skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This metric is interesting in itself. When taken alongside the resources consumed by Japan and Mexico, or the population of Japan and Mexico, one can determine which country is using it's resources more efficiently and which population is more efficient at producing things of value.

Except you can't, reliably. If I mow my lawn and cook my dinner, and my neighbor does the same, it has no contribution to GDP. If I mow my neighbors lawn for $5 and mow mine as well, and my neighbor cooks my dinner for $5 and cooks his own as well, well, look, $10 of GDP.

GDP measured value of traded output, not total output, and so doesn't measure how effectively resources are used. You can make assumptions about the relations between the two values being constant, but that's probably not true across societies with different cultural patterns, or even in the same country over time given cultural change.

GDP is, for many purposes, apparently the best measure we have. But we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking it tells us more than it does.
>There are organizations and charities out there to provide that.

It’s absurd to use the compassion of others to justify the lack of your own.

EDIT:
The one soup kitchen in my neighborhood (with massive homeless problems) just closed because the building was bought by a hotel developer

These places don’t just exist. They sometimes exist, but not reliably, and they depend on people’s willfulness to act and defend them. The problem is further complicated when compounding child custody concerns and substance abuse. I am not taking sides here, but pointing out how important it is that we not take these efforts for ganted. Once we do, they vanish. I think the above comment exemplifies what it looks like to take them for granted.
Same here! I honestly would have loved this a couple years ago, but this is the first I am hearing! I have been using Transmit on Mac for well over ten years.
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"if" statements? I only do macho programming.
I 'discovered' a fractal pattern
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It'll work both ways, though. With ubiquitous driverless cars, offices may see less value in being in expensive urban centers and spread out.

Taken to its logical extreme: If people could teleport from one place to another instantly, there'd be almost no value at all to congested urban spaces. Similarly, if anyone can hail an affordable driverless Uber in seconds and reach their destination faster (due to improved routing / traffic flow and smaller cars) without having to think about parking, a bus schedule, or similar, the value in being physically close to other places decreases.

In that scenario, having your office out in the suburbs at a much lower cost becomes more reasonable. Transportation becoming more frictionless inherently makes longer distances more conceivable for travel (including commutes and office placement).
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Still seeing the same original title btw.
> We're going back to pen and paper. The extra safety makes the hassle worth it.

I've read that, several years ago, parts of the Russian security establishment switched to mechanical typewriters.
(My interpretation:) It's supposed to be about Dave transcending humankind to move to the next stage of evolution, and so all the weird stuff that happens is, yes, supposed to be confusing and nonsensical, because we can't understand it because we're humans. Just like the first monolith taught the apes how to kill to move further along their evolutionary path, this monolith taught Dave Bowman how to ?!?!? we have no idea because it doesn't make sense to us.
Unrelated to the GP, but I really like the design of the landing page — did you put it together yourself?
A centralized, auto synced, cross-browser whitelist would be nice. Of course everyone's individual lists would be different.
Disabling high precision timers isn't a long term solution. There's probably only a matter of time until someone finds a new way to make a high enough precision timer, and even if that wasn't the case, features like SharedArrayBuffer are just too useful to completely disable forever - and there's no easy way to make it impossible to create a high precision timer with a SharedArrayBuffer (just have a web worker which just increments a number in a shared buffer in a loop).

Would throttling syscalls really prevent using these syscalls? Surely it would just make the exploits lower to perform? Is there something I've not understood, or is the idea just to throttle syscalls enough to make it infeasably slow? If it's the latter, remember that users might potentially be on a website for half an hour at a time (if they're reading a long article or watching a video), so an attacker (whose code is running on the site, potentially through a compromised ad/tracking platform, or just XSS) would have a lot of time to extract whatever memory they want.
I'm astonished at how fast websites are without JavaScript. I just turned it on today to make an order on EBay and I was immediately annoyed by how slow and sluggish it was. Why aren't there programs to buy stuff on the internet?

There are some other minor pain points though. Why can't I collapse comments here on HN without JavaScript?

There are more examples of minor issues that seem to be completely solveable by a statically defined markup language. Mozilla, where are you when we need you?

Allowing JavaScript only on certain sites is not a good solution. First, it leads to unfair conditions and thus centralization. Second, the appification of the web including it's consequence of ever increasing dependency on certain software that is outside of the control of the users continues.
Arm reference designs and Apple too apparently.
...and don't forget deal sourcing, tax prep - real estate investing is very labor intensive, vs stock market equities which is point/click and super easy.

For institutional investors, this is easily amortized but individual retail investors should invest in REITs to avoid over-concentration in a single property.
He stopped at the 160-character limit to make a point.
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Early versions of the Mersenne Twister were apparently susceptible to bad seeding with many zeros that it took a while to "random" itself out of.
FWIW, the vast majority of all the MMT stuff I've seen ends with stating that because the facts are what they are, the questions about what to do are all policy questions. It then does not go on to prescribe what policies to pursue, aside from the fact that the authors of the MMT stuff may themselves have political views expressed elsewhere.

I think MMT is best considered to not have any prescriptive component. I see the idea of one more often from critics of MMT looking for something to attack than from MMT itself.

That said, I'm just one reader with a limited scope of experience… but my view is that there ought not be prescriptions within MMT, and I'm happy I don't generally see any.
Google provides free shuttle service to the city[1]. If they didn't, does that justify hijacking their campus shuttles?

[1] https://mvcommunityshuttle.com
Berlin is the worst example, though – if you’d remove Berlin from Germany, the GDP per capita would actually increase.
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There's been a decent amount of change on the backend, too. I hesitate to call it churn because not all of it deserves to be characterized this way. I started working with backend technologies in the late 90s, and there was a lot of talk about building data warehouses, mainly with distributed SQL databases, often in Oracle or another high cost private solution. Because my work involved industrial engineering, we also did a lot of analytics and prediction - collaborative filtering was one interesting approach to recommendation systems back then.

Since then, the "noSQL" movement occurred, and while I'm delighted to see a resurgence of interest in SQL, mongo, Cassandra, various graph databases, and other non-sql data stores do have valuable uses (I think some people just went too far against SQL and the relational model, which also remains exceptionally valuable). I didn't name all of them, but while there was value in there, some of it was churn and adopting technologies for the hell of it. But even when it wasn't churn and was legit, that's still a lot to learn.

Also, spark, hive, Hadoop, and a lot of storage and infrastructure has moved to a cloud environment (AWS is the biggie, plenty of others). Again, not necessarily bad tech, but a lot to learn.

Also, in my own particular field (this may not apply to all backend developers), machine learning did become a big factor in work, especially prediction systems. I did a lot of math in undergrad and grad school, but there was still plenty to learn there, including dusting off the old math books and re-learning how gradient descent works for neural nets, logistic regression, and then other approaches like bayesian methods, random forests, and so forth.

Also, in this time, the middle tier technology you needed to know also changed - to a large extent for the better, but C++ gave way to Java, which grew in to a mountain of a mess with EJB and other crap, then ruby and python, rails and Django (for the record, I loved ruby and rails but don't work in it much anymore). If you want to do distributed computing, you can use python, but you really might want to consider learning Scala.

Now, obviously you don't have to learn all this, you can specialize, and I wouldn't call it all churn (then again, I wouldn't call all the javascript framework stuff churn, either). But to work on the backend, you probably did have to keep up with a lot of that.

And like I said, I couldn't tell you what it's like to keep up with other fields... but yeah, I'm pretty comfortable saying that keeping up is pretty hard on the backend as well, and that learning these tools is no easy thing.
The employee or contractor has the "Urheberrecht"(german law that states the rights of a content creator) for any code he wrote during his work.
Additionally the employer automatically gains the "Nutzungsrecht" (rights to use, distribute and duplicate the work).

While the employee still has the creator rights he cannot exercise them since the content contains trade secrets.
Glad to hear this hasn't stalled.
We're talking about microcode here - this isn't a question of hardware.

If AMD can fix something like this, Stallman would say the end user should be able to as well. He has a point, and the number of useless IoT devices we're already seeing is testament to that fact.
Oh wow, this doesn't show up at all on their mobile website. I can't remember the last time I checked RT on desktop.
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If you are talking about the 2014/2015 MB pro, go to an applestore to get it replaced for free while its in an extended warranty period.
You can start at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

Basically nothing of it was actually built (nuclear propulsion wasn't an well accepted idea - for good reasons that won't matter as soon as we start building in space). There was just some very small scale prototypes.

In comparison, project Daedalus moved much faster.
Everyone knows GDP (and all other existing economic measures) are imperfect, limited tools that don't capture all meaningful variations.

That's not a meaningful criticism of using GDP at all, or of using it as the headline measure of economic performance.

To validly criticize using GDP as the headline measure, you need to show not merely that GDP is flawed, but that there is an alternative measure that can be practically calculated that is on-balance better at capturing the overall picture.

To validly criticize using GDP at all, you need to go further and make the case that there is no purpose for which there is not a better measure available.

“GDP doesn't capture the whole picture” is an easy but meaningless criticism.
"decently typed"?
Your sample points will be denser at the pole than the equator (think about what happens when your first coordinate is near zero vs when it's near pi/2).
... and that's when credit card duopoly starts to bite.
What about, "We are just animals, and everything we do is part of nature. Just like other advanced animals, we have evolved means to shape our behavior beyond mere instict. Let's learn what those means are, so we can shape our own behavior purposefully".

Surely that beats moralizing (which does not work) or harsh punishment (which barely works, and only in the most narrow sense).
No, but then, I like physics so I’d start rattling off fundamentals like the hyperfine transitions of Hydrogen, the speed of light in vacuum, and the mass of the proton.
If you have conditionals in your program, it means that you're trying to do too many things at once. Follow the UNIX philosophy: do one thing, and do it well!
> Modern general purpose CPUs sacrificed some security for performance.

I don't think that's a fair way of stating it. I think it's a case of independent performance improvements in branch prediction, cache architecture and out-of-order instruction retirement that on their own have negligible security impact but when combined in a single system reveal emergent behavior.
You can't compare Japan with Italy or Greece.

Japan issue its own currency, so it's in the same position that USA.

Italy or Greece are in the same position that California or any other state. Actually worse, because the FED work for the USA states, the Central European Bank, for the European states, not so much.
The _interesting_ 20 minutes are much closer to the end. If you are going to skip most of the movie, skip to the "Jupiter Mission" title card and watch until things get pyschedelic.
Appropriately scale extensible quality vectors.
Unemployment is even less useful then GDP. At least GDP is some sort of proxy for how well-off a country is.

You can have 0% unemployment (I hear North Korea is currently there), with mostly poverty-line wages with everyone making a meager third-world living, or you can have 30% unemployment with everyone being relatively better off, with fewer people working more productive jobs, and paying for an overall social safety net/others to go to school/raise children/retire. I'd far rather live in the second society, then the first.
https://zeit.co/now has a way to get the source, by going to /_src on a deployment. It's turned off by default for paid accounts, but can be turned on. It also has a way to get it from the API, along with the URL of the deployment. Glitch comes to mind, too.
Wow, that developer site linked by in the comment I responded to is advertising a WAY different (more specific) product than your normal website (from what I understand at least).

The regular website is advertising something that makes more sense to me but there are still dozens of pages advertising dozens of different features and different prices. I guess that might work for larger corporations that have already solved internally some of these problems and can pay for bureaucratic solutions but I just want a solution to a known problem.

I'm not saying catering to enterprise customers is a bad thing (they have lots of money so you probably should),
But there is a reason VC's ask for a vision. What problem does okta solve because I have spent over 10 minutes trying to read through all of your web pages and I still don't know why I should use you guys.

I'm not a marketing person, but as a customer, i generally want to know what problem a company solves in 5-10 seconds and know how they solve it within a minute. If you cannot convey that simple information, then I think your product is crap and you are just marketing your product with vague/complex/buzzword terms.
Thank you for the explanation, though the edit detracts from an otherwise excellent post.
A for loop also is an implicit branch, by the way. At least it will be compiled to something with a conditional jump.

So being unsure about how many times you want to do a thing is a no-go too.
I hope so for this one. It would suck to have to pay the performance penalty when you don't need to.
So basically unless you're RMS you're fucked
You should do a blog post on this. How exactly you found and filtered suppliers. How the back and forth went with the design and packaging. Etc.

For me in particular, I am working on a product, I have the oem hardware, and custom software, but need a custom case and packaging made. Would love to pick your brain about that.
Yes that’s the point, the prestige is part of the lock-in, but the non-academic work is not relevant, because it’s not part of the reason for the lock-in.

My objection therefore is that merely mentioning such work could suggest to some unfamiliar with the issue that it’s a mitigating factor in Elsevier’s existence.

Who does the grunt work is just a logistical implementation detail.

When you say non-academic I’m not sure how you were envisioning the review process. That part of course is more challenging because you can’t just hire anyone to do it, there could only be a couple qualified people in some cases, they would have to be incented, or at least motivated or effectively compelled in some way to participate. Not trying to overstate the problem, just that it’s a bit bigger challenge than getting the other work done.
Economists think workers are finally going to start seeing bigger paychecks
Personally, I woud be fine with that. I think they could even call it a "signing bonus". From what I understand, some signing bonuses are even contingent upon your staying for at least a specified period of time, or you have to pay it back.
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What fucking about it? Will they release patches for Sierra and older versions or not? This literally doesn't say that. It's simply unacceptable for them to not have released that information publicly. As far as I can tell, they don't plan to release those patches. I tried to upgrade to high Sierra but that doesn't work and kills my machine as I suspected because high Sierra is a fucking piece of shit os that leaves machines unusable, almost bricked. This is the last fucking straw for me. Apple not responding and not saying if they're even going to release a fix makes for a platform that simply cannot be relied on, a platform without a clear upgrade path from Sierra.
"Ms. Veach said the Gbikes are “a reward for having to deal with the buses” carrying Google employees that barrel down her street each morning. “I ride a bicycle…to balance it out,” she said."

that is some insane level of justification right there...
I don't think they should be getting rid of him, particularly - like other posters, I think he does more damage to himself politically via tweet than any of his opponents could.

But I do think this issue highlights the long-standing tension between platforms-as-utilities (which involve public rights-of-way, so to speak) vs as commercial entities that can choose their customers, or not. The fact that a politician can delete their tweets or block people while ostensibly using Twitter in their official capacity is directly at odds with the happy talk.

It's good that Twitter as a commercial entity has brought instant global publication into reality from a technological point of view, but I wish it were a federated protocol instead, that's not subject to the desires of any authority. As long as it's a commercial platform, the need to extract economic rents from it inevitably take priority over ethical questions.
int getRandomNumber()
{
return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}

-- xkcd ( https://www.xkcd.com/221/ )
The other thing here they downplay in the article is that they didn’t switch to MySQL per se; they implemented a columnar storage backend within MySQL.

It’d have been more accurate to say they abandoned traditional relational databases entirely.
U.S. customs agents are searching more cellphones
Or we could just get ME and PSP off of our chips like people have wanted for years. They have been major security and privacy risks ever since their inception.
Electric vehicles are much quieter though.
There is a real issue, yes, but it’s heavily lessened by using sane scheme design, while Uber basically used the worst possible design.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/it-was-...
Is Apple screwing up a lot lately, or is it me..?
The RAD750 PPC (radiation hardened variant) is also used in a ton of satellites. It was state of the art until about a year ago for space.
GCC now supports filesystem