skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I actually believe that the constant money printing (eg, expressed in the US M2 Monetary Stock) has badly messed up the ability of the economy to recognise who is and isn't productive. The system is in real trouble and not working as I'd like it to.

But the question wasn't what America is doing wrong, the question was why government intervention always leads to price increases.
Wage growth would help, but for some reason, these articles never even mention immigration. The scale of immigration both legal and illegal I believe has the greatest impact on the lowest sectors of society. The lack of discussion on the impact so many potential new workers is having on wage growth leads one to think they believe labor cost is the one thing immune to the law of supply and demand.
The big questions is automation/A.I.

What about when jobs become more and more automated? What about when 2 million truck drivers are put out of work due to self-driving vehicles? Food preparation, Cleaning, Driving, Construction, Science...all of these fields are threatened by automation.
Sure there will always be a few jobs to run the machines but what happens as A.I. and Automation take over and we have 80% unemployment?

Capitalism will be rendered pretty much obsolete in a post-industrial society.

Just like humans gathered resources through hunting and gathering, then farming automated that process, then industrialism automated farming....what happens when 'jobs' are automated as our current method of gaining resources?

What's the next stage of society?
Taco Bell voted best Mexican restaurant in the country
Two Day Sprints: Converging on a Product People Love
Can someone explain why Amazon works so hard to direct searches into searches within its product categories? An example would be a search for 'Baking Soda' leading you to the 'Grocery & Gourmet Food' or 'Industrial & Scientific' categories. I'd much rather search for 'Baking Soda' and have it return every kind of 'Baking Soda' Amazon carries, as I want the best price and don't care how it's been categorized by the retailer. It's almost always faster to search for anything sold Amazon via a Google search outside of Amazon's own search engine.
Illegal immigrants are 1% of the population in the U.S. It's used as a way to divide people rather than an actual serious issue.
It's not really hyper opportunity, it is impact.

Impact is the reason why an elementary school teacher gets paid in the low-to-mid 5 figures and a professional ball player can get paid 7 figures. Usually, a school teacher has 20-30 kids in their classroom, while a professional ball player can indirectly influence tens of thousands of kids and adults in their "buying" decisions.

Impact is why Franz Schubert died poor and why Ozzy Osbourne made millions.

Technology can exponentially increase your reach and your impact. Ozzy in the medieval ages would have been just a tale told between towns. If you are a skilled marketer, the Internet is your oyster.
NASA ponders selling ad space on its rockets
But how do I ice a data angel?
It's not like meritocracy is completely unrelated to real life, it matters in a certain regime. However, if like Vanessa, you're born to lesser circumstances, you just cannot escape poverty by just working harder. Similarly, if you are born to very well off standards, even if you're a dope and spend money from Dad's inheritance on cocaine, sure, you won't be successful but you'll still have a net of some kind. You can always improve your lot, but where you start has a large impact on how much of phase space you can reach, so to say.

I think the mentality is shifting a little as millenials and gen z are slowly letting go of the meritocratic myth, but blaming internal motivations more than context is a problem in the American conception of the world we still suffer from as a nation. The inability of us to accept that our actions are not the only determining things in our lives seriously limit our ability to fully comprehend the world and how it really works which leads us to thinking ideas like work requirements are actually sane rather than completely counterproductive.
Theres a security issue there in that you don't want them in "I think that would be fine" territory.

Some of those reps may have been fine with you saying "oh no. I didn't think I'd ever need that and just mashed the keyboard".

Better to use something that's still made up, but is plausibly true.
Inside a 17th-Century 'Barbarian' Cookbook from Japan
Seems like the woman needs education and a good job more than just about anyone to take care of those kids
"I rarely use cruise control" was in the first place a parenthetical concession until someone felt like "correcting" me.
For me, the worst part was that the socks didn't feel like new socks. They weren't used, they just lacked the delicious new socks feeling.
That last part depends on the type of employer. In my case, as a male, I started to see a huge improvement in promotions and pay increases once I became a "family man" (although in my case, I'm not married to my partner, and she came with kids -- but it was always treated as a family unit).
This is not accurate in my opinion. And as automation puts more and more people out of work we'll see 'jobs' prove to be a legacy mode of gaining resources because jobs won't exist.
it was probably mostly because "everyone's doing it", but i'm glad we did. a little harder to bail when the going gets tough when the in-laws' friends have given you a cuisinart. ;)
You could say everything is damp due to moisture in the air. Damp could be defined as mildly wet.
Statement Regarding the Accusations of Ted Hill
Hi. China is calling.
Or you can `/s/doi.org/sci-hub.tw/` the doi URL. ;-)
Why a PITA? Just show a known movie to the person while scanning.
"Here is the almost complete skeleton of a project in your preferred language (presumably, the one you're applying to use full time), finish it by implementing this vital piece of business logic."
Charity backed by Koch network must disclose donors to California officials
there is also evidence this ability to conjure imagery in our minds simply does not exist for some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

which leads me to wonder if the capability exists on a spectrum and is stronger or weaker in some. A stronger capability might correlate to a stronger 'signal' ...?
This is clearly sarcastic. I think the downvotes were because you made a joke until I read the replies.
Intel’s Next Move: Gadi Singer VP/GM of AI
Maintaining the appropriate gear requires that you're focussed on the world around you.
Yes I agree to all of that except you're missing out on power and market power.

The biggest winners will be investors in tech, not employees, who will do well, but not as well as capital FYI.
Amie Wilkinson has also released a statement: https://math.uchicago.edu/~wilkinso/Statement.html.
I do think the clutch is a factor. I've driven more "pure" sports cars and often their clutches require a lot of force. But I've never owned a car with a clutch like this. So yeah, maybe my comment was a bit naive.

For me, motorcycles in traffic has been painful due to having to hold a heavy clutch in with your hand.
Tech Book Face Off: Confident Ruby vs. Metaprogramming Ruby 2
LTE Advanced with carrier aggregation can certainly deliver on speeds. Here is a fresh speedtest taken just now, were I'm getting 185Mbps down. I'm inside a building but only 1 block from the cell site and I'm getting 3x Carrier Aggregation on 2.5GHz (band 41) on Sprint. I'll admit these are pretty ideal circumstances for a speed test but I just opened the app an ran it to show the speeds are possible.

I've often found the most limiting factor (beside RF interference) is not LTE directly but the backhaul connections at cell sites. If you only have a 1 gig ethernet link, that limits your speeds when you get a handful of active users.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/4239773416
Engine braking is prohibited due noise from large diesels using compression brakes aka "jake brakes" - specialised engine braking hardware. They make engine braking much more effective, so that trucks can slow down more without heating the regular brakes as much, but they can be loud.

The parent is essentially right; engine braking is using the engine to slow the vehicle down.
A ray tracing technique used at PS4 in the game Gran Turismo Sports
Sometimes the issue with a comment isn't about its truth or lack therefore, but with its tone or potential for inciting flamewar (a.k.a. trollishness). With a brand new account, the intent is even harder to discern.

> PostgreSQL still is lacking with its horizontal scalability story

To the extent this is true, it may still be irrelevant for many environments. The ability to increase performance by just adding more servers (what I believe is usually meant by "horizonatal scalability") is not, despite its popularity, a desirable end in and of itself.

It's only desirable as a means of scalability, if scaling a "single" server (a.k.a. vertical) would reach the limit of available hardware, or if even approaching that limit becomes prohibitively expensive.

My impression from talking to managers (including startup founders) is that they often erroneously believe they fall into the latter category. Specifically, they believe that the overhead inherent in distributed systems is, essentially, negligible, so that they're avoiding the 2-4x price premium of a high-end single system. The reality is not so negligible, especially considering inefficiencies unique to a particular distributed database, regardless of if it's inescapable due to its nature.

The former can, of course, be a real concern, especially for VC-funded startups, for whom a lack of fast enough growth is its own failure. However, even in that situation, there's reason for skepticism, since most of the original "web scale" horror stories tended to involve MySQL (which had, and maybe still has, reduced capabilities for performance improvements through hardware) and database servers that hadn't even maxed out their I/O capabilities (not trivial to do naively pre-SSD).

> there is no reason to choose it over something like Solr/ElasticSearch right now largely because of this.

Even the OC points recognizes [1] that these distributed systems aren't without their drawbacks. Those drawbacks are additional reasons to choose Postgres over them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17964732
Right, because sorting by cheapest price per count and buying in bulk can be equated with the time involved in clipping coupons.
Apple is still struggling to sell iPhones in the world's hottest markets
Does autoplaying videos make more money or just push up meaningless metrics? Personally, an autoplaying video means an instant back button press or tab close.
Pew Reasearch puts the number at 3.5%, which I think is quite high enough to impact growth. But downward wage pressure at the lowest sectors comes from both legal and illegal immigration.

It would be interesting to see what at short term lowering of immigration would have on wage growth.
I can't even argue with this.
EDIT: To elaborate, you seem to be correct.
$39 a month for beautiful documentation, and once they finish API with Swagger support it is great value. I can see for open source projects that don't generate revenue the price being expensive, but as a SaaS business owner the pricing feels just right.
You're right, they'd say that. They wouldn't mention "within 10 minutes drive of my house" or "has plenty of parking" or anything about the return policy most likely. And yet those almost certainly factor into where they shop.
An important effect of asking people to rank choices is that it forces people to consider costs. An increase in the rank of one item inherently decreases the rank of another.
Oh sure, didn't mean to come across as someone who worries deeply over account discovery. I just saw an opportunity to remind folks that foiling side-channel attacks is very non-trivial and you can put forth a good effort and still be surprised at the information you're leaking.
These exist, for example:

https://gearbrake.com/collections/shop/products/gearbrake-sm...
> The take-home message is that the Fed causes recessions according to a very predicable pattern.

Causes is probably too strong word. If Fed would not act, the recession would come later and deeper. Fed does not act unless the economy is already overheating.

Here is nice graph to check from time to time: GDP minus potential GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=laCQ (both are inflation adjusted)

CBO’s estimate is just an estimate, but the general pattern is clear
Amazon Makes Good on Business-To-Business Threat
> The amount of price raised is almost certainly to be greater than what is deemed fair in these cases from the law of supply and demand.

That's not true. Price gouging is a term thrown around a lot, but generally it refers to drastically increasing prices when supply takes a sudden hit (due to natural disaster, often).

> verses spying on them in their own home and offering them products.

Spying on them? Are you joking? They are on Amazons website. How in the world is that spying? Man, more and more Hacker News is starting to sound like reddit.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...

Research would disagree. Student loans definitely have had an effect. That the Atlantic ignores that completely calls into question their potential bias. Student loans are a sacred cow for those on the left and center-left, so it isn’t surprising that the Atlantic ignores even a potential causal relationship in the story.
I prefer winter-on-demand - (Tahoe!) vs. 4-5 months of misery in the air and on the roads enforced upon you - like it or not.
Add to that quick car depreciation due to salty roads.

I am happy to pay for air tickets and buy a dinner for my Canadian friends during fall colors season.
After all - I'll be coming back to summer, but it's all downhill for them from that point on, weatherwise.
Some people are managing to convince themselves that Canadian weather is great but I don't have these masochistic talents. Having said that - I loved hot and often humid Canadian summers (Eastern Ontario and Quebec) - but these are too short anyways.

Sluggish resale housing market (my personal repeated experience). I lived in a real nice area in Kanata (West Ottawa) and it took us 1.5 yrs to sell a house.

With Silicon Valey salary i luckily was able to afford to pay single house rent here + Canadian mortgage payment.

California taxes are high, but Canadian are higher.

I better stop. :)
wasn't this 70s drug law to prevent people from voting agaisnt Nixon? those people would still vote against Trump, so they shouldn't be allowed to
As an avid reader, I don't think plot is unimportant in the enjoyment of books.

In fact, foreknowledge of plot and detail color your experience of reading the book such that successive rereads each have a different character in many cases.

Imagine the first time you read a book like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, Never Let Me Go, A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, imagine the second time reading through any of those books; the experience will be greatly changed by the knowledge and anticipation of what you know is coming.

Some people may not think that change in experience is important, but some definitely will. I don't think there's any reason to look down on either group, nor to look down on people who chose to respect the latter.
It’s interesting the immigration cannot even be mentioned without getting down voted.

It seems obvious to me that fewer low skill workers would result in higher wages for those who could most benefit from it.
I wonder how this compares to docs written in VuePress? (https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/)
The web is designed by marketing people and implemented by programmers. That's because the incentive to fund the implementation comes from the desire to sell things. One of the things that I always found interesting about the web was that as soon as there was a graphical browser, things went in that direction pretty quickly.

Before that, our internet experiences were pretty technical in nature. More than the web, I remember being blown away by mail and news readers, like nn or gnus. The things we built were very practical in nature.

Contrast that to the demo scene. To me, the demo scene epitomises the marriage of technical expertise and artistic endeavour. Talk about "well crafted, clean and slim experiences that are thoughtful and not bloated". Take all that and crank it up to 11 :-) Of course, not necessarily utilitarian.

I'd love to see some artistically inclined people respin some of the concepts of the demo scene and build something practical that also has the ability to floor you from a technical and experience-oriented perspective. Of course, you could never fund it (that's why the marketers dominate the web), but the world of hacking has never needed funding. We're "starving artists" who aren't actually starving because we have high paying side gigs ;-).
I use Pocket (getpocket.com) most frequently, but often throw a link into OneNote when it's directly related to a task and for immediate use.
"110" or "220" are legacy terms for mains voltages in the US, they are still in common use.
Keep in mind that slightly depressing your brake pedal without pushing it down turns your brake lights on but you do not actually brake. This is used to warn cars behind you of possible danger ahead.
From those that accept it, which isn't everyone.
I'd argue that legal immigration has the greatest impact on higher sectors of society- such as salaries in software / IT. This can be fixed by raising the minimum pay for H1Bs. I'd believe that illegal immigration has a incredibly small effect overall.
Here’s how graphene could make future electronics superfast
Or he did a calculation and bet that he would live long enough after retirement that as a couple they would be better off with the 100% payout. So his wife would only need to outlive him by 2 years for every 7 years he lives (assuming the extra 15% is put away, and if invested it could even be a better deal). So if he lived 28 years, his wife would need to live 36 years (or more, factoring in interest) for the 85% deal to be better.
> Lately, they only fix the issue/replace the item. Maybe, they spoiled me but to me that is sign of declining customer service.

That's a sign of "good" customer service vs over-the-top. They still send gift cards/free prime memberships from time-to-time, but frequent callers probably don't get those deals any more.
Infinite setup time: In the vacuum of space, as t -> infinity, eventually random quantum fluctuations will spontaneously create a 747 full of ping pong balls.
111,000 Bitcoins Associated with Silk Roads Operator Starts Moving to Exchanges
This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners
When Sting Sat on the Piano
Hi Jeremy,

I'm currently reevaluating the CI/CD story for my company. We're a small startup with ~20 engineers. I would like to give you some feedback and questions on Azure Pipelines.

We're currently using gitlab.com for code hosting and CI/CD. We're in the Silver / Premium pricing tier so have most of the premium features. Our software stack is mostly on GKE Clusters on GCP and we also run gitlab runner in a GKE cluster.

We're honestly not super happy with gitlab.com due to performance, stability and UX issues - overall not super happy with the overall quality/depth of the product. That's why we're considering to make the switch to github.com and reconsider the whole CI/CD story. I evaluated about 20 CI/CD platforms, but unfortunately didn't find the perfect one. There was always at least one important feature missing or the management of the system (i.e. jenkins, concourse) would've been too much overhead for a company of our size.

My preliminary conclusion is that we should probably stay with GitLab CI/CD for now (even when switching to github.com for code hosting) since it is good on most dimensions (far from perfect though) and has low management overhead.

However I gave yesterday Azure Pipelines also a shot and liked many things I saw.
My impressions were like that:
Pros:
- Flexible build system / environment, can run on VMs, containers, self-hosted agents etc.
- Reasonably complex builds can be expressed in the yaml.
- Reasonable pricing
- Big plus: Very sophisticated release / deployment pipeline management. Nice sweet spot between solutions with no / limited CD support (e.g. circleci, gitlab) and complex systems like spinnaker.
- very good github integration (uses checks API)

Cons:
- Big con: Self-hosted agents cannot autoscale. For comparison gitlab runner k8s executor spawns kubernetes pods on demand so the infra / cluster footprint is really small in idle times during the weekend or nights. In comparison azure pipelines seems to only work with non-ephemeral agents and one has to set a fixed statefulset count: https://github.com/Azure/helm-vsts-agent
- Big con: Release Pipelines are only configurable via UI instead of code
- No explicit docker layer caching support (vs codefresh, circleci)
- Many out-of-box integrations / features are tied to Azure Cloud, for other clouds (i.e. GCP) one has to do write custom scripts or integrations.

The two biggest cons for me are really the non-autoscaling self-hosted agents and that release pipelines are only configurable via the UI. The release pipelines only-UI problem I consider a blocker for us.

In other words: If you would allow configuring release pipelines in code we would probably switch to github.com + Azure pipelines. FYI I prefer expressing complex pipelines in a real and common programming language like TypeScript or Python3 (think Jenkins: Groovy, Airflow: Python, TeamCity: Kotlin Script etc.) over YAML, even though I can live with YAML for now.

Is your team working on enhancements to any of that and what would be the rough timeline?

Thanks!
I’ve gotten 150 mbps down using the Ookla Speedtest app on my iPhone 6s at the strip mall nearest to me. (Nowhere special, suburban Annapolis.)

Tried it just now at my house on my iPhone SE: 29 mbps down, 28 msec ping. One floor right above my Wifi router, I’m getting just 30 mbps (7 msec ping however) over Wifi, so the LTE performance isn’t too shabby.
It seems that everything the government is willing to pay for (or lend money for) gets outrageously priced. From healthcare (what is the cost of saving an american life?) to 'defense' (what is the cost of taking a killer's life?), the US has developed a system that mortgages the future of our children to subsidize the anxieties of 'adults' of the present.
allowing students loans to be wiped off in a bankruptcies might achieve the same goal
I guess it depends on what you're driving, but that certainly hasn't been my experience.
If you like cool (live) maps, I've always enjoyed the watercolor setting on Stamen Maps[1]. They have others, too.

[1] http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782
I remember hearing from someone in the field that health care in Europe is indeed becoming exponentially more expensive. the exponent is smaller than the US, and the cost isn't borne by individuals, but they're still going to have a problem. (I don't have a source for this though.)
Probably does vary by state. But overall:

"According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2017–2018 school year was $34,740 at private colleges, $9,970 for state residents at public colleges, and $25,620 for out-of-state residents attending public universities." - https://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tm...

So in-state is, overall, a shade more than 1/4 the cost of private.
No, there really is a huge difference. It's more like 1.5 times the y-axis space in your example, they could get 6 self service checkouts in the space of 2 staffed ones:

>|1| |2| < >|1| |4|<
| | | | |2| |5|
| | | | |3| |6|

Or similar. What does slow things down is elderly or people apprehensive of technology, and tourists or others encountering them for the first time...
I am though- need to replace my manual wrx with something fun that my wife can drive :)