skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the US also devolves a lot of social welfare handling to employers; most obviously insurance.
Go, Rust and the cost of brain power
Isn't piracy also a federal crime, thus the FBI warning on all non-pirated DVDs?
America by definition can not be a 3rd-world country: we were part of NATO.

But less pendantically, The US would probably be stronger economically, long term, if it phased out much of its war spending and focused it instead on infrastructure, education, healthcare, and R&D.

Unfortunately, in the United States, our politicians like to frame non-military spending as some sort of luxury... its all butter, bread, and circus even if its providing boring but essential services to American citizens.
I didn't say that an entrepreneur should not have any kind of responsibility for the employees. What I said it's that we have too many responsibilities. For example:

- We have 13º salary, with may be easy for a large company to pay, but it's expensive for a small company;

- We have FGTS, that is like a saving account paid by the company in the name of employee;

- It's very complicated to hire someone with a non-conventional work contract.

And so on. I'm not saying that we should remove labor rights, what I'm saying it's that we need to find a balance that is good to everyone: employee, small companies, large companies and so on.
I sampled each of the colors and included hex codes in the spreadsheet with the rest of the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10w7UebIDqN6ChEpBwLDQ...
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Should and did are different things. Banks where approving loans because they where offloading the risks from bad loans by reselling the mortgage while pocketing fees.

That's a systematic change that obviously created huge conflicts of interest and thus had a huge negative impact on the financial sector. Really, it's not about bad actors it's about bad incentives creating bad actors and worse those incentives have not really gone away.
Correct, it does foil key logging. However in general installing a key logging is harder to pull off than just copying all files from the machine in question. Of course it depends on which known unpatched security hole exists on the system at the time. However in general a program is more likely to be able to read arbitrary files.
You may qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) if your bipolar disorder is preventing you from getting and holding a job: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/getting-social-secur...
> If there was no bailout then even people who were paying their mortgages on time would be affected.

People who were paying their mortgages were effected by the general economic downturn, collapse of home values, and credit crunch, for some parts of which the bank bailouts were an ineffective remedy. (Bailing out troubled homeowners probably would have been more effective.)

> The bank needs money now so it will have to sell some of it's assets such as the house you're living in

Unless you are renting from a bank, it's not going to sell your house, because it doesn't own it; particularly, that's not how most mortgages work (there are some that are callable early where that would be a theoretical possibility, but they are almost never used for owner-occupied residential property.)

> The government effectively acts as a very large insurance company by giving the bank a loan.

No, it was acting as a very large bank. An insurance company would have recieved premiums in advance and not given loans, but just paid out money.
Pretty cool stuff. This principle has been used for aircraft navigation instruments for several decades[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range
Yes, I should have been more specific. Only unionized factory in the US.

Japan and Germany both have heavily unionized domestic auto manufacturing workforces, it's just their factories in the US that don't.
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Small business optimism surges to highest level ever
>Snapchat survived without taking investment from my understanding.

Ignoring the cost of development (which is reasonable given how simple the app was when it launched), Snapchat has incredibly high infrastructure costs. It runs on google cloud (you pay a huge markup for cloud services - it's just often worth it because you can scale up and scale down to match actual need but I assure you snapchat was not scaling down) and is media heavy (read high bandwidth bills).

Snapchat received $2.65 billion in investment pre-ipo!!! $2.65 billion!

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/snapchat#section-ipo...
Do you know research to backup what you believe?
It seems quite intuitive that the complexity of code scales with the amount of build time logic it contains, whether that be C macros, JS transpilation, or whatever else.

I think if a lot of developers programmed with this mindset we'd be in a much better place. The best example I can think of off the top of my head is people choosing Vue over React "for it's simplicity". You're really just taking the little bits of ritual and reliance on JS fundamentals that React contains (which isn't that much in the first place) and moving that complexity into a DSL with a big transpilation footprint.

It makes sense from a "I want to play around and build features quick" perspective, but it's a horrid decision in terms of the complexity of the software and the number of moving parts it contains. Unless like many you (foolishly) believe the law of leaky abstractions doesn't apply in JS land for whatever reason.
I always answer the security questions with gibberish that I also save with my password manager. I now use a method like correct-horse-battery-staple to create answers, but I used to use long alphanumeric strings. I switched methods because, yes, one day I had to read the answer over the phone.

Rep: "Tell me the answer to this question."

Me: "Ok, let me see what I set it to..."

Answer: F^O9dA66@wUPpK5$lTXBbrQ#yLP1EGl$

Me: "Oh... Oh no."
I tried to integrate a C++ logic programming library (Castor) with Sqlite and a linear constraint solver to make a dynamically sizing MFC (Windows GUI) layout library. I thought it would "dog on surfboard with jet pack" awesome, but it turned out more like "taking Space Shuttle to McDonald's drive-thru." That is, it made a few hard things simple but also made a lot of easy things complicated.

I still think logic programming has untapped potential for use in "regular" programs, but we haven't invented the best way to integrate it yet. In order to take advantage of bi-directional nature of logic relations (every argument can be input or output) you really need all the consituent pieces of that computation to be relational, as well. (To do what William Byrd calls "running backwards".) But to support this in an imperative language, where some of your relation is purely logical and some of it is implemented with user-defined callbacks, requires careful defensive programming in the C++ callback functions.

Moreover the inherently lazy/on-demand nature of logic programming does not fit well with the way debuggers for imperative programs work. This is not specific to logic programming (for example, debugging a regular expression that is inside a C++ program is a similar case). What is needed is a way to tell the debugger to display the file, line, and character position where the regex or logic relation or SQL statement was defined and not the position inside the engine which is interpreting that data.

I would contrast the "fully integrated, compute on-demand" way I was attempting to use a logic programming library with the way Sqlite natively works. With Sqlite, the steps of preparing a statement, looping over the rows, and finalizing the statement are all distinct steps (as called from C/C++ code). The Sqlite query planner can calculate the entire plan from the SQL string and the tables it manages internally. When Sqlite computes each next row as you step the prepared statement object, it is free to use whatever evaluation order was chosen by the query plan, because it all happens synchronously in the "step" call and then returns.

Of course the drawbacks of this approach (the famous impedance mismatch) are well-known to anyone who has used any kind of SQL database API from a C-family language. So I am not saying it is the best we can do. However I believe this API interaction strategy is one way (surmised - I haven't tried it yet) that logic programming could be integrated with an imperative program without it devolving into an un-traceable mess: treat it like using an SQL engine. Or like compiling a regex, stepping through, and reading the captures.

I find this answer ultimately disappointing, because I feel that such a powerful technique ought to transform how you think about and structure your whole program. And instead of solving the impedance-mismatch problem, it gives up on it. But having tried things the other way (coroutining logic and imperative code), if I were to try again, I would try this other way (treating the logic program like a database or query engine).
Many countries tried to build systems around doing "the right thing" did not work out too well.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 Is Released
Does any password manager uses a virtual keyboard to type the passwords in? That would avoid using the clipboard, but wouldn't work with one of my banks which doesn't even have an input box. They show a keyboard on screen and you have to click on the letter to type your password.
> What? Yup.

There's no reason "What? Yup." belongs as the third sentence in an article.

Really? Yes.
Thats my understanding of it. I'm in Massachusetts and one of the problem this new industry faces is banking. Banks are federally regulated many won't touch it (there are some "know you customer" anti money landing type laws).
Thus it becomes a cash business, leading to all sorts of problems.

Being Massachusetts though, although technically it should be legal since july, they haven't issued any permits to allow it to be sold. Those issues should be resolved with luck in another 2-3 years...
Progressive academics can be racist
Should I read how Troy's API service works? No.

Yes. Until you do that, you are arguing in utter ignorance - and you’re wrong, to boot.
The damage a bicyclist does to a road by riding on it, in comparison to that caused by large trucks, storms, and freeze-thaw cycles, is effectively zero. The "fair share" of a bicyclist for roads maintenance is thus zero, as we stopped chopping pennies up into farthings a long time ago.

The fairest use tax for roads would be to charge passenger vehicles and road tractors annually, proportional to ("wet weight"/ 2 )^4, and separately charge the semi-trailers attached to the road tractors for each trip, proportional to ( loaded weight / 4 )^4 * trip distance.

Anyone suggesting that bicycles cause any kind of burden to the roads themselves, rather than just to urban traffic patterns and traffic congestion, need a memorable explanation of the fourth-power rule. Which they can read with their remaining eye.~
I have panic disorder and Cannabis got me entirely off of Benzodiazepines. It may not be for everyone and certainly doesn't cure cancer, but it certainly helps a lot of people in beneficial ways.

People usually getting panic/anxiety attacks are taking far too much and I never recommend actually smoking it for beginners, instead vaporizing it at a lower temperature.
This is something that always strikes me as very odd when visiting the US. The portions are just So.Frigging.Huge, to the point it becomes outright comical. If I order a 'small' pizza in the US, I get something way bigger than the 'normal' pizza I would get at home, which I already are barely able to finish. I'm almost never able to finish my plate, not just because I cannot eat more, but mostly because I simply don't want to eat more of the same: in most cases the food is bland, and I quickly have had enough of it. I'm not saying the food is 'bad', I also like to eat fast food now and then, just that it simply doesn't warrant eating more of it than absolutely necessary. Typical quantity over quality.

At the same time, when I go out for dinner at home, the best restaurant experiences are always when I feel 'almost full' when my plate is completely empty, and still have some room left for dessert. Nothing needs to go to waste, and I don't need to take doggy-bags home so I can eat more of the same bland (and now re-heated, soggy) food the next day, as is common in the US (doggy bags are an extremely rare sight where I live). The 'dining out' experience could hardly be any more different comparing the US to the restaurants at home. To make things worse, prices are also way higher in the US, at least the more urban areas in the east and west.

I remember one time staying in an AirBNB in the US, talking to the host who used to own a classic american diner. She had the exact same thoughts about food quality and portion sizes as we did, and told us she actually tried to do it different in her diner. Customers would by default get a small plate of food, but could order more for free if it wasn't enough. For some bizarre reason her customers hated it and kept complaining about the portion size. So she switched back, and almost no-one ever finished their food completely again.

Very quaint obsession with quantity, if you ask me.
... and never release it again, unlike trees.
The uptick could be temporary because it is catching people off guard with rhemused to seeing most relevant result in top. But the allure of the exposure will always be there even after people smartens up
I don't know why people are focusing on deanonymization here, once you can run JS, they can just run one of the dozen Firefox 0days they are stockpiling.

If your threat profile involves governments targeting you, this bug is critical, more so than the code execution exploits because these bugs are rarer.
> If you're Brazilian and talented, either as an engineer or entrepreneur, get out. Look for jobs remotely, incorporate a company in another country, find a market fit in a healthy economy that selects based on the productivity, efficiency and quality of your work.

Sadly, this is very true.
Tracking Down and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks in Node.js with Deoptigate
This is the new LTS release and includes TLS1.3 as well as a rewrite of the RNG.
They will not lose customers over this, I skip the ads and still buy what I want, at a good price, and reliable deliveries.
Yeah, in many of those tweets you can almost feel that the person writing it is trying to reiterate something they don't fully understand.
Principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement data access
Does it? Can that leverage be disentangled from being the largest economy? Economics is a much more effective tool.
They should get rid of ads for Prime members.

OR else, create Prime Plus for $0.5/month that shows no ads

Or else, raise prime by $6 and remove ads for prime members.

I know some of you are mad that I am suggesting they raise the cost of prime. But if you're willing to cancel prime over this, then you should be okay with that.
Tidelift co-founder here, thanks everyone for the interest.

I've added a discussion of Tidelift's share to the docs at https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying
TLDR our commitment is to pay out at least 50%.

What we're doing at Tidelift is an enterprise software product (analogous to something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux), but a difference is that instead of hiring a bunch of people to repackage upstream projects, we're offering upstream maintainers the _option_ to participate directly by helping us do the work - for a revenue share, rather than a flat fee.

The app store analogy isn't quite right; an app store provides a catalog and some review services, but much of their 30% rake is profit as far as I know. The Tidelift share includes funding all the non-engineering parts of an enterprise software business, including a crucial one, a sales team.

The point of this is to make the pie larger. We want to pay the maintainers (at least) 50% of a lot of money, instead of 90% of a little money.

btw there are a number of options out there to make straight donations to projects and we support those! That isn't mutually exclusive with what we're doing here and in fact many of our participating maintainers also take donations.
Another example is the Bloomberg terminal. It looks terrible but gets the job done and that's all that matters.
Sucks for UC, but I'm sure if the situations had been reversed they would've fought as hard for the patent as the Broad has.
> But the hesitation quickly passed as he proceeded to thank me for the coverage. You see, they knew this process sucked - any reasonable person with half an idea about security did - but the internal security team alone telling management this was not cool wasn't enough to drive change. Negative media coverage, however, is something management actually listens to.

Sounds like justification for bad-security whistle blowing too. The downside of encouraging it is that you are easily deanonymized if you had attempted to bring it up internally before. We need a, possibly crowd funded, corporate bad-security whistle blowing foundation that contacts your own company on your behalf and then publicly shames them if they don't fix the issue.
The graph in the middle should be compared with a graph of economic growth: https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth...

"Peak restaurant" is in the peak boom years of 1999-2000 and 2007-8. What's interesting is that it hasn't recovered even though the economy nominally has. This lends credence to the "unequal recovery" theories, that although growth is up and unemployment appears to be down people don't actually have nearly as much spending money.
One of the major trends in last two decades is increased correlation (especially during bear markets). No matter how you diversify the portfolio, it will correlate with others more. There is more correlation between individual assets and between different asset classes.

Between 1980-1999 the correlation between US and foreign stocks was 0.47 - 0.49. Between 2000-now its 0.88-0-89

Moving between stocks, bonds and alternatives produces declining value relative to the past. U.S stocks correlate more with international stocks, bonds correlate more with stocks, raw materials correlate more with the rest.

I think it's natural to expect less value from hedge fund strategies in general. Maybe private equity investing helps but how much?
Google replaces $9 headphone dongle with nearly identical $12 version
What do you find to be their advantage over JS web apps?
> You are more than welcome to start your own business with a more relaxed environment, but don’t be surprised when a company with a lower work/life balance puts you out of business.

This quote from your earlier comment comes after you finish "describing the problem".

Taken together, the rhetorical effect is an expression of fatalism. Your formulation accepts the currently destructive state of affairs. It's disingenuous to say "all I am doing is describing the system".

You're describing the system and then subtly suggesting any attempt to improve matters is folly.

EDIT: Fix number agreement in first sentence.
The annual gdp...
When did standard oil own railroads? I thought Rockefeller had large disagreements with the railroads and they had to build oil pipelines, and that in sense contributed to downfall of certain railroads too reliant on the oil money.
Hah, that page actually allows you to test whether or not a certain email address is signed up for the service, which seems like an even worse idea given what they're to become.
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I think we've known it would be useful for a long time, we have had general editing capabilities for a long time, they have just been less precise/customizable. So I don't think a new one will be easily found.
When studying a drug for medical purposes you want to know it is pure. Down the street how knows how much active ingredient you actually get (this is the problem with herbs in general - they do not all contain the same amount of active ingredient, and it is possible something unknown in half the samples is the real active ingredient)

Marijuana has been studied overseas.
Yeah I absolutely love the solution of requiring a supermajority. I wish it was required in most instances and that we actually required it when it is already required by the Constitution in practice. In the US Constitution it's only used to convict, override or expel people who were elected by simple majority (or in some case,s less, though I like the idea of the electoral college not giving all power to a couple of states), and for ratifying treaties and constitutional amendments. Of course, even though alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment, you can apparently prohibit anything else by having it "scheduled". And when was the last time the President waited for Congress's permission for our foreign relations, be they treaties or war?
And real estate costs.
> [Burning Man]

I completely disagree with your impression, but that all is beside my point.

The part of the Burning Man culture I'm pointing to is the one where people go co-create all this shit anyway, when they don't have to, when it doesn't solve any need, when it's not about a contrast with somewhere else.

Not everyone needs a problem to solve to get off their arse and make something amazing, and you can see that multiple times a year around the world if you look at these events.
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What are the maintenance costs of such a crane, remembering that it runs 24/7 at its max capacity?

I ask because simple lead acid batteries can be hooked into control systems, with maintenance done via changes to electricity and fluid. With such batteries there are no cables or bearings to need changing, no moving parts. So I would assume that maintenance costs for oldschool batteries would be far less than for this crane.
No, the next time I try again and after it fails again then remember they didn't allow it and curse them for not fixing it already. Then repeat the process.
Hi, I am always up for a chat, my email is mail@konstantinschubert.com. :)

To get back to our argument: By the time you said "coming soon" you didn't know if it was coming at all, so I would call that a bit of a lie.
So instead of using a crane, I think you could make something similar to the chain that pulls a roller coaster up.

So you would have a tall vertical tower and at the bottom it transitions to a horizontal conveyor belt. Each of the drums are attached to the chain that is connected to the motor. When you run the motor is pulls the barrels from the horizontal conveyor and up into the tower. Then when you need power you let the barrels fall and spin the motor, and collect on the horizontal conveyor.

Still not saying it is a practical battery, just seems more reasonable than using a crane.
Infact, knowing Bezos, they will lower prices further from the money gained by either reinvesting to improve process like delivery price, time and cheaper logicstis
>Mixed with that and the liberal social welfare system in Europe and PC culture which claimed any critical voice was facist, racist etc

Sorry, what does the social welfare system have to do with any of that stuff? You may have some valid points somewhere in there but it is completely undermined by that rambling screed of a last paragraph.
I wouldn't trust troyhunt.com. He was trying to put passwords checks using third-party APIs into Firefox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395342
Which means more customers $$.
To be clear:
do you count shaming an official corporate account as shaming a corporation or as shaming the person that actually write the tweets?
Because of course corporations will always put a person in front of, so that you feel bad for speaking the truth.

That's why official corporation tweets often carry a signature with a person first name - it reminds me of Pennac's Malaussène, who by trade is a professional scapegoat.