skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think so?

And with so many unemployed tech workers you don't think tech companies would face an equal level of difficulty in having so many empty positions?

If tech workers were more savvy and critical in terms of deciding where they work and what conditions they allow themselves to work under (e.g. crunch, bad management, etc.) the industry would be breaking its back to try to change things to hold onto and acquire talent.
Continuing on:

If you have no reserve, then the only limits are how many people want 100 bucks (so upper bound $700B) and how fast can you file the paperwork to make it happen. What’s the friction in the system.

My fear is that their 1/1800 is that friction, and not a safety feature at all.
Yuzu is fork from an existing emulator for the Nintendo 3DS written by essentially the same developers: https://citra-emu.org/
I think you should take a look at their looming pension crisis... California is already taxed to hell, and their balance sheet is not something to be optimistic about.
Looks like that article was written on the 23rd of December.

That's the same time period around which Coinbase abruptly released Bcash. That time period was a barrage of negative kerfuffles for them.

Historically Coinbase/GDAX has enjoyed "inflated" BTC/USD prices because of their trustworthiness. Contrast with Bitfinex which does not serve US customers, has been hacked in the past, and is (last I heard) in debt from said hack. Or contrast with any of the other exchanges which are either questionable or located outside the U.S. Gemini is the only other state-side trustworthy exchange besides them.

(I say inflated, but it's probably more appropriate to say that the price is a discount on all other exchanges; a discount which accounts for the counterparty risk and difficulty moving USD in/out of them.)

The late December fiascos that Coinbase suffered has likely shaken that sense of trust, at least in the short-term, resulting in both reduced trading volume and reduced prices relative to other exchanges.

So the question is, which theory is more likely? That a single trading bot has complete control over Bitcoin's price and its discovery has resulted in the dismantlement of the program? Or that traders are reacting to the news of "insider trading" by Coinbase employee's? Or maybe it's as simple as being the end of December. The winter holidays slow down markets.
Interesting that they didn't try to make it run on the nVidia Shield, which has the same hardware as the Switch, but clocked higher.
In a sane world, this would be the free market solution being pushed by the supposedly free market crusading Republicans. Seems like the obvious market-oriented approach to bring down costs: tell people what the costs are!

Instead, the only plan Republicans can come up with is kick more people off their insurance, and don't change anything else.
Doesn't the Proof of Stake algorithm protect against Sybil attacks by trusting participants based on how much they are staking?
Most capitalistic country I've ever been to.
> In particular, games stopped being fun to play.

I'm on a GameBoy kick recently, so that statement stands out, to me.
I wasn't suggesting that you should edit your comments (except for that one as a test). :-)

Your note about HN not allowing edits got me wondering, so I was curious to verify it one way or another.

Since you replied to my previous comment, I did a test edit on it and indeed editing was allowed. Mystery solved!
This essay is an op-ed that lays the blame for most of California's poverty woes at the feet of a variety of liberal, leftist, progressive, and/or Democrat-initiated policies. From a conservative point-of-view, I can do better.

I propose that California's poverty woes are disproportionately due to a permanent and ever-growing underclass, whose existence and continued plight isn't caused by policies like rent control, welfare reform, and targeted eco-taxes that end up being regressive; but rather, is a simple consequence of individuals desperate for more prosperity and financial security making tough choices for the good of their families.

They are attracted to the cores and fringes of urban areas that play host to islands of productivity and wealth, where they work long hours and multiple jobs in an effort to provide. Some are later-generation Americans born to immigrant ancestors, some are youth from elsewhere in the US trying to flee metros with no growth, some are recent arrivals from regions of the world plagued by poverty and strife, and some are undocumented, working under the table and living in the shadows of mainstream society, more avoidant of law enforcement than groups who suffer the most violence at the hands of the law, and always at the mercy of their employer, handlers, and pure luck.

These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-provided safety net, average people's compassion, and availability of human connections and capital allows them a small, but more meaningful chance of breaking out of the poverty trap.

In other words, the prosperity, concentration of wealth, human capital, and laxer attitude of California allows these marginalized groups a better shot than elsewhere -- especially places like Mississippi and West Virginia, whose poverty is primarily indigenous, and isn't among recent arrivals. California is somewhere where trickle-down does display elements of it working, at the very least in the hearts and minds of those attracted to the state. We can argue about its magnitude all day long, but to flagellate all manner unrelated policies after a myopic reading of statistics is absurd.
But the points that people want to fly to are those busy airports. New York, London, Tokyo etc. are not random places in the boonies that serve as hubs, they are destinations.

And traffic growth to those destinations is huge.

Also don’t forget that airspace is also quite congested.
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Yeah, I don't think it is. Year 2017 brought out some really bad humans, and it turns out, you don't really need better algorithms to beat them in linguistics. See for yourself in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0eY5TGEK2I
So that makes me even more curious about the fate of airlines like Emirates.

The gulf states have been pouring money into these airlines and (allegedly) price-dumping seats to try and push others out of the routes. Delta has been very vocal about this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/...

What's the endgame besides making Dubai into some kind of massive hub and spoke while sitting on a pile of A380s that nobody else wants? It seems like a financial black hole at this point as long as oil prices stay where they are.
I see that the contact info is private. Will do
The issue with trade though was a lack of foreign currency not a lack of resources, they bartered not because they had no money but because they had no international money because no one would buy from them because of an embargo.
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Simply declaring a function gives you a pointer to that function. Which reminds me of the time I wrote this in a PR to FreeBSD:

if ((Lflag ? chown : lchown)(p->fts_accpath, -1, s->st_gid))
/* .. */

a line that turned out to be incredibly polarising amongst code reviewers.

Explanation for those not well versed in C: the ternary in the left-hand parentheses is selecting which syscall wrapper function will be dereferenced and called with the arguments in the right-hand parentheses. It relies on the chown(2) and lchown(2) syscall wrappers having identical function signatures.
The 380 and the 747 really aren't comparable and the 380 didn't replace the 747. 747 is widely used for cargo routes for example. The 380 was Airbus saying they think there is a market for a jet significantly larger than the 747. Boeing didn't think there was enough market for two superjumbos so they just added a bit to the 747 instead of designing a whole new 380 competitor.
One of the proposed explanations for the crime wave, and its disappearance, is the effects of tetraethyl lead - the additive used to make leaded gas.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...

This article didn't mention that hypothesis. Is it no longer considered reasonable?
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Others have mentioned the improvements in range in more fuel-efficient aircraft. But there's also other incentives at play. Remember when United had a passenger dragged off the plan on a commuter flight? Turns out that wasn't United, but one of many regional airlines that contracts with United. United's union contract constrains the size of these flights, but the pilots at these airlines make less than members of the union. So there's other incentives for airlines to abandon hub-and-spoke in favor of more commuter flights.
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That's a misconception. Electricity takes ALL paths in amounts proportional to each path's conductance.

If you have a 1000 Ω path and a 10 Ω path (in parallel), current will go through both paths. However, much more current will go through the 10 Ω path.

The current through each path ends up being the voltage applied across the path, divided by its resistance.
Pish-posh, everyone knows that poor people are a red state problem. California is a net contributor to the federal budget, along with all the other coastal states, after all.
> You can get off what appears to be very large amounts of BTC with minimal slippage most times of the day.

I wrote a script[1] that pulls down the public order books for Bitstamp, GDAX and Bitfinex, because I was interested in seeing the depth of the BTCUSD market, and right now you can offload:

258, 301 and 325 BTC on GDAX, Bitfinex and Bitstamp, respectively (total: 884 BTC), at 1% slippage for 3,544,921, 4,152,783 and 4,452,134 USD, respectively (total: $12.1m).

[1] https://github.com/runeksvendsen/orderbook
I was offered a job and the final "interview" after they gave me an offer, they explained in detail how their app worked. It was an old PHP app and the code looked like a horror movie.
Can you clarify why it serves the hub and spoke model?
This post would have benefitted from either explaining what Cloud Spanner is or linking to such an explanation in the first paragraph.
They will just kidnap us, the people, and ask for ransoms.
They are already doing for many years.
> Maybe the doctor's office doesn't know your out-of-pocket cost, but they generally know (within a reasonable rage) how much they will bill the insurance company for

We don't know either. In fact you have to build infrastructure just to know estimates, which will be cleared months later, and a result might be less or more price. It is not a transparent system for the provider either, specially when you are a small one.

> In the case that the nurse/doctor/surgeon decides to change the prognosis/prescription during the visit, there are provisions for that type of action with auto mechanics, too.

I honestly think the problem is fee-as-service, where you have to make very complex calculations based on how each thing is claimed. It would be very different if work was provided per-hour basis, or even per-result (complex, but market is leaning towards that right now).

Figure a software engineer consultant charging differently per language, platform, stack version, LOC, cost of materials etc each time he works an hour. IF you are an engineer try to picture how that works.

1- You diagnose a problem to solve

2- You look into a list of 70k items to look for the corresponding code to that problem (C10.023 Turn iterative code to recursion)

3- You now write what you are going to do to solve it

4- Now you have to pick a billing code (CPT code 94102 -> Iterative on GC language to functional programming language ). You estimate 94102 will pay 50$, but are tempted to put 94103 which will pay 75$, from Iteractive non GC, because actually your custom language settings have GC turned off, but are unsure if the insurance company will believe or care

5- The client asks you how much will charge, considering he is personally liable for 20% of it because the actual client doesn't re-imburse everything.

That was a single visit. Doctors get 12-16 a day.
I stumbled upon stuff that was of a similar quality to 'Mexican dirt weed' (though we called it 'Mexican brick weed' back in the day) on smaller islands in the Bahamas and in a couple of places in Eastern Europe.

I agree, though, that I haven't seen anything even remotely close to that garbage anywhere in the US in the last 10 years.

And the price for the really good stuff has actually come down a fair bit (10-30%) in the last ~5 years (especially in the last 2), even on the black market.
> I don't fully understand why SPM is better than the "official" poverty metric

I'm no statistician but here's what it says in the introduction section: Beginning in 2011, the Census Bureau began publishing the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which extends the official poverty measure by taking account of many of the government programs designed to assist low-income families and individuals that are not included in the official poverty measure.

I'm not a US citizen so my understanding may be quite off but I assume that since (presumably) the states themselves do the official measure, then that's why they don't account for federal programs?

EDIT: I just realised that while the District of Columbia has the highest SPM, they're probably playing semantics. The article starts with "Guess which state" which excludes DC, a federal district. It's just weasel wording to get at Cali though :)
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I remember reading about BeOS and seeing demos during 2000-2001, but I always wondered a few things.

One item of curiosity was how they were able to so efficiently handle media with such a light footprint? What were the trade-offs?
For devices like tablets, it seems like it would be a godsend.

Also, did any of the innovations make their way into things we use today? Palm bought their tech, but did any of the media tech make it out? Or is it just an artifact from an earlier age with not much applicability to modern day needs?
It is the knowledge gathered along 5 years of studies, the activities that put into practice that knowledge and the certification of the quality of the teachings.
> Leave them at home for an alibi.

Presumably that isn't a great alibi though. The activity on those devices probably wouldn't match the "normal" activity when one is home, so I suspect it would be easy for a prosecutor to argue that the devices were just left at home.
There's "perfect" as in "perfectly reliable and perfectly safe" and "perfect" as in "we achieved every last design goal regardless of other factors".

That last part is where Airbus may have missed the mark as design goals such as the A380's high floorspace to seat ratio were great decisions given its intended market (long haul flights, customers like space on long haul flights) also led to a less-than-optimal passengers per flight to operating cost per flight ratio in a market where hub to hub demand is declining. It also led to a low maximum takeoff weight for the size of its floorplan, making it useless as a freight/cargo aircraft, the one niche where the ancient 747 still reigns as king of the skies. A more robust design intended to hold more passengers would have also allowed it to carry more cargo which may have saved the program considering how expensive 747s are to operate.
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Now that is quite interesting. As others have pointed out turning a phone off could provide evidence against you.

Leaving it at home, or having someone else carry it with them could provide an alibi.

It’s a truism, but location data for a phone only proves where the phone was. Or where the phone thought it was. I wonder how quick a prosecutor might be to point this out. Especially when they might be less quick to do so if the location data suggested your phone was at the scene of the crime.
Yeah, if you've already reached the IMO very misguided conclusion that the only rational place to site a large tech HQ/HQ2 is the Bay area, why on earth would you go through the motions of this whole process? Hope that some Bay Area city is going to be so desperate for you to move in that they'll shower you with incentives? Possible but unlikely. And it's not like some previously unknown pool of engineering and other professional talent is going to suddenly spring up somewhere.

I'm often pretty cynical (and Amazon will certainly be looking for sweetheart deals) but this seems a legitimate effort to find a location that may not be an obvious choice.
>I remember a lot of comments from angry Americans who were offended by Europeans mocking them about their broadband prices, and telling them that they were being screwed by big American telcos who formed an monopolising alliance artificially keeping prices up.

This is from a small subset of Americans that are always looking for ways to defend large companies and argue against anything that may provide competition to the. It's certainly not the majority; I suspect that it's from employees of these companies that believe the standard company line.

This American, having worked for a small dialup ISP in high school and seeing the dirty tricks telecoms pull, was always with the other Americans that fight the propaganda from large incumbents that carved out geographic chunks of monopolies.
Their main differentiator is that they are China-first.

China doesn't want to miss the boat on any new innovation, and their investment approach is to invest in literally everything, to maximize the likelihood of backing a winner. Tencent bought 5% of Tesla just months ago.
> all nuclear weapons are banned

> US navy is banned from operating in NZ waters as they don't disclose what ships are nuclear powered or carrying weapons

One does not lead to the other. All of the US submarines and air craft carriers are nuclear powered (and no other ships). None of the aircraft carriers have nuclear weapons, and only the SSBN submarines can carry nuclear weapons on board. If your second statement is true (I don't know), then it is likely that NZ also is banning any nuclear powered ships; not just those with nuclear weapons.
A good point, but normal for some people might be to leave it untouched whilst at home.
I am a radio and network engineer, we use 71-86 GHz band FDD point to point 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps radio products extensively. One good example of a commercial ISP user that has publicized their use of such is Webpass (since acquired by Google) with their rooftop sites in the SF bay area.
But the heart surgery example is the exception.

Many medical procedures and therapies have very predictable costs and outcomes. And have checkpoints to re-evaluate whether to proceed further.

And accountants and could probably also price in the cost of the occasional problematic case and include a buffer in the standard price to account for it.

There are plenty of straight forward ways to provide prices for the vast majority of medical procedures, if the proper incentives were in place.
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Semantics is important here. Most of these projects aren't community owned, they are socialised: taxpayers are compelled to fund them.

It may seem like a small difference, but it's not - there are moral, economic and engineering consequences to forcing people to subsidise your broadband use.

Imagine if people referred to State-owned factories in Soviet Russia as "community owned". That would immediately, and correctly, be criticised as propaganda.
> There's a limit to scalability at airports, especially the big & busy ones in western metropolis: JFK, LHR, FRA

Between 30 and 40% of passengers departing from JFK or Newark will go on to a connection [1]. Switching to point-to-point travel means reducing traffic at these hubs.

[1] https://www.panynj.gov/airports/pdf-traffic/ATR_2015.pdf
This paper is pretty interesting too:

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_region...

Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?

>The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.
60 GHz PTP bridges have been around for 8 years or so, at 1GbE line rate. They're not rocket science, exactly, but knowing how to properly engineer a network with them is something that not every ISP can figure out.
"Don't be snarky." (to snarfy)
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>The questions you research / prep for may be needed at some point in your career.

And most people, most of the time, can and should research them as needed.

>You program for all relevant edge cases, as one might be used at some point.

Yes, because a program doesn't get to pause execution and defer to the human mind to ask "hmm, what do I do in this case?" A programmer does so all day every day.

>are terrible at enumerating edge cases

Any attempt to pre-compute the edge cases of all possible programming situations will be hopelessly inadequate. Enumerating edge cases requires analytical thinking in the moment, essentially the opposite of preparation.