skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One strong advantage is how well it integrates with Drools so if you’re a Java shop and happen to be using Drools you can just drop in optaplanner and have it optimize around facts.

Because it’s Java you can use it with all the various libraries and any compatible languages that support Java libs like kotlin and Scala.
Hacking DDR3 serial presence detect (SPD) (2018)
This is more or less how MySQL works, hence it's lack of vacuum.
I don't totally agree with the article, but I think it's totally fine to give an ambiguous question in an interview, to see how the candidate handles it. Almost every real world project will involve ambiguous instructions.

Obviously you don't want to penalize the candidate for not reading your mind and guessing the definition you had in mind. But I do think it's fair to give extra credit to candidates who notice the ambiguity and ask for clarification. Done well, an ambiguous question can be an opportunity for a candidate to demonstrate a strength, rather than a trick to unfairly penalize someone.
Sounds like nextmv isn't going to be open source?
Not the same - yes I want that too, but I want something that auto-curates my music by genre / artist / whatever. My key point here being, I want the option to curate, but I don't want to be forced to curate.
I'm interested to know what parts are costly? I found it relatively easy to implement processes for 'right to be forgotten' and 'emergency breach notification' as well as the default opt-out of personal data and marketing. Not trivial, but not particularly expensive. The rest is exactly as you say, infosec best practice that my industry required in any case. The only expensive part I could see is right to be forgotten, that is if you expect to get a lot of requests for your particular application's use case.
This depends on the cost of the item, the risk associated with not having it, the cost associated with renting it, how wealthy you are, and so on and so forth. No single number makes any sense.

A plunger can probably expect <0.1% use of it's capacity. But being stuck without one really sucks, the cost to rent is... once you account for the spent traveling back and forth would be higher than the cost of buying, and as a result literally everyone just buys them.

On the flip side a 20 year old fast food worker with $0 in their bank account probably just plain can't afford to have 5x the housing capacity they actually use. That would bankrupt them. So they just don't do it.
First Confirmed Case of U.S. Coronavirus Reinfection
I work in HFT and was wondering what you had against market makers?
Anyone who has built a house off an architect's "plans" would probably feel right at home following a software design spec I'm sure.
>>> So what motivates people to plan for occasional peaks and idealized usage, rather than actual daily utilization?

>>> Ego is part of it.

The article held together well enough without the ad hominem.

Logistics is part of it. Renting a minivan in my locale takes a couple of hours, and must be planned in advance. The minivan that my family owned for 16 years wasn't exactly a status symbol, even when new.
Taskord v0.0.5-alpha is out now
They can use the rolling shutter in consumer cameras. The video has example audio recovered from a 60fps video taken by a consumer DSLR.
The real problem it's solving is people living different lifestyles and existing in different timezones, wanting to talk to each other on the phone, and not wanting their work or sleep interrupted.
256Kbps AAC and 320Kbps Vorbis both comfortably exceed the threshold of audibility for 99.999% of people 99.999% of the time. If you somehow cared about the difference between either of these (or uncompressed, for that matter) then you're not listening to music properly.

The days of 128 Kbps MP3s encoded with L3enc or Xing with horrific pre-ringing and squelched cymbals is long gone.
The issue is how else are you gonna get the attention of those people without going through a recruiter? Some, like you said, maybe able to do it. Some might have referrals.

But for a lot of people, recruiters reaching out or applying through a portal is the start of many new positions.
The description of Prop 25 doesn't include any details about the risk assessment model. This is the only doc I've found that does.
eh, there's not much evidence that HFT increases volatility. I work in HFT and in general, HFT decreases volatility. Of course the flash crash is a notable exception, but that would never happen today.
Telecom auctions have failed India
> They have silo'd themselves into whatever niche project or have been on maintenance mode on a piece of software for years and never evolve. Sometimes it's not their fault, their company has pigeon-holed them into whatever software and they can't escape for whatever reason.

I think your hypothesis is correct. In my experience, most of the devs I've seen in that position do it to themselves. They get comfortable in their part of the codebase and rarely venture outside. Instead of helping other devs ramp up in their codebase, they just close all the tickets out themselves since that's easier than actually getting someone up to speed. I've gotten close to that situation, but realized what was happening and worked with my manager to take on different projects. It definitely creeps up on you.
I love that nowhere in this announcement do they specify what exactly constitutes "denial" in this context.
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All I want is a static site generator that sits in an executable file in my project's directory and doesn't require any dependencies so that I can run `./ssg build` and have all of my Markdown files interpolated into my template files and put in their own directory. I don't want to have to install all of the dependencies for Ruby or Hugo or Blades, cool as this project looks. Are there any SSGs that fill that niche?

(A Python executable would be fine since pretty much every Linux computer has Python, but I don't want to have to deal with pip).
Charlie Was Black
Sure (on profanity, and edited). Sometimes forget my audience and who I'm talking to.

Mail-in-ballots are basically the norm where I'm from (Utah), we get a ballot, and drop it off at the city building. It's nice. Nobody complains on either side of the aisle here, it just works. If we were a swing state, I'm sure someone would complain if it meant more/less votes for 'their side'.

I lean left, the state leans right, it is what it is, but why can't the rest of America have such an easy system of voting?
I'm ignorant

How does a build trigger the serverless function to notify all of you? I kind of assume serverless means it activates on a timer or when you visit a specific URL. So a build script executes it by visiting a URL when it's finished? And the script executes from any internet connected machine?

Why is it better than having a VPS? I currently use a VPS for a few one off scripts. Cron does the timer ones and the URL ones are entries in a nginx config file. Actually that's half true I actually config an app I wrote to do it cause I didn't want to bother finding out how to do shellexecute on nginx
In general, HFT charges a lot less tax than the market makers of old. And for retail investors, HFT helps them a lot.
It's coveted by musicians and a number of other specialty applications.

Specialty groups are rather time agnostic. The Technics SL-1200 turntable for instance (look it up, you've seen it) hasn't changed much in 50 years and Technics brought it out of retirement because the demand for used ones was so high

So a 68020 is perfectly fine for these types of things. It's not a general purpose tool, it's a specific thing just like the Technics are for hobbyist and professional "turntablists" and not meant to substitute say Spotify
Well, in a way, home users do violate patents now.

It is not like anyone is looking all that hard.

Seeing an EULA on food doesn't seem like it will end well.

We are already struggling with who owns something. Software, in many cases results in what is essentially a rental without the advantages inherent in rentals, and lots of downsides.

Right to repair is a matter of growing importance.

Now food?

Frankly, I would much prefer do it at home get a broad exemption for self sufficiency reasons, if nothing else.

Arguably, nobody needs this food. I won't have anything to do with it.

Fine.

But the EULA will spread. Clearly someone has thought it time to maximize revenue in this way, and if they are successful, more will follow.
No plans to open source at this time.
Check out Django-Zappa. It’s Django that runs in a Lambda.
A very good point. Exchange the risk of a problem taking you offline, losing sales, for the risk of a problem not taking you offline, costing you a fortune.

That's a big selling point for DigitalOcean: you sleep easy knowing what your bill will be. If you have an unexpected spike in traffic--whether a great opportunity, a mistaken test run wild, or a DDoS--it doesn't increase your bill. AWS offers the opposite: no matter what happens, we'll keep you online and just send you the bill.
A 2 man-team with a project manager.

Man1: I'll work on your report.

Man2: I'll watch you work on my report.
> In the context of the article we are reading, this seems somewhat amusing. The entire trick, as presented, turns typing into an adhoc shorthand.

Yes, and I in fact said the same thing in the post you're replying to.

Typing competitions have existed for far longer than personal computers, and the value of typing fast was being able to produce a complete typewritten document. Steno machines coexisted, and had their own competitions, so the parameters of these things were set before it became possible to 'reconstitute' stenography into full text on an automatic basis.

All games have rules, and they're always somewhat-to-completely arbitrary. An "open category" would reduce to whomever can talk fastest, since text transcription is a basically solved problem and the sound sample can be slowed until it's in the pocket for the transcribing software to work on it. Steve Woodmore can articulate 637 words per minute: no one is touching that with their fingers.
Just curious, how did you deal with homonyms that get persistently misrecognized?

(I argue a lot with Alexa because she keeps getting stuff wrong even when I enunciate slowly. It is very annoying.)
I agree and disagree. I think it is indeed incredibly wasteful to buy something you will only use rarely. I myself am a minimalist; everything I own fits in my car, and if it doesn't, then I start throwing things away. I think this lifestyle is motivated by the fact that I'm young, single.

That said, I think people who have money have the right to spend it on whatever they want. It is totally valid to purchase something for the option to use it on-demand, regardless of the cadence of that demand. Why should I be discouraged from purchasing a cottage that I'll only use for one week a year to give my family a great vacation experience?

I think there's an idea here, though -- we should encourage re-use and renting things we own, but not force it. If sharing was as easy as possible wouldn't people... share more? Think about that.
> Ventilation: indoor pollution is usually many multiples of outdoor. You want a an MVHR (or MEV) system to exchange the air in the house for fresh air with low heat (energy) loss.

Can you expand on this? What is polluting the indoors? How can I verify it's true at my home?
Does anyone know if I can (or how I can) install SongShift v 5.1.1? Seems like that's the last version that'll allow moving playlists out of Spotify
The article is a record of history. Are we comparing now to centuries ago? It wasn’t a feudal society. Smaller kingdoms had a feudal relationship to empires during that era. There is sufficient historical record of Kautilya’s arthshastra.

To be honest, I am confused at this point. I don’t understand the import of your post. Sorry. Maybe it’s my deficit in understanding?

I posted the article to discuss land use and management/urban planning of that time. Would you like to comment on that?
Why Has Google Censored the Great Barrington Declaration?
> Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.

I thought the 'penalties' associated with trading aged shares were pretty clever. Among the rules for the LTSE [1] is that you get increased voting weight for your shares as they age (IIRC). I've no idea whether any of those will really help in practice. But it sounds like it's worth a try.

[1] https://ltse.com/
Maybe it's hubris, but I'm 99% sure I could run a homegrown worldwide CDN for the cost of one engineer salary. I'd be willing to take that bet from anyone who thinks it can't be done.
The heads of very small children are quite heavy relative to the child's size. The concern with a baby is not that they'll hit something, it's that the weight of their head relative to their body will result in spinal injuries.

Consider for instance the $34 million verdict in Texas against Dorel, which failed to warn against placing children under the age of two in forward-facing seats. The kid Cayden was properly restrained in the back seat, but the weight of his head alone was enough to result in spinal injuries that have left him partially paralyzed for life.

We used to laugh at my kid when kid tried to reach for things on the floor and then fell on their head due to the weight of the head relative to the rest of the body -- but that's why rear-facing and five-point is important for children under 2,3 years old.
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I would want to waken up so I could party
Thanks for the link, it's always good to know about similar alternatives.
It's the rare thing. I bet that if you go to any big tech companies, you will find that pretty much none of the engineers got hired by impressing a CEO
I'm not an expert but I am interested in the wisdom of regional and historical architecture for this sort of thing. Look at the old buildings where you are. How did they do it?

(You might get less out of this if you're in a place that boomed with air conditioning, but still there are lessons to learn from the indigenous architecture[1] of your region.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-Architecture-Peter-Na...
Original article here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
Eh, what's the point in collecting karma if you're not occasionally going to spend it on a bad pun or a good joke? It's not like it buys anything else.
I think the parent comment to yours was being sarcastic to the very top comment.
I take it to mean that absent some unexpected, external event (like a head crash, flood, meteor, EMP, etc...) data will be on disk.
I gave a talk on procgen last year where one of my slides attempted to sum things up thusly:

> In my experience good procgen is the creative application of boring algorithms. Your key weapons are imagination and iteration at the design stage - but the actual code tends to be simple, and fancier algos don't make your content any better.

> In contrast with ML, you live or die by how magical your data and algorithms are, but you have little direct control over the output so it's not a very creative process. You tend to pull the levers and hope that what comes out will be suitable.

To me that difference is why ML tends not to work well for procgen problems. With creative tasks we tend to have top-down design constraints that we want to impose (e.g. a minecraft village needs to fulfill various requirements for the game engine to treat it as a village), and the task is to make content "interesting" while meeting those constraints. With procgen this is straightforward - you start with the constraints, and creatively iterate on the "interesting". Whereas with ML you often get interesting for free, but if your output doesn't fulfill this or that constraint, it's not very obvious how to proceed.
I favorited your comment, but I'll be curious to see how rosy your outlook is in say 10 years time. My prediction: all the use cases you're using it for are not the ones that it's designed for (i.e. which pay AWS's bills). And historically, unintended/illegible customers have a way of being caught out as the vendor shifts between strategies.

Certainly, I hope you can be the remora to this shark for a long time to come. Just be aware of the benefits and drawbacks of the position you're taking.
Reminds me of my exposure to APL. So great. Why isn't it a mainstream language?

Probably many of the same reasons Haskel is not yet a thriving mainstream language.

90% of problem domains yield well to procedural/hybrid languages.

The rest could stand the additional rigor and even provability possible with pure FP languages.
Totally agree with Nadella. I think the world will settle into two modes of work and people will find the right one for them. Mine will be in an office. I need to be in physical proximity to my colleagues to have a satisfying work life.
Call me old school but I wouldn't trust a web programmer that doesn't know server stuff.
Lambda has pretty good support for versioning and aliasing so you can control that sort of roll out.
That analysis has been done, and there is a significant difference in that amount. You can back-of-the-envelope it yourself if you know that the average height of a woman in the US is 5'4" with a standard deviation of about 3.5".
The zoning restrictions are mainly due to Palo Alto (the neighboring city) and Santa Clara (the county) AFAIK. Stanford is an unincorporated area. But otherwise you point stands :-) It’s too damn expensive.
I don't agree to the authors points. Serverless is another tool in your belt, do you still need to make decisions with tradeoffs? Yes. Do the big 3 support most languages you need? Yes. Is vendor lock in real? Maybe but how many companies actually move cloud providers often, or ever? Most companies I know are still trying to get into the cloud. You can't run full applications in serverless? That's not the use case, again with decisions you need to make.
Bootstrapping JVM Languages
If you don’t mind sharing (I imagine it only increases business) what market is this that has plentiful, cookie cutter houses being declined?

As someone in a big city, daydreaming about picking the family up to a bigger living arrangement, hearing that there are perfectly-serviceable houses being ignored sounds like a great opportunity
Sure, that would be you censoring certain types of speech on your property.

It would have a pretty small effect on other people's ability to engage in speech. But it is an effect none the less.

If you owned a huge amount of property, though, then this would be a larger amount of censorship.
You're not alone. To me, side projects aren't a means to an end -- they are the end. They are the entire point. They're what I'd spend all my time on if I wasn't forced to work a day job, because the act of creating is what I enjoy the most.
Almost all usage for bricked from before it become a mainstream word was meaning that the bootloader on a device had become overwritten or corrupt meaning it is no longer possible to fix using the usual firmware flash method.

This is still fixable if you knew how to access the flash chip directly and had a backup of its content.

Never have I seen bricked strictly mean that hardware has blown up.
Likely due to the easy availability of mortgages during the 1990s and 2000s.
It may be precisely fabricated exactly as specified in the CAD plans. That doesn't mean the CAD isn't riddled with errors.

I've worked in traditional construction and the plans are never accurate with hundreds of omissions/errors/interferences. Those can be corrected in real time when something is field built, but are nearly impossible when the house ships wrong but nearly finished.

I can see it working with cookie cutter housing - first ~5 will be garbage as they find bugs then slap a thousand identical copies up cheaply. For custom it's a mess.
It depends on who you are and your habits.
> In the age of COVID, we are all worried all the time.

No, no we're not.

Corona is a contagious disease that most people will contract, and recover from just fine.

And in 3-4 years, we'll have another coronavirus pandemic.

Now that you wasted $5,000 on a machine, what are you going to do? Test yourself daily? Why?
> Just the documentation for backups on your Hetzner server is ridiculous.

Nothing a server template, code repo, and daily db dump cronjob can't solve
For every decent recruiter I've ever dealt with I got a thousand low effort spams from India or Pakistan from guys all named John trying to get me to take some crappy call center or tech support position 2 moves back.

It might actually be 10000 to 1. I HAVE worked with tech recruiters (I can think of a specific local company) that were good, but it's incredibly rare outside maybe a major metro.
Hey, author here! I've been working on infrastructure and database-y things at Heap for the last couple years, ranging from improving Postgres performance and availability to building out services (like this one!) and refactoring, encapsulating, and optimizing core systems.

I'll try to answer any questions about the post (technical or otherwise).

Edit: added more details about me.
look into heat pumps! they're basically magic :)
But are you including your own salary into that cost?

I believe he is comparing aws bills vs. engineer time+other hosting bills.
Shopify Subscription APIs
Can you make a GDPR request to get the data?
You’re comments come across to me as condescending, argumentative (without being productive), actively hostile to other users, and so one-sided you sound almost completely uninformed on the topic. All of which is unacceptable behavior on HN.

That said you’re not totally off the mark, but comments like “It astounds me that people on HN think that eliminating jobs without any thought to the social impact” is why you’re getting down voted.

How do you know now I or anyone else hasn’t given this thought? If you browse though old stories you’ll see tons of discussion on this topic.

My point of view on this is “It’s too late. The genie is out of the bottle and no amount of trying to avoid job losses is going to be productive.” Instead we need to work towards making our gross economic output support everyone. If basic necessities are all provided for (such as though UBI or some other idea) then no one will care if jobs are lost because then people can focus on figuring out how to productively use their time rather than worrying about finding a shitty, or even non-shitty, job so their family can eat and stay out of the weather. And without that we’ll continue hemorrhaging jobs until we reach a critical point where there will be an honest to god revolution in the USA and things will be violently reset (not corrected).
Had a colleague at one job who was from London and he was describing the steps he had taken to fix his car. I had to tell him he lost me at bonnet. Two countries sharing words.