skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the Plex app as well as VLC (and netflix, spotify etc) on my Amazon Firestick and it works great. I guess the only downside is that its related to amazon (as in that they will probably know what i watch etc, not sure if thats true for plex / vlc).
It’s really weird if you think about it. The ratio of people that do work related activities in their free time seems rather high for programmers. On the other hand, we are plagued with opportunists that want a high paying job and don’t know what they’re doing.
The issue here is mostly about what you are counting.

Almost all instances I've seen of big O scaling not being realistic count every memory access as 1 operation. In reality, memory accesses have a huge variation in how much time they take. Moreover, this does have a dependence on the program.

This is of course due to caches. As such, an O(n^2) algorithm that has very local memory accesses can actually beat an O(n) algorithm that spreads out its memory accesses randomly over the entire memory space.

It has come to the point where I care more about the expected cache hits of an algorithm than the big O scaling.
Maybe at ISP scale you can cache a ton of content, so a good chunk of client's inbound payload does not requiring peering, while most of the uploads do.
I have a problem, in that I don't only code at work. I actually code quite often outside of work, but I mostly play with some ideas or implement some simple prototypes for games, websites or stuff I am into. But I never really build a product or anything that I'd be proud enough to show in a portfolio, so from a hiring perspective it's as if I didn't code at home at all.
The one-click search icons have been removed from the adress bar to the search bar? I cant tell if this is a hidden design feature that does not appear on the release notes, but it sure will bother me...
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>Why should I spend my free time to be a better wageslave?

Because if they lead to a higher salary and you can keep your spending habits the same, you have an option of having a stronger safety net, an option to retire at 45 instead of 65, an option to see Java the island and not only Java the programming language.
The Russian Roulette timeout way brings back memories of Windows 98.
I haven't the faintest[0], monsigneur "I'm pretty sure I've read articles about pie menus being designed by someone with your name during my interaction design master" ;)

(Also, oh wow, it's actually you!)

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I do not really see the point of this article. If you want modular software you need to somehow declare dependencies to existing (maybe open source) software components. If you only want to do this via import statements then you would have to use some long URLs pointing to the exact version. You would have to include some GIT commit hash in case the component is hosted on GIT. That doesn't look like a practical approach to me.

If you don't need modularity then as others point out Smalltalk solved this long time ago.

Also as others pointed out, gradle, bazel etc solve most of the issues mentioned (incremental builds, distributed (!) caching of build resources).
Ok I know this is totally off-topic, but recently it indeed seems as if something changed (and I'm in Europe). Either the newer LED (or whatever they use in cars) are brighter, or they are aimed differently (that makes a lot of difference), or the rules loosened, or a combination of those, or something else which I can't figure out. It's not normal to be blinded when looking in your rear mirror, right?

Slightly related, still widely off-topic: lights on bicycles, same problem. I think e.g. Germany has rules for those, but in countries where there aren't and/or there's zero awareness being raised it's sad to see how many people ride around with LED headlights which are way stronger than required and aimed straight ahead instead of down, completely blinding opposite direction traffic including cars. Now on the commute I do I've made it a sport to (friendly) shout to them telling to put their light down and it seems to have effect. But there's still a long way to go.
Southwest management has a history of making gratuitous statements. For example, in March 2019 before the 737 MAX was grounded:

"Because MCAS is only designed to operate in rare conditions while pilots are manually flying, pilots should never see the system in operation."
Why would it take a single engineer 3+ years to build a Mario-like game with a tweak around time-mechanics?

I am discounting the artwork and asking primarily around the efficiency of the coding and development.

Each developer has a focus area. You might focus on millisecond level optimization; a web-developer might focus on content provisioning and rapid development; a data engineer might care more about sanity and robustness of data.

It's not clear how anyone can judge other engineers' ability based on arbitrary metrics without considering their engineering system's goals and requirements.

As an example, both Braid and The Witness have very limited accessibility; perhaps that wasn't a focus area of yours and again each developer to his/her own.
Not really. The trick is to always work for a company using marketable tech. Once you’ve been in the field for awhile, you can find a job where the “must haves” are things you are good at and the “nice to haves” are things you want to learn.

Because salary compression and inversion are real, you will probably have to keep job hopping.
Cargo cult has been around forever.
yes, we are :) we fixed this bug in firefox
If you don't like vim for that you can point to another executable by setting gitconfig core.editor to an executable command which starts an editor of your choice. Mine points to Notepad++ (Windows box with msysgit installed).
Ah, the famous CEVP Theorem (Consistently Exiting Vim under Partition).

Almost as important a problem in Computer Science as P!=:WQ.
When did Machine Learning become Artificial General Intelligence?

When did SVMs become AI?

I'm going to take the dissenting viewpoint here. I think AI as it is being sold today (e.g. the Deep Learning).. is bullshit. It's the new snake oil.

Everyone is pouring in all this money because of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).

Yes, it's producing some fancy new toys. Beating the best human player at Go. Or doing some facial recognition. Or winning at StarCraft.

But I don't even see the point at mastering Chess past a certain level, and I'm certainly not going to bother with mastering a RTS game like StarCraft.

The scary thing is if some military planner thinks the StarCraft AI is sufficiently smart enough, to put on military weapons systems, and used to hunt down other humans.

Now, if we keep AI to be for these constrained things, then yes, it can produce more toys and products, that can be sold. It's the next evolution in smart products. Corporate America can keep cranking out new and evolved products to sell, and slap an AI sticker on it.

And have you noticed? Everyone is slapping an AI sticker on everything. It's like Microsoft and the .Net branding, or Sun and the Java branding all over again. But this time, everyone is calling their little algorithm, AI.

But beyond that, it's just another gimmick.

Deep Learning is an advanced form of OCR. Facial Recognition is an advanced form of OCR of the face. Do we consider OCR to be AI these days? No, we don't. We just think of it as a wonky pattern recognition engine, that half the time doesn't work, and the other half is frustrating enough, that we just type it out ourselves. In fact, OCR uses a neural network algorithm.

It's not an evolution that we need, in order to achieve AI. It's a revolution. And nothing I've seen so far, has convinced me that it can be achieved. In the meanwhile, if you're a newly certified 'AI Expert', then cash in as much as you can. But.. Beware. Winter is coming.
https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1214803481782915072
Police tracked terror suspect, phone went dark after Facebook/WhatsApp warning
Usability is by far the biggest factor for me when it comes to AirPods.

3 years ago, they were the first seamlessly and reliably working product to free me of the cabled ear buds mess.

Were there other bluetooth ear buds before? Yes. Were they complete and utter shit to use? Also yes.

Now, 3 years later, a few competitors arise and some are better in some ways than AirPods - but again none are better than AirPods Pro. Active noise cancellation always has a markup of around $100 no matter the brand or product. So still, these AirPods Pro are fairly priced in my opinion (AirPods + $100).

You have to actively hate on Apple for even claiming any bluetooth in-ear buds are better than AirPods Pro as of today.

Samsung etc. caught on to AirPods after 3 years - but certainly not to AirPods Pro.
I'm skeptical about that, because I've lost count of people coding outside of their programming job that have no clue on how to produce reasonable code. Perhaps it sounds good to potential employers that they code in their spare time, but it's not an indication of competency in my experience.
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"I still hope that they listen to reason and increase bitcoin’s ability to scale. We are all held hostage by a tiny cabal of developers..."

No... we're not.

There are bitcoin nodes which didn't follow the 1MB block size and "segwit" or "dsv" nonsense .... they just use the protocol rules from the original bitcoin.

To say bitcoin scales just great is an understatement. It scales so well it will consume _everything_
The cause of the irrational behavior is the idea that one is more qualified than medical researchers in every developed country after reading a few websites about vaccine “effects”. To me, that is to satisfy one’s ego. An educated person knows where the limits of their knowledge is, and becoming a parent does not endow you with the ability to analyze vaccine efficacy, or any other subject matter.
But Kodi can just play files off an attached/networked storage and collects all the metadata if need be, so what's the difference?
Well, according to this essay I'm a fragile developer.

Like most agile advocacy, it implies that "agile" is only possible on a team.

I am a sole developer.
Those stats are either false, or are actually evidence that the network is tiny. Tens of thousands of transactions per day means it's not even doing a single transaction per second, which is miniscule.
I think the more interesting question is, after you eventually exit vim, what do you do next?

The best advice I ever received was, you next open emacs and leave the session running the rest of your life.
Hard skills are surprisingly small percentage of the overall picture of the person from employment perspective. An excellent coder who is hard to manage, discuss, doesn't work well in team, or has trouble to simply do as asked for next 2 months because its a priority for the company but definitely not fun, is... passable for many companies, the bigger the more true.

In my experience, quite a few of these hardcore coders lack in 'human' aspects. The employer can go an extra mile to manage them appropriately (ie keep their work fun), but its an extra overhead that many don't want to undertake.

But of course the group of those who have good people, communication and/or management skills are usually priceless for the employer.
at least rsync does that only when --checksum is specified as option; otherwise it assumes that files with the same date/time/size are the same (which is probably not too bad as a default).
>, it is perfectly OK to have a life outside of work.

Yes, of course it's perfectly ok to have a life of not programming outside of work.

But these types of articles are always missing the point: it's not all about your inner feelings but about the _others_ you don't control who value passion programmers more than 9-to-5 programmers.

If you truly want to be at peace with this blog's advice, what you're really saying is that you acknowledge that many companies, hiring managers, startups, etc value the nonstop hobbyist programmer but don't care.

On the other hand, many 9-to-5 programmers who want to compartmentalize their coding to work hours feel resentment and unfairness that many in the business world prefer the passion programmers with side projects, github contributions, hackathon competitions, etc. This blog post will do nothing to convince those hiring managers to treat the 9-to-5 programmer and the weekend programmer as exactly equal. That's unrealistic.
Check out this paper:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-28628-8_...
TikTok vulnerability could have let hackers access users’ videos
Finablr, Travelex's parent company IPO'd last year. Stock price is not looking too healthy today.
It IS a prisoner’s dilemma of sort. If everyone around you is vaccinated, you mostly enjoy herd immunity, so the benefit is much smaller.

The risks are small, and most definitely worth it from society’s point of view, and likely from a personal point of view - They are, however, harder to assess from a personal point of view.

I am somewhat familiar with a case where a serious underlying autoimmune condition was apparently triggered by vaccination. It would have surely manifested at some point, but for this condition - the later it is triggered for the first time, the better the overall outcome. (The parents in these cases often believe that the condition was caused by the vaccination, rather than revealed by it - the truth is any significant provocation of the immune system might trigger it). There have also been cases where live polio and flu vaccines where not sufficiently weakened and caused the disease.

It is also not helpful that most vaccine proponents discount anyone who considers risks a heretic.
Maybe manufacturing was just a stage in the development of Shenzhen and the area will develop like other regions in the world have.

There will be some bad years, but overall, Shenzhen will not go back to the stone-age. Certainly not a Detroit scenario as Shenzhen is not a single industry,

A new equilibrium will be reached.
risk of something really bad happening after a measles vaccine is something like 1:40 000. risk of going deaf after measles is 1:1000.

she's absolutely right, that's why she should be begging for the vaccine.
I'd also like to hear what part of "Azure" they're using. Microsoft was smart to leverage (force) O365 customers into being Azure customers using AzureAD. What I'd like to know is how many have actually graduated beyond that and are hosting real infrastructure.
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Yes, the numbers don't seem to match other reports I've seen on cloud market share. Maybe they surveyed people with MSDN subscriptions or companies that already have services in Azure. Additionally, my understanding is that Microsoft reports other "cloud-related" services (Office365, etc.) as part of Azure. If that's true then they are nowhere near AWS levels.

This report also states that Google may be looking to purchase their way to the top of the cloud offering pile. I'm not sure who they would get that would make that much difference; Rackspace?
GitHub > commaai/panda > Search > 'GET_BUS' >

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FB wants the wars in the middle east...
I'm not sure if they're considered code or not but regular expressions are extremely useful.
You can find a good database of no-code tools and tutorials at:

https://www.makerpad.co

There is no good database for "low-code" tools. I've collected a whole bunch of "low-code" tools in my notes. So I am planning of creating a database for "low-code" tools (a complement to makerpad). You can follow me on twitter @anton_codes to find out when it launches.

Here are few from my notes:

https://www.8base.com/

https://hasura.io/

https://www.jexia.com/en/

https://www.netlify.com/products/functions/

https://locklock.io/

https://remaketheweb.com/
A very detailed article about dynamic range and the Loudness War: https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/dynamic-range-loud...
- IBM's visual age for java provided most of this for Java too. (yes, it was modeled to the smalltalk env with the same name)

- Zope (python app server) had a feature where you could debug a web application (in production) in a private session, so all code modifications you did in your session were private until you committed the code.
I assume you would appreciate the loaded language if it was biased against your side then.
If we had a CO2 tax, flying would be more expensive (which it should be, obviously).
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Apart from that retiring at 45 (more like 60, no problem with that), all those can be had while having tons of free time for other hobbies, adventures, or more importantly family and friends. If you have kids, those years not spent with them will never come back.

Nobody dying is proud how hard they worked and how much they increased their market value.
The fact that "bin" files of globally installed dependencies can overwrite each other silently - it's an understandable oversight, and I'll be glad if npm/yarn notifies me in the future.

What surprised me was that the "bin" names can be a relative or absolute path, like:

"bin": {
"/usr/bin/date": "./fake-date"
}

That is scary! I'm guessing these paths will be sanitized in the newest versions of package managers, but that seems like it was a pretty big security hole.

As others have commented, I prefer not to install things globally - mostly locally linked packages of my own. I believe projects should not require or recommend globally installed commands, everything it needs for building should be in its local node_modules folder.
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Another front-end dev here. I tried to switch back from Chrome to Firefox, and while I was mostly impressed (especially devtools), I had a few gripes:

- Dragging tabs didn't immediately drag out a window like in Chrome

- A crashing tabs still seemed to crash/severely slow down the browser

- Sluggishness in window opening / first open.
There's nothing wrong with including those things in a portfolio at all. You don't need to only list sellable or fully usable products in a portfolio
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Are you using tabs as well?
>> How impressed should we be that the same AI can write poems, compose music, and play chess, without having been designed for any of those tasks? I still don’t know.

For the record, you can do the same things with a Hidden Markov Model (or hand-crafted rules) and the results won't be very different. Except that they won't elicit breatheless articles about being a "step towards general intelligence".
(Edited for clarity.)

Many of the most famous coders aren't just coders, but supercoders.

Because software has a marginal cost of 0 (development cost rather than per unit manufacturing cost) there is pressure to become a supercoder.

I have an analogy for this:

Think of the life of a supermodel. Not just a normal model, but a supermodel.

If you want to be a supermodel, I believe it's not enough to just diet while you're at work, and come 5 p.m. or the end of a shoot start gorging on chips, sugary beverages, fast food, candy bars and ice cream until shooting starts the next day. Instead I believe a supermodel is on a "diet" all the time, through their whole career; it's part of their lifestyle. They wouldn't be a supermodel if it weren't.

Analogies are leaky but could this be true for "supercoders" too?

Maybe a supercoder is not going to be able to clock out at 5 p.m. and not think about or touch code until the next day. Maybe it is a lifestyle.

It seems clear that there are "supercoders", such as Linus Torvalds or John Carmack in the world.

Are there any who don't have coding as a "lifestyle" and who just coded a few hours a day while they built their careers as a supercoder?

As with being a supermodel, not everyone needs to be a supercoder, even to be a professional coder, and that's okay.

However, I think supermodels are more beautiful than everyday people, and supercoders code better than the average coder, too. They command different salaries, dictated by supply and demand.
Just bought one and it is good. I got the previous version and an over the head Bose cancellation one. Both have their use. (Airplane, plug in etc ) but it is portable noise cancellation. That is great.
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Depends on how you configure your swap, backup and undo files. You can have all the extremes from "everything is lost" to "everything is saved" if you suddenly kill the vim process.
With Netflix you can have edge appliances that have content caches, and you can have various accelerators from the big CDNs, but with TLS being mainstream you can’t just stick an http caching proxy on the wire.
But recent CFM56 engines om 737-800 disintegrating at high power does. There were two cases (with one passenger death and 8 injured) in the USA with 737-800 suffering damage after engine disintegrated in flight.
Because on HN it is allowed to downvote based on disagreement, and it is a thread about how well Apple is currently doing.
The Eclipse incremental compiler and the ability to swap method bodies during runtime via debugger connection gives a taste of this for the JVM. If only class redefinitions were supported...
These kinds of statements are infuriating:

> Ethos Capital has pledged to adhere to the 10 percent cap, though it would have no contractual obligation to do so. In blog posts, the private equity firm said it planned to invest in new services and clamp down on spam, security attacks and other abuse launched from some illicit dot-org domains.

Like, is there any person in the universe who is naive enough to believe that the motives of a private equity company are totally pure and just about making the web better? It's a private equity company: OF COURSE they are buying it so that they can milk as much cash as possible out of the sale, with absolutely zero concern what's best for the "health of the internet" or whatever. That is their reason for existing. Pretending that this is anything other than a private entity trying to profit at the expense of the public is ludicrous.
More and more new airliners come with real-time monitoring, especially for engines (often a separate monitoring system with sat uplink, part of a maintenance contract for the engine)