skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that number dubious. I'd need some evidence that 1.1 million gallons is a drop in the bucket - I have trouble imagining that size of water, tbh. Looks like the Onassis reservoir in central park is a billion gallons. Honestly uncertain if 0.1% daily is drop in the bucket or not. I guess technically 0.1% of a 5 gallon bucket is about a tablespoon, so bigger than a drop.... Ooops, I got distracted.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.001*5gallons+in+tabl...

Anyway, even if the referenced "drop" is accurate, it's not like the evaporated water only rains down in Wisconsin or Indiana.
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested
Exactly what I think. I don't understand why ODoH is such a big splash.
That FAQ was rather outdated. I've updated it to hopefully be more helpful. Thanks for pointing that out.
Google, Amazon Fined $163M by French Data Watchdog
I think my degree is fantastically useful, and I'm relatively young.

There is just no way I would have ever learned the things I learned in my CS degree on my own. My degree reshaped my brain. It forced me to be good at math. It forced me to think like a programmer.

I failed my first 3 CS classes, but I kept going and ended up graduating top 5% in my CS graduating class. I would never have learned how to program without this degree I am absolutely convinced. Like yeah maybe I could hook some stuff up to an array in python and struggle through a for loop.

The CS degree gave me confidence, expertise in solving CS related problems, and for better or worse the market expects me to have this degree and it helped me land a job where I already make 50% more than median household income in my city at only 27.

I would take that student debt again in a heartbeat.

Two of my friends with 4 year college degrees recently quit their jobs and went back to study CS. I told them to avoid bootcamps, why?

I've been a part of the hiring process and people from bootcamps are usually not very good, but occasionally they are. To me the bootcamp education doesn't guarantee a CS related role. You could end up with nothing.

Even my friends who STRUGGLED through a CS degree and are AWFUL programmers were able to leverage their degree into roles like Project Manager or Product Owner which have great outlooks and solid pay.
Yeah I can draw a 77 thousand ton interstellar transporter on a napkin and “announce” it too.
Debian testing doesn't get timely security updates so it's inappropriate to use on production servers.

Source: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
The current kernel on stable backports is 5.9.6:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux%2Dimage%2D...

Backports can be activated by adding one line to your sources.

If I trust https://www.kernel.org/, the last stable kernel version is 5.9.13, and according to https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges, 5.9 has been released two months ago.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Debian, but that's not one of them.
Ask HN: What are the features you miss in your favorite version control system?
This thread is not to talk about which VCS is better than others, but rather to acknowledge the shortcomings in our favorites. Bonus points if you can name another VCS with the feature you miss.

For example, git is my "favorite" (in that I use it the most), but one thing I miss in it is the ability to do multiple checkouts without having multiple clones, like fossil does.
I wish there was a better term. We are not scientist but not mechanics or engineers either. This isnt a minor question. There is an entirely new set of knowledge workers in the new economy that do not have 19th-20th century equivalents.
That’s exactly what I thought. The whole of the country looks like an unmitigated virus failure. Some states are worse off, but only a fraction look positive.

Not sure why Axios feels the need to try and pin the whole thing on the Midwest.
I’ve often wondered the same thing about Airbnb, DoorDash, and other unicorns where they hire the best engineers from Silicon Valley, yet their product seems like a rather basic CRUD tool.

Apparently with Uber it’s the infrastructure design and back-end algorithms for trip routing and driver management that are “so great.” The SV hype machine helps a lot too.
About 3.5 months. From there I gradually ramped up back to full time work over a couple weeks or so.
CS degrees are not for churning out new hires for whatever you do. They're for providing a well-rounded Computing education which provides the foundations for the student to build on. Things like classic algorithms and foundation computer architecture are classical things that will always help you. Perhaps you're only hiring coders.
How does Pixie technology compare to Sysdig? Do they do similar things?
One day it will be commonly accepted that these ML recommenders have played the same role in this social crisis as the Gaussian copula did in the financial crisis.
I don't see Facebook alone in this. The whole gaming industry is headed this direction. Most of my game purchases are in Steam. PS5 has a digital only version.
This is actually sounding like a perfect startup proposal.

The startup puts a full suite of smart bulbs/switches in your house for free, and then charges you a monthly subscription fee (flat fee + a per-candela-second rate). Sure, there's a large up-front cost for the startup followed by a long amortization period before you start actually making money, but that's what VC is for.
By the time you asked your question, I thought it was rather clear that darmoddy didn't think there was a real arbiter of truth. That tipped the scales somewhat toward me thinking you were manipulative rather than honest. Even so, I was careful not to actually accuse you of dishonest manipulation.
You can click "Or try it instead." under the Twitter sign in.
Debian provides up-to-date kernels in the stable-backports repository. You get a choice of what to run. And nowadays even the 'old' stable kernel is a LTS release so there's no support issue.
This only seems to consider carbon per byte transferred, not client side processing. If it did, javascript would have a higher impact.
I don't have a college degree at all. I went from a movie theater projectionist making minimum wage (8 years), to tech support(2 years), to customer service/qa at a startup(1 year), to an iOS developer(5 years), to now being a lead iOS developer at an established tech company. I don't particularly want to be an iOS developer, but it's the path that got me to where I am at and it pays very well. Not once during my last interview cycle (10 different companies) did anyone ask about a degree.

I think the grind and knowledge gained in multiple sectors was worth it, but it was a long road. I've been programming on and off my whole life so I think it really depends on the person, but not having any degree it is doable. Would I do it differently after looking back? Absolutely, but I doubt I would get a CS degree.

Moral of the story, if you want it bad enough and go out there and make it happen, you can find a place in this industry with a high school education. Just demonstrate knowledge and keep on learning.
"Programmer" and "Programmer analyst" were titles used frequently when I first started getting into the industry. Then "software developer." Honestly, that's mostly what we do... develop and repair software.
Right, nothing will kill a bad product faster than good marketing.
Why People Intentionally Make Bad Decisions
Well that was worth it. I'd love to see the recording of the meeting where they came up with the plan. I'll bet someone said "hey that's evil, users won't like that". Would be nice to know a) who spoke next and b) what they said. Or we can guess...
Only on the Emacs link
> Perhaps you just mean that those envelopes should be pulled aside, and the state should go and track down the person and ask them if its really their signature?

Yes, in Georgia at least, that's the process that's supposed to be followed -- if the signature doesn't match, you mail the person, and then they have a chance to mail it back corrected.

This actually happened to me the first time I voted, in Oregon. Sort of stupidly, I signed my ballot with a nicer signature than my usual scribble. The sent the ballot back saying the signatures didn't match; I sent it back w/ my scribble. I'm not sure if the vote ended up counted or not...
The kernel has a "god's eye view" of everything happening on its OS. With event based tracing in the kernel there's no chance of missing an occurrence because your sampling rate is too low, for example. You can also correlate and enrich data that just isn't available in userspace.
Many engineering horror stories involve an entire system rewrite. My recommendation is to never rewrite a large system. Literally never. If the people proposing the rewrite aren’t capable of adding the features incrementally, they aren’t capable of rewriting the entire system to “easily” support those new features.
> The downside of Clojure is that you need good, wise developers...

Is there a language that, for a sufficiently large application, you don't need wise developers? What is it? How?
This is a great thread [1] that goes through the IFR estimation and relative risk of dying due to COVID for various age groups. Bad news for me (45-54 age group) my risk of dying goes up to 1.7x if I get covid.

[1] https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1336841354253541377
My house came with a prehistoric Lightwave setup that lets me send commands to my lights over UDP. Glorious stuff.
My thinking is that it's best to buy it now, while Facebook is still selling them at or below cost, then install whatever root, or hacked OS, or legally enforced update comes out in the future
I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions! And I got them now:)
Essential Math for Data Science: Linear Algebra
SpiderMonkey: Remove IonBuilder and TI
Is it one of these: https://fiberart.com, https://www.personalthrows.com/collections/jacquard-woven-ph...?
If Deno was only "Add TypeScript support", "Add security capabilities", and "Add URL imports", etc. it would simply be a new version (or multiple new versions) of Node.

These (and other) disruptive breaking changes are about fixing mistakes that cannot be fixed (or at least, are hard to fix) in Node.

Maybe, in a few years, you'll say something like "Oh, I wish legacy Node would be more Deno compatible" because Deno will be the de-facto server-side JS scripting runtime. Equally, it's possible that Deno will fail, but that many good ideas will be incorporated into Node as breaking changes.

Node and Deno as well as their environments can grow further together or further apart. I think it's too early to tell which future is more likely.
Are webview apps still possible on IOS? Given that the Uber app has to work online anyway, it seems like a lot of this headache could have been avoided by keeping most of the logic on the server.
Google analytics v4 taking it another level also.
Culturally, tipping is supposed to be additional compensation for emotional labor.

If you work a job where you you're expected to put on a smile and maybe banter with the customer, even though your dog just died this morning, you might qualify for a tip. If your job allows you to frown occasionally, you don't.
I use the term "terminated". her employment was terminated immediately on the spot for cause.
The New (and Improved) Campus Experts Program
> they should be regulated like a utility

I expect that's what they want. Oauth logins could be regulated by government in a similar fashion to mobile spectrums and it won't be easy for competitors to pop up.
Most Googlers are also not capable of passing them. Because they make them harder every year. I've trained twice to give interviews at Google and I just find it demoralizing to administer questions which I myself would find difficult to solve.

But correct answer to the question isn't actually necessary. They're looking for your thought processes, and what it reveals about your knowledge and/or techniques, not necessarily correct answers. Some questions don't even have "correct" solutions.
I don't use CentOS, but the negativity around this both surprises and does not surprise me.

CentOS seemed like a way to get RHEL for free, lots of people jumped on that and suddenly, when it's no longer free, they throw a tantrum (my favorite: "they betrayed the community"). This strikes me as both ridiculous and just the way FOSS works.
Strongly disagree. BPF uprobes allow extremely fine grained tracing of userspace applications, and allow you to programmatically correlate them with kernel level information.
It's a lame excuse anyway. They could have just hidden the IE symbol, deactivating auto-open with IE and it would have been fine.
I was working at Uber ATG when Elaine Herzberg was killed. They kept the details secret from the other employees, citing fears of "too many cooks". I recall being offered grief counseling.

Uber disabled Volvo's automatic emergency braking system, which probably would have saved Elaine, to develop their system on public streets. I left the company and took a pay cut to work on ethical robotics instead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/ped...
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
All the Bell Telephone company did was prevent other products/services from working with their system.
Wasn't really clear what benefit the rewrite offered anyway other than a new UI, which brought it's own problems and couldn't that have just been written in Obj-C?
Show HN: Perlin Noise Flow Field
Hi all. To take a break from my usual work, more backendy-businessy, but without taking a break from my computer (a mistake) I've decided to work a bit on Generative Computer Art and I wanted to share one particular experiment that - I think - has enough quality to share with you guys.

I'm definitely taking my first steps in this particular dev area but I imagine "Perlin Noise" and "Flow Field" are like the "Build a Blog in 5 minutes" entry level things everyone does for GenArt so I don't expect to be particularly original, but I hope to have packaged this with enough bells and whistles to warrant some interest.

You can play around with certain variables that influence the image generation and you can download snapshots along the way, if you do hit something that you find appealing be sure to share with me, I would love to see it :)

Thank you all
David
At that point (around the time of the acquisition), I guess one could say there was significant overlap between FB and IG users, and that FB had more users than IG.
Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.

In the current form Pixie Cloud is required since it's a freemium product.

We are planning to open-source a self-managed version of Pixie early next year, and it can be used completely self-hosted.
That post got just over 100 points - very curious to know roughly what kind of traffic you say from it?
What if the President of the United States suddenly started supporting flat earthers?

I think suddenly then they would be able to poison the well.

Science is a bad example because the process of science can be quantified. We can argue about it but basically can quantify what is or isn’t a valid scientific experiment.

This creates a “good faith” environment because everyone has to play by the same rules.

Outside of science this is harder to achieve. If one side argues in bad faith, they can just keep making shit up or doing things to undermine the discourse itself, like talk over someone else or bully them.

Freedom of speech kind of both depends on and is in conflict with culturally enforced norms and restrictions around who is able to say what when, and how loud.

Bear in mind that when our classic idea of free speech was developed, it was simply assumed by most that it would be white, propertied men doing the talking. Point being there are assumptions behind these conceptions with are important to consider.

Most of us don’t want white, properties dudes to be the only ones talking, but no one who cared about any form of democracy or equality would want to hang out in a town square where everyone is just yelling all the time and beating up other people so they can be the only one talking.

Restriction per se isn’t bad. It’s all about how it’s done, and why.

What we are seeing now is a shifting both of cultural norms and the infrastructure of our media environment which means that “free speech” no longer has some of the constraints and restrictions which enabled it to perform the truth-seeking function we desire it to.
Are directors taxed differently from employees? I've not been a director of a single person company but from what I recall (it's been a while) I didn't pay anything other than normal PAYE for being an employee/director. Of course as a shareholder you may be subject to other taxes but you can be a shareholder without being a director and vice versa.
What I’m finding is the components themselves are so cheap ... if you’ve a little knowledge you can rig up your own IOT setup that you actually have control over for pennies. Raspberry Pi is a great place to start.
SWF format details were published in 2010, and Flex was also open-sourced around that same timeframe.
So does that mean that if things had gone to plan the flip would have been even more dramatic/extreme?

Starship is supposed to be able to carry passengers, not just cargo. How would the human body hold up to a flip like that?
Great post! Couldn't have said it better.
This is the most insane comment I’ve ever seen on this site. Imagine the kind of insulated you have to be to think that “hating on wealth creation” is the problem at one of the highest points of wealth inequality and economic devastation.
I remember interviewing someone around 50 who interviewed well, we hired, and did good work. I think part of why he interviewed well was he knew we'd ask whiteboard coding questions, so he studied for them.

Some amount of what you hear about age discrimination is older candidates are less familiar with CS fundamentals because you don't use them all that often on the job, whereas fresh-out-of-school candidates still remember them.

This isn't to say the typical software engineering interview is effective or ineffective, just that preparing for what you know you'll be tested on helps a lot.
Those aren’t comparable at all. DNT is a header that required cooperation; nothing to work around. privacy.resistFingerprinting actually solves fingerprinting, and if it were enabled by default it would be incredibly effective. (It won’t be anytime soon, because it breaks many features that average users rely on, via average websites - but individual aspects of it could trickle in.)

If you were worried that determined parties would develop new tracking technologies as a response, rest assured that they’re always doing that.
The cloud-based light-as-a-service product is called "The Sun." It is prone to frequent outages but they are almost always resolved within 24 hours.
The act of "collusion" isn't a crime. Conspiring with the Russians and then lying about it to the FBI when they are investigating Russian election interference is indeed a crime and it's precisely what Flynn says he is guilty of. Keep in mind too that this was meant to be a plea down from more major crimes. Flynn was getting off easy by only admitting to those crimes.
That's just utterly false. The ability to print currency and the maintenance of a monopoly on the legal use of violence are extremely qualitative differences between the powers of businesses and sovereign states.

It's like comparing apples and oranges. Or accounts receivable departments and nuclear weapons.
Guessing by his profile: a Football Live Scores app that has 100k+ reviews in the play store - a very conservative estimate would put it at 3-5m users. It seems to have been plastered with ads which, safe to assume, are the source of that revenue.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is not web, app, or game development. What does your company do?
The people who want to wreck the NWS don't want it outsourced to them. They still want the government to pay for producing all of the weather data and forecasts, then they want the government to designate them the exclusive distributor of that information so they can charge whatever they want.
Yeah definitely meant spirited discussion. Not a native speaker.
Most web hosting providers use CentOS and many of them use CloudLinux. For those using cPanel on CentOS, this will be a logical choice especially if they're already using CloudLinux (many are). Plus they plan it possible to convert CentOS 8 to their new RHEL fork, which perhaps Rocky Linux plans on doing too.

Given the installation base of cPanel, whichever fork they decide to officially support will probably win out. And I'll be dollars to donuts that they'll pick CloudLinux's fork, since they already support CloudLinux.
That's for the second person pronoun, which are all gender neutral in Russian, whether they are singular or plural. (Like English.)

We're talking here about third person pronouns, and the "the plural is the polite version and the singular is the casual version" doesn't extend to those. You wouldn't refer refer to someone in the third person as "они" rather than "он" to be polite.
Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers with Felony If Broadcasting Copyrighted Material
> So, the cost to fix would be peanuts, but it's "not a priority"

But there are probably thousands of things that cost only peanuts and aren't a priority. If you fix them all they add up to not peanuts and then you don't have any money left and you didn't even fix any priority tasks!
They're working on heat tiles and how to attach them now - and I agree, somewhere around SN12 (my guess) we're going to start seeing tests of the heat tiles and more energetic reentries.
Linux runs 1 500 000 000 smartphones shipped annually (Android).

Linux runs 20 000 000 notebooks shipped annually (Chromebook).

BSD is kernel and userspace.

GNU is kernel and userspace, but HURD is not ready.
The underlying problem is a big one, that drives much of what's bad about the world today: there's no way to charge for internet services.
Is WhatsApp a profitable business on its own? What happens if they are forced to spin out and then go bankrupt?
I think it's probably false. I don't think information is dangerous, no.

Do you think people should be able to make up their own minds? Unfortunately, all of those actions you mention run contrary to that premise.
The issue isn't that apple made jailbreaking harder, its that apple shouldn't be the sole controller of what apps people can install on their phone. For example, if you have a company with millions of users and Apple decides you are a threat to their business, (or whatever reason they make up), they can ban your apps from the store, (e.g. Epic Games). This is monopolistic behavior. If apple were to allow third party store options, (without jailbreaking required), there wouldn't be an issue. The root issue isn't jailbreaking, (that's still possible and required to install non-store apps), but rather the requirement that ONLY store apps can be installed in the first place.
There are a lot of ways to frame these problems as interesting algorithms but it doesn't really strike me as something that is troubled by scale.

I've worked on similar problems where "everything is a special case" in some vein and it takes a few very clever minds to construct the algorithms and datastructures that can come to a good solution. But that's just it, it's the work of a few engineers and not thousands writing if-else blocks for each airport.

I still don't understand what Uber does that requires so many people getting paid so much money, the only thing that makes sense to me is they don't want them working for Lyft. It would be helpful for people to shed more light on how engineering resources are spent and what particular systems require so many hands to realize, but that's too valuable information to leak I'd imagine.