skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But for many seasoned stock market observers, the existence of continuing worries about whether the bull market can last is a strong piece of evidence that it can.

>According to this line of thinking, the moment to worry is when there is broad agreement that the market can only go higher. That would suggest there is little fresh money to drive stocks to new heights.

This is what I keep wondering about. It seems like everyone is just waiting for the crash to happen for the last 5 years. The slightest downtick seems to send people into a tailspin. Thus, possibly enacting it's own self balancing mechanism? I can't tell, but then, neither can anyone else.
Though £1k/month is at the extreme end, UK train tickets can get expensive: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/15/dawn-10k-commute...
Honestly the price difference is frankly incredible.

2990WX - $1799

Xeon Platinum 8180M - $16999 to $17999.
Interesting! I suppose growing up in a non-Christian household that says grace gives me a very different view from you. :-P
I think the point is that there had been separate modules that were AGPL but still being used…?
People seem to misunderstand the relationship between Formosa (a.k.a Taiwan) and Chinese government (ROC and PRC). Actually Formosa is not related to ROC in terms of sovereignty. ROC, merely a governing authority, happens to exist on the island of Formosa. Basically ROC do not own Formosa's sovereignty.

ROC is still contending against PRC regarding to the representation of China[0]. It's Chinese government's affair, and nothing related to Formosan because both of them, including PRC and ROC, do not own Formsa's sovereignty[1].

> JURIDICAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMOSA SITUATION

> In the Japanese Peace Treaty of April, 1952, Japan formally renounced all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores, but again this did not operate as a transfer to Chinese sovereignty, whether to the Chinese People's Republic or to the Chinese Nationalist authorities.

And Formosa may be handled in the same way as Ryukyus[2][3]. That's the reason why ROC rejected to admit Japan remains residual sovereignty over Ryukyus when Ryukyus was returned back to Japan[4].

[0]. https://imgur.com/a/eoJhPsY

[1]. http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pdfs/large/cab-129-...

[2]. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v23...

[3]. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v23...

[4]. https://imgur.com/a/HeGbcB3
why "populist" ? I don't think the starving Venezuelans condone the system very much. Venezuelan policies are at foremost socialist.
JSON Schema Form might be of interest to you.
Black Hat is the most important industry vulnerability research conference of the year. It is also very corporate, and for the last several years it's had a large trade-show vendor "expo". It's a big-business UBM conference and certainly makes money from vendors, but don't get confused; that stuff is all bolted on to the gigantic multi-track speaker conference.

There are, so far as I know, no pay-to-play Black Hat talks; all the listed briefings were picked by the review board.
Until Winter in the Northeast hits, and commute times multiply by 4x. Five is perfect yo.
The problem is that many people believe government is the solution to everything. Surprisingly this is most true in latin-american countries where the government is not that strong. What I see when I visit those countries is that some sort of government is always there, but not the official one. Frontiers there are a wish list and the few that pay taxes get to pay it in the name of everyone else...
"vexing" is defined as "annoying, worrying, or causing problems" [1]. I have encountered the word hundreds of times, but until your comment I wasn't aware that it was used in a magical context too.

If you look up a linguistics corpus like the Corpus of Contemporary American English [2] or the British National Corpus [3] -- visit those sites, search for "vexing", and click on "VEXING" again -- you'll see a representative set of usages of the word "in the wild", and none of them appear to have anything to do with magic. There's also something in C++ called the "most vexing parse" [4], which too doesn't seem to have anything to do with magic. (By the way, you may like to try this exercise with "ritual" too, to see how the word is used in practice.)

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vexin...

[2]: https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

[3]: https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse
"Oh there's a documented psychological phenomena? Time to fix it all with #positiveThinking ". This honestly reeks of the same bs as those who claim depression can be cured by a walk in the woods.
[dataset] 10 Year US Government Bond Yields
Somehow I have the feeling that all the pros agains remote work are either only cons in disguise (you miss the water-cooler-talk -> we don't bother to set up a process) or stuff people simply don't manage to do on their own (meet people, excercise)

I know people who commute over 3h a day, that makes multiple weeks a year just being "in transit"...
I'm Moroccan, I barely convinced my fiance to wait for 1 year and she either visited or I did everytime we could so I won't be staying here. But they offered to hire me, now I'm looking at jobs in Casablanca or like another comment suggested to check the REMOTE section here.
Medical schools are still rigorous (presumably). Undergrad degrees are glorified participation trophies.
This question comes across as a little callous, but I think the intent is genuine and is worthy of inspection.

In general, the best things that can be done to address inequality from a for-profit perspective is to reduce consumer costs. Now the obvious problem is that if you cut costs by paying your own people less - or by opting to get your business’s goods and services from suppliers that also pay poorly - then you have only moved inequality from one place to another. But if you invent a way to create goods or offer services at a lower cost without having to cut wages - perhaps by being more efficient with energy or input materials - then you can pass some savings along to the consumer while the rest go to the shareholders as profit. Competitors may go out of business, but new corporations and jobs will take their place. For example, almost everybody uses electricity for light; few use candles, and even then it is more of a luxury than a necessity (like a romantic bedroom scene).

Technological innovation, in my opinion, is the only way that a for-profit corporation can make money and reduce inequality.
In a professional setting - outside of software engineering - the degree requirement is absolutely common.

No young person has ever been hired as a structural engineer, mechanical engineer, water resources, etc, etc without at least a bachelors. The extreme minority that might be employed as such without a degree might have been originally hired at a lower position (as a draftsperson, for example) then trained and promoted from within.
>...There are historic cases of private banks issuing paper money in the U.S., but it usually degraded into distrusting the currency, ...

I don't think that was the general case at least with the bank notes issued by the national banks after the civil war:

>...From 1863 to 1935, National Bank Notes were issued by banks throughout the country and in US territories. Banks with a federal charter would deposit bonds in the US Treasury. The banks then could issue banknotes worth up to 90 percent of the value of the bonds. The federal government would back the value of the notes—the issuance of which created a demand for the government bonds needed to back them.

>The program was a form of monetization of the Federal debt. Bonds eligible as collateral for posting to the Treasury were said to have the "circulation privilege" and the interest they bore provided seigniorage to the National Banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_Note

The program was run for over 70 years, it was only with the Great Depression and the desire to have the Fed have greater control over the money supply that the program ended.
And yet all of us have worked with someone who really is out of their league and can't do the work adequately, and those people are often the most arrogant and confident. Some get promoted to management.

There's more going on here, but the behavior can largely be predicted based on the individual's place in the social hierarchy. People that suffer from imposter syndrome inevitably have other characteristic traits and behaviors of low social status.

The most striking example is the sitting US President. If anyone should suffer from imposter syndrome, believing he isn't qualified, it's him. And yet there is absolutely no evidence that he does, quite the opposite in fact. If I had to guess I'd say he thinks he's one of the greatest presidents of all time.
So in the words of Vonnegut, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Are you kidding? how could ROC is the legitimate government of China? KMT has lost the civil war in 1949, which means they already lost the legitimate ownership for China. They can still keep ROC in Taiwan just as PLA didn't conquer Taiwan at that time, and they got support from US.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 beta is out now
That's very simplistic. Of course they were lucky, but the thing that differentiated these people your mentioned from everyone else with their original privilege was their ability to make the best of the opportunities awarded to them. “Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity"
Humblebrag was the first thing that came to mind as I read the article. The article starts off with screenshots of the guy's popularity via Google Analytics. How serious and genuine can this be?

My eye also flicked to the right side where the guy's picture is prominently displayed in typical "I am the brand" fashion. Why hasn't he removed that?
There are some good artists in there, mixed in with the rest. But also consider, most artists on these platforms (minus maybe YouTube) are doing it to build portfolios to be seen by potential employers. That skews most of them towards commercializable styles and forms, which aren't going to tend to be groundbreaking.
Cultural appropriation is a complicated subject. It's grossly oversimplified by both sides.
That's why sysadmins don't need a union.

I'm confused. All your arguments seem to be for why sysadmins _do_ need a union. If they're irreplaceable (at the current wage level) and underpaid like you seem to claim then it sounds like they're leaving money on the table by not bargaining collectively.
If YC China succeeds and becomes big there, it'll inevitably draw Chinese attention back to YC US including news.ycombinator.com. I would expect they'll have to begin blocking sensitive discussions on HN in the near future. The wave of one hand is all it takes to destroy YC China, because of one upsetting thread on HN getting back to authorities in China.

If they plan to stay in bed with China and all that entails, it might not be a bad idea to formally separate HN off from YC (for the sake of YC and the sake of HN). The Chinese authorities are extremely sensitive about certain things, easily insulted, and unforgiving about the lack of compliance. They've barred far larger targets for far less than the discussions that go on here.
Not for some games, where low settings are used on purpose. The CPU is the bottleneck in those cases. cough Overwatch cough.
I agree, that's a very good point. If one profession's median salary is higher, but employment is overwhelmingly concentrated in a high cost area, then it's possible that the profession with the lower median salary on a national basis has higher median pay on a cost of living adjusted basis.

I doubt it goes quite this far for software development and nursing, but it may be a factor.
Do you trust the inflation index (btw, inflation index != cost of living) which encodes choices by some very privileged people (and has questionable decisions, like hedonic adjustments that often have quite arbitrary factors use to periodically renormalize) to reflect the needs and worries of the median person? Go out onto the street and ask people, not even in SF or NY, and find out if they feel like they're doing better or worse, if they're struggling more or less to stay afloat.

Finally, even if inflation exactly tracks nominal wage growth, i.e. real wage value is zero, that's not enough. You would expect that there are real returns to technological advancement that are a tide that makes all boats rise. If that's not the case it is indicative that the structure of modern economy is such that that a very disproportionate amount of returns to global social and technical innovation are sent to the already-wealthy.
A crown in a select of one benchmark, which is even questionable if it's optimised for all and every CPU benchmarked.

Great title, OP.
Agree - that image looks painful, but I'd term that a "hunch" more than a "slouch" (not sure if ergonomics makes a distinction between the two.)

My "slouch" is more of a reclining position, which I find quite comfortable.
There are many startups that are addressing this. Today it is easier than ever to invest in stock market with as low as $100 and no commission. But at the end of the day along with luck one also needs enterprise and discipline to grow wealth over a very long period of time. There are just no shortcuts.
I've interviewed a lot of people at this point and I just can't rely on a CS degree as a guarantee of competence. I've interviewed (and worked with) people with degrees from excellent CS programs who were bad engineers. Some of them must have cheated in their CS courses because they were outright incompetent -- but they were able to get degrees.

It's a serious problem that we don't have a good way to tell if someone is good at software engineering. Unfortunately degrees don't guarantee anything. So we use whiteboarding, which isn't great either.

I'm not really sure we should want degrees to be a guarantee of competence anyway. If the industry relied on them it could lead to a culture of credentialism that would make it more difficult for good engineers without CS degrees to get jobs. Some of the best engineers I've worked with have degrees in other subjects.
I’m always afraid of letting me consider I have it, because I always seem to be put in positions where I’m incompetent.

It’s been a pattern in my career so far, and I don’t know how to break it. I join a new team, learn fast, do good work, everyone loves me. Then management assumes that because I’m good at x, I’m also good at y. So they put me to work on y and I fail miserably. Someone else has to come in and help me/fix it, and now all my credibility is gone.

I try not to beat myself up about it. I consider it a management failure. My current instance of this is management assuming that because I’m a good cider, I’m also good at dealing with infrastructure/operations type stuff. Which is simply not true.

I simply don’t understand their thought process.
> Is it because 90% of Americans don't even have money left to invest after their cost of living?

In part, I think this is true. But "cost of living" is maybe a bit broad. Most of these 90% of Americans have a poor grasp of personal finance, and spend way more on unnecessary crap than they should (car loans, credit card debt, restaurants, alcohol, coffee, cell phone bills, cable tv, etc.). This isn't to say that there aren't systemic problems that increase wealth inequality (there are), but a big part of the problem is just good old fashioned consumerism.
Black Hat is literally Defcon for people with expense accounts. The best Defcon talks are usually accepted Black Hat talks.

Defcon has become this enormous nerd Burning Man event, filling Caesars armpit-to-elbow with attendees trying to fight their way to various different "villages". But as it's become that, it has become less and less "black hat", and more and more just security's Comic Con.

But in the days before the two conferences diverged, it certainly was not the case that BH was more "white hat" than Defcon; BH was a way to pay offensive security people out of the expense accounts of defensive security people. And these days I have sort of a hard time believing any "real" black hat takes Defcon seriously.
Replace strongman with socialist and your statement makes much more sense.
Can you please not post shallow dismissals or ideological rants to HN? A substantive discussion needs to start out better than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So in effect Redis has moved from a traditional community project (by the community, for the community—where RedisLabs is part of that community) to a please-do-my-work-for-me project (by the community, for RedisLabs).

RedisLabs is about to experience in real time just how quickly a community can abandon software and embrace a fork or competitor. Which is stupid, because many other projects have gone through the exact same process.
Misleading article. It's not that we are continuously in the bull run from last 3453 days. We had a few crashes in between.
I only have one month left, plus it's a huge company and they can be really rigid, so I talked to HR but she said since the interview wasn't written or recorded then they can't do anything haha, plus she said interns get to learn so much more coming to the site than they would working from home, which is total bulls*it since they give you assignement and you do them, you're basically an employee who can't work remote and gets paid a fraction of what an employee does.
This is linked elsewhere in the thread (as well as that FiveThirtyEight article), but it bears repeating here: as far as the federal incarceration rate goes, the number is actually 46% [1]. Which isn't a majority, but it's damn close — and way too high.

(It should go without saying that these are all simplistic lenses on a very complex, multifaceted problem, and in reality many parts of the justice system need reform.)

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
The only impressive thing about IBM Watson is their marketing team, and possibly that they haven't been caught strongly enough in a lie to get fined yet.
It sounds as if the problem was systemd instead of 'emacs --dameon'.
You've been to a conference with a vendor expo and not realized the vendors were getting access to your attendee information?
It's been asked several times to him on this topic, and quite frankly, he's had ample time to respond to someone.
To be fair, there's a board certification process for doctors that they are typically expected to pass before being considered for employment. You could argue this is their version of a 'take-home' interview.
It's not that hard. When you apply for a visa you must state if you're a journalist or not. After that, a quick Google should suffice, especially if the articles written by her became popular.
China is really good at keeping track of dissent.
How has the US exchange rate against other currencies impacted your rent and healthcare bill?
The whole point of his question was that you take those advantages away from those men and see what they would do. The key is their creativity and ability to find ways to make money.

Bill Gates was actually famously asked a version of this question. (What would you do if you were poor with no education and lived in a third world country.) He responded "Buy Chickens".
Can Blockchain get kids to do their chores?
Not sure how a start up can commodify business connections, family ties, inheritance or being born with money, a support network and in a good school district.
I don't have any personal knowledge of it but I've heard that the code of conduct you're referencing was actually created and weaponized by certain sociopath-types to eject Tony from his own open source library in a hostile takeover.

And not that it excuses his behavior, but I also seem to recall Tony suffering from some very severe back injuries accompanied by chronic pain.

(Not to white knight a person I'm barely aware of but your description seems pretty one-sided based on what I've seen)
The obvious solution is, distribute the source code and build on end user's environment.

Distributing the source code doesn't necessarily mean free software. Since those free software haters(idiots if you ask me), has no problem distributing game assets and compiled binary to the user, why is the source code exception?

If you are idiot enough to want the source code to be secret, just minify and uglify the source code. Uglified source code is as readable as compiled binary.
Or even as simple as a procedure:

(1) search for the applicant on google/baidu

(2) if the searches reveal support or sympathy for dissident or seditious activity, deny the visa application.
Logicomix is one of the best graphic novels I have read recently. Excellent use of the medium, and very well researched.
The game has evolved somewhat from that era.

1) In the past, you couldn't enqueue skills beyond 24h, basically forcing you to log in frequently. Now, paid accounts ("Omega") can load up their skill queue indefinitely. There are a lot more casual corps in the game these days, and the player base has finally figured out that newbies are really valuable, rather than seeing them as easy marks for scamming. I only have time to play a few hours per week, and being in one of the big corps makes it okay for me to not show up at 3am for a stratop. Optimizing ISK income is something you can do if you enjoy that sort of thing- and a lot of people do. For the rest of us, we convert cash into PLEX, and sell those in the market for ISK. My time is worth too much to spent it trying to figure out how to set up an optimal production system or to mine rocks all day.

2) This is pretty much true. The "heart and soul" of Eve is in its player-run corporations, particularly ones that engage in PVP. Funding accounts by making enough ISK to buy game time (PLEX) is a bad decision for anyone who has a real-life job. A month of game time is roughly $15. It takes lots and lots of hours of grinding or market trading to generate enough ISK to buy a PLEX in game. Unless you enjoy the grind, and if you make more than minimum wage, it's cheaper to buy PLEX with cash and sell them for ISK than it is to buy PLEX with ISK.
Microservices from a startup perspective: don't.

Microservices are great. They are also complex, expensive and require much higher expertise.

Start with a well groomed monolith that is well modularized then split it when scale (user scale, team scale) makes sense.
What's the output of keeping you alive when you retire?

It's a value we have on it's own, not something we do because it has an economic benefit. Like I said, I think only sociopaths would look at keeping the disabled alive, or helping them day to day, as a bullshit job
Account balance is a bad example, because it cannot be solved using event sourcing. A key to event sourcing is eventual consistency. The account balance cannot be eventually consistent, otherwise it will allow double-spending. It has to be immediately consistent.
But if your budget is limited, it probably makes sense to go with an AMD CPU if it enables splurging on the GPU.
DNC reports attempted cyberattack targeting its voter database
This is definitely the result of unintended consequences.

They added specific lanes for nationals to use; nationals are the taxpayers therefore they're the ones who are most listened to. As a consequence the nationals lines were always fast and well staffed, while the international entry lines grew longer and longer.

If they hadn't have split the lines, everyone would be on the same "side" and complaints from nationals would result in improved passport control for everyone.