skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a Chromium feature. V8 only implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly.
TB is not very impressive compared to a tiny place on the border to Bronx when I visited NY, it was the most amazing Mexican food I've ever had! Small tortillas(?) with all kinds of meat, even goat.
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The overwhelming majority of people who still claim in 2018 that "anti-immigrant zealots never provide any evidence" are either knowingly lying (disengaging and pretending not to remember when they do encounter an intelligent objector) or have Bayesian priors amounting to religious zealotry which make it impossible for them to recognize evidence for what it is.

As an example, I posted the following a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384668 ):

"Private business was just one of several examples I gave to illustrate principles which hold across a wide range of scales of human organization.

It is straightforward to verify that they don't stop holding at nation-scale. A good place to start is Lee Kuan Yew, who's both one of the only leaders in history to preside over the entire transition from Third World to First World for millions of people, and an architect of what's currently the most open immigration policy among Chinese-majority states. Singapore is a multicultural place whose government is widely acknowledged to have one of the best technocratic track records in the world, and they spent considerable effort on trying to get immigration policy right, iterating through alternatives while deliberately taking a popularity hit; what were their conclusions?

Or what are the odds, under your stated worldview, that two of the closest things to actual open borders existing in 2018 are (i) the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, which lets almost anyone stay as long as they can support themselves ...but ranges from 74 to 81 degrees N latitude, and (ii) the United Arab Emirates, which has more than five times as many expats as actual citizens, the largest number from India ...but ruthlessly maintains a two-tiered society, where even people who were born in the UAE and have lived there their entire lives are exceedingly unlikely to be granted citizenship unless they are Arab?

Contrary to claims that nothing like open borders has ever been tried, the existence of cases like this make it abundantly clear that this area of policy space has already been subject to substantial exploration. And every surviving result has an obvious and unusual force that does something similar to what traditional immigration controls accomplish in most countries, such as Svalbard's -40C winters. This is, to put it mildly, not a likely result if traditional immigration controls no longer have a useful function."

It may not be the final word on this subject. But it certainly points out several relevant, usually-neglected pieces of evidence. What did I get from my conversation partner as a reward? A downvote and no further response, of course; they weren't actually interested in truth or dialogue. The more I see this, the more strongly I advise everyone else to prepare to do whatever is necessary for self-defense against these people.
Sorry that was me being lazy. On my dovark keyboard. C,0,2 are all right next to each other on my right hand and since numbers are behind the shift key, my left hand just holds the shift down. The alternative is a bit of a finger juggle because my caps lock is remapped as well.
You could argue it was originally created as an IDE for PostScript.
A half-way house which could be interesting to explore would be to make advertising “static” again, i.e. all visitors to a given page see the same ads, or at least one of the same ad-rotation with the same probability distribution. The intrusiveness and complexity mostly seem to come from targeting ads against visitors rather than page content.

There are still a few sites which run simple static “someone paid us and we edited in a link using notepad” style ads. Frankly, they’re higher quality and more likely to be relevant than anything that comes through the big ad-targeting networks.

(I’d vaguely hoped GDPR might have this effect. In fact, it just seems to mean business as usual with a slightly increased floor on the amount of process and bureaucracy...)
Thanks for this explanation, always wondered this!
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Hi all,

I've been a member of this fine community for a long time, I've contributed (albeit under another account obviously) and I've enjoyed other's contributions as well.

I'm struggling with what to do, I'm in my 40's, I'm self-employed (in Europe), I've started out 20 or so years ago as a system admin, been some kind of system engineer throughout my career where I now am doing jobs as Solution or Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect, etc, I have a vast experience, I can talk, design and secure setups ranging from bare hardware to Cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, I've got experience with Linux and Windows, and so on, problem is, it's not always easy to prove these statements.

Due to familial circumstances I've been looking at remote jobs so that we could pack up and go anywhere in the world and I'd still have a job. Some problems keep me from finding a suited one. 1) I'm not a developer, I know some basic scripting, tried my hand at Python several times but always get stuck at the harder levels. Walsed through courses at javascript and such over at freecodecamp at likes 2) I know quite some things about Cloud, especially AWS, but I don't have the credentials for it and getting them is very time consuming and expensive, both things I have difficulty with due to familial circumstances, it's a vicious circle. 3) I'm in Europe, remote is not as evolved as in the US I feel.

Sorry for the long intro, my question is, is there room for people like me - basically a very experienced system engineer working as an architect on projects ranging from 50.000 Euro to more than a 1.000.000 Euros - on the remote jobs market? I know I'd work much more working from home, I don't care, it's not the work that bothers me, it's the situation I'm in.

Thanks for any advice!
I really like this. Developers create a lot of value, but they must be cognizant of the implications of their work. I don't think its good enough to delegate responsibility to the employer/superior (see Nürenberg trials). At the same time I also am unsure that moral preaching will do the job of convincing the community to have and enforce a higher ethical standard.

But making it easier to have and implement this standard by using tools such as this may have a, in my opinion, bigger effect than moral preaching.

Make the right decision be the easy decision and soon you'll find everyone doing the right thing.
does it mean that we could use google services as firebase in china? 🧐
I've been in the private beta for a while now, using it for ad-hoc queries, still missing a few things I require but I think it will be better down the line!
"You've got more control over the car because you're shifting your own gears instead of waiting for the car to shift for you," from the article sums it up. I recently bought my first car with cruise control, still manual transmission, and while I find it useful at times, it also makes the driving experience more relaxed, and not necessarily in a good way.

However, I'm all for the aspect of automatic transmission changing gears at the right moment to get as much power out of the engine as possible. But it doesn't weigh up the disconnected feeling they provide on my behalf.
Harvard updated their Buzzfeedesque post on this topic [https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/12-ways-to-keep...] which spans from crossword puzzles to avoiding alcohol.

But to keep it simple: read, do puzzles, stay active, do not drink or do drugs heavily.
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Everybody already has a genetic makeup that limits their health—especially the brain—to a preset level. Some people suffer from infantile amnesia—basically not remembering early developmental stages (2-4) and preadolescent (~10 y/o); other’s claim to remember their birth (which is silly since ability to form memories is 2 y/o+). Some have the luxury of having strong working memory^1—a fancy word for temporary memories—but suffers from lackluster short-term memory.

I’m sure you get the point I was trying to make with that mediocre explanation.

tldr: You can not change your brain to not have dementia if your genetic makeup says so. You can however delay the onset possibly by keeping your brain active on a daily basis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory
Probably the gains went to the owners, i. e. shareholders.

Or, perhaps, David Graeber wrote in his book «Bullshit Jobs» that at least a part of the gains inflates the bullshit part of businesses, i. e. more bullshit managers are employed. Of course this means that the hourly pay would rise. I don't know.
> This is a little more than eight thousandths of one bit. Therefore, the information given by one passing test run is just a little over one millibyte. To debug this compiler, we're going to be running hundreds and hundreds of experiments, each of which gives us a tiny fraction of one bit, until we can finally put together the single byte we need to isolate the faulty optimization.

It doesn't work that way. If you're dead set on measuring a single passing test run as a milllibyte's worth of information, you have to realize that every subsequent passing test run is worth less and less. Otherwise running a thousand passing tests would give you a full byte of information, and yet a thousand passing tests does not give you 100% confidence that the enabled optimizations are not buggy. The only way to get a full byte's worth of information is to actually hit upon a failing test run.

And in fact even this is mistaken. You don't have a millibyte's worth of information. You have a lot more. The number of passing test runs at a given optimization gives you a probability that the optimization is buggy. Claiming that all this information you have about probabilities of the bugginess of various optimization passes is really just a millibyte is misleading; you have a lot of information, you're just ignoring it and saying you only care about a millibyte's worth of it.
The data confirm nothing of the kind. The Las Vegas shooting alone completely skews the data. Adjusting for that, it boils down to "rifles are more lethal than handguns and less so than shotguns" which, given the muzzle velocity differences, is obvious.

Meanwhile, thus statement was utterly false: "A 1994 federal assault weapons ban prohibited manufacturing, transferring or possessing certain semiautomatic firearms for civilian use.". In fact, it had no effect at all on possession. It also had no effect on fully automatic weapons.
@sidcool, Thanks for the cool open-source project. One query is all the documentation are about how to make things work when you have a single repo to deal with. The problem complicates when we have to deal with multiple repos that can grow/shrink across versions.
To coin the classic HN approach, isn't this just Mechanical Turk + a bank account?

Being less reductionist, you could possibly bootstrap the chicken/egg issue of getting task executors / task creators by proxying tasks off Mechanical Turk.
I think it's quite wrong that this guy got basically penalized for just doing what he's paid for and getting along well with people. It's fine when teams get along so well that some people even spend their time with colleagues on the evenings and weekends, I do that too but please don't low-level force me to do it by applying social pressure.
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I think your story illustrates that it all depends on:

* Hard work

* Smart decisions (your mother deciding to go after the other and putting the money off)

* Luck (pro-bono lawyer, and your father's death in some sense)
I had a quick cursory glance for useful contrasting data to show how while wages in real terms have stayed flat in the US, things like college tuition fees[1] and house prices[2] have not.

Both of these things are pretty important - college education can be life altering in terms of career trajectory, and owning a house is an entry point into the wealth ladder and also simply an escape from rent. In real terms, the cost of these has runaway over the past 20-30 years and so people's access to two crucial things that aid social mobility (wealth/housing and education) have been eroding over the years. But apparently because our money can still buy a basket of goods we should be satisfied that our lives haven't gotten any worse.

For me, and I'm pretty sure it's quite complex and I am guilty of Dunning Kruger wrt politics and economics, I simply cannot understand how inflation can get away without finding a way of placing these in the basket of goods used to calculate inflation.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-property-poll/u-s-hou...
when I was programming in the 70s and 80s (in the UK), the term systems programmer applied to those people involved in the configuration, tuning, management of software such as CICS, MVS, and their equivalents on other hardware bases. I worked at Sperry Univac for several years and the "systems programmers" were the engineers who tweaked the OS, the TP schedulers, built the product installation scripts, designed the configs that controlled the software. It was a specific tradecraft suited to those who were more technically focused, remember that COBOL was the prevalent language for nearly all programming roles in the 70s and that there was no "web" per se. The term started to fade away roughly when PCs started entering into mainstream computing
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So you believe taxi drivers never need to use taxis?
I feel like I'm the last person who'd rather deal with retailers who aren't on Amazon.
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Except they never carry anything I want, nor in quantities I prefer to buy.

Walmart at least tries. They don't succeed, but they've at least they try.
> try to find anything that acknowledges Australias own ethnic cleansing history.

Where do you live? You're very clearly entirely ignorant about the issue you've raised:

http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/articles/national-apology-st...

Our Prime Minister issued an official apology for the abhorrent acts that took place and led to the term "the Stolen Generation". That doesn't even remotely make those acts okay, but to suggest that it's not even acknowledged by the Australian people is just outright ludicrous.

EDIT: By the way, there's also something called "National Sorry Day", which is kind of a big deal in Australia, I suggest you Google it.
Pay more for something because its cool? Is that how Americans run their business? I'm sitting at a cheap IKEA desk here.
Clearly not everyone reads the small print and even if they did that doesn't really excuse it in today's internet.

Hashing passwords is not hard.
If there are only 19 bones for every 20 dogs, then it doesn't matter how good a bone hunter they all are there will always be one dog disappointed and the other 19 will be grateful for the bone no matter how thin and weedy it is.
Systemically the 'interest rate targeting' approach starts to tighten up policy when unemployment gets below 5% - which they consider 'full employment' even though 1 in 20 haven't got jobs.

Interest rate targeting uses an unemployment buffer to keep wages and therefore prices under control. Poverty for those in work is entirely part of the plan.
To fix the poverty problem you need to fix the structural viewpoint and return to the Beveridge condition - everybody must have an alternative living wage job offer available to them so that job competition works properly in favour of people. There must always be more jobs available than people that want them, not slightly fewer.

But that then runs into what Kalecki called "The Political Aspects of Full Employment" - a recommended read if you haven't already: https://mronline.org/2010/05/22/political-aspects-of-full-em...

Truly a 'wicked problem' - tied up with the concept of power
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As I read it, companies were using "loopholes" (think H-1B visa-alikes or even shadier stuff) to bring immigrants in. As the gov shut down these loopholes, the situation evolved to nobody willing to work there.
It does. No, that would not make sense of the majority of sites. Majority of sites have limited audience (topically, or geographically), so costs would be nowhere as high, and could be handled by personal input + donations (for private sites), or written off as marketing expense (for company sites).

Yes, websites do not have to pay for themselves directly. The idea they should is underlying lots of current web problems.
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You're right - I do, and I often do :)

But even then, you've got the added hassle of making the trip. And interestingly, amazon.de isn't always great value - it seems to vary more (with weirdly high prices for some things) than I remember from amazon.co.uk. (My impression is that maybe amazon has a smaller presence in Germany, leading them to rely more on 3rd-party, not-fulfilled-by-amazon sellers?)

One positive aspect is that losing my reliance on amazon has led me to discover a couple of quite good Chinese websites - for many small items, I now use either banggood.com or gearbest.com
I was about to post the exact same idea. I don't know if it would be efficient (plus mechanicaly lifting up a building is an engineering nightmare to do) but it would be a very elegant way of storing solar energy, or energy recovered from lost calories.
> They couldn't even understand basic mechanics.

Can you expand on this?
Nope, it is our home made solution, with our own frequencies and satellites.
"Wages in rich countries are determined more by immigration control than anything else, including any minimum wage legislation. How is the immigration maximum determined? Not by the ‘free’ labour market, which, if left alone, will end up replacing 80–90 per cent of native workers with cheaper, and often more productive, immigrants. Immigration is largely settled by politics. So, if you have any residual doubt about the massive role that the government plays in the economy’s free market, then pause to reflect that all our wages are, at root, politically determined.”
Chang, Ha-Joon. 2011. 23 Things they Don’t Tell you about Capitalism, Thing 1: There is no such thing as a free market
> For instance we literally pay some farmers not to grow food. And at times when harvests are high the government will prevent farmers from marketing some portion of their harvest which, in extreme cases, can mean that food simply ends up getting destroyed

Wait, so they are intentionally keeping food prices higher by paying people to not grow food? I mean, I understand that we need farmers and dipping food price markets isn't ideal, but... wow... what a world.
So you're saying the IMF doesn't have enough unproven and untested overly-optimistic speculation to balance out the harsh realities.
Which is precisely why they have a problem with monetizing. I can't really sympathise with that. Why should I care if the business model of flooding people with crap, occasionally containing some gems, is in trouble? Drop the crap, drop the frequency, send only gems when you have them.
Please, someone post again that document that says how cool and thorough the sqlite test suite is.
Economist Espresso is an excellent example of this in action.
Although it may not legally be one it feels like Amazon is Monopoly.
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Yes definitely. Caps can be as low as 500MB and you can easily hit that with a few online videos and some music.
Your story seems to indicate that studying hard and focusing on the future are necessary but not sufficient conditions to enter the middle class.

I think the formula is that you need all three:

-Relatively consistent work ethic

-Decent decision-making

-Some minimal opportunity

Often the argument seems to swing between these absurd positions that it's all about just one of these and the others don't matter. Of course they're all necessary, and different people lack different components. There's no shortage people poor hard-working people. There's also no shortage of people who blew a lot of money or opportunity due to laziness and terrible choices. There's terrible luck events and great luck events. It all matters.

Some smart person said: People are usually correct in what they assert, and incorrect in what they deny. (I think maybe it was Hume).
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I would think it isn't that managers are an in-group but are peers, even if a manager helps hire another manager that hire can be a potential problem for them if they feel slighted, but if the developer feels slighted - well the developer is subservient, not a peer.
Well, there was America's gilden age, which was also present in wide areas of Europe; Factory Owners would get all of the money and the workers got almost nothing. In Germany this was so bad that children over the age of about 12 generally worked in the factory along with the entire family to be able to affort a 10sqm single room housing in the city with 2 meals a day.

The factory owners largely didn't care and caused quite a few large scale accidents facing little to no consequence for it.

That only changed in Europe after strikes, unions and socialist programs got punched through (also stuff like the 48 hour work week, 2 days of rest a week, sickdays, social welfare and healthcare and a lot of other stuff that was largely not capitalistic in nature), in the US only after anti-monopoly rulings where deployed en masse (while still paying out the factory owners shitloads of money).
I enjoyed google, and used docs and sheets for budgeting and planning. Then one day it was all gone.

I'd had two google accounts, one created a decade ago on YouTube and later connected to my gmail-google account. I used the same login for both, and could switch between them without problem. I had used my Youtube-persona for most of my google docs work. That was all fine until suddenly I could only access docs from my other gmail-persona. They had without warning or reason changed either the account type or the app permissions for my account type. Not a word of warning, or even a message. There's no reverting it, no one at Google has been able to undo the change or recover my documents.

NEVER AGAIN will I trust any important information to any cloud company.

That was the day I started to take everything off the cloud and access it through a NAS at home (with off-site backup of course). I've never slept better
Just to be clear, are you arguing for less tests?
> Semi drivers have this even worse.

There are some advantages to driving a semi in traffic:

- Lots of gears to choose from and massive torque in order to find that perfect 'idle forward' speed.

- Far more comfortable ride then a car, it's not even close.

- Radio communication with trucks ahead, so you know what's happening ahead and which lane to be in long before the cars figure this out.

- Visibility over the top of vehicles in front (except another truck, obviously).

I think the only thing better than a semi for heavy traffic might be a luxury car with adaptive cruise and a little roof-mounted drone-cam that you could launch to check out the view ahead (though this sounds like something Homer Simpson would dream up). Your own little personal traffic copter/R2D2, with a recharging dock on the roof. Someone please tell Elon Musk to make this a priority for new Teslas. It could even check out side streets in cities and find quicker routes.