skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the capitalist countries you could pick you picked Ireland? With a higher per capita income than USA. Sounds less than random. If Capitalism is such magic why not pick Haiti? Its a small country with a primary trading partner - capitalist USA!

Is China capitalist or communist? That's the country that has lifted most people out of poverty.

If you really want to pick a typical capitalist country - pick India. It is a country that is clearly democratic and capitalist and represents several 17% of the worlds population. I can pick a dozen eastern bloc countries that were better off in the 80s than India is today.

If you are looking for clear A/B test examples where 2 exactly similar populations existed and one was treated with capitalism and the other with socialism, then you wont find any. The only one that comes remotely close is Latin America compared with Cuba - because both regions had similar economic and geographic status. One set of countries were treated with capitalism and Cuba was treated with communism. Cleary Cuba did much better than Latin America, but this only yields a sample size of one and it would be overreaching to generalize.

I find the whole debate around capitalism vs communism a red herring. Western Europe and USA have enjoyed great wealth because of historic reasons. Western Europe, thanks to colonization of Asia and Africa. USA - thanks to free slave labor and effective colonization of Latin America in the 20th century and geographic safety in the world wars.

Eastern Europe and Russia had limited colonial resources to plunder and had been ravaged by the 2nd World war. They did not have access to Marshall plan funds to rebuild after World war unlike Western Europe. Moreover they were a small bloc of countries that had to trade within themselves because of economic blockade by NATO. Considering the extremely tough circumstances they had mixed results. Romania did well, Poland not so much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Repub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic#Eco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Rep...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba

Cuba, in particular, has heavy sanctions to this day.

While capitalist countries like Singapore (dictatorship), Malaysia and Hong Kong (colony) did well, some did not (Pakistan) and other countries in the immediate American sphere of influence did extremely badly. Haiti, Nicaragua, Chile etc.

If anything that can be concluded from this, it is

- Being independent is good for a countries economy. Colonization or pseudo-colonization via capitalistic banana republics can be devastating - India, Haiti etc.

- Trade embargoes can ruin a countries economy. Except Cuba, almost all countries are ruined by it - NK, Iraq, Iran etc.

- Socialist welfare states can work and avoid terrible poverty and exploitation of workers. Scandinavia, Cuba, Communist Romania etc.

- USA strongly prefers dictatorships as trading partners-Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Nicaragua etc.
As someone else in this thread pointed out - being contacted doesn't mean anything comes from it.

It's EXTREMELY easy for recruiters to spam out messages. Since they're payed based on hires, it's a numbers game for them. Get as many people into the interview as possible.

How many of those interviews actually result in jobs? That's the important question. As this very post shows, there is a clear disconnect: HIRING is much less common than INTERVIEWING.
It’s pushing 10 gs or so. It is burning up.
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I’m not sure who actually buys from their website. I’ve tried to use it in its various incarnations over the years and it’s been terrible every single time. I think perhaps they mainly sell direct to corporates and to retail channels so the site isn’t something they care about getting sales from.
I'm not dogmatic about MVC (or any similar acronym), but I think MVC serves as a good reminder to (follow the more agreed upon maxim to) separate your concerns. Your application logic, data, and presentation layers need not be intertwined.
In this case it’s more visible on google Maps, which was actually taken from space vs high resolution aerial photos.
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Well, my van gets 11 MPG. I need this for a large family. (still fuel efficient due to number of people)

BTW, some conversions for you: My van needs about 21.38 liters per 100 km. The fuel price is about 0.46 Euro/L, in some cases as low as 0.44 Euro/L.

Low fuel cost is hugely important for the economy. High prices create a recession or depression. Fuel affects everything, and recently the price of oil dropped by 25%. Farm goods are affected by tractor fuel prices. Most plastic comes from oil. Our trains mostly run on diesel, so this can affect ticket prices. Normal planes require jet fuel, which is more of the same. Both exports and imports need bunker fuel for ships. Oil is even used to make roads and steel.

So the prices show up everywhere. You might not personally buy any fuel, but the cost of it is in the price of everything you buy.

I guess I can add: I'm thankful that I don't have to depend on non-redundant rail and unionized government workers for my transportation needs.
There, I said it.
>anyone think a Mac mini will survive daily hauls like that? I am concerned that it will be too much movement for a non-laptop.

It will survive. I've hauled my 2011 mini between my home and my girlfriend's home on approx 200 round trips. Sometimes I hike the distance; usually I take 2 buses.

At first I'd haul it in the very-high-quality white cardboard box it came in but a year or 2 ago I stopped bothering. Since then my only precaution has been to try to remember to put the mini in my travel bag with the "holes" (ports) up so that cruft from the bottom of the bag won't work its way inside the mini.

My model of the mini uses laptop components. If Apple has changed that in the new model, then my experience might not apply to you.

Interestingly, it never bothered me that the mini is about an inch thick. I'd rather it weigh a few oz less than it be as thin as a Macbook or an iPad.
> Because their theocracy refers to US as great satan

In all honesty, the US has given Iran plenty of reasons for relations to be somewhat frosty.

In more recent times, Trump has been rather vocal against Iran with his trademark agressive Twitter 'pish' - so there's plenty of name calling on both sides, and hardly justifies the current state of affairs.
I'm not familiar with async in Python, but creating a blocking wrapper around an async call is something I've had to do quite often in various circumstances.

Theoretically, you shouldn't need to do that, but in practice there's always some big legacy component that you can't rewrite to make it asynchronous. In my experience it's such a common pattern that the language should support it. But in many languages it ends up being quite complex or inelegant.

Makes me feel like there's a bit of a schism between language designers and users: designers want an architecture that encourages clean code, users want duct tape.
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This one shows 85% efficiency? :)
You can press "?" when you open the editor to read quick start guide. :)

As for the fuzzy search, it's working as intended. Have a look at the docs[0] for an explanation of the matching algorithm, UX, and the reasoning behind it; it's intentional, I promise.

Love the idea of displaying the key binding next to the command!

[0] https://amp.rs/docs/usage/#using-the-file-finder
Google didn't make the distinction between transport layer and HTTP-layer on top when they called their development "QUIC", it was one thing. IETF decided to split these during the standardization.
Could you elaborate what is the sweet spot for RN, when webview is not enough?
"The termites' activities over thousands of years has resulted in huge quantities of soil deposited in approximately 200 million cone-shaped mounds, each about 2.5 meters tall and 9 meters across."

200 million mounds!?!? Over an area the size of Great Britain?

Can anyone take a stab at how many termites and/or termite hours it took to make this happen?
> Or, the cheesy TED talk clincher would be: the next big solution isn't always about electrons, sometimes it's about people.

An even cheesier TED talk clincher would be:

> the next big solution isn't always about electrons, sometimes it's about elections.
99% of cases will have an obvious cause of death.
For $15/hr, you do not get top quality C++ developers from any corner of the world. I know - I've worked for companies that have tried. You tend to end up with a spaghetti code base utilizing crappy open source or shareware libraries that a cousin produced. Then, you try and scale, and need to bring people that actually know what they're doing.

2 years in at current job, where most of the work was done by offshore devs, company now has a team of onshore developers to fix all of the performance and stability problems.
You and your best friend most likely can’t install it. You not only need building permits, you also typically need a licensed electrician to do the work. Doing it without a permit or properly credentialed installers risks sanction from the municipality as well as potential insurance consequences.
Ya I knew that. I learned that the hard way after my snes games started erasing the save data when I powered off the system. My nes was fairly dead by that point so i missed those. Then I learned my n64 games would be next.... :(

I just couldn't figure why fairly modern CNC machines used the same technology as old video game cartridges.
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I tried it twice. Twice I was disappointed. Some right wing Shilary conspiracy garbage and then some snore-fest about generation differences.
In Seattle there are lots of buildings going up that are residential with commercial space on the ground floor. Residential is so profitable that the commercial space can sit empty for quite awhile and still make a profit. They then cover the vacant storefronts with colorful graphics.
> In MVC as it was originally understood, a model is a list of subscribers.

This doesn't seem to track with a cursory search on the history of MVC. See some of the older papers on this site by the creator of MVC: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html

From 1979 (http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/1979/mvc-1/1979-05-MVC.pdf) (also alluded to in the linked article)

> A Model is an active representation of an abstraction in the form of data in a computing system

I don't see any description in terms of subscribers.
Humans didn't cause mass animal extinctions in Africa, like previously thought
Like everything it’s a tradeoff. A signup page that just collects email addresses does not need to care about architecture.

Best practices always have the hidden assumption that going deal with the same situations as 99/100 cases. But, clearly that’s not always true, so you need to keep in mind the reasoning behind them.
I hate to be a bummer but based on the way the construction industry works, that's almost certainly not going to happen. For example, in the U.S. most plumbing jobs fall under a bevy of regulations and yet tasks as simple as changing a faucet can frequently lead to issues like unmatched pipe diameters or thead types. We've had 100 years to standardize that and it's still a mess. You literally can't even just go buy a garden hose and know for sure it's going to fit your exterior faucet.

Electrical is arguably the most regulated, standards based and straight forward aspect of construction and even that varies a great deal based on the electrician and equipment.

A rigorous standards based construction industry would be amazing. We could design electrical systems that could be installed by a novice with almost no risk of danger or failure. Homeowners could change luminares just plugging them in and attaching them to an electric box toolesly. We could have plug and play water appliances.

Damn it would be magical but again I'm fairly certain that's just not going to happen.

Edit: Above I indicated that the construction industry doesn't operate on "rigorous standards". That's not really true. There are actually very good science based standards for most construction tasks. It's more of a problem that the industry doesn't really focus on making future work on a structure low cost. And it makes very little effort to increase accessibility by creating more consumer facing equipment and tools.
Interesting, when did this happen? From the outside it definitely seems like it's been their x-ray vision for sure.
No of course not, but some stations here have this "this wall was modern in the 70s, also it's kinda grimy and some of the tiles fell off" look - like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendlinger_Tor_(Munich_U-Bahn), but some were worse. They are renovating some - and to be honest if it's structurally sound I couldn't care less if it looks shabby, I was just trying to point out the differences - because some of the newer ones look really nice :)
Your doctor is not a third party to your medical information; perhaps you could exclude them from accessing it, but then you'd be the one forcing them to do something dangerous.

Being an idiot and getting yourself killed is not the doctors fault.
I'm not aiming for the top. I'm aiming for a good position on an alternate path. My 6-year goal is to have my own company that I work for full time, and my 10-year goal is to have a few employees. I don't want to build a tech company that will be acquired, I want to build a tech company that sells a product and provides me with a decent income, a solid upper-middle-class or lower-upper-class income.

I hate to admit it but this journey so far has seen me have to reprioritise my interests already. Instead of focusing on technical challenges I enjoy I've had to start thinking about customers, what do they want, what will they pay for and how much?
So I didn’t know who he is (still don’t) and this article doesn’t actually come across as humble bragging when I read it without your context. He doesn’t even mention how successful he is, and just says change the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
That's not ignorance, that's curiosity. And it's nothing to be ashamed of.
If you want to do it, the fast train from Birmingham ends at Holyhead station in Wales, and (depending which end of the train you're in) you walk about 100m to the check-in building of the ferry.

I don't know for this place, but it's fairly likely that the ferry schedule aligns with the train schedule.

Train+ferry connections used to be very common in Europe. Sometimes the train was loaded onto the ferry (still happens between Germany and Denmark). Some have been replaced by bridges, others are defunct, but where they still exist it's usually possible to buy an ordinary train ticket which includes travel across the ferry. Interrail/Eurail passes include the use of these ferries.
Once upon a time, I remember having to use Visual Sourcesafe, and it started silently corrupting the repository after 2 Gb. Probably some length somewhere was a 32-bit signed variable.

I remember that the corruption was silent. That was bad. But nowhere as bad as Clearcase was in general.

Clearcase is like the bastard child of a barrel of horseshit and a mountain of self-inflicted hurt. One had to use "views" of which there were two types, and some kind of special mount point where the view loaded things from a source repository, given a "config specification" which defined from which versions (branches?) files should be loaded. Making a branch took a huge amount of time for a non-trivial source repository. It was "take a coffee" long time. Sometimes the views went bad. I don't luckily even remember all the problems, this was over 10 years ago.

The config specs seemed somehow to defy logic. Something always broke with them. Usually one just copied premade config specs made by someone with a transcended mind who seemed to have somehow figured out the underlying logic.

And... I can't just put to words how bad Clearcase was (is?). That is my experience with it, and I will without a doubt choose Git over VSS, SVN, CVS, RCS, Clearcase and whatnot any day.
Agreed. I realized I was addicted to checking Facebook and Reddit even though I rarely got anything out of them. I've since deactivated (I need Messenger to chat with some friends, so I can't fully delete, sadly) my Facebook account and pared back my Reddit subscriptions to only academic ones so I can at least learn while on it. It's made me want to check Facebook/Reddit a lot less.
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I could totally believe that this is a true and valid result. I could also believe that the "audio-only" case did not work well, not because it's "too cold", but because perhaps it is really freakin' loud inside that FMRI and they cannot hear well enough to follow what's going on.
I think the first step for solving this problem on mobile is having an indicator that an app is "listening". Just like the "location" icon pops up in the top bar on Android (and going into settings for location shows you which apps recently requested location), having an identical icon/history setup for microphone access would be perfect. Same goes for front/back camera.
Different systems can have very different logical foundations, so converting proofs from a system to another can be very complicated in general. Even when converting is possible, the converted proof might be very anti-idiomatic in the target system, in more or less the same way one automatically converting Haskell to C is likely to produce very anti-idiomatic C. Also, communities do not necessarily compete for this list.

Keeping this in mind, there still is something:

* OpenTheory (http://www.gilith.com/opentheory/) provides some kind of lingua franca between systems of the HOL family, that are rather similar.

* Mario Carneiro wrote an article (https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8091) on automatic conversion from OpenTheory to Metamath. I am not aware of an actual implementation.

* Although it is not the same things, some systems have tools that can feed a subproof to an ATP (automated theorem proved) and reconstruct a valid proof to it. That simplifies proof writing.

I did not a comprehensive review, so the list may be lacking.
The shorter timeout would likely be for downstream app servers in the same datacenter, not for the general internet. That is, adding a route for a specific network not because the default route doesn't work, but for tuning that setting only for that network.
It actually is. People call it friction, but that’s not right. It’s adiabatic compression heating.
I imagine the launch was timed so that this video could be taken. I doubt it’s just coincidence.

Or perhaps they’re launching so the vehicle will end up in orbit close to the ISS and not have to take so long, I believe they’re doing with this with manned launches so they can dock quite quickly.
My son is 7, and he’s in a transition phase where for ~45 mins/day we read to each other (naturally, for a long while I was the only one reading).
I’ve always been curious about his mental development related to hearing stories read to him. Fortunately so far I’ve only heard and read positive things about this. But I must admit I’m surprised to see that the so-called Goldilocks environment is created using illustrated books. I always thought that visual cues created a lazier imagination because a part of the work is done by the artist on behalf of the listener.
I recently bought a A485 from their site. It was only available in stock configuration from other sites which I didn't care for. The experience wasn't too bad, but maybe I was lucky.
In what way is updating README.md difficult? Please have as much respect for contributors and potential contributors as you seem to have for maintainers. They're all people after all and their free time is equally important.
The wind farm theory others, including the author, have floated looks about right. Here's a video of a wind farm at night elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABhodyX2nY
Except of course, on failures of the launch or a purposeful non-recoverable mission
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I'll repeat the comment I made on your blog for visibility.

Running your reducers is almost never the perf bottleneck - updating the UI is. Most slice reducers are either switch statements or lookup tables, in which case there's effectively no work to do if the action doesn't matter for this reducer. See our FAQ entry at [0] for more details.

If you have specific examples where Redux performance is an issue, please ping me @acemarke in Twitter or Reactiflux, and I'd be happy to offer advice.

[0] Performance: Won't calling "all my reducers" for each action be slow? https://redux.js.org/faq/performance#wont-calling-all-my-red...
Red Hat doesn't know a lot about infrastructure

Not that their infrastructure is insignificant ... but it's insignificant
Most companies I know of use the maxmind db for geo ip lookups. Would be interesting to check if your ip(s) are being mapped to Japan in the recent version of maxmind’s db.
You listen to your experts. Get their opinions. Ask for their logic and their evidence and their conclusions. Then you decide.
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"Basically they will push to change the system so that people don’t have to work as hard, it’s harder to fire people and have a seniority system."

Costco is a union company that's like a walk-in version of Amazon warehouse invented before Amazon. They pay workers well, give them bonuses, and so on. Company makes around $100 billion a year.

If trying to imagine unionized Amazon, walk into a Costco noting how the workers perform and at what stress levels. Better yet, if about vote with your wallet, just buy stuff from Costco and similar companies instead of Amazon to maintain and create more great jobs.

My company is a union company, too. We outperform the competition. They try to poach us all the time, too. The contract allows management to take action against lazy or disobedient employees if they can prove it. Their continued employment is totally due to terrible, ineffective management. All they gotta do is write their name on a piece of paper they present to those workers several times to fire them. Instead, they write up good, compliant workers over technicalities but ignore bad workers that argue back more. The lazy, weak managers get stuff done on paper that way. Although very common in union shops, I virtually never see anyone talk about the management angle on bad employees hard to get rid of.

The other issue is managers backing friends/family, who they buy drugs from, sleep with, and so on. Lots of political backchanneling over the most ridiculous stuff in these big companies. The sales teams are even crazier most of the time but theyre professional bullshitters with incentives to be aggressively outgoing. So, no surprise Im always hearing crazy stories about ex-employees. ;)
What...?

You get a more functional labour economy by having labour able to access better opportunities. If there's a killer sales agent that won't apply for my sales position because Amazon is dunking him with 14 hour days repeatedly, no one benefits besides Amazon.
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