skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your being conspiratorial...

In my job, I am cleaning up (maybe more like 95% throwing out than cleaning up) some 30 year old equipment pileup across 4 separate server rooms. Ancient workstations and servers, such as Sun SPARC's, SGI's, Sun Oracles, HP-UX, AIX, and even a mainframe or 2 that have sat turned on and running an OS and networked (so respond to ping), but are actually lying dormant, stuffed in a closed door rack and networked in (often with long forgotten passwords).

This tool was something I wished I had (and searched all over for) to quickly catalog the approximate age of each responding ping. I could use this to further say hey this set is 1-10, this one 10-20 yrs old, and the last set 20-30. I can safely de-rack the 10-30 now, and work on rooting in to the remaining 1-10 yr systems over time. Instead, I have to root one rack at a time, and guess/research at many of the ages of the systems, which increased the work significantly.

Why? A good question. Research scientists and interns deployed them for projects. And when the project was done, a research scientist doesn't want to lose valuable research data. Since they are paid for, why not just leave them up. That, and the old sysadmin just retired - think of The Bastard Operator From Hell, but in real life, 20 years on.
In the past I've been downvoted for replying to such a comment with something along the lines of "that makes sense if you're a libertarian". I think people assumed that I was baiting for something but I'm actually totally genuine when I say that: if you think a totally libertarian society is the way to go then things like minimum wage make little sense, just let individuals figure out what they want and don't want to do.

If you don't go full libertarian and you think that the state should provide some level of protection then things change because if people are not paid enough to live a decent life they'll end up falling into one of society's safety net (cost of law enforcement if people start stealing, cost of welfare if they require handouts to eat decently, cost to social security if they become sick due to poor living or working conditions etc...).

In such a situation you basically end with society subsidizing these jobs indirectly by cleaning the mess. That's why it makes more sense to simply force decent working conditions instead of encouraging a destructive race to the bottom.

Now in practice, regardless of our opinions, the USA is not a libertarian state, there are security nets, there is a certain level of socialized assistance (too much for some, not enough for others). In this situation it makes complete sense to have things like minimum wages and laws making it mandatory to wear your seat belt for instance.
I'm glad your life has led you to have such faith in management. I hope it's because you've been treated well. If you're early in your career and think this is how it works most places, I worry you may be in for a rude awakening.

I had a colleague who once told me "the trick to making good ideas happen is to make your boss think it was their idea". And they were completely right! It didn't stop them from quitting in frustration years later having never been promoted.
Audi was hyping up their E Tron SUV and then they released it and it wasn't all that impressive. It gets 248 miles of range on the WLTP with a 95 kWh battery which is average.
If you critically care about this issue, the extent of which this is labor-driven vs PR-driven is crucial to the war in which $15/hour is just the first battle.
Yes, for sure there is a need now. We can do either a plug-in or just integrate Sourcegraph directly into GitLab.
https://jumpcloud.com/blog/hippa-secuirty-rule-idaas/

https://jumpcloud.com/solutions/auditing-compliance/
I really like this. I think it is a great compromise between the limitations of docker and everything packaged in one file while taking advantage of nix. I'm curious about one other optimization that could be made.

You could instead look at the dependency graph of several nix docker builds and increase the cache reuse even more from that.
Verifying request signatures in Elixir/Phoenix
It is not a deservice. Its indicative of how poorly we view our own profession that everyone with other skills must be more than engineer, merely by applying them.

A lawyer who becomes mayor is still a lawyer. A doctor who runs a phamacology company is still a doctor. And yes, and engineer who founds a company still retains the core skills and prestige of their hardwon profession.

Or at least, I think they should.
> inertial reference frame

Ditch that when thinking about black holes.

A BH's position in a general curved spacetime can be described by many arbitrary coordinate systems, but a black hole spacetime is not flat spacetime (by definition!) so special relativistic ideas involving frames of reference tend to fail pretty spectacularly.

As to linear and angular momentum and balding, I rather like these four sentences from Hawking & Penrose, "What the no-hair theorems show is that a large amount of information is lost when a body collapses to form a black hole. The collapsing body is described by a very large number of parameters. These are the types of matter and the multipole moments of the mass distribution. Yet the black hole that forms is completely independent of the type of matter and rapidly loses all the multipole moments except the first two: the monopole moment, which is the mass, and the dipole moment, which is the angular momentum." [1]

Merging black holes, from sufficient distance that resolving them individually is difficult, look very much like a collapsing body.

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[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6a-agBFWuyQC&lpg=PA39&pg... at the bottom of the page.
The estimated rate of dust accumulation on the Moon is around 15cm/billion years. So the footprints and other traces would disappear at some point between 10 and 100 million years.

It's really hard to estimate how long the hardware might last. Obviously there's no air or water, but there will be damage from radiation, temperature cycling, and micrometeorite abrasion.

A wild guess would be a similar timescale - max 100 million years, at which point there will be small anomalous piles of metal dust left, but no visible structure.

(But that's just a guess, and could be way out.)
It is my understanding that zoning laws is SF prevent people from buying real estate in order to build apartment buildings, no matter how much money they offer.
You are right about classes with no state. Nonsense. In fact, if you take a look at the gist I linked to the post (https://bit.ly/2NgWBJK), you'll there is no class, nor module, nor anything like that, just a couple of ruby methods on a file. Ruby can do that, too ;))

I'm not sure on how actual spreadsheets encode cell addresses. In my particular case, what I had to do was to find a way to (efficiently) encode any cell address in the range [A1..ZZ(10^6)] into a 64 bits integer. I needed 64 bits integers because that's what I use as a key to store/retrieve cells for the in-memory data store. (An avltree indexed by integer keys.)

As I mentioned in the post, the real code was written in C and targeted 64 bits platforms. Maybe that's way I doesn't make sense under OOP lenses on 32 bits systems.

Maybe I'll do a follow up post on "how to store spreadsheets cells on avltrees" to show why this encoding mechanism may make sense...

Thanks for you comments. Let's see how it goes!
That's a trait of humans and is not limited to comedians. In fact, the lens of comedy usually focuses on a political personality stating something completely foolish with complete sincerity in an attempt to score points.
> $15 an hour will push a lot of people out of being employable.

Or maybe it will just force employers to pay better wages to those they employ already.

$7.50 / hour is what they pay kids here to stock grocery chains.
> If you pay your employees $7.25...

...then you're paying the wage your employees are willing to work for. Basic economics in action.

If you're making fun of this you need to take an econ 101 class.
Lots of great suggestions here. The real prize may be something like getting real-time gpu-accelerated image and video filters on mobile devices. As an alternative to OpenCL / CUDA you can try Vulkan GLSL compute shaders targeting an Android GPU. See NDK docs.

Another possibility arises with active development from the JuliaLang GPU team. As far as I know there is no GPU-accelerated image processing library for the language yet, but all the popular image format encoders exist.

Intro to JuliaGPU Ecosystem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ntJ_al4oXA

Best of luck ;)
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It's rather a regulation, not law. And I don't think it's apply to your case, because the regulation I mentioned above only limit recent transactions.

That is, if you brought a house, from the time of the purchase, you can't re-sell it within 2~5 years. After that, you're free to go.

If that old condos is not within the limited time, then maybe it is real that the house have no resale value. In that case, as far as I know, the only option is to wait until local government re-sell (re-develop) the land.

But don't take my word, I don't know every policy of every local government. If you really curious, ask the question on a Chinese website like zhihu.com, then maybe you can get some information that is more useful.
I think they must think it elevates their discourse, as if appealing to emotion at all sullies them. While there is a reassuring sobriety to cold, rational thought, in itself it often doesn't motivate me to care. It's only really effective in preaching to the choir because they've chosen to hobble themselves by using only a third of the tools available to rhetoric. There are ways to rationally appeal to people's sense of ethics and to the full range of human emotions without descending into demagoguery.
It's not compulsory, but it's where you find a job, whether it's because you're in a transition phase, a student, an immigrant, in hard times. And it's better than no job, and it sucks, and it doesn't have to be that the company reaches a 1 trillion market cap enriching stock holders and the owner makes 150+ billion dollars while the workers piss in bottles making minimum wage.
> Okay I now assume that all companies will harvest as much data as they can.

You say harvest, as if they are taking something. The reality is, people always gave the data. The companies just kept what it was freely given. It's a bit hypocritical if I get upset that you keep something I gave you. The reality is, the problem wasn't with the users who gave the data, or the companies who kept what was given, but rather the people who made it possible to do it so easily in the first place. Browser makers share the majority of this responsibility. We look to them to create secure browsers that can't be hacked, but completely ignore the fact that they created browsers that are easily tracked. And then we adopt Chrome, a browser made by a company built on tracking.

And I find it funny that Brendan Eich's creation is probably the biggest reason we are in this situation in the first place.
They can if legal. I am not interested in supporting crime. You can argue that it is a crime worth comitting for many people, but its still not something we should encourage in employment law of all places.
Apparently he linked several uncensored Chinese language articles that talk about that specific piece of news.
“So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.”
Some Ideas About a Consensus Protocol for Security Tokens: Part I
_People_ are responsible for implementing the system and handling all of the problems with said system. We can't get around this. All systems have pros and cons. Pointing this out is akin to saying, "Water is wet." It's how people decide deal with those cons once a system hits reality that cause injustice in the system.
Oh definitely, so there are plenty of other electric car charging stations. The issue though is that there is no uniform paying experience and also you don't know what kind of charging speed you will get. I have been looking at the new Hyundai Kona Electric and the Kia niro EV which are both competitively priced.... But you don't have the super charger network which might be a deal breaker.
Well, I guess that's one way to put a positive spin on unemployment.
Ask HN: Recommend me a statically typed functional language
In particular I'm looking for a language I can use to create REST APIs/GraphQL services.
This is a very good list!
Greed for Charity Dapp
If you take "increase to the minimum wage of $7.25" literally, it'd be $14.50
That leads to a society that, it appears, many people don't want to live in. Many people don't want to live in a USA where people can work full-time and yet still have miserable lives bereft of hope. Some people do want to live in that USA; we see every day the battles as these differing visions of the USA compete.
True, but working at most VC startups won't get you an exit worth more than a Ford Focus, either. So many things have to go right.
What do you mean by “labor-driven?”
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To follow up on that: as if stating anything that’s perfectly acceptable today but not years from now is somehow outrageous.

“8 core CPUs or 32GB of RAM are more than enough for gaming” (c) 2018

Facts change and opinions change with them. Wonder if Moore’s law will get the same treatment now.
By up to 500%? Surely you can provide some external sources of information to corroborate that claim?
> Doesn't seem to faze the loonies.

Given the etymology of that word, that's a deliciously ironic sentence :)
What is your rational for wanting a statically typed language?
Given the target use case for this, isn't that a bit of misplaced precision? Unless your boss is a quant, then the distinction will likely just go over their head, or worse, interfere with the gist of the message trying to be conveyed.
That seems entirely circular.
>even if

At least read the article man.

Besides it's perfectly possible that what you posit in Manhattan is true and saying that there's a limit says nothing about how close we are to it. If that limit is far off then agglomeration effects outweighing increasing supply is still a possibility far into the future. We're willing to accept that the demand curve for labor is upward sloping - that's our justification for immigration. So why is it so hard to accept even the possibility that in certain locations the demand curve for housing is also upward sloping?
I don't think so either, but the hoops the big auto companies need to jump through are a lot lower. Once they have the design, they have the supply chains, assembly lines, and logics networks in place to go from 0 to 100 in months not years like Tesla.

Batteries are going to be an issue
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It’s due to the fact that any ounce of profit they would have they instead re-invest into the business.

Which, by the way, is (part of) why they’re so dominant.
my only concern with this is...with a web worker, my understanding was that any dependencies to the web worker would be loaded separately from the actual UI thread, which means you could potentially be loading your javascript twice if you have the same code being used in the UI thread as your web worker thread.

At least, that is how it worked a few years ago.
Hence "cycle of violence"; the US launched its second invasion of Iraq, starting the war. It then declared victory and eventually left, having defeated and disbanded the conventional army of Iraq - but that did not stop the fighting. Car bombs are stil regularly going off in Iraq.

> wiped out nearly all the organizing and attack projection capabilities that Al Qaeda had in using Afghanistan as a haven

It's questionable as to how much they had in the first place ... and yet, Al-Nusra, an AQ-derived splinter organisation, is now fighting alongside US-backed groups in Syria. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/are-al-qaed...

We even now have weird indirect US-Iraq-Iran cooperation against ISIS. https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/field/field...
That argument is total nonsense. Manhattan isn’t a discrete urban unit with its own policies. It’s the central business district, it’s a neighborhood. New York City is vast, and the actual urban area of New York more vast still.

Single bedroom apartments within a short, reasonably efficient, rapid transit commute of midtown can and do go for drastically less money.

The world is literally full of cities that have sane housing and transit policy. If you don’t like New York, try Barcelona or Paris as examples.

The Bay Area is just an abject failure at this, and it’s getting worse. My argument stands, commenting on this topic is like watching one of those “My 600lb Life” shows or something and screaming at the TV. Sure, I get that eventually there’s subtlety to this topic, but for now maybe stop eating 15,000 calories a day.

Or, in this case, stop building massive centers of employment that are 3 stories tall and surrounded by parking lots and wondering why shit isn’t working.
> In the process, they're actually paying real people more money

Except the OP was talking specifically about the company's plan to lobby. Yes, they're actually paying people more money, but if everyone has that same amount of money then you get wage push inflation. Then everyone loses. This is also why minimum wage discussions always spiral out of control...there really is no good long term solution for setting minimum wages.
Because human dignity.
Not easy, because you want the best of all worlds: safe(1), low level(2), efficient(3), easy to learn(4) and easy to implement (5)? All of that seems quite incompatible to me. And C remains the language of choice, because it fulfills all the needs except safety.
Their argument is, that requiring an ID has solved most of the fraud problems.
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I really liked this article, which was a lot more thoughtful and less "preaching talking points to the already-converted" than most articles I see posted on the subject.
+1

And I'm not sure about the actual numbers, but something like $30K per year basically puts one in a top 10% of the world, and more than $50K, you are already in the 1% of the world, by income. (not sure if that factors in cost of living).
As an Austinite, I was going to comment that our housing has grown dramatically, but our transit infrastructure has not.

Having to commute from the outskirts isn't nearly so bad if the infrastructure supports it, but you have to build transit for where your city will be in ten years, not where it is now, and we're barely even doing the latter in Austin.
This is fantastic, in that it does such an awful job its almost like a deliberate counter-argument. To the authors credit he's gone back and edited in notes where he was wrong/off, but the resulting article reads like a self-takedown.

Or at least the top half does. The bottom half reads like standard suburban reactionary boilerplate. "cities are gross I like to live in the country" nonsense by people who want their well-paved sprawl and quarter acre castle subsidized and protected by everyone else.
Indeed. UIWebView, the slower version without the JIT javascript engine, has actually been deprecated in iOS 12.
I suspect Tesla is referring to customers driving out to pick up their Tesla from the factory or distribution center rather than waiting for Tesla to ship it to them. Something likely encouraged by long wait times.
Does working at the stable bootstrapped startup beat a 300k+ total comp at a liquid tech company over the same time period though?
> And employers don't need wages and money to "survive in the economy" ?

Not if they inherited it. The key idea here is asymmetry of power. When people are desperate enough that they would take a sub-minimum wage job, this doesn't necessarily imply a "voluntary exchange". If you're facing starvation or medical bankruptcy, you are essentially being coerced to take any job you can find.
Cuda sha256

https://github.com/Sean-Bradley/CUDALookupSHA256

Cuda ripemd160

https://github.com/Sean-Bradley/CUDALookupRipeMD60
I think it got to that one in bullet 5b.
oh no, won't someone please think of the downtrodden trillionaire
I'm assuming it relates to the tight labor market giving workers the power to choose where they work at (as opposed to "this is the only job offer I have")
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I can't even fathom trying to live on 30k. Where I live childcare costs around 20k, so many subsidies would be required for sure. Any little setback like unexpected healthcare or transportation costs would absolutely destroy you.
> But in actual Manhattan, single-bedroom apartments cost $3800 a month – even more than in San Francisco!

I'm not sure this accurately captures the comparison between Manhattan and SF housing. I'm guessing this figure is an "average cost" but probably heavily skewed by certain downtown neighborhoods. Manhattan is super expensive for sure but I still think the market is substantially better than SF. In NYC you have tons of options as to where to live either within Manhattan or in one of the boroughs, and pretty much everywhere has good transit access to get you downtown reasonably quickly. Yeah, if you try to live in Tribeca you're gonna pay an insane amount for a 1 bedroom, but just go uptown and prices drop off considerably, well below SF prices, and still within quick walking distance to multiple subways. Secondly in NY there's definitely more housing supply: you can go apartment hunting and have a lease signed before the end of the first day. That seems to be how it goes for most people I know here.