skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought "Serverless still runs on servers" and "The cloud is just someone else's computer" aren't just condescending and pedantic, but also highly dismissive.

Yeah, sure, "serverless" and "cloud" are both buzzwords that reached peak buzz a years ago (serverless being more recent), but they're actually incredibly powerful.

Before cloud services became a thing, if you wanted to run a high capacity service of some sort beyond something a simple shared web host could offer, you had to either run your own data center or pay for colocation services, neither of which were cheap or quick to set up. Scaling up and down to handle peaks during specific times of day simply wasn't a thing. If you were launching something new, you had to take a guess on how much processing power you'd need. If you guessed too low, you potentially lost customers as they got frustrated and left while you worked on scaling up. If you guessed too high, you wasted a lot of money. The ability to quickly scale your infrastructure up and down in minutes or even seconds is HUGE.

The ramifications of serverless are equally large, because now you don't even need to consider your scaling at all, not to mention patching your operating system and other software. All that matters is your code. Throw your static files in S3 and let AWS handle the distribution, rather than having to spin up an EC2 instance and keeping nginx up to date.

Snubbing technology just because you have some pedantic reason to hate the name is just silly and gets in the way of discussion of the merits of the technology.
Duh. H-1B has always favored tech companies because it increases the labor supply and indirectly decreases salaries. Perfect example of how companies only want free markets when it benefits them.

Honestly, I was hoping Trump would end the entire program, but who am I kidding? Google and friends spend way too much on lobbying for that to happen.
"The prices are equivalent or in certain cases more than what Hotels charge"

You conveniently ignore the huge number of cases where its cheaper than a hotel (especially a suite for a family) and the fact that it contains a kitchen and many other time/money saving amenities
It might be an artificial shortage for sure. I also have seen terrible programmers and technical people in general gaming the technical interview and getting jobs that are beyond their abilities.

However I do think that is not a binary issue that can be blamed on a single cause.

There's a range of things that could affect the outcome of a hiring decision and if H1-B is one of those reasons (let's say out of bad faith someone hires under H1-B because they want to pay them less), then is obvious that there are many other factors and biases that are affecting the outcome of how technical talent is hired in the US. Croyinsm, sexism, racism, ageism, broken hiring practices, corporate politics; just to mention a few.
Is Vue.JS actually "Chinese made"? I checked out their team section and it seems very international, I couldn't see how you'd claim the team is based in any particular country.
Google Chat is a horrible experience and I would advise anyone serious about communications at their company to seriously consider alternatives. I am currently forced to use it. I have documented multiple bugs in a blog post here and I have reported each one to Google multiple times without any fixes being made. We are a paying client for G Suites.

https://technex.us/2018/11/google_chat_is_the_worst_desktop_...
Microsoft's market value overtakes Apple's to close out week
That's because the Prius Prime is lousy. It has less oomph than the standard Prius and is noisy as all get out.

Having just test driven a whole bunch of these cars and just bought a Volt in 2018, I can tell you:

1) The Volt has really good power
2) The Volt is really quiet
3) The Volt has really good range

Nothing else even came close at the same price point.
Didn't read the article, just commenting on Kahneman. I also found his books very annoying. I was already familiar with most of the research he references and thought that on nearly every other page he slightly misrepresented someone's work. He doesn't just cherry pick, but writes like a Procrustes. If you are interested in pursuing the topic of heuristic thinking, Gerd Gigerenzer is equally interesting but more careful in his conclusions.
DevOps is not a career path
Have you tried the FreeBSD Linux emulator? It can be annoying grabbing the required libraries off a Centos box but once you do it's been pretty reliable for me.
How to ILMerge unmanaged DLL?
We have been using Tabulator for some time now and are really happy with it. Looking forward to trying out v4. Thanks for all the hard work you've put in Oli :)
The semiconductor industry isn't really dependent upon cheap labor
This study is clearly flawed because they didn't consider the real use case of blockchain: illegal activity.

Blockchain has truly transformed the fields of child pornography, ransomware, drug markets, and ponzi schemes. Regardless of your opinions of those fields, you simply have to accept that those areas wouldn't be possible to the extent they are now without Blockchain based cryptocurrencies.
Linux has passable support for a lot of hardware, but it frequently doesn't have complete support for even surprisingly popular hardware.

Recent problem of mine: in Linux, using a Bluetooth-connected Apple Magic Trackpad 2, I can't right click, let alone scroll or use any multitouch gestures.
> Why? See my ( very recent) comment history.

No one is here for a homework assignment. Please explain yourself to add to the discussion.
It needs to be something that can work as a background app with notifications etc.
It's in the title.
The war on messaging is partially won for now.

TikTok's audience is too young and SnapChat wasn't really competition for Facebook ( WhatsApp was)

I do recognise I was surprised to see TikTok by my neece. It's not a threat yet ( the audience is too young), but they are upping their skills considerately lately
It was a remake of a remake, actually.

In 1991, they remade the original Leisure Suit Larry to be a traditional point-and-click adventure game. It's referred to as Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards or just Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA. The modern-day remake was an update of the point-and-click version.
Huge missed opportunity in not calling it QUICCheck.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
But it still requires Hangouts to make and accept phone calls on other devices, so far as I can see.

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6188337?hl=en&ref_topic...
There is zero possibility Trump or the republicans are going to do anything to raise wages relative to revenue, even if it were a side effect of whipping of ethnic rage. For the democrats, the possibility rounds to zero.
I extend it further: the moment you need to verify that something happened outside the system, your blockchain is broken.
“If your income is $10 / mo, and you pay $4 in property tax, then you are spending 40% of your income in property tax.”

Those numbers don’t seem very realistic?
Trump administration proposes changes to popular H-1B program
OpenBSD precompiled packages have a limitation. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

Binary packages for -release and -stable are not updated.

I also ran into some strangeness with FreeBSD packages. I was on a STABLE release that was not the latest version. It was no longer possible for me to update and install binary packages.
> I'll repeat it again, my solution would be: Support for Made in India 2025.
Greed won't disappear, but you can shift the balance to a more western friendly country.

They are already destroying a lot of countries. They borrow money to them, so the Chinese can build their infrastructure. But there are almost no locals involved, so all the artificial inflation goes to China. The belt is just an excuse for colonizing the world ( or at least the harbors, strategic airports that they themselves have built, see Sri Lanka, they are the first to comply).

I think a lot of those countries that built a dam with Chinese money forget that maintenance costs a lot also. Reference: FIFA football stadiums

Ps. Feel free to share your concern
This always surprises me as cutting out refined and/or unrefined carbohydrates has no effect on my weight.

The only thing that moves my weight down is reducing calories or increasing activity while maintaining the same caloric intake. I suppose it's entirely possible these people are doing the former and just don't know it.
Absolutely agreed on all counts.
> pushed everyone to Hangouts, which is...the same?

While Google is terrible at this, I believe there is one other major difference: IIRC, Talk did not have cloud sessions. You could not switch from desktop to mobile and continue a conversation right where you left off. (The closet you could get was look at archived messages in Gmail.)

Hangouts, like virtually any modern chat system, does have this. So they did add at least one feature that's pretty useful for people even when not using voice and video.
> the "farm" selling you their romaine might actually be selling you romaine from somewhere else that they've repackaged.

Think about it from a game theory perspective. Under the status quo, each party in the supply chain maximizes their profit by lying about where their supplies came from. Whereas with DLT, each party maximizes their profit by being honest about where their supplies came from.

As an example, let's say you hijack you a truck and swap out expensive lettuce for cheap lettuce in a way that circumvents whatever tamper proofing technology has been applied. Stuff like this happens all the time currently, and is wildly profitable. (That's why if you go to a sushi restaurant and get a bunch of assorted sushi pieces or rolls, there is roughly a 0% chance that your meal will actually consist of what you ordered.)

With DLT though this is no longer profitable, because if you sell the cheap lettuce as expensive lettuce then you now have to sell the expensive lettuce as cheap lettuce, because each head or crate or whatever still needs to be traceable back to the source. This means that your total profit from the transaction is just whatever you would have made without cheating, plus your costs of hijacking the truck. So all in all, a substantial net loss.
Sure, but there are tradeoffs that must be dealt with.
FreeBSD does not have the same problem. You have your choice of packages or ports. Ports you compile if you want to change the default settings. Otherwise you use packages which are just pre-compiled ports with default settings.
Funny you should say that. Companies are hiring ex-Intelligence people to handle such things.
I played everything. Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest... hated it when they went the 'point-n-click' way.

Still whistle the police Quest opening tune to my daughters sometimes... What are you whistling daddy?
How do you get the experience of classic adventure games across...?
Uber always prompts you for a rating for your last trip, there does not appear to be a time limit. The only thing you can skip is leaving a tip.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/apr/13/unilever-pr...
This is a nice idea about abstraction but without knowledge you cannot run anything professionally with any degree of reliability or confidence. What happens when things break? Google, Facebook and any company dependent on delivery have full fledged networking and ops teams.

All these wrappers still require time investment in knowledge, setup and configuration. The cost for users knowing the wrappers but not the tech is being locked in a platform, if they know the tech even if Kubernetes crashes and burns their knowledge and time investment remains valuable.

Before Wireguard it was extremely difficult to get near line speed with encryption, now accessible to all. If this is not 'value' what is? Given this post is about networking benchmarks this is a huge deal. If people stop creating these kind of networking tools and technologies then there is going to be nothing to wrap.
I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On
Many on HN have vested interests in this program. Looks like they can make their voices heard: "The public can weigh in on the proposed rule December 3, 2018 through January 2, 2019."
Sometimes they're just genuinely unaware of the prior art and think that chained hashing is a new thing.
Huawei's got a portable LTE Network that happens to be just for things like this. They call the technology eLTE (enterprise LTE) and the portable solution rapid eLTE. For backhaul you can use Fiber, Radio, Ethernet or Satellite, pretty much anything. the solution supports sending multimedia over the handys, voice, video, gps and data. They also offer a trunking solution over eLTE.
> A random primary care physician (PCP) isn't going to send a prescription for it over to the local CVS/Walgreens pharmacy for convenient pickup over lunch.

Most GPs won't write you a scrip for ADHD medication on a whim, either, but I wouldn't describe Vyvanse as "illicit." They just "know what they don't know" and so don't trust their own evaluation of you and think you should get a professional evaluation by a specialist (i.e. a psychiatrist, in this case.)

They're usually perfectly willing to continue prescribing after you've gotten a previous scrip from a psychiatrist, though. I suspect ketamine would be much the same, except that you'd need to get your scrip filled at the pharmacy of an inpatient hospital (since that's where they'd have it in stock), rather than the corner store.

It's the same story as, say, methamphetamine. Scheduled drug—but that doesn't mean you can't just get a prescription and get it filled. It's a lot of work to get that prescription (since methamphetamine is also a last-line treatment), but once you have it, any hospital pharmacy should have some in stock.
You realize that those companies will just open up offices elsewhere if they can't bring people here, right?
Messages on the web does support notifications, though you do have to keep it open. (But then, the same applies to Hangouts unless you use the Chrome app.)
A response to “We are Google employees, Google must drop DragonFly”
Why? It's one of the best messaging platforms out there. Everyone I know has an email account. It is easier to reach me by gmail (and thus hangouts) than it is to reach me by phone, because my phone has bad service.

Why on earth would they kill one of their best and most popular services? I don't use FB messenger at all, whatsapp reveals my phone number, Skype is an ABSOLUTE joke, and not everyone has Line, Viber, Telegram and so on.
I doubt that's going to be the result. I doubt that anyone is in any way that important. It's going to be financial / identity fraud, there's no reason for the thief to ever see your face.
Who picks how many spots to auction off? Is there any rational basis for that number or is it just some kind of random 'out of your ass' political thing?

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-numbe...
I suspect that the quality was substantially higher than the Wrangler jeans you would find at a US Walmart, despite having the same branding. Other brands like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein have products ranging from budget to ultra high-end, all of which bear the respective brands.
How is that last sentence connected to the rest of your comment?
Few security software vendors have shown a particular aptitude for actually designing secure software, let alone implementing secure software.
This wasn't some anomaly, AAPL stayed above $1T for an entire quarter, at times being above $1.1T and then only slid down recently when the tech market as a whole did. Trying to pretend Apple was never legitimately worth over $1T is ridiculous
Why Has It Taken California So Long to Count Ballots? Because All Votes Count
I could easily be wrong, but it's hard for me to imagine that waging war is the Chinese objective here. Wars are costly, and destructive, and unpredictable.

But tech espionage would fit nicely into a different, long-term game. There is (of course) a lot of work left to do spread the modern economy to the rest of their country. But if they can do that, they will have a huge population advantage and be the largest market in the world. Meanwhile they are already competitive (if not dominant) in manufacturing. So what's left? Tech.

If they can become competitive with (or even leap-frog) the West technologically, they'll really be the de-facto leader of the world in every economic dimension.
A nice article to read while sitting here in a Marriott.
Amazon Prepares to Compete in the Blockchain and Crypto Space
Fair enough, I suppose DUI penalties were phased in over time as you say. I used to ride too, sorry you got hit, but I'm glad you're still with us.
For dirty, undermining business practices no one beats the Chinese. Their product quality is also terrible.
> As pointed out elsewhere, you are wrong because UTF-16 'characters' can still be comprised of compounded elements. (Base character plus additional composition elements to create a final character.) In simple terms, you can't just treat it as an array to index to any given character.

I am aware of that having implemented UTF-8 myself, and I thought I was fairly clear in my comment about characters vs. bytes.

> The assumption about finding specific characters (for example, command flags) in a string or array of strings is also... complicated.
As an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms

Also aware of that. But it only matters if you're actually searching for those characters. Parsing something like XML or JSON, therefore, is as easy with UTF-8 as it would be with ASCII, because you're only looking for characters like < or { which are the same byte values in UTF-8. You don't need to worry about accidentally finding a continuation byte because UTF-8 sets high bits on continuation bytes for exactly this reason.
The only way someone can prove they're the "real" satoshi (note: Craig Wright is NOT satoshi, he's a fraud), is to use a known-only-to-satoshi private key to move some arbitrary amount of coin from a very early wallet to a new wallet.
> I'd say that Linux's popularity tend to translate to technical superiority

Linux isn't exactly technically superior to other OS kernels, and it's definitely lacking in innovation.

You cite Docker as an example, but that's a shining example of Linux taking major innovations from other OSes and copying it badly. BSDs had jails and Solaris had zones long before Linux got containers, and whereas those were considered security features on other OSes, Docker containers are not seen as improving the security of systems.

Other features like this exist too. Linux has refused to allow better IPC mechanisms such as what Android to be upstreamed, and the Linux replacement for select/poll is generally considered to be the worst of the bunch.

Another consideration is that both smartphones and supercomputers tend to use lots of modifications to Linux not present in desktop kernels. Android, as mentioned above, uses a different IPC mechanism, while supercomputer applications rely a lot on libraries that bypass kernels because scaling to highly parallel 100,000-core systems requires breaking POSIX a fair amount (particularly the filesystem semantics).
I appreciate the reply even with your admitted caveats.
From archive.org, it looks like this was written in late 2003/early 2004.
It's interesting to note that Google Translate (on "Detect Language" set) translates "nour" as "Light" in Arabic.
Very true, but once you're at the level of complexity where you're rendering a GUI are you really concerned about cache invalidation due to incorrect branch prediction iterating strings?

GUI rendering is very expensive for lots of reasons, but I don't believe that's one of them - even in the UTF-8 case. You're ultimately either drawing thousands of pixels or communicating over a (relatively compared to the CPU cache) slow bus with the GPU.
What you said regarding US stealing IP from Europe is true.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take defensive measure. Do defend our IP because that's our self-interest. Don't do it with the moral pretense.
Hey, just like it says on the Statue of Liberty;

"Give me your productive, your rich, your educated classes yearning for an H-1B..."
I recently did a therapeutic MDMA session and it was life changing. So much was stored in my body that it helped to release.
What if he's lost the key?
Also doesn't address astroturfing or spam, which are more of a problem without a gatekeeper.
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I feel like you're ascribing a lot of sci-fi dreams to a technology that lets you work with (mostly) plastic without molds. Like these things aren't replicators.
IM in general is such a mess.

All I really want is to have a single ID that people can use to text me from any device they might have (without having to install a special app, because they won't do it just for me), and that I can receive on any device that I have. We did this for email decades ago; why is IM not there yet?
Ditto NetBSD
What makes your proposed system immune from abuse?

"reviewers could receive currency directly for the information they provide, provided by the potential customers who benefit directly"

The greatest benefit goes to restaurants with positive reviews, which are thereby incentivized to game the system.

Blockchain might have solved the problem of trustless consensus with proof-of-work, but you are now introducing a new situation in which any number of fake, anonymous contributors can distort the review system. If the review reader pays the review writer directly, upvoting their own phony reviews doesn't cost the corrupt restaurant anything.
This is probably the first time I see something from a concerned Chinese citizen.

I applaud this truthfully, it also gave me an alternative view about ( why) entering the market and what some Chinese think.
I met a blockchain researcher this summer, I was asking her what sort of stuff she was working on and she started talking about supply chains. Like drexlspivey mentioned there are a whole host of problems with relying on data from the real world. My first thought was just... why do you need an immutable ledger for that? Not to throw buzzwords out, but why not just store transaction data in a database that scales well? If you're willing to spend all of these resources on developing some insane database for your supply chain you must have some real trust issues with your suppliers. I've never worked in an industry like that but I feel like being able to trust your suppliers is pretty important, and provided that you do trust them you could just use a conventional database for all of this and save tons of time and effort.
Software is different from books. The EULA that you implicitly sign may prevent you from transferring ownership to someone else.
That's supporting the system and even hypocritical for you if you disagree with the system existing.
Then he/she/they cannot prove. It is what it is.
No. That one is strictly audio and is cross-platform. The one I'm thinking of has some closer connection to Automator... now I remember! It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer

Wonder how the S wire got crossed with it.. :)
No, but it isn’t about lying as a matter of business, that would easily be detected and caught in most cases, and a large amount of work to continually lie effectively. If you have employees and machines writing lots of data it’s infeasible to tamper with it in real-time.

The tampering comes after the fact when a legal issue arises. The immutable nature of the ledger makes it an improvement over the past by preventing later tampering.
Gitter is open source. Do you maybe have a link to an issue about the IRC bridge?