skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you are much smarter than the rest of us when it comes to understanding supply and demand curves, but why don't you help us walk through an example, okay?

Suppose it costs -- and I am making this up -- $10 to produce the first 1000 units, but only $1 after that.

Suppose people are charging a lot of money, say $50 for a unit.

Won't you increase production to try to capture that demand.

After that, because you have increased production you enjoy economies of scale, and the price comes down.

If you are the only producer, you have no incentive to come down, but if there are other producers you will want to undercut them. In this case, you will bring down your price to gain more market share.

Please help us understand what we are missing with your shrewd understanding of supply and demand curves.
> You can't "just" throw a MS SQL install on a machine, it needs to be properly installed system-wide and register all its components or it won't work properly etc. — so spinning an instance up for testing really isn't nearly as easy as with postgres.

As another commenter pointed out, you can run MSSQL in Docker. We do this in CI.

You can also install it pretty easily on a standard Linux machine, without much more complexity than Postgresql. For example, you can `apt install mssql-server`

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-instal...
Would this also explain galactic voids as regions of large negative mass? It would seem that deviations in the Hubble constant bear a void would confirm this theory.
Rear entry is probably going to have physical fitment issues depending on the amount of space in the chassis to work with. Minivans are pretty homogeneous now (it's not the late 80s anymore) so this isn't really an issue but I bet there's a model or two out there that are simply a no-go because some component that can't practically be relocated is in the way.

Side entry is going to be able to fit a wider range of vehicles because the installation is less invasive so you can support more vehicles for cheaper (kind of like how a static webpage can be viewed on basically anything but a fancy web app has a narrower range of browsers).

You can get a rear entry kit for pretty much every minivan that's on the market. You can get a side entry kit for that and more. I didn't bother checking but I know I've seen side entry but never rear entry kits on full size vans (also it makes sense that you can't put a rear entry kit on a full size van because there's a frame in the way).

Fundamentally you're limited by head room. You can't have people smashing their faces into the top of the door opening.

Google's choice was probably not influenced by the availability wheelchair van conversion kits.
Yes, it was rolled out in a recent update - mainly in response to security researchers discovering they were using weak 40-bit crypto that had been broken back in 2005 that meant an attacker could just outright clone their fobs. They couldn't fix that in a software update so they stuck a PIN on as a patch.
It's the vehicle side system that measures RTT, not the fob. The fob just has to have consistent response latency so as not to perturb the RTT.
A simple button on the fob (rather than in the car) that you must press to open the doors and to start the engine would mitigate the attack. No need for coupling
When I was a contractor (in NZ), there were substantial tax benefits.

Not only was my pay higher (to compensate for no-notice termination), I paid less income tax because many expenses were deductible (car, power, house, phone, computers, etc).

It turned out to be something like double my typical salary, with health insurance taken care of by taxes.

Are the tax rules different in the US?
I think I know what you are talking about, there does seem to be a general sense of elitism in the Rust community. Kind of a thought that Rust is the best language for almost any task, why would you use anything else? I think that thought process is present in many software communities however.

I have found the Rust community to be one of the most helpful and welcoming to beginners, and I don't believe this to be contradictory of what I have mentioned before. Rust developers want their community to grow so to spread the good word. Maybe it comes off too strong sometimes by pointing out where Rust has strengths against other languages, but if that is the among worst the community does, I would consider the community pretty friendly.
You don't need a system-wide database driver, it has its own client protocol and uses drivers just like any other database:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/sql-connection-...

It can also run in Docker containers on Windows, Mac or Linux and spins up in seconds, along with the usual package manager installs on Redhat/Ubuntu:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-instal...
that may be the case, but snubbing reasonable requests from an institution with essentially unlimited power in its own domain is unlikely to end well for you if you want to remain operating there
Well... In my case it keep saying

Huh... that's weird

Something unexpected occurred. We'll investigate what happened

Refresh the page

Anyway, Python actually support limited functional programming so I only get it for that topic :-)
This isn't strictly true. Professional athletes in major leagues are unionized, and their jobs are highly specialized and well paid. The Writers Guild of America is another union that represents a non-manual labor profession. You could also consider the American Medical Association as a pseudounion guild that restricts entry into the medical field and keeps wages high.
As well as the Screen Actor's Guild.

"SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals."

https://www.sagaftra.org/home
Also, in case anyone didn't realize, press releases are what the press use to write popular articles. Hence the term. Journalists generally don't read scientific papers.
Also, can we mention the fire left space for new growth that in time will reclaim same amount of carbon from atmosphere that was emitted during fire (unless Califirnia becomes desert).
I use Dbeaver. Its not a ssms, but very handy tool
I'm confused as to what they're actually launching here. If i'm reading correctly, their existing service which was branded as an "early rider" program has been renamed to "waymo one", but the service hasn't actually changed at all and is still limited to the same region and to existing users of the early rider program?
> A simple button on the fob (rather than in the car) that you must press to open the doors and to start the engine would mitigate the attack.

Yes, reverting from passive-supported to active-only remote entry/start would eliminate the attack by eliminating the feature on which it is based. OTOH, the handsfree nature of passive remote entry is a major selling point.
What PIA co-founder proved in June 2018 on Hacker News[1], and what happened after:

- ProtonVPN UAB lists Tesonet's CEO as a director [after: the company's name was changed multiple times in 2 months, and the director's name was hidden from the public view]

- ProtonVPN UAB is operated from Tesonet's HQ in Vilnius, Lithuania [after: the company's address was changed to a co-working space's located a few streets away, which doesn't require to relocate to use it]

- ProtonVPN UAB uses previous Tesonet's technical employees [after: still true]

- ProtonVPN uses IP address blocks that belong to Tesonet [after: these IP address blocks were assigned to ProtonVPN]

- ProtonVPN Android mobile app was signed by Tesonet [after: still true]

The ProtonMail's response on reddit was modified multiple times and locked, to prevent people from picking the holes in the narrative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203 ["showdead" must be enabled in settings to see the entire thread]
If you're a retail investor, it's probably very likely that the big guys have already priced this in, and all you're making might be a bet that shifts on new information.

The big guys also get new information much faster than the rest, and even have people employed who's job is to get information via non-traditional means that are not available to average investors.

For example:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/08/19/129298095/with...

Using satellite images of parking lots to predict super market earnings, or using satellite images to estimate corn and wheat production.
I think that may be the the point, to get too many people from acting on what they have enough of, to "let's talk some more first".

Such discussion wasn't required of anyone before they were allowed to express support or praise, so why would it be required from anyone who reached the point of boycott or criticism, before they are granted that they have reached that point?

I mean, it's fine to ask people why they think what they think of Facebook, but why refuse to accept others are moving for good reasons, maybe for better reasons than others have for not moving -- and ask them questions while letting them pass, without attempting to delegitimize them until they "explained themselves"?
Hot standbys work well in Postgres. As OP said, the issue is clustering, not replication.
I clicked on the story in the hope that there was a New Zealand connection, and was disappointed that it seemed to be an Israeli operation.
Isn't Unions against the idea of contractors? That takes work away from the union workers?
Seagate says they'll get up to 100 TB with HAMR. Curious at what point it's no longer financially reasonable to keep researching ways to increase density.
you mean a key?
Hard drives are cheap because, regardless of capacity, you make a bunch of moving bits and electronics, and then cover a disk with iron oxide and that holds all the data. When manufacturing SSDs, you need to make circuitry for each bit.
Some states in the US have moved towards doing the same thing, but the impact hasn't always been positive as contractors don't get the same protections / benefits as employees and often this ends up being a net negative for the individual.

Google contracts out a lot of already ... not that great jobs, they're not getting paid more for being contractors already....
That's very ominous. Would you care to elaborate?
Shouldn’t this lie on the consulting firms placing them? Equally, are the consultants unaware that they work for the staffing firm doing project for Google?

Yes, security communication should go to all. But everything else?
Announcing the Winners of the 2018 AWS AI Hackathon
I work in pharma, and I was a contractor before I was hired on. It's a similar situation to what's described in the article, where contractors are full-time employees of a third-party company, and that company's rules are the ones that apply to their employees.

If I remember correctly, the contract company was mostly concerned with co-employment. As it was explained to me, Microsoft had a similar setup, but contractors were treated exactly the same as employees. Those contractors sued and won all of the additional compensation they had been denied as contractors.

For that reason, Google can't have too much control over things like hiring and firing decisions, healthcare offerings, compensation, etc, lest they be considered a co-employer. In the article, it sounds like the Google employees want Google to wield its power to enforce particular HR policies on their contractors, but I'm not entirely sure that's possible.

Disclaimer: I'm a biologist, not a lawyer.
I find it quite (weird/funny/amusing) that BuzzFeed has been writing non-stop articles about Facebook.

BuzzFeed was built on Facebook, and I'm not sure how far they would have got without them. But the year is nearly 2019 and Buzzfeed no longer relies on Facebook for users.
Don't many Swiss buildings have shared washing machines in the basement?
> D is only memory-safe with its garbage collector enabled.

This is technically correct, but not pragmatically correct. D doesn't have every memory unsafe operation plugged, but it's pretty darned close, and does have the major ones covered (like array bounds checking, alternatives to pointers, RAII, etc.).

> library support

D has excellent library support.
OMG! 7:17am, that's crazy. Mine started at 8:30am, it was ok most days, especially later years as I generally enjoyed going, depending on what class was first.
But 9am would have been better. (as that's when primary school started for me), which suited me really well.
You may not need Axios
Like I said it was a general statement, but professional athletes are kinda a different animal considering their "laobr" is in high demand and very rare at their skill level. That's a pretty distant comparison. Same goes for doctors where they're not readily replaceable considering training / licensing requirements.
> Are the tax rules different in the US?

AFAIK contractor-style employment (working for a contracting agency at GOOG) is considered no different from working directly for GOOG individual-tax-wise. It would be more like the situation you describe in NZ if you had your own business for which you did contracting.
This is my favorite part:

Another former senior employee noted a growing sense of paranoia among current employees. “Now, people now have burner phones to talk shit about the company — not even to reporters, just to other employees,” they told BuzzFeed News.

Facebook employees so afraid of Facebook spying on them, that they need burners. Presumably, not loaded with any Facebook apps.
3) Person who desires it for the sake of personal accountability
>Solid state drives still cost about 10 times more per gigabyte

I think you should go shopping, because the time where SSDs cost 10x as much as an HDD is over.

When a WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB is $46 on Amazon and a Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch is $134.

Unless you're comparing the cheapest 1TB HDD you can find to a Samsung 970 pro 1TB or something... which really isn't a reasonable comparison imo.
I think he's implying that Google may resolve the issue by treating the full time employees the same way they treat the contractors.
Snapshot before patching
how does google have that many contractors?
Fetch API examples included.
One thing Postgres definitely doesn't do, and I wish it did, is embedded. This is usually the place that people use SQLite, for example, apps that are clients, but still need to do substantial work on the client side.

The problem is, SQLite does have a few limitations that it doesn't make obvious: some of the more complex SQL syntax that Postgres supports are missing, but more importantly, it can only ever do one write or read to the database predictably. (Don't believe me? Try this: https://gist.github.com/mrnugget/0eda3b2b53a70fa4a894)

I know that SQLite supports concurrent writes and reads technically, but it predictably leads to 'database is locked' issues. In practice you have to use it in a fashion that it only ever does one thing, read, or write. No multiple writes. No single write and multiple readers, no single write and single reader. Just read — or write. (Edit: WAL doesn't help with this either.)

Or you're in a world of hurt. I'd love to be able to move to Postgres just to get away from that.
The assumption is to bring contractors up to the level of employees, but when demanding equality on those terms it might also mean that employees are brought down to the level of contractors.
Well, if you want equal treatment then either contractors will be treated as good as employees, or the employees will be treated worse to have an equal treatment with contractors.
Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?
Surely the writes will be much slower if you have to copy the data to the index
Google's been down this road before. They were called out for having too many contractors to full-timers and their response was largely to eliminate contract positions.

That didn't last.

I had a friend who was a contract developer back when their NYC footprint was just the 8th avenue building and he was working 4 people to a cubicle.
AMA is great for doctors. You need a license to practice you don't need a license to code. I don't think it wouldn't really apply to programmers.
My "Windows Car" prediction,

"Oh shit I'm late to the airport!" Get in car, car says, "Critical Updates required before start, please wait 5 minutes". Then 30 minutes goes by, update is at 99%, "Finalizing".

When its done, you say, "Ok car, get me to the airport ASAP!". Car says, "Sorry, why we optimize the download, speed is limited to 30mph, The ETA to your destination, the airport, is NaN"
> "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad.

Yeah, but those are the cases where it's especially important to not mix things up, so thanks for elaborating!
Theo Epstein is the mastermind behind the Cubs' season (2016)
it works the same way in the US, and probably (my understanding is depends on what you do exactly) even more so now because contractors can probably the pass-through clause in the trumps tax changes in 2019 (aka contractors will be able to pay lower fed income taxes than full-time engineers)
This "article" was clearly done only to gain page views using the ongoing tumblr topic regarding adult content removal. The implication that company decision was done to oppress the LGBT community by algorithm automated actions is ridiculously sad but again, helps pumping the hype and virtual anger. Author didn't take the effort of thinking about possible reasons why algorithm works around NSFW content in such way but instead already judged that tumblr is going after LGBT (+ whatever else comes in that string of characters; I couldn't care less - it's enough that I'm somehow a part of that community but it's like with least liked family member - you really don't wanna see it or interact with) community and we should all care because this is an "problematic" issue. The victim card is being placed on the table.

After seeing around what topics the author revolves the overall tone of this "journalism" example is not surprising.

I did back-up my tumblr, I'm waiting for reliable platform to emerge where I could post cat pictures, funny and not always politically correct images and whatever else.
Many browsers like this rely on network-level ad blocking, because the devs, and a lot of their userbase (mostly power users), prefer it over maintaining a js implementation.
Not a tutorial, but I've been building one. One version of the software is here: https://bitbucket.org/doughammond/simpleseq
Somewhat similar, but there are a lot of downsides. Doing taxes as a contractor is basically like doing taxes as a business. Probably similar in your situation. However the rules for it are much much more convoluted, especially when you have healthcare insurance. In the US, the healthcare insurance easily has a tax break involved as an employee, but as a contractor, it would likely require crazy things like incorporating and setting up a CEO/board, etc... Total nightmare. You might get lucky and cheat by calling it an outside service (and expense), but technically you could get audited and bad things result. Things get even more complicated if you have or want an HSA as a contractor. This USED to be a good option, but now it seems like HSA plans are total shit. HSAs used to be cheaper but now they seem to be the same price as non-HSA plans so there really is no advantage to them. Basically, until that side of the tax code is fixed, contractors are fucked over health insurance wise in the US.
My wife was a part of a union that covered theater workers.

Their group medical benefits were "you pay for it and submit each bill individually". It was pretty brutal, they showed no interest in changing it at the time.
I'm not "making this an issue about gender". It already is one. Pretending it's not is what hurts everybody. Refusing to recognize issues like this only serves to allow them to continue.

Instead of trying to pretend this isn't an issue and making excuses, maybe you should actually listen to all of the women who have had to deal with manspreading. And maybe just start paying attention the next time you're on public transit, any time it's not 100% full already, look around to see just how many men are spreading. Heck, even when it is 100% full, look around for any time you see a woman sitting next to a man and compare how much physical space they're taking up. Even when all the seats are full, men still manspread, and women end up having to minimize the space they take up as a result.

> Ask the guy to please make some space for you, and move on with your life.

This is a perfect example of male privilege.
Always on Vacation
Unions are for situations where individual workers can not negotiate well. That's why the term "collective bargaining" is often interchangeable.

IT workers are typically considered professionals why can negotiate for themselves.

The general rule of thumb is how "replaceable" a worker is. Someone like a doctor or a hard to find engineer is considered professional, and thus a union is not needed.

Someone who has a lot of handholding on their job, and can easily be replaced by someone else who will train quickly, is what a union is for.

Thus, a union might work for the cleaning crew, foodservice crew, and maybe even Waymo testers. It won't work for software engineers, because engineers should be able to negotiate for themselves.
Contractors in this case are likely w2 employees of another company.

Normally, contractors are self employed, and can use expenses as deductions etc. This doesnt apply in this case, is my guess.
Get advisors that are paid by the hour, not on a commission.

Get a tax accountant

As Warren Buffett had demonstrated, simple index funds can outperform more complex investments for a lot less risk

Portfolio theory, don't put all of your eggs in one basket. More than one bank, more than one broker, more than one fund.

Do the boring stuff first. Pension, life-assurance, etc. Then the next most boring, treasury funds, index funds, property Etc. Once you have that in place you could find that investments interest you, you could dabble a bit with a small piece of your fund.

Have you looked at voluntary work? Is there a charity you care about that needs a good project manager/board member?

Owning property can keep you really busy. You can run around fixing stuff, or even mow the grass! Or you can project manage refurbishment or something.

Don't rush. Once your money is spread around a little bit you are under no pressure to do anything at all.
RTT measurements are hard to make reliable with wireless systems. You don't want to set the bounds to tight, to avoid locking out the car owner in circumstances with a lot of interference. But neither do you want a signal booster to be in those bounds.

But there are better solutions. I've heard about a car maker (I think it was BMW, but don't quote me on that) that put an acceleration sensor in the key fob. It would only broadcast the signal while the key fob is moving.
Do employees at facebook really feel the heat? I'm just picturing management trying to find solutions (or to wait it out) while most other employees must be mostly going on with their work.

In the end, most of the critics seem to miss the point that Facebook grew really fast, and just wasn't ready to police the world. A lot of it focuses on the negative aspects of Facebook conquering the world, but what about the positive aspects? Is there another app that, indeed, connects the world?

It might not be clear to people here, who are not heavy users of Facebook and reside mostly in the US. But for me, I have hundreds of friends scattered around the world and Facebook has been the only way to keep in touch with them.I've met so many people through Erasmus groups and Communities on Facebook as well. No, the alternatives are not everywhere in the world.
Show HN: Offline HN with comments and authors ranked, for plane/train journeys