skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you skateboard in hilly or flatter areas? We grew up skating on hills, so we often had to carve downhill slides, often at considerable speed. Transitioning to snowboarding seemed easy for us. I remember us snowboarding the first time and being able to do blue slopes within a couple hours. I’m guessing it was because we had already spent lots of time sliding down hills.
I second this excellent book, "Inglorious Empire -- What the British did to India".

My American girlfriend was shocked when she picked this up and glanced through it -- she had had no idea. Her understanding, such as it was, was entirely from British TV.
The title may have been copied and pasted, it's in all caps at the head of the article itself.
This article isn't about net value. "The world" does not have $86k of net debt per person. That would be a mathematical impossibility.
NBA Partners with Amazon to Bring League Pass to Prime Video
Not that I know of. Kind of depends: Is the offending company a utility? A financial entity? Takes a bit of sleuthing.
I can't be the only one who thinks $50000 is extremely unimpressive as a figure for a bug that lead to a data breach at Facebook? Why would any researchers ever go to Facebook first and not e.g. a foreign government that needs info on dissidents? I'm pretty certain that Facebook is making an educated calculus here, but it seems like a flaw like that would be worth at least one engineer's yearly wages..
Sure, there are issues and there is definitely a speculatory angle to Chinese real estate. That's not debatable. However, I don't think there's an average Chinese household, and it's hard to interpret these genericized and simplified third or fourth hand statistics and draw any valid conclusions. In short, I don't believe (though do not fully dimiss) random other-language reported numbers reported in tabloid format, rather I am inclined believe the people and my own eyes.
Didn't they just launch a feature earlier this year telling people to upload their nudes so they could better detect when an ex miss-used them?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/07/facebook-...
The problem isn't that the licensing exists, the problem is licensing, once implemented, is almost never critically reexamined and regularly gets pushed for more difficult requirements regardless of those requirement's efficacy or results. Why? Because harder to obtain licenses means anyone who already has a license has much less competition and thus easier and more profits.

Why does someone who never uses a straight razor ever in their hair stylist career need to learn all about straight razor shaving? Why does a barber that doesn't apply or even possess any hair dye agents need to learn about hair dyes? The license could easily be split into categories, split into multiple licenses or otherwise be examined, but instead it is all packed into one license that is much harder to get without having money pouring out of your ass already to pay for 'schooling'.

I have a beauty school in my town, it doesn't make better stylists, it just pumps them all out of their money and then throws them to the wind with their piece of paper. They just followed some directions on a piece of paper and didn't majorly fuck up, they don't actually have to understand what or why they do certain things and definitely don't need to be skilled. "directions: Shave some hair and clean the razor properly" "Oh wow I managed to do it a single time, now im qualified for it! (yea right) Now I just gotta do 1000 hours of unrelated highlights and buzz cuts, and regardless of quality or fuckups, I still get my license!" Yeah some people do study and become good stylists, the majority of them however are just passed through because they are paid to do so.
T-Mobile, Sprint see Huawei shun clinching U.S. deal
Well I don't know about IP but the Colonies were a haven for pirates, privateers, mercenaries and smugglers.
Billionaires are human beings capable of donating to political causes out of idealism for the greater good, not necessarily only because they think it will increase their net worth by another few million dollars.

Sure, there exist conspiracy theories of mustache-twirling malevolent villains in the Kochs wanting the extra profits from deregulation or in Soros desiring to short the currency of a destabilized countries. But it is disingenuous to begin one's speculation and curiosity with the assumption that those theories of malevolence are true.
> It's really not the same thing, lets not pretend that it is...

You're right. Look, software is complicated, and there's no way, yet, to make it bug free for any meaningful system. I get that. But at the same time, let's stop calling ourselves engineers if we keep hiding behind 'bugs happen'. We need to be a LOT more responsible than that. Does that mean regulation? If we keep going down the road we're on, yes. Because I gotta be honest, I'm tired of hearing, 'bugs happen' and I, the consumer, am the one who suffers.
It's not just current costs, it's the rate of change in costs. Renewables and storage are declining in cost rapidly, and any plant built to today will be competing in 10 or 20 years with frightening (for them) cheap competitors, if the trends hold up.
> that our cosmetic talc

Strange word there, what other types of talc do they make?
Trump and the Republican congress doubled fusion funding in the May omnibus bill, literally saving ITER from having to delay again. Republicans have always been solidly for nuclear power and its derivatives because the only companies with the capital and guaranteed future cashflows to build nuclear fission or fusion plants are the existing energy companies, who have traditionally aligned with Republicans.
Well overdue. Actually, go further: ban citations from commercial journals, and make authorship in them after a cut-off date a negative during hiring and promotions.

Make it clear that no serious research is published in Elsevier and co. anymore.
This is a thing not just in China based organizations. A lot of hi-tech companies around the world have clause in a contract that does not allow any employees to traves to US while carrying anything containing IP of a company or discourage employees from traveling to US altogether.
In other words you'd rather have companies like Facebook develop critical software, because that's exactly what would happen, because only companies with big pockets would be able to afford it, is that right?

Funny, because community-driven open source is the only hope for replacing Facebook with something that is privacy oriented.
Of course. Companies stating that info has been misplaced, or taken over by a different representative, or whatever has been happening since the dawn of time. It used to be a kind of CYA. As tech has increased to where I can record every call made on my phone or line and specs about it. If you don't know that they have all your data, now you do, because they do. I believe this tactic will stay around for a bit as a last ditch bully attempt.
By picking up a new different language, of course.
If you understand what you're signing up for and still want to dabble in stock trading for fun then sure. Go wild. Everyone needs a hobby. But the homepage of robinhood.com has the following call to action above the fold:

> Investing, Checking & Savings. All for Free.

> Robinhood gives you the tools you need to grow your savings, invest in your future, and do more with your money.

Does that sound like "this is not an appropriate way to finance your retirement" to you?
Good point. As a long time (lived here since 1979) Austin resident I can tell you that it's a lot of fun to live here, in particular for someone in their 20's or 30's. There are a bunch of live music clubs, several large music festivals, SXSW, lakes and the Hill Country for biking, rivers to tube on, etc... On top of this the University of Texas main campus (~50K students) is located here and there are other universities in addition. This city is a magnet in Texas and surrounding states for tech talent unlike say, Waco because people want to live here.
etcd has succeeded as a piece of distributed systems infrastructure beyond our wildest expectation. When Alex Polvi, Xiang Li, and I started the project as a README in the summer of 2013 we identified that their still was no consensus database that was developer friendly, easily secured, production ready, and based on a well understood consensus algorithm. And largely we got lucky with good market timing, the invention of the Raft algorithm, and the explosion of good tooling around the Go language. This lead to early success as etcd was used in locksmith, skydns, and vulcan load balancer.

As the years went on we got lucky again that the Kubernetes project chose etcd as its primary key-value database. This helped to establish the project as a must use piece of infrastructure software. Which went on to influence the technology selection of storage, database, networking, and many other projects. Just check out all of the stickers of projects relying on etcd that I could find at KubeCon here in Seattle. https://twitter.com/BrandonPhilips/status/107370136987218739...

For a sense of all of the projects that use checkout this list we maintain in the project: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/in...

Some notable projects include: Kubernetes, Rook, CoreDNS, Uber M3, Trillian, Vitess, TiDB, and many many others.

Moving into the CNCF will help to bring a few things to the project:

- Funding and resources to complete regular third-party security audits and correctness audits

- On-call rotation and team for the discovery.etcd.io system

- Assistance in maintaining a documentation website

- Resources to fund face to face meetup groups and maintainer meetings

As a closing remark I want to thank the over 450 contributors and the entire maintainer team for bringing the project to this point. We are solving an important distributed systems problem with a focused piece of technology.

In fact, in Seattle this week we all got together as a maintainer team for the first time ever: https://twitter.com/sp_zala/status/1073239003330015233

If you want to learn more about the history of the project checkout this other post blog post: https://coreos.com/blog/history-etcd
It's similar to appeal to antiquity[1]. Easy enough to dismiss: humans have been eating beef for thousands of years so why do we need the USDA?

[1] https://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-t...
What I'm saying is that having high-speed Internet is not the same as being close to culture. It also doesn't put pressure on the corrupt sheriff to straighten out or insist that the school district provide an actual education for the schoolkids. For all that you need a critical mass of interested people.
So basically what ZeroMQ does at far better speeds with better latencies and reliability with a fraction of cost and it doesn't crash or stops operation out of nowhere.

Why is everything SaaS, when it is fairly easy to use existing proven solutions?

Is it just money?
The State of the Octoverse: new open source projects in 2018
It's worth noting that both France and Japan have a number of high-speed trains that run onto regular track -- although in Japan's case the different rail gauge made this difficult enough that neither approach (dual rails or flex trains) has been widely adopted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-shinkansen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_Change_Train
Ahhhh! Experienced a very hard crash loading a PDF into docushow.com. Actually had to reboot which almost never happens (Ubuntu 18.04, FF). This is a good problem to solve. I read a lot of Arxiv papers on mobile. Experience is ok on Android / Chrome. But HTML5 translation would be nice. Wikisource texts are a good example. Just do all processing server side. Only send resulting plain vanilla markup and images to mobile browser. Best of luck ;)
I've been bitten by service shut downs like this and over the years, here is the "rulebook" I've made for myself to reduce the risk:

- Don't use products from startups with unknown, dubious business models that are clearly subsidised by VC money until they "figure out how to monetize". (recently I saw a company saying "our business model is still firming up, whatever that means).

- Open source doesn't mean it's safe. Very few open source companies have solid business models and if the vast majority of the contrinbutors to the project come from the same company, then if they go down or get aquihired reviving the project and its community is not always guaranteed or simple. OSS projects need major adoption to be safe from this sort of damage.

- I sometimes even research the VCs backing the founders as well. I have seen companies founded by associates in VC firms leaving the firm to start a company because they know 1. they can get funding from their old pals in the firm, 2. they are going to be selling the company quickly to X because of some insider information about X's need or an internal project to find a company to buy in the space. Some founders are serial "build and flip"ers and I avoid using their products.

I feel much safer buying crtical services from a bootstrapped and profitable startup than a well funded one that doesn't have a clear business model.
IIRC overall the Japanese lost their shirt on those deals and it lead to an entire lost decade economically. I would not be surprised at all to learn that the Chinese government was inflating figures for political purposes and are in trouble now that the chickens are coming home to roost. It's super tempting for authoritarian regimes to cook the books to look better internationally. There was also seemingly a belief in the government that if they could maximize the trade surplus with the world they could somehow "win" at the economy.
Not sure what is meant by your last sentence. Consumers will obviously avoid J&J baby powder products and switch to a competitor’s baby powder product.
We wound up on Debian for some linodes in the field and found mixed os maintenance a hassle.

We run the BSD core because we're a three person research activity run by dinosaurs who had BSD systems in the eighties and stuck to them all the time since.

Now we are exposed to things like iscsi and ceph and Hadoop and elk stack.. and it's just too bloody hard to survive in ports on freebsd for this stuff. It's become corner case.

BBR is a case in point. Data fetch to the home nodes on bsd from Asia, Europe and the USA (we're in oz) was two to three times slower than via a Debian node because of it.
Banning citations goes wayyyy to far. The journals are bad, but the science published in them is not. To ban citations would require either plagarizing or leaving swathes of subjects untouched.
A good technical interview should spend as much energy on the path as the solution, if not much much more.
Actually by 1952, probably not. Switzerland's economy was pretty much agricultural up to the second world war (remittence payments from the Vatican were a noticeable source of foreign income into the early 20th century!).

WWII offered a source of capital (people stashing their money into a neutral state, and many never asking for it back) and some industrialization, but the Switzerland we think of today is really a product of the late 50s/1960s.
Anyone who still uses VSCode, probably haven't read about all the features IntelliJ and its ilk offer.
The local history, for example, and its integration with the test runner (knowing at which point of your editing process your tests started to break) has saved me a tremendous amount of time.
(I've accidentally erased changes that were uncommitted with a stroke of a `checkout -f`, and managed to save hours of work with that feature alone.)
How Brian Kemp turned warning of election system vulnerability against Democrats
Works for me, you just gotta pass -E in the args. Also need to spell include right.
Lauch HN: lightbeam – screen sharing for your mobile life
PV scales fine. Do the math, please. There is far more than enough land onto which we can put PV farms. And the cost/W for solar (of which the cost of land is small fraction) is two order of magnitude below current fusion machines.
I feel that the “caring about diversity” is a state- and media-run campaign with a goal to decrease some of the deep-rooted racism that permeates sections of the US’s society. Therefore, for the child upbringing case, as long as a parent is not a racist and is not rasing his children to be one, the crude corrective action of “diversity yay!” is not really necessary. That’s why Polish society is ok despite not caring about diversity - we’re just not very racist in the first place (and don’t get me wrong, it’s not due to some inherent moral superiority - we are just not exposed to races other than ours, so it pretty hard/weird to be a racist).
To put it as succinctly as possible... Oil.
Fusion has very bad power density compared to fission, so a fusion-powered ship would be idiotic.
You're right there's quite good data on European interest rates and COG data (i.e. inflation proxies) for this period.

Still, this enormous number is probably in the ballpark.
Idea: massage the "objdump --line-number -S <executable>" output into a vim quickfix list (errors.err file).

Then run vim -q.

The idea would be that all those file:line entries become navigable quickfix items: we can navigate through the quickfix items (thereby browsing the source code), and the assembly is in the quickfix window as context.
> It should be cautioned, however, that no final product will ever be made which will be totally free of respirable particles.

What is the definition of particles? I’m not surprised that talcum powder contains respirable (talc) particles.
It's "hyper" because it's "big and fast". Do you honestly believe that printing money to pay of all private citizen debt is a solution to anything?
> But arguing that the choice of whether or not to regulate comes down entirely to cost is kind of absurd.

But this isn't what was argued. From the post you replied to

> For example, if hairdressers are licensed due to questions of sanitation, perhaps the same benefit -- or more benefit -- could be achieved through periodic health inspections rather then licensing individual hairdressers.

Regulation has many forms. Licensing is only one of them.
Debt is older than money. Debt created money. You don't need a Federal Reserve to create money, you can make it yourself.

If I do work for you, and you can't pay, and you give me an "IOU", that is debt, and if I agree to make that IOU transferable that that is money.

The Federal Reserve system is simply one specific kind of money that is only special because the US government accepts it for tax payments and certain other kinds of money at illegal.
If you can get a hold of a caster board (rip stick), I found the motion to translate perfectly [1]. My very first time snowboarding, within 10 feet down the slope I had flipped over myself hard probably 3 times. And when I managed to stand up for more than a few seconds, it felt like the board was just sliding and I had no control.

But then for some reason I thought to ride it like a rip stick. And it completely clicked. I made it all the way down that very first run from there. Some of my group members had snowboarded multiples times before that day, but I was pretty much instantly better than most of them. As a side note, I also used to skateboard and didn't feel like it helped at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_board
After a cut-off date.
"Second, most of them do have other options for broadband and in fact use an alternative provider every day."

Are you sure? I don't know anything at all about the market in that part of Utah, but I do know that in almost every place I've lived, there has been exactly one broadband ISP available. If you don't want to use them, then you don't get broadband.
Did he have the type of lung cancer that is common with asbestos exposure?

People get lung cancer all the time having never smoked.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone surfing HackerNews for fun can easily get their favorite games working in wine, so I'm not sure who that guy is warning off
Even with powerful magnets, the power density of a fusion reactor is limited by what the first wall can withstand, and will always suck compared to fission reactors. There's little hope a fusion reactor will be able to compete with fission, never mind the technologies that are beating fission.

What high fields might do is allow use to make small, uncompetitive fusion reactors, instead of large, uncompetitive fusion reactors.
Sure. I'm not in disagreement with your conclusion. It depends on which level you do the analysis at as to the exact conclusion you draw.

You mentioned you were born with faith in the system and would prefer logic of emotion. This is precisely why I make the argument at a higher level of abstraction. I believe the default viewpoint is the one u put forward that we tend to assume people are reasonable. It's an unwarranted assumption that leads us to a dangerous place and a healthy dose of skepticism goes a long way.

I believe the best way to make progress on these issues is for the wider public to understand how deeply flawed our systems for coming to conclusions are and to promote and permit dissent in order to raise the quality of thinking and decision making. That's much easier to do when at least some people are willing to say "well now hold on... it could be that WE are actually wrong about this and that warrants discussion". That's what would have given you a chance.
The library was built by debt.
"Oh yeah we deleted the account, you can't log in with that same email and password anymore so it's as good as gone!"
I moved to Chicago, and from the north window of my building, I can look into the offices of three companies that employ people like me (digital design engineers) that I know of. That view is called the next building.

Within a half mile of where I work, I know of more than 30 companies that I can easily hop to. Within a half mile of the CTA train system, there's more than 100 companies that I can hop to. If I extend my search into the nearby suburbs which are well served by Metra, we're now talking about 200-300 companies. Sure, most are small, but a significant number of them aren't.
Fusion absolutely will not be feasible in the near future. We don't even have the materials that would be needed to build them. In any other field of engineering, lack of materials is a showstopper, and new material development is always painful and slow. And if you examine any of the designs with a skeptical eye none of them seem promising, and all involve lots of handwaving.
Well, a representative government taxing its own people to provide services (e.g. manage externalities) is not theft, wild-eyed libertarian rants notwithstanding.

Showing up unasked and extract taxes to fund projects in your own interest, only some of which are even of use to locals, is unambiguously theft.
I think the incentives of Linux over Windows are well known, it's just that they aren't enough for the average public to bother.
Substrate VM

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

(same gz usually means same source code)

"Right now peak performance is a bit worse than HotSpot, but we don’t want to advertise that (and we want to fix it of course)."

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilatio...
But if left to it's own devices (or with a little assistance from the bison), may return to prairie very quickly. I suspect it wouldn't take long for native grasses to outcompete any residual farmable crops.
Not saying it will happen (just that it usually does), but I almost never see acquired companies immediately turn into the parent. Usually the acquired maintains its course until attrition and cross-pollination replace its original culture with that of the parent. The acquired company eventually exists only as a collection of intellectual property and history. Could take many years depending on how tightly IBM squeezes. That and the acquisition isn't even finalized yet.
I doubt that's actually true, especially in the 21st century.