skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a highly biased account of history intended to glorify authoritarian socialism. There is nothing inclusive about leftist authoritarian controls. Social democracy is about throwing people in prison for not conforming to some collectivist vision. It institutionalises the violation of human rights and promotes an ideology (the white-washed narrative promoted in the article) that rationalises it.

Northern Europe began stagnating as soon as it embraced social democracy on a large scale. For example Sweden:

"From 1870 until 1970, Sweden was a free market success story. Sweden had the highest growth rate in the industrialized world. .. [After taxes were raised in the late 60s and 70s] Sweden stagnated":

https://youtu.be/D0hnA341AWE?t=5m23s

Sweden was the 3rd wealthiest country in the world in 1968. After it created a massive welfare state in the 1970s and 80s, its growth stagnated, and by 1991, it was 17th highest income country in the world.

Other notable facts:

http://iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/San...

• Scandinavia is often cited as having high life expectancy and good health outcomes in areas such as infant mortality. Again, this predates the expansion of the welfare state. In 1960, Norway had the highest life expectancy in the OECD, followed by Sweden, Iceland and Denmark in third, fourth and fifth positions. By 2005, the gap in life expectancy between Scandinavian countries and both the UK and the US had shrunk considerably. Iceland, with a moderately sized welfare sector, has over time outpaced the four major Scandinavian countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality.

• Scandinavia’s more equal societies also developed well before the welfare states expanded. Income inequality reduced dramatically during the last three decades of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. Indeed, most of the shift towards greater equality happened before the introduction of a large public sector and high taxes.
Sadly it's hard to get a precise temperature this way when it's 30F oitside. Waking up cold isn't much better than waking up hot.
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Expect the numbers to drop right back down again in a few years. A major reason for people owning a EV, a law that was introduced back when Thinks were the big deal EV to have (yeah, right) that allowed EVs to use the bus lanes and not pay a toll, have been repealed.

Note that it was only when Tesla made the EV comparable to a sportscar that it picked up in Norway. And that was because now the rich of the nation could bypass the rush hour traffic and not pay road tolls, while still own something that looked and drove like the neighbors gas guzzler.

Over time that thinking trickled down to the wider population along with more practical and cheaper EV designs.

But now the big incentive is gone, and thus i suspect the trend will reverse soon enough.
6% is insignificant compared to the 200% returns here. Anyway they could sell for a nominal amount maybe?

I don't see why it being public would matter: the whole point is that this should be legal since the owner is only airbnbing it for 60 days.
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Stocks prices though are not necessarily a good representation of reality.
Do people see evidence of the live patching system doing something?

For me, canonical-livepatch status --verbose has never showed me any fixes, running linux-image-generic on 16.04.
I wonder if this is a generational thing. Learning programming in the 1980s with Pascal, static typing was just seen as a fact of life. When I discovered dynamic typing/scripting languages in the 1990s it was a revelation -- it made programming much more productive and perhaps equally as important, fun.

The current generation grew up on scripting languages and now this current return of static typing is seen as something new and exciting rather than a return to the old days. Computing has recurrent ideas/fads. In the 1970s/1980s, a popular strain of Pascal was UCSD Pascal, which ran on a virtual machine (the p-machine). People realized that this was inefficient and moved to native binaries. Kind of what's happening now with JVM and .NET as the new wave of programming languages make native binaries again.
>Real estate is one of the best ways to make long-term wealth

The long-run real returns to real estate are essentially zero. TINSTAAFL.

The only reason it's "profitable" for the average person is because the financial system allows for easy leverage (home mortgages). Take away that subsidization and real estate is just another asset class with no advantages.

>Homes in many regions of California have increased 3-4x since 1996

And many random stocks have increased 3-4x since 1996. So what?
I made the same benchmark: https://gist.github.com/oomathias/175c737c33a1254a28bb4e81e1...

I use Scaleway too but it's different, you have more ram, space, traffic but the perf are not comparable to Linode/DO.
I don't know about their cloud offerings, but I have several "legacy" domains on Aruba and everything about it is terrible. The control panel (which you can only reach by clicking a thousand links from their homepage, all opening in new windows) looks like a website from the 90s, and it has several "hidden" limitations: for example if you change the domain's nameservers (like for Cloudflare) their email service stops working without notice. It might be OK for a cheap shared hosting website, but if you have any advanced need it quickly falls apart.
That plant is a PWR, the water/steam in the turbine loop never contacts the fun stuff in the reactor core, there's a heat exchanger in between.

Hydrogen cooled turbogenerators are a thing, although I don't know if this plant used them, probably did. Nice and cool, high efficiency. The press release claims an alternator cooling fan overheated or whatever and that caused symptoms that sound like a hydrogen cooled turbogenerator having a nice leak and subsequent fire. Doesn't mention a steam leak. So that's like one more heat exchanger away from the fun stuff.

Explosions and fires and fire fighting can cause disruption and raise dust in theory, but the isotope detected has a very short half life so this wasn't a leak from a decade ago getting washed into the environment by a fire hose.

Its not seeming very likely.
Is Tesla a car company or a battery company or a green power company or just a power company?

The cars look like a brand awareness device for the power company.

If there are no Tesla cars in ten years then Tesla the power company probably won't mind much.
Yahoo has been useless to me and others for years. It's just a holding company for Ali Baba, that also has an email service and a Japanese website.
Code review doesn't have to be so hard
> It is quite interesting to look how some of those recommendations change in the industry over time [...]. For example in Clean Code, Robert Martin argues against the idea of [...]

Martin claimed in the very same book several ridiculous things (like not
documenting short functions, which makes autogenerated documentation look
awful; apparently Martin haven't ever used documentation generators before
writing the book).

It's hard to take Martin's recommendations as coming from "the industry".
I ended up on Scaleway after OVH led me on with this nonsense as well. For me however, it was when I first signed up. After getting the documents in order (which actually wasn't easy, as it was for my startup and we didn't have much in the way of paperwork), they just had me sitting there waiting and waiting for the server to actually be provisioned. It was very painful. I cancelled - at least the refund process went smoothly.

Ended up on Scaleway, no paperwork, no nonsense, no problems. Love it. I also have a $5 Vultr server and am very happy with it, though it's just not as good value for the price, for my needs.
Anecdata, but my experience has been that people who really enjoy Go either don't care about or don't want at all the kinds of language features you are describing.

As with many language trade offs, at the end of the day people tend to gravitate towards languages that fit their own personal preferences
By "official" I think he meant the benchmarks done by the websites themselves, using proper methodologies. In this article the benchmark was submitted by a user, using synthetic tests from a single application.
Although "effective altruism" sounds reasonable and should always be considered, it does neglect the human side of things. How many years do we add to the life of a lonely elderly couple by visiting them?
NASA Live can be found here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
What externalities? Please be specific.
I don't understand your numbers. 1 month in seconds is 2,629,743 seconds [1] and at 136 MB/s that is 357 TiB [2] - almost 10 times what you quoted. Are you really averaging 136 Mb/s day-in, day-out?

Also, I'd like to understand this:

>the advantage is probably going to be the predictable latency since it (almost) all runs on bare metal.

Surely you get a VM don't you? How can it run on bare metal while giving you full access to your image? What did you mean by this bare metal remark . . . Thanks!

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1+month+in+seconds

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=136+mb%2Fsecond+*+1+month
Agree with your post but you only highlighted half the problem.

More of the population is turning to alternative news sources because their trust of source like the NYTimes, WAPO and CNN has been violated. I'm pretty sure you weren't holding the Times up as some bastion of truth but to deny their blatant bias in reporting is folly. Withholding facts, failing to pursue facts or making the decision only to pursue facts you agree with politically is as bad as just making shit up.

The blueprint that's destroying journalism is the chase of profits over the chase of ALL truth.

Now, I do agree that large segments of the electorate are becoming less able to parse information effectively but I think there's still enough folks left that would gladly pay straight up subscription fees if they thought they could trust the information they were paying for.
It's not necessarily just units, though that's one useful example. Types could also include things like whether a text string has been escaped in a certain way, whether data has come from a trusted or untrusted source, and countless other reasons you might want to ensure you don't use a value with a certain property in the wrong way.

In modern languages where defining custom types and enforcing their use is easier, there is less need to distinguish these properties by convention. Twenty years ago, when we were doing more development with languages in the C family that don't have very powerful systems, it was a different story, and so naming conventions went some way to helping keep track of what data you were really passing around beyond just "It's an int" and the like.
I get very severe caffeine crashes and I'm glad to see someone acknowledge them.

In my personal experience, after abstaining for a while, I only get a few days where the high outweighs the crash. I believe I'm best overall off caffeine.
Norway's culture is not typical. It produces one of the most ethical (and disciplined, but that's a different story) populations in the world. If Norway were filled with people from my background (Iranian), it would suffer immensely from corruption.
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And a likely reason why Intel tried to push the whole "Scenario Design Power" concept a few years back.
Aren't normal luxury cars also crazy expensive in Norway because the state levies additional taxes on them? I read somewhere that a Porsche Cayman, which costs €70k in Belgium, would easily be €175k (converted in its NOK equivalent, of course) in Norway?
Why are you so confident there hasn't been any harm?
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What do you think about the recent Airbnb ban here in Berlin? Do you think it's done anything to improve that situation or at least "stem the tide"?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/airbnb-rental...

Of course, it's a pretty controversial and complex topic, but I feel like the ban was a step in the right direction. I use Airbnb myself as a guest in other cities and I like that it exists, but I also don't believe that historical city centers should simply be sold to the highest bidder.

...though it's also entirely possible I'm just a hypocrite.
I say this only partially in jest but, I hope when presented with such choices I always pick the one that allows me the most hours of peaceful sleep at night. This usually gets me half way there during decision making.
And as ever the people in the lowest paying jobs bear the brunt of it, now having to commute from the suburbs to get to minimum wage jobs serving people with money to burn.
I think most of my timeout/deadlines relative to the monotonic time. Hence specifying the absolute monotonic time would just involve yet another syscall (to query the time). Is there a really good argument to specify a absolute monotonic time?
> Incidentally, insofar as "fake news" is real, it is highly unlikely to have any major effect

I think this study is too limited. The problem is not that a single article changes minds. It's a well-poisoning problem. Stories about the Clintons assassinating their opponents have been floating around right-wing media for decades.

When I was growing up, I heard an adult talk about the time their friend went to see the Clintons land at an airport. When the friend asked Hillary to end abortion because it was killing babies, Hillary supposedly replied "We will kill your babies."

Nonsense circulated for decades has a toxic effect on political discussion. "Fake news" is just the latest nonsense fad to join Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and their kind.
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It's not just this site.
You are thinking of Denmark.
What should Hacker News stop / start / continue doing?

Stop
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Start
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You can't post links that were posted previously even though they have different content e.g. https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive so it would be good to have a flag stating that it's a live stream with new content

Continue
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+1 for vpsdime, using them for more than 2 years on many projects including a magento shop with M2E, all running without any issues with decent performance
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You also had the whole thing AMD seemed to be attempting with their first gen APU design, shifting the floating point workload over to GPGPUs rather than use a dedicated floating point unit.
Why even partially in jest? Isn't the whole point of ops "sleeplessness avoidance"?
I don't work for DO so I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that they actually pay the community for contributed articles to their knowledge base and tutorials section. This is a brilliant idea (if true).
Both are from 2015:

https://ark.intel.com/products/88040/Intel-Core-i7-5775C-Pro...

http://cpuboss.com/cpu/AMD-A10-7870K
If I were you I wouldn't worry about doing anything about the code being on Github. You need a lawyer to get the money you're owed, and then find another job.

As far as the bank goes: this is what they get when they outsource their work to an unscrupulous company. The company you're working for likely cheats both ways - don't expect to be treated any better in the future. They probably screw a lot of their employees over. They seem to have no issue doing illegal things. You don't want to be working for a company like this.
Learning AI If You Suck at Math – Part 4 – Tensors Illustrated (with Cats)
As jsnathan mentioned below, Scaleway's offerings are all multi-core. Sysbench defaults to using only one thread - you need to tell it to use more. (In your case, use --num-threads 4)
I tend to agree with you. Often, I see some of these stack decisions are forced by decision makers who want their design to look modern.
Not directly luxury cars, but cars are taxed based on engine volume (and thus fuel consumption) afaik.
>I don't understand your numbers. 1 month in seconds is 2,629,743 seconds [1] and at 136 MB/s that is 357 TiB [2] - almost 10 times what you quoted

Almost exactly 8 times, as a matter of fact :)

I use Mb/s for megabits/s and not megabytes, so that comes out to a bit more than 40TiB, 20 up and 20 down.

(The 136Mb/s I estimated was a big too high, actually. Here is my bandwidth chart if you're interested: https://i.imgur.com/l1rCeHC.png)

>Surely you get a VM don't you? How can it run on bare metal while giving you full access to your image? What did you mean by this bare metal remark . . . Thanks!

I believe they have their own custom hardware that they manage directly, they spin one up and you run bare metal on one of these with some local SSDs attached.
With the exception of, I think, the VPS which is KVM.
I doubt that. Growth may slow but I have a hard time believing the market share would contract (that's a dramatic shift!).

Edit: Removed paragraph about market share.
The delicacys of today are the desperate hungers last find of yesterday. Rat-embryos? Delicious, if everything else is eaten.
Mainly because the critics seem unable to cite anything beyond "I saw strangers coming out of my neighbor's bedroom" and occasionally "some strangers were making noise in my neighbor's bedroom".
Bulldozer and recent GPUs like Fury/X or 3xx/4xx Series underdelivered after initial rumors had them beating everything.
>Housing is a service, and landlords, who provide this service, take principal risk as well as pay for maintenance, taxes, and other costs.

You gloss over "other costs". Many anti-AirBnB people's concerns are precisely about those other costs.

It's evident in this discussion who are the people pushing the externalities onto others, and who are the people having to deal with them.
https://klibert.pl/statics/RobustProgramming.pdf

(Just trying to be helpful, I hope I'm not infringing anything?)
Once any filesystem writes data that was corrupted in memory, the data is hard to recover. And any filesystem will serve this corrupted data if asked, since it is all that it has. This is not a ZFS specific failure mode.

Without ECC, ZFS loses one of the guarantees that it otherwise provides. But it only degrades down to how bad every filesystem is in the face of memory corruption - not worse.
Relevant LessWrong article – Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately: http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...

> There is this very, very old puzzle/observation in economics about the lawyer who spends an hour volunteering at the soup kitchen, instead of working an extra hour and donating the money to hire someone...

> If the lawyer needs to work an hour at the soup kitchen to keep himself motivated and remind himself why he's doing what he's doing, that's fine. But he should also be donating some of the hours he worked at the office, because that is the power of professional specialization and it is how grownups really get things done. One might consider the check as buying the right to volunteer at the soup kitchen, or validating the time spent at the soup kitchen.

I think about this a lot.
Maybe read at least 2 news sources for each story, one from each side of the aisle... it is very hard to be completely unbiased, apparently.
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The release: https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
I had never read this book. But I can sense how well the book would have been written by reading its summary from here[1].

[1]:https://www.quora.com/Book-Summaries-What-are-the-main-ideas...
Please tell me you're not saying they're using a public repository (one reachable to anyone, even people not logged in to GitHub).
Reddit gold is kind of a super vote. It doesn't actually carry any weight but it does draw attention to the post.
Totally this. Seriously good documentation on how to set up things for that know enough, but not quite enough. I've used those tutorials for no just my DO instances, but also setting up virtual box linux severs.
Just checked: a Porsche GT4 (€88k in Belgium) costs €180k in Norway. So might be both Norway and Denmark.

I have an honest question (and don't downvote me for this), but how do you enjoy life in Scandinavian countries?

Everything seems to be taxed to hell: income, wealth, cars, alcohol, etc. Does that actually leave any room for fun that involves spending money?

People don't need to be living in massive luxury and you don't always need to spend money to enjoy yourself, but aren't these countries pushing it?
Ask HN: My 50/50 CEO Co-Founder just fired me. What can I do?
I'm a 50/50 Co-Founder in a SAAS startup that we've bootstrapped to nearly 10MM in ARR and growing over 100%/year.

When we set up the company years ago, we split everything down the middle: We each have 50% of the shares, each have one board seat (only 2 total seats), and we've been making joint decisions on everything up until this point. As the business-minded co-founder, my partner took the title of CEO, and I've had the title of CTO since I've been in charge of the product and engineering.

Without warning my Co-Founder told me that he had asked our attorneys and they said that since in my role as CTO I'm an at-will employee, as CEO he decided to terminate my employment. So now I'm still a board member and stock owner, but without a salary to pay the bills.

I didn't know that this was even possible! Has anyone been in a similar situation? What options do I have as a board member and stockholder to fight back?
I can't speak to the value of Torus, but in this case the best wheels are proprietary and their design is secret. Reinventing them is reasonable.
There are two big problems with your question:

a) By the time some NGO can specify requirements like "data analyst should do X to prove Y" they also have someone who can formulate those, i.e. some person who at least had some exposure to professional IT work. That person most probably has a list of 100 or so people s/he'll ask first (people known to work for the cause anyway are prime candidates).

b) "Perhaps you can share personal projects that you were able to use to help people and community around you."

Yes, I can but I won't: My stories don't help you except for maybe serving as inspiration. You can find enough inspirational stories via google, so I won't have to write down yet another one. But, much more important: NGOs are usually not set up to deal with any offer of help by someone who is not an expert in their specific domain. Your great ideas will be ignored simply because people don't have time to think about it. While you might see the potential "800% increase in revenue" (mentioned in another comment) the others won't be able to see it or won't trust you to stick to the project for long enough (drop out rates in NGOs are very, very high in my experience).

Summa summarum: Find a cause you want to fight for, make a list of NGOs in that area. Then: Try it and don't be disappointed if they don't see the value you could bring but only judge you according to what you do in their specific domains (i.e.: no praise for the idea of a souvenir shop of the dog shelter, lots of praise for walking the dogs). Once you found a pleasant environment to work in, start hacking it: Make PoCs at night, after doing the official work. Swear in your room at all those idiots who fail to see the benefit of your work but turn it into something productive; create some turn-key solution that creates some real benefit for the NGO. After doing this you will have a much better standing when you explain your next project idea - they might not get it, but they will trust your expertise enough now that they have seen that you deserve that trust.
There's plenty one could reasonably criticise about Clean Code and some of Martin's other work, particularly in the context of building robust systems, but he is not wrong that Hungarian notation is mostly obsolete given modern programming languages and tool chains.
I was a fan of Vultr until, after Linode changed their $10 plan to have 2GB RAM, Vultr didn't match it. Beyond $5 it's no longer all that competitive. I guess the same couple be said of DO but I've never actually used them.