skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that Elastic is running into a different issue, with AWS (and possibly other cloud providers) making it hard for them to follow the obvious monetization path (hosting).

Algolia, because it doesn't have an open source offering, doesn't have that issue.
> Many languages will have counted a 1gb file before Clojure has even started up.

You mean before the JVM has started up. One could compile Clojure with GraalVM to eliminate startup time.
It's not "dying out" -- people are working very hard to reduce it.

Sometimes we say things like "the world has changed" but the truth is that people have changed the world, through tremendous efforts.

It's easy for a bystander to say "the problem just seemed to go away!" when the people who are doing the work can stare at them and say, "Ahem... it didn't just go away."
Interfacing with arbitrary hardware, for example random LCD devices with sometimes proprietary on the wire protocols. (Don't have a graphics chip for that screen? Make yourself a graphics chip for that screen!) Or Digital Signal Processing.
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780747411/ ) makes the case that standardized weights and measures do indeed make things easier for the state, but that in this case the state is on the side of the peasants against the nobility who would like to enserf them.

History supports this view in some obvious ways -- European peasant revolutions included demands for standardized weights and measures as a counter to abuse of nonstandard measures by local lords.
Re: everyone who commented, I said "shouldn't," not "isn't."
S&P 500 index fund will probably average you around 7%.
Microsoft gives Satya Nadella a 66% raise, citing 'strategic leadership'
VA Linux, the company behind SourceForge, bought Slashdot back in 2000, so that kinda sounds harsh to me -- I mean, the site only launched in 1997. :)

I think it slid into gradual irrelevance in the following decade, but I'm not sure there was any one moment that did it. Personally, I'd date its decline to 2011, perhaps not coincidentally shortly after founding editor Rob Malda left.
In my experience remote jobs (especially at smaller companies) seem to care more about your experience and ability to do the job than the Leetcode trivia questions. And although "impressive" employers might help, they're definitely not a prerequisite. Most engineers working remotely have never worked at a FAANG type company.
I've been going through the book "But How Do It Know" (not a typo) and it's a great introduction on how to build a CPU from scratch starting from basic transistor working up higher and higher levels of abstraction using a bottom up approach. You don't need a lot of math to understand it at all and is a fairly easy read.
But surely you have language and platform preferences?
I've seen many places where unit tests are almost useless because they test the obvious stuff, so the developers think it's good enough ("we have 550 tests!"), but the most difficult bits are untested.

If you want to get rid of them you could go with the following strategy:

1. Have code coverage (you need this regardless). Realistically you want to see branch coverage in addition to line coverage.
2. Implement an alternative test suite along the lines you suggested (integration tests)
3. Compare the coverage between the two test suites

You should quickly approach the coverage of the original test suite with your integration tests. At that point, you can decide to either refine the integration tests to cover more, or write unit tests to cover the missing bits.

Generally you'll know already which parts of your code really need high branch coverage. Typically, the core data structures and algorithms. It's wise to focus on unit-testing those ones.

By the way I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Quite the opposite. Very few projects have comprehensive tests, so you have to find a tradeoff anyway. Many people choose the easiest path of cargo culting some unit tests for the sake of having many green bubbles in some CI panel. But if you can't have comprehensive tests, due to constraints, you might as well focus on trying to be effective, as you're trying to do. Godspeed.

edit: if you don't do it already, have assertions in your code. I find them essential, and they help decouple the tests from the code under test a lot.
It’s fine to fuck up. Just catch it in time and create a new entry to reverse it.
Nukes make terrible dirty bombs the isotopes in questions are very stable and not highly radioactive, for a dirty bomb you want isotopes with a fairly short lifetime of years/decades.

PU239 has a half life of 24,110 years and that's your best case for a dirty bomb, if the core is U235 then it has a half life of 703,800,000 years which means when it's not in any substantial mass in which the nuclear decay is can to turn into a chain reaction it's about as radioactive as cat litter or a banana.
Is there a slack group like previous batches?
Great article, I wish the discussions around clocks had gone a bit more into how the tradeoff of pipelining vs longest operation ends up impacting designs. That and SRAM vs DRAM access latencies were the things that really connected the dots from how performance optimization on the software side of things is rooted in physical hardware limitations.
Someday, when every man, woman, and child carries a camera, we will get a picture of this illusive creature. Someday.
The Beauty of Mathematics
Sirius Cybernetics clearly had some ideas along those lines, but the results were lacking:

"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic examination of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
Hell, would Border Patrol object if I drove over there with a 24-pack and some buddies and at least put some cones or reflective posts or something down? Maybe tie them together with lengths of rope or twine? Or rocks? Or shrubberies? Or little signs with the Canadian flag facing the US side and the US flag facing the Canadian side?

Looks like there are even power poles there already. Maybe hang flags off the power lines (or maybe an extra non-powered line or rope below the power lines)? Or banners that say "INTERNATIONAL BORDER"?

Ooooo, or we could paint the US road blue with white stars all over it, and the Canada road white with red maple leaves all over it.
Easy to miss the point that the power would be lost if it wasn't used.
You don't sound like you have children which means you save a lot of money that way and you guys together make a metric crap ton of money compared to the average person. Sounds like you're trying a mustachioed lifestyle. I wish you all the best. $2400/mo isn't a huge housing cost btw. Especially when living in a city.
not every order will show up on the next payment though; to my knowledge, they can be delayed until some amount of time after the order is placed or after it's arrived
Ask HN: What are your biggest regrets?
The MySQL 8.0.18 Is Released
Or the Krasnikov tube, where time is tilted such that travel through it (in one direction) takes you back in time (from a stationary perspective).

That's very similar to a wormhole, but without the topological flaw.
That was my point. You are assuming the wealth appreciation is mostly asset value appreciation that is not realized as a gain every year. Otherwise, this household would also be in the top 1% of incomes, and this thread started by talking about the distinction between top 1% incomes and top 1% wealth.
I think you're correct -- a phone call is one-to-one and the internet is a broadcast medium.

I believe radio (as in ham radio) actually has FCC rules regarding identification and profanity.
Our "random parameters" baseline is actually the random search that you refer to, while the "random search" that we use, is the actual derivative-free optimization technique of random search.

Reviewers asked for a comparison with this specific random search. You can go look at the reviews on OpenReview.
It's a tedious schtick. Yet in this case there was also real reporting.
Everything in the X11 ecosystem seems to be a pile of hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. It sometimes works pretty well and that's amazing! It's kind of beautiful in a silly way to realize how many layers of hacks are used to build the desktop experience on Linux.

I don't think terminals are much better. Fun fact about terminal escape sequences: some of them are timing-dependent. If a byte arrives too slowly, it will do something different.

The web is also a pile of hacks but at least we have multiple independent implementations and some standards.

The mess is beautiful. Keep adding layers.
Delivering on Quantum Innovation
That's what correcting entries are for. Not an issue.

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/correcting-entry-de...
They are not really being helpful to me, when organizing the worlds information means, that all search results on page 1 are paid advertising.
(c - 'a') + 'A'

contains both
Cap gains of $700k per year would mean this household had an income of $700k per year, and so be in the top 1% of incomes.
> But AFAIU, there is no edge to the universe with an unknown something beyond the barrier. Space is not an expanding balloon inside a bigger balloon. Ie, there is no space beyond space.

Eternal inflation, if correct, states that there is indeed something which our universe is expanding into. (But even if that's the case, that still has nothing to do with the expansion we've been talking about.)
Now that is a movie script that almost writes itself
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That's interesting because we desperately need spam filtering on our phones right now.
What does it mean that it "has the ability to learn"?
this is much more likely the reason: https://cointelegraph.com/storage/uploads/view/4c43c9a089d2e...
I agree with the article. Here are discussions of related problems with C/C++ arithmetic promotions and overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27001604/32-bit-unsigned...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39964651/is-masking-befo...
A less brain melting way to imagine the "expansion without edge" thing is the classic balloon system. Imagine your entire universe exists across the plain of a semi-deflated balloon and then someone slowly begins to blow it up. The "space" in your 2D world is expanding, but there are no edges.
We don't know, but the universe appears to be perfectly flat, which would indicate it's infinite.

That could also just be due to inflation, mind.
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard from Android Play Store over Donation Link
> It's about establishing protocols between subsystems.

Is that what it's about? I try to establish protocols between subsystems without OOP quite often. Are you referring to message passing specifically?
Leaves unanswered the important question: what gender has L'Académie française assigned the French noun for this thing.
> The trouble with libertarianism is, ultimately, that libertarians only care about themselves.

I am wondering on what you base this line of thinking? Do you have any examples where persons advocating for liberty are acting primarily out of self interest?
It's not just the banking industry that trustless cryptocurrencies can do without, but also the whole infrastructure necessary to maintain the value and trust in fiat money.

This encompasses a very large part of the responsibilities of the political system, army, secret service, ...

Those cost centers can't be ignored if the goal is an honest comparison between the energy efficiency of bitcoin vs. fiat.
The fun thing about terminals is that many terminals pretend to be xterm, but in fact fail to implement some of the many, many terminal escape sequences xterm supports. So complex terminal applications pretty much need to double-check if terminals are actually xterm or if they're something broken pretending to be xterm.
>Don't just silently disagree and then label me a sexist afterwards.

Why can't you criticize your own model, though? Your assertion that hiring more women will lower standards is premised on a belief that men are inherently better. Isn't that embarrassingly obvious to deduce from what you say?

Why isn't it the case that the bar is already lowered for straight, white men or people who otherwise fit tech stereotypes?

Or why does the value of diversity have to manifest in every individual? Maybe being in a diverse work force makes the cis, straight, white men and the company as a whole perform better.

And even if everything I'm saying is just flowery rhetoric with no rational basis, it's still a respectful way to view and treat other people, and your model that suggests women are generally inferior to men takes a big shit all over the aspiration of living in an inclusive, harmonious society.
Have you checked out dialogflow from gcp? Can get up and running really quickly.
Great post. All these, plus many software suites with complex legal and administrative rules (think tax, immigration, employment law) might only support Oracle for the database.

It's next to impossible to wean yourself away from these products in many jurisdictions.

Even Google runs Oracle. And Amazon did till recently.
a sound strategy. Don't mess with other people problems.
> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." Keep in mind that anyone is free to use other services (or roll their own) and gitlab can't do anything about that. Neither would it be overreaching for the workers building that product to request a say in how it's used.

I think we're getting to the core of it here. [The law's opinion isn't clear yet, but it appears to lean in this direction.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...) GitLab's decision may not be adequate - but it could help dodge a bullet or two while the law sorts itself out.

> "The problem with the whole 'activism' mindset is it doesn't actually target the people who created the problem, it just creates lots of noise – and the problem with noise is facts get lost," Fellows said.

The responsible thing to do is to refuse to play ball. If they claimed to be actively vetting content and something slipped through the cracks, it could be more legitimately portrayed as an endorsement than something that occurred with a Laissez-Faire policy in place.
This sounds like something internal...I don't think developers or typical small businesses need (or would want to!) to store their double-entry accounting database in shards across Google Cloud Spanner & Kubernetes clusters...

Good luck with your application -- I, for one, think there's a need for it. I've wished for years that someone would put something like a secure, web-based Gnucash out into the world.
The cosmic microwave background tells us there were practically no discrepancies at all, actually. Not too surprising, since at the densities back then even a small local fluctuation would easily have become a black hole.

The very early universe wasn't perfectly uniform, but it was really, really close.
How is it fraud to ask for donations without being a non-profit?

It's higher risk for sure. Non-501c3 donations are the kind of high risk small peanuts you can imagine a behemoth like Google wanting to get away from.
>> but it was cancelled

Ironically making it even more cost effective.
Can you look at the data and come to a different conclusion rather than attack the paper ad hominem?
It's been that way for quite a while - I prefer AP for my "wire" news source. They're relatively unbiased and they have a good iOS app.
Another way the 99% stuff misses the mark is the fact that most of the 1% is closer in wealth to those of top 10% than the top 0.1%. I read an article a while back that suggested the best way to look at tiers of wealth is to consider the bottom 90%, the top 0.1%, and the 9.9% between those.
'0' through '9' are guaranteed to be contiguous, so doing arithmetic around that fact is legitimate. And char does not generally represent ASCII characters; it could be some other charset.
Things that kill on purpose or by accident.
https://www.databadger.net/

:-)

Also, there is the similarly themed https://dbeaver.io/

A great, open source tool btw.
In other news, there's a Google MediaPipe hand tracking example.[1][2] It's still documented as iOS/Android only, but there's now a hand_tracking directory under linux desktop examples![3] Results have been mixed.[4]

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/on-device-real-time-hand-t...
[2] https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/do...
[3] https://github.com/google/mediapipe/tree/master/mediapipe/ex...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwgjgT9hu6A (Aug 31)
>Rely on them for what, exactly?

It's nice to know they're not going to cave to a gaggle of Twitter blue checkmarks.
Sure this works in a major city, but what about the smaller cities, and the suburbs?
The way you put it above seemed to imply the discourse in society as a whole, not a narrow and unrepresentative segment of it.
How does this differ from Amazon Lambda?

Only read the landing page so far but it looks like Lambda with just Node support. Can someone correct me if I’m off?
Discussing things you may want to unionize over are often connected to the larger political realm, and cannot be severed.

Here’s an example: should a group of unionizing employees be able to say “vote for candidate foo, because they support legislation that aligns with our unions goals?”

Courts have said yes, and I agree.
the money-quote from this article as it pertains to this discussion is: "In 1984, less than half the people on The Forbes 400 were self-made; in 2018, 67% of the 400 created their own fortunes."

here is the full list of the forbes 400:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
how the hell a organism has 720 sexes?

It probably has no sex at all, and is some king of hemaphrodite orgnanism or something that just reproduces with something more simple like parthenogenesis?
I specifically said endpoints and not ISP because the proliferation of encrypted DNS traffic is a good thing regardless. Also, there is still MITM potential between you and your ISP's DNS server as many ISPs share pipes that have been known to be tapped at different PoPs. The value of encryption to DNS servers is obvious, even if we pretended that user-to-ISP traffic was all we were talking about.

I liken these arguments to the same ones made in the past by our more-naive selves concerning encryption of corporate intranet traffic. We should be smarter now.
There's really two mandates to workers here:

1: Don't discuss politics at work. This seems reasonable, when the discussion has a good chance of getting heated and making it more difficult to work with colleagues.

2: Don't vet potential customers (in part because it might get political)

This second one is less defensible. Avoiding politics is fine when it's unrelated to the work, but when it intrudes on work, it becomes relevant, and avoiding the issue is a lapse of ethical responsibility. That people might disagree on the boundaries of that responsibility is precisely why the discussions are needed.

I'm not saying this is easy, that it won't lead to conflict, but it can be done in a structured fashion that minimizes the ability for conversation to blow up into flame wars. Again, not easy, but necessary to avoid abdicating moral responsibility for your actions.
What Is Air Crete?
I've heard people in the political world talk about buying and selling email lists, which I thought was illegal, but seems to be common practice.
The origin stories should be taken with a grain of salt, but that we have cougar-sized ferals is well recorded. There was a Gippsland feral killed and DNA tested that was half as big again as a record-sized domestic cat.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-11-28/tests-reveal-super-si...
Or if you're using one, you're likely very aware of that fact and don't suddenly discover it from an blog post.
Meanwhile, I got an L4 offer from Google last year that was below that.
I've been downvoted by those who are very attached to drugs, it seems.
At the end of the day, you can either put your customers first, or your employees. Gitlab has made their choice. Microsoft has made their choice.

Cancel culture is cancerous, but this is a case where if I can avoid Gitlab, I will, on the grounds that I wouldn't want to recommend them to another entity given their CEO's readiness to do business with the worst scum on the planet.
> Public discourse shifted into "silence is complicitness"

It leads to the "deplatforming" approach, i.e. not only refusing to provide a neutral publishing platform (or assimilated-related tools), but also to actively fight against those who do so.

'Be careful what you wish for', indeed.
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That's Georgism, which was very popular around the turn of the 20th century
Well, the good offer came a couple months after I rejected the Google offer, and it was for one level higher (which I didn't think Google was going to budge on).
> Jesus Christ; firstly no, it's not a benefit whatsoever to be able to force someone to do something. Secondly, a boss who has to force people to do things rather than provide convincing reasons to do them is a terrible boss, and should be fired by his/her boss immediately.

> The "very essence" of being a boss is knocking out obstacles for the people under you. That is what a boss actually does, not tell people what to do.

Those types of managers/bosses are great, and are some of my favorite people because they simply allow me to do what needs doing while shielding me from bullshit. But by no stretch of the imagination (or certainly the experience of workers as a whole) do they represent every manager/boss. If you've been lucky or sheltered enough to avoid the kind that aren't like that, you should reflect on that as a fortuitous outcome and maybe consider that your experience isn't everyone's experience.
The thing is - it didn't, at least while I was there. The triggering of universal result groups (eg. Local, Shopping, or News results within the search results page) was based on the probability that for a given query, the user would end up wanting to switch over to the respective Google property rather than click on the top result. There was no manual tweaking of search results, and the formulas were so simple (basically straight ratios) that it's hard for them to be mucked with.
So, is it possible for an event in the Milky Way to ever affect GN-z11 (or vice-versa)? Or are the galaxies permanently 'read-only' to each other?
Need more pronouns.
If the cash loaded into a bitcoin "atm" is legal, it's traceable. If it is illegal then your results may vary, most likely to your financial and legal detriment. If you think a bitcoin "atm" is a solution to this problem then hopefully your lawyer accepts bitcoins.
One thing you left out is that despite their insularity, the Hasidim vote, in large numbers, and largely the way their rabbis instruct them to. Combine this with the fact that they have very large families, and you can see how they can quickly become very politically powerful.
Any smaller grouping than the 1% is irrelevant. The 0.01% (which starts roughly at the secondary characters from Big Bang Theory) earns 5% of all income. They’re rich individually, but aren’t monopolizing a large fraction of society’s production.