skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using containers/Docker isn't reducing anything at all, neither from an energy efficiency, nor bloat PoV, since what's in the container comes on top of a full OS install. Moreover, Docker almost always runs on k8s (or Mesos) with its multiple networked re-implementations of base infrastructure such as dns, ntp, schedulers, etc. I think Docker and "microservices" with their heavy network use can't be counted as a win for energy efficiency, but have at best been portrayed as benefiting developer convenience.
Fine, detail your compensation please.
https://github.com/Jeija/esp8266-smartwatch

Just need a nice case. No, I haven't tried it myself.

There's a version on Aliexpress but it is preconfigured to be a WiFi Deauther rather than a watch.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000522565001.html?spm=a2g0o...

Edit: this one looks like a good version https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000302271246.html?spm=a2g0o...
It does - the syscalls are part of the official userspace interface which the Linux kernel promises not to break. They can add new syscalls, options or flags, but can’t break existing ones.
Why I won't switch to Firefox as a web developer
The linked page doesn't say anything directly about decentralized systems (doesn't use the word "decentralized") and the only tutorial I find uses a centralized server + DB (the to-dos one). Could you explain more concretely? Like does it help with NAT traversal or peering? Very interested, thanks!
When you have the features of sqlite, you can have the size of sqlite.

PostreSQL is 36MB. [1] Granted Go is much terser than C and has a larger standard library, but we're not at absurd levels.

[1]

find src -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h' | xargs cat | wc -c
>You don't go to Maccies for a good coffee but fucking hell, they were the only place we could get it from.

Well, IIRC, they had upped their coffee game a lot in the past decade or so, to compete with the coffee incubents.

Besides, it's not like e.g. Starbucks coffee is anything but artificial piss for a European coffee drinker.
It's a very wide category, but all those things could apply. I used to be a partner in a couple of funds, and at the time the major distinction was between people who priced complex derivatives and people who thought about how to use data to guess what the market would do.

You'd be more likely to find deriv quants at a bank selling such things to people, whereas the strategy quants would be what you'd find in the funds.

But even within that fund side I'd imagine the job looks very different depending on what firm you're at and what they ask you to do. Not everything is glamourous blue-sky "what should I buy or sell" stuff. A fair bit of it is things like cleaning the data. And there's going to be a lot of tooling. Since nobody says what they are doing, everyone has their own version of a research pipeline, and that needs to be kept clean. Likewise on the execution side, there's a load of code to be looked at, and a lot of data coming out relating to trading costs and such.
It mentions rclone with the parallel option of "--transfers=N". I wonder how well that does.
Another option is to generate a text file in the format expected by flamegraph. Especially useful when the data is hierarchical.

https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

Exemple for Java:

https://github.com/pcdv/deps-flamegraph/blob/master/README.m...
For me everything changed within 15 minutes of becoming a father. I used to want to change the world. Startups promotions etc. My son showed me a point on the line that was so far out that when I zoomed out, I couldn’t see the career stuff as anything other than a point on the origin. Now the only thing that gives me meaning is my children.
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878780

(This article originally appeared in the Washington Post.)
I was on a podcast with Keith Burgun from Dinofarm recently. We talked about Auro among many other things. I only mention it because nobody ever talks about that game but it's one of my favorites: https://keithburgun.net/prospects-for-indie-devs-with-jeremi...
> recent graduates working at hedge funds made significantly more than their peers working at banks

This has always been true, for the entirety of my career. Buy side pays more than sell side for alpha-generating activities. (Sell side pays more for flow and scaling advantages.)

This article strikes me as a submarine [1] for Baruch’s program.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
What percent of ‘ideas’ make it to live trading. How much time is spent on average validating idea. How much of the testing is automated/reuse of code and how much is custom per idea.
Lovely! It definitely shows off your curious and experimental nature.

Had a fun time drawing some flowers :P
That's part of it. There's also classical modelling, some natural language processing probably more techniques.

In short it's trying to find the signal in a huge amount of noise/data.

I'm not a quant but I support the Quants at my firm. Some of our datasets are hundreds of millions of rows with up to 450 factors/features per row.

They also run NLP on terabytes of SEC filings (like quarterly and annual reports). Not sure how they analyze the results of that.
Riverbed always stank.

Aspera never did in-flight compression when I was there. In-flight compression got even less interesting around 2010 when the long fiber links got faster than customers' (shared) storage systems. Users have good reasons to compress at rest, before starting a transfer.
Just try to better yourself or better humanity. Star Trek taught me that.
Try looking at bbcp perhaps?

http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/bbcp/using_bbcp.htm
While visiting Oakridge, OR I checked out a dispensary and it had the air-lock waiting area, rude staff ignoring me on the other side after shouting "busy with a customer!", expecting me to wait in a box until the one customer they were already dealing with was finished.

Since I was just curious and don't really consume weed, and wanted to buy something to bring to a friend's place as a gift, I just GTFO. The whole experience was awful and time-wasting, though I guess if you're a pothead wasting time isn't a concern.

My experience in CO was far superior. The place I went to there didn't even have the entrance doors closed, it was like going into a tourist shop selling overpriced t-shirts but instead it was marijuana products. The prices were ridiculous, but at least it didn't feel sleazy or like a huge unnecessary waste of my time where a hold-up may occur at any moment.
Little late here but yes nanos is Apache and found at https://github.com/nanovms/nanos .

It also runs rust very well.
There is no shortage of forgettable anythings. If that was your point, it's a poor one.

If you could predict ahead of time what might be valued in the future, then you could discard the rest. But you cannot do that, since you are not from the future. Scraps of data once thrown away as mundane are now valued in the present by researchers; there is no reason to believe this won't continue to be true into the future. Even your poorly contrived example of mundane data was debunked easily by another commenter.

Keep what can reasonably be kept, and let future researchers worry about filtering it. Preemptive filtering will only deprive future researchers of data they'll desire for reasons you cannot presently fathom.
In my experience nobody can tell what you’re doing at your desk (even if they can see the screen over your shoulder). So you can get face-time while learning for your own benefit.
Im in the shade for 18 years now ... Just me ... compensation = unlimited
I'd love to see what your schema looks like, assuming it's beyond what you mentioned (and obvious items like date and transaction amount).
I'm a desktop only kind of guy, and have taken to just logging/journaling in markdown via VS Code - which is what I'm most used to for code documentation and the like, so why not reuse it?

It sounds relatively easy to generate a .md table from a .csv file which could have an annotations column for any additional custom notes to be added to if desired. While I haven't done so for logging/journaling, I'm doing basically this for my rust crate reviews/audits, which have the benefit of being public: https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust-reviews . That autogeneration code can be found in 'src', but it's throaway gross badwrong code, so don't expect much ;). It pulls metadata from the yml-ish preambles of reviews/*.md, and from `cargo crev` commands.

The .vscode/tasks.json file in the repository means I can just Ctrl+Shift+B to regenerate the index. In a journaling context I could see adding more tasks - perhaps one to, say, create a new journal/log page - pre-populated with whatever auto-injested information you might want.

Returning to my journaling - I keep it as simple as:

C:\home\notes\journal\old\...
C:\home\notes\journal\old\2019-05-26.md
C:\home\notes\journal\old\2019-06-07.md
C:\home\notes\journal\old\2019-06-13.md
C:\home\notes\journal\...
C:\home\notes\journal\2019-12-02.md
C:\home\notes\journal\2019-12-03.md
C:\home\notes\journal\2019-12-21.md
C:\home\notes\journal\2019-12-24.md

With the old folder serving as a dumping ground to keep the root folder managable at being just the most recent 10-30 entries or so.
A page generator could easily create pages in a convention that allows stable linking between them:

...
journal\2019\12\21.md
journal\2019\12\24.md
@2x maybe?
Is the job repetitive ? What % of work is solving Math and coding and how much PowerPoint ?
The question remains, why not reuse the work that somebody else did even earlier, and that has a lot more adoption already?
The first thing to do is to get over the sunk cost fallacy. I've spent the time bookmarking all these articles, so now I better read them. No. You don't need to.

Realize what you have. A collection of things you thought might be useful some day. Consider an encyclopedia. No one reads through an encyclopedia cover-to-cover. That's perfectly fine. You pick something out to read when you need it. Most entries go unread, existing as mere possibilities. You might be able to use your bookmarks like this.

For your emails, figure out which of them need an action on your part (probably the most recent ones). Everything else goes into the archive so that you can find them when searching in the future.
Remember MySpace? Music oriented social networking with no politics or invasive tracking. Good times.
Don't know about vcinity, but Signiant was always a marketing-heavy, engineering-light organization. Their focus was on user convenience features, and they almost ignored actual transit engineering.
36C3 – The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes Talk
The author is discussing intercontinental data transfers. Not many organizations have a WAN that can cross oceans without hitting the internet.
You should edit your question to include this person’s Github name.
Keep in mind that DOS 7 from W98SE can boot, access and format SATA and USB drives usually natively from BIOS mode, with multiple FAT32 partitions as large as 32GB starting within the first 120GB from the MBR at sector 0, and much deeper when the MBR has been replaced by one from NT6 and up to 2TB HDD's can be often used.

Just like W95b, and W95b can be made to fit and work well within 32mb of drive space, 8mb memory or more but preferring under 1 or 2GB memory, and allowing 2.0GHz or less with the AMD K3 patch, it runs better than the relatively bloated W98SE, whose type of built-in networking can optionally be added to W95b, and LAN drivers are still widely available for DOS/W9x.

With a little more drive space and Office 97, you get Word, Excel, and even Power Point whose primary features are still fully capable of creating for and opening files from any later version of Windows or Open Source Office keeping simple well-defined limitations in mind at both ends.

The drawback is usually graphics drivers for which pleasing high resolution can not easily be obtained.
What you forget here is that most people buying used games would not buy them new.

Being able to sell a game may expand the market, it is possible that even more people would buy new games if they knew they can resell them later.
It got a lot worse since 'devops' came around, in my experience. As an example: people started getting increasingly pissed off when proprietary software (unpackaged, but usually with a shell installation script) couldn't get installed on a network wide setup of ~200 nodes fast enough to their liking. Since at home they could do that in 15m following the vendor's instructions (which involved running the installer script as root).

It fell to deaf ears that a packaged approach was the right way to go, given said software installed its own jungle all around the filesystem hierarchy, numerous times conflicting with software from other vendors with the same kind of recklessness.

Quite clear that any of these people lacked the understanding that having a longterm stable environment where everyone uses the same version of everything, is uncomparable with doing unsafe installations following the first forum-post you find online.

Devops learned them that cutting corners to empower yourself is OK, they could run their own systems quicker. Needless to say all the debugging (the search-engine based kind) that needed to be done after the facts was suddenly part of their job description, and filled up most of their time...
I'm confused by your conflict, you buy a creative work. The artist is paid, you sell that work to someone else, the artist already has their money.

They didn't sell two things they sold one, why would they get x2 money?
What are some good resources to learn things that are need to know and good to know if you want to work in this area?
Kubernetes was never publicly available (open source) in any other language than Go. Early internal prototypes may have been in Java, but those bear no more resemblance to current Kubernetes than Borg does.
Because one of the mantra of Go is not telling users to have a "debug" build and a "release" build. The development build is the one that goes into production, with no difference in optimizations, symbols and whatnot. This has pros and cons, like all tradeoffs.
There are also Cybertrucks driving around LA. Doesn't mean its released yet.
This is the one thing that should be made out and out illegal -- version churning without a fundamental reason.

Inclusive of: (1) altering problem sets or numbering, (2) reordering chapters, (3) organizing chapters.

Where if any of the above are done, a free mapping must be available on the internet.

I presume there are actual university guidelines prohibiting using older editions (i.e. ones the official college bookstore couldn't buy in bulk), but most professors just didn't seem to care (in between everything else they were juggling).
For me it didn't. I'm a father of a 6 months old daughter, and so far parenthood didn't manage to take over all my dreams and ambitions entirely.
From the blog post announcing the FitbitOS 4.1 SDK it sounds like custom always-on clocks are in the works:

https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2019-12-19-announcing-fitbit-os-...

(Disclosure: I work at Fitbit but not on any of the SDK or device stuff. This is my own personal opinion and should not be considered the official position of my employer.)
I went to a private school in Australia and had lots of friends from upper class backgrounds and almost all of them had a part time job at McDonald's or a supermarket purely for the experience and so they could have the finest PC gaming parts.

They all left before starting uni to focus on study but I think it's untrue that upper class kids do not work at McDonald's. They just don't keep working there for the long term.
Yes, this is more or less sandboxing. The fact that a freshly downloaded binary has r/w access to all of my files should be considered a vulnerability nowadays. The macOS approach, in which a binary only gets access to files that are explicitly selected through the OS’s file chooser, is a good first step. The downside is that it can get very annoying for the user. An ideal solution for desktop machines still doesn’t quite exist.
Yes, but it doesn't help to fear that one wasted day will lead to this chain.
Could you share the different notions you had of "progress", then and now?
To simplify you can say wage is based on supply and demand.
You've just described pretty much all 'public intellectuals'. This is not new, and they are professionally hated for a reason.

The most egregious example of this is Malcolm Gladwell. Not one of his books is true in any sense of the word even at the time he wrote them. Yet that didn't stop him from becoming an expert in ... expertise.
Is there a world in which being impeached is not a "thing that is a complete failure, especially in a ludicrous or humiliating way"?
I think there was a recent decision by the ECJ saying that eBooks were not resellable, but I'm not sure about the details
Isn't math, advanced geometry redundant?
Yes thanks for that but I think author was referring to game synch server not actual games. Synching minimal state data can use small data structures etc. But thanks though great comment.
Julia Ferraioli's Writing Accessible Go https://www.juliaferraioli.com/presos/writing-accessible-go/ talk provides great insight on how difficult might be to read source code for someone with a disability.

We should aim to make our code accessible for blind developers and for multiple good reasons including opening up opportunities for people and making sure our code is readable for everyone.

Often I come across code that wouldn't be there if a blind developer had to work on it just because it would be so hard for them or anyone else to understand without wasting a lot of unnecessary effort that the only plausible solution is to rewrite it nicely. One example is "decorated" code that provides lots of abstractions with no benefits and difficult understanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaDY0ChvOQ
When managing software engineers, 2-5pm local time is often a time of high productivity. I try never to book meetings or interrupt them during that time.
Can you give an example for your last sentence?
Wait for it…

We're already almost back to the dark-ages of "mainframe computers".

When you had to pay for every time slice to run your program (of course, on "someone else's computer").

The age of "personal computers" is almost over again. (A "personal computer", what a silly idea anyway. Everybody knows that only experts™ can maintain a computer-system properly. That's nothing an "user" could do! IBM told you that already 50 years ago. See, they've been right the whole time… /s).
I have Java apps that are up and running in well under a second. It's reflection-heavy frameworks that drag out the startup - avoid those, and Java can be pretty quick.

Maybe never quick enough to use in a CGI style environment, or for command-line tools you want to call from a loop in a script (at least, without AOT). But plenty quick enough for any normal server-side use.
Stadia sales pitch
Sigh, the unwashed masses ruin everything I suppose (by voting with their wallets).

One of my favorite games of all time is Fire Emblem for GBA. It had custom, unique class animations that would play anytime a character got a critical[1]. They were just rare enough that I would get a hit of dopamine as soon as I saw the normal attack animation deviate to the critical animation.

With these fond childhood memories I gifted my son Fire Emblem for 3DS which was highly rated. The critical animations were all procedural garbage (all classes just have a flash of light + anime face close up + particles + sound byte)! But it has 3d graphics, so I guess that's something.

It's just like the Street Fighter example given in the article. My kids probably can't tell the difference, but for me it was like night and day.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn3IxjImGW0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls0Nn_-hv-8
Do you leverage Deep Learning / AI? How successful if yes?
Two points, neither of which is a disagreement to the OP's comments:

1. Listening to speech at 450 WPM is a totally attainable skill for the sighted. It is not some kind of magical superpower that only the blind are blessed with. It's learnt by gradually increasing the speech rate and stopping just before the speech gets incomprehensible. For the record, I can't listen to text at 450 WPM and fully concentrate for long periods of time. Novels and other long pieces of writing I read at a much slower rate.

2. Processing visual information does take processing power. However, so does inventing and using coping mechanisms in a world that has been mostly made by and for the sighted. In most cases I rarely get any advantage of being blind. I just think of new approaches of performing as equally to the others as I possibly can.
Toolkits to precompile a Java app into a single native binary with the runtime and stdlib inside have been around for 20 years or so.
I live in Spain and I haven't been to many mcdonalds restaurants but I don't remember there being any music at all? Just loud chatter. But people here are generally loud so perhaps they simply didn't think it was a good idea to have music.

I don't know much about how they looked in the past but currently they have sober colours. This is what a current restaurant looks like: https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/RxMy6l6HjBZujf7pHjtR... Seems like mostly hamburger colours? Mustard, lettuce, tomato.
Likewise. Only made me more driven to make sure that I make enough money to take care of my family if the worst should come to pass.
Not particularly, I started a bit higher than I really wanted so they could negotiate down a bit, but it’s a reasonable price for what they get. I think the trick is pricing based on value provided by the solution; what’s it worth to them?
I Challenge My Most Terrifying Phobia
There's so much middle-class context assumed in this piece I don't know where to begin. What if, for starters, you have a family and the responsibilities that come with it? "I'm only going to focus on my passion from now on" will probably lead to homelessness in pretty quick time unless you have a nest-egg to burn through while you reach profitability.

What if you're in your 50s and stuck in a low paid job with a wife to take care of? What if you have a disability? The point I'm making is that a lot of life's time-sinks/distractions are non-negotiable and one life varies drastically from another in terms of how much freedom one has to pursue one's passion. Those who shout loudest that money doesn't matter are usually the ones who have plenty.

In the author's middle-class world there are always other options to what you're doing at any point in time. Unfortunately this isn't a universal given. A lot of people are stuck with massive amounts of debt just trying to survive and live from one paycheck to the next. In this context pursuing one's passion is sadly not an option if you want to be able to keep up your rent payments.
I often wish local councils would fund places where you could just go to to hang around. My uni had a bunch of these places and it would just be an air conditioned room with lots of couches/chairs and a ping pong table.

Often I'll be sitting at home thinking "I want to go out and do something but it's too hot and I don't want to go shopping/spend money"

Maybe these services do exist and I just don't know about them. In that case I wish they were advertised better.
>> Because our society has an unhealthy obsession with wealth and status

This unhealthy obsession was in large part what drove the United States to what it eventually became in 2019 over just a few hundred years. This is probably an unpopular sentiment, but what makes us bad is often what makes us good. It is not like this obsession has no upside.
Ops is merely an orchestration tool to deploy these to google cloud and aws. The actual kernel is nanos and we decided against the recent trend of custom licenses to go with apache.
Count me in too!