skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having owned both a GM and a Tesla, I'm amused by the idea that GM's build quality is better. I actually liked my GM a lot, but quality was lacking to say the least.
it's taking seemingly forever to load the example.
I really want Kubernetes to become as accessible as possible to developers.

There are a few key problems though from a dev's POV:

1) Concept creep: How much kubernetes do I need to know to be productive?

2) Local development and workflows: It's still super painful to run a full-on Kubernetes environment locally. Are we moving to a future where a microservice is developed locally and then any kind of "integration" testing can only be done by deploying to a Kubernetes cluster? Tools like gitkube, ksync help.
Backfeed prevention devices are not the only arrow in the safety quiver, but they are required for lineman safety purposes (as well as other net wins, like reduced problems with downed lines meeting up with everyday people). Backfed generators (and now solar, wind, etc.) injure and kill.
Same here, as long as you aqvoid the "Spotlight" section. Nothing but garbage in there, but everything else seems fine.

Incidentally, I have my Google search/activity history turned off and often browse while not logged in. I do wonder if this could be a case of the ML model over fitting and actively making things worse.
You're also going to lose your green card pretty quickly that way.
I've been surprised how fast javascript can go - faster than C here. They did good work on that JIT.

Playing around I see: for (i=1;i<1e9;i++) {}

runs about 10x faster than: for (i=1.5;i<1e9;i++) {}

presumably because it complies to integer code for the first (using Chrome)
Why enterprise software is switching to subscription-based pricing
At CMU, annual tuition is less than $24,000. There are less than 14,000 students enrolled, which means total tuition paid must be less than $336M.

If all that money were equally divided between the 1400 faculty members, they'd each get a salary of at most $240k per year, which is really high in the grand scheme of things but kind of low for these specific facebook jobs that we're talking about.

Now consider that much (most?) of that revenue must actually be spent on the 2,500 staff members supporting university operations, building maintenence, etc.

I don't think there is any great mystery to solve here.

Edit: see the replies to this post. It seems the tuition at CMU I'd double what I thought it was. I still don't think the revised numbers are any more mysterious, though.
4% after inflation is not easy
> Sorting people into two cohorts — "would have been rich in any case" and "other" — fails to recognize that people's individual financials fall somewhere on a continuum, and that their actions (i.e., spending) affects how much wealth they can accumulate by their 40s (or phrased alternatively, affects when they can retire).

That wasn't a point I intended to make. What I was trying to get at is that most of us should not be comparing our returns to people who start wealthy / connected or the few outliers who were e.g. early employees at a high-return startup. That can be useful as a dream goal but it's better to have more realistic expectations.

For the main point, personal habits definitely make a big factor but your ability to maintain those high savings rates is subject to a number of things which you have little to no control over. As an example, graduating in a recession has historically correlated with lower lifetime earnings because starting salaries influenced subsequent wages and a long period languishing in a mediocre job market really cuts into your interest compounding time if your baseline is not substantially over a reasonable cost of living. Similarly, in many areas the housing market has had huge fluctuations and that's a huge impact on your savings rate since it affects both the cost of rent and your time to acquire a down payment if it's more cost effective long-term to own. You do have the option of living in a smaller/less-desirable place, etc. but that often still means things like a longer commute and the numerous costs that entails.

The other side of the luck equation is that many people have factors which make it hard to optimize for investment returns. If you have health issues, your savings rate is going to be much lower. If you have kids or a relative who needs help that will impact your housing, job, travel, etc. choices and cuts into both your absolute savings rate and especially your ability to make long-term optimizations. If you're married to someone who needs to move for job reasons (e.g. everyone in academia), your ability to time the local housing market is severely hampered. If your particular field is not continuously in strong demand (this can be out of your control: tons of laid-off web developers were competing for the same jobs circa 2001) there's going to be time transitioning, retraining, etc. and likely digging into those savings temporarily.

None of this is to say that living frugally is a bad idea or that you'd regret having done so, only that saying you can retire in 20 years is unrealistic for most people and it makes the pitch sound a bit like a scam/cult.
i'm fine with the ram usage. for me startup time is the bigger issue.
A S&P 500 index fund will get you that.
With my .consulting domain, which is pretty out there as TLDs go, I've had a validation issue with just one site so far out of a dozen or so. I can't remember exactly which one, but it was some credit-card bank.

It was frustrating, but luckily I had a .com address that routes to the same email address, so it was more an annoyance than a crippling flaw.

That said I haven't given it out as an email address to humans, so have no data for reception there.

FWIW I'm using ProtonMail's professional plan, which I've found is pretty solid as a gmail replacement, if you're looking for alternatives.
Cynicism aside, YouTube is a typical example of a good use for autoplay. A user clicking a link to YT almost always wants to watch the video. "Predictable" probably wasn't the right word for them to use, but I think this is a reasonable move by Google.
On a slight tangent: Human rights create wealth too, a very happy fact of life. Free, politically secure people, who feel they control their destiny are, not too surprisingly, the most productive. All the most productive, wealthiest nations are free.

One thing you say that I don't quite agree with:

> very possibly the reason Trump is sitting in office

Think of all the ways the theory doesn't apply: Most voters making less than $50K chose Clinton[0]; minority voters, who also lost jobs and who have higher unemployment than white voters, overwhelming chose Clinton; Trump's and the GOP's policies overwhelmingly favor the wealthy and big business, including cutting health care and other government services to the working class, and shifting relatively more of the tax burden onto them.

To the extent working class white voters supported Trump, they did so against economic self-interest. But that's long been true of many such voters; remember the book 'What's the matter with Kansas?' (or whatever it was called - a f*ng obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant title that reveals the problem with Dems: 'customers aren't buying our product, what's the matter with them?'). The question is, why?

[0] Based on a HN comment that cited some stats; I didn't check them myself, so take with salt. But I remember reading similar research after the election.
To serve as a basemap I think the country labels are distracting.
Fuck off nigger monkey
I found this tweet which contains more information on what it is exactly: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/987468999914012672

Here is a one-page overview: https://k.im/docs/one-page-overview.pdf
It would work if the model used preloaded crypto payments where all you had to do is see how many tokens something costs and have them deducted automatically by clicking the article read button.
> Can you compare yourself to other OSM services then?

Sure. Here's a brief overview:

- Bill-as-you-go vs tier-based billing Many other services use usage-based billing, which is great for minimizing costs, but not so much for cost-prediction. We use tiers with soft-limits, so if you exceed your given usage for a few days of the month, it's not big deal and your bill doesn't change (e.g., you hit the HN front page!). Our initial customers told us consistent costs were very useful when handling client projects.

- Raw price We believed we could deliver a premium product at lower costs than other providers. Based on price comparisons, we believe we are on the right path to achieve this. We also do not treat certain applications (such as asset tracking) differently.

- Map design We didn't like many of the other provider's themes, so we built our own and plan to expand our portfolio over time.

- Goals We want to build a sustainable map service provider that respects the rights and data of its users (and its users' users)—not grow at any cost. Many of the other providers aggressively market for growth or capturing users' data, or marketing their own products on the map (e.g., reviews or other places), we want to get out of the way and allow your data to shine on our maps.

There are more differentiators, but these are some of the factors that led us to begin our own service.
Ask HN: What should I build?
I have a few Ideas and I would like to know which one has the best chances of success:

a) A dating app like tinder (Android/ios) but you post just one 20 seconds video (no text, no pics)

b) A Chrome extension to seamlessly merge facebook and whatsapp on a single tab

c) A Chrome extension to edit videos online (right click "edit video" get simple edit options: cut/copy+paste/add-text/add-png)

d) Webapp to easily slice photoshop files (PSD) to generate responsive CSS (with JSX exporting)

e) A Webapp that autoplays all reddit front-page gifs+videos one after another, with option to log in to only do it with the channels you are subscribed; or click any channel to do it with those ones

I'm open to ideas that are not too far off those ones (yeah; I know r/AppIdeas exist)
Unless her bosses traded on insider information I don’t think it is. I work for a bank and get training in this sort of stuff every three months, but I’m certainly no lawyer so don’t take my word for it – I may well be wrong.
China's Debt to GDP ratio is 3 to 1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/sizing-up...
Do you think that semiconductors are the only thing required to fix GOSPLAN, make adjustments to prices of everything and save Soviet economy?
Thanks for your feedback! I can see where you're coming from.

If you're using vector maps, you can definitely remove that layer, if you wish.

If enough users request a basemap without country labels (we haven't had any requests for that before this), we certainly could add it for raster.
China also needs the capability to build the machines that build the machines, if automation is to be their savior as their population ages. High precision heavy industry.

They have no equivalent to a company like Bosch in Germany.
I'm 33, and this hits pretty hard.

Ever since I graduated college, I've watched my circle of friends dwindle over the years, as all of us have busy lives and don't have much room for socialization, especially not when factoring in each other's schedules.

I stopped talking to one of the few close friends I had left after he married an extremist tradcon and started posting a constant stream of hate. It's really disheartening to watch a guy who used to be one of the most compassionate people I know post memes with slurs in them (including slurs against a group I'm part of), videos by Neo-Nazis, rants about how Jimmy Kimmel's done deserves to die, etc. He went from being like a brother to me to being someone I never want to talk to again. And even before he completely jumped down the alt-right rabbit hole, as soon as he started dating her, I would never see him without her ever again. It was draining inviting him to hang out places and him always bringing his then-girlfriend who I hated with him every single time. Even when I went to buy him expensive scotch at a bar to congratulate him on his engagement (because even though I hate her guts, I was still happy for him that he found someone), she decided to tag along (seriously, that was supposed to be a private moment between me and him)... I really regret wasting that money on scotch for both of them given what he's turned into.

In the last month, I have set foot of my house to socialize exactly once, and that was for a friend's birthday party... so that's not going to happen again for another year.

Facebook has been a godsend, because it's basically the only way I talk to most people anymore. Through Facebook, I can stay in touch with a bunch of people who I wouldn't have the opportunity to see in real life. I have a ton of friends I get along with really well but for various reasons none of us are able to get together in real life, so Facebook it is.

It doesn't help that I have no interest in getting married or having children. In fact, the idea of either sickens me. So as everybody else is pairing off to get married or spending 99% of their free time taking care of kids, I'm stuck by myself. I just wish I had more single (and preferably asexual) friends to hang with.

I actively hate being in my 30s. I wish I was in college again, because I really miss the vibrant social life I had back then.
Might be causal during pregnancy. There's a chance it's simply an expression of genetics as parents might be shut-ins but this sounds legit to my latching tendencies:

"Vitamin D is necessary for cell growth and communication in all organs in the body, so it’s no surprise that a lack of vitamin D has an affect on the developing brain"

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2013/08/low-prenatal-vitamin-d...
That is the Agile process in a nutshell.
No, only if he was trading on insider information and she was aware of that. Maybe if his orders were so large as to affect the stock price, but I doubt that.
The tiles served for openstreetmap.org aren't meant for businesses to rely on. Or even high volume side projects.
"I would expect a black person from Africa to have generally a much harder time in tech than an African American."

Possibly the reverse, if bias against African Americans is partly due to preconceptions and stereotypes of African American culture. Black applicants from outside the US might benefit from being perceived differently because they don't fit into the existing stereotype.
The Case for Central Bank Electronic Money
> stagnation in one's daily routine caused by one's job.

Definitely this.

We let work take way too much time from our lives.

If you count commuting, the minimum 8 hours at work (more like minimum 10) then work can eat up to 12 hrs/day.

On top of that us 'knowledge workers' carry our work around in our heads all the time.

It's not as though after 8hrs we just put the wrench down and go home, no the ongoing problems of work follow us around and even toss and turn us in our dreams sometimes.

To me this is unacceptable.

The way that we employ our working hours is a waste of time[1] on a colossal scale, and for little benefit to humanity most of the time.

[1] Literally the finite precious time we each have on earth.
There are three main kinds of async IO.

* Event driven with callbacks (`on data`, `on error`, and so on).

* Stackless coroutines (async/await).

* Stackful coroutines (no direct semantic changes to code required).

Personally, I like stackful coroutines because the concurrency model has minimal effect on the structure of the code, i.e. it's possible to retrofit existing code without change.
What strikes me most is that there is a need for benefactors to make sure people can get a proper education.

Locking education for people with a disadvantage in life which is not their own doing is baffling for me. Especially in a developed country... Not everyone can win the parent lottery.
Ulysses is an egregious example as they cost more than MS Office in many cases, which is particularly noxious when you consider how little a markdown editor does in comparison.

I’m always annoyed about whiny iOS developers complaint about how they cannot make money without obnoxious schemes like this or gambling mechanisms. Software ISVs in olden times had a tiny market, huge expenses around retail channels and distributors, etc. They made money.
Society seeks a balance, generally. Think of labor regulations: Factories can't risk employees' lives. They can't ask employees if they want to risk dying to do their jobs; it would be insane.

Astronauts are a bit different: Highly skilled, with relatively good knowledge of the risks (but they are not professional engineers, for the most part, and are not immersed in the engineering of their equipment), and sometimes the reward is much higher (e.g., being the first to walk on Mars).

But the same mechanisms apply of risk, organizations, and the human response to them apply. Think of it: The proposal is to risk their lives so we can save money on fuel. That's disgusting.
Maybe not humans but instead what we deem as the only thing that's inherent to all of us (humanity?) will be long gone by then.
> most poor people actually have high incomes

what is your evidence for this? take america as a "developed country"
Updated "being eaten" preferences for sheeps from wolf.

Wolf only does this by learning sheep' preferences.

Of course keeping sheeps happy is wolf's first priority.
> Best I can tell the Dell image for XPS 9550 is just Windows 10 with minimal drivers.

I've worked in an IT shop before. Even if the image is just Windows 10 with included drivers, those drivers can include bundled programs and bloatware themselves. I used a Dell laptop in the past with Windows 8 that had a trackpad application which had to autostart and run in the background for the trackpad to work properly. No matter what, that program was guaranteed to be using at least 50MB of RAM. Upon upgrading to 8.1, I had a bunch of OS errors. Turns out, uninstalling and reinstalling the trackpad driver fixed the problem.

OEM drivers aren't just the drivers themselves, but often instead an entire suite of programs that bloat your system and interfere with Windows' ability to take care of itself.
> The line isn't "your thirties."

> The line is when you graduate college.

I agree with this, but with one caveat: it's a slow process, and it takes years to fully take effect.

The process of your friend groups disintegrating does indeed begin with your college graduation, but it takes so long for the effects to be really felt that a lot of people don't realize their friend groups have disintegrated until around the time they hit 30.
The second contractor would surely have a hiring manager that could explain what’s what to upper management.
I've never heard of "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" before. Thanks for bringing it up.
>China should have done this 5-8 years ago.

They did. Beijing handed out massive subsidies, companies started building fabs, and now those fabs are starting to come online in 2018[0]. Fabs take time to build.

[0] https://epsnews.com/2018/04/26/three-chinese-companies-to-st...
> your own personal preference for moral codes

No, these are universal human rights. Dictators who deny their people self-determination have long claimed 'we're different', but wherever people have a choice, they've chosen these rights.

It's true across cultures: The only places in China where people can decide their own rules have chosen these rights, Taiwan and Hong Kong (and don't forget mainland Chinese the last time they had a chance at it, in Tienanmen Square). Japan, South Korea, almost every country in N. and S. America, Europe and the U.S., and on and on.

It's a bit of a catch-22 for the dictators: If people are so happy with your rules, why not take a vote?
Most of those are covered by either subscription models or Patreon. Some of them (news, blogs, tutorials) can, like Wikipedia, be funded with non-profit models.
Elon is addressing the "barnacle upon barnacle" problem with Contractors.

Sure, the Contractor on the front lines actually doing work may be "liked".

It's the middle manager/Contractor's boss sitting in an office 1,000 miles away that Elon wants to get rid of.

Employees can apparently hire/manage Contractors directly, but Contractors can't outsource the work they were hired to do.
> Is there any hopes of them un-forking?

Doubtful. IIRC it was somewhat of a hostile & opportunistic fork. The Gogs maintainer went on vacation or something and didn't reply to issues for a couple weeks so someone forked to Gitea and declared themselves the new mainline only for the Gogs maintainer to return and not appreciate the attempted usurpation.
Stoics believe that this is more impressive than the lifestyles of rich people. José Mujica was once the president of Uruguay gave 90% of his presidential salary to the charity and driving a very old car. Stuffs like this is more impressive because not everyone can do that.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica
I believe the poster you are responding to is likely thinking of an interview situation. At least, that is how I interpreted the comment.
At fees of 4/100ths of a percent. Vanguard has created a simply enormous consumer surplus. Thank you Bogle.
This is untrue in modern tech for most people. Let's attempt to break it down for a person who's single who wants to retire early:

If you're pulling 100k or more, you should be more than capable, if you are living frugally, even after taxes, to save about 30-40% of that (if not way more. Remember that the median single person income is about $35,000, and the median family income, in total, is $75,062 [1]).

The current wisdom is that if you are withdrawing no more than about 3-4% of your savings, you can expect, due to return on investment, your money to last about 30 years with 90% certainty [2].

This means that if you are willing to live on, say, $18,000 (fairly doable in many parts of the country where rentals are 600-900 a month), you only need a nest egg of 600k to begin a 30 year retirement in which you never make another dollar from working.

To make this concrete: let's say after taxes and expenses, 30% of $100,000 is all you can reasonably save, due to the Bay Area being pricey and general life expenses. I personally don't think it's a major sacrifice to stash this much away, but let's run with it as an example. That's $30,000 you can sock away a year.

This means to reach that 600k retirement figure, it should only take someone who starts saving for retirement immediately, 20 years to get there.

And I would argue this is a VERY pessimistic assumption set as well, because the 3% number is meant to be a guarantee to survive HARD economic downturns, and the above analysis assumed you never received a bonus, never got a raise, never were awarded stock, never saved more, and never developed any income streams besides your job, despite being a programmer for over 20 years. Some analyses of doable salary increases programmers regularly get show you could pull this off in 8 years with my 30% estimate [3]. If you can, for example, increase your savings rate in my setup to 50%, you can have the above 600k based retirement within 12 years, in your mid 30s.

Families obviously make this analysis more complicated, because of housing and the possibility of new income streams and drains, but assuming a two income family, I still would assert the fundamentals of the above situation haven't changed.

So, in short, it very much is possible to retire in your 40s. You just have to live your lifestyle in a way that actually allows for that.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/u-s-house...

[2] http://time.com/money/4689984/safe-withdrawal-rate-retiremen...

[3] https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/