skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sometimes I believe that software, while great, will never be huge like writing a book that will survive for centuries. Note because it is not as great per-se, but because as a side effect it is also useful… and will be replaced when something more useful is around.

I once saw a sig somewhere that was something along the lines of the author's goal being of writing some piece of software that would outlive them. That seemed like a neat, but incredibly ambitious goal, very very few pieces of software will meet it.

That said, Redis is probably one of them. It isn't too hard to imagine that there will be Redis instances running somewhere in 40 years, and though I wish antirez a long life, I think it is likely there will still be Redis instances chugging along after he passes.

So be proud antirez! You've most certainly made a dent in the universe.
Still a little rough around the edges but these guys get it!

I've been looking for something like this for ages. A simple lightweight vector graphics software with the best parts of illustrator and none of the fluff. Also, completely macOS native. No web app or Electron based crap.

It even has proper group isolation mode, which neither Sketch nor Affinity Designer have implemented after years of users requesting it. This is for me the most important feature in any vectors software since I very rarely use layers. Groups are so much faster.

Hopefully they will keep polishing it, but it looks very promising and for $20 it's a steal.

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Intel budges Samsung out of its seat at the top of silicon-slinger league
3 months ago I released my first game – was it worth quitting my job to go indie
Actually, there was an interesting link posted here a while back[1] that explored how non-profit colleges have a vested interest in making sure at least half of their students cannot afford full tuition.

To keep their tax exempt status, they must act as a “charity” by extending financial aid to at least half of their students.

The tax-exempt status enables them to invest their endowment without paying taxes on the gains.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792515
The murder of OP isn't that interesting. Everyone who is knowledgeable about the case knows it can't have been a conspiracy. It was a lone gunman, possibly a drug addict, seeing OP and his wife, seizing the opportunity to kill him.

But what is interesting is the completely disastrous following investigation. The police in Stockholm fucked up in every possible way there is to fuck up. Records were not kept, witnesses were promised rewards for testifying, they didn't investigate the crime scene properly, chased after wild conspiracy theories about South Africa and PKK and so on. Eventually they brought in experts from the FBI, but then it was already too late because it is much harder to solve a murder three years after the fact than one month after. The only reason the murderer went free is the insane incompetence displayed.
I don't know your circumstances, and first of all that is a great and generous thing you did for your friend.

The one place I know of where a housing-first policy has been implemented, Salt Lake City (or maybe all of Utah?), doesn't just give homeless people a set of keys. They do assign everyone a social worker at the same time. The goal is to minimize the risk of what happened to your friend; that isn't good for anyone, including the person spiraling.

It's key, though, to start with a home (and a social worker). The wealthiest country in the world can do that for its people -- and it shouldn't be on private citizens, though that was generous of you.
You have just described what college is.

College is all about studying/cramming for tests.

And yes, this applies to "top" engineering colleges and otherwise.
Don't use my words to spread your xenophobia, please.
> Does anyone, of any political leaning, really think that politicians or insurance companies -- really anyone other than the individual and their doctor -- making medical decisions is what we should strive for?

That depends on if the patient is a woman.

/dead serious, unfortunately
> I strongly disagree. Spotify has dramatically increased the variety of music that I listen to and introduced me to lost of tiny artists with great music.

I've used a number of music recommendation applications over the last decade.

With Spotify, I've noticed that it will become "stuck" in what I describe as similar artist troughs and valleys. In other words, the Spotify recommendation engine will pigeonhole your recommendations into certain subgenres, niches, or related artists more so than say Pandora or Last.fm would.
How to Build Your First WebApp – Integrating with Front End
This article is making it seem like tracking pixels are illegal and require a search warrant. This is definitively not the case. Search warrants are required only when requesting that information from a third party or against a person's will.

When through the normal course of using a technology you reveal information to the government (in this case the military) they can use that information against you.

Having an embedded image from a third party server in an email is well within normal usage of email. Logging IP addresses of machines that access content on a web server is also well within the normal usage of that server.

I'm also not sure what the journalist is afraid of in this case. Your IP address reveals almost nothing about you beyond a rough physical location on its own. Considering the Navy sent this email they already know WHO the recipient is. From an editor or authors name I could most likely find what city they live in with no extra help beyond Google.

There absolutely isn't anything illegal or even suspicious about this. If you want to go absolutely crazy mad with paranoia maybe they could collude with another federal agency to tap that network connection... but that is INCREDIBLY unlikely for this.
If the airlines were smart, they'd consider doing away with the overhead bins altogether. Those bins create a tragedy of the commons.

Bring a small backpack to be put under your seat that can carry your passport, laptop, headphones, a book to read, etc., or nothing at all. Check the rest. If the airlines do away with the overhead bins, then the first checked bag should be free. If it takes too long to get the bags on a carousel one-by-one, consider taking a leaf from the shipping industry and figure out some kind of containerization system for passenger aircraft whereby suitcases are loaded into containers before the aircraft gets to the gate, and the containers are unloaded at the destination.

Caveat: I'm not a business traveler. But, if you travel for business so often that you have status, then your checked bags are priority-marked and they're the first ones on the carousel anyway. As a guy who most often travels internationally and thus gets a free checked bag, even without status I never seem to need to wait more than 5-10 minutes for my bag, even on international flights where most travelers are checking bags.
Oh that's interesting. I looked up the Issue [1] and it looks like it was an upstream bug, but also if you're using that version of Python (which, of course, we are) you'll still have that problem. Thanks for chiming in, you're gonna make my life a lot better haha.

[1]: https://github.com/google/yapf/issues/342
>Java is only suited for small to medium scale?

Never said that. What I said was that in the small to medium scale Java was obviously more performant because of the persistent instance & multithreaded model. But beyond that it really is no longer true. The immutable "shared nothing" process forking model of PHP scales horizontally very easily.

>Java web servers are multithreaded

this really is a disadvantage when scalling. The default linux thread stack is 1024k for 64-bit VMs, can't find what's the minium if you tweak it enough. You can see how bad that scalles to thousands of concurrent requests.

And then there's containerization and microservices, where each instance needs a full JVM.

>This is why companies like Google and Amazon run their stacks on Java

You can make anything scale with Google or Amazon budgets.

Again, just listing some pros and cons of both approaches, both of which I think are not even the best.
I don't have Siri, and I generally don't have my phone near me all the time. Same for the wife, it's super awesome to just be able to talk to Alexa. I share the privacy concerns, so I am hopeful https://mycroft.ai being a suitable replacement as I have ordered and plan to build a better rig to handle the deepspeech.
Thats how I code in production.
Since I've started using black as a pre-commit hook and an editor extension, I have noticed that I tend to use inline-if expressions and lists comprehensions much more liberally, because I do not have to worry about formatting all the time. Begone temporary variables!
It's not throwing more money at it per se, it's supplying a reliable funding source. Because insurance companies deny funding so often, and public funding is unreliable patchwork which can ebb and flow with the attention and power of individual politicians, provider services for mental health are much smaller than they could our should be to serve our population.

On the other hand, if an individual provider can rely on getting a fee for service without crazy overheads of private insurance approvals/unapprovals, then they can make a business commitment to supplying that service. This costs far less overall when you don't have to price risk and extra work into the service rendered.
Wow, you’re a government and use hubspot for emails with defense counsel? Oh wait no your comment is irrelevant.
Well, for Reddit, I know that tech subreddits really don't like it if you drop a link and don't provide any additional commentary in the post. This is doubly true if the link happens to be "medium.com" because Reddit is already full of downvoted posts submitted by content marketers.

If you aren't a regular poster on the sub that you're placing the link on, why would posters bother opening said link? You have to participate in the community as well, and that includes providing content in the form of Reddit posts as well, because Reddit users don't like clicking outbound links with no context.
That's a mostly invalid counter-objection. Technically true, but with context its usually recoverable.
The tracking pixel doesn't provide any material information, it just tells you that a certain computer downloaded the image at a certain time.

It doesn't tell you WHO downloaded the image (but you could deduce that if you had other information, such as who was using the computer at the time it was downloaded) and it doesn't tell you WHY that image was downloaded (was it because an email was opened? Or was it because the email was scanned for viruses?).
Depends where you live. Many clubs display prohibitive/punitive fares on purpose, by the owners' own admission - not everyone is a rational market agent.

In many clubs there are also areas (usually smoking ones, but also backrooms, lounge areas, and so on) where the sound is muted and conversations (and other things) easily take place.
autopsy

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It seems like a very outdated part of America's immigration philosophy, but it is such a fundamental part of American culture, that I'm shocked it has recently been relabeled and scorned as "chain migration".

Sure, "Talented Doctor Immigrant" migrates to the US and sponsors "Illiterate Cousin", but IC finds a less skilled role, and still has the familial support of TDI. In fact, oftentimes, this takes the form of small business loans. It's basically how every ethnic community in the US flourished, from German migrants settling the midwest to recent immigrant-fueled boons like the Indian population in Edison, NJ.

The system may be a little outdated in the globalized world, but it's a source of labor that mitigates the risk of antisocial consequences (IC turns to crime, is exploited at work, becomes a burden on the government, etc). I don't entirely agree that it's the "right" of a new immigrant, but eliminating it could have far greater consequences on the future of American than it may seem.
>oh wait that's the promise of our last N mayors who haven't done anything.

Sounds like what ever metric is used to determine these are good people to elect is broken and needs to be adjusted.
How does IB compare to Cray’s new interconnect? All supercomputing nodes these days appear to be water cooled, high density servers with a number of Nvidia GPUs connected to a low latency interconnect fabric, along with a Lustre/GPFS storage cluster. The interconnect fabric used to be the secret sauce, and IB has commoditized it. Why buy Cray?
So this is what actual True Detectives do?
> Instagram

Don't see its utility. It is a proper time waste.

> Whatsapp

It is indeed the most popular, but isn't unique in what it offers. Many others do what whatsapp does just as well, but none have the number of users.
Yeah - it was only padded, safe, and inclusive for people like me. Those where the days.
I've wanted something as good as Inkscape, but native on OSX, this looks interesting
I feel like ADAM (https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam) is a huge step in the right direction. You convert from standard genomics format to Parquet and then work with the resulting data in spark with genomics-specific libraries.

My experience has been translating domain data into spark has a 100X improvement in data analysis.
FB CTO Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears
I haven't used Black in production; does it work well with a fully explicit .pylintrc file, or does it do its own thing? I think interop with Pylint would make or break such a tool for me.
> These demonstration microgrids are delivering a reported utility bill savings of 20 percent to 60 percent, primarily in avoided demand charges, and some have successfully islanded during power outages.

Super promising. Especially considering how many parts of the state face zero power this summer when PG&E tapers transmission in fire-prone areas [0, 1].

Not that power is normally that reliable in rural parts of the state. I had a friend in rural Sierra county who would regularly experience intermittent black-outs. If the line running down the canyon to Sierra City (pop. 221) was knocked out by a fallen tree it could take a day or two for PG&E to restore power.

[0] https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natu...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-es-radical-plan-to-prevent-w...
in the real world, buying the houses across the street let's you decide what sits there.
I studied Biochemistry/Comp Sci and the foundational biochmeistry book imo is the Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. It goes over the basic biochemistry and once you understand that things just start to “Make sense. Once you have those basics you can read the wikipedia article and things start to click.

On the other hand, as a person who’s worked on sequencing software I’ve found the biochemistry knowledge to only be incidentally useful - though I may be underestimating some of the “basic” assumptions that were used day to day.
Crowd sourcing to map the human body
A Nazi Controversy Deep in the Solar System
Highly recommend checking out Glenn Fiedler's stuff for a modern, standalone, take on game networking/physics code.

https://github.com/gafferongames
Can somebody please ELI5 his whole phenomenon? I don't really understand who are the targets (other than Nate Silver) of all his polemic. From my limited exposure, he's basically making age-old conservative points, arguing that the Enlightenment ideal of human knowledge has strong (but unidentified) limits.

Why is he so popular? And how did he get so rich on Wall Street if he just thinks randomness blows all the statistical experts out of the water? I know I'm missing something.
Oopsie. Some poor bastard is having the worst day of their career.

I find it concerning that it was even possible for this to happen, regardless of whether it was intentional.
It likely will. Not in a direct fashion, but which ever city does the best job solving the problem will create an outlet for other cities to send their homeless/mentally ill towards that city. So on the local level, fixing the problem can end up making it worse.

It is a sort of prisoner's dilemma, and while you can say you will choose to do what you think is the right thing regardless of cost, you will find that most people will only follow that so far (though they will not likely admit it to avoid the social damage admitting such will do).
The Mood Ring of Algorithms Could Zap Your Brain to Help You Feel Better
I read the article. Some of the advice might be valuable.

For me though, it's fairly straightforward:

- Decide what I need to work on, and try to visualize the end result as clearly as possible

- Put phone on DND

- Turn off email clients

- Close browser tabs not related to work

- Put on noise-canceling headphones with some music that has no lyrics (e.g. electronic, synthwave, etc.)

Then I work.

I can stay in "the zone" for many hours using this method, and tend to accomplish my best work. Furthermore, I can do it uninterrupted, except for the occasional 5-minute restroom break.
We use pre-commit.com – configure your project with dotfiles for various tools so things like editor auto-format & lint, pre-commit, etc. can pick them up, and then have a Git pre-commit hook which is also run by your CI tool for consistency.

Here’s a reference:

https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/coding-standards

The CI check can be pretty simple — for example: https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/concordia/blob/2f813f18...
Why on earth would it convert this:

printable_chars = {
33, 34, 35 [...and another few hundred ]

to
printable_chars = {
33,
34,
35
[...and another few hundred lines ]
> Ideally looking for some framework or such that handles the boring stuff like automatically

Lol, you're going to have to put in lots and lots of effort, no matter what stack you use. What do you even mean by "boring stuff"?
Isn't Baidu under government control anyway?
Levels.fyi seems to disagree

See here : https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Facebook/SE/E3/

It is closer to a 155K + signing Bonus.
I didn't realize only macros were germaine. In that case yes, it is as simple as you make it sound.
Does the AMT Tax Compound?
I have ISO shares. If I exercise my options I understand I must pay an AMT tax:

https://blog.wealthfront.com/when-to-exercise-stock-options/

My question: I plan on exercising my options and I will pay the AMT. But is the AMT triggered multiple times if my company raises subsequent rounds, or am I only subject to the tax once at the time of exercise?
Fair point(s) when taken out of context. But considering (a) I tempered that implied criticism with glowing praise for their work and (b) clarified that I wasn't targeted the criticism at them personally, it seems to me you're looking a little too hard for something to be offended about.

I'm passionate about protecting the open web because I believe a modern and free democratic society literally depends on it. And yes, I know that sounds quite dramatic, but I believe it wholeheartedly.
Shadama: A Particle Simulation Programming Environment for Everyone (2017)
Looks like they shut down a big part of it, our instances are all down.
Meditations on First ThinkPad: How Lenovo Adapts to Changes in the PC Industry
Many capital-I Informative RFCs reserve things like HTTP Header Names. Some of the easiest examples are April Fools RFCs that reserve all kinds of things, and while some people do like to use HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot (https://http.cat/418), that's not a capital-S Standard.

The IETF has workflows for Informative things versus Standard things. It's still useful to "reserve" things in Informative RFCs in case the RFC later moves to the Standards Track. Or also as some of the April Fools RFCs seem to indicate the internet takes its jokes pretty seriously and you never know when an Informative thing maybe adopted just because it was interesting to some developer for some project.
silicon-slinger? cringe.
>I don't see how this gets any better with single-payer/government funded funding routes. I don't want anyone to know what I discuss with my therapist much less a soulless corporation or the government.

If anything I would expect it to get worse, since the government has an incentive to use this in far more areas than an insurance company.
Since they started charging for checked bags, now everyone tries to carry on as much as they can which results in slow boarding and getting off.

They should be charging for overhead bin use and make checked bags be free (along with small bags under the seat in front of you). This way most people would go back to checking bags and only the business people or people willing to pay would carry-on.

With planes being so overbooked these days I often carry my bag through security (which slows that down!) but then gate check it for free (so the airline is now losing the revenue).
it's worth noting, the only 2 companies that paid out were willing to take the next hiring step with him. In the grand scheme of things, paying out a couple thousand is nothing compared to how much those companies will pay out to the recruiters, so it makes sense if they want to hire the guy. i mean they already spent 50k or so on the recruiter, what's another 1-5k for an assignment.
I hate to be this guy, but isn't this why printers and physical books exist?
Not only are tracking pixels an invasion of privacy, they've held up in court as proof of receipt.

I helped build a product that blocks them at the enterprise level without affecting the presentation of the message or requiring end user effort: https://messagecontrol.com
Deliberately ambiguous sentences mean 1000 meanings to 1000 followers. Then these 1000 postmodern intellectuals write treatises on the meaning of this, by adding their own ambiguity. In the end, everything goes.
Great read, and also a strong bull case for Slack no matter how unbearable it gets at any significantly large organization.
Why?

I think it is great that the default option is "hey world! Do whatever you want with this!".

Anything that promoted the free flow of information, technology, and innovation is a good thing IMO.
The real question we need to ask here is why won't it pass in Congress, answer is Democrats are blindly opposed to Trump even if he wants to do something that is great for the country. This is the root of the problem in this case.
and Broadcom is a spinoff of HP.
I tried getting MSan to run but it never links properly for me.
Surely, having such a excellent track record- criminalistic techniques and sciences, will soon reach the level of a true science such psychology.
Tracking peoples' email is no less of a violation of privacy.

Laymen do not understand that simply opening an email can be tracked via image loading "secret pixels". I think that makes it an open secret.
A big advantage of institutions is to collect the long term learning and lessons into more effective actions. Trying to handle it individually is admirable, but it's at a huge disadvantage and without experience with multiple cases to know what might work better or worse for various people.
Graphical Calculus for Products and Convolutions
The Guide to Learning Code and Getting Paid
On the brink of bankruptcy, this startup's CFO got creative