skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many design patterns when implemented badly, queuing will usually result in a lot of problems. But if your team is competent, you’re using an off-the-shelf library, and you don’t have crazy demands, then re-using infrastructure can be a good idea as it’s fewer things to manage.
You've answered your own question. For some part of the system you do one type of memory management, for other part you use the GC. If you use a higher level language for everything then writing the performant part will be tricky.
Ah, so instead of bogus citations, she provided no citations at all. Glad we cleared that up!
I used "at least in my region" for this specific reason, I was expecting that outside my region (Sardinia) is easier to find.
You can find it in ethnic shops, however, because there's a small number of them the price is inflated by a good degree.

And the one that I think is the good peanut butter (according to my taste), is impossible to find and I need to have it shipped from UK https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/263926798
As an employee I found a nice hack around that. The employer made an offer and I made a counter offer, the employer said he couldn't meet it and I explicitly told him it was negotiable. He thought about it for a couple days and found a way to hack his system to give me more and I got something around the middle of our offers. We both ended up happy in the end, I'm still there.
It feels like every 3-6 months we get "Company changes energy storage game with fancy new battery!" and then.... nothing. You never hear about it again. Presumably because they just aren't economically feasible, scalable and/or safe for most applications.
Good piece on website security albeit a bit inconsistent. At some point it's not hackers anymore but SEO consultants:

"SEO consultants ... offer customers the ability to have links placed on compromised websites."

I guess BuzzFeed News needs to fire their SEO team, don't they?

"Customer websites" get quickly banned for such things.

This only works for PPP (poker, pills, porn) sites that have a new domain over night when one gets burned.
You Are a Bastard: That, how and why you are, and what you can do about it
I was hoping for a link to the exit() manpage.
I would actually shift this quite a bit to say if you’re designing your page to last 10 years, put it on the internet archive on day 1.

Invite them to crawl it, verify the crawl was successful, and even talk about that link on your page.

It removes the risk of domain hijacking, hosting platforms shuttering, and the author losing interest. P.s. The internet archive is doing excellent work. Support them.
Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test
Huawei is just like Apple in my mind. An overly expensive premium phone with bells and whistles I don't need. I had a ZTE for many years that is finally bricking. After this I will probably get some $100 phone from one of those millions of unknown Shenzhen OEMs, UMIDIGI or something.
They've broadly been peaceful in nature.
It's immoral to paint the entire struggle as being violent.
People are just trying to uphold India's founding principles.

Police brutality has reached a new low as well.
In the world of C nothing is strange. (Which is part of why it is future-proof.)
I quite like that idea!
Of the amount of blacklisted URLs, for sure. The filter doesn't know anything about possible URLs.
Ringing the bell is grounds for expulsion from many chat rooms, at least the semi-anonymous chat rooms provided by Bloomberg and other sell sides shops. Apparently it is very annoying to certain people.
> 1) The problems with the 737-MAX are fixable and will be fixed (either in a new airplane name by branding, or with time as people trust the new MAX variant again)

What's your confidence level that, in let's say 6 months, 737-MAX flies again in the US and the EU?

(Feel free to answer with another time frame that makes more sense for you).
Don't throw away those bookmarks! Even if they don't work by default, they're still links to valuable content in the WayBack Machine!
Older how?

S3 was invented in 2006.

What was S3 used for if not for hosting website data?
Exactly. That's why I was reading the article. But it is only about the business model.
I am looking at a whole jar of plum jam made by my grandpa with 0 added sugar.
But which hand would you prefer to shift with? Manual transmissions are still popular in many countries.
Results vs. Hours: creating a results-focused work environment
‘A solution for nothing’: eBay faces competition from secondhand marketplaces
"Privacy-focused", but you need to log in with your Linkedin credentials -- what could go wrong?

Thanks, but no thanks.
I recently decided to switched to a 36 hour week. I accidentally said I wanted the switch to start on January first 2019 rather than 2020...

Things seem to have been fixed, but it was a scary mistake to make.
Good point and a downer if you need to hack with multiple EventSources. In any case, I see there's ongoing standardisation work on WebTransport including a DatagramTransport on top of QUIC: "It can be used like WebSockets but with support for multiple streams, unidirectional streams, out-of-order delivery, and reliable as well as unreliable transport." https://wicg.github.io/web-transport/#introduction
BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
> These aren't violent protests.

I beg to differ. Protests in Delhi, Bengal, and UP are clearly violent.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hundreds-on-streets-of-old-d...

> Here's your proof: BJP, the ruling party, has been caught red-handed, like there were in 2002, https://thewire.in/communalism/murshidabad-bjp-lungi-skullca....

This is from the article you shared:

While speculation has been rife on social media on how BJP workers have been posing as anti-CAA protesters with the intention of turning the protests violent, this is the first noted case where police have taken action against someone for purportedly seeking to blame a particular community.

There has been a lot of speculation on BJP's involvement in fanning violence. But it's not clear how much truth is there to it. I hope they are held accountable for whatever wrong they have done. And victims of riots (that happened in 1984, 2002 and other years) get their deserved justice.

> The cognitive dissonance is strong.

Could you be more specific about what you're trying to say here?
Keys.gnupg.net Redirects to Analytics.sumptuouscapital.com
Glassdoor = Yelp for HR.
Not sure about honey but just check the peanut butter ingredients? There are some in the shop here which have some sugar and salt added, but there are also varieties with 100% peanuts, though you need to mix the oil before you eat each time.
I think the difference is that by the time an airline is buying fuel, they have already sold the tickets at a certain price. So hedging makes sense. That’s not the case with Walmart for produce - if tomatoes are more expensive to buy they can just sell them for more. The only things for which it makes sense are those that aren’t sold back, eg the fuel for their fleet of trucks etc
One thing that I do, and it does get me a few sneers, is I tend to eschew the use of a lot of fancy "eye candy."

I invest in fairly basic CSS, and tend to avoid using JS for any site-required functionality (unless it's a JS site).

I have found my sites age well. There's a couple that I've barely changed in a decade.
Extortion as a service.
For the record:

$ curl -v keys.gnupg.net
* Trying 37.191.231.105:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to keys.gnupg.net (37.191.231.105) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: keys.gnupg.net
> User-Agent: curl/7.67.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: nginx/1.14.1
< Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:40:48 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 185
< Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=20
< Location: https://analytics.sumptuouscapital.com/
<
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.14.1</center>
</body>
</html>
* Connection #0 to host keys.gnupg.net left intact
Where is the pricing page?
I do not want to sign up for a service that I cannot afford later on, or that looks like a scam.
Structural basis DNA targeting w transposon-encoded CRISPR system:first images
You don't know what bulk discounts large customers negotiate. High egress prices are a way to get a few extra bucks off small-potato hypermilers
Echoing another commenter, level of discourse is generally pretty low. In public chat rooms you’re more likely to get a wise crack rather than an actual response to any question. That said, you can still find some nuggets of wisdom.
> This actually looks great, installing it now to try out.

same. i think it is a superb idea for ubuntu here. hopefully there are tools like this for other OS distros as well.
Why would half of restaurants in NYC need a service that costs $20k per year?
10 years ago developers and ops people were a lot more concerned about being locked into proprietary products especially to the sort of level of integration AWS brings.

Eventually I suspect Amazon will be all but required to chase the money and at that point a lot of companies will really struggle to get off it. OS/360 is still going, still charging a fortune for a mainframe.
Did they have a garbage collection back then?
Turns out you answered your own question in the sentence after you asked it.

You don't ever want your pay tied to seniority. You want it based on the value you can deliver. That way, you with your 10 years of experience and proven ability to ship good products get to make twice as much as Senior Dev John with 10 years experience maintaining the internal CRUD app.
"Harris Poll’s Alienation Index... asks whether respondents agree with these five statements:

What you think doesn’t count very much anymore.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Most people with power try to take advantage of people like yourself.
The people running the country don’t really care what happens to you.
You’re left out of things going on around you.

Harris then averages the rates of agreement to reach an index... In 1998 ... the score was 56%. In 2008 ... 58%. [2018], it was 69%"

The rest of the article is trying to unpack why answers to those questions changed
It suggests that I hate self-righteous people who present their own views as universal facts about what absolutely can and cannot be done. I think this is how the space of everyone's freedom is steadily retreating, and I'm sick of it.

On the other hand, your comment suggests that you are someone who tries to win a discussion by clumsily insulting his opponent.
anti nutrients causing inflammation(body uses nutrients to fight inflammation), leaving them out
calms the inflammation and the body can use the nutrients it has better.
Btw. supplementing zinc and magnesium seems to help ppl with depression.
Lectins(all seeds) as in beans, nuts, corn and wheat are binding to iron and zinc, I forgot what was with the magnesium, but it played a role as well...
A progress update on Game of Trees, an alternative Git implementation
These are not equivalents: Scripter -> Coder -> Developer -> Software Engineer
Bloat
Not surprised. A few interns were able to crash IB one year by spamming a chat with timed bells.
No, they'd offer the company to remove the negative review for a fee.
This posting's article also had a side bar link to a suggested article on the same news site, CN Tech Post. China is releasing its own OS, too (Unity OS -- UOS):

https://cntechpost.com/2019/12/13/china-made-operating-syste...
Join up with this person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842347

We don't need more half-attempts.
Tuning of metal–insulator transition in transition metal oxides
There's a lot of very obvious "didn't bother reading the article but I'm going to comment on the headline" behaviour in this thread.

FB users put their details on their publicly accessible FB, someone ran a scraper across FB for publicly accessible info and dumped it into an insecure elasticsearch cluster and a researcher found that cluster.

How is FB at fault there? I say this as someone who has colossal issues with that company in general.
That’s an oversimplification. The Facebook API had a gaping hole in it that allowed third party apps to access data on the authorized user AND friends.

Facebook discovers these kind of issues on a regular basis. The idea that they’ve clamped down on this type of thing is the joke of 2019.
Priming does make a difference.
Except it's not, not really -- it's just not kept pace with the decrease in underlying EC2 cost. It still costs less now for an RDS instance than it did before.

The premium over raw EC2 has gone up -- from $0.115/h to $0.15/hour -- but that's only a 30% jump. The total cost has gone down by $0.123/hour, which is ~25%.
> Current govt caused the recession. The damage demonetisation did (especially to the poor) is painfully obvious. No significant upside. The reduction in economic activity was so pronounced that satellite images could pick up on it. Growth rate tanked. It's now lower than that of Pakistan which is ironic considering how much the current regime like to use them as a distraction.

Could you share any references for this?
Well, this article is simply an explanation for why he's an evangelist, sort of a stream of consciousness thing. If you follow his blog, you will find hundreds of informative posts about how and why Smalltalk is so remarkable in terms of simplicity, ease of use, flexibility, versatility, maintainability, scalability, and most importantly, productivity.
Yes, this is a pseudo-anonymization. Someone with enough information can always say: “Oh, I believe this is your salary entry.”

On the other hand, it’s not provable (I don’t save the exact number, and I separate the account and wage entry securely so that the user and only user can realize that connection: https://dev.to/foundsiders/how-have-i-ensured-the-privacy-an...).

If I apply replace entries with statistical ranges, then the product would become a clone of other products for this (like Glasdoor, LinkedIn Salary, etc.). And it won’t solve the problems I set out to solve with it anymore.
$ is basically a shortcut for document.querySelector in the console, I wrote about some other things I found here: https://loftie.com/post/things-you-may-not-know-about-chrome...
To date, I haven’t heard a good reason for why they keep working so hard.

The first thing that jumps out to me is that the publish-or-perish phase selects for workaholics. People who are just pretending to be a workaholic, the type who are just trying to survive until tenure, are much more likely to get burned out and drop out of the running. Thus, those who have an uncanny ability to work ridiculously hard over long periods of time are the ones who survive the selection process and get tenured.

Perhaps some of these people genuinely enjoy the work. It would make sense, then, that they are the ones who survive without getting burned out.
How to Build Modular Architecture in iOS (app with many millions of users)
Unfortunately I don't have a good way to test on Safari. I'll see if I can find someone to help me with that.
Yes. You can check by attempting to login to Facebook.

If you have an account your data has been in a leak.
There's tooling, that's right but I was refering to some kind of language stability commitment (like the one Rust has for instance). I find it surprising that there are language constructs made to help libraries being forward compatible (and that Swift is a leader in that domain), while the language itself is way less stable than most languages (which doesn't shock me since it's still pretty recent, and has really ambitious goals which are understandably hard to achieved on the first try).
Redis 6 rc1 – io threads
An immune molecule can sometimes influence the social behavior of mice: study
As much as AWS wants you to believe otherwise, the actual price of RDS as a value-add is its premium on top of EC2 pricing.
Coworker Just Came Out. Now What?
The guy who draws all your ski trail maps
Progressive Web Apps – Present, Future, or a Lost Opportunity?
I've been developing Progressive Web Apps in late 2017 as a total pioneer. Even Google didn't have a complete idea about them and articles and tutorials were coming to their platform and leaving the day after. After two years, we all use (or at least, know) them. Anyway, iOS still has many limitations over what you can or can not do in your PWA. Do you see it as a barrier to start using it, or have you started developing them and feel like they are the present / future?
Are we at the stage where a comments section needs an anti bot primer blastered over the top?
Not surprising when phones coming from Chinese brands have on par/better specs for a quarter of the price.
Software Freedom Conservancy
Accessibility was actually as far as I understand an argument in favor of staying on IRC (but also in favor of Matrix) since there are IRC clients which work very well with screenreaders (I think weechat for example). It is the proprietary solutions which have poor accessibility.
Oh yeah, that is just like problem with code reviews. I don't want to argue. Just giving feedback leave it or take it.

For job interview it should be also easier of you get no and then some reason, deal is off the table.

So maybe if people get feedback they think that something is still there and this has to be communicated as well in bold font "NO THANKS"?

I think it is with people who are not that confident, they try to hold on to a deal? Which also could be people you don't want to hire...
It depends on the field. In the sciences (especially biosciences), professors typically have to get money from grants to pay for their labs, and sometimes part of their salary. Being able to get grants depends on their publishing record, and losing grants and having to shutter or at least downsize your lab is a very real possibility. So in these fields, although your position is secure, your lab and your salary are actually quite precarious.
Yes, the inmates are at least partly responsible for the rules of the asylum. There's an answer to a question about the loneliness in pursuing mathematics on mathoverflow.net that says, paraphrasing, that one should only do mathematics if they can't do anything else [1]. That is, if it is such a burning desire that you can't stop. As long as salaries allow one to live comfortably there will be a supply of people wanting academic jobs. The lifestyle is compelling for a lot of people.

I've been led to believe that even after tenure one still needs to be active and that means to publish. There is a lot of variation on salaries within a given department even at the full professor level. The more active/prestigious you are the more salary you make. Those who are active in research and with graduate students don't have to teach as many low level courses or be on as many committees. At least this is true of mathematics departments at large research institutions that I'm familiar with. I'm not a member of a large research institution but this is what I've been told by members of such institutions. My sample size is too small for me to generalize but it sufficiently large for me to hypothesize.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/a/110063
Memory recall dependent on gene influencing hippocampus-based circadian clock
Yeah, but this is about the Internet as a whole not just Gmail IMHO. You need more than that extension to block it then.

I use Privacy Badger by the EFF. They block all kinds of tracking.

Also using Firefox will prevent Browser fingerprinting and such.
I am also convinced that nuts are healthy. Can you provide arguments otherwise? They are full of unsaturated fats, protein, and fiber, which, paired with an overall balanced diet, make them for sure a net positive.
Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
There's something sadly dutiful about being asked to accept cookies on such an announcement page.
This seems particularly ineffective when compared to more direct options like having a good BATNA and improving your negotiation skills.
Learn C# in 2020
Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac UFO breaks silence after 15 years
Is everything automatically generated with models now going to be classified as "Deepfake x"?

A lot of news is now generated by bots, Bloomberg itself has 30% of its content almost entirely generated [0], so does that render said news "Deepfake news"?

Or is it only when we're attempting to be alarmist?

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial...
Grocery prices are highly elastic.

Yes, if gas prices doubled, Walmart could increase the price of their products, but consumers would likely buy a lot less, and Walmart sales would suffer.

Walmart’s focus is on “low, everyday prices”, and future can help maintain those.
This seems at best orthogonal to the real point.
250? Geek Tyrant injects 400 just for marketing and 500+ in total!

I stopped recommending them.
It's absolutely fantastic. One of the big insights is that people want to be inside the regulatory system if it can be made easy enough - because having a legal business on legal land gives you protection. Whereas the de facto unregulated anarchy was also reliant only on community protection. Also making the commonsense but controversial argument that the solution to huge numbers of people who have lived on squatted land for years, built houses etc is to ... give them title to the land.

(You should probably read something else about Peru in the same time period as a counterbalance, especially given that this took place in the time of Fujimori, but the ILD work on title and registration is extremely solid and should be above left-right factionalism and is not in conflict with human rights)
For 1, you could just use the average of the two values and mention it to the user.
I’m totally ignorant about this part of the world, but I imagine they can only reliably sell them for more if someone else isn’t selling them for less. And if the someone else is hedging, they might.
I agree it would be a bit odd--and something of a red flag TBH.

>confidentially

But yes. One can imagine someone writing non-public reports and analyses for internal or client use only and just doesn't really do that kind of thing in their spare time. Myself, I have tons of public material but I've also written many things I couldn't share.
I don't think they termed entire protests as violent. You are right in saying that protests have been largely peaceful in nature. But there has been some significant violence throughout the protests. Acts like stone pelting, lynching policemen, torching buses, uprooting train tracks, attacking school buses are petrifying. And this will become worse as protests spread to semi-urban areas.
“It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The tic tac was not doing that.”
Actually sounds like a pretty cool snack - I'll try that first thing next, thanks!
Cool! Have you checked out other articles in functional.christmas?

I am thinking about writing a followup to this one later so you might get what you want.
I Have a Raspberry Pi Now What: A Complete Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide
Dutch Supreme Court mandates government to reduce emissions by 25% within 2020
They should not trust their sandboxing, even if it happens to be flawless today that can change at any time.

Their defense in depth strategy involves inspecting apps before they get onto the App Store for completely rational reasons. If they are not allowed to do this then it’s probably in Apples interest to abandon the Russian market.
I'm using Visual Studio Code dev containers. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

I have to move across a hand full of languages so having my environments all configured with docker files is pretty neat.