skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and the real world has advantages as the response of human drivers is likely more realistic.

I'd bet they use this data to feed their simulators.
For those interested in a comparison to another popular consensus protocol, Paxos, see the two compared here by Heidi Howard and Richard Mortier, both of Cambridge UK: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs237/reading/Paxos_vs_Raft.pdf

Even for the uninitiated, the content is surprisingly digestible. The comparison and a brief description of the two begins in section 3.
Yes, Reagan was wildly popular. He was also not the evil monster that progressives portray. He won primarily because he was a better politician than Carter. Carter of course went on to do a lot of humanitarian work and deserves public respect for that. One can argue that he was a better statesman than he was President.
Or for common misspellings on mobile?
I’ve had the absolute worst experience with Apple.

I wanted to buy Apple Developer Program subscription. It wouldn’t let me add any of my credit cards, saw an option to add payment via UPI (Unified Payments Interface) in India. Added $99 to my Apple account and was still unable to pay for the membership. Spent around 7-8 hours speaking to customer support but no one had a clue what was wrong. I asked for a refund and was told money added to Apple account as credit can not be refunded.
There's a searching concept known as edit (levenshtein) distance that is close but not exactly what you're talking about. To rephrase your question: is there a datastructure that can pre-compute the levenshtein distance for a set or results?

Yes, and it's crazy complicated. See Levenshtein Automata[1]. In reality, I would let the professionals handle this by either using Open/ElasticSearch or Apache Lucene.

[1]http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levensht...
"push a driver update with the hot serial numbers and have it pop up a window"

Sure that runs foul of computer misuse act, millioms od people were downloading a driver, and you used it to get admin rights and take control of their computer, and 99.9% of them have no stolen GPU.

It's like if you broke into and searched every house in London to find a batch of srolen iPhones, you aren't allowed to do that
I think "good but not perfect" describes my experience here as well. I've certainly needed to rework some bits of code that were allocating when I didn't expect them to, but so far, this has not become too onerous (yet).

The "write a little bit of code, then test it to see if it allocates" approach has been very useful. That way I don't get too far out on a limb with a bunch of allocating code and no easy way to clean things up.
When I saw this posted I asked my son if he'd created an account on Hacker News to troll me.
> you need to explicitly set up Xft font rendering via X resources to use antialiasing.

Man that sure seems modern!

My criteria are a bit simpler: Is it written in C, C++, FORTRAN, COBOL or shell script? Not modern.
Cisco.

Great teamwork and culture, tons of smart and friendly people, interesting technical problems (I think computer networking is interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), opportunities for growth, and good work-life balance.

One thing to note is that much of this might be because I got lucky and joined the team that was part of the OpenDNS acquisition.
I have have enjoyed working at the EPA (US Government) as an IT Specialist.

The good parts are working with people passionate about their jobs, on things that truly matter. Work life balance and management trust is very high.

The bad parts are there as well: outdated technology, lots of committees, long processes to do certain things. Pay is less then I could get in industry.

Mixed bag: Not a "fast to fire" environment. Ethics/values are very high but that doesn't automatically mean good management. You need to meet and work with a lot of people.. but people are very open to collaborating.

I have heard that the government in a way is supposed to be the "model employer"; kind of being an example to others in terms of diversity/inclusion, time off policies, benefits, etc. And I think is that sort of true at least at this agency.

https://usajobs.gov
It is unfair though - a warranty covers a product being free from defects in materials and workmanship. The product being stolen happened _after_ it's manufacture, which is the thing that is actually being guaranteed.

What would be fair is a company refusing to repair/replace a counterfeit product, but (presumably, given the response) the stolen cards are genuine articles. Articles that people will inevitably purchase at around 150-300% MSRP in the current market. This is just EVGA leaving ardent supporters of the brand, enthusiasts willing to pay many multiples of what the product is worth, out to dry.

This concern should be purely between EVGA, the courier, their respective insurance agents, and local law enforcement. I'm honestly amazed it's even being mentioned by the company on a public forum.
The Metaverse in HTML5
Great. In the meantime I have also heard the following which addresses US homelessness in a somewhat internationally-informed way: Joe Rogan episode #1719 with M. Shellenberger. He does not use the term, but Shellenberger suggests that merely supplying housing, without adjusting other incentives and requirements, could almost be called a consumerist approach: pay the money for a private room for someone and it will magically work.
You could mine bitcoin on them, but it would be so inefficient compared to ASICs which can hash many magnitudes faster, you would have an astronomically small chance of mining a block.
What military job/mos did you pick? Sounds like you went reserve?
Just be prepared for your RSUs to basically remain stagnant for your entire tenure because the hardware business is a boat anchor for the stock price.
Some older machines just have a "look" that is different than anything made today due to a different design language being used.
Yes in most while others have reliable information from multiple close colleagues. Also don't get me wrong, it is great experience to be part of any of these leading high-tech companies in relative to the most other ones, so my comparison is relative btw top ones.
> If it would be "easily quantifiable", you would not see in 2021 still bank ATM running damn Windows XP or nuclear power plant under Win2000 with some old deprecated crap supervisor tools.

> It is a common drama with proprietary solutions, they are seducing to install and a nightmare to maintain.

The fact the software is "proprietary" or not is largely irrelevant to whether or not the systems-integrator who made those ATMs and Nuclear Power plants is acting responsibly. Had they chosen Linux then that ATM would still be sitting there with just-an-outdated version of some embedded Linux distro.

There is an argument that if they used a GPLv3 or other anti-Tivo license that the end owner or operator of the machine would be able to upgrade the host OS software themselves, however in both of those cases (ATMs and power-plants) what makes-the-thing-run is not the OS but the application software (BankAtm.exe and NuclearReactorMonitor.exe) which will have their own dependencies and (knowing most software) will just break when running on an updated OS - and it'd be even worse on Linux because Linux does not have a stable applications ABI between major releases: the software would need to be recompiled.

Now if the application software itself were also open-source, then I agree: that does help, but I'm not convinced that's a solution either because I can assure you that companies like banks and infrastructure operators are not going to be happy having to do patch-tuesday and recompiling their software on a regular basis for hardware they'd really prefer to leave alone and stable. Hence why they're air-gapped (or at least meant to be air-gapped).

Being non-proprietary is not a panacea.
Well that's really rude and unjustified. If Arq works for them, then they have less than a terabyte. If they switched to paying per byte, their bill would decrease. They don't fit that "bad unlimited customer" profile at all. They just want a stable price and reasonable support. That's not being fickle.
Yeah, people linking comics as if they refuted arguments. Even more of a cliché than these tiresome climate change debates. At least it wasn't xkcd this time.

People need to get their priorities straight. Crypto is so far down that list, they should probably look at their own lifestyles before criticizing it. You want to improve the world? How about we start with all these self-righteous people who depend on cars, plastics, cheap chinese products? If we fix them there's a good chance the climate change problem will be solved straight up.

> I'm guessing since there are no hypocrites in crypto you are all using non-fiat "coins" to pay your bills and buy groceries, right?

Yeah, because we can totally just force people to use these coins in their everyday lives. You know, like the governments do. Just one stroke of a pen and boom. "Businesses now MUST accept payments in XMR in order to operate legally, and taxes CAN be paid in XMR."
I doubt it, considering their point about Amazon (the RSU backloading, not the hire-to-fire thing) is a misconception that only someone who has never worked at Amazon would complain about.

(probably some of the others too, but I only personally know about Amazon)
99.99% of TVs aren't stolen, why am I forced to run this DRM on my property?
Anything tying you down to a company or a small set of companies is bad in a career where growth comes from getting a new job.
My experience is that you only don’t get far with ISO 27001 in the USA but the rest of the world are fine.
How do you feel about wind farms?
I think you do learn from art - it is a different kind of learning though, one thats much less tangible. To your point it is much more of an emotional and human experience (also a great way to process in the background). After all music is the short hand of emotion.
The schools in my are pay horribly for IT staff, and it shows.

It's not a "welfare" program. Nobody good wants to work there.
Specialization let's you charge the big bucks while generalization gives you the longer career.
Never supply authentication info on a call you don't initiate. Always look up the phone number independently from the organization's official info.
But why does it matter if you "cheat"? That makes no sense. If you can type 95 wpm using keys with letters on them, then that's all that matters. Your goal is to be able to type effectively, not to type with a handicap.
to anyone wondering, this was the blogpost Peter was talking about: https://encryp.ch/blog/truth-about-protonmail/
> Normally insurance deals with this and the public never hears about it. This is extremely odd to issue a public announcement.

Because it's happening often globally and their carrier's insurance is spiking. Probably done at the behest of the CFO.
Are you looking for anything in particular? I wouldn't mind recording myself reading a couple Wikipedia articles. I'm a native speaker from Argentina.
I think that is learning. Being able to see the world from other peoples perspectives is learning.
Sounds like a good opportunity to teach the kids about solar. The solar ovens were such a memorable experience, but I suppose the cloudy days would be tough. Teaching the kids about DC to AC conversions at the same time as office politics would be a valuable life lesson!
If there’s a problem with the airbag, the ECU will likely throw a code.
We are in a hysteria. We are injecting children with undertested substances that will almost certainly not benefit them, and may very well harm them. Reporting of the harm is being suppressed in the media. This is a terrible situation and I hate to think about what the future holds.
For those looking for how raft works

http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
White House Market's closure opens up opportunities for new dark web bazaars
The ships I referenced were carrying 10-20k TEU, and therefore 5-10k 40' containers. I did all the conversions to 40' lengths from TEU, because it seemed like it would otherwise confuse people. Hence my note about the numbers people looked up being twice what I was quoting.

If you feel like I'm inaccurate after that clarification, then let's continue. I'd hesitate to continue a nomenclature argument online, but since it changes the numbers I've been talking about be a factor of 2, it seems worth resolving.
My former coworker is at Project44 and says otherwise… unfortunately. I was going to apply until they sent me this text:

“Exec team varies greatly in aptitude from what I’ve witnessed. Some are forward thinking, some appear to be in over their heads. Frankly, everyone is solely focused on sales or recruiting.”
My first website was in this same space, a concert search site called HearWhere (https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/hearwhere-lets-you-discove...)

It had a bunch of stuff like artist popularity, because there were too many concerts in places like NYC to just give people a huge list to go through.

I think it's a great project to cut your teeth on. Lots of opportunity to learn in areas that you want to get better at.

I don't think it's a good business opportunity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. This is an area that I get pitched on a lot (I'm not an investor, but try to help start-ups where I can), and even when I started HearWhere, SongKick started at the same time, raised $60m and didn't make a dent in the market.

I have no idea why you called it airovic. I don't know how that gets associated with the final product.
This is so cool! It has a charming aesthetic. Something like this with simple chat and multiplayer would be cool, to just 'exist' with some friends for a bit, drive them around on the bus, harass some stop signs. Surely other games have this, but they also have actual games attached, where what I want is more like just an expansive space to be.

Unfortunately, according to the developer "sorry, I'm not working on this project currently."
I think for a home project "with your two kids", and without having demonstrated another game you have made, you should be selling copies on your first kickstarter for the lowerst tier - 5 euro. Which is still ten dollars where I am.
I think you would extend your organic reach at this critical phase. You aren't asking for much money overall. What you really need is people playing and talking about this game. Its a cool concept and if people play it and you get a community onboard it will rocket. If you dont get early players I think you'll have a hard time.
Awesome concept - 1970s space tech, but the economic model? I dunno, space tech was an expense "for human achievement" and really cost a lot, so I wait to see how (other than launching satellites) you will game an economy.
Same thing, only two repairs, in store exchange to a newer model, price difference comped.
>And the numbers of these people is much much larger than you're aware of, likely for reasons of media bias hiding this information from you and geographic diversity of political views and values.

And the chilling effect of socially shaming people as "plague rats" for resisting lockdowns and mandates.
How much money do Russian oligarchs launder through UK Crown Dependecies and Panama every year?

Probably more than the entire market cap of Bitcoin.
Finally, now I don't need to stress about what to write in my resumé.
>But I felt guilty for not learning new things and just listening to music all day long

Seen this a lot, and I'm in the same boat. I dislike this commodified view of life and free time, where every thing you do must result in a sort of real-life stat increase, like you would see in a video game (Persona 5 anyone?).

I think ultimately this way of thinking is extremely naive. It implies there is no underlying themes or philosophy in music or fiction whereas listening to a podcast will cause you to learn something new. The subtle messaging a good album possesses can be far more profound than listening to a guy talk about data science for an hour each day. Listening to a good album or reading fiction can give you new ways to frame problems or reconsider old approaches in your work.

We need more polymaths.
> We took many samples and will continue to build our sample library over the next year or so. This is important as we need to learn which microorganisms are old and which are modern contaminants.

I wonder if there's an update on how this went, and if they were able to show that this was actually an ancient yeast, not just a modern sourdough starter.
Now I know what to do with the rebels. Thanks, BBC!
Not an Apple fanboy but when I got an IPod 4(I think) they started having problems with the included headphones. Read about it on Slashdot then soon after mine failed, I called(!) support and they sent me a box with new ones and a return label for the old ones so they could do failure analysis.
For what it’s worth, people mined rocks to build the pyramids multiple thousands of years ago. They don’t mine using an army of slaves wielding chisels anymore.
I'm not sure "ability to bluff" is the characteristic I want to select for in my politicians. I'd select for a lack of ability to bluff, but then they would just try to fake that...

Luck seems as good a way as any. Or math problems? I'd love a test of science, but the makeup of that test might be too political and I don't want bible trivia on the next one.
many places, such as Stripe, make it super easy to
switch teams for a better fit.

Another commenter mentioned that this is a strength of FB, and I find it amazing. I've not experienced that in my time in the industry though I've never worked for any "famous" technically-oriented orgs.

Don't misunderstand: I have a rock-solid belief in the importance of team fit. Nobody can do good work unless they're a good engineer and have found a good team fit.

I'm just amazed that any orgs actually pull this off, rather than simply considering somebody a bad hire. That's what I've always seen. Unless it was an engineer that had already succeeded at a given company for a number of years, and was faring poorly with a new team.
Particularly Keen on Shepherding
Koch Industries

Truly unique culture (go read Good Profit). Shockingly flexible organization, willing to do what’s best in the long run, and is investing tens of billions dollars in technology across numerous industries (Infor and Molex at one end of the spectrum and Flint Hills resources and Georgia Pacific at the other).

https://jobs.kochcareers.com/search/information-systems-and-...
>> ,, The business model is refreshingly simple: people pay to watch shows they'll enjoy''

> I believe that this is true, but I also have a feeling that the main goal for netflix is maximizing views, and not maximizing the experience per supscriber weighted by user spend.

Not GP, but I believe Netflix has patterns to keep the subscriber in the app for as long as possible, including browsing through the list, adding things to an endless list, moving through the list of content just to avoid the trailer that would autoplay (this was around for years until it brought an option to disable the autoplay)…in other words, Netflix has focused (intentionally or unintentionally) on reducing the amount of actual content streamed while making sure the person isn’t using another streaming service for longer.

> …in opposed to Netflix’s Brave new world…

There are many titles on Netflix that are marked as Netflix Originals that aren’t produced by Netflix or even show up on Netflix first. Brave New World was a Peacock (the streaming service from NBC) original that was canceled after the first season. It was sometime after this that Netflix bought it and stamped it as a Netflix Original. I have no idea why Netflix bought it or how it relates to the book though.
Migrating is a valid option
The auto play of movie trailers while browsing for titles irritates me to the core.

It's like I know I can't read the description longer than 3 seconds or else all these moving pictures that I don't want to see are going to start jumping at me.

I know it sounds like a 1st world problem but it made the Netflix experience unbearable for me.

I was ready to cancel my subscription.

Then I learned on this site while reading comments you can turn this off by logging in your account on the web.

These *&$ knew only geeks like me would be put off by auto-playng trailers. They knew only geeks like me would find the turn off setting. I hate Netflix, but I'm still paying. I hate myself.
In-depth interview here: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/gastroegyptology
Parent said they visited 10 jobs that had no quality, I have 4 places that in practice try to have quality. So either they were hyperbolic, or has unrealistic standards, or bad luck, or bad job selection heuristics.
I have been surprised at how they have been able to continually cut costs as well. 10 years ago, the idea of somehow improving cost efficiency to our current levels seemed like a fantasy. The solution was apparently to just build bigger and bigger and model a lot more. The current limitation to terrestrial wind turbines seems to be transportation of larger and larger parts.

Floating and sea-floor-mounted ocean wind turbines are also getting super cheap.

For regular grid use, iron batteries are really coming along well too, both flow batteries and solid batteries look like they will be economical with current grid costs. So the glue needed to last for a low-wind week seems to be nearly ready.
Caton in Overshoot called humans a detritus species. Your very descriptive paragraph might be mined for metaphors. For example, in place of a brain, does humanity have going a peristaltic action connecting mines to landfills?
Are you sure environmental yeast didn’t make its way in there? I’d wager you’d have to bake in the laboratory to prevent other yeast from entering the dough. From the photos it’s on some gingham cloth in someone’s yeasty house.
> 'Colourways' is a fairly standard term

Not in software it isn't. It appears to be a marketing term, just as I said.
> hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan

How much did this cost? How did you find/arrange it? This is fascinating. When selecting my healthcare I remember wishing I had the time to make so many calls and then just gambled with an educated guess.
rent is fixed at the bottom end by renters income.
more likely to dissuade investors if they can't take the crunch.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "they would not be penalized for not having an ID" means.
https://imgur.com/a/e9p1vSx

I purchased the wooden smoking pipe looking device in the image at a Bazar in Tajikistan a few years ago. It's used for bundled male infants to direct urine out of the blankets.
Kubearmor vs. Tracee vs. Falco
The reception to Carter's speech was overwhelmingly positive

I notice NPR didn't report the negative mail or calls arriving at the Whitehouse. I just remember the "we're screwed" attitude of family and friends along with election of 1980. It wasn't what the country needed. You can watch the speech today and feel the lack of hope.
Im slowly "working" on a few. A couple web platform projects just for fun and some concrete sculptures of old computing hardware.

Cool question to put on HN, might get increased attention with the "Ask HN:" in the title?
For what it's worth, in the Linux kernel brk() just calls mmap() to grow the bss segment. So under the hood, just about everything is mmap(), and brk() is shorthand for a mmap() call that operates on a well known pre-existing mmap() area.
Lying to your bank is typically not a good strategy when it comes to compliance. You can get asked on a form and if you lie, they have a very good case later on to close your account.