skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your point. If you devalue your own currency, your foreign debts don't move at all. If you owe 100 bucks plus interest, you still owe 100 bucks plus interest. The amount of bolivars you need just got higher, but no international buyer is going to give a crap about bolivars because they will rightly see bolivars as fake money.

Internal debts will be cut by a factor of 20, so if you owe a 5 million bolivar mortgage, suddenly that is much less money. Conversely if you have 5 million bolivars as life savings, they just became worthless.
I agree. A related anecdote - I was on another forum filled with mostly uber-progressive white people. The topic of racism came up (origins, impact, how to combat, etc) and there were no shortage of passionate posts. Then, one person of color came on the board and described his real world experience, which didn't really sync up with the narrative the rest of the board had glommed onto.

So, did all of these uber-progressive white folks re-think their positions and use this as an opportunity for a bit of enlightenment? Not so much. They proceeded to discount this person's actual experiences, demean them, accuse them of being racist themselves, and actually got them banned from the forum. And of course patted themselves on the back for their valiant fight against racism.
> VSCode IS running inside a browser.

I used to be a major contributor and follower of Atom. People commonly asked why Atom couldn't run in the browser. The answer was simple, node and a browser are totally different things. Imagine a browser opening files, starting processes, running arbitrary C-code, etc.

No, VSCode does not normally run in a browser.
It's virtually impossible to know which of the ads actually corresponded to child sex trafficking. But it is not impossible to know that some of them did; the indictment includes statements from trafficked children and their families.

Despite your effort to frame the conversation that way, nobody is claiming that every "lolita" Backpage ad was a pimped child. The claim is simply that some were, and that Backpage knew it. It wasn't up to Lacey and Larkin to make a best effort at profiting from illegal prostitution ads while not profiting from child sex abuse: they were repeatedly given ways to mitigate the latter crime, and they repeatedly refused to do anything meaningful about it.

They belong in prison.
Market comp for a talented experienced engineer is 250-450k. If you are paying that much, you can go ahead and skimp on equity.
I mean.. I'm sure they're concerned far more about corporations making money off their unpaid work by hiding it under many layers of abstraction.

"Use our stuff for free to do new stuff. But if you're making money off our stuff by selling our stuff's features, then we need to talk licensing first."

If this is an accurate summary, I really don't see anything scandalous about it.
Another celebrity giving their 2 cents about Elon Musk latest behavior.

Move along citizen...

Ps: this article is a good example of how to deliver a shit sandwich*

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shit%20Sandw...
Sure, but eight years?

Edit: What I'm getting at is that this seems a profound result, with perhaps crucial implications. Not some minor detail, of only arcane interest.
> It's embarrassing that I'm being told that the time & energy I've invested in deploying this software (redis in particular) will now be rewarded with the inability to commoditize that experience through consulting. No thanks.

Can you explain the thought process with regards to why it's okay for you to receive compensation for your efforts, but not the OSS developer who invested significantly more time (nine years, in the case of Redis) in creating the product?

What will you do as a technology practitioner if more projects move to this model to provide some semblance of financial support for their devs? Write your own RDBMS? Your own in-memory caches? I won't discount these paths as impossible, but it increases your costs and time to market significantly.

Standing on the shoulder of giants is both efficient and convenient when building your product/stack by bolting together existing tooling (what products aren't using Redis/Memcached, MySQL/MariaDB/Postgresql, ElasticSearch, etc), but it should have a cost; those shoulders aren't free, and it's not reasonable that those enjoying easy revenue (AWS, for example) by providing managed services with these tools don't have to share that revenue. You can't freeload forever.
Note that Windows has had a similar capability to SSH for many years, but it's unfortunately not so well-known: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psex... ("ps" prefix is unrelated to PowerShell, in fact I think this utility predates it.)

It uses DCE-RPC which is not trivial, but I believe it is certainly more compact than SOAP and such. The main advantage is the server component is built-in.
why doesn't anyone sue them? I am sure a jury would hate a telco just as much as anyone else...
That's actually a very interesting idea I have never thought about? How slow would the water fall down and when splashed? Would you have to be careful not to smack the water a whole bunch least you suspend to much mist in the air to make it hard to breath for a while? What would it look like to splash around? I would love to see some cool physically based gpu renderings of what hydro stuff would look like in low g.
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Building a $1000/Month Slack App – An Interview with the Abi Noda
T2 and T3 use live migration to get around this, but it's not public knowledge.
Nothing I’m about to write is meant to excuse Verizon.

There are two types of “unlimited” when it comes to cell phone plans in the US.

- After you go over a certain limit, your data speeds are immediately throttled down to a lower, usually unusable rate.

- after you go over a certain limit, your data is “deprioritized” to let less heavy users in the same area have full speed.

In the 2nd case, you could go a whole month without being noticeable throttled if you aren’t in a congested area.

Unlike wired internet, you can’t just “build more capacity” over the air. There is a theoretical limit on how much bandwidth you can have at a certain frequency range and some frequency ranges aren’t suitable for communications (I know I’m butchering the explanation).

The second definition of “unlimited” is defensible because of the reality of delivering data over the air. What Verizon calls “unlimited” is not.
No, the number of sanctimonious lectures that occur every day about how someone is using the term "open-source" incorrectly clearly indicates that the OSI's definition is not common sense. The plain meaning of "open-source" is just what it says: the source code is open, i.e., not closed, i.e., accessible to users. Let the OSI and other zealots harp all they want, this type of subversive hijacking is not cool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-claus...

> Daniel McKinnon, who had been a hairstylist in Norwell, Mass., lost a court battle with his former employer who claimed that Mr. McKinnon had violated the terms of his agreement when he went to work at a nearby salon. Mr. McKinnon said that he did not think the original restriction — to wait at least 12 months before working at any salon in nearby towns — still applied because he had been fired after years of friction with the manager there. Shortly after being fired, he went to work at a nearby salon.

> But a judge issued an injunction ordering him to stop working at his new employer.

> “It was pretty lousy that you would take away someone’s livelihood like that,” said Mr. McKinnon, who for the following year lived off jobless benefits of $300 a week. “I almost lost my truck. I almost lost my apartment. Almost everything came sweeping out from under me.”
In most cases, perhaps. I'm a bit of an outlier, my parents do not share my beliefs and did not raise me with any belief in God. A data point of one is not enough to draw any conclusions but it is a data point.
"The largest associations were seen for popular team sports (22·3% lower), cycling (21·6% lower), and aerobic and gym activities (20·1% lower), as well as durations of 45 min and frequencies of three to five times per week."

In other words, to some extent, we're probably talking about sunlight - probably UV - more than exercise. Now we should control for UV in every exercise study, including while journeying to the exercise site.

I'm assuming that this is the study (those who can get past the paywall will likely know.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30099000
Needs more autotune and wobble bass bro.
I think the earlier stage you are (seed, angel) then yes, there is definitely risk for a large class of employees. You're taking a risk on the founder's ability to execute, joining a company that is not cash flow positive and tying your mortgage payment/insurance to their ability to raise money in the future... it's derisked in each successive round and startups/founders are not all equal, but I think if we're talking 1rst employee it's fair to say there's some risk.
Right, exactly. So at this point how am I supposed to use your software for anything commercial at all, without the fear that one day you'll decide it's offering me substantial value? (If the answer is "Do not" then just license it correctly).
> Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Cause License Condition notice.

FYI, think you have a typo, shouldn't it be "Common Clause" not "Common Cause".
You must have a knack for choosing companies with great customer service. I do not.
I was referring to Kirchhoff's first law which only applies to circuits -- that example is enough to show that I=dQ/dt is wrong. I wasn't considering the cases you're talking about (lightning etc.) because only one example is needed to prove an equation wrong. I could easily produce a single specific example where dQ/dt=0 but there is clearly a non-zero current present.

And you can talk about charge in an area (sort of) if you multiply charge density by area; the result has units coulombs * metre^{-1}. I thought counting charge in a cross-section of wire was something people did, one way or another, even if the units aren't Coulombs but Coulombs*metre^{-1}.

I could very easily have misunderstood something. With the clarifications above, I'm not clear on what though.
If you like CodeSandbox you should check out Code.xyz [1] — not the same target (Code.xyz is for building and shipping backend APIs to the Standard Library [2] platform) but we were definitely inspired by CodeSandbox and others! We built our rendering engine from scratch (as in, scratch, ‘nilla JS) to meet our needs at a low browser payload.

[1] https://code.xyz/

[2] https://stdlib.com/
An ethical breach by a lawyer is grounds for banishment from the profession.

An ethical breach by a title insurance company likely violates its bylaws, and at the very least opens them up to liability.

It seems like this is a title error so the insurance company would be responsible. I don't see why a lawyer wouldn't report the error to the insurance company. It's billable time that the insurance company would need to pay for and they'd be working to keep their industry with clear deeds instead of faulty ones.
This is a good time to say that Steve Bannon used Breitbart to intentionally radicalize young white tech men, in order to get votes for his billionaire donor, Robert Mercer. [1]

The approach is the same as much of right wing media in the US: amplify anti-immigrant and anti-minority views to get workers to vote for tax cuts for the wealthy.

The US is in this political situation because the US let the wealthy build a large rightwing disinformation machine (Fox, right wing radio, PragerU, Breitbart, etc) over last 40 years. If you’re NOT in the US and you want to avoid this happening to your country, you have to stop this kind of disinformation. Bannon’s over in Italy trying to do the same business+xenophobia thing there. Watch out, Italians.

[1] source: Josh Greene’s biography of Bannon, Devils Bargain. Bannon worked with Green on the book.
I doubt democracy is kept in balance by the fact that Californian’s have a fraction of their vote count as compared to Iowans. I can’t imagine that the skewing of representation is actually a positive feature of the system.
No, you only "need" to do this if you're interested in furthering the claims of license zealots, who are more interested in furthering their personal political goals than they are in allowing computer users to get access to the source code that produced a binary blob. Making "open-source" synonymous with "freeware" is a massive poison pill that has hurt the industry substantially.
Imagine if Microsoft focused on IronPython and added a high level of integration with PowerShell and/or Python-extensible utilities. Running/executing PowerShell from within a Python REPL would really be something.
Despicable. Seems like MA is one of the worst states as far as non-compete enforcement goes. I remember reading analysis that non-competes would generally be unenforceable against terminated employees even in states that do typically enforce them.
Yes, I just talked to the person who I owned it with, and this is their recollection. We could transfer the title, but we were on the hook for the the mortgage. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a lien on the property.

Pretty funny you mentioned the interest. In the 11 years it's been like $50.00, since I keep it in just a regular account (instead of CDs or whatever).
It's typical Microsoft engineering

What surprises me the most is they could've used the existing (also quite over-engineered, but existing nonetheless) MSRPC infrastructure for this, like what psexec does, but chose to use a completely different set of technologies once again.
First Google I came up with the psychological profile of a conspiracy theorist is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/

Lots of interesting points IMHO. It is mentioned that those who "habitually seek meaning and patterns in the environment" and cannot tolerate mundane or unclear explanations for big world events are more prone to conspiracy theories. So on one hand, on this, I think you are right.

On the other hand, a lot of the article is devoted to the notion that conspiracy theories are a social defense mechanism among the more vulnerable, threatened, and/or powerless population.

Narcissism -- both of the self, and tribal narcissism, is also mentioned as a factor.

(Ironically, as the article mentions, conspiracy theories tend to make it less likely that individuals will take actions that, in the long run, might boost their autonomy and control. Thus the article calls conspiracy theories a "self-defeating form of motivated social cognition".)

I'll buy that it is a messy combination of any or all of the above factors that lead to a belief in conspiracy theories -- such make sense from my small sample of people I know who are more prone to conspiracy theories.

(They do note that "vulnerable and disadvantaged populations that have been identified as most likely to benefit from [conspiracy theories]" have not been as extensively studied as they would like to see. Interesting conclusions so far though.)
To be clear, we're not talking about replicating all of Slack's functionality. Performance improvements aside from a complete move away from Electron can be considered.
Looking at Redis [Labs], their livelihood is based solely on consulting and revenue generated from deploying Redis. Cloud providers are clearly netting multiple millions and not passing that upstream in the form of consulting, project donations, etc.

This is one workaround. It works.
> I've actually flown helicopters, and it's not that hard.

When all helicopters are quad, tailless, designs flying will be much easier.
I think it's important to think about the trends and averages in the broader society before levying accusations of sexism. If a bank's male customers have higher average account balances than the average woman that holds an account, is it fair to call the bank sexist? If a publishing company hires mostly female publishers is it a sexist company? I'd argue no in both cases. In both scenarios the disparate outcome likely stems from broader trends in society - higher incomes among men, higher readership among women. It's entirely possible and definitely worth discussing whether these trends are influenced by sexism - but that very different than calling our hypothetical bank or publishing company. An organization or process is sexist if it exerts unequal treatment on the basis of gender. It's entirely possible for a completely unbiased process to create an outcome with gender disparities.

This American Life isn't one of the primary NPR podcasts to which I listen, but if it follows the trend of other NPR podcasts it probably draws more heavily on subject matter experts (e.g. university professors) and leadership positions in private enterprises than the rest of the population. These occupations, at least the latter, are disproportionately occupied by men. One could argue that the bias towards subject matter experts is sexist, but that seems fairly weak and indirect unless it can be demonstrated that the choice of interviewing these people is motivated by a desire to interview more men than women. One could also argue that the podcast should stop its focus on subject matter experts - but that would fundamentally change the nature of the podcast, essentially making it a different product.
Agreed, most of the Revenue from OSS is from hosting it, not developing it. As a result the biggest cloud vendors make most of the profit from OSS that others have developed and spend resources on maintaining.

Not sure what the solution is either, but the major cloud companies are becoming an oligopoly who rake in most of profits in OSS giving them a competitive advantage which they can use to out resource, out market and out compete against alternative Indie OSS efforts.

Whilst the desired effect would be that the Cloud companies would pay Redis Labs a cut of their profits they make on Redis, IMO they're already big enough that they can invest more development hours in developing a superior competing replacement which they can use as a competitive differentiator vs other Redis hosts. But hopefully they'll consider profit sharing instead of developing a proprietary cloud-only fork.
That lineman deserves a raise, no matter what he makes. He falls in the category of workers who are lowered into nuclear reactors to cleans things up.
Man, ICE is even going to the Moon to arrest people? Come on.
So no one contacted you again after you stopped paying?

It seems like one of the mortgage owners probably removed the lien when they sold the mortgage and the buyer never put their own lien on.
My experience with multiple telcos (Verizon, and others) leads me to believe they simply have very little operational control. Get their processes inmotion and find a competent local tech, and they'll sort it out. But try to get one department talking to another and it's a complete clusterfrob. Size, complexity, undertraining, lack of incentives, and distributed authority, and an under-empowered front-line CSR bureau.
When using HTTP for remoting, headers are not encrypted. But body is always encrypted when using NTLM, CredSSP or Kerberos - the GSSAPI supported protocols. If user doesn't want to use these and opts for basic auth or some other protocol that doesn't have encryption specified, https is useful.
> hover your helicopter connected to a 230,000-volt power line?

Not an issue when any electrical ground is at a far distance.
premise is fuckin stupid. you cant pick metrics willy nilly and use them to justify. impressions has two chords, still a brilliant song. lack of textural variety means a solo piano piece sucks i guess? no. you are just an opinion in search of evidence. sorry, try again.
I use SSH with the Windows 10 Ubuntu subsystem every day at work. It works great. Aside from the tmux windows frequently needing detached because of graphical glitches (they get "stuck" for lack of a better phrase), I don't have any complaints.
I think they are referring to online play.
You don’t need galaxy to download, install and play single player, but an increasing number of titles are locking online play behind GoG Galaxy, if you want to play online you need to have GoG Galaxy running and logged into the account you purchased the game from.

Not saying it’s a good/bad thing (Good: Servers need to be paid for. Bad: Why no peer to peer like the Good Old G̶a̶m̶e̶s̶ Days? (sorry couldn’t resist)) just saying that’s what they are doing.
HN guidelines:

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.*

I also use _underscores_ sometimes. Does just as good a job at emphasising, but without seeming so shouty.
The average software developer V in San Francisco makes about $190K according to salary.com.

In most other major American cities outside of New York/DC area its about $140K. If you compare the cost of living in any of those cities, it starts looking a lot worse for Silicon Valley.

https://qz.com/906086/san-francisco-is-actually-one-of-the-w...

If you go the billable consultant route with the right skill set, you can get up to $200K

https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=e67229f7e25ea37b

Yes this is a realistic range. I’ve been given firm offers to do that type of work (AWS not Google) but the travel requirements would be too disruptive right now.
> evil cabal deliberately executing the 9/11 attacks

An evil cabal really did execute those attacks.

Your examples about school shootings are closer to the point you are trying to make, but even they are non-random in the crucial sense that they are the work of deliberate malevolent wills (though not usually conspiracies).

So I suppose ultimately I am agreeing with you that many people have habit of explaining the social world in terms of the deliberate acts of humans. But that's only because that is a perfectly good mental habit to have, it's an essential part of our toolkit. And like all tools it sometimes gets overused, and out in the tails it is no surprise that produces wacky conspiracy theories.
With real books I find it easy to remember where in the book and what part of the page whatever I read was on, plus I find I'm much more likely to actually sit down and read offline.
You either don't understand the point or you're being obtuse. It exists because of the problem that you're suggesting is somehow a solution. Good luck getting everyone to change their favicons to your liking.
I didn't really mean to use the word that way. I mean more in the sense of "serving This American Life's storytelling goals". The best of their programs are very thought-provoking, and I'll end up thinking about them long after the show is over. I don't think I could articulate what TAL's goals are exactly, but I do find some of them "interesting", and that's what I hope for when I tune in.

I meant the word to encompass a lot of different qualities. For instance if a story is told better with a first hand account of an authority, then that authority is of interest to the story, and hence that authority is interesting (as he or she relates to the story).
Serious question, do people consider a cloud provider to be more trustworthy than a professional VPN company?
Heh. I have also seen that.

Sharing power means actually ceding power and trusting that it will work out on average. Listening doesn't mean
"talking".
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I have been doing a lot of assembly programming, and I can't help but agree with this. It is crazy how simple x86 assembly language programming makes checking overflow compared to C.