skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to see the logical flaw here by considering a reduction to absurdity. Imagine a minimum wage of $200/hour. This would of course lead to mass unemployment and collapse the market, except for a very minuscule percent of the labor force in extremely high skill high value positions. Just because somebody would now be earning $200/hour most certainly would not mean they were not valued. Instead you'd have simply squeezed everybody out of the market except these most incredibly valuable employees.

But you can also see the same flaw by just considering a mathematical distribution of wages. That distribution would resemble a bell curve. There will be a small number of very low skill positions with very low wages. And on the other end there will be a small number of very high skill positions receiving very high wages. And in between you reach the fat of the market with average skill positions reaching average wages. The effect of the minimum wage is to create a clumping on the left side of this curve as the people earning wages for extremely low skill work are now earning exactly the same as the wages for those doing more skilled work. And those abnormally low skill jobs that cannot afford to be paid anymore simply disappear.

For instance gas stations used to regularly be full service - you park, pay, and an attendant would fill you up or take care of any routine maintenance you needed. Those jobs went away, in the US at least. And similarly we're currently in the process of gradually phasing out cashiers, which I imagine our grandchildren will look back on with similar quaintness as we might full service gas stations. The point there being that you're left with a higher and higher skill level as the baseline just to enter the job market. And just because somebody's being paid the new minimum, does not mean they're not substantially more valued than others.
When he was going into the Boring companies tunneling evaluation trying to figure out weather current tunneling tech was power constrained or heat constrained. Also he mentioned the supersonic jet design that he has. There were also some undertones with the Tesla Roadster, Tesla Pickup truck and SpaceX BFR.
Indeed. They admit that it could be done with an traditional relational database but argue that it wouldn’t be able to scale in the same way as with Cloud Spanner. But they are making it sound as though Cloud Spanner has some graph data model.

My interpretation is that they are arguing that they would have to sacrifice the ability to fully model all connections in the system or answer any kind of query (they talk about doing some things “per-user”) because they would have scalability issues or would have to do manual sharding of data. They are considering the full model with all connections as a “graph database”. This terminology is confusing and seems to ascribe extra capabilities to Cloud Spanner.
Those were the days. You could use Windows Explorer to browse the entire HD of half the computers in your neighborhood. Boy did we find some gems...
STL algos: min, max, minmax, min_element, max_element, minmax_element [video]
Twitter allows people to add image captions.

https://twitter.com/_Red_Long/status/948577112860086272
Thanks for the info. I'm totally ignorant about Java so it might be a dumb question. But Digital Ocean's 1gb droplets are enough to run some Java Restful APIs? I heard that Java is really heavy on memory consumption but I know nothing about it.
HN isn't really a place to network.

Also, don't let your scholastic success hold you back.

If you're smart & skilled & able to work, how about working on upworker.com even if it's only $20/hr? ( I mean - take steps to keep moving forward. Don't remain homeless for reasons. )
Neither FB nor GOOG have become such monopolies in that type of business they were talking about. What Gates said hold true today.

Think for example about a one person business like daringfireball.net, that was the type of business Gates was envisioning. Or Drudge report.
The Test of the Parallels
I suspect there was a little rope-a-dope going on on his part. Microsoft was less than a year in to turning their ship around (https://www.wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/) to ride the Internet wave. So he wouldn't have wanted to telegraph to other large competitors that this was going to be huge. (hopefully, given their investments) They already had their hands full with all the tiny startups who had been there years earlier.
Bug? No. Works as expected, one could argue.

Limitation? Yes.

Design flaw? Hell yes.
It depends. It can be way less than 50% for so low wage positions too.

Are you counting the cost of some expensive piece of industrial equipment used by a minimum wage person as part of those overheads?

Or are you just putting minimum wage people on for more hours, using the same office space others are using at different times?
The problem is a lack of inventory. When you have limited supply and a ton of demand, that's how you get high prices. Why is there a lack of housing? While Prop 13 is an issue, imo it's not the core problem.

This is the problem:
"High rents reflect the success of California’s businesses—but also decades of low investment and over-regulation. The California Environmental Quality Act, passed in 1970, aimed to ensure that environmental concerns got a proper hearing in planning and development. In practice, the act has become a NIMBYs’ charter. Four-fifths of all suits filed under it have sought to stop infill development in cities (ie, on land already zoned for building) even though this usually has a smaller environmental impact than building on green fields. California’s development and impact fees are about three times higher than the national average. Zoning laws and parking requirements are onerous, too."

SF isn't even the worst offender compared to cities like Belmont and Palo Alto. While there are real safety concerns that limit development since 1. we're in earthquake country, and also because of 2. some Superfund sites in parts of the Bay Area; most of the problems just stem from current homeowners of single family homes (NIMBYs), who do not want high-density housing near their house. Until this changes, no reasonable amount of income assistance will solve this problem for the poor or the middle class. There's just too little usable land here to be exclusively used for traditional single-family homes.

This has more detail about the problem in SF: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/How-powerful-is...
Well, actually magic(5) is used by the file(1) command to identify a file. So when you type `file foo.jar`, it can tell you "hey, this is a jar file". This isn't something that other applications do, and exec and friends do not look at it to try to determine what kind of file something is or how to execute it.

#! is special - and not because of magic(5) - if a file starts with `#!`, exec and friends will treat it special. Anything else will be attempted to be executed as a binary.

Now, one _could_ go and install binfmt_misc and set it up so that files with a jar's magic number will be executed a certain way (`java -jar ...`), but this is neither out of the box nor something that all Unix derivatives do.

Notably, binfmt_misc will also work with extensions instead of magic numbers.
Implicits are a sharp sword. Either very good or very bad depending on the people using them.

Scala doesn't stand still either. Dotty / Scala 3 will bring many refinements and new features like union types, opaque types and implicit function types.
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Hearth（炉）stone（石） is localized semantically.
It’s a right, like defence, policing and education. It gets paid for by those that work hardest/smartest/longest. The Tory plan was to get those that benefited from unearned gained in wealth to pay for it too.
The problem is that China is systematically corrupt at every level and the Chinese authorities have aggressively clamped down on any attempt by citizens to stand up to that corruption. Sure, they'd probably like to do something about pollution like this, but they care more about preserving the existing power structures that make this possible.
Agree, but you also pay through the nose for Spanner.
sounds more like an electric unicycle rather that the original Segway
Prop 13, Prop 13, Prop 13!

American economic woes are solely a consequence of enormous debts and unwillingness to let prices go down.

We are precariously similar to Japan in 1989
My girlfriend had the same experience with Uber. They scheduled and forgot 3 times in a row. By the 4th she wasn't interested.
> Javascript/... dismal debugging support.

Eh? I thought JavaScript debuggers were pretty good.
> only need this one thing for everybody

Not too diminish the aspect which is particular to communist Czechoslovakia, but it is a hard earned tenet of highly available systems best practices to have redundancies throughout a given stack. For example, a storage system that has disks in RAID, dual RAID controllers, dual NAS servers, dual connectivity to switches, etc is more expensive but worth it in the long run if you depend on it.

Maybe that lesson hasn’t been absorbed more widely. Market economy perhaps gets redundancy for “free” (or cost subsidized by losers)
I tend to take the view that I employ employers to find me interesting or useful stuff to do and to provide any structure and organisation required for said stuff. If they aren't doing it properly, I can fire them.
I went for an interview for Senior .NET Developer role at NineMSN in Australia once. Had full on 2 hour technical interview of .NET and SQL Server. Thought I didn pretty well cos the interview lasted so Long and they were happy with me. Towards the end I asked some questions. The last question was “so what would I be working on?”

Basically they said: “oh well our api is already written so you should be doing all the website integration work with the api” I asked on top of that meant I’ll be doing the .net work of the apis? “No just the HTML/css/JavaScript”... I didn’t accept the offer.
>You will get stuck, mostly on trivial stuff. Then what do you do?

Find other books. There's a reason why university libraries have old editions of the same books and very similar books on the same topic.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370446
So If I didn’t misread,
as long as you continously give the incentive, everythings fine and still works as intended? For teaching this is ofc dumb and explicitly not the outcome you want, but for eg sales incentives, it works as expected (and probably much easier to do than convince your marketers that they really do want to sell that product at the highest price for the benefit of everyone and everything)
Interesting. Thank you for sharing that. Gave it a shot on SWI Prolog and got the same error.

It seems like a problem that ought to be solvable with static analysis or a fuzzer -- solvable in the sense that the error is detected before the question is asked. I imagine if Prolog had wider adoption, somebody would have taken a crack at it.
> This is the essence of MCMC: when it's expensive to take independent draws of a space, we can instead ...

I disagree. The essence of MCMC is that it's a clever MC scheme that defeats the curse of dimensionality by using an adaptive importance sampling method. In this method, you use information from the current sample to help draw a better new sample, or at least not a much worse one. This way, even if you start form a place far away from the region of interest, you end up in that region; the trade-off is that the samples are obviously not independent anymore. In very high dimensional spaces the region of interest is always very tiny compared to the vastness of the space (that's the "curse of dimensionality"), so even when it's very cheap to draw samples, you would be hopeless without an importance sampling scheme.
Here is an excellent training video to follow to become world class https://youtu.be/BWsAQsydzR4
Don't worry, free trade will short all of this out for the best, if only they make it even freer. Some tax cuts for big businesses will help too.

Sure, a lot of those people might be dead by then, but who keeps score when you're in the 10% that has no problem whatsoever?
Surely raising taxes and throwing more money at it will solve the problem!
It's slowly moving out of the hobbyist realm though - there has been a consistent output of "stable" releases with very little problems upgrading.

One reason it hasn't gotten much traction yet might be because the perceived benefit is too low to convert existing systems: You can upgrade in place, downgrade, manage a whole fleet easily etc, but the people with these problems already have (bad) solutions for those in place.

So there's a lot of inertia, and uptake has to come from new installations.

I too managed a Chef based infrastructure, and it was terrible. I don't like it when simple deploys break a production system because of a missing comma in some config file. With NixOS/NixOps, many issues that Chef has just don't exist.
Even in tech, 8 years is not a long time.

When I said that there was SCCS in use at a major bank in 2010, the hope therefore was that the reader would think "that probably means that SCCS is in use elsewhere".
I think it's the frequently over-sensitive new account shadow ban algo that endeadened it, as it can be vouched back to visible. Which I did. :)
What works for me is to combine the two. I can absorb most things from books. Then, when I get stuck, I ask the advice of someone who knows. I was actually surprised how inexpensive this can be these days and how much a passionate teacher can give you these days in terms of inspiration and opening your mind to new perspectives regarding something you (thought you) already knew.
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#Kraken #ransomware 2.0 is available through the RaaS model
> Being able to work with all types, including when a person is having a bad or rough day is important.

Inability to work with all types here is primary displayed by the "less than typical" personalities through. Not by someone who decides that he does not want to answer insults with "please may I have another one, sir". I understand importance of not being overly sensitive, but so should be valued ability to control yourself and not be abrasive in the first place.

Otherwise being asshole becomes competitive advantage in that company.

I don't mean to say that less then pleasant people should not be in team, but that criticising them and refusing to accept that behavior should be standard and accepted responses by other people. Including leaving the room or directly defending themselves.

> There are times when you've been working 16-18 hour days for a few days and can get cranky.

That is planning and organizational failure. Also self-awarness failure. No one is effective at 18 hours a day and demanding that collegues tiptoe around you or and spend effort on your crankiness instead of work is a.) unfair b.) ineffective.

If others can't tell you about you mistakes or question you or just have to deal with abrasiveness because you are cranky after sleep deprivation, then it is your fault and you are slowing others down.
I mean, Poorly Drawn Lines had IMO the best take on that so far: http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/internet/

It becomes more relevant as the free-for-all we knew and loved slips away.
A lot of biomedical science is also barely worth of the name science as it's not reproducible. And I'm sure you could find the same in physics and math too. But it's way easier to look at the humanities, not being able to understand the language used due to not having the required background and go "clearly it's worthless because I, someone with a degree in a completely different field, cannot understand it". And then endlessly point at the Sokal affaire.

But at least one time a nonsense mathematical paper, written by a computer, was accepted for publication. So clearly mathematics is a flawed, worthless field worthy only of derision, right? And a few nonsense computer science papers have also been accepted, so clearly also a worthless field.
Bug from 1974 still affects Windows 10
>Neither FB nor GOOG have become such monopolies in that type of business they were talking about. What Gates said hold true today.

They're very close to that. And the same is true to other content, e.g. Spotify, Amazon Kiddle, Netflix for films, YouTube for video, etc.

People still go to other sources, but increasingly less so, and those sources all increasingly fringe (Daring Fireball? Compared to Facebook and the like?). Nothing like the wild west (and much freer and distributed) market it was 10 and 20 years ago.

Between the 3-4 big social aggregators for example, there goes 80% of the internet advertising pie.

Gates (as quoted below): "There will be no content club in my life time with $4 billion revenue...you are on drugs if you think that".

Meanwhile there are like 5 "content clubs" with much higher revenue...

[1] https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
Judging by how the article was written, that probably wouldn't have helped him. You couldn't delete these directories directly, but rather had to delete the nested "unnamed" directory: “/path/to/COM1/ /“, which is also how you would create the directories in the first place. Usually, the tag-directory would also go along with a list of directories explaining that you should not create "undeletable" directories on NT-based servers, as that would annoy the admin and might cause them to remove anonymous access. You were only supposed to create large mazes of directories to prevent other random anonymous users from finding and deleting your files.
>In fact, his primary point is that due to the lack of a barrier to entry in the market and no accumulating advantage of any kind, there wouldn't be a single dominant player.

Well, we have at best 2-3 "dominant players" in each field, so not much better. And doesn't already Kindle dominate in eBooks? Surely iBooks is not that much of competition.
I’d be inclined to agree, except there was no way to contact anybody technical. I was only put in contact with HR and was sent the challenge via an automated email from an address that didn’t respond when I emailed it. Not really sure where else I could have gone to get a response. Unless this was some kind of CTF where I had to find a hidden email.
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I remember using colons for these, and have never used CP/M.
>Discriminating against someone because of their employer sounds like a very dangerous precedent to set.

Kevin Smith's film 'Clerks' explored the morality of that position pretty well. The contractors on the second Death Star all understood the risks.
Bottom line is: work your ass off for at least 5 years, and maybe you'll have a chance to get it.

At least, that's honest advice!
The real bug is the misleading "too large for destination" message. The other message "invalid device name" is at least somewhat more descriptive, even better would be "filename is a reserved device name".
>If you have 10 workers ...

That was the argument against the minimum wage being introduced in the UK, it turned out to be false.
Sort your inbox by sender or subject and then file or delete entire conversations or blocks of emails at once.

Last time I did that with a 7k email inbox it took about 2.5 hours to get to inbox zero.
Merkleized IAVL+ Tree Implementation in Go
Why are we still teaching assemby and C over development languages more popular, enjoyable, and accessible? It is not a good career path, it is not popular with kids or with the masses, and it is a lot more expensive than any other genre of software development.
Sometimes I find interesting things in it. For example, you can open a terminal set to the current directory by putting cmd in the path bar. This also works with other commands and arguments, so you can do stuff like notepad [filename].
Sailfish is another alternative.
Then perhaps ISPs shouldn't be blocking any websites at all.

Unfortunately the courts have made this impossible though. In order to get net neutrality back, they would have to reverse that court decision that forced websites to be blocked.
It might be interesting to calculate the 'primeness' of complex numbers and then render the values as shades of grey on the complex plane.

Some years I did something similar for the 'divisibility' of prime numbers and the result was pretty interesting:

http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal

The most common interpretation of a 'complex prime' is the gaussian prime. When rendered on the complex plane looks like this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauss-primes-768x768...

Looks rather random. Maybe going from 'is prime or not' to 'primeness' would reveal some more insight.
I am a sysadmin and the last thing I want is to have to manage my own services in my free time.
imo chronic homelessness is a separate problem that mainly involves the lack of funding for mental health institutions at a federal level. If I remember correctly, 80% of homeless people are no longer homeless after 6 months. The remaining 20% either suffer from mental health issues, drugs, or both. It's a federal problem since all the states just want to play hot potato with the chronically homeless, instead of actually trying to solve it

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
MLM you say?

Ok, let me see

- peddling in private homes (friends and family)? check!

- using social connections as marketing channel (classmates, friends and family)? check!

- promising benefits, while customers have to pay upfront and wait years for see their investment (never) pay off? check!

- turning customers to promoters (work environments turn away applicants without XYZ degree)? check!

- kick-back/ROI is distributed in ways that are "opaque" at best for customers? check!
Quality is also about other relationships between the software and its environment. It's not just the user and one piece of software in a vacuum.

Imagine being a developer of some windows software, and a QA person in your team notices that the software can't save to "aux.foo". You explain that this is a limitation of the Windows OS and you can't fix this. But QA insists that this is a "showstopper", and management agrees.

So you do a bit more research and you discover the work-around with the "\\?\" path prefix. You implement the "fix". Now QA discovers that they can save to "aux.foo", but windows explorer has weird issues with it, and they can't open the file in a text editor, and the file doesn't get backed up anymore, etc.

Wouldn't it have been better to accept the limitation instead of calling it a showstopper?
It’s never a good time to take a breaking change. Microsoft has had a pretty extreme view of what’s “compatible”, including what seems to be a desire to not break existing applications that rely on undocumented or buggy behavior.

I’d want to argue that removing bugs and fixing things like this should just be done with a reasonable notice period and if some aging system in the basement of a fortune500 company blows up then I’m sure that can be solved too.

This said, I find the 70s smell more present and annoying in a Unix terminal than in Windows explorer. All the big OS’es are dinosaurs and it will show up here and there.
Doesn’t your argument apply for any value of the minimum wage, whether it is $7, $15 or $100?
Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
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The A, B, C and D columns are counted front to back. No magic ;)

Notably the thick and angled A columns of modern cars create fairly large blind spots to the front left and right, while wide B columns are problematic for larger drivers, since the B column blocks visibility over the shoulder.