skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have one of those Dutch de Jong Duke coffee machines in our office. Thing makes great coffee, and as a consequence, I drink more than I would were I elsewhere. Thing makes lattes, cappuccinos, double/triple shots. The "executive" staff bought it, but we're all free to use it. It must cost them a fair amount of coin to run it, as it's always in use. Tastes better than Starbucks, but not as good as making your own with a French Press. You can see the oil in the coffee, so it must be only minimally filtering out just the grounds. I use it because it's there, and I'm one of those who, after drinking copious amounts of coffee daily for decades, develops headaches from lack of caffeine during the day.
Not defending Oracle here, but I wanted to add some clarity.

Oracle will now only support current LTS versions of the Oracle JDK (as opposed to the OpenJDK), for something like 2 years. Basically requiring people to migrate to LTS releases relatively quickly.

If you can’t (larger orgs and others with requirements that delay those moves), then you’ll need to pay Oracle for a license.

Java (Oracle/Sun JDK) has never really been free, specifically, while I never worked with it, embedded JDK has always required a purchased license for distribution. The OpenJDK, on the other hand is a free OSS licensed distribution of Java.
> Why are we assuming the commuters are rich?

I don't know the particulars in this case, but in the mid 20th century it was a very common strategy to run main arteries into the city through the poor & ethnic inner city neighborhoods (not to mention tearing those neighborhoods down and destroying their communities for "urban revitalization"), hence the historical assumption of poorer city residents dealing with the noise & pollution of the rich suburban commuters. As time goes on this will become less and less true thanks to America's urban renaissance, but still property values near expressways tend to be much lower due to the noise pollution & air pollution.

Interestingly, the most high-profile American expressway failure (in Manhattan) gave rise to one of the most valuable urban regions in America. I personally doubt this is a coincidence.
Sharyl Attkisson, the person interviewing Jerome Corsi, author of Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump in this interview?

https://www.c-span.org/video/?442260-1/after-words-jerome-co...

Or how about this:

"Citizens United’s David Bossie and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski argued that Washington bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump."

https://www.c-span.org/video/?454330-1/after-words-david-bos...

Sorry, if I find Atkisson a dubious source of information.
I’ve found reviewing the code together face to face (or video call) with author is very effective. It allows you to discuss why they made certain decisions, why you recommend different choices, and the relative benefits of each option.

It also the best forum to remind them that my code isn’t perfect either, that this is a process to help make us both better developers.
Lots of haters here. This company is trying to build a real alternative to the Apple/Google/MS oligopoly based on open source and respect for privacy. I'm really really tempted.
Has anyone considered moving the school by 1 mile away from freeway?
There is the Werther-effect[1] aka copycat suicide, which could explain the problem. But probably compounded by other factors such as rising uncertainty (job security, financial struggle) many face today. E.g. for rich nations the problem might be that losing something (job/credit) is harder on people than never having had that "thing" (whatever is "lost") in the first place. (the latter is probably a philosophical point but having gone through rough times after good times myself it always felt harder digging myself out than it felt working hard initially to reach the "good life")

Speaking of philosophy I also have seen claims that the damage that is done to the environment would feed back into the social fabric - so people would kind of feel the tension from the damage that is done to nature. I was unable to find anything that could corroborate these claims nor do I subscribe to it, but fwiw the thought has stuck with me. (my interpretation of it is that many people today are hooked to some form of news on social media which is mostly negative. When I grew up news seem to be something only old people read now everyone is engaged in the problems of far away issues. Or maybe it's because I'm old myself now in comparison and am more prone to consuming news with all its negativity ...)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18082110
This is nice, but what problem does it solve? Mobile and Desktop operating systems solve different issues on their own.

Ubuntu tried this - how'd that go?

Second issue is: how do I use it? How can I install it on MY devices?

I'm all for privacy and I want to is it, just seems like a dream and it will never come to fruition
You don't give any reason for your claim, so I'm not sure if you're serious or trolling, but I'll bite.

What's wrong with trying to stop people dying?

(The regressive aspect I get, but you seem to be against non-regressive measures too.)
They had a long day at the business factory, and just want to relax and watch R-rated movies for a while.
This would be incredible. Have you heard about the massive wildlife overpasses in Canada?
The Tesla of the TV Industry
Your opinion on if it's good or not is inconsequental.

It's been good enough to get FISA warrants for surveillance and executions.

We might see that it's obviously flawed, but the people we've elected disagree.
Actual application benchmarks and many Spec2006 sub-tests show up right in the same ballpark.

Where Intel still has a big lead is in multi-threaded performance and heavy SIMD use.
My company does some embedded work. The problem with your analogy is that edge-cases drive CPU purchase decisions far more often than you would normally think.

A simple example: You have designed an ATM using a lower powered ARM CPU. 99.9% of the use-cases never tax the CPU beyond 30%. However, in specific cases where the ATM must simultaneously access the bill dispenser, printer, and note acceptor the hardware interrupts overwhelm the CPU and leads to 2-3 secs of "CPU lock". After those 3 secs, everything returns to normal.

The problem is that the bill dispenser protocol only allows for 1000ms in delay in ack to messages, thus when this situation occurs, the lag is longer than the protocol allows, so it errors out and FUBARs the entire transaction.

In this case, even though this only occurs .1% of the time, the existence of this edge-case will mandate that you not use this specific CPU.

Spoken another way: The ongoing issue of certain edge-cases will cost much more in the long term, than the extra $50 for a different CPU.
Building Ecommerce Search with Elastic: Common Misconception We Hear from CTOs
At this exact moment there's three comments including yours. What are you referring to, exactly?
That's not really true. With a single, non-replicated server, you're also very much exposed to network failures. If the server's connection goes down, you're screwed. Compare this to a Google replication setup of 2 East Cost, 2 West Coast, and 1 central USA server. The client must only be able to reach two out of three data centers (and they have to be able to communicate with each other). That sounds much more resilient to me - and I guess Google agrees, since they deploy the setup.
My favorite: Fletcher! Also Drover, Wakefield. Abbott, Banner, Sumner. Harper, Piper, Fiddler. Foster/Forester and Fowler. Glover, Granger, Hayward, Hoffman. Porter, Skinner, Snyder, Hooper, Joiner, Wagner, Waller. And Maier is also Farmer.
Edison was a thief dont forget. So why trust any company that bears his name?
Three thoughts:

- The types help, seeing "WGPUSwapChainId" tells me exactly what sort of object is returned (a reference to some object held elsewhere), we don't get this in Rust because of type inference.

- Rust doesn't help in this example because it's just a bunch of API calls... so it's a more complex language for nothing. Obviously this doesn't generalize.

- The event handling is much simpler in the C code, this also doesn't generalize.
Let me guess, isolation - both social and physical, brought about by cell phones and social media cancer is making people lonely and depressed. They turn to alcohol but that doesn’t quite do it so they turn to opioids and then decide to take their life. Perhaps I’m just pulling on unrelated strings to make a rope, or perhaps there is some truth to it?
No offense, but do you honestly believe most heroin users are going to buy a test kit to test their drugs and then if it tests positive not use them? The practical value of those test kits seems low to me, as I don't believe they would be heavily used and I don't believe that many herion users wouldn't continue in the fact of a positive test.
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Yes.. in fact none of the companies providing 5g infrastructure are American.
This isn’t a bookstore problem in NYC/SanFran/etc. It’s an, “everything that needs not rich workers to function,” problem.

COL has gotten so stupid that workers have to commute multiple hours to do modestly paid work (everything from cleaning to office work).

Eventually it’s unsustainable. When you have to live so far out that transit costs exceed what you need to eat and have a roof over your head you look elsewhere (or a lot earlier than that if you can swing it).

I’m seriously expecting company housing/servants quarters to become a thing again in some places. And for businesses to move elsewhere which is already happening. Probably not the big 5 but a whole lot of smaller entities.
Once it text messaged and emailed every contact in my phone telling them to join. It was like 2 unintentional clicks from the home screen.
I’m not that invested in their wellbeing, and I’m not making an argument requiring citations. I’ll leave it to people with access to Google to do basic research on their own health.
Try it before judging! Its definitely a burned taste, and once its gone you would not believe the difference.
To a much greater extent than those who do, those who do not own cars do not have jobs or own real estate. Those who own real estate are the ones who pay property taxes and that, plus the state lottery, plus federal subsidies, pay for the schools.

Of course there are retirees who don't work but own real estate. These folks generally own cars, but don't drive them as much as those who work, yet they generally don't have children or even grandchildren in the schools and yet have to pay for the schools. Which is fine.

The category of people who don't have cars is largely comprised of people who don't have jobs because if you don't have a car you can't get to work. These people don't own real estate. They generally live with others who do, or in subsidized housing and live off government benefits of some kind or another such as disability or aid for people with dependents.
I've worked with people who struggled to get code to merely compile--and not just in CompSci 101 back in university where this was at least 80% of the programming students. In actual companies where they were hired as software engineers. Granted, they don't last long.
Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have killswitched it
My coworker went there last year. When the factories were on he couldn’t see the hotel adjacent to his. When they were shut down it was almost crystal clear with blue sky. Reminded me of a distopian SciFi movie like Bladerunner or Johnny Pneumonic.
The biggest difference between x86 and ARM for a big out-of-order machine is probably the much stronger memory ordering guarantees that x86 provides. There are good points to be made on either side of that but it's clearly a very important consideration.

The second biggest difference is that, in a big OoO core, the cost of decoding the instruction stream is trivial on ARM as opposed to merely small on x86. Something like 5% of the cores power budget on a modern x86, I think? One upshot of that is that on Intel chips the decode stage is balanced with the overall execution width so that they are only seldom decode limited. Whereas the attitude on high end ARM chips is that you might as well just throw in more decoders than you think you need so you can stop worrying about it.

But overall ARM has traditionally been the CISCiest of the RISC architectures and x86 has been the RISCiest of the CISC architectures,[1] making me think they might have both ended up successful by being at a sort of happy medium.

[1]https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html
If your monolith interacts with many other monoliths, service meshes might be useful. If not, maybe not so much.
I think this betrays my ignorance (youth?) but what exactly does the author mean by 'mainframe'? Does the word imply a specific type of system, CPU architecture, OS, etc? My understanding was that 'mainframe' and 'server room/warehouse' are kind of interchangeable, and so a 'mainframe' can be as generic as any old physical server. I suspect that my understanding is quite incorrect...
A cursory look at Chrome security disclosures shows many memory corruption vulnerabilities.

The most recent release fixed twelve use after free vulnerabilities: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel....

Go take a look at how many have been found in previous releases.
I agree with their assessment that the A2Z Guarantee is a financial risk as the potential for counterfeits increases with scale. Amazon returns are shockingly easy and I am always given the benefit of the doubt. Makes sense that they would call that out as a risk factor.

That listing for the "yeezys" you linked, though, is a great example of something I would never even consider... I don't have a specific heuristic for how I select products, but this listing violates a lot:

-Prime availability

-Multiple sellers with extensive trading history

-At least 10 ratings and preferably at least 100

-Rating above 4* and maybe 3.5* if there are limited options

-Description that is written in legible English and reflects the copy on the item as found in a store

-And only after multiple searches using different search terms to identify the "right" keywords that bring the most relevant products

This has and will be a problem on any platform, whether it's eBay or Alibaba or on Canal Street in NYC [1]. If it seems shady, it probably is.

[1] https://www.unpublishedarticles.com/handbags/
Right, but at least those industry "awards" are usually just a room full of jackasses cross-congratulating themselves as a form of awkward mutual masturbation.

This one is a lone scam artist in a room full of what I can only assume to be paid actors (like the ones at superbowl half time shows).

Another thing that struck me was the awkward "big guy" speech. It was like he instructed her to really drive that point home. Makes you wonder what kind of inadequacies he's trying to overcompensate for.

If you look through their other videos he even stumbles through some kind of meandering self-congratulatory acceptance speech. It's even more painful to watch than the dead-eyed woman announcing his "achievement" and telling everyone what a "big boy" he is.
I agree with the author on patience, but I wonder if you can become a software developer without it. Sure some people will have more than others, but learning how to make code work is a terrible, terrible process and I’m not sure you can go through it without massive amounts of patience.

I have a side job as an examiner for Danish CS students, and a noticible difference between first years and final project students is how they tolerate the frustration of having code not work. If you can’t sit through hours of not knowing why something just doesn’t work, you probably find a different field.
Nasa Captures First Air-to-Air Images of Supersonic Shockwave Interaction
Already done:

https://electrek.co/2019/03/04/sono-sion-electric-car-solar-...
> may push advertisers to start requiring content owners to host the advertisement content

Good luck with that. There is a reason they want you to load directly from their ad-network. It's the surest way they have to accurately track valid clicks.
How to design the end of a studio’s life
Gender imbalances in the world's leading orchestras
You're comparing apples to oranges. If read coordination can be avoided (and it often can, even in systems with consensus), whether you stick a cache on the client or not is completely orthogonal to whether the system uses consensus for write operations.
I make coffee in a Tias Kettle with coffee ground just as the water comes to a boil. It’s the ritual of the whole thing.
Angry at the wrong people. The freeway users are just trying to get to work.
Driving should be more expensive in the US, full stop.

Many like to attack higher gas taxes as 'regressive', but they are fair. The more pollution you create, the more you pay.
Amazon's joint healthcare organization is called 'Haven'
Statistics Fundamentals with Julia [pdf]
I guess this person's definition of "lot" is a bit different from ours.
Thanks! This is exactly a feedback you will not hear from your niche that's already familiar with the subject. I will improve the landing page.
>>The state should not be in the business of saving people from themselves

What should the state be in the business of exactly? It's in the business of defending people from other people. You could frame it as "saving people from themselves" or you could justifiably frame it as "saving people from companies seeking to poison them".

Also, the state has account for these people in the form of emergency care and treatment when they kill themselves (and often times others on their way out). These people are unfairly burdening the tax base when they decide to kill themselves in a spectacular flaming car crash, so why doesn't it make sense for the state to protect the interests of the group as a whole?
The difficulty of decoding multiple x86 instructions in a single clock cycle is a small issue in the context of a big out-of-order core. But it's a millstone around Intel's neck when they try to make a simple superscalar in-order core like the Atom.
probably "here" as in HN at large
I’m not sure if they would. It seems to me that, at best, the email has zero value to an enthusiastic Facebook user, because they are routinely engaged with the site, and have the app installed on their mobile device to receive the notifications directly. The emails are redundant to them and an unnecessary load on the internet infrastructure.
Would legit watch this movie.
> By working on mainframe systems newbies will learn the correct IT discipline for managing mission critical software.

I've spent my whole career avoiding mission critical software development: basically if it flies, runs in a hospital or alerts Hawaii of nuclear attack I don't want to touch it.

Some people have the mindset, some don't. I think it's very valuable to know which you are.
Just out of curiosity, is you background in web development and/or the C family of languages (i.e. C, C++, C#)?

I mention these because they rely heavily on object-oriented and/or imperative programming paradigms. With C and C++, I still struggle often with striking a good balance between "writing a short solution that works well" and "writing code which is a joy for others to read". The former often relies on my technical knowledge and produces code that can be obscure to other readers, the latter often requires MUCH more concentration and attention to detail when writing.

However, I have recently started experimenting with declarative and functional Programming. Coming from an imperative background has made "relearning" how to program quite difficult for me, but I've just started to see the "elegance" in higher level functional languages, such as OcaML and Haskell. Of course, functional languages are often MUCH better suited to different problems than OOP languages, but combining filters, reductions, maps and folds seems to activate the parts of my brain that are much more closely associated with the "classical logic" side of programming. I think you should check it out if you haven't already.
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This is just pure nonsense. I don't doubt you believe it, but Facebook's earnings/advertiser's spend coupled with demonstrated user behavior very quickly put your logic to rest. The statement that nobody wants to see ads that would cause them to spend more money sounds more like a personal preference (and one that I would strongly question in the real world) than an objective fact about society at large.
That may have once been the case, but it is no longer the case. Almost all states, including Oregon, are required by equal education interpretations of the Supreme Court to share funding state wide. See links on comment below.
What? They're working on the GNOME mainline, so any computer running that desktop environment will benefit from their work. As for the mobile environment, there is no obstacle to it running on e.g. pmOS when it's ready, so any pmOS-supported device would benefit to some extent.
Telemedicine Software Development
Line 2 of the article is:

> Why can’t the United States?

The answer is either “regulatory capture masquerading as capitalism” or “but that’d be socialism!” depending on how snarky you’re feeling.
Saving a liter or two of water two times a day for every person doesn’t seem like a bad start. It’s takes very low effort and you don’t lose any functionality, the water is literally just pouring down the drain.

Or am I missing some sort of sarcasm joke?
Many things... here are the ones I care about:

- you can have different keys for all your "partitions" without having to pre-allocate them

- you can send encrypted incremental snapshots to a host that doesn't have the key (for backups for instance)

- it's using authenticated encryption (as opposed to LUKS with XTS)
There's a dead comment too. Before his post there were only negative comments.

The important part of his comment is not the first four words though. We should probably not focus on that.
43 Conferences, 7 Offers, 4 Talks: How I Started Speaking at Tech Conferences
I think that is excessive physicality based thinking paradigms. Rational but stupid ironically - based on past experience but not recognizing that it isn't applicable.
With kinetics defense really is harder and you know who is attacking you more or less - the guys with the guns. Also it assumes a fundamental symmetry that doesn't even hold in conventional warfare.

But it really isn't that way with information on several levels. Bulletproof security is hard but scales better. One patch and everything is immune. Needless to say that hasn't happened with bullets.
Priming the tribalism lines, I'd guess.

We seem to yearn for our turf wars to the degree that we help them along. Not sure why.
So kubernetes seems to be one of Googles biggest efforts at really building a healthy open source project for Borg v2. Perhaps they wanted it to be mostly community driven? It’s for this reason that they collaborated with others to introduce ISTIO so the community doesn’t feel like Google is taking over or whatever fears a lot of OSS folks have of the company.
C.P. Snow – The Two Cultures
NZ's rat eradication plan really impressed me.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/new-zealand-inva...

https://goodnature.co.nz

(And the NOOSKI rat trap.)

We should apply similar strategies to all invasive species. For example, invent an autonomous, nontoxic python trap for the Florida Everglades. Create X-Prizes. Fund research. Education. Pretty much try everything.

--

We're now in the Garden Earth phase. Meaning active management. There are very few (if any) natural ecosystems remaining. Since we broke it, we bought it.