skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't free movement include economic migrants? That said, they have also had a lot of non-EU immigration.

But my point was that free-movement between near-peer countries seems like almost pure benefit. And this was where the EU started, knocking down walls in benelux... you would struggle to get many people upset about that.

Integration all the way to Romania etc. is more recent, really quite a different thing. The hope was for rapid convergence, and the evidence is mixed I guess.
Community-centered spaces like Free Little Libraries have a tremendous impact. They become hubs for knowledge and alliances between neighbors. They foster more resilient communities. Thanks, Todd.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/build/
I wont say that about Spain. You will have a decent life. If you want to save money or invest, that's it. No fancy dinners nor trips during your PTO. You will also have to work until you are at least 65-70 years old to have a regular retirement. I wont call that living like a King. Just like a regular working class person. Decent? Sure. But that's it.
> This court case shows that we kinda now already have one.

That's patently wrong. The point of the fine was not that the phones were noticeably slower after the upgrade. The point of the fine was that the slowness was motivated as a way of inducing forced obsolescence. The manufacturers forced the updates with no rollback mechanism to render phones unusable and thus force their users to purchase replacements. If users could roll back the changes then the manufacturers wouldnt be fined.
My Verizon Galaxy S7 performance tanked a few months ago all at once, coinciding with some update.

I've found that if I run it in airplane mode then the perf is OK.
I agree that this space needs to be explored more. ISPC is basically this, and it had some great ideas, it just needs to be more broadly available and integrated into build systems.
> I'll believe Perl 6 is natively fast when somebody actually shows it outcompeting, say, Rust, on some non-trivial task, written in the native idiom.

If it beats Java then it's fine. I do not expect a VM language to be faster than machine code. Rust is also overhyped. I did some of my own benchmarks and Go and D turned out faster than Rust, or at least their maps/associative arrays are faster that Rust's HashMap. Also, I won't use stuff that is not in the stdlib in the benchmarks.
Seems a case of what Taleb called 'Tyranny of the Small Minority" or, "the most intolerant wins", In his book "Skin in the Game".

Anyway I only gave the book 3 stars, but an example is Subway removing pork from stores after strong demand from a religious group.
I was curious what this plumber could be.

2-1 is just a concatenation of two strings and run the whole string. I wouldn't call it pipe.
It starts at a minimum of 2 workers. And the pricing is steep too. The workers only operate on distributed tables so if you can't shard your data then you won't get any use out of those nodes, and sharding comes with its own problems. Citus isn't recommended unless you really need the size and want to stick with Postgres/OLTP.
This summer I led an ESL class along a street where there was one, and stopped to point it out. A grandmother picked out a book for her granddaughter; I forget whether anyone else picked something out.
Real-Time Social Media Location Data Used to Predict Crime
I think more background information would be more appropriate than conspiracy theories of what happened to you. Usually there are two sides to a story.
Why does it have to be deterministic per-user? Why not completely randomized across every user?
Mostly because databases are the key piece o data-persistence infrastructure. Spinning up a MySQL db to dev against, or a single server for a hobby project is quick and easy.

In production, all of a sudden you have a lot of work to do, especially around HA. Figure out replication, get it working, figure out how to monitor/alert if it stops working, figure out failover, figure out how to test that failover actually works, etc.

Support around that stuff has improved over the years, but it's still non-trivial and high-risk to DIY. It's a very different scenario than a stateless app server where you can have easy redundancy.
It seems to me that the "Can I sign up somewhere to get notified when "back up to your own cloud destinations" is complete?" actually implied if there's a way to get notified when the "Bring your own cloud" feature is complete and in production so that we can give your service a test then.

If I guessed that wrong, then anyway please answer because I want to know that too. Thanks!
That seems fishy, the minimum required salary to apply for h1b was 60k/year till the beginning of the year, and there was a bill that was introduced which proposed raising it to 90k/year.
So what? Wouldn't that just make wages rise in those other industries, pushing more Americans into those apparently underserved fields?
"Helvete" comes from Old Norse helvíti, a combination of hel (death, also the land of the dead and the goddess Hel) + víti (punishment).
I was figuring this was going to be about Apple gimping the Qualcomm modems in their phones down to the speeds that the Intel modems can deliver. (presumably so that people don't try to return their iphones to get "the good kind" like when the Samsung/TSMC SOCs affected battery life)

https://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/42177-apple-crippled-qu...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15255318/qualcomm-sues-ap...
There's a writeup here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/spatial-raises-8-million-t... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292217).
Slightly off-topic: I love the simplicity of your website design. Did you make it yourself, or use a template/theme?
This is the product that can finally get me to totally switch off of AWS.

Droplets <- EC2

Spaces <- S3

Managed Databases <- RDS
HN doesn’t have a PM function, and I don’t see your email nor any profiles listed on your HN user page.
Hire graduates and train them, problem solved. Cheap immigrant labor is a case of employers having their cake and eating it too.

The vast majority of these jobs aren't that challenging, hence the immigrants. They're mostly looking for monkeys, not 10x devs.
I don't know if this helps, but the way I see lambda calculus works is that you assemble one expression in which you build all the things you need and then evaluate it to yield a result. After that, everything vanishes from existence.

For example, here I'm building cons, car and cdr just to create a list, from which I'll get its second value:

(cons => car => cdr =>

// this block is my little world where I have lists
car(cdr(cons(1)(cons(2)(cons(3)(4)))))

)( // cons
carValue => cdrValue => extractor => extractor(carValue)(cdrValue)
)( // car
consValue => (consValue)(x => y => x)
)( // cdr
consValue => (consValue)(x => y => y)
)

(This is JavaScript-looking lambda calculus, so you can evaluate it in your browser's developer console).
But the choice is not between 20 low paid engineers vs 1 highly private sector employee.

The choice is instead between 20 low paid engineers and 20 high paid executives/engineers/employees.

This makes the answer to this choice much more clear.
Spatial doesn't appear to have any dedicated hardware. It seems to be an app that you use on whatever AR/VR gear you happen to have lying about.
There's also a game about the subject.

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Other articles that help really grok the general idea:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HFyWNBnDNEDsDNLrZ/the-true-p...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mMBTPTjRbsrqbSkZE/sorting-pe...
The "premature deindustrialisation" phenomenon was the most interesting/novel part of this article. The rest is the normal AI/MOOC/software-eating-everything hand-wringing.

However, somewhat ironically, the actual paper that's cited [1] seems to disagree with the author's characterization:

> In sum, while technological progress is no doubt a large part of the story behind employment deindustrialization in the advanced countries, in the developing countries trade and globalization likely played a comparatively bigger role.

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w20935
Most large companies spread their donations around to every major candidate or incumbent politician. They frequently bet on both sides of the race. This is just a matter of buying access so that they have a seat at the table and can possibly call in a favor later.

The only solution would be comprehensive campaign finance reform. And due to Supreme Court precedent that would probably require a Constitutional amendment (not likely to happen).
But not every organization is internationally distributed like that. If physical location of employee really didn't matter, then your org would have most of its IT staff in India, because the labor rates are lower and that's the largest pool of English-speaking IT talent.

I agree there is some fluidity to IT labor, but there is a limit to it also.

Besides, the stated on-paper purpose of H-1B visas is to fill (alleged) skills shortages. After the dot-com crash there was a big surplus of labor in the area, yet us citizens were competing with H-1B's still. The stated goal was missing the target during that time.
Is there an expected downtime during system updates?
You're absolutely right, it would change the character of the neighborhoods. But the argument you present is exposes the hypocrisy at the center of people in these neighborhoods and hits at some of what Giridharadas is getting at.

I suspect many of the generalized Seattle NIMBY's champion affordable housing and decry gentrification, but when the rubber hits the road and they are asked to give up something (neighborhood charm) to actually do something about these problems (increase density to lower housing costs), they actively fight against it.

"I like affordable housing as long as I can still live in the same neighborhood and don't have to give anything up."
I'd commented above that the current feed is intended for testing, but that the plan is for you to add your own social feeds and news sources, and that it will then skew similar in finding additional sources.

The "filter bubbles" are also intended as a couple of examples, so initially I've used US ones.

I'm Australian and while I'm based in the US, one of the problems Orac is trying to solve is localisation. Orac is running geo and locale predictions on content, but they aren't very good so far, so I haven't included them in the UI or filtering yet. But a few folks who I've shown have said that it would be useful to filter content that's relevant by location, so that is definitely in the roadmap!
Don't mean to sound harsh but anyone who can't compete with an H1B to the extent they can't find a job in the entire state of CA should take a hard look at their skills and expectations and change one or both.
I also didn't learn anything about that in school, but I did from my coding bootcamp, so if anything I think that is a general criticism of the education system.
I agree with your sentiment and like your example, but in fairness to "the people" criticizing him, it's probably different people in each instance of criticism. We personify groups of people, and then treat them as fungible units of a universal (if hypocritical) collective. Individuals will criticize everything, if given enough time and resources.
Entirely possible. Think of cilantro that tastes and smells like soap for some people. Contrary to popular belief, we do not all perceive the world in the same ways.

"This may be traced to the OR6A2 gene, an olfactory receptor able to bind many of the aldehydes implicated in the herb's very particular smell. Perhaps those with a specific variation in the gene are particularly sensitive to its soapiness."

http://mentalfloss.com/article/91060/why-does-cilantro-taste...

https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/20...
Or just make high-powered features optional and don't fuck up your core OS. That seems like the obvious choice. I've had several experiences with OS "upgrades" making a system much slower even though I wasn't using any of the new features. That's poor design if not actually malicious, and it doesn't have to be that way.
Another factor is the 2-body problem. If most of the workers are looking for a city with enough jobs for two different careers, then that's where employers will need to be to hire them.
Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs
We are a new team of developers working on a new project. We share a git repo and we are split between product teams. We are 6 developers and we review each others code.

Even though all of us have a lot of experience, we came from different organizations and we have different styles. I come from a very strict team where everyone was forced to give their best, the standards were really high and the code reviews were brutal.

Even though I appreciate my new colleagues and I want us to have a healthy team culture, I often find myself resenting them each time I review their code.

I don’t think highly of myself as a developer but I find my coworkers extremely sloppy and it seems to me they focus more on narrow problems than the big picture.

I don’t want to be the grumpy developer that thinks he is better than everyone else but that’s what I'm becoming.
How do I stop?
and unless you're one of the elite few for whom good HA is actually easy, your attempts will likely end up with something that you _believe_ is as available as RDS
Benefits of College–By Degrees – Should everyone go to college?
It's not explained clearly, but I believe the same AR elements are mapped into different environments. One user's wall may not be in the same place as another's, but they would both have the same content.
There's even an easter egg around there when you try to use the Street View.
> This is just sensationalism.

This is just art.

Satellite imagery in the raw form when it is not yet registered to a map has a beauty to it that is lost in everyday mapping products, e.g. satnav and weather maps. Normally satnav and weather maps interpret the image for you. With raw imagery you have to interpret the image for yourself. The imagery may not be in normal 'visible' colours, it can be like HDR on steroids, to reveal patterns and detail only once you adjust the levels/curves to fit the limited range of colours that a computer screen can show.

Perhaps the most fascinating remote sensing imagery is of the areas of the world you don't normally see, e.g. polar latitudes, the seas off coastal areas and the deserts. It is a bit like looking at the stars with a very powerful telescope but in reverse.

The thing is though is that you need to have quite a lot of inner child or actually be aged nine to truly appreciate the wonder and explore the dataset that bit more.

I think that good art has to get people asking questions and thinking a bit. Usually, as per the recent 'Banksy' spectacle (art business) there is a big price tag attached to the 'art'. This 'art' fails to get people beyond the question of 'how much is it worth in dollars' whereas here I think that with this Area 51 inspired 'installation' we have much better questions being asked and answered, as per what you wrote here. It is also good that the star of the show is the remotely sensed image, not the painting of it, no disrespect to the painting which I think is rather special and does the subject justice.
>c) There's also satellite imagery, but no imaging company is imaging the entire globe at a resolution Google and friends are interested in. You need to pay for specific areas, which brings us back to b), what's the commercial interest?

Isn't Planet Labs (https://www.planet.com/) doing exactly that?
What's your career path?
Have you heard about the new fancy framework in JS ? It emulates x86 in css, then boots Windows Vista in to execute a Visual Basic Application in containing a webView with mobile react !

It's a bit slow on loading, but after that it's really fast !
OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.10 Released
Yes. I meant this more as a hosted solution in general.
I think the older style of building relied on a lot of labour (masons) and the cost of labour has gone up much more than other costs, so it's not tractable any more.
Someone contacted me once wanting to cite a web page I authored in a paper, but I assumed they were trying to social engineer my identity, or similar.
For me it isn't even this complicated. I just don't want to have to manage OS/MySQL/Postgres version upgrades or worry about having to troubleshoot when things on the server go south.

Just give me a database to connect to and take my money, please.
Running your own DB is a recipe for disaster UNLESS you know what you are doing and can invest resources continuously in keeping it up. If you have a good DBA, it probably isn't too much of hassle as long as you scale up with the number of DBs and you have automation to help along the way. However, at that point you are almost to a hosted solution anyway.

For hobby projects, a single self-managed instance is fine. For production in a business critical environment, much more thought needs to go in.
People in this thread are missing the point. It’s significant in Tetris because he’s playing against people who have been playing since release, an advantage which he didn’t have.

The same thing is happening in the Super Smash Bros Melee scene right now, where a new top player is winning games, and he’s the only top player who hasn’t been playing since ~2001-2002. It’s pretty exciting to see someone new beat the old guard.
Didn't know it's 2. Pricing may be steeper in comparison, but it provides more than just a hosted PG.

You are absolutely correct that you have to shard your data to take an advantage. It's not equal to vanilla PG. It's an alternative though.
And even roomba is very mediocre. I dont even use it and when i do i know its going to do a lousy job. It's still a demo.
Personally, I really like receiving ads for things that are relevant to my interests. No, I am not some shill for an online ad company.
All: if commenting, please make it specific and unpredictable—such as about this study—rather than posting generically about open offices and hating them. There have been tons of those threads and they're all the same. It's the diffs that are interesting.
Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
I agree with this. I think voice is a curiosity that feels like it's futuristic and thus makes Echo Dots a great gift, but isn't actually all that useful when compared to a software interface which is why I believe Apple not going head over heels into voice and home speakers was the right strategy. I've never observed a single person actually use an Echo to make a purchase from Amazon or really do anything besides check the weather or set a timer. Would love to hear from someone who has but it just doesn't seem like something people actually do in real life in my experience.
It's already acceptable to ask people to put their cell phones away in social situations. "Please turn off the monitoring device in the house" is not a large leap.
I don't see where your accusation about this being a Western media issue comes from in this particular case: the link is the project's GitHub repository. Moreover, it makes sense that USA and EU together have more media companies than China does by itself. Finally, this project is about better language translation technology, which is something that can help bridge cultural divides instead of leaving cultures in isolation.

I don't know enough about languages to be able to tell if some advance is a major breakthrough or not, but people on Hacker News share and applaud minor improvements in many personal or professional projects, so I don't see why a Chinese project should be held to a different standard on this forum in that regard.
The US Air Force Spent $326,000 Replacing Broken Coffee Cups in the Last 2 Years
There's a recent interview with Bol here:

http://www.startribune.com/after-cancer-diagnosis-little-fre...
How to Sanity Check Your Startup Idea
Tacit Blue: The Creation of Stealth
For small user counts, performance is the easy part. Failover and point-in-time restores are common examples for me that contain easily overlooked details and you don't find out until the worst possible time.

I think some cloud stuff is overpriced, but RDS easily pays for itself in my case.
Polio Eradication: Almost There?
Do they give you on-going [presumably] secret access?
This is pretty much a textbook example of an attempt at regulatory capture, though more explicitly aimed at hurting competition than normal.[0] It's hard to take Apple as sincerely looking out for the best interests of consumers given their stance against repairs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Trying to explain AI and machine learning to the C-suite is a waste of time
Straight up it was sub 50k listed in the database...

I'll see if I can find it later.
The author points out that Apple made their watch without a strategy, and let the market figure out what it is useful for. But then he says that Oculus has a problem because they have a use case in mind for their VR. Maybe, but I think the real reason why they have to push mobile based VR is that it is the only kind of VR that has a chance to get to a critical mass of users, because of cost and ease of use. Without a critical mass of users, you can't have software developers creating products to figure out the good use cases.
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For welfare ? Good.

It'd be hard to fuck it up as badly as humans have. And God forbid, AIs will do whatever improves outcomes.

Humans employed in welfare, even in the police have been known to relish in the power the law gives them, as it does in many cases, and use it not even for personal empowerment, but for showing off to girls, for taking petty revenge, and worse.
Even if that's clarified, it's vague. It doesn't entail how a hit translates to database operations.

That said, I think it's more meant to be an anecdotal rule of thumb to tell people "you're not Google, SQLite will work for most teams".
A more accurate description is that they used to buy satellite imagery from third parties such as DG, which were responsible for the blurring. Nowadays, a lot of images come from planes, many of which are operated by Google, which does not do the blurring.
Spread+the+word
whoops, I lose at reading comprehension today.
I think you mean, shut up and take my money :)
I think the whitelist makes more sense, since you can never say for sure that you've added every potentially harmful program to the blacklist. If it's easy to add things to the whitelist, as the parent comment proposed, I think the idea would work very well, especially considering most people have a relatively small number of commands they pipe other commands into.

Btw, if you want to see all the commands you've ever piped data into, sorted by frequency, you can use this command (which I put together using `up`!)

history | grep -o '| \w\w*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | nl
Actually Google is adding a way to verify it came from them:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/google-pla...

They specifically cite being able to do this peer to peer.
Please elaborate. The time-period was after the dot-com crash. Companies were laying off IT employees left and right, often because the companies died. CA was flooded with excess IT workers. I even put an ad on Craigslist around 2002 that I'd do development for minimum wage. No takers. What else do you want? I nearly left IT. Okay, I'm not the cream of the crop I admit, but are you saying average developers should get out?
> It's not like they're all buying Android phones and getting turn-by-turn directions in their Humvees.

Err.... you may be surprised.
No one, their earnings just appear magically out of the blue.
Face Recognition in Augmented Reality
Yes, though I prefer: echo ...

The reason is that you'll see expanded variables and wildcards before commiting to them.