skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In some cases they might benefit from the same policies, but usually disproportionately so.

If I benefit from something, it doesn't bother me at all that someone benefits even more. Should I forfeit my benefits out of spite?

> What was labelled the "death tax", which somehow became a grassroots issue, was taxes on inheritance over roughly 5 million. It's now doubled to 11 million with the new tax bill. This is not in the interest of well over 99% of people.

Maybe people feel it's fair to get to pass your wealth onto your children and that if they were rich they would support this idea. There's something to be said about sticking to your moral values and not being a hypocrite especially when what is being debated is having the state take a private citizen's money away from them.
Why did they fail?
There seems to be a gap to fill for companies/organizations building software for government. Wondering which reputable companies are filling this gap?
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If you count the official program, then no. That Electron based garbage is unusable. I use Slack with the IRC gateway.
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It’s quite unclear what this practically would mean. Some things are getting confusing with Dropbox already. Why for example, can’t I find the “Paper” files, in an actual seperate folder?

I’m not sure this is a good thing.

Then again I’m quite surprised how incredibly good iCloud syncing is from Apple, it took them years, but it works impeccable - though I know it’s more limited.
The plasticity of the brain is tremendous. I would not be surprised if it turns out that long-term meditation and other techniques not only reverse damage from depression completely, but eventually leave their own signature changes (which are beneficial) on the brain's structure.
Stock compensation is rolled into AGI. But I agree with you that 1%ers are not feudal lords.
Or use Autojump[1], changed my life

1. https://github.com/wting/autojump
You'd need to handle concurrent writes, so something like a WAL, so why not build on RocksDB?

And okay, quorum, and sure there are a lot of Raft libs out there, but it's a bit harder than "new Cluster(Consistency.QUORUM)" :)
No matter how much you love a law, limiting someone's ability to do something peaceful* is limiting their freedom.

*Peaceful here means there ability to do something that doesn't harm others. We can start deep diving on the value of having a quiet day, but the idea that you can't buy a bottle of Gin on Sunday is a choice some people might not find is worth the quiet
This is for the people who want to use IRC but work somewhere that requires Slack. Obligatory relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1782/
HHS prefers not to use civil monetary penalties, but they hit when they do: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enfor...
"to be among a handful of feudal lords"

Is it helpful in a discussion like this to use exaggerated rhetoric? Wealthy people aren't in any meaningful way feudal lords.

"everyone else suffers tenuous and desperation"

But that doesn't describe Americans either, where absolute poverty levels are below 3%.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/09/17/americas...
I'm pretty sure OP uses OS X (or whatever it's called these days), which has bash as the default shell.
Is standard of living increasing? At least in terms of wage growth adjusted for inflation that’s not true.
I'm guessing because of deep technical debt from some very early decisions made.
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150 might be the 90-95 percentile in some places, but it is absolutely not the ceiling. There are niches that pay above that if you're willing to acquire the skills needed to get those jobs. Machine Learning, big data, and cloud engineering are all niches that can get you close to $200k. Those jobs are not available in every city, but they're not exclusive to NY and SF.

The other path to higher salaries is specializing in a particular technology that enterprise companies pay handsomely for. Salesforce is one of those, as is Sharepoint.
This is an NLP problem if all you're trying to do is extract nouns.
>Payroll, also is ripe for disruption.

From everything I hear about working with those companies—new and suitable replacements would be welcomed wholeheartedly.

That is, if they can maintain the same level of professionalism and ability to handle situations like you mentioned. Reliability is of immense importance, so it's not as easy to just hack away at it and sell people an MVP and iterate.
I'd argue that what you need is not 40GB of storage, it's enough storage and a great service. To me, paying $8.25/mo is a no-brainer for the quality and reliability of the service alone. Having enough storage space so that I never have to think twice about uploading something is just a nice bonus.
Better metric is relative to Mexican, or North American, profits. Those are the markets in which they did their shenanigans. Relative to those, it’s a substantial absolute and relative sum.
It's a mix, I've lead many enterprise implementations, erp, crm, etc. It's not just the implementors, it's all of the above, from the lack of the customer even being able to communicate the business needs.

It'd be lovely if you were right, because the problem is then fixable, but you can take the most motivated, best team of SMEs into a project, and be unsuccessful given the client.

It's all a mess trying to get things done, and every single company is different. Going onsite that first few weeks is an exploration into in what exact ways the mess is going to manifest itself, and how we're going to fight our way through it.
We don't have official benchmarks, but you shouldn't see much of an impact at all since we only do it once a second and on a small portion of the screen. If you do notice a difference please let me know.
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Probably because Slack makes it easier to establish an "always-on" culture.
It's incredible, isn't it? I can't believe any govt still hires them. They were behind the Australian census debacle too.
US show of force sends Russia a message in Black Sea

"You get ships up in the Black Sea, that makes them feel more threatened," the official added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/19/politics/us-russia-black-...

Imagine Russia sending their warships to the gulf of mexico. Would that be ok?
There are many scenarios where you send of traffic to another datacenter using a GRE tunnel or EVPN.
And why is NATO getting closer to your borders? It's not because NATO is expansionistic, seeking bases to launch an invasion of Russia. No, it's because countries like Poland fear Russia invading them, and so they seek protection via NATO.

What should NATO do, when Poland asks to become a member? Say no, because Russia has the right to meddle in Poland? Say no, because not upsetting Russia is more important than Poland's future? Say no, because defending the western half of Europe is all we should care about?

If Russia doesn't like everyone wanting to join NATO, it's really easy for them to fix: Stop making everyone feel threatened by Russia.

(Now, in the real world, that may not work, because Russia is paranoid, because of a couple of guys named Napoleon and Hitler who, starting from further west than the eastern edge of Poland, got all the way to Moscow - or within 15 miles of it, in Hitler's case. So Russia has some grounds for concern based on history. Nevertheless, NATO has exactly zero interest in invading Russia. My main point, however, stands - it's Russia's fault that NATO is expanding, not NATO's fault.)
I've seen people move to technical writing.
Do you believe that illegal immigrants have the same income distribution as the general population in the US?
There is also the Phoenix web framework for Elixir. However, it's supposed to help people recover and deal with failure :) It's an Erlang thing.
I apologize for the reddit level of discourse...here here!
https://cabify.workable.com/ works just fine.
Proper configuration, and proper business needs mapped, and no moving targets, and probably a lot more, we'd have to be on the project to know.
It's just a bureaucratic requirement few people care about. A kind of game: I need to pretend I care and my manager has to pretend likewise. We fill in the forms, shake hands, and repeat this each year.
Would Plato's 'The Republic' qualify also an overly long strawman?

I think you missed the point of the comment to which you're responding.

Also, why are you telling people how to have discussions?
The Pinto was a good car, though, even with the one design flaw that was actually the result of both best practices for the time and a lack of regulation. Except for that, the Pinto was a landmark subcompact car.
Wow, seems like everyone is taking 40% dilution on this deal and SoftBank probably has huge liquidity preference. I believe DoorDash's last round was also done with a multiplier on the liquidity preference. Crazy.
Seems like it might be tasty milk, but I have neither time nor space to care for a cow. XD :D
> Maybe there should be some kind of advisory board system

Committees are a bad way to solve a problem of mis-aligned interests.
> I guess IBM didn't. Or maybe they didn't care?

I think from the perspective of IBM, this contract has been good. They made way more from the Canadian government than they initially estimated the contract to be.
Possibly this if it still happens: https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2110
Sometimes, you just gotta love the judges that handle these cases. The first 7 words you quoted plus the ensuing judgement are written very well.
Its not like he's wrong. But life also causes deaths. Just not in the common sense of cause of death.
You might be interested in this Stratechery article then that looks at Box vs Dropbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465883
It's predominantly for household names. People know that scoring a job at one of these companies would be a golden ticket.

It's almost like playing the lottery. You know you probably won't win, but it's nice to have a dream.
Unless your employer decided to disable that option because an upper manager didn't like the idea for reasons that I don't even understand. It's even more difficult when you are part of a corporation with thousands of employees that are in favor of using Slack over IRC.
An average gp makes about 170k with tax benefits etc its probably closer to 200k. Assuming they get 3weeks of vacations that 102 dollars/hour. I don't see how 99 dollars per visit makes economic sense.
The description of suspending sounds exactly like yielding generators and/or async await; why not build this feature on top of existing language constructs? I am quite sure the react core team has put more than the 30 seconds of thought I have into this question, so I'm curious what their reasoning is for using this implementation.
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FWIW my demo code looked like

export let cache;
function initCache() {
cache = createCache(initCache);
}
initCache();

export function createFetcher(fetch) {
const res = createResource(fetch);
return {
read(...args) {
return res(cache, ...args);
},
};
}
Basically the 80/20 rule but where there are practically an infinite number of edge cases that stretch the project on indefinitely?

Zeno's Featureset
If you’re going to use a script, abbreviated Spencerian would be better. It’s more simple and legible.
Thanks for digging that up! But for scripts written for FreeBSD in 2002 [1], I have to wonder which non-POSIX-y shells they were worried about.

[1]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/55d0b8395514ae4055...
Any package management tool can be used in any distribution. So any package management tool is distribution agnostic then. Fedora had 4 system package managers at same time: apt, yum, smart, dnf.
IMO software engineering experts (leaders) need to do the same thing.
Thanks for the info! However, I just checked and for me, it displays it correctly. Can you please tell me what browser and version you are using that I can debug it. Thanks!
Sad that it took C++ almost 40 years to get there.
I wrote a program which would take an initial seed password and run a number of sha1 iterations to get a digest back. I used it to lock myself out of websites such that I couldn't get back in without dedicating N hours of serial cpu time. In hindsight, I had invented my own proof of work system.

Never had that sort of addiction with video games, but I can understand it from that experience. I'd only fear that I'd quickly learn how to hack this tool and disable it whenever I wanted.
You keep saying this, but they're just over 5% of the total US population as of the most recent census. IMHO, this isn't a trivial number. It's over 16 million people. I don't see how you can keep making this argument with a straight face. We must have wildly differing opinions of what constitutes statistical significance.
The thing to note about the Ettis and Lime devices is that they're good for so much more other than just moving I/Q to your computer. They have powerful FPGAs that make it possible to do filtering and decoding and such in hardware.

If you're just looking to play around with radio, you don't need a device with these features -- not until you're much further along the learning curve. For any practical usage of these devices, it's assumed you have the wherewithal and radio background to build the pieces that it lacks; filtering, amplifiers, antennas and feedlines, and so on.

This is very much a professional device, and it's not meant to replace the common usage of $20 rtlsdr dongles within the hobbyist radio community.
I am agreeing with the other comment(s) here asking if you could explain further how has meditation specifically helped you? And what/how do you meditate?

I too feel that there's another happy universe inside my head were I to distract myself to believe in another reality. But it's just biological facts that come to maul me and digesting uncomfortable thoughts by yourself is not very efficient way of solving the issue. I am not living up to my potential and the momentary voices, although painful, are a reminder to me that I have to change something to feel good about myself. I think in the heart of it is the need for a constant validation through something, other people's love and affection mostly, that you can feel that your life is worth living.

In the sense same thing (maybe) that you can do with meditation and keep those positive neural pathways from growing shut.
Well, one possibility is that I am the common factor in all of my bad relationships. But another possibility is that projects tend to get named 'Phoenix' for a reason, and that just as in real life, it's pretty hard to successfully be reborn from a pile of ashes.
The ABM defenses aren't going to stop Russia. Enough will get through that the US wants no part of a nuclear war with Russia (or China).

The ABM defenses might stop a North Korean nuke, though. Is that worth doing? Absolutely.
There's like 30 different points in this article.
So if I understand correctly all that the right to work laws do is forbid companies from making a contract that requires them to hire exclusively from one union. I was under the impression that a majority of the workers of a company can unionise and then require every other worker in the company to join the union.

If you are correct then I can see why right to work laws are not so good. However, keep in mind that there are many laws preventing people from entering certain contracts. Such as laws forbidding a person to work at a company if the company doesn't want to pay minimum wage, or offering to give someone some money but requiring that they pay back a large amount in a set amount of time.
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Ah, ok. In your scenario, the assumption appears to be that by issuing a (Bob, A) certificate, Charlie asserts that key A belongs to Bob.

For some reason, I never thought of DV certificates that way. I always took (Bob, A) to mean "I checked with the real Bob and he says it's fine to use key A in his name".

The former is, of course, the more useful guarantee.
I had the same sentiment as yours, but the blog is fine (for the author and appropriate audience).

I am quite surprised/curious how it got to top page here.
sooo convor/grove? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove.io
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What exactly have they done to your food? and what incentive do they have to mess with your food? They get rated after each delivery you know..

You said "I’m not even a judgemental individual", but the sentence before reveals you judge the people who delivered your food (apparently based on appearances?) so much in that you wouldn't even eat the food they delivered. That's being very judgemental.
I think my talk paints a relatively convincing picture why DOM nodes aren’t a sufficient primitive if you care about the features I described, as you’d need something like React to orchestrate those updates.
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Problem with Ackman is he thinks he's doing God's work by shorting Herbalife, but in reality if he wanted to "do good" himself he would have gone to law school and taken up the cases themselves (pro bono likely), or pay lawyers to take it on. Maybe the exploited customers would have even won a larger class action. Even though he showed a human side, Ackman failed at doing what he's supposed to do which is invest other people's money.
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Isn't this part of what most software engineering degrees teach though? Particularly surrounding project planning and requirements gathering?
I know this was a joke, but do you by any chance know any shorthand? I tried to teach myself Gregg here and there years ago, but it requires more dedication than I was willing to put in to become fluent.
Turns out, software takes a lot of time and money to build. Who knew? I guess IBM didn't. Or maybe they didn't care?

Oh they knew, and they cared... about the money
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You don't hear about successful projects. They don't make news stories.

I've done a ton of projects in consulting, not IBM, but you've never heard of any of them, because they worked, and the customer was happy (although maybe some delays, or other randomness.)

It's self selecting that news is about massive failures.
Pay if it's a good deal for what you need. It doesn't hurt you to have free space. Surely you wouldn't find the deal more attractive if today's 2TB price was only for 100GB.
I would not use the Time article as a reliable source, it cites the 70/90% figures a study by the "Williams Group wealth consultancy", which of course is trying to sell its services to wealthy clients.

I've seen the statistic quoted in so many places, yet have never found a link to the actually study. No info on sample size; we don't even have a definition of 'wealth' used in the study.
I agree. I worked for the Fed for 6 years. I used software that often didn't work. I'd look in the HTML comments, and oftentimes they were not in English.

These big IT firms sell a premium on top of what the very best US-based development shops would charge, and then outsource it to the cheapest bidder overseas. It's a scam. I don't blame the overseas teams. They are getting paid a fraction of what they should be. So there's probably a lot of junior developers working on this stuff.
Am I old-fashioned to raise an eyebrow when I discover that Memcached servers are running visible to the public Internet? This strikes me as approximately as bizarre as having a database server that accepts connections from the public Internet.

In my day, such back-end services were either simply not connected to the Internet (connected via a private network to the application services), firewalled, or at the very least, configured to listen for and respond exclusively to connections from known front-end or application services.

Is this sort of deployment architecture falling out of favor? My casual observation is that cloud architectures—at least the ones I've seen employed by small organizations—are more comfortable than I am with services running with public IPs. What is going on? Am I misunderstanding this in some way?