skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is absolutely certain to hurt Indians in future,

See, you're missing the point again. India is irrelevant to this discussion. It's tangential at best.

Let's look at an example:

mywacaday asked [1]: "Why should there be a different standard for Google and other tech companies to not expand into China"

And you responded [2]: "Because it will degrade democracy in countries like India."

No. That's not the reason. That is a completely disjointed and bizarre tangent. India is irrelevant to the real issues at hand here, but in each comment you try to find a way to shoehorn it into the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661610

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17662806
Ok, but if you’re kicking off those that are unwilling to pay, you’re automatically decreasing the value of your app every time you try to charge people. You can make money — for a time. If the purpose people joined in the first place “I can connect with all the people I know” changes, then you start seeing the growth move in a very negative direction
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The first sentence in The Fine Article mentions Colombia, whose Peso uses "$" as its symbol, and currently has an exchange rate of ~2900:1 USD.
> if you're one of the few people that understands some legacy technology that is important and hard to replace, then you have job security

I've never seen this play out in practice. The PHB doing the firing is 3 levels up and has no idea what the legacy technology is or that the employee is hard to replace. They'll be more than happy to fire them even when it screws themselves over. Everyone left has to learn to work with or around this technology.
There's nothing guaranteed about a "get out of jail free" card, so factoring that into your decision making is probably a bad road to go down.
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Could also be a ploy to get diabetics in the door for some other sales program.
Huge differences in engagement. Video games end up with small numbers of people who spend insane amounts of time with their product. Social media is large numbers of people spending small amounts of time. Because the customers aren’t nearly as engaged, they aren’t as willing to spend for extra goodies
Sigh... stupid politics... caps (or equivalent) are a mathematical necessity in NYC: the city streets can only handle a very limited number of vehicles. After that, congestion becomes a classic tragedy of the commons.
I think the context is vital here. In the ideal situation of 5 people hungry and the only shop in town with exactly 5 sandwiches ready, nobody loses: shop sells, people eat, workers get paid.
But in this world there are more products and services around than people wanting to buy them, so people have to be convinced, and engineers usually are really poor at lying.

A revealing sign that an engineer isn't running that shop would be the production climbing to 50 sandwiches. The same 5 people would be fooled into buying all of them by advertising, special discounts etc, then they would eat 5 each instead of 1 becoming obese, thus helping the medical business, and throw away the rest helping the trash collection and disposal business.
So. Many. Drugs.
What is the Cash app then?
Great tips here!
https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4246

I believe the above was used in sk-learn or PyMC3 at some point.

Like I said, the list was a bit too theory focused and not just for ML. Hope that clears things up.

Also, maybe a bit out of place, but it makes my day happier when I assume good intentions out of random tidbits posted online.
Product Manager for Cloud Firestore here. It's worth noting we do have the ability to set hard daily caps, as well as budgets that can have alerts tied to them. It's something we also looking at ways to improve it.
> Given the distance involved with a Yukon trip, it just hasn't been feasible to get up there.

Get on the Alaska Marine Line ferry from Bellingham Washington up to Haines or Skagway, AK. In the off season it's cheaper and faster than driving, and you'll see tons of stuff you want to see - whales, eagles, glaciers, icebergs, etc. etc.

> I would have loved to have driven down the west coast before Mauritania got so dangerous.

Don't believe the hype. I personally met hundreds of people that drove it, and dozens that have driven it every year for 10+ years, and not a single person has ever had problems. Not even once. There are a lot of roadblocks where they check your paperwork - they're keeping everyone safe!

> My Mercedes is (not) For Sale

I read the same book to help build my stoke, loved it too!
That's a good point. Most likely that would have been the work of some low-level employee at a regional office trying to boost their numbers.
A relatively small amount of new stock is issued each year on the open market when you exclude companies that trade their own stock. Bonds are often issued for things like taking a company private which are again not really investments just asset transfer. Further, profitable companies often issue bonds even if they have cash on hand or regular dividends.

So again it might be a useful investment, but that’s not nessisarily true.
What? Do you actually believe this?

I grew up in the northern end of Appalachia, with a lot of people that had less than an acre their doublewide sat on. Nothing stopped them using the ponds and lakes, the trail systems, or the technically private but defacto public access swathes of paper company land.
I was referencing the guy above who suggested WhatsApp become a commerce platform, and why that is hard.

WeChat definitely does many of those things, but that’s far from it’s only monetization Model
IOCP doesn't do it[1]. Well, if it does then it's not documented. You can post custom completion packets so at first glance it looks easy to make open/close be async...I think there is probably a good reason why NT won't do that for you.

That's pretty awesome though, that you have to worry about latency of open().

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/i-o-...
Since it only became known due to it being leaked, the news probably just hit the employees today, and they're already sharpening up their pitchforks. Their successful derailing of the US military program should give some hope. Obviously worker and owner motivation/interests at companies rarely align. At most companies, workers have zero say over what management/owners want to do, but it could be that internal organization at G is stronger than at other companies. I guess we'll see.
Anecdotally Lyft did this years ago in Denver. My friend was called because she was a top 10% Lyft user and was asked to come protest because Colorado was thinking regulating ride sharing services in a way they didn't like.
This is what I deal with for years. I make progress but it takes years. What I suggest that I know helped me:

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3. Go to therapy!

4. Don’t rush, don’t push yourself to go to parties etc. small steps, start with going to coffee shops so you are around humans, look in people’s eyes on a sidewalk and smile to them, then gradually start with small talks with barista.

Good luck !
Well, then it is fundamentally less useful then?
I use Youtube Red. Part of the reason no one uses it is because it's not a very good service.

Because I have Youtube Red I don't have ads, and I can download videos on my phone. Except I can't really download videos, I just kind of cache them in an inaccessible format that randomly fails. Seriously, it's very common for me to go back to older downloaded videos and have Youtube randomly tell me, "well, it's messed up, we'll have to redownload it later."

On top of that, using Youtube Red means that I have extra ads for Youtube Red specific channels that I can't permanently get rid of. On top of that, using Youtube Red means that Google will occasionally decide that I'm not allowed to watch videos on my phone and computer at the same time, because that's "using the account in multiple places."

What I should be doing is using youtube-dl to auto-download playlists without ads and then sync them to my device. But I'm still paying for it, because... I don't know why, I guess I'm lazy. But there's very little reason for anyone to purchase Youtube Red when they can get a better, more private experience by downloading an ad blocker.

The problem is that Youtube offers both a free tier and a paid tier, right next to each other, with no signficant improvements to the paid tier. You're still getting the same algorithmic, eyeball-grabbing, buggy crap in Youtube Red. So I'm skeptical that this is a good comparison - if your goal with paying for apps is to get away from the dirty feeling of having someone watch you and manipulate you, Youtube Red is never going to satisfy that, because it's always going to be developed alongside the free version and it's always going to be reusing that codebase.

Compare that to something like Netflix. Do you think it's a mistake that they don't offer a free tier?
I'll believe it when there's free torrent speech on google search results.
another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661214
Tim Bell, one of the creators of CS Unplugged, was one of my lecturers at the University of Canterbury, and before that he taught me the fundamentals of computer science at the NZ Olympiad of Informatics training camp when I was at high school. It would be fair to say that he's a significant part of the reason I'm a software developer.

I've never met a man so passionate and interested in the pedagogy of computer science. I'd say that he's one of the leading figures in pre-tertiary (primary and secondary school) computer science education in New Zealand. I think that science pedagogy is a massively underserved field of academia. Everyone wants to create new theories and breakthroughs, but nobody wants to figure out how to teach them.

The way that he manages to use practical demonstrations to teach computer science theories and algorithms is brilliant. It really helps make algorithms click with a lot of students. It was refreshing to have him as a lecturer as opposed to some of the lecturers who were clearly did it because they were required to, not because they wanted to.
We do our best to be able to hire from anywhere, but sometimes we are not in control of the limitations in place. At this time, we have reached the maximum number of people we can hire in Portugal and are actively looking for solutions that will open up more hiring for us and the wonderful citizens of Portugal.
FYI Google makes money in China alright. It only closed the search function, not AdWords.
Is this still an issue if you don't own any software patents?
Caps are definitely hard, getting them right as both a feature as well as setting them as a customer is still an art. This holds true for 'flat rate' too, where your trading correct sizing vs downtime when either get code wrong or get unexcepted success. I've been involved in all these situations so I definitely emphasize.

We had daily hard caps and budgets alerts, but it's still an area we can do better.

(Disclaimer: Product Manager for Cloud Firestore)
Aah gotcha. So you’re saying it’s easier to verify the solution to a Nash equilibrium problem than it is to verify the solution to the TSP optimization problem?
> The default web browser natively supports extensions, including ad blockers

No, it only supports ad blockers, dubbed 'content blockers'.
I went to what was basically a community college for my undergrad degree. Engineering/physics/chem departments called it problem sets.
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I don't understand yours. You're turning Dokem's specific comment about a museum heist into some kind of general attitude towards all crime being ok provided it's interesting.

The article clearly states nobody was hurt in the heist, there's no violence in this particular situation whatsoever and you're pulling in terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers.
Depends on whether the VPN service also came with the same privacy assurances that the more costly competing VPN services offer.
I’m talking a social media platform. Video games are fundamentally different because the goal is to get a small number of highly engaged users. Social media drives value from having huge networks of large numbers of people.

There are people who spend 10 hours a day playing Fortnite, and are perfectly willing to spend gobs of money to make that experience better. There aren’t the same sort of “whales” in social media.
Then don't use apps that are ad supported? That sounds like the way to make sure that you're controlling what traffic it's using. Not denying apps that you're using revenue.
> companies must submit all source code for review if they do government contracts in China

FTFY
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“Computer Teacher With No Computers Chalks Up Clever Classroom Plan” is still blowing my mind months later.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/01/5895194...

> For Hottish, who spends about 30 minutes making these drawings before every class, teaching this way is really no big deal. "Every subject is taught on the blackboard here," he says.
Kudos to you for trying something new!
What I meant was: EU created RTBF, Google went "well, we must comply with local laws, and we can't get out of Europe". From there, it's a smaller leap to comply with worse local laws.
>Product Manager for Cloud Firestore here. It's worth noting we do have the ability to set hard daily caps, as well as budgets that can have alerts tied to them. It's something we also looking at ways to improve it.

Google Cloud user here. A warning: If you ever happen to get, say, frontpage on reddit or techcrunch or other big boost to publicity, your site could be down until the next billing cycle (i.e. 24 hours) and you will have no way to fix it.

This bit me hard one day with appengine and lost us a ton of converting traffic, even though we tried to get the limit increased within ten minutes of the spike (and well before our limit was hit).
How many of them are solely Google Photos users?
You only have to be 'terrified' if you don't write good code. Maybe people should actually test their code before pushing it to production?

It's not firebase's fault you ran bad code and have a huge bill. They have bills to pay also. Think they can tell their vendors 'sorry we can pay you this week. A customer ran up a 30k bill and they can't pay it. So we can't pay you right now. but lol bad code right? '
Yes, tmux can reduce the pain significantly. But what if you're using anything graphical for development? VS Code, Jetbrains IDEs? I guess you can use X forwarding. But what a pain. And if you're creating a webapp, you still want to see how it looks on a web browser.

But you make some fair points. I will try to use tmux for remote development for a few days.
Super cool! I want to access the docs but I am getting a certificate error (it might be me)? Does this also have transfer learning built in?
Really wish you guys would open up to remote. There's a such a big talent pool you're missing out on by restricting your employee base to the Bay Area.
Nope, CreateFile and NtCreateFile are synchronous, only reading and writing are asynchronous.
So basically we want to have cake and eat it too.
Alrighty then. Thanks for the enlightening read.
As an aside when I see those “Single?” signs, some quirk of my brain thinks of an alternate version for devorce lawyers:

“Single? Would you like to be?”
Why does your application require a Linkedin URL?
Yes, because you keep making this statement that it’s not necessary to endanger lives when testing driverless cars. That statement is false. Endangering some lives is a necessary condition for testing driverless cars. Now, maybe we shouldn’t test them and that’s fine, but you are trying to have it both ways.
I also think people have a right to self governance but...

Palestine is a searchable entity on Google maps. It does not label the state but the territories West Bank and Gaza are labelled in the typical contested fashion. The blurb fairly mentions the Palestinianess and the contestedness of both territories.

By comparison Taiwan is also a searchable entity and is labelled but its blurb is very carefully hand written to not mention governance. There is no way that a ignorant person could disabuse themselves with the provided information and is likely to be interpreted as confirming your chosen side. To put it simply it is a weasel blurb. The label however is a country level label. Being generous you could say it is being handled similar to how the EU but also given that the territories are seperated by Israel it's not obvious where you might put the State of Palestine label.

The difference is the access to associated information for those curious enough to look. Even outside of China it is evident that effective pressure for informational cleansing is being brought to bare on Taiwan's statehood that exceeds that of Palestine's. Which is the topic discussed in the article. The fact that neithers situation is good is just whataboutism.

In an ideal world China would stick their nose in and force Palestinian recognition and the US/Israel would do the same for Taiwan. Or maybe recognising people's right to self-governance could be the next social justice movement.
I wonder how these perform over libsodium's implementations. (Particularly regarding the assembly).
From the socially unequal distribution of wealth... duh...
> It feels like a near majority is cynical that actually helping anyone will improve their lot, and that the only thing that works is a stick.

I think it feels that way to those who think they know what helps and what doesn't. To me, it feels like a vast majority agree helping is good, but are cynical about the method and helpers. I think we can all agree that repeated failures and not learning from them is intolerable.
I am quite concerned that network security is pushing very usable software and hardware to the junkyard. Is it possible that for a variety of reasons, it is better to have something reliable and stable, than to throw out working software because of intractable browser and network security problems ?
What’s the difference between a cap limiting your traffic and server cpu maxed out, or db connection pool or ... limiting your traffic?
This is actually the same in Australia, especially in Melbourne and Sydney where home prices have risen crazily over the past 10 or so years. We call it the bank of mum and dad:

https://www.domain.com.au/money-markets/majority-of-firsthom...
I am not OP, but my take.

A text like this may not introduce the reader to any new-to-them CS content. Instead, especially if they have a good bit of experience behind them, it reorganizes their thinking. Which can be just as valuable.
Any chance you could use dtrace to isolate process specific I/O?
Or have it be adjustable within a reasonable time frame?
if only these millennials drank 150 less lattes a day they'd be able to afford a downpayment on a place of their own in three years.
The terrible thing here is that owning a home is pictured as the American dream, a goal in itself.

I think it should almost only be seen as an investment. Like any sizeable investment, a lot of calculation should be made to decide if it makes sense or not. (And spoiler alert, in most places in California it does not make any sense anymore)

Buying a home is extremely emotional and I'm actually shocked to see how few homeowner actually even calculated the opportunity cost of buying a home vs renting and investing the downpayment. Or even calculated anything at all. Never forget there is a huge lobby of people that want you to buy a home.
(agents, banks, realtor, people that already own a home, ...)

I think there is that emotional bias to absolutely want to buy a home, mixed with the fact that people think they will get the same +200% returns that you see since 2012 in the bay area.

(Please don't respond with the typical "Paying rent is like throwing money out of the window")

As a reference, a blog post on this subject that I mostly agree with:
https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...
It won't be long until my primary gaming rig is ten years old, and it's more than capable of everything I throw at it. The upgrade cycle is essentially dead.

That being said, I'm not clear on what the real difference between Lubuntu and Kubuntu will be now.
> But in this world there are more products and services around than people wanting to buy them, so people have to be convinced

Or, the products could shut down, or lower their prices. If there’s no demand, why put energy into making demand rather than making something people want? It’s the lowest bar of achievement in this society; while I understand money can be a powerful motivator, this lowers the value of the entire work force.
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If I am reading you correctly, you are saying that all restrictions of free speech are basically equivalent. You claim that these things are "exactly" the same: moderating harassment on a private website versus government-enforced suppression of evidence of a massacre. You conclude that to be for one but not the other is to be hypocritical. I think that's a very reductionist way of looking at some complex issues.