skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"communist dictatorship" is inexact enough to be outright dishonest.

Their economy is obviously capitalist. And although Xi has been leaning towards more dictator-like behavior, they haven't been a dictatorship since Mao.

It's more like a giant bureaucracy. They have a process, they have regular handovers of power. It's not "I am the law".
Shitty ones that many devs might sign anyway (i'll admit to not thoroughly reading the NDA's i've signed when interviewing at big companies)
Came here for this.

Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol
Vaguely similar prior art, similar in motivation, similarly flawed, IMO: Monty's Business Source license.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2016/08/applying-business-sou...

That received a lot of criticism from its community as well, but also from existing MariaDB Corp customers. I know because I worked for one at the time that was seriously considering stopping the level of collaboration we had. We were quite sad about that at the time and decided to not go that far but instead stopped giving additional funding to the extensions that we were interested in.
To be clear, I'm not aiming to build the next Call of Duty; these days you can get pretty far building a medium-sized 3D game out of unoptimized JavaScript running on a web page. The GC optimization you mention is interesting to learn of, but probably irrelevant for the kinds of things I would be doing. Does that change your assessment of Haskell for this purpose?
I don't really see how is this a question at all. The state mandates passport control, and any airport wishing to operate legally must contract the border patrol for this, and pay for them. And it should be per checked passport, and they should be able to contract staff based on the predicted demand curve.
> Ironic, given you started with none.

You said nurses don't make good money. I think 100k is good money. Better money than most people in the banking and legal industries make, that's for sure.

> The income of Cargill offset by costs is not 114 billion. That's just gross. It has a fraction of that income as opposed to the incomparable bank nets.

Cargill has higher revenues than the largest bank in America.

Cargill has larger assets than most US banks.

Cargill had higher profits last year/quarter than most US banks, even big household names.

You "guessed" that wasn't the case. You were wrong.

>> Wait. This is literally exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment.

> You failed and started with talking about how blue collar workers are fine and comparisons to white collar management is unfair, which is frustratingly disingenuous. Good luck with whatever.

The word management wasn't even mentioned once in my original post. I mentioned banking and law.

What I was pointing out was that low-paying jobs exist in every industry, and there are plenty of people in nominally low-paying industries who do very well (e.g., nurses RN and up) as well as many people in nominally high-paying industries who do not (e.g., bank tellers, low-level financial advisors, accountants).

(BTW, you should consider re-reading the end of the article that we're discussing. The conclusion to that article is quite literally that the exemplar discussed by the article -- NYC garbagemen -- are doing fine. So fine that people who get the job feel like they won the lottery.)
If you REALLY want to be picky, there are 48 states, 2 commonwealths, and the District of Columbia, not to mention a wide variety of territories and other regions.

But that's just naming. My point is that these policies are set at the "state" level (even for things that aren't states) or sometimes lower than that.
Or we could just store it all in DNA:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-dna-data-storage/
Your comment is essentially "the owners hold certain values I disagree with regarding sexuality, therefore I'm surprised their technical team is any good."

I don't see how that follows.
Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
Sure. But if those same people had a domesticated version of the animal they eat, with a name. Or if that animal was an endangered species. Or both. A lot of these "schizophrenic" people would probably think differently.
HN loves to talk about how CS needs ethics courses - this is a great example :|
Hey, good job conflating a whole bunch of very different aspects to feed your narrative; pretty much guarantees no one can support your position of one.
The claims of the PRC And the points of that resolution are basically the same. It’s not explicitly saying the PRC is right, it doesn’t have to do that, it’s just saying the exact same thing that the PRC has been saying. Which is normal English means “the UN has accepted the position of the PRC.”
As far as I know, only people from Australia say that.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820654
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force.
Capitalism isn't a theory. It's an emergent result of letting people own themselves, property, and the fruits of their own labor while also letting them trade their property and labor. Thus capitalism is freedom. To replace capitalism with any theory requires identifying which freedoms you mean to constrain or abandon altogether.
I wonder how many pro-China green accounts, accounts used solely for anti-US sentiment, etc we will see commenting on this story. It seems the propaganda folks are turning more attention to HN.

There were 3 at the time of this posting with the usual bothersiderisms, etc. One even went full "Sharia law in the US!"
From other retail IT I've been involved with, these guys could make an incredibly successful side business doing this to pretty much any retailer.

However when I see that retail stores are using dialup to do batch uploads of inventory and transactions I wonder if their central IT systems would be remotely ready for something like this.
I never made any statement conflating views of ownership with technical team skills. That's absurd.
> While it is possible that the electoral college needs improvement or replacement, any proposals along those lines should be sure to address the dangers of pure majority rule.

The protection against unchecked bare majority rule is Constitutional limits on the power of government, and an independent judiciary not tied to momentary electoral majority enforcing that, and checks and balances between the separately-elected (both in terms of balloting and timing) political branches. It's possible some of those things could be improved from the status quo system (e.g., moving elections for both houses of Congress forward or back one year so that in addition to different term length, Congressional elections were never simultaneous with Presidential ones.)

Skewing representation in a relatively consistent way (the structural bias in representation in the House, Electoral College, and Senate is all in the same direction, though escalating in degree as you move through that list) does not reduce the danger of tyranny of the majority, it just favors particular interests over others in establishing such a tyranny (and even enables tyranny of the minority, so long as it aligns with the advantaged interest.)
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Chickens and cows (and dogs) aren’t threatened with extinction. Different sets of people have different objections, but as far as whales are concerned, it’s mostly a conservation issue.
"Machine that Changed the World"by Womack discussed this, in both the PBS series and the book.

The comparison they used was the Toyota line at Tahara for the Lexus LS, and the Mercedes S-class line at Sindelfingen. (American car-making, nowadays, would hew closer to the Japanese example...)

The gist was that while the Lexus workers were expected to be hugely attentive and detail-oriented, they were nowhere near as mechanically skilled/trained as the Germans. But, they didn't have to be; the car they were making, and the process by which it was made was designed around workers of that skill level.

The Mercedes, OTOH-(if you have ever taken apart a W140 S-class, this ain't gonna surprise you...) clearly needed a team of people to carry out the same assembly tasks due to ease & simplicity of manufacture not being a design consideration.

Womack goes on to talk about a special "hand-assembly" line at Volvo, supposedly to ensure that certain custom-ordered cars get almost individual attention from a small team of experienced techs, so as to improve quality. It doesn't end up working out that way; throwing more, better-trained, workers at the problem increases costs far faster than refining the design & feeding that back into the manufacturing process.

It's a fascinating book, and I look at it every time I hear how Tesla is running their factory....
> I find microservices much simpler to reason about.

I don't. Or rather, unlike that of transactional designs used with RDBMs or services deployed into traditional/commercial SOA stacks with distributed transactions, the scope of "reasoning" about microservices is very limited/developer-focused.

But maybe you're using durable queues with exactly-once delivery guarantees, and "idempotent" work requests, which sure is neat if the app is a good fit.
Brain-computer interface to control virtual reality system
I couldn't read the full article, but the Mobile Passport app has improved my traveling experience through passport control. On a recent trip from Europe to SFO, the regular line for US citizens was really long, the Global Entry kiosks were full, but there was no one in the Mobile Pass line. We went through passport control in under 3 minutes.
> More broadly, the average OSS license is far from robust.

This is pure FUD.
Can you expand on this? I'm not quite following.
No, thanks. Countries should serve people by making border crossing fast for everyone. GE is an ugly workaround, and shouldn't be needed in any civilised country (and yes, my country has an efficient border, the absolute longest I've seen or even heard of on the news is a 15 minute wait due to unlucky arrival timing - EU/EFTA still had no wait on that occasion due to automatic border gates).
When I lived in the city I did this same walk, and I've never been happier going into work in the morning.
If you search the Authorized King James Version of the Bible you will find this[0] passage:

>And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

[0] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+15%3A22...

It is deep in the literature that vexation is a domain of devils.
People talk shit about each other over Slack, and hope it never comes back to bite them.
They call their "cloud": Cloud-Fil-A.

Par excellence.
Other errors of omission include:

* "When The Voice of the Dolphins was published, Leo hadn’t worked in physics in over a decade" fails to mention he switched to biology.

* "His first real permanent address in America was in La Jolla, where he retired" fails to mention he helped setup the Salk Institute (in La Jolla) and was a fellow there.
I have 1Gbps (125MB) unlimited. I've never had any throttle. And down service is like max. 5 hours per year. Sometime I just put 100GB worth of torrents in queue, go eat lunch in kitchen and comeback and they are all finished. Welcome To Romania where unlimited is the norm here. Oh, and costs ~$15/month
It’s not just meat, a couple other things cause severe schizophrenia as well: notably, climate change and capitalism.
Fallacy of relative privation.
I assume you did not mean it like that, but 13 months in prison is nothing to get snarky about.

If I had to go to prison for 13 months - even if it was for something as silly as this example -, I'd most likely be out of a job and have a prior on my record, which would probably make it very hard to find a new job equivalent to the one I hold now.

13 months in prison can easily destroy somebody's professional existence, not to mention, if applicable, marriage/relationship and family.
No, that was not what he said. He said to keep in mind the opinions of the company owners, which I imagine encourages one to not purchase from them.

I do not see how one can claim a criticism of their engineering follows from his statement.
At least we aren't quite to the point of HN articles praising the cutting edge technology being implemented at Raytheon and Northrop Grumman
"Evergreen" implies you could post these years later and have them still be valuable despite changes in the tech ecosystem, of which there are many.

Literally none of these are evergreen.
All they have to do is study how the Indians did it - under Mrs. Indira Gandhi's leadership, at one go, all private banks were nationalised in India and the ownership transfered to the government who ran it; 30+ years down the lane, India now also allows private and foreign owned banks with strict regulations.
My current favorite music is the music of the western Sahara desert (mostly but not all Tuareg). Northern Mali and Niger have the hottest music scene in the world today, imho. And it's very much a function of cross-cultural remixing.

Tuareg culture is ancient, pre-Islamic, and it has a long and beautiful tradition of music and poetry, which falls along gender lines. Traditionally, women played most music, while men wrote poetry in the lovely Tamasheq language. But when guitars, radios, and recordings arrived in the 1960s/1970s, the instrument had no role in the traditions, and they could make something new. The poetry fused with the rhythms, while the new wave of guitarists dug into Dire Straits and Santana along with their own traditions. The results are astounding - deep, soulful, melodic, improvisational.

Check out Tinariwen and Bombino for the hottest bands in the scene (again imho). If you dig them, keep digging, there's a lot more where that came from. And due to civil war and other problems at home, a lot of the musicians tour relentlessly in the West. I see a half-dozen Tuareg concerts a year!
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I believe you still need to 'prove who you are', which means a photo ID.

Non-Northern Irish UK drivers licenses didn't have photos until '98, so even though Brits didn't technically need a passport to visit other EU countries you kind of needed a passport
Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.
Something like this has probably been said at least once about every group of immigrants in the history of the United States. As far as I know the only time it ever became true was when white people displaced the Indians.
It would be great if that line chart with the wait times at Heathrow could be extended with the number of passengers who land, and the number of employees working border services. I would like to see if there is a correlation between the number of employees and the wait time, and if passenger numbers have increased or remained steady.
This pastebin requires JS...

Here's the code:

import time
a=-1
j = 0
i=0
while j < 10:
if a!=int(time.time()):
print(i)
a = int(time.time())
i=0
j += 1
i += 1
This was not helpful. Sometimes people take jobs just to survive; I know I have.
‘DREAMER’ Spat Blood, Threw Urine on Deputies During Traffic Stop
Just run your macOS (not Hackintosh) on my Ryzen and then we'll talk.
Ah, there it is, the condescension that brings down civilizations
I used to travel LHR to SFO around 5 times a year. The record to get through passport control was just short of two hours.
Having worked with some of CFA's competition and comparing their IoT architectures, I'd say these guys have their heads on straight. Kudos to them.
> a quick Google

After switching of The Great Firewall for ones own browser, that pesky thing blocks useful information.
Yeah, lack of self awareness and cognitive dissonance is rampant. On topic of food it’s obvious since, well, everybody eats.

Just try asking people around how egg production works. Almost no one around me even had a clue. I even got an answer that chicken lays eggs once a year.
This is why I am incredibly excited about the impossible burger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNeUihciDI

It's the ultimate fake burger that has a 1/10 of the environment while being vegan.

Now if there was an equivalent for chicken then it I would never eat another animal again!
Ha, y'all were an AWS/clickstream example at the Nashville Analytics Summit yesterday, granted it wasn't a new deck so maybe you've heard that before.
You would use sum(range()) in a Python though. Remember that many things you do manually in JS have a better, automatic and faster way in the stlib.

Besides, if calculations are important, you would use numpy.
If you're going to complain about the ethics related to Chik-Fil-A, it would probably be better to start with the fact that they raise and kill a billion chickens every year rather than that they have donated $120,000 to organizations like the Salvation Army (example from above article).
Python 3.6.6 from Debian Buster in a VirtualBox VM on a Windows 10 host. Testing with 3.7.0, the result is no different. Python 3.5 is no longer available in the repositories to test whether that is indeed slower.
This article totally failed to justify why compression algorithms are so important for this application. How big is the human genome, how much can we compress it by, and why does this matter?

I took a look and zipped FASTA files are about 800MB. Large, sure, but people are streaming Netflix movies far bigger than this every night.

It's really hard for me to see the MPEG-G effort as anything but a money grab for compression patents and licensing.
Their tech stack is similar to what you'd expect from any large tech company. I can't speak much to the server side of things (I worked on the iOS app) but I know they had everything ranging from older monolithic .NET apps to Node and Go micro services.

Their GitHub page (https://github.com/Nordstrom) doesn't have much in the way of internal projects, but it has lots of forks that will give you an idea of some of the tools they used.
In actual practice they didn't want to know or do anything about the legality or illegality of the transactions they were facilitating because a large portion of their draw is the the hands off nature. Its likely that a good chunk of the ads were in fact for over 18 individuals but neither we nor backpage probably know how much was illegal.
I completely support his position so it's at least a position of two. I don't think he has compounded multiple issues at all, animal cruelty is a single issue. People just like to pretend it's more complicated to avoid facing up to the consequences of their actions.
Excuse me, I've been abusing others? I completely reject this description, that's bordering on libel on your part.

What I have replied to here is patently untrue, so forgive me my occasional "you have no idea what you are talking about" or "your opinion must be formed on solely by looking at spec sheets". It's not like what I'm replying to has been said with the utmost civility either.

I can see how some of that is against your "guidelines" and I'll be happy to oblige by not posting any further comments.
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I understand nothing is free. Creators and owners can license their software however they please. Their freedom to do so is not what is under discussion here. The vast majority of the code I’ve ever written was proprietary, but I’m very proud of the roughly 10k lines that is open source. We’re just having a debate about pros, cons and possible consequences, which I think is perfectly reasonable and legitimate.
It's interesting how much of the development is coming from Tishman Construction. They are developing almost 3x the square footage of the next highest developer.
This is unnecessarily confrontational and aggressive...

Nobody is going to support your position because:

1. We don't know what your position is

2. You're a jerk
Anandtech:"The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review"

https://www.anandtech.com/print/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749738 ( 322 points )

--

Phoronix:"A Look At The Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX"

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-l...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756266 (	234 points )
Interesting as it seemed that smarter edge/iot nodes would be like ARM/RaspPi, yet it seems it may get even as high as (or just straight to) Intel nuc.
Yes, I've heard Trump speak. And I've read the soundbites that people whose only professional interest seems to be to hunt soundbites collected. And since Trumps loves to speak, and his speech style is very peculiar, there's a lot of soundbites. But I also looked beyond the soundbites, and that is what any person that wants to understand and not just confirm their biases formed on Twitter should do. And if you look beyond the soundbites, Trump is not an idiot (neither are Bush, Obama, Clinton or any other politicians who people who get paid for painting caricatures and monetizing them as clicks painted as idiots). He is somewhat of an opportunist, though this is pretty common among politicians. He also has some very definite agenda - which is not to everybody's liking, of course - and part of this agenda is massive deregulation. If you didn't notice that, you may have been paying too much attention to twitter noise and too little attention to what is actually happening in the government (which, contrary to popular belief, is not ruled by tweets).
Political values are important to point out. Companies create these tech blogs as a recruitment vehicle. You should know if the company you're considering applying to is funding bigotry (or "wholesome family values" if that's your angle).
You should write one. Most people don't perceive the problem to the extent you perceive it. Traction and customer acquisition will be very hard, so it depends on if you can make it worth your time.

Many fake reviewees engage in the practice not because they're not shipping product as agreed, but because they perceive cheating as necessary. You'll also have to handle the edge cases of when the only seller for an item is disreputable (or faux-reputable).
Are forgotten crops the future of food?
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid
Nonsense. I don't have a problem with people criticizing Commons Clause, I have a problem with people acting like Antirez & redis labs are the worst people on earth for choosing it, when they've in fact contributed so much to open source.

You know what's not productive? Lacking empathy. Lacking tact. Lacking decency. You wanna have a discussion on Commons Clause, there's a perfectly respectable thread two posts over on Drew DeVault's blog post.
I imagine many people opposing whale hunting would also oppose whale farming.
I've visited Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong back in 2010 and as a Canadian I feel China is more capitalist than Canada. It had a more America feel to it where everyone has the entrepreneurial spirit
OK, well, communist is in the name of the only political party allowed to exist in China, so it’s not that absurd to say.
Try the beyondmeat chicken strips [0]

And here's a hat tip for wanting to give up meat!

[0] https://beyondmeat.com/products
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Eh, regardless of my personal thoughts on the topic, the ethics of eating animals are a lot more controversial among the HN crowd than LGBTQ rights.