skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also worth noting that these dictators don't appear out of thin air. They come from somewhere else when they see an opportunity.

The Web was successful because it was decentralized and egalitarian. Anyone could run a server. You could access any site you wanted. Everybody could link to everybody else. People loved this and the Web spread for these reasons.

Modern app ecosystems spread because capital wanted a return. It noticed people were getting rich off of this tech thing, and all that money from the rest of the world came pouring in. The defining feature is control: of experience, sharing, attention, and revenue. Because controlling all these things allows capital to extract greater returns.

There are pros and cons to each model, but let's be clear, one was built from the ground up by financiers looking to make another buck. If it's easier to build a bottom nav bar or something, that's incidental to their plans.

Why do you want a bottom nav bar, anyway? If you're truly building for the users, the first lesson is that they want their information on their terms.
i don’t understand how these people are all over the press and love it if something they can boast about happens, but hate the press when something that they are ashamed of, but don’t want to change, happens
One player can't get all the money as they have to hand out a dollar every turn and they can't receive all the money on the same turn.

23751 - 5 = 23746
Instead of legislation that simply says that products must be repairable I would prefer to see some form of scaling "repairability tax" on purchases of consumer products.

It would be based on the following...

* The manufacturer making full schematics and service manuals available on the day a product is launched.

* Making all parts and specialised servicing tools available to anyone who wants to buy them.

* Not using unusual fixtures, fastenings or glues.

* Allowing people to downgrade any software if the feel a newer version slows down their otherwise perfectly serviceable device.

The more repairable a product is the less this tax would be, potentially dropping to zero. Crucially, the actual price of the products would play no part in the calculation. Cheap disposable Android tablets would attract the same rate that a high end smartphone would if they were equally as repairable.

I'd also levy a reduced, or even zero, rate of VAT on repair services to encourage repair over replacement.

I don't see a problem with letting people buy non-repairable devices, so long as they pay a levy for the waste it will produce.
Yes, he'd have about doubled his money instead of breaking even.
I'm pretty sure @pjmlp is using the word "mistake" to say "a decision that turned out to be bad". English is not my native language, but judging by the ways I've seen it used and what dictionary definitions I can find, it seems quite acceptable.

Stroustrup made the decision on purpose and consciously, but it turned out to have disastrous effects.
Better than Leaf or Prius?
Using a lot of memory complicates any ASIC design but it doesn't eliminate the possibility of such a thing being made.

If someone really knows their hardware engineering they could interface with GDDR5 memory on a custom board and mine as fast or faster than a GPU.

It's just a matter of how much money it will take to develop such a chip. I'd guess at least $2-5 million given how you'd need to fabricate it at 14nm or better to get sufficient performance, and that process can be a serious headache for smaller firms.
There is a backup code.

"Your second-factor backup code is 'blah'. This can be used for manual setup, and is necessary to recover your account in case your mobile phone is lost or stolen."
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Given that Oberon-7 is a subset of Oberon, reducing it to the essential of a type safe systems programming language, I wouldn't consider it an extension. :)

There is also Active Oberon and Component Pascal, but he wasn't directly involved.
Europe, and even in China I was able to receive sms.
MMS is a different story.
There are so many variables that affect healthcare cost here in the US. Looking from outside, things are different than looking from inside. There is something really wrong with current US healthcare system, and it's really difficult to put a blame on one or two things.

Side note, I work IT in healthcare, so I sometimes view "interesting" things to say the least. A while back I stumbled upon a document that was accidentally shared. It showed accounts receivable in collections agencies for one hospital in our system. Between 2009 and 2012, there was $154m dollars in collection agencies from delinquent accounts. Remember, this is just one hospital that is actually in a more upscale location. We have some hospitals who are always in red due to their locations.

Then you deal with inflated prices for services and drugs. I really don't even know if they can ever fix this part.
It is very cost effective by those who don't pay for electricity directly. Plenty of older condo and apartment complexes do not meter individual customers. The electricity costs are a component of the condo fees. University housing is an example.
There are a lot of issues where dedicated cores don't help - e.g. locking issues (see the discussion today about windows and chromium builds)
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Incidentally, 11K kWh is roughly the average energy consumption of a US household.

So given his current return, of 1.01 bitcoins, that means each 2.4 bitcoins mined use around the electricity that a US household does annually.

And people wonder why there are those of us who are concerned about the environmental impact...
You can't bribe your way into 30 megawatts of power.

The biggest mining operations have legal partnerships with local and national governments.[1] As well, Russia isn't a major place for bitcoin mining: instead, mining is mostly concentrated in Georgia (the country, not the state) and China.

[1] http://ifact.ge/en/bitfury/
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I think you are correct and incorrect.. I am not suggesting "expertises". I am suggesting "Literacy"... at least enough to "detect B.S." of his immediate direct reports (and that part is also key).

In 4 levels of management the CEO is not to be the BS detector of the 1st level but most def. be "technical" enough to detect B.S. at the 4th and (maybe) the 3rd levels of management.

Those I admire and have studied: Disney, Elon, and Jobs (many others) could maybe detect down to the 2nd and 3rd levels. To do the impossible - you must have a grasp of the "possible"
Totally agree with you on the value of good managers, but I can't imagine how someone with such a negative outlook on their workers can be considered an "outstanding manager," unless it was just tough love. If I worked for a supervisor who spoke about my team that way, I would take it as a sign to start floating my resume (assuming she was serious and not just ragging on them). And if she was so talented, why didn't she stick with it?
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I'm a sysadmin, I'm at the mercy of OS developers as to what I run on prod, and Solaris/IllumOS does not have the mindshare linux does.

I am certain that right now the choice of POSIX OS's at large companies such as mine is Debian or RHEL/CentOS. Smaller companies get away with ubuntu.

But nobody is making new infrastructure with IllumOS/Solaris. The most people will deviate is probably Free/OpenBSD.
Compute Engine doesn't really have "Instance Types" or "Instance Families" per say, just Core/Memory combinations. Larger machines have a higher chance of preemption though (according to the PM of PVMs who stated that on this thread).

There are a few interesting projects out there that do the kind of automation you are speaking of like these:

https://github.com/binary-com/gce-manager
https://github.com/skelterjohn/prevmtable

Spreading multiple smaller machines over a multi-zone k8s deployment might help mitigate, but it will never solve all the issues.
I ran into a similar frustration with AllTrails last camping trip. That said, their service is really great otherwise
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This is an interesting look at how many people read beyond the headline. Most of the comments are references to Amazon Prime Video streaming versus cable TV and/or Netflix. The article itself states that Amazon Prime is used mostly for its shopping and shipping benefits and not for video streaming. The comparison to cable TV subscribers is purely to show the level of market penetration of Amazon Prime in US households.
The source of the power is irrelevant: you could be selling that electricity to the grid, or offsetting the cost of your home's usage. Buying a solar panel may eliminate the middle man, but there's still lost opportunity cost.
I've seen some who should have declined, because I then spent half an hour tutoring them in the syntax of their chosen programming language.
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Real nice read! Keep up the good work!
I still remember the pit in my stomach when I logged into my brokerage account and saw virtually all of my money gone.

Yes, I had just bought a house. Yes, I had initiated the wire transfer. In fact, I was logging in to check my balance and make sure the transfer had gone out. But it was STILL shocking to see all my money missing.
This strikes me as absolutely absurd. Here, as an example, dentistry is highly regulated and prices are listed in a book. If you want procedure X done it will cost $Y no matter which dentist you visit. This means it's easier to budget for such things, you never have to price shop, and the insurance companies can also easily predict what the costs will be given statistical trends.

This idea of medical procedures having random prices is the sort of thing you have to deal with at veterinarians where a simple procedure can cost anywhere from $75 to $500 depending on the place you're going to.
Can you expand on this? What's use case?
If what you directly manage is technical... then you must be technical and be able to communicate those opportunities up. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the entire management chain must be technical.
Crytocurrencies transactions are significantly cheaper than wire transfers.

That's a real world use case.
You are supposed to get an experience certificate (that confirms how long you worked in that company) and a formal relieving letter (that confirms that you left under normal circumstances and your performance was satisfactory) from your previous employer. In addition to that you are also supposed to get payslips for the last three months.

Without supplying these it is very hard to get a job. Most companies also contact previous employers (through a third party) to confirm these details.
There is a pretty intriguing/troubling observation at the end (cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736254):

If our brains are doing gradient descent, and we can determine the signals used to indicate the gradient, then in the future (with good enough neural prostheses) we could do backprop through an AI back into the brain!
I hope browser vendors take note and make this guide obsolete.
> Talking to someone for a mere 45 minutes is not a big flipping deal.

It's a big flipping deal to a lot of people; don't presume everyone is you.
Your friend has no reach. The impact of eyewitness posts on Facebook is orders of magnitude smaller then that of traditional media.
Yes, because of the industries where the language is mostly used.

Fintech, HPC, aeronautics, robotics, infotainment,....

The only industry where devs are badly paid is games industry, but that is common to all languages.
This doesn't make any sense at all as a major problem. Used vs. new is basically irrelevant as long as no one is lying about the hashrate. As long as the sale is immediate there's basically no problem at all there.

The actual problem, especially in the past, was that you could pay for the hardware but not actually obtain it for months, by which point it was no longer profitable. Presumably, the manufacturers were using the hardware themselves during that period.
You can still buy O'Reilly books without DRM through Google.
> Smart money right now isn't in BTC,

Where is it then ? I too would like to join the 'rich fast' bandwagon !
According to the WHO the country with the most MD's per capita is Cuba with 7.5 per 1000, while the US has 2.5 per 1000. So at best you come from a country with 3x that of the US, not 100x.

Edit: http://gamapserver.who.int/gho/interactive_charts/health_wor...
Yes, OP is an idiot.
<joke>
It looks like Microsoft is slowly reimplementing half of YC startups.
</joke>

Seriously though, I'd be really worried if I was in SaaS space now. Microsoft is going after most business-relevant SaaS offerings, while providing infrastructure to others (what's going to be left?) at the same time.

I wonder at what point will this strategy be seen as monopolistic or as a threat. For example, what's stopping them from becoming THE accounting outsourcer for half of the
world? First you use their accounting, next you are out. While MS investors must be in heaven now, others should be wary.

Anti-monopolistic laws probably won't kick in in USA, because MS has competitors in each space they are walking into. However, seen as a whole, one can easily see how impoverished (in terms of choice) the ecosystem is going to become.
The more people who mine the less valuable your mining hardware becomes, as the hash rate increase will lead to a difficulty update: it is a lottery that is designed to give payouts at evenly spaced time intervals.

You also now have a slightly old, very special purpose computer... it is like owning a three year old graphics card in a world where you decided graphics cards are not that interesting to own... what exactly are you "repurposing" it for? If it is some really awesome ASIC-based mining rig it might only be useful to mine Bitcoin.
Huh, really? Why is that? Non-incremental builds shouldn't be needed at all, but besides that, just based on the names I'd expect `go build` to be the cheap one and `go install` to be the expensive one.
"The point is that training deep nets carries a big cost, in both computational and debugging time. Such expense doesn’t make sense for lots of day-to-day prediction problems and the ROI of tweaking a deep net to them, even when tweaking small networks, might be too low. "

As a Masters student now training deep models for a little while now, I think this point is underemphasized. Doing something novel (so, not just image classification) requires a TON of engineering, not to mention the research considerations. And there are so many tiny decisions and hyperparameters, that even when I thought I had considerable domain knowledge I found it very lacking. I guess it should not be surprising given that 'Deep Learning' refers to a very broad set of models only related by having a learned hierarchical representation. There are a few problems where you can use existing deep learning almost off the shelf (most notably image classification, segmentation), but for most applications I think we're not there yet. As long as this remains true (which I suspect will be for a long time), SVMs and decision trees and linear models are still definitely worth knowing and understanding.
It's not that they don't care. It's that $CARE_AMOUNT < $ESTIMATED_COST.

That formula would immediately shift if a high profile website registered on Namecheap encounters an SMS hijacking.
Thanks for the reply! What would you recommend if I wanted something with a query-builder style API? In my head it seems like clojure would be a really great fit for that as a modular way to build statements.
Transparency would certainly help but it cant solve everything. But medical care isn't regular and predicable, so at best you can get better transparency about the routine costs.

My car was recently hit in the parking lot. The body shop said, here's the cost of the repair of the items we can see, but with the warning that it could go higher if we open things up, and find additional damage. Same with people.

The other thing is the you know with a car exactly what you will end up with in the end. And with simpler medical procedures that is true, but as they get more complex - the more you are navigating a mess of interlocking procedures, probabilities, and outcomes.
They also (potentially) get the ability to push notifications to you whenever they please, access your contacts, calls, sms, installed apps, show non-blockable ads etc. For many apps this is extremely valuable.
I'm not stating an opinion about this fact, I'm simply stating it. (Personally, I think Americans ought to have socialized medicine.)

The "conservatives" who bellyached that the ACA created "socialized medicine" willfully ignored (or were ignorant of) the fact that the mandate to treat emergency patients regardless of ability to pay "socialized" medicine when it was passed (by "conservative" stalwart Ronald Regan) in the EMTALA[1] in 1986.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
Out of curiosity why do you keep such an old machine around? I have found that newer machines can be had for free, and 7-year-old Xeon servers can be had for <$200 from IT recyclers.
Neither does a beautiful hand-crafted glass bong, but there are many people willing to spend thousands of dollars on them and those dollars a perfectly legally useful.
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Be careful using 2FA on CF. I got locked out of my account because I reformatted my phone and hadn't kept backup codes. That's my fault, not CF's. They wouldn't accept email verification or uploading a html file to the root of my domains to grant access.

But here's the kicker: Cloudflare were happy to grant access if I could recall some previous name server history for some of my domains. Information that is in the public domain and can be purchased as a report.
Yeah, I remember that, GPS fixes took aaaaaaaages!

Definitely wasn't ready for prime-time, but that wasn't a surprise. It's that it wasn't even ready for as FOSS loving geek who would have put up with a lot of unfinished, rough edges if it had been anywhere close to having a coherent platform. Instead the stack got changed every few weeks and the "star" developers seemed to be determined to churn out a new keyboard every release....
China has great mobile infrastructure that, at least from a user perspective, is better than what Australia has to offer (it's significantly cheaper and covers significantly more area).

I still can't receive SMSs from my Australian phone when I visit there however and always pick up a local SIM for the duration of my visits.

It's not about pricing, it's just that my Australian provider has no agreements with carriers for other countries.
That wasn't the point of the comment.

The point was that there are a lot of git "wrappers" created to solve the problem of Git's usability. The same doesn't happen with Mercurial, and it isn't just because of a lack of use, as demonstrated by X, Y, Z prominent/large software companies/projects using it.
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Sure. A lack of grace when navigating class differences (=differences in behavior and preferences) could also be seen as a class marker, among other things. Feels rather "middle" under Fussell's rankings of class, but then that's where he put most boorish behavior (maybe for a good reason) and his treatment was too broad to allow for much nuance or coverage of sub-classes, tending to treat the latter as mostly people whose wealth didn't match their socialized class (again, maybe for good reason). Though maybe this whole thing was just your average, everyday "growing apart" with a bit more self-awareness and honesty about the causes than is typical. Maybe the parting from friendship was handled tactfully. Difficult to judge someone just from a post on a web forum.
I would love to go to a doctor that had a price board hung in their waiting room so I'd know up front what the cost would be.

Well-baby checkup: $120
School sports physical: $150
Blood tests: $80
Minor broken bone: $400
Major broken bone: $1200
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I agree... but it all depends on the role. Ideally, "management" can span the two buckets well. But, without understanding the technology, management is left standing on one leg.
How do you find out if they can write basic code without asking them to write some code?

If you talk about past projects, they talk about architecture and project management. If you ask about code they have written, they say it's all proprietary.
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Looks like people are smart enough to ask the question, "why PAY to be tracked?".
/r/bitcoin leaking...
Depends on the change and the though given to header file dependencies.

PIMPL, forward declarations, pre-compiled headers, binary libraries are all tools to reduce such dependencies.
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An easy way to get a webpage's image/thumbnail. For e.g. get the the main product image from an Amazon URL.
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Could it be that we are doing the web browser wrong?

I think large parts of chrome actually belong into the OS. The network parts, the drawing library (skia), the crypto implementation, the window and tab management, and so on.

The javascript engine could be factored out, too, so more apps could benefit from it (without bundling a whole frickin Chromium).

Video and audio would be deferred to DirectShow, Quartz, VLC, Mplayer, ...

Ideally, what remains is just a layout engine and some glue code for the UI. It's the monolithic kernel vs microkernel debate all over again.

Plugins have a bad rep in the context of browsers, but I think this "microkernel browser" where everything is a plugin or OS library can be potentially more secure than the current state, since we can wall off the components between interfaces much better.

I also think it would be much "freer". Browsers like Firefox and Chrome are open-source, but they are free in license only. I can't realistically go ahead and make my own browser. The whole thing is so complex that you have to be Google or Apple or Microsoft to do that. The best I could achive is a reskin of WebKit. I think that would be different with a more modular browser.
There's a Black Mirror episode about this, but saying which episode it is would be a big spoiler. Just watch the whole series if you haven't.
BBC Scotland produced a 1hr30min documentary about Piper Alpha a few years back. There's some pretty harrowing experiences talked about by the survivors and those who lost family members and friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcDNRSsM24

It's fairly brutal stuff. My mum's friend lost her son in the accident, I don't think there was community throughout Scotland who didn't know of a family that had been affected by this tragedy.
Sadly enough a lot of doctors are complicit in it, after all a lot of doctors didn't get into it out of altruism, then again the same can be said to apply to a lot of developers, lawyers, and several other professions. My comment was in no way denying that our society is messed up.
Just please don't equate a medical profession and body with nutritionists, that is just grossly disproportionate and just outright weird. If you like I can have a rant as to how little we understand cell uptake pathways and metabolic pathways another day.
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I am so sorry you have to live with that shadow hanging over your head. :(

I know people must get sick of the "holier than thou" attitudes of the nations with universal health care, but it's stories like yours that make it all the more sad... living life only one medical emergency away from financial ruin and destitution...

It's truly a tragedy. It would already be awful enough that you'd be in ER facing a life-threatening situation, but add on looking forward to the bill... holy. fucking. shit.