skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that even after the coronavirus pandemic has passed people keep calling out the burdens to society and progress caused by the FDA.

I do hope that people notice that there are more life and death situations outside of pandemics that are, perhaps for fewer people, still very urgent. FDA regulation is often in the way of individuals getting the care they need, making decisions about life and death, and following and creating best practices in medicine.
Can mongo really support the kind of large scale ETL or time series use cases Cassandra can?
I’m sorry, but this is poor company culture, not a Slack issue per se. A company with this sort of issue would struggle with any communication tool or medium; the root issue here is an utter lack of understanding about proper working conditions and the concentration needed to do this (and most any) sort of work.

I’ve been in a similar boat at a similarly poor company.

It is trivial to use Slack in a non-destructive way. Our company follows a simple rule. If you need somebody’s attention, you @mention them.

We do not have to monitor anything. It is expected that you will keep an eye on your team’s channel when your time and attention permit as of course there may be some hallway-style conversations going on, but you are never required to monitor any channel, much less several channels. That is what mentions and notifications are for.

It is absolutely mind-blowing that some companies screw this up so badly.
I don't miss the speed, but I miss what the speed enforced. Pages were lighter and less wasteful with resources. These days you have pages that will not load without JS enabled, which is sometimes 10x or 100x the actual content it's displaying. That's not to mention images - people happily throw in a 1MB image, because why not? A 10MB gif to replaces a 1MB video, because why not?

Of course there are still people in remote areas, poorer Countries, low-signal zones, etc, who actually do have to deal with this daily. I remember reading a while back how Youtube and Facebook were completely unusable for some users because of this - not because of the actual content they are delivering.
Haha - you'll find half of Queensland is just ex-pat Victorians. Just don't wear Victorian plates on your car - first day there after driving up from Victoria I got abused by some Maroochydore bogans.

Portland is nice, but Port Fairy is possibly the best little town along the West coast. I grew up in Warrnambool, but spent a few months house sitting an old whalers cottage there.
I just don’t get it why more developers working remote would impact the amount of code needed to be written for their business.
My experience in Gent in 2006 was that it was impossible to get anyone to even attempt Flemish once they heard me say a word, be it English or Dutch. I imagine now it's even more that way. Nearly everyone was at least quad-lingual in English, Flemish, French, and another language, with many also having 5th or 6th languages in Spanish / Italian or German.

Would not recommend for Francophones to end up in the Flemish side of the country unless they also speak English or Flemish - there's some cultural stigma, or was at the time.
>But, displacing static-site designers is a much easier task than displacing developers due to the latter's work with logic, interactions, etc.

Not that much when it comes to the majority of web development needs. A web store can now be made in minutes. A news site. A forum.

Heck, there are tons of turnkey company intranet solutions...
This gets brought up time and time again.

The problem is that there are plenty of fields besides 'computer stuff' where immigrants might make valuable contributions - but they're simply not fields that are that highly compensated.
I'm willing to guess that many of the issues in the FDA are not caused by normal left/right politics but by bureaucracy, tradition, and other more behind the scenes issues.
And we had read Mediterranean diet and lifestyle which involves lot of walking is responsible for their better health outcomes

How much of that could be simply genetic diversity?
Putting the page in background and coming back made the screen go white for a while, eventually the art came back. I was a bit concerned I lost the page.
Indeed. Turing arguably had a better intuition for how developmental biology works than the status quo of most "experts" I read 80 years later [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...
My Case
Yea but it is their fault for how they handled it.

They could have froze and privated the repo and investigated the issue.

This isn't the same as a pirated move or song on YouTube. This is code. And version control or code repos are very important.
On the other hand, all of

> when we pause video, for how long, which bits we rewind back to, when we consume the content during the time, where (GPS-wise), how often we play them

is entirely hidden. What model gives that up, but keeps the identity of the video you're watching private?
> with an AMD cpu/GPU, and free software

Last I checked the AMD story was worse than Intel. At least on Intel you can go the ME-cleaner route to disable the Management Engine backdoor. On AMD there's no equivalent for the PSP AFAIK.

AIUI Purism ships Intel laptops with both ME disabled and Coreboot.
I meant 5 kilo bytes. Of course that speed is screamingly fast for IRC, but for most of the internet you're left with a completely unusable experience. Try loading Slack on a 5kB connection for example and post back your results in a week! :-)
This has been an explicit aim of the American right since the Reagan administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Did we slash R&D budgets once we standardized on the X_86 instruction set thus needing less compiler devs? Did we slash R&D budgets when we moved from on prem to cloud hosting? We have seen this happen many times before, we know the economics. Decreasing cost/feature is synonymous with increasing productivity. We know that a 1x increase in productivity results in a very large increase in the numbers of features that become feasible.

There isn’t some fixed factor here that causes it all to collapse. Productivity increases are plowed into growing the market 10x and building the business, not reducing eng budgets. At some point in the future this will slow down, but that is so far from happening, like many decades from now, maybe never in a non theoretical sense.
The health and welfare of Americans would be greatly improved if the FDA was abolished.
Every once in a while a bill like this is introduced and people waste time discussing it as if it's going to be voted on let alone pass.

This is mere political posturing, nothing more. Immigration bills are pretty hard to pass.
During lockdown I quit coffee cold turkey, I didn't feel anything. No changes in energy level or anything. I don't even feel anything other than the flavor difference between tea and coffee.
Fashion is one of the greatest symbols of unnecessary luxury, next to tourism. It being "hit" is not a surprise, but also really not worrisome. Individually, it's an issue for everyone working in fashion, but if the fashion industry went away and never returned, society wouldn't suffer.
The risk is low for most dependencies. They have experienced the left-pad drama. I would rather have to fix my dependencies and have broken builds for a short while than having to maintain a npm cache.
A 1969 Experiment in a Locked Room Changed Art History
Google has a similar built-in feature today, just add "-" before the domain you don't want to see. For example:

html a tag -w3schools.com
> There are good arguments for open borders in the equilibrium. But it's very hard to argue that they're good for the people who's jobs are lost.

That seems like a too general argument, as it also applies to technology.
Do any of the common browsers have an option to pin javascript to a dedicated CPU core?
Show HN: But how does Bitcoin work?
Why ignore this site in 2020?
It genuinely is impressive. The protocol itself is so simple that building something like a bot to write the results of builds is a job that can easily be done in a day (assuming you're completely working from scratch, i.e. pushing bytes over sockets).

There are quite a few clients that even support encryption, so it's not even necessarily insecure either.
Infected by ideas
As a downstream comment notes, this is a retention sweetener for an orderly transition or shutdown. The optics aren't great, but the reasoning is fairly defensible.
syscalls are called mode switch.

Edit: I wonder why the downvotes. Switches between in and out of kernel have never been called context switches that happen between threads. I know no one who calls them 'context' switch as the context, i.e. registers that point to the thread/cpu core remain the same.
What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? [pdf]
Most tea contains caffeine too. Usually less, but if you drink more tea than you drank coffee you might just take as much caffeine (or more, even) as you did before.
What’s weird to me about this is no one would have their knowledge workers also be on call for external customer support full time, but for some reason that’s the norm with internal customer support.
I live in the main part of Auckland, easy 20 minute bus ride to the Centre of town and Gigabit Fibre for Internet..

What specially you miss when you say "NZ is quite boring from cultural perspective" ?

For me Auckland is about the minimum size (1.5m people) I'd want to live. I have a minority hobby (chess) that barely exists in smaller cities, let alone towns. Similarly as you go to smaller places you lose those other niche things that need a huge population to support. For example outside of Auckland/Wellington most towns have perhaps one Tech meetup group, not one for every topic.

The outdoor stuff is an occasional for me. Living in the Auckland I can get to it in an hour or two dring while having two good bakeries in walking distance for my house.
In addition to almost every employer making illegal demands of H1-B holders when they quit or are terminated (such as asking them to pay legal fees the holders are not supposed to be responsible for). I’ve had friends dealing with this multiple times.

Sure, you can get a lawyer to write a demand letter why you’re hoping to not get deported before you find another job. And of course risk a reference from that job or worse. But the whole system is designed to create indentured servitude to corporations for foreign workers. Just put everyone who graduates with an advanced degree on a greencard and call it good already.
Isn't the only reason these visas are abused is the employee lock-in?
Iean how can these outsourcing companies pay low salary for these foreign workers when there's so much demand for developers?
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers [pdf]
Till when ? Because now they don't have (?) model to profit from it ? All streaming platforms are grabbing all remote control presses thoroughly. That's data first approach. Ask your favorite SMART TV too.
I am not so sure, without cheap manufacturing the midwest could never afford their trucks, their tractors, their ATVs and their AC units.

Look at the difference between middle America and middle Portugal.
See als https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder and similar initiatives to allow migratory species to pass dams.
What a beautiful story!

And as always the human being leaving his mark. One shot :(
If you want snapshots on XFS, you want lvm, else (AFAICT) you can only make a snapshot while the XFS volume is offline.
I can live anywhere with 1000/1000 fiber connection. Preferably outside a big city (biking distance, 20-30 km or so) and with alternative source of power (solar with battery backup). If a shtf situation arises we will at least have a better chance to survive for a while or ride out a food crisis because we are surrounded by food (farm country). Not many people live around here in DK. This is perfect for me.
> What other drug can give such an effective boost to wakefulness, mood, and focus with the only main side effects being possible sleep loss and jitteriness/discomfort?

Modafinil. At least for me (and basically everybody I know that tried it) it's much better than caffeine. Much clearer wakefulness, more focus, less physical, more deep concentration, and fewer side effects (if any).
To me this is a super underrepresented group if you can call it that. Tons and tons of mid market companies have more of these programmers than traditional CS grads.
I think this is more or less just a political statement for the republican base. These changes have been discussed for a long time, and conservative publications / reddit have been calling for them since the unemployment numbers went up. It's not going to have much impact, and as mentioned in other posts, it only affects Infosys/TCS types consulting shops which were already revamping their organizations to work around these changes since 2014. It's election year, so not very surprising to weaponize immigration.

It's quite disappointing that the US has decided to politicize two core pillars, healthcare, and legal immigration. I think both of these should be delegated to a bipartisan body, like the judiciary.

It's also disappointing to see the senators miss an opportunity to revamp the whole program. As an Indian, who did no go to grad school in US but worked at one of the FANGs, I think H1-B/L1-B should be just scrapped all together and every foreigner who graduates from an American university should get a green card. It will hurt people like me from coming to US, but generally it will be quite good for the US university system and the tech industry, and also a blessing in disguise for people like me.
Dafuq is Starz, even? These days there is a new service every month, it’s hard to keep up. Absolute shambles.
It’s definitely a feature. The whole intent is to suppress wages and turnout by keeping employees locked into specific companies. These kind of tiered labor systems should not exist.
Transmission does allow you to set a priority, so for multi episode series (or albums) you can get the first file and play it while the others are still downloading. But random chunks is fine after that.
Has anyone ever seen the luxury fashion items and where they come from? You find Chinese cramped up in small home shops, churning out the produce like bags with violation of all safety codes and they simply bribe the police in Italy.

Then luxuries Italian brands stamp their logo on top of it and it's ready to be sold in big city showrooms.

Heck, a lot of Italian shoe brands are buying their leather shoes from Uttar Pardesh, India.

Maybe not all luxury fashion brand production looks like this, but atleast some part does.

Come to India and buy your leather quality handmade shoes for less than $100 and let me know if you find any quality difference between $700 shoes and $100 shoes without lable.
Weechat. runs in Cli. Supports mouse mode and is cross platform. Run it in tmux or even better on a shell. It’s superb.
I was curious about these changes to Lua 5.4, so I had a look. When you create a Lua coroutine that allocates 200 Lua stack frames and then yields across them, the first longjmp crosses 200ish C stack frames. When you later resume, all those C stack frames are gone, but there wasn't any important state in them! Lua just calls luaV_execute in a loop[0]. (Trampolining?) So at that point, for that coroutine, the lower 200ish Lua stack frames do not have corresponding C stack frames, but any Lua subroutines you then call will have corresponding C stack frames.

[0] https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/9b7987a9d1471ba94764286b28e0...
Netflix is "TV, evolved" - including cable TV. It's not comparable to Spotify or iTunes ("CD, evolved"), which made music piracy almost irrelevant with their very comprehensive catalogs.

Netflix content beats many open TV channels in my area, at least in the fiction and documentary arenas. And like some TV/cable networks do, Netflix invests heavily in producing their own content. It's just a matter of time until they figure out how/if/when they will launch a TV-like continuous stream of content that includes news, weather, sports, gameshows, realities... And add more focus on "live" and sell differentiated content packages by user taste.
Kolmogorov complexity means programs cannot generate more information than they are provided with. However, I do think it possible someone will invent a much more efficient coding workflow that can create an assembly line sort of system. E.g. a very experienced dev can decompose a problem into a lot of subtasks and interfaces to outsource and complete in parallel. Once completed, boilerplate software automates the integration of completed tasks.
This is a stunningly bad piece of writing, wherein the author ‘criticises’ pieces of work for not foreseeing what came later. Star Trek was written by writers in the 1960s and addresses issues that were prevalent in the 1960s; Star Trek: The Next Generation is similarly focussed on the late 1980s and early 1990s.

We’ve already caught up with some of the events that formed the supposed historical backdrop of both series (the supposed Eugenics Wars of the 1990s) and they didn’t happen. There’s occasional mentions of Leningrad which strongly suggest that history was expected to play out somewhat differently in other ways, too (either no fall of the USSR or at the very least no renaming of cities).

So what? They’re products of the era that they were written in. Relax.

P.S. Discovery isn’t really Star Trek anymore — perhaps the Pike spin-off series will revert to the original. The inherent stupidity of running a starship on mushrooms and darting around the galaxy following pathways of a giant fungal network that somehow evolved to violate the laws of physics is just... demented. Stop trying to impose any logic upon it.
Punching that in to WolframAlpha, after rewriting it in terms of hyperbolic cosine, shows that it is indeed an identity: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+Cosh%5BI+%5C%5BPi%5D...

This occurs via the identity cosh(i x) = cos x, so 2 cosh(i pi/5) = 2 cos (pi/5) and then you go into the usual stuff to evaluate that one.
I've been working remotely and I feel that the best option is: moving around every few years.

I found that 2-3 years is the sweetspot where you can absorb the culture, learn the language and start to get kinda bored of your surroundings - so that's exactly what I've been doing.

I feel that digital nomad doesn't really work as you can't really get to know the place you're living at in few weeks or even months and staying in a single place for longer than 3 years is a severe underutilization of remote benefits.
> nobody actually enjoyed dialup speeds

When downloading files, there was a lot of waiting involved, but if you were dealing with email without attachments, usenet, IRC, and some of the older chat platforms like ICQ, AIM, MSN messenger, yahoo messenger, etc. the lack of speed wasn't really noticable.

These days, most websites and online platforms like Slack won't work at dial-up speeds.
Yup! I'd say watching boring TV is pretty similar to what I did with reading a really boring book, it makes you think less about sleep and put less effort into it.
I don't think salaries that high are the norm even in Silicon Valley, unless you're counting "someone was hired with X shares in the company vesting over 4 years as part of their comp package" when those shares were worth $120,000 over 4 years when they were hired but are now worth $800,000. Which, while nice, is more a case of "stocks go up sometimes" than "companies are intentionally paying enormous salaries for people without exceptional skills."

Though I'm not actually in SV, and the last time I went on an interview circuit up there was 2015, so it's possible salaries have gone crazy since then.
> Netflix won’t share that data with anyone

You think I'm only talking about Netflix? What about the data giant Spotify?

https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/extraordinary-amount-of-teleme...

And as for the one company you mention, Netflix, here's some info which simply proves your claim wrong:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2uffl9/how_much_da...

https://help.netflix.com/legal/privacy
I don't think Huawei, or any other Chinese investor really that wants to trade Chinese citizens getting rich by buying into Huawei over Americans citizens getting rich by buying into Huawei.
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Maybe they've some data based on which they are against remote work, and maybe that data will not be shared to public as they might have come up to conclusion that more remote work in their customers is better for an app like slack
OK. Zero interest in arguing about inclusionism for the hundredth time so I'll take your word for it that you mean well and I wish you good luck.

Changing subjects:

How does one change the username their HN posts are made by, after the fact ? That's a neat trick ...
> Heck, a lot of Italian shoe brands are buying their leather shoes from Uttar Pardesh, India.

... any online stores giving a straight line to those Indian shoes? They cheaper than, say, Meermin? Asking for a friend^w^w myself.
Sounds like your client wasn't configured to send periodic PINGs. Usually you set your client to send a PING every 30-60s, and disconnect if there is no server PONG for two to four times the ping interval. That way you have an upper bound on what messages from you may not have reached the server. (IRC is over TCP, so if a server sends a PONG for a PING, then every message you sent before that PING has reached the server.)
I understand the link posted here is specifically about dams on the Hudson. I question in general whether one can really say that all dams are such net negatives for ecosystems. Would we not be able to get hydroelectricity from a beaver style dam? and are those dams not generally seen as helpful to promote certain often very beneficial ecosystems?

Also, in some sense, wind and solar power aren't fully "green" energy because they require giant turbines and solar cells that require a lot of polluting to make, maintain, and eventually dispose of. We still, of course, seem to consider them to be green and beneficial, I assume because someone has done the calculus to see that the costs of their pollution is less than the benefit of their use. I'm willing to bet that many dams are similar.
What constraints do you think there should be on that basic human right, if any?
... Considering hyperthreading is a proprietary Intel system: no, AMD doesn't do it.

Not sure how that would be in any way relevant to the parents point though.
Well this was done in "partnership" with Intel. I don't think they had a choice in the matter (other than loosing more money)

But China is continuing to improve it's home grown x86
Timezones. It’s hard enough scheduling meetings across multiple timezones (and boy are there a lot of meetings in FAANG), but going more than +/- 6 is a huge pain (I meet with east asia and europe on a fairly regular basis).