skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or more pratical: a partition on the SD card of your phone that can boot to a live linux, then store the live data locally in the ext2 part

I did try to do that with my android phone, but apparently it requires some specific kernel modules. I've to figure out which, and how to cross compile them for the phone kernel.
Mike Godwin: Here's How We Can Truly SaveDotOrg
Best to find another team/job. The thing with jobs like this is it's like when you were in high school and you were the only kid in a group that did anything. Everyone just 'expects' you to do everything, because you're 'smart' and 'good' at your job. You push out everything product. It will make you really angry and depressed in the long term, and you will resent the people around you for being so lazy. And you arguably should resent them, but you also will end up resenting yourself for staying.
> He pointed to the rapid disappearance of insect species around the world, including those that pollinate 75% of the world's crops, as a result of climate change and other pressures.

Hmm. Do those other pressures involve massive use of insecticides? Climate becoming warmer isn't about to stop insects; little blighters are resilient as an evolutionary approach. I'm sure wiping out a species is possible but a new one would pop up in no time to fill the gap if they aren't being actively exterminated.

Water and food crisises are not new risks. They are inevitable outcomes of population growth and variance in the supply chain. The evidence is that we are much better at dealing with such threats now than we were in the past because we have all this cheap energy we can use to recover.
hah reminds me of the demotivator "Consulting, if you're not a part of the solution there's money to be made prolonging the problem"

I'm in consulting and there is a lot of that. Especially in big companies on big projects where entire teams can hide and just bill hours and a deliverable never materializes. The consultants have no emotional investment in the client and so as long as the invoices are paid no one is going to care.

Now, withhold payment until milestones are met or the deliverable is in production and everyone gets much more interested in productivity.
Global heating because of greenhouse gasses is an existential threat to society. It is the biggest threat we have ever faced (on par with nuclear war). And we are losing, big time.
we compete on the same market, so we have the same salaries.

But the rest of the country doesn't, so we have the lower COL.

Give me a private contact and I can give you some concrete answers and tips regarding the area.
Huh? No, I'm saying they are clearly noticeable to me. Clarity/blurriness isn't the same thing as distortion as I see it.
Learnings from 2 years of building, owning and growing a product
If would be tremendous if someone can come up with one, I'm sure they'd be quite popular, but good analogies don't grow on trees.
Are you saying amazonians are inferior or something? Sounds out of touch and insulting to me.
Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Approximating Matrix Multiplication (2006) [pdf]
The point of GDPR is to protect users' privacy. Clearly it is not in line with the goals of GDPR to allow small companies invade privacy anyway, just because they're small. Privacy is privacy.
Instagram is hiding faked images, and it could hurt digital artists
In one of the examples, the author fetches results from Firebase, and then sorts them in the browser. I'm not huge on Firebase, but aren't there methods ([0]) to do this on the database, where it'd be much faster and wouldn't waste client cpu?

If this is the case, then this is a bit of faulty abstraction - your database queries are going to be more than just 'select * from <>'. I'm sure there's a way to accomplish this with react hooks without sacrificing elegance for performance.

[0]: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.datab...
Can't wait to get to the airport and hear them call for boarding:

"At this time we'd like to welcome all our slower passengers to the boarding process. Again, our slow, lazy passengers are welcome to board the aircraft."

<people board>

"Group 1..."

<etc>
I have fam in adtech and the running joke is "haha, we're the ones doing all the evil stuff you wouldn't believe even if we told you, HHOS."
Barack Obama announces intention to run as president of Kenya in 2021 (satire)
> Why is Microsoft tracking "even worse" than Google tracking?

Without specifics is hard to know what the message you replied to meant but one thing where I find MS tracking worse than anything Google can do on the Internet right now is that MS tracks and reports my local OS use (what applications I install/run, how long I run them, what files I have) while an Internet tracker can only get access to what the browser allows which generally limits sharing the type of information I listed.

EDIT: And pretty much all browsers have an Incognito mode or you can use TorBrowser which goes beyond that but I cannot similarly defend myself against my own local OS privacy invasion.
With the American domestics, its because all the frequent flyers are flying with large carry-on's and large personal items. Combined with all the non-frequent flyers trying to avoid baggage fees by packing everything in a large carry on.

If you don't get on fairly early after them, its likely you won't have a place to put your carry on, or it will end up being in the back of the plane/whatever forcing you to wait longer to get off.
Just fine, actually.
At that high a level, getting too granular about actual systems just ends up with people throwing your standards out because their special snowflake of a use case cannot possibly work under it.

The reason it ends up focusing on the bureaucracy is because they hope if you can get the bureaucratic part right, the organization can have the relevant expertise in house to make informed decisions about risk, the minimization and mitigation of which is really the goal of the security function.
GTA 6 for sale on a Austrian site GTA 6 in 2020?
I love the fact you are helping support anonymous data; it's really a good push and I hope you succeed!
How We Implemented the AWS Lambda Serverless Architecture
yeah "responsibility at some personal level" is very _very_ expensive in my book. The compensation would have to be extraordinary.
> the common decency inherent in

Is it tho? I don't find it intuitively obvious that this is the more-human-decency position. It's a feel-good button sure, to give priority to those with more needs. It's just not clear to me whether or not children and people with infirmities actually want / benefit from boarding first.
Economic and Trade Agreement USA PRC [pdf]
Tall poppy syndrome, which can be oppressive in Northern Europe.

Germany seems more relaxed than the Netherlands, and France seems to be worse. I've had friends telling me their Mercedes got frequently keyed for no reason, and the old Mercedes star on their classic even got ripped off.
That's because for FAT, erasing a file just means flagging the file allocation table entry as deleted, which normally makes the filesystem software put the linked list of sectors pointed by this entry back to the free sectors list (I'm pretty sure I am wrong on some details here, but I think the general idea is correct).

In other words, when you "delete" a FAT file, you are not even erasing a whole directory entry, you just merely flip one bit in that entry.

The data blocks get actually "erased" when they are reused by the FS software.

Recovery of basic deletion is therefore pretty much guaranteed as long as you didn't write something else on the disk.

What the author is talking about is more "serious" deletion, sometimes called "shredding" [1]. To actually erase the data from the disk, you use software that overwrite your file with random data before deleting it. This is supposed to work if the filesystem is as clever as FAT - that is somewhat dumb (but so simple that SoCs such as ARM Cortex Ax can boot from them directly).

SDs and SSDs add another challenge because they constantly lie to the filesystem software; they have their own inner controller mainly to manage bad sectors and do wear-leveling, so when the FS requests to fill a sector with zeros, they might say "ok" but actually just remap the sector internally to another empty sector. So the data is still somewhere on the chip, and an evil scientist with lots of pointy probes can in theory read them back.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/shred
> Before you know it, 90% of the internet will be gated behind paywalls or signups.

I'll take that over "gone".
Reason #43546 why I'm NEVER buying a Tesla.

The laughably childish comparison to a contractor building an addition is beyond absurd and insulting. Tesla did not rip open the car and physically bolt on additions. No labour was performed and no materials were consumed. It simply flipped a few flag bits or downloaded an archive for $4,333. That should be very simple to reverse and refund, even if the software was used briefly.

Going back to that stupid contractor analogy it would be the equivalent of buying a house with extra rooms locked by the contractor. Doesn't sound like your house anymore. And that took me all of 10 seconds to think up. Try again, rep.

And lastly, what kind of customer service is that? What kind of company lets their reps fabricate awful analogies and patronize customers? That was just a really nice way of saying "fuck you, moron".
A Coda document that evolved as time progressed. I had the idea of reporting back at some point motivating me to keep everything up-to-date.
How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX
In addition to speed, wire transfers are not reversible. Which is a feature, but you described it as a bug.

It was a bug in my use case but now I understand.
Here is an outline of the actual report [1] which draws on feedback from around 800 global experts and decision-makers.

Environmental threats dominate the survey’s 10-year outlook. The top five long term risks by likelihood and three of the top five spots by impact.

[1] https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2020/jan/...
If you just want to talk to someone, I get it, but otherwise there's no point. Nobody's going to fight a thief to safeguard a stranger's stuff (and shouldn't because they could be sued by the thief). And it's a crime of opportunity, thiefs are not sitting in cafes waiting for a laptop user to go to the bathroom; high risk, low reward.
How about "It just took me a while to find the next thing I wanted to do." Then your explanation make sense whether they think you took a break or find out that you left a job quickly.
It was french for me. German for a coworker. The language settings are all screwed up.
Hi! What are you using for conflict resolution? Is it CRDT? Have you seen RON? https://github.com/ff-notes/ron
WestJet used to board window seats first (and those traveling with someone in a window seat). I always found that much faster than other airlines. Alas, they stopped the practice years ago.
Some insects sure, cockroaches aren't going anywhere soon for example. But plenty of species exist only in a particular ecological niche for which a few degrees of average temperature change can absolutely seriously affect their population.
"Hmm. Do those other pressures involve massive use of insecticides? Climate becoming warmer isn't about to stop insects; little blighters are resilient as an evolutionary approach."

Insects on the whole are resilient. Specific pollinators aren't. Climate change is causing massive problems for insect life. Neonic pesticides are also devestating. Both are bad, and are not mutually exclusive. As a matter of fact, more pesticides are used as climate change stresses crops more and weakens them.
I'd assume they'd sugarcoat it by saying "seniors, pregnant women, and those with disabilities" or similar instead.
> The alternative is releasing a half baked API that it has to support forever.

You owe me a new keyboard. Apple puts out half baked APIs constantly, and drops APIs constantly. Like literally, every release they do has APIs in those two camps.
We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet (2015)
I'm surprised they're laying off security and QA, considering how focused on privacy and security their marketing campaign seems to be. In the last 6 months, I think 90% of cases where I saw Mozilla mentioned were about how it's the 'hot new browser' for the privacy-concerned. Although, perhaps, that's more to do with a good marketing team and less with a sprawling security department? Would love to see some expert opinion on what this means for the company's current trajectory.
Thanks for sharing.
You can check my article too.

https://medium.com/@tunatore/how-mycrypto-tools-uses-aws-lam...
Crypto transfer costs on small payments are higher than traditional payment networks.
For those of you wondering why informal hierarchies can often be worse than formal hierarchies I offer an old but still very relevant essay by Jo Freeman, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness": https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Sure, but necessarily, any informed person understands that it is by the largest existential risk of humanity.
To build on the sibling comment, the simple way to benchmark this is with an empty hard drive, make a series of partitions in order:

1) start of drive partition

2) spacer

3) middle of drive partition

4) spacer

5) end of drive partition

Make 1,3, and 5 the same size, and then run raw disk benchmarks against them. The usual pattern is, like a record, the data begins at the edge of the platter and you'll get higher transfer speeds, and the end of the disk is in the middle, so slower there.
70 employees, at a grossly over-estimated cost of $200,000 a year each (QA "leads" would probably cost a fraction of that), would cost Mozilla about $14M to retain. They are retaining their $43M budget for blue sky research intact (per TFA).

It feels like a better compromise could have been made.
I just wish they would reverse the trend of making checking luggage so damn expensive - once upon a time people most people didn't have wheely bags and it was much less unpleasant to board a plane.

Now a-days a lot of travelers will try and cram their entire luggage into a single wheely bag that they struggle to lift into the overhead bin.
I don't think the San Diego PD cares about how highly ranked someone is on Hacker News. What's more, I don't think 99.9% of the SDPD has ever heard of Hacker News.
in other news Mobile phones cause tumours https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/mobile-phones-...
Is this because the site is using React? I had a look at the source of the page and I'm guessing this is React-based? Are the benefits gained from using React worth it for the limitations you get?
Is this also susceptible to the same issues that resulted in developer of uBlock Origin to no longer create new versions for Chrome?
> but log-structured filesystems are much more flash-friendly. That's why there has been a resurgence of interest in them

I could swear I read such in 2010 -- did that actually happen in the last ten years?
Is it better than Vivaldi(Chromium based) ... nope

Just another shit bare bones so called browser.

Its crazy to think that literately 20 fucking years ago, there existed browsers (like MyIE2 Trident Engine based (ie IE)) that had more features and customisation options than the fucking shite that is released to public now.
So if I remember correctly this is another step in the history of KHTML -> WebKit -> Safari -> Chrome -> Edge.

I’m sure much has changed internally but still, who would have imagined that KDE and Apple would be the ones to produce the dominant core browser architecture for the whole world?
Yup, this is exactly the right way of going about things. Because when they ask you why it wasn't a good fit, you're able to actually speak up about your experience. Instead of a one sided conversation, you're able to make it your own and interviewers like that. That's my experience anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...
Toyota is also doing this now, they began collecting data all 2020 models with TSS 2.0. They started insurance offerings to generate $$ off of this data, toyotaims.com.
One option that isnt discussed is having the overhead bins be seperately ticketed and a box. So if you want a bin, you pay $40 and one gets asigned to you. It would streamline boarding because people would put their stuff in the bin and be done.
How to get in touch with small businesses?
I'm working on a product for realtors but would like to have more conversations. However, I run into a couple roadblocks:
1) Cold emails/calls are a dead end.
2) In person people are focused on their business, not talking to you
3) I only know a few people in the space and can only get warm intros to a few people.

So, what is the best way to get in touch with people. I've heard paid Facebook Ads with a survey and email is decent. I've also heard various success stories like patio11's in-person conversations and LinkedIn spam, but neither have worked for me.

Any ideas?
Ah, sorry. Hadn't meant to be pedantic. I was just wondering if perhaps there was some sort of dilution process applied to jet fuel, maybe for safety reasons.
Physiological Responses to Gravity in an Insect
That worked up to mid nineties.
No one thinks advertising works on them.

That's why it works on them.
I know one thing: It's not going to get better!

At least unless you channel your inner Napoleon and start transforming the organization yourself.

I don't have that in me, and most people don't, but I hear it can be done.
I would leave. I had a job last April and I left it in November because it was so boring. I keep jobs where I find I am in a win-win scenario. If I am learning and doing things I find interesting and I feel my contributions are appreciated I continue the work. My interview process at the last company was deceptive as well. I should have left sooner.

edit - expanded info.
As an employer, I don't expect every potential employee to list all of their previous roles. Especially for more senior people, I expect that a resume is tailored to show me their best relevant experience. Leaving out a short stint somewhere wouldn't worry me.
I thought this was some kind of joke at first. But more power to him; that is a selfless thing to do.
This is very airline/airport dependent. I used to marvel at how fast my bags arrived at ABIA. Then I stopped flying for a while and when I resumed it seems like my bags would take nearly an hour. At first I thought it was some kind of additional security/whatever, but then I noticed that Southwest passengers that were deplaning at the same time I was would have their bags at the claim by the time they got there, while I would end up waiting 30+ mins for bags from my AA flights.

I started to pay more attention, and am 100% sure at least between AA and SW, it literally takes AA 4-5x longer at the same airport vs SW.
Another possibility is that people on HN are wealthier, in part, because they are better than average at delaying gratification.
The MythBusters has an episode on plane boarding that was pretty interesting.

Results:
https://mythresults.com/airplane-boarding
I see this in my SO. Her work so fully optimizes its use of her time and energy she's got nothing left at the end of the day and she wakes up early on the weekend with nightmares. Like, it sucks her dry. Which was fine when she was single, but I'm feeling left out more and more often. I think she's seeing it. It's a continuous discussion.
Hm, I'm not sure about that. In uptown Charlotte, I see homeless people (white or black) getting harassed by police and security guards when they're just sitting in a public area with a sign.
Which slows down the boarding process, if anything they should be charging more for carry on board vs checked, it slows security too.
I use `nano YYYYMMDD.md`.
Slow and lazy is not the same.

I usually get in the plane with the last people, as I'm lazy to stand in line, but I'm doing the boarding itself fast, as I have done it many times in my life. I see other experienced travellers doing the same thing.
Is there any reason to not look now? It sounds like there is a substantial amount of free time. Do some interview prep and start interviewing before you lose all your energy.
Lots of people don't believe it's a problem or even claim it will be a benefit and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.
You can't be independent anymore and bear the cost of electronic records, so the options are to stop accepting insurance (cash only) or join a large practice, usually run by, or at least associated with, a hospital, for access to their records system.
https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020#payment-request-api

I had almost exclusively made purchases through apps for digital goods, but I was really surprised when I did it for the first time on a website for a physical good. The thumbprint or double-click/face scan should be a clue about money changing hands (also implying it's the final step), but I can see how a mistake gets made.
Especially because OP said he works for a "... fairly large software company...". I bet they've got a lot of lawyers on the speed dial.
On the other hand, the Japanese are inveterate umbrella thieves. So much so that you will find locking umbrella racks in many buildings.

The pressure has to go somewhere.
I understand that. Being around a certain crowd makes you want certain things. An architect friend said she wouldn't want to be seen using an Android when a client visits her office. I'm glad my work and friends don't pressure me as much with things like that. If anything, I'd be embarrassed to be walking around with a $1100 phone, an openly extravagant purchase.
Great post, I enjoyed reading your insights!
Be the change you want to see!
Did this job offer a substantial bump in pay? If so ride it out while trying to improve the culture\processes. Seems like it's very slow pace so you can spend time leveling up some skills you may be interested in and even implement some side projects to improve the processes and present them to management. If they aren't receptive bounce with a few cool projects under your belt and a couple extra months of pay.
A more approachable solution (for the general public, at least) would be a payment processing service that takes the risk of working with adult content creators. But that seems like a tall ask, especially for a problem that's pretty niche. Porn makes a lot of money, but not for the people who're just handling the payments. Or, rather, it might make them a good amount but it's probably the same as the profit from other industries, except with added risk.
This is standard task scheduling problem (see CLRS section 17.5) with added constraint of slowing down processing as number of tasks finishes. This added constraint is justified by the fact that as people board they won't stay put in their seats in aircraft, they move move around increasing the time to board for passengers who haven't boarded yet.

This still remains a greedy problem and hence allowing slower passengers to board first will reduce overall time taken to board.
Yea - I peppered that statement with conditionals because a lot of people don't tend to abide by that politeness - I only made a connecting flight (via a woman at the gate re-opening the causeway door) when my connection was cut down from 1:20 to 15 in JFK due to inclement weather once... And JFK is terrible.
Reminded of this line from Margin Call:

"So, Mr. Sullivan, why don't you tell me what you think is going on here, and please speak as you might to a young child or a golden retriever. I didn't get here on my brains -- I can assure you of that."
I recommend remaining in ignorance of how good it feels to take heroin. You don't want to know