jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>The government breaks up monopolies to lower prices.

That has happened occasionally (AT&T), but the more usual situation (Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminum) is that prices go up, which isn't surprising since the main beneficiaries of "anti-monopoly" laws are the competitors who cannot compete with the "monopolist".
"...because the US government is believed to be highly unlikely to default."

And that belief stems largely from the status of the US as the sole superpower (at least for now). That's the point I was trying to make. I just didn't do a very good job of it.

I probably should have just picked an example of the US exercising diplomatic power, because that's much more intuitive to me than currency markets are.

(Thanks for patiently correcting me, by the way.)
Oh duh, I read the "with" as "as". Thx.
Thanks i will solve this issue in next release.
This is really helpful. I'm a non-technical founder, and I'm glad to hear that there is hope.

Do you think having applied previously was a positive or a negative for you? Do you think it matters that these applications were for different ideas? I'm just trying to figure out when I should apply--if it is better to wait and develop something fully functional before applying or applying now with the caveat that I need the funding to help develop the idea.

I am planning to apply with a technical co-founder, but I have concerns about how we could effectively develop our product without some substantial financial backing. I don't want to put something out there half-assed and have it fail because we didn't have the right tools, only to then have someone with the resources to execute steal the idea.
Chrome resolves its own DNS. Therefore it can support any DNS record type (even if it doesn't have hooks for one today).

No other browser does. All other browsers rely on the system's stub resolver which means you can't even open a bug for them, because the bug would require you to speak DNS first.
Most people have no idea how to evaluate YouTuber credentials, and they subscribe to outlets like the NYT to do the filtering for them.

You're not the intended audience for these pieces so it's not weird that you don't find them very useful. Most people just aren't interested in the depth of detail that you are.

Imagine if they replaced all the articles on topics you are just peripherally interested in with wonky deep-dives. You'd probably give up after the first few because you aren't equally interested in everything, and sometimes you just want a breezy high-level overview of what's happening.

NYT is writing to audience that just wants to know whether they need a fancy new router or whether they should stick with their current one for a while longer. That's it.
One thing I'd like to see is competing unions. The UAW supplies labor to the big three US automakers, putting them in an unfair negotiating advantage; the UAW can easily bully them around. The UAW ultimately hurt themselves because it put the Big Three at a big competitive disadvantage. Some manufacturing left for right-to-work states, and some business left for (mostly) Japanese automakers.
We integrated a 55Wh battery, which is pretty typical for 13.5-14" notebooks.
I have no problem paying for recurring usage costs. For example I have a paid vps and paid email. But in my mind I'm paying precisely for the compute, storage, and network infrastructure behind them, not paying, e.g. to run linux. And I'm happy to pay for someone else to manage that infrastructure because the setup is nontrivial, I dont need to own the infra, etc.

Contrast this with Office 365, or even more niche pay per use or per month products, that are not better in any way that matters to me because they are hosted elsewhere. With these products I feel like someone wants me to pay a recurring fee just to run their code. Some of it is psychological, but I feel like I'm getting ripped off, that someone is trying to find a way to get me to keep paying for something (which they are).

Spotify and Netflix have found a good balance of offering a subscription, but providing such a large catalog that the value vs. actually owning all the content is clear. Most SaaS feels more like having to pay monthly just to own a single DVD.

But TLDR for me is I dont want to pay recurringly for the privilege of executing your code, I will pay recurringly for needed* infra, support, etc that goes along with it.

*not just tacked on to make it SaaS or to deploy it as SaaS
They are simple, but it's very slow, in my experience.
Oh god it'll be amazing once /r/wallstreetbets gets their hands on this. The $WLSTRBETS custom ticker will definitely go to the moon. I would suggest maybe putting more info on the landing page.

Are you a brokerage or is this something that can hook into your existing brokerage? The latter would be awesome.
> but seriously, how many people run or "install" single executables these days?

Pretty much everyone who's ever used an AppImage on Linux, for one.

This is also still the norm for macOS, from the user's point of view (yes, the application is technically a folder, but as far as most end users are concerned it's a single "thing" that gets dropped into their Applications folder). Still the norm for Windows, too, at least for installers (and "portable" apps, while not as common as ones installed to Program Files, certainly ain't obscure, even in this day and age).
> Property prices in CA have risen because salaries and IPOs have enabled people to compete for property.

They have risen because nobody resists commercial development, only residential development. The reason? Commercial real estate still brings in taxes and it increases home values which also increases property taxes on homes. The insistence to only reap the benefits of commercial development without further residential development is what is causing problems in the first place.
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It's a good thing for allies to spy on each other to understand intentions, as this article in Foreign Affairs argues.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140247/jennifer-sims/...
For those who aren't Munk members, it's also available on C-SPAN[1]. I thought it was an entertaining debate, but not as good as I hoped it would be (I watched it live when it was first broadcasted). My memory is a little foggy, but as I recall, Glenn Greenwald went off on his usual 'the NSA is the epitome of evil and exists solely to invade your privacy' rants; Michael Hayden spent most of his time backtracking and focusing on where Greenwald was factually wrong rather than making his own argument; I didn't think Alan Dershowitz made a particularly convincing argument; and Alexis Ohanian made some greats points but was completely ignored by everyone else.

I personally enjoyed watching Jameel Jaffer (ACLU) square off against Chris Inglis (former NSA Deputy Director) at the Brookings Institute last year[2] - both sides had good arguments. For that matter, Benjamin Wittes (the guy moderating the debate) has had some good interviews on his blog[3] and podcast[4] as well - you don't see many outlets that will have James Comey (FBI director) one week followed by Chris Soghoian (ACLU) the next week.

[1] http://www.c-span.org/video/?319161-1/munk-debate-state-surv...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KKEh2AS6E

[3] http://www.lawfareblog.com/

[4] http://www.lawfareblog.com/category/podcasts/
How do you have an assumption of privacy when you are the one mailing out the letter to some third party?
And there are those that think Bitcoin is the holy grail and the only shot at electronic currency thats worth any effort. In their opinion anything else is just a nuisance in Bitcoin's glorious path to world domination, not fascist at all!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/36_FSupp2d_191.ht... Bridgeman Art Library v Corel Corp is the most recent caselaw I know on this and judges that faithful reproduction doesn't acquire a new copyright. However, the case in hand is transformative to some degree, it is not an unexposed negative that is being reproduced - I think a new right could well be established in the work (the photos each themselves) as the [manual] production from negatives is not merely mechanical but has a [small] degree of creative input.

http://lawclanger.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/its-not-often-that-... addresses the last relevant trial, National Portrait Gallery vs Wikipedia, I can recall from the UK [and mentions Bridgeman in passing].

From what I can establish NPG came to an agreement out of court with Wikipedia and did not prosecute the alleged tortuous infringement - NPG instead made lots of images available for free and started asking for donations. This suggests that NPG found no merit in pursuing the claim that the works (expensive hi-def "scans" of old paintings) had copyright.

That said I don't think a decision to this end, in the UK, would automatically transfer over and say that the photos here have no new copyright.
if they get another reviewer for that category, i can guarantee you that all that person will do is open an excel sheet, order by donation amount per family, and write the position your family is at. So i doubt donating the minimum will do you any good.
Technology marches inexorably forward. These algorithms already exist in unbroken form. What the government is doing is mandating that Apple and Google make user's data less secure. The government will claim that any such backdoor will only be openable by them and only in cases of great need (read terrorism).

What will happen is that non-governmental organizations will find these keys and get the same ability. What will happen is that the government will overreach, as they have done before time and time again.

This isn't about stopping terrorism, this is about keeping the current ability to spy on US Citizens. The internet was the single greatest intelligence boon in history and the government is concerned about loosing spying capacity.

Unsophisticated terrorists would gain little protections from at-rest and over-the-wire encryption. It's really quite easy to screw up and be found in the dragnet. Sophisticated actors would be using additional software anyway. You know, the kind that already exists.

The libraries are free and public. The algorithms publicly published. You can't put the cat back in the bag.

The government is trying to legislate particular usages of math. They are literally saying that Apple and Google shouldn't be using certain sequences of numbers. This isn't an exaggeration or hyperbole since everything is encodable in numbers and obviously some communication is illegal.

This is literally illegal equations, and it is so very far down a slippery slope that every citizen should be concerned.

To answer your question, the government will still not be able to decrypt many communications, even with this backdoor. These technologies protect casual users from data theft, but putting in backdoors makes everybody less safe.
It's partly materials, but there are lots of factors:

- building codes raising the bar, which has brought down costs for what used to be "fancy" materials

- improvements in building science

- increased energy costs driving demand for improved efficiency

- greater awareness of energy consumption amongst the population

I've renovated a few houses build in the 60's and 70's in Canada. As far as I can tell, they had the materials and knowledge to make far more efficient houses, but much of the time, it was just easier, quicker and cheaper to install a big-ol' heater and drive the cold out. With a few simple and relatively cheap building envelope modifications and a more efficient heat source, it wasn't difficult to bring heating costs down by 50% or more.
I stand corrected about NTFS and journaling. I don't know, maybe I'm looking backwards with brown colored glasses, but I remember NTFS being a serious weakness of Windows. Has that changed?
The city of Austin already does kind of a version of #2:

https://savings.austinenergy.com/rebates/residential/learn/m...

> What Is the Power Partner Program?

> The Power Partner Program is a community-wide coordination of air conditioning usage that allows Austin Energy to manage energy use during peak summer days when it matters the most.

> During a Power Partner event Austin Energy will adjust the temperature setting on your Internet-connected thermostat. Temperature adjustments up to four degrees reduce usage when the energy and cost savings are needed the most community-wide, yet do not significantly impact comfort.

It's not market-based in the way you're talking about (real-time price being pushed through to the consumer), but it may be market-based in a different way. The same page goes on to say it "helps lower the overall cost of electricity in the community". So I assume the utility uses it to reduce how much electricity it has to buy at peak prices.
super short post, on a topic that seems not super relevant to many.

but i dig it. i dig it a lot.

languages are a pain in the butt. you can do anything with languages. so can everyone else using the language.

it's actually quite nice having constraints. having a uniform model, having dead inert data. everyone using the same machine, the same mechanisms. maven's lifecycle[1], the steps of a build, being well defined, in order, serving as a backbone for plugins to extend, is powerful in it's ordered simplicity, in it's learnability, in it's familiarity.

i have barely touched jvm in the last decade, but even a decade ago, i think the lessons here are really killer, really key, really insightful. it's not apparent exactly how this applies to a broader scope of computing, but i think there are some really important lessons we still need to grapple with. that languages offer too much freedom. that being able to do anything ends up with everyone doing something different, a proliferation of hell as other people's code, other people's endless variegated opinions, all unlike, all foreign.

that said, maven leaves extreme power in the hands of it's plugins. plugins do a lot. i spent years combing through docs, & looking at different project builds, & maven retained a vast aura of mystery, left endless questions abound. i resisted going further, understanding what plugins really were, looking at what they were doing. once i started reading their sources, i was quite surprised to find many of the plugins i thought powerful & special were actually quite short, often rather simple manipulators of a couple of files. it took diving in to see how elegant & simple maven & it's vast sea of plugins really (often) were.

[1] https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...
I just love Lisp and you pretty much have a fun small language you can fit in my small brain with Racket. The biggest issue is the libraries. Everyone writes their own specific libraries for their problems, because its easy and fun.

I could have done it in Python but portability was always the issue.

At my former job I had to make charts from pictures with English and Spanish lettering. Took me 30 minutes to have a working client that got installed in a dozen computers that afternoon.

I needed to also re-structure the companies file system for every computer in our company.

Personally I worked in audio video contract work from time to time and I was able to make a dozen short cut programs that actually saved my biscuit several times. I could have done it in python but the portability kicked my butt. Racket made executables super easy.

Also I went through How to Design Programs and I learned a ton.
I get the same feeling, to the point that I occasionally let out a brief scream when browsing GAN images.
An alternative solution is to line the floors and roof of your apartment block in RF blocking material so only your wifi exists within it. Causes problems for phones not on the wifi network I guess but maybe its worth it.
Big Bend to me is kind of dangerous. Just don't bring an expensive car or lots of valuables or go alone.
personally, I just outright refuse to be on call. That cheap bastard needs to hire a SRE. I explicitly ask the question in interview, I let the manager know I have zero interest in doing such a thing. and when they force my hand, I go somewhere else.
How do we downvote for posting a "9to5mac" article? What's next, AppleInsideher and MacTumors?

Some people go to school and learn things so they can tell the science from the click-selling hype of entitled enthusiasts.
ELB doesn't work across regions, the failure at EC2 affected multiple Availability zones in the Virginia Region. ELB might have helped, but it's likely that some people had all their "availabiliy" zones knocked out.

In fact, it's looking like all the automatic-failovers from people hosting on those data centers compounded the problem when everyone's scripts tried to recover at the same time – what was referred to in a previous article as a "bank run".

But yeah, if you're doing heart monitoring, you need to have your servers replicated across a wide geographic area.
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/rushby/slides/jaist07.pdf

See "SMT Solvers: Disruptive Innovation in Theorem Proving", Rushby, 2007.

> SAT solving is the quintessential NP-complete problem. But now amazingly fast in practice (most of the time)

> SMT ... generalizes SAT solving by adding the ability
to handle arithmetic and other decidable theories
No problem if ths swiss bank had continued printing francs. E1, E2, E3 and so on in USA make clear the hyperinflation risk doesnot exist in this case.
But there will be much harm in swiss companies. Exports in Swisszerland means 70% of GDP.
And much harm in Poland and other countries with households buying their homes n swiss franck. So, problemes for their financial systems.
No, you make 20% and save millions of lives. Identifying and quarantining the infected is literally the only tool we have now to slow this pandemic.
Why write your own mini-init instead of using something like supervisord?
What would you measure? One feature of very good musical instruments is, they make it far easier to get the sounds you want. They are versatile and flexible, with a wide range of possible responses. They sound like what the artist intends, which is why they are so popular to play.

So are you measuring the artist? How would you measure this quality in the instrument?
> Some of our applied social scientists are being allowed to work with very large datasets at places like Facebook and I believe they are increasingly in a position to make quantifiable statements on what racists or any other cluster-able groups of humans like. If by spectrum you mean “distance from a centroid” it might be more precise.

Just because you have more data, it doesn't mean that you can identify constructs like racism from this loads of data. You'd need some kind of ground truth mechanism (like an index of behaviour towards different races) which neither Facebook (nor anyone else) has. It's just wildly implausible.

Maybe, in ten years, NLP will be good enough to identify this, but I don't think these constructs are easily identifiable from text, certainly not in a public space such as Facebook.

> Marketing is essentially the working, reproducible arm of the social sciences, and marketers know a lot about human preferences and how to link them to motivation.

I get what you're trying to say here, and maybe that works in a small number of places, but having worked with marketers in analytics for the past decade or so, suffice it to say that I rarely praise the standards of experimention and (lack of) rigour employed by them.
As an example: to what extent could we influence the gender balance of computer science graduates (or appropriately-skilled entry-level applicants) with upstream efforts?

That feels to me like a lot more than bikeshedding (assuming there's an answer other than "zero point zero zero")
I'm not that person but a 20 minute walk clears up my mind every single time.
> Should remote workers have their pay reduced if they move somewhere cheap?

That makes the most economic sense for the company, as they can judge employees based on their local office, not the other global employees at that salary level. Also it's good to not have people in the same office doing ostensibly the same job with wildly differing salaries.

> Some call this unfair, and they’re probably right.

Agreed. But fairness rarely factors into business decisions.

> Why? My value to the company hasn’t changed! I am still worth the same amount as I was before! The only thing that changed is where I choose to reside. What difference is that to the company?

By moving to a low-COL area, you have proven to the company that you can't handle the high-stress high-stakes world of a financial center. The company usually has a bad idea of your worth. What do you think happens when you send them an indicator like this?

> If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it.

No, but you can go next door and interview at Google the next day, and get bumped up to the standard big-city salary. So it's a pointless argument.

> Companies reduce your pay because they can.

Not only that, they have to to compete with all of the other companies that do it. They made a risk/reward assessment and decided that the ill-will toward their employees and potential resignations is worth the salary savings.

The rest of the article dives into comparisons with extremely impoverished areas, which I don't think are relevant for a discussion about remote work.
The problem is that something worse will always get made more quickly and gain traction.
So did I. But it's because I confused it with the "Come into my World" video, directed by Michel Gondry. One of the best music videos, in my opinion. It still would have been a little odd to see it here, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ
Quirky variable names does not a good code base make.
I never said this is a free speech issue; Twitch is a private platform so they can do whatever they please. My concern is that the quality of the platform is going downhill because Twitch's response to everything is the ban button. For repeat offenders, I understand banning, but as far as I know, they don't even have a warning system in place. (Their ban policies are also wildly inconsistent when it comes to ban lengths).

In my view, this just leads to overall lower quality content on the platform. Creators can't risk or innovate because their entire livelihoods at are at the whim of a temperamental moderator.
Oh that's an Intel math kernel library. They probably just arbitrarily chose a 32-bit type in one of their FORTRAN interfaces. The x86_64 architecture itself, is pretty much word size agnostic. Arrays can be indexed using a 64-bit index, for example: mov (%rax,%rbx,8),%rcx where %rbx is the 64-bit word index. The only caveat with the instruction encoding is that fixed-size displacements can't be more than 32-bits. So for example, you can access the second 64-bit word in the array as mov 8(%rax),%rcx but you can't say mov 0x1000000000(%rax),%rcx. You'd instead have to load 0x1000000000/8 into %rbx and use the first op. This poses headaches for programs that compile to 3gb executables, since unlike arrays, code is usually referenced using displacement notation, but workarounds exist and it's still fine. All that stuff is abstracted by the compiler.
I can imagine this is true in a city where there aren't many electric cars and there isn't much cycling.

Where I live (Amsterdam) there's plenty of cycling so I wonder if there might not be more to win from electric cars?