skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we're talking about real, measurable effects in this world, right now. NOI is a fringe cult at this point, white supremacy, white nationalism, whatever particular way you want to frame it, is not just on the march it is winning power in nation states across the world. Its not theoretical, its not a thought experiment. NOI isn't dictating policy stripping children from the parents or sending people to their deaths, or threatening countries with nuclear annihilation. Its angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin to postulate a future where Louis Farrakhan needs to be dealt with by a Facebook or a Twitter. I'm saying this as a Jew, who despises NOI.
Do you have any tips on how to make this happen? When I graduated I felt like I didn't have much leverage on the job offer, but now that I have a couple years of experience I think I can negotiate a better deal.
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I think there's a pretty simple microeconomics framework through which someone could make an argument about how one huge player depresses wages. Just think of Amazon as a monopsony, a single buyer of a good, for labor. The Roosevelt Institute, which is left-leaning, did a project on this recently: http://rooseveltinstitute.org/how-widespread-labor-monopsony....

Noah Smith summarized the findings of another recent economics research paper, which found that there's a significant difference in wages offered in areas with multiple employers hiring for a similar position (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-29/monopolie...).
I find Louis hard to watch if I am honest. Yes I know Apple don't make the best products but let's be honest they are not actually that bad. I know he doesn't like Apple, he hates all the soldered components making things hard to impossible to repair, etc. He loves his ThinkPad's which is cool (I love them also) but I just got bored of his constant Apple hating.
This is just the SEC charges. They mention a concurrent criminal case - this is where the actual penalties are going to be.
Managing dependencies and versions across repos is a pain. Refactoring across repos is quite hard when your code spreads across repos considering the tree of dependencies.

Unfortunately Git checkout all the code, including history, at once and it does not scale to big codebases.

The approach that Facebook chose with Mercurial seems a good compromise ( https://code.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ )
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NetBSD 8.0 Brings Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU Mitigations, and More
Have you taken a look at the docs repo?
https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/master/README.md

We have the high-level overview and deeper dive into the details for each of the components, install instructions and samples.
Is that why smoking weed makes things seem profound, from instantly forgetting the less salient stuff?
A book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a scholar, trader, and philosopher. He wrote a book called Antifragile, link is below. He coined the term 'Black Swan' as well. Antifragile things harness chaos and get stronger, the world is not getting less chaotic.

Taleb - ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Antifragile - https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...
Unfortunate name collision with Wendle's (level1techs) and crew's Looking Glass for sharing a frame buffer with a vm
For Germany see http://www.internationale-studierende.de/en/home/ and the 'entry into Germany' part http://www.internationale-studierende.de/en/prepare_your_stu...
This is just the SEC's portion of the fine. They mention that the fine will be deemed as paid from the concurrent criminal trial. I'd look at that for actual punishment.
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I've been doing this for 2+ years now, and would do it again in a heartbeat with the right employer. If you are a software engineer, 60% pay is still solidly in the middle class range.

The main upside is it gives you the freedom to invest in yourself without worrying about juggling freelance clients.

Want to travel? Long weekends are the norm, and it takes less pto to get extended vacations (particularly if your boss lets you shuffle your schedule between weeks).

Want to create a small business? You now have two days a week to do exactly that. This protects the weekend, and has saved me from the burnout of 'night & weekend' projects I've done in the past. My business is not ready to support me, but it is much farther along than any previous venture I've started.

Want to do random educational activities? I've taken up bread making and taken several woodshop courses in the past year. I also read 50+ books a year. You have time.

How do I negotiate this? I get a salary and health insurance. I do not get equity. I prefer it this way, as I'd rather bet on myself than equity in a venture backed startup. Just my two cents.

Are there downsides? If you consider missed pay a downside, then yes there is. You won't be able to buy a house in the bay area. You won't be able to keep up with the jonses. You won't have a fancy car. If that matters to you, don't take the pay cut. Personally, anything above $70k a year is gravy. I'd like to maximize my free time after hitting that financial milestone to actually live my life.

Let me know if I can help with specific questions.
Amtrak continues to require government support to cover its operating expenses, while Deutsche Bahn,[1] manages to turn an operating profit. So how is Amtrak "defunded?"

[1] Deutsche Bahn is owned by the German government, but unlike Amtrak is operated as a private company.
NOI is more or less a branch of Scientology now, with much of their antisemitism and sedition activity being from the last century. [1]

I get that you're trying to paint an all-sides slippery slope argument for banning hate speech, but this is more of a false equivocation here when comparing to an active Aryan supremacy group.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam#Criticism
"All you have is openssl, bash, dig, stdbuf and sed?"

s/sed/GNU sed/

echoz.sh also uses cut, base64, stdbuf, tr, mkfifo, tee and sort.

echoz.sh does not seem to have any "bashisms" so perhaps one does not actually need bash and other sh will suffice.

stdbuf is absent from some BSD UNIX. Below is a small script to try to unbuffer output from any program without using LD_PRELOAD. base64 is also absent from some BSD UNIX and can be replaced with

openssl enc -a

tee can be replaced with

sed -u w/dev/stdout

The uses of cut to isolate substrings and tr to replace characters can also be acomplished using sed.

#!/bin/sh

test $# -ge 1||exec echo usage: $0 program arguments ;
maxarg=5;
test $# -le $maxarg||exec echo max $maxarg arguments ;
{
a=$#;
b=$(command -v $1);
echo -n ' #include <stdio.h>
int main(){
setvbuf(stdin,NULL,_IONBF,0);
setvbuf(stdout,NULL,_IONBF,0);
char *b['$((a+1))'];'
n=0;while true;do
test $n -le $maxarg||exit;
a=$((a-1));
test $a -ge 0||if export n;then echo;break;fi ;
echo -n '
b['$n']="'$1'";'
shift 1;
n=$((n+1));
done;
echo ' b['$n']=(void *)0;
execve("'$b'",b,(void *)0);
}';
}|exec cc -xc - -static && exec a.out
This is really cool, just wish it were more obvious on how to make an FFI layer for other languages
Two fingers to drag on mobile? Who built this thing?
Big wins for alterna-meat: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods get labeling wins
Pseudo-anglicism
Spotify has a service for businesses that includes all the relevant license fees.

https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/help
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952222 from 3 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115826 from one year ago
Well, I currently freelance and take significant amounts of time off (although I generally work 40hrs/week when I am working).

Freelancing of course comes with its own challenges and downsides, if I was offered a salaried gig that provided the level of flexibility I want, I'd probably take it.

That aside, it's fantastic, I heartily recommend trying to find a way out of the 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year lifestyle.
I remember sitting at a bar in a distant city in some other country one night, and the person next to me, who I had just met that day, suggested that we do a shot together. Now these shots were big, and it had already been quite the night, and I remember thinking, "If I do this shot, it's probably the last thing I'll remember tonight."

It was, but that's not the point of this anecdote. This experience gave me the idea for the premise of a sci-fi story: a drug which, once taken, has no affect on you whatsoever outside of one crucial impact, which is that whatever happens while you're on it, you won't remember once it wears off a few hours later.

The scientific findings related in this article seem to indicate that developing such a drug would be possible. Would people take it? I suspect they would, although I also suspect that it would lead to regrettable behaviour. (That is probably, in fact, its chief advantage.) What about you - would you take it?

Are experiences less meaningful if you don't remember them?
After my last SSD died, I'd have a hard time trusting SSD's again for backup purposes (this is probably 8-10 years ago though I suppose).

It was more the way it failed - I had one or two boots where a few errors started to pop up, and then the next boot, nothing - the disk had disappeared to the BIOS' eyes and any other tools - just dead as a doornail with no easy way of getting any of the data off it.

I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term?
Paul Birch [1] posted a long critique, preserved here:

http://buildengineer.com/www.paulbirch.net/CritiqueOfGeorgis...

Key points are in section 7-8. Key paragraphs:

>The form of land-use towards which the single tax pushes us is one in which the countryside is randomly dotted with perpendicular towers (tapering wastes land), 200 metre or so on a side, 2000 metre or so high, each tower a complete small town of 50,000 or so, inclusive of apartments, shops, offices, services and factories, but paying no more tax than a single suburban house. The internal economy of those towers will have some similarities to Type III market Georgism, but with the crucial distinction that no one who wishes to cease renting a unit when the current lease expires has any further liability; finding a new tenant is the responsibility of the tower owner. Most of the surrounding countryside will be abandoned or common land and thus effectively exempt from taxation.

>That doesn't mean that existing towns would just disappear — there is too much already invested in them — though dereliction would tend to set in over much of the urban area over the course of a century or so as abandoned properties reverted to common ownership. ...

>The problem here is that although buildings and other on-site improvements are supposed to remain purely private property, there is no easy way a landholder can remove his property without destroying it if he is outbid in the annual auction. A competing bidder might therefore risk paying considerably over the odds in the reasonable expectation of getting free use of the buildings until the following year, when the original owner may end up paying the market rental on the full property value, not merely the site value, in order to guarantee access to his own property. A sufficiently cheeky tenant could even demand rent from the property owner for allowing the property to remain on the tenant's rented land!

[1] of the British Interplanetary society; found just now that he passed in 2012.
Neat! Is there any reason it’s in a branch? OFD locks fully interoperate with regular POSIX locks, so there shouldn’t be any compatibility issue, except that SQLite would need to fall back on older kernels.
Nope, is it worth continuing?
One of the items that's not present at the moment (and dewitt can probably provide additional color) is the top-level developer shell which puts the pieces together with a minimal amount of client-side work. If you can see Oren's GCP Next talk (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/sessions/session/2204... -- which doesn't show build or events yet), you can see a deployment using `gcloud serverless` to both containers on GCF and a Knative cluster, which differ only in a single flag to gcloud to tell it which endpoint to use.

The short summary if you had a nice client shell would be:

1) Run a command to deploy. That command:

a) determines what build templates are available on your cluster and what language/tools you're using, and finds a match between the two.

b) Creates a YAML definition of your application on the Knative cluster(and stages your source if needed).

2) On the server side:

a) The build component will (optionally) trigger to take staged source and convert it to a container.

b) The serving component will create Istio routes and various pieces to schedule your app into a k8s Deployment.

i) This Deployment will scale to zero if there's no activity, and scale back up if needed.

ii) Scale-to-zero is accomplished via a (shared) "actuator" which stalls the incoming HTTP request until a Pod is live.

c) Additionally, the serving components loads various observability tools like Prometheus and ELK (by default, the no-mon or lite installs skip this) so that you can see what's happening even as your pods appear and disappear.
The docs repo gives a high level overview and a deeper dive into each of the components with samples:

https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/master/README.md
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Git works very well when the code is distributed. Which funnily enough is in the name. That we are using git as a centralized repository is a case of "Why do I need a screwdriver when I have a hammer?".
Doesn't the Git Virtual File system that Microsoft is contributing to Git take care of this?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...

Edit: don't just down vote. If you have a problem with my comment, tell me why.
When I think of competitive programming I don't think of olympiads, I think of still having a job after other devs have been laid off in the latest downsizing. Which means kissing ass is a legit event.
You're right. This is essentially meaningless: "Now that GPUs can reliably generate 60 FPS ...."

That depends entirely on what you're rendering. You could reliably hit over 60 FPS for decades—for some content. And now you can still render at .000000001 FPS for other content.

Saying "GPUs can generate 60 FPS" is presenting the situation as if framerate were a function of hardware only, whereas the reality of the situation is that it depends at least as much on the software.
Even at google this is true. There are naturally multiple monorepos :) For example the Linux kernel devs have their own. This makes sense since the kernel-user interface is strongly defined.
That's because it doesn't work. The job already pays enough that everyone who can do the job will do the job for someone. So paying more just means poaching staff from somewhere else. Someone is going to be the losing bidder
How would you eliminate electromagnetic fields or inconceivably small particles like neutrinos from entering?
Your ideas largely agree with this empirical evidence [1]. An additional lesson we can learn from Davis is that hatred does not solve hatred - if anything it makes the intolerant feel justified in their beliefs because it plays directly into their self-serving bias.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...
I can try fleshing out my line of thinking a little more.

Amazon, Walmart, et al. have put several industries out of business. The effect of the big box stores and ecommerce sites on traditional retail is visible anywhere malls are failing.

Their distortionary effect on the number of people who need welfare occurs through 1) putting traditional businesses out of work and 2) placing its warehouses in areas where wages are depressed (sometimes due to their own competitive behavior). In the second case, wages are anchored at a lower level, and factors like hysteresis further depress potential earning potential.

I would agree that strictly speaking, you're correct that the burden on the social safety net is maybe reduced when workers take a low wage job at Amazon vs. being completely unemployed. But, Amazon and Walmart have collectively displaced hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs in industries like corner stores, grocery stores, bookstores, appliance shops, etc.

Regardless of whether you believe that Amazon type companies are responsible for displacing people from jobs, my argument is that someone who works at a legacy retail outlet is likely making a better wage. Amazon can swoop into areas where the labor market is depressed, and then offer a lower wage than is offered in legacy retail. They can offer a wage that might be considered not-livable, because the social safety net will make up the difference.

It seems pretty uncontroversial that Amazon's cost per unit of labor is lower than that of a legacy retailer. Do you see any reason why this isn't the case?
That's relevant to the fact that concurrency is full of gotchas. I also used Go to write an MMO all by myself. I think channels are great!
Same here. I was on Nexus for the longest time and iPhone X was first iPhone since the first one back in 2008. No issue with speed at all. I use it to tether to my MacBook quite often and speed been reliable for me.
Perhaps you'd be willing to offer your own answer to the question he poses though, which I believe is a good one. When does the left go too far?

With the right, we have at least one clear cut answer: ethnic nationalism. With the left: nothing beyond vague handwaving about "when it gets violent" or "when it gets censorious".

FWIW, I'm a leftist but I see a lot of worrying things coming from the left these days. I figure we could do with a little more introspection considering the results of the last election, a little less derangement about Trump, and a little less paranoia about the supposed hidden agendas of canadian psychologists.
I don't think that's correct. According to Wikipedia, SMP dates to approximately the early 1960s, whereas according to the FreeBSD man pages, flock and fcntl were both introduced in 4.2BSD, released in 1983, two decades later. It's at most fair to say that Unix file locking came around the same time as Unix SMP.
Could blockchains help detailed tracking in
studies somehow? Maybe tie RFID in the products into a blockchain tracker. The blockchain could anonymize the data, but provide quantitative tracking.

I'd also wish for some way to provide funding to studies but obscure the direct pay. So they pay into a funding that gets anonymously distributed to coinholders.

Eh, these are all pretty far fetched.
I'm not a javascript guy so I'm not going to take this further, but, if you run the following inside the console of the page it loads and decrypts the station data:

$.get(_$_sal_5,{
})
.done(function(d){
var x12 = d.trim();
console.log(JSON.parse(__$_s1._$_dcrt(x12.substring(0,x12.length-masterSegment),__$_s1._$_dcrt(x12.substr(x12.length - masterSegment),__$$_jmd).split('|')[masterSegment-88]))
)})

I'm sure someone else can take thus further, but, its a mess of javascript. I think its hand-rolled encryption too from a cursory look at the __$_s1._$_dcrt function
Place a W-series Thinpad on your bare legs on a warm summer day (think you can just still survive/think at all without A/C). You will want to get it away as you can't sweat well under it, and it's dumping some heat into your blood. That's it, despite some discomfort you won't mind it. And apparently the make them with more TDP than apple seems to be able to handle, but instead of an i9 they appear to jump directly to a Xeon. Those start at over $3500 in base configuration though....
And all this time I thought he was an emperor tamarin.[1]

[1]https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02140/mo...
Adding to this: no law would keep Amazon from sending employees to stores to buy Wusthof stuff (whatever that is...) to put up for resale on Amazon, but they would get in trouble of they resold at a lower price. It gets slightly more interesting when trademarks are involved, I think Birkenstock is currently trying to block out Amazon (particularly marketplace) on that basis.
I think Knative (and the scale to zero in particular) are best suited for request/response or event-delivery workloads. So you wouldn't want to run (for example) memcache or mysql under knative. FaaS and (HTTP application) PaaS are both good matches.

I think it's an open question whether a PaaS like Google Dataflow is a good match or not. It will certainly require more planning, but I think it's doable.
"Homeland Security"... and i'm on another list. Great.
Financially: don't have debt and have $30.000. You are now the top 1% richest on the world.

Health: eat fruits every day, don't run marathons or be to fanatic. Talk with people, this makes you live longer. Get enough sleep if you can

Relations: with over a billion people, don't worry. You can get a new relationship within 2 weeks if you brute-force it.

Finally, find meaning.
As mentioned in the post (which is from 2016), Google has also been experimenting with Mercurial as a frontend (in collaboration with "contributors from other companies that value the monolithic source model"). As an avid user of that experiment at Google, it's seems to be going very well.
It's not clear to me we even have "dense corridors" like in Europe. I was in Munich, and driving in from the airport what struck me is that the city just ends. The city is 1.5 million people. Then there is another million or so people in the metro area, and 30 minutes outside of downtown its farms. Contrast Philadelphia, which is at the center of the U.S. "northeast megalopolis." It's also 1.5 million people, but there are another 4.5 million people in the surrounding sprawl. You can go an hour outside Philly in almost any direction and still be in suburban sprawl. That totally changes the transit equation. You build high-speed rail to Munich, and you're serving more than half the population of the metro area. You build high-speed rail to Philly, and you serve just a quarter of the population (while the other three quarters is stuck paying for something they have to drive to get to anyway).

This is true at multiple levels of scale. Compare Ulm, Germany to Richmond, VA. Both are about 100-200k people. Aside from a few appendages, you hit farms 2-3 miles outside Ulm in most directions. Richmond, by contrast, is surrounded for 8-10 miles in all directions by suburbs, which have another million people. When it comes to voting for things like transit or train service, the people in the city that might benefit from it are totally outnumbered by all the people in the suburbs who can't.
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So the same operators are now complaining about encryption that didn't consider the consequences of MiTM modifying the traffic, like adding elements on HTML pages or altering DNS NXDOMAIN to redirect to an advertisement portal?

Too late now. Encryption is here to stay.

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/redirectingdnsf...

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/att-hits-pause-privacy-busting...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2925839/net-neutrality/cod...
Yes, sure, always. But the payoff is huge...