skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every major database will load the hottest data into RAM, where the scope of "hottest" broadens to whatever amount will fit in RAM. A small percentage of them require you to confirm how much RAM it can use for this cache.

Putting the data on a ramdisk just becomes entirely redundant because it's still going to create a second memory cache that it uses.

Many operations do a local cache warming by running the common queries over the database before they it is brought online for processing. As a secondary note, people often under-estimate the size of their data because they don't account for all of the keys, indexes and relationships that also would be memory cached in an ideal situation.
Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless
For whatever it's worth, GitHub is on GitHub: https://github.com/github and says top languages are: Ruby, JavaScript, Go, C, Shell in that order.
It is simply not a factor. We don't discriminate, but we will hire anyone who is willing and able to do the job for the salary offered. We don't track any diversity metrics, and the gender or ethnicity of a candidate does not enter into the hiring equation at all.
Authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator, Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital, believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. So why isn't every company remote-first?
> I can take handwritten notes and sketches on my tablet

Touché. I don't need to do that, but I can agree that it's a good use-case for a tablet.

> typing notes has never helped me learn or remember anything, and I can't draw on it.

For me, the main benefit of typed notes is that you can search them better. I don't imagine you can search for hand-written text among all sketches on your tablet.

Also, if I ever needed to take notes on a classroom setting, typing also brings the benefit of being able to do it without having to look down. Or at least, it's easier and faster to type blindfolded than to hand-write blindfolded. You can keep your attention to the front of the room that way.

> With a Surface/Yoga/similar you get the option to draw on it, but I used to have a Surface Pro and it's frankly not a very good tablet.

Probably not as ergonomic, I suppose. If I ever needed to draw sketches electronically, I would prefer to do it on my convertible laptop simply because the ergonomics of a tablet are not enough to outweigh all other benefits that a laptop bring. Realistically speaking though, when I (rarely) need to sketch or hand-write, I use a paper notebook. Different people have different needs.
Is that really a thing?

Coyotes are prolific in places where wolves have been eradicated. If your chihuahuadoodle goes for a walkabout, seems like he's more likely to become coyote food than wolf food.
pluralsight has lots of stuff
Mobile World Congress 2020 Cancelled After Coronavirus Outbreak
Interesting that they mentioned The Rainbow Gathering as an example gift economy, rather than Burning man which is 7x larger and I would guess more widely known.
On my first Android smartphone, an LG Optimus One P500, I had no trouble to reach 4-5 days and the battery was far from humungous, only 1500 mAh. Most things were not running but I was using it to text quite often during the day. I don't believe there was any wizardry on there.

We see the battery on a picture, if it comes from Adafruit, that seems like the 2500mAh one they sell. There's no reasons that thing can't last at least a week, but I can understands it wasn't the goal at all to make it last, so almost no effort was invested in that.
Sure, but GSMA is the official URL, not the Verge
Could you elaborate, or at least spill the tea?
My read of the HN zeitgeist on this issue is that algorithms would be objectionable even if their predictions were perfect matches to reality. This mindset is totally alien to me: we're better off when we know more than less. Deliberate ignorance is an incredibly dangerous attitude to adopt. It's premodern and antiscientific.
There was no 6XL.
The URL here should be https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/scaling-back-my-involvemen... . The current one jumps to the first reply, rather than to Alex's post.
KUtrace 2020 – Dick Sites – Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium
Sure, my data fits in RAM if you take one of those example machines, which we have, and which are currently hosting dozens of production VMs, and instead dedicate the whole thing to my database. I'd love that, but it's never going to happen.
I just can't understand why the stock market keeps going up.
You’re the one moving the goal posts. We were not talking about whether the population of families was significant “enough to support a large number of businesses.” I was replying to a post that suggested New York was an example of “a living, breathing, functional and healthy” urban community. By my reckoning, middle class households with kids are underrepresented by a factor of six in Manhattan. That’s is a hugely distorted demographic statistic that suggests New York City is inhospitable to families. Yes, 3% of Manhattan households is like tens of thousands of households. But it’s a small minority. “Almost none” isn’t all that hyperbolic.

Given that 85% of people will have kids at some point, I think that disqualifies New York City from being deemed “functional” and “healthy.” If we are looking for cues as to how to design urban environments, we should be looking at places that serve the needs of normal people. New York City is not one of those places.
“ The cost of building a so-called North Sea Enclosure Dyke, estimated at between €250bn and £500bn, amounts to barely 0.1% of the combined GDP of all the countries that would be protected by it, they calculate.”

That would mean those countries GDP is estimated at 250 to 500 trillion pounds or 320 to 645 trillion dollars

France 2.6 trillion, england 2.75 trillion, Scotland 202 billion, Netherlands 826 billion. Or about 6.4 trillion dollars per Wikipedia.
Wire transfers can take days (I’ve once had it take more than a month), generally aren’t reversible, and it’s difficult to verify everything is correct beyond read through what you’ve entered multiple times.

There’s also no receipt you can point to to show the intended recipient was who received it.

That’s a huge disincentive for the client/customer to pay that way, and for the receiver the large delay in receiving money can be limiting as well.

Obviously it’s absurd that we’re still in this position in 2020 (that there isn’t a close approximation of instantaneous international transactions at a reasonable - eg fixed - price is beyond stupid)
So you employ 50 % women? If not, what’s your metric for measuring the local workforce?
I've been to both of those places. The huge difference between them, the example I give, and the one from the website once you park and get to the grove, there's no car traffic in it!

The third street promenade likewise had entire blocks closed to traffic. Crossings where also very generous to the pedestrians, so you rarely had to wait to cross the street and knew that you wouldn't get hit. It was also very easy to walk to the Santa Monica beach.

Both examples were built for pedestrians.
Well, as a customer, you should know that any company that isn’t profitable and/or investor backed will statistically be acquired at some point.

Also, there are dozens of domain registrars and it’s easy to transfer domains.
"Human Rights Watch said the list "should put all companies on notice: to do business with illegal settlements is to aid in the commission of war crimes.""

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51477231
DNSSEC key signing ceremony postponed due to secure safe malfunction
Nope, they have to initiate from their bank. Many of which don’t have online WT services (the fraud potential is clearly huge)
I once totaled a car that had SiriusXM and didn't realize until 1-2 years later that I was still getting charged (annually) for the subscription.

I think they reversed some of the charges when I finally noticed and called to explain the situation. It was very easy to overlook when you've just had a car accident and had to deal with insurance and buying a new car and all of that.
? My point is that it wasn't 'work of a random'; it was in a repo under the `github` org; with a first-party GitHub website.

OSS is great, I agree, my issue is just with the weird description of GitHub's older similar tool.
Right. This is a problem that the market solves on its own. Anyone who doesn't want an efficient market is, by definition, a rent seeker. Rent seeking makes us all worse off.
I hope people give this a shot despite the fact that jemalloc has a ton of mindshare these days. In particular I hope people try to integrate this allocator into their program, rather that just replacing malloc via LD_PRELOAD, since most of the benefits come from _building with_ tcmalloc.
you can look at the mass dedicated to each sense I suppose and use that as a proxy, occipital lobe vs temporal lobe. Couldn't land a search hit on those quickly though.

Just from a signal processing perspective, sound is a 1D data type, though we do have stereo sound and can localize sounds, so that's some additional processing there I suppose. There's also frequencies involved. Image processing is typically more demanding than audio from what I understand with computational things, images being 2D, or 3D sources. This is a pretty interesting exploration relative sensory input load.
Is Burning Man really a gift economy when it costs many hundreds of dollars to get in?

It's more like an expensive theme park.
Is it good for both, Pareto optimal, or is it bad for GCC that Clang is catching up?

But if Clang is catching up, is that really bad?
Wasn’t that Apple “goto fail;” technically a zero-day back door as well?

You had to initiate some specific knock sequence to trigger it.

Did they find something like this in their source code?
Very cool stuff, so I want to give some feedback hoping it will succeed :)

1 - Some playground prior to signup, similar to Runkit could get you more users.

2 - Some simpler signup by Github etc. would get you more users.

3 - Right click is taken over by the site, which blocks LastPass context menu which adds another layer of difficulty to signup.

Good luck, thanks
That it's illegal doesn't mean that we should pretend that it's not happening.

Moreover, there's much more than anecdotal evidence. The recently-released report on the Trump investigation proves this. Even if you hate Trump, there's no getting around the fact that the FBI completely abused the FISA court system, getting warrants by lying and misleading the court. This is a systemic problem.
HTTPS: //monacolife.net/call-for-monaco-to-get-behind-annual-cocc-bike-ride/
I think there's a ton of interesting cross over between machine learning, statistics, linear algebra, real analysis, topology etc. In the sense that there exists theorems and methods in different areas of math that are essentially the same, just different interpretations. It would be fascinating to see an exposition of this, for instance here is the geometrical interpretation of x,y,z, but actually this is the same as this theorem in calculus based statistics, except for this case...

I bring this up because there is already a ton of content about popular topics, but little that goes deep and draws parallels between disparate (not that those areas I outlined are really disparate) areas of math.

Even more interesting would be to choose common areas used in industry, like machine learning, and bring in some parallels and depth from fields that are not really studied outside an academic setting.

But then again your audience for this is rather small
Yes, it was an abstraction of a completely different use case into something never thought before. [1]

[1] »Player Pianos, Sex Appeal, and Patent #2,292,387» ELIZA SCHMIDKUNZ 2006/09 (in Inside GNSS) https://web.archive.org/web/20160827181419/http://www.inside...
‪Booking.com: When Things Go Wrong (and Why User Testing Worst-Case Scenarios)‬
If I had to summarize it, it would be:

> C-style programming in C++ is also a bad sign; the IOBuffer design pattern with separate storage of buffers and their sizes is inherently dangerous.

Rust has "slices", which store a pointer and a length together, so they cannot get out of sync like this.
Man who refused to decrypt hard drives is free after four years in jail
Scalar: Git at Scale for Everyone
Could that be because it effectively registered a lane change by the car it was following and was accelerating to the requested speed?

Or are you suggesting that the Autopilot accelerated beyond the top speed set by the driver?
The Amazon listing has an Azure instance type and links to Azure docs.

A quick search shows that you can get at least 24TiB from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/high-memory
Why would the UK or Germany be interested in granting the NSA access? Those are some of the places where the US government is spending lots of effort to keep Huawei out.

So yes, any intervention like that seems to me to be less about "the Chinese can snoop" and more about "we can't".
The language is a little gross and simplistic, but the numbers should be measured and monitored somehow. Speaking as an extreme minority at my company I hope leadership is at least aware of where to improve (assuming they have bought in to the idea that a diverse workforce = a better workforce, which isn't always a given).
Idea Validation Day 2 – First Landing Page Up and Running
I think the real market for software like this is large enterprises. There are lots of part-time developers or folks that need things glued together. Solutions like this are quite attractive to those organizations because the limited technical expertise they have is focused elsewhere.

The process and cost of deploying backends is still significant for them. It is only a mostly solved problem for startups and medium-sized organizations. There is validation for this with Microsoft's "Power" platforms (Flow, PowerApps, etc) effort. This tool seems to have attached itself to competing platforms (Slack, etc.) Right now, an enterprise customer probably wouldn't get all of the pitch since the examples don't tie together their boring tech, but I guess the pitch is that they'll invest in that later.
Apparently zoom has been going up because more people will work remotely during this period.

Crazy.
nice technique to focus on the raw transducers/sensory cells counts! That's fundamentally the raw inputs we're dealing with.
> It is also near the water, which could be nice.

It is also near the water, where bugs love to congregate.
No problem! It's not harsh at all. I think what a lot of savvy professional developers don't necessarily grok is that they're just the tip of the iceberg, or the top of the pyramid, in terms of the types of people writing and delivering solutions with software inside of organizations.

Let's say BIGCO pays you $X00k to build big, awesome production systems. There are 10x as many professional developers as you building small, hacky transient code within enterprise cos and SMBs and 100x as many tinkerers, creatives, admins, product managers and more just slapping together Airtable and Zapier as fast as possible to automate their jobs.

Autocode isn't designed for the top of the pyramid. I mean, all the features can (and should!) certainly be used by folks at the top. You'll find that for a huge # of simple tasks -- tasks that don't matter where they live, like one-off daily crons -- Autocode is just plain faster. But the important thing to think about is the folks a bit downstream of the "top", the ones implementing solutions less focused on architecture and more focused on solving immediate business problems... that's where Autocode is designed to play well.

Hope that helps!
The features they aren't talking about aren't a "backdoor". It is well a well document feature of most service provider networking equipment that allows for the provider to respond to subpoenas. The data collection is explicitly configured by the service provider. The allegation is that Huawei can activate the lawful intercept feature without authorization from the service provider.

The theory behind the lawful intercept concept is that with the appropriate legal authorization a law enforcement agency can get a capture of a subscribers traffic in a somewhat standard format - that way the LEA doesn't have to have a different way to process the data from each network equipment vendor.

Here is a description of how the feature is commonly implemented:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/Instant_40_Mobile/Adv...
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/10000/10008/fe...
From "Coronavirus outbreak 'just beginning' outside China, says expert" (Feb 12 2020)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-singapore-in...

The Chinese government’s senior medical adviser has said the disease is hitting a peak in China and may be over by April. He said he was basing the forecast on mathematical modelling, recent events and government action.

Dale Fisher, chair of the Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network that is coordinated by the World Health Organization, said that predicted “time course” may well be true if the virus is allowed to run free in Wuhan.

The flu-like virus has killed more than 1,100 people and infected nearly 45,000, predominantly in China and mostly in Wuhan.

Singapore has reported 50 coronavirus cases, one of the highest tallies outside China, including mounting evidence of local transmission.

[...]

Asked why there were so many cases in Singapore, he said there were comparatively more tests being conducted on the island.

“We have a very low index of suspicion for testing people so...we do have higher ascertainment,” he said, but added that there was a lot about transmission of the virus yet to be understood.
sorry didn't read the question properly.
Flexible Identities in Git
This is awesome. I wonder if the author could be convinced to participate in a similar discourse on the subject of gears, as they relate to audio synthesisers?

Pretty much all the modern synths these days have infinitely lubricated gears and pulleys in them, pushing those speaker cones/amp inputs ..
Small improvements are not failures either successes. The thing would be to get into the healthy range of weight
Actor selling an SQLI to a large US news site
Chrome Is Fixing the Web's Most Annoying Video Problem
For me, nothing beats the mechanical calculator used to calculate torpedo firing solutions in WWII. It was a sophisticated differential equation solver that kept a real-time updated firing solution using ... gears.

There's a whole maintenance and operations manual beautifully scanned here[1]. I've wanted to build one forever, but lack the time and expertise.

1. https://maritime.org/tech/tdc.htm
The other issue with Spotify is that they had no answer for Dropbox, clyp.it or more recently, Bandlab.

Um, those things are not an issue for Spotify; Spotify's product is not meant to be used by creators like Soundcloud and definitely not even in the same ballpark as Dropbox.
Ramp – Enterprise Corporate Cards
Ask HN: How do you deal with impostor syndrome as a software contractor?
Backstory: I have been hired as a software contractor, and I start work next Wednesday. The position is fully remote and requires around 50 hours per week. I am a self taught developer with 4 years of experience, and I am struggling with impostor syndrome.

I am good at the languages I will be working with, but I am anxious that when I start the job, I will need some time to acclimate myself to an architecture that other people have written. Do companies usually give a contractor some time to warm up to a new environment? Do you have any tips on how I can get my bearings faster in a new environment, or on how to be a good contractor in general?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee

"The term is used to refer to suboptimal traits that such a process may produce as a result of having to compromise between the requirements and viewpoints of the participants, particularly in the presence of poor leadership or poor technical knowledge, such as needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying vision"
SpaceX Is Taking over the Tiny Village of Boca Chica
I don't know if you looked at the example but the example given has two anonymous function inside the reduce and returns things(???), it's unreadable to me and I'm very comfortable reading functional code, but I don't know what the hell the example is supposed to be
This is a very sad news for the city of Barcelona and for everyone involved in organizing or exhibiting. But that was the right choice.

I'm wondering what's next to be cancelled.
Actor selling access to the GitHub account of an employee of major forex company
Call me basic, but Spotify's algorithms for discovery are pretty damn good.
As far as I know my model 3 at least doesn't limit the auto-pilot speed other than the max which is 90MPH. It's just a scroll wheel, you can set it however you like.
Perhaps this is not practical, but could a company produce a set of medium range drones that use ML to identify cow vs. wolf vs. human vs. vehicle and thus report which section of their range has a wolf or human poacher? A pair of drones patrols the perimeter while a pair charge up, then they swap places automatically and run 24/7. Perhaps these could even report if a rancher or hiker is laying on the ground (injury, medical issue) and send footage to the ranch owners phone with coordinates? Is this feasible?
The US has also engages in economic espionage.
That paper redefined what it meant to toss a coin making their concussion meaningless in practice. For a more in dept real world analysis.

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/papers/headswithJ.pdf

PS: Of note they where detecting bias in the range of 1% that’s difficult to detect by hand.
> Or maybe you test it out with your hands on the wheel ready to take over to see if they fixed the bug.

Isn't holding the wheel always required now in Tesla's autopilot?
Is there a GTK or KDE competitor that has the Windows 95 theme down like Mate or something?
Well, it's all stolen property in the common law sense; the owners were driven off at gunpoint in recent decades. In these settlements there won't be any Palestinians.
See quip about market remaining irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
Except for all of those trees (and grass!) we plant to help us forget we live in a desert.
Interest rates are negative. This causes people to chase and a big factor in this bubble. Companies are borrowing billions for free to do stock buybacks and keep the price going straight up. Nothing lasts forever. When is the big question.
The idea that hiring the best person for a position is "indefensible" is absurd. Civilization is built on putting competent people in charge of important resources. This way, good decisions get made. You can't just arbitrarily mix and match people to achieve some utopian ideal without seriously degrading the overall quality of resource allocation decisions that society makes. Fairness is an excellent goal. If you do it right, fairness is compatible with meritocracy.
Hey, at least it serves as a proof-of-concept to suburbanites that it is entirely possible to walk around outside without dying. It takes time to wean folks off of suburban malls and back into urban living: first we show them that the world is nicer than an air-conditioned mausoleum; then we show them that walking is wonderful; then we convince them to live where they can walk to work; then we all prosper!
Lovely work, thanks!
I'm pretty sure China has a "deep state" too.