skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tricky to bribe out of the situation especially if your product is being sold out there in the open. Your competition will tell on you or your consumers will notice.
Yes, and that has been exploited in some situations (like trading). But besides those marginal cases, the impact is irrelevant.
Japan is capitalist, so is South Korea, Taiwan, etc. Still, they do protect their blue collar workers without selling them out to transnational capitalists.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, but I am for protecting your own workers in the face of international shenanigans.
The problem with the TPP was that it also snuck in too many distasteful things along with the useful policies.
My sentiments exactly. I see how the author felt thrilled by his discovery. But hn is getting less interesting each month. Otoh lobsters and Lbda the ultimate keep going strong.
This may be true if you are tied to the average income of an area. But good software engineers generally are not. I am able to enjoy a SV level of income in a much lower cost of living area.
That's just because Billy's mommy had ties with IBM CEO John Opel http://prospectingprofessor.blogs.com/prospecting_professor/....
This is completely banal mathematics....
My friend who works at Google pays $900/mo for a large room in a 3 bedroom apartment in Lower Haight. Yes, not the same as having your own place at $900 but still shocking to see someone pay that little for a place in SF.
Isn't that the same Deal Bernie and "me too" Hillary also opposed after having been in favor of it?
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Amen, amen, amen.

Plastic is good. Your (Govt's) inability to recycle plastic is the issue. No! the govt is going to blame someone and something else for its failures :sigh:
Be careful. Some people might accuse you of calling all immigrants from Nevada and New York mentally ill.
Quantum computing is expressible as linear transformations of qubit superpositions
Smell Dating – Pheromones in Romance
They can dump their treasuries on the open market satiating demand. This glut would make it extremely difficult for the US to raise the money it needs to fuel its record $1 trillion deficit.
I am downloading this dataset. It will take about 40 days, is my guess....
There is plenty of honest closure notices, generally along the lines of "lessons learned", "goodbye", and such.
I would assume that the lay judges are there to keep the professional judge's feet on the ground. Their opinions are non-binding, but would in theory have at least some influence, and provide a reality check with what the greater population thinks.

How that actually works out in practice, I don't know. A study would be useful.
You, and most americans, seem to be fixed with deficit in goods, but at the same time do not even mention the massive trade surplus that the US has in services. By some measures, total deficit with the EU for example is fairly balanced.

I assume that you are in favour for a rebalancing in services trade too?
In a world full of multi-million-dollar marketing budgets, where cars actually are given away to get attention, it's definitely not obvious at a glance that this isn't one of those sweepstakes.
I'm going to apply again. It will be my 8th time.
But this will be my first time applying with a co-founder, live product and paying customers.
If you are a YC alumn, would love to ping you so you can check out our application.
Thank you and good luck everyone!!

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On the obsessive statelessness of Peril
Suppose you have a data source and business logic which you want to run periodically on the data source. Here are two scenarios which you could reasonably implement this as:

Method one: You write a SQL query and some Python. You put a sticky note on your computer "Remember to run that biweekly."

Method two: You pull up your shop's documentation for how to add the (BIG_NUMBER)th entry into the data processing pipeline. This gets you automatic scheduling, retries, monitoring, audit trails, alerts to the right people in case of breakage, etc etc. You write a SQL query and some Python. You plug it into the existing infrastructure.
The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
If we are trading in services unfairly, sure. But we're likely not. Others will put up many different barriers to impede fair trade. The US does less of that nonsense, on balance.
Ahh, I misunderstood your point! Yes, it’s certainly easier for us providers if you provide a clear demand signal. RIs, CUDs, SUDs, and even general contracting terms each provide some measure of information between customer and provider.

We actually had an interesting debate about this topic at the NSF Workshop on Cloud Economics [1]. The AWS person sadly had to cancel, but both some Google people and MSFT people were present along with CS and Economics academics. There are lots of industries where similar behavior exists, e.g., airlines or hotels. If you book in advance, or commit to a room block, you get a discount in exchange for certainty. We had lots of amusing debate about how similar cloud actually is to say energy markets (which turn out to be incredibly distorted, regulated, and confusing). Hopefully David and the rest of the organizers will have their summary report out within a few months.

[1] https://umass-sustainablecomputinglab.github.io/nsfw/
Tracking Down a Better Vision Test
Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System
These bonds generally have a fixed term of up to 30 years, under what scenario would the US have to repay its bonds all at once, before they're due?
That link doesn't back up your claim, both as it doesn't show the rich supporting anyone and as "Democrat" and "liberal" aren't synonyms.
He might be talking about the Renminbi's fixed exchange rate[0]. It's a fairly common belief that Chinese exports gain a huge advantage because CNY aren't floated but USD (and basically everything else) are, and if I remember right Trump jumped on the bandwagon some time last year.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi_currency_value#Histor...
The general unstability of the region after the collapse of one of the few stable regimes (Irak) due to US intervention is one major reason why so many crisis sparked in the area.

Most migrants come from Siria. And little matters which american polititian is to blame for this crisis: the US is mainly responsible, and unfairly does not play any role in mitigating the consequences by taking refugees.
Ah okay. Thanks.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you may be placing special importance on the cat as a measuring device because it is conscious (at least until poisoned). If we assumed that consciousness has nothing to do with measurement, and that two particles interacting is enough for decoherence of one particle relative to another, the cat isn't a measuring device any more than the many constituent atoms in a bucky ball are. If a bucky ball can be in a state of coherence, why not a cat?

I know Schrödinger meant for his thought experiment to be obviously absurd, but I think he may have been underestimating the absurdity of the universe and thus accidentally proposing an entirely possible contraption that could not be feasibly built in his own time.
If you look at the numbers of how many people listen to radio I think this is a fair number. Each song on the radio is pushed to thousands and more of listeners at once on a station. The daily listener reach of big stations is essily in the millions. Spotify is a drop in the ocean compared to radio
I'm from India.

## Problem 1:
The problem is not culture, but of poor govt. I as a responsible person want to throw this wrapper, there is no dustbin you'll find for kilometers on end sometimes.

Do you expect me to carry the wrapper back to my home or carry a small dustbin along with me every time?

## Problem 2:
You would've noticed, most Indian homes are pretty clean (within reason and corresponding to income level). This is because we care for our private property. Govt is a body which owns public property and doesn't take care of roads and streets (which are public property). This will refute your claim that this is an issue of culture (because we keep our private property, houses, hotels, malls, etc clean).

## Solution (proposed):
This is going to be against mainstream and HN views.

1) Privatize roads and streets (takes care of problem 2)

2) Privatize waste collection (takes care of problem 1)

But we won't do it anytime soon, because reasons (we'll I know the reasons, but just don't want to type them down here).
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Defeats Joseph Crowley in Major Democratic House Upset
I understand why it may appear so, but not everybody in the Bay Area works at Facebook, Google or for a startup. Some of us work for companies where the compensation is decent and the work/life balance is fantastic, and where the people in charge don't try to substitute "passion" for compensation.
Why would it do it randomly then? Just read in the extra byte if you want extra entropy.
Go has a mandatory runtime (think, the GC) that needs to be included, Rust does not. As such, it’s binaries will always be larger.
> You're paying income tax, not sales tax, because winnings are income. (Think about professional gamblers...)

Think about them why? Gambling income is in a completely different category from a prize you won for free. There's no reason they have to be taxed the same.
They are not the best comparisons as there were other factors involved.

Zimbabwe has destroyed its farming output, Weimar had its industrial region occupied by France.

The US and EU have been running quantitative easing programmes for nearly 10 years and inflation is low.

It’s not pure cause and effect.
My upstairs neighbor with a nicer floor plan pays $900 a month, gets 2 parking spaces in the back lot AND a garage. I get no parking spaces, let alone a garage and pay $1900 a month. They have been in the apartment for a long time and I moved in 6 months ago.

It takes mental effort to not think about the imbalance. It wears you down. It is the most likely reason I would leave the Bay Area even though I can afford the rent.
Way better by what metric? Periodic polling is going to be better for battery than keeping a connection open 24/7.
Yeah, but it depends on how much you can save beyond your cost of living

It's easier to afford a new laptop when your rent is double of what it costs. But a new laptop is a once every couple of years expense, so
Telltale is replacing its in-house engine with Unity
Every time I try to think about Trump he seems profoundly stupid but also profoundly clever at the same time.
TIL littering is a common thing in multiple countries (not sarcastic)
I think the next release will have the midstack inlining feature (which has been previewed since Go 1.9)
Not the OP but the use of economic disruption as a political tool to exert control over other nations is a common tactic.

The poster child recently for this sort of thing was the US pumping out hundreds of thousands of bbl of oil to create a glut and push prices down. This hurt some of our middle eastern allies but it hurt Russia much harder. It is sort of a sanction without a sanction, rather than tell people they can't buy Russian oil, push the price of oil down with your own supply so that the Russians can't use it to prop up their economy.

The article talks about how this action undermines the Chinese leadership by taking money out of the pockets of people who are needed to support the status quo. It also puts pressure on their economy for which they have limited options for correcting. They mention adjusting the exchange rate, which might work but that percolates through the economy in hard to control ways.
every single web page feels like this to me
> For 95% if all workloads encountered by the types of people who dwell on this forum,

I call shennanigans on this as a made-up statistic. You may be able to convince that percentage of people of that, but they may well not be aware of what's possible with commodity hardware.

> there is zero value add in running your own data center.

Sure there is. Money and maximum (I/O) performance.

> “Saving money” by running your own servers is penny wise, pound foolish. You’ll never, ever compete with AWS for features or cost.

You may be right about (software) features, but certainly not about cost. It's not "saving money" with quotes. It's actually saving money. You just have to hire someone that happens to know how to save money.

AWS will never, ever compete with you for hardware features or cost.
How would one go about creating a torrent for it? Or uploading to IPFS?
seriously ?

Look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373220
What about unfair technological lead due to government support? The internet is a DARPA spinoff.

What about unfair IP rules due to overwhelming control of international organizations and standards?

What about unfair tax dodging by US multinationals, not paying tax on profits in the corresponding countries by abusing an international tax system made by the US for the US?
Iraq had its issues, sure, but the instability you see in Syria is unrelated to that but quite related to the "Arab Spring". Iraq was not exporting its instability. The Obama admin tried stirring thigs up and then Saudi and Iran of course had to rush in to fill up the vacuum and create more instability along with Russia (backing Iran) because each wanted to be hegemonic in the ME.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tent...
to me the idea of mining space to bring back to earth is insanely short sighted and uneconomical to the point of being unethical.

Mining space, should be used for the express purpose of developing in space.

The one exception I have for that rule is energy, transmitting energy to earth from space may even be the best way for earth to exist long term (but not in the sense of dragging chunks of "high tech coal" dirtside, I mean via microwave or laser or some other high intensity energy stream)
It wouldn't. The general threat is that China would sell these treasuries on the market and flood the supply. That would make it much harder for the US to sell new treasuries (which it does every quarter) and so the discount it would have to give would be higher (the bond yield would go up) and that would mean more expensive debt repayments in the future.
Can't you potentially land into an inconsistent state if the failed request keeps on failing while the other db request succeeds? Is the dual-write on the synchronous request path? I'm assuming there's a timeout or some fixed number of retries that occurs and once that is exhausted what would happen?
It is worth noting that ruthless time tracking can be massively detrimental to mood/culture/stress and efficiency/productivity/creativeness.

These tools work in an environment IF the culture is balanced "to track results, not effort" and time entry is happily undertaken by all employees because they want to - i.e. they are aware of the benefits:

- notes to refer to later (either themselves, or save someone asking later)

- billing the customer accurately (if appropriate)

- compartmentalisation of tasks (time tracking enables focus and flow on a single activity)

- Entering planned tasks into the time entry, then undertaking them one by one (benefits of planning the task ahead and having everything collated)

- Accountability / Enabling laissez faire - i.e. employees are aware that if they enter their time they are preventing 'hands-on' management (what are you doing? what have you spent your time on?) and preventing authoritarian management.

- Calendaring purposes (time tracking ties in with accurate calendaring and all of its benefits - E.g. good calendaring = calendars are transparent and accurate = employees book out their own time = people don't disturb you at bad times, or double book you with multiple tasks at once).

Without the above, a work atmosphere will become enormously depressing.
Another take on this subject: Once your manager comes around looking for someone that could help / take on a highly low level task / project, you won't be the right fit if you don't feel comfortable or have the required knowledge.
(chicken or egg problem)
You don't get to work on the fun stuff because you don't know the fun stuff
1) Putting aside feasibility with current technology, do you think Schrödinger's cat is as absurd as Schrödinger thought it was? Do you think that cats, or humans, could be placed in a state of quantum coherence? If not, why?

2) I expect some long-winded disclaimer before you answer this, but do you personally find the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics or the Copenhagen interpretation to be more probable?
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Secure coding practices in Java: challenges and vulnerabilities
I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft's willingness to roll over to the US government (PRISM, NSAKEY).
I realized this evening I should have said Lisp/Smalltalk.

I would also agree regarding market conditions.

One other thing, since this textbox is here and you're contemplating similar thoughts: the Modula-2/Oberon OS system in the 90s deserves some serious re-analysis and recognition of what it did do. My memory of a paper - and I haven't found this source when I went looking for it - is that it had a full networked productivity suite suitable for all users of the CS department? University? hosting Oberon's development. And it was used heavily in that place. It was a hardware-software-language codesign project, if I remember right. Maybe the last of its kind in the wild outside of the Linux/DOS projects with C and Intel processors.

I do agree that someone who dropped a reasonably decent starting point for the Next Lisp OS in a fashion that multiple people could contribute to could get some traction and power. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since Lisp machines went away, and the model users and environments are substantially different. My reckoning is that a genuinely next-gen system would wind up with a trusted-compute base, maybe even a trusted-compute kernel, using Rust or other forward-looking technology, with the lisp system sitting on top. Broadly: rust would provide syscalls & drivers, then boot sbcl for the init and then the main user.

It would be a fascinating exercise in modern OS & userland redesign. I think there's probably a PhD in it; as far as I know, that world has lain fallow for a few decades now in academia.
He comes across as somewhere between 4chan/pol and Forest Gump. And I'm not being critical, by the way. It is, upon reflection, profoundly clever.
Starting at the link above, click on the #21915 in the commit message, which takes you to https://golang.org/issue/21915.
It's not finished yet and Iridium will never be cheap enough for the developing world.
Does this mean that tradewars can or are in effect M.A.D. Devices?
ie If China backs down and the US wins then china will stay forever repressed? so therefore they have to keep battling it out until a reset happens via "True War" or the collapse of one of them? (or both)
yeah they were protecting while USA corporations were expanding, too bad it doesn't trickle down that good. There was no disadvantage for the actual ruler, the profits. So.. Yeah, what was gonna happen happened.

Also, no maternity leave, no paternity leave, no social safety net, no unions, no paid vacations, etc, etc, etc. How did it happen? It's not really that of a mystery, they just had a very long strip-tease on the workers, removing protection piece-by-piece, for the 'job creators'! you may not be anti-capitalist, but capitalism is anti-you. Anyway, I'm an anti-capitalist so that's my point of view.
Yes, total comp of 250k is highly doable. At the famous mega-corps, total comp would be 300-400k now, including stock appreciation.
There's a site where you can learn solve "interview-style" questions, https://leetcode.com
Just heard of it recently on HN
Yeah - it's basically a PCIe KVM over ethernet.
100% certainty means either 100% prior or some completely waterproof evidence neither of which ever happen for any question. Still interesting result!
In my experience with consultants, McKinsey and their ilk do similar things in many other countries, too, and not just the poor African ones. It is not uncommon for government officials to retire to lucrative positions at these consultancies, in return for earlier favors.

South Africa is different because their very liberal post-apartheid constitution gives journalists and whistleblowers a large amount of protection. They also have a good culture of investigative journalism, thanks to the anti-apartheid movement.
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They can do that, although they would lose an incredible amount of money with that dumping. Further, this must be considered an act of warfare executed through financial means. What makes you think the following will be true?

1) The Fed won't simply buy them all up, then unwind their position over the next few years.

2) China won't be subject to extraordinary DPRK-like secondary sanctions, minimizing China's ability to trade with those dollars and thus limiting the inflationary effect of those newly-printed proceeds.

3) The US will not retaliate with other coercive measures, like sector-wide sanctions on strategic Chinese market sectors, elimination of MFN status, removal from WTO, military pressure in the South China Sea, etc., which combined are likely more than enough to dissuade China.
I'm an Indian and your statements are ignorant and myopic. Let me explain.

Littering is in every country not just India. Certain countries deal with it in a better way.

Banning something doesn't evaporate it's demand. Like, people litter because there are not dustbins (at least not often enough) on the street in India.

Open defecation is unrelated to this issue. Main reason open defecation happens is because there is no continuous supply of water (by the Govt) or proper sewage system (responsibility of the govt).

We need to stop blaming ourselves and think what is the root cause of the problem - Government.

PS: I've thought my stance through about this, please think through this and see whether or not Govt is to blame for this. Govt is not you and I. All govts these days are Govts of the people by the bureaucracy for the bureaucracy.
It reads almost like they choose to shutdown because the program itself is too successful. The irony.
A one-size-fits-all database like PostgreSQL fits most. Moving to a specialised solution is always an option, if necessary. Starting with specialised solutions is a bad idea that will limit flexibility needlessly.
Yesterday, Xi Tells CEOs He’ll Strike Back at U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-tells-ceos-hell-strik....

However, one can deduce that the dictator is running scared. The stock market has fallen 25% this year. Yuan has fallen 10%. There's a 400 billion tariff coming his way, and because of 'saving face', there's no way he will back down. He has to prop up the real estate bubble:

"price rose 31 percent to nearly $202 per square foot. That's 38 percent higher than the median price per square foot in the U.S., where per-capita income is more than 700 percent higher than in China." https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-24/why-china...

and he has to also unwind China's 12-18T shadow banking, China's version of subprime loans similar to 2008 crisis (but way bigger). He has to figure out how to steal IP to move up the chain when US and the rest of the world has upped their defense, restricting Chinese tech investments and resisting hacking attempts. He also needs to deal with the tariffs encouraging manufacturers to leave China and go to southeast asia or back home via reshoring or automation. There is also the matter of a lack of consumer market in China, after it gets shut out of US and europe. Not much Chinese consumers can buy after $800/month income, after paying most of it to mortgage and inflated food prices.