skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps people are more sympathetic to people like them.
The word only has relevance when talking about some consensus. Otherwise you are just adding a checksum or signing with a private key
Horses for courses I suppose, it took me a few minutes to learn how to use popovers and split screen, and now it’s second nature.

My youngest doesn’t use any of that, but then she’s a magician with ProCreate and the pencil. It’s just a matter of what matters to you most.
Elite Ivy League universities are where post-modernist theories of all-encompassing privilege hierarchies were initially formed and propagated. Unfortunately, dogmatic belief systems that may be relevant in the bubble in which they form are then excessively projected onto the outside world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seme_(semantics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcU6qAmAqpI
People must learn some patience instead of wasting our time and talent on optimizing stuff for those milliseconds.
Kinda hard to be moving the goalposts when there was no prior comment of mine to move them from. I'm just disagreeing. When everyone is suddenly having the same problem the probability that they are all coincidentally falling victim to the same misjudgement asymptotically approaches zero.
Sadly, the people in ABQ I know blame their city government for this fiasco, and not the manufacturer. They're still sore about the empty bus-only lanes running down some main streets that were built for this.
What happens if you lose or damage your key? Is there some sort of backup/recovery or fallback scheme?
"How I Built This Episode WeWork: Miguel McKelvey" (June 19, 2017)

Host: Do you think all of this could just collapse one day?

McKelvey: You know it's a great question. One of the things we're holding onto very tightly is the feeling that we're still figuring it out every day... We'll have that learning curve forever which is what make it awesome.

I guess "awesome" is one way of putting it.
It is truly a cancer and the worst part about using Avid tools. I wish they would get rid of it.
I think Sony's got your back there. Looks like a source of inspiration for the PS4
The Chromium Chronicle: Monorail’s Grid View
My company has about half a floor in a WeWork, and we're planning on moving out in the next year. I've been wondering if we'll be forced to move a bit sooner if WeWork fails
Music yes, movies no... you are right. That's why I don't buy many movies.
A List of the Major Competitive Programming Competitions
The multitasking functions are very confusing, as are the new multi-finger gestures for performing undo/copy/paste etc. Nothing is obviously discoverable either, it all feels accidental at best, though that's been the case since they removed depth from the UI.

Wasn't the promise of iPad that it was much easier than a Mac or PC? I don't find that to be the case.

Anyway, I use mine as a couch browser. I still can't find a heavier use case for it.
Do you have any idea how exactly did VirtualBox crash your iMac Pro? I’m pondering installing it on mine and your comment is scary.
Why do you think SO Jobs hasn't worked? It's the first place I look for jobs.
A robodialer with a message complaining about their advertising practices could probably lock up their sales line for a couple days for the same cost as a few meals. Humans would likely be more persuasive though.
Creating a Pirate Radio Station
Who is the alternative?
Not to generalize, but if you relied on Hacker News for recruiting you could wind up in all sorts of wonky, dubious or failed companies. Like people were such sweethearts for Juul and Alt Schools. They’re also really skeptical of Google, which for all its faults is, without a doubt, the single best deal for employees in the history of the world, at least since the time that anyone was legally or culturally allowed to take such jobs in this country. That’s coming from a noted skeptic!

Personally I’ve always found that libertarian ethos in support of crappy things, like shitty schools and tobacco, and opposed to nice things, like healthy kids, frustrating. Like on the one hand there’s a kind of engineer who finds the most abstract IT infrastructure so stimulating, something totally removed from actual concrete stuff with even an iota of moral, emotional or socioeconomic consequence. But then when the schadenfreude gets going, an emotion that these supposedly stoic people seem to have in spades, they have opinions about fucking everything. And then when it comes to hills to die on, they finally choose to die on the Hill of Nicotine.

So like sure, say no to some recruiter. But if you trust the aggregate opinions of people on this board, with its profound adverse selection, get ready to be disappointed.
Pictures of kids for viewing by grandparents and relatives is literally the only legitimate use of Facebook as far as I'm concerned. It's basically an over-engineered photo sharing service.
All dumb money needs some smart titles to keep attracting more dumb money
The Quest solves some of this, at the cost of scene fidelity.
> College CS courses aren't necessarily designed to be practical; many are more theoretical and not really practical for day-to-day SWE jobs.

This is the mentality that I really dislike about these courses. How exactly do you get to decide if something is just "theoretical" and "not really practical"? Everything in CS was purely theoretical at one point.

It's easy to say "practical means stuff that is used in the industry", but I mean, I've been paid, by corporations, to do Haskell, F#, and even F* briefly, all of which have been described as "academic" languages, and if you want to be able to work on cool and interesting stuff, there's a high likelihood that you're going have to rely on the "theoretical" world.
usually it doesn't apply to the "Big" VCs and founders. So they are quietly able to get out before the stock crashes a couple months later.
Wow, a CentOS with a rolling release model. Super cool! I really hope this makes CentOS a bit more competitive with Ubuntu for the hobbiest/project space. Seems like raspbian/debian/ubuntu could use some competition in the space.
Do they have first-party JS backends though? I think that's what sets Nim apart, the Nim compiler includes the JS backend which means the JS backend is always up to date with the latest Nim developments.
The most popular website in the world, known for incredible speed, google.com, took me 197 ms to load, with 139ms spent waiting.

A search for "hacker news" took 186 ms, with 111 ms spent waiting.

64.ms itself takes 3 ms for DNS lookup, 39 ms for the initial connection, and 29 ms for the SSL - total of 71 ms before any content download happens.

I'm on 802.11 AC WiFi seated about 5 feet from my router.

Apparently, users are quite willing to wait longer than 64 milliseconds.

I'm no web developer, so I don't claim to have expertise, but it really does seem like an unreasonable expectation. As soon as you have any sort of complex functionality the idea falls apart:

"Wait for the credit card payment to process"

"Download a high resolution image" (that counts as a page of content right?)

"Start watching this 4K video"

"Download a CSV of your 100,000 row data set"
It’s hard to see things when your salary depends on you not seeing said things.
Somehow I think you're just a low level Twitter content moderator about to be fired after engaging in a power trip over people you don't know.
Can do. A lot of the magic happens in the es/indexer and search lambdas here: https://github.com/quiltdata/quilt/tree/master/lambdas.

The short of what we do: we listen for bucket notifications in Lambda, open the object metadata and send it, along with a snippet of the file contents, to ElasticSearch for indexing. ElasticSearch mappings are a bit of a bear and we had to lock those down to get them to behave well.

What are the big barriers you're bumping into on the data management and portability side of things?
Yeah somewhat. Though instead of it's leader it lost it's appeal and the cult leader had to go into hiding. WeWork is still a decent business idea just no where near the crazy valuations it was given.
What Android phone released in 2013 is still getting security updates of any kind? You make it seem like Google and the manufacturers all update their phones consistently.
"Fantasy" number is 19% gross margin. GAAP number is 15% gross margin. Still positive.
Stacksort, the least known sorting algorithm:
https://m.xkcd.com/1185/

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> [...] while our educational system generally prepares us for climbing this or that mountain, your life is actually defined by how you make use of your moment of greatest adversity.

That statement is giving me a lot to think about. Thanks for submitting this link.
By the numbers it sounds like this is built around an assumption of 60fps. The rounding is wrong, but let's roll with it. That's a noticeable change by the next frame, actionable information two frames thereafter, and a full screen worth of content four frames thereafter.

My intuition says that's steep. Noticeable change 1 frame later might be doable with a web app, if the app is structured well and focuses on fast response times. However, I don't think actionable information two frames later, or a full screen of content four frames later is feasible for a network-based application, especially given the fact that just crossing local layer 3 network segments can add 10s of ms to your latency, depending on the router's load.

Really, these numbers strike me as only achievable by an application where all data and processing is done locally on the computer that controls the display. Even then, these target numbers still feel steep.
I would say you are living earth itself.
What do you know, maybe you got a million dollar idea in there
How long does it take Firefox to show you a loading spinner & new tab?
This should be upvoted to the top of the page.

I'm not rooting against or for Tesla, but they are extra shady regarding accounting. They are losing money on each car. There is so much misinformation around this pushed by Tesla fans and the company itself though that you might easily believe they are profitable, but they are not!
Bringing in outside management away from the original company founders is a common way this happens. Especially if they come from another traditional public company that only cares about share prices as the key metric.

I can’t imagine someone messing up Stackoverflow, but Digg managed to do it so there’s always a way (although SO doesn’t have a high quality direct competitor like Reddit...yet.). The best time to take on a business is when they’ve peaked and get distracted, they forget about being the best in the market. I should note I don’t think SO is near that point yet.
Totally false on both counts.

1) Tesla's GAAP gross margin was 14.5% for the most recent quarter [https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/1e70a30c-20a7-48b3-a1f6-69...]

2) Breaking out GAAP and non-GAAP figures is totally standard and commonplace among publicly traded companies. Take a look at Ford's Q2 letter, for example, which includes a whole page describing how and why they use Non-GAAP financial measures to supplement GAAP figures [https://s22.q4cdn.com/857684434/files/doc_financials/2019/q2...]
Ah yes, ye olde "my time as a developer is worth more than that of mere users". That kind of thinking is the reason modern computing sucks so bad.
Too vague. Isn't moving caret in a text field "any user action"? Then why should it invoke a full screen of content?
It also helps with the evaluation. Looks good on a pitch to investors.
It's about risk management. When you're young, there's really not much down-side in starting a company, and the up-side is extremely high. Also, even if the startup is a total failure, the experience combined with the people you've met totally compensate for the few years.
it's more about facilities management. Collecting data about who (and how many) go in and out the doors, who's where when to optimize things like heating or air conditioning, meeting room occupancy etc... I have a friend working on their data platform and the concept is pretty cool, I can see if I was managing an office I would want that data but the rest of the business is just awful.
This is not to be confused with react the js framework.
Another article reinforcing my belief that framing AGI research as a quest for "human-level" AI is misguided. The type of intelligence we are looking for is actually animal intelligence. The higher level human abilities are mainly just higher levels of characteristics that most animals have.
SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud
Could you comment more on your log aggregation tooling? Did you set up an ELK stack? Self installed or paid? That is the most frustrating part for me — why some of the tooling is not built in.
GAAP gross margin last quarter is 15% versus the 19% "made-up" number they quote in their press release. It's not negative.
Pelosi Plans Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump
There are about 20 different things that happen on screen while google.com is loading in my Chrome browser, starting within 16ms.
I always wondered why don't commercial CIs use ReactOS for build/test of windows software. I just assumed it wasn't stable enough yet?
Let's be honest, in your analogy, WeWork painted a giant target on their own back, put on a shit eating grin, raised a placard saying "I crapped on your lawn and fondled your wife" and started parading through the target end of the All National Homecoming Machinegun and Automatic Weapons Competition range, all the while their CEO handed out 1000 round ammo cans at the entry.

To say that "they were asking for it" would be a huge understatement. The night shift janitor of the building two blocks down from their offices would have called this.
$50,000, huh? I could liquidate my retirement account to buy a giant robot.
A Review of “Effective STL”
Browsing throughout those courses I found out that more then 50% of them require you to either sign in with FB or Google in order to access them, so no thank you. Remember, if something is free then you're the product.
https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux

It was published on Friday and so far he is knocking it out of the park with these predictions.
Adam Neumann’s Ouster Won’t Change WeWork Equation
Limited liability is a great concept which allows businesses to be run by people who don’t have the personal capital to absorb all possible losses of the business. Our society would be more unequal without limited liability. There are also many legal safeguards in place to prevent it being used for fraud, negligence, etc.

Are you really worried for big commercial landlords who know exactly what they are dealing with and how corporations work? Commercial landlords are not typically thought of as especially trusting and vulnerable entities who need special protection.
In a networked app where your latency is too high for these figures, or if you need to do some large number crunching etc, you should instead focus on giving the user feedback that progress is occurring. A progress bar, a spinning ball, etc are far better than nothing. Just as long as you acknowledge that the user has requested an action, and give the user confidence the action is proceeding.
Thanks for the lecture on historical climate. Those graphs you have linked as objective sources aren't particularly useful nor do they illustrate the full impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

For the canonical report on climate change impacts in the anthropocene, I would recommend the IPCC reports, e.g. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap... on synergistic risks to food security and low-lying coastal regions.
Can you provide some examples that prove the existence a common pattern in the software development industry of people being "screamed at", "threatened", and "drummed out of their jobs" for not using gender neutral pronouns, please?

I'm more than ready to agree with you if you can.

I would also like to know, if you don't mind, what you consider to be good reason to "refuse to comply" with addressing someone in a way they prefer to be addressed, by using a three-letter word instead of another three-letter word.
Sorry but WHAT? That's not how it works.

The 7500$ is a huge advantage for Tesla today that was pushed through a lot of lobbying. It literally means that everyone's tax money is subsidizing luxury cars for the rich.

Once this gets phased out, they will have to compete with regular prices against normal car and their high price point will make it way less attractive.

It is true that soon competitors will still get the 7500$ tax cut while Tesla exhausted theirs. That's simply because they use all their credits and now need to come to a price point that makes sense without subsidies.
It's unfortunate that "content of character" is no longer a factor in one's diversity quotient.
The FDA is on a Kratom witch hunt now.
Must remove anything that helps people.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/fda-and-...
Kik to shut down messaging app to focus on Kin
In SF, with all the hills and low spots, it seems to me the coded dialogue might be more efficient or perhaps easier to communicate. Officers are often 10-1 (receiving/sending poorly) and requested to 10-9 (repeat last message) as in "One Edward Fifteen you are very 10-1. Please 10-9."

And it's weird how your brain picks up on the code and immediately understands the seriousness of the situation. When a 408 is upgraded to code 3, enroute, you sense the urgency. A simple "affirm, upgrading to code 3" tells the officers at the scene that the 408 "gets it" and "hang on, we're hurrying." Usually with the sound of sirens and air horns in the background.
This is the weirdest fried chicken recipe I've ever read.
iLok has been extremely effective at stopping cracks or at least slowing them down enough to where the software is obsolete by the time a crack appears. The pirates don't have access to this software in the first place.

We can debate the merits of DRM all we want, but PACE's stuff actually works (at stopping pirates, and sometimes paying users)
Yeah, if they were on youtube. Youtube red is a good model, and there's a reason I've complained in the past about how the very broken 'google contributor' should just copy it.
While it isn't directly related to the topic of the thread, is the Imposter's Handbook a suitable purchase for someone who didn't major in CS in college to "catch up"? I had two intro to CS courses during my undergrad and took several night courses while employed at my first job and did get a tech-facing career, but once I got that job I haven't had the energy to go back and tackle things like Data Structures and the maths I have to take all with the pressure of a grade.
60 frames per second.

- 16ms: one frame

- 32ms: two frames

- 64ms: four frames

So it's really 1, 2, 4. Maybe we could have 1, 2, 3, but I'm guessing the "48ms Manifesto" wouldn't sound too great: they probably preferred to have a nice power of two.

And if I may, I think the manifesto is basically right. Something I have to wait several frames for before it reacts feels sluggish. When I type a character, I want it now, not 5 frames later. When I move the mouse, I want it in sync, not lagging behind my hand. Touch screens are even more exacting. They only feel perfect when latency falls under one millisecond. But that last one isn't achievable in practice on current stock hardware…
this is what the 'univerity' is or was intended to be, at its base.

there is a reason universities have 'faculties' (e.g. 'faculties' of the 'body of knowledge') and that key persons are called 'deans'
I found the organization of org-mode made it easier to build/stick to the habit of logging my ideas and activity. I like the idea of org-mode being the place to go for my notes. The outline and tagging style makes sense to me and how I think.

The earlier comment about 20 hours is a bit intimidating. I'm sure there is tons of useful operations and shortcuts I have still to learn, but the quick and simple outlining work for me. Once I got the hang of a few of the keyboard shortcuts it was trivial to just sit down and type (with the exception of copy-paste vs kill-yank).
Totally false on both counts.

1) Tesla's GAAP gross margin was (positive) 14.5% for the most recent quarter [https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/1e70a30c-20a7-48b3-a1f6-69...]

2) Breaking out GAAP and non-GAAP figures is totally standard and commonplace among publicly traded companies. Take a look at Ford's Q2 letter, for example, which has a whole page describing why they use Non-GAAP financial measures to supplement GAAP figures [https://s22.q4cdn.com/857684434/files/doc_financials/2019/q2...]
“Keep showing up ” they said: the risks of presenteeism
I'm not sure this is meaningful as a path to employment in the US if you don't actually get a degree at the end.

I've gotten calls from at least five recruiters this week alone all excited to have finally found someone who's at least done some C only to realize that I haven't finished the community service hours for my degree (I've done all the classes but the university won't officially confer the degree until I've finished this, that's made my summer pretty complicated which has actually made it a lot harder than it needs to be, thankfully I'll be done in a couple weeks.)

What you actually know only matters once you're hired (at least for your first couple jobs.)

But it is always good to be learning new things and if that's why you're doing this than good! I've been teaching myself violin and I can definitely appreciate classical music more because of it, I absolutely don't expect it to get me a job.
Can anyone explain why we're seeing so much WeWork content in the news? Is it because they have so many customers in the tech industry?
That’s true, the cost needs to be factored into the model. But the near infinite bandwidth scalability allows the service to exist to begin with. If every job saturates your up and down bandwidth and takes 10 minutes, and you have 100 coming in a minute, you would need to design a ridiculous architecture that could spin up and down instances and handle queuing on the scale of thousands based on demand. Or you can write a simple lambda function that can be triggered from the AWS sdk and let their infrastructure handle the headache. I’m sure a home grown solution will become more cost effective at a massive scale but lambda fits the bill for a small/medium project
That, I don't disagree with at all. There's been more than one time I've clicked on something, and then waited for the computer to do something that lets me know it's received my command and acted on it. It can be damn frustrating.
I guess my question is if there's even such a thing as a "non self taught front end developer"?

No 4 year university will teach you React as part of a CS degree. Most probably won't even teach JavaScript. Point is, becoming a good developer is largely a self-taught discipline as is.
Google wins 'right to be forgotten' case in European court
> I almost took a job at WeWork just 2 months ago with a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO.

Independently of what you read here, you saw right through this as total bullshit, right?

Right?
Serious question - why does anyone think PE can be disrupted if techies and techie founders have not been able to disrupt our own broken illiquid equity situation?

The only answer can think of is (pessimistically) that the system is broken because it is profitable (to some) to keep it broken for many others. PE wields far more influence Than pre IPO tech equity so I definitely don’t see that being disrupted first.
High end USB peripherals are polled in 1 ms intervals and even the cheapest ones every 8 ms at most.
Google is free to use, that doesn't mean that just anybody can take their trademark.

Trademarks have nothing to do with whether something is traded for money or not.