skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish they‘d use real, dying or dead languages instead of inventing advanced gibberish for movies.

John Kani, a veteran South African actor playing King T'Chaka in the Marvel movies "Captain America: Civil War" and "Black Panther", decided to speak the Wankandan language parts in Xhosa, a South African language that he is a native speaker of. He taught the rest of the cast their lines. I think it sounded realistic.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/john-kani-influenced-the-bla...

https://qz.com/1192662/black-panther-wakandas-language-is-is...
I want that time back in a way. Before the internet turned into entertainment for the masses because companies wanted to make money.
40-50 years ago, a young person fresh out of high school could get a job that allowed them to live the middle class life -- own a house and support a family with only one spouse needing to work.

Nowadays even college graduates struggle to achieve "liftoff."

Globalization has led to a race-to-the-bottom situation where jobs flow across borders, to the places where desperate poverty allows wages to be as low as possible, and the greatest degree of worker exploitation is allowed.

Which is great for those people being lifted out of poverty. And it's great for companies who can more freely exploit workers, and maximize their profits. And it's great for consumers, who get lots of cheap new stuff.

But it totally wrecked our economy's ability to provide a good standard of living for the ordinary person.

Those chickens finally came home to roost in the last US presidential election. There's a lot I don't like about Trump, but I think his tariffs really will make America great again (if they aren't just repealed by the next administration). Because we're finally doing something about this situation.
Because that growth is not sustainable in the majority of cases. Sure, there are exceptions, but I bet you're not going to be eagerly handing the org money back once growth flattens out.
Why can't Google just use UTC timestamps? Or at least include them alongside their "US/Pacific" timestamps.

I don't want to remember if "US/Pacific" currently has daylight savings or not.

Its a very strange decision especially considering that GCP has numerous regions outside of "US/Pacific".
> If I go see a doctor, I have no idea if I will end up with a $40, $400, $4000, or $40,000 bill until the bill comes months later and I have to pay it. NO IDEA.

Totally right. Which means in practice insurance is covering the risk of pricing rather than the risk of you having health issues.
>> it seems so counter-intuitive that we are completely stuck to a tax system that devalues workers.

Old people. Retired people live on money gathered from ownership of things. Since old people have the most political power it should be no surprise that the tax code favors their capital gains over working wage earners. In the days when the boomers were young and in work (50s 60s) the tax code was very different.
Which is why I pitched a modular Foss launcher/market to the Depart of Education for a 3d virtual training simulation grant. I never heard back from them...
Well said. I used to think that this was the essential core of the conservative point of view.
One useful way I've heard to remember it is the rule of 3's:

You can survive approximately:
3 minutes without oxygen, 3 hours of exposure (core temperature), 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food

Supposedly the special forces add to this "3 seconds after a bad decision."
It's not counter-intuitive if you look at who makes the laws.

The system is one where back-scratching, ass-covering, and kickback-giving is the norm. It's surprising there's any tax on capital at all. A few more rounds of conservatives in power might take care of that.

Conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist once said, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

These are the kinds of people who are running the show these days.
How is it different than today? The game is slightly cheatable (scripters exist) and they are counterating it and getting some publicity out of it.

Being so good at anti-cheat that there is nothing to talk about seems like something so far away it's not worth thinking about.

But that said, I doubt the gains from allow "controversy" around cheating would outweigh the benefit of not having any cheating in the game. Not having cheaters is it's own talking point. Withing the competitive gaming community, cheating is already a major talking point and having little to no cheating is already a major selling feature.
Unfortunately, their latest anti-cheat measures broke the ability to play on Wine.

Guess no LoL for me anymore.
> Blaming “the rich” when voting turnout is so low

Depressing turnout by demoralizing constituencies that lean to the other side and, particularly on one side, outright voter suppression, is something that the rich (both independently and acting through the major parties) fund lavishly, so why wouldn't they get blame when turnout is low?
My pet conspiracy theory: The vast majority of the CS:GO economy is a massive money laundering operation for the Russian government. You have skins for an AK47 selling for $40,000. Does anyone seriously think that's legit?
That's not special to France. You wouldn't get anywhere with that complaint in most nations. In part because your testimony isn't worth much as evidence.
The Dreamery is the sleep bar that New Yorkers didn’t know they needed
Is entanglement an actual physical phenomenon? What exactly needs to happen in-order for a photon to "become" entangled?
That would assume the server is sharing the knowledge of other players through the fog of war.
I'll take a swing at this.

What does this mean about rapid consolidation of perception within stratas of the US? What does this imply about the future, and tech's role within it? (assuming you agree that tech facilitates the speed and breadth of this convergence.) SHOULD we (tech) even care?

My brain is going the following place:
Clearly this is "google giving people the results they expect" in the same way we've seen for the innumerable other complaints about google search results recently. Does this mean that Google is "picking a winner" and only representing one strata, or does it mean that the other strata is underneath the noise threshold against the primary userbase, or does it mean that they simply use other services that may give a different view?

It's factual that trump got some millions # of vote, as much as one may hate him. Is that community simply quashed in the primary tooling, has that community shrunk, or do they have their own ecosystem?

This ramble was not one of my most well constructed, and I think I repeated myself, but the OP certainly was thought provoking to me, and not just in a "Hah hah trump is dumb" way.

_Far_ from the deepest or most complex article that pops up on here, but I think if we relinquish our ability to ask interesting questions about simple facts, we've given up a lot of what makes HN special.
Tesla episode on the Acquired podcast
This is the most atrocious thing to do by not to letting people with Type 1 buy their Insulin medication. I just don't see a reason why this is so much regulated. Like some meds which are partially regulated, where you can request a Pharmacist and they can give you would be reasonable in this case.
Even if people don't have money to invest, they can still go into debt. And the time value of money applies to both investments and debt. People need to know how to shop around for debt and to understand the implications of different loan terms. They need to understand the impact that bad credit can have on their future.
Check out https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/07/eid-milad-un-nab...
If anyone grabs a copy, let me know if it's worth it, here or on twitter (same username as here) please!
I would love to to know what success rate those idiotic ssh scanners have. They seem to be braindead in their approach.
Maybe https://nativescript-vue.org/ ?

Disclaimer: I don't use React or Vue. I have no idea how their mobile versions compare. I get my virtual DOM kicks from Ractive, developed by The Guardian newspaper. I'm told it's like Vue. I really like it. I'll probably move to Svelte for my next major project.
Our week off from Slack
You know that high interest rates for savings go in had with high inflation cash never beat's inflation.
Is the code online? What was the output of your routine?
I'm sure it was a cascading event, similar to the one Amazon had yesterday on their own site. Started small until it snowballed and effected everyone.
For auth, Eliot argues that developers need to take responsibility for exposing MongoDB on public servers

That’s like selling a car without preinstalled seat belts and then saying it is the responsibility of the driver if they take it on the road like that. It’s technically true, but it’s sort of missing the point.
A couple of points come to mind:

1. Assembly language needs more lines of code to achieve the same task than higher level languages, by its very nature.

2. What I call Pascal's Amendment :) - very loosely like claiming the Fifth Amendment (to the US Constitution):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

- Blaise Pascal

As a writer, I can corroborate that. In fact, if he "had the time to make it shorter", it implies that he spent even more time to write those 1000+ pages than it would seem on first glance. Plus even more than for the same 1000+ pages if in a higher level language, since assembly is a lot more error-prone.
Honestly, where would it go? The US Treasury sets the bond price and no one is turning it down even with completely shitty returns (like 1-2%!). If capital flees they can go to an even higher tax country in the EU. They can go to a negative return country like Switzerland. They could go to China, but guess what, it's a one way trip!

I bet if lawmakers said capital gains tax is bumped to 20% everyone of them would bitch and moan for 30 minutes, and then pay the damn tax.
Did you find anything besides S3 that didn't work? I have the 6th gen X1 and once I patched in ACPI my ubuntu install has worked perfectly.
Evan, if you are reading, I would like to say that I also fell in love with Vue, but I am frustrated that my feature request ( https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/8106#issuecomment-385367... ) was a little too quickly shot down, without much discussion or understanding. I understand that not every proposal can be accepted, but I think that the merit of the change wasn't even considered. I specifically designed the change to change as little as possible, and have as much power as possible.

I think that specifically in the case of Vue, this hurts more because of the philosophy highlighted in the article- to not stand in the way of experienced developers who know what they're doing.

(Edit: oh no, please don't come with the downvote train. This is a real issue, when you have something that solves 99% of your problems but you can't get it to 100%.)
I just ctrl+f remote to gauge how that market is going.

A thread specific to that sort of employment would be welcome.
"I never give money to homeless people. I can't reward failure in good conscience." -gselevator

As long as you can regard being poor as a moral failure you can tell yourself you're still a good person (and not an insensitive, selfish one).
You sound really callous and lack empathy. Good job next time you're injured you can sympathise with the insurance company and just sit there in pain.
The solution is definitely not fully opening the borders. You know full well that, in combination with a welfare state, fully open borders would mean the collapse of our society. We would run out of money.

Nobody is required to, nor certainly is entitled to live in the US.
It's interesting and scary, mostly scary, that we now are almost at the point where Google going down equals the Internet going down.
Looks alright to me. Chrome, Firefox and https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.repetil.t...
Ubuntu only supports S0i3 (modern standby) not the normal S3 sleep. S0i3 has some problems like peripheral not working after resume and higher battery drain during "sleep".
BearSSL is a great library, I also implemented TLS support with it recently in my low-resource rust webserver project wwwee [1]. It's one of the nicest designed C libraries I've ever seen. I hope more projects start using it so it gets out of beta.

For static files, I ended up using the aio syscalls in Linux as they work quite well for reading files on a supporting filesystem (mainly ext4, xfs). I also couldn't figure out how to guarantee that sendfile doesn't block, but didn't look into it too deeply.

Very nice project, seems very mature.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/wwwee/
The last industrial revolution got everyone up in arms about inequality. Despite raising every last family’s income by several orders of magnitude. So I guess we’re up for yet-another-round of finding a new balance between rich and poor people.
These problems are inherent to nature of being in the real-time PvP genre.

And AFAIK LoL was designed from scratch, it's Dota that actually based on the code of the WoW mod. Not that it matters today, that code is long gone.
Once you have patched it it will. I have the X1 running ubuntu with the patched initrd and the lid works perfectly.
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I think it's about suggestive pictures of female students while conducting research for the scientist, so I think people are more worried about him exploiting young adults on the job rather than in his personal life.
We defined work and productivity as the end in it self but it's not.
We regard automation as the main cause of unemployment but what was the automation that produced the unemployment and underemployment that we are seeing right now?
The main cause of unemployment is that we built the infrastructure that we need and now we only need to maintain it, and that requires much less work.
The problem is that we depend on employment to redistribute wealth we are destroying the planet doing stuff that we don't need.
I asserted that saying that 10% of cells have an indel at any given site is equivalent to saying the per-base indel mutation rate is 10%.

You posted an example purporting to disprove this, but instead, illustrated that you don't know what an indel is, and that the two statements are indeed equivalent -- at any given site, 12.5% of cells are mutant, and that the per-base mutation rate is 12.5%.

The only one with Dunning-Kruger is you.
That's really impressive. I'm always amazed at what people are able to do with 3d printers. The other day I read someone used his 3d printer as a plotter, and was working on getting it to write letters.
Dota has this as well.
And they all list their units on AirBnB now.
Even Google Cloud's non-global load balancers, which live within a single region, wouldn't have hit this particular outage.
Sure, I'm disputing either of those claims. But if you look at it from the perspective of a drug company the existing way is fine (for now) and it's risky to switch.
House rep suggests converting Google, Facebook, Twitter into public utilities
I think it sounds pretty good for normal text though.
Or selling a gun without a safety.

"Well just don't shoot yourself or the wrong people silly!"

Dude that is not what happens in the real world!
except that every major industrialized nation out there has figured out how to do it well except us. if it works for them it can work for us.

BTW what happens if you lose your job? do you know what the helthcare options for next job are going to be? Heck, your own company can have a few bad quarters and goto a sh*t insurer and you are back to averages.. never ignore the base rates and base rates suck in us healthcare.
Looks like the High Growth Handbook is available online for free: http://growth.eladgil.com/book/introduction/how-to-use-this-...
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552532 instead.
Never before has access to so much knowledge been available from MIT courses to marketing books

Sure, but do these mooc/online courseware platforms teach one how to apply these new tangential skills and translate them into CV language and personal development actions that will get them hired? Especially if one is not already mentally inclined to join a 21st century workforce?

I'm asking this coming from the perspective of someone born in rural South Carolina (in a portion of the United States known as 'The Bible Belt') who is an entirely self-taught programmer, versed in a couple of languages-and realized I had to go to an entirely different part of the world to even make use of what I had learned. So my mind is going out to those people who don't live in dense urban areas and are maybe looking for a relatively 'future-proof' job that may as well be asking the to learn an alien language.

It was only by circumstance alone that I got exposed to the kind of entrepreneurial thinking needed for me to realize early on: I'm not gonna do jack shit with these computer skills, there's no market here, I live in a town that used to be a booming textile center and is now an economically depressed shithole (I say that lovingly, it's my economically depressed shithole), and has been for the last 30 years-forcing me to pack up and leave.

Do you think a substantial number of people who have internet have the same circumstances I did to know "I have this skill now, thanks to an online course, and now I need to follow up on it by making this sacrifice to put myself in a position where these new skills will get me hired. I need to be having these discussions with recruiters and hiring mangers, and doing these things to stand out"? Or even have the resources to pack up and plant their butt in a different part of the country?

Personally, I don't know if all of these code camps and online training programs do more than say "Here's a wrench, here's how to use it, good luck with your future as a wrench turner".

Can anyone speak to career development as an extension of this wealth of online knowledge? I just have hesitations of what utility these programs offer beyond here's how to do x with n.
All paid for by those who don't go into the military–industrial complex, but instead pay enormous taxes to fund it. The kid fixing broken windows does well too.

The U.S. accounts for 35% of the world's defence spending, more than twice that of Russia and China together.
A step in the right direction for machine learning in science, but they could have done some more research into naming conflicts:

$ apt-cache show quilt

Package: quilt

[..]

Description-en: Tool to work with series of patches

Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes
each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can
apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).
.
Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received
as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked
organization is proven to be efficient for the management of very large patch
sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and
for Linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the
original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to
manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE
distribution.
.
This package provides seamless integration into Debhelper or CDBS,
allowing maintainers to easily add a quilt-based patch management system in
their packages. The package also provides some basic support for those not
using those tools. See README.Debian for more information.

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/quilt/changelog.gz | tail -n3

Version 0.26 (Tue Oct 21 2003)
- Change summary not available
Egypt targets social media with new law
To be honest, I hadn't even noticed. What popular sites went down?
We're doing something, but is it a competent response? Done the wrong way, tariffs just cause everyone to lose. Trump is a symptom of the problem and that's a big part of the reason he happened, but he's not particularly a good solution to it.
From what I've seen, these were all down: Spotify, Twitch, Discord, Snapchat, Pivotal Tracker, Workana, Codementor
Your attitude is disgusting. Do you work for the insurance company or something?
Anything Material is utter crap, Vuetify is not the exception. Minimal CSS frameworks like Picnic CSS are the only way to go. You do not need components and CSS classes to have a decent design. Quite to the contrary.
I worry that they don't really "care" either outside of a baseline of plausible deniability.
I am not disagreeing with you but am confused on the issue. Java also has escape analysis, so I wonder what makes the difference here.
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows. An excellent look in to the demographic shifts of 'fly-over' country, America. While so much of the focus of tech is on how we can change the world and find customers in heavily urbanized and developed parts of the country - the customers who could stand to benefit the most from innovation are oft overlooked. The book also serves as a great reminder that rural or non-seaboard cities aren't necessarily 'backwaters'.
I think AWS going down globally would be even worse.
I have this labtop and have had none of these problems. I am on ubuntu linux with a patched initrd. The trackpad works like a champ, the screen is magnificant and the webcam works great. It does got hot, but only when I am under heavy load. So far this has been a great step up from my 2013 macbook
Walmart Plots Rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
Snapchat, Spotify, Discord,...
It's a fun game! :)
Pokemon Go, Rocket League's MP servers.
A Proposal to Allow Python Scripting Within the GCC Compiler, Replacing AWK
The Fed is responsible for QE, including about two Trillion in purchases of Mortgage-Backed Securities [0], which has the effect of making housing more expensive than it would otherwise be. If you're a home owner or debt owner, that's good for you. If you pay rent or a mortage, that's wage suppression.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBST
Ooh, interesting! Learned something new today. Cheers!
I don't know what an "absolute type of planner" is, but I consider myself an engineer and a pragmatist. I'm well versed with realities. In reality, with business, there's no such thing as "priceless", only risk, and risk is, generally, quantifiable. With enough data, it's easily quantifiable.

I admit that, having an affinity for startups, rather than more traditional small businesses, I have a greater affinity for risk. Ironically, perhaps, I'm usually the voice of risk-aversion with respect to IT infrastucture, so I don't believe it affects my overall understanding.

I recently pointed out to an interviewer who was trying to convince me that it was worth spending half a megabuck on a petabyte from Netapp because it was "business critical" instead of 1/10th that amount for DIY, that, just like the DIY solution, Netapp does not indemnify the business against loss. One isn't buying insurance, only a bunch of technology.

Sure, "works the first time" is worth something. Is it worth the cost of a whole, complete, extra server on a order of qty 6? If the infant-mortality rate on servers is anywhere approaching 1-in-6 and they're being shipped somewhere that the replacement time and/or cost would be prohibitive, I'd still probably rather just order 7 servers instead.

That's my main problem with paying a vendor for "reliability": it's a very fuzzy, hand-wavy assurance. Paying for reliability with more hardware has data and statistics behind it, which is an engineering solution.
> Okay we'll go back to the efficiency issue.

Oh, let's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...