skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't generally invest in Euros. It's a currency not an investment. Mutual fund holders get indirect voting rights in the held assets. Plus vanguard is owned by its funds so actually your example is bad.
> But I believe that most men who have been to war would have to admit, if they are honest, that somewhere inside themselves they loved it too, loved it as much as anything that has happened to them before or since.

This sounds conspicuously like the conservative version of the people who say "All men secretly desire to rape women."
PUBG is a terrible implementation with textures and assets purchased off the unreal store. PUBG piggybacked off the popularity of H1Z1 and took off because it was slightly better. Fortnite, although cartoony, is by large and far the most stable and most competitive battle Royale out there. Epic's update pipeline and developer blogs are phenomenal, especially compared to Bluehole. PUBG performs worse in it's current state than when it did pre-release.
Well, I guess journalism needs a way to be profitable again, and creators in general need a way to sell their work without requiring long term subscriptions or ads. But given the many, many companies who've tried to fix this issue (by allowing users to pay for certain bits of content via microtransactions or bundling subscriptions together ala Blendle), I'm not sure what the answer would be.

I also feel game development needs a way for creators to commission help with various aspects of the process too. Oh sure, there's the odd forum where you can pay for graphics assets or music, but what if your problems are code related? Or game design based? It's a lot harder to request that sort of thing online, let alone find a way to pay for it. Where can I say, hire a level designer or game programmer independently of a studio?

As far as I can tell, nowhere, which makes it awfully hard when I'm stuck and just need a bit of help to finish a mostly complete project.

Anyone who solves that would get a lot of my money, I'll say that much.
In my small town I'm trying to find a junior sysadmin/network admin job but 99.8% of the jobs are developers. I say nay to the news people leaving in fact they seem to be hiring!

And anytime I see news about Canada it seems Waterloo is mentioned making amazing things, quantum radar was the last story I read about.
Yeah, totally with you — don't trust devices you (or your employer) doesn't own. I'm borderline still where I trust my employer's devices with my personal passwords sometimes, but even that seems a bit iffy.
Not really, the whole industry knows Taboola and Outbrain are the lowest tier, barely above scammy affiliate links. There are of course worse networks like RevContent but nobody is mistaking Taboola for anything but shady.
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger is a WW1 classic that unabashedly explores the primal excitement of war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger
I'm from Toronto and San Francisco is a world class city. Last time I visited it felt like a city from the future. It felt alive even the homeless have evolved trying to get you to buy poetry instead of just begging.
I also think this. There is a difference between what entities say they do, and say why they did it, and what they actually did. It wouldn't surprise me to be told a lawyer proofread letter went to Hopper saying things in the spirit of "because you broke the strict terms of the contract which enforced your pricepoint, the contract is void, and the penalty clauses for further breach, (including talking about this letter) are expensive"
> The reason engineers make so much money in the US is the public market giants like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, etc

The reason engineers in the US make so much, is because four to five decades ago US tech companies combined with globalization and scaled out into the entire planet as a market. That premise has remained intact, while the global economy has gotten a lot larger and richer. That's something most other nations have failed to do at a large scale (S.Korea has Samsung but not many other companies that have gone hyper global for example).

Go all the way back to Fairchild, Intel, HP, IBM in the 1950-1980 era. Nobody has done globalized tech like the US, probably only Japan got close (and they've largely missed out on the huge margins in software).

Without the ability to tap into the rest of the planet, Netflix wouldn't be able to pay what it does. The rest of the planet is half their market now, and will be 2/3 or 3/4 of it in the near future.

Europe only has three or four major tech companies that managed to go substantially global (eg SAP, ARM, Spotify, or Booking.com which got swallowed by Priceline). ARM & Booking got taken out, Spotify will be acquired next. The same kind of problem Canada often faces with its tech companies (Shopify is very likely to end up in the belly of a US tech or retail company, especially once their valuation normalizes).
Quite easily: Star Trek being a work of fiction, its contents are unconstrained by any aspects of reality other than the limitations of its medium (in this case, live-action television).
I disagree. Elegance is fundamentally tied to purpose and... if not efficiency of operation, efficiency of material and structure. A car which is awful to drive and breaks down all the time, but which has simple clever solutions to problems and clean lines is not elegant at all. Or at best it is half elegant.

Elegant is a superset of effectiveness.

Also, side note, I would be happy to never see this “No True Scotsman” argument ever again. 9 times out of 10 it’s just used to demonize ideas: “Your idea was used in this horrible way once”/“That mistake is not inherent to the idea”/“No true Scotsman!” That’s not what you did here. So you’re the 10th. But my point is it’s just used as a rhetorical trick, from what I’ve seen.
Can break a lease. If you do you pay the full price of the balance. The only thing we can do is after the lease is over we get a new lease.
I'd hardly call a 200 dollar watch a status symbol by any stretch of the imagination
"...puppy also available from the following Amazon Prime sellers..."
Think you've got it backward. It's not that there aren't jobs in tech in Canada, it's that the people who could fill them are leaving.
Actually, it means these records have been returned as part of queries.

We know the NSA collects closer to trillions of domestic records (from phone calls to text messages and emails) and brazenly lies about it to Congress.
According to https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS 82% of the US population lives in cities, and even over 50% of the world population now does, so I think your "exceptions" is a bit ironic at best.
Those both sound conservative to me, and I'm very conservative.
"Perfect is the enemy of good. Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism, an English variant of the older better is the enemy of good, which was popularized by Voltaire in French form."
Dynamic class loading is not supported on SubstrateVM because there is no infrastructure built-in to parse bytecodes, interpret them, etc. Adding those in SubstrateVM would defeat the purpose of having a thin layer VM. But, you are right: you could have an interpreter in the application itself. However a simple bytecode interpreter would have very bad performance. In fact that's how Truffle languages run on SubstrateVM. As far as SubstrateVM is concerned the Graal/Truffle stack is an application, albeit an application that knows how to interpret/compile other languages. So an interesting exploration path is having a Truffle based Java implementation that could be embedded in the image on demand, and which could load classes dynamically. You could still compile your known Java classes AOT and defer the dynamic classes to the interpreter. You might pay the extra cost for memory footprint, code interpretation/warmup/compilation time, etc., but you would be able to slowly migrate more Java code from dynamic compilation into AOT.
Is that really a conservative view? I’ve seen that sentiment on decidedly non conservative sites.
That doesn't support any of GGP's statements now, does it? They merely collected the call times and numbers of a tiny fraction of the "billions" of calls placed per day in the US.
Approving cattlemen’s petition would have a “chilling” effect on food innovation
Yep, you're right - I was off by a decade.

I initially heard about this not from The New Jim Crow but from this (seemingly awesome) Brown University student:

http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2014/dec/0...

...but if I'm doing the math correctly, it appears to hold even for 1860 for adult males.
> 42 American soldiers and many more Afghans were killed in the "Valley of Death" before it was finally abandoned, written off as more trouble than it was worth.

Only 42 to get that nickname? After the World Wars happened? Wow. We've gotten soft in modern times.
> We know the NSA collects closer to trillions of domestic records (from phone calls to text messages and emails) and brazenly lies about it to Congress.

We know all of that to be false, according to Snowden's documents.
Or less controversially: "Everybody pees in the shower".

No, sorry. I know you want to feel justified for doing so. But no.
How so? Economic circumstances negatively impact certain people more than others in the world but how are modern western governments perpetuating racism?
I agree with this observation. There are countless examples of companies making big money by taking advantage of that trait.
all domains which signed an agreement with ICANN have some fee component going into process. You can call it tax, or not. PIR, who operate .org are basically funding ISOC, which in turn funds the IETF and related activities to a significant extent. I am a net beneficiary of this system as a participant in IETF, so perhaps I am biassed, but I do still think this is a good thing, and I own domain names and pay the tax.
Except they never lied about that according to Snowden's documents. They never recorded all domestic phone calls.
"If we take ε to be huge" just means "let's analyze the growth rate as ε goes to infinity". More formally, what's going on is that you have a function which is polynomial in ε and which is always positive; therefore the leading coefficient must be positive, as if it were negative, the polynomial would be eventually negative.

The question "what if it isn't huge" makes no sense; we can pick ε, it's not some external given. (Actually, as mentioned, we're not picking it to be one specific value but rather letting it tend to infinity, but that's another matter.)
Come on now. What are you even talking about?

> People should not break them if they don't want to be jailed.

I'm white. That means I can smoke as much herb as I want and not even dream of entering the criminal justice system unless I'm extraordinarily unlucky. Moreover, I don't give a flying fuck what some politician in Washington has to say about my diet. I don't base what I put into my body on bad laws.

But if you are black, you have a much more difficult decision to make.

> now they've evolved. Don't judge them today based on the mistakes of the past.

If drug prohibition is the "evolved" form, then we still have a long way to go. That's the point.
It is a common thing in US if you go clubbing.
And the recent Salk institute thing, was a systemic issue which had been there for years. Astronomy has its problems. Even the nobel prize for Literature. So.. its not just companies, its society at large
More people using a publishing platform => more competition => more clickbait.
Virtually all jobs in Western societies are bullshit jobs (as defined in the article). But you've alluded to the real reason such BS jobs exist -- to give people something to do and keep them occupied so they don't go out and fight wars. Sport fulfills the same purpose. Better people work in a cube all day and practise baseball after work than sit around on the UBI until they form some political party, take over the government, and go to war against another country for their plutonium mines.
I was that guy as a kid, at least for road work. The role rotated through my crew while everyone else worked in the manhole or on the street. Part of the reason for it to be a human is to serve as a witness for the police when a distracted driver plows into the road crew. This was in the 1980s, I’m sure drivers pay much more attention today.
Isn't this what happens when the company says "no public sale" after you've already bought in?
To make it more fiendish, what if the gods / natives don't know about each other's TRUE/FALSE/RANDOM status (but they are excellent logicians, so they can intuit any information from answers to your previous questions).
If you're willing to accept that durability is a lie, and also to compromise (possibly a lot) on performance and trust that the CPU and RAM aren't actively helping the disk to sabatoge you, you can make a fairly full-featured ACI database in a weekend using Merkle trees and a single-threaded rendevous serializer.
The hard part is getting those guarantees while also having latency and throughput vaguely comparable to naive file writes. (I'd add something about a better API than assembly language, but database people decided to imitate COBOL, so I can't really criticise assembly with a straight face.)
Yes. also disappointed. Typing this on a 2015 model MBP. Chiclets. gah. I miss my thinkpad. I don't miss other things about it (speed, screen) and I am very pissed off that DSDT for thinpads in linux and BSD are still a bit iffy/whiffy so you can't reliably sleep/wake yet on all models.

High DPI screens need really good font hinting. OSX and Microsoft have this, Its harder (I am told) to unlock on X/Wayland.

Chromebooks are looking good.
The "boxes in boxes" problem actually turns out to be true in much greater generality, using a different solution: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1909085/suppose-a-b...
How the Vegas Golden Knights Went from a Ragtag Roster to Stanley Cup Contenders
Get what you do checked by a lawyer. We had to, to get Google 3PAS certification to do metrics in tracking pixels. So, DNT requires more than just code. You need a web pointer, T&C, you need to be clear what you do, and don't do, with your Personally Identifying Information (PII) which stems from your work in the net.
Viva Las Vegas!
By sheer coincidence, within hours of the announcement of GPP ending they have ROG-branded AMD cards back on their website and AREZ has disappeared.
Your comment reminded me of Alex Papadimoulis' blog entry "Pounding A Nail: Old Shoe or Glass Bottle?"[0].

[0] https://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/408925
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12380879

Some additional fun ones in the comments there.
Many thanks, wasn't aware there were services like this on demand.
Ok smarty. But you can choose to go outside only at night when the Sun isn't in the sky. But the sky is filled with other stars day and night. So you can never go outside if you are afraid of em radiation as weak as that emitted by WiFi hotspots or cellular phone towers.
Carbon (https://carbonads.net/) seems to be going strong.
Could you provide a source for your claim? You can read about TEMPORA here [1], which contradicts you:

"We keep the full sessions for 3 working days and the metadata for 30."

The filtering you're talking about would happen in POKERFACE, which applies after intake into TEMPORA. Basically:

Backhaul -> TEMPORA (3 day buffer) -> POKERFACE (scrubs data by policy such as US citizen status) -> XKeyscore

1. http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-34103.pdf
Summarizing the social liberal aspect of Canada by the legalization of marijuana seems very narrow minded. There are far more important social aspects than marijuana legalization.
Serverless shit runs on Amazon's servers.
Thanks. Nice explanation. It's been a while (18 years) since I've read maths proofs.
I welcome the day when ideas stand or fall on their own and are no longer pre-judged and rejected because they are “conservative”, “liberal”, “religious”, “scientific”, or whatever.
Needs the companion piece "how to avoid programme-committee burnout because after 10+ years, you forget about how to feel like a newbie attendee and pack your conference with stuff which interests you, and alienates any new entrant.

You need a mix. Maybe a PC review board approach is best, cycle bodies through.
> I personally don't know what drives people to work for other people

I’m lazy and unmotivated. I have no goals and no plans for the future other than dying before I run out of money or life gets too unbearable.

I have to get up in the morning and make money to get by. May as do as little as I have to.
Not to mention that adding an app to the home screen REMOVES some APIs like getUserMedia
>Or perhaps it's just 500M according to their own made up definition of "collect"?

This sounds like it's much closer to the truth. "It's not a collection until it comes up as a result in a search" would be about on par with the nonsense the NSA was claiming about what was considered searching data on American Citizens.
Thanks for the tip. My eldest child is nearly old enough to introduce to tabletop RPGs. I'd been planning to start him on Fighting Fantasy though.
I had to look it up..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_economy

And in doing so I read this bit about "it may have had as much to do with spreading poverty around"

I presume that white people no longer having the black people to live off meant

A. white people had to do alot more work themselves, and

B. white people had to share much more of the available resources with black people

So that they actively participated in racism to keep more resources for themselves..

Is this a reasonable take on this?

This is the part from the Wikipedia cited above I am referring to..

"However, the African American struggle to earn economic parity, that had made progress during the first half century of the postbellum era, had largely been reversed during the second half. Legally, equality was assured, but that did little to actually promulgate equal conditions in daily life.

Some of the gains in the South's economic relation to the rest of the U.S. can be explained by population shifts to other regions; so, it may have had as much to do with spreading poverty around, as spreading wealth around."
I blogged about how to apply ten of these to startups at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/01/10/applying-akins-laws...
I expect PWAs to hit their stride in a couple years. In some sectors (government and non-profits), there is strong cost pressure and "discoverability" is mostly a non-issue. They are blazing the trail that others will follow.
DEAD FACE: a bullet hell/hacking roguelike made for 7DRL 2018
It leaves people lots of time to think of better jobs to get. They are also less likely to go to crime.

And they can quit. I mean, a job guarantee isn't directly a requirement in the same sense.
Except AT&T has a long history of malice under the guise of incompetence. Just today: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170426/05094537241/att-u...
Well, shit. I started doing that ‘cause I heard everyone else was, too...
The book, "War," from Sebastian Junger is well worth a read. I read it before seeing "Restrepo" (which I also recommend). On Goodreads, I wrote this about Junger's book and his take on men and war after finishing it:

"[T]he experience of warfare seems to strike a chord deep within the psyche of the men in combat. The bonding among men, the heroism, the swinging extremes of victory won only by the palpable threat of mortal danger, the adrenaline rush and flood of endorphins during and after battle seem to be almost overwhelming to the human animal, eclipsing any larger moral considerations or even the rest of what we might call everyday life. To the men in the thick of the fight, it's an unrepeatable experience that they find themselves strangely missing years afterwards. What they miss doesn't minimize the horror of what they've experienced, and that's what they find so strange. In some respects once the shooting starts, the soldiers have all the justification they need to continue indefinitely. The immediacy of the experience provides satisfaction enough and requires no further rationale. In some ways it creates a microcosm of life and packs more than a lifetime's worth of living into its fleeting moments. How can life afterwards compare?"
You're being overly pedantic. They are referring to the BR modes in those games, and they are effectively clones and inspired by the movie Battle Royal.
Well, this led me on a bit of a rabbit trail. I made a python script that illustrates the solution to this problem in action. https://gist.github.com/travismay1/8d80fe345786b1d0e93fee812...
How to jump from an “old” stack to one that's likely to get me a remote gig?
Title kind of explains it all. i'm a senior full-stack dev who's been in the "enterprise" and corporate world for almost 20 years now. Been using things like ASP.net w/ C#, SQL, EF, WebApi, AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc. for years because it's what most of the corps out here on the east coast prefer. I try to stay current in the technologies I do use, so I'm not using ancient stuff. Plus I try to stay as current as I can with JS language features, if not necessarily frameworks like React or Vue.

But it seems like startups, younger companies, and the like who actually hire remote developers, are using more open source stuff like Node, Ruby, Python, etc for their backend stuff, and are heavy into the more trendy front end frameworks.

I can go ahead and pick a stack I guess and go about learning it, but I won't have years of experience in it like I do with my current stack. There's something to be said about knowing your tools inside and out, and having a deep intuition about it. I lose that once I start learning a new stack, plus I lose the benefit of saying I've been using established tech for many years. I lose the most valuable career strength, experience.

So say I do go off and make a side project here or there. How do I even convince these companies to even look at my resume when I'm listing 1 year of Node experience, but 10 years of .NET. Seems like I'm going to get passed up for the guy who's been doing it for 3 or 4 years.

Any advice would be helpful. I've been casting a wide net for remote jobs and getting nowhere. I can get a local job tomorrow if I want, as local recruiters struggle to find good people where I am. But remote is being a hard one to land, and it's what I want the most for a whole other post's worth of reasons.

p.s. if you're an experienced .net dev, check out southeastern PA. I'm serious, they are aching for good developers around here.
NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017?

I think it's more than 500M

by the way, you have child? let play game with them.
http://rolltheball.co/
I feel like I'm not getting the whole story here. You don't need a security clearance to become a permanent resident.
I'm with you, prohibition of weed is very backwards. But that's hardly slavery.
> we are all banding together along lines of common interests and beliefs, and not things like proximity, or economic need, or other factors. And one wonders why we are so divided, when nobody wants to find common ground...

I believe you are reversing the cause and effect. It is never easy to find common ground. In the bad old days when people could not band together along lines of common interests and beliefs easily, common ground were found by the powerful suppressing the opinion of the powerless, and other times by resolution of war.
My more educated friends go a step further and start calling things 'Hegelian' and such when I'm just trying to get directly at matters.
Power law applies everywhere and can be applied arbitrarily .
Not everyone in my environment thinks as I do, but I can find enough that I can live a happy life.

This is not so in other areas.