skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A car grants a whole lot of freedom that many progressive people are really excited to give away.

A car grants dependence on a long supply chain (oil drilling, shipping, processing, storage) of fuel that the government can easily sever. Not only are you dependent on the supply chain but you are dependent on the government and foreign governments to maintain it.

If you really want to be a freedom loving, rugged individualist then you'd get an off road capable bike or a horse.
Software to fix hardware issues. Was this also developed by Boeing engineers?
So... running Linux swapless is a thing? How popular is it?
so? do you read scientific papers in order? I don't.
Nice Article!

Much reading to do on his blog :-)
Not all temperature is equal, I've experienced 40C in multiple plates (California, NC, NY(not C), Spain and (once) the UK), in California and Spain it was bearable with low humidity and helped by infrastructure used to it, the rest not so much.
I like the idea of snail mailing a PIN number for an online system. But I’m a layman on the security issues that complicate what seems easy, is it the MITM risk of anything over a wire?
Yep and it's about as good as just picking a random process and killing it.

It's awesome when you run out of memory and you try to log in only to have it kill sshd.
This, if made right, is indeed helpful. I have some friends working at early stage startups without understanding esop, even some can’t distinguish options and shares.
Not only does Minecraft work on Linux for me... on the same machine with some weird old intel integrated graphics drivers, opengl flat out doesn't work/isn't supported on Win10!!

Nothing a jump drive and a .deb file can't fix! Thanks MS for having a heart.
on the cultural differences.. I've always loved the saying:
Europeans see 100km as a long distance, while Americans/Australians see 100 years as a long time.
> However, when you're building financial systems, there's absolutely no room for mistakes

Then I can assume that all of your financial software has verification proofs and/or is fully model checked? If not, then clearly there is room for mistakes even in finance.
This is why one uses mlockall.
Is this Microsoft? If so, good to know they've adopted this policy!
Apple handed out free cases for the iPhone 4 for a while to mitigate issues where the cell signal would drop when you held the phone a certain way. This type of action wouldn’t be unprecedented.
Nobody's existence is political. That's just extreme language used to distract from the discussion.

Policies follow the law first. If there are specific requirements then, like I said, that's up to the individual to discuss. These issues are not the concern of everyone else.

No company is forced to do anything beyond the law just as the individual is not forced to work for the company. If the issue is with the law then it should be changed through the appropriate avenues, not hashed out in the workplace.
Morality is irrelevant here. Expecting people to "just hold it" indefinitely is simply unrealistic.

It may not be the responsibility of a private builder, but private builders operate in a larger social and regulatory landscape. Society as a whole needs to come up with reasonable rules that people are capable of complying with. Doing otherwise creates a broken system that goes very bad places.

When I was growing up, peeing in the shrubs (or on a wall or wooden fence) was fairly common, especially for men. If you want to ban that, then you need to provide enough public restrooms to make it a reasonable expectation to use the appropriate facilities.
https://github.com/Feh/nocache
Not if it's a near-polar orbit. They'll probably need some in that orbit eventually.
What do you think the result of that would be for Iran?

(not saying the result would be "right", just what it would be).
> moral and philosophical education along with ability to independently think

That's a fairly good description of Machiavelli.
Natural lung disease flavor.

Seriously, could they be any more vague than "Natural and Artificial flavorings?"
Ctrl-Cmd-Space in most text edit fields to open the character viewer to enter emoji and other common unicode characters
Reminds me of the hacking/cracking argument.

The commonly accepted definition of squatting is registering and sitting on a domain with no intention of using it other than to sell it at a profit. How a US-only law defines it isn't really irrelevant.
Good point, I-bonds can be redeemed after 12 months, but they have a 3 month interest penalty if you redeem them before 5 years. But that's really not bad at all. So they're long term in that they guarantee their base rate for a long time, but are unusually liquid in that they can be redeemed very flexibly.

I really like those two bonds. I guess that's why they're limited to $10k/yr each :-)
I have solved this by cunningly being born outside of the anglosphere. I own my first name domain in my native language's script (.com) as well as in Latin (.dev, my people are too plentiful for me to have got the . com).
Especially for something that’s actually not available now but in five years ...
@the8472, hah, so someone thought of the same thing. I'd try to leverage /etc/ld.so.preload with a config file as a more transparent solution, but your link proves the point that its possible.
Stop it. Obviously DARPA is looking for security AND electronic voting. Why bring up paper?

Hey a word processor is secure if it’s paper based!
Well my memory for BSD is not fully clear, but when I looked at this back in 2008 BSD handled it better then Linux. The king of sorting this was Solaris. It was rock solid. I would still argue that Solaris is better then Linux as a server, but it does not matter as Linux won. Also, I want my Amgia back :)
Lets drive hatey-sites to deepweb where we can't cencor them! What a great idea!
Iirc you can remap capslock in OS X settings, don't need an addon for that. Thought I'm sure Elements does a lot more than just that.
Ask HN: What is American Airlines meintenance crew doing in this photo?
cmd+delete = moves selected item to trash.

shift+cmd+delete = empties trash bin.

It's easily my goto combo to delete something fast.
Mostly performance
This is the best explanation. As much as managers pretend like lead/senior engineers are on the same rung of the hierarchy, they're not. Engineers are seen as "resources", a cost center, an input that produces an output, a more differentiated assembly line worker (engineers have higher status at tech companies obviously, but it's still the same dynamic).

Managers report to the executives / upper management, and have all the relationships, political capital, and power.

Is it fair? That's a separate question, but not a question the company cares about. Remember a company isn't a democracy, it's a dictatorship/oligarchy, probably led by someone non-technical who's goal is to maximize business profits, not please engineers.

As an engineer I wish it was different.
It sounds like massive amounts of pollution is the problem, not climate change as implied by the title of the article.
This article's quality is questionable. Right from the start, it incorrectly links to the Python version 2 collections module documentation. The article content doesn't vary much from what you'd find in the documentation if it does so at all save for changing the names of variables, values, etc.. Other parts seem handwavy at best. The "Conclusion" is just bizarre.

The Python documentation for the collections module[1] is actually quite good. The page offers the usual API documentation as well as a fair amount of examples for each component.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html
All memory is conceptually backed by some file. Under memory pressure, the kernel (and this mechanism is the same on any modern kernel) frees memory by writing pages to their backing storage, then discarding them from RAM.

There nothing really special about anonymous memory except that it's backed by swap instead of by a named file on some filesystem. On a system with swap disabled, the backing store is still conceptually swap, but since the swap doesn't exist, pages backed by that imaginary swap can't be evicted from RAM. Pages backed by other backing stores can certainly be evicted from RAM, however, and that's how you "swap" on a swapless system.

Note that executable code is almost all mapped so that it can "swap" in this way.
Keep in mind that what the Fed is building will just be a backend service for facilitating instant money transfers, not an end-user product. It will be up to the banks to develop the front-end for their customers to use.
I spent a lot of time this last weekend walking along such a reduction of road in NYC--Broadway near Times Square has undergone such a road diet.
I think this question may be underspecified. Do you mean web APIs, like their URL structures and request and response objects? Or more like library APIs? I'd have different standards of beauty for them.

One that has always impressed me is the Clang AST matchers API, which allows you to declaratively define a search pattern. You can easily bind a name to any sub-pattern to access this part of the match easily.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibASTMatchersReference.html
Aren’t skateboard deterrents example of this?
The Costs of Reliability
My biggest issue is that everything gets swapped eventual in favor of disk cache. I know there are setting, but..it is just wrong.
> As usual, the dollar dictates the rules

People really seem to believe this, but it always takes them to wrong conclusions here. For instance, everyone thinks California esp. SF is expensive because of "rich developers" but it's not. It's expensive because armies of retired people come to city council meetings and shut down any development because it'll hurt their 60s nostalgia.

Now, those people are acting to raise their own property values, but that's not why they're doing it. They genuinely just hate people taking their parking spots and think cell phone towers will give them cancer.
Most people are coming from outside of London and what you find is that it is usually quicker to drive in and just sit in the traffic than mess about doing park and rides and then travelling in.
I bought the MBP the day it came out, and had to have the keyboard replaced (pre keyboard-service-program, Apple "generously" comped the repair).

Afterwards I used a Ghostcover and recommend it strongly. It slightly degrades the feel of an already bad-feeling keyboard, but not hard to get used to, and it completely solves the reliability issue. A band-aid for an absurd problem.
BoA Travel Rewards does not have an annual fee: https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit-cards/products/travel-r...
Why should they pay $50? What are you charging for above cost of service?
I always hated this sort of statement because it confuses story with theme. Sure Harry Potter and LOTR and the 5th Element all might have some superficial similarities, but each of them is very different in ways aside from mere set dressing.

You can call anything equivalent if you pick and chose what factors matter
> slow storage

Linux recently gained the ability to swap huge pages to NVMe without having to split them. Combined with THP this can be quite fast.
Or compromising the central server.

Some things are worth extra effort to do in a ponderous, slow, and fault-tolerant way.
Venture Capitalists aren't in the middle of nowhere.
Yes it's inexcusable. But If you've already dropped $1300+, do yourself a favor and drop $13 to spare yourself a couple of weeks of inevitable downtime.
What are the terms by which value is measured?
>> It’s happened before us, it will happen after us.

What prevents from `happening to us`?
I've never gotten it to work. At all.
Smashing a window is unnessecary noise.

I've been burgled 4 times in my life, all 4 were either jimmied window or jimmied door (usually a screwdriver as a prying tool).
For MS it's a major exception though (and only because they bought it already with Linux support). Their general gaming attitude is still quite anti-Linux.
A family member works there and can attest to how crappy the PTO is at Amazon.
Sure, for skateboarders.
The biggest change is your jobs goes from doing things (which makes sense) to building an incredible team that can do things (which is a more unintuitive job). In the limit, it’s always a people business.

Overcome many challenges, but per my last answer, building a team of the best people has been the most important and most challenging. That, and learning how to do sales ;)

Too many mentors. People in Silicon Valley are incredibly helpful. To name a few: Dan Levine, Mike Volpi, Nat Friedman, Adam D’Angelo, Ilya Sukhar, Jonathan Swanson, Albert Ni, Jeff Arnold, Charlie Cheever, and Drew Houston to name a few. I’m very very lucky.
A fun read where the "could you still detect" portion turns out to be a very important plot point: Thrice Upon a Time by James P Hogan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/849488.Thrice_Upon_a_Tim...)
One example is the conversion of the Embarcadero freeway into a pedestrian friendly waterfront zone, although that's not quite a fair example given that it took an earthquake destroying it to give it the oomph it needed to happen.
I lived for a couple of years in the Melbourne CBD (off Lt Lonsdale) and never had a need for a car the whole time.

Different story later living in Elwood and working in Port Melbourne, not having a car to commute along the Esplanade would have been a huge time sink.
That's how check kiting works, and AFAIU banks long ago stopped permitting withdrawal of funds that haven't cleared, unless they have other reasons to trust you or to claw back their money.

Perhaps there still are modern equivalents to kiting. I dunno. But, yeah, in any event fraud is a real problem. It's why we can't have nice things, at least without paying an insurance premium.
LaGuardia airport blasts you with a loud piercing noise if you sit on the toilets - an obvious move to keep people from lingering too long. But I’m stubborn and I really had to go, so I can tell you from experience the noise shuts off after a few minutes - I either made it overheat or I was sitting so still the sensor thought the stall was empty.
Home Front During WW2
Benefits are not static. What's good in the short term, doesn't necessarily mean it's good long term. Following the capitalistic ethos, once you have less competition, you can raise your price to match what the customer can afford (which is not competitive, it's exploitative) as opposed to what the market will bear (because there is no market, just a limited or singular purveyor). This is economics 101 stuff. China survives this by government control and investment in the monopolistic companies and ignores IP, allowing small companies to have opportunity to make knock-offs and creating limited theater attrition. When these companies start being noticed (either profit impacts or potential efficiency improvement opportunities, whatever), they are either purchased into the fold or forced out of business by governmental mandate. The US is not unique, but it's also not as free, for reasons that people don't point out very often...ie the draconian enforcement of IP is multi-edged.
This exercise is more talking to ourselves than the future. It is a sort of design fiction[1], attempting to cope with the concept of consequences that last much longer than the initiating actors' whole civilization.

That it isn't fiction is what gives it salience, and the requisite paternalistic 'talking down' to a pre-technical future aspect provides emotional and/or moralistic flavor, if you like that sort of thing.

Eventually, it turns into bike-shedding scary apocalyptic artworks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_fiction
Python limits the stack to a 1000 and a series of recursive calls hitting that ceiling will throw a `RecursionError`.
Analysts’ and Managers’ Use of Humor on Public Earnings Conference Calls
you'd think, but no. "rockstar ninja" hunters always offer "competitive" compensation, which means below average.
I ran across blockstack recently and was wondering if it fit the bill. It seems like Solid minus the linked data stuff. The user keeps control of their own data just like with Solid. They have some initial apps listed here: https://app.co/blockstack

In comparison, here's a list of some Solid apps: https://github.com/solid/solid-apps

But blockstack also has a cryptotoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420
We have a rule when hiring people—we look for people with an internal locus of control. Roughly speaking, this means people who believe they have control over outcomes in their life, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.

It’s a small thing, but it’s surprising easy to spot once you look for it. And it really matters—startups are the business of building something from nothing. You need people who believe they can bend the earth.
> People like to think that generic domain names are somehow common property or something, and anyone holding that property for profit is somehow evil.

Buying property anywhere and then sitting on it without developing it is a negative for everyone in that community, so of course its "evil" and frowned upon.

> It’s as if someone bought the lot across from your house, and then sold it for a profit and you say “Hey! That’s next door to me... they are evil to hold or sell it.. what if my friends/parents, etc want to live there!?”

If that person bought the lot with no intention of ever building on it... you're exactly right! That's terrible, and most developments strongly discourage this sort of situation by requiring the buyer to build a house to a certain standard within a certain period of time, all to avoid empty lots all over the place.

> And with name domains... who says you get that name when there are probably tons of other people sharing your exact name.

Nobody. Nobody says that. What people say is that the first person with an intention of building something on it should get it, and not just the richest person with that name. Squatters prevent anyone using the domain until someone with a lot of money to spend shows up.
How do the good guys ensure that the bad guys aren't abusing the tech without using it themselves?
The Family Affair
ISO certified?
Do you want your neighbors to own flying car?
The technology that allows robots to perceive
AFAIK, most of the Danish cellphone infrastructure was built after TeleDanmark (now TDC) was privatized.
To some people, what you just described reads no different from Lebron James saying “dunking is as simple as shoving the defender out of the way, jumping above the rim and jamming the ball down into the net.”
They plan to use illegal means to cease its operation. According to Article 370 in constitution:

Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this article, the President may, by public notification, declare that this article shall cease to be operative or shall be operative only with such exceptions and modifications and from such date as he may specify:
Provided that the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of the State referred to in clause (2) shall be necessary before the President issues such a notification.

There is no 'Provided that the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of the State referred to'
Any stock that will never return money back to shareholders in a future dividend, share buyback, liquidation, or buyout, won’t have a future value.
We have many clients who have switched from Hive. There’s usually a step change improvement in quality and scalability—up to 10x improvement in error rates.
Some companies have sabbatical programs that arrive at 7-10 years. A paid 6mo-year off? I'm listening.
IMO it shouldn't be all or nothing, here's a system I think would be the best of both worlds:

- Allow people to express voting intent & go through the candidates on the ticket with a website/app (as strong as it can be), which spits out some random ID/QR code

- Widen voting time period to months

- Support mail-in-ballots in more states

- Add a mandatory # of holidays per year (with proof of vote, notification of which local/national election the person is voting in)

- Require people to confirm their vote in person, with the option to vote with the QR their phone generated (and a confirmation screen afterwards for them to review), with every vote required to take a certain amount of time in the booth (to prevent timing people to figure out if they used their cell phone or not).

This setup allows for a few things:

- Early consideration of candidates and their positions and the ability to save how you were going to vote once you're in the booth

- More signals of voting intent that could be used to detect fraud (in addition to random sampling)

This scheme probably needs more thought to prevent election tampering, but I think adding a digital element as additive would be a benefit. If the digital element detects voting intent that sharply diverges from voter rolls, then a recount in whatever county is triggered.
If the chain were public, individuals could look up their vote by the hash but would have no way of proving the hash was their vote.
This is an old anecdote (~2010), so not completely relevant to the current discussion. But I was living in Germany and the only internet option I had was dial-up. I could hardly believe that such a thing still existed anywhere in Europe, but even more surprising was that it was pay-by-the-minute. There were a bunch of different providers that had different pricing plans where sometimes there would be a connection fee, but lower per-minute rates, and sometimes the rates would go down after so many minutes of connection. The landlord set me up with some software that would try to minimize the cost of an internet session. It would tell you which provider to go with based on an estimated connection duration that you gave it. You could also configure it to hang up and dial into another provider if rates changed enough based on the time of day.
Interesting, they're 404'ing.
They're going through Cloudflare which pops up a "this is why this site is down" message usually.
Maybe they fell victim to some faulty CD?
> * You have to evict something. What's your choice if not swap or filesystem-backed pages?*

How about fail to allocate more memory than the system actually has?
OSX handles this with a kqueue event that can notify userland when the system moves between various memory pressure states; this is hooked into by libdispatch and other userland libraries which will discard caches and so on.

I don't see why Linux couldn't do the same; open /sys/kernel/something and epoll on it.
Ahh, Clojure also has access to Python objects through libpython-clj (https://github.com/cnuernber/libpython-clj).
People know full well what they're talking about: holding domains for profit, not any crime, not domain underuse, not domain snatching. That may not be the legal definition of "domain squatting", but neither are the common and legal definitions the same for "brief", "motion", or "harassment". US law narrowing a term doesn't make common use wrong.
"impress" is just a default in the mass-mail, linked-in scraping salesforce plugin they use.
Running sshd as an on-demand (Type=socket) service would probably work better, since then the sshd process would be new and thus have a better heuristic score - also not be tying up memory sitting unused in the meantime.

systemd still seems to run it (Type=notify) with the -D option all the time though, at least on the systems I can check.

Dropbear is configured by default as a Type=socket service though.
People are saying buy the S&P500 index when it’s at a 17x P/E ratio. Currently it’s at a 20.5x P/E ratio.
I used to disable swap because it supposedly reduced the life span of SSDs, but I don't care about that anymore — when it dies, it dies.