skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I have learned to deal with it is switching to a mostly read-only software publishing. The default of my answers to issues is some sort of "No", which might be "good idea, but not now", "good, but not planned, PR open", "not within the project's objectives", "bad idea, there's a better way", etc.

This is not great, I'd love to be able to do OSS fulltime and help hundreds of people out there. But the reality is that, with a fulltime job, it is either not helping 90+% individuals or risking burning out, which would be even worse (especially for me). Also, the fact that my software is used by millions of people per year (directly and indirectly) and I've received $10 in donations in total (~5 years of OSS) hints me that it's a very non-sustainable market.
Following the introduction tutorial, in which you add to the Radicle Garden[2] (which is a nice idea btw.), I get a 'The machine owner appears to be offline' when I try to propose my changes.

I think the very idea of Radicle is nice, but having a rock solid VCS is crucial to a developers workflow, so they really need to iron things like that out.

1) http://www.radicle.xyz/docs/index.html#installation-setup

2) http://www.radicle.xyz/garden/index.html
The “flat rate” is the minimum salary: there will certainly be employees who are paid more than that, but there won’t be anyone who’s paid less.
Intel's recent string of "what the fuck" failures are what happens when a monopolist emerges and goes unchallenged for a long enough period to become lazy.

May the market penalize them in kind.
I worked a bit to integrate Gravity payments at a SAAS company I worked for a few years ago.

Aside from the technical aspects, I was struck by how much "Dan Price!" there was in everything I read. Here we have some more.

I think this whole 70k a year thing has been very clever. The guy is getting millions of dollars of publicity for giving about half the company a modest raise...

Not criticizing the guy - he seems kind. And whatever the personal gain he gets from this, he's acting as a "rising tide" here.
> If you're thinking he's overlooking the care one gets in a retirement home, he's considered that as well, and feels confident the staff of Holiday Inn are up to the task.

Having lived out of a suitcase at a competitor's inn for 3 years on a job out of town I think Planning Man is in for a care let-down. Or if dementia sets in, perhaps not.
Also the huge benefit of letting someone maintain the API for whatever browsers support natively today.
Well, yes, it is up to you to check beforehand what certain things cost in different countries. Do you want countries to post signs with their exact speeding fines at borders?
Going further, the employees should actually get paid some share of the profits that they generate, not just a fixed salary.
It’s an old story. And a good one! I’m glad TFA acknowledges the huge PR benefits that accrued for doing this. It’s amazing actually we’re still here talking about it.

In certain businesses, there’s actually a lot to be said for only being willing to hire a person who can provide at least $70k of value.

It’s also a bit of a misnomer to laud the owner of a company and 100% of its equity for taking a salary cut.

All that said I think that greed and what I’ll call “celebrity” drives the income disparity between the median and the 90th percentile workers’ salaries at a given company far too high.

As an aside, this sentence was so tongue-in-cheek it was jarring;

> Jody Hall, a good liberal who worries about income inequality, owns a nearby cafe, Cupcake Royale. She chooses Gravity to process her payments, admires what Price has done and offers her own employees health care.
You're obviously a very intelligent and talented individual to have created this, frankly amazing, system, and to articulate your reasons for doing so.

But I fundamentally disagree with the notion of total surveillance as a remedy to asymmetric surveillance. You obviously think this would benefit the world, but the endgame looks like a dystopian nightmare to me.

I really wish you would have used your talents for "good rather than evil", looking at ways to prevent surveillance rather than increase it.
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/03/26/hasty-comparison-skylark-a...

Daniel Lemire's single-threaded Mandelbrot benchmark: 15s on the Ampere eMAG (Skylark), 24s on a 4GHz Skylake. (Also wins in bitset_count.) It's definitely faster 1/2 of Sandy Bridge.

eMAG will have a disadvantage in SIMD, but for normal workloads (make -j32 on a huge project :D) it should be plenty fast.
Second hand Thinkpad x230 i5
Introduction to TensorFlow for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
It’s incredible to me how simple it is to attract and retain dedicated, talented employees: pay them. You can see this clear as day when you walk into an In-n-out vs. a Mcdonalds, Chick-fil-a vs. KFC, or Target vs. Walmart. The employees are almost universally happier, friendlier, more efficient, and willing to go the extra mile to help you out. It’s not about some sense of moral righteousness, it’s just good business sense.
Hello everyone,

Thanks for featuring this.

I'm the author of the article - feel free to ask any questions about it, or the BW AI scene in general.
“For a while, it wasn’t clear that the gamble was going to pay off.

But eventually it did: Business has surged, and profits are higher than ever. Gravity last year processed $10.2 billion in payments, more than double the $3.8 billion in 2014, before the announcement. It has grown to 200 employees, all nonunion.”

Impossible to know whether this would work in different market conditions, but it’s a good sign. One rationalization could be workers being more productive because they are paid more. I know this clashes with some economic models, but there’s definitely a marginal argument for getting more for paying more.
My Asus Zenbook runs Fedora 29 without any issues. Great laptop.
Saudi Arabia ordered the murder of an American journalist six months ago. That journalist was attacked and cut into small pieces by a 20 man kill squad.

Now, clear evidence has come out showing that the Saudis are willing to attack even the world’s wealthiest man, Jeff Bezos. If the founder of Amazon is in their crosshairs, it is clear that no American is safe.

The traitor Trump is a big supporter of Saudi Arabia and is currently planning on selling them advanced nuclear technology. Saudi Arabia is as dangerous as Iran or North Korea or Russia – their financial backing is what made the World Trade Centers attack possible on 9/11.

Saudi Arabia is an evil dictatorship and it must go. No American is safe.
How much is the pay difference between Chick Fil A and other fast food chains?
Machine learning is mostly just hype.
Also who needs C or Java? We can write software in Assembly.
Like RFC 2142? https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
I downnvoted because it is dangerous advice. If you use timestamp in PostgreSQL rather than timestamptz you will in run into even more time related bugs due to misusing PostgreSQL's data types, for example it will make AT TIME ZONE counterinutitve.
Hi, I posted a comment on cnx-software but it's awaiting moderation, reposting here:

> work with Linaro on the work they did for the MCBin to get a UEFI plugin that uses a QEMU emulation layer for supporting booting Video Card BIOS

Linaro? I thought the EDK2 for the MCbin was maintained by Semihalf :)

Anyway, 16 cores and dual-channel RAM for $500 is a lot more interesting than 4 cores and single-channel for $269. A few questions:

Will the EDK2 tree be fully open source? There was that one blob on the MCbin…

Will the core be overclockable?
You don't need a lot of other stuff as well, but it might come in handy. Looking through their examples I'd much prefer someone used jQuery instead of writing a bugged getNextSiblings function themselves.

Also, jQuery is self-contained, doesn't shove numerous other packages into node_modules.
Exploits are only used to access the system. You can delete them from memory afterwards.
Depends on what you need to carry.

Don't carry a laptop unless you are working during the commute or have some other restriction. It is better to be able to access all of your systems remotely, so you can pull anything you need from them.
You need a thick skin to maintain free software, and that's not something that you can grow... either you have it or not. It's not for everybody.

The biggest mistake some software maintainers make is showing empathy for abusive and unreasonable users. Most of them simply deserve to have the door slammed in their faces. If you can't do that, then you'll lose your time and stress yourself.
Girls forced to wear skirts at school to ‘preserve chivalry' sued and won
I wonder if he's physically unable to write without being condescending. It really hurts the message.
I would want to be compensated in kind. If they have enough money to double the least valuable employees from 35k to 70k, I would also demand double.

I don’t think there are bad incentives from increasing mean of the pay distribution. But similar to the problems with minimum wage, this 70k wage minimum significantly compresses the distribution instead of just changing the mean.

This creates very bad long-term incentives for the company and employees.
Chick-fil-A can be more selective as well. it’s a smaller company with less locations. People want to work there, even without the pay difference. You have a little sense of pride working for them.

Even in the areas where fast food workers get $15 an hour because it’s hard to find workers, they don’t give you any better service.
See http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/machine-id.xm...
True, though there is a difference between criticizing by saying "you have a logical mistake here and wrong data here", and saying "you are a fool, this will never work". Even to a crazy idea.
The old complaint of corporations that they can't find enough good staff, a shortage of workers etc always amuses me, because the unsaid part of it is 'at the price we're willing to pay'. Offer more money, you'll get the staff you want/need.
TL;DR

Although Intel doesn't publicly disclose the existence of Intel VISA and is extremely secretive about it, the researchers were able to find several ways to enable the feature on the Intel chipsets and capture the data from the CPU. As a per presentation made by the researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy of Positive Technologies at the ongoing Blackhat Asia 2019 conference in Singapore, their exploits of the Intel chipsets don't require any hardware modifications or special equipment.

One of the techniques shared by the researchers involved vulnerabilities detailed in Intel-SA-00086 advisory that give access to Intel Management Engine, in turn helping enable VISA. Access to Intel VISA makes the computer's entire data vulnerable and obtainable for the attacker.
Due to ignorance and propaganda, uninformed people think that socialism is universal healthcare, higher pay, etc
They don't know the meaning of the word nor how this ideology works.
My father works in furniture repair. Company switched to a third party for delivery truck drivers. When it was in house they were being paid time & a half over minimum wage; third party was pretty close to minimum wage. Issues arose: higher turn over rate, higher rate of damage caused during delivery, decreased customer experience dealing with the drivers. Company decided to subsidize the third party's drivers a few more dollars an hour, has helped resolve previously listed issues
That’s how bonuses work. A good rule of thumb in finance is that you “deserve” 5% of the money you generate. You make 5m, you get 250k.
Nice, so basically it's `INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE` ?
Why do you call it "duration-time"? It seems obvious that for an event that lasted 5.43s for example, (a "duration", better wording) that it's not counted with leap-seconds.
Great article. I especially loved this bit:

> Ford employees would be “demoralized by this sudden affluence,”

I am always amazed at the ability of people to rationalize fucking over others as somehow good for them.
Why put so much effort into protecting the privacy of people dead set on killing it for everyone else?
Bad headline. The author discusses why it would be a terrible idea to use inherently flawed ML approaches to establishing statistical models of criminal risk, and how opposed such a system is to the fundamental principles of the US justice system.

But that doesn’t mean the talk about using ML to cut human empathy out of more and more of the justice system is just “hype”. There’s no substance to the techniques proposed, that’s true. They are more dangerously biased than the humans they are meant to replace. But that doesn’t mean that these systems aren’t going to be purchased and implemented if we don’t push back harder against the general AI hype that pervades VC tech culture in general.

ML can recommend a movie to watch or a restaurant nearby, and when it fails terribly and reinforces biases and misunderstandings like it always does, the cost to society is minimal. But when you put people’s lives in its hands, the consequences of the inevitable failures are far more damaging.
Here is a list (and some discussion) of the 4 CVEs that unbound has had starting in 2011:

* https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/security-advisories/

Nothing there looks particularly scary to me.
> universal healthcare, higher pay, etc.

This is what's technically known as "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics".
In the ruling, the judge states, "The style, design, shape, and movement of the pieces are expression; they are not part of the ideas, rules, or functions of the game nor are they essential or inseparable from the ideas, rules, or functions of the game."

Clearly the judge disagreed that these elements weren't protectable, but do you agree? I'm say that I don't agree with the judge. Changing the the kind of polyominoes will make the game easier or harder (imagine how easy it would be with dominoes). Changing the playfield dimensions also changes the difficulty: a lower ceiling as well as a narrower well makes it much more difficult to survive.
This.

And also the present asymmetry is in the average person's favour. Google's interest in tracking my whereabouts begins and ends with which ads I'm most likely to click on.
My family, employers and people I've irritated recently have considerably more interest in making and acting on other inferences (correct or otherwise) about my life from movement data.
Am i right in thinking that in Java 8 terms:

SQL timestamp == java.time.LocalDateTime

SQL timestampz == java.time.Instant, but converted into java.time.OffsetDateTime on read

?

That is, neither of them actually stores a timezone. But timezone is a date and time that needs to be interpreted in the context of some separately-supplied timezone, whereas timezonetz is an actual instant in time?

IME, it's rare to need LocalDateTime. I work in finance. I often need LocalTime, to specify things like "the exchange opens at 07:30 every day", where the timezone is implicitly that of the exchange, and if the exchange moved (lol Brexit), its timezone might change even if its opening time didn't. I also often need LocalDate, mostly when storing or retrieving data in archives organised by date, because we tend to use the local date for that, so that all the data for one session of an exchange, from open to close, is on one date, wherever in the world it is [1]. But i very rarely need LocalDateTime. Perhaps if i worked in calendaring instead, i would use it all the time.

It's a shame that SQL doesn't have a ZonedDateTime or OffsetDateTime, but as others have pointed out, you can just store a timestamp along with a timezone or offset.

[1] Actually, it's worse than this, in that we use the trade date, which is sometimes not the same as the local date - for example, on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the market for the E-mini S&P 500 future opens at 17:00 and closes at 16:00 the next day [2]. But that entire session is considered to have a trade date of the calendar date it closes on. In the olden days, the market would open at 07:00 and close at 16:00 (so you had an hour before the banks closed to settle any cash movements, or possibly because traders had very big lunches in those days). Trade date was calendar date. But then the 21st century came along, and they decided to open all day. But because there was so much crucial stuff that happened at the close of trading, they did it by moving the open back to the previous evening, rather than moving the close forward.

[2] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading-hours.html#equityIndex
Powerful for who, spammers? I don't think it is particularly useful, but if it is for some, it will definitely need to support blocking email at the generic domain.
Because for people who were adults during the height of the Cold War “socialism” is a proxy term for murderous dictatorships and forced labor.
Replacing jQuery with these methods seems like a great opportunity for learners to improve their understanding of javascript. Also, with ES6 javascript, there seems to be less need for jQuery.
I once heard a story about how Brazil used to manufacture magnetic-core memory. When production stopped, lots of people lost their jobs and somehow this shaped Brazil's computer policy (they basically closed the market to foreign companies). But I haven't been able to find any proof of this.
Why is it comparative? In the article it says that people left because they didn't like that others were getting a larger part rise to take them up to the minimum salary, which seems that envy is a more important driving force (for those people) than everyone getting paid a good living wage.
There’s no downside. Bezos and the Saudis are already enemies because of the Washington Post’s coverage. What’s this article going to do? Make MBS feel sad?
I’m not sure, but Chik Fil A also has programs to pay for college.
> Straight-up RISC-V is too new to truly trust security, but looks fairly great...

Bad analogy because Risc-V is an instruction set, not a physical microarchitecture. Back doors and side channel attacks could still be possible when implementing risc-v as a uarch.

The same applies for any ISA be it MIPS, x86-64, Power, Arm, Spark, PA Risc, Alpha, etc. They're just different programming languages implemented in hardware. And like software, hardware can have bugs too, though patching is much harder or impossible.
I don't have a question. I just want to say your blog posts are really good! They are informative, interesting and really funny at the same time. Thanks for writing them :-)
From what I've seen over the last few years, the metal detectors in many airports also serve the purpose of randomly selecting for body scans and/or explosives checks. I imagine it's an attempt to reduce discrimination and bias by humans.

It's likely that had it detected metal it would have made a different sound / colour. What you heard was probably the RNG landing on "check them for explosives".
Since they are franchised, I doubt there's some standard that applies across all stores. There are news stories about specific franchise owners with high minimums.
It seems relevant to point out that there are two types of sweat glands [1]. And they secrete different stuff:

"Eccrine sweat is clear, odorless, and is composed of 98–99% water; it also contains NaCl, fatty acids, lactic acid, citric acid, ascorbic acid, urea, and uric acid. Its pH ranges from 4 to 6.8. On the other hand, the apocrine sweat has a pH of 6 to 7.5; it contains water, proteins, carbohydrate waste material, lipids, and steroids. The sweat is oily, cloudy, viscous, and originally odorless; it gains odor upon decomposition by bacteria. Because both apocrine glands and sebaceous glands open into the hair follicle, apocrine sweat is mixed with sebum."

The article mentions acid lactic as a signaling metric. Only the Eccrine glands sweat contains it.

This explains why the no-correlation between strong oddor (casused by the apocrine sweat).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_gland
Back when I was on 1.5mbps DSL, one of the biggest performance gains in all the things I tried wasn't content caching via a proxy. It wasn't ad blocking (although that helped!) It was running my own DNS. Web pages got snappy again. I'm on a fast internet connection now, but I still contemplate running my own DNS just to get that snappiness back.
Why would you imply that "normies" are worse than "techies"?

Just look at some places where you get couple of guys that think they are next Linus Torvalds. Other thing to search for, are holy crusaders for something like tabs or spaces.

Where I would say real "normies" would not care and be "oh it just does not work, meh". There is probably the same amount of crazy people that would go full length to find you to fix their problem and do it for free.
My thinkpad x1 carbon works great!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19534845
Show HN: Self-Study Curriculum for Environmental Science
Censorship will fail
yes, Java 8 adds a bunch of methods to ArrayList and HashMap that makes the code a little more high level.

There is also another variation, using map.getOrDefault()

words.forEach(word -> {
map.put(word, map.getOrDefault(word, 0) + 1);
});

and then at some points you discover the Stream API

var map = words.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(w -> w, Collectors.counting()));
I’m sure there are rigorously sourced data of this across all labor positions. There should even be a public repository of those salaries. Mind providing a link?
Maybe interesting: A log of implementing a video game (Computer Space) for the PDP-1 over a month, a project for RetroChallenge 2016/10:

https://www.masswerk.at/rc2016/10/

(The experience was great and the instruction set is a joy to use. The single time, I felt somewhat hindered, was due to the limit of just up to 3 characters for any names to be used for assembler variables, notably not the PDP-1's fault. BTW, the games runs at 60 frames a second.)
After being optimistic enough about IPFS to create a whole service around it (https://www.eternum.io), and mostly because of the service, I now have my doubts. Nodes can routinely not discover each other. I'll add a file to my node then request it from a gateway and it will take multiple minutes before the file is resolved. There's no information on how far along a pin is. The API for pinning things is atrocious (you need to keep the http request alive for the multiple days it might take to pin something). I have to resort to just retrying the pins over and over until they succeed.

I'm sure there's some information hidden somewhere if I shell out to the binary and parse the response well enough, but if a paid service required me to do this, I'd laugh and never touch them again. These days, whenever I see that something is "based on IPFS", I mentally translate it to "not working".
The eating you part is what’s important in that statement. You can’t make friends with cancer long term, only kill it or have or kill you.

A broken leg gets healed, cancer dies.
I'm going through this with my father. Since he didn't buy a long term care plan, the assisted living facilities by us will be $11k a month out of pocket.

If you live in the USA, please talk to your parents/spouse/friends about long term care.
I don't think it is sad, I think it is wonderful! This is philosophy of science in action. We don't know the right answer yet, it's not obvious, and so we should absolutely argue it out if only to challenge that status quo.
No questions either, good blog posts! Is there a page listing those of this particular series in order?
There are differences between Chinese and Japanese stroke order. See the animCJK [0] project for support for Japanese kanji and kanas (demo: [1]).

[0]: https://github.com/parsimonhi/animCJK

[1]: http://gooo.free.fr/animCJK/official/