skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed we ran a ~2m user webmail service as a CGI written in C++ ~20 years ago. We addressed latency aggressively by statically linking and never explicitly freeing memory except if we really had to - the processes were short lived; better to let the OS just dispose of everything at once.

The process overhead was not a big deal even on 20yo hardware, and it saved us from dealing with all kinds of awful isolation issues. We discussed fastcgi or the like and dismissed it because the latency savings were much smaller than one might expect exactly for the reasons you mention: The problem was much less the process creation overhead than the overhead of dynamic runtimes.

People also seem to have forgotten what was expected back then. The time it takes to load Gmail for example would have been totally unacceptable. Our biggest latency limitation was not the web server / CGI, but optimizing the mail storage backends, so that is where we spent our effort.
This is ridiculous. You have six or seven officers trying to verbally reason with the screaming guy. Then, at an unspecified later time, you have about twenty to thirty officers subduing the guy.

Look, in this case maybe the screaming guy didn't actually intend to hurt anyone. You can tell by the fact that he isn't actually attacking. There also weren't any victims or bystanders involved.

Now, what happens if somebody actually tries to assault people? The perpetrator gets shot from a safe distance when those "special units" finally arrive:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50594810

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51349664

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/09/westminster-...
Don't rush reopening. In 1918, some states ran straight into more death
If you have shares in enough companies, you don't particularly care if a few of them go bankrupt every once in a while, _if_ that trade-off makes you enough money on average.

Mostly things haven't changed that much since the 1980s. The biggest difference is probably that individual investors are les likely to own specific shares, and more likely to own via an (index) fund.

(That doesn't mean that any particular balance between equity and debt is the right one. Just that the occasional bankruptcy is not a nail in the coffin.)
Really cool, I should have a serious look at this non-virtual dom thing. All the examples make it look like this project is dependable. Sorry for the plug but I somehow explored similar path when creating the Blop language, maybe the author might be curious: https://github.com/batiste/blop-language
Maybe I should get rid of the virtual DOM lib. I use?
I've always used https://www.svm-tutorial.com/ as my go-to suggestion for reading up on SVMs as it starts easy and progressively adds the complexity as needed.

> This tutorial series is intended to give you all the necessary tools to really understand the math behind SVM.
It starts softly and then get more complicated. But my goal here is to keep everybody on board, especially people who do not have a strong mathematical background.

Emphasis mine.
I thought this would be about Carter and the guinea worm
Mostly agreed.
Setting this image as wallpaper could soft-brick your Android phone
we should still be upset about Equifax, which we totally forgot, didn’t we

By any reasonable definition Equifax got away with it Scot free. No one is expending any energy getting angry about it because it has been repeatedly demonstrated that regulators don’t care about data breaches so what can you do?

No company is going to care about this until C-suites and boards start going to jail.
Personally I agree with all of those points however I know there is a lot of passion on both sides of the argument for most of those points. Hopefully one day soon we will start to see meaningful change
Every Good writer needs to read
A lot of people’s first experiences living outside of their parents’ homes is a transformative learning experience, college or not.
And, of course, every debt is also an asset on someone else's balance sheet.
Has nothing to do with mono. Mono effectively died when Xamarin got acquihired by Microsoft. They shifted focus to providing OSX and Windows only tools for developing mobile apps with .NET, and mono development stalled, but parts got incorporated into dotnet directly.

Microsoft have been much more friendly to open source in recent years. dotnet core is now supported and up to date on Linux. You can develop on Linux with VSCode (Visual Studio is still Windows only) or JetBrains Rider. You can consider dotnet core to be uncoupled from Windows. There are still parts of the .net frameworks which are coupled to windows, but they can be avoided with libraries like Avalonia.
Daniel’s Dark Web Hosting Hack Leads to Permanent Shutdown
How can I get users from the developer community?
The federal government is giving unemployed people 600 per week (31,200 a year, 15 an hour on a 40 hour work week) on top of state benefits regardless of their income so anyone making less than that is making more on the federal government alone which is why total income has gone up.
I unfortunately didn't get to watch the launch or docking, but I know in (american) ham radio and CW (morse code) usually on the opening/first transmission your callsign is the first thing you say. If you callsign was K1QT, for example, you might say:

K1QT calling CQ CQ

or

K1QT calling K1HTL
I have no regrets of not going to university. I've never been asked about my education and during the time I was an employee I've always been paid the same as people with a degree and similiar work experience. So in my personal experience a degree would have been a complete waste of time.
In the context of US society, with all its socioeconomic and cultural baggage:

- Is it possible to design a system with zero unjustified killings / violence?

- Can you program 100% of policemen to be 100% lawful all the time? If not, what is the expected failure rate of the system, and how far is the US from that number?

Obligatory disclaimer, I am one of those people who think it is justified to use violence against violent criminals, and shoot criminals who imminently endanger anyone. From what I read on social media, this does not seem to be a universally held view.

Incidentally I find that this whole topic is so emotionally charged that people tend to speak in absolutes and frankly that is just not something you can honestly engage with because there is no agreement on first principles, if at all there are any to begin with. Most of the talk I see surrounding the topic seems to be rooted in idealism and moral posturing with very little to offer in terms of solutions.

Here in my country India, the general public often welcomes it when the police beat up criminals. It is common for the criminal to receive their first set of beatings from the mob that captures them, and then another round during interrogation. Police shootings (colloquially referred to as "encounter-killings") happen quite often as well, and are generally assumed to be staged. Apart from a few activists, most of the country does not really care about this issue. It is incredibly privileged for American society to even be having a national conversation about police violence or police reform to begin with. The third world has largely accepted this to be a fact of life for anyone remotely involved in criminal activities, or people who dare to to stand up to corruption.

Also the race angle of police violence seems to be entirely manufactured by the media. I have yet to see a single statistic that shows a disproportionate degree of violence towards a particular race. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and from the videos I am watching online, it looks like a large number of people have removed this from their minds completely because it is not in the "news-cycle" anymore, which to me just reinforces my earlier claim that the race angle is a complete fiction invented by the media to sell advertisements, because the society at large seems to be programmable by what the news tells them.

That being said, I am 100% sure that that the many of the police across countries and cultures are biased against certain ethnicities, because that's how human brains work (pattern recognition) - is this a solvable problem either?
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interesting, did they talk about the topics of nootropics and atherosclerosis in this class?
My company has hired eastern European contractors for at least one system. They are on-site. Our remote contractors are all in India.

A lot of times companies sign contracts to be exclusive with one remote shop. For example, my company can only source remote engineers from one company in India. We still have the option to bring in on-site contractors from other companies.

It's my understanding that the cost of labor is cheaper in India than in Europe, which is why companies like mine opt for resources there. After all, the reason they outsource is to reduce cost, so they will go with the cheapest option that can meet their needs.

As long as you aren't looking for remote work, you should e fine. If you are looking for remote work, you would have better results going through a local contracting shop. Security is a big thing with most companies, so they would rather contract with one shop than with many individuals.

This is all from the perspective of my US based company. Others may be different.
Can this be used with things like mobx/mobx-state-tree? Absolutely having a blast with MST.

Also, does lack of vdom mean a project like react-native could never really come from this?
If you actually go to the guardian site it only listed the front organisation, not the fact it was a government funded campaign.
> This is ridiculous.

In the US, this man would be dead. Here, he survived. That's not ridiculous.

> Now, what happens if somebody actually tries to assault people? The perpetrator gets shot from a safe distance, when those "special units" finally arrive:

Yes - that's how it should be. Leave an actual firefight to specially appointed marksman with specialist weapons, not day-to-day officers waving pistols around. And they don't need those weapons when attending other incidents.
what he said. The question is what are you trying to accomplish. are you just trying to make code dumps (i.e. no real development is done on the OSS side, just you'll dump code there that others can use) or is development supposed to take place on the OSS side.

if the former, its not really a Q, just figure out how to dump something that can be built independently of your mono repo and provide dumps.

If the latter, separate it out from your mono repo and treat it as any other external dependency you import it into your mono-repo. this obviously takes more work managing the new external repo, cutting releases and the like, but is more valuable to the community at large.
I wish HN would require an explanation (or a counter-argument) for downvote. Often I get downvoted and have no idea why.

If the content is obviously a spam, it should be flagged and removed, not just downvoted.
My dad was a grocery checker and my mom was a secretary. I didn’t go to college. I’m currently making more than six figures as a software engineer. The only meaningful networking connections I made outside of work was going to raves in the early 2000s.
I have never used this tool but Google open-sourced Copybara[1]. If you look at the commits of their other open-source repositories, it seems this tool is often used.

[1] https://github.com/google/copybara
Sorry, not my intention to imply they may be inciting a moral panic or grandstanding. The original poster (sorry to pick on you! you're fine!) didn't ask what's with all the K-pop stars on the page; they asked what's with all the women. This comment is already longer than theirs and it just read to me like somebody who generally wants to do the best thing for the most people and would appreciate some help with whether or not a particular thing is "okay" or "offensive". I feel that our natural (not always universal) human desire for inclusivity too often gets entangled with inhuman[1] entities (i.e. an online advertising marketplace) that can speak the language of our emotion but only to get us to click the correct buttons and delete the correct knowledge to make the numbers go up like we programmed it to.

I'm just weary of watching "sexist, or not sexist?" get asked about something until every shred of femininity has been deemed unacceptable and removed. Maybe just removing some photos[0] of women from our web pages. Maybe another group of work teammates stop inviting me to lunch or out on smoke breaks with them for fear of saying something offensive, losing their job, and seeing their name/address/SSN/rootpw dragged across Twitter during the Two Minutes Hate. Keep asking and it might eventually become Less Sexist to motion-capturing a real-life woman's face but then alter[@] her to not be so indecently-attractive for a major video game. Hopefully there's a farrier somewhere in this city who can explain this stuff to me.

The potential consequences for deemed-offensive speech are severe enough that risk avoidance becomes the only rational choice. All I can do is share how much and how many times this pattern has hurt me personally, hope enough other people feel similarly, and hope talking about it at all might help people feel more empowered and safe enough to make decisions about these topics and not have to defer to the inevitable lowest common denominator when we ask the machines.

[0] https://fstoppers.com/product/ikea-saudi-arabia-photoshops-w...

[1] https://mattbors.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-gay-marriage-rush/i...

[2] http://68.media.tumblr.com/747b5d8397547e41efb7980eb554838c/...
No, you are correct. Publicly shipping the product that implements the invention starts the clock. But here, the parents claim priority to an application filed in 2004. (That means the invention was disclosed in that earlier application, even if it wasn’t specifically claimed.) When you claim priority like that, your 20 years starts running from the earliest priority date. So the patents expire in 2024.
I have a house, a car, clothes, and food. All these things serve an important utilitarian function, but I've spent gratuitously more than I need to on embellishments to the aesthetic value of these utilitarian things. Most people do the same. The only thing that distinguishes Art is that it doesn't posture as having some kind of underlying practical utility.
Further, in low-performance years, there is more of a headwind that must be overcome to even earn a return (from the investor's POV).
Charging Phones in a Public Place Can Be the Reason Hacked Your Data
>why is this not libel?

Is this not just a straight up section 230 instance? They're just displaying user generated content.
> but most systems I've seen are held together by sticks and glue on the backend.

I'm pretty sure that's - unfortunately - true for a lot of backends and not a Japanese phenomena.
Be sure to get the 4.0 GPA too - it's very nice to have for surprisingly long. Absolutely don't "challenge yourself". You can do that when you're not being graded on it.
It's really harrowing to see these things happening. I know that they go on around the world but it's always been easier to ignore but I feel like as citizens of a now connected world we can't let this brutality continue.
> Where did I accept the possibility of police killings being skewed by racism? That might or might not be true

Saying that it may be true is accepting the possibility :)

> All I did was just interpret the existing numbers and correlate them to other statistics that make more sense to me

My point is that the correlation may obscure more than it reveals.

It's like if someone in the Tower of Pisa said: "this windowsill is crooked, the vases I put there keep falling", and someone responded "that can't be, I measured it against the floor and they're perfectly parallel".

> Again - I'm trying very hard to detach the issue from emotions/race and just look at the numbers.

I understand that. But which numbers and comparisons are relevant, and which conclusions can be produced from such comparisons, is a matter of discussion.

> Why there is a disproportional number of black people in the US being arrested or killed is certainly appalling - but its also a whole other issue.

This I have to confess I don't understand. The site is trying to answer that exact question, and their answer is "racism". Now, they may be wrong, but I don't see how it's another issue... what issue are you focusing on, then?
And people said I was crazy to claim that challenges are mounted to US laws based on the first amendment rights of foreigners living abroad.
...for a few sentences. Non story.
University has so much more value than the coursework and the name. The network you mention is a good starting point. You call it network and it evokes the idea of those connections that can help you later.

But they are also very beneficial during your studies. Learning alone means you never have the chance to ask for help, give help and discuss what you learned.

Universities also do research you can be part of. I helped build a CubeSat during my uni time and was part of a sounding rocket mission. You can't do that in a YouTube video of a lecture and you can't to that as a side project.

University is a place to meet like minded people and learn about stuff you are interested in. You get teachers and facilities you wouldn't normally have access to. Use it!

And make sure that you go to uni with this mental model of it. Whenever you see uni doing things that don't fit in that model, try to change it. Unis aren't there to make sure you get a better job, get access to hidden networks in society, take loads of money from students, crank out degrees, ...

They are there to enable people growing personally and fuel that growth back into growing humanities knowledge.

... and yeah, some local hackerspaces are closer to that idea of an University that many Universities are. That's a problem.
Oh, that's a great idea! Thanks :)
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Nice PR move, tacking onto a lawsuit from a year ago in support of free speech.

That aside I personally think Reddit has far more serious speech challenges to overcome than Twitter. It's too easy to manipulate certain viewpoint to always appear on the front page. Especially blatant during election years. Too weird for me to visit.
Do people really hate FB so much right now that this garbage becomes the top article on HN?

This website[1] seems to be entirely blank aside from this article, the claims made are dubious at best and essentially unsourced, and the alleged "breaches" discussed seem to all just be dumps of easily scrapable data or things third-party developers (not FB) left lying around. There's zero evidence whatsoever of actual breaches of FB servers here, which would be a major story covered by far more reputable sources were it true.

As far as I can best see, this is trying to sell people on VPN services for which the author gets a commission, given the embedded link to a "best VPNs" site...

[1] https://privacytips.jimdofree.com/
People just have different views on different matters which is okay. Flagging a post you do not agree with is fine. Shooting a man pinned to the floor is not fine.
I wouldn't say that I am great at stats either, but AFAIK this is mostly because of super high tail-latencies (usually the 99th percentile, commonly caused by garbage collection or cache misses) or because the latencies have multimodal distribution [1] (e.g. where you have a request fast path and slow path in the monitored system and so the latencies "group" around multiple points).

The average latency does not tell us much since it does not really represent anything meaningful - i.e. it is not the latency of typical user/request as you might expect since the average is being skewed by the extremely high tail-latencies [2] or by the multiple modes (the peaks in latency histogram). The typical latency would be more likely better represented by median latency (not in the multimodal distribution case afaik).

As for why not go just go with median latency: you usually need to make multiple requests in parallel and end up waiting for the slowest request of the group. The 95th, 98th or 99th percentile is commonly used to cover for this (sorry can't find a suitable reference). This is also preferable in case of the multimodal distribution (well at least for monitoring and/or general performance diagnosis purposes since you usually care about the worst/tail cases).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_distribution

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness#/media/File:Relations...
In many cases, the best schools for engineering also have pretty uneven gender ratios. When I got an engineering degree way back when it was about 1/7 women. (It's more even these days.)
Facebook = Malware
How to make sure to fail your startup
to be fair, twitter didn't delete it - only hid it.
Scotland. I did! I am lucky to have British citizenship via my mother (I'm Australian) so I have the luxury of moving here. No regrets. Also typing this from inside a hostel.
The worst part is when you hear people bring up the fact that "Gates and Jobs dropped out of college!"
Sorry, I forgot some people see nationalism as a bad thing. Why would you be offended by that. I would be very proud of my country if I was german.Like you said you care for the collective as a nation. In the US most people care for their "tribe" at most when they see themselves as a collective. I was contrasting with that, I know that even with immigrants Germany is very open but expects them to assimilate and become proper German. In the US whatever your native culture is you bring it with you and to the most part that's it, we don't even have a national language or ID.

Again, I think my wording has caused a misunderstanding and I do apologize.

Also,I don't know what the "whatsapp" people are.
I would like to under how you solved your feature engineering issues?
> You can’t buy guns without going through hunting training, getting certified and then they keep registration which links your hunting rifle directly to you

In Switzerland, it's very easy[0] to acquire a weapons, the requirements are:

- you must be at least 18 years old,
- you must not be subject to a deputyship or a supervision order,
- you must not give any cause to assume that you could harm yourself or anyone else with the weapon,
- you must not have a criminal record for violent or dangerous offences or repeated felonies or misdemeanours.

[0] - https://www.ch.ch/en/acquiring-firearm/
Well I don't advertise myself at all. I am searching for companies that are hiring remote employees and they don't have requirement to be located in US. I'm using remoteok.io, jobs posted on hackernews, some combination of googling and friends' recommendtions.
Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.