skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking back at the past with rosy goggles.

What I remember from the time was how you couldn’t run that many things simultaneously. Back when the Pentium II was first released, I even had to close applications, not because the computer ran out of RAM, but because the TCP/IP stack that came with Windows 95 didn’t allow very many simultaneous connections. My web browser and my chat were causing each other to error out.

AJAX was not around until late in the Pentium II lifecycle. Web pages were slow, with their need for full refreshes every time (fast static pages an anomaly then as now), and browsers’ network interaction was annoyingly limited. Google Maps was the application that showed us what AJAX really could do, years after the Pentium II was discontinued.

Also, video really sucked back in the day. A Pentium II could barely process DVD-resolution MPEG-2 in realtime. Internet connections generally were not the several Mbit/s necessary to get DVD quality with an MPEG-2 codec. Increasing resolution increases the processing power geometrically. Being able to Zoom call and see up to 16 live video feeds simultaneously is an amazing advance in technology.

I am also annoyed at the resource consumption, but not surprised. Even something “native” like Qt doesn’t seem to be using the actual OS-provided widgets, only imitating them. I figure it’s just the burden we have to pay for other conveniences. Like how efficient supply lines means consumer toilet paper shortages while the suppliers of office toilet sit on unsold inventory.
Were these studies inconsistent with a curious mind and the limitations of knowledge at the time? In any research, some avenues of investigation are fruitful and others are not.

When people look back on us 300 years from today, they'll likely find many cases of geniuses working on things that seem naive or misguided in retrospect.
You have to understand that gig economy has huge outliers on both sides of the curve. Some people work 12h shifts on this, and rack up all kinds of bonuses.
I said that 20 years ago, but so far I've been proven completely wrong. Skype/etc just keep getting bigger and slower despite, from what I can tell adding absolutely no additional functionality. In fact if you consider it can't seem to do peer to peer anymore, its lost features.

Very few companies are rewritting their electron apps in win32 (although they should be). Instead it continues moving in that direction, or worse. Crashplan rewrote their java GUI a while back in electron. Java UI's are mostly garbage, but compared with the electron UI it was lightweight and functional. The electron UI (besides shipping busted libraries) has literally stripped everything out, and uses a completely nonsensical paradigm/icon set for the tree expand/file selection. Things like slack are a huge joke, as they struggle to keep it from dying under a load my 486 running mIRC could handle. So blame it on the graphics and animated gif's people are posting in the chat windows, but the results speak for themselves.
By the way, I love your new bandwidth-delay-product-based flow control logic in Cap’n Proto!
Well that's the thing. They just want to drive people and earn money. Uber made that super super easy.
Software engineers should know what they are trying to achieve but don't pigeonhole their common sense. Having many channels of input, not to mention interviews and sometimes interrogations in subreddits, creates more signal from the noise and order from the chaos.
How can small businesses get customers without spending a ton of money on ads?
This and similar mission are not NASA missions but USSF's missions (United States Space Force), and USFF is part of the United States Armed Forces, different budget:

Sources:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#Operational_histor...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
Our local motoring association (RACV in Victoria, Australia) provides a car running cost calculator, including precomputed values for common models organised by category. Their methodology seems pretty solid.

https://www.racv.com.au/on-the-road/buying-a-car/car-running...
Electrons might prefer Michael Jackson music and grapes in the summer. Not being able to disprove it is a looong way from it being true.
actually id say app support is better than ever (of course all the caveats that go along with being a 1% os apply..)
> … if landlords have the market power to raise rents, why wouldn't they just do it now, rather than wait until an LVT is passed?

That logic only works in a non-competitive market. The reason they don't raise rates is obvious: There are other landlords around and any one landlord raising rates would lose business to the others. If you raise costs for all landlords, however—for example, by imposing a LVT—then there is no risk of defection. Landlords either raise their rates or lose money with every rent payment. Any that don't raise their rates will go out of business to be replaced with others who do. And if you use price controls to prevent them from raising rates despite losing money then they would go out of business without being replaced, leaving individuals and businesses to buy their own property outright rather than renting, in which case they will be paying the LVT along with all the other costs formerly handled by the landlord.

TL;DR: Don't assume that the market equilibrium price is fixed and independent of cost!
Good luck using peripherals that requires physical access to them. The day web browsers will have full physical access (well, they technically do but you guys understand what I am saying, right?) is the day hackers will transform internet into that dystopian world from the old movie with Keanu Reevs - Johnny Mnemonic (the short novel is even better btw).
And, reopening with 1/3 of the testing capacity necessary to do so seems wise to you? I hope you don't have any elderly relatives in the area, or any health conditions that would predispose you to a severe case.
Ah this is what happened to the lady I faxed stuff for at the UPS Store. That sucks.
Thanks for this! So... How much did you make on average? :-)
The following both have very well-thought out exercises that guide the reader through discovering the topic mostly on their own:

> Pinter, "Abstract Algebra"
> Tao, "Introduction to Measure Theory" (and "Epsilon of Room, Vol. 1")
That stacktrace... https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/1063#issuecom...
I don't know what I expected the people as a whole to do, but I guess I didn't expect such quick consensus and lack of debate/discussion on such complex matter. The people have certainly debated/went up in arms for much lesser matters in the past.

I feel there's a wider range of possible reactions between instant compliance to outright defiance. But I don't see many of those in-between reactions. It may be me...
years (and years) ago, if I wanted to learn a new computer technology or language, I would pick up a book and learn it.

One language that didn't go how I expected it was applescript.

The book on applescript (from o'reilly I believe) was necessarily different.

Instead writing "normal" top-down programs, applescript hooks into the OS from the side.

Many books can concentrate on what you can do, but the applescript had to do everything by example. This is because all of apple's applications expose interfaces that you have to figure out on the fly.

I had to learn a different way from that book, because it necessarily concentrated on "how" instead of "what".
That’s great! Certainly better than huffing glue or supporting communism or whatever most kids are up to these days.

But it would be more correct to say he assembled his own telescope, since it seems like he purchased all the important components, including the mirror.
Again, it matters not whether Tesla or the state is determining what is safe or not. The decision workers are faced with is the same.

And, again, I ask you: how do you justify asking workers to make the choice between health and safety or having income to support their families? You literally ignored every point in my comment.
I painted the complete picture as far as my point of view was concerned. I don't tend to draw or characterize the picture beyond that (or even describe it out loud to anyone) more and more because I've seen people run off with descriptions of things I don't ever want to see and make businesses out of them. You can never take it back, as it were.

I do not under any circumstance care to make it any easier for yet another network integration of yet another database to be implemented by yet another private agency that as a condition of working with them forces users (including governments) to sign an NDA and briefs users on ways to respond to inquiries in ways that don't reveal the company's existence or mission, which is nothing less than tracking and making consumable every last bit of information on movements and actions by $THAT_GUY_IN_PARTICULAR because whether it is illegal, quasi-legal or otherwise, we have done horribly at staying on top of the edifice of executive power and keeping abuse of these capabilities under control. Again, demonstrably.

I don't want anyone's descendants to have to suffer that. Maybe the sibling posters are right, and the cat is already out of the bag... That doesn't mean I have to leave the door open for further increasing the efficiency and magnitude with which systematic civil right infringement and erosion can be executed.

It could change. If society showed even the least little indication that they realized they were going too far, and had a conscious recognition of just how destructive to the American way of life the lengths we've already gone to are; perhaps I could muster up enough faith and confidence in the system to become a supporter. That hasn't happened, and in fact, in cases of when things were implemented with controls, there is significant evidence that those controls aren't the most reliable over time. So... Yeah. Guess I'm a speed bump on other people's road to progress. I hate it. I never set out to be that. I want to stop feeling the way I currently do everyday. Nevertheless, no matter how much I sift through what is going for the merest sign of a reversal of the trend, I keep coming up empty.

We should mot endeavor to hand down a world where what liberties there were when we entered are foolishly squandered. That is all that seems to have happened in my lifetime. I may be powerless to stop it, but I'm not powerless in regards to ensuring the process isn't unintentionally accelerated by my hand.
> I do wonder why there isn't an API for "lazy munmap()"... it would behave exactly like munmap(), except that the pages might remain accessible in other threads until the end of their timeslices, when the kernel can apply queued TLB flushes.

That does exist, it's called MADV_DONTNEED and most operating systems have implemented it. However, MADV_DONTNEED on Linux was incorrectly implemented and (from memory) would always result in the page being unmapped immediately -- making it roughly equivalent to MADV_FREE. To quote the man page:

> All of the advice values listed here have analogs in the POSIX-specified posix_madvise(3) function, and the values have the same meanings, with the exception of MADV_DONTNEED.
Driving disease-prevention policies based on an infection indicator that lags by at least 7 days is like day-trading stocks based on last month’s headlines.
Statsfs: A New RAM-Based File System for Linux Kernel Statistics
What's the definition of Deep Generalist that you have in mind?
"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

Social Mobility, aka "The American Dream" has been flat since the decoupling of productivity and Labor in 1971. [1] [2]

[1]https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpe...

[2]https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/research-department-w...
Twitter is fine by me. The Indieweb is a cool ideal. But I’ve still made great discoveries through Twitter as well. (Perhaps that speaks to the ingenuity of humans despite the platform tho...)

If you get your own site up, let me know!
Worth looking at - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
There are some legitimate arguments about how VC backed startups have behaved as of late, and YC is part of that overall system.

I’m not sure where I personally sit, but I think it’s a bit silly to pretend that YC is universally beloved or beyond reproach.
I was delivering food via DoorDash before COVID-19 (using $5k 300cc motorcycle, so my gas expenses and depreciation were low), and it wasn't hard to hit $40/h during lunch or dinner delivering food in San Mateo, CA. Sometimes, when restaurants were slow I made about $20/h (I stopped taking orders from Mendocino Farms and Sweet Basil for that reason).

I also tried to deliver food in Palo Alto, but most of the orders were coming from Stanford Shopping Center were it was hard to find parking, and then it was hard to find the restaurant, and on top of that the restaurants were pretty slow to prepare the orders.

The factors that may contribute to higher income through delivery apps during COVID-19:

- without regular visitors, restaurants are probably faster to prepare food for delivery

- with more customers there are more chances for delivery app to batch orders

- with less traffic and cheaper gas, the expenses per delivery are lower
This is a phenomenal explanation. Thank you - I've saved this for next time I need to explain to a junior.
(Author here.) That is incorrect. The difficult case is and the real benchmark is with unpredictable data. The low-entropy cases will be about as fast with both partitioning schemes.

This is only a smart part of the benchmarks I've run because I wanted to drive one point home within a limited space. I've run many tests on various data types and shapes, and Lomuto does better than Hoare on most. (E.g. its improvement on double is even larger than on integrals.)
State of Emacs Lisp on Guile
Many (liberal) countries still hold mandatory military services. I think there was much more resistance to the general consensus around 9/11 and other "man made catastrophes" than this one. "Science" has shut off any debate and human creativity.
Native apps are better than web apps in terms of UX, but few companies have the budget to maintain both a native app and a web app (unless they can share code, as with Electron). Since most companies need a web app anyways, they have little incentive to spend the time/resources needed to develop and maintain a separate native desktop app.
Electrons may as well be <insert anything> as long as we cannot observe it. This is not interesting because the Occam's razor shaves it off instantly.

A much more tantalizing hypothesis (also unverifiable by construction) would be to assume presence of a metaphysical being which alters the probabilities of quantum processes ever so slightly as to have a macroscopic effect, but is careful enough to never do it for processes under direct experimental observation.

One can invent a number of such undetectable constructs, it's a good entertainment, and does show the limits of the scientific method. Practical applications of these are nil, though.
I didn't even apply. I sort of wish I did. I don't know that I would have even gotten an interview, but my god... my current job just seems so boring.
It’s been easy in my experience. I say the magic words “will pay up front.”
Oh, there are definitely better ways to de-bias; the read-check-discard construction is meant as a math example, not practical advice. Most of the popular PRNG constructions (for instance, anything in SP800-90A) will integrate things in a much saner fashion (e.g., with a hash or MAC algorithm). I was mainly trying to make the point that a bias in a random bit source doesn't automatically mean that everything is broken and horrible.

The biased/low-entropy point was mainly in relation to a specific case mentioned in the original article (Allwinner embedded ARM systems). I don't know how quickly that particular HWRNG provides data, but if the bias isn't huge, and the random can be read quickly enough, I'd probably argue to include it. Even if it's biased 4-to-1, you can still reach a desired "amount" of randomness (however you're choosing to measure it) pretty quickly.
This. Thanks!
Reddit gold, etc is probably a small portion of their revenu?
How does this address my point about being able to connect to a server from your desktop application? Just because historically companies have not deployed their product in such a fashion doesn't mean it isn't technically possible. How do you think social mobile applications work? Have you ever worked on an application that wasn't running in a browser?

> That's why it is easier to pirate.

There are no technical reasons why a desktop application is inherently easier to pirate. Only implementation details.
It's because Elon is an attention seeking narcissist. Why did he create all the public drama over his cave submarine? It's because he can't help himself.
I went and read the article, and the big thing about it that actually surprised me was the focus on "networks" and "platforms" and tech companies, all of which would have seemed a lot more relevant maybe five years ago. I would have expected to see more reference to real-estate rentierism (including its manifestation as "magic money trees" for the middle class in some countries, and as politically fashionable NIMBYism in the major world urban centers), financial scams (they refer to tax dodging schemes but then pass it on by to talk about tech platforms some more), and the higher educational-industrial complex.

Which is not to say I love tech companies and "platforms" so much, but as the COVID-19 shutdowns have shown us, stuff like AirBnB and Uber basically just make money off facilitating other people's transactions in economic sectors that are already heavily rentiered and concentrated. Taxis and real-estate aren't going to get any less rentiering just by getting rid of the apps.
If you pay taxes in the state, shouldn’t it be enough?
All monies from stimulus to unemployment should've and should be directed right into taxpayer's bank accounts; those who made less then 75k last year instantly get the funds. If they are not needed up to the discretion of each person to do the right thing or not.

The unemployment system was a terrible choice with it's antiquated technology systems and no surprise tons of fraud going to scammers while many Americans still haven't gotten their funds to survive on.
I think the intention of the post you replied to was to say that many companies other than google have a legitimate need for kubernetes.
Thanks! I tried that too, but it's slower than Lomuto. Forgot to mention in the article.
Reminds me of "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
You can say the same thing about the limitations nowaadays. Looking back from the future we’ll have learned a lot of things that we are thinking now will be seen as preposterous when more knowledge is covered.
most of that population was still well south of the Central Park area. Streets had been laid out, and the occasional building erected in the area. But the population density was downtown, in the tenements.

Astor and others benefited as population expanded north.
The person above claimed that hosts would be reluctant because visitors might have COVID, not that the travellers would be more reluctant.
I specifically said "military relevance of the landed nobility". A major part of the transition, and the formation of the modern nation-state, came from the increasing military superiority of, as you put it, "centralized standing armies of cheap soldiers" and the commodification of war.
Ha.

I'm a Spacemacs user and I had to do the remote interview for my current gig in Google Docs. That was a bit frustrating.
Not parent, but yes, sort of.

Arguably it's use in embedded contexts is much larger than desktop. It's quite popular for in-car computers, defense systems, etc.

For desktop linux, yes, it uses the windowing system.
I am actually really interested to see if something like Deno can take over in programming education.[1]

Deno's extremely simple import semantics and built-in tooling could make it a great environment for a learner. They won't have to be exposed to package management, they can just click a URL in their source code and see the exact source code they just imported.

All the stuff that professional developers can do and might want to do for themselves (setting up testing frameworks, pinning transitive dependency versions) is kind of out of scope for educational use. Unless that education is specifically targeted at "how to do modern JS development within this specific ecosystem".

The ease of bringing TypeScript into your Deno programs may make it easier to start "graduating" to static typing as part of the curriculum, without being like "okay, that was Python! Next up: Java!"

[1]: Say what you want about JavaScript, I don't see that modern JS is significantly worse than Python for learning to program (having watched a couple of students go through Python courses). All languages have their warts.
No, not at all, a broad number of groups of people oppose a national ID for many different reasons, some of which are Christian because they believe it to be the mark of the beast. Additionally, I've personally talked to co-workers who oppose a national ID for religious reasons.

For example, look at the list of organizations that opposed REAL ID

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

>The Bush administration's Real ID Act was strongly supported by the conservative Heritage Foundation and by many opponents of illegal immigration.[101] However, it faced criticism from across the political spectrum, including from libertarian groups, like the Cato Institute;[102] immigrant advocacy groups; human and civil rights organizations, like the ACLU; Christian advocacy groups, such as the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ);[103] privacy advocacy groups, like the 511 campaign; state-level opposition groups, such as North Carolinians Against Real ID[104] and government accountability groups in Florida;[105] labor groups, like AFL-CIO; People for the American Way; consumer and patient protection groups; some gun rights groups, such as Gun Owners of America; many state lawmakers, state legislatures, and governors; The Constitution Party;[101][106] and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, among others.

>Highlighting the broad diversity of the coalition opposing Title II of the Real ID Act, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), founded by evangelical Christian Pat Robertson, participated in a joint press conference with the ACLU in 2008.[107]
Thanks! Nice username.
'Some believe that it is access to NHS data, among the most lucrative data sets in the world, that is the real attraction here'.

...“We must beware Palantir – and any other data mining company – bearing gifts during a pandemic,” says Ioannis Kouvakas, legal officer at Privacy International.
I don't agree with the premise. Remember that the full reopening will include extremely high-contact locations like schools, restaurants, bars, and movie theaters. It seems plausible that a limited reopening of only retail and manufacturing is safe with a third of the full amount.
US spending “Trillions” fighting coronavirus?
I see articles like this [1] claiming trillions being spent. I also see high unemployment rates in the US so a lot of people are getting poorer. But somebody must be getting filthy rich.

Who?

This is kind of an investment question.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trillions-in-coronavirus-spending-could-explode-deficits-to-world-war-two-levels-2020-03-31