skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say that's the right way to look at disagree and commit. It's more: I think solution A is better and you think solution B is better and we're going to make sure we communicate why we feel that way, but we both understand that making a suboptimal decision today and running full speed in that direction is better than being unable to make a decision or undermining the execution because someone doesn't agree with the decision.
I think that a lot of people were trained on photoshop, and interpret all deviations from the photoshop interface as suboptimal and not intuitive - because for someone who has exclusively used photoshop, they are suboptimal and not intuitive.

For people moving in the other direction, it's photoshop that's not intuitive. I don't want a single-window interface.
Definitely the easiest insurance line to get started in for a variety of reasons. Things like easier compliance, younger and uninsured demographics that are easier to market to, and reduced complexity

Regulators also don't put as much financial scrutiny in lines that don't have high caps (although they still scrutinize other aspects like consumer protection).

If a "renters only" insurance agency goes under, most guaranteed funds could pay it out without much consequence.
It is a whole different story if a major health insurance company were to go under.
Ask HN: Fastest server log analyzer tool you use?
Hi!

We are working on a blazing fast log analyzer tool for servers written in plain C.

I am wondering:

1. what are the known solutions you are using or are aware of in the industry?

2. what features/capabilities are a must have?

3. what features/capabilities are you missing and would like to see?
Please ask Zuck to resign while you're at it. Thanks.
Maybe those protesters are all sales guys or product managers.
1. Just apply and you will find out if you are welcome or not. Do not assume.
2. Asians are not diverse enough? There are plenty on the photo.
This reminded me of some wonderful writings from Roger Ebert, a brilliant man who also lost his ability to speak.

I cannot find it now, but I believe he wrote about this exact phenomenon: even with the best technology, you cannot communicate as fluently as a conversation demands, so you're relegated to the background.

Here's one of his writings I was able to find: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/i-think-im-musing-my-...
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This is from 2018. It was extensively discussed at the time.

The broad consensus was that it was the .NET runtime's spin implementation at fault, both because of the suboptimal use of the PAUSE instruction itself and because of the overall design that had excessive spinning in a few spots. Effectively, IIRC, they were putting the "pause" instruction on the hot path where they needed to exit the loop synchronously, and that's just wrong. Basically no one sane would look at a change log that said "exit latency from pause will now be similar to a pipeline stall" and done anything but shrug.

It's since been addressed in .NET, as far as I know. And I'm not aware of any other affected code.
True, but the resolution needed to perceive the edge as not sharp on a typical display is far higher than the resolution of the image itself.

Or reformulated: On a low-resolution LCD, an axis-aligned square will appear much sharper than a square drawn at any other angle.
Chess engine ratings are not immediately comparable to human ratings as they are extracted from different pools. Hydra played relatively few games so its rating estimation was somewhat approximate but it was clearly "superhuman" (GM Adams was n°7 in the world and only scored one draw in 6 games). Today Stockfish is awarded a rating of about 3500 [0] with a typical PC hardware but this rating comes from matches between engines and not with humans.

Regarding the argument of "knowing chess", it depends on you definition. I often use this analogy. Correspondence chess is to tournament chess what the marathon is to track running. They require different skills and training but I guarantee to you that a lot of understanding is involved in correspondence chess, possibly more than in tournament chess.

[0] https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/
The problem is that these only work in one position, and it generally only works for one body size/type.

(I had one when I was younger)

The ability to sit for extremely long periods of time without discomfort or damage is much higher in a modern office chair. Though being able to try one out to get the right size is sort of important.
I don't think it's about a single person being wildly offended or something, rather it's an internal decision by WOTC to about remove unnecessary references to what are easily taken as or explicitly are hateful depictions of groups of people. I don't think this is really any different than removing Confederate statues from public venues.
I dunno - looks fairly representative of the Silicon Valley population demographic. Maybe not so much an issue with this company?
I notice (as usual) under-representation of women. But that's endemic to the industry.
> The thing you're locking is often soon unlocked.

If the holder of the lock got preempted you could be spinning for a very long time.
How much have you mined?
jfyi, The Onion hasn't run on Python for a few years now. In 2017, they migrated over to Gizmodo's Scala stack.
Henry VIII's Mistress Identified as Unknown Tudor Woman in Painting
It's a funny coincidence you reccomend that book, since it's already in my library. Found it at a local dump by chance. Had no idea it was well-regarded.
That’s interesting and definitely helps make the numbers make more sense! :)

In your experience, do you find high value in having your tests be 80/20 (rough numbers) integration/unit vs the other way around?

I guess it depends on the programming style, but here it’s the other way around. Some minority of engineers here clamor for end to end tests every once in a while, but we’ve rarely found the difficulty of establishing the test harness to be worth the marginal gains in reliability. We’re also wary of the temptation to write e2e tests to test unit-test-level correctness, because of the implications on test performance, like you describe.

On our side, the closest thing we have to ubiquitous e2e testing is that we spin up and spin down one ephemeral database instance per test module (could be used by many test functions).
Google countersues Sonos for patent infringement
They are not free of charge, but it's not up to YOU to type in the value, right?

At least in Canada and Brazil, the fee is set up/calculated by the bank, depending on the type of transaction and value. So you choose the transfer type, input value, and they tell you the fee. And it's NOT going to be $2 million (at least for $100 transfers)
The point is having a guy in a suit directing 8000 people is silly.

Use a ship as an example. The crew is there to execute tasks. The cook cooks, the engineers keep the engines running. The Captain is the ultimate authority and is ultimately accountable.

He doesn’t peel the potatoes, but the sets the direction for where the ship is going and is responsible for the process of feeding his sailors.
In the ToS, add a charge of 2 guineas, 5 shilling, a sixpence and a peppercorn per request.
I dunno, maybe because many things turn black when they rot? Doctors and scientists dress in white or very light colors simply because it makes stains very visible, and it makes it easy to keep clean. I even asked a gay man why do they like white panties and socks so much and he said just that - it's a visible testament of hygiene.
A bunch of people are calling for defunding the police and not total abolition, although that is what this site says. Socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant has already pledged to bring legislation to cut the police department budget by 50%, and city officials are going over it in depth.
This is basically a restatement of the core of Robin Hanson’s years-long set of Overcoming Bias posts about “homo hypocritus”.

The short answer is status. The game you are playing with others (whether you want to or not) is all about political status. It’s not at all about objective successful outcomes. It’s about who can utilize politics as a resource to take what they want and entrench their hold of it.

For example in medieval times, decrying scientific progress as heretical served the purpose of allowing monarchs and religious figureheads to retain power. Who gives a shit how planetary orbits work if you can decapitate your enemies becuz god.

This is a very deeply ingrained evolutionary aspect of humans and we are not modern or sophisticated in terms of defeating it.

To expect otherwise is naive & frankly frustrating.
Here's a few of my faves:

Bob Dylan (Love Minus Zero/No Limit) https://youtu.be/ufbHfGU7WxA?list=LLlpi7Iw6jy-mv42RGAAiFVA

Sekret Sekret (New King Jack) https://youtu.be/DyoHMZo7uGA

Steve Winwood (Can't Find My Way Home) https://youtu.be/eoSn2Y-b6wI

Traffic (Dear Mr Fantasy) https://youtu.be/pSQ1akE2CcM

Joe Strummer (Johnny Appleseed) https://youtu.be/4IbMiqIdeME
I have an aeron and it has worked well for > 10 years.

I have tried a number of other chairs.

The only thing it doesn't do well is let you get way out of position, like being able tuck one of your legs under you and sort of slouch sideways.

I have noticed the prices going up recently though. You used to be able to buy a decent one at a used office equipment store for $200-300, but now the supply is low.
Dysfunctional organizations can still make boatloads of money, for a long time, longer than your functional organization can stay solvent.

Besides, should some 25 year old Mark Zuckerberg out there - the guy who really is going to take something from zero to billions of dollars - really be asking questions from (checks notes) the 21 year old Ivy League people he's hiring? What the hell answers do you expect to hear?

And then when you talk about people with lots of experience, are they going to take any risks? What kind of answer do you expect? "Sorry Mark, but we tried that at Friendster 10 years ago." How useful.

I don't really disagree with you. I'm just skeptical of any reductive framing of what executives do, most of all "Andy Grove's book," because that's a meme I've heard a lot. And while no one should ever go around crapping on books, reading is good, Andy Grove isn't going to have anticipated organizational structures like Valve's, a place where a lot of people are extremely happy and effective but where all the management books sort of go out the window.
Please don't confuse 'liberal' with 'leftist'. In terms of economics liberals can be almost every bit as conservative as republicans.

Neither democrats nor republicans represent the interests of the working class at this point in time.
That's also a reason why law school is good training for being an executive. It teaches you a process for asking the right questions, which applies equally to business as to a courtroom.
I agree with saving most of it. Plus make a budget. I like YNAB.
The CEO of Dropbox rebutted this post the last time it came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100352

My own impression was that the author was trying to justify his lack of leadership by distorting the definition of leadership advanced by Andy Grove.
well, globalization on neoliberal terms has continued to hollow out living standards in advanced countries while turning neocolonial countries into large sweatshops. the life expectancy in the US has fallen for 2 or 3 years in a row now largely as a downstream result of this. that is my understanding of one major concern from that.
Presumably you're talking about Agnes Martin, who had an exhibition at Guggenheim a few years ago. If you aren't my apologies.

She had a lot of paintings that look like empty canvas from afar but show lot of details up close [0]

You don't have to like her work, but dismissing her paintings as "full of shit" is, well, remarkably full of...

Minimalism was her artistic choice that spanned many decades, and who knows how much time she spent to master her pursuit. She was so into her choice, she sought out to destroy her earlier works [1]

She was recognized by her peers, who are more qualified than you and I in judging at the very least technique and dedication.

[0] - https://www.moma.org/artists/3787
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Martin
With thanks in part to the security community and part to Intel, the budget that can be spent avoiding a syscall just keeps increasing every year
@syste

Are these soft landing acquisitions as described in your handbook? Also will the technology be open sourced like Gitter was?
Not answer for the exact question, but I am trying to own a project and a software engineer and its much more bearable than a common job with the issues it comes.
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Pixel-aligned sharp edges were super important on low-DPI displays, but they are increasingly less important. A one-pixel line on a phone screen is tiny, so most designs will use lines of more than one pixel. A pixel-perfect 3-pixel line doesn't look very different from an anti-aliased 3-pixel line with arbitrary floating-point coordinates on a phone.
Thank makes sense! I had an experience where a redundant-processor project was taking quite a while (which they should). Some early Engineer who was promoted above their level wandered into the meeting. "Hey Adam, how long should it take to do blah blah". "Oh, maybe a few weeks" says Adam without any real idea what he was talking about. Project canned, people quit.

All because he was still trying to be the smart guy with all the answers, instead of all the questions.
X2Go was great for me also. Installation is quick (compared to xrdp), and screen loads faster.
Applying a negative modifier to opponents is “invoking stereotypes of thieving”...?

That modifier might as well come from outwitting or befuddling, particularly with a text that evokes mystery.

Sounds to me like this choice says more about the actual prejudices of whoever made it, rather than objective parameters.
My favorite part of this blog was the last paragraph where he created important distinction between common courtesies and real values. Nice read.
Why would they do that? Can a desktop Ryzen even be cooled in a laptop, especially together with GTX2080? o-O
A handful of incidents like these are being distorted and blown up by media that treats cop lies uncritically. In comparison, just a few nights ago, cops were beating people and filling the area with tear gas (banned under geneva convention) and it was seeping into residential homes so badly that even nextdoor is anti-police in that area now.
> like a music festival campground

Every generation needs a Woodstock. Burning man is not real enough.
> At the meeting, the two leads will present the one, correct decision that they have agreed upon.

Um... what happens if the two leads can't agree?

I've had this happen to me multiple times in my career: I was one of the "two leads". My counterpart was an idiot. Completely uninformed and unwilling to listen to reason, but willing to go to the mat for his own stupid ideas. That left me with only two options: acquiesce despite my firm belief that doing so would not be in the best interests of the organization, or break the algorithm and force the supervisor to make the decision.

Of course, I'm sure my counterpart felt exactly the same way about me.
Your mom knows you don't lie and that's why she endorsed you.

If I was a recruiter I would consider that a better form of endorsement than a random colleague who endorsed you because they expected some similar favor from you.
Any resource recommendations to learn this skill?
I am not finding that much information on the Stone-Throwing devils, but I think it could be a reference to the Muslim tradition of "stoning of the devil" in which small rocks are thrown by pilgrims at a wall. People who are racist against Muslims might question who is the devil. That the card is part of the Arabian Nights expansion does not help the cause.
I've found LinkedIn to be great for two things - becoming aware of companies/opportunities I wouldn't have heard of otherwise, and building relationships with recruiters so that when I'm ready to move on from a job, I already have ins at the companies they work with. So far, that has led to two jobs, although not my current one. But it's absolutely been worth having a profile.

I mostly use it as some other people have mentioned - having notifications for messages, and ignoring the News Feed and most other features. Once a twice a year, I update my resume, and update my LinkedIn as well, which is not much extra work, but is essentially really low-cost marketing of my skills and experience.

Of the messages I get, some aren't worth responding to - the "I have a job to fill using Java, and you used Java once, you should apply" type - but some are from recruiters who are willing to build a relationship and place you when the time is right, even if that isn't right away. It's often worth taking a 30 minute phone call with them, or meeting up for coffee or lunch.
US Download Speeds Keeping Pace with Console Game Sizes
That’s a tremendously insightful statement.

Engineers tend to define their value by the answers they can provide while in many situations it’s actually asking the right questions that counts.
CallStranger UPnP vulnerability exposes routers, gaming systems, TVs, printers
Researchers just announced the discovery of a UPnP vulnerability that impacts any UPnP device exposed on the Internet. The attack, called CallStranger (CVE-2020-12695), is being used for massive DDoS attacks , to exfiltrate data, and to scan ports from Internet-facing UPnP devices.

The attack takes advantage of a Callback header value in the SUBSCRIBE function so you can block all SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY HTTP packets in ingress and egress traffic for protection. DDoS protection can be configured to block NOTIFY packets too.
> Guys up there have no clue about average joe the coder/doer/whatever

They also don't have the full picture. They have their own agenda, which is usually taking _more_ managers under them, to inflate their own importance. All the while paying lip service to the overall company strategy.

When CEOs get frustrated that the wheels are not turning in the right direction (or fast enough), middle management is usually the reason. Lower management (and leaf) will be trying to implement whatever distorted message filtered through the ranks.
Great people deserve great recognition. Thank you.

May your works act as a seed to a tree whose shade you may one day enjoy.
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Same for Whatsapp and Wire.
I'm curious about how long of a delay a "next generation product" becomes a "previous generation product", whether that product actually gets ... launched ... or not.
I rest my case. So the cards are literally irrelevant and are out of print and means nothing to the game as it is, and yet we have to ban them?

Shouldn't they be working on more meaningful things that will help PoC like me? 1984ing a children's card games do not pay the bills and nor do they feed my family. Nor do they fix economic inequalities.

If anything, they just made those cards skyrocket in value. Those are collector's items now. Good job SJWs.
Yes. And middle management suffers from "too many degrees of freedom" in their decision making. They're trying to paper over the gap from their teams, to the executive suite. Without contact with the customer nor the board/investors (call it 'reality'), they can have too many solutions because, not enough data.

Some respond by retrenching - trying for the biggest budget and the fewest deliverables, so their stats look good. Which is ironically the worst possible outcome for everybody.
> You're anecdote about the "don't hack this" label is indeed clever and funny, and it's making a statement I can relate to. It's like hacking the event, in a way.

I took away something entirely different from it (I took it as a given that the vending machine was indeed art because someone had proclaimed it to be so, and proceeded to think about what it might have to say within the context of the space and the event), but there you go.

The thing is that simply saying that something is "artless" isn't interesting - someone claimed it is art, and they did it for artistic purpose, and people are thinking about it as if it were art, so why isn't it? There's a big difference between saying that it's a stupid reaction to its context or that it's snobbish, and that it's artless.

I really enjoy witnessing the tagging and graffiti around the railways in the cities I've lived in, and feel there's definitely art in claiming the space in that way, but others feel it's spoiling the view and artless. Which of us is right?
As a counterpoint, I generally prefer using MIT repos/libraries because cognitively I don't need to think or worry about how/when/where/underwhatconditions I can use the repo. I don't contribute as much as I could (due to my employer) but the little that I have and the few repos I've made have all been under MIT because I want to perpetuate this cognitive freedom for others.
This looks cool! The BEAM absolutely needs languages on it with a solid functional type system.

Curious to see what interacting with the OTP with its callbacks actually looks like.
XGBoost in iOS App
Notes on reading are like writing: embrace brevity. There is a difference between intesting and essential. Too much noise will only dilute the important bits.
I can't find a specific criticism of the GIMP in any of your posts in this thread. Saying something is bad and not professional is in no way actionable. It's also very easy to disagree with.
Given my experiences in the middle, it is very difficult to hire people who can answer questions.
Yeah I forgot about that weird US thing. Funding local Police with tickets is quaint, almost absurd.
You could get in via a different route. Since you are a BI person learn the data cleaning scripting that's been in high demand. After that you should be able to transition.
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What country do you live in? Which industry? Is the company they making the world better, or worse?

I've never made much money, not more than my parents, so never had that problem! but I can sympathize. It should be a dream but feels like a nightmare. I guess now you can help your dirt-poor family, friends, town, country. Or you can always go back to 'honest' work that feels more real to you. Good luck.
Gypsy is a racist term for an ethnic group called the Roma or Romani, who have long suffered from prejudice in Europe, and whom the Nazi's killed in the Holocaust along with Jewish people and other groups.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide
This is exactly how I justified my Embody purchase
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This is exactly how I justified my Embody purchase. *I couldn't really afford it. But I can afford back problems even less.
This is a bunch of leftists forming a squat in territory consciously ceded by local police. Hardly a national security issue. The city continues to provide the area with utilities, clean-up services, port-a-potties, and EMS when requested.

Whether or not the city planned on this, it's a nice clean way to quarantine the most radical protest elements in a playground that lets them live out their revolutionary fantasies in an environment where they can either be constructive, or hurt one-another away from everyone else.

In a month, they'll probably cut services and start pushing them out without making a huge deal of it.
The name IS problematic.