skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried to compile a list of the mysterious expressions used in the article:

- "labour markets have tightened"

- "unemployment rate"

- "unemployment was much higher"

- "fall in union membership"

- "rising offshoring"

- "outsourcing"

- "workers’ bargaining power"

- "tightening in labour markets might yet boost workers’ bargaining power" "as was the case during the late 1990s and late 2000s"

- "number of part-time workers who want full-time jobs"

- "unemployment rates that are far higher"

- "pockets of slack might constrain wages everywhere"

- "firms that are struggling to find workers"

- "If slack were eliminated everywhere, pay might rise faster"

- "boost real wages by running labour markets hotter"

Now, I'm no economist, but the picture I'm getting is that they are describing labor relations as a "market", where prices (wages) are affected by demand (companies seeking employees) and supply (workers seeking jobs). So the idea would be that when the supply of potential workers increases (because unemployment is high, or because new sources of labor are available, e.g. by outsourcing and offshoring) that tends to drive wages down, and when the supply decreases it tends to drive wages up.

The fly in the ointment of my interpretation is that there is at least one other obvious source of increased labor supply in rich countries, yet the Economist does not mention it anywhere. So I must be misunderstanding it, after all.
I was hoping for 30+ year studies on this topic. Also, for things like LASIK surgery where people who have had LASIK 50+ years earlier and what effects it had on their vision.

Results take time to measure.
Is it really nothing like d2 in spirit? It's maybe a little less "dark" with a weaker storyline, but it's still very much the same genre of hack and slash game with very similar combat and item mechanics. You're definitely exaggerating.
While it may be a ledger that utilizes cryptographic primitives, it is no longer decentralized if run by the government. While I disagree with the idea that base protocols like bitcoin or ethereum make for sound money, I think it's likely that some decentralized stable asset takes the place of existing fiat.
Elevation span is probably a much more common way to think of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... (sort by elevation span)
Well, Apple also employs millions of Chinese works indirectly through their suppliers. I think the last thing the Chinese gov't wants is a large number of unemployed young males.
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They would simply vaporize. At the margin, people trade because the frictional costs (spreads, fees, pricing/tracking error, risk) of trading are low. Fewer people would trade.

HFTs basically play an intermediary role: risking capital to buffer supply/demand imbalances, aiming to buy things at a discount or sell at a premium to their perceived value. The more transactions an intermediary does, the smaller his margins per transaction can be. Low margins fuel even more transactions in a virtuous cycle, and competition drives margins down.

Take this thought experiment to an extreme level. What would happen if short term speculation were banned, all stocks traded January 1, and had to be held for a year? Only very wealthy people with high risk tolerance could participate in the market, since they couldn't sell companies at will to fund personal expenses or if the business underperformed.

Volumes would plummet. Exchange/brokerage fees would be a significant percentage of the deal size, similar to what real estate agents charge, since they can only do a few transactions. Intermediaries would be something akin to a private equity fund, bidding 10-20%+ under value to cover the risk of holding for a year.

Even with trading reduced to once a minute/hour/day, many trades HFTs take the other side of now--say a medium frequency quant fund believes a company is underpriced by 0.1%--simply would not exist anymore, because spreads and fees would increase. Most ETFs would disappear. The marginal cost for an HFT to make markets in some small ETF is basically 0, but a human would make more at McDonalds than market making an ETF that trades a few hundred thousand shares a day.
I stay away from plugins for fear that I’ll get so used to them, I’ll be lost if I sit down in front of a terminal that doesn’t have them installed.
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SWITH gpi was announced in 2015, piloted in 2016, and incorporated a blockchain PoC in 2017[1]. While only SWIFT knows if cryptocurrency was part of the conversation at the start, I'd be surprised if it didn't at least come up very early on.

In the context of how the politics of upgrading a bank's stack work, "driving" is the wrong word because in that context there are always people trying to drive "innovation". A better word is tailwind. Generally, banking tech is pretty crappy and good technologist can easily spot places where a big upgrade (aka "innovation") is warranted. The problem these people run into when lobbying for the upgrade is overcoming the hurdle of migration risk. The bigger the project, the bigger the hurdle. For JPM, I've heard this hurdle was summed up as _demonstrate a 1000x return on investment_.

Blockchain (via cryptocurrency) provides a tailwind to the people already trying to drive "innovation" in 2 ways -- it gives these people two additional angles:

1. As much as banks dislike spending money they hate losing market share. The risk blockchain poses helps in the lobbying for "innovation" without being a central point.

2. Higher ups can have the opportunity to be seen as "innovative in blockchain" by having the main "innovation" have a pet blockchain PoC on the side (similar to [1]) that's only kinda taken seriously. While the first bite at the apple (the upgrade) may not be enough this second bite (PR about them using blockchain) may satisfy them.

Does blockchain/cryptocurrency actually drive the discussion or make it into the final "innovation"? Probably not... today's gen 2 stacks just aren't good enough. Hopefully some gen 3's can change this in the next few years but that market still needs to be proven[2]. In the meantime, when dealing with a big bank's bureaucracy, every extra knot of tailwind helps.

[1]: https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/22-addition...

[2]: Disclosure: I was at JPM working on blockchain back when Gemini (now called Quorum) was first purposed and when Juno was the headline JPM blockchain project. I left to co-found one of these next-gen platforms: kadena.io
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"Western-style dates" is a literal translation of "西暦(seireki)", which people use to refer to the Gregorian calendar in Japanese.
The story didn't mention how they were able to get his IP address in the first place. That level of detail is important for this community!
"Ethan M. Penn" deserves some e-gold for this piece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
We use a similar technique at Interana. Our DB is a column store, but we break things up over the time dimension to keep file sizes of individual columns reasonable. One of these time buckets is essentially analogous to a single parquet file. In addition we split/sort these buckets into smaller buckets as more events are added.
It’s kind of like Flight of the Conchords, but only 10% as funny and a decade later.
Like AS PATH this is one of the reasons people say but like path security in BGP, its not what people actually do very much. I like BCP38 and I like MANRS but.. traction is hard here.

I was making statements about the road not taken: we have dst IP in the packets, from before BCP existed.
I'm trying to read between the lines here: is c2rust a libclang wrapper and corrode is an original grammar based or regex based parser?
It’s a worst case scenario for property values and they’re still going up. That’s a perfectly valid example.
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than to be not free and starve
Yes. It wasn't a statement about the future, as much as about the past.
Ad networks need to add simple perf tracing to the ads they serve and boot off the high consuming ones.
I bet this will lead to huge imbalance in the world of micro-organisms, the effects of which, we do not understand.
But in many of the areas with soaring home prices (for example, SF and Seattle), renters outnumber homeowners. A renter doesn't care about preserving the value of his landlord's property.
This guy wasn't really a hacker, just someone who knew a little bit about tech and figured out a flawed system. I think that sums him up as a scammer instead of a hacker.
The oplog is awesome! It provides an immutable record which is really useful - we materialize the oplog directly in Athena to get a time-travelling database for debugging purposes.
Huh? I am not "Patrick Naughton"
Oh. we talked about that. You could include the origin-AS and each AS along the path would change it in flight, was one idea.

Which also didn't fly for obvious reasons. src,dst pair as part of a tuple was just simpler.
It's FUD to say encryption doesn't matter without authentication - unencrypted traffic is eavesdroppable by default and exposes you much more broadly than just being exposed to one potential bad actor.

Of course using authentication is vastly superior, but lacking it doesn't render encryption useless.
> The markets aren’t super forgiving

Tesla's stock is 40% above its 52 week low and was just near its all-time highs two weeks ago. That's pretty forgiving. Must drive the bears crazy.
It surprises me how much this sort of behaviour towards children still goes on.

I remember being a kid and how people would be disinterested in you beyond anything superficial.

I often wonder how much of this effected my later behaviour.
The hardware is great and they got the concept of a smartwatch just right (something Fitbit is struggling with even with their latest offering), but I disliked the software in a bunch of ways ("Hey, how can I access the microphone stream? What, I can only get the transcription?", "Okay, I'm fed up enough with X to go into the OS code and change it, where's the repo? What, it's closed?!)". Plus all of their support ("Hey, where can I get a replacement glass cover and battery? What, you don't sell parts?").

Infuriating for a product that is called a "geek watch"
at every chance.

It's amazing that Rebble is tackling the software part. Ideally I would like to see a smartwatch OS that can run the same apps on different hardware.
Yahoo hasn't had its own search engine for years. In 2010, they became essentially a frontend for Bing. In a later 2015 deal they switched the backend to using Google.

Duckduckgo is a metasearch engine, technically, but mostly it delegates to Bing.

As far as I can tell, there are only two and a half real search engines that still exist: Bing, Google, and Wolfram Alpha. (I count Alpha as a half because it's not really what most people are looking for.) I'm curious if anyone else knows of other real search engines still in existence.
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I wrote a post on the topic here https://yogthos.net/posts/2017-10-03-MovingForwardByLettingG...

Basically, the macro system makes it possible to extend the language in userspace via libraries. This allows the core language to stay small and focused, while different ideas can be tried out as usage patterns change.

The way Clojure is used today is very different from the way it was used a decade ago. However, the language itself has stay remarkably focused over time.
RethinkDB doesn't get enough love. It's rare to see anything pass the Jepsen tests to the degree that Rethink did: https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

It's sad that, for a backend DB, correctness can be trumped by marketing.
There’s a difference between stating a statistical fact and making a claim of foundation. GP is talking about the stats, not making a statement about any kind of official establishment.
Baidu, Yandex, Naver, probably quite a few others.
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The journalist is conveying a thing they saw using words they are familiar with. cf: Cameleopard vs giraffe, and first sightings of kangaroo or platypus.
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> chains seek to free staff to help shoppers.

Of course that is what all the newly redundant staff will be doing. Because customer service is the top priority of a discount retailer.
> (ETL) from mongoDB

Why not query the data directly in MongoDB?
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Right if only there ever was an event when this strategy backfired ...
Even better than a wage, since the eventual cashout gets way nicer tax treatment.
> profits are a side effect of meeting needs

It's the other way around.
Yes, but I am also disappointed when the odd article I find interesting and want to read more of is only a few paragraphs long.
If you want to know if a site is trustworthy, you want a certificate from their insurance company, not their CA. Someone who is promising to pay you real money if the site contains malware or a scam or whatever. Unfortunately this sort of insurance would probably be more, not less, expensive than EV certs.
Thanks, this looks quite a bit more succinct than other examples of the math. I think I will have to make an app that renders out results using this. :)
Strange, I was also spanked as a child and somehow I still ended up with several flaws. I feel like the experience retarded the age at which I was able to achieve self actualization by many years and seriously impacted my ability to have a healthy adult relationship with my father who has himself changed and grown tremendously as an individual since the years he spanked me as a child.
They currently build a luxury SUV, yes.

Tell me when they make one people can actually afford.
Dogpile is listed (though not by name) under the Webcrawler entry.
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Because queries, specifically those that aggregate, consume memory and CPU on the live prod db. Something a simple scan cursor doesn't do. If the resource consumption is prohibitive, which it often is in mongo, and your use case is non-realtime, it's typically better to script the aggregation outside the DB query (or query an ETL'd aggregation store that doesn't impact customers when you lock it up)

Edit: changed "offline" to "non-realtime"
Maybe they went to zero during the crisis and then went up? If they went down, perfectly valid to ignore them, no? I think we should exclude extreme examples in these debates. The data backing the arguments up are random at best
I don’t understand how affordable housing isn’t a huge political issue. It’s missing on the left and the right. Housing is way more important, most people would think, than say, free college tuition (left) or reducing immigration (right) — two issues that get tons of coverage by politicians.

Where is the outrage? Where are the action plans and policy proposals? It bothers me.
Photo hosting is not exactly rocket science, I think the community could invent something a distributed community using like IPFS+ActivityPub.
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I don't know, why are General Mills and General Motors separate companies? Not quite sure I understand your point.
I think that is a misreading of the article. A lack of bank deposits constrain lending, so banks need deposits in order to lend.

Banks keep as little cash as possible, because (again) cash does not earn money. They try to lend out as much as possible. The people who borrow money don't sit on it, either, who wants to pay interest on money sitting in a pile?

The whole cash hoarding theory is nonsense.
No, thats lead-gratis
Mongo 3.6 introduced something called Change Streams[0] which is basically a safer way to tail the oplog. It is also supposed to work well in a sharded environment.

[0] https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/changeStreams/
Yes, Candy Crush is hypersocial...
I have started a business and sold 4 years ago. I understand your point.

Mine is more about asking what pace of commercial
enterprise a society can and should bear. Why must everyone carry the burdens of our greatest risk takers? Life has many facets. Some of them cannot be bought and sold, and some of them shouldn’t be. Businesses come and go like flies. Civil societies are harder to come by.
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Did Yahoo ever have its own search engine, technically? In the early web it was a directory maintained by humans, which made sense at a time when the total number of pages in existence on any given subject was no more than a few hundred; I thought that when that era passed they went straight into licensing other search engines' results.
This is one example, sure, but EV does, in general, work. And the reason why is not because it's an ironclad indefeatable process for proving you are legitimately a major trustworthy party: It's a frustrating pile of hoops to jump through. The arcane and archaic nature of getting an EV gates out malicious actors pretty effectively.

If you go through all of the process to get an EV (often involving scanned/faxed documents and phone calls), and then do something malicious with it, you're going to end up burning it (getting it revoked, generally, though, obviously the nightmare of revocation being still effectively broken comes into play) or even just the domain blocked by web filters and marked unsafe in the Safe Browsing list, setting you back to square one. All an EV vendor has to do for this to work is remember not to issue an EV again to anyone who uses the same credentials or proofs, whether or not they verified them with other authorities.

Whereas a domain-validated cert can, of course, be automated (as can domain purchasing), meaning DV certs can scale. As with spam, malware, etc., you just publish it in volume, keep changing addresses, content, etc. to evade automated filtering, and press on.

Meanwhile, if someone gets a Washington Post News EV, and starts impersonating WaPo, they only have one target to shut down a malicious actor.

I could give non-CA-related examples, but I've come to the belief recently that security and trust is often a matter of creating solutions which don't scale.
Getty is an awful company, I refuse to use any of their photos ever, ever again. They have sued multiple businesses that I know of when those businesses put photos _they PAID for_ on their sites and Getty threatened them.

Everyone needs to know about the "legal extortion" that Getty uses with their stock photography.

https://www.extortionletterinfo.com/

This business with 500px stinks of a massive takeover of any sources that will compete with Getty. Be warned, they smell like the Microsoft of the 90s.
Another good one is:

https://pixabay.com/

I use both for reference photos when painting.
https://pixelfed.org/

Not much yet but it's being worked on. Contribute?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209127
[Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) is a site that offers photos licensed almost one-to-one with CC0. I'd strongly recommend giving it a shot.

- Unsplash license: https://unsplash.com/license

- Compare with CC0: https://medium.com/unsplash/the-unsplash-license-f6fb7de5c95...
No, it's an indicator that things can be manufactured cheaply.

> The fact that you can purchase one for an amount of money

You can get TVs free off the sidewalk in most places. It is not an indicator of wealth.

> Our poorest people are in many ways wealthy compared to both people of times past and compared to people in poor nations. Homeless people can get apples and potatoes all year long, something even William the Conqueror couldn't have.

Homeless people are so wealthy...they don't have shelter? I think you're putting your foot in your mouth. Also can they get apples? With what money? Apples are available to purchase. That doesn't make them affordable.
Why is this a radar station?
Given the tendency to sprint at the end of a quarter, what do you think the average for this next quarter is going to be?

Where will production rates fall in the next few weeks compared to this almost-5000-a-week sprint?

At what point do you consider the report of weekly production numbers to be fraud? Whose definition are you using? Which court will back you up?
Fair point. Can you share some more detailed examples?

Disclaimer: I posted this article originally because of the humor component, but I also think it's a legitimate conversation to have.
Dremio quickly becomes useless with MongoDB given that for a while it's not been possible to join data from two MongoDB collections by their object IDs. Last time I checked, Dremio mangled the id into some string that can't even be matched to the same id on a separate collection.

I had data in PG and Mongo, but couldn't join it together.
I asked about this on the forum, was told it's a known issue; and it seemed to end there.

I resorted to doing my analytics by hand in the end, MongoDB's aggregation framework is good enough. Create views from aggregation queries, and it becomes easier

The downside is that one needs a business license to use the BI connector.
In our thought-experiment world where each address has a public key that can be used to encrypt the payload data destined for it, the public key of the source can also be used to sign the data, ensuring the sender address isn't spoofed.
So July 1 is now another April Fool's day is it?
It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station.
Imagine, a device that lets you connect in real time with any person in the world, making us more social? Can’t be.

Although it would be nice if we were all a little better at putting them away while interacting face to face. Or maybe I’m just boring and take too long to say things. It’s hard to compete for attention with thousands of invisible people whose full time job it is to be entertaining
> Globalisation has resulted in the greatest reduction in human poverty to have ever occurred

Correlation ≠ Causation. How can you so easily attribute one to the other? I'd argue advancements in science have done far more to alleviate poverty and suffering rather than lowered trade barriers.

It's a common theme worldwide that most of the gains from globalisation have gone to the elites while environmental damage has been externalised.
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I used my IIsi till ~2000 for burning cds. Two things i did to speed it up:

1) I overclocked to 25mhz -- I soldered a new crystal on the motherboard

2) Ran in black and white or grey (the graphics card seemed slow)
I think that the timescale on which humans live matters here. The year field doesn't change often, so for the everyday usecase it's kind of redundant – it's probably the current year, so specifying it first is kind of noisy[1]. But on the scale of hours, it's the minutes that are noise, because you likely care more about the hour. So I guess the most ergonomic ordering depends on the usecase.

[1] This could be different if you're, say, browsing an archive. Still, if I'm looking at a thread from 2005, that context is in my head, and I don't need to be constantly reminded of that by seeing 2005-XX-YY.
I think I need context on what is a 'Radar Station'. I was expecting some old military outpost in a strange place...
He’s likely referring to the fact that the rules of probabilistic reasoning can be shown to be the only rules of reasoning that yield correct inferences from data. Bayesian statistics is in that sense the “logic of science”. The first chapter of E.T. Jaynes’s book with that subtitle [0] is a good introduction to these ideas if you haven’t seen them before.

0. E.T. Jaynes (2003), “Probability Theory: the Logic of Science,” http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf [PDF]