skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>IRS can't ever be in a position of moral authority

You are right, which is part of the reason why there is a non insignificant part of the population that wants to disable the IRS and sees them as a threat.

Same as a police officer who is sent as set of drug laws to enforce that are crafted specifically to target minorities. The only winning move is to not play, and those who don't quit begin to be seen as opponents regardless of how much the individual doesn't like the laws they are enforcing. Regardless of if you think this is a correct or incorrect way to view things, one has to accept that this does happen and it explains why entire communities turn away from the police and engage in self enforcement of their own rules and begin to craft policies such as 'snitches get stitches'.
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> Identifying it is when they say things are going to happen but they either don't get done or some shadow of that thing gets halfway done 6 months too late.

This is it! You just saved me from writing the blog post. I haven't been part of any rocketship startups, but have been part of successful bootstrapped ones, and unsuccessful zombie ones. The difference was the ability to:

* state a goal

* execute to achieve said goal

My guess is that the chosen goals are the difference between mildly and wildly successful startups, but if you can't state a goal and execute, you're in a zombie startup. It may pretend to be alive, but it's not.
> If these people just "move jobs", they're out a paycheck for weeks and may lose their car, their home, not be able to eat, etc.

This gets floated around a lot. At least in the US I can't imagine a scenario where not paying bills for 1 or 2 months results in homelessness and a repo'd car.

Being both a homeowner and a landlord, I could not pay my mortgage for a year before legal processes kick in, and if my tenants don't pay rent for a month or two there isn't much I can do about it. I most assuredly can't kick them out.
...slow clap.....
Yes, everything works better with intrinsics:

- codegen because the compiler spills better than you, and knows what register to save. It knows about register renaming

- inlining works better

- loop unrolling works better

- any kind of hoisting

And it's also 3x faster to write, and much faster to refactor back to C++. Provided you have the right backend, it will lead to less maintenance issue with about 5% better performance.
The issue is related to the distinction between the meaning of statements, and what one can say about an individual who utters them.

There is no logical contradiction in "it's raining but I don't believe it". That describes a genuine state the world can be in. There's clearly something going wrong if someone says that, but it somehow depends on who's speaking. In the third person, it's fine, in the first person, it's a problem. In contrast, "it's raining and it isn't", or "Justin believes that it's raining and he doesn't" are just contradictions, no matter who says them. The challenge is to characterize what is wrong with the Moorean absurdity.

At least, that's the core of the traditional story, which Kimhi wants to reject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_paradox
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemic-paradoxes/#MooP...

P.S. Your point about floating a possibility is addressed in the SEP article I linked. In general, contemporary philosophers will talk about a sentence like "It's raining" as an assertion, and include explicit clarification when it's not an assertion ("it might be raining", "it's raining?", "if it's raining and I don't believe it, then I'm wrong").
Gollems probably live there too.
It seems from the comments that people are trying to find an easy way out from the dilemma - like supposing 2 different 'I's or the same 'I' that partakes in 2 different worlds/realities. The reading that I like better is this: given the same frame of reference (same 'I', same reality) to both parts of the sentence, does it represent a logical fallacy?
He works for Haproxy Technologies, so probably has not considered switching :)

Edit: Probably also worth mentioning that some of the net functionality gap between the two has been closed. Haproxy added service discovery and h2 support some time after this was published: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/comparison
I analyzed 100+ Twitter lists titled “tech” and created a leaderboard
It's also just wrong. You can get a nice 1 bedroom in a nice neighborhood in Manhattan near the subway for ~$3000/month. You can go significantly lower than that in Bushwick, Astoria, Washington Heights, etc.

Not sure where the $3800 figure came from, but it's easy to be mislead by what you see on Streeteasy, Zillow, etc. The most overpriced units stay on the market for a long time, because they're a bad deal, so you'll see lots of them if you check at any point in time. Underpriced units get rented quickly, so you'll see less of them.
Yeah.. just like when Nokia and Blackberry started releasing iPhone Killers.. ohh wait..
Intergalactic (or interplanetary even) networking is more likely to be UUCP like than TCP like, but that doesn't mean it won't need addressing, and that addressing might as well be IPv6. Maybe we can get packets larger than 1500 bytes though.
I really enjoyed this description. Very colorful.
> .NET is still very popular but it definitely did not fulfill the more ambitious dreams that Bill Gates had for it.

Remember when Microsoft was adding '.NET' to practically all of their product names for a time? That was fun...
Opera is controlled by Qihoo 360, China a notorious rogue company.
The Growing Case for an Elusive Ninth Planet
RandomJS: ASIC resistant cryptocurrency proof-of-work algorithm
Humans have had to deal with climate change for all our existence and to think that the only problem with regards to the climate is human-made illustrates how absurd the discussion have become.

The biggest opportunity to solve, whatever affect humans have is through technological progress, not beliving humans basic instinct and behavior is somehow going to change. Humans are both rational and irrational, mostly irrational. There is no such thing as a rational society it's simply not how nature works.

Humans won't change, our kids are some of the biggest users of the technology we developed and they will also be both benefitters and further developers of ways to deal with the never ending challenges nature provides us.

So yes we actually do need to think about climate change as something that always happens to us and then do something about those changes.

Blaming humans for not being rational is the least useful thing to do.
> Would you be able to give up your paycheck, knowing that if you don't have another by next week you would literally be homeless?

Nope. This idea gets bandied about all the time. How is missing a paycheck for 1 week going to result in homelessness?
Why microservices fail?
It seems futile to bring up JS-off browsing in this thread, but I will anyway.
It's probably a small disagreement in your case. Language decisions are hard to undo. JetBrains doesn't (yet) have the reputation of long term support for developer platforms that Sun, Microsoft, the open source community etc have. Also judging the ROI is hard - the decision makers who will be held accountable don't benefit from the use of the better tool.
It is an innovation (i.e. minor) patent, though, not utility (i.e. invention needed) patent. Some patent offices have this kind of patent and it usually has less protection and easier application than utility patents.
> (including, these days, "heavy" video content which is difficult to de-dupe)

Still waiting for the Shazam for video to know that 2 videos are the same even when they are of different codecs/framesizes/etc; just based on the visual imagery.
Ask HN: How do you spend time during compilation?
I feel it's a significant problem when compilation lasts for more than 10s>. To not get bored, I am jumping into random articles during that time, loosing my precious focus.

Is there anything productive you are doing in such short timespan?
Yes, I saw helm and then I had to learn about yet another thing. Its all nice enough technology, don't get me wrong, but I think it isn't for 'running your own heroku' for your side projects. Maybe I am wrong though.
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I'd consider myself 'tech savvy' and still expect my conversations on Facebook to remain non-public even in the case of security negligence on my part. If anything private is released through this hack, other than hashed passwords or similar (worst case), I'm absolutely done with Facebook and any similar entity.
Not the OP, but a young greybeard with opinions :)

I've set up a couple of API Gateways. One was a hand-rolled Go server; this could have probably been done using an existing off-the-shelf server, but there were some odd-ball requirements and it was pretty straightforward to just build the functionality. It did service discovery through Consul, applied some routing rules and the "special" logic, and that was about it.

Every other time I've just use nginx. Why? Most of the API Gateway projects out in the wild are bloody complicated! I just looked at the docs for EnvoyProxy and the "Architecture Overview" pane is taller than my 1080p monitor! Yes, at massive scale with thousands of services, something like this is probably the right solution. When you've got a handful of services, an automated rolling deploy across a small cluster of nginx servers is A-OK.

I've looked at a bunch of different packages, and every time my conclusion is that they introduce a massive amount of complexity that could be beneficial in the large, but will likely require a dedicated team to understand all of the intricacies of the whole system. KISS.
One potential solution is to not have children.
"IMHO, artificial platonism of American analytical philosophy"

Platonism has a meaning (or maybe more than one), and none of them describe any shared assumptions of 20th century/contemporary American philosophy. Please find a different term of abuse.
Apple’s Best Product Is Privacy, Not iPhone
I agree that they're probably camera'd but I don't think we have real-time facial recognition going on yet.

It's probably also worth noting that El Chapo isn't going to just run around the city without modifying his appearance somehow.
Exactly.

One can assume that literally anyone who succeeds in getting him out of jail will be given lavish rewards and protection.
That's a radical theory; can you give a more detailed explanation? Mainstream economists and political theorists believe that raising minimum wage reduces wealth inequality which creates economic and political stability, which reduces the risk of things like crime, Great Depression, and violent revolution.

Even if minimum wage growth hits its practical max and creates inflation, (1) that's easy enough to detect and correct, (2) it's not a big deal if all the numbers go up together; the main loss is in reprinted menus.
There's no particular reason you have to use C to write Linux. Linux is written in C because when the project started, that was the most reasonable choice. It persists today because of inertia and because introducing something better, like C++, would cause big flamewars.

People have written perfectly functional and competent kernels in C#, Java and C++ after all. There's no technical reason why you can't do it.
But there are effectively no other players as far as you're concerned. You're playing against the dealer/house who makes purely rule-based plays.
This clears up a lot about the common comparison between the F22 and the F35. The F22 is a much better dog fighter but the F35 have a significantly better sensor suite. In this type of combat environment the technological edge of the F35 is more beneficial than the agility edge that the F22 has.
Give me this and anything close to an LA-32 paper terminal and I’d be in nostalgia heaven.
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>conservative "charity" crackdown

I wasn't speaking about that case. I was talking about how the tax law is currently written to favor some groups at the expense of other groups. And to be honest, this doesn't even have to be true. Only the appearance of it has to be seen by enough of the population for the reaction I describe to happen. Even if you think the tax law is completely fair, you would have to admit that significant portions of the population are not in agreement, and their views of the IRS will be driven by their views of the tax law.
In that case, I grossly misinterpreted the tone of the comment, and apologize for it.

I (and baldfast) had interpreted throwaway080383's comment as implying that he will be worse off from this legislation, as the increase in minimum wage will result in inflation, leading to no effective change in inflation-adjusted minimum wage, but a strong decrease in his own inflation-adjusted minimum wage. This is the standard conservative viewpoint that I've seen, which is repeated frequently, and is why I reacted so strongly to it.
Dollar General and other national chain drive thru eateries are substantially profitable (profits in the billions of dollars, DG margins are ~%30). The odds of Dollar General, McDonalds, and company and closing up in rural America is so close to zero, for our purposes we can round down to zero.

They might raise prices a bit, and be slightly less profitable to shareholders, but they won't close up shop.
Resources, houses and other nice things are created by people who work. It is not like everyone stops working after setting minimum wage. Business owners might get little less profit, but somehow I don't feel sorry for them.
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If Bezos is a villain, his millions of customers are accomplices. Have you tipped your Amazon warehouse worker recently?
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>I am honestly more concerned with people who would otherwise starve or be homeless rather than students who would not be able to backpack around Europe for a summer.

Okay, I worked part time from the end of high school through college. I didn't go backpacking, I just graduated with a smaller student loan balance. Is that a noble enough goal for it to matter if jobs are available?

My general feeling is that if people want jobs and can't find them, that's an economic problem worth considering, even if they'll have food without it.
This is so misguided. GDPR is a disaster and only entrenches large companies.
Reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2016/11/23/the-memory-doubler/
Thank you, but yes I have already tried Rancher. I have had it running with lets encrypt, etc. But it was pretty difficult to juggle all the different concepts: k8s has different concepts than rancher. What I also didn't like was when I had setup some things with the UI, I couldn't figure out how to create yamls for them.
Ironic, because that was the beginning of Facebook. Sort of the whole point was to have public conversations and pictures.

Also I think that would be huge and cause some number of people to quit facebook, but I'm confident it wouldn't be the "end".
Google’s former PR boss Jessica Powell wrote a satirical novel about tech
#BetterInternet: Join the Movement
Swarm is working out really nicely so far.
Chancellor's blockchain idea is a desperate scrape of the Brexit barrel
This was simple menu driven early Final Fantasy style game on rails.

So, some basic path finding and press X near stuff would be useful. But, it did not need to react to enemies, or have complex environments like Zelda games do. On the other hand, the meaning of all those random text blurbs was rather critical.
I dunno what to tell you man, try reading the article again? Most of that stuff is in point #4.
Some future generation is going to go extinct whether by astroid, super nova or end of the universe.

The idea that the coming generations are more important than the current is frankly the most unemphatic thing I have heard in a long time.
Tom Scott: How the First Ever Telecoms Scam Worked [video]
I think a cool start up idea would be to install fast chargers at peoples homes and they could then offer them up to travelers for a fee.

The startup would install the charger and split the fee with the homeowner.

Anyone want to work on that with me? Or feel free to critique. It’s sort of like air bnb for car charging.
“Software Is Easy, People Are Hard”
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Thank you for your message. This is not being cynic or critical. Real critic also praise when there is progress. In the present case this is just a hater. Hater are gonna hate, no matter what.
I'm not a fan of video-first contents, but I'm linking to Tom Scott because he commissioned various source materials and their translations just for this video as it turned out that all existing English sources varied in details. I love this amount of dedication.

(If you simply don't like videos, Wikipedia gives a reasonable article: https://www.inc.com/magazine/19990915/13554.html)
I feel like Porsche has much room to grow. Tesla has made a car that is both sensible and sexy. In the past you had to choose. Anyone in the market for a Tesla might also consider an electric or electrified Porsche. Like a plug-in hybrid Macan.
The anti-Netflix: Free, ad-supported video streaming services are growing
It's not illogical at all. Wages and inflation are not dependent on each other. Inflation means money supply is growing faster than productivity, but it doesn't mean wage-earners are getting that extra money. Banks and capitalists might be.
I think he'd have a helicopter pick him up, and take him a couple of miles to be transferred to a supersonic jet.

That jet would take him 100 miles into the atlantic and he and an accomplice parachute out with a liferaft and little engine.

The plane carries on to mexico as a decoy.

Radars aren't good enough to see small craft far from the shore in the ocean, so he can stay at sea as long as he likes and land anywhere. The search area would be huge - if we can't find MH370, we can't find him!
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Since the 70s people have been throwing around this "corporations must ruthlessly pursue profit and profit alone" idea as is it's a truism. It's not even close to true, neither as normatively or empirically.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170213291A1

He patented automated patent troll. Unfortunately, this will not hold in court.
The problem is that minimum wage shouldn't be the end of the conversation. With an increase with minimum wage, rent and other costs will go up to match whatever pressure people will as near as sustainable without collapse as possible (indirect costs going up of course), along with other for-profit layers providing for basic necessities also increasing their prices.
> By company-ending I mean Facebook would never recover from the consequences of so much user data being dumped online for all to see. It would permanently end the company. Shareholders should be worried. We just don't know how much user data was stolen yet.

Exactly. I mean, just look at what happened to Equifax. Oh wait...
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If someone is willing to work for $5/hour, I can't pay them $5/hour, even if that's all I can afford. Not all jobs should have to pay a basic living wage for two reasons. Not all jobs create enough wealth to justify that wage, and there are lots of people looking for side work, or just a bit of extra cash, and aren't relying upon this type of job for their living.

A 12 year old running a paper delivery route on their bike doesn't need $15/hour and isn't creating $15/hour in wealth, yet the kid and the employer would be happy to agree on some lesser amount.
Primitive Social | Full Stack Developer | Lubbock, TX | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE

My employer in Lubbock, Texas is hiring a full stack developer experienced with Vue and Laravel. They're considering both local and remote candidates. It's been a positive experience for me and they place a lot of trust (and responsibility) in their developers to do good work. It has been helpful for me to be comfortable with independent work going into this role, and I believe a successful future team member would also be confident in their ability to take initiative in developing a new software product. The team is nothing but very genuine, helpful, and kind people who all work together very well. I've been 100% remote from the start and being remote has been a wonderful experience. My team has been very accommodating and cooperative despite the distance. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to work remotely as a developer, or for someone who values working with a team of good-hearted people.

Here's the Indeed posting which also includes the salary range for this position: https://www.indeed.com/job/full-stack-laravel-developer-97af...
The opinions expressed in this blog post are one of those uninteresting, infinitely parroted idioms that people like to assert to seem smart and pragmatic, but are completely idiotic upon further reflection.

It's similar to "If you rent you are throwing your money away" completely ignoring the realities of how DUMB that statement is. Paying for a house which you must mortgage, pay taxes on, and maintain, but cannot rent out or sell is much more expensive than renting someone else's house, and historically the stock market gives greater yields for many investors.

First of all, we have not yet written the perfect programming language, and every single language written has pros and cons for various different tasks.

Choosing the right language can lead to writing abstractions that make you ABSURDLY more productive than alternative choices. Write RabbitMQ in Javascript instead of Erlang and tell me we only need one language to rule them all.

Off the top of my head, I can think of 5 languages that have MASSIVELY improved the software ecosystem over the last 10 years: Golang, Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Elm.

> However, I hope people consider carefully the social costs of creating a new programming language especially if it becomes popular, and understand that in some cases creating a popular new language could actually be irresponsible.

Unsurprising a self-proclaimed christian programmer takes the moral high ground, and asserts writing a new programming language out of passion, love, or an actual need for a new language to allow for cleaner abstractions for your particular use case can POSSIBLY be unethical.

I have a different suggestion: Consider the social costs of parroting idiotic drivel you heard one time and trying to pass it off as actually interesting insight.
Yeah, it's naive, but it's the best solution there's been for quite a while. I just really hope this is good.
Enough chances makes almost anything likely.
The parent comment wrote one sentence. How did you miss the "working for a low wage" part?
The article makes a couple of references to "public actors":

>"Business angels investing with strong tax incentives, universities or companies filling up their marketing brochures and public actors who aren’t betting their own money at all are a couple examples. So don’t settle for “We’ve raised a Series A”: Ask with whom and look them up.

If you see that the money raised just comes from public actors, ..."

Could someone say what is a "public actor"? I am not familiar with this term.
> highly sophisticated and technical users

I'm pointing out that referring to those users as the above is simply not true.

As you then point out, wealth(direct or by proxy) was the determinant in whether somebody had internet access, not high technical sophistication.

And wealth in and of itself is not a signal of high technical sophistication.