skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the whole point but the social contract in a communist society is one that you can't really get ahead through working harder / smarter - at least not as dramatically so as one can in a capitalist country. Though that's not to say that no one gets ahead in communist societies, just that those who do tend to get ahead on their ability to amass political power.

And there's a nugget about income inequality here - Cuba has reduced income inequality by making people more similarly poor. Doctors and managers live side by side with laborers and cooks. Maybe that's good for society, but the average Cuban lives like an American at the federal poverty line. Americans are unequally rich - our poorest are poorer and worse off then the average Cuban but the median American is richer than the median Cuban and the average American is much better off then the average Cuban.

It might be too utilitarian for humanitarians but I don't think income inequality matters on its face. My life wouldn't be worse if there were 10x as many billionaires, in fact, it'd probably be better because those billionaires would have created great things to earn their fortunes - if they earned their fortunes giving humanity cheap power and better health care and tastier, more nutrious food we'd be much better off.

I think the KPI to target is poverty - I simply want fewer poor people to be poor. There's a role for a better safety net, and probably some tweaks to laws that infringe upon the right to work, but historically redistribution works once in society and then you run out of other people's money.
At some point, does systemic incompetence become indistinguishable from malice to the victim?
I said something that is observably true... that Apple like to pretend to everyone that hardware older than two years is obsolete.

That attracts a certain class of Apple user that don't like anyone bad mouthing their anointed one, for any reason, so dowvotes happen. By all means show evidence to the contrary, alternatively, if you happen to be a part of "that class" of Apple user (you know, the kind to pitch a tent outside the Apple store kind, willing to trade body parts for shiny squares) then just leave some downvotes and i'll know.

But you know what... you're right, that is basic internet, there are just to many of these people. Perhaps once Apple completes it's cycle and returns to the fragmented market milking monstrosity it was in the 90s this will all be over and the cult will shrink back to a more manageable size.
I give up, how do I win this game?
> I find that a lot of people who make this argument don't really care about other peoples quality of life/time/money/etc

My own anecdata disagrees -- the people I know who give this advice are older people who have built a few companies and, likely, failed a few times.

That's also where I'm coming from. I lost $50k before I ever succeeded at anything, and it was punishing on my family, personal life, and long-term finances.

It's alarming to me when I meet people who idolize entrepreneurship and have no idea how risky and expensive it is. I meet people like this all the time, and I see them on HN from time to time, although I think HN is dominated more by people like me, who know that starting a company is gambling.

If you don't believe it's gambling, read about how good VCs are at picking winners (hint: not good). If even VCs can't pick a winner, how do you think an individual can objectively assess her own likelihood of success?

Venture capital is one of the highest-risk, highest-reward classes of mainstream investment. If you're starting a company, you are your own venture capitalist, at least at the beginning.

Nothing I've said is controversial or difficult to back up with facts, but it seems there are lots of rich/privileged people who think it's no big deal to lose tens of thousands of dollars and advise everyone to do the same, even though it's not feasible for most people.
No not feeling it. Its a database technology. Ali Baba was part owned by yahoo wasn't it? Anyway the code is at least open source. It can be vetted.
I am 35M terribly heartbroken after my most important relationship for which I had great hopes, ended in a complete disaster almost 10 months ago. Person I loved the most, cheated one, shitted on me, got engaged to guy, sent me pictures of her/dude + wedding band on OUR anniversary day, told me that she will name a dog after child we were planning to have, got dumped in 6 months, because he didn't want to have her 10 YO son and came back without apologies, and when I refused to take her back, she went to Switzerland police and got restraining order against me ... just to shit on me more. So, I am banned from entering Switzerland.(I live in US)
To be honest, I followed a lot of things on this list, but it still doesn't help. To this day, my productivity is shit. Somehow, I accomplish things being asked of me, but I feel like empty shell of former me walking around.
Have to admit, alcohol helps me a lot.
You do NOT need to explicitly pin content to help replicate it. Any content which is requested via IPFS is replicated by the daemon, up until it is GCed. The only thing that pinning does, is prevent the content from ever being GCed
Also look at Philippines, Vietnam, etc...
Yes. However, because there's nothing like a 35-year-old platform war, I feel obliged to add that the C64 was not so overwhelming when it came to vector games or other things outside the 2D-sprites-and-scrolling sweet spot it was so capably optimised for: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-zx... . Which also turned out to be pretty much the DOOM of the Amiga foretold, come to that.
Doesn't have to be carbon neutral; just has to be better, or not much worse, than whatever alternative transportation you'd use to get to your destination.
Right, but I think you still missed my point.

The vast majority of software developers will interact with, if it’s running clustered it’s because the project needs higher availability for that service (typically the database) and potentially higher performance in production.
> the changes that Trump proposed seems to have gotten nowhere

Revisions to H1B are "under review". It may all be just smoke and mirrors but it would be an easy, and legal, way for Trump to meet one of his campaign initiatives.

EO 13788:

(b) In order to promote the proper functioning of the H-1B visa program, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, as soon as practicable, suggest reforms to help ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the most-skilled or highest-paid petition beneficiaries.
This is good. It also appears that a larger share of US e-waste is actually handled in the US then I remembered (its been trending up since the 1990s i think). I have no idea of the numbers but environmental regulations be equal (which they are not but we can one day they are) this seems more efficient to my brain.
I always wait for the first minor version bump before installing a new iOS release. Not this time! I can't wait that long to play with what you've built.

(I'd like to read more about it, too, but your Medium link upthread is 404ing...)
FWIW I much prefer the RNNoise version to the Speex version. With the Speex version the nosie is much more consistently present/noticeable/distracting.
If you're actually depressed, go see a professional.
11.0.1 came out earlier this week.
"US Persons" includes everyone living in the US regardless of immigration status.
I don't know, a similar argument could have been made about Amazon not overtaking retail in 1999. I'm not saying the MOOCs market we have today is mature enough to fully replace university but I'm convinced technology will eventually reduce costs massively.
The Impotence of Zuckerberg
By the same token, they're also not the home of a bunch of friendly companies that will implement the work, unlike China, and they don't have a long history of trying to stop the flow of information, unlike China, and they don't have a effectively infinite budget, unlike China.

I'm betting against Spain on this one. Go Catalonia!
The funny thing is, there's nothing really new with the idea of suborbital planetary transport-- this was widely expected in the 60s and 70s. The problem was NASA was given a monopoly on space access, and many companies would never get permission to fly, or do any projects, without NASA approval, and NASA would never approve anything competitive with its own ambitions. (Always using "safety" as an excuse, but if you can't fly you can't prove safety.)

It was the X Prize and Scaled Composits that broke the logjam with their "we can launch from anywhere with a runway" system, which combined with the failure of the shuttle system and lack of funding for NASA has forced them out of a stranglehold position to the point where they basically funded much of SpaceX's early work.

But don't under estimate the effect of the X Prize-- because Virgin Galactic can launch from anywhere, NASA and the politicians had to decide if they were going to lose access to the space tourism business.

They still were kinda silly-- at one point Richard Branson who funded Virgin Galactic was blocked from seeing the designs for the Virgin Galactic ship due to the fact that he is a "foreign national" and the work was considered a "national security" issue.
> You're suggesting that they're poor because they're communist. That's not the case.

I'd like you to back that up. Right now, the private sector in Cuba (for example, taxi drivers with private licenses) is rich by Cuban standards. A taxi driver with a private license can make several times more in a day than a doctor makes in a month. Participation in the black market also contributes to quality of life.

The most successful common people in Cuba are those who engage with the freest markets.
>Is it too much to ask that everyone have enough to live a good life?

Depends on 'the good life' - we can't lift everyone up to live like a doctor, but it's easy to push doctors down so they live like everyone else.

>I don't know there's any reason doctors should get exceptionally high incomes

U.S doctor's incomes are probably influenced by the AMA cartel that keeps good candidates from earning medical degrees. After we bust the cartel, we can let the chips fall where they may. My hunch is that doctors would be paid more like veterinarians if the market were freer.

On some level, a job's compensation is tied to the challenge of the job. It's more difficult to perform good medicine than it is to be a cashier, we should expect doctors to be better compensated than cashiers.
Ask HN: Managed Colo – Where to find providers?
For a project I'm working on we need to have physical servers next to another companies servers. We don't want to manage the network (IP transit) and we do not have our own ASN. Part of the project is going over the exchange in the datacenter to the other company. We've deployed twice in NYC and LAX and both times have found providers which manage the network side of things, giving us a rack and power and IPs. From there they make sure we're peered over the local exchange to the other company insuring low latency as well as bandwidth costs (all internal vs regular transit).

Now we're looking to expand to Amsterdam and we're facing the same problem. It seems very difficult to find companies which offer this type of offering. I was curious what do people search for this type of offering?

Thanks!

P.S. If you happen to know anyone in Amsterdam's Equinix that provides the above would love to know their information. Email in my profile or just leave a comment!
I mean, isn't that still just sharding? What does hierarchy give us?

Look at Bigtable [1], for example. Tablets are organized in a three level B-tree-like hierarchy, where data is only stored at the lowest level. Is this like what you're talking about?

[1] https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf
The winters in NYC really aren't that bad. Yes occasionally it snows but the storms that dump inches of snow are infrequent enough to be novel. When it's cold it's cold but if you're wearing the right jacket that isn't bad either.
If you read the original GNU manifesto, RMS was hoping to sucker the Unix community into slowly moving towards something very Lisp Machine-like.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html
- Is it "Cloudflare Workers" or "Cloudflare Service Workers"?
A "Cloudflare Worker" is JavaScript you write that runs on Cloudflare's edge.
A "Cloudflare Service Worker" is specifically a worker which handles
HTTP traffic and is written against the Service Worker API.

Consufing naming convention. Now you have to say 'worker worker' or 'non-service worker' so nobody has to wonder if you meant 'service worker' when you only said 'worker'.
Crypto has unleashed an epidemic of greed. Only people with a feeble understanding of the world, economics and finance will seriously engage with the idea one can make money out of thin air, wasting electricity.

The only way crypto gains value in the world we live in is if established interests decide to support it, at which it point it perpetuates entrenched interests and is subsumed into the whole.

So bitcoin is not going to disrupt anything. And all the 'revolutionaries' and 'liberatarians' who spend hours sitting idly in front of their PCs mining and then let loose periodic outbursts on 'freedom' and 'innovation', will happily cash out to the devil himself quietly burying their incredible claims.
This website is absolutely incredible, wow! It might well be the most beautiful open source project homepage out there.

Any other entries that even come close?!
How do you know the software can't be affected remotely, considering the baseband processor?
> Catalan officials can just distribute the hash of the main page file, and everyone else can be sure that all content linked from that file has been published by the catalan authorities.

How does the hash of the main page guarantee that content linked from that page is authentic?
As someone who grew up in the NYC area, and who is currently feeling the crushing suffocation of SF Bay Area cost of living, I'd love to go back. But aren't the problems similar? In order to afford to own a home I'd likely have to live in Pennsylvania and commute 2+ hours--not much different than in SF. Plus, my understanding is that back east, tech is what companies use rather than what companies make, so at most companies you'll be in a supporting role rather than building the products. Is this true or are my assumptions outdated?
Still a simulacrum?
IIRC, it goes with the 4th power of the axle weight, which is much more than just nonlinear
It seems shocking that Spain a member of the EU is resorting to these tactics. Can you discuss some of their justifications for doing so?
At first I thought "oh no, not another one" but then I thought "These are really vivid colors"
> a country which is explicitly organized around giving everybody a chance to succeed

Are we talking about the same Cuba?
In countries of > 1 billion people who are racing towards development, the real estate bubble just goes on and on. Even in smaller cities, real estate is seen as a very profitable investment as even more people make the rural to urban transition, jacking up demand to stratospheric levels.
Well thanks for that. Now I know what not to use.
I swear I wrote this comment on the BFR story [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15362999
The library is so vast....
This would be my guess as well. I worked on a ExtJS project (v4.0.7 or so), we didn't use the sencha build tools, but when I started there we had a bash script which was a 7 iteration sorting "algorithm" that used grep to try and match the `requires`, `extends`, `model` properties to determine dependency order. It too also uses commented out code or documentation of usage, as they were the first lines it saw. I still do not understand how it worked for so many years. The first thing I did was build a deterministic dependency ordering build tool using esprima.
I recently had my gas stove repaired by someone named Denis who had a heavy Slavic accent. I check my stove for bugs daily.
I sometimes play the T-34 and T-34/85 on World of Tanks. Does this make me a traitor?
I just accepted a Czech national as a LinkedIn connection. Should I just go all the way and defect?
Fair, though France's military spending is the highest in Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...).

My understanding is that US spending is relatively 'inefficient' compared to European countries, esp for healthcare. We spend more for comparatively worse outcomes (this is definitely true when compared to UK NHS, probably for France too).
Mine too: I'd never heard it before and had to look it up. Now I'm just lying in wait for an opportunity to use it.
Screwdriving: Locating and exploiting smart adult toys
Stack Chat: Your personal programmer friend
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App Store link soon!
Not when you say "I don't have a Facebook account" and promptly escorted into secondary inspection area at the border for more scrutiny.
32 bit is handy in development because you can run more than one.

On most processors you can only run one 64 bit VM, but as many 32 bit VMs as you can handle.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've corrected the article!
"People are taking to programming because it pays well and there is demand." This statement is wrong. Not everyone takes to programming only for that sole reason. In america people tend to follow their passion first.
"No zero days" is a general lifestyle principle I am so sold on that I believe it should promoted to everyone to the degree where signal fatigue becomes a concern.
We built Auth0 Extend [1] to address with many of these concerns. Our hypothesis is that the logic that implements these extensibility points should live in the host platform.

For several years now, we've had this sort of hook-via-code in the Rules engine on our Auth0 identity product. It's been such a powerful enabler for many different integration scenarios that we thought that other companies may find the technology useful for their platforms.

Since committing to building Auth0 Extend, we've seen Twilio launch their functions [2] and just today CloudFlare launched its Workers [3]. It seems like the this is an approach that is in its infancy but that is here to stay!

1: https://auth0.com/extend/developers

2: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/runtime/functions

3: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-workers/
is it public?
There's nothing really produced as there's no product, the software is running a service.

Without the service, there is nothing.
Suppose I buy gold to diversify my portfolio, because it has a low correlation with the other asset classes I own? Is that an investment?

Crypto can play a similar role.
On the other hand, they've probably had a lot more early exposure to the idea that one is better off changing jobs every few years. After having three jobs in ten years instead of one, they're much less likely to be stuck with a non-transferable skillset.
Finally a realistic view of where “artificial intelligence” currently stands. I wish I knew where guys like Elon Musk are seeing this other artificial intelligence I’m just not seeing. The current AI we have is just fancy linear regression.
It would be kind of ideal to have dirty manufacturing processes occur on a moon or asteroid where they would not pollute our water and air.
Exactly. A non-working simulation is something that goes strongly against the geek mentality.
Basic differential equations: Any system with an effect proportional to the negative second derivative in it will tend to have cyclic behavior. That's a bit oversimplified, but in practice it often works out that way. And there's plenty of such things in the economy, so cycles in the economy are inevitable.

You can make solid cases that we don't need to have quite the crashes we actually do. But I don't believe in the existence of a real economy that doesn't have some substantial cycles in it that people will point to as evidence that something is wrong.

(Of course, if enough of those people get together and get put in charge of an economy, they often are successful at removing the cycles, by virtue of removing all instances of the economy going up at all....)
When people find out I design Smalltalk computers, they often say something like "oh! You probably don't know this, but in the 1980s some people tried to build a computer to run Lisp and it failed completely". My reply is that every computer except two (PC clones and the IBM 360) from back then failed completely. So it doesn't make sense to claim being language specific was the cause of its demise.
Yea, but the main advantage of the system over air-travel is that it's fast. For most types of cargo, cost rather then speed is the main issue, especially if the difference is just on the scale of a few hours.
According to wikipedia, routers do it. Is this wrong? (Sincerely asking not begin argumentative)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_fragmentation

In IPv4, routers perform fragmentation, whereas in IPv6, routers do not fragment, but drop the packets that are larger than their MTU.
> Somehow, I accomplish things being asked of me

So you could pair with someone who will drive you around for a while. It could be a friend or someone you hire. Esp. important if you're a freelancer...
But there are rumors of the New Armstrong that will rival the BFG so Bezos is not stopping at the New Glenn.
Thank you so much for #7. I'm in management now, but even during my 10 years of development, I had this same view. Maybe that comes from a work ethic drilled into my on a farm when I was a kid, but when I think about what I get paid for sitting inside, in the A/C, typing at a computer and then compare that to farm work, I pretty much remember that I am still privileged just to have this opportunity.
"Please step into that room for a secondary inspection".
I hear that viewpoint frequently but their seems to be minimal support. The simple truth is for large numbers of medications the benefit is very minimal while the risks are huge.

Also, if you look at the approval process costs are largely focused on how studies are done not the minimum requirements for data collection.

PS: Remember, a very well funded group has a huge incentive to reduce costs in this area.
Maybe my phone is too old? Runs horribly on Firefox/note3

Didn't even realize it was I teractive u til half way through when my phone started spitting out audio then a second or two later I saw a block randomly move(well bot randomly but no abim while it was catching up).

Tried to long press to slowly do something, still no joy.

Edit/note, I do look forward to seeing this on a PC though, judging from the comments :-)

Edit: slightly older version of chrome did work better(although note the edge report lower)

Edit 2: I was bored. No audio in brave browser :-p
The Valley is the combined local governments, and the market is the companies and workers who both see value in staying in the area. The land is so expensive that if one locality raised the building restrictions, you'd see massive towers going up.
Where can we get one?
Facebook tests facial recognition for account recovery
>The person in the tower can only look at a few cells at a time but hundreds of people in the cells will be staring at the tower all the time.

Naah, it was taken care of, of course in the new project, and it's not a tower anymore, it's the Nest:

>Will I be able to see you in Nest, watching me work?
No. Nest will be coated in one-way mirrored glass. And we are not “watching you,” we are compassionately evaluating your flow state. Mr. Bentham was very clear that, for objectivity, team members shouldn’t know when they are being evaluated by “the all-seeing, hundred-eyed giant.”