skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who spend their days obsessively networking and practicing interview questions are generally not the people who would find problems about scaling to handle astronomical proportions of data interesting. The people who find that interesting tend to spend their days reading about scalability and performance. I'm not talking about someone putting aside a few weeks to a month to study up on these questions, I'm talking about people who straight up neglect their CS education because they want to pass a technical interview.
Great city but salaries are too low given the cost of living. I've pretty much priced myself out of the market there.
I'm sure it will not pass GDPR in the EU, so we Europeans got that going for ourselves, which is nice.
I'm guessing the comps were shit.
I adore podcasts, they're some of my favorite bits of media in my life.

I also love text, and whole-heartedly agree that for an exchange of information there's nothing that comes close to well-written text. My RSS feed is a cornerstone of my general knowledge of the subjects I'm interested in.

I find the advantage of podcasts is in finding personalities I enjoy discussing those subjects I'm interested in. When I listen to something like ATP I probably already know the facts that the hosts discuss, but I'm interested in hearing their thoughts on the matter, and just as importantly I'm interested in hearing their interchange. The way someone unexpectedly feels about something which can spark a whole new branch of discussion.

The side advantage of the format is that I can do it without letting it distract me too much (such as while commuting) -- so I have this span of time where I cannot read, and maybe I'm not in the mood for music (which I actually get too distracted by).
@areoform
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Of all popular sci-fi movies, Minority Report remains the most prescient. Or should I say precognitive?
> There is a fundamental tradeoff between resources spent on individuals vs total resources.

Indeed. The world as a whole is heading towards a situation where a larger and larger fraction of resources is under the control of a shrinking number of extremely rich people.
Long ago I listened to a once-popular talk show host whose name is something in the neighborhood of Tush Pinball. He pushed his callers to dispense with all of that "Long time listener, first time caller from the heartland hills of Indiana" stuff and just start the call by saying "Ditto." Easy and convenient, a really time saver, right? Except callers somewhat quickly started saying things like "Mega-dittoes from the heartland hills of Indiana..." and little, if any, time was actually saved.

P.S. I made up "the heartland hills of Indiana."
It was testnet, though, so worthless, and easily obtained (in small amounts) from a testnet faucet (like [1], [2], or [3]). We considered continuing to share, but in the end it was just easier for individual developers to obtain their own and use them for testing rather than managing a central pool.

[1] https://testnet-faucet.mempool.co/

[2] https://bitcoinfaucet.uo1.net/

[3] https://kuttler.eu/en/bitcoin/btc/faucet/
Do you spend parts of you day where you're able to listen to audio but not read text? For instance while commuting to work, while exercising, while using your hands in a project that requires only a bit of concentration? I'm a big fan of podcasts in those cases but I would never listen to one when I'm able to read text from a book or screen.
May read like that, but its actually just a good summary of the actual article.
I'm a recent Model 3 owner.

Waking up with a full tank everyday is SWEET.

For road trips, you just have to plan for a bit extra time, but it's often how much you would stop anyways. For example, if you're on a 4 hour road trip, you'd prolly stop for 20 minutes at some point to stretch/get gas/grab a coffee. This is really all the time you'd need to juice up, especially when Supercharger's V3 start becoming common.

It is a bit of an extra consideration but I would say it's not really a deterrent.
The only bit there that I disagree with is the battery swap. They actually did that, and I think it pretty visibly demonstrated what a dead end that approach was likely to be.

Otherwise, though, you are right, and they even prepped for that in the presentation. I always get it done, just not on time. So when this isn't done in 2020... well, 2022 then. They make great cars, IMO, but this stuff is more than a little annoying.
Cameras That Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal?
It does not benefit you, at all. It's for the benefit of the companies', nothing else. They're just going to use mental gymnastics in order to make customers believe, it's going to benefit them.
what does gdpr have to do with this? think cctv with added AI. all running locally.
I don't know much about bitcoin, but how hard would it be to actually exchange that money for US dollars?
Indeed, it takes a quite bit of experience to realize how fragile our products are, especially given enough time. If some dev claim they never deliver bugs, have 100% coverage with tests etc. thats a huge warning sign.

I've seen great cathedrals of frameworks and patterns being built by smart experienced guys over few years, which ended up in quite a bit of mess at the end. Add a junior or two and see what added value they bring
> The seat map is presented at check-in, after you buy the ticket.

How do you usually buy tickets? I am offered a seat map before booking on every carrier I checked (except Southwest who doesn't issue seat assignment).
Boeing's profit falls 21% on the 737 Max crisis
I wish there was a css extension for Gmail's basic mode.
> The fact that Boeing is able to skate by with two and a software off-switch if they disagree, while Airbus continues to be required to have triple redundancy says a lot about their respective regulators (EASA Vs FAA)

I wonder if the 737 Max will ever be allowed to fly again in Europe, if they don't add a 3rd AoA sensor, that is.
Exactly.

All they wanted was a mobile-first website.

Did that really require a $32 million investment? An in-house team could've handled that for less, with more trust involved.

Focus on hiring good people!
You're repeating the same thing. SOA is an architectural style where the entire business domain functions as independent components talking to each other. ESB is one type of communication between those components. A unified log is a way to persist those communications. A database is a data persistence system.

None of these things replace anything else, they are all separate layers of solving a problem. They are not "3 different architectures" and can all be used at the same time even. Talking about a unified log and SOA to say that MongoDB is the best database for everything only shows a poor understanding of the underlying technical concepts.
There are no really great lifting gases. Steam is ok but must be kept hot. H2 is dangerously explosive. Vacuum is the best (a so-called "null ship") but no known material can maintain the hull pressure under vacuum.
If you look at the comment I replied to, their cited source has a section on the change in MCAS control authority to the rear stabilizer.
The phrasing fits some clickbait articles, but unlike clickbait articles the story seems to fit the title.

I think that's a significant difference even if I don't like the phrasing.
It's the register, it's their habits of using tabloid-style headlines with those kind of jokes and puns, even if the content is not (always) outrageous. Personally when I submit a story from there, I'll transform the title to a "normal" headline, which is more readable and in-line with the expectation here; also many titles are too long for the HN title limit, so I have to do it anyway.
That is a valid argument, but FOE campaining doesnt just mention GM - it centers itself on it. Omitting that is CLEARLY not valid reporting of their campaign, its partial gossip.
Show HN: FlexMasonry – A lightweight masonry library powered by flexbox
I don't know how adventurous that may be but you can try to run Docker in a Linux VMM ;)
Lua can be statically linked to anything written in C, because it's just a bunch of C code. That is one of the biggest reasons why it has seen such wide adoption. To quote their readme,

>Building Lua should be straightforward because Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C and compiles unmodified in all known platforms that have an ANSI C compiler.

[0] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#install
Mobile Banking App has a Problem (and I’m not sure anyone knows about it)
yes but I am not using either heavily at this point in any real product, just experimenting, so far golang is easier to pick up, binary size is a concern still even with upx, security is the major selling point for both. golang is not good for realtime due to its GC.
A sign of the privileged, to be able to move to a foreign country and categorically refuse to attempt to integrate.

The 7/11 clerk from Sri Lanka or janitor from the Philippines who emigrated to Japan for a better life certainly don’t have much room for “a sense of open space in life, something to offset the sense of the familiar”.
Not sure if this helps, but OpenBSD does have vmm/vmd. Some have reported success running Docker within a Linux guest. https://medium.com/@dave_voutila/docker-on-openbsd-6-1-curre...
I just can't wait for a drone , triggered by camera that identified my race ,to follow me around and take pictures when I go shopping at Nordstrom or Saks.

Good times for all minorities are coming !! see china for reference.
GDPR contains nothing that will prevent this.
There's a good example outside music which is related to this: standing upright while your eyes are closed (to make it more complex you should keep one of your legs off the ground e.g. as in yoga).

If you start thinking about what you should do - you will most certainly start falling, since you begin to overcompensate for your micro movements.
If helium gets really expensive, they could switch to hydrogen. Maybe even switch inflight, by replenishing lost helium with hydrogen. Maybe by hydrolysis. For a plane operating in remote areas at altitude, the explosion risk is not an issue.
So obviously this is from a lightning fast google but I saw figures putting m2 of property prices away from the center of cities being $3.4k. That combined with what a 50% tax rate makes me surprised you paid a house and car off in cash unless the house is small (perhaps you don't have dependents too?) and you've been at that earning rate for a long time?

I'm not disputing, I'm impressed and being debt free is an amazing luxury to have!
How would they know that hadn't happened?
Why would it be illegal in Europe?
It likely is, but I do wonder how much QE has played into permanently raising the prices of assets.

I won't make that bet, but it could very well be years before something major happens.
Right. Most of the public can't handle hard truth, so the de facto job description of "spokespersons" is now to obfuscate with such skill that we all get as little hard truth as possible.
ICLR Reproducibility Challenge Interviews: Four Teams. Four Interviews
Have you checked your testosterone levels?
Crystal 0.28.0 released
The prior attempt was the iBeacon fad of 2013-2014, with Bluetooth turned on by default on iOS. Then BLE-enabled loyalty apps, now some smart ML to "optimise" your shopping experience. It will continue to evolve unless we introduce heavy taxation and regulation on marketing.
Also discussed a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19268290
All I can say is "good luck", because I fool humans all the time.
I do these kind of activities, but mostly divided in 5 to 15mn chunks. (Notably, my commute to work is a mere 10mn walk and I have a toddler child at home requiring frequent attention)

I would have trouble dividing a 40mn podcast into five listens divided over 3 days.

For those kind of double-up, I find listening music vastly more enjoyable, but that's just my opinion. Lately I actually prefer not doubling-up and just listen to the silence and letting my mind wander. It feels good too !
Yes, those terms are right in the airline tariff/conditions of carriage.
IKOS (Inference Kernel for Open Static Analyzers)
Even better. Then it’s a win-win.
I’d rather read books with my eyes. I find it irrationally enraging to be read to when I can read a book myself.
The same method of altitude control, using a compressor and an internal "ballonet", is used on Google Loon.
One of the main benefits is in wrapper libraries for C. Another one is using libraries that have a naming style that I don't like.

Searching for names is not a problem as people don't mix different styles within the same project. Also there's nimgrep for this.

Finally, getting a compiler error when I try to use variables called should_run and shouldrun in the same scope is a feature, not a bug: it encourage using less misleading names.
I'm unclear how this will solve the underlying root cause of the coding interviews -- if you are matched up with a stranger, how are they supposed to know whether you are all talk or whether you can deliver?

Referrals from people you have worked with before make sense - you know their work. But having a conversation with another engineer and expecting that to become a referral sounds odd - such interactions don't give the same level of knowledge of one's work as having actually been on the same team.
If you're in the US getting dollars wouldn't be hard.

Laundering it appropriately that wouldn't raise questions might be a bigger issue. By no means impossible but a challenge that all by itself could get you in trouble.
Of course a jean-wearing, podcast-listening, village-idiot wouldn't understand the Washington Post's high-brow takes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04...
> Remember, the entire internet now pretty much runs on this premise. And it's fine, right?

Oh, great, a space telescope run like the internet. Now every 2-bit remote galaxy out there is going to be making toxic comments about the Earth and human civilization as we know it. Be careful not to mention things like white dwarfs, or you'll be in for it from all sides.

Thanks JavaScript. Way to ruin the night sky for all of us.
Having worked in broadcast and film myself, I know there's nothing much to using high end microphones for podcast work.

You just need to know a few basics (which you can learn in endless e.g. youtube video tutorials, in 1 hour or so) and you're pretty much done.
I will book Airbus whenever possible in the future, and already did so just a week or so ago. I am unlikely to book on a MAX in the future, even if I think they're safe, more as a boycott because Boeing needs to suffer.
I found the font strange, and a bit narrow.

Looks like it's called "begum" https://www.typewolf.com/site-of-the-day/fonts/begum
The food scene in Charleston is amazing. I had a buddy who lived in Florence, and every six months or so I'd make the drive down to see him for an extended weekend. I'd never been to Charleston before and it blew my mind.
The solar powered blimp in the photos looks too slow to stay in one place on a somewhat windy day, which would be necessary if it's a satellite replacement.
What do first-class closures have to do with anything?
Yes, by using something like uBlock Origin's advanced mode, you can disable js selectively (per site), even on mobile. It makes a huge difference on the data usage, which is important when your mobile data is limited.
Still very low compared to normal markets, I would think.
FWIW, there's the language shootout game (which is downright awful, but maybe better than nothing, especially if we just want a ballpark): https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Java outperforms SBCL by a very wide margin -- 1.25-4x faster -- except in the short-running benchmarks (and except the spectral-norm test, where SBCL is 5% faster), as the game does not perform warmup, and includes Java's compilation time (you can see that no Java result is under 2 seconds).
Is testnet just for ... testing?
The pvclock driver seems neat.

https://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg49128.html

Does anyone know if that driver eliminates the need for doing NTP sync in the guest VM?
Luckily all those stupid terrorists don't know that they can just stick a beard or mustaches. Or wear a baseball cap to cheat all these fancy facial recognition tech stuff.
OIDs demoted to normal columns: a glance at the past
Ha! The joke is on it - I want to see it try to guess my attack helicopter gender, especially since I'm genderfluid and an image taken in the morning can be completely wrong in the evening! Checkmate, Big Brother!
Fake *.wordpress.com and *.blogspot.com websites can usurp your brand
Blockchains have a 3-way mechanism of value, security and adoption, which are also strongly tied to network effects. The value somewhat follows the square of the number of users. That's why the strongest will get stronger, in value, security and adoption.

Obviously the market value is based on speculation which tries to predict the future development, and is also strongly affected by the current mood of the markets. That's why there has been a constant increase in value and in addition cyclical 'bubbles'. Currently it seems that the market is starting an another 'bubble cycle'.

There isn't enough users and security for all blockchains to be valuable.
A bunch of others have made the obvious reply, that knowing the keys doesn't transfer legal ownership.

But you still have a good point: Ethereum -- which the article is about -- specifically endorses the philosophy of "code is law", that you can actually replace all of law enforcement and courts with smart contracts on the blockchain, that there's no need for an external power to override its results.

Dumb contract spec? Give out the private keys? Tough. "Code is law."

This is a philosophy not universally held by blockchain advocates, but definitely held by Ethereum advocates (if inconsistently -- see DAO hack). So it's a fair response in this case.
>What an edgy, contrarian critique.

Let's not use "edgy and contrarian" like Britain's working class use "pretentious". E.g. to criticize any attempt to divert from the norm and be more inquisitive.

It's perfect fine to be "contrarian". If anything, we need more of those.
In a way, OpenBSD isn't really written in C. It's written in a special subset of C that uses some different, more secure core functions and any where any trade-off for performance instead of security is ruthlessly weeded out when reviewed by the people involved.

I'm of the opinion that using C and C++ for future major work where there's not good reasons forcing you to is more trouble than it's worth, but I wouldn't mind if it was all done with the care and attention the OpenBSD developers put into their projects.
Game devs need to unionize. Now. This madness has got to stop.
Sounds better than the usual coding job. Meetings. Sprint plannings. Meetings. Why aren't you done your work? Are you sure this is a 3 and not 1?
Have you checked your privilege?
Versatile Key Management for Secure Cloud Storage [pdf]
That statement doesn’t make sense. The dynamics of open markets with open trade data that make spoofing difficult (e.g. the stock exchanges) are very different than a rigged market.

So not the same reason for boom/bust cycles at all.
Google Intra: Secure DNS Service
I find the opposite to be true. We’ve been a C# shop for decades, but with python and JavaScript creeping in, we’re just so used to clis.

Visual Studio does a lot of things, but the truth is that we never use them. Well except for Linq-To-Sql which is ironically removed from the standard setup because Microsoft considers it bad practice. Five years ago we downgraded from Enterprise to Professional, exactly because what we do 95% of the time is to build from an empty project without using any of the bling. To be fair, some of the bling like GitHub and docker integration have gotten fairly good, but because they were so bad for so long we simply got used to using them outside of Visual Studio.

I suspect that in 5 years we’ll be going from Professional to Visual Studio Code. I hope so, but things like intellisense just isn’t there yet.
I guess I’d draw an analogy to astronauts, firefighters or race car drivers. Obviously mining, firefighting, space flight and racing should be made as safe as possible from a worker’a rights perspective. But anyone going in to those careers hopefully understands the risks!

And thanks for the reply, I was wondering what the downvotes were about — my comment apparently was blasé, especially since many miners frequently don’t have much other economic opportunity.
> It's also surprisingly popular to assume for free = useless

> I can test stuff but you really need to be careful to not foul yourself

Everything has a cost, even free ones. The cost isn't always money, it can be time, trouble, lost opportunities, lack of support, reselling of semi-private data, advertising, lack of maintenance, etc...

You say it yourself, you test stuff on it...
Copays are pretty universally known to lead towards worse care, while making access inequality worse. (There is also no copay to go to the GP in the Netherlands)

40% of those Americans are not your “typical” American. Americans also on average take 10 days of vacation, while 24% of private industry workers don’t have any day of vacation, and have no job security because they can be fired at any time. They also have to pay for their kid’s college education or have them take r

The median wealth of the US is also 97k$, compared to 113k€ in France. That’s not counting the fact that all retirement in France is publicly managed, meaning it doesn’t count into your wealth when it does in the US (except for social security)
Launched site for posting remote jobs
Best != good.
Dark UX: Allow notifications to prove you're not a Robot
Pseudo-Lidar from Visual Depth Estimation
The Python community was growing so fast, within a couple of years most Python developers had never used 1.x. Also 2.0 introduced an awful lot of very valuable improvements. In any case, 1.6 had some source incompatibilities with 1.5.2 anyway, so eh.
This is some serious OpenBSD artwork.
I would love that they reconsider the 'no product' policy. I understand the logistical nightmare of pressed CDs though...
> The chief defense counsel for the military commission raised concerns that lawyers’ attorney-client meetings were being monitored, leading al-Nashiri’s defense lawyers to seek more information. While their discovery motion was pending, a microphone was discovered in a meeting room, said by the government to be a nonfunctioning “legacy microphone.”

Oh don't worry we're not listening to you we used to do that but aren't now... so could this affect previous trials, the potential that privileged conversations may have been spied on by this 'legacy microphone?'
As if where you listen to some music the "first time" matters?

(Like the first time one has sex, which has rom-coms and romantic fiction instill on us that it has to be "special"?)

I've discovered and first heard all kinds of great music on the tube and other casual places, and didn't hurt my later re-listening and appreciation of them...
Threaded Ray Tracing with Emscripten
Share notes and files that will self destruct
I love it when software projects does whimsical artwork like this :)
Todd's given an update at AsiaBSDcon 2019, unfortunately video is not up for that yet.

Slides: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-slides.pdf

Paper: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-paper.pdf