skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then maybe figure out a way to stop storing what you don't need

I'm not sure I understand why this is something you need to do. "Figure out a way to stop storing what you don't need." Who cares if you don't need it, or at least don't need it now, storage is cheap.
Church of Google (Circa 2009)
>mistaking measuring for knowing

Precisely. Another bugbear is questions of the type 'On a scale of 1-10, how convinced are you that measuring is a form of knowing?' with response options 'Not convinced', 'Somewhat convinced', etc.
China has the ability to shoot satellites out of the sky. Now if they have the political will to do so remains to be seen. But they can also easily jam them in their own backyard.
It's about gaining enough momentum.
Which is function of how much impact you want to create and the inertia of the system you want to disrupt.
Thanks. I suspected it would be PA, but I have not read the filing.
There was also a Web browser exploit https://github.com/switchbrew/nx-hbexploit300
Co-founder of category theory.
Or simply: "In the scheme of what I want to do with my life it doesn't matter."
>Texas' STAAR tests are administered in part by Pearson Assessments, a testing company that Holbrook called a "sadistic behemoth."

I have never heard a single good thing about Pearson. Having been assessed by them in Public schools, I think the consensus is well-earned.
I was always afraid to read any classical work because no matter what you think you read, someone will tell you "Actually..."

Then one day I read this beautiful quote about the old man and the sea:

> “Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”

― Ernest Hemingway
> Toss in the studies showing that handsfree usage doesn’t lower the distraction factor

For phone calls specifically. I doubt podcasts do the same thing, or someone would have put out a study about how radios are as bad as drunk driving.
No other paradigm appears to be able to handle the complexity required to build the systems of today. Objects are very natural way to organize complexity. It's what let UNIX succeed where Multics failed.
Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows
it's ridiculous they'd apply to the case of a parent keeping track of their kids. The kid's right to wander into crazy elsagate videos and have covert online conversations with predators unsupervised is more important than the parent's right to protect their kid, and Apple is justified in ripping the monitoring capability out of parents' hands? Is that what you're saying?

You mean the same app that allows a random third party company to record and track everything that your child does on his phone?

Yes and switching to ^Android* that has built in Google surveillance that tracks every time you open an app and also has a horrible security record is really a better alternative.
In this case I'd probably write an inline function which would accept all those booleans and then

return (x && y) || (a && b) && !(c != d) //pseudo example of complex condition

Or write a bunch of macros given that if you're on embedded 99.999% probability you're writing C.
One more reason to run your own VPN with something like PiHole to monitor, connect your phone to this VPN, and then block all shitty traffic like this.

Since this might be in Uber and Lyft apps, I wonder if disabling those apps till I need them will solve this issue.

However, in n-years time, when all insurance companies will start using this data openly and stupid politicians will pass laws to allow this, what will happen to all the privacy conscious people, will they even be able to buy insurance as reasonable rates?
Yes, even those people make up a tiny fraction of the internet. Satellite internet typically will not work for those people, and there is no point in trying to sell to them.
Paris also used to have an incredibly extensive network of pneumatic mail tubes: https://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pneumatic/book1....

as did several other cities (NYC, Philadelphia, Prague, ...) to a lesser extent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
Poetry is a form of art. The artist has their own meaning behind their work. Art has its own meaning to the person viewing reading hearing it. If one person gets different meaning and feeling from art, to another person, who is right and who is wrong? Neither. You can use it to understand how someone interrupts the art but you can’t fail them because their interruption was different to yours.
How long till it's possible to deploy static content to "edge" nodes in LOA? Traditional CDNs typically advertise their geo-distributed POPs on a 2D map. I want my cloud provider to live above the clouds.
Seems reasonable given the payment processing fees.

I'm spitballing here, but ordering a single $1.54 letter would cost $0.30 + $0.03 in fees, $0.55 for the stamp, $0.03 for the envelope and maybe $0.25 for the labor, paper, ink, machine maintenance, overhead, etc. And that's before advertising and other costs.

So it seems pretty reasonable that they want to reduce that $0.30 fee, especially if a large number of people only order one card.

And in all honesty, if you're willing to avoid their service over worries of losing $3.46 in credit, you're probably not their ideal customer.
Why startups offer free food (humor)
No, elcritch is saying that phones will be the size of a pizza box in a few years.
Precisely. And I did this on my everyday workstation, which I also used simultaneously for coding, browsing, emailing, etc.

Is that not epic? : )

Now I think it's fair to say that part of the solution also consisted in realizing that using a fast big integer library it was doable in three years something.
Yep. I first tried black bean burgers when I was first moving towards being vegetarian years ago. Now, I still prefer them to the meat substitutes I’ve had (which don’t yet include Impossible or Beyond Meat) because black beans + spices works very well with all of the traditional American burger condiments and dressings, and adds its own enjoyable flavor. Beats the pants off of the dense, grain-heavy fake meats I’ve sampled.

I was never a foodie though, so I think the format of a hamburger matters as much to me as the substance, being a kind of comfort food due to the familiar experience. Those of you with more refined palates are welcome to hold this position in contempt.
Sri Lanka blocked Facebook after the Easter bombings, but to what end?
Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
Any source on needing a $6,000 antenna to get spaceX internet? That would be a deal killer but haven't heard that.
For anyone curious, here is the full report.

https://prod-ng.sandia.gov/techlib-noauth/access-control.cgi...
Whisper number.
I get the idea though, that ex-googlers talk about leaving Google for the same reason Harvard grads/dropouts like to work that into their conversations.
Boston to New York is 215mi or a 430 mile round trip. At 200 miles up where they intend to put the satellites orbiting over major cities, it's going to be about 1000 mile round trip.

I thought that the US servers for most games are in the middle of the country to get the best average ping for a cross-country audience. Blizzard is like Chicago and Texas.
This is cringy, but it's a non-story. Whoever posted it was probably in high school when that bailout happened.
Knowledge of Magnetism in Ancient Mesoamerica
This is more due to regulatory games than performance. Tesla's aren't regulated like L4+ autonomous vehicles, so when they kill people (which they have!) they don't get shut down.
I think also more true when they rent from a single owner.
What if you're using it to navigate?
I tried co-working as a cure for my WFH remote job depression and it didn’t work. Everyone sits together and works side by side but don’t talk to each other. Except for the people that are obviously working together. You don’t make real relationships, all the connections I made, while diverse and interesting, were not deep like you how you’d connect with real colleagues.

I tried multiple co-working spaces and in the end I couldn’t replicate the connection or emotional obligation I felt toward real co-workers. This was despite all kinds of special events and hand holding by the spaces and forced socialization. It really feels they are doing their best to “build a community” so at some level they do know that it can’t just be a bunch of transient people who don’t really know each other. Or at least that will be quite depressing if that’s what it becomes. I hate to say it but when you’re forced to work with someone you do get to know them and bond with them.

In my time there I noticed there was a huge problem with attrition. Just like I was experiencing, other people were not making the connections and gradually deciding it wasn’t worth it and thus not coming back. Also, all the forced socialization and events had a fake and artificial quality to them that eventually became annoying to me. No, I don’t want to bake cookies with some random guy I probably won’t ever see again. I soon stopped going to the events, and I noticed most of the people who went to them were all new people. The staff all knew this and they even tried to guilt us into attending the events, which just made it even more weird & awkward.

Did anyone else have this experience? Maybe I’m just unique but I can’t help but feel these sorts of spaces may be just burning through a bunch of people trying them out and who knows where the bottom of that is? I’d like to see the attrition numbers of these places, which will ultimately tell you if it’s worth all this investment or not.
I would imagine a pretty good chunk of the work is close to being automated. I imagine (perhaps in ignorance, I am not a web or systems dev) that computers are close to being able to engineer stuff like site reliability (at least for small to medium scale businesses) without human input. problems with well defined "good" or even optimal solutions are low hanging fruit for machines.

that said, we're a long way away from feeding a copy of the latest c++ standard into a machine and getting a working compiler out of the other end. no matter how well written, it is still quite a feat to turn a human-language specification into executable code. even harder is to turn a loosely defined set of requirements (often gathered from people who don't really know what they want in the first place) into a solid spec in the first place. perhaps this is the hubris you are speaking of, but I think most developers who are more than brainless code monkeys are quite a ways away from losing their jobs.
Feds Rule That One Company’s Gig Workers Are Contractors
They're not in the same market. Dart faced competition from TypeScript (same designer as C#, and also backed by Microsoft), and the latter seems to have won so far.
My neighbor says they pay pretty well. So there’s that. At least if you’re at the VP level.
How do you know that there aren't any vulnerabilities in the interpreter that could lead to taking over the system?
I remember reading that that same quote while reading the book!
No clue. Didn't stick around long enough to find out, that moment was officially the last straw for me. There was a lot of hemming and hawing, I left and product, project and dev still hadn't made their minds up. Ops (where I lived) would give the team ideas and proposals, dev gatekept everything from tickets to the VCS.

This was one of those shops that hired people and gave them devops job titles, but demanded they maintain very monolithic status quos with everything from tickets and stand-ups to release management.
The Pixel phones aren't selling. They hinted at that.

I own a Pixel3XL. Google started discounting them very soon after the product was released. This is a mistake - it makes it look like Google is just trying to clear inventory rather than establish their brand. If they aren't even selling with a discount...wow, that's bad news for Google.

Google's unwillingness to have a retail presence is a major issue. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft all have stores in major metros. If my Pixel3XL failed, I would have to mail it in to Google which probably means I have to buy another phone to use in the meantime. Yuck. With an iPhone, you drive down to the Apple store and get help that day.

Looking forward, my guess is the Pixel3 will stay on the shelves a year longer than planned and there will never be a Pixel4. Google has wasted an incredible amount of money failing in hardware.
I could understand this if you were busy working, and someone randomly approached you. But from what I understand these random conversations happen more in a break area. So are you the type of person to punch someone in the nose if they say hi to you and enquire into your general well being, while you are getting a drink at the water cooler?
Old Promises Broken, Musk Offers New Pledges on Self-Driving
Why do you think people who live in cities will want satellite internet?
Herman Melville was said to have been amazed at the symbolism attributed to him in Moby Dick.
> The line of code you are looking at any point in time may instantly jump to another place,

It's the same in golang, any line can panic.
Why hundreds of millions? At most this service will have a couple million people on the entire constellation if you want the speeds musk is saying. Otherwise, you have much lower speeds and cram more people, which is a trade-off all satellite technology has.
Excuse me, Another question:

From [1]:

>> Cryptophage project solved it in 2 months.

What about ASICs (NSA's power and love!)? How long would it take? any estimation? 2 days? :-)

[1] https://www.cryptophage.com
I took that class that year, one of the best classes I ever took. A ton of work, too.
First, quirks mode wasn't for websites "designed for IE". IE6 already had a quirks mode and a standards mode. Quirks mode was for websites designed for Netscape 3 or so.

For the rest, I work on Gecko (the rendering engine in Firefox). We get a fair number of bug reports about sites that work in Chrome but break in Firefox because Firefox is following the spec and Chrome is not.

Chrome is definitely closer to the standards than IE was, but that's at least in part because of all the changes standards have been making recently to match Chrome when Chrome makes it clear that they have no plans to implement what the standard says. When IE tried that sort of thing, people just wrote standards that didn't match implementation reality. That had its own drawbacks in terms of leading to standards so divorced from reality they were useless (see XHTML 2.0, for example)....
Search ads in the Apple store that the third party apps couldn’t block any way. Yes they could block users from the App Store but that’s been part of parental controls in iOS for years.
Are you telling me he shares his personal opinions on his personal Twitter account? The monster!

Now clearly, Mr. Persson has not been completely un-personed. Yet. But the process is rolling.
All sandboxes have bugs, it's just a matter of time before someone finds a vuln in the DS sandbox.
The parent was most likely referring to lisp, but note that there are other homoiconic [1] languages.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
It seems like KNative wants to move into that space.

Regular turnover in the Programming world. You have to re-learn everything once or twice a decade.
I also notice the inflation of laissez-faire self titling but it usually doesn't bother me. Just the other day I met a flying machine service worker who proudly introduced himself as a copilot. Our train handling ancestry are locomoting over in their repositories about this!

Edit: it looks like these carcas pits are all calling themselves graves now ;-)
This is correct. Basic antenna theory covers C/N and how it relates to antenna size. There's no magic allowed.
For all the chinese users behind the wall, latency is not a problem at all for all.
It was not until 1924 that all Native Americans became US citizens. Prior to that they first had to give up tribal affiliation to gain US citizenship.
Except it's possible to miss checking errors in golang (accidentally either by not assigning the return value, or by overwriting a previously assigned error). Whereas in a language with exceptions, this is not possible unless by explicitly adding code to ignore exceptions.

Do you ever see golang code that handles errors returned from fmt.Println?
And more than likely you’ll be able to block Apple TV+ content using parental controls like you’ve been able to block everything else for years.
The intrisic problems with the term 'Surveillance Capitalism' [audio]
"in cities". there are a lot of people that don't live in major cities.
For all the chinese users behind the WALL, latency is not even a problem at all.
Why not rent out a stadium if the company will pay anything for materials
You could just make the area incredibly radioactive, problem solved!
Robotics startup Anki shuts down after burning through almost $200M
I find using pycharm with remote docker painful. If you need unusual docker arguments not included in the pycharm Gui, it sucks.

They did a good job but it doesn't seem complete yet.
Likewise the AP English Literature exam in the US features graded essays.
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap18-frq-english-lite...
groovy pipelines solve a lot but cost a lot. Finding where to draw the line is really really hard. Anyway jenkins works, is free, is easy to setup, and easy to use for everyone except the one writing the groovy :)

groovy sucks, jenkins works (high praise, really), but you get what you get
I can easily imagine economies of scale in MMICs (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits) bringing the price down enough to make phased arrays affordable. I sincerely hope it happens.
They probably won't... Links between satellites will use a different routing scheme. Traditional network protocols will "disappear" at the sending ground station, only to "reappear" on the receiving one.

A video link of a simulation was posted on a different comment that shows the "routing" between multiple satellites.
I suppose there is some admiration due for the audacity to start this type of business, but seriously?!

Is she going to pivot to horoscopes next?
$1000 won't recoup the cost of their constellation, so they better hope you're way off.
are automated away

Well, you’ve certainly got some hand-wavy magic that you’re conjuring with that remark.

See, there’s this pervasive “no true scotsman” undertone lurking beneath the subculture of what defines the concept of the software developer in the first place.

To wit: a person that sits at a desk, and performs data entry is no developer. And yet, developers perform data entry of a sort. Syntax, interpreters, compilers, oh... NOW it’s a developer. And yet the developer typically does not grasp the fundamentals of the machine code put onto the wires of the device operated, and mostly could not enter that code directly and manually if they tried.

So, yeah. The very word “developer” is a dubious distinction. Software engineer is ever more laughable. When I see the word engineer juxtaposed with web technologies and TCP/IP traffic, a small part of me guffaws and chortles at the Napoleon complex in play.

Your thrust is that they will be replaced by automation. But I counter that idea, in that it was make-work dreamt up by economists and social scientists from the start. In a service oriented economy, where are the laborers to go?

That’s right. Authors of software were a joke from the beginning. It was never a real job, but really the welfare of the future. It started with arcade games in bars and night clubs. People mashing buttons wired to cabinets with blinking television screens for twenty five cents a minute. More than a phone call, and all that effort up in smoke. A true money pit. And no bottom to the price tag or the level of effort. Triple A games boasting the budget of a feature length animated Disney movie, selling as downloadable content for a hundred dollars or more, and then selling ads to sponsor celebrity e-sports athletes. Right...

You can take the smug perch you choose to rest your haunches on, but the truth is, there are at least two or three deeper layers of arrogance and antipathy you’re missing out on.
> Why is this a problem? I don't mess with my phone while I'm driving, but if I'm sitting at a light for a minute or two, I'll take a peek if, say, a text message came in while I was moving, just to make sure it isn't something important from my wife or daughter.

Because you have things to concentrate on while stopped at the lights. Has that pedestrian crossing the road made it across or are they about to step out in front of you? Did you notice the cyclist overtaking on the inside that is now in your blind spot? Is the intersection in front of you clear or are you about to cause gridlock?

Not killing people is far more important than whatever message your wife or daughter sent, if that was truly important I'm sure you've got time to pull over.
At the end of 2006 I decided to build a job search aggregator. After 2 months of developing a prototype I found out that indeed.com and simplyhired.com already implemented job aggregators for ~2 years.

So, instead of continuing with job aggregator - I decided to build a job board (postjobfree.com)

My job board grew OK, because indeed.com and simplyhired.com sent us organic (free) traffic for couple of years.

But then (~2009) Indeed and Simplyhired started to charge job boards money for the traffic, and then refused to send even paid traffic to job boards (~2012).

In addition to that, Japanese "Recruit" holding bought Indeed in 2012 (for $1.2B).

Then "Recruit" bought Simplyhired (2016).

Then "Recruit" bought Glassdoor in 2018 (for another $1.2B). Glassdoor worked as a job aggregator as well.

So now largest job aggregator companies convert from "job aggregator" model to "job board" model where customers are direct employers and not other job boards.

So few years ago I started to transform my job board business into job aggregator again. I think if I never abandoned job aggregator idea in the first place, my business, probably, would be a little bit more successful by now. However it is hard to tell for sure. I could have given up competing against Indeed and SimplyHired back in 2007-2012.
Ok, we added the date and changed to that URL from https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-texas-poem.... Thanks!
Merge When Green
The Mars Exploration Rovers Update: The Final Report
(Hierarchical) Optical flow is slow and prone to the need to manually adjust its constants for each scene (not really universal). Did you think about using 3D convolutions & attention with Deep Learning instead?
GiveCampus (YC S15) Seeks Senior Rails Engineers in DC
> the point is that it's far from clear that Java etc. are superior in every way, certainly for some use cases.

Once Java gets fibers, its concurrency offerings will be a strict superset of golang's. golang doesn't even offer event based async concurrency.

> Also, CSP is not the only way of doing concurrency in Go. The standard shared variable model with mutexes is supported as well, just not preffered.

golang doesn't even have concurrent data structures. So it's either CSP or mutexes, both not ideal for high performance code.
The shares "slumped" to the price from early March. Still up 15% this year.
The commercial cities in question, Mumbai and Shanghai, have never been the capitals of India or China.

Delhi was built as a new capital by the British Raj, taking over from Calcutta. Beijing's history is long and complicated, but it has been the capital of unified China since 1421, give or take a few blips during wars.