skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intellij just seems so incredibly bloated and slow to me. I still think older Visual Studio versions (not vscode) as the high water mark for any IDE I've ever used.

I remember lots of talk how intellisense might be harmful
http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind...
We should talk and listen. They don’t want to be homeless. They want something else. What? Provide that.
> If you want to shoot a rocket at something, why try to fly it through water in the first place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPK-6_Vodopad/RPK-7_Veter

Actually, and anti-sub weapon, and very "funny" one. Apparently, it was puzzling NATO intel analysts up until the collapse of the union.

Launches underwater, like a torpedo, fires an SRB, maneuvers out of the water, flies to withing few kilometres of the target, and turns into torpedo again.

It originated from a no less eccentric weapon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metel_Anti-Ship_Complex

An ASROC lookalike, with a twist. In it, the torpedo, and the carrier rocket both carry a warhead.

So, in an anti-shipping mode, the ship gets hit, first, by the missile, and, then, it's torpedo, so as to maximally confuse the enemy.
A Byte magazine editorial praised the newly launched PC as being the "Rosetta Stone" of computing for offering such a choice in operating systems. In practice, with PC-DOS being 5 times cheaper than the other two it was a standard from the start.

I mostly used QNX with PCs myself until Linux came along. So though it took a long time, PCs did eventually run nearly all known OSes.
The OKC metro is also 1.5 million people. The two are very comparable by population/size. It doesn't detract from the point that Helsinki isn't a large city. I'm giving regional context to Americans that if you don't consider OKC large, you shouldn't consider Helsinki large.
To be fair, a windy rainy winter in Helsinki can feel much harsher than a colder but calmer and snowier one farther north.
Helsinki is the capital city and cultural center of a nation. The best of the best in Finland live, work, and perform there.

For cities, as so many other things, it's not all about size.
Ure being diseingenius. Helsinki is 650k, but actually it's a tri-city with Espoo and Vantaa, going over 1M population. That's more than SF in a similar area.
What's really wild is when they launch these from the side of ships. The missile/torpedo starts above the water, dips into the water then launches out, flies above the water then eventually dives back in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dy90rzZNY
Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I'd quite like to be, eating breakfast or dinner, or snack lunch in the hall. Finland, Finland, Finland... Finland has it all.
> Now that we have enriched the IAM data in the graph, we can use Cartography’s Drift Detection feature to let us know via Slack alerts whenever the list of Redshift admins changes, and that we should investigate why this list changed.

This seems wrong. I wouldn’t call changes in the Redshift admins list “data drift” and seems rather deterministic.
Net neutrality eliminates the ability of an operator to discriminate and offer uncapped data or higher speed passes to just YouTube.
> They have ambulances in the US too.

We were talking about costs. In the US, calling an ambulance is not guaranteed to be free.

OP claimed that as a young, healthy expat, you don't benefit from a system where your tax payments finance health care.

I showed examples where a young, healthy expat directy benefits from this system, by having medical emergencies that would potentially bankrupt you in the US.

Not sure I followed your point here.
What are you even talking about this is completely false.

It doesn't even snow anymore really.
Maybe it’s good to see these issues rather than pretend they don’t exist.
Just want to let the Screenlane author know, since they're bound to end up over here: I like your site, and I have one issue with it. For some reason, the page is not "focused" when I first load it, so I can't scroll with the keyboard until I "click" on an empty area. As a no-mouse user, this is a moderate impediment to my using it.
It's this way because American individualism is a cult of selfishness. People are dogmatic when they need to be logical.
It's less cold and snowy in Helsinki than most Canadian cities.
At least the last one we have a plan to win.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google/Facebook release election polling results?
They already proved themselves with Cambridge Analytica, so I'm assuming they knew the real stats possibly weeks before the polls closed.

Is it privacy laws? What we get instead is obviously systemic activist polling which corrupts public perception.

Lesser of two evils?
Also there’s this argument

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_to_War
The idea of a more equitable society will be delusional for Americans
We can do both. This post is not helpful or productive as it trivializes the argument it responds to and serves as a diversion rather than a productive response; it’s a red herring argument.
I met a guy walking home in the TL, he had hitchhiked from a trailer park in North Carolina to SF. His neighbor in the trailer park made amateur porn websites, so he pretty much learned web development purely in the context of pornography. He was addicted to meth and came to SF looking for a job and the free methodone treatment. His laptop got stolen so I gave him an old Macbook I had lying around and told him to check out Codecademy.

I was hoping to get a feel-good story out of it after reading about Leo (https://www.businessinsider.com/leo-the-homeless-coder-2015-...), but the truth of the situation is he simply wasn't skilled or educated enough to actually learn computer science or even get past a phone interview (meth really ruins one's ability to maintain a train of thought). Somebody told him the legends of high-paying tech jobs in SF, and reality was a harsh teacher like it is to many people everywhere. He lived in shelters and on the streets for a while until he lost his phone, which was my only way of connecting with him. Haven't seen him on the streets for years and no idea what ended up happening with him.

My point being that people have really complex reasons for being homeless in SF and it's hard to put everyone into distinct groups, but for the most part your camps describe at least 90% of homeless people I've seen.
That's unfortunate to hear. Thanks for the info.
Is there something like this but that does markdown to ePub?
Perhaps you're looking for <defs> and <use> elements?
Here's one report I used for a presentation. The quote of interest:

"Over the last 12 months, 75 per cent of the most active “buyers” of $100m+ technology companies have been PE firms. This is despite the fact that the combined cash balances of the “Big Five” tech companies is an eye-watering $330 billion. Today’s most active tech buyers are private equity firms like Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, and Vista Equity. Not Google, Facebook or Amazon."

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/01/07/1546862666000/Guest-p...

One of the things that is not obvious to people coming from the VC world is that once the company has gone from VC to PE, it's likely going to get flipped several more times from PE to PE. At a guess, I'd say 3/4 of what I look at are one PE to another. Depending on the firm, they will sell every 3 to 7 years or so.

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This is an urban legend and gets claimed in every major city.

San Francisco has great weather, lots of well off people to panhandle from, and treats the homeless relatively better than its neighbors. It really is that simple.
Passion, luck and sweat saved some of North America’s rarest plants
Buggy App – Simulate performance problems
Also it was the defense spending that created the conditions for Silicon Valley.
I've often looked for a simple human readable file-based DB-like system like this. Are there other competing packages like this?
> All of that to deploy a bunch of standard applications in a single server

usage: deploy_app "commit message, push right to master!"

deploy_app () {
git add --all :/
git commit -m "$1"
git push

ssh user@server <<EOF
cd app/ &&
git reset --hard &&
git clean -df &&
git fetch &&
git reset --hard origin/master &&
sh scripts/deploy.sh
EOF
}

deploy.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# java
sh scripts/rebuild.sh java-api
# node.js
sh scripts/rebuild.sh api
sh scripts/rebuild.sh cron
sh scripts/rebuild.sh ui
sh scripts/rebuild.sh windows-api
sh scripts/rebuild.sh ws
# terraform
sh scripts/apply.sh
# nginx
docker restart nginx
# sql
sh scripts/migrate-database.sh

Rebuilds Docker images, taints the Terraform Docker resources
I'm curious how this interacts wit the First Amendment, especially if the circumvention itself is legal.
> Ure being diseingenius. Helsinki is 650k, but actually it's a tri-city with Espoo and Vantaa, going over 1M population. That's more than SF in a similar area.

Helsinki alone is almost twice the area of SF, Vantaa is more than twice SF’s area, and Espoo is closer to three times SF’s area, so, yes, that tri-city is more people than SF, but, no, it's not “in a similar area”.
We just released Storytime last week in beta, so it's still quite basic in its feature set :P What kind of hooks would you like? (e.g. on certain events, trigger certain callbacks?)
It's accurate, though. When I am evaluating devices to buy, a metric I care about is "after I buy this, how long will it remain up-to-date with security patches?" And the answer to that question is "on the day that you buy it, it is already several months behind on security patches and will not improve." That metric is not the be-all-end-all of support, but is meaningful, and low or negative values have the correct interpretation in that context.
Grep can search recursively:

grep -Er 'foo[123]' --include='*.java' .
I believe you but I've honestly never heard of anybody suffering "random cellphone death" - Apple or otherwise. Everybody seems to break them or upgrade them long before that.
"shouldn't" is also debatable to include, because managing itself is a full-time job
This is mildly misleading. RIAA's argument is mostly about the marketing for use with copyrighted content. The statute clearly doesn't say what EFF is saying RIAA thinks it says, and I don't see any indication that RIAA actually thinks or claims that interpretation.
The homeless tend to congregate where they're treated better.

The cities that treat the homeless better, when confronted with a new influx of homeless, work to confront the problem with more spending and social programs, and the cycle continues.
> For all of these reasons, it would be nice to have a version of scp that doesn't suffer from the current command's problems. As it turns out, Jakub Jelen is working on such a thing; it is an scp command that uses the sftp protocol under the hood.

I believe this is the right path to go. If the compatibility or feature parity (e.g. backticks) is a concern, make that feature require options or envvars.
I agree that the scale of damage is greater. I just caution anyone grouping people based on belonging to a category. Being rich doesn’t mean you polluted more than others. Al Gore is rich, but he was kind of focused on that issue.
Checks at runtime are also a good idea, but yes, very different from static dependent types.

There's some interesting work on making such contracts work well in a lazy language with higher-order functions.
Agree, as a Bay Area SWE, health-care is not a problem as many companies give you very good insurance, HSA, dental and vision for free or with family (wife + 1 kid) 1K per month.
> No, 1201 says, among other things, that it is a violation of the Copyright Act (which may only carry civil liability, so not necessarily "illegal")

Illegal (“contrary to or forbidden by law”) , but not necessarily criminal.
and subsequent layoffs posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218036

That's when I started recommending clients make plans to move to another provider
Scientists Think They've Finally Solved a 99M-Year-Old Fossil Mystery
Quite a few, and not somewhere most would probably choose to live
Sorta fits inline with the fact that the CEO still spends time writing code (half-joke)
We've hit a performance problem with multi-socket setups (NUMA) - basically one core talking to the other's core memory (different sockets), hence slowdowns. And it's amplified by the use of atomics (shared_ptr, etc.). What we did was simply to disable one core (it was two CPU sockets).
I guess for servers, executing many (mostly) single threaded jobs (a.k.a "borg", "kubernetes", "docker") is okay, but when you have app using all threads (TBB-style) then it becomes bottlenecked.

SysInternal's https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/core... actually captures this detail (probably there are better apps, but it was nice to inspect machines quickly). The tool measure some relative slowdown.
I've encountered this when evaluating email platforms in a b2c situation. In some cases pricing was just a non starter because it was user based not volume based.

Unless you're a deal they really want, it may just not be a good fit.
U.S. seizes over $1B in Bitcoin tied to 'Silk Road'
> I don't think a dollar amount can be put on the economical impact of 'influencing' some high profile elections.

Sure it can.

Let's say the cost of a TV ad campaign is $100M, and you expect to get an extra 1,000 votes out of it.

Now let's say the cost of elections fraud, an extremely serious offense, is $100k + 75% chance of going to prison. That $100M suddenly sounds a lot better to most people.

We can't know whether it's 1% or 75%, but unless you're very smart and conspire with a very small group of people, it wouldn't be hard to catch you. At the very least, you'd be on camera visiting your post office boxes (which you can't use to register to vote in some places anyway).

> This point will address the 'impossibility' of identifying likely voters

I didn't say it's impossible to guess likely voters. It's impossible to guess highly unlikely voters.

Likely voters follow a pattern: they voted before. Once someone votes, they're likely to vote again.

Unlikely voters could just start voting in any election (as they did in this year's) without any warning. There's no psychographic or demographic information that's widely available to hackers to help them decide which unlikely voters will continue to be non-voters.
You can have lower taxes (than in America) and excellent public services in Singapore. Eat your cake and have it, too.

Very startup friendly as well and excellent food.

The tropical weather takes a bit of getting used to, though. I much prefer gloomy European skies.
He’s also a self-proclaimed StarCraft 2 fan. He’s donated cash to tournament prize pools and recently hired beloved former pro TLO of Team Liquid to Shopify.
https://esportsobserver.com/dario-wunsch-joins-shopify/
> I would rather own equity in a high growth start up than 3 rental houses; at least from a growth perspective.

But that isn't the choice, the choice is between three rental houses and a maybe 1 in 20 chance of owning equity in a high growth startup that may or may not IPO in the next 15 years.
That's a complex, very locally-driven matter. A lot of NIMBY'ism drives these types of regulations and policies. Younger generations will have think way outside the box at a very locally-granular scale if they choose to live within those constraints.

Generally, the younger generations are completely screwed if they try to fit within the SFH model. To just survive, they'll probably need to start thinking in terms like "individual/single-family model of living is monetizing my distrust of peers", finding like-minded to group together and re-capture cost-efficiencies of scale for themselves.

I've long wanted to find a tract of 16 ha / 40 acre to experiment with integrating a number of ideas I've seen floating around the net. Lstiburek-grade building envelopes, combined package/people PRT, centralized laundry and food services, on-site food forest production, waste stream co-generation, etc. All to work out the details of answering the question, "what is the absolute minimum number of people, minimum de-centralized organization, minimum processes and minimum automated tech tree needed to replace 80-90% of what we normally pay retail for, with wholesale/distributor costs?"

I'd like to see for example, what would happen if people with less financially-remunerative prospects but with a good work ethic were made a contractual promise: you put in your time helping those with better financially-remunerative prospects with tasks that we can't automate yet, like housekeeping and grounds maintenance, and you'll get treated with respect and dignity, have the same educational and medical services for your children as theirs, won't get taxed out of your living quarters in your old age, and be cared for within the same community in your old age (mixing it up with the toddlers and kids at first, then receiving hospice care for example by trained teenagers in later stages when warranted).

In general, I've long thought it really weird that the incentive structures nominally put in place and heavily promoted to us drive us apart where we're easy financial pickings for large, organized institutions, instead of driving us together and funnel compounding interest valuations of the group's network effects into the group's benefit instead of shipping it outside of the group. I strongly suspect dominant cultural factors obscure the recognition of those emergent network effects, and the drive to assign monetary valuations upon many factors is leading to bad abstractions from lossy information transfer. But realistically, maybe I'm just doomed to figure out via defeat in detail why homo sapiens sapiens in general cannot be trusted, as this is all too hand-wavy at this time for my taste.
Finns tend to be more on the introverted side of the spectrum and many of us prefer a few close friends over lots of casual acquaintances. Small talk is famously difficult to us, but the bright side of that is that we’re more comfortable just being quiet if there’s nothing to say. Honestly though many of us tend to try to be especially friendly to foreigners so as to avert the ”shy and reserved” stereotype. And for the most part Finnish friendliness is genuine, not faked or superficial.
"They have been corrected"
Absolutely not an urban legend.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/nevada-patient-bu...
Presumably your mental abilities have compensated for your physical issues, thus increasing your fitness. That's valid evolutionary logic as well.
Once the New Deal coalition fell apart after the Civil Rights Act passed and the GOP implemented the Southern Strategy and right-to-work laws destroyed unions, the Democrats lost unions as their base of financial support. They still held on in Congress for a while, but couldn't win the Presidency until the Third Way/neoliberal Democrats and groups like the Blue Dogs took charge of the party. At that point, the Democrats became captured (at least financially) by Wall Street and rich urban professionals who were socially liberal but fiscally conservative. There's no "firing" Clinton at that point. The party has been captured. The Democrats are also a much more diverse party since they are as much "not-GOP" as anything else. Why should a conservative Black voter vote Democratic? Of course they shouldn't, but the GOP was pretty explicitly home to racists for decades.

Both parties continue to self-sort in unhealthy ways. The GOP needs more diversity (but of course, is doubling-down on gerrymandering) and the Democrats, frankly, need less. I'd love to trade off some fiscally conservative Democrats for some working-collar populist Republicans. Bernie's support came from appealing to what used to be the base of the Democratic party: the working-class. But it's not enough voters in the raucous big-tent Democratic party to win a primary, and likely not the general election.

We also can't even have a serious conversation about policy since the GOP attacks everything the Democrats do as socialism.

Anyway, to your last point: the left is part of the Democratic party, but it doesn't have a strong-enough hand to play.

Also, look, voters are weird. I volunteered as a Democratic poll greeter here in NC with two women, both professionals, a white woman originally from Cincinnati and a Black woman originally from New Jersey. They'd both voted for Biden in the primary. I was like, what, why? Why didn't you pick someone more progressive? They both said: "because Biden is who we thought would make the strongest general election candidate." So they're not even voting on who they think is best, but who they think the rest of America will accept.

p.s. don't be so hard on Hillary. Let's not forget that she expended a lot of political capital trying to pass universal healthcare. She got killed on that, by Democrats and Republicans alike. I think that really changed her idea of what was possible in politics in the US. She is not the devil she's been made out to be.
I'd assume that many people download and then check if the MD5/SHA hash matches the published one (e.g., search the web for the hash and see if the results look good).

Harder to do that in automated deployments that are supposed to always use the newest version available though.
Private dental visits shouldn't cost you more than a few hundred quid per year on average. (In a sane country.)

So they would only justify perhaps about 0.1% higher taxes?
On Windows, if you want to match a line ending with $, then you have to use the --crlf option.

When enabled, ripgrep will treat CRLF (\r\n) as a line terminator instead of just \n.

I really wish this was enabled by default on Windows builds.
This hinges on if arranging and paying for are the same thing or not, and I suspect they’re not.
Right, conversion of iron to rust yielding heat is 100% efficient, less only the work needed to move the rust out of the way.

If you wanted to convert that heat back to electricity, there would be losses, but nowhere near as much as some people are saying. 1800 degrees minus ambient is a very big delta T. You are not bound to a closed cycle, so Carnot does not apply. So it is likely 80+% would be achievable, maybe over 65% round trip.
Works fine for me. I cleared my cache thinking maybe I have the old scripts cached or something and nope, still works fine. Shrug.

I subscribe to half a dozen streams, if Twitch doesn't get enough from that then that's their problem. Introduce a new subscription model or something, but I won't live with ads.

There is no site on the internet that I will disable uBlock for (with the exception of temporarily disabling it for testing purposes for clients).
> This is an urban legend and gets claimed in every major city.

It's not an urban legend, it's well documented and there have been lawsuits based on it.
The review goes over latencies and how they changed in Zen3, in fine detail.

For any practical purposes, Intel is now behind.
These are gigantic snails.
Moscow wasn't occupied either, was it?
When I lived in the bay area, lots of my friends lived in shared accommodation because they actually liked living with other people. Saving money was a side effect. They usually bought a place when they got married or not long after. That's not poverty.
Definitely. I'd prefer a sunny day with -30C and no wind to a rainy and windy day with a temperature at 2C.
> Twitter has nothing to do with free speech.

Can we at least disagree in good faith? Let's not pretend massive social networks with billions of users have "nothing to do with free speech." The status of these tech companies (and more specifically, Section 230) will be almost certainly litigated in the upcoming decade[1]. There's also some precedent when it comes to TV networks (see the Turner rule[2]).

[1] https://regproject.org/blog/big-tech-the-whole-first-amendme...

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/512/622/
Yyyy-mm-dd is not used in real life because it puts the (in most contexts) least useful information first.