skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's something that could drive me back to CDs or maintaining a collection of MP3s it's this. The word "remastered" on Spotify or Youtube now fills me with dread.

Stop. Please for the love of all that's good in the world, just STOP.

"Remastered" would be fine if it was just cleaning up the sound and improve the quality but it's not. So many are worse versions of the originals because someone decided to "improve" the original by adding stuff just for the sake (it seems) of "making their mark".

Outside of music it just reminds me of the terrible changes to the original Star Wars trilogy (can we get the originals, Disney, PLEASE?).

If you really feel like you need a different version, do it. Just don't hide, destroy, delete and otherwise eliminate the original.
I dunno; if they're like most developers I know, they'll end up picking up a hodgepodge of skills that they missed in the bootcamp, which will let them plump out their resume.

If they can't figure out how to write their resume after they've had the experience, I don't feel too bad for them.
The TI-99/4A Home Computer
That depends on your time horizon. Probabilities of catastrophic events tend towards 1.0 individually. But within the same time horizon you can keep it close to 0 with sufficient redundancy and recovery.

So the tradeoff would be risking a finite amount of human lives in the short term to reduce the risk of a total loss in the long term. I.e. over time it becomes fixed vs. fractional cost.
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I think a combination of hardware and cloud services could give you a cheap way to run pretty much anything you want. I will try to share what I am using :)

Tooling

For CI I bought a cheap Intel NUC that just sits on my table and runs Drone, Node-RED, my testing environment server.

1. Here from Drone I get all the test pipelines and most of my executable/docker image builds at a much better speed than I would get with Travis, CircleCI and so on. My desktop runs a Drone agent too, so never waiting too long for new builds.
2. Node-RED is used for various automation tasks such as healthchecks for all my services with rate-limits, a bit more complex checks (rather than just simple /health or /status endpoint ping), mailgun webhook handling, github brew formula updates and so on. It does control my TV too :D
3. I also run some tasks on Google Cloud builder which is free and fast.
4. Uptimerobot is also used (http://uptimerobot.com/) as it provides free, second opinion whether my services are down or not.

Compute

For compute I opted for GKE (at the time it was the best managed k8s you can get (and it's still probably is)) on Google Cloud with 3 1vCPU 3.75GB RAM VMs. That gives me plenty of resources to run my stack and any additional side-side-project on it. I tend to code in Go so I don't need much resources. I use managed postgres as a database so I can sleep peacefully.

For additional services I ended up choosing Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/) as they have many regions available and their pricing is really good. There is a nice, non-official CLI and so far their uptime was quite good (few issues but nothing major).

It really depends how much time you want to spend on ops. If you are fine with doing quite a bit of ops, go with Vultr or any other cheaper cloud provider. If you want to spend more time on features, go with GKE and fully automate deployment. Git push -> Google Cloud Builder -> Keel (https://keel.sh) -> new version deployed :)
Linode has a $5 “nanode” VPS and scales very cheaply compared to AWS.

Namecheap does free ID protect for domains.

PayPal offers a good micro transaction fee rate if you plan to do small ($10 or smaller) transactions.

You can use services like Algo or Streisand to set up a relatively secure auto configured Wireguard VPN.

Nextcloud gives you a HIPPA compliant personal cloud for email, calendar, chat, etc.

GitLab offers unlimited free private repositories and some basic CI.
That seems like it was a failure of the interviewer to ask the right (or any?) clarifying questions.
That you can interrupt long running system calls with a signal provides a way to add a timeout to system calls that may (or probably will) block, by scheduling a timer signal with alarm or setitimer in advance of the possibly time consuming system call. Which is more clear is certainly up for debate, of course. Additionally, that break sends an interrupt signal also allows the user to bail out of long running system calls and at least potentially get back a responsive system.
They fought for them because they didn't want the outcomes produced from unfettered industry. I don't see why the tactic (fighting) and the outcome (more equitable society) should be treated as mutually exclusive.
That's not a "simple text based site", it's simply a landing page. A "simple text based site" would probably be easier for everyone involved.
I think Rust is probably too complex for the average enterprise developer who seldom thinks about code outside of work. Not that these developers aren't smart - they just have different life priorities than a lot of HN readers and Rust experts.
How much of my mortgage[0] is due to compliance? How much of my student loan[1] is due to compliant websites?

[0]hypothetically

[1]hypothetically
I live in Austin, which as far as I'm aware has Prime Now.

I've mainly had issues with getting deliveries to the apartments I've lived in. I'm not certain that the problem was Amazon. It could have been that the carriers thought they could get away with claiming I wasn't home when I was, etc. I recall once that UPS or FedEx told me that they didn't want to deliver to my address and I'd have to go to a location in north Austin to pick up my package. I eventually convinced them to do their job and deliver the package. Another time I got a note from USPS telling me to pick it up from a specific post office, which I tried to do, but it wasn't there and was actually out for delivery again then as far as I recall. I decided that I'm not going to play these games.

When I started getting delivery to my work address (which always has a person there to accept packages during business hours), the situation improved, but was not solved. Work doesn't like personal deliveries and this limits the size of items I can get.

I made it clear to Amazon that they need to improve the reliability of their carriers if they want me as a customer. Amazon's statistics suggest my experience is quite rare, though, assuming those numbers are true.

Once, I tried an Amazon locker, but the locker wouldn't open for me and I had to get a human to fetch the package. I would start to think that I'm on some internal Amazon shit list, but I later ordered a $100 electronic item from Amazon with Prime and it didn't come in on time (delivery to my work) so they refunded me fully. I think the problem for that package again wasn't Amazon's fault. I assumed the package was lost and wouldn't be coming in, but after about a week the package appeared. Amazon said keep it for free even though I was willing to pay again. That's nice of them, but I think I've lost more than $100 worth of my time trying to chase various packages over the years so I'm still at a loss as far as I'm concerned.

This wasn't the first time I had issues with Prime's delivery. When I lived in the DC metro area shortly after Prime started, Prime would us a local carrier called "LaserShip" that was so bad that I decided to cancel Prime so I could get a normal carrier instead. Prime was a downgrade as far as I'm concerned. Everything I've read about LaserShip online matches my experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserShip#Package_tossing_and_...
While I want the web to be maximally accessible to all individuals it seems like these lawsuit have had a chilling effect on things like opencourseware and open access to university courses.
> How the Selzes came to support anti-vaccine ideas is unknown

Anyone have a hypothesis?
From the article, we don't know how much a moderator "can take" daily. Perhaps studies haven't been done. Perhaps it's too complicated a subject for good tests. But, they could check with organizations who have experience already with employees having to watch horrific crimes.

The chief information security officer in my organization came from our state police where he headed the internet crimes against children division. People on his team had to watch videos like the ones described in the article. Despite having all hardened officers on his team, team members regularly cried at their desks while watching videos. His team members had to be taken off-duty for weeks every six months to recover. They had mandatory counseling even when off-duty.

I would think FB and other large companies could look at the measures taken by police forces with similarly disturbing jobs as a guideline for the contractors.
Does Neven’s Law Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
One example:

https://implementsblog.com/2015/04/07/better-checked-excepti...
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You will essentially kill dozens of people once they hit an interstellar cloud with anything bigger than a sugar molecule at 2/5c.
Meta-Analysis of Vitamin D Supp. and Cardiovascular Disease Risks of 83k People
"Aggressive law firms are only making things worse."

Are they? Would you, or the one writing the cheque, care without them?
Accessibility consulting pays bonkers money these days due to the demand; even the a11y places like Deque and Usablenet are being asked for on-site a11y practitioners and they can’t find enough of them to refer companies to.
Why would I use your product and not habit tracker on my phone with daily reminder?
I usually just treat it as a pun between "Right/Left" and "Right/Wrong".
> SIMD and prefetch instructions that can make things like a memcpy more efficient.

Or just use REP MOVS. Modern CPUs recognize it and do optimal memory copy internally. Prefetch instructions are rarely beneficial, and often cause worse performance.

Edit: Apparently AMD Ryzen lacks REP MOVS optimization. SIMD based memcpy performs the best on it. (Intel supports REP MOVS optimization since Ivy Bridge.)
The Faker You Are, the More Successful You Can Be
I am surprised after reading a lot of comments here (not all), that I have not seen any discussion of Cognizant and their role. I am no fan of Facebook and I believe that they have significant responsibility here, but the contractor is, imo, the party directly responsible.

These people do not work for Facebook, and we don't know the nature of the contract in play. Are they paying per person, or a lump sum for some capacity at some accuracy rate. If Cognizant automated all of this would it be accepted under the contract?

Anyways, I don't want to shift focus away from Facebook so much as wanting to recognize the contracted call mpanies like Cognizant (which is what the whole article is about btw, with some comments referring to Facebook). Accenture and Cognizant really shouldn't escape the scrutiny just for being overshadowed by a bigger name.
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The problem is that comments like the GP lead to religious flamewars, as indeed we got a small instance of here.
Complying with laws that have been around about as long as the web isn't some nuance.
If you want to make a website accessible without much effort then don't add shitty animations that hide content, don't use divs for buttons and links, don't use modals for everything, don't make text that's barely readable, etc, keep it simple and stick to semantic HTML. I made a checklist years ago https://github.com/miguelmota/web-accessibility
Looks like they're using the SmartCar API (https://smartcar.com/tesla/). The app does most of the actions the API provides, but maybe the bot can help with aggregating data like previous locations or odometer readings?
Yes, it is things like hype and first mover advantage etc.

What most people don't understand is that merit and popularity are two completely different things. And they will always find these technical rationalizations for why one things takes off and another doesn't. But it's all side issues and the technical merits often barely matter to popularity.

For example, the new "cryptocurrency" Libra being promoted by Facebook and supported by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal (sworn enemies of cryptocurrency since it completely invalidates their business model) has got to 5,437 stars on GitHub practically overnight.

Yet there is some technical debate as to whether this is even truly a blockchain technology in the end due to the closed validators and reliance on fiat.

But if Libra launches, it could easily become the largest market cap, just by virtue of being inside of WeChat/Facebook.

Assuming Libra goes forward, for Ethereum to have a chance to take off, Ethereum 2.0 needs to complete its scaling upgrades and launch before Libra. And what they need to be popular is just to be attached to something trite but addictive (like Facebook). So to accomplish that, having a simple library that developers can use to embed a lightweight wallet in a mobile app, perhaps something derived from nimbus, so that a mobile app with a normal install process can contain Ethereum. Once the scaling is available, all it would take is one popular game to use it for micro-transactions, or a popular chat app to embed it. Or it could be anything as long as it's popular. For example, a NSFW apk that had to be sideloaded and has a library of Ariana Grande and other celebrity upskirt clips clips, that uses Ether subscriptions to unlock exclusive softcore smut. Just any garbage that lots of people will get off to. Like Facebook.
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There's also the possibility of passing a law around this issue. It doesn't have to be entirely market forces.
anti-vax aka pro-disease
You can run a decent amount of stuff off OVH/Hetzner/Online.net dedicated server with monthly rental price under $100/mo.

At OVH you can have a Intel Xeon D-1540 (8 c / 16 t - 2 GHz / 2.6 GHz) with 64GB ram for like 90 Euros/month + VAT (US link: https://us.ovhcloud.com/products/servers/infrastructure-serv...)
This is one thing that C# finally fixed. If you go to the downloads:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2

you get "Build apps - SDK" and "Run apps - Runtime". So you know what to
download depending on your situation. for years it would just say "SDK" and
"Runtime", which to a new user means pretty much nothing.

I think Java still uses the confusing style, they should stop it as well.
There are a few neat features that Tesla's app doesn't offer:

1) You can use it from your computer browser. (Anywhere that Facebook messenger works!)

2) It can find nearby ChargePoint stations.

3) You can ask it "Does my car have enough range to drive to San Francisco?" and it will check your car's range and the distance required to travel there!

I'm not involved with the development, but we know the folks at Passage AI building this and I hear a lot more exciting things are coming soon!
Maybe they just want to see the world burn and populations cut heavily so as to avoid overpopulation and further co2 emissions. I think they are doing god's work. Where can I sign up and chip in?
The speed may have something to do with liability..25mph being the speed limit in residential areas of the US.
The fact that these kind of shock videos are even a thing, kind of disproves your point.¹

There are also people who are habituated with cutting into living bodies (surgeons) but the difference is they are highly paid.

It's a bit unfair to equivocate and call this kind of work a good option for some people, when the vast majority of people who are in these jobs probably will be psychologically harmed by it² and are doing it because they have few other options.

It is relegated to an underclass, like all dangerous and undesirable work.

1: Statistically at least.
2: See also: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228141419_A_Slaught...
"Underspecified and misaligned notions of interpretation impede progress towards the rigorous development of understandable, transparent, trusted AI systems."

Powerful thesis. Essentially these are the steps forward:

1. precise definitions of interpretation, yielding interp-metrics

2. develop and train models that optimize both prediction accuracy _and_ interp-metrics

3. voilà, aligned objectives yield trusted AI
And why wouldn't you try to understand? Is all the spiritual talk keeping you from engaging from what this person has to say about life? Look at it any way you like, but this guy (Sadhguru) has influenced hundreds of millions of lives.

Before you go and judge him just take that into the account. Ask yourself, what have you done for other people? Even if he has some sort of a capitalist agenda, at least his main motive in the public context is to be helpful to others.
Nice, very informative!
C++ still needs to allocate and free memory too and for all we know naive C++ might spend more time in memory management code than a GC language.
The closest analogy I can see is

code - blueprint

configuration, content - building
I guess you understood as much as I could envision it. Start your design phase by modeling all the forbidden state, errors, exceptions. Everything else is either 'good' or 'non critical'.

to mock TDD a bit: Paranoid Driven Development

But that's still a shower thought theory you know :)
I'm a colorist that works on a lot of music videos with more than a few VMA's under my belt.

It's not uncommon for us to deliver 1080p compressed masters (at the labels request) despite having shot and finished in 4K or even 6K.

Typically delivery specs to the label are 1080p ProRes 422HQ or DNxHD175 and an a 20mbps h.264 web "master."

Unfortunately, youtube's compression kills things that are even uploaded with enormous master quality files. I recently did a video for a major artist that was shot primarily on 35mm film (some bits were 16mm and 3.2K Alexa) but the uploaded versions look terrible despite coming from high quality files. This is due in part to the subdued, low contrast color palette and heavy grain we went with - both of which are problematic for youtubes codecs which seem to be optimized for high contrast, rich color, grain less video. In this case, even though we have gorgeous masters now - the version on YouTube is a far cry from what we've screened in theaters, festivals, and on television. And this is after conference calls with Vevo and YouTube engineers who end up just apologizing and unable to do anything about it. Frustrating.

Of course this true to some extent for every video we upload, but some are much worse than others. Vimeo does not really have this problem (or not nearly as much) for what it's worth.
I'd like to second this. The amount of free compute available to serverless infrastructure is insane! Serverless does have a learning curve but it's worth it to learn.

The next best is Heroku's free tier.
I'd like to see this classic remastered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
That's how I took it at first as well.
It would be a maintenance nightmare for Apple. MS puts a lot of resources towards making Windows run on everything. Apple controls the hardware with an iron fist so they don't have to do that.
From the article you posted:

“In response to current market conditions, we are taking actions aligned with our strategy by adjusting our global blast furnace footprint,” the steelmaker said in a release.

Hmmm, I wonder what those "current market conditions" could possibly be? Also from the link you posted:

As the U.S. and China move toward a resumption of trade talks this month, China has lowered its tariff rates for some other countries, CNBC reported citing an analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

...

Last month, the U.S. raised tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese products, to which China responded with tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods.
Shouldn't those skills generalize to UX/QA?
There have already been such assessments. For instance, in https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon... , Mozilla estimated that writing a given browser component (specifically the CSS engine) in Rust, 51 of its 69 security bugs (73.9%) wouldn't have happened. The other 18 weren't things that the implementation language doesn't inherently help with.
I've had a server made of old desktop parts running in my basement for years. Its rarely gone down, and never during vacations. I've added a UPS two years ago, so unless I have an hours long power outage, everything still hums along.
The difference between getting rammed by a car vs. catching an infectious disease from someone is traceability - in the former case, one can reasonably identify who did the damage; in the latter, good luck finding that one person out of 1000+ you passed by during the day.

Which is to say, it's only all the more reasons for a blanket mandate of vaccination. The society should not allow someone to be this stupid especially when it's not possible to make the stupid pay for their mistakes using regular means (like lawsuits).
Bingo. A left handed person is sinistrous, a right handed person is dexterous.

An interesting place this is preserved is in heraldry[0], and I've also heard it used in cards (a King, in red, facing the dexter).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_and_sinister
This is obviously speculative, I’m not in anyone else’s head.

I interpreted that they were concerned about the thinking that went in to making the decision not to begin charging people sooner.

I felt supported in that interpretation when the founders ended the article by saying perhaps their company was at too early a point for the program.

The feedback seemed to imply they were too far along to have not started charging, so interpreting that to mean they were not far along enough could mean the feedback was responded to with direct action but the underlying thinking remains unchanged.

Like I said, I have no idea if I’m right, but if I am then the last conclusion paragraph validates the YC interviewer’s concern that there’s a deeper problem about how the company is being approached.
I frankly don’t understand why we would want to reintroduce a predator like this. From the article it seems the only benefit they bring is to control deer populations at the expense of farmers and causing discomfort to the general population. Instead of having wolves why not simply have humans hunt the excess deer? If you can test the game for undesirable pathogens it could even be a good business opportunity. Ultimately humans are always in control of the environment even if we choose to do nothing. Our technology and resources are too great to claim we have “unmanaged wilderness”.
Every web community has to deal with this, some types of communities are more prone to this than others. On HN this obviously works very well, also other 90s style web forums don't suffer these problems but that's probably also because those usually have a very close scope and attract only certain kind of people.

Facebook is really broad, so are also online news magazines which are sometimes full of horrible comments (only text of course). Usenet more or less ceased to exist because of that. So in reality this is not a Facebook problem but an online community problem - it just looks like a FB problem because that's the major online community.

I wonder if this could be solved with a 3rd party Facebook integration/startup :-). Anyway, Facebook also has more problems with that, another one being undesired unsolicited contacts which fall into the same category of not so nice stuff about Facebook. People don't see the meat production but the bad smell is really close which is why many leave.
Paul Dirac: The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics