skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People got trust issues. They want to know if they can trust the maker. If not, privacy, schmivacy.
All of Asia was dragged out of poverty - over time - by doing stuff cheaper. China is a world power not from communism or protectionism or by some grand gesture. They took awful jobs for a tiny amount of pay (by western standards) and eeked their way up the GDP ladder.

It is a the worst kind of white, privileged attitude that taking a higher paid job won't improve things for the locals.

But lets give this a fair airing. Name a country that had a GDP increase in any other way. I'll wait.
I was around at the time, too, and you're missing that the early Internet wasn't free at all: the great majority of the users were part of some postsecondary educational organization. Those places strongly select for very specific kinds of people (smart, collaborative, curious, reasonable, not murder-y), and imposed both formal and informal controls on what was said.

Your notion is that 3 corporate-run, lowest-common-denominator TV channels controlling nationwide communication is exactly the same thing as a global network where everybody can participate and they can talk publicly about anything except, say, "Hey, we should kill all the Jews and brown people"? That seems woefully unsubtle to me. I see a useful middle ground. One where people are radically more free to communicate than they were at any point in human history.

Not also that neither advertisers, the government, or "the mob" are silencing anything here. People are exercising their right to freedom of speech and freedom of association. This is the same thing that happened in the real world pre-Internet when people would throw Nazis out and refuse to support businesses who made Nazis welcome. Businesses are free to host Gab or not; everybody else is free to use those businesses or not based on their desire to support companies that support people getting minorities killed.
I think it's covered here: https://getaether.net/docs/how_is_it_different_from/#secure-...

In summary, SSB is, from what I can see, designed for non-public sharing of Twitter-like content between friends, and your data only traverses to people who follow you.

In contrast, Aether is explicitly designed to be a public space where you talk to people you don't know. It communicates everyone's information to everybody. To make that possible, Aether only accepts and transmits text (you can still link to stuff), while SSB can transmit other formats directly in the protocol itself.

(I might be horribly wrong: I'm not a SSB expert. Please correct me if so.)
Imagine could get away with running this on 1G with light usage/load? Also don't see webmail here, but imagine shouldn't be too difficult to add (I don't have much exposure to the OpenBSD landscape).
Overview of EMG
> read http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/.

Modern PoS protocols prevent stake grinding with per-verifier VRFs and multi-round verification procedures.
Apple devices have been historically overpriced. Most recently Android manufacturers wised up and realized they can also benefit from segmentation, and raised prices to match. Now everything is overpriced, and we all win! /s
Why is this worrying? Some kids have mental health problems. This doesn't show that more kids have mental health problems now.
Free network management solution
> There are no affordable and really desirable cities

You can't have one without the other!
Ive not been giving my opinions - criticisms or expectations of organic farming: the global mature, studied, developed, alternative agricultural system. This is not opinion, it exists. Its actual flaws - thats a different class of discussion. When you just feel like giving an opinion, at least don't attach plain falsehoods, defended later by "in a sense" etc.
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It's a stretch to call some of these "predictions", but .. yes, some of them were reasonably good predictions.

I can wholeheartedly recommend anything Lem wrote; Don't be discouraged if you didn't like the movie adaptations - these books are probably impossible to do justice to in movie form.
Agreed, the fault is with the ISPs. It seems that they are not actually providing internet service.
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Baby grands can work very well in a small house. I'm a pianist and I grew up playing a Chickering baby grand. It's a very good sounding piano; I think it sounds better than a lot of larger Steinways and Yamahas I've played. Cost was around $10k in the 1970's.

I grew up in a small house (1100 sqft, 2bd, 1ba), and I think it actually made the L-shaped living room feel bigger, even though it used almost 1/5 of the area.
I got new Huawei Nova 3 and photos are excellent, battery life 1.5 days. Super fast with 128gb storage for (edit 3-4 times) times cheaper than pixel or any apple crap.

No wonder trumbo wants to block huawei phones from US market. Would sell like hot cakes.
Heads up you should probably never host your own email on the same server as your web/worker servers if you’re worried about IP leakage. Your IP is exposed on outbound mail. Using SMTP services like SendGrid won’t help, either.
The space below the bridge will end up rather dark and ugly. Take a walk under a highway bridge to get a taste of it. If you think I exaggerate the effect due to larger size of the highway, take a walk under the monorail in Seattle. The monorail is roughly the size of the bike bridge and the space below is a place where no one wants to be.

A splendid idea otherwise though, so long as both minimal and maximum speeds are enforced.
I think that a lot of people renting can attribute to this too. No ones wants to move around these dense hard oak wood furniture. I rather move around something light from IKEA until I can buy a house. But then by the time I afford a house, I wouldn't be able to fit these furniture anyway in my abysmally small house.
Sure it can be. Shared libraries are also viable for a "regular joe".

There would just need to be a central manager for dependencies. And yes, I realize that we are on many layers of abstraction.
What does "backend" mean? Just the application layer? If you're writing a Tomcat application, do you have to know how to debug Tomcat itself and submit patches for issues? Do you need to know how to write a Java compiler or an OS kernel? Do you need to know how to design microprocessors? What about how to fab them?

Calling the top two layers of a very deep stack "full stack" is a bit strange.
Are most users happy to be locked into a network? What are the positives?
> Would it help with better career opportunities?

It depends on the demand.

How many senior web devs are there? How many senior web dev positions are there?

Guestimate: 278057 senior developers and 23050 open positions [1].

How many distributed systems people are there? How many DS positions are there?

Guestimate: 1355 distributed systems people [1] and 219 open positions [2].

In other words: try to find some data that give some intuition. Sure, the 'research' (if you want to call it that, lol) is really biased but it probably is better data than your own intuition if you have no clue about it.

------- addressing some other stuff you said -------

Why do a masters in it? Do you want to research it as well? Writing a thesis is the obligatory part of it. At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam there is a masters in it that is spearheaded by Andrew Tanenbaum. But when you look at the courses, you see that many courses aren't about the theoretical part of distributed systems (see [3]).

To get your feet wet I'd recommend to fully follow distributed systems from Maarten van Steen. Why? First of all, his book [5] is being recommended by other people (see [6]). He also has lecture videos on it (from 2012, but since it's from a theoretical perspective they are still relevant). Edit: he deleted his videos, but I found one source here [4]. Oh yea, and he offers it all for free (which is also why I'm comfortable posting the new URL of the DS videos).

These are my 2 cents. Goodluck!

My personal opinion, don't pursue a masters. Just scan study guides of universities and figure out a curriculum, work less as a web deveoper but keep doing it (i.e. 4 or even 3 days per week) and study it independently.

[1] I searched it via LinkedIn by typing "senior web developer" and "web developer" and "distributed systems"

[2] I typed in "distributed systems" as job title on indeed.com. LinkedIn gave nonsensical results since everyone's course Distributed Systems was counted and almost no one had a title in it.

[3] https://www.vu.nl/en/study-guide/2018-2019/master/m-r/parall...

[4] https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~ariel/download/ds590/videos/

[5] https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/distribu...

[6] https://teachyourselfcs.com/
If I had to move to one the 3 would be the US for sure.

I find China a bit chaotic and Russia too conservative for me (although St. Petersbourg seemed a really cool place).

I'm very critic of the US government, especially regarding foreign policy, but that does not mean I have a problem with regular Americans at all.

On the contrary there are lots o very important initiatives started by Americans. I just wish the focus of the government would shift to them.
But the entire point of the exercise wasn't to make Jeff happier and shorten his commute, it was to find a way to continue to grow without overloading Seattle any more than it already is.

HQ2 needs to be somewhere that people want to live, with the room for lots of them.

I really was hoping HQ2 would go somewhere more conservative politically. There's plenty of people who would work for Amazon but aren't really excited by Seattle (I'm not one of them, but I know some).

Detroit specifically would have been perfect- low cost of living, lots of space to grow, great airport, lots of robotic/mechanical industry leaking from the failing car industry, plus UofM nearby. I don't know how they didn't make the finalists.
Not just you. These numbers are seriously inflated. I think it's for a few reasons:

1) Selection bias - people with larger comp packages are more likely to report their earnings.

2) Ego - people tend to embellish their reported wages.

3) People are reporting capital gains on their stock grants as income. If you started as a L4 3 years ago, I don't doubt you are making 250k with the growth Alphabet has experienced. If you start as an L4 today I guarantee the average is below 200k.
I find it surprising because iPhone SE SAR levels are higher than those of iPhone 6. Actually, at the time of the release, it was the model with the highest SAR levels ever released by Apple.
I've looked at them, but my question weren't to be answered. I understand that there are interest groups that have fancy websites and lots of people are invested in it, looking all serious. Just like with Homeopathy and Chiropractic, they're not putting the woo-woo up front.

Organic farming has its origins in nonsense beliefs, the practices that exist today are still based on them, even if they're regulated now. Farmers practice organic farming for basically two reasons:

1) To make money by selling inefficiently produced food at inflated prices

2) Because they irrationally and dogmatically believe organic farming is "better", without any scientific basis

The people in group #1 don't actually believe in the principle, they just believe in the money they'll make.

https://southsaskfarmer.com/2015/01/11/why-im-not-an-organic...
Do you have any reference for that? I've been to Copenhagen many times and it is hard to image that the city ever had congestion problems.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370226 and marked it off-topic. Not that Tcl isn't a fine language.
You are tempting me to pick up my 1 of 2 favorite laptops (or both) of ever that I owned: The 12 and 17 inch Aluminum Powerbook G4. Makes me wonder what kind of mods I can do to it now?
It’s also a giant pain in the ass when you move apartments yearly and only have a few hundred square feet to live in.
There have been a several recent studies showing massive loss of insect populations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarm...

But insects are also a foundation of natural food webs; we can't lose lots of insects without losing lots of other animals too. And as a couple of us have posted already, a recent study showed that we've reduced the populations of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles by 60% since 1970: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity...
You're right. I just didn't want to write an essay. There are a number of incentives that motivate owners to prefer supply constraints.
I have some Ikea stuff, but I'm assuming it will self-destruct if I ever attempt to move.
My mom's been an antique dealer for most of my life, and she's noticed this trend as well. Her customer base has aged along with her, and younger folks are not, generally, as interested in antiques as the previous few generations.

She has several theories about the shift, one of them is that the things my generation and younger are sentimental or nostalgic about are just different than prior generations: Big dinners with family in a formal dining room (with all the accoutrement that entails, like a buffet table, nice China, silverware, crystal glasses, etc.) were common up until the 80s, even among the middle class, but houses for the middle class don't even have dining rooms anymore and haven't since about the late 80s. Or, having a desk where mom and dad did taxes, wrote letters and cards, etc., maybe it'd be passed down, or maybe when you grew into adulthood, you'd get a desk for your own correspondence and the general business of running a household. Sewing machines used to be a thing passed from mother to daughter...nobody sews, anymore. My younger friends don't have memories of their moms sewing costumes for them at Halloween (in general), whereas I do, and it's a pretty cherished memory (and I own a sewing machine, and have owned big oak desks like the one my dad had in his office). Houses have large closets now, no need for an armoire. Kitchens have walk-in pantries or deep cabinets with racks on drawer runners, making pantry cabinets obsolete and a waste of space.

And, of course, stuff like fine China has always been aspirational for a specific kind of buyer...and it requires a lot of space for display, which without a dining room, most people don't have. And, mass-produced goods can be "fancy" in ways that cost a lot of money in previous centuries. It no longer means anything to have a plate with fancy designs on it, because manufacturers can churn out a few million of them every year and profitably sell them for a few bucks.
In some regards antiques were a manufactured aspirational industry, like diamonds or luxury cars or bags or whatever. In other regards, though, they're a recognition that things used to be better made than they have been in our lifetimes. Furniture up until the mid-1800s was entirely hand-made, and it didn't start being made to be disposable until the mid-1900s. Even long after furniture making was at least partially automated, it was still made of real hard woods that would last centuries. New furniture is effectively garbage waiting to happen; you buy it today and in ten years it's on the side of the road with the rest of the trash.

Several factors have converged to make antiques a shrinking market. It also means antique furniture is a real bargain, especially compared to the garbage that even expensive furniture brands are shoveling out these days.
Fwiw, my experience has been that many of the job openings spurring the growth in advertising for Full Stack engineers are actually glorified Front End roles, with very little work at the interface or on the back end.

I suspect that, due to bias against Front End developers (and javascript :) ), hiring managers are have trouble justifying senior front end developer positions and so are resorting to overqualifying the position and unicorn-seeking.

There's also a bias in technical interview questions, since conventional algorithmic/puzzle questions hold less relevance on the front end, so qualifying experienced engineers without asking back-end appropriate questions poses difficulties. Which means that, despite a role being a Front End position, Full Stack candidates end up looking like a better fit, since they do better in the interviews.
Actually this article starts with that right? ie 7 hours is worse than 1 hour (implying more is worse).

>>> Young people who spend seven hours or more a day on screens are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety than those who use screens for an hour a day, finds a new study published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports.

Are you suggesting 1 hour is harmless and 7 hours is extremely rare (assuming that is already proven) and hence nothing is new in this article?
What's the problem with leaking your IP address? If you host a website or any kind of API there, your IP is public anyway?
The whole point of announcing the search was to get the best from the taxpaxpayers. Quit being Amazons bagman.
> I've got to say that this kind of rabid response from climate change proponents kinda prods my inner contrarian

Oh good. So you'd rather see millions of people be displaced. We're fucked as a species when "I'm a contrarian" is a valid reason to disagree.
Whats interesting is that there is not much to collect anymore. From a third party vantage point it seems childrens entertainment has been devoured whole by mobile addictive skinner boxes. Between social media and that garbage a lot of kids are spending their parents money on virtual coins rather than plastic bricks.
I think it's just misapprehended, a lot of the crash of value is just aesthetics. People are keen on modernist shiny stuff. They don't much like fussy dark big heavy things.
Dining tables are an exception; home entertaining has fallen from fashion as women are not at home all day to do the work required, people aren't doing dinner parties and they tend to have smaller families than in the past as well.
If it's ethical, it's even more baffling why this would be a problem; providing services to enable and amplify white nationalism is clearly unethical.
Any statically typed language that doesn't do anything really stupid will be as fast as C when using the same backend (LLVM here) and the same type of coding (e.g. not taking into advantage high level libs that abstract everything, but doing regular stuff like loops, bit mangling, string processing, etc).

Pascal, Rust, ADA, and lots of others all are (or can be, when programmed properly with comparable constructs) "as fast as C" (and in some cases, e.g. when avoiding aliasing issues) faster.
Yup, pretty much so. That’s why I feel this “winner takes all” feature of modern life is a very damaging one
Does proof of authority have the most alignment with the legal infrastructure and existing wealth?
> * For this toy problem, there is actually a simple closed-form solution for the probability so there’s no need to simulate

I got about 1/3 of the way through your comment, when my knee jerked and I said "Bernoulli trials, Binomial distribution".
I'm not especially good assembly programmer but I beat the optimizer every day, in some cases by an order of magnitude. Even best compilers suck at automatic vectorization.
It's fast as C in the same way Java and Go are as fast as C. To put it in more concrete terms, it's worst cases on the same order of magnitude as C at least for non-specialized usecases. Whereas dynamic languages are usually many orders of magnitude slower. Comparing "the speed of languages" is largely bullshit and you need to be comparing a specific problem.

Crystal certainly has the genes required to be as fast as Go, and I think very few people are unhappy with Go's performance. Currently the major difference between Crystal and Go's single-threaded performance is the GC and thats not too bad. Parallelism is coming soon.

You could say that Crystal and Go (by default) is faster than C (by default) for IO bound workflows because of how IO is handled in Crystal and Go. But most people look at micro-benchmarks which don't reflect the difficulty of achieving C's performance in C.
If he has some actual basis for an opinion that contradicts the large majority of scientific consensus, then he should have at it. But to reject science out of hand with no reasoning other than "Well, there could be bugs" is just insane.
You might want to minimize the length of fiber you would need (and port costs on the DC side) by connecting from one base station node via another rather than backhauling everything directly to a datacenter somewhere; using edge caching can help reduce the congestion that this will cause.
Large portions of the Internet were cordoned off from commerce altogether. There was a weekend back in the 90s (probably more than one, but this is the one I remember) where there was an Internet-wide netsplit that cut commercial ISPs like Ripco off from the rest of the Internet.

Most conversations on the Internet took place on Usenet, and even in the alt. hierarchy, there were rules and politics behind what stuff got propagated.
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I buy the third explanation, that sleep is key.

How often do you find yourself thinking about code in your sleep? A lot, right? And then when you wake up somehow you have some clarity about the problem to hand. Once you've mucked around a bit and found the solution, cleaned it up, written some unit tests, and documented it, you're a bit tired. And the next problem is starting to form without being entirely clear.
No, I'm saying that there is no causation here. Kids who spend a lot of time in front of screens could be doing so because they have mental health issues or because of another reason entirely (e.g., lack of parenting) that also causes more mental health issues.

If the same number of kids have mental health issues as before there were so many screens, there is nothing to worry about. I'll start to worry if more kids have mental health problems, and then it makes sense to figure out what is causing that increase.
...or maybe I did so to indicate that using abbreviated names is a common thing among authors, men and women alike?

In a market where authors like 'Suzanne Collins', 'Jean M. Auel' and 'Marion Zimmer Bradley' (who happen to be the first three somewhat recent female authors who popped up in my head) manage to sell millions of books without hiding the fact that they are women this 'explanation' sounds more than contrived. Women write books, this has been a thing since Hildegard von Bingen picked up her quill somewhere in the 1100's. The idea that people somehow shy away from female authors is preposterous - which is also why I suggested it may be a political statement.

I do wonder whether J.K. Rowling dressed up like a man and turned her voice to sound real low when she did readings from her books, when she appeared to receive the multitude of prizes she won for those books and for all those other occasions where she appeared in public.
you can get peer reviewed and also submit your preprint in biorxiv. It's disappointing that it's not happening on a broad scale however.
Surprisingly, that isn't true [1]. I and others (link in the article) have shown that inequality actually (although quite slowly) decreases in PoS systems. [1] https://hackernoon.com/introducing-reputation-weighted-proof...
Probably is trivial but I figured I'd ask anyway.

A one click "email" server which allows you to receive emails from anywhere but only send emails to addresses on the current server. If I don't send emails, I don't need to worry about people not being able to receive my emails, right?
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KW is still a place where things make sense - a variety of housing with reasonable income multiples.
In other news, correlation is still not causation.