skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's so infuriating how conservatives, who used to be a group that understood economics, now willfully ignore sound economic theory when it doesn't fit their talking points.

No, their ignorance is based on whoever lines their pockets. This is, of course, something that plagues politicians of all colors (and countries), but corruption or its legal forms are particularly prevalent at self-labeled "conservatives" (not only USA, but also e.g. Germany, where the equivalents of the US Republicans (CDU) and Tea Party (CSU) got the by far biggest chunk: http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/bundestagswah...). And of course, when viewed through that lens, some political decisions come across very clearly, for example:

- drilling vs nature: as long as Greenpeace does not have billions of dollars to lobby or a president favored to the environment, drilling will win. No matter how big the externalities are, because the politician never has to foot the bill and when he does, e.g. because the beach villa gets flooded due to sea level rise, the politician packs up stuff and moves somewhere else while the poor people have to look how they survive

- marijuana vs alcohol/legalization: marijuana has four different and both powerful lobby groups against it: first pharma, which was scared for a long time about the medical effects (but now, at least to some degree, appreciates marijuana), second the religious evangelical nutjobs who'll definitely always find an excuse why one should not smoke a plant that God had created, third the alcohol lobby (which has hit particularly bad press in the last year due to a rise of alcoholism and people recognizing alcohol related violence as a problem, but still it's not at the same level of bad press that tobacco gets) and fourth the racists (which targeted marijuana in order to discriminate against PoC). It took massive amounts of direct democracy to cut the crap in that area, and the work isn't finished (and if Sessions has his way, it is very well possible that the progress may be entirely reverted in a matter of days!)

- tax codes: these are sometimes literally written in a way that requires people to buy professional tax software and/or hire accountants, but not to serve the citizens' needs, and of course the big players have had their part in the creation of the "loopholes" allowing most modern tax evasion schemes

- healthcare: the US system is one of the most expensive in the world, yet inarguably the most rotten-to-the-core of civilized societies - it's no difficult to try to guess where all that money went. That anything resembling "socialism" is a red herring for the "conservatives" and social darwinists is only furthering the line towards inevitable collapse.
This is how I learned to read function pointer declarations: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ricko/CSE131/rt_lt.rule.html
That argument can always be extended and said that few people will always do bad things that hurt society irrespective of whatever.

The only problem with your reasoning is that you see all the bad things as something that have same profit-risk ratio. Human trafficking is not just a variation of drug trafficking but is a completely business. As different from Netflix and Facebook though for an outsider both of them look like internet companies.

Legalizing things that people want and does not create victims eliminates less risky options for the cartels.
When I read this article I was surprised and looked for some data, and while the fact that California is the leader in this poverty metric is true, the claims of why I'm not entirely sold on.

1) The state with the 2nd highest adjusted poverty rate, Florida, has had republican governors since 1999, republicans in both chambers of the legislature and is not a "welfare state".

2) California "welfare" spending per-capita has been dropping for the past 5 years, not rising at some out of control rate [1]

3) The adjustment in poverty rate causing CA to shoot to the top is almost certainly due to high housing costs, which is serious problem but not tied to the welfare state [2]

So while I think it is a useful wake up call that California isn't a perfect place where everybody is doing well, blaming the welfare state is probably not very accurate, and more sane housing policies would probably do far more to help the poverty rates than curtailing support programs. And another thing to note, the rate has been dropping. In 2013 it was 23.4, and now it is 20.4, which I'm sure is mostly due to the economy being much stronger, but at the same time shows this isn't a problem spiraling out of control.

1: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_2006_202...

2: http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/...
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> I totally get your point, but is that real example?

Yes, it actually happened. Overland Park, Kansas around July 2013 if I remember correctly. Also no fever. More like rabies and tetanus shots from what I heard.

What if we could force all hospitals to disclose all financial transactions publicly? Would that help?
How does Spanner stay competitive with other NewSQL databases? Doesn't the pricing and the API lock-in mean that people will just consider open-source NewSQL databases first?

(Not a shill for any company, honestly just curious.)
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There's videos of the long line of tents in orange county making the rounds on social media today. With 1/3rd of the welfare recipients live in California, seems to be a pretty big issue thats not being addressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkli-WtQ8E
The only routes with enough people to fill an A380 are from one hub to another.

If you flew Buffalo to Chicago to Denver to Colorado Springs, the Chicago to Denver leg could be on an A380 combined with people on tons of other itineraries that use the same hub-to-hub connection.

But airlines are moving toward more small flights that just get you from one place to another without routing through the same central points. Maybe you'd fly direct, or maybe you'd fly to Chicago and then straight to Colorado Springs without going through Denver. Without the hub/spoke model there's no individual flight with so many people on it.
> OTOH, "int (* x)(char * )[]" is something you can call with a string and then index into to get an int.

...would be something you can call if it was a correct declaration. I don't
think it's valid, and certainly GCC in gnu99 mode rejects it (function
returning an array).

The rule I heard is that you start reading the declaration from the variable
name and go right to boundary (parenthesis, comma, or semicolon), then bounce
left and bounce right until all tokens were seen. Then this reads as:

int (*x[])(char *)

"x is an array <bounce-left> of pointers <bounce-right> to a function that
expects (char pointer) <bounce-right> and returns int".
To be fair, it takes us humans a solid couple of years of continuous training to make sense of our sensory inputs and get accustomed to our limbs enough to begin doing anything significant with them, so I am regularly flabbergasted at the expectations we place in our lowly contraptions to outdo us by two to three orders of magnitude.
> Orthopods might be able to replace knees on a fixed budget, but I'm thinking neurosurgeons and trauma surgeons would have a heckuva time.

Why would they? That's basically how existing insurance companies work, dude -- they typically pay doctors a specific amount for a specific procedure.

> This whole thread is full of young, SV libertarians who haven't really thought out what healthcare involves.

In my youth, I worked in a drug store. Part of my job was to hassle insurance companies for payment, any time I wasn't busy doing something else. Not only have I "thought it out", I know exactly how it works from personal experience. It works the same way for surgery and other medical procedures, too. The insurance company has a specific amount they'll pay (assuming you can convince them to pay you at all).
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Most homes would probably benefit more by having better insulation... If you are only talking about dollars...
DrQA can use Spacy as a tokenizer and scores about a 2 points less on SQuAD. https://github.com/facebookresearch/DrQA#tokenizers
This is a major reason why I wanted to hear other people's stories: because it can be so hard to discern what a healthy work environment looks like during the interview process. In your example mentioning 40h+ work weeks is pretty clear though, heh. Thank you for your input and the links, will check out your work.
Google Memory Loss
Some of the countries I listed do have strict rules and also invented core tech behind computers.

Core tech behind computers is more than just a network protocol that got lucky.

In case you missed it, Robert Metcalfe is an electrical engineer.
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Looks like you can use picocom to get this functionality from a Linux client, although your probably asking for this from the server.
https://linux.die.net/man/8/picocom
Well done.

If only we shut the borders like those great red states want to do, we'd have a lot fewer poor people and our stats would be higher!
Maybe I was thinking of the rules for deletion.
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ fwiw.
We absolutely agree on this.

The legality, politics, and forcefulness of this aren't binary objects. The War on Drugs more or less enables the cartels.

The War on Drugs resulting in an avenue for the founding and persistence of the cartels does not absolve the cartels of their brutality, however. That was my initial point, so apologies if it didn't communicate well.
I would argue China has moved away from Communism since Deng Xiaoping. Deng recongized in order for China to become a global superpower, China must embrace globalization and do trading with other countries. While the state still owns most of the wealth, the core Communism is more of a political basis and perhaps even just a symbol. The Chinese Communist Party now promote ehat’s known as “Chinese-style socialistic capitalism” (中國特色社會資本主義), which in its simplest interpretation means state-controlled capitalism. Chinese welcomes foreign investors, encourage Chinese private business to grow while the country remains single-party.

“In some emerging markets, the rich are allowed to stash their wealth offshore, which starves their country of investment funds. China kept its capital account firmly shut, trapping savings in the country. Its Party-controlled banks then directed these funds to state firms that built everything from highways to bullet trains, transforming a backward nation into a modern one.” [1]

Despite wealth is still controlled by the government and top executives (Alibaba, Tencent for example), Chinese’s middle class and grass-root can still enjoy a relatively good life. The challenges the government now face are (1) undeveloped frontier, (2) boiling housing market, and (3) stablize growth. The government is fear of a slowdown and a market bubble).

It’s amazing how the Chinese government is effective in growing the country. I don’t like its dictorial regime, but when our American state, local and federal governments are so indecisive and constantly arguing over a budget to fix our fragile physical infrastructure like bridges and electricity, and how much relief aids we should provide to Puerto Rico, I ought to ask if there’s anything we can learn from Chinese...

For those living outside of the US, Congress hasn’t been able to approve our annual spending/budget bill... the next deadline is Jan 19, and if we do not pass this budget bill, we will face a “shutdown”. We have to deal woth this threat almost every year in the last several years...

[1]: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1843949/...
Ouch. I recently turned down an offer that was interviewed as salary then changed to "3 month ish contract" (verbatim) with no guarantee of full time placement. In your case that is terrible they waited until the first day. I guess not all bad offers can be screened just during interviews and negotiation.
Related to the overall topic but not Spanner specifically: it's interesting to compare the consistency models of S3, GCS and similar offerings:

* S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction...

* GCS: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/consistency

* Azure: exercise left to the reader

The best usages of S3 I've seen are designed to only use the one major form of strong-consistency that S3 guarantees: if you write a key that has never been written to or read from, and then do a read, it will always work. Sticking to this guarantee will avoid nasty difficult/impossible-to-diagnose bugs. To take advantage of this you do things like:

A. Use unpredictable keys (e.g. prefix with a GUID) to guarantee that you don't get EC behaviour, communicate those keys to other services/users after the upload has succeeded
B. Store immutable/content-addressable data. Use new keys for new versions of the data (don't ever over-write a key.) If necessary, use an external (strongly-consistent) index to map identifiers to S3 keys.
C. Avoid "upload if not exists" in favour of just uploading (e.g. in the case of a possible failure just reupload, don't check if the key exists on S3. Uploads are atomic.)

GCS offers a far greater amount of strong-consistency and this allows makes it much more flexible.

The key to scalability/performance/simplicity of services like S3 is lack of transactions between keys, not eventual consistency. It's informative to start from Paxos and figure out how you'd build an S3 and why it might exhibit EC behaviour like S3 (hint: a caching front-end) and question what value that really brings vs. the extreme decrease in usability (consider that a caching front-end doesn't give you scale-out in the way that lack of cross-key transactions does.)
At NIPS 2017 there was a system which beat humans in a college QuizBowl competition. In many ways I think that was more impressive than excellent performance on SQuAD.
I'm not saying there's never a use case for a proxy to do health checks, TLS termination, load balancing, sticky sessions, etc.... but I don't see how that can compete with using ECMP with hash-based flows and TLS termination at the service endpoints.
What is the AWS equivalent to Cloud Spanner?
Whoa that's shocking, why is this?
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In your read loop, when you get data, if it isn't a CR or a NL, change the rate and wait again. You probably don't need to cycle through them all, just the most common options like 9600, 19.2K, 115K... Depending on what you read and what speed you are at, you may be able to make more intelligent choices (a CR sent at 19.2K when you are on 9600 might look like this or that).
What part of the paper do you take issue with?

Can you point to a specific design feature in the linked paper (or in any of the talks on the Mill CPU) that might be vulnerable?
If no one else sees it, I'm not sure if you're learning.

Maybe it doesn't have to ship, but at least SOMEONE has to see it (colleagues, friends, whatever)
Dropped it in the toilet?
This is a well researched and well articulated piece that largely gets it right regarding the importance of recording intracortical signals for neural interfaces. These address the significant limitations introduced by non-invasive methods like EEG.
They might not have known - a good question to ask might be "why did that user think it was ok to recommend a non-urgent action in response to a fire alarm? Why did that user think it's ok to wait for evidence of a fire outside of an alarm?" Somewhere, society is failing to instill a proper respect for emergency indicators.
Half of these trucks aren't ever used for towing, so those buyers might not care about towing range.
> Not disagreeing with your larger point, but the fact of the matter is that it's a lot harder to sell people meth, coke, heroin, etc. than it is to sell people pot.

I agree with what you're saying here, with the current conditions they will take a hit. Conditions can change, however, so we can't count them as neutered yet simply because legal pot undermines a part of their portfolio.
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> They do the iDeal, Sofort, Creditcards, Bitcoin And so on, for some of the largest ecommerce platforms in the netherlands, as well as the majority of the small ecommerce shops. They are a PSP, which is very much a middleman, which is why you may not have heard of them.

Their entry on Wikipedia got deleted. That's how relevant they are. They're a BV with <= 50 people. MKB.

iDEAL/Currence is a PSP as well.

How important has Bitcoin been for Mollie? Do you have any data on the absolute or relative amount of Bitcoin transactions?

> Note that not evey merchant using mollie will have Bitcoin enabled, I'm not sure if e.g. ah.nl has the bitcoin option enabled, but I haven't checked them either.

??? Hello? Have you ever ordered on ah.nl??? I order there practically every week. You pay either in store if you pick it up, or you gotta pay by PIN if they deliver. You CANNOT pay online. Do you get that? They got barely time to deliver the groceries in your house. Do you think they'd be cool to wait till the Bitcoin transaction was finalised? Who are you kidding?!?!?!

> You come across as someone who has some axe to grind with Bitcoin.

Of course I do, its akin to MLM. I already burned my hands on that. Why would I want other people to get burned by scammers?

> or because you decide that the volume processed there is too low

You never refuted the volume being important premise. You had the opportunity to do this in your previous 2 posts but you neglected that by coming up with more niche examples which simply don't prove the existence of a Bitcoin techhub as you put forth in your earlier post. I know there are niche examples, and I know you're well aware of them. Here, have a cookie. What I'm interested in is figuring out how important Bitcoin is for the Amsterdam Area. From what I can tell by the data I have we have:

* Adoption (market penetration). Terrible. Only a few niche cases.

* Volume. Terrible. One data point from Thuisbezorgd, one data point from yourself.

And this isn't rocket science its reflected by the lack of large online stores accepting Bitcoin. Its reflected by the high transaction fees, and slow transaction speed. You say that's a sign of Bitcoin being used for legit transactions in the physical world. Where's the proof for that? Nothing we observe points to that. Might as well be bots to ensure people cannot and do not cash out their Bitcoins. All you've proven is that there are quite some niches which reluctantly accept Bitcoin, and very few data on volume. The rest is all red herring & ad hominem.
Preventing yet Another AWS S3 Storage Breach
Ah yes, the surprise legacy skeletons in the closet. I am curious -- would you have accepted if the salary was higher than necessary, or if the social environment/work life balance (or any other benefits for that matter) were subjectively better than from other potential employers?
Spanner is Google's private in-house database so it's not competing with NewSQL vendors.

Edit: Late to the news that Google is selling its spanner warez.

Well it's been in the game longer than anyone else and is battle tested by Google.
The fear of Inflation. But USD is not pegged to anything.
Silicon Valley elites are obsessed with dangerous unfiltered water
The reason for casts between data and function pointers is not about separate data and code spaces (that much), but about:

1) supporting architectures where code and data pointers have different size. One might think of various Hardvard architecture microcontrollers, but most C memory models for real mode x86 have this feature.

2) environments where code pointers essentially convey capability and thus have to be created by the OS in order to be usable (this typically involves indirect call instructions reading from some part of memory that is not otherwise accessible to user space at all)
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Most of the municipalities listed in this table are located in the Southeast Appalachia area. Does anyone know why community owned fiber is biased towards this part of America?

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/muni-...
> in stock/futures trading world, this is 100% normal business as usual

This is securities fraud. Some variant or combination of wash trading, pump and dump, order spoofing and wire fraud. It is not normal.
Granted, Lua doesn't consider 0 false either, but at least Lua isn't a dumpster fire.

Let's just leave it at C languages + Python, which account for a large percentage of developer mind-share, so to say that it's unintuitive that 0 is falsey is either disingenuous or slightly ignorant.
Copenhagen - Hyper - 299 DKK; Gigabit - 349 DKK ($50-57).

That should be a fair comparison with London and Zurich.

I think there's some reason why it's so cheap, I remember someone explaining, but I don't know what the reason was.

https://www.hiper.dk/ - https://gigabit.dk/
> so it's not competing with NewSQL vendors.

But it... literally is? https://cloud.google.com/spanner/
History will judge them harshly indeed.
The US war on drugs and the US insatiable demand for said drugs has destabilized the entire region. Not something the US media likes to talk about though...

The only way to quash the cartels is lowering demand. But yeah that's too hard.
I don't know how popular that would be with Mexican voters, even if it drastically reduced the money flowing to cartels.

Probably more important than domestic sentiment is the inevitable retaliation that would follow from the United States government if Mexico just legalized all drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if the US government cut off trade with Mexico and started running overt and covert operations to ensure Mexican prohibitionist politicians take power again. In the worst case the US government might even deploy armed forces across the border, to ensure that American law is enforced in Mexico, like it did with Panama in 1989.
Spanner is not private.
I haven't read Fagles' translation or any others. I wouldn't have picked up the Odyssey if it weren't for reviews from others [0] and reading articles [1][2]. I really enjoy her translation, and I wish I could compare hers with others. As someone who knows very little about Greek mythology, I found her 70-page introduction in the Odyssey to be a great primer on what to expect in the epic. After her introduction, she has a shorter translator's note discussing some decisions she made in her translation. If I remember correctly, she does throw a little shade at other translators in the introduction or translator's note.

[0]: Comments from other HN readers, some who have read Fagles' translation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624881

[1]: A note from Wilson in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-translators-re...

[2]: NYT article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-wom...
Unless you were expecting 40, that looks like a good deal. Most places wouldn't pay you 150% of normal for overtime. They'd pay you 0% of normal and expect you to like it as a "team player".
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Just another "refugee youth" that's gaming the system. He deserves the death penalty.

At least that is what he would get in the USA/Texas. It doesn't matter what age he is, a crime is still a crime. Europe with it's leniency is insane in cases like this, where there is no doubt about the rape/murder.

Btw this is why many people in the United States support the GOP/Trump as corrupt as they are. Yes I know that we are all more likely to die of heart disease/cancer than being murdered, but letting these "refugees" into their county is just insane.