skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the paper, and they make a lot of good points about fork's warts.

But I really wanted some explanation of why Windows process startup seems to be so heavyweight. Why does anything that spawns lots of little independent processes take so bloody long on Windows?

I'm not saying "lots of processes on Windows is slow, lots of processes on Linux is fast, Windows uses CreateProcess, Linux uses fork, CreateProcess is an alternative to fork/exec, therefore fork/exec is better than any alternative." I can imagine all kinds of reasons for the observed behavior, few of which would prove that fork is a good model. But I still want to know what's going on.
Sincere thanks for the followup. Interesting points to consider. I'll have to look into products/providers more. Any general sources you'd recommend?
My high school solved that by making all suspensions "in school" suspensions. You were sequestered in a classroom with the other miscreants. You were not allowed to talk to anyone but the ISS teacher, who was a mean wrestling coach. You were assigned double or triple homework, which had to be completed before you were allowed out of ISS, and you automatically received Fs on all that homework.

Those things removed all motivation for 'vacation.' No one wanted to get suspended.
I understand this sentiment, and the drive behind it to do good.

Unfortunately one can also perhaps justifiably say:

eat insects > eating vegan > ...

And that makes it all the less romantic. Ideology to me has some merits, but I personally prefer to attempt to optimise at each point (including the meat production pointset).

EDIT: The Netherlands is setting some precedent towards this, especially for animals and improving their surrounds.
The BYD EVs used normally as taxis are basically Hyundai Genesis bodies with an electric drive train. I’ve never seen an SUV EV in China but I left in late 2016. In richer Beijing, many private EVs (not taxis or didi rentals) were Tesla Model S’s.
It was still none of their business what he uses his personal funds for. From what I could tell, he kept his personal views very separate from his professional work.

However, it's water under the bridge and Mozilla is fine. I don't think that fiasco contributed in any meaningful way to Firefox's loss of market share.
57 percent of Americans can’t come up with $500 for an emergency expense. Based on that, I disagree with your assertion regarding investable cash.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure how one would even measure this, as intelligence, skill, and aptitude are all highly dependent on situations and context. With that said..

The formula is going to be the same for most: Work your ass off and be tenacious like a pitbull, never let go or give up until you've dug all the way down and achieved what you set out to do. Then you'll have a shot at being the best there is, ever was, and ever will be :D

It takes huge dedication and commitment just to reach even the top 1%, .1%, or .01%.
There's only been one known case of someone being banned from Ripcord usage, due to too many requests being sent, triggering spam protection.
Their account was unlocked after contacting support.

The software now doesn't sync users to a sqlite local database if there's over 10k members in a guild, as a precaution
Here's a good read for more details:

https://www.filfre.net/2016/05/kit-williamss-golden-hare-par...
JIT engines operate on a time-memory tradeoff.
Ha, comic gold (because there's truth to it)!
Ask HN: Ideas for holding a virtual launch event?
I do work for an open-source project with people all over the world. We're going to be having a huge release next week, and want to make it special.

We're inviting core contributors and our best (most vocal) users to a live video call, and hoping to have a nice entertaining 30-60 minute event leading up to the v1.0 release button-press on GitHub.

Any ideas on what to actually do?

The project is about 3 years old, so we're thinking about going through some history/trivia for a little bit, maybe making some kind of a game out of it.

What else? What do people do at launch parties anyway? I know much of it probably won't work well virtually, but any advice/suggestions would be great.

FWIW, because of unpredictable quirks in our testing process and other details, we didn't know the exact launch date until this week -- hence the short lead time.
Rather than technical skill in isolation, I'd encourage you pursue work that has the potential to be high impact. Many of the "best" programmers are simply very good programmers who have worked on problems that matter.

The benefit of this approach is that it doesn't require chasing some nebulous goal. Instead you just have to pursue unsolved problems.

A prime example of this is Kenneth Reitz, who made Requests for Python. Yes, it's good engineering, but even more so, he applied solid engineering principles to an undersolved problem. It's now been downloaded hundreds of millions of people and saved countless collective hours.
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I can also say that while that particular course was not formative for me (I took and enjoyed it, but it wasn't what got me into programming), I also can attribute at least the start of my career to Udacity. The CS101 course Udacity offered in Python many years ago was what really gave me the confidence to enter the dev scene and to start thinking about things as a real software engineer instead of hacking things together as I always had in the past.
An Editor for Composed Programs (2014)
This is Kay Coles James's response to the disbanding of Google's AI Council. The fact that the vox story got so much traction and this has gotten 5 votes (probably all independent submissions) and no comments is a little disappointing.
Totally agree with this "The product mindset is a complicated definition". I'd say it is about understanding that building a product people really love and engages with, is key to success. Not the only factor of course, but that's what many business oriented people do not understand.
>if the reason you remembered my birthday is that Facebook told you then we don't have a relationship where you should be sending me a birthday message.

People used to keep this information in their personal planners. How is this different?
Off-white paper is there for cost-saving reasons, used mostly for cheap romances and thrillers typically sold in airport bookstores. I don't think they even consider readers comfort when choosing it.
A gallery of interesting Jupyter Notebooks: Reproducible academic publications
> So that would mean drunk driving is actually the third leading cause of impaired driving damage.

That's a hard "citation needed" claim you're making.
hahaha, this is so funny because I was cleaning out my closet and noticed the same thing. Even though the cards were 20-30 years old...they were basically worthless. I live in a high cost of living area so to me there is no point keeping them around taking up space. I must've tossed well over 10,000 cards into the trash.

Moral of the story: teach your kids how to invest in the stock market instead of them "investing" their money into collectibles. Teach your kids the value of investing early and encourage them to do it. They can still buy collectible toys but make sure to remind them that they won't be worth much in the future and to encourage them to buy stocks if they want to invest their money for the future.
Safari doesn't work on Android, Linux, or Windows. Firefox works on all platforms I use, plus a few that I don't, so I'll always be able to have bookmarks and whatnot sync across my devices.

And what Mozilla does with Firefox is about as open source as it can be. I'm not really sure what you're referring to here. There are spins that remove bits that some people don't like, which means it's plenty open.

I've tried NetSurf, and while it was cool, it just doesn't do what I want. I really like syncing bookmarks and extensions, and it just doesn't have those features, much less syncing.
I don't understand.. how is it so much cheaper to buy beer in the US with customs/transportation/USD<->CAD/etc. taken into account? How much does beer cost in Canada?
Solar Auctions Plummeted While Tender Activity Soars in March 2019
> In academia, those sorts of tests would still need to be approved by the human experimentation ethics board. There are no exceptions for trivial tests.

That's the point. It's like requiring a report to be filed whenever there is a "use of force" but then applying that rule using the Newtonian definition of force. Sat in your chair? File a report. Stand back up? File a report. Filed a report? File a report.

Worse, this kind of thing can happen retroactively. If you discover that your numbers are different than expected, but you hadn't declared any experiment, comparing what changed before and after is the experiment. But you hadn't notified those users that you were doing an experiment because you hadn't expected to have any reason to, so now you can't even have the people with the before and after data communicate with the people who know what changes were made to the system in that time frame because comparing that information would constitute doing the experiment.

It's like telling a car company they can't see their sales data when deciding which models to continue producing because it would constitute doing a psychological experiment on what kind of cars people like.

(On the other hand, it sounds like the law would only apply to entities the size of Facebook, and screw those guys in general. But it really is kind of a silly rule.)
This would only apply to online services with > 100 million active users. And is it safe to assume that means 100 million Americans? Not sure how we'd apply to the law to users outside the US.

How many online services have that many MAUs outside Facebook and Google? Even Twitter doesn't have that many in the US [1]. Seems laser targeted at Facebook, but the abuses come from many many more companies.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274564/monthly-active-tw...
Univers makes me think of something like 2001: A Space Odyssey where computers are just running everything and they've long since figured out how to do it efficiently.
Attend trade shows for wholesale and talk to potential suppliers.
Free market dogma is a scam: an intellectual framework invented to rationalize a position.

There's a long history of people doing these things such as with monarchist theory or eugenics for colonialism and slavery. People have theories and frameworks to justify misogyny, child abuse and being harsh to homeless people.

In this case it's an ability to do whatever you want to make money without any oversight, laws, restrictions, or limitations. Being against unethical things such as sweatshops, lying to consumers, or vulture capitalism is itself unethical because it "interferes with the market" oh dear!

It's a symmetrical theoretical framework with beautiful equations to rationalize an otherwise indefensible power structure and insulate reprehensible criminal behavior as essentially the Unquestionable Divine Will.

When anyone justifies things through purity or perfection arguments they're likely pulling a fast one on you. In fact it's this fast one. This exact technique.
> Besides that, imagine the UX difficulty in unrolling a pre-Gutenberg scroll to catch up on the day's news!

Bound books (codexes) existed before Gutenberg.
Udacity does a Masters of Science of CS with Georgia Tech for 7k. I hear most of the courses there are high quality and very rigorous... Perhaps they only need to apply that philosophy to smaller modules instead of a 12-course MS.
"It's the thought that counts"

Caring enough about that person to write it in a personal planner, and then doing something when you see that reminder is 'the thought that counts'.
Those people that show up will require goods and services. The economy will act to meet that demand if it is not restrained from doing so. So yes, in broad strokes, if more people show up, more work will need doing and more jobs will be created. No magic fairy required.
There are extensions/options for all of that, and they work well.

And why would I use Brave? It's just another chrome browser, so it isn't helping solve the monoculture in browser rendering. We had that problem when IE ran things, and now we're having it with chrome. Why do we put up with it?
Yup it is exactly that. The big problem, in contrast with precious metals, is that stamps have basically no intrinsic value. They're just pieces of paper. At least with precious metals, the coins can be melted down to create high technology.
Its not like 32 bit applications are more efficient than 64 bit applications.

Yeah it is. You need to move 7 bits through memory and through the CPU, is it more efficient to pad it with 25 blank bits and move 32 bits overall, or pad with 57 blank bits and move 64 bits overall?

Which is doing things "more efficiently" and "better using" the hardware?
>FB will use artificial intelligence to determine when someone has died

Everything about Facebook looks terrible
Probably smallest 1080p h264 USB camera for embedded projects
The funny thing is that I buy unused stamps off EBay. Some recent deals I got were for about 43 cents on the dollar. But usually they go for 50-60% of face.

Been doing this for the last 15 years with no real change in pricing (which really means a loss every year).

Mostly 30-50 cent stamps (this is Canada). But ranging from 8c to $2.5

I use the smaller ones on regular envelopes. Usually I have some $1 or $2 stamps to make up any balance on packages (or just buy it from the post office).

It’s quite a bit of extra profit when I sell stuff.

Though my packages probably look a little... Unabombery.

I’m sure the receivers get a little laugh when their package arrives covered in stamps.
By what power vested in the senator can they slap NOAA's wrist?

Is it just the importance and influence by being a senator? Or is there some direct control? Or via a threat to cut funding?
>And then you can't advertise because the original name that everyone knows is trademarked.

Does that stop any counterfeit? You get it close enough, get the content visible and tank the price, and the name doesn’t stop squat.

And ofc naturally counterfeit markets spring up, where consumers go specifically with intent to purchase the fake (at severe discount), completely sidestepping the naming/marketing issue
It's really hard for me to associate online degrees with quality... End of the day it all depends on the person. The main value of a college education has always been the signaling, not the actual material
You're not morally obligated to open bug reports, just encouraged. That's the way things get fixed with Firefox, and if you want that, then learning how to do it is a big help.

If you don't want to, feel free to ignore that recommendation.
Hello, fellow Kiwi. I married an American (in 1996, simpler times) and most of the immigration bullshit just melted away. (Still married 23 years later, with kids off to uni, so be careful of the possible consequences of your actions!)

Another way in is to work for a year or two for an international subsidiary of an American company, which can then bring you to the USA under a different category of visa. That's an L1-B and you get five years in the USA.

Various immigration sites eg https://www.path2usa.com/h1b-visa-petition-requirements tell me you're buggered if you don't have an equivalent formal degree to a USA 4-year Bachelors. AWS, work experience, diplomas, certificates ... don't seem to cut it. For the best info, talk to an American immigration lawyer who deals with this day in and day out. (Ask friends who have done what you want to do for a recommendation, or look back through HN archives for recommendations)
> Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Monday announced that the social network will use artificial intelligence to determine when someone has died, and stop sending those kinds of notifications.

Since there is no way Facebook will get 100% recall: no, it will not stop doing that.
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Are you even conscious? How do I know you are not a zombie?
Big Data in Little Spaces: Hadoop and Spark at the Edge
Scientists are about to unveil the first images of a supermassive black hole
UK Councils Improve Security and Citizen Privacy with Splunk
Histogram Matching: concept, maths and code with opencv Python
It also led to the sharp decline in memory usage as that became super obvious when they went 100% mobile.
New York's $25bn architectural fiasco
Very few people pay/donate, and very few did for Firebug back in the day.
Thanks!

GitHub actually does some of these things already. Do these solutions help/suffice?

- Batching all comments in a single send: This is a core GitHub code review feature. You can send immediately by pressing the "Add single comment" button, but if you "Start a review", your comments are batched.

- Built-in fixes and lints on the PR "Files changed" tab: GitHub Checks offer this, although not many teams have adopted it (that I'm aware of).

- Changing indentation: The "Diff settings" menu has a "Hide whitespace changes" option, although it's not (afaik) possible to persist this.

- Auto-submit if tests pass: The Refined GitHub browser extension offers this (https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github), kind of. You need to keep the page open in your browser while it finishes.

Also, have you seen https://reviewable.io/ (made by an Xoogler) and does that appeal to you?
I think a larger issue is that food/resource prices may be too low.

Obviously, the farmers need to charge for the food/resource, but if they aren't able to turn a profit when properly hiring and paying staff/contractors to work for them, that's an issue. We don't know if the $100MM would cover the new cost or not.

I believe there is an issue where we've (the US) relied on such low-cost labor for farms far too long and we do not know how to balance out our supply chain with properly paid labor.
Anybody who wants simple, robust, bare metal performance containers: provisioning lasts a few seconds and is dead simple. Unlike the cgroups mess, one gets a full blown UNIX server running at the speed of bare metal, and it can run GNU/Linux distributions at the speed of bare metal as well. It's superior cloud technology, superior to any GNU/Linux solution, by several light years.
Jobs are useless vestiges of the past. There is nothing honorable about jobs and no one cares about them. By their very definition they are things we don't want to do but have to for survival. This is all industrial work-centric brainwashing. If we can get survival without jobs that would be a great win for human kind.

> Another possible outcome is a large part of the population being unemployed or underemployed, without health care and trouble to keep housing and even put food on the table, while a small portion of the population that owns the robots lives in luxury

The whole point is that robots can make everything including more robots etc. We are talking of a world without scarcity. Why wouldn't everyone have health care? It would be virtually free. Everyone will have 10 or 20 robots. Who cares if someone has 40 or 100. Now that labor is solved people can focus on the fulfilling, interesting, human work of creating and inventing. The only job available will be to configure robots in interesting arrangements to make cooler stuff. But since we have so much stuff already, only a few people will do that as a hobby, for free, other people will make art or entertain or raise families or do nothing. Existence is inherently meaningless and filling time with worthless labor is only a distraction. That's the real issue to solve.

> It's understandable because that clearly would be "communism" and that's always bad

This is also brainwashing, communism is by no means "always bad", it just so happened that economies are too complex to centrally plan and that distributed computing through free individuals (aka capitalism) works better. But if, for example, computation got strong enough, it could potentially be more effecient to holistically and centrally plan an economy. Or in the case of automation, perhaps in a world of plenty, communism becomes the perfect system. I'm not advocating for communism, and I would never want it to encroach on freedoms, but these two cases are viable candidates for success.
It points out that "1304 Ubuntu packages (7.2% of the total) calling fork, compared to only 41 uses of the more modern posix_spawn()".

In section 7 it suggests "We should therefore strongly discourage the use of fork in new code, and seek to remove it from existing apps."

Is anyone here going to help work on changing those 1304 packages?

I have already over-volunteered for thankless FOSS tasks like this, so I know it won't be me.
The green revolution eliminated a lot of farming jobs. It is a step forward in the right direction.

If I wanted a burger, wouldn't it be more humane to have an automated system that takes in raw material and synthesizes it on demand instead of on using third-party human labor?

The key is that these collection of machines are also able to repair and maintain themselves. Some kind of hardware CRC.
Most of those sellers are stock market specialized institutional investors who have mostly those same problematic motives.
The old CS101 was the first course I took online. It was a very enjoyable one as you said.
> 1. Free ... 4. Takes care of most important backend stuff (forms and webhooks)

From my reading of https://www.netlify.com/pricing/#forms you will need to pay $19/month/site (!) just to collect the data from 1000 form submissions. By the time you have a couple of sites like this the price is already way too much for me and anyone else with basic backend knowledge. I hope I've misunderstood.
I agree that DO would handle the load. The con is that it costs 5$+tax. Where as netlify is free and CDN and caching is taken care by netlify. Saves time
Still in business apparently. They seem to sell themselves as NYC's only stamp store. Based on the yelp reviews...it appears their biggest customers are women looking to buy vintage stamps for wedding invitations lol

https://www.yelp.com/biz/champion-stamp-co-new-york
He was given leniency, he didn't take it.
Like I said in my top post, 2% is calculated from the 60-day (not 24-hour) average.

True, we will never be able to extrapolate future fees. I'm merely pointing out the authors did it in a way that is completely bogus.
: Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
: This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.

The trouble with that is you cannot easily copy/paste code to/from it, because you'll need to manually add/subtract the : prefix. Delineating the section with:

```
Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.
```

is much more practical.
Biggest issue for me is Twitch, HBO Now, and to a lesser extent YouTube although I've noticed issues with any site streaming video. Even on a gigabit connection and a new $2k desktop, Firefox buffers or the video just goes black and I have to refresh the page to watch for another 10-15 minutes before it happens again. Chrome never does this. I can't be the only person that's had this experience.

I know I also had issues with JavaScript on some sites causing tabs to freeze that wasn't an issue in Chrome as well, but it's been long enough (6+ months) I have no idea what those sites even are now.
Good. But what about his boss, and all of the management all the way up to the CEO?
I never send birthday wishes by Facebook for exactly that reason. I still feel like Scrooge for not doing so, though.
That’s what I’m saying, you’ve proven to be smart enough to figure it out.

Besides it’s a moot point since no company that competes with Google for talent asks exclusively domain specific questions in their interview loops.
Mozilla is doing a great job on mobile as well. I use “Firefox Focus” on mobile.