skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: H1-B friends

They pay taxes because now they are here within the imaginary lines and even if they don't get Social security, etc they are still benefitting from being here where they have all the other niceties of being here.

Re: citizens don't start paying until 18.

Their parents paid for them.

Re: California

Still part of a larger imaginary piece where everyone contribute.

You're stuck thinking in terms of just $. And no one is saying no one should be able to come here. You simply asked why do people think negatively about H1-B and I explained it to you. What company wouldn't hire workers that cost them significantly less and can't easily leave over someone local, and hence the position against. It's not difficult.
How does this proxy that provides cross-DC consistency work? And how does it guarantee that you'll get globally consistent reads?

Most cases I've seen latency can affect throughput plenty so I doubt your assertion that it won't affect throughput quite a bit. Even more so for anything that relies on TCP/IP.

I'd highly recommend reading the Bigtable[0] and Spanner[1] papers first and maybe then we can have a sensible and fruitful argument.

[0]: https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html

[1]: https://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
Gotta get that recurring subscription money. A la carte sales are a real hard row to hoe in the 21st century digital world. Gonna need a bundle. ;)
I built a job board and aggregator specifically for remote Python jobs
Honestly, this has been done to death and it's pretty well accepted that it's not a great, or even good language, so I wont go over it again. It was a language designed in a few days to handle some basic client interactivity and it's good it that, it's just not good at anything more complicated than that, even despite the astronomical amount of effort people have put into working around it's warts.

> Also, Node.js can spawn new processes.

And yet it handles incoming requests on a single process.
> I gave you cites from reliable sources. The second link ...

Heterodox Academy's stated mission is to advocate for more conservatives in academia. They also have no independent claim on credibility that I know of. That's not what I mean by a reliable source; it's the kind of source I avoid (of any political stripe).

> Conservatives are just responding by denying public funding to self-identified partisan political activists.

Can you give examples? I've seen them attack climate scientists and tenure for everyone.
> Per-connection processes does make some sense to me, but it seems wasteful when most connections to a DB are idle most of the time.

Per-process vs per-thread overhead isn't that different in e.g. linux. Some things are more expensive with multiple processes (more page tables/more wasted space/increased process switch cost), others are cheaper (e.g. memory allocation, although that's getting better over the last few years).

> Having to coordinate locks cross-process also seems wasteful; more syscalls and context switches than should be necessary.

I don't think there's a meaningful difference here. We use atomic operations for the non-sleeping lock paths (which'd not be different in threads) and for sleeping locks when we need to sleep, we use semaphores for directed wakeups - but you'd need something similar for threads as well.

Really, the majority of the cost of threading is when you explicitly want to share more state, after processes have initialized. It's e.g. a lot harder to dynamically scale the size of the buffer pool up/down. It's also one of the things that made intra-query parallelism harder.
You obviously are unaware of how much lawyers cost.
That is how India rolls. I am not sure how the poor street food vendors survive if they cant use plastic plates and spoons. If they are forced to use steel plates and spoons that is a health and safety nightmare in India.
> ... but I probably wouldn't focus on that stack starting now if you are into the startup or california scene.

That is not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
In tandem with their marketing of Azure, MS is pushing SQL Server on Linux heavily [0].

"SQL Server is Windows-only" is no longer a valid argument to choose another RDBMS if a startup uses lots of MS tooling but deploy on Linux servers.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-vnext-...
I don't think this is malice. This is more likely an artifact of a history where encryption was not initially part of the protocol, and seamless fall back had to be supported.
does anyone know if it works with django or a way to make it working? it should be a matter of a connector, no?
Does it de-dupe requests if multiple components need the same URL?
MMU side channel breaking aslr from JavaScript
IANAL, but I don't think so. They don't have to prove that the data you just wiped contained evidence of wrongdoing, they just have to prove that you wiped the data after they asked for it. That's kind of the point of "destruction of evidence". If they already knew the contents of the data, they wouldn't actually need it, now would they?
I've driven through quite a bit of the United States. Attitudes to roadside littering vary wildly. Some eastern Washington state highways and rural Kentucky highways have mind bogglingly improbable amounts of litter for the number of people which travel them.

Time to roll out the "Crying Indian Ad" for another generation.
It would take at least 3 or 4 months to even become good at customer service, if you had no experience. They probably wanted employees to be good at CS, for whatever reason.
The holidays is a great time to launch an employee scheduling application... that's usually the busiest time of the year for retail operations and businesses that depend heavily on employee shifts.
Why only Delhi?! That country is drowning in filth not just Delhi.
I'm very bullish on Nim. We're crossing the finish line of putting our first Nim code into production at work and overall it's been a pretty positive experience.
So many things.

In a first approximation: You can't sell crops that did rot. And the next harvest is next year.

Then there's of course the fact that almost nobody (with citizenship) actually wants to pick crops, no matter what you pay them, because it's back-breaking labor. Yes, there'd be a price at which they would, but that's not a price the public would pay for your crops.

Of course, if you don't give a shit about people and treat the world solely as an economics textbook, sure, this is perfectly normal and the market is working.
It is absolutely by design. The GSM standard recommends that, if encryption is disabled, the user be notified. This feature is called the "chiphering indicator". However, practically none of the available handsets do so.
>Google seems to have officially closed the book on ever supporting postgresql.

Er, that's a bet I'd strongly suggest you didn't make.
That is only partly true. First of all OVH has different offerings (and I expect that I can get a new cloud server any time?) and Hetzner replied instantly to us when we had a server down on a Saturday. You can even call them by phone. Hetzner is no cloud and mp fluff and feels a bit aged, but the support is not bad and for normal questions within hours on working days. PS: I do not work for them ;)
As a consultant, transitioning your work to maintainers remains a constant concern
I don't know why you think MDB is ginormous by MySQL standards; it was actually quite modest.

Everything you need to know is here: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html

it walks through the architecture of the Ads DB, the issues with replacing MySQL, and some of the heroic efforts to implement it via Spanner.

At the time, I asked the team why they used MySQL instead of Postgres (which I prefer) and the short answer was: MySQL replication worked at the time.
Extending OpenWhisk to the IoT Edge with NodeRED, Docker and Resin.io
More Serotonin, Less Motivation? It Depends on the Circumstances
We design Logos with Meaning
I think a programmer is someone who writes programs, regardless of the quality of the code. Substitute spreadsheets for typing if you think its more appropriate. Not everyone with domain expertise knows how to use a spreadsheet, and not everyone who uses spreadsheets uses them as well as someone that, for example, writes software for a living (and not all of the latter use it as well as someone who only uses spreadsheets!) But good luck finding someone who's only job is getting hired to code up a spreadsheet. The vast majority of uses are to allow someone with just enough skill to create something that performs a job function in an automated way, which in turn makes another job that much easier. Once upon a time, it would have been a persons job to perform the calculations and updates that a spreadsheet makes trivial.

It would be foolish to think that the same will never happen to the vast majority of our jobs.
American highways are certainly still lined with trash.
We did outbound for multiple months, and were feature-complete on the product in November. Our first users on the V2 came onboard in early December.

Based on our user research, our primary markets (service and retail industries) freeze all of their software during the holidays. During the lull in January, they evaluate new purchases.

Launch is basically a one-time bump in inbounds that doesn't scale, so we timed it when we thought it would have greatest effect. However, we had been doing more scalable outbound - e.g. emails, canvassing neighborhoods with flyers, etc - for months.

Conversions to signups were remarkably low, and conversions from signups to paid were also low. We basically realized that we were not solving a core burning problem for these businesses. That's more what contributed to the shutdown.
It's just little bit frustrating to not have a clear idea of what you're going into. The bigger concern is not having any idea of the work domain. There Are Places I would be willing to work for any idea of the work domain. It is not enough for me to be working with " smart people who are doing all of the interesting things that have ever been done. Super super slick and way future. Comparable to Google and Enron"
Wind penetration on central US grid hits 52% Sunday night, breaking record
I'm interested in hearing about your experience! Pitfalls? Major positives? Have you considered writing about it?
If you're looking for offline-first, Couchbase Mobile natively supports a range of platforms. CouchDB + PouchDB gives you a JavaScript option. (Currently you can use PouchDB with Couchbase as well.)
I was thinking along that line too! I have only really heard of Bill Gates after Windows 3.1 came out
> how one would define an associative array/hashmap/object as the only way to use an array.

Well JS goes even further in relation to hashmap/object (e.g. you can iterate object properties as if the object was a relational array, because, well, in JS an object is an array). In PHP, on the other hand, you can't refer to $object['property']

Hovever I have to agree with you when it comes to the overlapping between relational arrays vs "simple" arrays, the fact that all arrays are actually relational introduces weirdness, for example sometimes when you replace an array element you end up with elements that are not in the order you expect them to be.
>The ban includes bags, cups and cutlery.

What about all the plastic containers the food originally came in?
Please don’t ever link to w3schools.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms

https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/sec-forms.html#sec-forms

http://caniuse.com/#feat=forms
You'd then need to have some nontrivial anti-counterfeit technology on the ticket. Otherwise, the name is just a label, and the barcode is a UUID that actually means it's a valid ticket. Someone could make a high quality copy of the ticket, keep the UUID and put new persons name over it.

What I would try is a "credit card required at entry", so at the gate the only person who gets is the one who inserts the (valid) CC# that was used to buy the ticket.
> just hasn't been targeted by any serious attackers yet.

Source? Just because they haven't announced any successful security breaches, doesn't mean they haven't been seriously targeted.

In fact, considering the amount of times my random dedicated server instance (not hosted at DO) gets hit with random attacks, I'm sure a large provider like DO has had numerous serious, targeted attacks against their network/servers/control panel/etc.
> even for a small company, $8k/year is admittedly a small fraction of one engineer

This is certainly true, but overlooks the fact that many major products start out as experimental projects, and $8k/year is a significant investment for an experiment.

If there's a reasonable upgrade path from traditional databases like MySQL and Postgres this shouldn't be a big deal, but if the answer is "rewrite your app" it will probably be a friction point for adoption.
Where is this 3-node minimum mentioned? URL please?

Edit: Looks like maybe you're referring to the recommended 3 node minimum in production mentioned at https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration
Criminals are cloning WhatsApp accounts to ask for money from their contacts
The Importance of Protein Social Behavior
Mostly a result of regulations that make it difficult for companies to get rid of people (either because they're not good or the company needs to shed staff).

I've seen this sort of thing backfire a lot in Europe where well intended regulation causes far more harm (both to individuals and the economy of the country) than good.

Was in a meeting not too long back where major investments were being discussed and the places to invest where on the table (with jobs at stake). Long story short some regulatory monkey was saying "this ref prevents this, you'd have to do that" and such for a location in Europe at which point the execs in the room basically just said "fine, we just won't invest there... if they want to have silly practices we'll just put the jobs elsewhere." And they did.

I'm no Republican but the concept of regulations killing jobs and hurting the people they intended to help is a very real thing.
From what I can tell, this is more an argument for collective bargaining than an argument against immigrant workers. I don't care which sector you're in, immigrants have the least amount of control over both the business and the politics, and yet they seem to take the most blame.

If there's a race to the bottom, maybe the solution is for workers to force capital to stop pitting them against each other.
I've lived in Fort Worth, TX for about a year. I was already aware of the existence of these devices. I had no clue that my local PD was spending such an insane amount of money on surveillance. It's also worth mentioning that our population is only 792K.

I've lived in Texas most of life and in general I think the people here are great. However, Texans do have a tendency to blindly support anything the Military and Police want to do, while at the same time complaining about big government.

I guess I'd better start bringing this up in my circles. I don't think many people are fully aware of what's going on.
One thing that's worth noting is that we've had virtually no inflation for a very long time. The wealth class prefers it this way, but the worker struggling to pay off debts wouldn't mind a little inflation every now and then.
I'm moving onto a new idea in a different space. With our lawyers and investors, we decided that a restart was a better idea than a pivot for a variety of reasons.
Any chance of a postmortem? Failure is part of the journey, but it still sucks. Good luck in the future!
Reselect is super opaque. Very difficult to understand what is happening with reselect from my experience.

Agree with all your other points though.
Thousands years of experience, and yet medical practitioners wouldn't wash their hands less than two centuries ago.

'Ancient' is a meme, just like 'natural' or 'eastern'.
Big Data and Big Plans: Next Steps for Uncovering Genome Mysteries
A geologist will say " yeh we know all about that and it reverses too"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
You're not sure that living under a repressive authoritarian regime is worse than generally trusting the mainstream media? Really?
What happened in Alabama since? Would love to read a followup.
you: "murder == lying"

me: "no it's not"

I don't claim "all laws go out the window". No clue how you reached that conclusion.
The vast majority of our users still on XP use IE. To the point that we conflate the numbers entirely. Most of those users are 50 year old women who have leftover computers handed down from relatives. They almost as a rule, don't install Chrome or Firefox on them, they just use what is currently on it.
This will be fixed when there is a suitable economic signal, which can accurately be used by the customers of universities in order to estimate the quality of instruction at a university. If this sounds like a ranking, let me remind you that the rankings have been destroyed by Goodhart's law for decades now.

Markets depend on some level at consumers who know what they're buying; if all of the consumers are blindfolded, firms will sell them pieces of paper. If a university can attract students by investing in its instructors, it will do so. Currently they can't.
I don't think that day is as far off as you seem to. Yes, there are some kinds of programming which require deep expertise in programming itself, but these jobs are far from the majority.

If you've ever read Vinge's _Deepness in the Sky_, recall that the protagonists occupation for a period of time was that of a code archeologist, attempting to collect, categorize, and understand code that was centuries (or was it millenia?) old... We may be a ways off from that, but I don't think its far from the truth of the future.
>DO isn't any better, just hasn't been targeted by any serious attackers yet.

As the official authority on serious attackers I can confirm that his is in fact not true.
There is a mention of the 66 parent merge from Linus himself:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139033182525831
The aren't they are transfer accounts to BBVA
That was a coordinated effort by 4chan though.
The world is paying attention to the technology revolution happening in Africa
If you do add subpixel AA, please make it optional. Some people, like me, can directly see the colour artifacts from it, even on hi-DPI displays. And others have multiple displays with differing orientation or pixel layout.
Corpses are biodegradable aren't they unless, it is that of superman.

Good protein feed for the fish, birds, crocodiles. Instead of taking up real estate.
> Everyone is focusing on longevity when quality is probably more important. 120 years as a couch potato would be shit compared to 60 years of being active every day (whether physically or mentally).

The CALERIE study included a number of questionnaires asking about quality of life issues like libido. While their CR level was moderate, the benefits looked good, attrition was minimal, and they reported little decrease in quality of life.
How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency? (2015)
I don't think that argument it applicable to Facebook Marketplace. It allows you to see anything for sale in your region, not by friend circles. You may be thinking of Facebook groups that are used to buy and sell items?
sigh White guy thinks it's edgy and eye-catching to emulate racism, gets surprised when he gets treated like an offensive racist.

Someone will be more than happy to split hairs about the exact nature of the offensive actions here, and will carefully explain that it's not racist, it's opportunistic self-promotion employing racism. Sponsors don't care, most of the general public don't care and, most importantly, victims of racism don't care about a distinction that has precious little practical difference.
>but that's not a price the public would pay for your crops.

Maybe the public needs to get used to paying premium prices for premium work instead of outsourcing slavery to other countries or importing cheap slave-wage laborers illegally.
Whoa, you're right! He referenced it neither by 7-character short hash nor by full hash, and I didn't think to check intermediate hash lengths. I've updated the post to reference that email.
Truly not a bad answer, if you had to pick one source. This is a contentious crowd that likes to cite sources and present fully fledged arguments. At the very least I like to use the comments to quickly assess the article, and whether it's a dud or not. Beyond that, sometimes the comments here on good articles still manage to exceed even the articles they're commenting on.
Be patient - it might just arrive!

I ordered a bunch of stuff via Ali Express back in mid-December. Most of the items arrived "fairly quickly" (with 2-3 weeks). A couple of the items didn't show up until last week! Fortunately, they weren't anything expensive (I had already "written it off".

I've had a similar experience with Amazon from a Chinese supplier. One time, I was sent something, could see it tracked and supposedly went "to my mailbox" - but nothing. I ended up contacting the post office, they confirmed "yep - that's what happened" - but nothing about helping me find the package.

I also sent a note to the seller saying I hadn't received the item, but that it seemed like it shipped all the way. They ended up apologizing, and sending the item again to me!

A couple of days later, the first item was finally delivered by the post office - no explanation given. I let the seller know this, and asked about the other item. They told me not to worry about it, and to keep it!

So - two for the price of one, I guess...
A relevant listen to in light of the potential of new carbon tax regulations.

The gist is that energy efficiency laws do a really good job at driving future technologies to be more efficient. The example they use is that all technology made after the Warren-Alquist Act passed would be 80% more efficient, AWESOME! But the problem lies in technology made prior the the new regulation. My TV made prior to the act is exempt from the rules, so as long as I don't upgrade my TV I'm still having a major impact on energy consumption without paying for it. An Energy Tax would say, "Hey! I see your old TV, now pay-up for that extra energy consumption".

The same applies to carbon tax. New cars are really efficient in emissions, but most cars on the road AREN'T new, they are old and producing a ton of bad emissions and the owners aren't responsible. A Carbon Tax says, "Hey, you driving that antique car every day! Pay up for your contribution to environmental damage!"
Utilities companies can grandfather in old power plants that are incredibly bad for the environment as long as we have efficiency laws, tax laws wouldn't let those old plants slip through the cracks.
What is your definition of a "root server" and where do you rent them? Do you mean a dedicated server? I've checked a few providers and none of them come close the costs/benefits you're listing. OVH's EG-16 (4c/8t, 16G, 2x4T) is $79/mo. 1-and-1's L4i (4c/4t, 12G, 2x1T) is $80/mo.
Would physically visiting the facility in Jersey City help at all? I don't know how far byuu lives from there, but perhaps he could send a surrogate in his place to try to get information face to face. That might be grasping at straws (theoretically they should have location information available over the phone), but it might be worth a thought.
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