skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> chances are you are constantly getting 10-15 new feature requests on a daily basis, it's hard to ignore those

What I've tried to do at work is to leverage other programs as much as possible.

For example, many customers want our program to massage the data slightly, or maybe augment it with some fixed values etc. Instead of making dozens of different ways to do this, I focused on making it easy to export data to Excel (or similar) and import it back in again. The import/export routine is generic enough that it takes me 15 mins tops to add it to a new form if it needs a bit of custom handling. If it's just a generic grid it's a one-liner.

Similar for file integrations. We can do (S)FTP, again with a reusable framework making it a breeze to add. For anything else we just access a (shared) directory and the customer can use what they want.

Fortunately for us though, we don't rely on ratings as such, so we can be a bit more strict.
I admit I haven't watched the show for a while. The new podcast (Proof) is much better than the old ATK one though IMO. It also feels as if they've gotten a bit more adventurous with recipes; they always felt rather conservative mid-American under Kimball.
The positions open right now are all on-site, not remote, although we are hiring in both the SF and Nairobi offices.

We've listed the relevant office location in each job listing:

https://www.angaza.com/careers/
remember, remember: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082143

and there are also all those wonderful *BSD flavours....
> Video can still cost a lot of bandwidth on your personal hosting.

Jesus Christ. Just pay for the bandwidth! You can't at the same time go "I dont want to be subjected to this automation stuff" and "I don't want to pay!"
Health insurance is still hopelessly broken. A "gig economy" cannot work with such fundamentally broken services. I wrote about this a while back, having both worked in health insurance and having lived in other countries:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/returning-to-america-and-...

I do not like the private model at all, but at a minimum, I agree with you and I think the ACA would have only worked if it forced employers to give employees vouchers to then have everyone buy insurance from a common marketplace. Obama's promise that people could keep their existing insurance was a terrible idea.

It does keep people in America perpetually working. No one can afford to really take time off for themselves even if they have the savings, because if they're not working enough hours to get health care and get sick, that's it. You're fucked. You have to use that other American Healthcare site: Gofundme.
We're not going to see eye to eye on #1 - it is most certainly not about making all men the enemy. I suggest you ask the women in your life about it and take extra care to listen to what they have to say.
Them.

And uh, I hate to break it to you but the specifics here are distinct to the west.

Violence is a common theme in society, but specifically encouraging kids to engage in semi-realistic and fatal violence is not something a lot of cultures do to the extent America in particular does.

Half the cartoons I grew up watching as a kid couldn't even be shown in the UK, let alone other countries.
A combination of? Aren't they largely the same product? I'm just curious why you'd be using both.
I'm talking about NAFTA and other trade deals like it. You referenced automation as taking jobs from Americans, when in reality trade deals arguably had much more of a role in doing that. I misread the second point, but I'm not sure what VAT has to do with anything here.
Teacher of Moral Philosophy.

Watch the show, it's great.
In my experience not many people are aware of the permission model of sudo and I expect a lot of users are merely granted root access. At the same time those deployments which do use sudo's permission model are likely high cost.
Neither are judges free to ignore the European Convention on Human Rights or the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights when interpreting and applying those national laws. Also, wouldn't be the first time Spain got slapped by ECtHR because of sentences based on its outdated Criminal Code.
I run multiple local meetups.

This is a crazy change, and definitely bad.

The overwhelming majority of members I've spoken to say they are going to stop RSVP'ing, which would basically kill the platform.

I know with WeWork circling the drain, Meetup is desperate for additional revenue, but this seems like a bad move.
do let us know how it turns out
I don't understand why Uber would need so many engineers, give that their business is so easily shardable, and scaling is not even a major issue. In that sense, the Whatsapp team of 50 engineers solved a tougher problem. I know, it's difficult to compare these companies, but still I'd expect the labor force to be within a factor of 10 at most.
Activating the civil construction mode of failures, I'd say that he probably sent the design for construction, but the people on the field didn't think it would work and built it like every other bridge they have built on their lives.
Just took a look at your landing page, cool idea -- one element of your service that really stood out was down at the bottom "Free concierge onboarding".

Really interesting offer. Do you find new subscribers take you up on this a lot? Seems like a great way to improve your migration tooling!
Curious to know which citizenship that would be. My kids automatically got my citizenship just because I'm their dad, nothing to do with me being married to their mom or not.
Nature is still published in print, and so are many others.
It was a great feature that could have been awesome. Instead they basically allowed any CSS a user could imagine and it just made clicking a MySpace not worth doing.
Ah ah, anyway, this would be pointless if it makes you far more likely to reach death before having a chance to have kids. I guess it would be an optimization problem.
You don't replace millions of line of code of something working with a language that looks faster on paper.
Christopher Columbus was a murderer, tyrant, and scoundrel
The average web page from 8M pages and what that means when it comes to tech SEO
If you have enough money to buy large enough plot of land and to hire enough people to work as diplomats, border control, etc. there is no real reason why you should not be able to secede and form your own country, if everyone could actually do that, our governments would not be as crappy as they are, and would not be prison guards for their own population. At least that is the idea behind seasteading and charter cities.
Snapchat is down, and the company says it's working on a fix
The lack of commas makes this even more unsettling.
Wasn't that after re-writing the constitution? So was the vote illegal at the time?

I know this is an emotional issue. But the rule of law is purported to be enshrined in the Spanish Constitution.
coffee ⇒ caffeine ⇒ better urinary health ⇒ better gametes ⇒ better babies?
Never been healthier!
> It's trivial to understand the difference between the scalar var $foo and the array var $foo[0] if someone explains it to you or you read it;

I don't Perl much, but aren't those both scalars and @foo is an array variable. $foo[0] would be a scalar that is the first element of @foo, right?
Actually, the market overwhelmingly favors non-violent and only loosely competitive games. PUBG is a drop in the bucket compared to mobile gaming. How many daily actives does Candy Crush and Angry Birds have compared to PUBG?
Market availability isn't the same as OTC distribution though.

The expensive clinical regulations that creates barriers to entry for the market and leads to monopolistic incumbents is not the same to being able to buy the good with or without an prescription.

The latter is tied more to remuneration from insurance companies - i.e. private insurance companies that are incentivized to not pay for prescriptions are more willing to only pay when care providers specifically order it.
”The largest private insurers in the US cover more people than many single payer countries, like Canada for example. They don’t get better prices.”

I don’t think they really care about prices as long as they can pass them on through higher premiums.
Author here—while many systems are performance-sensitive, many others aren't. Personally, I don't enjoy writing Python at work due to its lack of misuse resistance more than any concerns about performance (although a large-enough project will eventually care about performance _at some point_), but I have little issue writing smaller Python programs that only _I_ maintain.
Historical precedent: the Ming dynasty turned inwards and built the great wall of China. Just a few centuries later China was now a bit behind the west and was defeated in the opium wars.
Tiny comment:

In "A better run queue" the second code block has

self.tail.store(tail + 1, Release);

Should this not instead look like the following?

self.tail.store(tail.wrapping_add(1), Release);

---

Another comment:

> The first load can most likely be done safely with Relaxed ordering, but there were no measurable gains in switching.

This code is using an Acquire/Release pair, except it's Acquire/Release on different memory slots, which means there's no actual happens-before edge. This makes the Acquire/Release pair somewhat confusing (which tripped me up too in the first version of this comment).

Furthermore, I don't see anything in here that relies on the head load here being an Acquire. This Acquire would synchronize with the Release store on head in the pop operation, except what's being written in the pop is the fact that we don't care about the memory anymore, meaning we don't need to be able to read anything written by the pop (except for the head pointer itself).

This suggests to me that the head load/store should be Relaxed (especially because in the load literally all we care about for head is the current pointer value, for the length comparison, as already explained by the article). The tail of course should remain Release on the push, and I assume there's an Acquire there on the work-stealing pop (since you only list the local-thread pop code, which is doing an unsynced load here as an optimization). I don't promise that this is correct but this is my impression after a few minutes of consideration.
There is an explicit exception to the GDPR for duplicate/unreasonable requests.
> Some people do deliberately (misgender) to antagonize a person.

There's a difference between childish behavior in real life, versus an internet forum where someone's name and profile picture don't really say much.
Or if you wanted a database of people who wear uniforms ...
I'd guess that person is talking about published lists of books.
A logical evolution of what I did 5 years ago and other people did before me. I can only assume what are ad networks doing...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863418

Though this one is much cooler :)
Decidim – Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
dang I have trouble wrapping my very linux centric head around this -- seems like a weird comparison
Maybe it's the wrong mindset, but imo compensation is precisely why the internet stopped being like that. When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things.

They might try to make something look nice and be slick for the end user, but they won't usually hire people or use big studios.

This contributed to a culture where the very best people in the field are making things that any user could also go away and do themselves easily, which led to creativity.

Nowadays the best people get money, and lots of it, which leads to their production becoming better and better, which leads to a better product, but less innovation.
>> Front-running, for the record, is illegal
I didn't get the sense that it is illegal from the book. Could you please elaborate what you understand by front running and why/how is it illegal.

>> Michael Lewis perverts the phrase to mean "using publicly available information

Per my understanding Michael Lewis is referring to the fact that HFT firms were able to race faster than the original trade executions and execute part of the trade, due to it being spread over multiple exchanges with different latencies.

While this may not be illegal, it surely sounds unethical.
Great article. Not sure why the author re-implements a thread pool when there is not one, but two in the standard library (futures and multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool).
>The OS maker said that many of the organizations that got hit had failed to install patches, even if security updates were available. This led Microsoft to investigate why companies didn't patch their systems.

Because MS keeps releasing patches that break their systems. Just look at the history of Win10 patches...
OmaStadi (linked here) is a web service in which the City of Helsinki's participatory budgeting is carried out. The service has been built using the Decidim[0] open source software. The development work on Decidim is led by the City of Barcelona, but Helsinki is also actively participating in it.

- [0] https://decidim.org/
It appears to be down?
The parent comment I was replying to was talking about trade secrets, not customer information. But on that topic, the US has its own data-gathering operation which presumably is already collecting the same information. There is an opportunity here for someone to step up and speak against this practice.
> 2. Chinese citizens working and living in a free country will import these values back home (false)

> For the majority of Chinese citizens coming to the US to study or work, they do not care about knowledge, enlightenment, or the freedoms that the western civilization values so much. They are here for the thing that their society values most - $$$. Do not think for once that the Chinese care at all about western "freedoms".

The problem is that they've been deliberately kept ignorant about western freedoms (and fed a fair amount of propaganda to counter them), and that the West hasn't been trying hard enough to impart understanding and spread them. The false part of #2 is that merely working or living in a place does not lead to fast assimilation of its values.

When Chinese people actually learn about liberal values, they want them and fight for them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/asia/hong-kong-prot...
It's not him redirecting that link; he redirects all links from HN by checking the Referer. If you copy and paste the URL it works fine.
The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden
That's a totally legit Firth, IMO
You fundamentally misunderstand my argument if you think that I'm saying video games are causal. I think they're a symptom and they help normalize ideas, but causal? No.

That's the argument people are used to having, so I can see how you might be eager to address it. But I'm not interested.
Summaries are fine. Just let's not pretend there's no loss of information.
The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well?

I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.
Did you see what already happened in the Raku Facebook group? The founder of that group was angry that another admin already renamed the group from Perl6 to Raku, as he announced to do on Monday. He called him asshole, and banned him. Quite astonishing outrage for a simple prodecural mistake in good faith. This was not the only such ban.

Best is to avoid such toxic communities at all.
Considering that Turkey has recently purchased a (non-nuclear) weapons systems from Russia and that their military excursion into Syria has the potential to destabilize the whole region (again, following the US' last destabilization of the whole region), I would not have too much confidence in the security of those weapons in place either. NATO looks disturbingly like a game of Jenga right now.
I hope I will never have to go to a country that is so badly run that a private, non-democratic company without any rule of law and a customer "support" bureaucracy that could be greatly improved by making it kafkaesque looks good in comparison.
Can't find dailies, but the sources I find say 100+ million MAU for PUBG and 250+ million MAU for Candy Crush.

Angry Birds seems to be well under 100 million MAU, and anyhow isn't nonviolent.
The fella that built the fence and gate on one side and the icecream stand on the other.

Fairytales are useful, but they often hide the real truth.
The reality has changed (collapse of the Soviet Union), but the strategic thinking has not.

Now an increasingly authoritarian regime could become a nuclear power with just a small scale assault on the base.

We should remove the cores and ship them by sea under Navy protection.
The jokes practically write themselves...
> The Ming dynasty turned inwards and built the great wall of China. Just a few centuries later China was now a bit behind the west and was defeated in the opium wars.

Their problem wasn't that they built a wall, but rather they stopped looking past it because of beliefs in their own superiority.
A game development camp I used to teach at here in Austin, Game World's, uses Construct and it is a fantastic tool that's readily accessible, even to children. Once you get them going with game design concepts, they can really knock out a solid game within a week. I think it's a fantastic platform and seems comparable to flash in ease of use.
They were discussing University licenses and legal battles that lead Gosling to include a license in his source for Emacs.

> Gosling: But then <pause> then there was at one point <pause> I kinda realized at one point <pause> um <pause> I was ither <pause> I was ither going to be Mr. Emacs for the rest of my life or graduate. I couldn't actually do both <pause> um <pause> so I decided I wanted to graduate.

> Interviewer: So then but your display algorithm got incorporated by Richard Stallman into GNU Emacs?

> Gosling: Well <pause> Actually it was more than that. He just took all the source code.

> Interviewer: oh ok

> Gosling: Right? It was.. It started out as all of the source code and he just edited the copyright notices.

> Interviewer: Really? So he just essentially stole your program?

> Gosling: Yeah <pause> so <sigh> um

> Interviewer: And claimed it as his own?

> Gosling: Yeah <pause>

At this point Gosling reiterates his revelation about either graduating or remaining "Mr. Emacs" and the explains how he went around to "all the usual suspects" at MIT and UCLA asking if anyone wanted to take up maintenance of Emacs. Everyone turned him down, including Stallman who Gosling said responded with a "frothing hell no" and explained that Stallman's position was that Unix was the spawn of the devil.

Gosling then discusses University licenses, litigation, IP, and opensource as reasons why he decided to license Emacs and ask for letters acknowledging the license from people he distributed the source code to.

Gosling then explains how the license for Emacs ended up with two guys in a garage but never actually says that he sold it to them, just that Emacs should remain free for universities. He explained how when Stallman found out about the license transfer, Stallman freaked out. Gosling then expresses some remorse he felt for the two guys in a garage because Stallman proceeded to release GNU Emacs and, despite legal victories against DEC and IBM, the two guys were force to abandon Emacs because they had no legal recourse against Stallman.

The interviewer then asked why no one went after Stallman and Gosling explained that Stallman was essentially homeless and you gain nothing from suing a homeless man. Gosling was trying to explain delicately and uncomfortably that Stallman had different views on economic models when the interviewer then took a jib at Stallman's hygiene. Gosling, who is already visibly uncomfortable discussing the topic, deflected by saying that they had different opinions and that Gosling preferred to have food on the table and a roof over his head.
It introduces the feed feature as an integral part of a social network's success/failure, stemming from real domain experience. If GP included maybe one more sentence on how/why the feeds mentioned failed I think it would've been much better received. Sorry GP you didn't deserve it.
Windows usually has some easier to setup utilities to develop on for some projects. We have Mac, Windows and mostly Linux devs. I sometimes wish I was on Windows its more predictable to me.
Which is why legislation like the affordable care act that limits premiums helps keep stupid behavior from insurance companies in check.
That's not true, companies like instagram for example didn't have many developers when they got sold for billions. The investors don't want their money wasted, they want the growth even when not profitable but they are not stupid and if a company can achieve this growth with few developers they will be more than happy to support it.
> But you didn't pay for it.

You're trying to argue that someone who made a simple trade (for example a chicken for some wool), didn't pay for what they received.

I did pay for it. The payment was in in knowledge about how I would use the service and making my time available for an advertiser to take my attention. The payment was in the ability of Google to read my private correspondence.

I think it's unethically misleadingly wrong to say people don't pay for a free service.
I think the argument boils down to fundamentally restructuring the syntax of our language to the point where pronouns are now individual identity-level constructs. I won't take a position, but I will say that this restructuring is expensive and confuses the hell out of me.
measure twice, cut once.

day-to-day programming is a lot more like carpentry than science...
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

"We can’t measure what counts, so we count what we can measure."
> distinct to the west.

> to the extent America in particular does.

> couldn't even be shown in the UK

Wait, so the UK isn't part of the West now? Since when?

Have you not looked at Japan? Shonen there has to be censored to be shown in the states. No showing Goku with a hole through his chest for American kids!

And violent video games are popular practically the world over these days. It's true that America makes a large number of them, but it's hardly specific to the US, and certainly playing them isn't. To suggest otherwise is to betray deep ignorance on the subject.
It is a tough problem, patients expect doctors to prescribe the best possible care, and doctors think it is amoral to take financial impact into account. Ideally, the doctor would be able to help the patient understand the trade off and make an informed decision.
This is true in general. Kubernetes was ported from Java to Go, though I have no idea how large it was when it happened... that said I agree with you, and it's more likely that a new tool would appear than any of these deciding to suddenly re-write the universe.
And Alphago only does training when it's asked to by Deepminds programmers.

It didn't spontaneously appear and start playing by itself.
There are many prestigious/important journals within specific fields with very low IF. For instance in acoustics the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America or Acta Acustica united with Acustica.
Already got me some kids.
Ok, let's use the MIT press release instead. URL changed from https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a....
Which is why ACA also instituted marketplaces and insurance standards, so that competition across substitute services keeps premiums competitive.

E.g. Anthem is more than free to double the premium on their bronze plan to increase net profits, but then customers are free to swap in bronze plans from Cigna, Kaiser, or any number of competitors that didn't.
Maybe its for "Social-Ists"?

Like a weird way of saying people who like to be social?

And hopefully not the kind of socialism that Russia/DPRC employ, that would be the worst of all worlds.