skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or defectors from the military. That was the case in both the Syrian Civil War, the breakup of Yugoslavia, and the first American Civil War - the nucleus of armed resistance formed around former military men who couldn't raise arms against their countrymen.

Private security forces and tech/AI are wildcards - we haven't had anything like the former since feudal mercenary days, and we haven't had anything like the latter ever - but could also form the basis for power centers.
Shared hosting can provide some “privacy” or to be more exact plausible deniability however it’s not going to be particularly good (when accounting for the actors that this would play at this level) especially when you consider that you can fingerprint the websites quite easily as the encrypted data would still of known size.

So if your website serves a page which is 412KB in size that would be quite easy to fingerprint especially across a pool of websites, beyond that it’s also quite possible to fingerprint things even further by measuring the number, size and order of secondary requests a page load incurs.

So overall there is little privacy that would be provided by this (again when taking into account the threat model and actors) unless you hide behind 1000s and 1000s of websites on the same network and even then it’s mostly not about privacy but about resilience against MITM and state censorship.
Another theory along these lines is by Jeff Hawkins of Numenta in his book "On Intelligence". He called in the Memory prediction framework.
It misses the fact that even with encrypted SNI it would be very easy to fingerprint a website see my comment above.
I'm guessing that, even if it wasn't more productive, the perks help keep Google employees at Google and not, say, at a competitor.
I work in a non-retail part of Amazon and I'm on vacation. Hasn't stopped friends and family from texting me about this though. As if I personally can go in and reboot a server or something. Hope we get it sorted soon!

If you're affected by this, please accept my unofficial thanks for your patience and understanding. (If you're a coworker in retail, good luck getting things up and running!) :-)
The American intelligence community.

And also anybody that has been paying attention to the situation in Ukraine and Syria.
It shouldn't be unless there was malicious intent.
Fastest non PCIE drive I suppose? PCIE SSD drives are usually around that speed.

See this one from the Surface Book 2 which is from 2017:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12167/the-microsoft-surface-b...

2800MB/s sequential read and honestly once I went with PCIE SSD's I can't go back to regular SSD's only for secondary storage. Sad they soldered it on though. Good luck fixing that laptop when that drive fails...
Before July 2018, the number of available taxi permits was limited by regulation, so it was effectively an Uber ban.
Ask HN: Pointers for designing a programming club curriculum
I am planning on starting an after school programming club and my children's school, initally targeting grades 5 - 8 (ages 10 - 14). Some assumptions I currently making:

- The club would meet either once or twice per week for an hour for the entire school year.
- Expected attendance between 5 and 10 kids.
- I will be providing / directing purchase of hardware, and am imagining purchasing 10 Raspberry Pi's along with monitors and keyboards.

The goal of the club is to introduce these kids to programming, and I"m looking for a project or series of projects that could be worked on over the course of the year to help build interest in programming.

I want to reinvent the wheel as little as possible and am asking if anyone has suggestions for curriculum for this sort of club. Possibilities I've thought briefly about so far: some sort of game (though I have not experience in developing games) and building websites that we gradually make more sophisticated (this is more up my alley).

I'm asking for pointers to help me develop a curriculum. If you've done something like this before, I'd love to hear what sort of wins and challenges you experienced as well.

Thanks in advance!
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This is not directly addressing your question, but I went the bootstrapped SaaS solo founder route and have no regrets. Code reviews would've been nice, admittedly, and some of my initial attempts at the non-tech stuff were weak. But ultimately the non-tech stuff proved fairly easy to pick up and I really appreciate the extra skills I ended up with. As for sharing the experience, consider joining one of the many online bootstrapper communities, or attending MicroConf.

So my advice would be to look for a co-founder, sure, but don't discount the option of going it alone. Remember that good co-founder > solo >> bad co-founder!
The key is passing anti-corruption acts that get money out of politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhe286ky-9A

If it's illegal for lobbyists, corporations, etc to donate to politicians, then we can make politics more fair/ethical. This is a bipartisan group working to get these passed.

Anti-corruption benefits everyone.
Less to me, because the product is the source. Github here is the way for distribution. It is a fairly nice medium for markdown files and without ads, but dedicated recipe sites have recommendations, comments and sometimes ways to directly order the ingredients.
Well then it seems like starting an alternative to PETA would be a better use of management's time and efforts than running a real estate REIT that just has a vegetarian-friendly per diem policy.

Of course, they won't do that, because they actually just care about making money and aren't really worried about this stuff. So I'm still puzzled.
>https://www.socialtalent.com/blog/recruitment/raising-the-ba...

I think Amazon has taken on an outsized image to many people that just isn't true. We have good engineers in many organizations, but we don't pay enough, have the right strategy, or take care of individuals well enough to lure the kind of great folks you find at other big tech companies. In many ways, Amazon is a retailer that does technology because it found a way to make money from it. The DNA is still MBAs/finance and retail.
Overall it is positive. Be mentally prepared, the percentage that eventually make it to demo day is not high. I came to EF to look for my co-founder. The quality of the cohort is phenomenal(on paper that is), albeit most are first time founders. There are researchers, engineers and domain experts all coming from diverse industries/fields. As the cohort size is so big, there are many possibilities. They will not so gently nudge you towards forming a team with complementary strengths and great fit to the problem. The scary part - when you look at teams that present on demo day, they look like a team tailor-made for the problem. What is the probability of that happening organically in the wild? Go for it, just the friendships cultivated with the cohort of great people is worth it.
> No one that attributes any significant impact on the election to the Russian information warfare operation limits their description of the operation to $100K in Facebook ads.

You are technically correct. The $100k part of it is stripped out before the "Russian Facebook hacking to steal the election" is reported over and over in the media, absent of any details. And that is how the majority of the public is absolutely certain of something, even though almost none of them know any of the details.
Amazing health breakthrough! Our product Nature Farms Pure Organic Battery Acid kills one hundred percent of cancer cells in lab tests!
As a slight variation on the same theme - just the anticipation of a social event can make me quite anxious and edgy regardless of whether I've been part of the planning.

The thing that fixes it for me is going to events with a clear group activity other than "generic socializing".
Yes, plus an additional 100 FPS in games.
It's encrypted using the T2 chip (with a key that can't be extracted) so I'm not sure what value getting a copy of the SSD would be. The 2016 MBP did not have this encryption.
I for one no longer trust Dropbox to behave on my computer after this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338
Better info:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-unveils-new-next-generati...
UK spaceport proposed for Sutherland site
It would not remain worth $150 billion if he did. It would crash quite spectacularly.
> you prefer your DIMMs to look like Christmas tree ornaments on acid

This is a technical benefit.
The number is the net revenue (income minus all operating expenses, including salaries/wages, facilities, goods, taxes, etc) divided by the number of employees.
No treatment can ever be proven to be safe. It can only be shown that you have yet to observe harm.
Definitely weirder. There is well-established precedent for expensing food, which matters. Also, food is a bare-necessity for staying alive while traveling on your company's behalf, so manipulating people's options there is bound to produce blowback.
Right up until the moment you have third-party dependencies.
This is tangential, but what's a good starting point for "frugal ways to eat"? I'm not even remotely interested in getting down to $30/week, but my current budget is "not to exceed" $30/day, and I probably average around $20/day, and I generally cook at least one meal per day at home.

Even in a week where I only at food cooked at home I can't imagine getting under $70/week. I'm curious what I would have to give up to get to $50, much less $30.
Indeed, cartpole should be that easy. The observation vector is dimension 4, and the action vector is dimension 1. Gym has a range of difficulties, of which this is the lowest. It's good for debugging because you can verify the math in your head.

The linked code is quite fragile, though. It chooses random models (4-vectors) with all positive signs between 0 and 1. It so happens that there's a valid solution in this range, but a good RL agent should work equally well with flipped signs of observation and action vectors, and it should be able to solve it (possibly with more iterations) with any affine transformation of the two vector spaces.
The (disputed) John Steinbeck quote you might be referring to: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
I'm not going to look up citations, but I will suggest that the South lagged behind the rest of the nation educationally and in other ways in part because much of the Civil War was fought on Southern turf and they burned Atlanta to the ground because it was an important manufacturing center that was probably way ahead of most Northern cities and it was keeping the Southern army resupplied. Burning Atlanta to the ground left behind a legacy of reduced infrastructure and the South was very bitter about it.

Unfortunately, I don't know the name of the book, which was very well documented, but I read a history of the Deep South at one time. It is unfortunate I can't remember the name because it documented something that flies in the face of what most people apparently believe about the Federal minimum wage law. This book asserted that it was an anti-racist policy intended to end the practice in the Deep South of paying Blacks half of what Whites made. Many Blacks were fired after it was passed because Southerners often were simply unwilling to pay Blacks "a White man's wage."

World War 2 was instrumental in making the Federal minimum wage law stick. Before that, it was proving to be a failed and unenforceable policy.

Up to half the population in the South is Black (it no doubt varies, but it is about half in the city I grew up in) and under slavery they were forbidden from learning to read and write. It was one of the ways they were controlled. So when you suddenly have something like half your population made up of freed slaves, most of whom are illiterate and who carry a lot of baggage about being forbidden from learning, yes, the area as a whole is going to lag behind the rest of the nation educationally. It will take a long time to start remedying such a deficit.

Many hot places have a reputation for being lackadaisical. In Mexico, they have a tradition of taking siestas -- naps -- during the hottest part of the day. In the Middle East, they have the expression "Only mad dogs and Englishman" to refer to who would be going about their business out of doors during the hottest part of the day.

The Deep South in the US is not only hot, it is also humid. I grew up in Georgia and I have lived in Southern California and Texas, among other places. When it is humid, you can't just drink more and sweat it out. It won't evaporate. It's like a sauna.

So the only thing that makes sense is to sit your ass down on the front porch in the shade in a rocking chair and make chit chat until it isn't so hot that doing stuff threatens to cause fainting. As a wild ass guess, this is the origin of the slow Southern drawl -- getting through the heat of the day without heat stroke, pre-AC, by slowing down and sitting a spell, during which time you didn't want to do anything too energetically, not even talk.

And then it is completely and totally normal for people to make associations that run both ways, where the Southern drawl becomes a signifier for poverty, lack of education, etc since those things were common there, though it really had nothing to do with inherent stupidity of the locals.
For 2017 their net income per employee was around $6,000. The parent claim is off by a factor of five. $3b in net income for fiscal 2017, and an average of perhaps 450k-500k employees for the whole year.

For 2018 they might produce $6b in net income, assuming they don't go on a big spending spree (which they're prone to do). They'll average perhaps 600,000 to 650,000 employees for 2018. So their net income per employee ratio is going to be closer to $10,000. It'll still be nowhere near the $33,000 the parent claims.

$33,000 in net income per employee would require near $20b in net income this year.

Amazon does in fact have extraordinarily razor thin margins, in their retail business. AWS is very profitable, with ~25% style operating income margins. It's providing all of the net income Amazon is generating now, retail essentially reinvests its thin margins right back into growth and improving fulfillment.

Walmart has 2.5% to 3% net income margins for example. Facebook is typically up at 40% to 50% for comical contrast. Amazon's retail business will spend most of its existence with 2% to 5% type margins.

Costco had a 2% net income margin for 2017. Target was at 3.9%. High volume, low margin retail is a horrendous business, very few operators can survive with such perpetually low margins. You have to execute at an extraordinary level.
> but there is also actual value in being close to standard and having less accents considered standard

So who gets to decide what is standard and what isn't and why?
Hmm... And on a side note, I just realized that the rest of the world does not use the term "sport peppers" the way I do (the exception being a couple of regional brands). I never thought of them as the peppers on a Chicago style hot dog... Today I learned!
> If it's illegal for lobbyists, corporations, etc to donate to politicians

It is illegal for corporations to donate to politicians.

But independent expenditures that aren't donated are another matter, which you can't eliminate without taking a big whack to the first amendment and core political speech.
“MLMROD Incentives – MLM Recruit on Demand”
Heh no, linguists are sure it's the most similar dialect to Old English, the only difference is maybe the tempo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=mNqY6ftqGq0
I'd recommend Minecraft.

If that's too much of a game for the school to allow, and it MUST be programming, then I'd look at things like Alice ( http://www.alice.org/ ) or Squeak ( https://squeak.org/ ).

Best of luck to you!
> committing reimbursement fraud

lol, nobody takes reimbursements this seriously
Habanero chili is extremely hot but has a sweet, fruity flavor. I haven't tasted piri piri chili, but I'm sure this sauce is delicious. I'm kinda upset the chilis are deseeded, though.
Could you post this to gitlab so the corporatists don't close source it? :)
Join a SAP customer or SAP integrator. At a customer you'll normally get sent on several multi week training sessions. At integrators you'll get some PDF's and be thrown in the deep immediately. As a junior, the pay is bad, so be sure to move on quickly, don't stick around at the same position (this is the norm). After 5 years or so you should have multiple certifications, a few war stories to tell and the contacts to become independent.

The IT part of SAP is quite small and easy to grok if you have CS training, what you will learn is mostly SAP specific terminology, the details of the business process(es) you're working with, learning to work with outdated software packages and learning to work around people in an IT role who have no interest (or skill) in IT.
It’s still PCIe just soldered on board.
I agree. I especially like the idea of branching recipes, being able to find spicier, sweeter, etc. versions of the main branch.
This is not right from an infra POV. You are just moving the problem (by team) but it doesn’t go away. Then you end up with duplication.
Is this the start of a new approach to public-key cryptography?
Wouldn't that be great? If you think about it, it's surprising how GitHub's potential as a platform has been solely used for code up until now, taking into account that pretty much anything that can be represented as text may benefit from its "social coding" features.
Likewise. My initial statement was a smidge hyperbolic, as I really do like Void and run it on a Raspberry Pi. It has many of the same traits that make Slackware and pre-systemd Arch so appealing.
I'm tired of having no empowernent at my job
Hey guys,

I am having an issue at work where I feel that I am in isolation and have no real autonomy and/or empowerment to make decisions about the work I am doing. It was bearable to be able to not pick what I am working on, but now I have to follow word for word what a Senior developer says is right. This doesn't allow me to grow.

The past few months I have been solely focused on a subsystem at work. Now that I've worked on it, I feel confident in my ability to solve problems / bugs it has, but it's very discouraging when all of a sudden a manager decides that the Senior developer has ultimate authority over my work and comes in making order / commands and basically throwing out work I've done. I spoke to the manager in question about this, and they basically said I have to get approval before I make ANY changes from here on after. The difference between my patch for this task and the Senior developers instructions were minimal. He just wanted it done in his way, and not mine. Basically all of my work was wasted. I was never even told "why" that way I implemented the patch was wrong, just that it wasn't liked.

I believe the problem is the Manager did not communicate that I needed to get permission, or "guidance" from this Senior developer, and then in the end, when the Senior didn't like it, and I voiced my concerns about how this work will be wasted, he suggested that in the future I communicate all code changes with both him and the Senior. This leaves me no room for growth, but as a puppet being controlled by the strings.

Is this literally what I'm going to encounter in every job I have? Having to be micromanaged? What is the point of having me working if they are just going to literally have me copy paste their design in their head. Is it common for managers to Empower their Senior developers to take control over a person with less seniority/ years at the company?

Thanks
Seems like Concur has been suffering under SAP based on the outages I keep seeing.
That's the same as fining people for practicing their religion and then saying that their freedom of religion is unchanged, they just have to pay more to do it.

Of course this affects employee choices, to think otherwise is obtuse.
They now have a kernel extension as part of their app, supposedly to stop people from dragging files out of shared folders.
you’ll need to replace the NAND and the controller so good luck with that.
Who likes being helped when nobody asked?
Yes that is the essence of what I was saying.
I've been trying to make my own accent. I sometimes hear people pronounce things differently and prefer that way so I start trying to say it that way. I guess less of an accent more just preferred pronunciations.
Amazing a government organisation is not forcing you to a run a VM to open a docx OpenOffice renders incorrectly
> will ever be able to raise prices and reap those promised profits

That's mischaracterizing the situation. They're not unprofitable because they're charging less than they could, they're unprofitable because they pour their profits immediately back into growing other business avenues. If Amazon spent a quarter or two slowing/halting the development of new business ventures they'd immediately be profitable. If they spent a year doing that and also trimming prior unsuccessful ventures they'd be quite profitable.
So because people are too lazy to go to a different website we must destroy the company of a very skilled businessman who's services millions of people use and enjoy?
Amazon is #1 because they are the best, not because they are evil. Google is #1 because they are also the best, not because they are evil.
It has been 8.2% over the last 23 years (inclusive of both major housing crashes). "The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent," as the saying goes.
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This is the main "sweet spot" for AWS (or "cloud" infrastructure in general): small scale.

I am generally a strong proponent of using ones own hardware in a colo or on-premises, instead of or in addition to the cloud (primarily for "base" workload).

However, if the entirety of your needs can fit into a single rack, even I will advocate for AWS, since "convenience" is, perhaps, not strong enough a word.

I do think your server and storage prices are around $25k too high, but that's easy to do buying brand name and/or not negotiating with multiple vendors on price (which is particularly tough at low volume unless you're a startup with a credible growth story). That's assuming such an expensive CPU (in comparison to so little RAM) isn't foolishly profligate, along with the other hardware choices. Of course, this underscores the point (on which we agree) that, as a rule, it's just not worth that much time and effort for so little.

I'll take your word on the AWS pricing, as it's fairly predictable, if very tedious to perform the prediction. The main "gotchas" I've found people run into are forgetting to add in EBS costs for EC2 instance types without (or without comparable) local storage and underestimating data transfer costs.
Unrelated side note: I recent had my MacBook 2016 repaired under Apple's recently announced keyboard repair program. Previous keyboard repairs came with topcase + battery replacements. This keyboard repair does feel like it replaced the whole keyboard and topcase, but it did not replace my battery. I'm not sure if they changed their repair process to make repairs easier on them or cheaper on them and that's what spurred the extended repair, or what.