skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its very high consumption tax

You keep saying that, and I keep not understanding it. I realize higher prices (Companies shifting the tax to consumers) is a burden for consumers. But at the same time, if government tax revenue increases, then taxes could be cut (of all kinds: income, VAT, and corporate).

E.g. IKEA in Sweden ships 3% of their revenue as "royalties" to a dutch company, thereby reducing their swedish tax amount by over €100M/yr. If that money and money from similar companies was actually paid in Sweden, then Sweden could have a lower tax rate (e.g. 20%) and still have the same revenue. Or the VAT could be slightly lowered from 25%, to offset the fact that for a few products from multinational corporations, the products would be slightly more expensive.

Also: the argument that higher corporate tax rate = Higher CoL = bad, could be extended too. But how far? If the rest of the EU adopted Irelands low corporate tax rate, what would happen then?
The graph shows customization required as a function of happiness.

Low happiness --> low customization

Medium happiness --> minimal customization

Infinite happiness --> infinite customization

High happiness --> moderate customization

With the interesting bit being the balancing act around "moderate customization", "high happiness", and "sustainable amount of work".
Clara Labs (YC S14) closes series A, expanding engineering and marketing teams
I had a perfectly functional lambda-based visitor working in C++11. I don't see the problem. I can try to dig it up.
Question to folks out here: How do you deal with this? Ostrich strategy, or do you actively manage via multi-site redundancy?
> I think we are better off with boost

Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back ;)
It 100% would raise the wages of tech workers, but it could also hurt the stock price of many tech companies from which many senior employees make such kinds of wages anyways. Additionally, there is complexity around where goods are produced and where they are sold in regards to taxes, so some of these numbers I will list aren't exactly simple.

But anyways, Apple makes 600k in profit a year per employee, meaning they can increase the salary of every employee in the company by 400k (ignoring tax issues) and still turn a crazy large profit. Companies such as Google and Facebook have a revenue per employee that is well over 1 billion dollars, and in turn could theoretically return that money to their employees rather than putting it towards some of the other expenses that they do. However, due to stock compensation, it is for the benefit of existing employees that these companies do focus on continuing to monopolize.
>Yandex predates Google.

Yandex - founded in 2000.
Google - founded in 1998.

Predates for sure.
The author claims that Coca Cola funds studies that diverts public health agenda to other topics, so they won't discuss the harmfulness of sugary beverages.
Kudos for Amazon sorting out their status page. The last time this happened, the status page didn't show anything until hours after the outage began. I just noticed this one maybe 15 minutes ago, and 5-10 minutes later they acknowledged the problem.

On the other hand, I'm feeling a strong case of "Not this shit again". Wondering if US-East-1 is more trouble than it's worth, as these outages seem to happen mostly there.
Actually, you should qualify that a bit more. Ruby is rarely used outside of Ruby on Rails in North America. In Japan, it is widely used and Ruby on Rails is fair less common.
I have definitely worked in this world - I feel like the right replacement for FTP for sending large assets around would be to host them in an S3 bucket, sooner than use web-based services where you add files to your account and share them out with somebody. I know Dropbox and Google Drive are commonly used for this, but isn't it more of a hassle than S3?
Nim compiles to C
Still seeing SlowDowns as of 19:08Z.
Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop
"If you disagree with this definition of voluntary, that's fine. Let's choose another string of letters to denote what I wrote in the previous comment, and change my other comment and replace the string "voluntary" with that new string of letters."

That won't make it any better. You're still hand waving away a lot of exploitation.

"Being fired is simply no longer engaging in the transaction where one party trades their money for the labour of the other party."

Which is a threat of force often used when the employer wants the employee to do something that may be unethical, or simply wrong (like making someone work 20 hours a day).

"I did not say that they were."

But the way you're phrasing things, and focusing on them, indicates that you believe that physical force is the only force that matters.
I can't believe they used the Computer Language Benchmarks Game. Those benchmarks don't reflect real-world workloads at all, and the contest has fairly arbitrary rules about implementations and widely differing implementation quality between languages. This should have been rejected by peer review.
I think it was the remote debugger I was missing, and as far as I could tell there was no such feature in any free editor/IDE, probably because it's not a language-native feature afaik.
> What you and the other guy are basically saying is that if we pile up a bunch of cybernetic devices together you eventually pass a threshold where subjectivity (aka consciousness) begins.

The gist of this seems about right, although the configuration of the components is likely to be just as important as the raw quantity.

I would also argue that there is a spectrum of gradient of consciousness (or awareness, sentience, etc), likely without a clear starting threshold. As an analogy, perhaps it is similar to how the boundary edge of a cloud in the sky is impossible to define, but there isn't much disagreement about which parts of the cloud are bulky.

> my original point was just that "qualia" (which I use as a name for the content of awareness) exist

For you, qualia is synonymous with awareness? I've generally heard it described as the ephemeral aspects of subjective experience.

I'm fairly skeptical of the way many people talk about "subjective experience", as there often seems to be a large amount of unspoken assumptions involved. The biggest one being that there is an irreducible, singular entity or "subject" having the experience.

I find awareness to be a concept with less assumptions --
to me, it doesn't imply a "subject" to the same degree. Thus I'm more comfortable with your definition of qualia, although I wonder if others share it.
Is there a tipping point where the independent content creators tire of this? Patreon seems to have some traction and just seems a good fit for artistic endeavours, the fact that you need $100 in income from YouTube before they pay out must mean there are a lot of people with a lot of viewers whose income they hold in perpetuity. Same with Spotify, is there a point at which creators withhold their content, or is the lure of large viewer numbers irresistible ?
For us, lots of errors, then retries, then rate limits because of the retries.

---

On our account dashboard

> 11:58 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region.

On AWS's status page https://status.aws.amazon.com/

> No recent events.

Damn thing never works.
I hope that someone who knows "gigx" in real life checks in on him. It is safe to assume that he spent a significant amount of time playing Eve to reach the level that he did. Yes, he got drunk on power and it pissed people off. I would bet that if a neurologist were monitoring his brain activity before the coup and during the coup it would be very similar to a person going through a really bad breakup, a very disturbing event or going cold turkey on a bad addiction. Hopefully what happened in Eve doesn't spill over into gigx's personal life for the worse.
Congratulations Ukraine, you invented the guided missile!
S3 was down
If you do that you're using words differently than many other people, the UN included. By your definition the right to a fair trial isn't a human right (which isn't a particularly widely held opinion).
>What makes you think that's even possible?

Have you heard of Wine?
https://www.winehq.org/

Imagine if Microsoft put some of their developers on that.
> How would you do that without making the visitor cases explicit?

See my edit.

std::visit([](auto &&val) {
std::cout << typeIdxToString[typeid(val)] << val;
}, var);

> E.g. you would want the '+' operator to do different things for strings and numbers.

Then overload the '+' operator, no need to put all that in the visitor lambda.
We have support for other S3 regions in which we duplicate the data but the switch is manual not automatic.
Google hit with gender pay discrimination lawsuit
Isn't disabling third-party cookies common already? Are advertising companies alarmed because this "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" is on by default?
They had stopped for 10 minutes, but just started up again.
Seeing issues with cloudformation as well.
It makes me weirdly happy as an American to see it happen. What happens when instead of massive, boring, soulless, mediocre corporations like Facebook serving 2 billion sharecroppers, we've got multiple or even dozens of smaller networks serving regions and niches? That has the potential for innovation we can't begin to understand. Facebook is akin to McDonald's not only spreading internationally but also replacing all other restaurants once it gets in a country. Who likes Big Macs that much?

It's why we should criticize the actions of any power (whether the Us, China, the EU, Russia) to control citizens and eliminate smaller cultures. Maybe melodramatic but it's exciting. The growth of Chinese networks is interesting, wonder how they would develop under a democratic government? Further innovation or do they only exist because of that environment as you suggest?
No. The way I plan to fix it is having "dht services" where you can delegate the mobile device burden to another node. As we use SIP and it supports such topology, it's not much of a problem.
Doesn't happen often (at all?) and even if it did, what stops the company's leadership from starting a new, identical company with a identical board, employee list, etc. the next second?
I've never got why people bring up these 1700s quotes which have such drastically different meanings when you consider context. Like the context of this one being US independence, not a better but less open mousetrap.
To the extent those people have some sort of crisis it sounds more like anxiety over loss of status.
I've been misinformed then. Thank you.
During your interview, you can demonstrate strong technical skills even if you aren't asked about them. You can also demonstrate strong soft skills. The latter is generally seen as less 'merited' and generally gets paid less.

I wonder how this kind of information can be qualified other than a full transcript of everyone's interviews.
Antergos installs arch. It has a repo to provide certain packages that aren't provided by Arch repos.

Support I agree with. If you have a problem installing Antergos or one of its packages, ask us, not the arch forums.
Sum types can actually be implemented quite effectively using X-macros in both C and C++. In fact, I feel like they're simpler and more intuitive than this variant stuff.

Edit: Let's use the same example.

#define SETTINGS \
X(string, str) \
X(int, num) \
X(bool, b)

struct Setting {
union {
#define X(type, name) type name;
SETTINGS
#undef X
};
enum Type {
#define X(type, ...) t_ ## type,
SETTINGS
#undef X
};
Type tag;
};

Printing settings like in the example becomes this:

void printSettings(const Setting& s) {
switch(s.tag) {
case t_string: printf("A string: %s\n", s.str.c_str()); break;
case t_int: printf("An integer: %d\n", s.num); break;
case t_bool: printf("A boolean: %d\n", s.b); break;
}
}

We can also load more things into the x-macro, so it's possible to define the switch cases above just like in the structure definition. We could add a third parameter called full_name:

void printSettings(const Setting& s) {
switch(s.tag) {
#define X(type, name, full_name) \
case t_ ## type: std::cout << "A " full_name ":" << s.name << "\n";
#undef X
}
}

Disclaimer: I have not compiled or run any of this code.
Definitely seems like that... And we should back off and reduce our request rates, HN, otherwise we'll make it worse!
The SSA sends you one at birth (now?).
It seems to be saying that you can do an awful lot of customization and it'll only make customers a little happier. It is only when you get to high customization that it makes customers much happier, but at that point you are well beyond sustainable costs.

Take men's suits. It's saying fully bespoke isn't a sustainable business model. Made-to-measure might or might not be (depending on which side of the line) but it isn't going to make your customers ecstatic, just a little happier than off the shelf.

One odd thing, is it seems to start by trending downwards. Not sure if that was intentional.
So, if you really hate making a struct each time, you drop make_visitor into the project's util.h and never worry about it again. I don't see the big deal.
Jail?
You missing the point. A single person exposing their SSN right now will suffer, but if everyone's SSN is accepted the companies would have to acknowledge that SSN is no longer secret (in fact it never was intended to be secret).

This whole mess could be trivially fixed by credit bureaus introducing a PIN for every person and require it for opening a new credit line (issue is whether they could keep it safe, but at least it would resolve this problem).

They even already have such mechanism in place, which is done through freezing the file. The problem is that for some crazy reason we are charged when we are trying to protect ourselves.
Quantum computers reach deeper, find ground state of simple hydrides
You may need a Terms of Service but also a Privacy Policy, which is required by law if you collect personal data.

The Privacy Policy is also required by Mixpanel. If you're using the tracking tool it means that you're agreeing with the terms of Mixpanel (https://mixpanel.com/terms/). The terms require you to inform users that you are using Mixpanel. You also need to inform users about the opt-out policy of Mixpanel.

>>> include a notice about the Mixpanel opt-out for Customer’s site and the Mixpanel opt-out link in Customer’s privacy policy or in a notice on Customer’s website(s).
>>> Terms of Use of Mixpanel

The Terms of Service agreement isn't usually required by law but you can use it to include guidelines and rules for users to agree with and follow if they want to join your community (i.e. no spamming other users, no abusive accounts etc.)

Hopefully our two presentations on these agreements will help you:

1. What's a Privacy Policy --> https://www.slideshare.net/termsfeed/the-privacy-policy-agre...

2. What's a Terms & Conditions --> https://www.slideshare.net/termsfeed/whats-a-terms-and-condi...

Also, it's important to research how to integrate and get consent to the legal agreements you make available to your users. For this, research "clickwrap".
Thought I was going crazy. We're seeing 'Please reduce your request rate.' for a lot of our requests as well
To paint a wall in an individual office on Market St, San Francisco, with whiteboard paint, is upwards of $10000 in labor, because of union regulations.

Unions are ripe to be used as instruments for abuse.
> so little on actually creating European Googles and Facebooks

How though?
Nice idea but not enough zip pockets inside to keep things separate (for me)
Its kind of perverse to jump to spying, don't you think? I'm not spying on my wife or she on me. Even though I have her email on my phone, in the past year I think I've only been in there twice, both times when she asked me to look for something for her. I know she doesn't look at mine either because she just doesn't care.
Definitely affecting S3 bucket ops, static site hosting on s3, and even things like CloudTrail. Anything that uses S3 East VA my guess. Rather severe impact. Maybe less focus on avocados is what's called for...
Well, true, you have a point. Ruby is rarely used outside of Rails. Which is a shame, really.
Just images? I wonder if they are doing some kind of proprietary lossless compression on the backend.
We're see 'Please reduce your request rate' frequently on read and write operations.
The developer once noted that 96% of subscribers are male.
"Sum types". Hey, let's give an old concept a new name. Those are called discriminated variant types, and they first appeared in Pascal. They're a straightforward concept, and can be implemented easily at the language level.

The big problem with C++ is that the template fanatics took over. Templates are a crappy programming language - bad syntax, confusing semantics, and tough debugging.
But there's no way to stop people from extending the language via templates. Hence Boost, and "you are not supposed to understand this" templates.

(I fear that Rust is going down the same rathole.)
the PG&E project is a technology demonstration which is a nice first step

green mountain power appears to be a retailer of electricity and not a distribution company; they don't own any power lines. The distribution co. will have to be on board to safely accept power flowing in the opposite direction (from the load), and for the most part they have no incentive for this so don't really care.
A Quick Introduction to Functional JavaScript
"Slow Down"s for me. We started seeing some weird S3 behavior since about 11:45 PST.
To completely address JoshTriplett's point, yes, you can just define another struct for the SubExpr variant to disambiguate it from the AddExpr case.

Requiring this kind of wrapping is awkward compared to e.g. Rust or Haskell's treatment of sum types, which unlike C++17 and std::visit both have powerful pattern matching features built into the language. Saying this as someone who writes C++ all day: std::visit and std::variant are weaksauce.
Russia? China? Jealous of our cat pics much?!
We're seeing the same thing. Been tracking it via Twitter for the last 15 minutes or so: https://twitter.com/search?q=s3%20slow%20down
You need to wrap the recursive references to Expr in boxes, or you'll have an infinitely sized type.
I tried CTRL+ALT+DEL but it didn't help!! :)
Interesting observation on this report:

"The 200,000 credit card #'s Equifax hackers stole belonged to historical transaction data, which means Equifax violated PCI sec standards" https://twitter.com/MisterGlass/status/908402338653761537
If you run a fitness-channel on YouTube (I do) and your thumbnail contains a topless body, the video will not be monetized. No more sixpack tutorials I guess...
Lots of people confirming this on Twitter[1], and we're also seeing it at resin.io

[1]: https://twitter.com/AlecSanger/status/908402829349572608
Make no mistake: this is a form of taxation. Our (i'm spanish) minister of economy has been very imaginative in the last 4 years to find new sources of revenue.
> a revenue per employee that is well over 1 billion dollars

...
> Syncing [stuff] was removed...

As it should be. None of that functionality made sense to have in iTunes. It was essentially a relic of the iPod era.

> The mini-player doesn't show the track name.

It's a little dependent on window size, but there are definitely still mini-player modes that will show the track/album/artist names when the mouse is outside the window. (When the mouse enters the window, they're replaced with the player controls.)

> "Some soft of filtering baked in" doesn't cut it for my large library.

So use the Songs view with the column browser. (Cmd+B will show/hide it on macOS.) It hasn't changed. The new library views are entirely optional.
Auto pay is not hard to set up.

This data is questionable anyway.
From status page: (https://status.aws.amazon.com)

11:58 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3 requests in the US-EAST-1 Region.
I'm getting issues as well. Here's to hoping this issue is just a hiccup and not like the last outage.. otherwise, it may be time to seriously consider alternatives. Anyone know of a good solution for a self-hosted s3-esque service?
What were Ruby used for in japan?
Does anyone else have some of their buckets missing from the console list?
Running on 2015 Mac with Chrome, I got 75 H/s

At the current exchange rate, that's about $3.78/month.
How is Kim's credit score in any way related to Kanye?
I'd recommend one of the more privacy-oriented coins, like Monero :p
Note the new edit on the blog post: They silently corrected the sample data for Bill Gates, changing his state from WI to WA. Major red flag; if it was wrong in the original data just keep it that way and release a few more samples for verification.
Ironically, I believe that we should be throwing money at problems, even as a Libertarian. Government program funding was what turned me into a libertarian. I couldn't for the life of me reconcile how we can task an entity (the government) to fix a problem, and then look idly-by as its agents throw table-scraps at the program that is instituted to complete that task.

E.g. Crime in inner-city neighbourhoods. It's 2017, we should be able to put cameras (facial-recognition and license-plate-reading) at every street corner, inside every store, track every single gang-member, and subsequently institute curfews for them that would probably eliminate 90% of crime. But, we don't. We skirt around the issue, we try fix it using "round-about" "ways, means, incentives" and all other manner of things instead of tackling a problem head-on with near-unlimited funding. If it was up to me, I'd ramp up funding to a ridiculous degree, and then start scaling back after the problem is solved. Not the other way around, whereby the program and society as a whole has to beg politicians and the rest of us to fund things properly.
Ask yourself if you'd be ok with her babysitting your kids? Didn't think so.
Good coffee does not scale.
Quantum computational supremacy
BF1 can be downright hairy. That's what drew me in. You can't get 128 to my knowledge, but there are regularly games with 64 players. It's probably the closest thing. (plus a bit of nostalgia from BF Vietnam and 1942 with my siblings as well)

For altogether different reasons I really enjoy Star Wars Battlefront.

I'm not a huge gamer, though. There's probably something out there that I'm not aware of. I did buy a Windows PC/gpu just so I could do some gaming, though... (well, and for some basic VR dev project)
Is this some type of apple advertisement?
If I understood the workings of the intelligent tracking prevention correctly ( https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... ) then this looks painful for ad networks which don't serve their ads from a domain with lots of organic traffic. Google and facebook should be fine given that lots of users go there at least once a month.
> it may be time to seriously consider alternatives

they have multi-az support if you use it
> Wage growth can only come from productivity growth

To quote the top-level comment that started this thread (and which was apparently OK with everyone): bullshit. Wage growth can come increased availability of resources or funds, from regulation, from many sources besides productivity growth. Productivity growth can actually drive wage decreases, e.g. when automation makes jobs obsolete and its practitioners end up doing menial work instead. Typesetting is an example that has affected my own family. To pick another one, do you suppose that all of the long-term increase in finance-industry wage growth has been because of productivity? That repealing Glass-Steagall, or tax laws favoring certain investment vehicles and funneling trillions into mutual funds had nothing to do with it? That would be naive. The people making all that money certainly know better.

If that claim is the basis of your argument or economic beliefs, then I feel sorry for you because you're building on quicksand.
Seeing the "reduce your requests" error message on our end