skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its still valuable for a sysadmins to have some ability to program/script, if only to improve his own utility and sanity (automating out trivial/mindless things); however, its not clear to me why sysadmins seem to often have trouble breaking into programming — afaict, they’re extremely similar in practice. Particularly when you accept that most of software engineering is just composing libraries, while system administrators compose programs and os’s. Both rely on incantations held together by poor documentation, arbitrary configuration, and convoluted tooling. Programming is a bit more structured in its language.. but otherwise they’re rather similar requirements (and half of why you have SEs trying to eat SAs lunch); it’s not obvious to me that the inverse task should be a significant hurdle.

Or rather, the experience of an SA should translate decently into SE
I can't tell if this is an endorsement of or warning against using coffee to mitigate a lack of sleep, so I will take it as reinforcement of the former which I am currently (and unfortunately) a practitioner of.
The cost of college I'll give you that. Pretty much very tech company gives employees and their family healthcare coverage as part of the benefits. As for gun violence, while the US definitely has higher rates of mass shootings, the vast majority of Americans will never experience any of that first hand, especially in high income tech cities like SF and NYC.
If it has a reasonable chance of not becoming abandonware, sure. I'm sick of people being so pessimistic. Imagine if Google stuck to search and never released new products. Maybe some people would prefer that but personally I can't live without Google Maps for instance.
That's what I'm arguing. Code can be proven correct against a formal spec.

However, because we don't do proofs in software, there are bugs.
Correction - a risk of damaging your brain. Not a certainty. The difference is important.
Indeed. This was totally predictable. New Orleans has been sinking for centuries. And sea level rise is inevitably occurring at an increasing rate.

So yes, just move everybody. There can be boat tours. Same for Florida. With porous limestone, it's a lost cause. Even New York City will be a challenge. Lots of Manhattan is built on old garbage.
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Looks good but without hijacking the thread does a service like this exist in Europe? If not is it due to different financial regulations (maybe easier to get started in the US?) or something else?
You can copy chunks of the large files in parallel. Entire doable but needs thorough testing.
Everytime i see a Mozilla product announcement, i feel hope.

The hope for a better Internet.

It's opposite feeling with Google.
I'm only this blase because I've lived among them. They generally make poor decisions.

Is renting a couch from a rent-to-repo store truly necessary? No. Nobody needs a couch.

But they'll insist they do and willingly amortize the cost of 10 couches to temporarily have one.
Well, I believe that the point is that as tornado alley shifts east that these natural disasters will come closer to larger or perhaps denser metropolitan areas. I do agree with your point. Though, if / as torando alley shifts eastward there could be some significant overlap between the areas that could be impacted by both torandos and hurricanes. I'm reminded of the tornados that hit Alabama last year.
The .com was unbeknownst to us one of the highest selling domains of all time. I’m sure the public lists I’ve seen are inaccurate, but it ranks at around 100 after selling for a little over a million.
Yeah, I went through a phase where I’d be hyper-aware if talking about elite or exotic things with people. It’s pretty patronizing, that I or anyone would think that the other person couldn’t handle the conversation or something, when most people would just think ‘oh cool!’ and then try to find as much common ground with you as you do with them.

It’s born out of insecurity. So now I definitely mention anything about myself, and appreciate that other people do the same.
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That's one of the targets for OpenWrt support, yes.
The school did a Q&A with him on FB, apparently long before the incident: https://facebook.com/saintrosegrad/posts/10154835183318203
Code is itself a specification.
No, but the ones I and others want to do involve hits to the head. You don't get to decide for me whether the risk of injury is greater than my enjoyment of the sport. You can be dictator of your own life.
Depends a bit on what you're looking at. Here's a graph of the approved residencies for asylum seekers : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwHObtLmiVV...

It shows a clear decline in recent years, though overall immigration may not be affected.
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Actually, https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/pcp-parallel-copy seems to have an implementation- have not tried it myself.
Almost enough.
what is this volume.
Yes, probably, however, an O Visa requires the recipient to be working in the USA upon receipt, it's not meant for tourism for business or pleasure (including tech conferences).
Isn't Airbus's a stick pusher, though? i.e. it puts force on the stick that is hard to overpower but can be overpowered, so the pilot is still the control authority?

That's extremely different to a system that silently severely mistrims you, then tells you to disable your ability to trim electrically before you can fix the mistrim, as if that even makes sense, all while overpowering the yoke with aerodynamic load.

For the record, Airbus's three sensors haven't prevented crashes completely. Here's one where two sensors were damaged, causing the correct sensor to be treated as erroneous and lose the quorum vote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_Airways_Germany_Flight_888T
I do my own take on this in my containers. It's less rigidly defined, but it's the same basic idea.
All countries require some confirmation you can pay for the stay and will get out.
Some countries ask for a return ticket and hotel stay - it indicates that the traveller has some means of paying those amounts.
US does not need those before visa issue.
In many cases, people cancel the flight ticket after visa issue; and definitely book a more suitable hotel.

Anecdote time: Interpretation of the guidance is upto the visa issuing officer. Normally they want a ticket getting out of the destination country. But in one case the officer wanted me to 'return' back to the country where I was starting the travel from.
So I had to show him the ticket for the third leg of the flight: A -> B -> C -> A
Thanks. So is it basically the same dynamic that's causing subsidence in parts of California's Central Valley?
I have a sense (perhaps unfounded) that it's difficult for Chinese tech companies to make inroads outside of China. This is because of the Chinese government's role as a kingmaker within its own tech industry, and because of concerns of IP theft, surveillance, and state-backed hacking from the Chinese government. Big firms outside of China do not trust Chinese software firms with their data. As a big time software company in China, you can only really sell to Chinese buyers, with a few rare exceptions.

On the other hand, a US company can operate essentially anywhere but China. Maybe he thought he had a better shot on his own merits outside China. Maybe he didn't want to get in bed with the party, or maybe he was just a guy who was enamored of the dream that was Silicon Valley in the 80s through the 00s.
C64 games mostly use the character mode in which the screen has a resolution of 40x25 characters of 8x8 ("hires") or 4x8 ("lores"; lores was most common as it allowed 2 colours plus the background colour per 4x8 character). There were exceptions, like e.g. Elite, or slow games (e.g. strategy or adventure games - the Lord of the Rings text adventure used a split screen setup using the raster interrupt to show a bitmap image on the top that was painfully slowly rendered with a tiny polygon count).

To do scrolling with the character mode you'd normally use a register to tell the graphics chip to hide 8/4 pixels on each side. You can then set the x-position and/or y-position of the viewport within that slightly reduced "window". When you've scrolled the maximum amount in one direction, the simplest approach is to wait for the vertical blank interrupt and then you copy just the 2K or less that makes up the characters on screen and whatever portion of the color attributes you need to copy. If you don't use the full height of the screen, or keep colours the same on parts of the screen, you can drastically cut the amount you copy. (Though apparently this Mario port uses VSP, which avoids the copying, but has stability problems)

Add to this that you could very precisely time things on the C64 as you can set the raster interrupt to a specific line, and the cycle count of everything on the C64 was painstakingly documented (EDIT: Though certainly not by Commodore, other than relatively high level details), and if you wanted to you could start processing the game loop while the screen was still being updated as long as you took care to ensure any rendering did not outpace the graphics rendering (if in doubt, you can check and optionally reset the raster interrupt to trigger again later on screen).

For the characters you'd use hardware sprites (most common) or you certainly could use characters "blitted" onto the screen, with the risk of making things jerky and requiring careful design as there's no way to blend against anything but the screen background colour. This was rarely done, but it happened. Barbarian II [1] at least uses that technique for at least some characters in-game, allowing bigger entities on screen (another common technique to get bigger objects is to use multiple sprites for a single in-game character). I found that out to my surprise as a child while stopping the game (which unusually for Barbarian II worked without clearing the screen) which left characters on screen representing players, not just sprites and background. Another notable one is Skyfox [2] - a 3D game where the "3D" consists of character blobs existing in multiple different sizes.

If you needed more than 8 sprites, you could use the raster interrupt to render more by resetting sprite registers after a sprite was rendered (with the caveat you could never have more than 8 on a given raster line).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEZuK8PqLg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurusNWvDmw
By "works better" I mean that it largely implements all the same features of other competing video conferencing products but does them better / more reliably / with better usability. "It just works."

Compared to Slack we have fewer problems with people dropping out of calls or losing audio or video and audio and video quality are generally better. Screen sharing is better quality and less buggy and let's you share individual windows. For calls with people outside the team we have fewer problems connecting than with Skype or Google Hangouts. It handles people calling in by phone or from mobile devices with poor connections more robustly. Overall no real revolutionary features, just consistently good execution.
3) Link worked, but verification didn't
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When I was a physics undergrad student, I remember being told by advisors that a Master's was considered to be a booby prize. We were told that grad programs would only consider students who indicated an interest in a PhD.

One possible reason is that grad student funding was limited, and they didn't want to waste it on students who weren't going to contribute to research. All physics grad students were fully funded. I'm not sure this is true today.

So far as I could tell, this was strictly limited to physics. My graduate program was almost exclusively PhD students, and the terminal Master's was used as an escape hatch. On the other hand, those students did just fine in the job market, so it could be just a peculiarity of the academic culture that is not reflected outside of the academe.

Working in industry after my degree, I encountered people with Masters in physics, who were doing just fine, and they did not strike me as inferior -- they just didn't want to stay for a PhD.
That was in the 90s. He was rejected visa b/c he didn't speak any English. Almost all VC and Internet businesses located in the US at that time. Things are dramatically different now.
But the recent/2018 ones are vulnerable? Why? Cost cutting?
I would rather we spent tax dollars on fixable problems with much more social good per dollar. I'm tired of subsidizing flood insurance for idiots that keep building in areas that flood every 10 years. Subsidizing someone to have a nice home on a Miami beech is not "actual good". L
Yes. If we build some AI robots that can manufacture others like themselves from raw materials, and can learn and teach each other, and we sprinkle some of them on an uninhabited planet, where they eventually develop a modicum of self-sustaining civilization of their own, by what criteria would they not be considered life?
Which features in particular do you need? If you are interested in the APIs, you might be pleased to know that starting September 14th, 2019, any bank in the EU must provide public APIs by law under the PSD2 EU directive for Open Banking. Most banks are already compliant (although their APIs are not exceptional).
the W3C Web of Things framework is agnostic to use cases and devices. Mozilla's WebThings framework can work in medical, industrial, etc. It's just that Mozilla's focus is to put people first. (Plus it's easiest to invite makers and community dev when contributors can use it themselves at home). All the code is open source -- I've already seen some industrial companies pick it up and customize for their needs.
Its worse than that with AES-GCM, nonce reuse reveals the AES private key.
No kind deed goes unpunished, and it's starting to really leave a bitter taste in some people's mouths. The cynicism is real and deserved.
I am certainly looking forward to trying it out!

ZFS is a great filesystem and being able to possibly have a better implementation than we do at the moment, or at least, be able to spur additional development and optimization, is very welcome!
It's an undocumented hack. The C64 officially does support vertically and horizontally shifting the display one whole character position pixel by pixel by changing a register, but VSP is a hack that allows scrolling much more without copying memory.

It's odd to use for such a simple game as Mario, as I can't see how it's possibly complex enough that they couldn't afford to scroll "normally".
Why HeH+? What about good ol' H2?
What exactly differentiates "apps" here from regular programs you can install on routers? If your router runs a hosted system such as Linux and isn't locked down (e.g. OpenWRT), you can install/compile for any existing program that supports the architecture and system. Installing tor as you in linked post is just "opkg install tor". A lot of packages have webgui frontends, too.

Edit: I've read the article and Mozilla even mentions reskinning/basing off of OpenWRT. Which only puzzles me even more given you write "the beginning of apps for routers" as if OpenWRT/pfSense/etc doesn't exist.
Curious about the comment on Norway taxes. They are high but the benefits offered are very good for citizens. Education and healthcare being top benefits. Also the culture contributes a lot to viewing it more positively from what I understand.

I don't work in Norway but I've been researching it as a possible location to migrate to in the future. Curious if there are any citizens from Norway who'd be interested in adding information to this though.
It's a very simple game, I'm more surprised that there'd be any slowdowns. Giana Sisters copied Mario to such an extent Nintendo threatened a lawsuit, and the C64 version is perfectly fine. The C64 had plenty of other equally complex platform games.
Probably because you don't work on systems anywhere near the scale of Facebook. Facebook has 2.3 billion MAUs, so if they had some edge case that hit 0.1% of users, that's already 2.3 million users.
For an extremely limited port check out SMB ported to the Atari 2600 https://youtu.be/8fSO-UTdCI8
You are correct. The parent is mistaken, or at least exaggerating and at worst libelous.

“KaiOS is based on the Firefox OS open-source project and we are committed to abide by the rules of the applicable open source licenses.”
https://support.kaiostech.com/support/solutions/articles/350...
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> Why? What even was the point in making them 'typed' then?

To prevent you from passing a String as a String[Zipcode].
I agree with you re the cynicism.

I would say in these cases though that he levees are the problem. You have silted up channels because the river needs to flood, and the excessive levee system makes that problem more pronounced and contributes to the shrinking of the delta.

That said, New Orleans shouldn’t die. But we’re making the problem worse for most stakeholders in other places.
If you’re in LA, you absolutely owe it to yourself to go see the Murge, the monthly show mentioned in the article. [0]

This wonderful group of people (Wet the Hippo) also teach classes in LA and an upcoming condensed one in Toronto.

My experience taking those classes was frightening and liberating. It’s “improv” but there’s no story — it’s you. On stage. “Naked”. With no material. Aided by the great instructions and teachers, you show yourself to the audience and make “bad” (or “idiotic”) choices and then follow them. And people do, sometimes, laugh, a lot.

That feeling (of both being in an involved audience and playing and exposing truths and things that are scary and private) is absolutely addicting.

0 - https://www.theidiotworkshop.com/the-murge
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Take a hard look at the subsidies you are benefiting from. Be ready to give them up if you’re going to take the holier than thou route.
I think "advertising" is a deliberately ambiguous term nowadays (like justice or freedom)

50 years ago, advertising was a broadcast medium. A sign, a jingle, a page in a magazine with a photo and a pitch.

But nowadays advertising is two-directional, probably more accurately defined as surveillance and profiling of individuals.

For example, if you run the Target app on your phone and look at the "advertisements" for a product, it is very likely the price will go up if you walk into the store and look again.
Someone brought this up in an older thread about this device..
Why use this? You could just use a hammer, or pour water into them. It seems bizarre that he paid money for this device when there are many completely free ways to trash a pc.
Tornadoes do so little damage the insurance market actually works. The complain is insurance markets that need to be subsidized by federal funds because they don't raise enough money on their own (see florida, Louisiana, etc.).
> Are you trying to criticize the general public for not caring about Beowulf in "the right way" or are you trying to criticize the media for not caring about Beowulf in "the right way"? Or do you think this story should not have been reported at all?

I'm criticizing the premise that Beowulf is as well known as Tolkien's works in popular culture, or even that well known at all outside of niche literary circles, as counter to the claim that Tolkien's attachment to the story has no relevance to the degree of its coverage, which, itself, is limited to begin with.
Wow, I definitely thought of the moon as being way closer than that
It may be designed for a cut and run approach. For example, about to crash in enemy territory, brick all the computers.
It’s not surprising but Meet is Chrome only. Tat was a dealbreaker for me.
> You create a system that detects high entropy content before being logged.

Unfortunately, as numerous password breaches have shown, most passwords aren't that high entropy.
Even if originally an oral tradition, the current version could still be the work of a single author. Many of Shakespeare's plays are built on pre-existing stories/histories, but the plays as they exist now are his.
As a manager, I can tell you we would never do such a thing, and if we did, then we never will again, and if we do, never again after that.
Psychopaths make up a very, infinitesimally small minority.

The world is not "full of" them.

You're a belligerent person, but you hold few facts.
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Are you using chrome and also have either uBO-Extra or Nano Defender installed? If not it's most likely the ads are being served by Instart Logic. [1] [2]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...

[2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227
The great thing is, he also flushed his future down the drain, at least outside of India (every visa application in the world asks you about past criminal convictions).

Or to use a more apt metaphor, he zapped his future into smoke.
Tu quoque much?
My company pays for Slack and despite have 1Gbps fiber I constantly have issues hearing via Slack. It was so bad the entire company switched to Zoom just so the remote people could participate properly.
"Whenever I attempt to dive into anything that I would consider "development", such as python programming, it's as if my brain completely ceases to function and all of the words and symbols on my screen turn into an incomprehensible alien language. It doesn't matter how long I stare at it or how much I reference the documentation, that alien language never reveals its true meaning to me."

For what it's worth, I've been a developer professionally for 5 years and I still have this experience whenever I first look at code written by other people, no matter its quality.
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Wow, suddenly HN is grade 6 all over again.
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So he was founding engineer of WebEx, build the team, build the product, but the product was not good enough because "of its older architecture, particularly a lack of usability, reliability, and video quality" !?! Wasn't that his responsibility as VP of WebEx ?