skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there were a number of stack machines that were pretty popular in the early days beyond Burroughs (which still exists). As mentioned, the HP3000's were stack machines and hugely popular. The ICL2600 and early Tandem machines were stack machines. And so was the Transputer, which still exists in various descendants.

As to Algol, there's certainly a case that a stack machine is a nice abstraction for targeting an Algol compiler. However, having toyed around with writing an Algol compiler, I think the fact that it's a compact, well thought out language with an rigorously described syntax (BNF) that makes it relatively easy to attack, regardless of target.
The ACLU is currently fighing several battles to keep law enforcement from being able to access drivers license photos for facial recognition in crime related matters. Interesting read. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/privacy-borders...
I've ran into this decades ago with file servers back. Half a million files, takes too long to do a simple for loop and calling 3rd party processes for awk/sed when I was just using them to format/search text. Breaking it down to just to mosty bash one scripts reduced the run time and ended all pauses.
I join keybase and github and hacker news to be able to join and get stellar but didnt allow me.. i dont know what happened but i was qualified cos i joined sept 9.. can someone help me about it.. it was lagging that time i guess theres a lot of people registering that time..
Because that's not how interviews work, basically.

Trust me, I understand that in the real world that's exactly how you would approach these problems.
I think you are underestimating how much people travelled before airplanes were a thing. First of all pre airplane there was a lot of sea travel, which was accomplished by burning ludicrous amounts of coal to generate steam power.

And long road trips used to be a cultural pass time. This is why Route 66 is to some extent still such a cultural / historical icon. It used to be that American middle class families loaded into a gas guzzling vehicle to drive cross country for vacation.
Yes, that could definitely work if you have the skills for it.

There are several cases here:

A) The obvious "go into management" option. This isn't any different than proceeding into management in any other software, with one exception: going into project management, that requires some particular business skills. If you can get business familiarity with some particular business type (e.g. realestate, lending, restaurants, etc.), that's a strong advantage. I'm familiar with people who went both ways (technical to business or business to technical), that is doable and profitable.

B) There's the "do user training" option - probably pays less than what you get now, and you could still be stuck with SFDC in a way. You have to insist on doing more than that.

C) A friend got involved as an external consultant to a project for a client. What she did was to look out that the actual implemtators met milestones and help them translate business requirements into design.

The problem was that her loyalties were divided: she was hired by the client, but she needed the project to continue to get paid. You need some political juggling and business sense to be an external consultant (Pro-tip: lean to $CLIENT's side in that conflict), I'm sure that's way too early for you.

D) I'd like to note for anyone reading this why IMHO being a third-party freelancer isn't a good idea for OP:

ERP/CRM software for mid-large businesses usually has complex licensing, and the customization can also be complex. Both of these push businesses to work with consultancies that do the work (if they're really large or very tech oriented they may do in house). These consultancies have an existing relationship with the customer, and do not appreciate having a third party look and touch their code. I'm guessing that this isn't any different in SFDC-land.

So the 3rd party is limited to stuff done externally that the consultancy is too expensive for or doesn't want to take - maybe some BI, reporting, or even a billing system.

One can set up a business on that, but OP's SFDC knowledge is unlikely to grant him any advantage vs the many 3rd parties that can do these things cheaply. Interfacing with the ERP software is by far the lesser part of these projects, less important than being cheap, knowledge of some common technologies and being very familiar with the BI or cloud du jour.
Most places need to expand the electricity grid so that electricity can be moved from where and when it is plentiful to places that can use it.

If you have a good east-west connection then energy can be sold into the time zones east and wet of the producer.

Good north-south connections mean that hot sunny locations nearer the equator can sell to consumers nearer the poles.

This is beginning to happen in Europe with the construction of big HVDC interconnects between Norway and the UK, Denmark, Germany and many smaller connections, but there is a still a lot of work to be done to connect Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, and countries further east and south.
Europe

See https://ec.europa.eu/energy/infrastructure/transparency_plat... where you can toggle between the display of completed and on going projects.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects#
How can you meet Paris commitments early when you are working on helping oil & gas companies extract fossil fuels from the ground even faster?

https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
I would travel the same. Just with a car. I do three big trips a year of around 1,600km one way.
Pentesters sometimes are leveraged as pawns in political games in organizations - seems similar with government.

I think you are correct, the question is if the right stakeholders authorized this. You can't break into a 7/11 because some person working there authorized it. Authorization needs to be from all proper stakeholders.
The man in the arena will always command a respect the gravedancing haters will never know.
The title made me think you can query The Bible in bash...
What are Amazon's other 2040 goals?

What I mean is, why do climate goals all get to be decades out (21 years in this case). That's like saying "I'm going to get in shape by 2040". Does AWS have 2040 goals, too?

I would like to see Amazon carbon neutral by 2022, 3 years out.
Thank you. This is an interesting idea. I will look to see if my area has something similar (SF Bay Area).
Even better would be the amount of seconds each person is surveilled during their time in public space. Summed as an absolute number, and as a ratio of the total time they spend in public space.

A camera in a busy street or at a chokepoint is worse (or more effective, depending on your viewpoint) than one in a cul-the-sac, even if they cover the same amount of space.
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That’s actually how the world used to be.
“Social crime” rates increase with city size
Airbnb was founded in 2008. My take is investors want to cash out before the upcoming recession.
But Trump is willing to OK Huawei if China agrees to the US's demands. Weird isn't it, that it's not a massive problem if China agrees the the US's economic demands, that suddenly Huawei isn't a national security threat. Almost as if Huawei is not a national security threat and in the first place and it's all been made up to help Trump bully another China...
I just googled "what island nations have been submerged" and looked at the top six links. They are all about islands that have been submerged, are on the brink of being submerged, or will be submerged soon if recent sea rise trends continue for a very short time.
Ditto for the Galaxy Note 10
It's one of those books that is so widely read, that most of the lessons become common knowledge.
I was growing up in poverty for the first 50% of my life.
You raise some good points, and I agree it will take ages before the existing institutions die off. But the internet has transformed (or is transforming) nearly every other industry. Television (Netflix), retail (Amazon), transportation (Uber, eventually perhaps Waymo), communication (Gmail, Slack) etc. I think banking is up next. It's a ripe combination of innovation lethargy (the ancient, outdated tech is just one symptom), a customer base unsatisfied with the user experience, insipient poor judgement or corruption (to the point we've actually bailed them out to keep malfunctioning ones alive instead of letting market forces do their thing), comparatively fat margins supporting intrinsic inefficiency, and more. Some of the peer-to-peer techs (eg. decentralized Smart Contracts maintained by developers in permissive jurisdictions) will bypass regs for a while or limit enforcement to the on/off ramps - at least long enough to demonstrate alternative models (the way Napster did). Eventually new startups will offer the most appealing benefits in a legit, scalable, compliant way and run circles around the old institutions. At least, that's the broadcast today in my crystal ball ;-).
India bans e-cigarettes
How do they get their vehicles and equipment to the non public sections of roads?
Interesting that "whois wordpress.org" doesn't show who owns it.
It's an active genocide on the Uighurs. Why are millions being detained for no reason except being Uighur?
but that's the entire point. Almost all of programming is walking a line between awful and over-engineered. There's sweet spots that one has to find in every part of the software delivery process.

The way to resolve the dispute (should there not be much difference between them) is to arbitrarily pick one and iterate in short bursts to ensure its assertions come good.
To nitpick a bit, the standard iPhone lenses have always been wide angle. The new ones are ultrawide.
I’m fine with the study’s definition if we’re willing to be consistent about it. For example, what’s the cost of all violent/property crime, including jail and prosecution?

Are you willing to say that any portion of that not paid for by criminals is a “subsidy to criminals”? If so, then you’re at least using your terms in good faith. If not, you’re applying the label unfairly.
I quit using social media around 2012. The first year or so was difficult because I had to deal with friends and family not understanding why I was no longer part of things like Facebook which was number one at the time. Now it's been so long that I feel like a complete outsider to social media. Not a care in the world and when I see how my friends and family interact with it, I see it as something that I don't need and probably is unhealthy anyway. It's like when you quit drinking soda and after a certain point you look at soda and can only visual the 40g mass of sugar that dissolved in there.

I guess that's a big long-winded since I never felt like I had an addiction and not sure if this helps. But just evaluate if you think it's healthy, and go from there. However, the most effective way would be to delete you accounts completely and remove any way to re-enter.
So, worth buying ?
LLVM devs don't really care about Rust. They haven't fixed noalias in years, there isn't still a freeze intrinsic in the IR, the LLVM-IR semantics are often not documented enough for the Rust compiler to know whether it is generating IR that has UB or not...

I see a couple of Rust developers working on LLVM almost full-time (like nikic), but there should be more. The Rust language needs to become a more important stakeholder, and for that it needs more paid full-time LLVM developers, infinite loops are UB in LLVM-IR...
SoftBank does not seem so smart to me, I just think between the two Vision funds - 200B, they have so much money to play with, they don't seem to give a shit. And Masayoshi Son, can just go back to the Saudis and get more money if he needs to.
Saturn's inner moons: why are they so radar-bright? [pdf]
Did you ask user's permission for fingerprinting?
An idea: Cameras are deployed for a few different purposes. The more discrete functions you are trying to accomplish, the more cameras you need.

Example 1: Red light cameras. Only needed at specific intersections that have particular characteristics (high speed? high volume? not sure). The distribution of these probably maps more to physical space than population itself as the spacing of red lights is relatively independent of population.

Example 2: Cameras that are aimed at crime suppression. These will be unevenly distributed around a city depending on where crime happens. Looking at Chicago I see particular neighborhoods heavily blanketed in cameras, others very very sparsely. The distribution of this type of camera would be quite different than traffic-control cameras.

Example 3: Population monitoring cameras. I honestly don't know why China has so many cameras. Are these literally population surveillance cameras? These might be evenly distributed around a city to maximize coverage.

Some of the power law distribution you see might be a result of different cities applying cameras for 1, 2, 3, N different functions (each of which requires a different number of cameras).
The most upvoted comment on HN would be how this 5% reduction is just meaningless marketing, probably because Amazon will have increased sales by X%, meaning the products delivered maybe had a higher carbon footprint.
Wut, 1/3 seems extremely Hyperbolic, isn't it?
Otherwise I agree
I read this book -- well, twenty years ago! I wasn't a very experienced developer at that point, and I found the book extremely helpful.

What I've never been able to figure out is why it has never been updated in all that time. Does anyone know? I heard from someone who heard from someone that there was some kind of legal reason they couldn't update it, but I can't really imagine what that would be.

Obviously, lots of books don't go into multiple editions, but given what this one was about, I felt like it couldn't possibly be entirely full of "timeless advice" that wouldn't ever show its age.
iOS 13 Released
Amazon provides this already: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17928921011
Overstock Has Had a Wild Week
They don't need CV for this. They can use beacons embedded in smart devices to tell which part of the building you're in. Worked with one of these guys.
The upstream fix seems to be blocked on DannyBee in fact…
Are there actual direct tax breaks, direct government funding for oil companies?

I'm pro-solar, a TSLA investor, but also feel it seems dishonest to use the word subsidy to mean long-term environmental costs. Those costs are obviously not good for us, but they are not subsidies per-se, using that word gives the impression that the government is directly wiring money to oil corporations.
Eight Improvements for Glide Apps (YC W19) in iOS 13
>a big gap between the shoulder and hand where the blasted stone will need to support itself

And there are various examples in nature of stone arches with a span supported on two sides. It's not as though stone is incapable of spans, it is the geometry of a span. This is a straight span, not an arch, so the distance that can be spanned is maybe shorter than an arch with similar proportions.

And bear in mind this is granite, not sandstone, which has twice the compression strength and tensile strength. The thickness of the granite arm, relative to the span, is a factor. Also the integrity of the granite in the arm after blasting. Also the supporting elements, are they able to be pushed apart (an important failure mode) - seems unlikely here.

>Mount Rushmore was also never completed. The design also included the presidents upper torsos.

That is very interesting! And a good point, they limited scope.
Huawei Rethinks the Smartphone
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 2
Don't come here for the political commentary. Do it for the technical commentary. At least when it is not completely incorrect bullshit.

But the latter has always been an issue here. And there's still enough insight to keep me coming back.
GiveCampus (YC S15) hiring engineers passionate about education
I think one of the key differences between childhood and adulthood is that status in childhood is based solely on one's ability to play the status game.

In adulthood it more based on one's ability to actually perform socially useful activities. Not 100% obviously, but a lot more than childhood.
Israel is also imprisoning a population of about 2 million in Gaza. Not saying what China is doing is right be we should have equal outrage for that.
> Some consumption is good, i.e. replacing and old appliance or a car with a more efficient one

Isn't buying a used (ICE) car better for the environment than a new EV one?
It's a typical strawman. An average US consumer could easily forego half of what they buy (aside from groceries) and they'd still be fine. One would argue that this needs to happen for us to really make progress on reducing emissions. People blame "corporations" and "the rich", but it's like blaming a Mexican cartel for making drugs. They wouldn't make them if there weren't any buyers, and unlike with drugs, pointing out that people just buy too much shit is not "victim shaming".
...and medium blog posts with highlights.
Danny, I am the CEO and founder of Semmle. I will refrain from arguing about the value of our product and technology. However, I must correct your statement about Fermín which is utterly false. He took a huge pay cut to come to Semmle. Please stick to facts when talking about people.
As far as I'm concerned, this move is pure greenwashing until Amazon stops collaborating with oil and gas companies to extract fossil fuels faster.

https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
Thermoresponsive Protein-Engineered Hydrogel AndSustained Small Molecule Release
> That's because you're taking away space (i.e. making driving worse) in a way which is incredibly inefficient. You have an entire lane dedicated to a bus that only travels in it a dozen times a day.

It's more efficient, not less. Bus lanes don't get built for buses that only have 12 trips a day. They're typically for places that have 10 minute frequencies or better. At 10 minute frequencies, with standard 40 foot buses, the lane capacity is about equal. With 2 minute frequencies, a single bus lane has a capacity about four regular lanes.

Under peak loads, during rush hour, that lane is worth every second of inconvenience to drivers. If they would rather have an extra lane and 3,000 additional drivers on the road, they'll regret it.
A house with a solar panel can be a net exporter. So can an island tied to a larger grid.

It is completely orthogonal to the intermittency problem mentioned.

The grid isn't "storage". And yes, Orkney is tiny, but it also needs proportionally less storage.
That sounds like a pretty bad foundation for a business model to me.
Gitlab also have stated when they'll go public - on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/
It isn't only that - there are both good and a$$hole cops...But, it seems in the U.S. there isn't a consistent governance of law enforcement across all levels of government, nor across the whole geography of the nation...leading to some (many?) cops abusing their power.
>So if we pick the 23rd largest city instead then we can supply 100% of the city's power with this single installation for well over an hour.

Color me unimpressed.

>That's a lot better than "a few seconds".

It's also a lot smaller than any city that matters. 90K people is more like a town (and small at that) than a city...

It would be seconds for a city with a few million people...
The more correct question is:

Liftime EV-Van Footprint = Production-Footprint(EV-Van) + Operational-Footprint(EV-Van, lifetime-miles-driven)

vs

Lifetime ICE-Van Footprint = Production-Footprint(ICE-Van) + Operational-Footprint(ICE-Van, lifetime-miles-driven)

This calculation overwhelmingly favors the EV van, increasingly so as the carbon footprint of the operational electricity source itself reduces in footprint (i.e. increasing use of solar, window, nuclear, etc). Delivery vans in particular have a charging profile (late evening through morning) that matches the peak production of wind.

Note that the carbon footprint of petroleum use is strictly higher than even the highest carbon sources of electricity, and it has a high extraction cost also.
For cities it would make sense to deliver packages to neighborhood hubs in vans and from there deliver them using cargo bikes to the recipients. That would probably safe more energy, but cost a bit more as a bicycle worker can transport fewer packages per day.
I know physical testers who will carry a fake "get out of jail free card" that lists their own people as the point-of-contact so they can highlight the lack of verification as a weakness. If it does get verified they have a "backup" real one.

It is possible they attempted this and the police were none too happy being lied to.
The question here is not whether they were contracted to do the pen test, I think everyone agrees they were. The question is whether those who contracted them had the authority to authorize it.

If someone from craigslist give me a contract to break into a house to test their security system, but it turns out the owner of the house did not know about the contract, who is at fault for the break-in?

I do think that Coalfire acted in good faith here, but it is a complicated situation.
Hydrogen has good energy per kilogram, but bad energy per square meter even in its liquid form [1]. Liquid hydrogen is less than 10 times as dense as water.

Synthetic fuels either require considerably greater arable land and water consumption to grow biofuel, or the use of things like algae cultivation and accelerated decomposition. It's probably more effective on a $ / CO2 mass basis to just sequester carbon and keep using refined fossil fuels. Airplanes account for a single digit fraction of the CO2 emissions from transportation, though, as their mass and drag are both tiny as compared to cargo ships.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Ene...

Reply to your post below, HN is not letting me respond:

Those synthetic fuels are effectively the same as biofuels. You're using energy to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere (or a body of water, in the case of algae based biofuels) and using that carbon to power a machine.

You can either do this by using electricity generated from another artificial power source, as in your example. Or you can do this by harnessing natural energy, like setting up transparent pipes to collect solar energy into algae or by farming biomass on land. Since most energy decarbonization plans assume modest energy consumption growth, and sometimes even an overall energy consumption reduction the former plan is less feasible than harnessing naturally occurring energy.
Recession?
yeah, looks like they omitted the third "i" in "invidio".
If you ever have offices in Atlanta, let me know, I'd love to apply. :)
This is all fascinating. Do you have any recommended reading on designing said high-throughput, low-latency systems?
>using the word "steal" for willful copyright infringement is common and correct usage.

The problem here is that we're talking about legal usage at the end of the day. "Copyright infringement" is a legal term, as is "theft", and on this matter, the supreme court already ruled.

The short version is that someone made a business pressing and selling Elvis records without the rights to do so, and the license holder tried to get him for theft. SCOTUS basically said no, copyright infringement and theft are not the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985...
Is this specific for drives? I thought the whole European single market thing was to prevent taxing of stuff bought inside the single market? (serious question)
Perhaps. HPV was also linked to throat cancer. It requires contact with HPV, and is one of the only ways HPV directly affects men, because they put an HPV infected part of the body in their mouth.

Not here to debate probabilities, but it is interesting how the possibility is controversial to some