skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java on Linux at used to have this bad behavior where it would short-circuit configuration to use /dev/urandom to use its own internal RNG based on /dev/random. It did not create a single global seed for the internal random number generator, so some systems could overwhelm the entropy pool.

I've solved this for some systems by changing the java security properties file to instead point to /dev/./urandom .
I find the Banksy identity situation pretty interesting. His identity has been basically known since 2008, but despite that revelation, few articles on Banksy actually acknowledge this fact and state it in clear terms.

In 2008 DailyMail did a report that provided highly convincing evidence that Banksy is Robin Gunningham [1]. Since then several other pieces of evidence have come out pointing to Robin Gunningham [2][3]. But for some reason in the press they like to latch onto much weaker evidence for other candidates, like Robert Del Naja, to try to "teach the controversy" as it were. Journalists apparently have difficulty comparing multiple layers of evidence coming from different angles with unsubstantiated statements, which I think is kind of sad. I'm pretty sure that it's really that journalists like to just keep the dream alive, even though they know it's kind of silly. I guess it turns out if people are sympathetic to you keeping your identity secret, all you have to do is deny it no matter what and they will just always report your identity as being in dispute.

On the other hand, Wikipedia's treatment of the subject is good, which is something [4].

1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-...

2: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/early-banksy-auction-13291...

3: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/banksy-geographic-...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy#Personal_life_and_dispu...
As someone who prefers working night to morning, calling night owls "inefficient" due to their preference is toxic behaviour. If that is my preference who are you to judge?
> I guess that medium-to-large-sized tech orgs are good on the path towards becoming a labyrinthine, 19th Century, Russian bureaucracy! I hope that some comparable literature emerges from such fertile soil .

Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115
If having partners necessitates causing burnout in young people, maaaybe it's not a great way to structure things.
I have been in a few respectful conversations with alternating views. Usually in their view, it’s men’s fault for sexualizing the female body. Just like if a 13 y/o girl it wearing “skimpy” clothes it’s adult men who are the perverts for sexualizing a child.

Not saying I agree. But I’m also not pro slut shaming. I don’t think men can really turn this off. Like the kid thing; 1) relatively new and completely subjective concept that <18 is off limits (we’ve literally decided as society that peek fertility is off limits) (feel obligated to say I do agree with the decision in current society where mental maturity comes later) 2) men can and probably have sexualized every possible think, even something like a bee hive. It’s a major part of our brain and I’m not sure how these women just think we can turn off an instinct.
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I've always guessed this could be the inspiration for the fictional "Ballmer peak" (alcohol taking the place of fatigue).[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/323
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I've heard it said like this: AI will take over repetitive manual and repetitive cognitive tasks. The only thing required is that the task be repetitive (so plumbers are safe (every house is different), but truck drivers and radiologists maybe not).
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This lends credibility (the graph) to something I've always suspected, ESFJ's tend to be dumb.

Before anyone argues, intelligence within each personality type is a bell curve. If you have less people at the top, it means the average is lower, or the standard deviation is lower, or both. So either they are dumber on average, or they are more average on average, or both.

Why do I care? Just a random thought I had.
Everyone should do the work all night at their office once in their career to realize how utterly pointless it is then never do it again.

Bonus points if you do it for some tiger strike super important big project that gets cancelled three months later when the C-suite finds a new partner du jour.
Consider that universal high school, labor union-friendly laws, and labor day were government responses to the last industrial revolution. How will our society change for the next one?
What if taking off the watch is a crime.

Think I'm crazy... imagine the watch being confused, and calling 911 repeatedly. Best to destroy it, or at least kill its life somehow.
Snark aside, I didn't realize this until you pointed it out. You made me realize that I subconsciously convert metric to imperial when reading, which I didn't know prior.
FRC was the thing I immediately thought about when I saw this (they still do PDF encryption), but the techniques here don't really apply.

I'm pretty sure that you could just try to brute force it, as the passwords as usually dictionary-based with substitutions (e.g. R0bot$InSp&ce).

Edit: After taking a much more in-depth look at it, all of the past game manuals' passwords are too complex to crack in a reasonable time (even with a dictionary). With a top 1000 word list dictionary with substitutions of 3-letter words like the above there are (conservatively) 1x10^20 combinations. You can't crack the PDF user key directly either, because recent game manuals use 256-bit AES keys.
I don't think sublime has a large userbase anymore but definitely a vocal one.

Nothing wrong with that, just pointing out that anecdata from HN will be somewhat screwed.
Think yourself lucky. Being ugly has an even bigger impact on your dating opportunities.
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That's even a better choice. Thank you!
> developing nations -- but of course, Google doesn't care about those audiences

Do you have a citation for your claims? There is plenty of evidence to the contrary: https://www.blog.google/technology/next-billion-users/ .
I used to use IdeaVim with IntelliJ, it was utterly awful.

All of the basic commands were wildly incompatible with vi and vim. Example: u (undo). Not only would it add cursor movements to the undo stack, it would also put multiple actions onto the stack as one, so you could only undo them all at once or not at all.

That's the one I remember most -- it's been over 5 years -- but not a single day went by without some utterly flabbergasting surprise when expecting it to, you know, emulate vi/vim.

Somewhat ironically, about 5 years before that, I used some similar plugin for Visual Studio and that one was infinitely better. It cost $99, but my employer paid for it, and it actually performed as advertised.

Even that didn't implement "advanced" vim commands that I like a lot -- like :perldo -- but at least it didn't fail to get even the basics right.

In the end I don't think any IDE vim-mode can be good enough. What I think would be best is if the IDE somehow embedded the actual vim editor.
It's only false because of the extreme inequality of opportunity in this country.
For a related work by Google (in 2013), see "CPU performance isolation for shared compute clusters": https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub40737/
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What is important, is to figure out your own personal rhythm and if it defies convention, then f*ck convention.

I find I probably get an order of magnitude more work done from 8-10 pm compared to 8-10 am, all other things being equal.

Other folks have different drums they march to.

One book I recommend is "the war of art".

The small one-page section called "what I do" is illustrative. He's a writer and describes his daily routine. He starts typing away in earnest about 10:30, and probably 4 hours later he starts making typos, which he realizes is the point of diminishing returns and calls it a day.
Tesla is buying computer vision startup DeepScale
Last wave of automation took out millions of manufacturing workers. Instead of retraining to become software engineers they largely went on disability and then as a cohort started dying of drug overdoses and suicides at higher than normal rates.

Most of the new jobs created in the past 10 years are temporary / gig jobs without benefits, nothing like the manufacturing jobs lost.

So, great opportunities for some, but many will suffer.
How do we magically give new colleges Harvard-level endowments?
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No, only small fraction of UC students are international, and they aren't responsible for UC system's high Asian representation.
This really isn't anything special, at the time of release it was a low end single socket 1ru server. It overlapped with available 64bit lga775 versions of the same product.
Resource consumption matters a lot more in a small, self-funded company that can't just throw boxes at a problem.

My data from non-JVM apps is that we can cram a whole lot of them into small 16GB VMs via Kubernetes — Go apps especially. With JVM apps, we typically have to dedicate larger 24-32GB boxes to 1-2 apps because they absolutely need the legroom. Since RAM isn't "elastic" like CPU is, you get less flexibility in managing big pieces than with small ones, especially big pieces that must stay up. We have to preallocate a certain amount and watch our limits.

I've never actually run ZK or Kafka in production, so this is pure speculation, but I didn't get any fuzzy feelings from playing around with a test cluster recently. When you combine ZooKeeper with Kafka we're probably talking about 3+ dedicated boxes because they don't fit into existing ones.

These things add up, and right now I'm trying to reduce our monthly GCP bill, not add to it!

(We do run Elasticsearch. Its memory use seems particularly egregious, indeed. I'm sure these other things are lighterweight.)
This is awesome, where does it come from?
Google does not give me anything.
Even the extremely light gedit (gnome default editor) has this problem.

I think plugins should automatically disable themselves if the file is over x KB.
Wow, this perfectly describes me. Although, I usually don't have to stay up till 2AM to get that productivity boost. I know it sounds strange, but when it gets dark outside, my productivity is so much better. I don't think it has much to do with the darkness itself. It is probably the fact that when it gets dark, the flood of Slack messages, E-mails and whatnot stops.

I am terrified of how I am going to manage this when I have kids. It's just me and my fiance right now. We both work at the same company and we're both very career driven. It's not a problem yet.
The article mentions that the killer feature is that this machine can fit in a restaurant and presumably make better tasting fresh pizzas.
Ask HN: Would you still start a Medium.com publication today?
I see popular publications like HackerNoon.com and freeCodeCamp.org actively moving away from Medium.com into their own platforms.

If you wanted to start a publication would you still recommend Medium? If not, what's another option?
Can one detect passage of small black hole through the Earth?
Major media outlets are really digging deep for the “duh” content these days.
Indeed, based around their children. Height is positively correlated with IQ https://www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-...
Not negatively as suggested by article.
Yes. See for example Paul Tough's book "The Years That Matter The Most" which came out a few months ago.
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I don't think of myself as a criminal or terrorist. But then my moral code is fundamentally from Aleister Crowley. So I'm well aware of the possibility that others might consider me a criminal or terrorist.

Even if there were laws and regulations that better protected privacy, you couldn't count on that. You can't trust government agencies, because they stretch the limits, and outright lie about what they do.

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The age make it "crap", but not in the way you think. I can speak about C++. C++ code wrote in the older standard, let say C++ pre-11, who are 20 or more years old make it difficult to maintain because new generation of programmers are not generally interested to legacy code or in learning old c++ standards and skilled programmers don't want be relegated to be eternally maintainer of old projects. For this reason projects die by asphyxia. We have that good code base in Cobol, ok, but the point is: who cares ? Who is important when you need new programmers. Besides, a part considerations on the language, the architecture is important we live in a world of microservices and old code not updated to modern paradigms could became "crap", even if if the most elegant code.
This is a pretty good point, a lot of the trades are hard for machines to automate: plumbing, HVAC repair, solar installation, etc.
It also doesn't bake the pizzas. What would an oven look like that can bake 300 pizzas per hr? That's one every 12s.
That there are other Ivy League schools, a ton of other top schools, and a ton of amazing public state universities? That life ultimately is not fair and there is no objective measurement of merit to attend any of these institutions? That straight As and 1600s on the SAT are not all that matters in life? Maybe, Harvard isn't that big of a deal, in reality, there aren't really any jobs dominated by Harvard undergrads.
Digikey has one of the better search engines, not least because you get preview thumbnails of almost everything, and you can search in single unit quantities. It also has some intelligence when filtering parts by value (eg Leds by wavelength).

The problem is usually knowing the names of things, and eventually you learn what keywords to search for eg 2row 10way for a 2x5 connector. Everything is mostly standardised.

Octopart is best for finding stock, I wouldn't use it to locate a new part.

For finding new chips, like random sensors, the best way is to trawl the major IC websites (Ti, Max, etc) and see what pops up. You can still get samples from most of these places, and of quite expensive parts too.
Sorry for recommending this. I have a lot of experience with Jetbrains IDE, but not with the plugin itself. I use vim in vim mode occasionally :)

I think the Neovim project has a goal to eventually make the editor easy to integrate in larger applications, as a plugin, which makes a ton of sense.
Machine learning could offer faster, more precise results for cardiac MRI scans
As you might deduce from context, overnight here means overtime.
This seems like a very different story from a developer working at night because they need the alone time to catch up.
my yamls have hackful types system, dynamic type systems, and no OR(type x = a of string| b of int) types, lack of language definitions (BNF).
Call me crazy, but it's not fiction to me. When I figured out what I am gonna do, a beer or two helps me focus.
Even worse - it will disable itself if it cannot connect to 8.8.8.8.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
> The problem was the process itself, and along with it the blind pursuit of a goal without a deeper understanding how to tackle deeply difficult challenges.

And that is the wrong problem that too many software engineering teams solve. Let's not solve a customer problem, let's solve the problem of solving customer problems and hopefully in year or so we'll get to that.

Iteration speed is an issue for hardware. It becomes an issue for software teams when too much time is spent tooling, generalizing and reinventing wheels.

I point that out because this sort of example pushes the wrong buttons for many software engineers, including myself. We don't need more time spent on meta-problem solving. Much less, in fact.
The first method sounds simpler and cheaper. You're over engineering.
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If this prevents ISPs from making even a penny on data mined from DNS queries of their users, even in an aggregated and anonymized manner then so be it because ISPs are supposed to be dumb pipes. And there is nothing creepier than someone mining what I search for. Just fulfill the contract of giving me the internet for my 75USD a month.
This is for the deliveroo/just eat market, not artisanal wood-fired places.
It certainly is. I made the change and have not regretted it ever since. There is one thing you need to keep in mind though. I believe it is best to become an AI expert for a specific industry. In my case, I decided to focus on AI and trading. The way things are developing, eventually different industries will require AI expertise and those who know it will have a competitive advantage. For example, health, finance, online retail, etc for more on AI: https://onlineitguru.com/artificial-intelligence-course.html
Usually because it is very slow to do so.

And anything that likes a persisted connection is likely to get a lot of connection resets. Like websockets (slack) or irc
I've found deploying to all these new infrastructure tools is a big gap. I've been open sourcing a tool https://deliverybot.dev that I built internally at my current org.
given the volume of data, i don't care as much on an individual level since each person is a drop in an ocean, but knowledge is power, and this is too much knowledge for ISPs, advertisers, and government agencies.
Imagine the following future:

“Have you linted and unit tested your commit message?”

“Junior Developer wanted. 10 years of Conventional Commits experience required.”

“Download Conventionalizer! Now you can write Conventional Commits in plain English, having all the syntax automatically generated! (node, erlang OTP and Jerry’s pre-alpha TensorFlow binding library required. Windows support coming soon.)”

Something tells me the authors are hard at work solving a problem nobody needs solving.
Yep usability. Some sort of common patterns for all of these tools.
I recall managing somebody like that. He would come to work at noon. I was cool with that but had a boss who insisted I dock his pay if he did not come to work at 9. Welcome to Dilbert!
As mentioned in the article, the Chinese government itself admits the quality of its patents are suspect and not indicative of true innovation.

It's wonderful how much economic progress China has made, and serious academic progress as well. But that's not relevant here.

China discourages non-ethnic Chinese from having control over Chinese companies, and has extremely few foreigners to begin with so that's not a valid comparison.
This practice comes through as a clear lack of prioritization most often on the mid-management's part. Or indeed, anxiety of the team members.

Sure there're tight deadlines, and now-or-never cases, but when this becomes a feature, let alone a badge, in that move up or move out culture, it's a sign that the company became obsessed with an image it projects out over the quality of what it offers to the client.

Do they proudly stamp over such a report 'Red-eye: Compiled in the wee hours by our tireless professionals'? Better be, so a client could double check any findings, perhaps discount it just like the airlines do.
These machines will be perfect for places that sell via delivery apps.