skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these same risks exist with any app. totally agree its a valid concern and deserves more than a footnote, but i don't think that counters anything that the author is praising about extensions specifically.

at least extensions exist within an ecosystem where they are subject to manual review and approval / removal. and in terms of updates, any changes to the permissions show a prompt to the user as though they were newly installed
Because in the West, people were tired of living on top of each other and wanted their space.
MV = PQ
> Many CISC machines (eg Intel's) are CISC in name only. The instructions are translated to micro-ops in the hardware. The micro-ops and the hardware itself, is RISC.

This is a half-truth at best. Unless you work at Intel/AMD/etc. as a chip designer odds are you do not know what is "really happening" behind the scenes, so the underlying implementation is whatever they "want it" to be. The underlying implementations can even change from microarchitecture to microarchitecture.

So internally we might make a guess that microcode must look more "RISC-y" after transformation, given the fact that "some transformation" must be happening. The larger internal (renamed-to) register file was a common trait of RISC architectures, after all, and a lot of microcoded systems historically have been regarded as "RISC-y." But the existence of modern optimizations like macro-operation fusion suggest that the internals of CPUs today renders things much more ambiguous today with regards to "RISC-ness" vs. "CISC-ness."

Fun fact: the original ARM1 processor in 1985 was microcoded - https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/acorn/microarchitectures/arm1#D...
> when I was tested by a couple of police detectives about a theft in a building where I was a security guard.

Why did you agree to take the polygraph?

> Like if you don't answer right we're headed to your place to search everything.

If in the US they can't do that (w/o a court order which they would not get solely based on the way you are describing the situation).

> I guess it was the right answer.

The right answer would have been to not take the polygraph test at all and not to talk to them.
I've been enjoying reading Spectrum's codebase[0]. It's very simple, with little documentation you can understand pretty much what is going on and in the architecture level, is as simple as it needs. The first time I tried to open a PR, I was up and running my feature in a few minutes.

Small summary of the features I liked:

- Simple documentation

- Intuitive structure

- Lots of JS best practices, but still simple

- Event-driven architecture

- A simple API gateway that will just fire events to workers

- Properly divided workers (kind of microservices but with lots of shared code)

- Monorepo

It recently been bought by GitHub(1) and was discussed here(2).

The author has talked in his blog about some decisions he took wrong. Super interesting post(2).

0. https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum

1.https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-g...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18570598

3. https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tech-choice-regrets-at-spectrum/
And one that trusts unscientific methods just because others use them.

That's not the kind of company you want to get involved, ever. If they do that during _hiring_ ...
i complained about unsubstantive comments a while back and got minused into oblivion so... sorry ? i thought i was 'getting with the program' under outdated guidelines.
Decisions like these aren't mistakes.
Judge delays ruling on Bitfinex case, extending injunction for 90 days
1. I don't believe the heat idea. Nor the superior genes one.

2. That doesn't make "these cities existed without air conditioning" a good argument in this thread. Yes, they did. No, that doesn't debunk the heat/IQ linkage idea.
To qualify for the tax relief scheme, games under development must pass a cultural test administered by the British Film Institute that establishes a significant contribution to British culture. To qualify, games must score at least 16 out of a possible 31 points attributed for British settings, characters and development, and promoting cultural diversity. GTA V, a satirical game set in a fictionalised California, qualified in 2015

Seems like that is the root of the problem. How does a game set in California contribute to British culture?
Shocker: https://micro-frontends.org/
Well cross-compiling (aka "cross translation) is made complicated because PyPy doesn't use a normal toolchain, but that's not the problem here. The PyPy benchmark suite itself takes that much memory to run.
You may have seen ten thousand dollars in cash and not even realized it. If you stack $100 bills, it's less than half an inch before you hit ten thousand dollars.
It's pretty unobtrusive.

Addition: if you've ever seen them get a new stack of $100 bills at a bank, with the yellow band, you've seen a $10 k strap.
One thing that I'm trying to internalize is when you're building a side project/rapid prototype, you need to be lenient on adhering to best practices. Here's a good video from Startup School that shows technical cofounders answering the best practices vs. speed question: https://youtu.be/tSW-GePDwn4?t=1365

They talk about not having unit tests, or CI/CD, etc.
Which was brilliant (no pun) as it keeps up with inflation.
I'm still blown away people want a shiny piece of dirt on their finger at all.
Otherwise known as 'we found a way to charge ~$350 for an Open Source OS.'
> video based on mass reporting - leaving the system open to be gamed by anyone who is okay with the ethics of brigading/report bombing. This is a VERY common thing these days.

I would say the “angry mob” is one of the biggest threats to free speech in our generation. If you can’t get the government to silence those you don’t like, try and get them deplatformed everywhere.
They have everything to do with showing that the primary field that makes use of IQ, psychology, is unreliable.

If someone says that IQ is unreliable, they're likely right just given the track record of that field.
This is a video I recall watching recently that backs up your point.

Not sure if anyone has refuted this person's points but they are pretty alarming no matter what side of isle you sit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqBeXJ8Zx8 (What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab)
Because that's the current social matrix in some societies but it need not be.
That worked really well for cigarettes and alcohol. Time to face the truth: these type of taxes are a way to profit off of people's behavior for the sake of the politically connected.
At least on TV there are now pressure sensors in the seats to catch the butt-clenching thing.
...but it is. For a lot of people it's the only job they _can_ get. They don't have other options.
This is spot on. I say this as an aging person living in irreversible and progressively increasing discomfort. To quote an old film title, whose life is it, anyway?
Well, if the majority of a community are renters, politician A's pitch theoretically would fall short also, compared to "elect me and I will create lots of affordable housing, rent will fall or stay stable and you will get more of your most valuable possession - disposable income"

The problem is even in that situation, the money of the home owner and apartment house owner speaks more loudly than the interests of the apartment dwellers.
This is a issue that many churches in America are uniquely positioned to help with. They often have busses, an army of people willing to volunteer, and wide open spaces totally unused on weekdays.

But church leadership would rather spend their resources waging a war against people’s sexual choices and getting involved in political positions. It’s sad to see religious resources so widely unused to help those in society in this time of need.
Agreed Daniel!

> Maybe this weird era of SV-type a-social-life-and-sleep-is-for-pussies work mentality is actually starting the begin of its end.
> Or not. Maybe we're fucked

Well, we are very smart here. We have all worked through challenges, adversity and naysayers and landed on the top.

However, we still have a long way to go.

We still have to ask ourselves - so what's next?

Each of us run FIRE simulations on our wealth, set our objectives on how much money to make next quarter so our conservative withdrawal rate on retirement still gets us the money we need to enjoy life.

Why don't we run simulations on what happens when we get there?

What do we do then?

Who all do we spend it with?

We can engineer complex systems that scale to a million users: we sure can engineer our own lives to scale to a dozen or so people if we give our future equal priority as the JIRA tickets on our plate this week.

Surely?
I wonder if there’s a First Amendment claim there.
Intuitively I would guess that this could profit from using a more sophisticated color difference function [1] which accounts for human color perception better than simply RGB component differences. And even if one uses RGB components, making sure that gamma correction is handled properly might make a noticeable difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference
The seasons won't be disrupted mate. The seasons depend on the tilt of the Earth's axis as it rotates around the sun. The worst case scenario we're looking at is a shift in the fertile zones that crops can thrive in. That shift is far easier to deal with in a global warming scenario than a global cooling scenario. If we were to be entering an ice age, crop yields would go down and food supply would shrink. As it stands, warmth and CO2 are good for plants, so it's not likely to damage food supply at all.
Read the first sentence and thought it might be an interesting discussion of how Jewish culture handles social connections across generations. Read the rest of the post and am disappointed (and kind of confused).
Yes, but it also affirms what the parent was saying: if something doesn't smell right, get a second opinion. In this case, Horowitz got advice that said "do this thing that gives free money, even though no one else does it". That seemed too good to be true, and that's what triggered his insistence that the general counsel look at it.
or abusing their tax exempt status.
Same dilemma for me.
But I think environment priority is more important because freedom can't exist without environment.
(now, it just could happen that my current phone breaks for a very unfortunate, totally unplanned, "accident" :-))
ill just stop using hn

sorry.
Someone mentioned joda-time. Does anyone know of other exemplary java repos?
I am not sure what you're saying here, it seems like it's really subtle, playing off of stereotypes. How do Jews relate here?
It looks like the regulation only applies if you have a physical building in California. Since Lambda school is based in California, they have to abide by the law.

You don't need all 50 states approval to run an online school, but you will need the approval of the state that you are actually in.
Let's just say at the time I was a bit of a heavy drinker.

And the technique basically was to spend about 15 minutes having possibly the most uncomfortable conversation I've ever had about sexual relationships, pornography, sexual fantasies, etc. -- none of which they actually cared about. The intent was to make me as absolutely uncomfortable as possible. Then he moved on to a few quick questions about drug and alcohol use, which was such a relief, that before I realized what I was doing, I had answered fully and truthfully.
I assume eatonphil is correct, but to be honest I’ve never even tried, and in my view that’s actually part of the point: full commitment to immutable infrastructure, made really easy. If something needs to change, I tweak the Dockerfile or the task definition or a config file and redeploy. No more SSH.
Regardless of this I expect, as a paying customer, to be asked and have that choice respected.
not even a little bit. the advances that were made in multi-process firefox and reducing memory usage and speeding up firefox are all on the backs of webextensions existing. it freed up the developers from having to worry that some internal api getting changed will break the extensions. it simply had to go.
If the majority of the community identifies against it why is it constantly upvoted?
I saw it too - amazing to see a steam locomotive that size moving under its'own power!
All I really want is emacs for the web.
Committing to answer "yes" to every question without registering it enough to even understand it would make your polygraph "fail" even if it actually worked well in real usage.
Ooof, I'd hope they would have improved CPU use when handling lots of GIFs. Tusky and Mastodon's web frontend handle pausing offscreen GIFs pretty well, my fan doesn't spin up at all (unlike Slack's desktop client last I used it).
Your phone hardware might work for many years, but you will probably stop getting security patches for the software soon, so it won't be in great condition security-wise. Newer applications might start using features in newer version of the OS. The software, frozen in time, will make it gradually less and less usable even though the hardware is fine.

By contrast, my PC is over 10 years old and runs the latest up-to-date versions of the kernel, drivers and other software. I'm hoping the Librem 5 will be similar.
Where did you purchase the lab grown diamond?
I come from a country where almost everyone serves in the Army for 3 years, between high school and college. People are much more mature when they enter college, and young people are much more capable than they are here in Silicon Valley.
> Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel

Just wanted to point out that Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel is a character from The Simpsons who satirizes the type of person that people generally refer to as "hillbilly".
Why do you want a diamond (natural or otherwise) on your finger at all?
> It would be interesting if you could just program with an L1 exposed and structured as a main memory rather than a cache ...

During the boot of the computer, you can. At least you could a few years ago, I'm not sure about brand new processors. Anyway, the boot was (and maybe still is) done in multiple phases and at first the RAM is not available. So at first the code only uses registers. But this is extremely limiting (I'm not sure there are even compilers capable to emit such code, so you have to write that shit in assembly language). So one of the first thing to do, even before you have the memory controller programmed and calibrated, is that you flip a bunch of model specific registers, run a tiny loop to touch a range of addresses, and update the MSRs again to prevent the cache lines from being evicted, and BOOM! You go into the Cache-As-Ram mode. Later you will initialize the memory controller, and leave Cache-As-Ram. I'm not sure if you can hard-limit to L1 though (well obviously you can if you restrict to a small enough range). Probably L1+L2 is used most of the time? Not really sure...

Maybe you can take a look at coreboot and actually program the application you want in there instead of under a traditional OS. Seems fun :P
I often wonder too about the "nuclear is too expensive and complex" objection that is brought up so often. Any solution to climate change is likely going to be the most expensive and complex effort in human history to date. No doubt every option is going to be hard, but how is nuclear harder than anything else?

I've also heard a number of people lament that nuclear is really the best choice from many angles, but solar and wind are winning, so let's just throw out nuclear and run with the winner.

I'm not comfortable with either of these conclusions. If nuclear is the right thing to do, let's do it. And while we're at it, let's switch to Thorium also to address the weaponization issue. Yes it will be super expensive, yes we are on the wide end of the uncertaintity cone at the moment, but it's climate change so let's get moving.
Frankly, I have never seen before such a sun during an entire day, and in now it lasts for a several weeks! It is very strange, especially when main news channels says almost nothing about the situation.
As John Dewey said, “politics is the shadow casted by big business” and until businesses are democratically owned and managed, this will continue to be the case.
I think church leadership is helping with the issue of senior citizen loneliness, for those senior citizens who are willing to become bigots, which is a lot of them: Don’t you think that the church-led wars against people’s sexual choices are designed bring fighters on both sides closer together?
For reference this is the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5aIvjNgao
I've been to Gasworks Park and I agree, it's a strange idea. Nice park though.

Reminds me of the "cookie dough" smell in Palo Alto: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-...

> So it was that while running, but not so much as to force my body into open rebellion, I noticed something odd. When I was heading down the gently sloping hill on Peter Coutts Road towards Stanford Avenue, I turned right as usual to head back home, passed along the edge of a grassy area, and smelled...cookies. But not really cookies. Raw cookie dough. Outside.
Why do we have clearly divided zoned areas for work and residential again? What era did that start?

If you really, really want to know: https://www.amazon.com/Zoning-Rules-Economics-Land-Regulatio...
There's already a big "grid" in place in the western US: the Colorado River. A first pass solution could be to desalinate on the coast and then pump up to Lake Meade to meet all of California's use. Then upper basin states could remove more water, no longer being required to give California their 4 million acre-feet. But the amounts of energy required to do that would be insane.
> Why did you agree to take the polygraph?

I wanted to keep my job. I didn't want the cops to find my weed (campus housing) and maybe get kicked out of college. Nobody had threatened to fire me and I may well have made the wrong decision. But I was very easy to replace and the condominium was full of paranoid rich people with lots of time on their hands.
I agree that the price is very painful especially when compared to Chinese Android phones that offer phenomenal value (just not in terms of privacy). I hope the open source phones succeeds regardless.
We had the draft for a while.
How is Lamda School any different from Thinkful who has been doing this for over a decade? I have a few friends interested in online bootcamps?
It may be common but it happens. My anecdata differs. I consider myself a working poor and I saw and handled 20k in cash. Granted, death in family and stuff but labelling it money laindering territory is a little much.
No,

Previously, Lam suspended the bill amid mass protests, saying it will expire next July when the Legislative Council’s current term ends. But protesters have continued to demand the plan be axed completely.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/09/hong-kongs-carrie-lam-...
Someone probably did, and the person they told didn't take it any farther. The chain broke somewhere.
I could say the exact same thing about Congress's GDP numbers. It should good progress over the years, until NDA came in and downgraded them. I would be critical no matter which govt it is. The underlying problem I have is with the inefficiencies of the informal counting/measuring process. If the ruling govt pokes its nose in a "supposed to be" independent authority carrying out the process, then of course I would be skeptical. Especially after it has been exposed multiple times.

"it is appalling that people will just oppose and disbelieve anything the current government does"

Frankly, I'm not the one running troll farms and calling everyone anti-national. Nor am I the one killing my accuser.

"I can claim very confidently that you would have no problem if Manmohan Singh announced this news."

I would believe the news by anyone who has integrity.
>Researchers have spent decades to figure out a perfect solution but came short.

The problem is not with knowing how make a secure voting system. We already know how to do that and it's been in production in various states and counties for decades. I was lucky enough to grow up in one. It's not difficult.

The problem is that election administrators in many places aren't tech savvy enough to know the difference between a Diebold machine with no paper trail and weird hooks (like the ability to invert the results), and actually secure, reliable, easy-to-use systems.

Those folks are susceptible to skilled salesmen from big companies peddling insecure voting systems. As are politicians who have a say in which election machines are purchased, and who are looking for kickbacks, donations and revolving door jobs. That's the problem that needs solving.

DARPA and Galois are working on a standard that I hope the Federal Govt will eventually require for all Federal elections. Create the best possible, open, verifiable voting machine standard, allow any company to implement the standard, and then teach election administrators how to verify the implementation correctly adheres to the standard regardless who the manufacture was.
Author here -- was hoping to be on HN for my post on exploring sorting algorithms with 2D visualizations [1], but I guess this works too. Glad a lot of the points here resonates with the crowd.

[1] https://dotink.co/posts/visualizing-sorting-algorithms/
> Or is it only _experienced_ coders that are in demand? Are employers just lamenting how the majority of applicants have barely any experience and little depth of knowledge?

The tech industry projects a 'talent shortage' of senior software engineers that these companies are unable to find. But instead they get 100+ junior level applicants which are ignored by them.

The problem is that companies are reluctant to provide training for juniors or entry level applicants as they prefer to hire one experienced senior developer just to do the work of 20 junior developers with a $100k salary + stock. However, most companies are unable to afford this and they simply complain that there is a 'talent shortage' of these specific developers.

Even if a junior gets to the onsite interview, they are asked to write a series of algorithm tasks on a whiteboard to prove that they are qualified. Simply having a 1st class CS degree is not good enough for any candidate. So the actual 'talent' they are looking for are developers who are at FAANG companies. If they do find them, they are directly hired (No tech interviews) which is rare.

> I don't want to spend years of my life and who knows how much money learning a new skillset only to discover I've joined an ocean of low-skilled coders who won't have any serious job prospects for 5+ more years. :/

The point here is that if you are applying for a junior/graduate or entry level job, you now need to further differentiate yourself from the other candidates and programming is simply not enough. If you were to switch careers into this one, you have to be prepared to show what you have done to convince the hiring manager to take you on, since they can just either hire a senior or an internal applicant* to take the role instead.

* Some companies hire candidates internally and prefer them over external ones due to their connections to the company.