skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those drives are QLC (Quad-Layer Cell) which allows higher density at the cost of long term reliability. Higher density means more bits per wafer, which leads to lower cost per bit.
People talk a lot about complicated stacks but Python Flask + some basic HTML/CSS/Vanilla JS can solve a LOT of problems.

This is especially true inside big orgs that have lots of silos and need "Rosetta Stones" that translate between the silos.
Spring has allowed for java configuration for some time.
Repaint / reprint when deployment orders are received? How durable is the print, though? The current paint used on most vehicles is incredible stuff. You can't even mar it with a super-high pressure water cannon.

As for uniforms; I'm not sure any military regular with clout would be willing to do something as practical as custom uniforms based on deployment environment. Too much change, too much innovation.
That's way too custom to work for the current army supply and would require a different uniform for a single soldier as they get assigned and moved to different missions. The whole point of the new camo was to be relatively generic so a soldier could be issued one and keep it and also to issue everyone the same pattern.
Amazing story!

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18653241
I've heard the opposite can happen, if you respond and stay on for a while, you are marked as a real and active number and will get more calls.
Any progress in breaking DRM is good news in my book. Convince me I'm wrong.
> So much money wasted on rent,

Although this now translates to a cost on me needing an extra room in the house for an office.
Thank you for including old in the reddit url!
Latest rpm-ostree can layer to /opt if that was the problem.
This just isn't true, at least in New Jersey. For NJ Unemployment, being fired only renders you ineligible if you are fired for misconduct, which is further defined as requiring intent or sufficient negligence to imply a disregard for the job. Meanwhile, employers aren't limited to firing you for misconduct or layoffs. You can be fired because you're just not a good fit for the team/position. In that case, you are eligible for unemployment because you didn't quit but didn't commit misconduct. If you asked to resign instead of being fired, you'd be giving up your right to collect NJUI.

I can't speak for other states, but I'd be surprised if NJ is entirely unique.
I've put certain family members on CentOS.

It kinda depends upon what you're doing with your computer. E.g. if I weren't into gaming I would be using CentOS over Fedora (or Ubuntu).
You can now rent a Bird electric scooter for $25 a month
God forbid you ever make a mistake. Editing standards at NYT are MUCH better than virtually any newspaper that you would care to point to.
I've been fired before. I'm up front about it when people ask. It's never been a problem. Not sure why this is considered a stigma unless you were really doing something wrong.
Company can support and sustain open source
Weirdly enough, the E in America has the same bite taken out of the top of it as the E in Timex
> But it's about those 5% that I find a blog post which really helps me. My goal was to contribute back the same way.

This is the main reason that I keep a personal website.
Send better trolls.
You forgot other loopholes:
1. Get F1-visa and do MS.
2. Marry a US citizen
3. use a J1 visa?
Probably lots. Its a huge issue thats driving the reproducibility crisis in science and academia, so I imagine it would also be a problem for industry.
I mean, that's what a pay wall is isn't it? think of all things people do on HN to go around those. Solving a captcha is probably worse because it's not annoying enough to go around so you actually just have to do it, but now it's more likely a legitimate user.
I should have specifically called out the audible pronunciation, where it's clearly more than two syllables in pronunciation. As pointed out below, it has "two and a half" syllables, I guess the site has no category for that.
The term pointer swizzling isn't familiar to me, but it seems to be the same technique by which variable-width tuples on a page are accessed via a fixed width item pointer array (sometimes called an indirection vector) within most database systems.
I also to have to wonder about the cost difference in dollars of specialized camouflage vs all terrain. Saving (what I would I guess is) at most a few dollars per uniform in production is hardly justified when the trade-off is a risk to human life.
My comment was based on what I've read about this from multiple supposed authorities on web development. Intuitively it made sense that you wouldn't want to install a computationally intensive algorithm on browsers on mobile devices or when the content area changes size frequently, as on web pages. It's fascinating to have those assumptions overturned by someone so deeply involved in Tex.
Does anyone know how this compares to the nRF5x series (and/or other BLE-friendly microcontrollers)?
Definitely. Some of the idioms are different and the language sounds come from the back of the throat vs. Parisian French. I had the same experience in terms of understanding and being understood.
> This "problem" has been well understood for decades. The current model doesn't really work as this process continues, but nobody really knows yet what would be a reasonable replacement.

Instead of targeting individual conditions, we'll probably see increased emphasis on common factors that can exacerbate many conditions, but aren't really considered "diseases" per se. The accumulation of changes due to aging would be a plausible candidate.
I think this is the right direction as I think all money is a form of debt - usually coupled with some settlement mechanism. Once we get a good implementation of debt settlement then I think we might actually get a usable decentralised money.

As a few comments have pointed out this similar to the Lightening network and Ripple. One comment mentioned that Ripple never found a routing algorithm and that is also a major criticism of Lightening, see for example [1].

How are you planning to address these challenges?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8NH67_EfE

P.S. I only came across Rick Falkvinge today so I don't know how controversial he is in the crypto space. Given that he backs BCH I guess he might be.
> The project I'm working on is dealing with timestamp ranges which of course can't be serialized to JSON.

JSON is a low-level serialization format, on which you often need to build application-specific high-level formats. You can serialize a tsrange into JSON a number of ways, but your deserializer will.need to be aware of the higher-level format you create by your decisions on how to serialize unsupported types as composites of supported types.
The thing to remember is that in Montreal, roughly 1/2 the population are native English speakers, and most of the other half has serious ESL skills. When I lived there, it basically a faux pas to mangle your french, since the person you were speaking to inevitably spoke English vastly better than you/I spoke french. French classes (there) inevitably teach you phrases to use to try and stop people from "helpfully" switching back to English.

OTOH, if you wandered out to Shawinigan or Trois-Rivières, or even just Laval/Anjou you'd find a lot more uni-lingual Quebecois speakers, who would be positively delighted to hear your(/my) mangled grammar and grotesque pronunciations.
For the same reason it's the public responsibility to provide infrastructure to get private property from A to B (roads), protect people's private property (police, military, firefighters), etc. It's just infrastructure.
Different teams using different languages doesn't mean they don't do DevOps.
> the main motivator for anyone to do anything in public is to "show off" or "be interesting". "All is vanity".

I think that's demonstrably far too broad of a brush. Yes, this is a very common motivator, but it's hardly universal.
Sure, a benevolent, supremely intelligent and incorruptible dictator would be the best leader for any country.

But governments should be about stability, resilience and steady progress, and not optimizing for superb efficiency at the cost of being extremely unstable.

Edit:
Also to be clear, the dictator in question would be a fairy tale person. As such we could add a requirement for dragons, that would be cool.
No, you're misperceiving "rien" as having two syllables because you are (I'm guessing) a native English speaker. You can't just "hear" how many syllables something has as syllabification rules are language-specific. The nearest corresponding sequence of English phonemes would have to be split into two syllables - but English has different syllabification rules.
>I've lived abroad in multiple countries and have met a lot of people trying to learn the language. Without fail, you absolutely have to have either a full-time job in the language, or be romantically involved with someone in the language (without falling back to English) and spend a ton of time with them. That's simply the only way you'll get enough hours of exposure in.

I've met many people who have learnt to speak a language (most examples would be for English and German, latter without consuming that much German media) without having this, and am currently learning a language without anything resembling this. Your statement simply seems wrong to me no matter how I read it.
Our startup uses RECs. People go, “Huh?” So we explained
What predicts students’ drinking habits? How much they think others are drinking
That's kinda what I'm getting at.

Complaining that the watch isn't "worth" something when it comes to fashion... not sure that jives exactly.
I used to be able to roughly group American pop music trends by decade. It was never perfect (the '60s and '70s weren't THAT different from each other, compared to all the other decades) but it was useful. In the 2000s and 2010s it really seems to have broken down though, which is evidence for your theory.
My problem with it is that there's no concept of a Snap repository, like Flatpak. Snap is intrinsically tied to Canonical's Snap store.
Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase
Your country of citizenship or birth plays zero role in terms of getting an H-1B visa. It neither helps nor hurts. And it's certainly not "pretty easy" to get an H-1B in any sense.

For example, right now, if you wanted to work in the U.S. the earliest date you could start working would be October 1, 2020. (That's because this year's lottery is already over, you'll have to try your shot with the April 2020 lottery, and you can only start working 6 months after that at the earliest.)

There might be racial prejudices in terms of getting a job, where being a European helps, but even that's extremely unlikely in Silicon Valley. Most U.S. tech companies are concentrated in progressive (Democratic party voting) regions -- and most people in these regions are emphatically not racists, and many often go the extra mile and make a conscious effort to deal with any subconscious racism in their minds. So don't expect being European or white to help that much.

The government certainly doesn't care what country you're from, and what your skin color is, when it comes to approving H-1Bs -- at least there hasn't been any evidence to the contrary. The vast majority of H-1B visas go to people from India and China, of which the majority go to people from India.

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Also regarding L-1 visas: Getting a job at a FAANG or a large multi-national company with offices in the U.S. and Europe/elsewhere, and that's willing to relocate you is not easy. If you're a valuable contributing member of your team, I doubt your manager would be jumping with job at the idea of you being transferred to the US.

Getting an L-1 visa requires not just a degree and 1 year of work experience with the company, it also requires "specialized knowledge". Lookup the definition. There have been denials on the basis of this "specialized knowledge" requirement.

Furthermore, it's unpleasant to be in the U.S. on the L-1 because you have no way to change jobs (unlike the H-1B) and lose legal status as soon as you're fired. I had a family member who after many years in the US on the L-1A (managerial) visa, had to suddenly pack up and leave the US. The company held off on applying for an EB-1 green card until the L-1A was nearing its 7-year limit, and then for unrelated financial reasons this company shut down overnight. Everyone was laid off, including US staff.

So you need a company that's nice enough to apply for your H-1B every year (knowing that it'll give you the freedom to change jobs as you wish), and one that's willing to relocate (at a loss to the team in your original country).
Oh, it certainly wasn't part of the Soviet Union, if that's what you are referring to, but wasn't it part of some political configuration that made it possible for the Soviet Union to treat it as a satellite state and as a battleground of communist ideology against western democracy? Wikipedia, in the article on Soviet-Czechoslovakian relations[0], states that: "After February 1948 Czechoslovakia was firmly set into the Soviet sphere of influence."

Again, I am not arguing from any ethical perspective; I am not saying that the USSR had the right to do what it did; I am merely saying that a bit disingenuous to suggest that Western European countries, including modern-day Czech Republic or Poland, are under any risk of Russian invasion. Ukraine might be; but even that doesn't seem all that likely.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia%E2%80%93Soviet_...
Why Motivation is not getting you anywhere – Atomic habits
>In my observation of governments, if they do not have a single strong leader at the very top who answers to no one but serves everyone, then those who do govern will be so scattered in their plans and opinions that the government will be rendered almost completely ineffective at fulfilling its primary duties.

Nearly every extant democracy, even those with constitutional monarchs, is a strong counterpoint to your claim.

>It may be said that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" but not if the man believes in and is led by absolute truth

The problem with the 'philosopher king' is that it's a Platonic ideal, and never really present in reality.
How did he get that screen?
As a French, let me tell you that I find the behaviour of many Parisian waiters rude and unprofessional, perhaps that's because I'm not Parisian though..
So there are real world consequences of your beliefs.

A growing black market brings very dangerous weapons to people still in the stone ages. We can't teach them about human rights or social mutuality without being labeled colonialists and genocidal madmen.

Good people cannot build a telescope on a mountain because of superstitions. Sorry, but that's what they are.

I want to be nice and really don't want this fight. I also don't want to die of cancer and Alzheimer's, something that telescope if it gets good data, could help to prevent by providing insights on observed particles. And it's not there because other people believe in something that's absolutely false and irrational.

If China did it, it's okay because they are not European, despite their history of Mongols genociding everything in sight?

If Americans and Europeans acted like the superstitious old world, we would have gone silent after Nagasaki, and leveled everyone. We didn't because we aim to limit violence and contention. No one else really even tries.

You can only push this argument so far before you encroach on real problems, problems that sentence people to horrible deaths from war and disease.
Least important. Now that I think of it, I've seen some of your passive-aggressive replies here before. Perhaps a maturation phase is needed before applying to notable companies, now that you've shown yourself as difficult to communicate with in a public forum.

My intent wasn't to offend, rather set expectations for would-be applicants. Of course, things could be entirely different in Paris vs. Hollywood, so grain of salt and all that.
PyQt is one of the better cross platform GUI libraries for higher level languages. Obviously all the issues that apply to cross platform GUI libraries still apply, though.
Re: Performance gets pretty important when people actually start using your product

Depends on your product. Facebook and Twitter require a mass audience to be viable, but not all businesses rely on the "network effect" for success. There are a lot of niches with a small audience.
> Hell, even state of the art mechanical movement like Seiko Spring Drive suffered from being associated with Quartz watches, even despite the fact that it had nothing to do with them.

They have a quartz oscillator controlled by an integrated circuit! Replacing a motor with a generator is neat, but the real trick is that there's no way for mechanical imperfections to affect the rate, making it easier to manufacture.*

* Caveat being that I haven't made them, power reserve is the real game there, and they don't seem to be cutting corners.
Chrome on Android: Phishing attackers can now trick you with fake address bar
Apple Says Aperture Won't Run in Future macOS Versions After Mojave
I actually meant to use <nav> — just a silly mistake. I've corrected the article since.
Not the OP, but the reason that I don't use those platforms is, essentially, control. I don't trust any of them to exist forever, or to continue to operate in a way that works for me.

Keeping everything on a site that I am in control of eliminates the issues of uncertainty.

(I do answer direct questions on Stack Overflow and such, I just don't keep my accumulated works or investigative notes on third party sites.)
(1) You don't need to have a degree to apply for an H1B as long as you can prove 3 years of experience to each year of college. So, if you are a developer with 12 years of experience that makes up for the lack of a 4-years degree. You can also combine years of college with experience to complete that requirement. Say, 2 years of college plus 6 years of experience.

(2) the salary must follow the prevailing wages in the area the employee is gonna work. That's not really an absurd thing specially considering that the market rates are usually higher than the prevailing wages.

(3) what I have seen about this point is that companies will usually find a way around that if they're really willing to hire you. Either work remotely as a contractor until the visa is stamped and you can move or something else. It's hard but not impossible.

(4) is really up to chance and I've had friends who were and were not selected.

I'd say it's hard but no miracles needed.
> maybe that will push a critical mass of people to VOIP and leave this sorry industry

You realize that the vast majority of "robo-calls" are originated from Class 2 Interconnectwd VoIP providers, aka SIP companies like Twilio, Flowroute, SIPSTATION, SIP.US, voip.ms, and the like.

VoIP is the problem, because you can put an extraordinary amount of of volume down a very narrow pipe, with almost zero verification or validation on the technical if you are an active customer with a SIP provider. Becoming an active customer is not very difficult, either.
UCP looked great as the background of recruiting ads. That was its greatest utility until people realized how stupid it was in practice.
I keep my own simple static web site in order to host my resume. It is by far the most important page, and, at times, the most visited.
I had not previously heard of Anki. In briefly looking at the site it sounds very interesting.

Can you describe what your daily routine is like in using it?
I'd say a "shop" implies less than 150 employees. So there are many "shops" inside Netflix.
Why don't you just use your package manager? That seems a lot simpler... and a lot less environmentally wasteful.
>The "getting together" is entirely your own supposition.

A not unreasonable one considering two of the three (Hynix and Micron) are convicted price fixers.
You also see this kind of argument against housing a lot, which also ignores that housing is one of the few highly leveraged investments an individual can/will make, and that even if you don't buy a house you will have to pay for housing, all of which goes to someone else's pocket.
> I imagine most of former are thrown out right off the bat.

Why? You don't think cures have monetary value?
I have always found starching clothes hilarious: cloth was soaked in starch to make it easier to cut and sew; you want to wash it out before use to make it comfortable.

The conceit of adding starch back in later to make something look new is already funny; to do it routinely is absurd.

Of course anyone who has been in the military of any country knows "absurd" is a pretty frequent factor.
Well, I wasn't being entirely serious - but did visit a place where they were printing cloth for use in furniture so it looked pretty heavyweight material.
> The other way is already working at a famous company and having another famous company send you a recruitment email via linked in, but that typically requires you to have done the referral way first.

Just as a single data point, the last clause here isn't true in my experience. I worked at Google for a few years some years ago, and I get a regular flow of recruiter spam from all the big companies for Bay Area roles, and have never had any friction turning them into interviews.
Because exactly like English is a phonetically hard language perhaps?
IndianArmy Expedition Team has sited Footprints of 'Yeti' measuring 32x15 inches
I fail to understand the use of python in a distributed environment while the language has such poor concurrency support (on top of the lack of a type system). You can make your application HA, but they are obviously not trying to squeeze out every CPU cycle.
I read that as "in a talk on how they don't do devops they also happened to talk about how their teams are polyglots".
Has this pointer swizzling concept been adapted by any big data-focused databases?

Would be interesting to see how this works with bigger pools of volatile and persistent memory (disclaimer: I work at Intel on Optane DC SSD/PM-related things).
Renewable energy to outpace coal for first time ever in US
It's good to use many languages as it favors a micro-service architecture.

I'd argue the converse: one advantage of a micro-service architecture is that it lets you use the best language for any particular task (where best could be "what your team is most comfortable with" or "has the most extensive library support" or something else).
TV's should also have this feature. When you switch to a new channel, it should be displayed in a paused state and you should press a button on the remote to start playing.

Auto-play doesn't make sense anywhere, streaming apps, youtube, or TVs. Only crazy people expect video to auto-play in a video app.
Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding
You're right of course. Unfortunately Netflix is newish to the content business and all my contacts are at more mature companies.
If we could put a dent in the housing thing, it would be a wonderful place. ATM we are helpless before it.
It would be nice if the language was typed. Easier for overall maintenance, and refactoring for big projects.
I believe their is a fair bit of Kotlin used there too (based on some @netflix.com addresses in Kotlin libraries like Strikt)
Andrew Thompson – Erlang Logging for the 21st OTP
> Even if you wanted to, it's nearly impossible to immigrate to the US as a skilled worker legally.

Nearly impossible? Come on, this is a gross exaggeration. Get a job at a FAANG or unicorn in Europe, work there for 1 - 2 years, transfer to the US on an L1 visa, then apply for H1B each year until you get it. I know several people who have done this. Hell, Microsoft opened an office in Vancouver specifically to move failed H1B's there until they can get an L1.