skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and went to business school or law school.

Familiar sounding story. I've got lots of friends who took it as an opportunity (or were forced by it) to switch out of tech careers. Lots of people I know went and became things like paramedics (at least three I can think of), nurses, doctors, lawyers. A bunch were well enough off to be able to reinvent themselves creatively as photographers, musicians, DJs, producers.

(I'm from Sydney, so it didn't hit anything like as hard here, I was at what would these days be called a startup in the online travel industry. We'd hit $1mil in turnover @~32% margins in Jan and had an offer on the table which my would have turned my ~5% equity into a quite nice house paid for outright if we'd taken it. Then when Sept 11 happened we lost 90% of our US customer revenue over night (which was by far the bulk of our customers). Didn't _kill_ us outright, but it took us ~2 years to recover back to our next $1m month. We struggled on for another half dozen years before selling the business to a competitor, and I eventually spent my entire share proceeds from that sale taking a handful of friends out to a (very nice) dinner.)
Really, complete bullshit, just like "vaccines cause autism" or "MSG causes chinese restaurant syndrome". Do we need more studies to again disprove what already has been disproven? Bad bullshit science exists and "we need more studies" is its lifeline that keeps the gullible populace feeding it.

Oh and also. To make a scientific claim, you have to make a hypothesis. Not just a claim "5G causes cancer", but "5G causes cancer by this and this method". Without method of action best you can do is a corelational study, which is jus one step higher a case study, which is basically an anecdote.
I never wrote set -e is bashism. I implied that people who use set -e will also write bashisms. Goodness knows I've had to fix enough of such garbage over the years to work with Solaris' /bin/sh and I'm revolted, sick and tired of it.

In the meanwhile, notice how absolutely no one could explain what's wrong with || exit 1, other than it's "ugly" (which is a personal opinion, not a fact)?

"You can't even admit your mistake."

So let me get this straight: because I was wrong about set -e making one's program instantly unportable, my entire argument that SmartOS is a good, fast product is invalid? I guess the implication here is that because I was wrong about set -e making a shell program unportable, I am wrong about everything else, is that it?
Linux is not entirely UTF-8, though plenty of people treate it as if is so. Even if on Linux, you might need to consume files from other OS's or other Linux systems with different locales. Once had issues with systems configured with "C" locale vs "en-US" should have been near identical, but enough slight differences to cause failures. Been +10 years, so I dont remember the details.

Windows, the OS, is UTF-16 (or UCS-2 - I forget the details between the two), SQL Server has, for historical reasons, defaulted to CP1252, probably for compatibility with Office components.

But, it's not really a Windows problem, per se, because you have to deal with this issue if you deal with data originated from numerous Windows apps, even if on Linux. Yeah, you can insert a byte order mark (BOM) to indicate UTF-8, but most tools expecting UTF-8 actually dont check for the BOM and blow up in interesting ways if present. Ive seen this far too many times. Enough that anytime I see an encoding error from the likes of Python or Ruby, its an instant recognition (I do a lot ETL work from a number of vendors, so I see a lot of different files "types").
>"The problem is that the existing infrastructure does not support network slicing"

What does "network slicing" mean here? I'm not familiar with this term.
No, it's because for some reason there's a bunch of 32-bit only games on macOS.
I understand that hearing aids, as a medical device, are a bit of a racket, costing thousands. But, some new policy is in the works that favours consumer tech innovation. Anyone knowledgeable?
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set -e is not a bashism, but people who reach for it are extremely likely to write bash-only code. That's just been my experience.

And I'm not your "bro".
It depends. The inverse square law applies to spherical wavefronts. Due to diffraction, wave fronts always become spherical in the far field.

But in the near field, that's not the case.

Beamforming arrays have planar wavefronts close to the source, so the inverse square law does not apply. The wave fronts will become spherical again at a "large" distance from the emitter, where the meaning of "large" depends on wavelength and emitter size.

Focussed lasers also do not have spherical wave fronts in the near field. The distance at which the inverse square law starts to apply to lasers depends on beam width, coherence, and focus.
Tim Cook is 10 steps behind if you look at the rest of the board members list. Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Nadella, all have already found a spot on the board.
Manufacturing outrage over personal irresponsibility is the true American pastime.
Living in Vietnam, I see kids on the street clearly suffering from the effects of agent orange, all the time.
I don't think it would be a cheap service if you set a modest goal of earning a cinema trip with popcorn and a drink for every trip to the post office.

1TB HDD: 59 AUD
International Shipping (assuming we can keep it under 1kg with packaging): 38 AUD

That is 97 AUD before considering any profit you might want to make (35 AUD for the movie + small popcorn and drink), fixed setup costs like a NAS to cache data sets or the bandwidth costs.
MySQL Command Line Tool: Unleash the Power of Mycli
And actually useful, and expensive to buy again.
With a bad cert, no less...
I got a 403 forbidden message, but archive.org works.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20140123215657/https://www.pizza...

> PizzaNet is Pizza Hut's Electronic Storefront and is brought to you by Pizza Hut® and The Santa Cruz Operation®

What, the original SCO, THE Unix company, built the website for Pizza Hut? The original SCO dissolved in 2001, so it must be earlier?
"What little effort there is to improve things is often duplicative between the three+ branches of effort."

That's funny, because I'm on the mailing lists for illumos and SmartOS and I see that everything generally useful impemented in SmartOS ends up upstream in illumos. Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

It's true that less and less software compiles on Solaris 10. I have to spend time patching badly written software to get it to compile. I have however not noticed any performance impact, on the contrary, that same software runs faster on Solaris 10 (and by extension illumos and therefore SmartOS) than on GNU/Linux where it has been developed, which is a slap in the face of GNU/Linux crowd hacking on that trash fire.

SmartOS is a different story, completely different: they use pkgsrc and their library is 15,000+ packages. So the argument here is mis-information. Presumably, this is being done on purpose, "because Linux"?
I have had a few weird freezes/lock-ups, which I think were related to time machine going out to lunch.

Other than that, it’s been pretty good. Battery life improvement, seems faster, etc.
China has earned their influence. If you want to see an example of buying influence, go look at the middle eastern oil countries.
Yeah, memory consumption. That's the problem.

Okay, buddy. Guess you'll need to "move away from" every web browser that loads Slack too, right?

Riiiiiiight...
>people started watching fd.com

what is fd.com?
Damn, I do that for free and a large mug of coffee every morning (crossposted to 'if you're so smart how come you're not rich' thread)
Kinda surprised Hunter Biden isn't on the board. CNN reports he's very talented.
I get the impression cloud providers don't "negotiate rates" but rather "build infrastructure" most of the time.
Do the ethics courses focus on when you’re allowed to call yourself an engineer?
Television That Came from the Cold
Never seen Codementor before -- but thanks for pointing it out to me.

I guess that in functionality the sites are similar, but hopefully the overarching goals of the project will bring them in different directions.
Oh, they are. US News and World is still garbage, though.
I definitely need a better Chinese name. How can I get one?
Or if you want to donate via regular bank transfer (without Plaid) you can do that as described here: https://www.gnome.org/support-gnome/donate/

It won't go specifically to the patent case though.
Here's ALL you need to know about your company stock options: ask yourself - if I had ($PRICE_PER_SHARE * $NUMBER_OF_SHARES) in cash sitting in my checking account RIGHT NOW, would I dump ALL of it into my company's stock? If the answer is yes - hold onto those options and simply DO NOT exercise them. If the answer is NO - FUCKING SELL THEM NOW! Take the tax hit, diversify into other investments, take a cruse, waste it on strippers & blow in Las Vegas - whatever. At NO point hold actual SHARES of your company stock. Options are compensation lottery tickets. That's exactly how executives view them, that's exactly how you should view them. Trust the guy who "held on" to about $100,000.00 USD worth of options as the stock crashed into the ground between February 2000 and October 2000. I could have paid off $40k worth of my wife's & my student loans, $20K worth of auto loans and still had money in the bank after taxes, but I believe the bullshit & hype. I regret it to this day and I'll probably never get type of stock option shot again.

It's a simple question: if I had the value of my company stock in cold, hard ca$h today - would I dump it ALL into a brokerage account to buy said company stock?
That’s why as a creative you should be using a backup solution. With modern internet connections backing up is quick and efficient. File loss should be expected on the FS. Many things can and will go wrong one day.
"Men with bachelor's degrees earn approximately $900,000 more in median lifetime earnings than high school graduates. Women with bachelor's degrees earn $630,000 more."

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...
Evidence why people should value their stock at zero.
archive.org has that main page archived as far back as December 1996:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzah...
How do I interprit this list. As tit for tat or why else would a CEO join this board?

Tesla is one of the only companies that really seems to be successful in China.

Then you have Apple and others that are getting overtaken by domestic companies and not coincidentally a lot of financial companies ( that niche was pretty open in China, I thought)

Does this list also explain why Microsoft asked the White House to lift the ban on Huawei/trade war? Or is this not even close related.

Am I wrong? If so, please explain. I guess the profit is both in market access and some sort of personal gain?
I wonder about that. Do you have any additional reading on Nintendo's playtesting?

Although their games are mass mass market, they still feel opinionated. Their designs have a certain Nintendo-ness to them that's persisted for decades in almost all their games. Even when they partner up with a third party their design shows through.

If they had extensive playtesting early on I would think their uniqueness would be eroded. It obviously hasn't. Most recently Nintendo set the bar for what an open world game should be like with their take. Not just in quality but by applying their method they elevated the genre.
Based on the fact that the site is monochrome and about 8KB, I'm going to guess early 90s.

It's funny, the favico (modern asset loaded from the root of the domain automatically) outweighs the entire page by a factor of 4.
I'm sure the comment was an attempt at sarcasm.
Longer yellow lights are more dangerous! It should be a signal to stop -- but if long enough, it becomes a signal to "speed up and hurry through." Amsterdam has very short yellow lights, but the result is that when you see yellow, you stop.
Why does everything go to shit as I scroll?
It leads to in increase in cancers detected before the person dies of non-cancer causes.

Situation: person has an almost undetectable cancer. They see a doctor, no cancer detected, later that week they are shot by police at a routine road stop.

We get in our time machine, go back a week and a bit, and supply the doctor with a better detection kit.

Situation 2: person has an almost undetectable cancer. They see a doctor who refers them to a specialist, cancer detected, another notch on the cancer tally board. Later that week they are shot by police at a routine road stop.

Nothing has changed except in the second case there’s another cancer detected. The person is still dead from non-cancer causes, just in one scenario they died as a haver-of-cancer and in the other they didn’t.

Better/earlier detection will necessarily lead to a decrease in cancers that are never detected (which I interpret as an increase in cancers detected before mortality from other causes), otherwise it’s not better/earlier detection.
> He is opposed to changes that 1) break things that used to work fine

The arguments for building emulators into the OS are weak. A minority of users running old operating systems in VMs while the majority get a sleeker, better maintained and thus hopefully more secure OS. That is a fair tradeoff.

Pulling native 32-bit support may be 2019’s laptop-with-no-disk-drive drama.
What was the actual date on this? I assume it was wayyyy before 2014 haha.

Imagine telling them back then that someone could fill out all the details on the website, choose their pizza and customise toppings AND have it delivered by a robot.

They'd think you were high!
> It's atomic mass of 238 is considerably higher than Lead's 207.5.

Atomic mass has little to do with an element's boiling point.
> the cost of getting the degree exceeds the lifetime pay increase of having it

Your words; not mine.
Who is The Santa Cruz Operation®?
Do those need siding or is that an acceptable external wall? Would be nice if these structures were widely allowed, but I have a feeling that it would conflict with many building codes. That sawdust wall filler also looks like a fire hazard. Look like it'd be good fun building though!
ADDENDUM: This decision is if you're like me & my wife: born into a middle to lower-middle class family. Have made it to where you are in life via hard work & dumb luck. Have no "glass floor" below you. Have no family member who could have even begun to tell you what to do with stock options. If you're "born on 3rd base thinking you've hit a triple" (e.g. mom & dad have money and will make sure you never end up homeless and sleeping in your car) just ask your family lawyer and/or CPA. I'm sure they have contacts to help you out.
When I see stuff like this I wonder if we are already in a simulation.
Of course medicine, law, and engineering degree holders earn a lot more. But all you have there is an average. Even then, it's an average that ignores opportunity cost.
Those cloud computing vendors know better than give open access to the word to your infra by default.
Most toys remain toys...

I really like Clay Christenen's ideas, but he dismissed the greatest recent disruption (smartphones) as "sustaining"... His theories are not predictive.

What actual toys are there? Especially new ones. def toy: fun/enjoyable/popular but useless.

video games (e.g. minecraft, pubg), social media (stackexchange, reddit, meme-makers), scooters, fidget spinners, drones, 3D printers, face swaps, shadertoy
I cannot quantify “more than you think”.
The Catalina update did not go smoothly for me. I upgraded a stock brand new MBP a couple of weeks after I got it. Every time I plug in a monitor or remove a monitor it inverts my mouse scroll direction and trackpad scroll direction.
I think the problem is the flipping from "Billionaire" to "rich". To get to the most insanely abnormal outcome imaginable, you need crazy good conditions and lots of luck. To get to the level of "rich", by most people's standards, you don't need anywhere near the same level (though of course, luck still plays a role depending on how you define luck - I mean in some sense, you're crazy lucky to even be alive given the odds against the particular sperm/egg matching that made you up.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
Pizzanet was started in August 1994, and was hosted at Pizza Hut Headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120609100313/http://www.intere...
Well, if you're willing to take one more shot at explaining the situation, I for one would be interested.
How American schools spy on millions of kids
I remember it like that in 1994. I checked some old chat logs, and sure enough, it was “unchanged for 3 years” in 1997.
Might not be a bad idea to form a nonprofit -- thanks for this!! This is my first business venture so I was doing things very much "by the books" in the way of establishing everything.

As far as Immutable Coffee being a Stack Overflow replacement, I don't think that's accurate. Stack Overflow is already saturated enough that I don't think that there's any need for another website to exist for posterity's sake. Being able to google questions and answers doesn't feel like a very important goal, especially considering how quickly answers get invalidated with how fast programming moves anyway.

As far as it being a side-gig for open source developers, I think that's an accurate assessment -- unfortunately. I did try very hard to do something that sets this site apart from traditional freelancing, and that's in the quick pace which a developer can answer questions. It doesn't take much time at all to log onto IC and really quickly claim a few questions and start helping people, in contrast with how long it takes to set up traditional freelance gigs.

Thanks for believing in the mission! I have a few other ideas that are in the works with regards to this as well, that I'm just as excited to show HN.
There is no favico for this site here.

Edit: weirdly, it loads one now.
Many jobs in those days were paid for to a high degree in stock options. Since valuations were so inflated everyone in the game was mega-rich on paper.

When the bubble burst, this created a bifurcation. Those who's options vested in the months pre-crash did become wealthy and didn't need to work ever again. Those that just missed that window even by just a month not only did not become multimillionaire, they even had lost years in normal capital buildup as the non-option wages had ofc not been that high.

This left a profound imprint on a generation. It was so abundantly clear that there was no relation between work and wealth. Two devs that had sat side by side working on the same code for years, one now had a Lambo in the drive on his mansion in the hills and spent the rest of his days playing ceo/cto/cio in ventures in which he bought a chair just for fun. The other looking for a job that paid money to buy rent and food for the month. The only difference between them that the former was hired one month earlier by the dotcom.

These devs were seldom born into money. Their parents had taught them that working hard paid. Those words rang very hollow in this new age of casino capitalism.
Not sure I understand what you're saying -- are you suggesting that Immutable Coffee should expand the topics that it's currently offering? Ideally, I'd like to, but we currently just don't have the manpower to do that.
Yeah I believe jne gets most of the samples because cmp [r8] is the most expensive, but there could be two separate reasons for that:

Perhaps ETW shows you the precise instruction (i.e., "zero skid") that is slow to retire - this is not like a normal interrupt as described in the article but is available with some performance profiling events like 'cycles:ppp' on Linux perf (in particular, using the zero-skid PEBS events).

In that case, the samples shows up on the jne, not the cmp likely because cmp/jne have fused, so basically get sampled as a single instruction and the samples show up pointing to the jump.

The other scenario is that ETW shows you "skid 1" instructions, i.e., the instructions generally after the slow-to-retire ones (as described in the article), and cmp/jne didn't fuse (perhaps because a cmp with a memory source argument can't fuse on AMD?), and so it again points to the jne.

I haven't looked at many ETW traces, so I couldn't tell you offhand - but for those who have, do the samples usually show on the expensive instructions (things like div and loads that miss are a giveaway), or on the one after?

Added: Per Agner, I guess the "fusion + no skid" is the most likely (from the Ryzen section of microarchitecture.pdf):

> A CMP or TEST instruction immediately followed by a conditional jump can be fused into a
single μop. This applies to all versions of the CMP and TEST instructions and all conditional
jumps, except if the CMP or TEST instruction has a rip-relative address or both a displace-
ment and an immediate operand.

That also lines up with the cmp having exactly 0 samples, unlike any other instruction of the 7: that's a common indication of fusion.
occasional recessions are useful because they
destroy bad ideas (not exclusively bad ideas,
but many bad ideas) and therefore free up resources
for new ideas. Some of which will be good, some bad.

I feel this was absolutely true for the world of internet applications.

The stuff built in the early dot-com era was typically garbage from a technical standpoint. Heaps and heaps and heaps of spaghetti code written in PHP, Perl, and ASP Classic. You could theoretically write maintainable code in those technologies if you were truly dedicated but this was decidedly not the norm.

Think of literally any basic best practice for writing either the server or client portions of a web application that we might follow in 2019. In, say, 1997 those best practices hadn't been invented yet and even if you traveled back to 1997 in a time machine you couldn't implement some of them since the technology hadn't been invented yet.

From a technical perspective, roughly 2002-2006 was when things started to get really good from a technical standpoint.

- A lot of untalented folks (people calling themselves "developers" but with no real coding ability) were filtered out of the industry.

- A lot of lessons had been learned about how to build this stuff.

- More and more people were getting high-speed internet access.

- The use of AJAX to build responsive client-side applications became a thing, thanks largely to...

- ...Google, who released two absolutely world-shaking web applications in Gmail and Google Maps. These became something of a guiding light in a number of ways. Both from a technical showcase of what could be accomplished with web standards, and a design perspective... it showed a lot of pointy-haired bosses that what people wanted was minimal design and maximum usefulness, not a flashy multimedia experience.

- Other "Web 2.0" tech like RSS matured and enabled LOTS of cool demos (sadly we've moved away from this...)

- Pressure from Firefox forced Microsoft to finally embrace some more web standards and we edged away from the brink of a Microsoft-ruled internet
I wonder if they will be forced to add a GDPR notice for an unlisted subpage :)

Oh they have Google Analytics and a link to a now-404-ed JS https://www.pizzahut.com/akam/11/6df12bd5 . It is like they tried to maintain/upgrade at some point.