skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You imply that the police officers gain nothing from this state of affairs. In my own experience, a lot police officers grow up in the same hoods as the same criminals they pursue and the most corrupt ones use this to leverage relationships within gangs for money.

Just to give you an idea, an acquaintance of mine never knew his grandfather was in a federal prison, he was told it was a secure retirement home. The grandfather's crime was a dirty cop that had literal death squads killing people in cold blood for years and making money off dead dealers. He used the chaos in the streets to line his pockets with money and silence the people who tried to snitch on him.
Did you misread the parent comment? One statement is positive towards publisher's rights, the other is positive towards authors rights.
We're governed by psychopaths. They may or may not be competent at the outward appearance of their jobs but they will be highly skilled at manipulation. See the Gervais Principle for a description of this in the private sector:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> you don't have a right to consume every piece of media ever created in every region around the world all the time.

According to the first sale doctrine, you do. If someone buys media in Japan, then brings them back to the US (i.e. imports them), and sells them, that's entirely legal, and there's nothing the copyright owner can do about it.

And looking beyond what the law currently is, to perhaps what it should be, copyright should remunerate creators for copies of their works, not allow them to impose censorship, which is exactly what limiting distribution this way is.
So, a RAM Drive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
"Men are expected to take the risk for approaching women..."

Thank you for clearly articulating this sentiment. I've found it hard to empathize with this point of view but your description helped. I would argue that building a robust social life rather than approaching random women is a better approach to finding a partner for people who can't imagine taking this kind of risk.

The point about less investment in society is also interesting, and potentially scary. I agree there's no easy solution to that one.
When the police shoots people without process on purpose, then they are just the most powerful gang.
Grassley said there was a $600/yr "tax" paid by all Americans due to the relief taken away by the bankruptcy reform (BARF) bill. Hatch went farther and claimed it was actually $900/yr. Those "refunds" never materialized and those men dissembled their way through the debate as is their wont, but Biden has no excuse other than slavishly adhering to his Capital One and other Delaware-based fellow travelers, campaign backers. All three of these men should exit public life after rendering their apologies to America.
Or even worse, they actually do knock it out way faster than expected, but it's buggy and unmaintainable.

I was that inexperienced software engineer once. At the time a grizzled veteran tried to drop a knowledge bomb on me and said "A good programmer can write about 14 lines of code per day". It took me a really long time to figure out that he had mis-quoted something. It should have been "A good programmer only writes about 14 lines of code a day, they're just the right 14 lines."
No, but it's an example of where, in the past, Microsoft didn't take the lead on developer tooling.
> We're fighting an Urban War over here

As soon as you start unpacking why and how you got into an urban war, you'll approach the fussy philosophical questions raised by the human rights crowd.
Here is an output latency benchmark [1]

[1] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-4...
Are you seriously comparing MBP to a $200-300 laptops?
Funny that they should ignore the old fogies without influence, as they are the ones that can most afford the Apple junk.

I’m pushing 50, and I don’t need a fucking loan to buy an iPhone.
Contrary to popular HN memes, most Rust developers aren't zealots.
Yup that's exactly what it is. This was so underwhelming. I guess 9% back is really good if you buy a ton from b&h but I'm definitely not opening a credit card for a random store like that.
Well some ideas aren't based in reality. Brexit was anti-immigrant policy, and used non immigrant based lies to bring regular people onboard the idea. Aka the lie that 350 Million Pounds would go to NHS instead of EU. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/final-say-bre...

That coupled with the idea that every country thinks it's special, no one in America thought that kind of broad faced lie would happen in USA. Welcome to the new reality. I worry that the only way we have smart world leaders again is if they make a huge lie that gets ignored by some world event. Example: George W Bush and 9/11. No one worried about his promises afterwards, because national security was the prime focus.
H.265's biggest changes are probably a change from fixed macroblocks (basically a fixed grid) to a tree based structure called a coding tree (see this paper for details: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.352...).

It includes 8k and HDR color support (in 10 bit in v1 via main 10 profile, and 12 and 16 bit in v2).

In addition it moved from 9 prediction modes to 26.
I wonder if this will help the adoption of ROCm. It seems everything I read settled on CUDA.
> Some customers will be ok with that.

I'm not sure I would fully trust that. The client probably won't be happy if bugs from poorly tested code keep coming up. And it sounds like the client might question the dev teams work, if they are currently questioning the team's estimates.
TimescaleDB confuses me. Postgres is an OLTP database and their disk storage format is uncompressed and not particularly effective.

By clever sharding, you can work around the performance issues somewhat but it'll never be as efficient as an OLAP column store like ClickHouse or MemSQL:

- Timestamps and metric values compress very nicely using delta-of-delta encoding.

- Compression dramatically improves scan performance.

- Aligning data by columns means much faster aggregation. A typical time series query does min/max/avg aggregations by timestamp. You can load data straight from disk into memory, use SSE/AVX instructions and only the small subset of data you aggregate on will have to be read from disk.

So what's the use case for TimescaleDB? Complex queries that OLAP databases can't handle? Small amounts of metrics where storage cost is irrelevant, but PostgreSQL compatibility matters?

Storing time series data in TimescaleDB takes at least 10x (if not more) space compared to, say, ClickHouse or the Prometheus TSDB.
If you have a C++ project, you want to have Python bindings, and you don't want to share your header files, pybind11 is the way to go.

If you want to / can share your header files, cppyy is a very convenient way of being able to call your C++ code from Python. I'm not sure if there is a way to use it without headers.
Kiwi Browser Removed from Play Store Due to YouTube Background Playback
Show HN: The Good Stuff – Neapolitan Pizza Finder
This was how my keyboard looked after my last repair from Apple. They were so busy that day they shuffled me out without getting to inspect it in store:

https://twitter.com/syneryder/status/1066258885923635200

I mean, it was an easy enough fix that I ended up fixing it myself on this model rather than take it back. But for a company that used to pride itself on "painting both sides of the fence", now they're not even painting the front of the fence.

I've moved on to a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 now - I don't "love" it, but so far it's required no repairs and been reliable, while that MacBook Pro has had 6 repairs during its 3 year lifetime (all internal SATA cable replacements).
> my library of virtual assets will probably evaporate into ether before I'm even retired.

That’s why I prefer gog over steam, downloading complete offline installers, and keeping them backed up. This way is even more reliable than buying games on physical media. Due to anti-piracy measures, often you can’t easily back up CDs or DVDs.
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Linux administration, Python, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Networking, etc.

Certs: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate and CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate (Routing and Switching)

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/csouto/samplecode/blob/master/Cesar_Souto...

Email: cesar(dot)souto(at)gmail.com
I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the recent news story where the Brazilian army (currently also tasked with policing duty in Rio de Janeiro) fired 80(!!) rounds at a passing car, murdering a musician and and wounding his wife and children. A passerby who tried to help also ended up dying a few days later.

The government was complicit and allowed the case to be tried in a military court so most likely nothing will come out of it.
I don't know about the others but NetBSD has had an even stronger focus on compatability, with some people still running an old binary from NetBSD 0.9 (released in 1993). The one major exception was that the first threading implementation was based on scheduler activations and was completely removed.

Any system that supports static binaries needs a stable system call interface if it wants binary compatibility. IIUC, Windows never supported static binaries.
Wow, talk about someone I wouldn't want to work with...

Regardless of whether or not the app makes sense or should be used, (I am not a fan of it), the rhetoric you are using is childish and immature. You can voice dislike without being an asshole about it.
Mediawiki's visual editor has a (unreleased) collaborative mode: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Real-time_collab...

Hits all those open-source client and server notes, and has the advantage of supporting everything that mediawiki does.
I think that this article explains it somewhat: https://lwn.net/Articles/777212/

Basically there's Intel Optane DIMM which costs less than DRAM and offers good enough performance, so you can use Optane with DRAM as a cache and those patches provide proper Linux support for that scheme.
AFAIK they were only a distributor in the UK...

Inference Corp was then Brightware, which then was bought by Firepond, then ???
This checklist is pretty disappointing. It's a lot of pretty empty platitudes, with no actionable info on what to actually do. Telling politicians to install updates and enable OS security features (which ones! what OS! is XP still ok if they just install all the patches?) and revoke API keys (what's an API? from what?) isn't comprehensive advice.

Contrast with https://techsolidarity.org/resources/congressional_howto.htm... which is a checklist by the person behind The Great Slate, a tech-backed grassroots Democratic funding push who has actually worked with politicians. It tells you what phone to buy, what links to click to enable more security for GMail, what app to install to have secure communications. Most politicans are about as savvy as your grandmother.
By the way, would anyone be interested in reading this story? I have the camera recordings with me.
Big fan of this service. As an employer, we've used it extensively for sourcing great talent.
You're welcome.

When I posted this, the thread linked to a sensationalist article. The link was later edited along with the title.
Nice. Thanks for cluing me in. Bronx cheer for google.
Even Samsung Has No Idea When the Galaxy Fold Will Ship
Handyman Contractor mentality vs Civil Engineer mentality in a nutshell

Unfortunately not everyone cares about resilience and certain performance thresholds when it comes to construction, especially when budgets become involved.

Some customers will are happy to cheap out for a hack-job remodel in the hopes that they can flip their home and run off before the bagholder realizes they got a lemon.
And yet when another company copies API documentation, HN calls for lynching their heads [0]. It seems the hacker crowd only has respect for copyright protections for work that they identify with. Protections for the eniineers and startups, but not the artists.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19719380
If you have a Python code base and are looking to speed up some part of it, Cython is the way to go. Pybind11 and cppyy are more for cases where you have a bunch of C++ code that you want to provide a Python interface for.
I really doubt this is an actual email sent to a client. Obviously it’s too long.
This isn't all on the non-developers. I've walked into two rooms this week, which contained several senior developers, and when I asked them about non-functional requirements, they had to ask what they were, and why they were important.

I've also seen teams where the Defintion of Done doesn't include any steps at all towards deployment. Done is when someone approves the pull request.

Not surprisingly, it takes longer for those teams to 'complete' a change. In the former case, they are continuously surprised, and angered, by 'requirements' that 'no one' told them about. In the later, they stop halfway, and wonder why everyone is waiting on them, because it's 'development complete'.
really excited to see you guys launch!
Taylorism still exists. The employees in the lower rungs of the organization must be managed by people higher in the org. But when you hire a manager that doesn't understand the work that his employees are doing you get into this situation.

The only way to fix this is to have someone who understands the work at the highest levels of the organization. But that is impossible because the organization is designed to hire people without the dev background at the executive level
It's a failure of education. This is one reason why everyone should have a basic understanding of code: not so they can all become programmers, but so they can get a mental handle on these systems and the people who do program them.

It's the auto-mechanic problem; if you don't understand the thing yourself, you have no way to know whether or not you're being taken advantage of. So you tend to just split the difference and maintain a constant, moderate skepticism.
To what extent does this apply to online casual friendships? E.g. 'Friends' that one has never met in real life, on IRC, Facebook etc.
For reference, from the system where the numbers were taken:

$ echo $LS_COLORS

$

LS_COLORS wasn't set. The readings were taken for ls default performance.
I doubt they are going to run much AI on that machine. The national labs mostly run "traditional HPC" workloads such as fluid codes that simulate (magneto)hydrodynamics in one way or another.
Interesting. Baby boomers don't have the background life experience to see that politics actually matters, so they treat it like a game? Plausible, very plausible. And politics recently (increasingly over the last 20 years, say) has come to resemble sports - people support their team, for no rational reason, but just because they are fans of that team.

But that leaves us with politicians (and therefore government as a whole) that is focused on winning, not on governing. And so they fight their trench warfare against each other while the country burns. (Not literally... yet.)
The Developer Job Satisfaction Survey 2019 [pdf]
programmers must be stopped
I think you are mistaking bounty hunters for law enforcement.

It's not the same thing.
I recommend the Tech Solidarity resource to people all the time, alongside https://decentsecurity.com
> 1.1 Structure of China's political economy system

So you're cheerleading, of all places, Vietnam?

> 1.2 Accusation of theft of intellectual property, technology and trade secrets

Will still take place.

> 1.3 Forced technology transfer from US companies to Chinese entities

This only happens if you want to invest in China. It's a trade-off that's up to each individual firm doing it to make.

Also, I have a hard time believing that Trump's base give two shits about any of these things, beyond a bit of nationalistic ra-ra-ra. None of this has any impact on the life of someone pissed off that their best life prospects consist of collecting dole in the rust belt.
How many lines was the migrated version?
> Anyone can spend 2min googling "wrongful convictions" and the number of people found innocent by the judicial process to see why.

This is just as good an argument against any form of law enforcement though. Don't imprison people because you will undoubtedly also target innocent people. Mind you, I'm not pro capital punishment, but "don't do it, because you will also hit innocent people" isn't a good argument against it.
> Enabling insiders means MS will track a bunch of data about you besides anonymous metrics and you can't opt out of it because insiders requests that info.

As much as Microsoft tries to change it still remains the same...

So much for developers.
One thing I like about zabbix is the excellent grafana plugin, which provides a very good ability to view and ack host-by-host alerts from within grafana.

That said, I'm not very familiar with the alternatives.
Similar thing for h265: http://strukturag.github.io/libde265.js/
Code: https://github.com/strukturag/libde265.js
Difference is that this is using emscripten to compile the native code to JS. That was 5 years ago. Today, we would use WASM, of course.

Runs surprisingly smooth, even though a native decoder is clearly superior. However, there are still nice uses, like adding support for HEIF to the browser:
https://strukturag.github.io/libheif/
Code:
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif
My experience with timescaledb is - it does not support gorilla encoding. So the storage needs for it is very high.
Anecdotally, my mom worked for P&G when I was growing up and she said the main difference between the brands was which one was on sale, sold more than the other. In a way the price was the biggest reason for selling toothpaste, not marketing.
Interesting article - all of the referenced studies are about the real world, and the benefits of those interactions I definitely agree with - and yet the author leads with an anecdote about a tweet leading to a job.

I'm less convinced that the claimed benefits of casual networks (feeling connected, for example) accrue to purely online casual relationships.
I live in Rome. Here we have a schedule for departures, and real time tracking. The schedule for departures is a lie, meaning that any given departure can be canceled without notice, so unless a bus has already left the terminus you cannot be sure it ever will.

So I'm guessing our public transportation works worse than the one the author describes in Rwanda.
Like it or not: in the era of Unicode, emoji's are plaintext.
Meditation can lead to similar insights over time, with practice. And because it doesn’t happen “all at once” (unless you jump into the deep end of a silent retreat or something) it might alleviate some of your anxiety.
> No one would have guessed a few years back that Apple would be running on risc chips

Just how far back are you talking? Because around 1988 most people were suspecting that apple would migrate to the 88000 at some point in the near future. And by the time it was obvious to apple users and (3rd party) developers that the 88000 was going nowhere fast, AIM had happened.
When I was running track in high school, we were doing a workout that was 10 200m sprints. One of my best friends Erik was running in the same group as I was. We were about the same speed. But during these 200's, he was just sitting back while I was going all out. On the ninth sprint, the coach said whoever wins the group doesn't have to do the 10th one. Erik said to me, "Dave, you can win this one" because he knew I was working hard and was tired. And he is also just a quality person. But when we were running that ninth 200, I was just completely spent. I was in slow motion. He had to run past me. I don't recall what we said when he passed me, but something along the lines of him apologizing and that he had to go, and I said it was ok.

I had to run the 10th sprint even though coach knew very well had happened. I didn't have any hard feelings towards my friend. He wasn't trying to take advantage but I am sure he still felt bad. (Now, I may have had some hard feelings toward the coach...)

This is quite a bit different stakes between high school track practice and a national championship cycling race. But I wonder if something similar happened. The author, being trashed from working so hard, may have been going pretty slow and this may have helped the eventual winner say "Forget this I'm just going to go". I'm not saying its OK, I just wonder if it was a factor.
The first statement says the works of art belong to publishers ("...doesn't want its work..."), while the second implies that it's the authors who have full rights to their work ("...it's the artist's choice to do so..."). So, which is it?
The author writes:

"A study from 2018 found that people formed a “casual” friendship after spending 30 hours together."

Of note, when you click on that "study", it's actually a paper on two studies. The first study's methodology relies on participants using Amazon's Mechanical Turk via survey collection, and these participants "were given $.65 for survey completion". Then, the second study's methodology relies on "a Midwest public university, [where] participants were recruited from public speaking courses. To be eligible, participants had to have enrolled in their first semester of school that fall (i.e., freshman, transfer) and have moved to the city within 2 weeks prior to the start of class." There's no mention of incentives for the second study.

I wish the NYT article talked more about the details of these studies and their possible limitations, for instance, with generalizing. Still, I think this is an interesting question. I wonder if there's meta-analysis research done in this area.
Current rates of ecosystem collapse imply salt water fish will be extinct by 2048, which will have unknown negative repercussions on the atmosphere’s ability to sustain human life, so I’m guessing you’re right: we’ll see global catastrophe before competent leaders.
>The problem is that a line delivers crucial information: you can estimate roughly how much time it'll take before you're up next,

The Apple employee checking in customers usually tells you what the estimated wait time is. Last year when I went in for the free iPhone 6 replacement battery, she said the wait was about 2 hours. Sure enough, the wait turned out to be 2 hours.

>, you can see the constant progression,

I agree you can't see this. Maybe Apple can mount a LCD display that constantly updates the customer wait times. Something like the LCDs at airport gates showing standby passengers their status. Or they can simply text you a status every 10 minutes on your iPhone. That may be preferable as customers can leave the Apple Store and do something else to kill time and return later.
As an interviewee:

“What’s one thing you wish you knew before you started here?”

Makes the interviewer think and its hard to BS, so you’ll usually get an memorable answer.
RubyKaigi – The Path to Ruby 3
Or the machine that designs the machine that answers your query.
This seems pretty cool, but why does the source code have to be contained within a single 4000 line file[0]? I'm fairly ignorant of the design patterns used in Linux tool development, but it seems like splitting this into a few more files could make the code a little easier to understand/maintain.

[0] https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/src/nnn.c
Yes, individuals aren't good at this. It's one of the reasons why collective bargaining works better than individual.

That said, no, the company will not increase wages and add job security to the same extent with an external artificial decrease in driver supply. They'll do it in order to attract more workers and approach an equilibrium where wages and drivers meet, but if you artificially manipulate it without spelling these out it doesn't actually reach the same level.