skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah so because someone else like a non-American place, he is having contempt for his fellow Americans?
That's so polarising and typically what gives Americans such a bad name abroad.
About new social networks, I am building one that I am calling "a quiet social network".

Copy/pasting from my landing what it means:

A personal journal and a social network that will provide a quiet space to reflect about yourself and also to nurture your long term relationships with the people that you care about.

Why “quiet”?

Because this social network won't have the frenetic rhythm of news and updates of all other social networks.

A quiet space is just as quiet as the quietest sound. Quid Sentio is being designed so you will only listen to your voice and the voice of your close ones. A digital space to cultivate conversations more meaningful than the loud noise of social media and more long-lasting than the unsearchable small talk of instant messengers.

Quid Sentio is for you if you want to...

Avoid the deafening rumble of the crowds. You will only see public entries from people that have both being included in your list and included you in their list. No stranges following you (or even knowing you have an account).

Avoid the tiresome grumble of the acquaintances. There will be no way to search for people on the site or to see a list of your friends' friends. Also, there will be a limit of people you can add to your list without reciprocity, so no way to spam everyone in your contact list.

Avoid the popularity contests of perfect lives. There will be no way to like entries, only conversations. Also, there will be no way to share content outside of the list of who posted. So no way to go viral and no instant rewards.

Avoid the manipulative tricks of addiction dealers. All the design decisions above already point to a social network with less activity. Adding to that, you won't see any advertising on the site, so there is no incentive to keep you aimless wandering around here. Stay as long as you need to connect with your family, your close friends, and yourself. Then leave.

Avoid the news, the memes, the FOMO. As the posts all follow the same design of journal entries, with no images and no special treatment for external links, you will probably won't see much news or click-baity articles, unless a close friend wants to comment on them. Also, no company accounts either.

If you are interested: https://www.quidsentio.com
No, that's just how Rich Hickey describes complexity; it's hardly a universal definition. For example, in computer science, the complexity of a task is often a measure of the effort, in time or memory, required to perform it.
> R is increasingly blacklisted at large orgs.

Eh, I call BS. Names and sources please. I know for a fact that R is used at all of FAANG and about a bazillion other "large orgs" too. I'm sure it's true that R is not used for customer-facing "web scale" products, but then again neither is any other language except for like two.

Being good at programming is useful skill, but so is being good at statistics, and they are not interchangeable. "Productionizing a model" is not the only show in town when it comes to data analysis. Many programmers know shockingly little statistics. An equally large number of really strong statisicians prefer R, for good reasons. Orgs who simply refuse to hire those people do so at their peril.
> I hear this a lot, but if you're earning $150K in the US, you almost certainly have 100% medical coverage.

I'm not sure how true this is anymore. I made a bit more than this at Microsoft, and my medical benefits were "100% covered" by Microsoft. But that still amounts to thousands of dollars in deductibles and copays per year out of pocket.
You say this, but we see partisanship and ideology placed before profits all the time, almost every time. How many major newspapers are worth basically zero; how many broadcast news have seen their viewership fall into the toilet; how many internet newsies have lost their jobs - all because they do nothing but grind axes all day and do their best to covertly manipulate their audiences?
The same concept applied to any electrical outlet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU
I just donated through FB to see how it works. It looks like FB gives the user an opt-in to share info with the charities. I like this, because I get spammed all the time by previous charitable donations.

Can’t speak to the payment timelines, but the fact that fb gives me more control is nice.

Also, from their documentation, it looks like nonprofits do see my name. The opt in is for sharing my email.
Just because you have bad latency doesn't mean everyone else does.
> Some people

Some countries. Propaganda is hard to undo. See how people believe capitalism equates 1-on-1 with "free market" and think that communism means they cannot have personal belongings. Lol.
Hey, that's the mark of a great engineer. I'm sorry your peers did not see the value in what you do.

My armchair diagnosis is you and your company are a poor fit for each other at this phase of the company. You have probably already surmised that you'd do better at large corporations or companies not focused on growth, but on greasing and sustaining their existing products.

Since you mention that you can't quit this job, there are several options you can consider:

1. Internal transfer to another team, if possible.

2. Start looking for other opportunities that are more aligned with what you do.

3. Be mindful of priorities and timelines. Visualize and draw the timeline on a piece of paper if you have to, and understand that it's physically impossible to do both new feature and the small tasks, and still meet the deadline. Hopefully doing so helps you to see the big picture as the company sees it, and lets you override your compulsion. Write this down on a sticky note as a reminder and stick it on your monitor if you have to.
> our investment process is more rigorous than unregulated investors and typical VCs

that would be easier to believe if the wework screw-up hadn't happened.
If you really want to use a pure spinlock you'll either have to accept that worst-case behavior being worse than a mutex or you have to jump through a lot of hoops (pinning threads, isolating cores, reassigning interrupts) to make sure you don't get descheduled. Because the scheduler won't know anything about priority inversions or even waiting threads, they all look runnable.
One could argue that for most non-engineers, non-DIY is crucial for most products.

For example, in the 90s a lot of people thought everyone would host their own email servers. In reality, consumers flocked to Y! mail and later Gmail, since most people really can't or won't do this themselves.

Most people also do not change the oil on their own car (at least in the USA) etc.

In my mind the question is can you develop a great product in this area. It is possible (and sad) that Ring or Nest is as good as it gets (or have default won due to superior distribution). But I do think there are a lot of features I would want as a consumer that would make this experience better for me.
True but because of bufferbloat[1], bandwidth problems often also materialize as latency problems unfortunately.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
As long as you're on fibre, I don't think the link is relevant. You've got much more latency to nibble elsewhere. AFAIK the rendering pipeline is where most of the work is. It certainly seemed that way back when Online was a thing (the first service of this type I can think of).
> 2016 Clinton campaign raised a lot more $$ than the Trump campaign

> Sanders primary campaign out-fundraised the Clinton one

These are not convincing examples. They are utterly dominated by confounding details. Clinton had the name-recognition of Coca-Cola vs. an unknown Sanders and the less said about the Trump circus the better. To compare advertising spend of brand-name candidates, you need to account for the vast quantity of non-paid marketing they have received before and during the campaign.

Better examples would be between two similarly unknown candidates in city/county elections. I have heard it claimed (reddit) that these races are almost always won by the biggest spender but I don't have a real source.
That $227k median must be SV tech jobs, the median wage for whole of USA is $32k
Cost of living calculators are calibrated for the median budget, which looks very different from the budget of someone who makes 400k/year. Poor people spend a large fraction of their money on housing, which is much more expensive in HCOL areas and skews the cost of living multiplier. If you were only paying 5% of your income on rent in a LCOL
area and your rent quadruples after moving to SF, you only need a 15% pay increase to cover that, not a 300% increase.

Also don’t forget that wealthy people can save most of their money, so an X% increase in overall expenses doesn’t need to translate to an X% increase in income.
Does the standard library use malloc/free or does it depend on the GC? This is the part that's puzzling to me, if the stdlib depends on GC then it's harder to say that GC is optional. Technically optional but not super practical.
As somebody who grew up around there with a dad that spent his whole career as a chemical engineer working with nuclear waste, I'm here to tell you that most tales about the radioactive material around Hanford are highly overblown. I'm probably exposed to more radiation on a single plane flight than I ever got from tumbleweeds near my house.
> they have not really been able to detect an increase in hurricanes (the natural disaster that semi-regularly hits Florida) due to climate change

Correct, not a significant increase in the number of hurricanes, but they are projecting an increase in destructive power.

> The IPCC AR5 presents a strong body of scientific evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past half century is very likely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

> it is likely that greenhouse warming will cause hurricanes in the coming century to be more intense globally and have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes.

> the lifetime maximum intensity of Atlantic hurricanes will increase by about 5% during the 21st century

> We also conclude that it is likely that climate warming will cause Atlantic hurricanes in the coming century have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes, and medium confidence that they will be more intense (higher peak winds and lower central pressures) on average.
Trump and Brexit are direct results of CA's work. Fucking ridiculous.
We get a lot of rabbits.. How do you keep them out of your produce?
He was “presidential” and anti-corruption before it was cool: https://www.c-span.org/video/?187762-1/united-nations-headqu...
It's an extraordinary difference when you look at what proportion of engineers (outside of London/Finance) earn £80k in the UK vs $105k in Denver.
The demographic and internal-migratory questions remind me of the EU and the problems faced by e.g. Greece. I wonder if it will result in a campaign against internal migration. Is freedom of movement within the United States explicitly part of the Constitution?
Airbnb could “scan your online life” to see if you’re a suitable guest
I'm a professional FB marketer and have managed both large budgets for private companies and also done political campaigns. I guarantee the trump campaign doesn't use the low quality Cambridge Analytica scraped data in their targeting. They either use voter file records or lookalikes (like everyone else does). All CA data so released so far has been useless, untargeted stuff.

Think about where the data originally came from. People in 2015 downloaded an app, and the app scraped their friends lists. You know what's better than targeting 87 mil loosely connected people? Using the FB algorithm, which targets 330m much, much more accurately and with more connections!
Hasn't this been the case for some time? The number of people who actually matter in the news industry is only a few thousand, and their social graph looks like they're all married to each other's cousins (which is only half a joke).
Are you asking why people don’t want to sign up for getting spammed by charities? Just because it’s easy to unsubscribe doesn’t mean I want to have to do that.

I just want to help out a non profit. My recurring donation is that they don’t need to waste money to spam me anymore.

I’m looking you you, blood banks.
There is also a great documentary on Hulu called Zero Days[1] that is fantastic about Stuxnet. Highly recommended.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days
Well define "work"? It essentially is just self reflection which honestly holds no value unless you do something about it. I honestly believe there are just way too many people who associate meditation with making your life better when you could just as easily fill that space with a more meaningful hobby that relaxes you while achieving something else.

The reason I dislike christian prayer tied with self reflection is you gauge your behavior to such an outdated code of morals with contemporary values. Ultimately it causes you to criticize yourself in unhealthy ways. Especially when it leads down the rabbit hole of ultra-conservativism where you think since you aren't practicing it perfectly, you need to double down and do it more and more according to scripture. This is why radicalism occurs and causes nut jobs to shoot an abortion clinic or blow themselves up.
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In the olden days, it was a journalist's job to transcribe their interviews, instead of publishing the raw unedited tapes of the recorded stuff.
Brave Browser has micropayments for exactly this Ads-vs-Micropayments rationale
What would you change on GitHub Search?
Sorry. Worked on mine, we must be testing on different browsers/versions, but it might have to be that root path pushes Vue's router to a shareable URL.
> We do have the requisite data to answer whether preventing use-after-free is better than not preventing it.

I expect Zig will prevent use-after-free. It will be sound for safe code and unsound for unsafe code (by turning this on only in debug mode for testing).

> but it's impossible to argue that not trying to prevent UAF is somehow safer.

First, see above. Second, it is not only possible but even reasonable to argue that not trying to completely eliminate a certain error is very much safer. The reason is that soundness has a non-trivial cost which can very often be traded for an unsound reduction in a larger class of bugs. As an example, instead of soundly eliminating bugs of kind A, reducing bugs of kinds A, B and C -- for a similar cost -- may well be safer.

There has been little evidence to settle whether sound elimination of bugs results in more correctness than unsound reduction of bugs or vice-versa, and it's a subject of debate in software correctness research.
I agree the electoral college is not as good as a general public vote, however one counterargument to "side A won more votes than side B!" is that, both sides knew the rules ahead of time so if the rules were a general vote, then the campaigns would have been different so side B may still have won in that case. We will never know.
I went to sign up for Nextdoor and it wanted full access to all my contacts in my phone. I looked on their site and that is so they can invite friends from my contacts. I didn't sign up, maybe i will later, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/About-android-app-permis...
> most votes of any candidate in the race still technically lost the election

> For people who pride ourselves so much on understanding how systems work, we’re consistently really bad at understanding this one.

Well, CA seems to have understood that what matters is opinions across enough states to win the Electoral College vote. As you said, it's a system. They optimised for the system that exists.

Even if a majority voted for Clinton, there's enough discontent across the US that Trump won the election quite decisively (304 to 227 electoral college votes). Anyhow, look at the current landscape. Warren + Sanders make up nearly 50% of the Democratic primary polls and their popularity seems to be growing as others drop out and as we get closer to actual voting.
Assuming you can, you should live around the type of community you want. You sound like you want to live in the HOA controlled landscaping suburb, which is great! OP clearly chose to live somewhere where they wouldn't have neighbors saying these sorts of things. They have put thought into a cool experiment that has apparently paid off for them.

Personally, I've never experienced a neighborhood with a strict HOA that I could stand to stick around in. There always seems to be a minority with too much time on their hands playing neighborhood CIA operative and acting like they've just received power for the first time in their lives. I know that might be a little harsh but there always seems to be some variant of this around.

I live in a condo now where those people still exist, but it is so much better. They have much less power and visibility.
Why would we treat Bezos any differently? At his level of rare air, making/breaking regulations is just as important to profit as playing in the market. He has a whole lot more on the line politically than any politician.
It’s certainly true that senior people are unlikely to get hired at a FAANG in a senior role for their first year.

Being a high achieving senior engineer is about delivering on communication and prioritization, more than anything else. It’s very hard to evaluate a prospective hire’s day-to-day willingness to communicate and prioritize, no matter how impressive their resume.

If you do well, you’ll quickly get promoted, though.

And the salary difference is pretty negligible, relative to RSUs, and people who think of themselves as senior can often get pretty senior RSU packages, so this distinction isn’t super relevant for total compensation.
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The head of biz dev for CA says they worked with Leave.EU and UKIP during the Brexit campaign.

https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-leave-eu...
I think Mercedes is the wrong manufacturer to try to compete with Tesla. Merc buyers are older folks and flashy people with more money than sense. They don’t care one bit about going green.
Are they incompetent, or is the bar set so high that only trained professionals can be considered competent?

I believe the latter is true; I've seen some incredibly intelligent individuals fall victim to shady crap.

We (as in the entire software development community) need to lower that bar.
Have a look I picked similar sized appartments 44sqm:
LIC (10min ride from midtown) for 600k$ a :
https://streeteasy.com/building/5th-street-lofts-5sl/6d

PARIS 15 (family neighboorhood - the furthest one from the city center - 20min) for 600k$:
https://www.seloger.com/annonces/achat/appartement/paris-15e...

and I can find much much cheaper in Queens if I move 10min further in something older.
I had a different experience than you had when I was working in Google Brazil. I was the first AdWords Product Specialist in the office - also, the office only had 50 people; it really felt like a startup in 2006.

At the bottom of my heart, I always wanted to build my own startup or work with startup so eventually I left Google.

Now, during that time, I did my work as many other Googlers would do but the difference is that I was in a position to access huge amount of training materials, design docs, 3rd party research materials, etc. In my "spare" time, I just went through and read, absorbed as much as I could; so at the end, I did learn a lot but outside from my usual scope of work.
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It is - compare the internet to the AppStore or the Play Store. The internet could've easily been something like that - a walled garden accessible only through proprietary clients, where you could only publish content through prescribed channels. Sure, people would've created open alternatives, but just like is the case with the AppStore alternatives today, those alternatives would languish for want of an audience.
On low end desktop (1151 and friends), there are 16 PCI-E lanes directly from the CPU (typically used by the GPU), and the rest are connected to the PCH, which connects to the CPU with DMI. The main problem with updating the PCH alone here is that the link between the CPU and the PCH is only ~4GB/s, so PCI-E 4.0 speeds for the lanes extending from the PCH are rather pointless.

On HEDT and modern server, (2066 and friends), only about 8 of the PCI-E lanes come from the chipset, and the rest come directly from the CPU. The QPI and it's successor UPI is used to connect CPUs to each other, not to a chipset.
you're clinging to a fantasy
yeah is 1.7 a very stable 1.x or a very immature 2.x? what is 0.7 then? and 2.0?

can't answer one and the other consistently.

it's great for compatibility level, and that's that.
Hello,
EvenCart is an eCommerce software built on top of ASP.NET Core and Liquid View engine and supports Microsoft Sql Server and MySql with an integrated API.

The software exposes various API endpoints to customize the shop using plugins. However the source code will be made available to the enterprises which want to customize the solution for their clients or want to build an entirely new solution on top of EvenCart. The documentation is available at https://docs.evencart.com

Early feedback is very much required for the improvement of the product. Therefore for early adapters, we'd be providing special incentives when the marketplace is launched.

More coming soon :)
Nice to see details around the implementation and decision process, would it be possible for you to share your architecture/monthly expenditure?
Nature is just starting to tell us that our way of life isn't sustainable.

There are more sustainable ways to live, we just have to be open to discussing them. You want a lawn - how often do your children play on it? An hour per day? That means your lawn is unused 96% of the time.

How about we redesign our living spaces so we have one large common lawn that many residences can share. Kids will be more encouraged to play outside and play together. And we can put markets within walking distance of these residences, and movie theaters and other stores.

Suddenly our children are more social, we're getting more exercise, driving less, not having insect-killing monospecies lawns that aren't used 96% of the time and many other benefits.

There are solutions to this but if we put our fingers in our ears and say we want things how they've been for the last 60 years then we are no smarter than the cyanobacteria that converted so much carbon dioxide to oxygen that they suffocated themselves 2.5 billion years ago.
I'm not sure about the StingRay brand per se, but it's likely that malicious fake cell towers can pwn the baseband radio. And we know that the baseband radio is privileged over userland.

Also, baseband firmware is totally black box, so we have no clue what its capabilities are. So the safest bet is isolating it in a subsystem, or better in a separate device, which can be firewalled.

https://www.osnews.com/story/27416/the-second-operating-syst...
The problem with the "clouds" is that there are two types of locks : code lock and data lock.

The author only talk about code lock. Again, as Kubernetes mature it would become easier and easier to configure (think of it as unix/linux at its early days), and hence less and less code locked.

However, Kubernetes does not have data lock. I.e. when you go to the public cloud, you are locked both in term of compute and in term of data. I.e. the egress prices are 10x.
You could try finding like minded people in your HOA and then bring suggestions & alternatives (zero-spacing, clover, etc.) to the HOA meetings. Of course many HOAs are controlled & populated by retired boomers so YMMV.
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