skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car manufacturers seem weirdly unmoved by immense pain in software development.
How is this a moonshot? Am I misunderstanding the article or does this just need a better title?
Since you're getting interviews, your best ROI will come from practicing interview skills such as solving algorithm problems, practicing pair programming, white boarding, doing system design problems, telling your story, and talking about previous work. Target the right roles and the right companies. Get referrals from friends, acquaintances, and people you meet networking. The job search has a lot of randomness, and is ultimately a numbers game. Keep grinding and you'll get offers.
64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody
https://web.archive.org/web/20191128190035/https://www.seatt...
Food and AgTech Investors Are Most Excited About the Future in Asia
Agreed, we wanted to upgrade from 5.9 to 7.1 and once we got it working we fired up docker with 7.3 and it just worked. Glorious
Came here to say same thing. Saga pattern is the way to go.

Also, suggest you to carefully think about transaction boundaries, if possible, prefer eventual consistency over transactions.
If there’s another manifesto, I think it’s a long way away. Agile doesn’t seem broken, not in the way the old ways did.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191002013559/https://www.washi...
Look through this, they seem to connect to open WiFi networks.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...
I strongly agree. Anyone who tries to create a monopoly on meditation and mindfulness is misguided. The author is a self-described Buddhist, and some Buddhists can be a bit dogmatic to be perfectly honest.

The military issue is a great example. The author is trying to impose his own opinions about morality on the rest of humanity. This is misguided, there are other credible views that differ from his.

For example, in ancient Japan, there was no conflict between the martial arts and Buddhism. Instead there was a synthesis. For example, there a 17th century Buddhist monk wrote a book about applying mindfulness to sword fighting (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfettered_Mind).
Mods: the link should perhaps be changed to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

This currently has 1215 points, and the link is no longer valid. It now just shows an image of Firefox's devtools and the sentence "Replay is an early experiment. We'll let you know on @FirefoxDevTools when it's ready for input." That's not useful, interesting, or informative. The MDN docs seem like an appropriate replacement.
In theory you are right, but somehow changes made it into their channels that weren't cleared by the CI and therefor the binary caches didn't have the artifacts in them and I had to build it myself which failed.

So in practice updating a Gentoo system is more reliable than updating NixOS.
For me I would say it's fault finding. Releasing software is easy but finding the sometimes very obscure issues that crop up once released is always a challenge, especially when bug reports are not always the most detailed.

When dealing with some of these it's often necessary to delve deep into the internals of how something is working. I once spent 4-6 months working on a fix which turned out to be a stack corruption on a RTOS but was hard to pin down as the system usually took over 2 weeks to crash.

I now mostly deal with embedded software so it can often be with conflicts of hardware which have never been tested together and with unpredictable results. I've also dealt with finding faults in software I had to maintain across several platforms/databases/etc written in a few languages.

For the most part it's been fun or rewarding with some difficult times. Delving into the depths of a system does take some time but gives a wealth of knowledge that can usually be applied to another problem
Thanks for this.

Additionally, it might be beneficial for folks to file complaints with the Washington, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs [1], since the Internet Society is incorporated in D.C., and with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services [2], since its principle place of business is Virginia and is registered as a foreign corporation there.

[1] https://dcra.dc.gov/
[2] http://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/about-agency-directory.shtml
Microsoft Security Assurance and Vulnerability Research Is Hiring Rust Devs
Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for cargo
Illusory Truth Effect
Google does not care about python is not the same as Python being controlled by a small no of Googlers. I don't know much about whether that is true or not though.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191128202757/https://www.nytim...
The NOAA Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network [1, 2] is a great resource for this. Their data on methane goes back to 1984, so I compared methane and CO2 concentrations in the 1984-2019 time frame. In this time frame, the atmospheric CO2 concentration grew by 19.7% (from 344 to 412 ppm), the concentration of methane grew by 14.7% (from 1630 to 1870 ppb).

So, you're right that CO2 is growing a bit faster, but the difference really is rather small.

In addition to this, there are highly nonlinear effects that may occur in the future that others have alluded to, such as the clathrate gun hypothesis [3]. Even in the absence of such dramatic effects, you would expect methane levels to further increase with increasing meat consumption in countries that are getting wealthier (e.g. in India, China).

Edit: I should also point out that the claim that only future doublings in CO2 concentration matter is totally wrong. Even in the IPCC report's worst case scenario, CO2 concentrations will grow to ca. 1000 ppm by 2100, just over a single further doubling [4]. In the best case scenario, they stabilize a bit under 500 ppm, which is just another 20% increase from today. In that best case scenario (B1), global temperatures are still expected to rise by slightly more than 1.5°C by 2100 [5]!

[1] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/

[2] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Projected_changes_over_th...

[5] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chap... (Fig. 10.4)
The discussion is about NAT and PAT in general. 99% of the time it is used with unrouteable private addresses. This means even in the absence of a firewall there is still some level of security. End of story.
A recent US court decision may be of help: https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scr...
This is an example of the more general game theory advantage of commitment.[0, 1] An agent in a multi-agent game benefits from being able to commit to a strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/game-theory/commitment/...
As always, it boils down to trust. Which phone would you trust more for ssh-ing into your office computer? An Android phone filled with adware, which you don't even completely own? Or a phone that was designed for privacy and for which all important components are open source / open hardware?
But isn't that how valuation works works by definition? Why is this model of financing under scrutiny only now???? Blows my mind...
The definition of "undeveloped" is that institutions haven't been developed to meet a need.

People an an "undeveloped" area are going to have a bad year now and then when Oxfam will come and tell everyone what an important thing they are doing.

If an area becomes "developed" then for-profit businesses have been created to fulfill people's needs and they don't need Oxfam.

If the rich tip the scales so that all the money ends up in their pockets, they give a little bit to Oxfam. In a fair system, people would create the institutions that they need and we wouldn't need Oxfam.
> That it's all a "ploy" unless this guy actually dies for his cause?

Correct, because anyone can say they’re on a hunger strike but it’s not possible to watch the guy 24/7 to see if he’s really following through.
Yes, the first iPhone was $500 12 years ago. And today, through the miracle of the free market an iPhone will only cost you... $599 with trade in.

adjusts glasses, shuffles papers

Gotta be missing some pages here...
Phones generally run with zero swap space, due to concerns about endurance of the inbuilt eMMC storage. This applies to both Android and iOS, btw. Given that constraint, 3GB is not "high-end"; it's just about enough unless you want applications to OOM all the time.
This talk is from Nov 2017. I was recently looking for SENS (or close) summary videos, if anybody knows some, feel free to spam me.
Seems like they missed the right pr then?
Couldn't irradiated silica dust get into your lungs though?
BlueMail Creators to Apple: Let us back in to the Mac app store
I actually discuss this court case at the end of the post!
If it also was used to help the environment, and strictly tied to cost of cleaning up CO2, I would be for it.
Historically, corporate attempts at preventing unionization succeeded up to a point, and that point has long passed into the fog of history. Google will have to come up with something novel if they want to keep a union from forming.

Remember, this is a company that was central to the "techtopus" pay-fixing/raise-suppressing scandal. When the author says that Google will attempt to bring their fist down hard upon their employees, the author does not mean that Google will succeed, only that Google will try and that their attempts will be bland but bold.
You're forgetting that developers exist.
Unless the project itself is about the web, a polished fancy website is to me a yellow flag that the project is not open source first but trying to sell me something.

A lot of open source projects that are serious about the actual software have ugly websites or even nothing beyond a README.md on Github.
Does he though? Felt like a throwaway sentence to me.

Also, his idea about hanging buildings from the wires is bunk. If you hang your buildings from the tensile structure that is buoyed by air and you have a rupture, now your buildings are going to collapse. Likely onto other buildings. Since his design has no compressive strength at all there is no way to address that issue.

[edit] what makes it more bunk is that in order to have tall structures, the entire habitat has to be the same height as the structure, instead of placing them near apex of a hemispherical structure. So he's just doubled the volume versus a sphere. Also if you make a bubble structure that tall you have to handle the pressure on the walls. I don't see where he mentions walls at all except when talking about how dome walls suck. Not as much as trying to pressurize a rectangular pressure vessel! The only place his solution shines is in 'doming' a valley or a canyon, where a dome has a host of other problems he hasn't even covered.

I can't remember if the bubbles on the Eden domes contribute strength to the structure, but I expect you could design them to do so. Then the structure begins to more resemble a bouncy castle (like the ISS inflatable hab unit).
Google union is not for wage and benefits. It is to stop Google becoming evil e.g. collaborating with Nazi China.
I don't think I understand the problem.. to do this search you need to have the target number, and if you already have the target number no search is required.. what am I missing ?
> a court will still convict anybody who tries to take his stuff

the ruling will be enforced if there is a consensus that it is a just ruling
Shakti in FOSS?
is it strange? when I read their website it seems like they're targeted at corporations. It takes a lot of scrolling to find 'Sailfish OS X' that I can install on one of 3 phones from a company that I never considered a solid phone manufacturer.
> patent to cook food in a moving vehicle

Also known as a food truck.
It was an iptables problem

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/issues/142...

The rollout of new iptables rules blocked database server connections
Various K's in FOSS now.
Shakti soon?
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I don't have a problem with offering a giving guide, but this headline really should be changed. I don't accept the ethical ideas behind Free Software Foundation, but the title implies that I am not an ethical person for disagreeing with them.

The FSF does not have a monopoly on ethics - in fact, they have some pretty serious ethical issues of their own which have come to light in the past few months.
Focusing on minimizing risk without sacrificing value. This is about balancing engineering costs to both build and maintain and ideal business outcomes. The hardest problem is not so much the how to build something but what is the least amount of work you can put forward to get the job done (with quality and maintainability).
The language itself should map to the mental model. It should be an obvious mapping. You learn the language you gain the mental model. With css, you learn the language the mental model does not follow.

Many times the model that the language promotes is not what the developer needs so the developer creates patterns to deal with inefficiencies. This is a flaw.

Sql abstracts the underlying model of procedural algorithms into a one line declarative expression. The language is designed to hide the model deliberately.

However due to the requirement of optimizing queries one must optimize the procedural algorithms while working with an API that deliberately hides it. Thus in order to know which permutation of a sql expression maps to what permutation of procedural algorithm you must memorize arbitrary mappings or hacks. This is a huge design flaw. Your premiere sql experts are experts in using hacks to get around the flaws of SQL.
Edit: sorry, re-reading your coup plot I see you wanted the owners of {A..M}.ROOT-SERVERS.NET to collude in direct action. It’s not an implausible idea at all, if the worst comes to the worst, even if it’s quite extreme. My original comment misses your point a bit...

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If you want to fix this by direct action on the root servers, rather than ORG’s nameservers, the it doesn’t matter who owns the current root servers.

Their config is baked into your resolver’s installation files or source code, and my naive understanding is that it takes only one patch to change each one:

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/master/lib/dn...

...though the changes would be fragmented until the patch had been rolled out to 100% of resolver codebases and all instances of each resolver updated and restarted. Not an easy solution without coordinating people as well as software.
Seems this is to using automl to find NN architecture that fits well in certain inference chips.

The orthogonal issue is given a trained model how to make it run faster on a given inference chip.

Either way, a blog post on Google AI is a symbol that 1% of the work is done, the rest 99% needs more investment from the believers.
Things are always fairly easy to the knowledgeable or experienced. It’s definitely a better practice then not asking. Lots of medium sized businesses can’t implement a cyborg biometric MFA solution. So they easily ask for a phone number. Most don’t make it mandatory, but I think generally it is the best current realistic solution.
That's bullshit.

Are you telling that the leader of the country, elected by vote, the commander in chief, takes orders from a bodyguard? Think about this for a minute.

Of course, he can listen and consider their advice, but after he can just tell secret service to fuck off, and they will.
Concerning making money with proprietary debuggers, DDT (no, not that one) and Totalview are very expensive parallel debuggers of longstanding. Totalview has some form of reversible debugging and is unusual in not using GDB. They're actually rarely used in my experience, for various reasons -- not just because they're un-affordable for most sites.
We (lambda) are thinking about offering amd virtual workstation instances. One concern we had was that AMDs drivers have in the past had poor stability. Did you do burn in testing as well?
I would argue that it would be a dead society. It just takes one person who feels that being hurt themselves is worth it just to hurt others for whatever reason.
It's not new; since the last half of the 20th century, there's been an often unstated business religion that says that if you concentrate hard enough you'll develop a psychic dominance that will make you successful (in sales and management.) IMO the only reason it gets connected to Buddhism is since the people who propagate it now are unaware of its origins (in Silva Mind Control/Leadership Dynamics/Holiday Magic), and to give it a classier, older pedigree.

The reason it seems like a bastardization of Buddhism is because it's not really Buddhism at all, just a spurious justification of why the people who are making the most money are making the most money, namely their more perfectly ordered minds (rather than their connections and luck.)
I don't know what you mean by the HN blocklist extension, but it doesn't sound like a feature we have. Are you using a third-party extension?

> the effective politics you produce by what content you do police

People tend to overinterpret that. Politically, HN is pluralistic (all major positions are represented, as you'd expect in any large population sample), but it turns out that pluralism is experienced by each side as bias in favor of the other side.

This is mostly an artifact of HN being a non-siloed community site. Nearly every other place where people encounter political views on the internet has already been pre-filtered (by subreddits, follow lists, friend lists, etc.) That's what everyone's used to, so when they walk into a place that doesn't work that way, they quickly encounter a much higher frequency of opposing if not offensive viewpoints. This is painful; it feels a bit like getting smacked in the face. Because this painful experience doesn't come with any explanation, people reach for the handiest and in a way most comforting explanation—not, "oh, this is about what you'd expect from a statistical distribution", but rather "this place is a (SJW|alt-right) cesspool". Even if the distribution were more in your favor, you'd still feel this way, because we're so primed to notice the things we dislike and to weight them more strongly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(I know you said you didn't want to engage about this, but it comes up so often that every now and then I feel like writing out my latest take on the topic.)
Shaders helped me understand how to program GPUs.

My favorite book on the topic is https://thebookofshaders.com/ (free) and I'd highly recommend you mess around with it

Blender and Unity also have a graphical language to do shaders which are really fun to mess around with.
Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished
The value proposition is how well the language suits stateless Web Development & HTTP. Every request is an new sandbox, it's easy to pick up for beginners and fast to get started, decent performance, no need to figure out how to compile anything.

From my experience, a huge % of PHP companies started out with a Wordpress site, added a few features then a few years later they are now hooked and are doing things more seriously with Symfony or Laravel.
Sometimes Newer Technology Is Not Better
So the goal wasn’t to find a new and more expensive method for figuring out an answer when you can examine the oracle. The idea was to show that an “impossible” problem isn’t really that impossible given some thought about the algorithm and the computing power easily accessible today.

The impetus for doing this was though a real discussion when we were debating whether to do an analysis to identify some constants, or just to brute force comparisons. At what point was the analysis faster? One thing led to another and next thing I know I was learning CUDA...
Well, not any mutation. Deleting an assertion should not cause any problems. Replacing bubblesort by quicksort shouldn't either. Etc.
That’s completely and utterly mesmerising. So cool.
Umm no. Can you read threads in whatever client you are reading this on?

The post I replied to said that they were put off by a CoC and alleged that this is being pushed by bad actors. My point was to say that the CoC exists in the repos because of the same reasons open source exists. Not because of insidious acts of bad actors.
These days, twitter seems like a reliable way in. Just search the article url.
This is not what unions are for, unions protect labour. If you want to stop google from doing business with China, then you need to work with the government.
Show HN: PBookmarks – Encrypted Bookmark Manager
Besides what others people have mentioned - flexibility, growth, and learning. Do people have autonomy? Is there sane work life balance? Good engineering practices (including good code review and reasonable prioritizing of technical debt)? Good overall company dynamic and practices (sane, including clients not overly dictating internal company operations, internal teams working well together, collaborative / non-competitive people who are trying to accomplish some shared goals)? Stability (high-value customers, lots of them, and/or lots of money raised)? Little politics? Unique technical issues (huge scale, real time, etc)? Are people heard / is their feedback taken into account?
In my experience pretty reliable. I've not seen major downtime and bandwidth will depend entirely on routing to you in particular (FWIW my ISP peers with Hetzner directly and congestion hasn't been an issue, I can typically saturate my 1Gbps connection at any time of day).
Any way to build something like this myself, e.g. using Raspberry Pi or DD-WRT supported router?
Apologies Munch bunny, gonna blame that on a need for new glasses.

fwiw, Adobe Experience Cloud is generally not the sort of adtech that attempts to sell information.
Absolutely appalling. This is something that I've intuited happening for many years now, but couldn't quite find the words to describe. This phenomena is pervasive and, dare I say, integral to the functioning of capital in the 21st century.

People are more alienated now than ever before in the course of history, so it follows that the machinations of capital come to a pseudo-religion in order to pacify dissent. It's staggering, and should give everybody on Hacker News pause.
This looks neat. Have you thought about making this easy to publish as a how to guide on a custom domain? So companies can leverage this to create how to guides for their users?
Also keeping in mind that if one locks in the domain for 10 years, they are going to be much more likely to renew at whatever the ungodly sum is when the 10 year period is over.
Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists
The readme says: "The current state of an instance (i.e., counter's attributes) is automatically transported back and forth."

How does this work? Do you need some cross-network locking mechanism when you need to make sure the shared object's state doesn't get out of sync between client and server?

What about passing object instances between client and server? Does it do what (I think) DCOM does to handle garbage-collection of cross-machine object references – keep-alives and timeouts?
Does a pi-hole or the like not already take care of this?
It’s a thought experiment to figure out how long it takes to brute force a 64-bit space. In reality you won’t have the number you’re searching for.