skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lesson #1 about systems programming is the same as lesson #1 about internal Enterprise programming:

The fewer people who see a thing, the uglier the source is.

And as you go down the stack on mobile devices... there are very few people watching, indeed.
There's a lot in here that I don't really have the time to address because I'm wrapping up my day, but I don't really feel the need to litigate reasons why radical unfettered libertarianism doesn't work. But hey, I'll toss out a few notes:

>Collective bargaining (like any bargaining) requires no laws, it is a natural right.

No it isn't, because absent laws people tend to do things like break your knees with a lead pipe if you're a union organizer.

Which happened in the states. All the time. Until the union organizers hired the mob to defend them, resulting in the teamsters running a number of unions like a racket.

No thanks. I don't like any of that.

>Safety standards are an interesting topic. Last I heard, there's no law forcing employers to publish statistics on accidents, to properly inform the laborer on the risk they are taking. They're expected to trust "safety standards" set by the government and (presumably) checked by the government. Yet they fully bear the risk of their job. They are responsible for themselves. They can and must refuse to perform an action that they deem is endangering themselves unduly.

1) Who are "They"?
2) So you agree there's an informational asymmetry, but you put the burden on the weaker party in the transaction to be responsible for the calculation of the costs and effects of it (despite agreeing they don't know as much about it).
3) You should look up OSHA. Lol.

Are we starting to understand how that allocation of responsibilities, along the axis of 'who has power here', results in sub-optimal procedures for mitigating risk? Or did you expect everyone who works in a factory to have a triple PhD in materials engineering, industrial chemical design and ergonomics, so that when a piece of warehouse scaffolding is stressed because it is loaded past it's specs, they can diagnose the defect through examined differences in metal spalling patterns, then inform their employer and not be censured for the act (because, remember, according to you we shouldn't have labour standards).

Again, no thank you. I'd rather have society put together so that people don't need to be an expert in every safety critical expertise in order to avoid harm from others.
Well like every tech company the entire purpose of an externally facing engineering blog is to maximize their "tech/employer brand." That's the whole point. I would also guess that some of the projects highlighted are could probably fit into "complexity for complexity sake" e.g. teams of bored or overzealous engineers who are trying to justify their jobs by working on complex things that are probably overkill for the actual problem their trying to solve. That's pretty common.

I'm just pointing out that the nature of Airbnb's business means that there's no real-time, no streaming, no billions of concurrent users, etc. The tech boils down to a 1) web app 2) payments mechanism and 3) messaging. Nothing particularly revolutionary on the tech side.
I think characterizing duality in this way is kind of superfluous, because the only way all those meanings of duality are the same is in the most abstract sense of the word.

In other words, lots of things have duals. But the duality between any given pair of things doesn't necessarily expose any deep, fundamental connection to another pair of things which have duality. So it's not that duality features so heavily throughout mathematics as its own concept; rather, we frequently build new theories to tie these things together. It's helpful to be able to translate things from one context to another context.

We could just as easily say that isomorphisms are insane because they feature heavily throughout mathematics. But I don't think that provides a deep insight, because it's not like an isomorphism is a special property that ties a bunch of mathematics together in a grand way. Specific pairs of things can be isomorphic. Likewise specific pairs of things can be duals.

Any given pair of dual things is its own duality. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the way another pair of objects is in duality. The terminology here is semantically convenient for intuition, but it's definitely overloaded. I think the commonalities you're seeing here are simply due to the vast utility of linearity in all of those disciplines.
This post/page is simply a link to a 2012 video with the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInTfrDnA

Basically, a combination of chemicals in the paper + ink causes the smell, as the acidity in the old paper decays it.

This post needs (2012) in the title, or in my opinion, deletion, since there is not much to discuss.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19300801 from a couple days ago for a similar discussion on a different article.
Basically anyone who uses Firefox, or anyone who has uBlock, AdBlock, uMatrix, Purify, etc. the installed is invisible to JS-based analytics. They simply never load the GOogle Analytics, NewRelic, or whatever code as part of their “tracking protection”.

In financial services, we see about 15% higher unique users per day when analyzing HTTP logs versus Google Analytics. In fact, I’ve heard but not verified that GA now applies a “correction factor” to their stats to account for this.
Meanwhile, "Danish government wants to allow petrol stations, stores to refuse cash" https://www.thelocal.dk/20190227/danish-government-wants-to-...
Everspin is partnered with Global Foundries for their latest generation MRAM, but I believe they still operate their own backend processing facility for older generation memory.
Hmmm

“Lukianoff and Haidt share some benefactors and allies with the well-established right that funded Bloom and D’Souza. (Lukianoff works at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit group that receives funding from the Scaife and Olin families.) But, reading The Coddling of the American Mind, I was more struck by their points of proximity to the newer Trumpist right.”

“Lukianoff and Haidt quote “Jonathan Rauch, a scholar at the Brookings Institution””

“The rhetorical appeal, here, shares a structure with the appeal that carried the enemy in chief of political correctness to the White House”

“This is the incredulity of people who have never feared being stereotyped. It can turn to indignation, fast.”

“the two-step from shame to rage about shame may be what brings it closest to the Trumpists”

“Nassim Taleb, whose book Antifragile Haidt and Lukianoff credit with one of their core beliefs and cite repeatedly as inspiration, is a fixture of the far right “manosphere” that gathers on Reddit/pol and returnofkings.com.”

“The commonality raises questions about the proximity of their enthusiasm for CBT to the vogue for “Stoic” self-help in the Red Pill community,”

“Lilla admits to envying the effectiveness of the “right-wing media complex”. It is hard to imagine that Haidt does not feel some such stirrings about Peterson, who is, after all, selling more copies of self-help books ”

“Lukianoff and Haidt quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago as an epigraph and key inspiration; Peterson, who frequently lectures on the book, wrote the introduction to the 50th-anniversary edition Penguin will publish in November.”
The title is misspelled. It should be “its”, not “it's”.
Not to mention the myriad anti-capitalist artists the produce great work within capitalist economies.

That comment is so absurdly wrong I wonder what kind of person has the ignorance and gall to make it.
Be aware of the maximum connection bottlenecks in your stack, especially if you have an interactive app.

I've had apache refuse new requests because old connections were holding slots.
How does Strapi compare to something like Netlify CMS?
https://www.marinetraffic.com
Yes i am, and I’d do it again. He should know that acting in the manner he suggests is no game, and the people are watching. I want him to feel that anger and know that what he’s doing is not ok.
Many, many people can't stand the influence LDS has on culture, alcohol, nightlife, sexuality, dating, etc. It's huge there.
Backwards in the sense of morally worse. Perhaps you disagree?
I've never experienced that. Mind sharing an example?
Bernie Sanders Talks About Venezuela Matters Greatly
https://github.com/mmstick/parallel but it's unmaintained and the author wanted to do a rewrite.
Can you elaborate on the methods you've used to "make my case" for getting paid fairly, as a remote (and Indian??) engineer?
Also, no one talks about it but the smog is absolutely out of control.
Sounds like he's super white.
Someone’s foul odor and possible mental illness affects others negatively, the color of someone’s skin does not. They are not comparable at all.

I’m all for helping people, it just shouldn’t be the job of private businesses, especially when it’s costing them other business. Let’s build facilities to treat the mentally ill and help addicts, let’s help the homeless who have hit hard times. Let’s not make it the job of hotels and cafes and libraries to host them and play the “discrimination, but not discrimination” game.
>in Concurrent Mode we can interrupt a render in the middle if user does an interaction

Can you interrupt an arbitrary user-written function that's called inside the rendering stack?
Ha! No. One was a 'steak and eggs' at a new diner, where the over-easy eggs were broken (just annoying), the hashed-browned potatoes were a freezer-burned puck of mush, the 'steak' was a pile of fatty gristle that I tried chewing for 2 minutes and didn't get any smaller, and a pointless vegetable was grilled asparagus turned to dry sticks. There was nothing on the plate I wanted to put in my mouth.

The other was a Philly I got at a bar (fancy-food seafood/bar). Except is came as a French Dip (which wasn't on the menu): scant grilled onions/peppers, no cheese(!) and a bowl of brown broth. Which had spilled and saturated the bottom bun - took my whole napkin to try and get the slime off my hands after one attempt to pick it up. So I tipped the top bun off, maybe I could eat the filling - which was bare sliced beef with some gummy white stuff (not cheese) smeared on it? Oh, the top bun had been smeared with some white jizz that had melted the bread into paste. Disgusting top to bottom. I ate the fries and left.
Unintentional "let them eat cake" style comedy. $37 isn't expensive only for people drinking designer coffee out of avocados.
Outside of a few issues there isn’t much influence, unless you’re in the church. One nice thing about Mormons is that at least outside of a missionary context abroad, they take “no” for an answer with grace. I wouldn’t want to join their club, but I like them as neighbors. Their cooking can be a little uninspiring, but the hospitality and friendliness is world class. SLC is also a gorgeous part of the world, if you like to hike or climb it’s one of the best. The city itself is also not exclusively Mormon, although it’s not NYC levels or diverse either. I’d recommend a visit to see if you like it.
I'm sure they would try to turn away any middle class homeowner who hasn't bathed in months as well.

I think it's reasonable to have some sanitation and pleasentness standards in a restaurant. Anyone from any economic class could meet or not meet those standards. It may be harder for a homeless person to stay relatively well kept, but I don't think that is the responsibility of the restaurants to fix. We should reduce the people living in filth, not accept and encourage filth I'm public spaces.
Notably, 3000 is a good chunk of what's (afaik) considered to be the average everyday-use dictionary: somewhere from 10000 to 20000 words.

(Though again I'm unsure if the endless English phrasal verbs are counted as distinct in these estimates, not doing which would probably be cheating.)
This is not necessarily the answer. It's an upper-bound for the answer.
Yes, you can get all of your content from Cosmic at build time for your static site. Here are some resources that may help:

Gatsby source plugin:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/gatsby-source-cosmicjs

Gatsby Starter:
https://github.com/cosmicjs/gatsby-starter

Gatsby App:
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Gridsome App:
https://cosmicjs.com/apps/gridsome-blog

For API requests:
To get all of your posts, you can use just one API request to the Objects endpoint.

Does this help?
Really it's more like movie studios/rights-holders letting Netflix license their content. To me it's a bad move if

- Airbnb are going to "create their own content" and try to kill the hotels eventually (very unlikely), or

- Airbnb take too large a cut (possible).
There is a high chance that this is anecdotal, specially if both OTAs were offering you the room at the same price. For bigger chains, the person at the front desk hardly cares about where you booked from. It could be the case where there were very few rooms remaining when you booked with OTAs other than HT so you ended up with worse rooms.
Environmentalism’s Disillusionment Problem
I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss.

They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it.

Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.
Not sure what you mean. These days boutique hotels are about the same price as similar airbnb listings. We're not talking about the four seasons, but even for boutique hotels I trust them more than airbnb.
as someone living in New Zealand, it is very mind-boggling numbers, we'd be 1000 -> 2000 range for housing.

and the USD salaries would put you in the very very top earners of the population. Though sourcing enough devs here would be tricky for anything beyond 10 people if you actually wanted to outsource to NZ.
> it may not worth the tech debt

Management is complaining that our website is less responsive than our competition's ...
Not what I mean. More coffee flavor. Without tasted scorched.
Often? Seems like $150-200k is closer to the norm.
OK -- but no one specified that, and I'd argue that Apple has the most complete and polished ecosystem available. So I think it's very fair to compare that cost of Apple products.
The average Manhattan hotel room is considerably smaller than a 1-bedroom. I don't think I could live in that for any period of time. (Also fwiw, I doubt winter weekends are high season for Manhattan)
The store's reasoning in this anecdote isn't that they don't believe homeless people shouldn't have their drinks; it's that they don't want homeless people to spend time in their cafe. If they have drinks, they'll spend time in the cafe.

They're wielding a "cashless" policy here much in the same way states used to use things like literacy tests and poll taxes[1] as ways to disenfranchise minority voters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...
> a thermite infested apartment in Sicily

Thermite can't really infest things.

You probably mean “Thermian”.

(Ok, more likely: “termite”.)
I live in NYC, in a nice one bedroom apartment, and I find those numbers mind-boggling. Not that my rent is cheap by any means but its closer to $3000 than $6000.
What’s New in JUnit 5.4
The wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
Has this issue recently. Turns out there's a great library for this specifically. https://github.com/jruere/multiprocessing-logging
I always thought I had to quote my ip addresses whenever I do socket programming? Is that not the case? Or does one the parsing routines in C do something with the 0? I could understand it if I was using commas instead of dots, and passing the parts to a function, but I'm not, I'm quoting them as a string.
Here's a PDF of the Oxford 3000 [1]

[1] https://www.smartcom.vn/the_oxford_3000.pdf
I am very shocked. I really like Joe & the Juice. This story warrants a boycott, if it is credible.
Yeah, but all you're really describing here is linear algebra. Vector spaces and linearity are a significant part of every single discipline the grandparent commenter mentioned, but they picked out duality.

I would agree with the critique: I don't think highlighting duality here is particularly useful. For example, the way dual numbers are used to extend the reals for automatic differentiation doesn't have a deep connection to duality in vector spaces. It's just a very general semantic concept that describes pairs of things. But it doesn't say that any given pair of dual things is related to another pair of dual things.
> he really landed the ending, which is something of a rare feat in sci-fi

The only persistent offender here I can think of is Stephenson. Who else are you thinking of?

BTW, many years ago I used to hate Stephenson's dry style. But for some reason I kept reading his books because I like his ideas. Eventually I figured what he's really like - just a different attitude - and at that point I started to enjoy his writing quite a lot. Anathem is one of my favorite books in all literature, ever.

> The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy was the flashbacks to the protagonist's past on Earth, which seemed a bit trite and repetitive.

Yeah, that was boring.
The newer winterfell nodes [1] have made their way to ebay at sub 100$ and do not have the exotic power requirements of the earlier dual sled windmill nodes. You can easily power them off of a converted server power supply via diy [2] or commercial [3] means. Windmill nodes have more space on the pcie riser and quieter fans going for them as well.

1) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Quanta-Winterfell-Barebone-Node-2x-...
2) http://colintd.blogspot.com/2016/10/hacking-hp-common-slot-p...
3) https://www.parallelminer.com/product/breakout-board-adapter...
Household net worth drops when the stock market drops, and it dropped.
Whatever the original altruistic goal of state surveillance, this must stop, because the abuse increases every year and human freedoms decrease, for everyone, no matter your country of origin/ habitation.

Our global political landscape must radically improve for humanity's sake. It seems that every government, particularly the 'western' ones are racing headlong into outright facism: all because of political and corporate maneuvering.
>> Asians are getting hired at ~3x the rate of Whites in Bay area tech firms.

This is one of the shallowest and ill-informed comments I've seen. Asians are getting hired at ~3x the rate of Whites in Bay area tech firms to the extent that Hispanics are getting hired at ~3x the rate in restaurant kitchens and janitorial roles.

Minorities usually get hired into jobs Whites dont want. Often these are ugly jobs handling batch duty, production support, touch engineering timelines, and the like. Ask an Asian if they wouldnt rather be sitting in the boardroom or golf course putting together strategy decks or vaguely talking about where to invest "innovation funds" or other wishy washy activities.

Along the same lines, Hispanics are over represented in line kitchen, janitorial staffs, hotel cleaning crews, etc NOT because whites dont want those jobs but because whites refuse to take those jobs.

Ask any Asian or Hispanic or person of African descent if they wouldn't rather be at the VC fund making decisions on which Asians will be getting VC funds and working on ramen noodles for the next three years. We just dont usually get those opportunities.
It also reduces your personal privacy because every purchase is tracked.
1. Panasonic actually makes the battery cells and holds the patents on the underlying chemistry. Tesla's battery IP is related to the assembly of the cells with cooling components and other electronics, which isn't much of an advantage.

2. Tesla's self-driving is way ahead of the competition...in terms of dead drivers. The competition restricts the use of self-driving functionality because they would prefer to have living customers who will buy more cars from them in the future, but independent testing suggests their self-driving tech is on par with Tesla's.

3. Tesla's latest-generation charger announced this past month is slower than the latest-generation standard chargers announced 1-2 years ago. While Tesla does have more publicly accessible chargers, there are far more non-Tesla chargers available...and that's not including the charger network VW has to build as part of its emissions scandal settlement. The completed VW network is expected to dwarf the Supercharger network.

4. The rest of the OEMs choose not to send OTA updates for security and safety reasons. Case in point: the SF Tesla death may be related to Tesla changing the way Autopilot worked through an automatic OTA update the owner may not have even been aware of. (And note: Tesla didn't just "give" its cars 15 miles extra range for free--they adjusted the range estimator to be less conservative about mileage remaining.)

agile enough to compete with Tesla

Agility has proved just as much as an Achilles heel to Tesla as an advantage.
No, that's not possible in JavaScript. The important part is that React components are lazily evaluated[1] and are not rendered as a stack. So React can render a few components and then pause for higher priority work.

As a user of the framework, you don't need to care about this though. So your mental model can be that of an interruptable function.

[1]: https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/#lazy-evaluatio...
From section 6.8 (p. 69) "Note that the decoder’s microarchitecture design is complete, including the branch predictor design and micro-op sequences for nearly every x86 instruction and behaviour. Our circuit implementation is less complete than our microarchitecture design (implemented as a detailed pipeline simulation)"

Still an impressive work.
Probably because of the dark forest idea which gives a satisfying answer to the Fermi Paradox.
Can go from 1 word: Entity, to every word.

The tradeoff being density of information, understandability to the readers, and conciseness.
I think your example here of “rational choice” is a great example for the problem of treating the school ecosystem like a market. Only those with means to participate will benefit.

So why not give people the means to participate?

You quickly end up with a system where those who need access to quality education the most (the poor) have the least access, or only access to the worst.

That's where we are right now.

Furthermore, markets require demand to drive pricing. In k-12 education, demand is completely inelastic - school attendance is compulsory.

Non-sequitur again. If it's still possible to choose which school to attend, there's a choice. Eating is compulsory. There's still a market for food.

Who services those who can’t afford to participate but are required to do so?

We already have this entity.

And how does the entity serving those have motive for quality? There’s no competition.

We already have this problem, just that there's no way out for a lot of people, and we could enable a few people to get out.
> This may have been the case decade(s) ago, but I think the climate is very different now.

I don't. I've met many incompetent white males in over their heads.
Like ChickenTonight, only for hotels.
Have you checked out StackPath [https://StackPath.com] (I’m an employee)?

We have a serverless product that is very similar to Workers. Our global footprint can handle 65tbts and we also do distributed containers and VMs at the edge. We also don’t require users to use our DNS.
You can probably refuse any type of payment you want... except cash.
Google takeout was great for this. I did it last month and backed up 60gb of photos.
Emacs Org-mode is also supported on GitHub and can be integrated into some pretty fancy workflows involving inline LaTeX rendered in Emacs. Org-Babel allows for a “notebook”-esque interface with embedded code samples, which show up non-interactively on GitHub.