skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many countries plenty of construction material (paint, metal...) and chemicals come from very poor areas: China, Africa & so on.
They're still breaking into the market. Same with non-prime free shipping in Europe, its very good. Once Amazon becomes dominant online and local shops close you'll see Amazon prices rise and quality slip like it is in USA (1-2 weeks to deliver non-prime boxes).
Would you get relief? One government can buy another, too.
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I would add that today, as opposed to past periods of fragmentation, there are more widely adopted universal formats, standards, and protocols. So much so that as long as different systems can support just a few key pieces of software, they'd be largely useful — no matter what runs underneath.
>I'm confident that web design is the way it is mostly as a means to keep the people that work with it employed.

I work with web designers and can corroborate that.

Most of the time, their product is sold, negotiated and approved before anyone has actually used it. An unusable mess can be a "successful" project, while a usable product can be completely kiboshed and not even paid for or used. This pushes the emphasis towards beauty instead of functionality, often to the latter's extreme detriment.

This gets worse when the stakeholder has some pet attribute they believe is important, especially "cleanliness." These "clean" designs mindlessly strip away anything that can physically be stripped away, without regard to its importance. As long as the design still kind of reminds the client of their company, they don't see it as a problem.
They already completed the equivalent thermal power tests last year[0], and you most certainly don't need to do electrical tests at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. How much progress they've actually made at this point is not clear from the article, but slides from a presentation they posted yesterday detail what they plan to test[1]/maybe already tested. They need to test the individual reactor components to measure reactivity, then they need to put the power generator on and see what happens when it's just critical, but not producing any heat, then they bring thermal power up to 4 kilowatts, then they do a full power test.

All of these tests involve fissile materials, so to quote Red Alert, "Gentlemen, it's a nuclear device."

[0]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
[1]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/kilopow...
I'm honestly inclined to agree. It was common on television news for the studio crew to introduce off site reporters as "So and so joins us by satellite".

I doubt "satellite" was paying them to say it
I always have thought the primary determinant of the take-home test is not the code quality-- assuming you don't make any gross errors, but rather they are literally testing your compliance.

I base this on having done a few and been given absolute deadlines. One time I was moving that weekend, but the company wouldn't budge on their deadline.

Another company-- I do two phone screens, and the guy who would be my manager asks if I would be willing to do a take-home test. I ask him, "About how long should it take me?' "I don't know." "How do you grade the tests?" "I don't know." "Whats the subject of the test?" "I don't know." "When do you need it?" "Two days from now." So I say, "So the only thing you know about this test is you need it NOW?"

It didn't go well. Now I just quote them my consulting rate.

Don't code for free.
Well, here's the writer's own words on that subject:

> Using industry contacts and a bunch of web research, I assembled a data set of over 250 games covering the last several decades.

I would make the reasonable assumption that revenue could be guessed at, if not explicitly uncovered, given the detailed data the author appears to have on the number of sales and costs. Many publishers and dev houses are public companies who release public information about their costs and revenues.
About ~70 people are impacted, mostly platform engineers. That means that they are getting rid of ~10% of their engineering, including Gecko module owners and people with very hard to find skills. But they keep failed VPs on the payroll.

Of course they give no explanation, because MoCo leadership is one of the worse you can think of, with their actions in total contradiction with their PR. They are betraying their own employees, and the Mozilla community at large.

After spending a year claiming that they were back with a rebuilt web runtime, they do that...

RIP Gecko
I have never heard anyone who has used Vulkan actually advocate for it. But I have heard a lot of good things from Graphics Developers on Metal.

This isn't to say Vulkan is bad, everyone seems to be saying "In Vulkan, You really needs to know what you are doing".
There are a lot of judgment posts in the comments here. Let me ask a few questions of the HN crowd:

* When were these kids educated about pyramid schemes and other scams? When were they taught the patterns to look for?

* Who is responsible for teaching them? Most of you will say "Parents", but are they equipped to understand and teach?

The old cliche is Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it but who is responsible for teaching that history?

And it's not just this scam. It's all over Cryptotokens right now. It's in our free-to-play games. It's MLM. It's the house-as-an-investment because "housing will never go down". It's thinking you're "Smart Money" so long as you aren't the bagholder. And for the first few entrants, these tactics really do work.

This pattern of economic exploitation is old. Instead lets educate as many people we know about the warning signs. It's especially important to teach kids as they have no prior experience to guide them.

Everybody is stupid until we are properly taught, or burned. Maybe somebody will warn you against a "hot new thing" that's hypnotized your attention.
I have gone back and forth between using a homebrew postgres and postgres.app over the years - a few months back I returned to postgres.app and am really liking it, the best part is you can switch between multiple versions of postgres fairly easily (click a button update a symlink).

Everytime I need to install an older version of postgres with homebrew it is a no go.

- https://postgresapp.com/
Yeah, I've been on that side of it as well and also didn't find anything. Feels like something that could even be formalized into a standard and make things a lot easier and more secure for everyone.

IAM in AWS is mostly for internal permissions, to implement principle of least privilege within your account. For user accounts, look at AWS Cognito. I believe they have SAML and Google based login options, or you can implement your own. It's kind of convoluted to get your head around but it is pretty flexible and powerful (like most things AWS).
The entire point of "optional" programs such as "Global Entry" is to create a privileged status that is subject to the mere whims of bureaucracy rather than bedrock legal protections. Then the pain of the "Free" option can be increased without inconveniencing the privileged decisionmakers (eg congresscritters and corporate executives), creating a de facto punishment for not "opting in" to the purportedly optional rules.
PEP 394 is not set in stone. There have been occasional discussions on amending it, e.g [1]

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/linux-sig/2017-July/000029...
Swapping bytes is a huge pain in the butt! When reading large binary files, it's so convenient and efficient to be able to mmap and make struct pointers right into the file. You can even deliver those files to web browsers and use JS's TypedArray to get random access into them.

(That requires a bit more than simply little-endian. It requires struct alignment and floating point formats to be the same. But with only a tiny bit of care it can be.)

For new code running in-core in 2018, I think little-endian is quite safe.
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You are simply wrong on this. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a new drug, prior to approval and marketing. What percent of a companies budget is spend on marketing versus R&D at a given time is kind of irrelevant because (1) the development costs occur before market and (2) often drugs are in-licensed or acquired after significant expense towards R&D has been expended. They don’t buy all the companies whose products fail (most of them) so that cost isn’t factored in. Making new drugs is very expensive and risky.

Edit: I’m describing the development of novel drugs here. “Me-too” drugs are significantly less risky and probably less costly but there’s still a lot of risk amd expense.
Thanks for the heads up. It used to be a `thread_local!`, but switching to a `static mut` resulted in smaller code size. I just forgot to update the code snippet in the article.

> which IIRC requires unsafe access as it's not thread-safe

Yes, and also has no guarantees against mutably aliasing and re-entry.

Note that wasm currently has no shared memory threading (just message passing via FFI through JS and workers), so thread-safety isn't an issue to be wary of here, just re-entry.
Good to learn! I always thought C-shell was aimed at scripting part (due to the sound of "C"); I guess I missed the boat.
So quick to claim malice and deception, when the likelier story is that cost/revenue per unit sold isn't public.

I would be hesitant before throwing out accusations and claims so irresponsibly. Have you done any analysis of game size vs. quality? Two outliers does not destroy a trend. There are arguments for it - only bigger teams with more resources will make large games. It would not surprise me if larger games tend to have higher playtime/better reviews. Consider the sea of small, trash games out there.
this is a bit optimistic; be aware that press-release-by-science almost always states near-term impact.
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I dunno about that, caring for the elderly is a pretty booming business right now with the Baby Boom generation hitting their stride into the silver years.

Frankly though they should really update it, some of the footage from their call centers shows people working at dual CRT desks with software that looks like it's straight out of War Games. If I was shopping for something for my mother, I'd want their service at LEAST running Windows 7.
A good policy, IMO. And even if you know you'll buy the game at launch regardless of the reviews, there's no need to give the publishers your money (or the promise of your money) months in advance; a day or two should suffice.
Yeah, I don't want to set it up, but someone else should definitely get around to allowing me to live like a king without working at all.
Yes and no. For somewhere like CloudFlare I would expect devops to manage this kind of sysadmin. The roles aren't sharply defined so it really is syntactic
Those are extremely bold assertions with no evidence provided to back them up. How is Bitfinex secured from an inability to pay out? To my knowledge, they have never published an independent 3rd party audit showing that they actually have the reserves that would be required.
We don't need 20 additional drugs that sort of treat one condition (albeit with serious side effects) that the pharmaceutical company prefers we use because the profit margin is higher on new formulations with no generic equivalent.

We need one additional drug that treats said condition better than the existing options, but with less side effects.

The profit motive distorts what is best for patients.
"...excluding associations and educational, government, or religious organizations."

And yet it lists "government owned institution" Monnaie de Paris, "government-owned" Royal Mint, et cetera...

Ignoring those rule-breakers, 7 of Europe's top 10 are alcohol-related, while Japan holds the top 5 with primarily Hotel and Construction companies.
Beer nazi here... Hefeweizen/weissbier is not a lager. Lagers are cold bottom-fermented beers. Hefeweizen is warm top-fermented beer.
1. Snail mail is your friend

Not only it is cheap, 1 week deliveries are some times possible on Finpost, Singpost, Swedish Post and most well known, HK Post.

Establish small warehouses in those countries.

2. Do not have legal presence in as many countries as possible. Countries do not tax purchases of their citizens abroad (no VAT, hooray)

3. Be secretive (or at least until you can afford to do things the way "big co." do)

4. If you 100% need to have physical presence in the country, you are doing something wrong.

5. If you 100% need to have a team meeting in person with an ability to rent an office for work for some time, only consider no hassle visa countries. Singapore was once super hospitable to internationals: hire whom ever you want, from where ever you want, but now they did a U turn. They also largely cancelled their legendary high income individual visa (a de facto residentship permit given just for agreeing to live and spend money in Sing.)

Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, PRC, Pakistan have no problem at all giving out long term business visit visas to all and everybody. For as long as you get your body on their side of the border, you are free to do whatever you want for the duration of the visa unless you do something really stupid.

6. If you are really insistent on having a single physical workspace, consider places out of beaten path: look for countries that are cheap to live in, yet fancy, and without bureaucratic culture. For example, say Kazakhstan (their capital ranked 1 in Economist's list of cheapest megacities to live in) or Pakistan (they have an actually working FDI assistance and protection program.) There, locals are ready to almost worship the few foreigners who want to spend money in the country, plus they are the kind of countries where you can buy anything for money including the disposition of authorities. Also check for possibility to do split tax/salaries legally in the country (pay base in the country, and a project premium/stand alone consulting payment to a proprietorship in their home or third countries.)

7. Consider the fact that the majority of world's middle class lives outside of the West today and that you get more opportunity for the money in markets that are not yet as mature as in the West.

8. Middle class outside outside of the West is easier to cater to: in the West, you gave a plethora of different classes all qualifying as paying middle class, with their own subclasses, and vastly varying demographics. Compare this to Central and South East Asian middle class: age 25-35, 90% technical professional occupation, %60-%70 with families/couples, highly geographically clustered, employed full-time, mid to high property ownership, mid to high light vehicle ownership, almost all with higher education and second language knowledge.

9. P.S. Pakistan has fabulous 200GB 4G data plans for only ~$90 a month.
Oh, you think people read the news. You're overestimating how much that matters.

This will blow over in months and be totally forgotten.
"Why don't we just do this?" is incredibly valuable as long as it's not simply saying "We should do this!"

If your building a house the best volume to surface area is going to be a sphere. Why don't we use that? Well it's a pain to work with curves. Well why not a Cube? It _

That _ is going to be a listing of the problems constraints, which most people can't simply list by thinking abstractly.
Yes, according to the FDIC 9% of US households have no relationship with a bank. An additional 19.9% are "underbanked" in that they have a checking or savings account, but rely heavily on non-banks for financial services (pay day loan lines of credit, paypal/venmo accounts, primary cash users, etc).

This is _households_. The number of teen to twenties in these categories is probably much higher.

I know kids who have all their money (hundreds of dollars) in venmo and transfer money to friends to get cash.
Things changed a bit since Babylon days, about 3,000 years ago.
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I'm just pointing out that Itanium had dynamic/hardware branch prediction and it's not necessarily immune to Spectre type exploits. As you mentioned, there are in-order scoreboarded pipelines that allow things like that, so dodging OoOE is not necessarily a perfect panacea.
No idea, I wanted to know to. Someone said Techcrunch was simply advertising for DO.
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> Why is congestion pricing okay when applying the same philosophy to other matters of public good isn't?

Good question. Will we see sayings like "Save Road Neutrality"? Net neutrality is something that prevents ISPs from practicing a form of congestion pricing (zero rating, charge more for certain packets, etc...), yet the death of net neutrality has been likened to the death of the internet.

One of things I struggle with is aligning my belief system consistently across the board. It definitely leads to some challenging internal conversations.
A similar portion of the more general discussion yesterday:

Dear SaaS vendors | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16180545

>dtech: As an European, my biggest wish for most SaaS vendors is an alternative to credit cards payments. SEPA Direct Debit

>throwaway2016a: Lack of PDF invoices
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If you squint your eyes just right you could consider the Latin Catholic Church to be one of these.
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All rational numbers are real. Therefore all non-real numbers are irrational.
>As a US citizen returning to SFO I have spent anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours in line.

So, given the procedure (and the non reimboursable fee of US$ 100)and depending how distant you are from an "interview center" (and how long does the interview take):

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...

I would say that a "make even" point could be around 3-4 international travels planned per year (given that the program needs to be renewed after 5 years).
One take away from this list is that no software firms have survived. I would recommend hotels or booze if you want a business to last.
>Off the top of my head can not think of any big vulnerabilities found in the last couple years not discovered by Google.

Shellshock?
It's probably just going through their "due diligence" so they can pull the pin on a non-US but "North American" location. If they want to hire the best in the world it's easier to get visas for working in Toronto, and the path to citizenship is pretty straightforward.
yep, it's one reason why all game studios are focusing on weird online-only piecemeal content instead of putting out a finished project that cost $100m.
Every time i hear about "Regular users" being the reason why modern UIs suck so much i get the feeling that regular users tend to be the enemy of actual users.
I wrote a history of downtown congestion pricing a few months back:
https://medium.com/@lewislehe/a-history-of-downtown-road-pri...
Since then I've written it as an academic paper with a lot more material.
There sure is alot of pub and accommodation entries, but then that is one area that technology and indeed, industrialization and the other progressive phases in society have not impacted as much as other industries.

On a positive and encourage note - not one single manufacturer of weapons listed at all.
Great article reminding us that the true upcoming revolution is the blockchain technology, not strictly the bitcoin, which is a very limited application of it.
It's not exactly what you're looking for but in that vein The End of the World has a similar theme.
A single day of news is not "news". Everyone's already moved on to the US government shutdown and more nonsense about emails and ISIS.
Their main beer is a "Helles" :)
The site http://opencircuitdesign.com is ancient, but it appears the tools are still getting updated. For example:

Qflow 1.1: An Open-Source Digital Synthesis Flow

http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/

last release: Oct. 28, 2017
Everything is fractal. The more you zoom in on a detail, the more details appear. Therefore it is impossible to get anything done, there is always something to do beforehand
My WHOLE point is the cost is ridiculous. People paying $5000 to $12000 a year to commute to work in NYC. It also makes it more difficult to get around.

I grew up in Danbury, CT and probably 20% of the city works in NYC and I now live in Allentown, PA and know several that work there full time and it takes 30 minutes to get to a train station to NYC.

I had one full time job in Manhattan when I was 18 and commuted everyday on the train. I also would have contracted work to do some music or video production and need to be there around 3 PM until 11 PM to 4 AM. So there are certain things that the $11 fee just makes it harder for people to do work.
My (weak) understanding is that the functional impact of a mutation is more important than the type of variations. Otherwise we would see recurrent point mutations rather than hotspots right?

FWIW though, people have already been able to predict treatment outcome from mutation profile. Turns out the hard part is picking up on mutations present in only a tiny subset of the tumor.
Have a look at Mark Twain's remarks in Roughing It. Some from the East and Midwest take to California weather, others (Twain, my wife) don't.
Yes, and I think it follows that new protocols and new file formats should be little-endian if possible.
I don't know why, but I have a profound love for learning about how Windows works. I could go out and read the raw linux source code and find out everything, but I tend to find NT's architecture more appealing. I ended up buying the Windows Internals books for fun.

This interest has lead me to have a much better understanding of how and when things go wrong on my personal desktop, and how to troubleshoot them. I wonder how much of the hate Windows gets from developers is simply people feeling confused and left out of the information bubble.
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Slightly less than with the text editor: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_ef...
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Ask HN: Is there an app that reviews/rates individual menu items in restaurants?
> No money is lost, it just moves. Admittedly into fewer hands. The damage is mostly capped at $150 or so, I would imagine.

I mean, that describes literal robbery too.
>> If you’re trying to do impossible things, this effect should chill you to your bones. It means you could be intellectually stuck right at this very moment, with the evidence right in front of your face and you just can’t see it.

I know this article is not about AI, even remotely- but, oh my dog, it so is. It's like, you can do really well if you carefully select the borders of your problem domain- ImageNet, Go, Phenix, AZ; but when you try to use the same super powerful tools in an unconstrained situation (imagine a self-driving car in Mumbai; or playing Warcraft) then all those little noisy, unpredictable, unmodellable details in the real world kick your models' accuracy to the curb.

In fact, I think most AI folks have figured this out by now and that this realisation is a very big reason why AI has advanced with leaps and bounds in recent years. But we're still up against impossible odds here.

And this should be put to the attention of the Singularitarians- you don't know what you don't know yet. It might look like things are about to go exponential, but you never know what's behind the next bend. As Solon said to Croesus, "Count no man happy until the end is known".
You're giving up on a ton of performance by dropping OoOE.

In particular, you end up losing the ability to avoid stalling on cache misses, and the memory wall becomes an increasingly gigantic problem even as Moore's Law progresses.
Why do you assume everyone involved in a pyramid scheme understands the math and concepts of pyramid schemes?
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