skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would paying him to work on it not be part of supporting Request 3.0 development? Unless he specifically said it was only going to operating costs or other people, I'd assume that at least a good part of a donation toward him would be for a salary for himself.
SR-72 in testing maybe?
> Some cases where your imagination could be limited are:

> - Code that you didn't write.

This has become the norm with software written by a team; and to my stress, I find many coders have given up understanding code that other people wrote and reduce to the minimum that get by. My premise is the necessity of understand the code -- not only how the code work, but also how the code is conceived and where the code is evolving toward. After that premise, there is no difference between code that you didn't write or you did.

> - Code that you wrote long enough ago that you don't remember the details.

That says a lot that the code was not written in its optimum way. Treat that as a bug, and debug why the details cannot be easily retrieved.

> - Code that you know very well, but you're having a bad day and can't figure out the problem just by thinking about it.

You should always take a rest and tackle it the next hour or next day when you can work effectively. Continue to push through a bad day only has the opportunity to make the day worse.
Thing with iMessage is that it’s ios only
There is always a penalty for JNI. Also Visual Studio has never been written in C#. But why ever Eclipse was dog slow - it was.
There are other people here who I think would really appreciate details if you still have them.
I think giving the third-world antibiotics was not a wise action for first-world nations to take. They are given out way too often, and there is reason these diseases come from there (also bad hygiene). People will also keep extras and just take them when they don't feel well. It may have helped short-term for the third world, but it will harm us all long-term.

The biggest issue is that they were provided at very, very cheap prices (especially relative to prices elsewhere). When they are so cheap and readily available, they are abused. It's like the over-use of corn syrup here.
which in reality, is a pretty effective way to do it. Really. (speaking of airplanes)
I think the net amount of code ends up being pretty much the same, it's just spread over several repositories/sources/owners. That does mean it's more difficult without tooling to trawl through, but it's not like it's an order of magnitude or anything.
Maybe some caching would help.
russia is indeed a scarey place to live
What's your point?

There might be a very difficult preimage attack on MD5.

There's no evidence of a preimage attack on SHA1.

There is absolutely no way you're doing both at once.
Correct, if the interest rate is fixed. Otherwise the same market forces captured by the inflation rate is also pressuring the interest rate paid on loans.

Put simply, if tomorrow’s money is worth less than today’s money, interest rates must increase correspondingly.
Not scary at all. This is just life, and we must endure it.

Keep in mind at the same time this is happening we also have to deal with climate change and not blowing ourselves up in all out Nuclear War. And even if we avoid all that you could still step outside and be shot or stabbed by a ruffian who leaves you dead all the same.
Type erasure isn't just a JVM implementation detail. Haskell, for example, has no JVM dependency and relies solely on type erasure (a running program can't introspect type information). Not reifying types at run-time (in this case type parameters) is a legitimate implementation decision as reification has non-trivial costs.
36 year old kernel stack disclosure in FreeBSD
Start another farm but this time not have to worry about losing the land because I couldn't afford to keep it?

My cell phone would live on my dining room table as much as possible, my laptop would only be opened once per day; it takes all kinds but I couldn't imagine making "fuck you money" and choosing to stay in the rat race.
That’s incredible! I have a hard cut off around 6.5-7 hours of sleep, anything less and I have noticeable performance decrease - inability to concentrate , needing to re read lines of code multiple times, etc.

You should reach out to the sleep researchers, a drug to temporarily not need sleep without massive burn out after would be pretty cool!
90% of all antibiotics are used in agricultural and the CDC has no jurisdiction over agriculture.
Did I say "always"? If I did, that is not the point.
+1 for using org-mode and org-drill.

Also means that you can export it all to a well structured PDF and use on any device that can read PDFs.

Downside is one cannot do drills unless at the PC.
What percentage of the 900 billion per year has been denied?
YOU'RE ALIVE! I spent a few hours two years ago wondering what had happened to you (your blog and twitter went quiet). I had presumed the worst.

Thought rs.io is/was really well done, great curated stuff. Added a reference link to your pages.

Hit me up at jeffshek@gmail.com anytime! I sheepishly already follow you on Twitter lol.
Mate you said:

> Real-time programming can be done in any language, Java for example

That's absolute bullshit. Please get a Computer Science education before making yourself look like a fool.
> Evidence is that the vast majority of immigrant labor, both skilled and unskilled, are net positives economically.

This is somewhat sleight of hand. The way the economic gain works is that by paying workers less the company can lower prices (which increases volume) at the same or greater profit margin per unit. That's an economic gain, but the gain accrues to the customers and the business while the loss accrues to the employees who either get paid less or lose their jobs. They're different people.

Moreover, even if it's net positive as measured in dollars, who gets the dollars matters rather a lot. If you turn $100 into $125 but the result is that the entire $125 goes to corporations and billionaires when the original $100 had been going to workers, that's not very helpful.
Even when I’m starting a program from scratch It’s not just my code I have to understand, it’s all of the libraries, franeworks, APIs, etc. I’m integrating with.

For instance, am I suppose to “imagine” how all of AWS Boto3 functions work?

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/inde...
If you guys want some background check out this blog post:

https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/

It's fascinating to think an AI wrote that story...
As an alternative perspective, I'm totally fine with FF disabling the extensions when the cert went invalid, and I'm also happy that it auto-updated itself to fix the issue. To me the optics are pretty good: a mistake happened and they were able to recover pretty fast, and my browser wasn't exploited by bad actors in the meantime.
10(+) billion images served monthly for $100k = 1/1000th of a cent per image. This is not bad but I think Netflix is 2c a gigabyte; you are 10c (I'm assuming 100k per image).
Bulmer's essay, "Why the Cassowary is not a bird" was the first item on the reading list for my first year undergraduate Sociology course back in 1980 in which he argues "The cassowary is not a bird because it enjoys a unique relationship in Karam thought to man." The Karam are the people of the upper Kaironk Valley in the Schrader Mountains of New Guinea to whom the Cassowary has totemic significance.
Yes, but a higher minimum wage (effectively a carbon tax on labor) isn't helping.
I’m not sure where where you are but there are a whole host of “Research Chemicals” or RCs that are functional analogues to the more common psychedelics and are in a legal grey area (ex: 4-HO-MET) Also mushroom spors are perfectly legal to buy/posses (in the US) for research purposes.
I'm curious what their price-per-GB is from Fastly/Imgix ... the monthly total doesn't really tell me the full story.

At the last place I worked I was in charge of a team that ran our image service so I have a very solid understanding of the infrastructure around it and what resources we had in place to develop/monitor/support/etc. It wouldn't be hard to do a calculation and see if they are using money inefficiently.

I will say that most people don't really have any idea of the cost of simply pushing bits. The majority of what I did was video distribution which gets into eye-watering costs pretty quickly. Without knowing a bit more detail on the precise volumes they are storing/moving I don't think it is fair to criticize.
> I’ve been in houses in Victoria and Tasmania where some or all of these systems have been implemented and the inside of the houses hover around 17 - 25 all year round with only passive systems.

That’s an enormous range (62-75 F) that few Americans would tolerate.
First time hearing about unsplash, thank you!!! This is awesome for us OSS devs.
I think today people mostly know it from watching The Crown :)
I disagree with pretty much everything in this article. I've never been happier than when I worked for a company that provided free, daily, healthy lunches. We were never coerced into working through dinner.

Now I have to food prep dinner and lunch. I'm making 4x the portions just so we each have enough to eat for leftovers. I spend way more of my personal time cooking and doing groceries and not with my family or working on my projects. Food waste has skyrocketed since everything is bought in bulk, and sometimes not all of it gets used. It's created way more dishes too, in meal prep and tupperwares.

Sometimes we ate out the night before, or there are just no leftovers. I can either get unhealthy fast food, wait an hour to get served at a healthy place, or spend even more of my limited personal time preparing a meal for the next day.
That says a lot that the code was not written in its optimum way. Treat that as a bug, and debug why the details cannot be easily retrieved.

I wrote code dealing with railroad car repairs years ago.

https://www.railinc.com/rportal/documents/18/260737/CRB_Proc...

Should I be able to remember all 200+ pages of the audit rules by heart for both the car owner side and the repair shop side and remember why I wrote all of the special cases?
RRDtool is highly underrated; it powers classic software like Cacti, Observium/LibreNMS, NfSen, and Smokeping in NOCs across the world.
Like everyone said, strengthen your back muscle, glute and whatever muscle that weakened by sitting for too long — is the way to go.

What works for me personally is Foundation Training by Dr. Eric Goodman. You can search Youtube and try their basic 12 minutes exercise. I've tried quite a different way to combat my back pain, but this one gets me a good result.

A standing desk is good, but you eventually, inevitably, have to sit and work. So, make your back stronger is more of a long term solution. Good luck! :)
How many people are panning out in the non training scenario?
I don't believe that eradication is possible, but I'm curious to hear more what your thoughts are
Not entirely true. By my reading, there were a number of psychometric tests done at the beginning and end of the period, finding some effects on attitude and focus that appeared uncorrelated to the self reported results.
I find it much easier to maintain terraform code that allows me to use multiple cloud providers than if I had to do the same without terraform.

You seem to have some insight to share here though, could you expound?

*edit typo
Smallpox is a counterexample to your concern.

Polio almost is, the issues are social and political and have little to do with vaccine escape.
Every post by @idlewords is a treat.
Wasn’t that the premise of Deep Throat?
Having silverware actually made out of silver existed for sanitary reasons as well. Same reason to throw a silver dollar in your well.
They raised money from the crypto-coin outfit run by the former fab.com CEO. At Fab and at his previous company it seems the modus oprandi was to raise millions and then pocket as much as possible before the shit hit the fan.
Holy shit! Yeah perhaps, I'm due for a medical examination, I'll bring this up.

Do you often get chest infections too? Apparently that's very common as it is with me and those who have DC or Situs Inversus.
Thank you for this.

Considering that vasectomies are completely reversible you're just giving people a safer form of birth control that they can opt out of any time. It's not about not trusting people. It's making individuals lives easier through the implementation of a default that allows for people to make more conscious decisions.
Recore+Awesome+Savings+Canada
Deprecations and Removals in Chrome 75
Because I’m pretty confident I have a good understanding of what code is doing nowadays. My intuition has been honed over the years and I tend to quickly guess why my code isn’t working.

So does your code ever use other libraries? Does it ever call third party APIs? Do you ever have to modify code you didn’t write? Do you remember what your code does that you wrote 10 years ago?
>They could easily save 60% on their monthly bill. That would enable them to hire 1 or 2 engineers capable of maintaining a few dozen servers on AWS, DO or GCP.

So blow up their currently working infra to save 40k to reallocate that 40k to build a replacement? How does that make sense? This idea seems penny wise, pound foolish - run the numbers yourself.
This thing really does scare me and fascinate me at the same time.

There's so many nefarious things you could do with this...

Generate fake news. spam google. etc.

One valuable use could be to generate comedy and parody.

You could also make it to sabotage others too. You could set it lose on nazi forums and have them argue with bots constantly.
They read your entire page content, they have access to all your information.
> Ceding all responsibility doesn't seem like the answer either.

Whether I cede my responsibility or not does not excuse a company from acting morally or not. You can't act immorally and say its okay because your users have given informed consent, when you know for a fact that they don't. Studies show that it would take over a year for an average user to read all the EULAs that they agree to in a year. It is literally impossible for an average user to read all the agreements they "agree" to in the average case of a computer user.

> I think the only real solution...

I'm not sure that this problem needs a solution exactly. The status quo is fairly reasonable, companies are expected to act morally and when they don't they get called out in social media and people move on to other companies. The primary threat to this model working is when overly pedantic people on HN and other sites excuse companies actions by saying things like "Well actually you _did_ agree to it by the EULA, so you shouldn't be suprised that they took your first born child, next time pay more attention to what you agree to!"
Source:
https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/professor-emeritus-goro-...
Yeah, and a some of us are still annoyed that Mussolini razed a neighborhood and destroyed Rome just to build a modern boulevard.
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
I certainly don’t think it’s strictly about self harm on the individual side either; there are tons of substances which are lethal and perfectly legal to buy (they just generally aren’t “fun” to consume).
It’d be nice if China ever paid attention to demand and stopped overproducing every good they can, leading to stockpiles that will likely just end up in landfills.
Here's an obscure video[1] of Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) talking about how he used spaced repetition to learn Chinese and which helped him to better other students learning Chinese in a university in China!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwH7bJibmdM
Maybe at the moment, but the one place that Java isn't going, simply because Oracle owns it, is the FUTURE.

Now Cobol, there's a much better bet, because Oracle can't sabotage it and audit everyone using it to make a few bars of silver!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
That's assuming interest rates are set by the market rather than the Fed. In the latter case it's often the opposite which is true -- the Fed sets a low interest rate which in principle causes inflation and wage growth as people borrow money and spend it.

Moreover, the bank doesn't care that much that you're paying back the loan in less valuable money because they never actually had the money they loaned you to begin with. Having money in a bank account is you loaning the bank money, taking out a loan is the bank loaning you money, so as long as the money they loaned you is still in somebody's bank account they just cancel out. It's the person holding the cash in their account, not the bank, who is eating the currency devaluation.
also an ESS user; do you still use/prefer ESS vs RStudio for package development?
I'd like to setup exactly this, any more details on your setup available?
It's just the IBM mainframe priesthood reasserting its dominance, lurching from the tomb of computing history to save us all from ourselves. Nothing to see here.
If you're going to run the file system in user space, there's no reason not to just use normal ZFS. The problem with ZFS licensing is only in combining CDDL+GPL in one unit. If you're working across the kernel/userspace boundary, there's already no problem. ZoL even already ships a fuse version that works fine.
So just in case I want to work for the one anecdotal company that uses Lisp I’ll keep that in mind...

But seeing that I like the optionality of working for any of the dozens of companies that have job openings continuously for JavaScript, C#, C, C++, and even Python, I think I’ll stick with those....
I actually intended to type “splinternet” but I think due to years of dadjoke “interweb” muscle memory typed something else.
Oregon.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266495645_Effects_o...
> The author's generalisation is that society (i.e. everyone) doesn't respect authors over 70

Nowhere does the author say that. Your whole comment is a strawman.
Diesel cars.

Seems like you haven’t been to the UK or Europe. The London busses and cabs are really bad. Plus all the other diesel cars with NOx emissions way past the legal limits.
"How to Make a T-Shirt in 10,000 hours" is my favorite.
Well, do what works for you. I know first hand that letting a massive streak end can jeopardize your interest in starting again, so a strike revival system actively helps people.

Looking at a global streak leaderboard doesn't help you improve your foreign language skills, so I'm not sure what "fell apart."
So, Vulcan teaching technique works?
I assume you mean this as a joke, but I would point out that at least one of the BSD family has gone and baked lua into their kernel. Granted, lua is rather meant for that kind of thing and python isn't, but it is entertaining to point out an interpreted language that has been stuck into a unix kernel:)
Any disease that only affects humans can be eradicated with a universal vaccine.

If it lives on in other species, it's a much harder problem.
> That assumes that the nameserver and the actual server are run by the same party which quite often is not the case.

Cloudflare can check if nameserver and the actual server are run by different parties, and if so omit subnet information from EDNS response. It is not hard to implement — Google and OpenDNS used to require manual whitelisting to receive EDNS subnet responses (not sure if they still do).

Cloudflare's CDN leaks user's full online identity to Google via reCaptcha, especially when you use Tor. Maybe they should ask Google to be satisfied with client's subnet too?
When I worked at Google Search last year, running a service locally in the Debugger was just about the only way to figure out what it does. There are so many control flow transfers - async message passes and you have no idea what is coming back - and people that think they are Templating gods and idiots who want to use syntactic sugar to define a new language and people using functors just 'because' and lambdas and other BS C++21 features inside Google and inheritance/container trees that look like a 3-D house that the debugger is the only way you can trace the control flow of such a haywire spaghetti code base.

Sadly, gdb is running out of gas at Google - it takes 60s to load "hello world" + 200MB of Google middleware and often it would step into whitespace or just hang, forever. This was often because not smart people were maintaining the gdb/emacs environment at Google.
Why aren't there more cat books
Wow, I'm totallly not on the x company awesome today- x company terrible tomorrow with x = cloudflare but I'm impressed that you guys are doing due diligence!
and the drivers who refuse to strike will reap the large surge price increases due to shortage of drivers.
Another article that describes the same story with additional details: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/the-best-vir...
> Note that this would have happened even if the browser never communicated back home - this problem was triggered via an unwitting time bomb of sorts, not because Mozilla actively took an action that inadvertently broke something.

I was never worried about Mozilla's telemetry. I happily enabled all feedback/telemetry options because I genuinely wanted them to fix any problems. I understand that this problem is not caused due to phoning home.

The decision process that led them to make it impossible to load an extension without it being signed by them is problematic. It means that I don't trust them with all my debugging data. I don't know what other time bombs are hiding inside the code.

What would happen if Mozilla ceased to exist tomorrow? Will existing firefox installs get bricked after some time? Even big bad Microsoft allows you to install unsigned hardware drivers if you dismiss the scary warning.
Nah it was way after sunset, it was definitely a point light source, the repetitions followed a strict schedule (I had started watching the time after the third one), and it had the steady motion you'd expect of an object with mass propelling itself that an illusion wouldn't necessarily have. It really seemed like a fast plane in the distance at night, and I wouldn't have given it a second thought had it not been for the disappearance or the repetition. I believe I saw a puff of light when it winked out, but it was hard to tell. The mountains it appeared behind were 10 miles away, and it was probably further than that.

The town was surrounded by various explosives testing ranges. Occasionally everyone would hear the loud thump of a bomb being test during the day. Mythbusters was known for using some bomb range nearby. I'm pretty confident it was some kind of military or scientific test I saw, I'm just mainly curious about the specifics.
I work with these guys since they are customers of Stream. Super solid team, really respect how they have such focus in their execution.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens once all the workers in the gig economy recognize the power they have to just destroy these companies. Uber can’t really retaliate people organizing against them because they aren’t employees.
> It's just an in-your-face reminder of how much you're paying in taxes

But that’s just going back to my comment 4 levels up this thread. If it’s an issue of tax amount visibility and not tax filing pain, the latter is not needed for the former.
Sure, but the problem there (as the linked article discusses) is that he didn't say that's what he was doing.

$30k isn't a huge sum, but you still need some transparency and accounting. A line item saying "it all went to me, to reimburse me for all the work I'm doing on the project" is fine, but you still need the line item so people can evaluate it.
If you see your pets like this, please don't get one.
Short term gain for an arguably-larger long term loss.
This is ridiculous.
More LoC != productivity.
If anything, you make your future teammate's life miserable, when they inherit your technical debt.