skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all infrastructure configuration options are relevant to every use-case. By focusing on specific use-cases, you can hide "irrelevant" config options. This is a fact.

The full statement from the source material says bloated cloud infrastructure "configurations", referring to verbose configuration files. Needlessly critical? It depends on your experience with these.

These, serverless, cloud, and more are abstractions. Fortunately, if the abstraction doesn't fit your needs, you aren't forced to use them.
AMP can be great for us, if they would fix the implementation.
Why not just make your site readable in the first place?
I just had the same magical experience, but with char broil. Frustrated that the assembled grill I'd brought home was not only showing some rust, but was missing grate, I sent them a short note via web form. They called me 2 days later to confirm they were going to mail me a new grate, gave me cleaning tips, and offered to ship me a whole new one if I couldn't get it cleaned up. I was really blown away, and fully expected them to tell me to take it up with the store and sod off.
A Self-Play Policy Optimization Approach to Battling Pokemon [pdf]
Yes, couldn't agree more, the whole experience of manually browsing and playing records physically is something else. I also find that visiting record stores is great for discovery, at least in my case. One reason probably is that when browsing online I get lost in a sea of options and waste more time. Not saying its better but its a fresh change.
(apologies for the stupid typos there, I blame that darned auto carrot)
> I've had a similar extremely amazing experience. I do a lot with 3d printing, and I buy Misumi extrusions.

Excellent products and customer service seems to also be a very Japanese thing.

We used to order ring clamps from a manufacturer, and they would always come back polished absolutely perfectly. We didn't order it that way, and we told them several times that they were wasting money doing that. It didn't matter; there was an old Japanese engineer running that line and he was going to be consigned to the fires of hell before a part with a substandard finish would leave his line.

Then he passed away. And even the tolerance control (which is vitally important) went to shit. It seems that attention to detail is all or nothing.
Imagine a world in which a TV station agreed not to show any commercials, but in exchange would not pay the show's creators, and in fact would charge them for distribution.

The shows would then be able to run their own ads, at whatever interval they wanted, with whatever advertisers they wanted, or they could make all their money through "native advertising" (product placement). The networks could even facilitate the ad buys.

This feels like a better and more workable model. It's like how websites work, where they get to chose how many ad boxes and where those ad boxes go, and then use a network to facilitate the transaction.

And then a toy company could make a cartoon and show it ad free on Saturday morning as a marketing expense like back in the 80s!
The average bicycle isn't any better. Huffy knew this and purposely designed their bikes for a lifetime of 50 miles. We should get rid of them too.
You are confusing about being a genius in a specialized field like computer science that has stricter ways of measurement to being a genius in business which is mainly defined by throughput, even if the heavy lifting is done by 99.999% of their employees.

It is obvious that you need to also be lucky, but you need to be more than lucky to sustain a business for decades. Adding here the Microsoft case, where Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer bought the DOS from Tim Paterson but they built a sustainable business since the 70s while hundreds of competitors died. So, it was not just one hit.
I'm sorry you have been censored.

Controlled opposition and provocation are tried and true methods for controlling narrative and spin balancing. Unfortunately, the silicon valley bubble crowd can neither be disabused of their fantastical notions of reality nor can they accept that their unwashed heros may in fact be a part of the machine they tacitly support.
I mean, SELinux is deployed successfully on north of a billion devices with essentially no false positives and a huge ecosystem to support. It would seem that it has been proven, and at a considerably larger scale than pledges. Not sure where else to go with that.
Definitely. Unions brought progress in terms of worker rights, up to a point. They helped transform the landscape for all workers.

But, like all big and complex organizations they become corrupted and rather than having the interest of workers and society as foremost goals, self perpetuation and preservation become the goals.

Except for Bernie no other candidate explicitly and implicitly supports unions. All the others support policies which would undermine unions, except for where it’s politically expedient.

But this is natural. Even in the proletarian era of Mao, unions/workers suffered descent too. Often a most favored group would be pitted against another when necessary, for example the Hong Wei Bings [紅衛兵]
Unlambda
Ask HN: What to ask when interviewing as a manager/director?
What questions should/do you ask at the manager/sr manager/directory level to understand the company culture and pick up on any red flags? I'm looking for something like:

https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd

but directed at managers instead of software engineers. (Some of those questions would be great when interviewing as a manager, too.) Thanks!
> is no need to faff with routing, it comes for free with your VPC/network or similar

> Always. Avoid. Network. Overlays.

What do you think VPC is?
> suppose someone had broken into my house over the last 5 years and stolen something from one of those receptacles that was eventually thrown out. should I be upset?

Should you be upset if they raided good will safe too?
The Great NASA Bake-Off
What's a beer league?
That seems a rather insulting take on people.
There's a big difference between appreciating black and white photography and thinking that color photography should not exist.
> Right, but why not let my electric car or water heater take part in that market?
Instead of spinning up a natgas turbine, why not let my water heater or car charger take a break as a part of the market?

Indeed, that's precisely what I meant by frequency regulation via demand control and batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_league
>Turner’s commercial load rose 2.4% last quarter to more than 12 minutes per hour, according to Nathanson. A spokesman for the broadcaster said the increase reflected higher ad loads at the kids channel Boomerang, while TruTV cut its ad minutes by 8% and other networks were little changed.

Great, more ads targeted at children... normalize ad viewership when they're young so the future customers won't demand fewer ads. Time for TNT et al to adapt to the new model or fade away.
Haven't had cable TV for at least 10 years now and I can't stand watching most shows at other people's houses who still sit through all the car/truck, pill and insurance commercials. I literally feel dumber having watched a few in a row. I really believe there is a science to be discovered there, like slight or temporary brain damage occurring because of commercials. They're so fake/plastic and I feel like I'm being manipulated through some kind of meme the advertiser is trying to push through repetition instead of on the product's merit.

Edit: What I mean is, nobody acts in real life like they do in commercials. I feel dumber watching people behave that way. I get it's supposed to be persuasive but something about modern commercials just irks me to no end.
Your post is implying a few things that compel me to ask:

1) There is a pure relative ranking firing cut-off at Yahoo regardless of how well the people at the bottom do?

2) Does Yahoo make this clear when they hire you?

3) Your manager was so incompetent that he could not judge your performance outside of customer facing product?

4) A company as big as Yahoo thinks its going to survive alienating the personality that looks for big company culture with that kind of "make the cut" performance review?
With SSE it's 2.6-3.4 cycles/byte to unpack UTF-8 into UTF-32 (ie integers). See https://github.com/KWillets/fastdecode-utf-8 .

Selection (extracting the i-th element) is actually quite fast, but there's some overhead in grabbing a whole chunk of characters and extracting all their payload bits at once.
Yes. I'm definitely way less tolerant of them, now that I'm used to commercial-free TV.
Asymptotically, yes. But if you factor in development time, infrastructure management and security concerns, the point where serverless really "costs more" may be very high indeed.
then use DDG's time filter.
Any form of business larger than a sole proprietorship is a collective action.

The “corporate” form of a business (as supposed to a partnership or other structure) is mostly a matter of taxes, legal liability, and the manner of raising capital and distributing profits.

Powerful unions are typically larger than the workforce of any one single company.
Hm, but then why don't they use a discrete CPU built for this purpose? Many FPGA development boards already come with an ARM MCU.

I'd guess that when the CPU core is on the FPGA, the communication between the CPU and whatever the custom logic does is faster and more in-sync.

Thank you for answering. I have seen a couple of resources on using FPGAs, with those being increasingly accessible to "hobbyists". I often fail to see the "why" in the examples.
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561966

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055516

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448568

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158718
So just use the dock that comes with the Switch and you're fine? I don't see what the issue is...
But unix domain sockets are not pipes, not least in the important way that you can reliably determine the identity of the other end. That can in some cases be an infoleak, and therefore needs independent access control.
I've been using ddg as default for over year now. But I do pull Google results when querying documentation.
That actual trip somebody’s taking on the scooter — that’s pretty green,” said Juan Matute, the deputy director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies who was not involved with the study. “What’s not green is everything you don’t see.”

This title is misleading and a perfect example of the backlash any new tech that challenges the status quo faces.

A more accurate headline would be “Dockless e-scooters...” but instead the author has lumped together owner driven e-scooters, which have very little carbon impact, with rentable scooters, which by themselves don’t have a large carbon impact but the ecosystem around them does.
Have you met many people? :)
If you say "Hey Siri, beatbox for me", it will respond: "Here's one I've been working on. Boots and cats and boots and cats and..." Today I refer to a common four-on-the-floor dance beat as "the standard boots-n-cats beat".
Walk the walk, but luck is a cruel mistress
> But, like all big and complex organizations they become corrupted and rather than having the interest of workers and society as foremost goals, self perpetuation and preservation become the goals.

The same can be said of corporations too.
Also related: http://aosabook.org/en/500L/introduction.html

I would love to read if you guys have more examples of this.
http://archive.is/80quF
but both Google and DDG let you filter by date. Does that not work for you?
So, I’m pretty sure you just described YouTube’s model.
> my finger is on the remote immediately to jump to the next channel

That’s exactly what I did when watching TV growing up in the 90s, before DVRs.

I guess it’s sort of a form of “channel surfing”.
Is that an unreasonable expectation? Programming is the easy bit, no? (Not including design and style)
Does YouTube let you choose how much monetization and when? I haven’t published there in a long time. But it seems like the creators don’t have a choice.
The EU actually has a directive limiting ad air time, however it was weakened 3 years ago: https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/fernsehen...
Okay, I am tipsy enough to post this. I had an absolutely brilliant idea a few years ago and I'm going to share it, knowing it will probably be disregarded and certain it will never be realised.

Commercials/ads should be patterned after a weather model. 9 months out of the year, consumers pay it no mind, and when it happens, it is a hard shock, meaning some people push through and others avoid it entirely.

In the 3 "bad" weather months, there is a rise (1), a sustain (2), and a decline to normalcy (3). Month 2 is wall to wall commercials. Everyone knows August, for the sake of example, is just commercials.Everyone knows July and September are lousy with commercials. Consumers and producers adjust accordingly.

In the 9 month normal, there are scattered showers of commercials, maybe the occasional thunderstorm (elections, sporting events, mass shootings, etc.). In the 3 month bad weather period, the paradigm is Superbowl.

By scheduling the big ad push, companies and producers will be motivated to create content worth watching. I abhor sportsball of any type, but I watch Superbowl commercials religiously. They (we) spend ludicrous amounts for the Superbowl because of the guaranteed eyeballs. This model leverages that concept. Imagine ad campaigns with real story arcs. Good acting, exquisite props and locations, viral explosions of excellent ads. Of course some people will just check out, but most people will flock to a 1-3 month period of atraditional media.
> yes, I travel regularly over 500km one way

But many people don't. I travel more than 200km by car (range of my i3) only a few times a year. And for all those other days, having a charger at home is just soooo nice compared to having to frequently waste time at gas stations.
Is there anything it is like to be a bat?
This seems ... Ambitious. Even if it could happen, I'm not sure I would want it to. Sounds like a world where privacy, intimacy, computer literacy, community, and family ties are all severely degraded.
Have you ever listened to 100 Original Pressings Of The Beatles' White Album Played At Once?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/100-original-pressings-of-...

https://soundcloud.com/dustandgrooves/white-album-side-1-x-1...

http://dustandgrooves.com/rutherford-chang-we-buy-white-albu...
The dock that comes with the switch is big, fragile, and unreliable.
Maybe it’s different at other companies but in my company the people with fresh CS degrees barely know how to code.
I don't see how that list refutes or confirms the claim that nominally flavored water in plastic bottles is still allowed.

The second link says "Drinking water includes purified water, mineral water, carbonated or sparkling water, and electrolyte-enhanced water." which isn't extremely specific, but doesn't sound like it includes soda, so it might not include flavored water.
Nice example of using "gob" to create RPC services. But why call it a "framework"?
The trick is to make them think they've discovered it on their own. Learning how to beatbox is sort of like learning how to dance -- it's going to be awkward at first, and kids can feel self-conscious about doing those things in front of their parents. But if they just happen to find a tutorial lying around and can maybe practice in their bedrooms without any parents watching ... they just might connect with it.
IMO the PD chip should be internally protected to 20V, since accidental shorts between the power and CC pins are not implausible.
Discussed (not particularly well) at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885641
Sabbath: Worship the Creator
Just make sure to ATM0 first, or you might wake the parents when it dials in the middle of the night.

It’s much more effective than trying to cover the modem with a pillow when you’re sneaking upstairs for more late night Tele-Arena on Argus.
Not that simple. This is a multivariate problem including massive student loans, crippling liability/malpractice insurance, regulatory burden and more.

You didn’t get that bill because you just saw a doctor for 5 minutes. You made use of an organization that has a basic cost-per-hour to exist.

This is a simple way to distill what it costs for that entire hospital to be there ready to see your child at whatever random time and day you need them most. That is very different from just seeing a doctor for 5 minutes. What you didn’t see are the hundreds or thousands of people who have to exist for you to be able to get in your car, drive there and see a doctor for 5 minutes.

That’s not to say our costs are not high. They are. Just saying we need to engage in root cause analysis before passing judgment.

Simple example: Our internal machine shop operates at a nominal rate of $200 per hour. That’s what we deem is the cost to utilize that resource. Larger operations can easily have a cost of $2,000 or $20,000 per hour, whether you use the equipment or not.

If you want to lower our healthcare costs, you have to go after real root causes. No amount of insurance scheme manipulation (public option or medicare for all) is going to fix the system until the fundamental structural issues are addressed.
Right. Sole proprietorships and individual workers have similar market power. But without unions, workers have virtually no market power vs corporations (and partnerships, for that matter).

I do agree that both corporations and unions ought to be regulated by antitrust law.
While this can happen, it's theoretical. In 40 years of dealing with null pointers, I've never seen one happen where the offset is outside the protected null page.

The reason is simple - very few allocated objects are that large, and for the arrays that are, they get filled from offset 0 forwards.

The real problem with C is not null pointers, it's buffer overflows caused by C arrays inescapably decaying to pointers, so array overflow checks can't be done:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b44.html
> Are tamper proof outlets mandatory?

Its required by current US NEC code but older house are grandfathered in unless they do major renovation. Also some exceptions like outlets high enough to be out of reach of kids.

Its possible that the UK/NZ plugs have better designs. The code improves step by step here.
are you serious? wolfram research was founded in 1987 and google in 1998. what gave you the impression otherwise?
There are DIY conversion kits like https://www.amazon.com/BASSTOP-Portable-Replacement-Nintendo... that use the original dock electronics in a different form factor
> I don't remotely have a one dimensional view of homelessness. My observation that homeless people are often assumed to all be "crazies" as a dismissive tactic is based on years of experience with the topic.

It is dismissive, but more than 50% of the homeless population have mental health or substance abuse issues, so it's not entirely incorrect either.

The problem is that the general population doesn't generally encounter the 50% of the homeless that don't have these issues since those folks are busy working and simply trying to exist.
You're describing infomercials...

Alex Jones on AM/FM radio works something like that. They give away the show for free but keep some of the ad time (some for the syndication network, some for Alex Jones)
Not sure an FPGA will output enough work to be economical. Probably still stuck with ASIC.
The Final Union for Language and Math
Agreed so many times over. Music on the radio, or from the computer/ipod and most of my CD listening is background music. Putting on a record is a ritual, a conscious choice to sit in front of the stereo and listen intentionally.

CDs do sort of straddle the boundary between background and intentional listening. I own music that I treasure on CDs that I don't own on vinyl. While it's more convenient than records, I sometimes put it on with the intention of focusing on the music.

What's interesting is that a few recordings work better on CD than LP for me. I came to love the Allman Brothers Band in University[0], and Mountain Jam spans two sides of a Eat a Peach on LP[1], requiring an interruption to change the record and hear the whole thing. On CD, it flows seamlessly.

[0] I got into them backwards from most people. Blues Part II by Blood Sweat and Tears got me into longer-form rock, and I found Mountain Jam by searching for mp3 files over 10 or 15MB on the school's network. I have since bought perhaps half a dozen albums I'd have never discovered otherwise.

[1] The Eat a Peach version is the definitive version. The July 5th version from Live at the Altlanta International Pop Festival remains my favorite, but I digress.
I'd argue you don't learn much about RPC from this example code with gob handling the less straightforward parts. Going over what gob is doing would be a good addition.
How about it should have been an actual USB-C port instead of the horribly broken bodge than Nintendo designed?

USB-C PD 2.0 has quite good specifications that take into account the different failure modes and misbehavior that can occur.
I've been happily using ad blockers for years, so every time I get to use someone else's computer I am reminded of what a horrible place the web has become.

On the other hand, I'd like to support creators as well, so I've created a web site that allows readers to make payments easily. It's like scroll, quid, patreon, etc. but I've tried to reduce friction even further by only going with a HN-style sign up form (email/pass) and charging readers only once they've reached a minimum account balance:

https://www.propup.net

My initial impression is that most people will just continue blocking ads everywhere, because it's the easiest and safest thing to do, and I'm not even sure I disagree with that approach.

Any feedback is appreciated.
Image Captioning with Unseen Objects
Biggest problem in your problem is Adobe. It's an utter nightmare to keep up with the constant UI changes - I really wish they'd invest more time in fixing crashes than moving shit around.

If anyone here is at Adobe, please for the love of god hammer it into the heads of your PMs to do three or four sprints dedicated only to resolving bugs and crashes.
Joseph Albers' 'Interaction of Color' covers how perception of color differs based on context.
Decentraleyes and Ublock Origin will block the vast majority of tracking beacons you encounter from FANG sites.

I'm not personally as worried about being tracked by Google APIs, but UMatrix will still block the majority of them -- even Youtube embeds and many Google fonts. That means you get to choose which sites are allowed to load those APIs, which is a huge improvement over just giving Google access to everything.

Honestly, while fingerprinting is still a huge concern, blocking the majority of Google's tracking on 3rd-party sites is pretty easy, since Google tracking is served from consistent domains.

The remaining pain points are stuff like reCaptcha and AMP, which are obviously a big problem, but are not used universally enough to erase the privacy gains you'll get by switching off of Gmail and Google search.

If you're already running a (good) adblocker, you will genuinely be tracked less if you switch off of Google. There are ways to mess that up and erase those gains (cough running stock Android with default settings cough), but it's very feasible for most tech-literate people to reduce Google tracking right now.
Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do
The Learning Curve for Chess Skill (2018)
Another one:

> to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies
> Then again, the "old school" (literally) way is not as "fashionable" as "look at all the cool tech we're using in education"

In fact, rich schools are trending away from computers and digital media towards analog ones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-scre...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309327