skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Marxists and communists have tried doing that thing many times and have failed spectacularly. Business based market economy is the only (till now) successful and socially most beneficial type of society that has ever existed. I upvoted the OP because he/she/it (it may be a bot) has put this thing in clear words.
Is he at least an excellent programmer?
That kind of comp makes me want to uproot everything and go to SV.
It would be helpful to also have the Xeon-D CPUs in that table for comparison.
I'm not a number, I'm a free man!
Microsoft Doors? anyone?
>I don't know, they don't teach this stuff anymore in high school / colleges, or what?

Sadly, they really don't. Every few generations we have a fling with collectivism and then think "Oh, so that's why we didn't do this."
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402428
I used to always have earbuds in but then I ran an official 5k where earbuds were not allowed and I've never looked back. If you had told me I'd enjoy running without anything to distract me from the exercise I would have thought you were crazy but it turns out I now completely agree about wanting all of my senses.
Oracle is clearly doing all it can to close the gap with all the FUD but it might not be enough to help .NET because for what it is worth in my opinion, Microsoft appears inconsistent.

Are they betting the farm on Azure yet? Do they still see Windows as a profit center? Can they afford to give away developer tools for free as in free beer with no strings attached? Can they give away everything I'd need to run an Azure stack without paying them a single cent? I don't know but if they can't, I don't see how we can get Java teams and projects to switch over. Microsoft has a lot of cash but they don't have unlimited cash and it sort of matters in the long term. I hope the answers to the questions are yes. I wish Microsoft became to Windows what Red Hat is to Linux but as they say if wishes were fishes...
We are already a good ways toward the outcome you describe, having gutted manufacturing employment. The reason we are so heavily policed and imprisoned is that those are good jobs for people with stronger necks than minds. Those people used to work in factories.

Here's the twist: The self-organizing nature of free market capitalism has been fetishized without justification. Yeah it's more efficient than a Soviet Five Year Plan. But that's not saying much. What if command economies run my machine intelligence turn out to be the most productive and best able to deliver a good life for the most people?
Good point. Those are available for amateur telescopes. I should have noted I was referring to professional University or national-level observatories.
This is an interesting approach! A problem I think would come up in this case is that it encourages spam and low quality content to collect points to unlock desired features. So strict moderation (likely by the community as well) could be needed, depending on the type, target audience and size of platform this is implemented on.

A positive side effect, which I absolutely love, is that the more active people get to choose their name, while the more passive ones have to stick with the "less attractive" name for longer. Which makes complete sense as the screen time for active users' names is considerably higher.

Very interesting concept.
To me it's not even non-technical users, or juniors: this is a way of documenting components and their important substates, the same way a CSS styleguide does. It can help keep consistency of use, document features and states that may be overlooked by a consumer, or act as a framework for design QA.
ReactJs components for ultrasonic networking on web
I was under the impression that the cause was chronic inflammation resulting from recruitment and activation of macrophages and other immune cells to site of the fibres [1]. Chronic inflammation causes cancer on its own independent of external factors like free radical formation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma
I wonder if this is going to end up like the breast implant thing, with lawyers getting rich and companies in bankruptcy before we take a step back and realize the law is way ahead of the science.
Up until now, the possibility of having a group of people who lead a leisure life without an undercaste of slaves hasn't existed. Automation is a new thing under the sun.
> If there's actually nothing useful for some people to do

then those people who cannot be useful will not survive - it's as simple as that. It takes resources to keep someone alive, and that resource must come from somewhere.

I'd live for basic income to be viable, but i highly doubt it's viable, given that it amounts to altruism (from those people who own the means of production/automation). We'd have to have free or near-free energy.
No more than basketball courts were only available to young black boys?
Another project in the same spirit is https://github.com/skidding/cosmos

In React-land, most component should be standalone pieces, but without any immediate joyful benefits it's easy to loose that requirement as complexity grows. Eventually, this can cause the guts of the app to be a lot more interconnected than I'd want for a clean architecture. I expect adding a working gallery of app components (through Storybook or Cosmos) would bring the joyful benefit I need to be more consistent in force true component encapsulation, which may require better thought-out components.
In the last month, I've gone from running in stops and starts to doing 5k with ease and recently completing my first 10k run.

Here are some bulleted observations (more details at the link below)

- When I got started I was almost always overdressed.

- Couch to 5K works — but perhaps it’s not for everyone.

- Transitioning from beach to pavement was helpful.

- Heart rate is super important.

http://daily.weisser.io/post/anecdotes-from-a-reformed-fanbo...

EDIT: if you're in the bay area and average 9.5-10 minute miles on 3-5 mile runs I'd love to run with you (I'm new here). Add me on Strava https://www.strava.com/athletes/7583883 or email me.
The interesting thing that stood out to me is seeing a product built by Twilio (even if it is open source and probably needs work to be fully business ready). I remember seeing before that Twilio explicitly won't build business products to not step on potential users (they just want to offer the API to build the apps). This seems like something that would definitely exist from a vendor.
Looks really cool.

One thing, though:

> tiny

> RAM: 64 MB required, 192 MB recommended.

That doesn't seem particularly tiny to me. I have an old Pentium II box with 32 MB of RAM that runs the latest release of OpenBSD with X, and I don't consider OpenBSD particularly tiny, either.

At risk of sounding like a crotchety old man, these are sad times to be living in when 64 MB is considered tiny.
Would be cool to have a tiny OS run in the boot manager.
Every time I played the discussion devolved into "dank memes" after we hit about 10+ :(
Some assholes are looked up at because the are damn good at certain things, despite their being assholes.
Amen to that. Lao Tzu is spiritual and gentle.

Confucius sounds like an apologist for imperial servitude, giving a generous dose of quotidian platitudes. All this insistence on proper appearance, filial piety, and behaviour is an appalling appeal to conform. I never found anything subversive or insightful or spiritual in Confucius, but I do appreciate his sense of humour.
Exists in Texas too: http://www.johntfloyd.com/actual-innocence

> It was against this muddled constitutional backdrop that the Texas Supreme Court significantly changed the “actual innocence” debate this past May in In Re Billy Fredrick Allen. Allen was arrested for two murders in 1983 by Dallas County authorities. He was subsequently convicted and was sentenced to two concurrent 99-year terms. His convictions were upheld on direct appeal. Over the next quarter century Allen filed several writs of habeas corpus in state courts alleging constitutional violations and claims of actual innocence—the latter claim having been recognized as cognizable in post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings in 1996 in Ex parte Elizondo. In 2009 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) found that Allen’s “newly discovered evidence” demonstrated a sufficient showing of “actual innocence” under Schlup v. Delo to warrant the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus and a release from custody.
I had never seen Streamable before, but it looks really awesome! I saw in your API docs that video files must be less than 10gb in size and 10min in length, but nothing about specified file types. I also saw that you're using HTML5 video element supported file types, so do you just transcode the video when it's upload and render it using those specified formats?
Just a counterpoint: I would be incredibly annoyed if my manager suddenly wanted to start talking to me for 30 minutes a day. I much prefer the hands-off, stay-out-my-way-and-let-me-do-my-job approach, which thankfully is exactly what my current manager does.
https://libvirt.org/

> but what about when you want to move to GCE to arbitrage price differences for certain services?

Already doing so without additional (unnecessary?) tooling, like Docker or Kubernetes (build images at respective cloud providers, use existing orchestration tools to spin up or terminate spot (AWS)/preemptible (GCE) instances).
NPR has a new HTML5 audio player that kills the popup (and Flash)
I was wondering what are some interesting ways to send messages across nearby devices without internet/wifi/bluetooth/nfc. There are 2 other possibilities - Data transfer through Image (QR code) and through ULTRA SONIC SOUND. Humans are not capable of hearing sonic sound, but our laptop/mobile's microphone can. Boris Smus wrote an interesting library on this. I took time to re-implement it for React/React Native and came up with 2 Components - SonicSocket and SonicServer to send and receive data as sound. Although data transfer is slow, but it can be used very effectively for pairing devices or for IOT. It would be more interesting if someone could make an android library around it.
Anyone knows why the L caches could not simply be as large as our current main memory, let's say 16gb L2 cache and 4gb L1 chache directly on the die - would that be possible if price would not matter? What kind of problem is this?
Ask HN: Any successful company in the Valley founded by First generation immigrants
By successful, I mean valuation/market cap > $100 million.

Many founding teams have first generation immigrants, but they either have American cofounders or these first generation immigrant founders came to USA when they were very young (before college).

Just want to know if any Silicon Valley company play the game in "hard mode": 1st generation immigrants + English is not their native language + no American citizen cofounders + they come to the states at an "old age" (post college)

Polyvore is pretty close but it's not big enough. Stripe is pretty close, but the cofounders are native English speaker :)
This is exactly why middle management exists :)

My experience is more than eight direct reports starts to build up management debt if you have other things to do. Once you go over this you can only make it work by doing a lot of overtime. At one point I had 14 direct reports and I did nothing other than work, sleep and eat. Of course this is not sustainable.
Black-hole computing
When I went to sleep last night the group I was in had just grown from ~800 to ~1500 after a merge. In my absence it grew to ~2500 and then ~4400 before Reddit crashed and the room was abandoned.
Rather than eliminate work = value, introduce no value = don't work. The problem is not going to be laziness on the unemployed, it is going to be unemployability. We are going to point at gross overhead in business and every sector of the economy in how we have grown tumorous bureaucracy on everything that saps human labor without producing marginally useful value. Just consider the advertising industry - billions of dollars to just change who people give their money to through psychological manipulation. Absolutely zero value ad to the whole economy, it only gives value to the company who can persuade people to buy from them by taking value from whomever that sale was taken from.
Below 928MHz doesn't exactly jive with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands. It looks like you'd be restricted to "Trunking GSM" and only part of the rest? Can the protocol/gear actually be restricted to only part of the band?

Also, similar topic - why is there such a dearth of information on hacking / forcibly opening up mobile basebands? Is it that there isn't much tinkering to be done once inside (just a lot of opaque DSP code), or are they really locked down that well, or is it simply that the people who develop such knowhow earn a living through phone unlocking etc and thus don't publicize?

I'd really like to see some device hacked open enough such that all the surveillance identifiers (IMEI etc) could be freely scrubbed. After that, psuedonymously obtain network access via a remote SIM card proxied over IP - bootstrap with an existing wifi, and then I'd hope any renegotiation could take place over the device's own connection.
I'm not sure what a "regular university" is. That might be the cost of a relatively cheap community college - i.e. the lowest-end choice in many areas.

My uneducated guess is it's about 5-10 times that at private U.S colleges.
I can definitely say that the quality of Apple refurbs has gone downhill.

I lost radio access randomly in Europe while traveling with a Genius Bar replaced iPhone 6. No cellular service whatsoever. Awful. Kept cutting in and out for days and then stopped working completely.

Had to buy a new phone for cash.
It is median vs mean wealth. Median wealth has been, and will probably continue to, either stagnate or decline while mean wealth keeps going up.

Our economies are still growing. Those fruits are just going to the owners of capital rather than the workers.
I agree on governance, but disagree on how to get there.

One, I wouldn’t say SOCOM was the problem and call the operators assassins. The military started off stupid, dropping a bomb on every person planting an IED. Then people got smarter and realized that understanding a network and finding the leaders was more important than just killing low level people trying to feed their family. SOCOM did a good job of finding those leaders.

Two, I would focus on Army SF. Training locals to operate themselves is more important than direct action. I’d just move FID directly under SOCOM. The Navy and Air Force spent way more then they should have in these wars, costing the country trillions. The Army and Marines weren’t much better. Green Berets were built to work with the locals. And with an air power supplement they can prevent places from getting over run.

Three, governance requires other agencies. Start with a minimal footprint of SF and Airpower. Then try to bring in state and aid and other agencies quickly. Only bring in more mainline military units as needed and get them out as quick as you can. This will never happen with the budget flowing directly through the military.

I think SOCOM focusing on FID with a more limited budget then the entire military and getting in other agencies quickly would be a much better approach to governance. When the “big” military comes in, they come in for total war. You get fighter jets, bombs, and battalions.

Whether you need it or not, the military will find a place for everything to keep it’s spot in the budget. Sometimes you do need tanks and bombers, but not where you are trying to govern.

We need to differentiate between total war and governance with people getting shot at and always strive for the latter. I don’t think the military will ever be able to effectively govern, it’s not its job. So less ground troops and more SF and Airpower and more State Department please and get rid of SOCOM as soon as State is comfortable. That's the approach I'd vote for.
Minimize? Get rid of it entirely.
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FBI trick for breaking into iPhone likely to leak, limiting its use
Sure, and we'll always have guys more interested in CS than girls because of how girls and boys are traditionally brought up. I think the gender problem comes from women who are discouraged by sexism when they are already interested in CS.
"Creative problem solver" is only a valuable label if you are well-read and understand existing solutions to problems. Which is not creative. In fact, most problems can be solved perfectly adequately by applying tried-and-true boring, uncreative methods.
>we can provide the basic needs to everyone food / electricity / water / housing at no cost.

what evidence do you have of this? those resources are not free (unless you consider fusion a solved problem, and thus have near-free energy).

More likely scenario is that the vast majority of people who are too uneducated, or is not from a wealthy background will suffer, whilst those with the means will live way above (literally, in huge skyscrapers/floating cities, as well as figuratively). There will still be slums, and the conditions of those places will be as you imagine.
at least is sounds better than kakapo:

https://github.com/bytbox/kakapo
That is a bad website.
You would be surprised. If your manager actually did devote 30 minutes per day one-on-one giving you their full attention you might find you like it. I have yet to find a single person who didn’t like it - once you have a manager that cares about you as a person and your work most love it.

It has to be real of course - not “we have 30 minutes to fill what do you want to talk about”.
Haha, not from supermax they don't.
> I don't see why...

If you exist in an economy solely consisting of yourself and your employer, you went from receiving 1% if revenue to .2%. Your earnings are never absolute in terms of buying power or wealth - they are both relative, because the market behaves relatively to what people have or do not have. If your CEO gets 5 times richer than you, they now exert 5 times more economic influence on the economy and you in reciprocal exert 5 times less. R&D will cater less to you, industry will target you less, and most importantly your real spending power will go down.

How? Because your economy just went from 10.1 million to 100.2 million. That is a 10 times inflation of the monetary base, which in aggregate would see a correspondingly (smaller) influence on the price of goods and services. Your buying power will drop.

That extends to whole economies. If you are a part of a contiguous segment of the economy whose total wealth or revenue is declining, your influence, buying power, and real prosperity is also declining, regardless of absolute income.

It is also worth mentioning that wealth is a much greater influence on prosperity than income. He who owns the means of production is he who reaps the spoils of growth first, and can decide what to do with them. That is trickle down in a nutshell, but it is at complete discretion of the capitalist running the show how the money they get is then spent, and nowadays it is definitely not going to be on you.
Wow, thanks for that. Perhaps progress is possible on this front.

I've never completely understood the tendency towards severity in Texas, other than the long period in which it was simply very violent, but that would depend on a questionable reading of the effects of institutional memory.
I think there's explanatory power in remembering that private, for-profit insurance companies have as their corporate priority maximization of shareholder value. Protecting people from bankruptcy due to medical expenses is not a corporate goal.
Dying to try this out. Is anyone working on a lookup table-based C implementation yet?
'Rigged' seems like a 'rigged' headline. He was responsible for various forms of candidate espionage and attempted social media manipulation but at no point was he in a position to actually manipulate vote totals directly. In a number of these elections the candidate on whose behalf he was paid to work lost.
1%? Really?
Everyone cares about it sure, but as much as everyone cares about say, I don't know, ... having neatly combed hair. It is it nice to have it, some might consider it importnat, but not at the expense of staying hungry, afraid, in prison, sick and so on.
Those income caps are a sham. You can always pay a poor man to apply and then stay with that poor person. Also X can add Y to his agreement and X can later leave.
It's great that JavaScript is flexible enough to allow these completely different styles without requiring any changes to the language, but I wonder if the author wouldn't be better served by switching to a language that uses similar patterns but with better syntax.

Introspecting into this code seems very complicated and could make future refactors painful.
How were you able to vote while you were asleep?
You could probably get lung or throat cancer if you inhale it or swab your nostrils with it on daily basis.
Cutting government funding is the best way to make government agencies compete for resources. The gigantic debt is what keeping current government from single payer healthcare or free college or waging more needless wars. That is a good thing.
Although you'd have to be a total idiot to give much attention to such a idiotic, emotive article there does seem to be evidence inhaling mico particles is very very bad.

Be it cigarette smoke or a fireplace or smog or perhaps talcum power use = mico particle inhalation.

If there's a real story here this is where it might be, or give me a better written article that is about scientists not juries.
Yeah but victim blaming isn't helping the situation. Drivers create a dangerous streetscape. They need to own responsibility for that. Harping on headphones, cyclists without helmets, or "distracted walking" is not a positive response.
In the spirit of providing feedback to help improve the documentation, and with regard to the bold text:

The article made it difficult to find out what React Storybook is quickly.

The style of article is informational, which is usually written like a pyramid. High level information at the top, then works into more detail-oriented sections, most important first. For example, "any react application" would probably come in the second paragraph, after the high level intro as that was an important point (based on the repetition) in the bullets.
The other problem is that today we have labor gluts, particularly of the unskilled variety. Automation reduces the need for workers, those workers become economic outcasts with no influence to have their needs satisfied by capitalism, and the ownership class does not create demand for more unskilled labor - they want founders and professionals who can grow their wealth, that is what they demand.

If you drop the minimum wage you do not need collusion to see real wages for jobs drop insanely low, ironically because those who can live off other income will work them when there is no other easy way to earn additional income - IE, those with wealth will work for less because their life does not depend on that income providing their base needs, which already are in many places more than what the minimum wage offers already (ie, living wage).
People have been doing programming even though it's unfashionable forever for their interest in the activity itself.

So if these people would do it either way, what's the delta of people that you will attract when it becomes fashionable?
Have you considered that this introduces a huge amount of complexity to a practically trivial issue?