skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A completely different, but much more enjoyable environment and much more friendly people.

You must have found a neat subculture in Java - not been my experience at all.

The "shared agreement" thing - I've moved between multiple Java environments over the years, and there's never any agreement between companies on the 'right' way to do Java.

Open communities in Java - I've often felt they require a huge amount of tribal knowledge of their 'ways' before they'll deign to answer questions in helpful ways. Mention that you can do X in perl or php or ruby, and you're often dismissed out of hand.
> I mean, who uses mysql_real_escape_string when you have PDO and bindings ?

You've made my point. A person with tribal knowledge probably would NOT. Any new user coming from reading an older blog post or perhaps a PHP book would have no idea that that "older approach" is out of date.

Furthermore, the more precise point I was trying to make there was as a language designer, how on earth would you be okay implementing something like that? (Remove my example of `mysql_read_escape_string()` and insert any of the more WTF features of PHP.

Lastly, see my comment about being able to build meaningful, fast, cool things with PHP. I never want to tear down anyone's hard work. (Rasmus/Zeev/etc included).
Was thinking the same...school donations maybe?
This has been around for years, what makes it front-page-of-HN-worthy now?
Well, Dragon looks a whole lot more comfortable than Soyuz, though it hasn't nearly got the same track record yet. And SpaceX is already in the market for space tourism and commercial projects (witness the Tom Cruise movie-in-space thing, which could be seen as either or both).

The current Russian development projects Rogozin describes could flip that back -- but a lot of the speech is how those have, to this point, been moving awfully slowly...
I have only seen a sentence or two mentioned in Bloomberg, etc. But it’s widely known that Intel haven’t delivered a true generational upgrade since Skylake.

We are on 14nm+++++ or something?
There's a difference between a SpaceX engineer not getting paid top-dollar and making below McDonalds janitorial staff wages.

However you are not wrong.
International Team Develops Open Source Ventilator (Zoom Presentation)
Thursday, June 11 at 9AM PDT

RespiraWorks invites you to a conversation with the volunteers who are inventing an open-source ventilator to assist in the fight against COVID-19.

We are a group of over 100 doctors, engineers, web developers, artists, project managers, and software programmers in 6 countries, all working together remotely. We will talk about where we were when the pandemic started, how we found each other, how we came together to design a ventilator, what skills we are using, and how we are collaborating with so many people around the world.

https://respira.works/
They are planning for around 30 launches in 2020, and 50 in 2021
It's crazy how similar pop music sounds from all over the world. The language differs, but the energy of the music is similar in a lot of different countries.

I wonder if this is because everyone is using digital audio workstations like Ableton or Logic now. It used to be that different places had different instruments; and it would take years to become an expert. But now, the DAW is everybody's instrument.
Make computations on large cross joined Spark DataFrames faster
.Net? Absolutely. Tools? Oh yeah. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS? Probably. The sheer breadth of things you need to know to stay relevant? Not so much - it's just too much.
Don't monitor your remote employees, invest in trust instead
save that for the more frequently reposts :)
Valid points.

Technically: Pairing this with unmetered VPS (Scaleway) for VPN could be good solution

Hotspot Client -> Hotspot -> Wireguard VPN -> Scaleway VPS

That way the client always has hidden your ip and traffic encrypted.

$3/month for 200/Mb
https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/
> It was the laziness that got him.

> Sabu had always been cautious, hiding his Internet protocol address through proxy servers. But then just once he slipped. He logged into an Internet relay chatroom from his own IP address without masking it. All it took was once. The feds had a fix on him. (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/exclusive-unmasking-the-worlds-...)

Fascinating that an auto-login setting on his mIRC client probably led him to be caught.
The first is characterizing a broad collection of research findings since the early identification of the phenomenon, the other the particular survey.
I've had a number of dedicated servers with 10G unmetered bandwidth (and still do have access to one), and its difficult to find good uses for them. A younger, more idealistic me did run a large exit node with support from an organization with legal backing, but this still lead to emails and calls from various countries Anti-Terror police forces. Would not recommend without serious consideration and talking to your ISP.
The US is the country with the highest ratio of their population being imprisoned.

The idea behind their long sentences is that if you know you get super long sentences you won't commit crime. Rehabilitation isn't in the agenda. That this is known to not work well is ignored by large part of the government.

The lawmaker in the US panicked when making hacking laws as they didn't understood it and people told them that is viable that expert hackers can literally singlehandedly start amagedon by having nuclear missels. Through unreasonable penalties for hacking are not unreasonable.

Or at least that's how it looks to me.
MIT Improves Memristor Device Performance Using Silver and Copper
All software has two domains of tacit knowledge. One is the domain where the software is applied, one is the knowledge of how to build software that maps to requirements.

You'll always pay for acquiring the applied domain knowledge, you can save on paying for the software engineering knowledge acquisition.

If you're smart, you have both a senior and a junior engineer so you can transfer the software domain knowledge, because acquiring tacit knowledge by working under a knowledgable expert is... not free, but close to it.
That might be true for first time offenders but what about repeat offenders? They can't be said to not be familiar with the possible judicial consequences of their actions.
there is an implementation in Firefox (although I don't know if it matches the current state of the spec draft) that unsurprisingly is gated behind an about:config flag.
This seems like a missed opportunity to have developed an AI model that works on AI models, i.e. converting Tensorflow models to PyTorch and vice versa. That would have been much more fun to see than converting Python to C++ and vice versa. It's impressive but recursively applying AI to AI code seems much more fun even if it's just a translation process.
This looks the mindset to starts a bootstrapped startup.
Build a solution for a problem you (or companies in your industry) have. It could be several iterations of changes until to reach a product-market fit but don't give up until you succeed.
I'd also recommend Libre Tools for Teaching

https://hz.mit.edu/thoughts/teaching_with_libre_software.htm...

which discusses the tools that were used to run one of MIT's introductory programming course online (due to coronavirus).
I'm not an expert and have forgotten most of my aerodynamics classes but I believe it's related to shockwave formation on the wing tips or possibly pitot tubes to measure airspeed as a function of pressure changes
Haven't they been trying 10nm for years? It was supposed to come out by 2015.
If books can only be created by human free will, and evolution does not have free will, then that implies DNA must have been generated by something like a human. Aliens?
I think in this instance "instruction set" means "set of supported instructions" instead of "architecture".
IBM did this with the PowerPC chips used in the Playstation 3. It was a development headache but part of that was the low power cores were extremely limited... no shared memory so you had to DMA data over and double buffer. They ran mighty fast though. It was a lot like programming a DSP really. If this is anything like that I would expect only some workloads to be pushed to the small cores in a similar way to the way stuff is pushed to GPU today. Frameworks will pop up to make it easier for developers but it will be rough at the get-go.
> LRADs have been a part of anti-protest tactics since the mid 2000’s, when they were adopted by police after being used as a crowd control tool by U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those who stand by idly while America does this to other people should remember that what we're inflicting on them will be inflicted on us tomorrow.
The cost will go down in future years as you resubscribe. I think that works on the monthly as well as annual subscriptions. The entire toolbox for me is now... $140/year I think (I use data grip, web storm, phpstorm, IntelliJ all regularly)
That model jet started production in 1952, so probably doesn't have much electronics or fancy materials.

Modern machinist tools are widely available and not totally unaffordable. I'd guess the current owner probably made a lot of their own replacement parts.
Can you please elaborate what movies i can't get at amazon?

I'm serious.

I'm only aware of this issue for specific smaller docus which haven't been aired much and not much interest exists. I had to buy that from different countries etc.
Yes. Look up space diving. There have been old Popular Science (Popular Mechanics?) articles on it and speculation in the space community about a new sport if/when a space tether is possible.
Ask HN: How to Improve at Coding Interviews
I've been actively struggling with FAANG interviews. Came to a few realizations I wanted to share:

- As much as they tell you it's about showing how you "think", that's only true if you get to the solution with very little help
- It's mostly luck that you'll get questions that you've seen before while practicing
- It seems like most companies are using Leetcode medium/hard now for anything that isn't a new grad
- You're racing against the clock to find the trick to the question

First point, many times I would get stumped and interviewer offers hint. The moment the interviewer needs to offer you a hint, it's likely you're done. Unfortunately the bar seems to be really high in that regard. This might be a bit of luck, where you get a compassionate enough interviewer who understands that nerves always come into play, but who knows.

Second point, it really builds from the first point. The more problems you do, the easier it is to pattern match, and the more likely you are to not get stumped or need hints.

Third point, I think that things like CCTCI and LeetCode have essentially forced companies to raise the bar. Now everyone will grind leetcode to get through, so it creates a feedback cycle where interview committees think that their questions might be too easy, so they need to raise the bar.

Finally, you only really have about 15-20 mins to solve a problem in a given 45 min interview. You lose about 5-10 mins of chat with the interviewer. You're left with 30 mins, of which you probably need to think through the problem for about 10-15 mins to find the optimal solution. DON'T bother implementing inefficient solutions. Others will have grinded leetcode and will "figure" out the optimal solution in a few minutes. If you can't do same, you've likely lost the interview at that point unfortunately.

Beyond that, any tips here to help a fellow developer? Any inside perspectives that suggest what I'm saying is completely biased and wrong?
I doubt you will need to recompile, although doing so is often a good idea as new compilers can use new instructions/optimizations.

I’d bet money that the different ISAs are full x86 and a subset of x86 which is a great idea. X86 has a lot of old instructions that almost No one uses. Perhaps the small cores will trap and move to process to the big core if it uses an old instruction.
Many smaller PHP web sites are deployed on VPSes and managed with CPanel or Plesk control panels. None of what you describe is necessary. The web server is pre-configured and PHP settings can be easily changed. Even setting up PHP on Ubuntu or CentOS is a 5 minute job. Tweaking configuration settings for max upload, max post size, etc. are very common and well understood.

Once everything is in place, most deployments are as simple as copying the new build over and changing a symlink. No process restarts, nothing.
This is most likely against the terms of service of the Internet provider.
He doesn't have to explicitly ask for it. That's what the whole piece is about.
What does it take to now use this name?
Dear bloggers. I hate it when you spend several paragraphs explaining your personal reasons for wanting to write about a topic, particularly when those reasons have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Don't talk about it, be about it.
Ask HN: What companies are doing a good job of remote dev?
What are people's experiences so far with companies in our industry making the transition to remote work? And who is happy with how their employer has handled the transition, if they weren't already doing fully remote? And who is keeping the remote work option available for after the COVID crisis is over?
I don't know about Onkalo, but the US's proposed disposal site is in a solid rock mountain in a desert.

And yes, commenters in this post are saying that the casks will leak and the uranium will float up to the surface: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477854

Re: "underground isn't dry" (HN is rate limiting this thread)

Yes, it is. These story facilities are built in bedrock. You seem to be under the impression that these digs are in some random back yard. They're not. They're built in places with no groundwater and no geological activity. The only way this waste is getting out into the environment is through human intervention. I have indeed read through the waste storage plans. I suggest you do the same.

Yucca Mountain's cancellation is entirely due to political posturing, not feasibility.
Those numbers are quite impressive.

YOLOv4 -> YOLOv5

Inference time: 20ms -> 7ms (on P100)

Frames per second: 50 -> 140

Size: 244mb -> 27 mb
Microsoft June Patch Tuesday Fixes 129 Flaws in Largest-Ever Update
Is it possible to run these models in the browser, something similar to tensorflow.js?
Please support them, such an important infrastructure that is undervalued.
I would add that anyone who is planning on moving into management should also avoid joking like this.

I once worked with an engineer who had a lead that would joke all the time about firing him. As a lead he had no authority to fire anyone but it was well known that he wanted to transition into a management position. Within two weeks of the lead actually becoming a manager, the engineer left the company for another job.

I remember speaking with the engineer about it after he left and he told me that he knew it was a joke but it still made him slightly uneasy. He wondered whether there was some grain of truth in the jokes. He wanted to make sure that he was leaving on his terms.

The take away that I took from that was if you're going to go down the management path, consider everyone a potential direct report and communicate accordingly. The joke that you're making as peers can take on a different meaning the day you become their manager.
Just new managers?
Thank you for doing this. I wish "top critics" was a search option on Prime (but their Roku interface is just abhorrent).

There was a time when I hoped Netflix would do something similar: click here to see your favorite critics film list, but since Netflix has lost the streaming rights to soooo many films compared when they first started streaming ca. 2007, this is not doable. (Even DVD rights in most cases: films that are in my "Movies You Rated" queue from 2003 are no longer in Netflix's library.)
There have not really been a lot of major breakthroughs in meta-learning in the last year, as far as I am aware. The paper is basically saying there was not a lot of progress in the 3 years before that either.

All in all, nobody really has a clue on how to do meta-learning right (or I am not aware of their work). There is progress being made on benchmarks, but some argue that progress is not really tackling the real issue at hand, i.e. learning to learn. Moreover, the current common benchmarks are not really good at untangling the progress in deep meta-learning from the progress in deep learning in general.
would love to know what the model is that lets these penetrate the mass market

I buy mine because I'll jump through any hoop to not carry around a fortune 500 in my pocket

For the consumer market -- runnability of android? hardware quality? low price? Some compatibility factor that only an open company can hit?
Switched to DDG ages ago. I was shocked when I realized "I don't use Google to google."

But yeah, Google has become grocery store checkout-line tabloids.
I'd seriously doubt any court will consider a defensive move like deflecting sound waves while under duress as an assault.

On top of that,the effectiveness of a single point-source falls with the inverse square of the distance so the effectiveness of this "assault" would likely be minimal.
> Not sure why every time this topic comes up someone has to mention it as if it’s some sort of Firefox secret sauce

If you're not sure I can clarify that for you. I was responding to someone talknig about ddg, and I was showing a better way of doing it.
I didn't know that it's possible with Chrome because I don't use it.
Sample size of 1
That's not usual, that's just Samsung's incompetence.
Exploring Knowledge Captured in Probability of Strings
Yeah, they made the most popular PyTorch implementation of YOLOv3 as well so they're not entering out of the blue, though. https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3

The author of YOLOv3 quit working on Computer Vision due to ethical concerns. YOLOv4, which built on his work in v3, was released by different authors last month. I'd expect more YOLOvX's from different authors in the future. https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Yes, the key point is AWS actually tries to enforce these non-competes. If you are past a beginning engineer you'll be in terror of amazon suing you if you leave. All my friends (who are experienced) have lived in worry after they left. Noncompetes are a terrible, horrible idea.

The Washington state legislature considered legislation blocking them. They got noncompetes removed for sandwich makers (companies literally made people making minimum wage sign non-competes!), I think the threshold was 100k or something. But amazon pushed very hard. Tell your wa state leg rep that you want to end noncompetes.
As mentioned in your link, that's ultimately against ARM's requirements for big.LITTLE and was due to buggy Samsung patches. A fixed kernel only exposes the subset of features available on all CPUs.
I would say, yes. The book put us all on a common footing; it seems to me that we were all on the same wavelength if you like.

Before the start of the project, none of us were acquainted with any of the others.
That is more or less what my current manager does. He's the best that I've worked with.
Ignoring everything else, this will add a lot of latency, unless OP is located close to Scaleway’s DC.
There is always implied competition when it comes to space since its something that only the "richest" countries can do, especially crewed spaceflight
So, critics are for the movie-privileged? Seems to be an upper-class thing if one can watch a lot of movies to the point that things become "boring".
I'm pretty sure financial incentives are the exact opposite of what Wikipedia needs.
Maybe, maybe not. Google lawyers did not respond to the lawsuit on his behalf; an independent law firm did.
Yeah, using prestissimo makes package installation sooooo much faster. My Laravel project with over 100 dependencies downloads in under a minute, where it was like... 10 minutes before
What about the moral matrix problem? Given a finite set of matrices with integer entries, determine if you can multiply them in some order, possibly with repetition, to get the zero matrix. It's proven undecidable for "a set of six or more 3 × 3 matrices, or a set of two 15 × 15 matrices" at least according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undecidable_problems . Is that because it incorporates the integers or something?
A lack of flowing rivers carrying sediment to the lakes probably helps the lakes, there is less mud to fill them up.
That a service should have it all is not an unreasonable demand

Yes it is, especially when you said that it is a requirement for a service to have a certain list of movies, and then admit that that no such list exists. Therefore, a service can never meet your stated requirements (and therefore, you've created a self fulfilling framework to justify your piracy of certain movies). If you're playing so fast and loose with what constitutes a list of great films, then you can subscribe to the Criterion Collection and call it a day.

it is peculiar that you chide someone for "justifying piracy"

You said piracy of certain films was ok because of their lack of inclusion in a service didn't meet your requirements, requirements that could never be met. I'm saying it's wrong to knowingly create unrealistic requirements and justifying piracy based on that.

If you're going to change your argument to say that certain films should be free to all, due to certain significance to the public, that's a different stance (and one I'm more sympathetic to).
The hardware to use it is pretty cheap these days, a 10G nic is about $13 on Ebay. A 10G switch is $200-400, and a ~10G router is now $380 from Ubiquti (will only do ~8.5Gbps right now).
The Cell was very different, and horrendously hard to program. The SPUs had no direct access to memory and had to be fed via DMA transfers coordinated from the PPUs.
I understand quite well the nuances that exist from one culture to the next, but I still feel the need to stand by my point and agree with the author: if you're a manager, maybe don't joke around about terminating people from their jobs-even in jest we don't know what mental faculties that kind of "joke" will activate in the recipients mind and it's best to just eschew these comments altogether because it's just prudent and decent behavior for someone looked to as a leader, and leaders don't actively or deliberately make commentary that stigmatize those under their ward.

So on the one hand, sure, cultures are different between workplaces and industries, on the other hand, I really don't need anyone making smarmy assessment about my nationality or making insinuations about people of my nationality and our ability to comprehend irony and sarcasm to empathetically intuit the point made in the article.
Just recently IBM announced with a loud PR move that the company is getting out of the face recognition business. Guess what? Wall Street doesn't want to keep subsidizing IBM's subpar face recognition technology when open source and Google solutions are pushing the state of the art.
A meaningful part of what I found useful was that I knew ~<10% of the content. It was 8 hours effort (Tuesday+Thursday 1 hour lunchtimes for four weeks, including all videos, quiz's, note taking (on the phone I was watching it on), and tests), and I'm now sure I know how to study effectively.

I think one working day is worth it to make sure you're up to date.

I also found the working memory, and memory information in general very informative and helpful.