skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, even before XPC there was Distributed Objects. In the mid-90s NeXT had a bridge between COM and DO called D'OLE, which remoted COM before Microsoft did. Of course, that didn't really take off, but it was a great example of how flexible a dynamic runtime can be. (They also had a lot of very smart developers.)
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Would you have gotten that great job without the education? If no, then it was valuable and you should pay for it. (we can perhaps question if it was worth the cost, but that is a different analysis and much more complex). I'm referring to those who get an education that doesn't help them get a better job.
You don't go to the moon in less 4 years if you don't really commit to it, especially if you haven't been there for 40 years
Thank you, made me laugh out loud!
This is called taxes. Maybe not as high as they should be, but such things exist.
Alter kaker, coulda mattered
"Cheating" implies something sinister. Far more likely, they just missed it.

Modern CPUs are at the very edge of what humans can design and build. Hundreds of verification engineers try to make sure they work. Not one of them will have a whole picture of the entire machine in their head, or really understand all of its requirements. The very best, hardest working, most diligent and dedicated teams will still ship a CPU with bugs. Perfection is simply not possible in this domain.
Yup. I somehow became a graybeard. I really didn't fit in at my last three gigs doing "backend" work.

I always play to win, so try to understand why & how I failed.

My current theory:

I had good successes doing product development. Shipping software that had to be pretty close to correct.

Today's "product development" is really IT, data processing. Way more forgiving of stuff that's not quite right. Often not even close to right. (Guessing that about 1/3rd of the stuff I supported didn't actually do what the original author thought it did, and no one was the wiser, until something didn't seem quite right.)

One insightful coworker said it best: "I learned to do everything to 80% completion."

My observation is that most team mates created more bugs than they closed. Maybe incentivized by the "agile" methods notions of "velocity". And they were praised for their poor results.

Whereas my tortoise strategies nominally took longer. So I had fewer, larger commits. Way fewer "points" on the kanban board. Created much fewer lines of code.

(When fixing [rewriting] other people's code, mine was often 50% to 80% smaller. Mostly by removing dead code and deduplication.)

I was able to bang out new stuff and beat deadlines when I was working solo.

I think the difference between solo and team play is mostly due to style mismatches. It's very hard for me to collaborate with teammates who are committing smaller, more frequent, often broken, code changes.

Any way. That's my current best guess at what's happening to this graybeard.

More optimistically...

I'm very interested in the "Test Into Prod" strategies advocated by the CTO from Gilt (?). It's the first QA/Test strategy (for an "agile" world") that makes any kind of sense to me. So I think I could adapt to that work style.

(I served as SQA Manager for a while. It's hard to let go of those expectations. It's been maybe 20 years since I've seen anyone doing actual QA/Test. I feel bad for today's business analysts (BAs) who get stuck doing requirements and monkey style button pushing. Like how most orgs functioned in the 80s.)
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(Author of Byobu here) Byobu does run "best" on Ubuntu + Gnome-Terminal + Tmux, mainly because that's the primary environment in which I test it. However, I and others have ported and used it on many other Linux and Unix systems, and I'm always happy to take bug reports and patches that fix issues on other OSes.
Jim has extremely strong foundations in his field of study, and is work is an outpouring from this. He bounces between companies, but not from the basic problem of CPU arch and management, allowing each problem to further deepen his roots.
All this will achieve is making average Developer Joe look like a crazy conspiracist to his friends and family, isolating him and reducing his impact on society.
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I don't know if its okay to recommend a hacker, but I'm dropping the contact of this hacker Albert Vadim who helped me hack 2 cellphones belonging to someone who had some bad pictures of me and was blackmailing me. If you need a reliable hacker, contact Albert on
EMAIL- Vadimwebhack(AT)gmail,com WHATSAPP +17025301177. He granted me access to both phones and up till now, I can access both phones at will without the owner knowing what is going on. He also helped my uncle fix his credit report and boost his scores from low 400s to over 800. The list goes on but I will just stop here.
So he read a Thiel book recently and it now pervades his every answer to this interview? And his team had problems with his hyper-focusing? Funny coincidence.

Honestly there's pretty much nothing being said in this interview. People don't get along sometimes.
Labor costs (faculty etc) should remain the same - people are the part that should be getting more of the pie, not less. And Universities are run on people (and buildings and football teams, yes).
USCB probably applied for patents that will bring money back once products are actually on the market.
Covid-19 immunity: what we still need to figure out
You say it's just a polite suggestion, but you describe alternatives to your suggestion as a "nasty" habit - is it really polite?

It's a slippery slope to eir/em/..etc and other "new" pronouns; The latest thinking is you have to ask someone what their pronouns are, and they can insist on pretty much any fad pronoun they want, or else you'll be accused of anything between "being rude" to "hate-crime" (lot of motte-bailey around this). It's probably no wonder people want to keep things simple and stick to convention.

In other words, this simple way might get a lot more traction, if it wasn't a gateway / stepping-stone to a worse way.
Thanks for asking! I'm especially interested in appropriate technology and social enterprise stuff, so projects that help users and the economy.

Python is my preferred language.

Also happy to help with docs, copywriting, or websites.
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It's the latter. See https://github.com/pion/webrtc/pull/479
I work 90% of the day on a desktop. That doesn't mean that I want my 10% laptop time to be an exercise in frustration. Linux touchpads are exactly that. (It's the main reason I abandoned my short experiment with a Linuxified Chromebook and reverted to a MacBook.)
I mean, he found the checkbox in KDE's settings, which should have been respected, and several other technical ways to disable it from starting by itself, all of which should have been respected. It's still a shitty way to operate.
Thanks for replying! I'll check it out.
The former CEO of ICANN was involved in Ethos Capital, the private equity trying to acquire .ORG. One of the two employees of Ethos Capital was a former ICANN VP. It was orchestrated by ICANN insiders.
That + symbol is part of a pseudo-regex; it’s not part of the email address. You’re probably thinking of the email+whatever@whatever syntax, which isn’t what’s being described here. There’s nothing to strip in this case.
I wish I could be off of Jira and all of Atlassian. Sadly, that is not my decision to make.

Atlassian's antics with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket have really started to make me mad.

Jira is changing it's editor... slowly. The old editor had nice shortcuts, like h1. - h6., {code}, {blockquote} etc. When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor! This new editor has none of the markdown-ish shortcuts the old editor had.

Confluence is also changing it's editor and the old wiki pages do not have a 1:1 match to the new wiki pages. This means you have to go through each page, convert it, and edit it to fix the broken things - because depending on what you use, it will be broken. For example, there is no longer a note, warning, or error macro - instead it gets turned into a info macro that you have to go in and edit it to the style you previously had. Code blocks no longer let you pick the color scheme you had, instead they're all generic. There's even more here I'm not listing.

Confluence has also just been wonky lately. It's supposed to automatically format a link into something nice (e.g. https://confluence/page-name -> Page Name or https://jira/AAA-1234 -> AAA->1234) and this only happens sometimes. Other times I'm finding the page frozen or slow and the only thing that fixes it is refreshing the page or publishing the page and going back to edit it.

Of course with BitBucket I dislike that they're dropping Mercurial. I understand why, but I am really going to miss it. Git is way more powerful but Mercurial is (at least to me) way easier to use and pick up. The infuriating part is that they offer no tool for converting existing repositories whatsoever. Github has a tool that will turn your BitBucket Mercurial repo into a Github repo!

For any tool that aims to be an alternative to Jira / Confluence / BitBucket, please don't do what Atlassian does. If you are going to make any transitions or any major change - please make it as easy and seamless as possible for your users.
Carmack: What if there was an OS level page-referenced counter
I tried some of the explorer stuff, and it looks great. I didn't spend too much time looking, but is it free? Or what's the pricing? It's not clear how much it is to use..
The COM support in CoreFoundation (such as it is) is... unusual. I have actually used it but it doesn't give you much from memory, beyond a way to locate plugins by UUID and the IUnknown ABI layout.
Depending how you calculate it, that's not necessarily true. Reported unemployment numbers are calculated as a percentage of people who are actively working or seeking work. It's possible for the denominator to increase for some reason (like more people needing to find work due to state and federal aid drying up).

Said another way, the current workforce is 25% unemployed. If that corresponds to 5m out of a potential workforce of 25m, but the workforce increased to 100m, unemployment could increase 10x to 50m, while only doubling as a percentage.

And I just looked it up and these numbers are totally detached from reality, but I've written too much to delete now, so I'm just going to publish it! (And besides, I think it's still useful to question what's behind statistics)
When the company lies about its requirements of a candidate, what else should they expect from the candidate?
Sad reality of our times.

We're eating out less but our plastic household waste/recycling has more than doubled due to all the plastic we get through food deliveries.

The market forces for better recyclable/biodegradable packaging just aren't there as plastic is so cheap to produce.
I did not necessarily want a desktop. I have used Macs for 12+ years. I have a 15" MBP with the old keyboard that still works well. The trackpad started to not register clicks consistently so I had to switch it to tap to click. I work remotely from home so using a desktop is an option. That said, I do still travel to the office several times a year so I need a laptop. I considered buying a System76 laptop but I just do not think the keyboard and trackpad would measure up to my MBP. I had also been intrigued by Ryzen so I just decided to build a custom desktop. I figured it would also let me test out using Linux as a daily driver and worst case I would have work upgrade my MBP to a new one and I could use the desktop as a home server for testing work stuff.

For now, I still use my MBP when I travel. I could probably do OK with the new Air if I wind up needing to upgrade. I would prefer to have 32 MB of RAM though because I run a lot of VM's and Docker images and having the extra RAM for that helps.

Anyway, back to my original point. PopOS has been a pretty easy transition and it worked fine on my custom build. You do not have to use System76 hardware to benefit from using it.
Looking at the source they made the visualizations using Observable [1] which is using D3 under the hood.

[1] https://observablehq.com/
Congratulations to everyone involved and using Sourcehut! It is good to see viable, free alternatives to Github rising. The developer ecosystem becomes weaker if almost everyone get trapped in a corporate monoculture.

Personally, I trust fossil-scm for my side projects. Albeit based on a completely different design philosophy, I recommend to check it out for everyone eager to look outside the box.
Fair enough.

Accounts that only ever submit from one domain (presumably their own) and have no comments on any other threads (I don't know if you do or not; I'm speaking in the abstract here) are receiving a lot from the community and providing little.

The very same posting frequency is fine with me, if you're also sharing the thoughtful work of others that you find.

But the comments also show suggest that mine is the minority view, so.. carry on.
You expect a URL for every word written? The stories showing how everyone in the West bends in order not to anger CPC are out there and well known. You can't have a recap of human history in every comment.
I can't get my Australian friends 'dry as a nun's nasty', metaphor out of my head when talking in polite company.
Have people actually looked at the code? You can’t treat the benchmarks game code as a simple black box.
Most implementations look like C regardless of the language, eg. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... or https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

There is very little to infer from code which is so far from being idiomatic, aside from the fact that you might as well use C if you ever find yourself in the benchmark situation.
This claim on the Wikipedia is factually incorrect: "This data is tied to a unique identifier allowing Cliqz to track long-term performance."

Thanks for noticing it, we will create an issue.

UUIDs only applies to telemetry, which is not the data being described in the paragraph: queries, scrolling, amount time spend, urls, etc. For this kind of user data (HumanWeb) there is no uuid, neither implicit or explicit.

There are plenty of papers on the topic, independent audits, the code is open-source and the data can be inspected. HumanWeb data is 100% record-unlikable, we have no way to know if two messages received come from the same person or not.
It was P2P sometimes, like if you were running in a university or research institution.

When skype got installed in there, it took over the university network and quickly became master node for the whole geographic area.

For historic reasons, these organizations used to have many computers on public IP (they got large IP block when internet was created very long ago) and had amazing network connectivity.
Pulse VPN continues to be actively exploited in the wild.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-010a
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I'm currently adjunct faculty in a software engineering program. I have no expectation of future work beyond the end of this semester as my school has announced massive cutbacks across the board. I'm "lucky" in that I don't rely on this for income but it still sucks. The only good thing is, as far as I know, none of my senior students have lost a job offer as a result of the pandemic.
Really lovely animations, great for illustrating a quite complex algorithm. It would be nice to have a button to pause the animation at its end state to compare the curve shape and number of calculations.
I do not game so I saved money by just going with a Radeon 570. It works great. I have multiple monitors, including my Apple Thunderbolt display. I was able to find an AIC for the desktop that added Thunderbolt and it "just worked" in PopOS .. at least for the video and audio. I never tried to get the webcam to work.
Are there any other TLDs that are under the control of a non-profit in this way?
Ask HN: How do you save and archive interesting things from the web?
I am downloading talks, saving images, printing pages and blog posts into PDFs and screenshotting a lot of tweets and things from the web for later. The goal is to both know where to look for them (my disk) and being sure that they still will be there when I need them (ephemerality of many things on the web).

What are your best ways to save and archive things?
Show HN: RemoteQuiz – Play quizzes with friends on video calls
Vint Cerf. Mike Godwin. Throw their names in too. They pushed for this deal. You can read Mike's shitty argument for how selling it off would be the 'real way' to save dot org. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200114_here_is_how_we_can_tr...

It's a poorly reasoned piece where he won't even accept basic facts when called out on them.
The price of aluminum reflects the price of the energy needed to reduce it to the metallic form. Extracting from seawater would still need to pay this price.
75% is working right now but if it gets 10x worse then 7.5% will be working.
Literal quote from the privacy policy:

> With your permission, we will collect location information from your mobile device to [insert purpose]. You may turn off this feature through the location settings on your mobile device.

Maybe fix that?
> This could explain why all asset classes are now moving in unison

I think this happens just because of portfolio balancing. If stocks in a balanced portfolio do better than other asset types (e.g. government bonds, corporate bonds, gold, commodities, ...) then some stocks will be sold and more of the other assets will be bought. Vice versa if stocks do worse. This behavior increases correlation between all asset types.
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> I would prefer to stay on a Debian based distro so PopOS looks promising.

I agree, I had been using Debian as my primary distro for about ten years when I gave PopOS a try and have been using it since. Although I like PopOS I wish they were building on Debian.

> Do they release newer kernels for the LTS releases like Canonical does with Ubuntu LTS?

I am on 18.04 LTS right now and was very surprised when PopOS did a major kernel version bump to 5 which seems very strange for a LTS. It has also broken my ability to install `linux-image-virtual` which requires kernel version 4.15 and has caused some problems recently. This has me considering switching back to Debian.

> Do they pack ZFS in the kernel like Ubuntu?

PopOS 18.04 does not pack ZFS, I have installed it to make use of reflinks for DVC.
Can you describe this door? The Pennsylvania AG is pretty good, although probably not as technically inclined.
> I'm okay with posting a few times, but 20 times? Come on..

over 9 months, 9! that's once every two weeks.

> so if you miss it

no one is looking for something they don't even know exists.
Yup! You can see the animations and their code in isolation here[1] - just click next to the animation to expand it. Fair warning, this is code I expected to write once and read never, and it shows.

[1] https://observablehq.com/d/dd1d583b63fccafd
Complete sellout and a dick.
I’ve heard that the best way to get promoted at Google is to launch a new product. If true, that might explain it.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200114_here_is_how_we_can_tr...
What I find weird is that a technology advances because public money are funding much of the research and innovation.

And there comes a private company and gets whole teams and even patents and projects.

Wouldn't it be fair that tax payers also get something in return of their funding?
The "History" Channel is not an authoritative source, and the pilot himself said on the Joe Rogan podcast that they were taking creative license with a lot of "facts" on the case.

Your 2nd source is a collection of wikipedia snippets and unsourced writting. There's no original source on any of it - nor any indication of authorship. It's scanned and has a few things blacked out to make it look like a gov't document, but there's no indication this was written by any government source.
Please don't gatekeep respect
> I don't understand why most of those alternatives have a hard time becoming more popular.

I think things are improving over time, but for a very long time "Skype Call" and "Video Call" meant the same thing in people's heads. Your product name appearing the dictionary as a synonym for the thing it does is a pretty powerful tool in customer acquisition and retention.
Do interviews tend to include system design, if the applicant doesn't have industry experience?

Been curious about this too: do FAANG companies hire, say, professors with strong research records, but poor coding skills? I always wondered if everyone on these sort of team were all solid coders, or if there were people there that are exceptions.

Based on your experience do FAANG companies tend to be invested in basic research, or more product focused research?
Good luck bringing your desktop with you on a business trip or if you want to take a break from your office and go work in a coffee shop or a coworking place.
Alternate hypothesis:
The next year to 18 months of earnings reductions due to covid is not enough to justify a 30% drop in net present value of the market at large.
On top of what others have said (this is how it's intended to work), if the university saw fit to fund the research up to commercialization, or at least a patent, they would be the ones taking the profit.
cheers for the feedback, it's open-source and completely free. You can either spin up your own instance, by following the instructions at github.com/metamatex/metamate or use our public instance at https://metamate.one

Let me know if you have any more questions :)
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Why is it surprising that proprietary software, especially from China, would steal your data? The incentive is pretty clear.
Maybe other users just have different usages? I work all day on a laptop and couldn't be happier. Switching seamlessly between places during the day (standing desk, sofa, coffee shop, train, ...) depending on the task (development, email, support, meeting) is great for my productivity. Also less back pain.
You're talking inflation though, not debt.

I don't know much about what you're referring to, and a cursory search did not provide any evidence that the root cause of sustained high inflation in Brazil was debt at any time, much less debt in Brazil's own sovereign currency.

Nobody disputes that bad governance can lead to high inflation. The point of dispute is whether we have to reduce debt today because in the future that high debt may lead to hyperinflation, recession, or some other negative economic outcome that is so bad that its badness would outweigh the badness of austerity measures implemented today.
The problem of course is that if you have

- an open source project which you advertise as
collaborative open source

- a personal vision for what you want in your project

- and hence, a secret list of requests you will turn down

Then frequently people might spend 10, 20, 30, 60 minutes trying to do something with your project then writing up an issue. You then immediately shoot it down, because it doesn't match your vision, and that person gets burned.

If you have MIT license and no guidance on contribution, that's user error. But if your project has a PR workflow or has that "Imposter syndrome" line about contributions, well, maybe it's partly your fault.

I'm not saying all open source projects should have guidance. But perhaps all projects with a CONTRIBUTING.md and ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md really should have a clear list of features they will outright reject.
Also, now your property is a large hole.
That's a good idea - I'll have a think about how best to implement it. Might fall under the general category of 'add a speed control'.