skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, the biggest problem with so much debt is the amount of interest embedded in the agreement of it all. Let's say that the average interest rate is 4% and that none of the debt is double counted, e.g. one debt leading back to another debt at a different interest rate. The total interest revenue on the debt is $161 billion dollars. Where does that money come from?! It needs to pop up out of thin air, like someone needs to print it.

If there is a question of why, I will explain. It is the same explanation I give to a banking specialist for my refusal to accept a savings account. Take a village of 100 people; the entire village has no money whatsoever, so they cannot trade or buy food or sell goods and services. A rich man lives on the top of a mountain and decides to lend a $100 to the entire village, which is $1/person, at an interest rate of 5%, and the entire debt is to be paid back in exactly 1 year.

For the duration of that year, villagers are beginning to buy and sell, the economy is created and is moving healthily, villagers are working, products and services are being created, sold, and consumed. At the end of the year, $105 need to be paid back, but the entire amount of money in the entire village adds up to just a $100. Where does that $5 come from?

Some villagers will have accumulated more than $1 and they will be able to pay back their debts and have some left over. But then also some villagers will have nothing. What do they lose? How do they fulfill their debts?

The entire system relies on the introduction of additional money from somewhere. If so, then that entity loses money. This system is deeply toxic and works contrary to the one who borrows. And once all is added up, the net result is all money is removed from the system. Losers lose big. Winners hit net zero eventually.
Read a coding book first, see if she has a nack?
Where would the Saudis be without the United States?

I don't think "puppet state" is an accurate description, but their fate is heavily dependent on our mutual relationship.
One side of this that bugs the crap out of me: I have a PhD in math and, after getting sick of teaching mediocre students with a palpable aversion to mathematics, I spent a couple of years applying for data science jobs and getting very few responses. The few interviews I got seemed to go well, but I had no offers and gave up on leaving academics. I have experience in software development (C++), I have a portfolio of statistics/data analysis projects in R/RStudio, but what I think is toxic is having spent so many years in academics; I finished my Phd in 2003. Being an over-40 academic feels like an insurmountable liability, even though I have many of the skills that people complain about being in short supply. And another thing: get off my lawn, you rowdy kids! :|
£2Xk in London is outrageous. It's less than the living wage.

I expect ALL companies to pay better than what you have now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679

Do they ask how much you're currently paid and you reply 20k ? They will definitely use that information against you. You're so low that you might have to jump to 3X, then leave again in 6 months to go higher.

What's you linkedin? Link to you resume? What's your degree? Can you handle the usual 3 hours whiteboard marathon?
Dupe of article posted 15 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13740926
You're not the only one. I was half hoping for some discussion of how mathematical theory illuminates, say, the writings of Bakunin or Goldman.
I haven't worked with any, they probably don't make it past the HR/recruiter filter.

As an engineer who has had to assess other engineers as part of the hiring process, I wouldn't turn down someone if they didn't have a degree.
There probably are. But consider taking paper notes, and then selectively transcribing if you must.

Depending on where you end up, you may be required to keep a paper engineering notebook, issued and owned by the company. You may as well get good at it now.

Besides, diagramming and charting from head to paper is much quicker than fiddling with some drawing package.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=edu+paper+notebook+method&t=lm&ia=...
But Kubernetes _is_ designed to support stateful containers; that's what StatefulSets are about.

There's nothing about containers that says they need to be stateless, it's just more convenient that way because you can treat every container as expendable, redundant, fungible commodities. But the real world needs state, and Kubernetes is capable of managing it. In particular, the pattern pretty much required for stateful apps on Kubernetes is that of using an exclusive-access network block device. Since only one container (or pod) can mount it at any given time, you can ensure that the state follows the container around.
Also see Keith Devlin's essay: In math you have to remember, in other subjects you can think about it at http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_06_10.html
AFAICT the batteries used in today's EVs are already durable enough and energy-dense enough for mass adoption. The #1 obstacle to EVs becoming truly mainstream is battery cost. Most of EV battery cost is still in manufacturing rather than raw materials. Most manufactured products become significantly cheaper to manufacture as production scale increases. EV battery production scale is increasing significantly in the next few years. I am therefore cautiously optimistic that battery production costs can decline significantly even without fundamental changes in battery chemistry.
You (and I) are not in the target audience for those books. She does very serious mathematics, which should be defended; she gave a very nice talk on Trimble n-categories to my research group on Friday, for instance.
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I am (was - new job now) guilty of disabling selinux on the fleet of servers managed by puppet. I was hoping that the modules listed in the article would show that configuring selinux is actually easy, but I came away with my opinions unchanged. selinux requires a fair amount of investment to deeply learn how it works and what the requirements are for a bunch of apps. As a developer casually working with the ops team to automate their configuration, I didn't have the time or inclination to undertake that learning for what I perceived to be only marginal improvements to our systems.

For what it's worth, that system had about 60 different applications we were running that were provided by a vendor, and their official recommendation was to disable selinux. They never provided (afaik) configurations or guidance to run their apps under selinux.
The TLP header has the destination device's address (in the PCIe tree), so switches just switch. The BARs are related to the host memory map, which has no inherent meaning to devices. nVidia GPU direct introduces a virtual memory region that maps device memory, but I'm not sure if they internally have an IOMMU. For transfers to a device on another bus on the same system the remote device can't be addressed, so it has to ping-pong through system memory, but a device in a different node can be addressed.

The device could query the root complex (the OS) to find the bus address of the device with a particular host memory address but I don't know if that is a common idiom.

(How this works with Multi-Root IO Virtualisation I'm not sure and it gives me a headache.)
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From the article:

> A profitable IPO is meant to anchor a sovereign wealth fund that will, if things unfold as envisioned, generate enough investment income at home and abroad to dominate state revenue by 2030. Demand for oil will peak just before then, according to Royal Dutch Shell Plc projections, as alternative fuels and electric cars gain popularity, putting Middle East energy producers on shakier footing.

So, it sounds like they want to turn their oil reserves into cash before the price of oil begins to fall.
I used to shoot 33megapixel medium format cameras 10 years ago, on 8GB machines with 1GB GPUs just fine, doing multilayer photoshop on 48-bits-per-pixel TIFFs.

64Gb is completely unnecessary for photography. Photographers don't even go over 16GB.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738340
I find it hard to believe that surface transportation is going to remain dominated by liquid fuels for that long.

Gasoline motor fuel accounts for somewhat less than half of global petroleum consumption.

If you could wave a magic wand and eliminate gasoline demand tomorrow, the oil business would suffer a catastrophic adjustment/contraction, yes. But it would not go away, it would still be huge and powerful and rich and important. There are a lot of applications where there is no viable alternative yet, and no viable alternative on the horizon.

Here's a perverse idea: falling oil demand and prices due to vehicular electrification could make petroleum an attractive fuel for electricity generating plants. Ugh!
I would say: go for it! Why not? I don't actually get what's the doubt.
> That's exactly what I'd like to see. But that does depend on cooperative ISPs.

How does that help? The ISP can tell you where the compromised machine is, but it will be a different compromised machine in an hour so that's no help. It can't tell you where the actual spammer is because they're behind five proxies in six countries.
For a real world example, consider government bonds which have relatively low returns but are almost guaranteed.
Why do you need alternative ideas? You could just let her go to what she wants to. We technology people seem to have this built in need to get people to try other things than what they want to do. It's a form of controlling behaviour.
> Free market has blind spots.

Not sure this is blind spots so much as regulation. You can built it for far less, but you can't get it approved as safe.
Apparently people have managed to get PSVR to work with Windows and OSX even going so far as to get a few Oculus games to run

http://vrheads.com/do-you-really-need-ps4-playstation-vr

I've been trying to get one since they shipped in October. I'm in Japan. They have a raffle every 2 weeks or so to decide who gets to buy them at list price.
Thanks for sharing this. Especially for someone who's thinking about getting a data scientist job.
Private club with a $2400 annual fee. One would assume that if you're spending that much on a place to drink without the commoners, you're making over $200k or aspiring to be.
Honestly, the article offers nothing of substance. It's a light piece designed to spread awareness about Cheng's upcoming book. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> "There’s only been one female winner of the Fields medal since it was first awarded in 1936 – Maryam Mirzakhani. Does maths suffer from an old boys’ club mentality?"

> "I am happy to say I have not experienced that."

You can clearly see the invisible hand of the Guardian trying to spin the narrative, hoping to score identity points out of the interview. Thankfully, she answers in a concise, drama-free manner. Still, the title they chose has nil to do with the piece.
I think that's a reasonable concern to have. My question was regarding the parent comment's implication that AI themselves are deciding not to publish information on abuses in other areas. The user seems to feel that these things have not been publicised, when in fact there are ongoing awareness campaigns on all of the countries listed.
Sounds familiar to me. I started the Selenium project (original version was written in JS), started a company around it (Sauce Labs). Browser vendors implemented the Selenium WebDriver protocol, and now it's a W3C standard for browser automation. So, yeah.

(Note: Massive generalization of the project history though, including the part where I and other key project members worked at the browser vendors at various times. Having insiders at the browser vendors does massively help move a standard forward.)
Well in 30 years you'll at least own it. Would suck to be renting in your late 60's and paying for that on retirement income.
> Any alternative ideas?

From the comments so far, I think there's some confusion about what you mean by this.

Are you trying to dissuade her? Motivate her? You're neutral, but asking for suggestions of things she might do to satiate coding desires other than a 'boot camp'?
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Wages aren't doing so hot vs cost of living, and they're quite bad vs productivity. If we're better off than other developed nations, that's a dubious consolation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13381591
I'd like to see the usage numbers. Ownership is great for Sony, this generation, but on the next? I'm thinking of Kinect when I hear this. Kinect broke records on the 360 for sales. Once the Xbox One was launched, with the Kinect bundled (which was reasonable seeing as the Kinect v1 sales were amazing), people scoffed. I honestly don't think VR is going to be where it needs to be for a while. It's going to be great for therapeutic uses, but for general consumers, I am just not convinced that it's more than a gimmick item you show to your friends but never really use much. There will be exceptions, but I think usage numbers would back me up.
Try pyschools.com or codeschool.com and see how much she gets it on her own. I truly believe being a programmer is a third logical intuition another third resourcefulness, and lastly discipline. She has to be able to demonstrate them all and the websites I pointed to (especially the former) will certainly test her.
Is this serious?

The solution to fewer people needing to work is reversible sterilization at birth? Not bringing down the system that puts people in destitution, poverty and at risk of death beacuse they cannot find a job?

Capitalism is the cause of the inequality, not overpopulation. There are more than enough resources.
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Batteries are falling in price rapidly and will probably continue to do so. Some data here https://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/26/ev-battery-costs-alread...

I don't know if you need a huge increase in capacity/kg - present Telsas work ok but are expensive. I'd be surprised if costs don't fall considerably. As to falls vs similar tech products I'm not sure which tech products you'd compare them to. They'll probably fall in price slower than memory chips and faster than railway lines for example.
You are defining rational behavior as ignoring variance and accepting expectation as a gauranteed outcome for a trial.

I don't want to be a jerk, but you are wrong to a phenomenal degree.
>I tend to view an unemployed human as an awful waste of computational resources.

Is this a joke? It sounds like something so detached from the reality of humanity that it's something only an engineer or computer scientist would say. An unemployed human isn't a 'waste' of anything; the fact that the human does not need to be employed but is still suffering at the hands of capitalism is horrible.
They're co-dependent, almost symbiotic. It's never clear who controls whom.
I suspect there are a large number of Cloudflare customers that only use their DNS. I have a couple of domains in this category.

The DNS service is essentially free. It's an upgrade from most registrars' built-in DNS. It's a pretty robust solution, really -- global footprint, DNSSEC, fully working IPv6, etc.

My point is, the actual number of impacted customers was much smaller than the entire set of Cloudflare customers. There are lists in this thread that still reference hundreds of thousands (millions?) of sites, and that's just wrong.

(I agree on your first point though; I was confused about the nature of the proxy bug at first).
Big developers are mostly taking a wait and see approach. Indies are piling on like it's a gold rush. If VR turns out to have staying power, it will take a while for the AAA sector to get in gear.
> All salaries are local.

1. Except the economy is global. And people do remote work.

2. The 110k salary person will come out ahead of the 50k salary person in net worth, assuming both manage their money well, despite the cost of living difference. This is due to the value of their house, ability to invest in stock, etc.
Which one?

Key things are:

- you get out what you put in. attending a boot camp is not a guarantee you'll land well-paying job. you have to demonstrate to a new employer you've mastered the skills to help their company

- depending on the bootcamp, it will take 8-10 hours a day. your social life aside from the days off will be shot. and the days off are spent doing laundry and playing catch-up on life

- don't neglect your fitness. since you're inside 8-10 hours a day, go to a gym and sweat for balance. otherwise you might suffer from burnout

- save up for at least 3 months of joblessness after the bootcamp while you look for work

- ask the bootcamp if they do interview prep. while it's cheating the system in some ways, it's extremely helpful for people who haven't been through the interview process. if you don't think well on your feet, or suffer test anxiety, this may be an issue

- lastly, if she hasn't done any programming at all, it'd be prudent to sign up for a local junior college course, or udemy to see if she actually likes doing it. i have a friend who talks all day about joining a coding school, took a python course, and realized it's not for him. it's better than accumulating more educational debt
Typically biohacklabs don't value their own time in the same way engineers at a company will.

Here [1] is a picture of a thermocycler, it probably took dozens of people to develop and I doubt more than 100 of the particular model are sold. On the other hand, it operates in same way as a rice cooker.

Lets do some math, it costs 1,000,000 per year to maintain the team of engineers that builds these things. They sell about 100 a year, so each one needs to sell at 10,000 just to pay for labor.

The feeling of outrage comes from the low cost cost of consumer goods. The thing is that many consumer goods (such as an electric can opener) are built at both large scales and low engineering investment - perhaps exploiting comparably cheap labor and lax patent laws in Asian. We might find that the initial engineering investment (perhaps done in the 1950s) was non-trivial, yet we aren't paying for it today.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/G-Storm_...
85% income tax is more like a skim given how that money's dispensed.
The Gulf countries have already started implementing VAT on certain goods, and I believe that the UAE will start charging VAT by next year.

And even after they implement widespread taxation, they won't have to worry much about "pissing off their populace". You wouldn't believe just how much they invest in surveillance, weaponry, and military training. Some of the top dogs have their own private armies - usually military contractors - in case of conflict within the monarchy itself. It's crazy stuff.

On top of that, citizens of Gulf countries are usually very trusting of their leaders for cultural reasons. It goes back to the bedouin way of life. As for non-citizens (i.e., expats), they usually keep their mouth shut to avoid ending up on the next flight back home.

The two reasons above are mainly why nothing happened in the Gulf during the Arab Spring. Bahrain was an exception: the motivation there was more sectarian than political. The Shia majority were not satisfied with the Sunni monarchy, and so they wanted to install Shia rulers in their place. It's rumored that Iran was heavily backing a coup attempt, which is why the Saudis were called in.
Or, since you're encouraged to hover or click on each highlighted block, Javascript could leak your information once you interact. There's no protection from the human-in-the-loop leaking their own privacy.
Well, my response was to a statement that has been edited :/
Canada has some pretty minor restrictions. It's not as liberal as Japan but it's not as conservative as Australia.
What's the historical significance of goldneye? I know it's well loved, but I don't really know the context.
>Marx predicted that...hundred forty years ago. Hasn't happened.

Marx didn't predict that there would be an endless cycle of appeasement. He predicted that there would become a state of automation so advanced that the capitalist mode of production no longer suits the people under it who are being driven to more and more low-standard jobs. The idea that if something doesn't happen in 140 years then the predciton is false is truly a fallacy.
I was wrong about the nature of the proxy issue, but right about DNS-only customers. Customers using only the free DNS service were not impacted by this at all, because traffic never flowed through the proxies.
No, the theory of evolution didn't have so much push back for so long because people thought "scientists are making this up just to get more grant money". It was because it went against mainstream religious belief of the time.
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Saudi oil comes out of the ground in a form that you can pretty much barrel and ship, they have it so easy. Canada's oil isn't even oil, it's more like ashphalt.
I've seen genius annotations of a Trump speech on WaPo.
Here's a one-slide deck: Python 2 is End of Life in 2020. No improvements, no bug/security fixes. It will be a dead parrot. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

So it depends on how long you want python to be a factor in your shop, and how long you want to be able to recruit python programmers willing to work there.

It shouldn't be surprising to find a python 2 shop, even if their python focus started within recent years. The people who started it have a good chance of having used python 2 for a long time.
There is a shit-ton of energy in the universe. It's one of the few things that's ridiculously abundant.

Consider: We live on a ball of molten iron. Dig a deep enough hole and you get a nearly unlimited supply of thermal energy.
It could be an issue of not legally being allowed to sell it cheaper, e.g. some bio/pharma company owns the patent on the tech, and chooses to sell it for $100,000, then the fact that some hackers can rip off the patent for $100 is irrelevant of the free market because they can't sell it, and any large operation would immediately face lawsuits from the patentholder if they tried to do the same thing.
Having alternatives is always a good thing. Plus being a 'young' cousin, they have graduated so they are 18 or 22 and can judge alternatives for themselves.
Spend £10 on a Udemy (or wherever) course and see how she likes that. If she picks things up and enjoys it then maybe the boot camp will be a good idea or maybe she finds she can do it herself or maybe she finds she hates it all.

For £10 you can't really complain whatever the outcome IMHO.
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