skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're legally allowed to pay people $4.95 a week and work 'em at gunpoint, that becomes the new maximum efficiency point (provided enough humans and/or robots can be procured) and the existing Amazon goes out of business, unable to compete.

For that matter, if Amazon permitted just anybody to grow and work their way up, there'd be a lot of warehouse people or code-mongers thinking they should prosper, and there's not room for all of them. That's basic economics too, and it means that no, you can't work your way up nor can you grow. There's already a Jeff Bezos, and you're not it. There's also a 'your boss' and you're not that, either.

So, the practical implementation of human worker wages remains very interesting to people, and the fact that Amazon's the best at arbitraging this dynamic is relevant.

What you see as outrage is simply people's reactions to that very basic economics: to what extent can a company define the conditions for an industry (or all of society) by exploiting the rules and running as close to the edge as possible?

One assumes there's a spectrum and that you can get a 'good job' and have less misery than your fellow worker, if you try hard or you're lucky or wealthy or nepotistic enough. One also assumes that if you 'work your way up' you're wealthier and have it easier and can live large like some important person.

Amazon flips that on its head. If you're in the Amazon model, there is no 'up'. At every level, you're existing in maximum tolerable misery because that is your global strategy to outcompete every other business entity that threatens you or could ever threaten you. If you're 'winning' as an individual, that hurts the company: the company wins if everybody from bottom to top is struggling in the optimal misery/output balance, to the extent of applicable laws.

It's a conversation worth having. This is the formula for corporate efficiency, but to what extent should humans operate NOT at the point of maximum misery?

The American Dream is an intangible. If other people aren't impressed by it, then offering it as primary compensation is disingenuous. I'm particularly dismayed by trying to mandate it… it's a pretty lame dream if you look at things in a more systemic fashion. It has already led to the collapse of the American middle and lower classes, and this is only accelerating.

An American 'oh, hi, I'm awake now' might be a wiser alternative…
> The human body cannot live on carbs alone for five months

Is this true?
Podcast with founder of Breather on detecting patterns through consumer behavior
“Spiritual but not religious”: inside America's rapidly growing faith group
Why would you want to conquer another country when you had vast resources already available in India.

Though if the anti catholic obsession of the monarchy had been replaced by one to recover the colonies 1812 would have been the time.
> Well, I can very much expect them -- and chose to do business with companies that do care.

I'm 100% certain that most people will go with "cheapest" or "more convenient" regardless.
In fact, that’s how Google started out with AdSense as well: It was called “content targeting advertising”, because Google scanned your webpage and then served ads that related to the content of your webpage.

I don’t know what happened along the road to lead us to the current tracking and spying mess.
That's fine, but ghosting while also in the process of setting up an onsite is pretty bad, especially for a company that should be at the stage where they get that right. There's no good reason for that behavior.
A special syntax seems unnecessary. Just drop something like this in your project:

template<typename A, typename B>
bool is_unordered(const A& a, const B& b) {
return !(a<b||a==b||a>b);
}

edit: changed implementation to match name.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned: learning mathematics from talking to another human can be 10-100 times faster than getting it from books. Another thing: mathematics is huge and seems to accommodate all personality types. Pick something that turns you on and grow outwards from there. The folks on reddit seem to be obsessed with Rudin, and that's good stuff, but there's so many other roads to follow.

And I'm so impressed by how much better the comments are here than on reddit! Good job HN, you rock.
Ask HN: How to ship a Java web service app as a local desktop app?
I have a Java web service that I want to ship as a local desktop app. Ideally, the user would interact with the app by starting running the jar and opening localhost:$someport.
But I want to provide the ease of use by providing the user with a single click and run app experience like an electron app and not have to ship a separate jar and a separate front-end app. So how can I ideally have:

1. Ideally a single executable app which when clicked, launches like a Chromium app

2. If the above is not possible, then what's the suggested way to ship such an app?
Yes, that's why I asked if they used lawyers for this relatively small sum. But it's not minuscule, so I was interested if they used contacts/agreements, escrow or something like "you send me money I send you password for account". Would like to read about such small-scale legalities for small personal sites-startups if it's available anywhere.
Because this assumes the person is always contactable by email. There is a none zero chance that the person is available for a phone call but not in front of email. Instead you see the email 3 hours later, the sender is now busy as are you so you land up in a game of email ping pong trying to arrange a time. Just put your phone on silent or don’t answer it if you’re not available.
Hillary wasn't worthy of her nomination, and yet here we are. Jeb Bush attempted the same thing, but failed very early on.

You're failing to recognize that GOP establishment hates Trump just as much as Democratic establishment does. They would rather fail themselves than let him win, because they feel it in their guts that if he wins, he won't keep them around for long. He's an anti-establishment candidate. That's the platform he ran on, and that's the platform he will run on in 2020 (and likely win again, unless Democrats can suppress their utter disdain for rural, working class voters).
The  Cryptogram of 'La Buse'
I really wish there was a 'normalized' column for prices using one coin (probably the penny) -- so it were easier to see the differences while scanning rather than seeing different letters and then having to scan up to figure out which one it was. Also the symbols aren't consistent -- in the money section the author lists the symbol for pound as "L" but then uses the actual pound sterling symbol (£) in the charts.

Lastly I wish I could get this in table form, so I could fix this all myself :]
I think such prophecies are greatly exaggerated, since it's rare that a developed country "gets taken over" by another country. The only cases that come to mind would Germany and Japan after WW2 and even these bounced back and took back control. And that was after WW2, so after huge disruptions.

But, getting back on track, things are different. China is 10x the size of Japan. If China's GDP per capita gets at least close to that of Japan's, they will both double the world's economy and also become 50% of it, like the US was a few decades ago. They will dwarf everyone, including the US. So there will definitely be a huge Chinese influence, world wide.
I don't think it's totally random, but I don't think that rich people have some unknown knowledge or quality that allowed them to become rich. Plenty of rich people are rich because of circumstance, others, because they were in the right place at the right time with the right knowledge.
He picked the highest price - if you look at the list, you'll see that a high grade war horse in a different source is listed as only £10. The note explains "Horse prices varied dramatically; for instance, they doubled
between 1210 and 1310." So it sounds like an £80 war horse is either an exceptionally fine example - like comparing a Mercedes S-class to a Chevy Cruze - or the price was recorded during a period of 'horse inflation.'
Creating a Loading Placeholder Like Facebook with Sass
Who is the author? Why would they attack these women? Why would they spend so much time and effort on it?

It is just Internet bullying - to try to tear apart these people for sport, and even more viciously the objects of attack are people who have more than enough trauma from a horrible experience. Imagine surviving something like that, only to find discussions on the Internet by people who just seem to enjoy hurting you.

[from their about page:]

> I hate stupid people. I see blatant displays of irrationality so often that I don’t even think about it anymore.

[from the article:]

> I don’t know what the fuck happened. But I do know these women are full of shit.

EDIT: I'll add there's plenty of irony in writing the above and calling others 'stupid'. And it's obsessive Internet rants like the article which turn out to be ignorant, deceitful, and a meaningless waste of time and emotion - i.e., 'stupid' - in the end.
There are still a lot of great resources, but they are scattered. Just look at the bitcoin-dev mailing list with Simplicity paper, and the great talks on Lightning Network on the Scaling Bitcoin conference. I just wish the good presenters would have had more time.
Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective, that is something on the order of a soup spoon of salt per soda can volume of water (12fl oz/355mL).

Undiluted seawater suitability seems to vary by food[1][2], my cursory search didn't provide any factual specifics for rice, oatmeal, and vegetables. Some comments indicate you can boil fish in straight seawater.

That's all without considering pollution and natural toxins from algae blooms. The sources I skimmed mentioned commercially sourced culinary "sea water", I would expect some amount of filtering and heat treatment.

[1]https://www.chowhound.com/post/cooking-seawater-785862

[2]https://www.quora.com/Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g...

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/51729/can-i-use-...
A top secret desert assembly plant ramping up to build Northrop's B-21 bomber
> It turns out that the more relatable a banner ad is, the less offended the reader is.

This is of course true, and kinda obvious, but I am not sure this is workable as business model. I mean, here are not a lot of ads that are immediately relevant for me. Maybe once or twice per month there's something that I buy that ad could sway my decision at least potentially (i.e. expose me to some provider I wasn't aware of, or some brand I haven't considered). The rest is basically wasted on me. How much 2 clicks per month (with unknown conversion rate) are worth to advertisers? I have no idea, but I wonder whether it is possible to support a site on that revenue?

I, of course, could be wildly atypical case (for one, I use adblockers and rarely impulse-buy) and maybe typical visitor would be much more engaged with ads.

Or it could be that ad buyer industry (not ones that make the ads, but ones that order them - Fords and Chevys of the world) do not have proper tools to see how effective their ads are and just throw a chunk of budget to the wind, get some traffic from it and feel good about it.
Promises require creating and modifying objects that contain the promise state which plain callbacks do not.

The difference in micro-benchmarks can be huge: https://jsperf.com/native-promise-vs-callback

That example is a probably a worst case scenario because of how it is constructed, but on my MBP it still gets around 1M promises created and resolved per second.

For a typical web app or api you will not see any benefit in using callbacks over async/await in your application code unless you are consistently doing something that requires 1000's of promises per request.
Right - the pageload time only matters for certain sectors. We sell sports science equipment and our competitors have 10s load times; I'm sure they have no issue selling their stuff. If they got their load times down to ~1s I bet they'd sell more... but not that much more. We are in the 1.5s-2.0s load time and I'm happy with that; given we use Woocommerce to drive our traffic I highly, highly doubt I can get it much lower given our current site design which does very well engagement-wise. That's fine for us; our conversion metrics and related analytics show that we're doing very well for our industry.

For niche equipment you're either gonna buy it or you aren't. If it isn't Amazon, Google, Wal-Mart, or places where you are preying on impulse buys (Woot, LowEndBox/VPS, etc), then the page load times matter a hell of a lot less than something like user design.
Your post seems to be a "I have lived this" version of the quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself.

Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Where do you think they will cut costs when their clickbait income disappoints sometime in the future? Also, I think that given enough financial interest, media businesses like that can be pressured into not publishing/investigating something. They won't take on big financial interests, because in the end, readers are their product, not their reporting.

So I sure hope that will not be the future of journalism.
I'm with you on 1) because I've worked with these kind of people before; smart people who disregard existing solutions
AND disregard team choices for technology stacks. Their code is impossible to integrate, difficult to test, difficult to review, and impossible to support. But by god they think it's the better way.
This seems to be true in Chinese as well. I know perhaps 10 measure words, but folks seem to be ok with it when I default to 个.

(Chinese is also much simpler when it comes to measure words)
I researched a little bit into to this question - this might be interesting: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43773235/1073695
the real link:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/10/16630178/study-spi...
I made something like this a while back. https://github.com/johnhenry/asynchronous-delay. It's a useful pattern.
Obviously not, your RNG has a bias toward prime numbers.
UK "journalism" is simply stunningly bad now. When I think back 20 years ago the gap now is huge. I don't agree with the politics of The Telegraph but leaving that aside its slide is so sad. They now run stories about characters in TV programs as though they are actually real. All UK papers are now so bad I'd advise not reading any, including the FT which is simply terrible. They cannot die soon enough, the damage presently done by pandering to big bank advertisers is huge.

I think if you re-incarnated and showed the editor of the Telegraph from 1950 the web-site, just the difference between the background colour of "sponsored" stories versus actual stories, he'd blow his brains out. Never mind the actual content.

Do German papers do this, mix paid and actual content and attempt to show the paid as similar to real? Although this is nowhere near as bad as The Telegraph following the instructions of disgruntled banker advertisers:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...
Complete bunk is brandishing one's own anectodal evidence to try to invalidate scientific consensus based on a few decades of countless studies.
But it's not patriotic to give NSA tools to the Russians, to hurt the ability of the NSA to spy on Russia.
I'm with you on take homes. A large Seattle tech company had me sit in a hotel and do a take home after a full day of interviews and then after no reply for a week claimed they never got it. I re-forwarded them the original email.

Now that I'm older I refuse. Why? Because I work full-time, I have a family that I either care for, cook for, or put to bed. And when I'm not doing either of the above, I try to work-out for personal health and sanity reasons.

The take-home test only works in the "app does everything for you and you have no family" that defines living in SF.
A lot of this depends on context, and obviously we're not getting any of that in a quick anecdote (not OP's fault, just the nature of things).

In a larger company, where you're always hiring and there's specific time allotted for it, that approach makes some sense. But in a smaller company where I might have one or two positions to fill and the interview process is a serious hit on productivity, presumably the net step is to set up interviews and the first interviews are going to go to the people who didn't completely misread the exercise and submit Enterprise FizzBuzz.
Whatever the truth of the matter, that was a fun read nonetheless.
Please note: We cannot do H1B at this time.
It'll be more absolute dollar value of growth, but wouldn't be higher in percentage, and taxes are going to come out as some percentage of any money that was put in pre-tax at the time you withdraw.

If you didn't work the entire year or your income was otherwise variable (bonuses or whatever other reason) then it makes more sense than usual to do roth contributions, or rollovers/recharacterization from traditional to roth, in lower-income years. Assuming you can afford to, and want to maximize what you put into tax-advantaged accounts.

The annual contribution limits are also on dollar amount that goes into the account, so if you're maxing out then you can get more out of a roth ira/401k overall. Not all companies offer the choice of roth on their 401k plans, which is a little annoying.
Won’t that be true for any number though? Might as well cut out steps and say accept all numbers as random.
Balloon Boy No Hoax!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbV_Sis99o
I have zero experience but I was skeptical from the second I first read it too. I do have a good friend who sails, and we've been chatting about it. Seems most of the sailing forums are in agreement that something here Is Not Right(tm).
What you observed is exact how we set the goal and play the game. As a Chinese, I think your observation is very insightful to point to the model/structure of these kind of advance measured by normal ways. But most people follow the normal fact checking measurement. That's one of the powerful way to manipulate people's perspectives by improving on some facts. In the end of the day, we all react to some signals.
Is it possible to fine the plane that did it from public flight plans/records?
For most, work with tyrants is life.
Outbreak: Our Next Global Pandemic
Not a degree, no, but you should have depth in the math techniques you are using to solve your problem. You should also develop a high level abstracted understanding of math to have the intuition that your techniques are likely the right ones.

This approach will help make incremental improvements. You might even get lucky and hit in something that cites really well.
Because you're randomizing at the 2-day level, on average there will be just as many advertising/high-traffic days as advertising/low-traffic days, and as many no-advertising/high-traffic days as no-advertising/low-traffic days. The randomization is unaffected by traffic and uncorrelated with it. The unit of analysis is each day, not each visitor. This is why it has to be run for several months, otherwise you don't wind up with a decent n=50 pairs.

That's the tradeoff here: it lets you look at the totals, but it takes a lot longer than if you randomize per visitor in which case you could finish the test in a few days, often.
It just makes more sense. Similar to how a<=b is equivalent to (a<b)&&(a==b).

Coming up with an entirely fresh meaning for <=> involving spaceships and a conglomerated comparative threesome just seems illogical to me, given the original meanings of the component symbols of <=>.
> And he is attacking these two as if they are some master criminals at work.

It sounds to me as if he's saying they are simply liars. And for what reason, no one can yet figure out. Not quite "masters" of anything.
Well don’t they flatten out over time? That’s my understanding of randomness any way...
The article is excellent, and the way it suggests to communicate is great. I'm certainly taking notes. As a team lead myself, I've screwed up on this more than my share of times. Within a team, these advises are gold.

At a higher level though, I can't help but feel our industry is taking so long to mature because everyone has to keep making the same mistakes over and over and we don't learn from history.

Conversations often go like:

Engineer A: "I'm going to do XYZ".

Engineer B: "Hmm, we've tried XYZ, it exploded in our face"

Engineer A: "I've had experience with XYZ on my side project/little startup, it works fine!"

Engineer B: "Yeah, it works at first but eventually
problems arise and it will blow up"

Engineer A: "Whatever, I'm doing it anyway"

<6 months later>

Engineer A: "See, it worked fine!"

Engineer B points at the beggining of some problems

Engineer A: "That's normal!"

<6 months later>

Engineer B: "Welp, as expected, it all went to hell. Where's Engineer A?"

Engineer C: "Oh, Engineer A got bored and quit/joined another company. Looks like you're inheriting it, Engineer A!"

Repeat...hundreds of times...for everything.
I don't think QEMU in instruction set emulation mode emulates the MMU. Does it? The host system has a perfectly fine MMU. QEMU translates assembly code to assembly code. That is all it does, as far as I know.
I did a search for "mickey mouse" and found a bunch. Two of them, Super Mickey TV and Kids Toon TV, have been up since 2009 and gotten over 350M views combined.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CaluMMaCL1/about

https://www.youtube.com/user/lovepersonified19/about
Choice Hotels just tried to install a Bitcoin miner on my laptop
Is your response prompted by something in this piece?
Or because they were born with it. Or at least born with advantages such as safe neighborhoods, good schools and social capital.
Which are and which work with a static Hakyll site?
[pdf] Distributed Ledger Technical Research in Central Bank of Brazil
Just like in the 1990s PowerPC laptop was even mentioned in the movie Hackers not to mention Apple's own devices.
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Totally agree. LabView control structures become unwieldy messes of spaghetti quickly from what I have seen. Visual programming is good for some niches in electrical engineering, for example, RF processing chains. But trying to use it for general purpose programming seems to lead to more complicity, not less.
Why Russia?
Lyft was second, Sidecar was first.
I don't know about SGML, but in XML attributes are subject to (mandatory) Attribute-Value Normalization whereas white space normalization for elements can be disabled if you have control over the parser.

Both (elements and attributes) are unsuitable to store arbitrary data in a straight forward manner. If you absolutely must, you should know about normalization, XML-whitespace handling and CDATA.
If you follow that assertion, a great number of mathematical concepts become meaningless, e.g. probability distribution.

That assertion is even at odds with the second and third sentences of the article you linked.

> A random sequence of events, symbols or steps has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are by definition unpredictable, but in many cases the frequency of different outcomes over a large number of events (or "trials") is predictable. For example, when throwing two dice, the outcome of any particular roll is unpredictable, but a sum of 7 will occur twice as often as 4. In this view, randomness is a measure of uncertainty of an outcome, rather than haphazardness, and applies to concepts of chance, probability, and information entropy.