skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Infrequently-used feature Z is why I bought the $80k car instead of the $40k car."

Really? Unless you do road trips every week, you'd be way better off buying the Bolt or Leaf and then renting an ICE for whenever you go on a road trip.
So, as someone apparently aware of the problem on a level higher than most of humanity, and so confident that we should be thinking of nothing else, what are you doing daily to resolve the problem? Are all of your resources and time allocated to solving this?

Obviously the answer is no, and probably for the same reasons as everyone else: people have other things going on in their lives.
So sort of like what forking does on a Github repo?
Have you looked at helm?
Why you can't have privacy on the internet (2018)
> Nearly 2/3rd of the federal budget is for social programs.

Not all social programs are safety net programs; notably age- and work-related public healthcare isn't, and neither is work-qualified public pension.

And also a lot of the social spending (safety net or not) is the public portion of the US’s stupendously inefficient hybrid public/private health care system, so even the safety net portions of that (mainly Medicaid) give very little safety net for the money.

By the standards of the developed West, the US has a very weak safety net, however much money it might spend on public social programs.
To tackle big problems, you need the structures in place to organize people, lead them, figure out not just the grand goal but the sub-objectives to be met, and to reward those who contribute and punish cheaters, and also the money and resources to do all of those things above.

But at this point you're no longer talking about getting a diffuse group of people together who believe in the same thing, but building something like a corporation or an NGO. That can easily take half a lifetime and a lot of perseverance. Most people don't have the time, energy, or money to go that route.
Ask HN: Future classic computer books?
I am curious about some of the best computer books you've read in the last five years that you expect will become classics, or perhaps are already considered classics.

One comes to mind for JavaScript, the You Don't Know JS series by Kyle Simpson.

Also, Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Confluence isn't particularly complex, but its per-seat licensing model can get expensive pretty quickly. Operationally, though, it's very much a 'fire and forget' kind of thing: other than applying regular updates to it, I don't have to touch our internal Confluence setup for work much at all. On the other hand, that installation is $2800 to start for a self-hosted instance with 50 users, so it ain't a cheap option if you have more than 10 users.

For a group without a budget, I'd lean more towards Dokuwiki or Mediawiki, both of which are still fairly easy to administer and feature-rich.
There's no need to move goalposts when your objection is concentration of power, resources and finance. By that standard, one can continue to roundly criticise Amazon for all eternity as long as they remain as relatively dominant: this stance favours distribution of control of resources among small independent stakeholders, and is a perfectly legitimate stance to take.
Personally tried Hetzner, Scaleway and online.net, it's parent. Online.net and scaleway have payment issues and their payment systems failed me more than once, their website kept logging us out and their support staff did not seem to bother. So I called it quits with online.net/scaleway.
Hetzner has been rock steady for me, however. Just my $0.2.
Hi, is datastreamer similar to webhose.io? Can't check now from mobile.
Because he was not breaking any laws or doing anything that dozens of other companies are not also doing. If we permit the system to exist as it is, we can't fairly blame someone who plays the game well by the poor rules we've made.
You can export Ceph through NFS [0].

[0]: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/cephfs/nfs/
Reading the comments on this an post and many others about compensation and payouts makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.

I grew up in a lower-middle-class house where both my parents worked for the postal service. Both parents worked strange and/or long hours and they performed very physically demanding work. I can remember several cases of them being out of work because of injuries. We were never poor but we never had extra. Meaning we always had food and cable television but rarely went out to eat or went on vacations.

I took a major liking to computer programming and pursued that as a career since high school. I find it unbelievable that I make a good living off of doing a job that I find really enjoyable and plus I make great money doing it.

My first job out of college I started working for a major manufacturer of PC's and printers and I started off with a higher salary than what my dad was making at the time, $65,000. I thought I was rich and set for life.

Working in the software industry makes me feel like I'm on another planet, I'm just excited to keep getting a paycheck every two weeks and then I read discussions about people chasing lotteries or trying to pull in 250k with bonuses.

I don't think it's bad to maximize your earning potential but the figures and mentality around feel so foreign to me. All that to say it's just a weird experience going from rural Oregon to the software industry and see the massive difference in lifestyle and the relationship people have with work.
I think the point is that my children will likely never know what a television tuned to a dead channel looks like. I've almost forgotten, myself.

I say that as someone that finds that line rather nice.
China is not expensive. Rent is actually cheap: that place on the market in beijing for $1 million USD will rent for less than $2k/month, for example. Food can be cheap, not as cheap as 22 RMB/week (heck, even in Chenzhou I'm not sure who could do that), but $5/person for a decent meal out and cheaper if cooking in.

Cars are super expensive compared to the states, so is gas. Real estate prices are insane, but again rents are much cheaper because most of that run up is imaginary and unsustainable. Education is super expensive if you don't have a hukou (which foreigners will never get). Clean air is impossible to buy.
Working at those smaller companies that aren't shoving butts in desks to make a VC happy gives you great opportunities to grow beyond your original skillset.
Sourcegrapher here. Yep, this was a reference to an old pricing model. Just pushed a fix, it will be live soon!
Triple-backing this recommendation.

My team has deployed in AWS using KOPS and EKS, Azure with AKS and ACS-engine, and GKE in GCP

GKE is far, far easier to manage, update, etc.
True. So the people who have been saying things should be lauded, not Amazon.
I think your argument too simplified to be applicable to reality. What would the ladder be in your analogy? A dramatic reduction in population and a return to pre-industrial subsistence farming?
A senator who ran and lost a presidential election is not as powerful as the richest man on Earth, no.
Technology is all the tools. With a spade you got into a hole. With a ladder you'll climb out of it. Hopefully with treasure. Then that spade might help you fill the hole back in.

Particular technologies are highly intertwined - both directly and causally - so you can't really micromanage this. You have to push for technological develoment as a whole, and trim developments here, encourage there. For instance, we wouldn't be talking about renewable energy sources were it not for coal furnaces and internal combustion engines that allowed the world to progress to the point we even can exploit renewables. In this case not only we need the ladder because of the spade, but we also can have a ladder because of a spade.
To use this do we have to put in the bootstrap sequence with the switches? :-)
Not if you know how to spin it. Like him or not, Trump is unquestionably good at getting 'bad' press to work in his favor. Any power, positive or negative, can be harnessed if you are clever enough. To what end, well, thats a different discussion.
You underestimate the emptiness of space.
Luddites have always been saying "this time is different" about technology.

And economists have always been saying "no its not".

I understand that robots+AI will eventually be superior to humans (their evolution rate is faster than ours, extrapolating...) . The question is how many life times away is that. Moore's law ended, maybe AI will asymptote too?
Yes, but it would apply to any employer of similar size.
"Ends not means" is a nigh-universally dangerous philosophy.

Motives matter.
If what you want to run is already a helm chart, then that makes for a good starting point.
Ask HN: Do you see augmented reality products becoming mainstream in the future?
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> The more you pay your people, the more they can spend on your stuff.

This is the economics equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
I'm the OP. The data is qualitatively different, but as I repeatedly say in the thread, we know very little so far except that 50m accounts were entirely compromised.
Just a clarification, that "small shop" would have to have over $500,000 in sales in order to be required to abide by minimum wage laws.

"For most firms, a threshold of $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business applies to be covered (i.e., the Act does not cover enterprises with less than this amount of business)."

I'd also argue that definition of "small shop" $500k threshold should change between California and Alabama.

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/elg/minwage.htm
Yes

The concept "Proof" presupposes identity/definition.

But words, do not equate to their references, which remain
undefined, even if we define (identify) symbols for them.

I should probably mention, that "Proof" remains at the Realm of Conceptions at the Third-Order, and that proofs can only be utilized from 3 and up.
(In the Abstraction Scheme utilized in the blog post)

2 Represents a Label or A Word, just a single term.

1 Represents [] or 'Feelings' 'Sensations' which we cannot talk about or actually identify, and your quite right that we cannot 'Prove' at this level so your comment 'is' correct.

But what i've stated 'is' still valid,
if you look beyond conceptions and words.

Anyhow thank you for mentioning this
Yes but your account can be used maliciously and still impersonate you. Your account can be used to sway elections and so on. I don't feel comfortable with that, but if you do then it's okay.
An actual answer would satisfy me. But I doubt it will be provided. That's the whole reason for using vague terms like "living wage".
Except one is backed by large amounts of data, and the other is just some guy pontificating.
OK, how about "the richest man in history" then?
Doug Lenat on Computers with Common Sense (2015)[video]
In answer to your question, E-ink themselves sells large displays and controller modules: https://shopkits.eink.com/product-category/e-ink-display-mod...
Have you given any thought to how wide the gap between "smart" work and "dumb" work should be? Who should decide such a thing? If someone spent their youth doing drugs and having children out of wedlock do they really deserve to earn a salary within say 10% of someone that spent their youth working to gain the skills and experience necessary to be a doctor or lawyer? Just because the outcomes need to be more equal?
I am sick and tired of auto playing videos, popups etc. It is not GDPRs fault, media companies are milking us. Yesterday I got to an article that was covered with overlays and popups. You couldn't even see the title. I realized, I didn't care that badly to read it anyway and abandoned it.

Strangely, we are still enduring this terrrible UX experience, mostly because we don't have good alternatives or those that exist, are not known. I think we should spend time creating those and discovering and promoting healthier information sources.
The Big Disruption
To me it seems that the problem is the definition of "startup". Not every new/small business is a startup. A profitable, no/slow-growth small business can be a great place to work at. The article is about a particular kind of startups - ones that aren't delivering on their promise of fast growth.
That could have problems itself if the filesystem action succeeded but then the SQLite commit failed. Transactionality is hard!
If you lower the federal payroll taxes then won't companies correspondingly lower wages for new employees?
It's not rocket science of course (hah), they can just keep plugging away at manufacturing and get more and more efficient, eventually being as good as a "real automobile" company. I can't understand the continuing feeling that they can't just make more cars with practice, that people actually want to buy some of them. They aren't for everyone, but they are just fun electric functional cars.
My comment was about 'motivation'. Which is neither ends, nor means.
Could you elaborate? Where does the government do angel investing?
Neat. It seems like Nix could become the preferred way to build Docker images, if it's made a bit more user friendly. It's hard to beat the simplicity of

FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y mysql php
...

FFS -- it was shaming of amazon's pay rate for their employees that caused the change in behavior in the first place.

I think it is rational to look at what and why actions were taken. Do you believe that the raise of the minimum wage at Amazon was out of good nature? Was it a decision to mitigate brand perception costs against labor costs after a bunch of national stories reported that they were paying so little in markets that their workers were forced to also take government subsidies while they have had their most profitable quarters ever? As far as the push to get the minimum wage raised -- is it not a reasonable view that it is in amazons best interest to further reduce the reoccurring labor costs effectively by ensuring their competitors are also forced to match their labor cost?

The bottom line is if Amazon (or any company for that matter) wants to treat their employees better than the minimum wage -- they were and still are able to do so. Amazon happened to be in a state where because of the publicity pressure (showing their full time employees unable to live on their wage) it was more cost effective to make a change than not.
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> Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Boston, Vancouver, and plenty of other coastal North American cities.

With the possible exception of Oakland, of which I know little, none of these cities are affordable. Boston and Vancouver, in particular, are among the most expensive cities in North America.
Why would you have faith in HN in the first place? :)
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21 bits ... allows front panel access to more than the 16 bits of the machine registers. smokin'!
What about Amazon employees in other countries? Will they be given a raise too?
This is a great example of a link that should be off-topic for HN.

There’s not one new material fact in the linked tweet, nor does it make an attempt at fair analysis. It instead consists of hyperbole (“company ending”) and unfounded speculation (“I imagine”). It’s just not a good starting point for serious discussion of the breach.
I have this science fiction writing/game backstory idea I recently came up with. Feel free to use it, as I guess I won't get around to do anything with it any time soon. Copying straight from my "ideas" file:

At some point in time (past or future, or magically also present), a star passed in very close vicinity to our sun. It had a habitable planet in its system, full of alien plant and animal life. For the brief moment it was Δv-accessible, it was studied, and eventually colonized. The people going there knew it was going to be a one-way trip, as the star eventually moved further away. Possible stories to set before, during, or after encounter (or even long, long after).

(This works for no-FTL, hard sci-fi setting. By "very close vicinity" I mean, close enough for us to reach it via sublight propulsion, but still far enough not to mess up the inner Solar System gravitationally.)

--

EDIT: Wow, turns out this isn't even that implausible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123098.
quick elaboration on this ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
Funny enough, pointers are a great example of an abstraction provided by C that people assume is isomorphic to hardware, when they don't: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1621

That said, I 10000% agree that pointers are a thing that is great to learn.

> You really should understand how things like .size or lengh() aren’t “free” and how they work.

You're talking about strings here, right? This is not true in all languages, but certainly is true that these are not free in C :)
As I said, taxes, aka government subsidies, paid for or continues to pay for a lot of my examples. The railroads were all built by corporations. ExxonMobil is a corporation, Comcast is a corporation, even your local utility for water, etc is likely a corporation. Corporations do much of the work, the government just pays for it with taxes.
It may be true that paying workers better hurts them less than other less automated businesses, which gives them a competitive advantage (assuming they succeed in raising the federal minimum wage).

However, this does affect 350,000 employees today, and that is a lot of employees.

Also the fact that they have automated many of their lower paid jobs away is really irrelevant - they did that anyway even when their wage was lower. They could have kept automating jobs away and paid them very low wages. The fact that they aren't is definitely a good thing.
I think you have some XIs that should be IXs.
I agree. The integral function required to prove pi as irrational is quite ugly. I suspect there are much simpler proofs that convey a better intuition rather than appearing contrived.
I'm not sure if we've got enough wrappers yet. I think we want several more!
I was actually just amused to see climate change used in a throwaway manner to justify some kind of AI whatever. The topic of climate change deserves to be talked about seriously or not at all.
Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought
To be honest, I am not sure why this needs yet another query language.. :(
This is my biggest problem with GDPR. Noone knows how to comply with the rules, because the rules won't be understood until someone gets punished for violating them. Good intentions, imho, do not make for good laws.
Future staff that can be robotized would be laid off no matter what their pay. Or maybe I should say within a wide band of salaries as I doubt that 10-12 vs 15/hr makes much of a difference on that balance. But I don't think all workers would be eliminated within a warehouse, and I can't estimate if the remaining jobs will be higher load or lower load physically.
> These rules are designed to slow trading down

If this were true, then there would be a symmetric rule to restrict purchases when prices increase.

Since the rule only restricts sales and not purchases, its purpose must be to prevent price declines, not to regulate the velocity of trading.
Yet this is how these things are set up. I know a VC fund manager solo managing a €50m fund, of which €20m came from the European Investment Bank, and €20m came from the local government. He put in €200k. Just €9.8m came from HNWIs.

So he's getting 2% on €50m for 7 years, to invest €40m government money with pretty much no expectation of any return. Not bad, not bad at all. I'm sure "the people" would be outraged if they knew. But they don't.
Congress was looking to tax companies whose employees redeem federal benefits due to low wages. Walmart and Amazon we're the poster companies discussed in the legislation. This permanently removes that pressure and prepares Amazon for the inevitable. Get your head out of the sand, if you think this isn't a strategic play from one of the most valuable and business-savy corporate institutions on the planet you are being willfully ignorant.
Absolutely the patent system is underfunded.

We need to force companies to pay a yearly "patent maintenance fee" which will pay for the governments costs in defending and enforcing patents.

We are sick of subsidizing patent enforcement for giant corporations
1) Clearly this mitigates future risk. Which is obvious.

2) Yes it is conjecture.

3) Yes it is conjecture.

4) I'm basing it on what Facebook has told us so far. They are still investigating. But then I said that in the thread.

5) Saying it's bad because it's also bad elsewhere doesn't negate a single thing.

Thanks for the feedback.
Sure a spade can get you out of a hole, you can dig a ramp. And many hands make light work. Weak metaphor, really.
> Have you given any thought to how wide the gap between "smart" work and "dumb" work should be?

Large enough to stimulate people to learn, small enough that those working hard do not end up wearing out their bodies before their pension, end up on the streets or dead.

> If someone spent their youth doing drugs and having children out of wedlock do they really deserve to earn a salary within say 10% of someone that spent their youth working to gain the skills and experience necessary to be a doctor or lawyer?

Do you mean to imply that there are no doctors or lawyers with children out of wedlock or on drugs?

> Just because the outcomes need to be more equal?

I would avoid the word equal, I would use the word fair.
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> Yeah that's all foreign to me, as I live in a county that has no real code and no inspectors. I build what I like on my property.

Really? If you wanted to build an abattoir, or a factory, on the property your house is on, that would be allowed?