skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And of the channels that do have real people, those people often seem to be there for no reason other than to tell people to RTFM,

It depends a lot on the community. I started using IRC in ~2010 as a teenager and I don't remember ever seeing someone being told to RTFM (except ironically).

> play topic nazi to such an extreme level that apparently nothing is actually on topic,

I've seen some topic nazis, but in most channels, discussions can go very far away from the topic.

> or just generally berate people for having the gall to say something in the channel.

what?

> Ops are extremely touchy and seem willing to immediately kick people rather than

On most channels I'm in (mostly tech channels, freenode/oftc/mozilla), I don't even know who the ops are.
FCC approves SpaceX’s revised Starlink plan; first wave gets set for liftoff
ALWAYS and NEVER don't pass-through their values consistently as claimed in debug builds, they pass through truthiness instead, with actual values in release builds. Perhaps this would be better for debug builds:

#define ALWAYS(X) (assert(X), (X))
#define NEVER(X) (assert(!(X)), (X))
I think they add a bit of emotion to the text written.

It's not because it has colours that it's not a serious article.
where is my jump list from task bar! "omg m$ sucks"
Well, if you follow that logic your whole life, you will have lots of bitcoins when you die. Happy life I guess?

The point of money, currency or any financial asset is to produce value to your life. If you think bitcoin will develop in value, it makes sense to spend less-valuable assets before those bitcoins, but at some point you probably want to use your bitcoins as well for living. Money should be a tool to enable nice life, you shouldn't live for money.
> Someone that wasn't from the UX team was still there and told me they all moved to a private Slack channel.

So private channel and closed platform.

Excellent discoverability and excellent UX, eh?
I have this bucket list idea of getting the lowest-powered chip I can find that's still fast enough to give me a nice little *nix environment in which I can use Vim, Tmux, and also SSH into things, then sticking it into a laptop shell and filling the rest of the space with batteries.

I wonder if one could achieve like a month of battery life for such a glorified typewriter/thin client.
Well lots of bonds tend to have negative returns nowadays...
"testosterone has been the focus of intensive research for decades. Whereas early studies pointed towards a role in physical aggression, recent evidence suggests that this simple view needs to be refined. In particular, it appears that testosterone promotes status-seeking and social dominance motives, and thus plays an important role in male behaviour in relation to social status hierarchies. Most recently, several studies in humans have begun to test the causality of the link between social, emotional and economic interaction behaviour through acute testosterone administration. These studies have confirmed that an account of testosterone as a simple mediator of aggression is an over-simplification; instead, testosterone appears to have a more subtle and complex role in driving behaviour that tends to increase an individual’s motivation and ability to acquire and defend social status."

If we now look at the article we see some relation to why just puberty play a larger role. It is time when social status hierarchies play a significant role for both boys and girls and you see the highest amount of movment. After early adulthood any movement in social status will steadily declines which coincides almost perfectly with the decline in testosterone

So I ask what is the link between how men acquire/defend social status and aggression? How does the rewards look like? How does it differ from women social status hierarchies? What is the cause for that difference? If the intention is "curing the scourge of human violence", taking a look at how social status hierarchies function seems like our first stop.
Not exactly. This theory applies steady state analysis to a transient problem. Those drivers need money now. And are willing to trade off miles for money, in some sense. They are able to leverage their time and mileage to get income, which they might not otherwise have. They may already have invested in buying the car so that is a sunk cost. In some sense they are just extracting the value of the car combined with their time and some minor profit which is their opportunity cost. The theory also fails to account for the extra utility they drive from earning the cash, which may offset any costs incurred by spiraling downwards mood from financial stress, unemployment, or even the regret of buying a car which they are having trouble paying off. Also they get to still use the car in the meantime, offsetting transportation costs and most importantly, saving them time and extending their ability to acquire other jobs or new opportunity such as education, driving to visit friends and family, etc.
If you're looking for inspiration, I don't think that what you're looking for is what we call a dictionary. Unless you're using the word "dictionary" in a poetic sense, or generally the senses of words inspire you.
How would you have them deal with harassment and spam, or do you not believe it is as much of a problem for them as they claim it is?
Exactly! I shot in RAW when possible and most often do minor adjustment directly on Adobe Lightroom Mobile. It's free and powerful and takes about 2 minutes to do.

You can even re-apply your edit setting of one picture to a whole set.

Before: https://i.imgur.com/c6SRXQQ.png
After: https://i.imgur.com/B6q1h82.png

Editing pictures is definitely one of the most useful skill I've learned from my last relationship.
Here's another little "story from the trenches".

Many of our users use MATLAB. Yes, they should probably use Python, or Octave, but they're using MATLAB.

We use SLURM as our job scheduler. It supports "job arrays", which allows a user to submit a large number of jobs (up to 1,000) with a single "batch script", which is a shell script that gets run on a compute node, in a cgroup with the requested amount of memory and CPU. A job array simply runs this on many (for us, up to 1,000) cgroups, spread out across nodes; the batch script is able to check environment variables to see its "array index", which the user uses to split up work.

Once people found this, they took advantage of our site-wide MATLAB license, launching hundreds or thousands of MATLAB instances at around the same time.

MATLAB likes to create a 'prefdir' inside `~/.matlab/RXXXXy` ("R2017b", for example). Thousands of MATLABs, all making directories, inside the same common directory, on network-mounted storage.

Our Isilon cluster was floored.

We found the environment variable which controlled where the prefdir is placed. We changed it to a path in $SCRATCH (the user's scratch space), which is on Lustre.

Our Luster environment held up for a while, but was similarly floored.

In all of these cases, the issue appears to be many clients trying to take a short lock on the `~/.matlab/RXXXXy` directory, to make their subdirectory.

"It worked fine for one, or for a hundred, so it must be OK?"
Thanks. I'll be taking a look at tunelling soon. The material around it is difficult to read and put together to be honest.

I'm right now using Nord via their ovpn files. Somehow it made its way through one ISP ruleset.

For my digital ocean box, I asked someone else to use tunnelblick with the ovpn file I provided them to see if it worked (they were in another country) and it worked. This makes me believe it's most likely a country level issue.

In general though I'd like to learn about networking more thoroughly and set up a censorship resistant option which I can help others to setup and share as well later on. Any primers/pointers are appreciated too. I'll start with all the things you mentioned though.
Oh that sucks, the whole point of programs like these is that they should still be portable. Could you make a GitHub issue (or email me) with your platform, shell, compiler version and curses version?
From the S-1:

"USE OF PROCEEDS

Registered Stockholders may, or may not, elect to sell shares of our Class A common stock covered by this prospectus. To the extent any Registered Stockholder chooses to sell shares of our Class A common stock covered by this prospectus, we will not receive any proceeds from any such sales of our Class A common stock."

From Uber's S1:

"Cost of revenue, exclusive of depreciation and amortization, consists primarily of Core Platform insurance expenses, credit card processing fees, hosting and co-located data center expenses, mobile device and service expenses, amounts related to fare chargebacks and other credit card losses, excess Driver incentives, and costs incurred with carriers for Uber Freight transportation. Core Platform insurance expenses include coverage for auto liability, general liability, uninsured and underinsured motorist liability, and auto physical damage related to our Ridesharing products and Uber Eats offering. Excess Driver incentives are primarily related to our Ridesharing products in emerging markets and our Uber Eats offering. [...] As trips increase, we expect related increases for insurance costs, credit card processing fees, hosting and co-located data center expenses, and other cost of revenue, exclusive of depreciation and amortization, categories."

Cost of revenue was in 2018 $5.6bn (out of $11.3bn of revenue). The also provide "adjusted net revenue" excluding among other things excess Driver incentives and Driver referrals: in that case the cost of revenue is $4.3bn out of $10bn.

Uber's gross margin is below 60%.
> having a distributed network architecture and fewer ways to verify users

You have exactly as many ways to verify users as are implemented in your NickServ, and pretty much every snazzy web-y proprietary chat platform has a "distributed network architecture" as well.

IRC has plenty of real problems, but your particular list of arguments seems completely irrelevant.
I don't see how that follows. It can also be a mixed calculation because people don't use a search engine that never displays any long tail content.
Uber can't make money from taxi service. It's trying to mimic Amazon model where profit comes from subsidiary service. Uber is yet to find such thing. Without valid profit source I don't understand how SEC approves an IPO for a license to suck away average joe investment. Uber is walking a very thin line between being a hoax and a business.
I was expecting some new flag about getdents bigger buffer size.

http://be-n.com/spw/you-can-list-a-million-files-in-a-direct...
> Is it greedy to want to pay off your student loans or provide for your family?

> Perhaps not greedy, but definitely selfish.

This place is beyond parody sometimes.
It is how most millenials write nowadays
I have a feeling theyve done some form of traffic analysis. My default open vpn setup on a digital ocean box with the port changed to 443 is blocked somehow with both major ISPs here.
> I prefer 5Ghz because it seems to transfer less heat to my tissues

A single 60W incandescent bulb (which has about 10% efficiency for its lighting) transfers more heat to your tissues than a stack of 10 home routers.
You must be a Pascal programmer
Note that he’s running this as a rather young retiree of 60 years, and is limited by the lack of corporate resources exposing him to possible lawsuits.

The news business still works well enough for this excellent article in the New Yorker to tell us of an instance where it stopped working. Right now, we still get a glimpse of what is being destroyed. Soon, the idea of someone having the freedom to devote a year’s work to an unproven method of investigation will be lost to history.
All these gangs are Pakistanis
No. Only half of the Americans have access to 401K. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 32% of Americans are saving for retirement in a 401(k). I would estimate much smaller percentage to have meaningful level of savings in 401K (> 10K).
Amazon's warehouse computer system tracked and fired hundreds of workers
This was a beautiful and unexpected read.
Sorry about the mistake re: Labs. I had thought B2G started there, but I should have gone back to check myself.
That was the one I think!
Excellent writeup, big thanks.

From the file wrapper (parent post reference [0]), the examiner's main point in the rejection was apparently that the generation of E-fields of 10^18 V/m and B-fields of 10^9 Tesla, as needed for the device, are impossible.

The 2018-10-31 Notice of Allowance states that the application was allowed for the reasons in the 2018-08-21 Appeal brief.

The first part of the appeal brief (in response to the 112a rejection) more or less states that the peer reviewed papers are sufficient to overcome the rejection by proving that electromagnetic flux values of 10^33 Watts/m^2 are possible, which are equivalent to the required E-field and B-field values.

The second part of the appeal brief (in response to the 112b rejection) gives a little more context on the situation with a quote from the AIA 2017-5343 paper (parent post reference [1]):

"It is a well-known facet of quantum field theory that everything can be described in quantum mechanical terms. The complex interactions between a physical system and its surroundings (environment), disrupt the quantum mechanical nature of a system and render it classical under ordinary observation. This process is known as decoherence. However, it is argued that we can retard (delay) decoherence (and possibly even suppress it – namely decouple a physical system from the environment) by accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration of electrically charged matter under rapid acceleration transients. This may be the very condition to achieve a state of macroscopic quantum coherence, the idea being that we never let the system achieve thermodynamic equilibrium, by constantly delaying the onset of relaxation to equilibrium (hence the production of maximal entropy is delayed). The system may ‘violently’ react by generating ‘anomalous’ emergent phenomena, such as, but not limited to, inertial mass reduction."

The idea of "macroscopic quantum coherence" is fascinating. This could be the next major technological race outside of computing.

[0] https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair (search for application number 15/141,270, then click on "Image File Wrapper" tab, then click to select all and download PDF) (includes several other peer reviewed references to support the patent)

[1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2017-5343
A saturated Uber-model ride share market is one where an empty car is seconds away whenever you need one. Idle ride shares matter a lot.
Exactly that. We have 2000+ users, and 1000+ compute nodes. Each compute node does have a certain amount of local SSD (`$L_SCRATCH`) for job-local storage, but for everything else we have to use some sort of network-accessed file system. For us, that is NFSv4 for longer-lasting data (`$HOME` and `$GROUP_HOME`) to the Isilon over Ethernet, and short-term data (`$SCRATCH` and `$GROUP_SCRATCH`) to Lustre over Infiniband.

(Yes, Infiniband! Hello, Mellanox!)
Have you looked at the list of authors on the paper? If you are not familiar with these people and their work then I suggest that you do some reading and thinking.

I have an experience to share. I was there at the start of the web in the sense that I was building early web servers. I contributed nothing, but I was very excited and interested - as were tens of thousands of Computer Scientists.

I did not imagine any of the negative consequences of the web that have emerged. Very few people did. The community was blindsided, and I think that we have a reasonable excuse, just as a person t-boned on a junction has a reasonable excuse. We didn't see it coming, and it had never happened to us before.

With AI the fears and concerns raised in the media are mostly stupid, but there are genuine potential societal harms in terms of loss of freedom, dignity and opportunity that could easily arise if we don't set the system to favour human values over commercial and state ones.

We will not have the excuse of ignorance and surprise this time, and so I salute informed, reasonable and open people who are making the effort to engage with these issues.
Turning a few million into at least a billion is successful. There aren't that many billionaires.

And everyone in real estate got hit by the crash then, not just Trump.
The danger of giving up on IRC and going with a hosted corporate product is the chilling effects on free speech by being at the whims and mercurial mercy of corporate interests. They ought to stay with a self-hosted product that cannot be shutdown by whichever government or corporation decides to ban or restrict speech, thereby ceding what should've been public commons to being under the thumb of a particular government or corporation, and what they deem acceptable, not the community/community leaders deciding. I suggest hosting it somewhere like Iceland.
Why does Stack Overflow scan your resume for viruses?
I just uploaded my resume to Stack Overflow, and it shows "scanning for viruses". Is it really necessary to scan a pdf for viruses?
But then people would miss the rainbows!
I never complained and whined like a baby every time I install Gnome for example, using Debian's apt package manager where it fetches hundreds of packages worth of 1GB. Do you know how many Linux devs required you to use Lua libraries for example only for a single isolated piece of code just because they were too lazy to write it down in C.
That’s what SPF[1] is for, and optionally DMARC[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC
Some more info about Fenix browser can be found in Android Police [0].

Fenix on github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

[0]: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/03/13/mozillas-upcoming-b...
> and everyone loved me :)

Certainly untrue for those who enjoyed their 40 minute breaks
It’s not good when the government collapses but it is good for things the government does not sanction: illegal drugs, blackmail, extortion, etc.
Does anybody here just use Bitcoin and Ether to write to their respective databases?

I feel like these binary discussions always here miss this native use case that people use. Those people wouldnt brag about it
4watt routers ??? Where

The most I found was 1 watt which is allowed by the FCC
One of my favourite possessions is The Compact Edition Of The Oxford English Dictionary, which is the complete text of the multi-volume OED shrunk down into two volumes totalling about 4000 pages (it comes in a case with a drawer for a magnifying glass). I got it for next to nothing on eBay a few years ago. I don’t use it every day but it’s wonderful for browsing and inspiration in the way this article describes.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-compact-oxford-e...

This is the single-volume second edition. Mine is the two-volume first edition.
Idk about firefox, but MDN web docs is somehow the only online reference for js that's usable (other than the ecmascript specification which isn't for quick learning so much as a deep dive into technical details).

It would be a real shame to lose it.
How is that more ideal than having coloring even on more than X files but still being fast?
What can be said about some of the Wiktionary entries though?
PDFs have been a major malware vector.
John Gruber – “These keyboards are the biggest mistake in Apple’s history”
Their A/B test told them to do it, without wondering if they should do it

Basically their engagement numbers were better for a larger amount of people by making search engines counterintuitive for early adopters.

We personally need a good robotic search engine that indexes like a robot. Everyone else needs a semi-sentient thing that makes many assumptions about what they want to see.
I’ve always wondered, does this happen in US companies? Or is it only in very small shops? I’ve worked in a variety of big European firms, and salaries and promotions are discussed once a year, at review time. Even when changing jobs within the same firm, the salary will only be aligned at the next cycle
Top programming languages in use 2019
I used to think Discord was the clear winner in this space, providing good moderation tools (being a platform designed originally for gaming), with better scaling characteristics than Slack and having unlimited history, but the Apollo team's recent post on why they chose Spectrum changed my mind: https://blog.apollographql.com/goodbye-slack-hello-spectrum-...

TL;DR: being able to have posts & chats indexed by search engines and allowing users to read posts without signing in is a killer feature for open-source communities. Plus the product itself is open-source.
Generalizability Is Overrated
>Contrarily, I've found that staring into the sun, early in the morning for seconds up to a few minutes, is quite pleasant.

Interesting... What've been your findings?
Google's cool Avengers Endgame Thanos search trick - https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/04/27/googles-cool-avengers-en...
You can implement OAuth per repo if github wanted though, or alternatively can you grant access to a specific organisation? Not sure. The default should be per repo auth IMO.
Could you tell more avout writing? How did you learn it and how did the skill help you?
Thanos snaps, Google search results disappear one by one
I sometimes feel bad about Mozilla dying, then I see all the stupid stuff they do and I realise it serves them right.
Oh, is that why every recipe on the internet these days is prefixed by five paragraphs of waffling and photos taken from slightly different angles? Thanks, that makes sense, but somehow it never occurred to me that it was SEO. (It’s also reminded me that I’ve been meaning to order some cookbooks.)
From the same company that tried to force people to login before downloading Docker CE.
Is it dead and if not, is it GNU now? Some links on the page don't work.

Anyone here ever tried it out?
Taking out loans and putting over 100% of my net worth into crypto was undoubtedly the best decision I have ever made. Keeping it there too long and losing nearly all of the profit was also the worst decision I've ever made. Funny how that works.
>But I agree with the post, "irc is not fine", and never was fine if you want to communicate with "regular" people.

That's cool. I don't want to communicate with regular people, I want to communicate with hackers. If I wanted to communicate with regular people I would use Twitter.
If I have to choose between being really good in Leetcode and doing more projects, which one should I prioritize?

I agree with your point that the highest paying works go to people who has studied the most.
This is so wrong at so many levels. First, people don’t “vote” for corporations. You trade goods and service in exchange of money and it is not same as giving consent to be governed or policies. Furthermore, corporations are in essence dictatorship by CEO or board of directors or shareholders. They are not required to align with will of people outside of products. Quite opposite they are required to increase the shareholder value if it is legally allowed although it may not be morally good thing for society in longer term.
> How is this not competing on price?

Perhaps some of us don't actually like Microsoft Office, and prefer things created for public benefit?
Sadly the software is proprietary. Indicating for "commercial use" means it is proprietary.

When already doing something for Linux kernel, it would be advisable to promote the same license as the Linux kernel, such as GNU General Public License 2.

Promote free software and advance of free software.