skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox's speed depends a lot on which extensions you use.

I use a bunch, like uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Tridactyl, Tree Style Tab, and Stylus, and Firefox slows down to a crawl for me when I have more than about 8 tabs open.

Now, some might advise not to use extensions, but using extensions is half the reason that I use Firefox at all in the first place, as Firefox without extensions really sucks.
God damn it Wired, not every security bug is a zero day. The bug was discovered 94 days ago. 0≠94

Zero-day is when a new virus exploits a previously unknown vulnerability. There is no virus, and the vulnerability has been known about for over three months. There is no justification for calling this "zero day" except to beg for clicks and sound cool.
Is that a tradeoff inherent to B2C models, or could they have done differently?
Let's face it, with more than a trillion dollars in student loan debt, any disturbance to US salaries could result in a student loan crisis. Higher education is only getting more expensive, and the bubble is going to burst when babies born during the great recession drop enrollment across the board in 2026. Hopefully, we can get to a more sensible place in terms of the distribution of degrees, and their types, we need to create a maximally effective society. I believe trade school is a big part of this and on an individual level, no one ever outsourced a plumber!
Visual navigation engine DNN for quadrotor, using RISC-V, 64 mW on average
The PS4’s Remote Play update now lets you stream to iOS devices
If Hotel Tonight isn't a real company because of these hidden fees, then neither are the actual hotels charging the fees. If Hotel Tonight should be in prison because of these fees, then so should the hotels actually charging them.

If you hate Hotel Tonight because of the fees, you shouldn't be staying at the hotel actually charging the fees.
this reminds me of https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 awesome talk!
It would be trivial to fork parallel. If people cared enough, a fork would appear and be adopted. That's the beauty of free software. If you don't like it you can change it.
This guy experiences emotions.
I like that you mentioned `bat` and `ag`, two of many favorite CLI tools.

Others you might want to checkout not necessarily for writing a book but general CLI pleasantness:

- fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)

- autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump)

- jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

- fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)
> A concept a High Performance Computing professor told me once: A program which is memory intensive must be slower then one which needs little memory -- just because load/write operations from the CPU take time.

Hi, there's this guy named 'cache' that wants to speak with you.
Yep, and until Congress decides to get with 2019 the feds will continue to have this problem.

So probably forever.
> which candidates are diverse

Apart from the legality aspects: a single person cannot be "diverse". You can have a diverse group, but not a diverse person. Unless they're schizophrenic, maybe.
The problem for Tesla is that they needed to sort these problems out years ago. Now we are approaching the mass-consumer part of the adoption curve where every car company will start offering electric cars:

Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Mercedes, Mini, Nissan, Polestar, Porsche, Renault, Smart, Volvo, VW

And I just don't think Tesla are going to be stable enough to compete against the big players.
Slack is running a chrome instance - look at it in detail using Sysinternal's Process Explorer. Skype now does the same.

It's so grossly dumb - giant native applications running a hidden web browser to show a webpage that does it utmost to pretend to be a native application (but it doesn't work - Alt-F to launch the File menu in slack but cursor left/right doesn't take you to the next menu like REAL native apps do)....

It's a future I do not wish to be involved with!
I really doubt it; they may lost users in long term but not because of new player - they have seem to reached already over-complexity stage with features and thus service will simply become unappealing to existing and new users but that will take time. If they start changing messenger into more discord-slax alike service then they may keep users as this form of communication seems to be getting more popular
In my experience, precompiled headers (as implemented by g++ at least) don't help as much as one might hope. I suspect that they only cache the parsed AST, as opposed to generated code. I wouldn't be surprised to find that generating optimized code is a lot more computationally intensive than parsing.
Strapi looks awesome. Are you aware of any relevant competitors to it, MIT as well?
Oh I don't doubt someone gave them a little push, he just made it really easy for them.
Oh yes. I am gut-level certain that the first-freeway-on-ramp experience of a Tesla test drive is a damn big push off the fence for a prospective buyer.
There are a few headless CMS players in the space, but we're different in our approach. Compare other headless CMS dashboards and APIs and you'll notice a lot of work has been done to make our solution as simple as possible. Content creators get the easiest dashboard to create content and developers get the most intuitive API tools and resources to quickly integrate content. We've been told "it doesn't get much easier".

Plus we're set apart in our commitment to our community and education. Our community contributes apps / extensions / open source code / learning center articles to help others with their specific use case. Our goal is for each new user to benefit from previous work in our community by offering pre-built apps, extensions and tutorials they can use to build a great product faster and easier.
> Given that the user name says the user has no street cred, it's ironic that people would assume the user is "urban".

I don't think so. If they weren't “urban” it wouldn't be relevant at all—no streets.
It never works out that way though.

Clojure for the frontend? What about native APIs that you need to use on, say, iOS or Android? What about graphics libraries and APIs? What about browser APIs? I'm sure you can write your own wrapper or bindings for whatever you need, but it's an ongoing effort/pain that isn't worth it for most people.

Every platform, backend or frontend, supports specific languages that are suitable for the platform's problem space and are subsequently preferred by the platform's community. Software rarely stands alone. You can always go against the grain with your own efforts, but it's no longer a dream, just another compromise.
Heh. I have a very Hispanic name but I am white/European. This is fairly common where I am originally from and even more in other places. I've definitely gotten weird looks when I go from phone screen -> in person interview. Unfortunately Americans, even progressive ones, have a very narrow view of what "Hispanic" means.
It depends on how well you want to "define" something. Wikipedia describing a duck:

Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae which also includes swans and geese. Ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the family Anatidae; they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water. Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.

But you could also describe a duck in two simple words: "water bird". Apparently that's a real term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_bird
But the salary differential between top engineer in the Bay Area vs. top engineer in the Midwest is more like 2-3x than 10-15x.
So should I write software that just leaks and not worry about it?
Aren't modules supposed to improve the situation?
> ...the Democratic party which opposes school vouchers and funding increased choice in education for disadvantaged neighborhoods...

Hmm, in my city (LA), one Republican (Riordan) and later Democratic mayors (Hahn and Villaraigosa) have strongly supported charter schools, and the results (after two decades plus) are decidedly mixed. I used to be a moderate supporter of charters, basically for the reasons you mention, but the experiment has generally failed.

Basically, oversight of a network of charter schools is really hard, so there will be bad charter schools that "look good" from the outside. It's hard for parents, even involved parents, to understand this before their kids graduate, so there's no good corrective for charters that are siphoning money off, or providing poor educational outcomes.

This seems to be a case where market pressures suffer from a too-long feedback loop, and information about outcomes is too hard to acquire.
I respect both sides to of this debate. If a candidate had a 2nd attempt at passing the phone interview (which we provide at higher rates to diverse candidates) then it is somewhat fair to say the candidate would not have been hired if they weren't diverse.

But phone screens are very low signal. It filters out people that are not competent coders, but beyond that it's basically a count toss.

We also provide 2nd phone interviews to people that have referrals. So you could basically frame this as saying we treat diverse candidates as though someone referred them to the company.

Again, I can empathize with why people think this is unfair and maybe paternalistic. I also respect those who see it as a prudent measure to be inclusive.

I'm Cuban myself, but I come from a very wealthy family and attended a premiere computer science university. I'm also pretty much visibly White (btw many Cubans do consider themselves White)
I do sometimes feel awkward checking the "Hispanic or Latino". If a company gave me additional opportunity on the basis of my heritage the I don't think it's leveling any playing field. If anything, it's giving someone who's already coming from a position of advantage with an even bigger advantage.
That's just splitting hairs.

IP packets aren't at risk of blowing up in ISP employee hands, and even if they were, it wouldn't justify allowing ISPs to charge more for Netflix than NBC streaming.
Equality of outcome is the most destructive idea ever. All those tens of millions who died at the hands of the communists for this one terrible idea. That we can remake society and people to force a certain outcome. So many injustices have been excused, because the ends somehow justify the means to achieve equal outcomes.

Equality of opportunity has done so much good, but the mob is easily swayed by the siren call of equal outcomes for all.
We’ll end up with threads in JS one day.
Maybe, but it would also cost Google almost nothing to set up a 301 redirect from Picasa URLs to Google Photos. I wouldn't expect someone like Yahoo or Microsoft to bother, but being a “good web citizen” seems intrinsic to the Google corporate identity, after all.
I'm confused. That is not the original post that I was commenting on. The original post I commented on called Martin Shkreli one of the shittiest human beings on the face of the earth. I could be missing something though...maybe it got edited? Is it possible to give some more info on how/why/where this got detached?

EDIT: Never mind. I'm dumb. I see that flagged comment now. My bad.
Problem is that people suck. They don't blame themselves for doing something stupid. They blame Microsoft. Personal responsibility? Ha!
I'd have to agree. I mean, lets imagine how this sounds by just swapping some words and tell me if it's still okay:

>I suspect many companies wouldn't use this as it would make affirmative hiring policies more difficult. For example, recruiters at my company curate lists of names that are majority male, white, or Western (pulled from the census bureau) in order to try and determine which candidates are... can't think of a good word for here.
" in every bathroom at NYU, there are signs telling students how to report me anonymously if I say something that they find offensive"

How can people not be up in arms over this?
Also scary considering that if Airbnb does not like you, for whatever valid or invalid reason, you are not welcome in either local hosting or hotels worldwide. Given that Airbnb already declined hosting people they considered attending a lawful political rally (the "hateful nazi's of Charlottesville"), their increased reach concerns me.
It does seem weird, and the fact that they’re closing stores they opened only months ago is a bad sign I think. The one in Dallas mentioned in the article was only opened in December, now it’s closed. That reeks of desperate cash-flow management at worst, wastefully bad spending at best.

Now maybe some younger folks will be happy ordering a car online and relying on a return policy, but that’s not going o be a population to support a company valued at what TSLA is. The Model 3 is more affordable than an S, but it’s still a big chunk of change for most people. Beyond that price range you’re selling a majority to older buyers who can afford it. Look at who is driving th average high end Mercedes, it’s usually someone who’s getting on in years. Are they really going to be Ok without even a test drive?

I’m in my 30’s, and no way in hell would I buy a car I’d never seen or driven, anymore than I’d buy a house without a walkthrough (at least). I think they’ve jus undercut their sales in a big way, and if it isn’t a desperation move, what is it?
Show HN: Play a game inside your localStorage
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Mark my words. "Zero day" will become the new term for a vulnerability in mainstream media and eventually the community will adopt the new meaning. Just remember what happened to "hacker."
Unless these entry level engineers have families, there's no good reason to be paying $5-6k a month for rent, you can easily find a decent place of your own for under $4k, even $3k if you're patient.
Ridiculous comparison.

Books just work. There are no moving parts and unless something has gone really wrong you won't have quality control issues. Also they cost like $20 so any losses are minimal.

Cars are highly complex, require regular servicing, are a once in every 5/10 year purchase and cost $40,000. And they are also highly personal as the driving and interior experience needs to work for just you. It's more akin to asking someone to buy a house online without ever looking inside.
How on Earth does it cost $450,000 to teach humanities to a class of thirty adult students for five months?
Yes, but it gets more complicated because there's a time factor too.

If you're A/B testing each change for 2 weeks, but the negative impacts of it only happen after a few months (like what the parent post mentioned [1]), then while you're in a local maxima right now, it'll slowly sink, along with all your neighborhood of choices.

You can think of it as a function that returns the current value and another function that you have to use for the next time step. Sorta like f(a, b, c, ...) = (y, \a_2 b_2 c_2 ... -> ...). Steepest ascent hill climbing doesn't work well for finding good long term local maxima, since you don't know how long it takes until it stabilizes (or if it ever does). The best you can do is guess it'll stabilize in X amount of time, but if X is too small, you might end up stuck in a really bad local maxima.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325816
Except the core problem is key propagation because just anyone can have a key - paid or free if you don't know the source. It says it is from Globe Software and it matches with the provided key. It doesn't tell you if they really are Globe Software, let alone if they are a trustworthy company in the first place.
Zero-day is most generally used in security to mean a bug that is released without a patch. This is a zero day.
Remotedebug for ESP Plataform
There is also the issue that an EV cert has to live on a USB dongle and be "logged into" with some utility before being available for signing. Logging out the current user or even allowing the screen to sleep will lock the cert again. So, for automating signed builds, the only option is to leave the machine logged in and unlocked at all times, clearly obviating much of the "security" gained from all those restrictions.
video production usually consists of long hours on site, moving heavy things from place-to-place , often some degree of ad hoc construction followed by uninstalling all of the above. not to mention cameras are pretty hefty themselves. meet enough veteran cameramen and you'll probably come to notice they all have large arms. the only real difference from a true blue collar job is that the goods produced are ephemeral.
How much do VCS make (base salary) using H-1B data?
That doesn't seem like it should be a deal breaker, especially for something security related.
Misleading title, I thought we has writing his book on an ancient AT&T UNIX mainframe. He's using Linux or MacOS, bfd. Why do people throw around the word Unix to describe Linux is beyond me. MacOS claims it's Unix too, they payed some organization to get them a Unix cert, but we all know it's BSD/Mach/Darwin rewrite. Nobody is really using the original Unix.
"For what it's worth I don't think our diversity hiring practices result in any lowered caliber of hires. Most of the affirmative hiring policies only affect resume review and technical phone interviews." As the post being responded to.
The interest rate on TARP loans was well below market, so even though the banks did pay some interest it was still a sweetheart deal.

Anyways, TARP was dwarfed by Quantitative Easing. The FED printed around $1.8 trillion to buy distressed assets from banks. To this day the FED still holds some $1.7 trillion in mortgage backed securities on its books.
7:40, Abruzzo.
You can but you'd hate the results, since the OS would have to page memory to/from disk like crazy when the working set runs out. See:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mrsnrub/2009/12/08/windo...

Or:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/memorya...

You can call the Win32 API directly from Powershell if you wish (w/QUOTA_LIMITS_HARDWS_MAX_ENABLE). System Resource Manager is only available on Windows Server.

All you're doing is limiting how much physical memory the process can consume before it pages. In either case the process will continue to consume all the memory it desires, it just varies where the additional consumption is stored.
The whole point of a headless CMS is to not have to manage the CMS infrastructure. With Strapi, you would still need to manage the infrastructure yourself. This is actually called a "decoupled CMS".
Yes, cars are on there way to be automated. Google, Apple, Tesla and other big tech companies are all pouring millions of dollars into research in order to have cars drive themselves.

For some jobs, automation will be a concern for those workers. I don't think its a number one concern for a lot of people but all jobs lie on a spectrum of how possible/soon they can be done by a machine. That pressure is only going to grow in the next 40 years.

I know the article doesn't touch on automation but college-educated jobs are some of the most likely to become automated by machines in the near future. Young people that see this is going to happen will be more likely to believe trade apprenticeships are a better route to go than college.
Nice timing for those building or thinking about a workstation with AMD many-threaded CPUs.

Its gotten to the point that developers can park a thread all warmed up on a dedicated core and cache - in a resource-yielding spin wait. It immediately responds to a work request then returns to idleness.

Before AMD disrupted workstations with lots-of-cores, it was not good practice to waste CPU resources on spin waits unless low latency was foremost.

But now a developer can get lots of cheap ram and use it to make multithreaded apps more performant by thread-parking.

The same provisioning logic works on the cloud too.
Was hoping that this would be using the original UNIX typesetting tools like troff. Also, surprised to see that asciidoc wasn't deployed over markdown.
Worth noting:

>As Mr. Musk lays it out, the change is not so radical. In an email to employees, he said that 78 percent of Model 3 orders were already placed online, and that 82 percent of the model’s buyers made their purchase without a test drive.

They're losing at most ~22% of possible sales. And some of those people might still buy online.

A lot of this piece is economic crystal ball gazing and comparing the magic of a super safe, fast, fun, and wildly popular (self driving?!) car to existing car manufacturers.

Maybe someone at NYT wants to drive their stock price down so they can buy.
I remember in the 00's a company I was working for was trying to recruit talent to Romania.. they were SO good! I remember that a DBA in Romania would cost the same as in the UK, and they would work miracles. I also remember they had 2x optic fiber networks, one underground and one from the telephone/uitility poles.

I am not surprised for this. At some point Romania was the DataCenter for many large companies in Europe.

If only the corruption had gone away, Romania could have been a 'mini European silicon valley'.
Question: How was your traction before you guys joined YC?

>We're now powering production websites and apps for hundreds of teams around the world across various use-cases.

I guess I don't understand why would anyone join an accelerator with this level of traction. Seems that fundraising should be pretty straightforward.
Why does that sound like a good idea from a European perspective, or from any perspective?
Yeah, and they charge you for your bandwidth to the internet, not your bandwidth to your neighbor. What travels along that bandwidth that you've already paid for is irrelevant. It costs the ISP the same amount whether they are sending you Netflix, or Youtube, or Hulu, or their own digital TV.
As a hiring manager, if you give me a fake name, it is to your advantage if it's the same fake name you use on LinkedIn, github, stackoverflow, and other sites that are going to come up when I google you...

I don't care about your social media accounts, your country of origin, your gender, or anything else that's irrelevant to your performance, but I do care about your technical history and abilities (and of course, your eligibility to work).
A novel idea. Apple and googles own apps have been tampered with. Indeed there are compromised apps available for download now on both stores.

Perhaps it's 'safer' but now we all ask permission and pay a huge tax to release software.

Is this a better system?

The web is alive but under attack. What freedoms will devs have left?

We will either pay comcast or we will pay google and apple. Either way the entrance fee for development just became a lot higher.
How many 40 year old projects have we maintained that has broken _some_ backwards compatibility? C++ is a triumph in engineering rivalled by something like a megacity transportation system - it's massive, some of it is dark and scary, but it works really really well.

The C++ team is up against huge corporations that actively lobby for and against any of their changes - and to top it all, they do it for free. Some obscure C feature is bound it get trampled on.
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I think you will find that most of the public will not be concerned with not serving Nazis, legal gathering or otherwise. This isn't a slippery slope; Nazis are evil and our society has, or at least had, drawn a line.

EDIT: obviously I have offended the Nazis here. I'm not sorry, and you should not feel welcome. Anywhere. Ever.
How many customers are going to pay more for Rowhammer-proof RAM?

If it's not enough to offset the cost of developing it, I'm not sure why RAM manufacturers would make it.