jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the best way to address everyone's concerns is to do a trustworthy study (trusted by both management and engineers) on the effects of opening the doors under different scenarios.

How does the situation play out from everyone's perspective? If we open the doors too fast, do we get a huge drop in wages, everyone loses their houses, and students flee from tech education? Is there a rebound after N years?

If we open the doors slower, are we able to maintain wages at their current level? After how many years have we fully absorbed the talent and / or the effects of importing more talent start to ADD to the compensation of current workers, based on the improved tech ecosystem?

So, who can provide a model of what would happen at 3 month to 1 year intervals (I'd prefer shorter) in terms of salaries and rent, going out lets say 10-20 years?

Also, maintaining wages at their current level may not be a good thing. It seems that they've been suppressed lately and so we'd be maintaining them at a suppressed level, but this is just to start the discussion.
Ah, now I see why you were pejorative about my being a Pivotal Labs employee.

I actually think Mesos is the best of the current generation orchestrators, for the same reason that Diego (Cloud Foundry's new execution system) is going to be the best foundation for PaaSes.

They both push intelligence out to the edges. Mesos pushes it to the requestor, Diego pushes it to the executor, but both represent a huge step forward over need a godlike central controller for a cloud system.
I agree with some of this, but out of all the things that are definitely destroying America, the mindless opinions and think pieces in the NYT are one of the least harmful.

"Whiteness" is a term I don't use and don't really like, but it just plain was white Republican activists[1] who were rioting to stop the election and intimidate representatives two days ago. The Confederate symbols, presence of neo-Nazis, and the bizarre American Viking guy gave it away.

I live in southern Oregon and was born in Missouri, and I don't really understand what you're point is, below, about these areas culturally. The best parts of the culture in Missouri were sports, music, literature, food, river life, and fireworks. The worse parts included the notorious white racism. The "whiteness" discourse in Missouri was already asinine well before the NYT lost its mind. My grandparents had to elope out of state because their marriage was illegal, and when they came back the scandal of what they had done was featured in about a dozen papers.

And Oregon is an entirely different story. For someone who lived in St. Louis and then the Bay Area most of my life, the uniformity here is astonishing. It was officially a no-blacks state by constitutional amendment. My county today is < 1% black, and just got around to renaming "Negro Ben Mountain" in November.[2] Not having to think of yourself as white here is helped along a lot by the demographic homogeneity.

I think that the blame for your aunt feeling attacked for being white lies more truly on Breitbart. If you show non-liberal whites the NYT tweet/article, and also the Breitbart piece quoting the same NYT language, my bet is that "I feel attacked by the media for being white" is a more common and more intense response among those who read only the latter.

My parents were Democrats, and I am a Democrat, but one of my brothers is a Republican. We're both from the same place, the same upbringing, and are the same race (whatever it is). He watches Fox News personalities religiously, and categorically refuses to click on a link to the NYT. I read a local paper, the NYT, and wherever else the news comes from. I'm annoyed every day at the presentation of facts and looses writing standards, but I make my way through it. But this idea that the whites are under attack really connects with my brother in a way that it doesn't for me -- even though I'm the one supposedly encountering the brunt of the media's attack on white people, since I read main stream news and opinions and he doesn't.

Could he simply identify as more white than I do, and so feel more attacked? It's possible but I doubt it. I think it has more to do with this feeling of insecurity being one that the right wing media is nurturing for him.

[1] I mean "white activists" here not just in the sense that they were white people.
[2] Renaming it for the second time. :(
Even my friend didn't finished the site I posted it here to gather some feedbacks. Don't be surprised if it looks like Hacker news it's wanted. It's me that suggested her to have something simple like HN.
+1,000,000 for YNAB. It finally taught me that I don’t need to search for a bank with all the money management features I want, I just use YNAB to manage my money and I hardly care what bank account it sits in, it’s all “spent” in YNAB.

I’m a long time (2012) Simple customer and I went with them originally due to their new take on banking and the promise of an API (which they backtracked on). The envelope-type system they built with goals/expenses was nice but looks like a toy compared to YNAB. Now I can pick a new bank that doesn’t need to have any clever savings tools and just use it to hold my money.
...for other apps? Not seeing your point.
Well ofcause you can. A pyramid scheme keeps paying out profits to the chumps right up to the point when it doesn't.

The argument here isn't that Tether has no cash on hand, it's that if enough people pull out, they hit the the bottom of the non 1:1 reserve and everyone else left holding will zero out. If you have 1 kg of gold and start selling papers giving people claim to that 1kg of gold, nothing will prevent you from seeling 1000 claims, making it seem like you're holding a ton of gold for people when looking at the market cap, but if 2 people come and ask you for their 1kg of gold and you don't have enough of the cash you got seeling claims on hand and an oppotunity to buy gold quickly, then from one day to the next 999 claims are worthless.

This is of cause not a big risk in the industry normally because markets are regulated and those who hold gold or other assets backing claims go through audits.

Naturally Tether can't go through an honest audit because even though they might be holding enough cash to cover a decent amount of the market, it would expose them for lying over time, which would still hurt their business tremendously.
Not to mention many of us would be quick to identify the people in the logs as fucking crazy people, only to realize we're reading words written by our teenage selves.
Take a look at what Instagram was spending on infrastructure and bandwidth pre-acquisition. WhatsApp has less images but way higher volume. At that scale it's certainly not cheap to run.
I'm not denying that they have committed a crime. They did. But a coup requires manpower, military power and very intelligent people behind. They didn't have any of that.
"Physically based" rolls off the tongue more easily, and the adverb "physically" is modifying the verb "based", and then "physically-based" or "physically based" combines into an adjective or sometimes an adverb.
- Keep my main software R&D contract for 12 months

- Expand my recruitment business to average x placements per y (http://perl.careers/)

- Exercise 70% of all days

- Eat 90% of my meals mindfully

- Meditate on 90% of all days

- Finish my dissertation and graduate my part-time MSc by July

- After July, release an eBook OR complete the iOS developer and Data Scientist Nano degrees from Udacity
That sure sounds pretty cool
That's true - my favourite kind of sellotape is Scotch Tape! :-)
https://www.skylight.io
So, what's the deal with just clicking away the warning, then? Still provides secrecy against a passive listener, better than plain http...
Most of the other ways require a trusted third party. The position of the trusted third party is attractive to rent-seekers and often generates conflicts of interest. Automating the position of trusted third party with an algorithm has value, not because the algorithm works better than a reliable third party, but because it doesn't have any interests of its own that could come into conflict.

Bitcoin itself is not at all the best tool for this job, its value comes from the fact that it happened to be first. It's valuable for the same reason antiques are valuable.
Agreed. Hostile site also - even after selecting "order your pcbs" and creating an account, it won't provide pricing without uploading gerbers.

My last JLCPC order was $2 + $4.84 shipping for 5 pieces (82x54mm) and was delivered in a few days. I live nearby, but it wouldn't have been much more to send to the US.
I guess they may decide to not sell your data. Which is actually a good thing.
> * groups = [0] * (n//g)

> * for i in range(n):

> * groups[i % len(groups)] += 1

this is obvious

> * groups = [1+max(0,n-(i+1))//(n//g) for i in range(n//g)]

this is not
What are the high points? Would you expect it has much to add for someone who's been using vim for closer to 3 decades than 2?
the mRNA vaccines give the body a blueprint for antibodies, whereas actual exposure has the body creating non-uniform reactions. so that means prior exposed people should "use vaccines recreationally", as in "have a medical professional administer the dosages after an appointment".

the singleshot vaccines are not mRNA based and just help jumpstart coverage. the only goal now is coverage, and these increase the delta week over week of how fast and how far that coverage is. it will allow municipalities to rationalized re-opening all services sooner, by simply having a record of how much of the population has been addressed.

there are many people and organizations and medical professionals making efforts to help people become healthier. many people are trying to find specific links and everything they have right now is much worse than "trust us we're experts" because people don't know. fortunately there is a large audience that would prefer certain messaging to come from anybody but an expert, know anybody like that? so take all the supplements and stay active, because it can't hurt right? all the correlations support it. that's the exact approach regarding the vaccines too, there is no use of any of the approved vaccines worldwide that is worse than contracting covid, even asymptomatic covid. if you are of the predilection that taking vaccines is the same as candy flipping then it should be obvious that will guide your thoughts, the goal of the heads of state is to get enough vaccines available as soon as possible, and that's what they are doing.
"This makes me wonder if anyone has set up canary emails or phone numbers in their phone contacts."

We (rsync.net) have a handful of dummy/fake users in our database whose emails we monitor. The email addresses are cryptic and random and use a different domain, etc.

We should never see an email sent to one of these "canary" email addresses and, so far, we have not.

I am also aware that many of our customers sign up with service-specific email addresses, using the '+' character ... something like john+rsync@mydomain.com.

I personally have a rich and well developed pseudonym that I use for all online non-governmental transactions but in some rare cases I need to use my actual name and email - and in those cases I create '+' aliases.
That is timely. I am currently making a manual copy of a wix website I inherited.

It's one of the worst and sleazy pieces of software I have ever encountered.
That's what I thought. GDPR was created mainly to spend tax payer money on thousands of meetings, lawyers, dinners, conferences and whatever else was possible just to tick few boxes, give people false sense of security and pat themselves on the back while salivating over buffed up bank accounts.
For such a blatant disregard for the law, surely they should have been fined by now?
Given that they can just exist like that it seems to me they are probably selling or supplying governments with information about citizens, so they may be above the law because of that.
In a way you have affirmed parent’s point: it’s the shareholders’ website, and they can mod it as they wish.
In Greek mythology, Metis is Athena's mother. As an descriptor, it means cunning.
It would be much better if they stated they have sole discretion of who can use their site while adhering to the law. No other justifications needed.

People get upset when these policies are put in place but selectively applied. Companies try to appear unbiased, but it's too lofty of a goal (for technical and ideological reasons). Why they are not straightforward about their policies probably has something to do with why google dropped "Don't be evil".
Liable for what?
My first job in tech was at the American Red Cross. Easily one of the best cultures I have ever seen. Better than a dysfunctional family.
Doctrine + graphqlite. It’s all you really need for a sane API, you don’t even need a router unless you just want one.
I think it’s better to know that sometimes we only know how to describe something by relating rates of change to other states. And that’s ok. Maybe it has a closed form equation, or maybe can only be solved numerically. But if I see that a differential equation looks like a wave equation, then I get intuition that it’s describing waves. And why do the waves appear? Because the physical process the PDE describes has a speed limit on information passing from time into space!

Don’t like traffic waves? Well, why is there some limit on spatial information connected to temporal information? It’s because I cannot see through the cars in front of me. The “fog of war” creates the waves. The denser the fog (e.g. I’m surrounded by semitrucks), the greater the likelihood of waves developing.

This intuition is formed by being able to recognize the form of the PDE with general knowledge of the solutions, without needing to actually solve the PDE. Sure, additional insights are possible if you solve it, but knowing that traffic is like springs gives you leverage to use your ordinary intuition to understand unfamiliar things.

Point of fact, James Maxwell of E&M fame saw the wave equation and the separate electric and magnetic field PDEs and came up with a detailed spring model to give himself a more familiar analog to play with.
There are loopholes that allow incandescent bulbs to be sold in the US still. However, replacing incandescent bulbs would do basically nothing to help with this kind of power shortage caused by a cold spell - all their waste energy is heat, and they're as efficient at producing it as any other resistive heater. Switching to LED lighting saves people money during more normal times but makes the long-termp peak to average power usage ratio worse, and ordinary people have no reason to care about that because they pay the same amount for power during this kind of peak than they do at any other time even though it's a lot more expensive to produce.
In python, with numpy, you can use `np.vectorize`, there exists a jax equivalent that can enable accelerators to do your parallel stuff. Cuda exists, but it isn't as simple as `parallel-for`. For trivial for-loops, you can use OMP.
Please don't rage-delete comments. It renders the discussion unreadable because the context is gone.

Believe me, I understand how impossibly frustrating it can be to represent a minority view in an internet discussion on an inflammatory topic, but turning over the chessboard and storming off—which is what deleting comments and leaving spiteful remnants in their place amounts to—is not a positive contribution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For the absolute Erlang beginner (like me) who's wondering what the heck OTP is: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp
True. But my goal here is to get somebody to learn programming to the point where they could reasonably apply for a job. The question is, would you hire somebody who didn't know "stack, dynamic memory, pointers and so on" if they were willing to learn as needed?
Care to expand on that? Do you know something outside your mind? No, your mind is the knowledge, your mind is your truth and your reality. Your own perception is all that exists and you have no evidence outside of intuition (which is in the mind) for the existence of some extra-mental world.
I felt like being really lame and recommending a best practice like: "Use Python", but the devil interfered, and I actually find myself looking at Perl resources.
Ebook fiction (and other linear mostly text) is great on a Kindle Paperwhite and mostly good on a tablet. It's lightweight and easy to read even if the lighting isn't perfect and I can hold an entire library when I'm traveling.

The main downside is that I can't pass it to someone else or buy "free"/cheap (+ shipping) used copies.

A graphically rich book tends to be less good (or, at least, hit or miss with tablet better than epaper Kindle) and I find the ebook model tends to fall down completely for certain types of books where you flip back and forth or stick sticky bookmarks in like cookbooks or guidebooks. Searchability should be a win I guess but I just don't like them.

Because I read most of my books when I travel, I tend to buy ebooks (even if they end up costing more) for what's likely to be linear text and physical books for everything else.
I’d get a can of spray paint and resolve this issue the old fashioned way. This seems like a problem that can be solved by general refusal to comply.
Security should be applied in layers. Most common fail scenarios should be identified to make sure they are covered.
From the article:
> I always maintain "Day 0 is easy, Day N is the real test of your skills".

Would be interesting to see how this applies to the author's use of Nomad. It's easy to shit on Kubernetes because of its complexity, but this article seems to be comparing the Nomad Day 0 experience with the Kubenrnetes Day N experience.

I'm firmly of the opinion that you don't need much more than systemd (or equivalent) + SSH for your home server.
> Is there any more toxic label you can attach to a person in contemporary America than "racist?"

The actual article did not in fact label him as racist, and I don't think you could read it that way without being sloppy.
If you see a field that consist almost entirely of scammers, and you then choose to also enter that field, that is going to make me suspicious of your motivations and morals.
Thanks for response, I agree with parts of your response but I do not understand what you mean with "components encapsulating Windows APIs, COM, WinRT" in comparison with .Net , I mean .Net also wraps the majority of the win32 and other APIs.
> military vs. civilian. This means any inconvenience of using the system only matters if it leads to clear operational risks.

The military are not immune to this either. Case study, the 2006 Nimrod crash in Afghanistan [0], which killed all 14 of its crew. This plane was the flying equivalent of an unsecured server whose root password was 'password'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Royal_Air_Force_Nimrod_cr...
Your mindset is the issue. Therefore I would suggest to forget trying to use different tactics. These are just a band-aid to the real problem.

Go into every interview knowing that the company would be lucky to have you, and even having a conversation with someone of your experience is a privilege.

These companies need you. You don't need them. The ratio of coders to non-coders in this world is staggering and the demand only keeps increasing. It's a buyers market for the forseeable future.
That well intended argument has frequently been used as a protectionist argument to keep out cheaper goods from developing nations. E.g. the EU doesn't allow certain produce from Africa because of these reasons.

Most African countries simply won't be able to comply, and the sad thing is that trading produce with the west is one of the only ways for them to escape poverty. So the people you aim to protect are left worse off.
That's not a valid generalization. In this case, negative value of the secondary health hazards, loss of enjoyment, and discomfort experienced during fasting might exceed the cost of the drug treatment.
I work on a team that has members distributed across two locations. We use the policy described above, but there is a flip side to this problem. Most of our developers are one location with a 1/6 minority in another. The larger group of developers loses the advantages of face-to-face communication for meetings in favor of equal footing for everyone. Is that a net improvement on quality of communication? I don't know, but I'd rather meet with my colleagues in adjacent cubes face-to-face rather than over the phone the way we do now.
When the value of the dollar drops the cost of anything foreign you have to buy goes up.

Like that black oily stuff you are so fond of?
I was trying to articulate the odds of "flipping" a startup are greater than those of winning the lottery which is your oft stated comparison.

You guys are all about boot strapping and you provide an awesome contra view to the conventional wisdom. That said, I know a great many more people who have sold web businesses and never have to work again than those who are reaping millions in profits via the same. Honestly, I'm amazed at how many people I meet who are financially set based on some obscure web business they sold to a non-traditional acquirer. I'm not even that plugged into the startup community and I've met a couple dozen folks easily. Heck, among YC alums alone I bet you would find a bunch, even the under publicized ones.

Are the odds long? sure. Are you more likely to become wealthy spending a few post college years doing a funded startup rather than working at Google? Hell yes.

I really liked Rework, and like the "Profitable and Proud" series, but there are opportunities for people to fill small product niches and "sell out" quickly. Especially in unsexy categories like analytics and other B2B applications.

You might find it distasteful, but I'm sure a moderately well connected VC or angel could match every company in your P&P series with a series called "This company sold for XX millions and you never heard of them once."
I'm aware of that; I (hypothetically) want to bet against future increases in tuition, which is different than betting on student loan defaults.
Before the iPhone, smartphones didn't have on-phone app stores. You downloaded/purchased your applications off the web just like you do on your desktop. There was a good market for software for smartphones with lots of developers and distributors. The article would have us believe that none of that existed before Steve Jobs but that's just not true.

Dumb phones had carrier stores (and their firmware heavily customized). However, nobody I know has ever bought app for their regular 'dumb' mobile phone. Even the apps that were for free (like music players) were so horrible that they usually went unused.
> The US government in the 70's, 80's, and especially 90's should've known that the CCP was playing a game

They were blinded by their ideology, which told them that capitalism is inseparable from freedom and democracy. And bringing the first to China would bring the other 2 as well.

> For every US student that studies PhD in China, one Chinese student can come here.

Were there a lot of US students lining up to go to Chinese universities in the 70s and 80s? How would that even work?

> thousands of Chinese learned about the highest levels of physics and technology at our universities

If they could learn it at universities, was it really all that secret?
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For what it's worth, you can point an arbitrary CNAME at an S3 bucket -- you don't need to use CloudFront for this. See http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Virtua... for details.

However, S3 doesn't have default root object support, so you do need CloudFront if you want http://mydomain.com/ (vs http://mydomain.com/index.html) to return an object instead of an error.