skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
African American here. The comparison is actually pretty apt. Deliberate, systemic economic barriers put up against those seeking to do legitimate business due to blanket group policy (see banks like Wells Fargo who are STILL doing redlining and race-based credit rationing today) actually encourages illegal activity for people trying to make a living. And lets not forget the sex workers who are creating the content sold by porn sites. Law after law pushed by both conservatives and "progressives" that criminalize even their responsible activities, make it difficult for them to bank, and making them even more vulnerable to bad actors.

The consequences are actually more or less the same - sex workers have much higher rates of mental health issues, victimization to violence, and lower life expectancy. Pretty much the same types of problems faced by (esp low income) black Americans. For largely the same structural economic reasons.
Sono Sion: a solar-powered commercial car
The Problems and Promise of WebAssembly
I think it's fine. If you did nothing wrong then you have nothing to lose by unlocking your phone. So if you don't unlock your phone, it's an admission of guilt.

People are way too paranoid. Nobody cares about what you do with your phone.

Sometimes I feel like the upper classes of society (especially hypocrites who have money and a reputation to protect) are projecting their fears on all other classes. Then like fools, the honest proletariat adopts all these ridiculous fears as their own.
I have outmost respect for this type of dedication. Amazing!
Is that his real handwriting??? That's not a fancy font?

Wow, it really IS a treat. I've always heard people say how much a person's handwriting can tell you about that person. Mine is a mangled mess, and I'm pretty disorganized in most areas of my life.
In my opinion "take security more seriously" is too nebulous to be constructive here. What do we want these companies to do? Security is an incredibly hard problem. It is only exacerbated when we go years without speaking with one of these companies. Anything that you have to remember in that time whether it is a password, pin code, or "who was your childhood hero" type security questions can all be forgotten. How else is this company supposed to identify you over the phone, without something that can be forgotten, without referencing easy to find public information, and without using a secondary verified contact method like email?
What are you referring to exactly?
InfluxDB isn't as easy as it's sound to operate.

Anything built on top of Postgres probably has year of knowledge to tune the db. but not much on InfluxDB. You are on your own.

You cannot even easily upgrade InfluxDB, especially when you want to use some new feature such as enabling the TSI.

When something is wrong, again, you're on the own.

The question to InfluxDB HA isn't available as well.

Yes, with all of that pain point, I'm still using InfluxDB. I even have to add in https://github.com/buger/goreplay to support replaying traffic to other instance during upgrade.

I have to write a tool to re-read old data and import into new instance instead of using their own import/restore.

Many gotcha with InfluxDB, hard to explain to dev not using high cardinality for tag, or not using too many tag. For example, people get used to `tag` concept of `fluentd` and put stuff like user id, device id into tag...

I want to log slow query time, now, I cannot use whole query as tag because of very high cardinality.

However, I kept using InfluxDB. I want to support it so we have something better than Postgres. I'm sick of SQL query(personaly) and I would like for Flux to be successful.

Similar to MongoDB, it's bad years ago but very good nowadays. I guess same thing will happen with InfluxDB. And indeed, they do improve over the year.

Similar to how we use Ruby vs C. It's about productivity. And despite of above pain points, I always find a way to solve them eventually. And the tooling around InfluxDB is nice, especially Grafana.
>> is _very bad_ on the long term health

Would you prove that please?
I had been comfortably programming in C and python for years and found 0-based indexing to be perfectly sensible. For the last couple of years I've been programming a lot in Julia. Initially I was horrified by the idea of indexing from 1 but I got the hang of it remarkably fast. Now I feel it's totally natural either way, depending what language I'm in.

I think it's only ever been a matter of preference as you say. And Julia was otherwise such a pleasure to write code in that it was easy for me to pay the small price to learn that.
This might help to shed some light:

On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/CKWN-CCS16.pdf
You appear to be confusing addiction, which is happening in the brain and is to do with the GABA and other receptors, with the nature of the withdrawal symptoms.
My boss asked me to log a user's credentials in cleartext so he can connect to his account and get confidential data...
I resigned the next day after
Off topic, but I love how WSJ let's you through without a subscription as long as your referer header is set to Facebook.
Donations.

And if you don’t mind going through Facebook (no login required)

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-sch...

On a meta level. Can you really be accused of not RTFM if it’s behind a paywall - that doesn’t seem fair.
Building a filter bar inspired by GitLabs issue and MR search/filter
> Right. The biggest reasons for the crash were the lack of try-before-you-buy and the lack of good-quality reviews.

This wouldn't have mattered if there weren't so many crap games. Nintendo addressed this by strictly limiting the number of releases, as well as having a thorough pre-release review process. Atari couldn't do that, since there was no way to police it, and anyway they wanted to shovel out crap themselves.
As another user commented, the total cost per year is around ~$34 million which is roughly 5% of the total $600 million they're looking to raise. That 600 million will be invested to target some annual return and as long as that return is expected to be a couple of percentage points over 5% (which is not an unreasonable expectation) then they should be able to more than cover the cost every year, without even touching the principal amount. Looks like they're raising the total amount via donations
They're paid for through donations. The article has the names of various donors throughout, for this program and similar programs.
Yep! It'll probably act a little different than you'd expect - the pseudoconsole itself will switch between the primary and alt buffers, leaving the terminal in the main buffer always. We'll "render" the contents of the alt buffer to the terminal, then when the client app switches back to the main buffer, conpty will re-render the contents of the main buffer to the terminal.

It's not the most elegant solution, but we're still very early in on this project. We still have lots of improvements to be made to the infrastructure and translation, and even as I type this up, I'm thinking there's probably a better way of handling alt buffers.
$ vim ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
List of Books to Base Your Life On
I'm sure the poster was addressing "Focus on the facts. Not the messenger."

As was listed, there are plenty of good reasons to learn about the messenger, just like how looking up my comment history will show my propensity for calling this argument out. You know my ulterior motives and where I'm coming from.
Can you expand on that? How is a federated and decentralized network reinforcing bubbles and increasing polarization? Arguably the entire point of a platform like Mastadon is censorship resistance, with no single controlling entity deciding what's "allowed" and what isn't.
First of all, good luck to the newly launched YC China.

I'm shocked with that much funding, this startup would choose to either or both a) plagiarize, b) falsely advertise, and they didn't even do it well. I'd say the effort is worth $36 without the million.

Both of these actions (plagiarism, fraud) have ethical and legal implications, but it sounds like they are getting away with this by admitting to the public what they did.. That makes me think the investors were already aware/supportive of the whole stunt.

Is this what the startup scene is like in China? I certainly hope not.. but still, it will take heck a lot more innovation from this company for people to ever trust them again.
Introduction to A* (1997)
Please post your email password here so we can all take a look. If you've doing nothing wrong then you would have no problem with that right?
You're confusing two things: the legal protections afforded by the First Amendment (in the US) and the concept of free speech. They are not the same.

I wouldn't say Twitter would be violating the Constitution by banning Alex Jones. I would say I'd like to live in a world where private corporations didn't censor digital mass communication.
The title reminds me of a Silicon Valley (HBO) episode. I can imagine a big whiteboard, and one of the product ideas on it is called New Chrome.
Notebook Innovation at Netflix
Hasn’t this report already been debunked or is it a different one?

(Edit: it is, and it shows evidence of data duplication and manipulation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02929)
No kidding. I was working on a game for the Atari 800 in 1980 and got a floppy disk with a bunch of pirated games from a friend of mine that included a copy of my incomplete game! To this day I have no idea how that happened.
Was this meant as a joke?
> Cheaper medical school tuition isn't going to lead to more doctors. The limiting factor is the number of available seats and residency positions, not the cost.

Bingo. Also, even if we somehow forced all doctors to work for free and magically ended up with the same quality of care, we'd still only reduce total spending by about 7%.

That's a hard upper bound on the effects that increasing the supply of physicians can have.
"Is the shop owner around?"

"Yes"

"Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?"

"Sure [...] it's called XYZ"

"Thanks"

^ That's about how long this useless story needed to be. The author ran around town bothering dozens of cashiers that don't do the purchasing.
Maybe they purchased real estate in NYC and are charging companies to rent space there. Historically that's how the Cooper Union has been tuition free (since they own the space under the Chrysler Building) [0].

[0] https://wernercohn.com/Chrysler.html
Bravo!

I just wish there was a middle ground here. The problem is that tuition is too high, not that it exists at all. Lowering tuition would solve the problem just as effectively, and could be done for more students.
I think he/she is suggesting that project maven wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. It's unclear from the lack of context _why_ they think that.
No. My recollection is that it was a block or two off Castro on either Villa or Dana. This is over 5 years ago though.
While I’m glad that billionaires are donating, why should colleges be dependent on the largess of private benefactors to ensure that our healthcare system is sustainable?
Step 1 is to normalize censorship for racists. Step 2 is to redefine racism until it captures most of your political opponents, up to and including "supports free speech" as a racist viewpoint.
My issues weren't with drugs or alcohol (there are plenty of other things to get addicted to in this life). Nor am I judging myself harshly. I'm a data guy and love that math doesn't have feelings. When you are adequately educated of the consequences and jump in anyway there is a manifest fault in judgment. Mercifully I've been able to recover, but life would have been a lot easier had I made different choices when I was quite young rather than clean up messes when I was much older.
>But I have some issues as to why that inequality happens.

Can you expand on why inequality happens and some ideas to change/fix the causes?
Dispatching Ambulances with a Raspberry Pi and Django in Ethiopia
>unlike US military tech

You realize that US Military Tech goes into killing innocent people literally all the time, right?
Hence, the hammer.
When an author is so confident in their assertions, it always raises red flags. Also, the latter part of the article seems to posit that "in order for the U.S. to win, China has to lose".
I hope that between this and the defeat of Project Maven, Google employees are waking up to how much power they have when act collectively. Hopefully, more formal labor organization follows, so there can be an ongoing check on the poor, executive-level decision-making that keeps pushing the company into these unethical pursuits.
Microsoft probably had little, if anything to do with the decision. Synaptic put a new driver through the pipeline that ends with it being pushed through Windows Update as part of the normal keeping your drivers updated goal (from Microsoft's perspective). There's a lot of QA that goes into that process , but it's all on the "can this driver take down the system, or only the device it's written for?" It's on Synaptic to make good UX choices for the software they distribute, driver config tools included. And it's on ASUS and Msi to select hardware with stable, quality drivers and config tools.

Getting to sit down and talk with the guys that made those decisions would be pretty great, but it's not Microsoft you're really interested in talking to here.
Google employees were protesting the company's involvement in making drones for the Pentagon: https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-google-employees-protest-co...
So US = good, China = bad? Too simplistic.
There was a protest or something by some Google employees a few months ago about contracts with the Pentagon:

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064776
> Movie theaters don't make their margins on tickets sales, they make them on concession sales. The model of "lose a small amount on tickets sales, and make it up and then some on concession sales" is fundamentally sound. The ticket loses would get written off as a Cost of User Acquisition for the high profit concession items.

The interesting issue is that the theaters know this, and have already calculated it into ticket prices. This has been the modus operandi for nearly as long as theaters have ever existed. The interesting gall of MoviePass was thinking they had a new angle in a game so much older than them. Movie theaters have already calculated their margins to the knife's edge of marginal costs on tickets versus concession and value add sales, and have done so for nearly a century.

Turns out MoviePass didn't actually have a new angle and tried to do what Movie Theaters were already doing, without the benefit of controlling any direct interest in the revenue from the value adds and concession sales. I don't understand how any of the VCs saw that business plan and considered it a good idea. We've known that marginal costs on theater tickets have been a loss leader for nearly a century or so, it's a very well known fact about the industry that is practically an economics 101 lesson in every textbook.

The theater market is also this consolidated precisely because of this long, calculated economic model. A lot of the poker game of passing individual theaters between chains is almost entirely because of this game of playing knife's edge marginal costs versus added incentives/interesting concessions for sustained customers in the long term, where even entire individual theaters in a chain may be loss leaders for customer loyalty to other theaters elsewhere in a chain.
It's funny that it's only now that Google employees are developing a conscience. Advanced facial recognition systems, email harvesting, stalking people across the internet and monitoring their every keyboard press, many more drastic infringements on people's privacy under the guise of "they clicked accept on our 1000 page t&cs"...not a whimper.

I support anything that damages Google as an entity, or throws egg on the faces of those who choose to work for them, so this apparent revolution-of-conscience from within is pretty delightful to behold.
Lowering med school, law school, and undergrad tuition by 8% across the board doesn't quite get the publicity that eliminating med school tuition does, though.
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Drones, AI, robotics and blockchain technology can improve agriculture
Is there an absolute requirement to be able to demonstrate your identity over the phone even if you have no secret information with which to confirm it?

How about, if you forget your password and can’t get into your account, you need to visit a store in person to show your ID, or mail in a notarized copy, or something like that?
What makes you think it's stuck in 2010?
I don't know all the details, but supposedly the telecom we were partnered with got in trouble with the FCC? and ended things.
I mentioned this because I know multiple people who've had authy / other authenticators compromised down the line from social engineering attacks. Even if you can be alerted, usually it's too late by the time you realize what's happened to your creds.
Recommended relevant YouTube video (7 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikIeaCE3Ljc
Often those are not like million dollar RSUs. Most of the big money goes to top management, and technical people who manage other technical people. The other technical people to get them are generally who are well connected up with the bosses and have some political leverage, to help them negotiate well.

The ordinary people get little to get by. And often the vesting schedule is long, and taxes eat into bulk of it.

This is true even in FAANG. In fact your best bet to get any meaningful RSU grant is to be something like employee number 300 as a Manager at Facebook.

You also need to understand one thing. Promotions are hard to come by in FAANG companies, because generally every one is at least as awesome as you are. So you also stagnate quite a lot in those companies.
Yeah, those checks are things like the judicial branch, separation of powers, periodic (and particularly in the case of the Senate, infrequent) voting, and the Constitution being difficult to amend. Giving special power to one type of minority is unnecessary and subverts the general will of the people.

If we had a legislative house for white people and another for black people, would that be a good idea because hey, that white majority doesn't always think long term? Again, there's no reasonable justification for why it should be that geographic minorities get extra political power.
This only proves the point, the whole perspective of the nytimes piece is a lone 'accidental' activist fighting against the system facing pushback at every stage.

Where are the software engineers of SV who work for these companies and implement these programs in the activism, where are the dissenters, where are all the folks who are outraged about China on every article?

Without mainstream activism against surveillance capitalism, NSA surveillance, secret courts, secret processes and secret orders surveillance will become a dragnet few will be able to escape from.

How can we hold China accountable for the same things we are doing? The least that can be done by the tech community is try to get Snowden back with full honors, but like Assange he lies discarded with zero activism, and even demonized in some sections of the press as a 'traitor' and here we pretend to care about these things.
I wonder if they will cover the tax if the irs decides to call it income to the student.
But good to see. Doctors have been getting squeezed pretty hard recently. Something has got to give. Radiology had around 80 unfilled residency spots a few years ago because of poor career outlook.
Ya know there is more than one person that works at Google. Likely many/most of them have differing perspectives.
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> Now lets please do the same for nurses and social workers who pay exorbitant tuition rates, too, yet get paid peanuts to be on the frontline of health care.

I would not say nurses get paid "peanuts". Not many jobs would let you earn close to $100k in New York City with only a bachelor degree (or in some cases only a two-year associate degree)
The vast majority of those existing websites are being served over HTTP. Google seems fine with breaking them for that reason.
This is exactly the kind of feature you don't want...
Yeah, how dare they not use the SPA framework du jour, and kill all kind of functionality that customers actually like about their product in favor of BS trends...
Which MoviePass wasn't selling and had no way to sell.
Someone did the same thing during the dotcom bubble with Microsoft's media player. They pretended to have a new, revolutionary media player technology (which was actually just a skin), and raised ~$18m on the back of that. It all got vaporized, there never was a real product underneath.

I wouldn't chalk this particular instance up to anything more than loose capital ending up in fraudster hands, as occasionally happens when it's sloshing around to such a degree as it is these days.
> Cheaper medical school tuition isn't going to lead to more doctors.

No, but it might mean more doctors in the kind of practices and specialties that are socially useful but not serving the wealthiest of private pay clients, because the necessity of chasing the maximum returns is reduced.
As they say, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
OES for CEOs: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm
OES for GPs: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291062.htm

It looks like what your saying makes sense... until you start to control for location. Look at the chart titled, "Metropolitan areas with the highest employment level in this occupation" for both pages, and you'll see that for every locale included in both places, CEO pay is higher than GPs.

This is most likely because CEOs aren't evenly distributed with the population like GPs are (you can have one CEO at the top of 50k employees, but you need many more GPs than that for the same number of people).
New Physics of Financial Services–How AI is transforming the financial ecosystem
Thank you for providing that link. It seems like that the divergence started in 1973 and was clear by 1980. Do you have any ideas on what changed in that time phrase that caused the divergence?
yeah, I tried to do that or something similar first, IIRC the s3 website setup was handling the index document and error document stuff, but using cloudfront to fetch through the S3 API wasn't doing that so that is how I ended up where I ended up.
In my previous job searches I've noted that many startups are valuing their equity extremely high and trying to pay less cash instead. As a made up example to illustrated they may offer $120k cash, but give you a ton of options they claim are worth $200k per year.

In a real case I had a recruiter tell me they were "getting me" $60k a year in options, which in reality has been more like $10k. I like https://tldroptions.io/ to reality check the equity portions.
that may have been my unreliable source.
Solarized is gone?
https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

404 for the page that I tend to visit every other month.
Google does not return the page in the organic search so it must have beeen gone for a few days.

Anybody knows what happened?
> the time between pages to write code.

Makes me feel like a slacker for not studying medicine or law while I'm waiting for my code to compile.
Thank you! Sad to see he passed away, though.
One of my favorite lines of the Bible are these simple words from Jesus Himself: "They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick." It turns out that most of us are more like the Pharisees that Jesus railed against: convinced of our own moral superiority. I think that's a natural instinct of human nature (independent of one's professed religious beliefs).