skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wear from car tires cause the majority of microplastics that get into the seas (around 50%, if I'm reading understanding this study correctly):

http://epanet.pbe.eea.europa.eu/ad-hoc-meetings/workshop-pla...
Aren't regular human beings incapable of detecting lag less than 100ms?
I think we have enough datapoints now to say with confidence that surrendering to a platform, any platform, is a very bad idea.
Java SE Development Kit 12 Downloads
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/b2zas5/java_12_releas...
European Parliament to host high-level conference on Oceans
A warning about github.com/kataras/iris
OW2 ASM to Generate Descriptors and Signatures from TypeMirrors/Elements
We used F5 Big-IP Viprions for 4 years. It was a colossal waste of money.

The bugs in these supposed "best in class" devices were ridiculous.

Here's a taste:

There was a bug where it would crash on a TCP FIN packet not associated with an existing connection. When a patch was released, installing it on the standby device reset its config and caused it to takeover as master, wiping the old master in the process.

I'm not putting anything business critical behind an F5.

Hopefully they don't screw up NGINX.
What outbound shipping system are you using that you’re happy with?
Excellent tips. Bookmarking your blog for future reading.
I once wrote a self learning AI to play Lines of Action.

Due to an incorrectly placed minus sign it got worse at the game over subsequent generations.

After 1000 generations I couldn't even make a forced win against it so wily was it at avoiding success
Understanding How Graal Works – JIT Compiler Written in Java by Chris Seaton
Some great tips shared in this thread.

I'd also suggest reading up and following Jonathan Stark and his ditching hourly mantra.
>So, merely deleting a comment is enough? But that’s what we had before.

This, and the successfulness of GDPR, is why I'm so doubtful over the problems presented about Article 13.
Nice work! Will give it a try.
I have recently switched to feedbro after trying feedly and inoreader. Recommended.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Are people even pretending these days that bitcoin is not pure speculation?
I hope that the Internet doesn't turn into various subnets like US-NET, EU-NET, CHINA-NET .. Article 13 is a worrying development.
To expand on that:

Back in 2012 when ACTA was on the agenda, there were numerous popular protests against it in Poland, mostly centered around young internet users. Donald Tusk, then-Prime Minister and chief of the Platforma party, reacted with "The government won't bow down to any blackmail"[1] and reaffirmed his intent to sign the ACTA.

Thankfully a few days later he changed course and refused to sign it, as per the popular demand.

[1] "Nie wyobrażam sobie, by polski rząd ustępował przed jakimkolwiek szantażem" - https://www.wprost.pl/technologie/343029/jutro-podpiszemy-ac...
> My conclusion, from the first time I thought about it, is that they were all cheating.

Mazda did, in fact, admit to cheating in emissions testing.

In other words, yes, pretty much the entire automobile industry cheated on those tests to varying degrees. The current "iteration" was also by far not the only one.
My last car was a diesel-gate car (09 Audi) which didn’t have a Urea tank at all.

I know VW managers first thought Urea was an inconvenience to have at all, then an inconvenience for owners to refill so should last a service interval. My new car has a Urea tank and isn’t a diesel-gate car. It need to refill maybe 1 time before the service intervals. I can’t see why it would be considered inconvenient - it’s easier to refill than windshield wiper fluid (that you need to pop the hood for!). So if it would have come at a price of 20L diesel capacity space, and require refills every month, I still wouldn’t have found it inconvenient.

I don’t know how they determine how much AdBlue to consume now, but I’m guessing since they now manage to comply with regulation they just use as little as possible? If they can further limit emissions by using more, then there’s some headroom for improving too.
Tracing the Frenetic Movements of a London Symphony Conductor
I remain completely disgusted and confused why websites hosted on AWS S3 (in BJ) by fully registered firms with valid ICPs are still banned. I have to use 10x the computing power that I need and I could load additional tools in its place. That and the lack of AWS Amplify being offered really crushes innovation here. (Shanghai based entrepreneur)
I don't have to prove anything, I know they're not flat out lying [0], they're just misleading. Many drivers (ask the dead) are/were under the impression that the car can drive itself. And Tesla doesn't do much to make this distinction clear.

[0] Except for the "we'll have it next year" bit. That's just to get a little more cashflow, pretty sure not even Musk expects to have FSD ready "next year" unless it's a perpetual "next year".
Under the Influence of a ‘Super Bloom’
I'm curious what the article is referring to when it comes to collision resistance. I was looking at the GitHub repo posted below and saw only claims of "strong" collision resistance: https://github.com/google/highwayhash

Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the details of the collision resistance properties of the other hash functions here to know how they compare. Could someone elaborate on the specifics of why HighwayHash compares poorly in terms of collision resistance to the others in the benchmark?
If you excluded every manufacturer that did this at some point, you're pretty much only left with Tesla and probably some other smaller new EV companies.
There were some pretty big licensing hurdles to getting the EPA to accept urea tanks as part of an emissions control system: https://iaspub.epa.gov/otaqpub/display_file.jsp?docid=16677&...

Also, note that the 2007 Tier 2 NOx emissions standards mentioned in that document are pretty much as strict as the 2014 Euro6 standard, at least for manufacturers which mainly produce diesel cars. The EU emissions standards were much weaker back then, giving manufacturers more time to develop tech to meet the stricter standard.
FYI

This is for Java byte code, rather than ASM as far as I can work out.
I wish there were a lot more movies like Primer.

$7k budget. I'm not so interested in time travel but I have an unlimited appetite for normal people inventing things in garages. I don't need super-stars, exotic locations or special effects, just good ideas and good dialogue.
All you need is a different angle. Read Blue Ocean Strategy.
Every machine I control has sshd listening on port 222 for that last reason.
Any blog or forum needs administration, as part of which off-topic or copyright-infringing messages should be deleted. "Stay on topic and post only content that is your original work".

What is being targetted here are websites that rely on infringement for their popularity and traffic and ad revenue.
Came here to say this. Nomad is the perfect entry system for getting started with a small cluster for getting to know how container orchestration works and what things to keep in mind when migrating all legacy applications to fit into this type of deployment flow. Nomad allowed us to spin up a 3-worker-node "cluster" with consul in a matter of hours, and it has not needed any maintenance since. With Kubernetes we couldn't even agree on which of the many bootstrapping approaches and scripts-de-jour to use, much less any of the other many decisions that have to be made and will overwhelm you.
Add -site:pinterest.com to your default search.
I’m not sure what spirit this is written in but as the author notes it absolutely doesn’t generalise. Actually it generalises less and less the smaller your company and the more critical your focus and USP is to survival.
Access to credit?
How the Few Black and Hispanic Students at Stuyvesant High School Feel
I really wish product development failures were described in as much detail as successes. So much time is wasted by repeating mistakes someone, somewhere has already made.
That server code is probably mostly third-party middleware and shared across products
www.CartSpark.com
Deep Work and Remote Work – How Deep Work Can Change Your Freelance Life
IPSEC with Linux is actually easier than with Windows.

It's windows that has the special requirements (oh, you have NAT somewhere on the way? You are going to deploy a registry key to all your clients to allow UDP encapsulation. And you have your gateway behind NAT? Now you cannot have your hostname in your Subject Alternate Name (otherwise mandatory), you gotta have the external IP there, potentially breaking all the non-windows clients).
They laid off the developers, they're not being reallocated to a different game
Spinning Lego Propeller Experiments [Video]
The same thing is happening with blockchains. A good chunk of developers and companies are working on creating monopolies and walled gardens, instead of focusing on open market schemes and infrastructures. It's the old, known Zero to One approach. No one wants to be a player on a competitive market if there's a chance to avoid it.
I think moving further down the path, you learn to drop passion and focus more on professionalism. Passion is a lot harder to control and manage, often replaced with a cold mechanical professionalism.

I remember when I swapped out flip flops at the office for proper shoes. It felt painful, like a part of my soul died.
What about using a neural network as an optimizer, such that the input is the sampled neighborhood of a random starting point, and the output is the next point to evaluate. That neural network could be trained on billions of generated input functions. You could then use that optimizer to optimize the training of the optimizer itself !
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Usually you can also comfortably live in a small city few km from its center and have good outdoor options.

People will need to compromise of course. The alternative, not beating global warming is a big compromise too.
VW uses urea injections, but they wanted to make it transparent to the end user. The urea was to be refilled during maintenance, and disconnecting the system was the only way to make the tank last that long.
You don’t “have to” pay anything. You chose to. Also, the processing discount afforded by the $300/mo plan only begins to make sense if you’re doing $1 million or more per year in gross sales.
Venkat Subramaniam – Design Patterns in the Light of Lambda Expressions
Yes, a very very small core team remains. Many were let go this past Thursday (most remote sites outside HQ were shut down).
Efficiency in markets usually at least implies closely following the truth, as I understand it. Is the risk higher at the low end of the market?
Timeline that shows how Apple pressured Spotify since 2010
>You absolutely did. In fact, you plainly used the phrase "nothing to do with". I'm sorry, but words mean things.

Yes. Words mean things. You can't distort definitions to suit your argument. It doesn't work that way.

But I'm fair minded. Let me qualify my statement to your satisfaction: "Your grossly dishonest distortion driven by some warped ideology is not useful in either diagnosing the homeless problem, nor coming up with a solution". That is what I wanted to convey to you. I hope that clears it up.

>I repeat: Your position is that concentrations of wealth ...

You can warp, distort and repeat as much as you want. That is not my position.

>I've hung around with way too many homeless people who were working three to five years ago

We both know you haven't. You wish you had, but you haven't. You come off like a disaffected college student who is really excited about Marx.

>Don't worry about what I'm accomplishing

The point is, I wish you were honest. If you're trying to argue for the replacement of the current soci-economic system, then argue it, instead of falling back on the eye-rolling "I'm just asking questions ... for a friend" cliche.
'One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. '
T.S. Eliot in The Sacred Wood.
That's my understanding, at least.
A blade server apartment that could also be put on a trailer, with an extra box of batteries and water tanks on the front or the towing vehicle.
While I don't use Redux anymore, one point in the article really resonated with me: having a single source of truth for the entire app state enables you to "run an entire functional application without any visual components having been built whatsoever".

This decoupling of state (and its reducers/actions) from view is a powerful architecutral pattern that I learned from Redux, and I've built every React application (or component) following it. It's separation of concerns at its best, where the heart of the app is about designing data structures and interfaces (as in API), with reusable, composable, and unit-testable states and actions. The UI then becomes just another consumer of the API, so one can develop/rebuild/extend the view as its own separate layer of concern. Looking back, it's hard to believe I was able to keep things organized any other way.
I’m not saying hiring managers should favour men for developer jobs. I’m saying many more men are into computers, so it’s natural that people hire more male developers.

You are aware that men are much more likely to be autistic, right? Don’t you feel that it’s at least conceivable that men are also more likely to be interested in spending their day writing instructions to computers?
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(Accessing from Germany using UnityMedia w/ ipv4)
That is not legitimizing but contortion of history into nationalist sentiment. No one takes these stories seriously, aside from the easily impressed, that don't have a solid grasp on history. Besides, most of these "claims" are already invalidated by contracts between modern states. A state and its borders is not legitimized by fancy ahistorical fiction but by mutual recognition and contracts.

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[0]: https://www.princeton.edu/~slaughtr/Articles/722_IntlRelPrin...
My phone regularly downloads faster than 50 Mb/s during peak. Good enough for me. (Prague, CZ)
Housing supply and transport infra mostly responds to demand without pricing out people. Outside of urban hotspots where rent seeking rules.

Most cities, and most people's home vicinities, are not land cramped like the world's megacities.
That’s EXACTLY what NIMBY is. Everyone talks a big game until it hits close to home. There is an effort going on called YIMBY as obviously an opposite that is trying to get people on board with housing developments in these areas we’re talking about. [0]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YIMBY
What are they supposed to say? Apple computers have small moisture indicators in their computers and when those are tripped you won't get anything for free.
It isn't worth the hassle. If you do push back, the other party won't care. They'll have you book the meeting and set up the conference call instead.
There are plenty of good independent films
Off Topic: recommendation for a payment processer for a market place?

So this is a market place for virtual goods. Maybe 10K users, with $10-$1000/month/user paying into OUR ACCOUNT, and about 100-1000 users are sellers, pulling in about $10K/month from OUR SHARED ACCOUNT.

Our biggest concern is not commission or speed. It is simply not being arbitrarily black listed !!
Recursion Schemes: the high-school introduction
I'd be interested
> You can pick your housing and location based on not owning a car

If all I ever wanted from life was to go to work and back to my apartment, via a grocery store.

As a matter of fact, I can't choose where my friends and relatives live, and I'd probably have to drop some of my hobbies too if I were to live without a car.
Filtering airborne particulates is pretty much the baseline reason to use masks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(However surgical masks aren't meant to do that, they're only meant to catch things expelled from you, not the other way around. So I guess your interjection is somewhat correct in that running around with a surgical mask does pretty much nil to improve the quality of the air you inhale.)
It’s reproduced as part of the MacTutor site so it’s likely to be accurate. Runner's World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner%27s_World is also a fairly long-standing magazine.
It is how scandals work. Lots of people believe the lies and can't be persuaded to think from an evidence first viewpoint. They need the story to be headline news on the BBC or some other reputable source before they will 'believe it'.

Every scandal relies on groupthink to keep it quiet.
Google Unlocked Chrome extension unlocks hidden Google search results
The problem wasn't just that it was an inconvenience. Under the EPA rules of the time, urea refills were considered critical emission-related maintenance. Initially, this meant that they had to last 100,000-150,000 miles unless the EPA gave a waiver allowing more frequent servicing intervals.[1] This wasn't physically feasible. A couple of years into Dieselgate, they decided they'd allow DEF refills at the oil change interval, which still required much larger tanks than the European models (typically replacing the spare tyre) or cheating.[2] It wasn't until mid-2014 that they decided users could be allowed to refill their own urea tanks and lowered the minimum DEF refill interval for cars to a slightly more reasonable 4,000 miles.[3]

[1] https://iaspub.epa.gov/otaqpub/display_file.jsp?docid=16677&...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-11-09/pdf/E9-269...

[3] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2014-08-08/pdf/2014-1...
Our teams use Macs, windows, and Linux as a natural result of what they're doing: selling, moneying, managing, designing, c#ing, ROSing, etc.

Makes me think that heterogeneity is a natural mitigator to issues like this and maybe should be embraced where possible.
Funny - I have an email from pg from 2011 where YC didn't fund OpenRent [1] due to our competitors being too dominant.

As head strong (and certainly naiive) young founders at the time, we continued with our vision anyway. Thankfully we have gone on to become by far the largest rental agency in the uk, and have driven real change (see tenant fees ban) in the industry.

I mention this as when it comes to investment decisions, competitors / incumbents of course do matter. But as per what I think pg means here, when running your own business any time spent thinking about the next startup to raise a bucket load of cash is of course wasted. That has certainly been the case in our industry where this seems to happen on a monthly basis.

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk
No its not. Not when a lot of those improvising don't understand the storyline or the setup and culture of the movies origin.
my wife and i ran the numbers on living out of a van in Silicon Valley but found with a gym membership and the temptation to eat out all the time, we probably wouldn’t save as much as we thought. Van life is tempting though, the thought of saving an extra 24k per year sounds like the right path to eventual home ownership (obviously not anywhere near the valley).
The change is going to have to affect your friends and relatives too.

You can always adjust your hobbies, or work. Global warming is more important.
Unless you’re just dropping a .php file in a shared server account, you have more setup and upgrade work setting up a running service. The first time it fails and you have to manually rebuild it, you’ll learn a valuable lesson about the PaaS value-add, too.
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
We need tougher laws to put these politicians behind bars if they’ve not acted in the best interests of its citizens.
I have mental images of Dr Evil and white cats, with some circling sharks.
Doesn't mean they'll be living next door all of a sudden!
Absolutely. A better team can disrupt the disruptor within a few months. Even incumbents can figure it out and get the 6 month head start neutralized. Being worried is a good and rational response.
A while back I saw a coworker virtue signal about the parallels between tech and nursing. There were gender problems in both, and it was the same cause, he said.

Except, it's not the same cause at all, it's just the same blame. Watch:

Not enough women in tech: "men, it's your fault, stop being so crude and competitive. Change your working style to suit and attract women. Stop making crude jokes and having arguments."

Not enough men in nursing: "men, it's your fault, stop being such cowards who think a social job is not manly. Don't listen to your friends if they mock you, it's toxic masculinity."

What would actually be equality is if the first was paired with:

"Women nurses, stop being so catty and learn to be more stoic to attract men in the workplace. Change your habits and social style to be more factual and problem oriented."

Or the second paired with:

"Women in tech, stop listening to your girlfriends who think tech is not glamorous and cute. Value your own self worth and improve your self sufficiency. Don't be a mean girl."

The fact that this very simple gender swap is treated as invalid demonstrates how intellectually bankrupt the diversity movement is. Their justifications only come after the fact, after they've already decided who qualifies for sympathy and victimhood, and who doesn't.

Despite all this concern about subtle implicit bias, about societal pressure and messages invisibly reinforced by society... Somehow gender studies experts have still not noticed that some of the most implicitly gendered terms are expectations that only men are meant to live up to: to not be a coward and not be a creep.

If a woman values her own comfort and safety over self sacrificing? That does not make her a coward. If a woman expects to be welcomed and to be able to join a social interaction a priori? Not entitlement, not creepy.

50 years of gender studies, and society is only more willing to entertain such pandering and double standards at the expense of men.

H L Mencken was right: men are stupid because they actually think concepts like honor and duty are real, instead of just a stick used to shame them into submission.

No thank you. "Historically marginalized" and "traditionally underrepresented" is a giant excuse built upon the soft bigotry of low expectations. The only people consistently marginalized have been the poor, and I've never seen more spoiled, clueless, unaware adults than at "diverse" tech events.