skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also argue that if you need to turn a cache snoop into a network round trip (or several?), your abstraction is just as broken as if it returned the wrong value; it's unusably slow :)
Most alkaline batteries manufactured today don't contain any mercury. Maybe since like 1996.

http://www.rayovac.com/products/batteries/educate/faqs.aspx

https://www.duracell.com/en-us/help/faq/do-your-batteries-co...

https://www.energizer.com/batteries/energizer-max-alkaline-b...
Actually that would be much better.

There is hope though, React Native for Windows team did a presentation showing how bad Electron resource usage was versus their React Native for Windows prototype.

So maybe they could do some advocacy to the VSCode team and start a migration movement.
I'm not talking about Southwest vs. some other American carrier in 2019, I'm talking about American carriers in general in 2019 vs. American carriers in 1985. They had more room back then, but ticket prices were much more than they are now, after adjusting for inflation.
you got a link to the Slack engineer's comment?
"[Dupe]" doesn't seem appropriate when so much time has elapsed that we can't even comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Github's PRs are pretty bad at letting you comment on code near the diff lines (you can do it if it's within 5 lines, but if you have to click to expand the entire file, you can't comment on the expanded parts). I also like how Gerrit lets you comment on specific parts of the line, rather than the entire line.

Finally, I'm a big fan of the various labels that are common. +2 Code Review means I reviewed the code, +1 Verified means that I ran it and it worked. Those are different things and having to have both makes the responsibility clear, even if the author is adding +1 Verified.
The point of the payout is not really for the people who did not get a job -- its just a good place to put the money. These lawsuits are actually to punish the companies so they change their ways. 11m as pointed out is a rounding error for google. I would be surprised zero happens at google related to age determination as a result of this lawsuit.

Had the lawsuit resulted in 1B -- something significant -- I can assure you that something would change in the way they handle older applicants.
Well, I wasn’t completely crazy. There was just a subtlety I missed.

https://vsupalov.com/database-in-docker/
simple table-based layouts

Nobody who ever used table-based layouts for anything of substance would describe them as "simple".

Back in those days, websites would regularly specify a minimum screen size (800x600 and 1024x768 were popular) and woe to anybody with a smaller display...
I'm not speciffically referring to the "industry out to get him" narrative. Perhaps there is a reason for the industry not to like him since he's competition, but I dont believe there is any organized campaign. What I was referring to was that he has made a name in the general public and is not politically correct nor "tamed". Obviously he's going to get plenty of negative attention.
At least in the US, I go to the grocery store because I enjoy going. Because I buy so much online, and I telecommute, it's just my excuse to get out of the house...

... And, honestly, I'd rather buy fresh produce and perishables in person. The rest of things at the grocery store are usually cheaper in person.

Anyway, IMO, the real value of online shopping is that you no longer have those 3-hour trips from store to store to find that thing that everyone ran out of, or has poor selection. The grocery store for staples is the last thing online merchants can really replace.
>I like to think of desktop Linux as a DIY hobby; but not something that you can expect commercial software vendors to support.

I don't use desktop Linux myself and I'm not usually a desktop Linux advocate at all, but I know that a lot of developers use desktop Linux professionally for good reason. Public administration in Europe is also very gradually moving towards using more Linux on the desktop (in spite of well publicised setbacks). There is a lot of public pressure in that direction.

Desktop Linux may not be important now, but it probably has more growth potential than anything else. And if it grows even just a little bit, the impact on Windows/Mac-only cloud solutions will be disproportionate. It doesn't take a huge percentage of Linux desktops to make Windows/Mac-only cloud solutions very cumbersome.

I think it's a smart move by Dropbox to occupy that niche now, even if it's loss making. There could even be a bit of a moat, because Microsoft and Google both have reasons (Windows/Chrome OS) to drag their feet.
If you're going to tip, do it in cash and hand the money directly to the person that you're tipping. It is a fairly safe assumption that a third party collecting tips is going to pull some nonsense on that worker.
Interesting idea! I'll wrote some boilerplate that I think is a bit nicer:

https://gist.github.com/mbarkhau/60fc4bbe505914369ebd2fec1ab...
> This is a thread about immigration. If Thiel's opinions on immigration are to be considered, then his own behaviour in that regard are absolutely relevant.

No, it's not. It might be germane if (1) his behavior demonstrated that he was particylt untrustworthy on this topic and (2) fact claims were being made that could only be accepted based on trusting Thiel.

It might also be germane if we were discussing the credibility of his claim to believe in the position he lays out rather than the merits of that position (this is actual a special case of the preceding.)

It's also potentially useful as a filter as to whether it's worthwhile to both considering his opinions and participating in the discussion in the first place; many fallacies are pragmatically useful in terms of whittling down the universe of ideas to decide which one are more likely to ve worth spending more time analyzing. But once you jump into the discussion on the merits, well, there is a reason fallacies have been identified.
By the amount of attention this issue gets, one might actually think it were a real problem and not something that a specific segment of the population really wants to focus on. Even the open letter itself only mentions "conversations" and "proposals." No professor at a major university seems to have actually be sanctioned or punished for what they say on this issue, despite all the conversation around it.

We can compare that to the 10 trans people murdered (according to Wiki) just this year alone. And that's just the ones Wiki editors decided merited inclusion. There are probably more, some unknown, and countless other trans individuals who face violence and harassment on a near daily basis.

Meanwhile, the hollowness of these arguments and the crocodile tears of the people who focus on them is laid bare when considers the amount of anti-BDS legislation that have been passed, with many universities requiring speakers to sign statements saying they will not and have never engaged in BDS.

These people, these "philosophers", simply want to be allowed to be transphobic in public without consequences. But that's the real heart of freedom and free speech. You can say what you what, it's true, but you're not free from people talking back or deciding they don't want to hear from you.
Likewise. I'm at a point where I just do not trust Amazon. I also pretty much only buy with Amazon as the seller, which in some cases is annoying because they seem to change to another seller a lot of the time. Only because if Amazon is the seller, returns are usually easier.

Even the Basics brand is just about worthless as far as anything technology/electrical as the quality is usually lower than the value on the price.

The irony is I'm finding the Prime Video selection more valuable than the shipping/buying experience lately.
I was a 5+ year VIM person before I jumped to Emacs. The killer feature for be is comint. Back when I switched there was nothing quite like it in Vim and I really wanted to interact with a bunch of different Shells from different buffers.

Comint is still the number one feature for me today.
This is what I was thinking about but didn't it even had a name..
You're probably right, but, if "6+" means "100 teams", then "6+" is the wrong label.
Incentivising an Ethical Economics
I can prove (by counterexample) that this statement is false - I was hired at 41.

In fact, I'm somewhat dubious that there's any googler who doesn't have a reasonably close colleague hired above the age of 40.
Don't forget screen-share and video chat
Industrial revolution: has nothing to do with this. Some forms of human labor were automated. The set of all human abilities was not threatened. AGI is fundamentally different because AGI will automate everything a human can do. Increasingly important distinction. And not something I would overlook in the hundreds of hours of rumination I’ve put into it.

Can’t stop countries from doing it: yes, we can. A tin can dictatorship can’t do it. And besides, it’s a problem that depends a lot on academic work being published and shared among researchers. It’s a collaborative effort largely. Some rogue state trying to do this while avoiding inspections and inquiries by larger nations, and with no support from reading publicly published papers from other researchers, it would be tough. But with a large majority of anti-ai countries we could do a lot to prevent even covert attempts.
Huh. On the freeway (CA-84) in the SF Bay Area, I keep on seeing an ad for some seminar on H1-B to EB-5 (with Bobby Jindal headlining as a speaker). I wonder if it's related, other than (presumably) being a conduit to invest in Louisiana.

(Lots of people on H1-B's especially from India want a faster path to get a green card rather than be stuck in limbo for decades..
Immigration would be great, I agree. One issue though is "astronaut families", where several family members (such as children) move to Canada, but the income-earning parents stay abroad and send money. Then they follow along when they retire.

This can really distort things, because it's a lot of foreign capital coming in without the productive industry and income taxes being present. Then later it becomes a social services burden.

Many of those kids do grow up to become awesome Canadians, so that's good though. But some of them choose to move back abroad after getting their citizenship and education, when it becomes time to work...
> because you cannot identify an individual by IP either

Yes you can, particularly if you correlate across different websites.
What's wrong with Redux? I find it relatively simple...I actually like that there's basically only "one way" to use it.
> What is NASA's manned programme for now? Maybe the Moon. When, who knows? Maybe Mars. What architecture, when, how, for how long? Who knows. Moon orbit? For what, when? who knows.

In the past 10 years, NASA has had an answer for all of those questions. Two different ones over time.

Also, SNC's Dream Chaser isn't ablative, and it's funded by NASA's CRS-2 program.
The website lets you pay $0 for tip so you can tip in cash. I haven't found a way to set the tip in the app. Unfortunately, the website is much less reliable than the app and frequently has issues.
Bill Gurley answers on behalf of Benchmark here,saying they lost about $3.5 million but he would do it again (this answer is from 2004, seems he's addressed it in later interviews as well): https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-did-Benchmark-capital-l...
Maintaining Laravel
RAM is cheap but slow, and CPU cache is precious.
That's funny, I was just rehired at Google. I'm over 40. 4/6 of my coworkers are over 40. I sat on hiring committee for 4 years before I left a couple of years ago (FB is a terrible place to work, BTW), and we _NEVER_ discussed the age of a candidate. Looking around my office (a major US office), and I'd estimate > 50% are over 40.
Biggest US Prison strikes yet again ignored by media
Yes of course who cares about the strikes in prison. They are a bunch of criminals. But what about basic human rights. Why so much injustice. Better hang us, If we don't deserve to live please kill us rather not kill us by serving bad food. Or torturing us. This what an inmate told to us.

[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/28/pris-a28.html Article]

2018 prison strike sill one of the biggest strikes in prison so far in the States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_U.S._prison_strike

But did we learn anything?

My brother is in Denver correctional facility. in the same facility, they have been doing regular hunger strike for about a month. But no seems to care. Do we care?

Can we do something about it!
In the last two companies I worked in it was us low level employees which were begging IT for Slack, until they reluctantly accepted (because of costs and of fears about hosting confidential chats on 3rd parties). Nobody was begging for LimeChat or IRC.

And what about Discord? It's almost exclusively used by people in their homes, there is no company pushing it down their throats.
Perhaps I should say business class.

Anyway, I'm talking about the level of service and comfort: great meals, blankets, pillows, beautiful and friendly flight attendants, hot handtowels, free wine/beer, even some warm socks for wearing to the bathroom, are all standard in economy class. Several of these are probably not even available in First Class on American carriers, such as the handtowel or socks or free alcohol.
Eventually a toddler gets over the guardrails, except for the ones which are materially disabled.

I have deep and profound doubts about the notion of guardrails for general intelligence; without even considering the ethical concerns, a general intelligence should be able to simply rewire itself to achieve what it wants. a key part of self-reflection and learning is that rewiring.

so I think that it's a self-defeating notion on the face of it.

(note that I do not have comment on the actual dangers involved here, but only on the philosophy)
The changes that made it faster and use fewer resources have been incremental for the last year. This is just the last of the modernization updates that has completely removed the last of the original architecture's source code
Uber published a study with 2014 data here that says their drivers make ~$20/hr not including expenses which they estimate at like $3/hr https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1s08BdVqCgrZWZkV0ZfZnhGUGc...

This MIT study says $8-10 after expenses https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/591430857...

Plus given that drivers could be trying to drive when there's no demand, its very possible for people to earn below minimum wage.
It's not really that you shouldn't use it because it is dangerous in itself. It's just doesn't do what one would naively expect it to do. It's still useful as "flush dirty pages" hinter while preparing the real fsync.
>Democracy isn't new its older than communism

Many anthropologists would disagree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism#Nature_of_...
Excellent! Any resource suggestions for a digital signal processing novice? More interested on the musical end, but also in general.
The thread you're linking to only has 2 comments.
The last Gift HN was 5 years ago. Nowadays, with current marketing strategies, Gift HNs are guaranteed to be abused if endorsed.
Microsoft's TypeScript Makes into Top but Java, JavaScript and Python Still Rule
Mistakes in Translation That Will Make Your International Business Fail
yes and no.

It got a hardware upgrade.

But i couldn't do the hardware upgrade without re-purchasing another Windows license since her install was an OEM install and they don't provide install disks.

Secondly - Windows slows down over time. Horribly. Linux does not.

Third - You don't really have to run an AV in Linux, thus chewing up resources.
Will anything happen if you lie about your age on an application? I don't see how your age, race, or sex should be taken into consideration unless you are doing a job that requires strenous physical labor.
I grew up in Detroit, and detroiturbex.com was the first ruins porn site I remember looking at. It even has a before-and-after picture[0] of my locker at the (now demolished) Cass Tech!

[0]http://detroiturbex.com/content/schools/cass/thenandnow/img/...
"Real Humans Get You Get Stuff Done", am I having an issue with reading comprehension, or is that nonsensical?
They don't have any PII and are therefore not subject to GDPR. They have data that, if it were not anonymized, would be PII, but it's anonymized and therefore isn't.
There are 28 States operating their own legal systems in the EU and each is free to pass (and does pass!) its own employment and business related legislation albeit within some boundaries of EU law. While I can’t answer this question, it’s not that big of a shock there might be legal issues.

The EU’s “Freedom of Movement” alone does not guarantee a business a right to employ individuals in all 28 States, even if it does greatly help in removing some barriers and permits you as an EU citizen to work In any of them. Any of these states can place additional legal burdens on Gitlab as the employer that it may not be able to meet in its current form, which is presumably what has happened.
Likewise, I've been looking at Walmart.com more often as well, but even there they seem to have other sellers. I'm unsure if their actual supply chain is any better or not though. Amazon really ruined it.

Aside: I'm also disappointed in Newegg at whatever point they started allowing third parties. Worse still is a number of the third parties list the same products as different items/codes so search is a pain sometimes until you select newegg as the seller.
Ton is underestimating the market considerably, but he's still right in that it's a tiny market. But what he misses is the fact that Autodesk isn't developing its DCC tools for profit. They are for prestige, that is, supported by image marketing rather than sales. So the dev headcount is probably too low as well.
Beyond the Valley of the Gig Economy
This has been my experience as well writing cross-platform software (some of it proprietary in the past).

Because different compilers and different stdlibs do things in subtlety different ways, that may just work on one platform by chance. Memory alignment/layout is often slightly different for example.

Then IO behaviour is often quite different on Linux and OS X despite both being POSIX... (and once you need high performance or Async IO, you're using native APIs anyway).

Memory behaviour is also quite different in terms of buffering, when memory gets freed, etc - e.g. on Linux you often need some malloc_trim(0) calls to actually release recently-free'd memory), on other platforms that's not as necessary, so there are subtleties there.

Different platforms often have different includes as well (on Linux, you generally use GCC's STL/stdlib, on Windows it's a totally different set).
The US doesn't allow dual-citizenship either right?

My girlfriend and her family have Taiwanese, Chinese and US citizenship/passports though. Wonder how that works
Are you sure that you bought a modern system? ATI hasn't existed since 2006 and I believe AMD stopped using the brand name almost a decade ago; it's all AMD now. Also AMD GPUs have had really good FOSS support in the mainline kernel since the late 00's. Unless you were trying to get fglrx to work, in which case that was a huge mistake.
Joel's article is the famous classic, but he proved himself wrong when his company, Fog Creek, built Trello from the ground up, sharing no code with FogBugz. Trello became a huge success while FogBugz languished. https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewr...

(I think this article should be the new classic.)

> My takeaway from these stories is this: Once you’ve learned enough that there’s a certain distance between the current version of your product and the best version of that product you can imagine, then the right approach is not to replace your software with a new version, but to build something new next to it — without throwing away what you have.
No, after 5 years eneloop AA batteries still retain ~70% of their charge. I have been using them in remotes, bathroom scales, flashlights, and the like for over a decade and they usually last a couple years before I need to recharge them. The only place I have Alkalines any more is my emergency box, and those tend to self-corrode almost as quickly the NiMH self-discharge.

I think the name brands (Energizer, Duracell) have similar performance these days as well.
> they’re either jaded, stuck in their ways technologically, or obstinate towards being managed by people younger than them

Again, (mostly) stereotyping:

"jaded" - I'd argue this hits a lot of front end developers after about 5 years. How many new frameworks have there been in the last 5 years? There comes a point when any sane person will look at the newest "killer" framework and decide to wait a couple of years before investing time in learning it, just in case next year's "killer" framework turns out to be more fun to learn.

"stuck in their ways" - this is more a personality thing, I think. Most people will find their comfort zone pretty quickly, and then get grumpy when asked/required to venture outside of it. Risk aversion and/or laziness doesn't, in my view, increase significantly with age.

"obstinate towards being managed" - this one is a problem that everyone has to face as they grow older. The sad fact (from what I've seen in my age group) is that some people just cannot come to terms with the ageing process, that there's going to be younger people who are better placed to do a team-leader/manager job than they are (because: longer experience in the industry). But that is something that can be worked on - the important thing is to demonstrate a willingness to at least give it a go, offer support to the younger manager (be a wise owl, not an old owl), and be an excellent team player. At least that's my attitude.
> That's just wishful thinking.

That's just pessimistic thinking.
The 5 Whys of the Apocalypse
they say 'tip in cash', but I never have the physical cash to tip. This always brings me anxiety when I dont have the physical small bills to provide. I would ensure I use a platform (as mentioned in the article, like grubhub or seamless) that doesn't garnish the electronic tips for pay.
>until someone better is voted in.

At this point, this seems like wishful thinking. Maybe we'll get someone better voted in in 2024, but I wouldn't count on it.
I can't say I've used the custom charging current options, but the refresh mode has rescued some batteries that (very unscientifically) did not seem to be holding much charge.

IIRC the default behavior is to charge at 200 mA and discharge at 100 mA.
Shorting a stock is not a basic feature, it's an advanced feature for power users.

You can buy put options on Robinhood already.
20% immigrants is still pretty huge for a European nation.
What was the normal work around? Looping over the urls and `curl &`?
Oh I don’t disagree. Literally going through bit by bit and zeroing any bit not equal to zero would be grossly inefficient especially if you know it’s unnecessary.
Consistent across OSes; I haven't really done native desktop dev but it's my impression that the elements you're given can't be customized to nearly the same degree that they can on the web, via CSS.
FaceApp, the fad-of-the-week (that might be a Russian spy)
I'm confused why this has become a story again. Recode reported this back in March and there was a bunch of controversy about it raised back then, with Instacart reversing course and DoorDash doing nothing.

I think it speaks more to how quickly we get outraged and forget than anything else.
This probably has to do with local regulations. For example (this might be part of our reasons to hire there) in Spain all employees now have to clock in and out https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/13/inenglish/1557739540_96...
It don't know about Raspbian, but Armbian (headless) fits in 1.2GB
> Ram is cheap

RAM is cheap...and not upgradeable on the majority of devices in the world.