skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess column-oriented databases are also conceptually similar, though structure of arrays is certainly a closer analog.

Back in the days of planar graphics, usually cache didn't matter because there wasn't one. The difference between CPU and memory speeds was not so lopsided as it is today. Or you could say, memory was fast enough because CPUs were very slow.
that's really great
It's funny that this popped up because I just got home from watching Captain Marvel. I know I have at least some tinnitus because my world sounds like the descriptions of it, but it's not so bad that it really affects my hearing. That said, I have noticed that some movies--particularly Marvel explosion ones in IMAX--sound much louder to me in my mid-30s. The higher sounds come across to me as sharp or shrill.

One nice thing about going everywhere with a backpack is I'm used to having earbuds with me so now, I just don't take them out of my ears when I get to a movie. I still hear everything and it doesn't sound muffled, merely...turned down, I guess, to a "good" volume.

I first hit on this when I forgot to take my earbuds out prior to, of all things, a Weird Al concert (his "Vanity" tour at The Moore in Seattle). I'd ridden the bus down there and had VIP tickets for the pre-show stuff so I sat and watched it with my earbuds in for listening to his music during the lulls in the pre-show activities. When Emo Phillips started, I forgot to take them out and realized after the show that my ears weren't ringing (louder than usual) and I didn't have the beginnings of a headache.
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F5 is big in its category (software http "router") in a lot of important industries including finance and healthcare. It's the SSL terminator of choice overall for enterprise environments and is a critical part countless L3 toolchains and workflows.
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it's easy to fake your way through "web scale" stuff. it's very much harder to deliver real HPC level computing...#justsayin'
Except she can run ads on google or Twitter or Snapchat or reddit to her Medium blog. If Starbucks kicks you out you can still get coffee elsewhere. If Comcast kicks me out I have no other choices for internet.
My hearing isn't terrible, but in noisy restaurants I have a hard time following conversations. I get tinnitus regularly (not constant) now too.

I've listened to a bunch of concerts and nightclubs, but I think its sitting behind the computer for 40 hours/week with headphones on that really killed my hearing. It doesn't have to be so loud, just combined with lots of hours each day isn't good.

I've started getting regular hearing tests and cut back headphones to a few hours a week, but I miss the music.

Don't overdo the headphones!!
Be my guest. You'll find that the probability of a rare aircraft crashing twice in a short period of time is infinitesimal, unless that aircraft contributed to the catastrophe.
The “Peak California” article seems very appropriate right now.
You will feel dumb, not because of the music, that of course, but also, you will feel dumb as you have to keep asking people to repeat themselves, as you realize you're the one smiling and nodding without understanding, as you're watching movies with the closed captioning on, etc.
The middle empties out

My observation as well. A frustrating phenomenon, happening in so many markets. Been going on for at least a decade now.

https://www.economist.com/business/2006/05/18/the-disappeari...
I'm mildly interested in industrial-ready boards myself, but my industrial-ready means sitting outside in a hot and high-vibration environment doing signal processing. Everything I've heard about Erlang says it would be great at the networking part, but has no- or lousy- libraries for most number crunching applications.
They're the WORST electric car company (except for all the rest)
How a16z manages their social media doesn't seem very relevant to founders who are deciding on VCs. Could you clarify if you disagree?
Funny enough I was thinking the same thing. This really isn't any different than the test prep industry for other types of standardized tests. The only real difference is that we have to constantly be doing these tests as people working on software, whereas people in other professions tend to only need to prove they have basic knowledge once.
> If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic.

I've never understood this. I'd like to be surrounded by people that don't all do the same thing as me. I want to meet new and interesting people, not expand the bubble around me. I already interact with everyone at work most of my day, now I have to interact with people that fit that mold even when I'm not working?

Different strokes for different folks, but SF has always felt like a bit of a monoculture to me.
This has been on my mind a lot recently and I really think the biggest failure was not making the internet easy to use. Facebook et al won by finally organizing all of the people/companies/organizations you care about in one place, and being a 0-friction publishing platform to interact with them.

Pre-Facebook "Grandma" either had to remember 1stbaptistchurchSTL.org, grandsontimmysawesomeblog.net, granddaughtersara42931.wordpress.com, nissanusa.com and countless other baffling URLs; or go to Google, which as good as it was for a while was a crazy bandaid. Now all of these things can be in one place and she can talk to them effortlessly.

The closest that "the community" ever came to solving this problem was what, bookmarks and guestbooks?

The privacy implications are unfortunate side effects, but have nothing to do with out these companies got so dominant to begin with. They solved real usability issues for the majority of users.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/f5-acquires-nginx-for-670m... is a much better rationale and details on how it went down
> Is fb actively stifling competition? Is there a market failure?

They bought two of their competitors and copied the features of a third. None of that may meet the definition of "stifling competition," but it's a strategy that did neutralize potential competitors.

With 29% of the world's population logging in to FB at least once a month (2.23 bn "monthly active users" / 7.7 bn), and receiving algorithmically target messages from Facebook and its advertisers, there is tremendous potential for abuse.
No worries, hope it makes the facts nice and transparent for people. If anyone reading this has questions or concerns about Caddy, I'd invite further discussion over on their forums.

I believe AWS can do this because they have proof that you own the domain (effectively DNS validation) before handing out certs. Caddy can do similar with DNS validation - fetching your cert without needing to be publicly accessible. It needs you to hook into the API of one of the supported DNS providers though, because validation is still done on a per-request basis (but it has been able to do wildcards for a while). I understand that AWS is more validate once, sign certificates many times, which is quite convenient - and it all hooks into their systems fairly automatically.
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I'm glad they exist, because unfortunately I need a way to be able to prepare for the silly barrier placed between me and a job I already do but somewhere else. Maybe one day the software development industry will mature enough to create a standardized test we just need to pass once :)
https://www.startengine.com/hackernoon

Hackernoon crowdfunded one million dollars late last year to separate from Medium due to the latter’s extensive revenue model changes in 2018. Presumably in the intervening days since funding, their 2.0 business has progressed far enough to requesting from authors the rights necessary. to republish elsewhere than Medium the content previously contributed by Medium authors. It follows that, having received a clarifying email from Medium about the steps necessary to either permit or deny this rights transfer, the OP here is both one of the referenced Medium contributors and previously received some sort of rights transfer communication from Medium, Hackernoon, or both. While the communication(s) prior to this one are not shared, the email from Medium implies that the transfer requires explicit consent, and thus the author simply need not comply to deny Hackernoon republication rights.

I wish OP or anyone would post a link to a blog post about this detailing the communications to date, but in lieu of that, perhaps the above will help.
Assuming you're referring to the 3D assets used by games, it's because graphics hardware can render lots of triangles really quickly, but that same hardware can't render curved surfaces quickly.
>and if your CA is compromised that can all be eavesdropped on. Either by an attacker or disgruntled insider. No thanks.

Get an HSM - they're pretty cheap these days - and store the CA's private key in the HSM.

Or an offline CA, if you don't want to deal with the HSM.

Or, even better, do both.
Seems more like dropping pamphlets behind enemy lines about the deception, rather than promoting a competitor on company premises.
Yeah, I just think everyone should be rewarded. The comment I was replying to attributed 100-200B in market cap to Rubin, rather than to the Android team, which is a lot of people.

Back when I worked at Google, often when something new was announced at TGIF (even seemingly minor features), they'd have slides crediting everyone who helped, and it went on and on like movie credits.
Do you have sources that support the contrary of what she is saying?
I wonder if this will support Joxa or Lisp-Flavored-Erlang. Those are pretty much all I use on the Erlang VM nowadays, and I would love to get more into embedded stuff.
Right, exactly. You can choose a different email provider if you hate the ads or what your current one is doing with your data. You can't pick a different Facebook and still communicate with your friends there.
Uh... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AGPL is more like it
This was a while ago, but when Steam was first introduced on macOS, it did not play nice with my case-sensitive HFS+ partition.

When I first set up my Mac, I thought case-sensitivity would be a good idea just in case I ever had to copy files from another case-sensitive file system. I never did need the case-sensitivity, but I did have to repartition to get Steam working. It thought me a good lesson about switching away from defaults "just in case."
> Linux & SCO Group

There are still people who believe this?

Or did you forget to add </sarcasm>?
This attitude ignores an awful lot of progress. Or you are just defining regulation to only include the things that favor your argument.

For instance, the 40 hour workweek is a regulation in the US. Are hourly employees the rent seekers there? Or the unions and activists that prompted the change?
"The community" has had such a hostility to a broadly-accepted user experience ever since there was a web to browse. (I used to be one of them, back when <center> was a netscape-only tag. Follow the standards! Write for content! People don't need that visual jazz!)

There's still a non-negligible contingent on here that insists that the web should be browseable without javascript; that ship sailed well over a decade ago. The users decided, rich interfaces are the way to go.

We did fail the world, and this is what we get.
Try to find yourself a Maxi Foods in SoCal. Their prices are simply untouchable when it comes to meat.
Tangentially related -- according to Eric Weinstein, Facebook also banned Zero Hedge so you can't share ZH stories anymore. (https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/110529167842277376...)
Walled gardens are partly due to the emergence of huge corporations who harvest and aggregate personal data to build profiles ostensibly to aid advertising.

I find this baffling - traditional shopkeepers never used to ask for the personal details of the customers. That's why the phrase "it's just business" makes sense.

Elizabeth Warren seems to have spoken of breaking up some of Facebook and Google. This might be the only way to combat the data hawkishness of corporate leaders like Eric Schmidt.
> It's the biggest risk to open source right now.

I don't think that's true. Perhaps it's a big risk to "open core" business models, but in my mind "open source" is not about protecting your right to monetize software. Elastic wouldn't exist without Lucene, and when Elastic was flush with over 100M in venture capital, how much do you suppose they "gave back" to the Apache Software Foundation?

There are plenty of viable FOSS business models (consulting, hosting, support, etc) that are not antithetical to my hippie pinko Stallmanesque beliefs about software, so I will not be sad to see "open core" businesses get royally forked.
If you have someone's first and last name, yes, LinkedIn is intended to make them findable.

I think most people would be uncomfortable that I can often find them simply with the first name + city pairing.
You can also get tinnitus from antibiotic side effects and autoimmune disorders.
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Snapchat? TikTok? Discord? Reddit?

Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook.
Wasn’t this AOL?
Yes. Take steps to protect your ears. I played drums for years as a kid without them and I have permanent tinnitus. Fortunately it’s not a dominating presence, but I can always hear when it’s quiet around me. It has stayed at same level for 15+ years because I started managing it - basically wearing ear plugs to concerts / playing drums and keeping my ear phones to lowest level possible.
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It seems it's made with slate -> https://github.com/lord/slate
I do mean that homosexuality is an identity. I do not believe such identities can be chosen. Identities are truths about who you are. Realizing you're gay can take some soul searching, the same way as realizing that you're trans, but it's not something you choose. (Why would you choose it? Take it from me, being trans sucks.)

Your source:
Conversion therapy seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation. No mental health professional in their right mind conducts this type of therapeutic intervention anymore, because it is understood that sexual orientation is immutable from a very young age. Gender identity, however—whether someone feels masculine or feminine—is flexible in prepubescent children and grows more stable into adulthood.

Therapy that seeks to help gender dysphoric children grow comfortable in their birth sex (known in the research literature as the “therapeutic approach”) has been conflated with conversion therapy, but this is inaccurate. All of the available research following gender dysphoric children longitudinally shows that the majority desist; they outgrow their feelings of dysphoria by puberty and grow up to be gay in adulthood, not transgender.

Dr. Soh's position is that unlike sexual orientation, which is immutable, gender identity is flexible, and therapy to talk people into growing up to be gay in adulthood, not transgender [direct quote from above!] is ethical.

The example she gives about the boy who plays with dolls and insists he's a girl is meant to support that point.

As for HRT meaning conversion therapy, she thinks HRT is homophobic, designed to change someone's sexual orientation from gay to straight, by changing their gender. This is laughable, as it's far more difficult being trans (largely because of people like her) and completely ignores gay trans people (like me.)
I think open source tools should always default to sharing. If you're trying to keep things secret it should be up to you to keep them secret.
Maybe ya. Though does grandpa (he's no better than her) go to Facebook to check in on Nissan or does he go to check in on her grandkids? Feels like the latter to me and Nissan is only on Facebook to advertise to her.

Facebook did / does well because its an easy way to spread your photos / updates to a (mostly) private set of vetted people. Everything else came for them to monetize people once they were there, I don't think many are super passionate about the Nissan facebook page, not even Nissan.
Web is no longer web- it's increasingly becoming a number of sinks.
Unfortunately we can't discuss the parts of Google's platform that aren't in Kubernetes on this forum. If we could, I think I could defend my statement reasonably well. But perhaps you just don't think that the pieces I would mention qualify as interesting.
They don't have to give anything back. That's the point. Elasticsearch is free to make proprietary code and products if they want, and they use plenty of other open-source software in their database.

90% of database vendors still don't have a cloud offering for some reason even though there's intense demand from customers which AWS is more than happy to meet.
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Thanks for your responses. A good foil to my complaints. My experience is very selective.

I agree on 5, too - I'd rather have the bug published and at least know that it's been seen and is being worked on, but still, it's a little disheartening to look at an update you're about to install and see its list of breaks is longer than its list of fixes.
Lol you can imagine the computer saying "that guy looks like he needs another drink"
Feel free to tear into this. I know it's flawed. But FWIW here's some back-of-the-napkin math I put together when discussing in an e-mail thread. Note however that it's slightly conservative WRT road fatalities. You can choose not to drive drunk, drive defensively, etc, and substantially reduce your risk because a large fraction of deaths are the drunk and other reckless drivers themselves.

> > > > > In 2017 there were 0.06 deaths per million flights of large,
> > > > > commercial airliners:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aviation-safety/2017-safest-year-on-record-for-commercial-passenger-air-travel-groups-idUSKBN1EQ17L
> > > > >
> > > > > By contrast, in 2009 white people averaged 1,500 trips per year:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/2010cpr/chap1.cfm
> > > > >
> > > > > Multiply 1,500 trips/person by 360 million people (2009 U.S.
> > > > > population), divide ~35,000 road fatalities by the number of trips,
> > > > > and multiple by 1,000,000, and you literally get 0.06 fatalities per
> > > > > million trips. Even if the numbers are slightly inaccurate
> > > > > (different years, different demographics, wrong cohorts), the point
> > > > > is that strictly speaking flying really isn't that much safer than
> > > > > driving. Certainly nothing like the several orders of magnitude
> > > > > claimed; not when using the more meaningful metric of fatalities per
> > > > > trip.
> ...
> > > > I don't think that normalizes for the number of people on the plane,
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > Hmmmmm. Good point... I think.
> > >
> > like, does a flight of 100 people count as a single "trip", or as 100? If
> > it only counts as one, then you should normalize, because I'm sure they
> > don't count each crash as a single fatality.
>
> Here are numbers from 2018 from the original source:
>
> https://news.aviation-safety.net/2019/01/01/aviation-safety-network-releases-2018-airliner-accident-statistics/
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SDp7p1y6m7N5xD5_fpOkYOrJvd68V7iy6etXy2cetb8/edit#gid=1448957446
>
> That's 0.39 fatal *accidents* per million flights, based on 15 fatal
> flights and 38,100,0000 departures. There were 556 total deaths from those
> 15 fatal flights.[1]
>
> The question, is how many passengers on average per flight. If we divide
> the number of deaths (556) by the number of fatal flights (15), we get 37
> on average. If we divide the number of total passengers for 2018 (4.3
> billion[2]) by the total number of flights (38,100,000), we get 112
> passengers on average.
>
> So average number of fatalities per departure could be somewhere between
> 0.01 and 0.003. Definitely lower than 0.06 but nowhere close to 750x
> lower.
>
> [1] I'm using passenger+cargo because there's only one figure given for
> total number of departures and I assume that's the aggregate. Counting
> just passengers we get 0.36 instead of 0.39 which isn't much of a
> difference, probably because cargo flights have only 2 people on board.
> Still, it would be nice to know the total number of passenger-only
> departures.
>
> [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-passenger-traffic-globally/
Bring back the ‘missing middle’ housing
Grandmothers used to love email. Mine had some sort of 'email appliance' for years that was basically a keyboard with a phone modem and an alphanumeric LCD screen. Basically a 90s era terminal, dedicated to email.

It was dead simple, much easier for the proverbial grandmother than even a modern iPad with the Facebook app.
Here's another article with a different take: https://electrek.co/2019/03/11/tesla-former-security-manager...
You can mix Rust and C++. I use mainly Rust on my project, while other developers are using C&C++.
If it signed Amiga's death warrant, it was one of a long list of signatories.

If I understand correctly, the performance impacts are complicated and are both worse and better than your quick explanation goes into.

An example of how it might be worse: suppose I'm drawing a one-pixel-wide vertical line on a 32-color (5-plane) screen. I not only only need to 5 writes, but I also need to do 5 reads. Because it's a byte-addressable system and I need to change 1 bit but leave the other 7 bits unchanged. So I must read, apply a mask, and write.

One the other hand, if I'm copying a bitmap or filling an area, it doesn't create much performance penalty at all. Who cares whether I copy 500 bytes from one buffer memory location to another or 5 sets of 100 bytes from 5 memory locations to 5 others.

It also doesn't create much of a performance penalty if I'm drawing a horizontal line because those neighboring pixels are neighboring bits and you can do them all in one go. (You can get crazy and apply this to nearly-horizontal lines too.)

An interesting corollary of this is that horizontal lines are way faster to draw than vertical ones.
Looks cool!

Can this be used for phone number verification? If so how this would work? The user would get a text with a link? Or shortcode?
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My assumption was "starting from a post-graduate level in computer science, natural sciences or equivalent". By the way, I don't see how anyone could have more than a decade specifically in deep learning, considering that the field had started at around that time.

On a flip side, TensorFlow 2.0 and AutoML are coming ;). And generic RL agents that do not require reward hacking are also on the horizon. Who cares, if a researcher spend 10000 hours reading articles AND 10000 hours building products, if a more general algorithm obsoletes it all ;)
You've probably written about it before, but care to elaborate? Is alpine as a desktop in any way viable for regular users?
That sort of attitude goes against the spirit of discussion imo. Makes for very uninteresting reading :(
You are going to have a ton of technical barriers in place if you are going to stop everyone from publishing to one of the many and varied code repos out there.
I believe a software update lowered that to 3.3 seconds (in track mode).
Laws stopped crime so no question they'll also fix the Web.
Yes! The user would get a text with a link.
Force residential ISPs to permit servers running over IPV6. Then we can have federated protocols that bypass the rent seekers.
IIRC this is easily preventable using the ESLint rule.
Special buys is my cryptonite.

Though I can't say I've ever been disapointed with the products and their return policy is super flexible.
As you see, it doesn't change anything: I will be downvoted, then sued, then jailed despite my beliefs.