skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, I don't think it's new. But I think we can work remotely nowadays (especially for software developers). I post it here because I want to know is it still appropriate for now?
I assume you just read the ToC, not the chapter? In the book we recommend using an IoC tool, and that CloudFormation is good enough. We don't think that CloudFormation vs Terraform is a very consequential decision, so choose whichever tool you prefer. But we also share our perspective about what should go in IoC and what shouldn't, which is a much more important issue IMO.
Reading this comment and thinking back to my memory of the article from reading it earlier today and when it has been posted in the past, I wonder if the "failed promotion" wasn't so much a matter of "not working on a shiny new project" as not making sure metrics were in place to document how the improvements to the service he was maintaining made it so it could handle more load.

At some point on the ladder it's no longer enough to do good work, you need to show your work and why it matters to the company.
An Update on the First Use of the Term “Programming Language”
Why don’t they lease one the piers SF gave to Ellison?
> This leads to structs being passed by value

do compilers generally optimize this away on -O3, or do you just accept the performance hit in exchange for prettier code?
This made me think, how long did it take for cars to acquire basically their modern standard interface, and have personal computers been around that long?

Apparently, the Austin 7 popularized what are now standard controls for cars in 1922 (although it wasn't the very first example), and the IC auto was patented in 1886, which means it was about 36 years before people mostly settled on one interface.

By comparison, microcomputers have been around longer, but if you consider the GUI personal computer as a separate class, the Apple Lisa came out in 1983, which was...36 years ago! But it doesn't seem like we are converging to one standard.
Just because on your testbench they changed enough for you to guesstimate they provide enough entropy doesn't mean they provide enough entropy for everyone under all circumstances. They are not designed for that purpose and unless you have performed extensive adversarial testing to gain confidence that they can be used as such, you cannot guarantee anything.

You seem to have zero runtime sanity checks too, so if for whatever reason they are not providing entropy for someone, they will be none the wiser.

Sorry, but this is a terrible RNG.
But would this prevent the next Spectre? Not necessarily. Hardware vendors would continue to optimize execution of machine code in unexpected ways, including ways that allow for side channel attacks. They wouldn't be optimizing for C code, but they would still be optimizing for some portable low-level language.

Unless we made that low-level language constantly change as hardware microarchitecture improves (thus giving up on portability), I think we'd be back with the same problem of a mismatch between low-level languages and underlying CPU architecture.
That doesn't solve the problem of quoting multiple levels of the thread.

>> This is a time-honored way of identifying a grandparent comment.
> Erdogan legitimately wins his elections

It's very easy to win elections when you kill, imprison and lay off _hundreds of thousands_ of your "enemies" and have total control on the press and the judicial system. Westerners nowadays forget that fear is a very, very effective political tool. In fact it's the most effective political tool by far. In Turkey, thousands of people were imprisoned based on just DNS queries that are being logged by intelligence services. Fucking DNS queries! even if your application/website connected to a "terrorist affiliated" server once via some ad or anything you get arrested. Turkey has, and now shamelessly supporting the most dangerous Islamic groups on Earth. How coincidental that after the alleged pathetic coup attempt, within days, around 100,000 people were arrested, how can you arrest a fucking hundred thousand people if these people aren't on lists a priori?. If hundreds of thousands plotted a fucking coup, how on earth could it fail? How can it even be a coup when hundreds of thousands plot it?. This is like Kirov assassination v2.0. It's not even a secret that Erdogan moving extremely dangerous ISIS members in civilian planes from Syria to Libya to destabilize Egypt. The US used an Iraq base and even asked the Russians to clear the way on the Syrian field for the planes that were going to kill Al Baghdadi in northern Syria despite having a big base in southern Turkey that can do the mission in minutes. It isn't hard to get that even the US army and CIA don't trust Erdogan having his men spying on the base and warning AL Baghdadi within seconds

Every day, every fucking day, you open the news and see Erdogan "threatening" somebody, some country, some group, not just in Turkey but everywhere. Since he has been doing this for more than a decade now and nobody stood up to him. He's been seen now as the Caliph by islamists and extremists all over the world. It's the romantic reflection in the islamic legacy of the strong muslim ruler humiliating the infidels. The holy grail for every extremist!
The conclusion i'd draw is that alcohol is complex and has good and bad aspects. Some scientists study the good parts, other the bad
So true. The Spectre and Meltdown flaws have nothing to do with the abstract machine that a processor implements. You might as well claim that the vulnerabilities are the result of the ISA (which itself was born to smooth over differences among machines). Rather, these vulnerabilities are the case of a confused deputy. There is nothing to say you should not speculate, just do not do so across security boundaries leaving breadcrumbs for an adversary to discover.
So we should be preserving "local neighborhood preservation, continuity, and stability" when these neighborhoods were white-only? We don't allow redlining. This is essentially saying, the state has a legitimate interest in preserving neighborhoods formed by redlining.
There's a React component library based on the Windows 95 UI:
https://react95.github.io/React95
https://github.com/arturbien/React95
In addition, interestingly:

> The Department of Motor Vehicles was created in 1915 with the enactment of Senator E.S. Birdsall's "Vehicle Act of 1915." Vehicle registrations that year had climbed to 191,000.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...
This stood out:

> So why do I hate to admit this?

> Because I love how the internet has made it possible for anyone to get successful, anywhere. I love the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature, yet being connected to the world.

> But still, when I look at the facts, it’s impossible to deny. Living in the big city, and being where everything is happening, will help your career the most. Being anywhere else won’t hurt you, but it won’t help.

Though I'm in NYC right now, I plan to leave eventually. Ideally I think I'd want a remote cabin in Montana with a high speed internet connection. Wake up, go for a 2 hour hike, code a few hours, watch the sunset, read, sleep. Sounds like some sort of paradise.

Realistically though I'll probably end up somewhere closer to civilization.

But it's a shame remote work isn't quite at that level to completely make physical location irrelevant. Maybe someday.
At the end of the day, that's the immovable object. A free, open-source, high-performance interpreter for K would get cease-and-desist-ed into oblivion by virtue of competing with the commercial implementation. That's why I made mine a toy: fun to tinker with, but not fast enough to give anybody ideas. Kinda sucks, huh?
> But rent control doesn't rob the state of revenue

Sure it does, rental income is taxed like any other income (less allowed expenses).
How exactly are you exercising your privacy by flying a dangerous object with a camera over other peoples' property?
I backpacked with a Turkish fellow in Europe for few days, some months ago. He said the opposition is trying to hit Erdogan where it hurts the most. Taking back cities after cities from his party's rule and hence hindering the fund flow to him and his party. He also added that he was really hated in the country right now. Is that how it is?
I've heard that adult chimps get strong enough to rip chunks of flesh off with their hands. If this is accurate, how old can a chimp get before roughhousing with them like you do with that baby chimp is totally out of the question?Are the adult chimps you've interacted with friendly enough to reliably groom human beards without issue, or is it more of a situation where the humans keep track of which chimps they need to steer clear of?
The hype around intermittent fasting is nothing more than the novice effect & the diminishing returns kick in pretty fast.
People immigrate to sweden and canada for jobs, opportunities and generous welfare, not because they want to live there. It's mostly the poor and desperate who immigrate to these countries.

How many wealthy native born canadians visit sweden? Hardly any. How many wealthy native born swedes visit canada? Hardly any. I bet more swedes visit thailand in one day than they visit canada in a whole year.
I share so your frustration with Windows 10. It’s reaching iOS levels of lack of discoverability of features.

I wrote to tell you that Control Panel itself still exists. You can get to it from using the hidden search in Start Menu. Open Start and begin typing Control Panel and it will show up eventually. Or you can right-click on Start button and select it. Or even type “control panel” in command prompt or powershell, without quotes. Apparently it shows up in File Explorer under Desktop as well, which makes the least sense of all to my intuition. Hope that helps.
At this point, you should probably assume your data will always be public
I actually worked on transcribing math expressions to latex a few months ago with a Resnet backbone + LSTM + Attention.

All my code to train the model is available On GitHub: https://github.com/bkkaggle/math-recognition

If anyone wants to chat about math expression OCR, I'd love to talk about it!

It's a surprisingly difficult and interesting (and under appreciated and unknown) area of research!
I'm not sure how many of these[0] would fit in the largest FPGA you could easily buy.

[0] https://wfjm.github.io/home/w11/
I'm not sure why Washington has to be involved in this.

I've owned a landline phone that had a blacklisting feature. A little useful, except everyone got one shot ... until the available memory slots were used up. I bought it.

Why any phone with a CPU would not offer a whitelisting option is a mystery. Not on the list ... zero attention paid.
Has there been any research into the effects of nightly 6-8 hour fasts? I know this is just an N=1 anecdote but I’ve been on this plan for 35+ years and have nothing but positive things to say about it.
True, but I'm implying by my provision of an anecdote that I disbelieve the (also unsupported) assertions in the quote.
I could see making a historical case for both basic nutrition and gut health (these can be done with a lot more specificity now days).

There are so many choices of recreational and commercialized drugs in modern times if you remove the strange treatment some substances get over others there are probably better answers for all common uses.
Someone else said that they were all for committing publicly.

In that vein, I guess I should do a retrospective:

Last year I said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766071

I am in the middle of a technology pivot - moving away from the on-prem/Microsoft stack to AWS development/Devops/networking and the $cool_kids JavaScript full stack along with Python.
Also adding on Docker/Kubernetes and ElasticSearch.
Finally, I’ve railed against the need for LeetCode style studying and I haven’t had an interview in almost 20 years that has required it, but I guess I will get back to basics and start working through it.

So how did I do?

+ Reviewed JS and did my first Node API that is being used by four new front end features.

+ Networking outside of AWS was a real weakness. I studied for and passed the AWS Advanced Networking Certification to learn how AWS fits into the larger networking world and hybrid environments.

+ Decided not to focus on Kubernetes/Docker and started moving some services over to AWS/Elastic Container Services/Docker.

+ Created processes to start moving the company over to AWS CodeBuild + OctopusDeploy.

- Didn’t get a chance to do any ElasticSearch projects. Hopefully in 2020.

- I really hate front end development and the latest frameworks. My trying to do a React project was a complete failure. I think I’ll do a small Angular project just for a bullet point on my resume.

- Not doing leetCode or algorithms in 2020. Maybe in 2021 if necessary.

- Didn’t get any better with Python.
> Assembly, actual machine code

Actually, the author is effectively arguing that x86 assembly is not low-level. Which is somewhat true, but none of the levels under x86 assembly are exposed to the programmer, for the most part.
Just learn to like black coffee. It's an acquired taste but once you acquire it, it's easy to do.
> yet the authors get little return from it.

This is a big assumption. How many open source developers do so for altruistic reasons? How many open source developers are funded by companies looking for good will.

There’s a simplistic view that developers only want money and that if they don’t get rich, that’s bad. That may be true for some, but those people would need to be stupid to desire wealth from software and still make lots of contributions to open source projects.

There are many benefits other than just payment.

I’ll also add that open source is really diverse and there are many companies profitable and happy chugging along or getting bought out (red hat, canonical, jetbrains, etc etc).

If people want to get wealthy fro software there are many companies doing so. Either through selling licenses (Microsoft) or just making secret sauce that doesn’t get sold (google, Amazon, Wall Street).

I would agree with you if there was no path to riches or there was some weird open source draft that forces people to code without pay.

But as it is now, developers can choose, and do, to donate their time and brainpower writing free/libre software.
Also a non-drinker, and yeah, it really sucks to not drink in the professional American world. Not only does it make me the buzzkill, I honestly hate being around drunk people. Being drunk is really only fun when everyone's doing it together, like the adult version of campfire songs, making it hard to be the odd man out.
You might enjoy Attia on distance cycling while in nutritional ketosis: https://peterattiamd.com/ketones-carbohydrates-can-co-exist/

(like you, he eats carbs when riding long distances--even with the aim of staying in ketosis)
I think part of the issue here is that section 8 is rent support payments. It doesn’t pay directly to build housing. California is already a very high tax state, there’s money there. However, because of overly restrictive zoning and the ability of neighbors to block construction, that kind of housing can’t get built.
> will surely* see benefits

* may.

A) We don’t actually know this, because clinical trials extensive enough to prove it have never been done. B) There’s a lot of variation in humans. Betting that all people will respond the same to any intervention is a bad bet. Case in point: some people survive gunshot wounds to the head.
> the nearest gym is 45mim away in low traffic - it's a 3 hour commitment to get a good session.

> I work from home.

> There's not really a price I wouldn't pay for a more durable and comfortable body.

These three facts lead me to offer the likely over-simplified advice-as-a-question:

Why not move closer to the gym?
Are you me? Also in NYC and also dream of a quiet place in Montana. My team has actually had discussions about Montana specifically.

What is it about Montana?
Ack, that's pretty interesting
I didn’t downvote, but I’ll reply.

When you send your (surplus) taxes to the city or state (or feds), you don’t get to earmark it.

Also let’s say you could and this person got housed and they also decided they would not rummage thru trash. Someone else will take up the slack and rummage.

For example the city of SF spends inordinate amounts on homelessness but the problem only gets bigger.

When people talk of the military industrial complex, we know what it means. In SF there is a homelessness-industrial complex that exists for its own sake and is better off perpetuating homelessness than solving it.

Don’t believe me? Propose homelessness solutions that cut out these orgs and see how well your ideas are received.
Perhaps you'd give them single-use invites, or invites that included some form of certification path? I've noticed that Discord makes me go out of my way to hand out a reusable/non-expiring invite URL instead of a 1-day use-up-to-10-times link; obviously Discord's implementation relies on their hosting all the servers, but one could imagine a cryptographic equivalent that worked in a federated protocol.
The main reason they got rid of it because it was a gimmick that never really panned out and having two different ways of invoking a context menu based on force was a UX disaster for the novice user.

I'm glad Apple was able to swallow their pride and drop their "breakthrough innovative pressure sensitive screen" - reducing BOM costs was the icing on the cake, although it seems like they have just replaced that space with more battery so I wouldn't be surprised if the BOM difference was negligible in the end.
Following the metrics if the article, assembly language isn't low level either. Assembly language only gives you access to 16 integer registers and the 16 (?) sse/avx SIMD registers on x86_64. It doesn't give you access to the 64 or so integer registers or the who knows how many SIMD registers there are. Assembly instructions do not map to uops, no matter how much we pretend they do. We couldn't even program uops of we wanted to. These instructions are not executed in the order we specify them, and some of them are not executed at all: modern CPUs have their own dead code detectors and will drop instructions if it feels like it.

Assembly language programmers have less control of the microcode than raw JVM bytecode programmers have over the x86_64 instructions that eventually get executed have.
Drugs are very fun but, many times, can lead to a false circle of friendship. Depending on how deep you are, you end up surrounding yourself with super shady people who you would never trust/hang out with normally but the lifestyle keeps you together. Eventually, you believe that your little circle of “friends” are the normal ones and everyone else is screwed up.
Yeah, it seems a lot more likely for Disney etc to eat their lunch than vice-versa.
Luckily, whether intermittent fasting will work for you is really easy to test with an N = 1 study where you are the 1.
that's fine. i'll gladly admit that i'm not a welfare economist and that my shoot from the hip solution isn't necessarily the correct one. but at least the thing i'm expressing is "how can we help them" instead of "how can we make life even more difficult for them". this isn't to say i'm proud of myself or something - i'm just sincerely flabbergasted at expressing the latter opinion.
True in that small individual donations are unlikely to fund it. Sponsoring a feature is a thing in open source. Either through a bounty site or a fund me site.
What's been the biggest factor do you think is the decline of broadcast TV? Writer's strike made a dent to be sure but that should affect all of TV. Television shows in general had underwent a big boom recently, but it's just not happening through the rabbit ear antennas. But there's still some good stuff there if you know where to look (mostly in form of comedy, Brooklyn 99 for example).

Is it that major media conglomerates allocating less budget on their broadcast TV business and more into their movies and subscription based business models?

My other guess is that content restrictions of broadcast TV are now really holding it back.
The only time I ever watch broadcast TV anymore is for (NFL) football. And in that case, I'm usually also , participating in chats and discussion forums, following box scores, and the like.

On the other hand, I've also noticed when watching movies on my computer (which is pretty much how I do it anymore), it can be really easy to get distracted.

On the gripping hand, when I watch shows on Amazon Prime, I generally don't have any difficulty watching through an entire episode without getting distracted. Possibly because I usually watch Prime on my tablet, where it's (a little) harder to switch between apps.
I would also like to add that business problems to be solved should not be driven by technical desires, rather accompanied. The problems being solved have a high possibility of losing track if the tech starts controlling it. I have seen instances where people have first set their minds on the tech problems to be solved and then deriving the real customer need from them - this is wrong and does not go a long way.
NYers flooding MT would be worse than OHians flooding NYC.
As far as past learnings go I did a year in review but it's the first one I've done so it encompassed a little more than 2019:

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/year-in-review-2019/

As far as the next year goes, the important ones are:

* write - at least one in-depth blog post per month

* read - ideally an hour a day

* dive into org-mode and replace my most annoying tools with it

* start hosting regular dinners - just giving curious/motivated a people a space to talk, brainstorm, and discuss the world

* more hikes, dancing, painting, and sunsets
Ah - glad to hear that - thanks.
The reported target in the 737 MAX case was that Boeing had promised Southwest a $1 million penalty per plane if retraining was required.

In context that's 1-2% of the sale price of a MAX (depending on discounts). It's plausible that retraining drove MCAS, but that seems unlikely to me.

deluxe MCAS instrument package

No such thing exists. The AoA annunciator was supposed to be active on all 737 MAX planes.
I truly resent and despise the infantile attempts at self-preservation through censorship. I hope this years-long embarrassment resolves itself.
Almost certainly the work of market manipulators. The SEC is asleep at the wheel. You should not read any articles about a company without considering that market manipulators are probably behind it.

Watch Jim Cramer brag about how he used to manipulate the market:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI
Something like this happened to a house here locally. It was a run down 100+ year old junker eyesore house with "historic value". So it was deemed a historic house.

The owners didn't want it either, and wanted the land for their purposes. So one night, bulldozers came in and razed it. Next day, there was a nasty news article about the "Horrible people who razed historic house"... And later on a $135,000 fine.

But the moment the city lays a claim like "historic house" or whatever, that should be only subject to a eminent domain as laid out in the constitution. Doing this reduces value to nil, and in reality, poisons the property and deed. They should eminent domain it and pay fair market value if they really care about its historic worth.
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