especially in disfunctional countries.

In general though the second you read private and blockchain used together, you can mostly roll your eyes and move on. EG JPM coin to name but the latest example.
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Exactly... a good use of crypto is for merchants who get a lot of fraud. It’s not worth trying to find and persecute every potential customer who rips you off, so you outsource that job to the client themselves (if you can get crypto and send it to me, we’re good).
I'd rather have the government have it than any company. The government's (usual) mission statement, in practice, is our well-being; any company's mission statement, in practice, is money.
Here's how: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148094?hl=en
Complete List of Ripple Partnerships Using XRapid and XRP
> If you put 20 BTC into an exchange (in promise for 550 ETH or whatever), but the exchange goes bankrupt... you lose both your BTC and your ETH. You have to go through the courts to try to get your money back.

That's actually solvable with atomic swaps [1]. They anable you to trustlessly exchange crypto currencies at an agreed on price.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_swap
Right now, there is a transition between net framework and net core in the MS .net world, which causes plenty of confusion to newcomers. Which is sad, because the clean, .net core way is the simplest thing in the world:

1. Install the dotnet core sdk
2. From a command line in an empty folder, run `dotnet new console -lang F#`
3. To build or run use `dotnet build` or `dotnet run`
Should be re-titled to say just the website is shutting down.
A Zen teacher I listen to by podcast, said that one of the nicest things his Zen master told him when he was a student was: "Sometimes people have weird thoughts, and it's OK."
If developers switches to ARM/RISC in their laptops then arm will win. Arm is also power efficient and there is global warming.
1. First these are totally different points.

a. If you do not currently own Bitcoin and want to own it there are many ways you can get it. They range from fast (generally more expensive) to slow (generally less expensive). Sure, if you want to buy Bitcoin on Coinbase you can do that and you will pay them a fee for that service - which I've done. You can also mine it - which I've done, be paid it in - also done, etc.

b. Secondly you are assuming that my friend can't pay for services in Bitcoin. We have both had lunch together at a restaurant in which we paid for the entire meal in BTC.

So it's an unfair statement to say my transferring of BTC to my friend costs me these fees. If you want to make the statement of "transferring USD to BTC to my friend to JPY" then sure, your statement about fees is relevant. I'm not sure suggesting that a pure BTC transfer is not an "accurate comparison" is fair.

2. See the above point. There is no trust beyond math when it come to a pure Bitcoin to Bitcoin transfer. There are plenty of things that you can buy using pure Bitcoin which I, and many of my friends, have done.
The anti-Amazon movement wasn't about hating Amazon specifically. The anti-Amazon movement was about the world's richest company and the world's richest secretly negotiating three billion dollars in subsidies with the governor.

New Yorkers have no problem with technology companies. Google just bought a third of the West Village. No one cares. The Times is running trend pieces about hapless Facebook employees moving from Palo Alto to the East Village and paying 7800 dollars in rent. No one cares.

One thing I'd encourage you to do is think of New York as a system instead of focusing on the storylines of the individual players. NY is a grossly corrupt city with a non-functioning democracy. The story of NY for the last two hundred years is a series of big companies making shady deals with the government to get big handouts while public infrastructure is failing, housing supply is unaffordable and neighborhoods get structured by real estate developers instead of people.

Unless the system attracts too much attention, it's mostly stable. That's why Google is on a multi-billion real estate buying spree and the subways have gone sixty years without signaling upgrades. The problem is that Amazon made a huge show out of their arrival and pushed for concessions beyond what their peers asked for. That created a lot of attention and organizers harnessed long standing grievances with the government and housing policy along with it to push Amazon out.
In every jurisdiction I can think of, this was answered decades ago. Each country has a national association or clearinghouse. In some it's government operated, in some it's a consortium of businesses. The US has NATCHA.
I mean, ARM is eating x86's lunch in the smartphone space.

Are ARM CPUs more power efficient than x86 CPUs? That could be the deciding factor on whether it will take over.
Implement Self-Destructing Messages in a React Chat App
>This sounds to me like an argument for browsers to stop honoring markup that makes text invisible

Aside, this reminds me of the brief period of time where "hacking" SEO by pasting huge volumes of keywords in text the same color as the background and/or hidden by other page elements was a relatively common trick. Search engines simply switched to more sophisticated methods of page ranking, I wonder what change could be made remedying this which would be similarly non-disruptive outside the bad actors.
This is a long piece.

I am submitting it because particularly the second section, about comment moderation, seems to have wide-reaching implications for tech and conversations.
Thank you, that's excellent feedback.
They won't be selling the hardware, and macbooks don't run linux very nicely lately
The NetBSD people vehemently disagree. By ensuring your software works on various architectures, you expose subtle bugs in the ones you actually care about. Lots of 32-bit x86 code was improved during the migration to 64-bit, not because the move created new bugs, as because existing ones (i.e. code that relied on undefined behavior) couldn't get away with it anymore.
Too many cookies per site makes for a fat browser cache. Sites issuing cookies have no incentive to clean up the ones that they no longer use. It does make sense to consolidate into a single set per site, and tech allows that without losing anything.
The end of Factotum is pretty sad and directly caused by the protagonist's alcoholism.
Part of the story with the rise of tech in NYC is that finance has become a large consumer of technology, data, and statistics. This helped create a talent pool that other tech companies could draw on.
The last few paragraphs remind me of a few of the conversations in the last bit of the oscar nominated doc Minding the Gap. It's on Hulu, would recommend if you find this article interesting.
As is commonly quoted, putting every issue to public vote would lead to bringing back the death penalty.

...also brexit ;-)
The same way that I secure my transaction when I pay the waiter for my meal in cash by giving it to them when I'm done eating.

I've paid for a lot of services in Bitcoin and been paid in Bitcoin. It's generally been a very smooth and enjoyable process.
Under $40k, nothing owed.

We are for-profit. We think that model can help us scale faster than the tax advantage of the non-profit can help us. Larger non-profits can play a role in the future of this market though, with various guarantees and cheaper capital.
Understanding the Cryptographic Autonomy License
Canada really isn’t a hard place to immigrate to if you have at least a half-specialized degree, a year or two of experience and can pass an English or French test.

There are a ton of immigration programs. The current fed gov is letting in a ton of people.

If you have a job lined up, go for it. It’s a better situation here than most places.
This is a really great exploration of this vulnerability.

It makes me sad that lxc doesn't get more love. LXC has had unprivileged containers as its default for 5+ years now. Its a really solid tool set that has mostly been passed over for lack of marketing.
Would your mother-in-law not rather work in a hotel closer to home? Not everyone has to work directly for Amazon in order to benefit from the investment. Increased numbers of high-paying jobs means increased spending and new businesses in the area, as well.
"That is exactly what blockchain is. It is literally doing that."

It isn't: it's a chain of hashes with signature. Those predate blockchains that do things like wasteful mining. An example was Surety's timestamping service. A hashchain using standard primitives is way less wasteful, supports higher transaction volume, is cheaper, and can take advantage of hardware acceleration in client and server devices.

One of reasons I oppose blockchain tech is that you get better cost-benefit ratio out of high-performance, centralized protocols with decentralized checking. We also have some of that mathematically verified for correctness down to assembly. So, they will be more secure than complex, decentralized protocols.
Hollow points are intended to do maximum damage. It makes sense - you shouldn't be employing your weapon unless your life is in danger. If your life is in danger, you want to neutralize the threat as quickly and effectively as possible. If you don't need to do that, then you don't need your weapon at all. Shooting with the intent of wounding someone is a Hollywood-ism.
You should consider making these payback rates marginal (such as 20% of all income above $40k instead of 15% of all income).

As is, there's a weird gap in incomes ($40-47k, roughly) where you'd end up taking home more money by taking a voluntary pay cut.
Does someone know why ARM servers try to behave like intel servers.

ARM's forte is in tons of lightweight cores, compared to intel's small number of powerfull cores. There are tons of small mom n pop websites that have short burst of usages, followed by long bursts of calm. So why not give every site on a big server it's own small core, say for 60 seconds? After that you shut the core down, zapping all caches etc...

Things like meltdown and spectre simply disappear if the attacking code runs on a different core, so such an architecture would be good at isolating security sensitive data. In these GDPR times, it seems a good match for small sites, and one that Intel can't provide with their good but power-hungry cores.
True.. But the Apple arm cpu has some things to speed up javascript. I guess that makes it a high performance server cpu?
On the Importance of Providing a Backstory to Price Cuts
Can you elaborate on what "the LDC" is, and how broken your site would look if every piece of text you have styled to be invisible were instead shown by the browser?

Breaking up a word into multiple tags is very different from inserting invisible extraneous content into the middle of a word. The latter is what I'm questioning the usefulness of; the former I can see as occasionally useful, but should be avoided when it breaks screen readers and search engines.
I'm the writer.

I have no doubt that I wouldn't be treated as kindly if I weren't skilled and educated. However they do treat me pretty well here. In the US all of the immigration officials I have to interact with seem to be getting more and more hostile. Markedly so since Trump was elected.
> Become a Full-Stack Developer

I don't think 5 months is sufficient for most persons with "little or no software skills" to reach a level at which they can work as programmer, software engineer, or (maybe even) computer scientist.
So students are required to share access to their tax returns?
Incompatible signals causing destruction.
> For example, you can have a perfectly legal contract, but the other party is in a corrupt foreign jurisdiction that would never find in your favor in the event of a breach. Then you can't contract with them because they have no incentive not to breach, without an alternative method of ensuring compliance that doesn't rely on their corrupt government.

International trade has perfectly good mechanisms for dealing with this at present. See: Letters of Credit.

> You may also have jurisdictions (like the US) where the process may be more fair, but it's unreasonably expensive, so if you're transacting with parties with a high probability of getting into disputes, something that can resolve them programmatically without litigation is an advantage.

The easy workaround to this is just to factor in additional costs for doing business...

> You're not a criminal, but you have bad credit or are from a disreputable country etc., so you're treated as one by the government or the rules targeting actual criminals cause companies to not want to do business with you, and you thereby need some alternative way to engage in your legitimate activities.

Probably still illegal to do business with you if the government has outlawed work with specific sanctioned countries, etc. Also, letters of credit.
I just listened to it during lunch and that was my first thought. What are the odds?
> A 2014 meta-analysis found that coffee consumption (4 cups/day) was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (a 16% lower risk), as well as cardiovascular disease mortality specifically (a 21% lower risk from drinking 3 cups/day), but not with cancer mortality.[145] Additional meta-analysis studies corroborated these findings, showing that higher coffee consumption (2–4 cups per day) was associated with a reduced risk of death by all disease causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_effects

Give them a fucking break.
I presume the submitter meant to point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain#Coalescence_and_fragmenta... and not the main Wikipedia page, as there is nothing on the latter about rain drops.

> Smaller drops are called cloud droplets, and their shape is spherical. As a raindrop increases in size, its shape becomes more oblate, with its largest cross-section facing the oncoming airflow. Large rain drops become increasingly flattened on the bottom, like hamburger buns; very large ones are shaped like parachutes.[22][23] Contrary to popular belief, their shape does not resemble a teardrop.[24]
thanks for the quick replies!

And just to clarify... if the program lasts 5 months, and they drop out of the program 2.5 months in (and they would have received $5k so far), what would they would owe..?
I don't have a link, but I read a long article about the development process for the 10mm. Apparently, penetration was the reason they switched to 10 (and later 40). They were having difficulties with 9mm not penetrating windshields and other barriers.
The transit infrastructure argument is moot. Here's transit reporter Aaron Gordon making the case far better than I could:

> The G, 7, E, M, F, R, N, and W are all within a reasonable walking distance from the proposed HQ site. In the short term, Amazon will occupy one million square feet of 1 Court Square, which sits directly above…Court Square on the E, M, 7, and G lines (the other aforementioned lines are not far away). While they’re all crowded during rush hour and Court Square itself will strain under the ridership (but less so than during the L shutdown) the G and M have additional peak-direction capacity. Also, they’re all well below the current crowding levels on the L and 4/5.

Further, there’s good reason to believe many Amazon workers will follow non-traditional commuting patterns. For starters, a number of them will probably live within walking or bicycling distance from HQ2 given the housing construction boom in the neighborhood. For those who don’t, many will reverse-commute from Manhattan (Hudson Yards, the other NYC neighborhood experiencing a housing construction boom, is straight down the 7). For workers looking to commute from the suburbs, LIC has two LIRR stops, although they currently don’t have very attractive service patterns. Some might even choose to live in Metro North country, given that LIC is one stop on the 7 from Grand Central. It’s also worth noting that East Side Access service, which would bring the LIRR to Grand Central, is slated to begin in December 2022, making Long Island a more attractive option.

The point is not that any one of these options will be most attractive to future Amazon employees, but all of them will attract some and the load will be dispersed. This is the beauty of a robust, healthy transit network: it can absorb even the biggest of shocks.

40000 people across 8 lines with a bunch of countercyclical commuters is a drop in the bucket in NY transit.
Having a satellite phone is very interesting! I wonder what motivated that. Is he traveling to extremely rural (presumably international) locations?
This should be an article about mathematics not physics.
Totally agree. I think in the future -- as the market for income share agreements becomes more sophisticated there will be marginal rates. Right now the complexity tradeoff for the customer and the financing means we aren't doing it for a while though.
ARM laptop and machines are here. Windows on a RaspberryPI is going to make the ARM processor more appealing to the dev market and once more people buy super cheap ARM processors ARM will show up in servers. People will dev for ARM and want ARM servers. Netflix uses pfsense wich is BSD and it runs like a champ on ARM and netgate even makes an ARM based unit that is for small offices and is amazing. ARM laptops also last for like 25 hours so I think people will be switching.
Even on NetBSD, my old love, you can not take you program on the x86 machine, pack it and then run it on arm. You will have to crosscompile and hope it works.