skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this tendency a lot from the Rust community where there's a lot of "now in Rust" being built, expectations had and then hurt feelings when they're either ignored or shown the door. The community seems to think that "now in Rust" _is_ the selling point. Tools are just tools.

What they don't realize is that they're often building solutions that are looking for problems, rather than solutions to solve problems. It's also vaguely cultish in the approach.

It's a terrific language and there's a lot of learn from it, but I'd like to see it solve real world problems on its own versus try and screw itself into everyone else's.
Self Hosted WordPress with minimal plugins. Doesn't get in my way and I can write. No need to compile anything or create static files etc except a simple caching plugin.
It seems a little odd that a company which has never achieved orbit was awarded a contract.
why should we care what either of them think.....
Requires a leading /. Discord does this too, but without that requirement.
As of April 29, Google Meet is now free, which is seemingly direct competition to Zoom, especially with the emphasis on security.

https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-mo...

Opinion my own not Google's.
systemd was designed at redhat by a redhat engineer.

that it doesn't work on anything else properly is pretty clearly a feature, not a bug
"Crippling the young with lifelong debt to win the campus culture-wars and own the libs."
Back in my day, you were able to take the "First Class Radiotelephone Exam" at the local FCC office and be able to get a job at radio stations easily. I worked my way through college this way.

This license no longer exists. It was several hundred multiple choice questions about operating commercial radio stations.
"not hiring a good candidate is way better than hiring someone who turns out to be bad."

is it though? CA is at-will employment, so there's literally nothing stopping a company from firing someone that isn't working out (besides timidity on the part of the person who would have to do the firing).

"when hiring, you want to play it safe"

personally, i'd rather tell some people it's not working out than miss out on incredible talent because i'm too scared to fire someone.

i prefer to lean into strengths, not try to shore up weaknesses.

"top talent usually don't get desperate"
there are many reasons why people look for jobs, on their own timing, and with their own reasons. reading 'desperation' into someone's application is projecting your own fears and experiences onto theirs without actually taking the time to learn more. it's lazy.
Agree with the rejection.

The same link in different contexts can be as either external or local. So that is a business of UA/renderer to mark it properly.

CSS is quite adequate for that (https://davidwalsh.name/external-links-css) and the image (or whatever author/UA decided to use) can go inline in CSS itself.
The C, Unix and AWK creators know nothing on low-level stuff.

Please, kid.
Writing a RISC-V Emulator from Scratch
> E-mail is unusable without running it through a ton of spam filters or (more commonly) letting someone else with a larger data set do that for you.

For someone who can't imagine that email may sometimes come from people who doesn't have their best interest at heart, sure.

Me, I receive 5-15 spam emails a day, which are filtered only by my local mail client, with some false negative, and extremely rare false positives (I spotted one in several years, and I always look through my spam folder).

Despite my lack of Google grade filters, I can use email just fine.
Would you mind comparing Vault to Keycloak?

https://www.keycloak.org/

I need an equivalent to Windows' Active Directory in Linux world that ideally can also federate with/masquerade as AD. Can Vault be such thing?
Congratulations! It looks like a useful and practical design. How is the performance of the generated code? What are you thinking about doing for memory management? Have you thought about using an intermediate representation to make optimization and retargeting easier?
If Trivial Pursuit: Code Monkey and Engineering Edition is the interview game, that's not a place a sensible person would want to work.

A sensible knowledge and performance evaluation would involve pair coding on limited scope, immediate, real problems, not BS trivia.

Interviewing is a two-way street.. the signals given-off in the interview process should be taken in as a totality by the interviewee as well. If they see bad signs, they should run in the opposite direction rather than get sucked into a bad environment.
Ah! The blame game. I'm uninterested in the obsession with blaming the CCP for everything. This and similar pandemics are mankind's problem. China and the ruling party want to solve it too, regardless of how they initially (mis)handled the situation.

We may or may not find patient zero and/or the root cause of the pandemic, but blaming the CCP is pointless.

It's not like other huge parts of the world don't have raw meat wet markets with unsanitary conditions, either. And that's if they were the cause for the pandemic to begin with.
A good place to start off might be on an appropriate subreddit. It's low effort, pseudonymous, and you get an immediate audience. You can post it somewhere and get immediate (encouraging, good, bad, scathing) feedback.
There is some go projects like [1] that can connect to Erlang nodes and claim to be speedier.

[1] https://github.com/halturin/ergo
That's definitely an issue, but not the one I'm talking about.

Let's say the rules right now permit 30 year mortgages. Someone suggests allowing 100 year mortgages. I don't presently own property, but I have $300k saved up in the bank, which is enough to get a low-end apartment that would be a step down from where I'm renting now, or enough for a mortgage downpayment on a house. I don't want to live in debt so I have no plans to get a mortgage.

Should I believe that these rules changes won't affect me, because I don't have any plans to get a mortgage?

Or should I be worried that the cheaper availability of credit will quickly put those entry-level apartments out of my price range?

Basically, my point is that changes in details regarding contracts that I'm not a party to can still significantly affect me!
Tracking the Right Product Metrics
Unfortunately the masses aren’t really phased by internet security issues
Does anyone have a list of the 8-10 vaccines Bill Gates think are especially promising?
> It's still not the bank's fault that people will voluntarily enter unsustainable agreements because they think they need to live in overpriced areas.

Difficulty: houses are more expensive near good schools, because demand is higher, so you can't get away with cheaper housing without harming your children's future prospects.

And no, it's not mostly a funding thing, so just distributing funds more evenly won't fix it. It has a lot more to do with selection bias, of which housing prices are a major part.
“Vanity”. Ha.

I would figure as a member of this forum you’d have a respect for the speed of technical innovation brought about by the 1960’s space race. Why wouldn’t similar improvements occur here for intra-solar and inter-stellar space travel?

Why is it vanity to explore, but “biotech” (which recently seemed to go off the deep end of “augmented bio-humans who are part sci-fi cyborg”) is not? Did “people” “demand” “fintech” after 2007-2010?

Edit: “We choose to go to the moon...” feels just as relevant today as it did in the 1960’s. I want my children to have the opportunity to fly off this pale due dot and look back.
> But I will say that while everyone might have different standards of "enjoying life", the key factor is actually _belonging_ to a family. Doesn't mater if that family is blood related, it just needs to be people you fully trust and can do anything with and be completely comfortable with.

I was reading about "Blue Zones" (areas of the world where people live exceptionally long lives) earlier today and one of the common traits among these areas is exactly what you're saying: have a close-knit social circle of family and friends. As an introvert, this idea goes completely against what I feel comfortable/happier with of course, but I think that's more a result of toxic people in my life in the past. When I reflect back on my social interactions with past friends (of the non-toxic variety), I do get a sense of being happier.

What makes this especially interesting to me is while I have access to more "friends" now as a software developer, the white-collar interactions are less meaningful than when I was working minimum wage jobs. The friendships from my blue-collar jobs were far more memorable. The software work is more meaningful, but the blue-collar jobs gave me true happiness and I think the people I socialized with played a big part in that.
I predict that in very near future you just write funny lyrics, select the style and vocalist you want and you get good sounding mediocre music.

Then we hear it in

- private events like weddings.

- social media creators make their own music to go with their funny videos. Cheap theme music for streamers and podcasters.

- Advertising. Shopping centres make lyrics that advertise products and play them to you as pop songs. Some bubs make their own songs.
React Native libraries you should use in 2020
Also, gitlab pages will host your pages for free, there are many site generates you can choose from ( gitlab.com/pages ), including Hugo, you don't get any of the con, and it's completely free to use.
Yep. We created a society where everyone pays 150%-250% for everything over time just to fund a parasitic banker class
You can try FASM (http://flatassembler.net) besides YASM and ld.
Which is pretty much everyone else except GCP.
This is probably true. You can't eavesdrop on network traffic in a VPC because you never touch the actual layer 2 network, it's a virtualized network tunneled through the actual physical network, so you will never even see packets that aren't directed to you. I don't think there is a really strong security rationale for requiring SSL between an ELB and one of it's target groups, but from a regulatory standpoint it's probably easier to say "encrypt everything in transit." This is why ELBs don't do certificate validation as well. It's unnecessary and extremely cumbersome to implement well, so if you need to have SSL between the ELB and a host, you can just toss a self-signed cert on the host and be done with it.
So you don't like governments being able to have fiscal tools in times of crisis like now. Yes the USD is mainly digital, I have been telling people this who ask about digital money since Bitcoin made it popular.

Sorry, forgot about the exchanges, you are right, they make a ton of money by allowing wash trades.

The fundamental reason public block chain will never gain mass adoption is because it fails to meet society's expectations for a financial system.

The FED is preferable to Bitcoin. Private block chain to public. Hyperledger may be the best platform out there.

Please spare me your version of history.
Thank you for posting this! Thanks to you I'm digging in to this book right now and having a blast. The author is an engaging writer and it's been tremendous fun thus far.
Political crisis? Yeah I'll pass
Both Comcast and RCN have offered a modem/router box with their service. My roommate took them up on it. I don't pay for the bill and so I don't really care. Both the boxes were decent enough at their jobs, the RCN one seems to be struggling with wifi in 2.4ghz range currently likely because I have sixteen other networks within range.
> The GPL, e.g., is not a contract. It says so right in it, for the benefit of those confused (including, as I noted, many lawyers and even judges).

Where does it say that? I see no such language in the text of either GPLv2 or GPLv3.

> A contract that has not been affirmed by exchange of consideration and at least implied consent is void.

That's incomplete. Better would be to say that a contract needs consideration or a substitute for consideration. Promissory estoppel (also known as detrimental reliance) can take the place of consideration in contract formation.

The use of GPL software by someone who has read the GPL has all the elements necessary for contract formation:

1. It has an offer: to let the licensee do things with the software that they would otherwise be copyright infringement,

2. It has an acceptance: the licensee starts doing things those otherwise copyright infringing things,

3. It has mutuality: both parties were aware of and intended for the license to allow the licensee to do those otherwise infringing activities, and

4. It has a substitute for consideration: promissory estoppel. The licensee has acted in reliance upon the promise in the offer in a way that is legally detrimental to them if the promise is not enforced.

Courts tend to find that there is a contract when you have all the elements of contract formation, regardless of how the parties characterized their arrangement.

What I don't understand is why anyone would even want a FOSS license to be a license that is not also a contract. A non-exclusive license is revocable in the absence of consideration. Generally, you want your FOSS licenses to be irrevocable.
Do you have a link to the study?
Even development is not really centralized because anyone can create a fork. But that doesn't mean your fork will have any value - users have to decide that it's valuable. Bitcoin is an ecosystem.
There are schools without all those things. They are just not the ones students choose to attend.
I've used Webex with around 30 people, and it worked just fine (before COVID mostly with video, more recently with only a few using video).
Libgphoto2 2.5.24 Release
New Product Branding
It doesn't. There are enough "bitcoin maximalists" that developers attempting to modify the bitcoin protocol in ways which aren't widely accepted would be metaphorically hanging themselves. We've seen plenty of them have their reputations tarnished, including some of the most prominent early developers who took over the software maintenance after Satoshi.

The developers who are still around and respected are those who work within the protocol rules which are already laid out. That is, the bitcoin protocol can be modified through soft-forks which add further constraints to the set of rules accepted by some bitcoin clients, in backward-compatible ways with existing clients. The developers who have attempted to go the way of hard-forking themselves away from the rules by attempting to relax them simply get cut off from the larger network and they operate in their own niche (eg, BCH).

Bitcoin is its network, not its developers, miners, exchanges or anyone else who thinks they have leverage.
Have you started writing yet or is this just teaser?
Your data still has to fit in memory though.
> Out of curiosity, which components are you thinking about?

I could start listing off OS kernels, and then I'll move on to device drivers and hypervisors.

"The Cloud" is enabled by the fact we can efficiently separate applications and users running on the same hardware. The software which ultimately enables this is not written in Go... or Rust... or C++... or any other "hyped" language, but it is still an essential part of any cloud service.
I blame the media for this. And I don’t just mean during this pandemic, but for the past couple decades (and especially from 2015 onward.) Dividing the audience is good for business.

I really enjoyed the book Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi that examines this phenomenon.
TikTok Tops 2B Downloads
The ‘@’ symbol was almost lost to history. Here’s how Ray Tomlinson saved it
I agree it does not use the words “human to human transmission”.

At the same time, Taiwan claims that by calling it “atypical pneumonia” there was an inference that human to human transmission was possible, or even likely, and so as a result the claim of “no evidence” by the WHO was overstated.

Taiwan is likely also overstating their case. That being said, if the exact same information was passed to the WHO from, say, Germany, it is quite likely it would have been taken with more seriousness.

Taiwan being excluded from the WHO to placate China is a bad thing if your primary focus is world health. Politics should play no part.
Thanks for sharing, this is very cool! Is there a way to add a second CNOT gate in the circuit by just dragging and dropping the pieces?
Vitess 6.0 Is Released
At AWS you got an 80% discount on transfer? My eyebrows rose to the roof, I'm not convinced this is true. Which specific cloud provider were you dealing with? Without going into more details due to NDAs, the few things I've looked at were nowhere near that, specially for transfer.
Ramayan: Coronavirus Lockdown Creates Captive Audience for ’80s Show
My ISP (frontier) refuses to do any support unless their router is connected, I have had issues in the past where I know 100% that it is the ONT that is the issue, yet I have to connect their router to it before they will do anything or send anyone to look at the issue

The second they find out I am not using their hardware the call ends

sadly even with the extra fee, I am still paying about 30% less for Symmetric fiber than I would for a similar asymmetric connection from Comcast which is the only other provider for me
Definitely!

It’s impressive that now, they “only” need to improve the quality for it to outcompete professional musicians on commercial delivery.
exactly! if you're taking home the same salary whether you're creating massive value for the company, why bother?
> I'd be willing to bet that if you outlawed student loans (assuming that was possible), you'd see colleges finding all sorts of ways to cut costs without negatively impacting the students.

Big optimist you. They'd find all sorts of ways to cut costs without negatively impacting the enrollment, which is the statistic colleges care about (at least indirectly, to the extent that it correlates with tuition).
Is it possible you priced yourself out? If you were a "ninja" in SF for a decade, and then you're trying to find those kinds of salaries at "regular" software companies elsewhere in the United States, that could be the problem.
It's also a tax on people who know better but still value their time more than the satisfaction of using self-owned equipment.

I have a self-owned Docsis 3.0 cable modem now. The only reason I haven't paid out of pocket to upgrade is that modems with 2.5Gb NICs are imminent, but in the back of my mind is also the thought any issues I find will instantly be blamed on customer equipment.

I may just meet Comcast in the middle: rent a 2.5 Gb modem long enough to get it working then swap to self-owned. That shuts down any it must be your cable or equipment arguments and lets me progress to are you sure you've provisioned this thing properly?
It's more complicated, and a deeper problem than that.

For example, I'm one of those former psych majors, and though those majors are full of people who aren't good at math, there's also a lot of them who know more computer science and math than some of the comp sci majors I've worked with. In fact, a common problem for psych majors and other students is to take the first couple of psych courses, think it's a breeze, and then hit advanced courses with cognitive modeling, neuroscience, epidemiology, and genetics, and realize it is basically STEM.

The problem with this is that everyone who took those first couple of classes, or didn't, has this stereotype of psych as all involving people laying around on couches discussing past lives or something. So you might have a psych major who did a thesis involving neural network models and cognition, maybe with some imaging involving a cutting edge system in the imaging center, working with physicists, and they will get looked down on by employers. Meanwhile the comp sci undergrad who barely gets python and did their group final project on some kind of toy webapp is qualified.

I have family who are making significant money in web development who are actually English majors, who just happened to have the right connections at the right time. When I was in undergrad, comp sci was filled with a glut of unmotivated students who just wanted a degree for a job, and we were all being told that there wasn't going to be demand for comp sci degrees because there would be too many grads in it and you could always learn that stuff through different means. My father, who is now in medical administration with an MD, talked me out of biochem and biology degrees because he couldn't find employment with those degrees and had to go on to grad school.

So what do we make of a degree? Does my dad's biochem degree suddenly become more valuable when it's a stepping stone to an MD program? Did that family member with a "worthless" liberal arts degree waste their money when they're making a comfortable income in the tech sector?

The deeper problem is that people are seen one-dimensionally, as equal to some degree, rather than their experiences, like college is some glorified vocational certification program.

Whenever we talk about "worthwhile" versus "worthless" degrees at some level what we're accepting is this idea that someone's skillset is defined by the degree, rather than the degree being an indicator of part of a skillset.

Society used to see things in the latter way, and at some point it transitioned to the former.
Just wrote this today, specifically regarding your exact search issue. Seems like a timely share with the Cliqz news.

https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...
But if you're capable and smart, you wouldn't normally waste lots of your time memorising details you could easily look up and use in moments if you ever needed them.

Are those interview processes really optimising for candidates who are willing and able to spend silly amounts of time creating an illusion of being super-keen?
I would reach them to offer my time and propose to partner, even if I could deal with the tech part of the project on my own.
All bandwidth isn't created equal, but I'd assume Oracle bandwidth won't be bottom tier.

It is still something to think about though when shopping providers, I assume any major cloud provider will have great peering, but a gigabit line from a random dedicated server provider will be noticeably slower for many customers.
What are you basing your judgement on Dynetics from?
Attention! This is a malware page— don’t click it. It directs to host of viruses, to me at least 6.
I'm only a 3x developer but I'm still hardcore.
I guess that is a semi accurate title. I purchased my internet modem, and my router. But I spent far more than 150 to do so, and what is to stop some new technology making my equipment obsolete or unable to achieve the highest possible bandwidth available. If you rent the cable companies equipment, its their problem to deal with and honestly 10 -12 bucks per month is kinda worth it. I bought one of Comcast's recommended modems and I get almost the 1GB speed Im promised. The mesh wifi I have is better than the comcast router, but by no means perfect. I tried the prosumer ubiquity Amplifi stuff, but it constantly dropped offline. I recently moved to linksys velop and while it is good at providing wifi coverage at high speed, and is definitely more reliable than the Amplifi it still drops periodically and requires a reboot.
I gave both of them a whirl[0]. The second one is OK?

[0]: https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/04/30/ML
In what way is that quote "bullshit"?
Well, I think it depends on what the rewards are for getting the job. If the pay, benefits, and accreditation (resume boost) from holding a position at a given company are sufficiently valuable, it is definitely rational to play the game.

Full disclosure; I have never done an interview like this, or tried to land a job at a major 'tech' company, though I do have a degree in engineering.