skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what it looks like to me though. I guess tastes are different. But it to me just looks like a generic Chrysler style vehicle with a lot of chrome and bulk to make it look like a more premium kind of thing than it is. Poor Steve Jobs would turn his grave. I was talking about the Kia Niro, which is one of their EVs. I doubt Apple would waste time on ICE vehicles (which the genesis obviously is).

But you are right that Teslas are kind of bland in their own right.
As long as we consider 1 the best result and 20 the worse, since my luck often work this way, I'm fine with it.
Facebook Dating is infested by scammers who are themselves enslaved
Because being a fan of a team or particular political view is a choice you make - people can shout "Hey - you're not a real sox fan!" all they want, but you've chosen to be a fan of them - and you have the ability to withdraw that support if you like. Thus, building up an identity that includes that facet is healthy and empowering - you can get ungracefully fired from your position or laid off though - and that can cause emotional distress at a time you're also suffering financial distress. That's not a healthy scenario to set yourself up for.

Your work and your life are two quite separable things - when you're young it's easy to be entirely consumed by work, but you'll grow out of that hopefully (whether or not you have kids - you can also just start valuing yourself more). The more they are intertwined the more you're putting yourself at risk of a serious sudden life shock.

I think being a founder is a bit easier life-shock wise - things can definitely go horribly wrong (they usually do in fact!) but you get a lot of warning and you should see the end coming before it slaps you in the face. If your company graduates to being a full corporation with a board and such - I think that's the time when you should regroup and step back a bit - since you are now a disposable employee.
Crypto markets are very small :-)

I'm working and company which process "real" exchanges, like NASDAQ, LSE, and, especially, OPRA feed.

We've added 20+ crypto exchanges in our portfolio this year, and all of them are processed on one old server which is unable to process NASDAQ Total View in real-time anymore.

On the other hand, whole OPRA feed (more than 5Gbit/s or 65B/day, yes, it is billions, messages of very optimized binary protocol, not this crappy JSON) is processed by our code on one modern server. Nothing special, two sockets of Intel Xeons (not even Platinums).
Is this just an apache bench mark
I don't know, it looks fine to me. Switzerland isn't a super push-over state and has a reputation for valuing privacy (which is worth much more money than doing small favors for the US, RU or CN), so I don't expect them to go for "yeah sure that person leaked evidence of war crimes, we'll get right on getting you their IP". At the same time, to do business, you need to comply with the absolute minimum of laws.

If Rackspace just flat out refused to follow court orders, they wouldn't be able to run a data center. A DC that will comply with a court order is better than no DC imho.

Perfect is the enemy of good, and PM is definitely good at doing email with a high degree of privacy. Should you use it from your home dial-up while leaking the definite proof that reptilians are running the show? Probably not, but that doesn't make them unusable. For a lot of other threat models, they're perfectly fine, at least until proven otherwise.

Virtually no one (besides a few trained super spies) will resist and not comply once the first finger nail is coming off. Court orders are just the friendly foreplay, and they'll escalate from there depending on how important it is for them to get them to comply. If you're betting your safety on anyone withstanding that and not giving up their password, you're setting yourself up for disappointment (and pain!).
This is pretty much where I am at now. Attitude, open-mindedness and general ability to endure pain are what I look for.

I can teach 100% of the tech stack to a total noob in a matter of weeks. Trial by example is my lesson of choice these days. The good apprentice will absorb these like a dry sponge to water.

It also really helps that our tech stack is simple and fits on 1 computer. It is not bullshit abstraction either - You install 3 things on a fresh Win10 box to promote it to "Official Developer Machine" status. None of these things happens to be Docker or any other containerization tech, so even junior developers are expected to understand how the product runs on the bare metal/vm. Spoiler: It's 1 process & 1 service so they learn it fast.

Basically what I am trying to say is that your ability to consume non-PhD candidates is partially predicated upon how you've decided to run your tech business. If you (ab)use enterprise arch like message buses, event sourcing, et. al., you are going to find that it requires additional mountain ranges worth of background knowledge to understand how these things fit together. If your tech stack can be considered within the context of a single process, the margin of understanding becomes much more practical to work with in my experience.

Honestly, I almost prefer to start with a blank slate these days. Don't know how a computer works? Fucking fantastic! I can probably still get you productive in my simple C#/SQLite tech stack faster than if I had to de-program some web-scale zealot for the same purpose.
This is very valuable. A lot of people in this thread are suggesting this law will be bad for coloradans. I don't know. I don't live in Colorado, but this is a strong reason to think twice about working with any of these companies. Not out of solidarity with coloradans, but for the purely selfish reason that I'd rather not work with a company that feels it can't give up the opportunity to be sketchy about how much people are getting paid.
When a storeroom was opened and mysterious blue space suits were discovered, it made a bit of a splash at the time:

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/found_mol_spacesu...
I do not use those devices so I do not know for sure. But HDMI CEC is supposed to automatically move you to whatever device you start using. So if you press the PlayStation controller, the TV should switch to the PlayStation input since it received a signal from the PlayStation, and so on.

At least it works like that with Apple TV, I do not to see why Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft would not implement the same thing Apple did.

And there is no first time setup. Of course, to change the TV picture’s settings themselves you would have to use the TV.
> Here's one: Organic food needs soil, sunlight, and water. Conventional food needs soil, sunlight, water, oil refineries, chemical plants, etc., plus all the heavy industry necessary to support those things.

It is absolutely ignorant to believe that organic is better for the environment than non-organic. Oil refineries and heavy industry are needed to support farming enough to feed the world, organic or not. And organic food is more expensive, in terms of resources consumed, not less.
SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (2014)
What the hell did I just read? Sounds like Java to me.
It's not a fair comparison because the Sikhs (mostly rich landowning Jats) and Hindus (mostly Brahmins and Baniyas) coming over have a lot of preselection. Muslims are a) more of a simple random sample b) largely from Mangla dam area in Mirpur in PK case c) part of endogamous lower caste groups (less likely)
Nginx is a web server though. You're assuming that by "web server" the first comment meant "web framework"?
no, as someone who lives in Colorado, and is affected by this law, which was something widely reported on, nor was it bipartisan, it's not too early to form a judgement on this.
One wonders is Chomsky himself wouldn't have been cancelled if he were trying to get his start these days.
Cloudflare
Thanks for the insight, I agree with you.

What's hard is to interview for attitude and aptitude, and scaling that so other people know how to interview for those traits. Would you mind sharing some insight on what type of interview, green flags, things you are looking for, or process? Hopefully it's not only gut feeling :)
Longevity Impetus Grants
> "a personal diary would work in principle, but you'd need to somehow prove that you wrote your thoughts down on the date and didn't forge it after the fact"

Patent agent here, not patent lawyer. (that means I passed the patent bar exam and could write your patent, but could not sue anyone over it.)

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Prior art has to be "published" (and there is a whole body of case law about what that means). Maybe you are thinking of the old "first to invent" rule?
Seems like it is an important part of a currency.
That's one take. Here is another: "$F holding the Feb 1 1994 resistance as support to the penny so far. Legacy auto gonna need some catalysts as chip shortage will be prolonged and billions in capital needed for EV development." https://twitter.com/JoTrader4/status/1434945782323589123
What was up with the philosopher's stone? That never made any sense to me.

And to think this text from 1456 was roughly 200 years before the founding of the Royal Society (including the alchemists Boyle and Hooke)
Even at a nice high school you may be getting an automated phone call.
I disagree that the Apple TV is a stop gap. It works with any TV, and you stick some adhesive strips on it and stick it to the back of a TV, and the only difference is you need one more plug outlet for it.

Sony/LG/Samsung have plenty of low-mid-high quality TVs for whoever wants them. There is nothing extra Apple can provide there.
You're right. I made a mistake and now it's too late to edit my comment.
If you lose you have to pay your own court costs, but the abortion provider pays their own costs regardless. If you win the abortion provider also pays your court costs.

From what I’ve read there is nothing preventing you from filing frivolous suits against the legislators. They have to defend themselves or face a summary judgement. The law as written is wide open for abuse. This could be amended with a provision that excludes legislators and rich politically connected people.
I find it very unpleasant to read Awk code. It looks as bad as regex to me.
The property tax thing is mostly a red herring. Again, some of the best-funded schools in my city are the worst ones, because they get lots of money from other programs that aren't funded by local property taxes. They're still very bad. Insufficient spending may be a part of the problem in some areas but even if you entirely fixed that, you'd have done very little to fix American schooling.
I am not locked in to Intuit nor justifying their cost increases because it hits all users (wholesale/retail) but their eco-system when taken as a whole makes accounting and payroll generally simple for the small business owner. Of course this is a generic statement and there are outliers that don't fit into their model for reason X or Y. This does not come without a cost, they are definitely moving into the premium offering sphere and away from "DIY" users. There will be user pushback and they will lose users, but I'm sure they have an army of financial analysts that have run the numbers and say they will make more with less users under this model.

I have experience working with QB (many variations), Freshbooks, Xero, various Sage products and some specialized vendor software in the Construction and Wholesale space and probably a few others I am forgetting.

Freshbooks is mediocre, overall their integrations are poor and without proper setup you end up with poor results, they dont offer payroll and require you to use third party services. This is fine, but just leads to more setup/sync problems which many users are not capable of doing and don't know if the answer is wrong. (PS not all users are tech saavy or know what the end result should be) Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

Xero is alright, I wouldn't say it's significantly better or worse than QB except they have less scale and throw their weight around less (for now) than Intuit does. Sage products have a steep learning curve but have a ton of functionality depending upon which one you land with.

Many proprietary industry specific Accounting packages have great modules but from my experience, their core accounting system is not the best (putting it lightly) Most of these seem to have built their success around an industry specific pain and then realized they needed accounting on top to make the package sellable.

All that said, an accounting package should be useful for recording, categorizing and utilizing your financial data. That means different things to different people and there is no one size fits all approach - no matter what Intuit or other vendors tell you.

If your professional works best with product X, that may be in your best interest to use product X if you value your professional's input to your business not just from a tax reporting but also financial reporting perspective. If you don't, don't use product X. It's really that simple.

Sure all these open source products are great for IT nerds and people who love doing accounting (even CPAs!) but if one person (you) is the only one who knows what the software says and the output does not make sense to third parties then it is easily deemed unreliable. You will have a whole host of more complex problems than dealing with Intuit if your financial data is unreliable, let's start with audit or bank problems and expand from there.

Source: Am a small biz CPA, have seen (almost) it all including the napkin accounting method.
So...someone else's web server instead?
Did not know that, thanks.
> ~10k rps (it was concurrent connections but close enough) was state of the art in 1999. Now 22 years later ~50 rps is somehow impressive.

I honestly don't understand how that can be true. I'm not suggesting you're lying of course, but when you put it this way it's almost like people are actively trying to slow their programs down. I have a few ideas on why that might be the case (switch to slow interpreted languages, switch to bigger web frameworks, bigger payload) but even that wouldn't explain all of it. Do you have any idea why things are this way?
Oh man, you sound like a long lost friend. As someone who struggles to adopt really anything post ~1995 in the programming world, I couldn't agree more. I've worked for Fortune 100s my whole career; mostly in big data problem-spaces, before it ever was cool (if it even is now?), and I really feel all the problems people perceive today were solved all the way back to the 1960s (i.e. Snobol4). I understand for modern web and mobile contexts, sure there is new fancy tools for that; but as you said, in the personal computing space, the proper tools have existed for decades.
It's also amazing how much you can fit in RAM if you're careful. I remember ~2007 people were aghast at Facebook's 4T memcached deployment that stored basically everyone's social network posts; now you can get single servers for ~$4K with 4T of RAM.

The trick is basically that you have to eschew the last 15 years of "productivity" enhancements. Pretty much any dynamic language is out; if you must use the JVM or .NET, store as much as possible in flat buffers of primitive types. I ended up converting order books from the obvious representation (hashtable mapping prices to a list of Order structs) to a pair of SortedMaps from FastUtils, which provides an unboxed float representation with no pointers. That change ended up reducing memory usage by about 4x.

You can fit a lot of ints and floats in today's 100G+ machines, way more than needed to represent the entire cryptocurrency market. You just can't do that when you're chasing 3 pointers, each with their associated object headers, to store 4 bytes.
Some people can't afford homes because investors are buying them. There is zero reason to believe that prohibiting investment properties would allow everyone to afford a home.
Yeah it's all default apache + mod_wsgi. This is also my first Django setup and I made it over-complicated as a learning exercise.
mpm_event is something I have not heard of before, thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Potsdam Declaration
I believe OP meant it as "I was never more productive than when I used emacs."
This appears to be a false dichotomy. Why can't we have both the exorbitant criminal justice costs and also the "invest more resources" part?
I’ve created some art datasets in addition to those presented:

Bob Ross Paintings: https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings

USDA Pomological Watercolors (pretty paintings of fruits):
https://github.com/jwilber/USDA_Pomological_Watercolors
That's an open question but I can't now find the citation that the whole presumption that dogs come from wolves isn't necessarily right, that they may all be cousins.

She does show a chihuahua great grandparent, but otherwise is native central american. people mistake her for a yellow lab since they gravitate towards certainty and in so doing ignore entirely non lab features in coloring and geometry, and behavior.

Curiously the Dingos and the dogs you might see being brought back from the Middle East theaters of war to europe/americas look super similar.

My conjecture is that this is the natural dog, that you could recreate things like a yellow lab with many generations of selective breeding, that Huskies and Malamutes likely are more wolf related. But it's only a conjecture.

Look at EmbarkVet.com for one source of canine dna documentation, I'd suggest.
The plethora of proprietary accounting softwares are a pox upon accountants; put yourself in their shoes, and imagine that you had a variety of customers who each had their own software. Would you (as an accountant) want to pay for a license for each software, and have to learn how to use it? Do you think your clients would reimburse you (for the training and the license)? Would you have to set up some complicated and confusing virtual machine?

I think that giving (outside) accountants free licenses is or should be table stakes for these accounting packages.
We have hired those "rough diamonds" through "back channels" even though they have had terrible interviews due to lack of communication skills. They probably would not have been hired in most places. And it turns out they are good at their work and also loyal since they are a bit afraid of jobs interviews.

If a good employee vouches for someone, there is big chance we will give it a try. :)
This was originally going to be launched from Vandenberg AFB in California into polar orbit to cover more of the Earth. SLC-6 was never used for MOL but was later rebuilt for the Space Shuttle military flights, which were cancelled after Challenger disaster. I snuck around their back in the 90s, cool place.
Fair points, I'm just trying to push back a bit against "optimizing anything is useless since the main cost is engineering and not hardware", since this situation depends on the local salaries and in low-inome countries the opposite can be true.
Show HN: a custom Lisp in C
Yup. I deal with hysteresis on mine that will flip back and forth between day and night view every second if the ambient light is borderline.

And other things. Car Play is great, but currently one of Apple's buggiest products.
Critical Attrition: What’s the matter with book reviews?
The official report has more details https://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/IWO%2520JIMA...

The accident is an example of the rare cases where the tolerance for error is tiny to prevent catastrophic consequences. Usually systems are designed with multiple lines of defense but this is not possible with a steam valve. The process to ensure that the correct fastenings were used was not in place. Ideally in these cases engineers should use poka yoke where the device can't be assembled incorrectly e.g. using an unusual thread size or marking all low strength fasteners in an obvious way to indicate low strength
Mac only though. Many of us don’t have or want Apple PCs.
It probably does not affect the cheaper models to the same extent, but Kia's design language has changed quite a bit over the last 5 years.

For example, The Grand Tour's James May was full of praise for the Kia Stinger in 2017 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1Zh-1q7LU ).

More recently, the Kia Telluride was 2020 "World car of the year". In 2019 it was basically sold out everywhere, and it ended up moving more than double the numbers as the Hyundai Palisade, which is essentially the same car with a different exterior design.

The evolution has been attributed by some to their poaching of European talent, like German car designer Peter Schreyer of Audi TT fame.
Thats exactly the problem. There is nothing extra Apple can provide. What if they want to use faceid for auth? They can't. If the TV is to be a platform like everything else, they can only push forward new APIs with new hardware. You are viewing the market is static.
People here are saying that Carmack isn't really saying much (quantity-wise he's not) or giving their own personal anecdotes, but he's touching on information theory for imperfect markets.

Basically the employer and candidate screw up the signals to each other about buying/selling of labor today, and it creates costly overhead for both parties. In a perfect market, employers and candidates know everything about each other and quickly fill- or land-in the best possible positions (respectively).

Not sure if the startup he's promoting, or throwing in random population sampling, solves this problem though. Seems like the random sampling is only a temporary fix to uncovering missed positive signals in candidates.
My biggest gripes with headline and article that they used the term with extreme ambiguity. I'm sure 50% of the world companies are classified as "tech company". Every time I see those term popping up, all the question I have is tech in what? and What is their specialty? Espically with many new entities name and it is harder to track of what they do.
Yeah I kind of agree, Netflix still seems to be the only streaming service that actually offers a better service than just pirating the content and watching it through Kodi or Plex. There is always some minor or major technical issue or missing feature with every other streaming service I've tried except Netflix.
Very responsibly done! The issue was not that they had to share the logs with law enforcement, the issue was that marketing message was incorrect from them. This is a responsible step.
As a hiring manager, the hardest people to fire are the ones that try hard, always show up on time but still end up doing terrible work. The best way I’ve found to do this is 9 box them, unfortunately point out how they’re holding back the team to the other people on the team (ie talk shit) and then formal review followed by firing.
> Users may register for accounts and provide their public Ed25519 keys. Later, when they wish to login, they sign the string "login" (with their private key), base64 encode the result of that and provide it to the server. The server then verifies the signature using their public key. If it verifies, then the user gets a session.

How is this not just a more complicated password?

Usually these sorts of protocols have some sort of challenge for the client to sign, making the login one-time and checking that the user actually has the private key.