skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the people who want your skills most and who can afford it will be the loudest voices

Personally I'm looking even for just volunteer stuff. A local charity where I can spend 5-10 hours a week helping maintain their website, or a weekend or two building out a business process tool that makes them more efficient. That sort of thing.

The problem is I don't see this stuff very often on HN either, and on GitHub what you mostly see are highly generic, pure-tech solutions. These may indirectly help a nonprofit down the line, but usually at several levels of abstraction. Most of the SE work out there is getting hands-on with one specific organization's problems. Even if off-the-shelf components are a part of the solution, you still need someone technical at the end of the chain to actually utilize most of those, certainly the kind you'd find on GitHub.
The comment I was responding to was not about the functionality of a sum type, but rather the compilation errors from leaving out a case. Those are two different matters.
> But if they would pay twice that (still at most half their normal cost) using a smaller higher quality company they could get a much better job done.

The whole problem is nobody can hope to spot the real "smaller, higher-quality companies" in that chaotic, offshoring-driven environment. Race-to-the-bottom is the equilibrium outcome.
One example: the segmentation hardware needs to evaluated in the TLB lookup path between L1 and L2. Even special casing base=0 length=4G or not (and do the slow path in the not case) and just adding an extra mux there is still a minor burden in the designs I've heard about.

Also, the instruction decode cases for 16bit mode is still in the main instruction decoder and not ucode AFAIK. They're almost the same encoding, and there's not enough ucode pace for it all, but removing those cases from the muxes there would help power consumption. Yes, you run out of the uOp cache a lot of the time, but not as much as you might think, and AFAIK the instruction decoder is still cranking away in the background because you want it to be immediately available as soon as an instruction is not in the uOP cache. That means the power efficiencies can be gained there.
I'm pretty sure the free email gateways have no posted SLA. Plus, that requires a reliable email server, which would also need its own monitoring.
That was kind of my plan to start with. I would like to bootstrap the service with the service itself to provide a proof of concept to potential clients. In terms of targeting a niche I was thinking of building multiple languages into the endpoints so developers can choose the language they are most familiar with. Thank you for the comment!
I heard Argentina as a popular place for "near-shoring", which likely wasn't very popular when this was written 3 years ago. Anyone here been using Argentinian tech talent?
The author isn't right. He's right in some aspects (I'd say in 5% on what he conjectures), but for the most part, programmers and programming will be in quite a high demand for quite a foreseeable time in the future. Yes, C / C++ programming might become less important (see: memory wall) and I'd say highly parallel computation will take precedence, but this won't replace computer science nor programming...it'll just create the need to programmers to transition from one skill set into another.

Also, as a note: the field of computer science is a branch of mathematics. Whenever you deal with data structures or algorithms, you're dealing with how to procedurally design information structures and procedures to solve problems and model the real world. Mathematics? Well, depending on what branch you're into, it's using symbols and information ...to, well, do the same thing!

Out of all of the professions, it seems rather silly to me to think that our own profession is in danger of being replaced. I would think that it's the LEAST likely one, since programmers, to me at least, represent workers who are paid to communicate and find ways to solve problems in the real world using a tool which will continue to improve and enable our species to excel and automate jobs filled with repetitive drudgery. Out of all of the professions, I’m not sure why the author would think that ours is likely to go out of demand soon. I would conjecture that us playing a prominent role in automating other jobs ensures that we stay in demand for quite a long time!

As far as the most useful mathematical branches are concerned – if you’re interested, the branches I find have the highest ability to help in solving real world problems are: calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics, computer science (as already mentioned), convex and computational optimization, quantum mechanics, complex analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations, data mining and analysis, information theory … well, I could keep going, but I think you’d greatly benefit from checking out a great book which gives a pretty good overview on the key areas in applied mathematics: The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. The above are just my own guesses, and it’s highly dependent on which problem you’re looking to solve.
Why has nobody mentioned Grindr?
Onivim/oni2: Native, lightweight modal code editor
I think you're incorrectly assuming most companies want to provide good customer support.
This is about official communications in an organization with public lists of work phone numbers, not our underground cypherpunk community where we have no names maan we are nameless.

There's no requirement to be anonymous in this context. Metadata can be reduced via tech but it's not the top-priority -- quick fix to confidentiality problems OTOH is.
As with some of the other commenters, I don't fully agree. Programming is messy, and most end users don't care about the beautiful abstractions you used. Junk programming will always exist, and just good enough programming will always be the mainstream.

When I'm purchasing a chair, I don't normally care about the detailed specifics of wood types, craftsmanship and the specifics of the joins, nor doesn't matter if a master craftsman doesn't approve.
out of curiosity what are the non-standard instructions?
So, just one person to another on the internet: best of luck to you both, and congratulations on your upcoming wedding :) I remember very well the stress of wedding planning. In the end we eloped!
Do any other hackers wonder what the overhead is for collecting / enforcing a new tax (VAT)?

Like others have mentioned, it seemed like the benefits of UBI were to eliminate some redundancy from similar programs that require more administration. Creating a new tax seems non-trivial, but on the other hand would be easy to ratchet up down the road.
This is a fair point. If users are directed to post publically for attention for support this user did the right thing.
I didn't notice the point at which this turned into a discussion about RAII or whatever a GC is in 1990's books' definitions. And why would an arena not be manual memory management if I make explicit allocations that make explicit use of such arena, and I free the arena on a suitable occasion? I'm even likely to write the arena myself, but not necessarily.

I have this simple and (in my mind) very useful equation of manual memory management ~ writing code to manage memory. Conversely, GC ~ using an external runtime (such as that in JRE) that helps you to avoid writing any memory management code at the cost of giving up control. Ok, let's lose a sentence about ARC, I don't care if you name it GC or not, and I don't use it.

I'm not interested in other pointless taxonomic discussions. Whatever, man.
Who would've thought that an avid proponent of flat Earth theories was thoroughly unqualified to launch himself into space in a homemade rocket... I'm shocked I tell you.
They didn’t specially mention NASA in their comment. You know of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, but have you heard of Lewis Latimer? Probably not.
What are those required drugs?
This would go very well with APL.
This is my thought as well. Just don't be the first one automated. We will either have figured out post-work society or we will face some sort of collapse.
What's your prepper food of choice?
Pretty sure it's not the landlords and wealthier classes that are making CA's government into a giant tarpit. They'd love to see less and smaller government.

Over-regulation is only a part of the cost. The biggest part is the demand. But don't worry, whenever people figure out that silicon valley jobs can easily be relocated, to basically anywhere, that will all work itself out.
>From what I understand the Reagan administration was reluctant to put resources into something that was considered a "gay mans disease"

indeed, let us not forget that "AIDS" was originally called "GRID", "Gay-related immune deficiency" and was also called things like "gay cancer" and "gay plague". It was unfortunate events like Ryan White's infection [1] that started to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White#Ryan_White_and_publ...
Wrapped with git; https://dns-api.com/
Hey thanks for answering. I'm actually thinking of building something like this if my current project fails, but on different programming languages.

I'd love to bounce some ideas back and forth with you. Could you drop me an e-mail at the e-mail I have listed in my profile, please?
You're more likely to know their name because of the recent efforts to highlight their work an contributions BECAUSE they were ignored for so long.
New Mac with Apple processor coming in 2021 (top analyst Kuo says)
using instragram followers as a measurement of datability feels incredibly dystopian
Here's a quote from the Lancet statement:

> Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),1
and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife

The person you're responding to above says that the lab has been collecting samples of SARS-like viruses from wildlife for study, and conjectures that maybe one of those escaped from the lab. That possibility is not contradicted by the statement in the Lancet.
How much of it was lined with lead vs terra cotta. Most traversal was on aqueducts which I don’t think typically were lined with lead, but I’d love to be corrected on that.
Desmos's input is done with an open source library called MathQuill: https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill
There have been two threads already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22395528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22404424

Is this article different enough that it might lead to a better discussion?
As the startup boom deflates, a reckoning is coming for Silicon Valley
Google is an enormous company. Well over 100,000 employees. The answer to any question in the vein of, "Does X happen at Google?", or "Does Google do X?" is almost surely yes: Somewhere at the company, some team is probably doing that.

Google's interview process is notoriously bad for some folks, and that is absolutely true and something Google tries to fix. And there are absolutely plenty of unhappy people. Even if the odds are very low that any particular person is unhappy (and they aren't), the total probability across the company is quite high.

On the other hand, you don't hold on thousands of workers--most of whom has many, many choices of place to work--if you aren't doing _something_ right.

So the experience is valid, but generalizing is tricky.
These were from a small group of Be engineers that had a band called "The Cotton Squares".

According to kallisti5 (a Haiku dev), they may have permission to redistribute. They should!

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/the-cotton-squares-new-tunes/...
I'm a people person, damnit!
https://archive.md/1QX2W
Like all documentation, in real systems it would be edited over time. You do develop documentation for your systems, right?
MP4GT: IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks
Thank you for the candid reply.

It sounds to me like you have no desire to share a society with people that hold the views you describe, and would rather kill them or expel them over their ideas than share your society with them and grant them the same ability and freedom as others to participate in the public political debate. Would you agree with that?

>when those certain other people hold views fundamentally incompatible with what we as a society have agreed (whether tacitly or otherwise) are the foundational values of our society

Which values are you referring to, out of curiosity?
Wrong order? Since when do NS RRs have to be in any certain order?
Ok lawyer, explain which US law allows compelled speech considering in djb vs US it was decided code was speech, and protected by the first amendment.
To clarify, it was an email newsletter. The YOW! thing had just gotten published so I got that out of the way before diving into the meat of the newsletter post, which was about LP.
This is not Firefox becoming less and less viable. This is developers caring less and less about supporting older browsers, less capable hardware and, I guess, long-term maintenance in general.

Just had a similar case today: My Mom tried to order something online on her old Android tablet - and it didn't work. She blamed the tablet for it, saying "It's just too old, it doesn't work correctly anymore! I used to be able to order stuff on this website". I had to explain to her that her tablet is still working fine, it's just the website that is broken because it's not supporting her device (or browser) anymore. Shockingly, she listed quite a few websites, which she has used for years, which have stopped working for her in the past few months and years; all of these she mentioned as evidence that the problem must be her tablet - not the websites. When I opened two of the sites she mentioned, I wasn't too surprised to find very shiny, very modern single-page applications (with service workers registered and even WebAssembly used on one of them)..

So when you are creating a modern web app, please don't just test in Chrome on your new MacBook Pro. Think about your Mom. Ask yourself: "Is this still gonna work on her crappy old device?"
I am sure AWS, OCI, GCP, etc. all host scam websites with varying degrees of removal efficiency. What cases are you referring to specifically? Did they state they were not going to take these sites down or what was the context that you object to?
Just because you're a good programmer doesn't mean you're smart.
LeadsRx – Impartial Multi-Touch Attribution
Last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pi
Atari Lynx Programming Tutorial
The last few have all come from miss handled wild and exotic meats/animals. Countries that have proper handling of meat, and rules around what can be eaten and owned don't have these problems.

Granted, there's an underground in every country I'm sure, and if all things were equal with the rules and enforcement, your argument would be much more reasonable.
This is valid when your only goal is to learn a thing.

But I think it's really important to remember that finishing is itself a skill that is worth learning and if you don't finish things, you gain no practice at that skill. Writing the first 80% of a hundred programs may give you a lot of skill in different domains, but it won't give you the ability to finish a program in any of them and get it to a point that it can benefit other humans.
Intel Xeon Refresh: Cascade Lake CPUs Up to 60 Percent Cheaper per Core
That was standard advice fifteen years ago, when I was in this situation. I imagine it's more true today.

(I'd argue that even if you have a trust fund, you shouldn't go if they won't fund you. The not funding you is a vote of no confidence in you.)
> the Fraser institute is a right-wing think tank.

That's very much an ad hominem fallacy, and unless you have specific evidence that they falsified the data in question, I'm just going to leave it at that (similarly to how you conclude that 'right wing' is enough of a reason to dismiss something). Last I checked, science doesn't care who you voted for. Once we start dismissing research based on the opinions of the researchers, we've essentially implemented thought crime. All research is motivated by prior opinion. We call it a hypothesis. Whether it happens to align with a political ideology doesn't invalidate it. If the research is somehow wrong, then there will be a way to disprove it through science. Using politics to argue against science isn't appropriate.
I wrote a scalable system for this:

https://github.com/skx/overseer/

Handles SSL-checks, DNS-checks, SMTP-checks, & etc. Runs a thousand-checks every two minutes for me, give or take. Pluggable output via a redis-queue.
stop winking you fucking weirdo
Bloomberg's investment portfolio includes bets on private equity, fracking
How to Read an SQL Execution Plan
> It would be nice for English to no longer be practically required for people to become computer literate.

French here. We are terrible at english in my country.

Still, the fact most information in computing is shared in english is a god send. Sure, you have to learn it, but then:

- no need to search for it in so many languages

- no need to produce translations of tutorials/docs/comments in so many languages

- the community to share and communicated with is huge and diverse

- english is way more efficient than french, spanish, german or chinese to talk about technical stuff
The question was why one would want to start compiling a function before all of its code is available.
> Nowadays there’s no other realistic economic choice than to do your thing on top of the best open source stuff you can find, even if it’s not quite appropriate

What is your take on free software / open source in this regard?

I'll lay out my own bias. I think that the biggest qualitative inventions in computing occurred largely in places that had a well funded basic research culture whose goals were vague and allowed for a lot of play without managerial meddling. These places were on the 5-10 year timeline, some of them were government funded or aided, and there are far fewer of them today. We have no equivalent of ARPA, no Bell Labs, no PARC, and, well, even though Apple is the biggest company in the world, I doubt they'd come up with Hypercard today.

Open source and free software represent disparate, poorly funded activity, which is why most of what gets produced is innovations atop some of the ideas from 40 years ago. Younger generations of developers are likely to believe that Unix/Linux is everywhere because they are technically the best systems possible, not because it Unix was a well designed system for minicomputers in the 70s that was distributed for free with source, and also what became the basis for GNU etc.

I don't see a way out of this pattern, really.
That’s a wiki, not a Wikipedia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406216
Hey all,

Pawel here - one of the engineers behind k6.
For the past 9 months we have been working very hard on this load testing platform and today it's finally out! Hope you give it a try!

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have :-)
>DNS has become frighteningly unreliable. Here are previous stories that show how it is possible to lose access to your domain for no fault of yours:

The second story you posted is about a user who forgot to renew their domain and did not wish to pay the overly-inflated fee to re-register it while it was in the grace period.

I hold no love for any registrar that jacks up rates for getting back an expired domain and agree that they should have sent a reminder email, but describing this as someone "losing their domain through no fault of their own" is, frankly, incredibly misleading.

The user:

1) forgot to renew their domain
2) had full right to recover their domain but objected to the price
3) had full right to transfer the domain out to another registrar for the original 15EUR price
and
4) eventually got back full control of the domain
I think the criticism is that it's not obvious whether success here was a function of improved performance, expanded throughput, expanded testing, or sheer luck.

Chess engines have clearly improved in both design and computing power over the years; doubling an engine's resources or pitting a new engine against an old one produces straightforwardly better play. But the drug-discovery technique in use here may not be "playing better" in terms of producing higher-quality predictions.

To extend the chess metaphor:

- Deep Fritz is a stronger player Deep Blue even with 4% as much computing power. This story does not appear to be an algorithmic breakthrough of that source.

- Deep Blue lost to Kasparov in 1996, then beat him in 1997 with double the computing power. That's a clear improvement in play, but not an improvement in efficiency. This story might represent such a change, modelling more prospective drugs to test higher-confidence candidates.

- If an AI that can only win 2% of games against humans plays 10 games, it has an 18% chance of beating someone. But over 100 games, it has an 87% chance of a win. This result might be a team with a larger testing budget claiming the 'first win' without any AI-side improvement.

- If a dozen grandmaster-level chess AIs play GMs, one of them will have to get the first win against a human. Labeling this result a 'breakthrough' in AI terms might be outright publication bias among equivalent projects.

As far as the drug, none of that really matters, except that efficiency improvements would have more potential to increase drug discovery. The drug itself is still useful, and the discovery is a proof of concept; in 1980 no possible computer would have beaten Kasparov. But this is being hailed as a breakthrough in AI in seriously questionable ways. The BBC article, for example, managed to imply that this specific project was novel and important for using neutral nets to produce a significant result.
> "If the projected costs of climate change are real and if the projected economic benefits of investing in a sustainable future are genuine, why hasn’t the global economy begun a more rapid shift? Why aren’t businesses and governments working harder to support this transition when it’s the fiscally conservative move?"

For a while I've wondered this, and I can't help but think that we're lacking actual trustworthy valuations of climate risk. The work of orgs like Jupiter Intelligence (https://jupiterintel.com/) is extra relevant in this case.
Here (HereWeGo) maps as well. I use it when I need an offline map.
And since 2017 (maybe 2016) they've publicly stated the blue checks are 'on hold', though it seems some people still get them sometimes?

From the blue checks I see in my timeline right now it seems like it's completely arbitrary who has them vs. who doesn't.

For example: A few journalists with hundreds or thousands of followers do, while others with same amount (all of whom I think are decent journalists) don't. Many organizations do (whether they have thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers, but some (with very recognizable names) don't. Some random individuals do, some don't, with follower counts in the hundreds to the millions.

The only thing it does for me is adds visual noise to the timeline. I can turn it off (in Tweetbot) and do, but I'm not sure what the point is currently.
Thanks! This is going to be an interesting year for me. I hit 7 months sober last week which is easily the longest sober stretch I've had since the first time I had alcohol around age 15, I'm getting married (never thought that would happen) and she makes more than me plus adding her income will finally give me some breathing room to start to entertain pursuing some sort of training/education other than a degree (college just isn't for me) to try and finally improve my situation as I move into being 35, we plan to try and have a house this year which will be a huge thing and nice to have space I can finally make mine... just gotta get through a potential epidemic that might kill people i know and/or leave me unemployed since I work in international freight wince.

Going to be an interesting year one or more ways.