skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure they said that about Cyprus and Iceland too.
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People who jump out of planes will also experience 1G due to air resistance when they reach terminal velocity. That's why it's called indoor skydiving instead of indoor spacewalking.
> So you took a poll, "do you give a rats @ss that 1 Million Iraqis were killed by USA" and most people didn't care?

Yes, even with the strawman wording you put forth, I suspect that > 50% would come down on the "don't care" side.

If you worded it in a way that was designed to tease out revealed preferences, like: "Have you considered the plight of Iraqis in the last year?" you would get even more dramatic results.
If you expect your read/writes to be mostly sequential, and about throughput more than about IOPS, then local HDDs (d2 or h1) may even do the job for a lower $/GB. (You may even be able to serve straight from S3 or CloudFront but that's veering off the topic.)
> I remember the days when Citibank would give out 4% interest about a decade ago. now of course, it's about 0%. It's just classic bait and switch.

That's not a bait in switch, interest rates plummeted globally to the point a lot of people were happy to even get 0%!
Ignoring 99% of your reality frees up tons of attention for attention-demanding tasks like engineering and officework. Not to mention somewhat insulating you from the toxicity of urban life.

It's an attention-management-strategy that's popular and efficient for cultures like ours.

Of course it's evil as hell too. So we compensate with an appropriately self-serving "well they're just dumb animals" narrative.
I don't know what point the parent is trying to make either, but the three characters mean:

独 "dú", "independence" - refers to independence movements in Taiwan, Xinjiang (Uighurs) and Tibet

运 "yùn", "movement" - refers to the "minyun" democracy movement in China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_democracy_movement)

轮 "lún", "wheel" - refers to Falun Gong

So basically, the major movements and organizations that the Chinese government opposes. China attempts to quell independence efforts in these three regions, puts down and censors information about democracy (see e.g. Tiananmen, 1989), and suppresses the Falun Gong cult/movement.
If I was an editor at BBC, I'd be like—"hey guys, this is VA reaching space, can we get a picture of that thing in space?"
> What happened to banker's 6-3-3 rule? "Lend at 6%, borrow at 3% and go golfing at 3:00PM"

The Bretton Woods agreement ended.
I would read this article, it gives more explanation into UV light in screens (monitors): https://www.asus.com/Microsite/display/eye_care_technology/
Hasn't that been like that since rxjs 6, for more than a year? I have been using this for a loooong time.
Don't get me wrong, its awesome, and more blog posts about rxjs is good. I was just expecting something new. Also I never heard about pointfree before, only about pipe and pipeable.

Good luck :)
This is good advice, thank you!
>The amount of money that would change hands for organs would raise red flags

you probably haven't noticed that China is the country of red flags?

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/08/c_134693630.htm

(sorry, man, you've just walked into a similar old USSR (also a country of red flags in all the senses) joke)
Arigatou Gozaimasu!
any question would be eligible for that. What if you don't spit out the exact answer your interviewer is excepting? Well, you're out.
By nearly every standard in the world, people in the United States are very wealthy. People in the U.S. also extend themselves into huge amounts of debt, most of which is avoidable. I'm not saying it's the primary problem, I'm pointing out that wealth isn't created solely on the backs of labor.
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This probably isn't even organized by Western governments - most likely this is meant to support the Falun Gong. I've seen a noticeable uptick in Falun Gong's efforts to highlight the organ harvesting issue over the last few months.
When are the Pharmapologists going to jump out and explain that high drug prices drive innovation?
Looks like he is doing well https://www.linkedin.com/in/treyharris/
>suborbital tourism

Is this actually even a real possible thing? "Tourism" is actually pretty well defined since governments and industry take great interest in it, and generally that definition is something along the lines of:

>"The activities of people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for more then one day and less then one consecutive year for leisure with no compensation from the destination."

That effectively matches common sense: someone is not a tourist if they're just going somewhere local, nor a tourist of City X if they're connecting through a City X airport and have a few hours layover there, and if they flat out move somewhere for a year+ (or even a few continuous months in many jurisdictions) then they're into "resident" territory which has different implications as well.

I don't think spending a few minutes somewhere is tourism, it's at most a joyride from the actual place that person is staying. I guess a suborbital near-space habitat might in principle be possible, but I don't think those could ever reach space? I think the highest high-altitude balloon ever remains BU60-1, which got to 50-someodd km. Which is impressive but far below 100km. Humans have reached 40+km with a balloon, so real mass is possible to lift but I haven't crunched the math on how ginormous a balloon would be needed to support multiple people for any significant time period. And would a rocket plane actually be worth using for a rendezvous there anyway?

All of which is kind of fun and cool to think about, but also to say that it's hard to see a case for this.
Where do you intend to publish your response? GCP blog [1]? I'd like to make sure I won't miss it, and this HN thread may be buried by the time you come up with a response.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/
I just flew through 4 different airports in the last week, and every single one of them, the payment device had a chip reader, but all of them were blocked with a piece of cardstock instructing the person to swipe.

Why? (I think they're all run by the same company, HMSHost, who, AFAICT as a traveler, has a monopoly on airport food.)
I'm reading into this a bit, but I think David Byrne is focusing on American protest songs which could explain why Fela Kuti wasn't included.
That's an extremely poor article. Anyone can throw a hot take on SeekingAlpha; that doesn't mean their take is worth anything.

1. I don't know why the title mentions "millenial" customers in particular, because every brokerage does this across all demographics,

2. This activity is not "selling out" customers. If you believe that customers are "suckers" because their order flow is sold to high frequency traders, you have a very fundamental misconception about high frequency trading and its role in market making,

3. There is no codified definition of, or law protecting, "financial privacy" in the sense of order flow. This data isn't connected to you as an individual, just as you can't see which individuals or companies are placing bids and asks in the order book just because you can see the amounts and prices. All trades in the market are publicly reported regardless of whether or not your order flow is sold.

It never ceases to amaze me how the term "high frequency trading" can compel people to pontificate about things they clearly don't understand. You'd think we'd have collectively moved on from the Flash Boys misconceptions by now. Yet here we are, with an article talking about high frequency traders as some kind of financial boogeyman in 2018.
> You can say this for just about everyone on the world stage. Spain, France, Britain...

True, but you could argue that these countries had excuses. At the time of the worst crimes (colonialism, slavery, etc) there were no examples of benign, free trading partners, abiding by international law - all this had to be designed, philosophized, created - and the modern western countries did all this because they saw how bad those atrocities were. I'm not saying all western countries are benevolent or don't commit atrocities now, but certainly most try to uphold international laws and human rights and their populations have a very big democratic voice that is constantly fighting towards these ends, despite what political leaders and power elites want.

Compare that to China, which is not even attempting to abide by any of these standards - despite the fact that these laws, ideas, and rules have been around and well established in the entire rest of the world for at least the past 50 years.

At some point, you'd think the west would wake up, China is super nationalistic, powerful and has no regard for human rights.
That's like blaming your fuel injectors for a speeding ticket...
From Trey's FAQ on the story, linked below [0]:

22. The signature says you're looking for work. Are you still?

Nope, but thanks for asking!

[0] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
My guess is most of these people are resorting to petty crime to feed a drug habit.

Maybe amazon should put their tech and knowledge of supply chains to help bust large scale drug importers...
Excellent post about potential flaws of your typical linear regression model and how to address with causal methods. As a self-taught practitioner, these posts are priceless in letting me know what I don't know...
4kb was indeed too large but it's not 64bit either. They're 64byte cache lines, so the same applies.
> No one knows what Robinhood will do, but no bank can promise a perpetual 3% rate.

It's not too crazy, rates have gone up a ton without most bank accounts adjusting from being near 0%. The 10-year is currently just under 3% with the whole curve being really flat and lots of online banks offer over 2%. I currently get 2.05% with my Marcus account and Goldman Sachs isn't exactly known for giving things away (and with 3 month t-bills paying 2.41% they certainly aren't giving anything away!).
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I would argue that they happened exactly because the brokers who made up those financial institutions understood the math perfectly well: They make huge commissions on CDO and other deals. They sell the bad debt to some other shmuck and walk away with cash in their pocket and someone else holding the risk.

That's why it keeps happening. They get rich and get away with it every time.
Where will we find the responses?
This is interesting given that I heard on the grapevine that some major cloud players are actually using AWS on the back-end even though they are advertising say as.. "GCP".. wonder if anyone can confirm or deny...
Thanks. I suspect the internals of “===“ in this case could look for the presence of a closure data pointer on a Function or some such hack.

Anyway, I’d probably use an actual prototype on something (with “methods” and) hundreds of instances, but otherwise, I’m not too worried about just using closures and object literals.
Funny the story left out that at the same time SpaceX was going from triumph to triumph, and Musk also launched the Boring company.

Also, if the story has any truth, then it would seem that Musk is suffering from emotional problems, and should get some professional help.
> Simple tried to reinvent banking, but they never seemed to go beyond polishing the UI.

I'd take another look at Simple. I've been with them since the beginning and their recent enhancements are fantastic! Expenses tied to your pay schedule that automatically set money aside, same with goals. and then the big one for me was an interest bearing savings account, yielding 2%.

See more here:

https://www.simple.com/2percent

https://www.simple.com/features/expenses
Humans aren't perfect economic machines. A single example doesn't necessarily refute the claim. And even then there might be some other advantage to not castrating oxen that isn't being considered.
I'm about to set up a new PC for a relative with Win 10 Home, parts have just arrived. Any advice on set up procedures or things I can do to keep Microsoft from spying on them and collecting their data?

Or is it just not possible any more? Surely I can install the OS without creating a MS account? My intention is to disable all the nags, bloat and advertising bullying, leaving only an essential OS that doesn't bully my non-technical relatives.
Well, but he was not murdered. "Just" imprisoned in unconvential ways so to say. So you can't really expect the same outcry.
WholeFoods delivery is instacart killer, not Prime.
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I'm a millennial, and the target market for this sort of product.

1. I don't care about physical branches, I've been using online banking from the beginning.
2. I am at a stage in my life where I am slowly paying back all my debts and making just enough to set some cash aside every paycheck.

I don't have enough money to go looking at financial instruments such as money market funds or CD's, because they tend to lock my money up for a certain period of time.

I still need to be liquid. Some place where I can make 3% and have it just sit is fine for me, and allows me to access it in case of an emergency without paying fines or penalties for doing so, and with less hassle than some other financial instruments where it is locked up.

Once I have a buffer built up, and I feel comfortable with that buffer, maybe then I'll start looking at other places to potentially let my money make more money faster with a little higher risk and with less liquidity.
Hi Rahim. Are you able to sponsor Tier II work visas?
If the substitutes were more performant at acceptable costs then one might think they would have been adopted naturally.
I think it's safe to say that that one has been extinguished!
Re-read my comment: "was classified for a while". Not "is currently classified."
> Keep in mind that one victim could be sufficient to provide fodder for a number of operations.

Not if you want the organ recipients to survive, which presumably is the point of the whole exercise. The odds of them matching with one recipient are tiny, the odds of them matching with 2 are tiny squared.
Millions of Americans manually upload photos of themselves and their families/friends now. Why not just automate it.
Even if you can make an AML compliant stablecoin, you're going to wind up with low marketshare as you have no competitive edge against over both actual banking and the cryptocurrencies getting used for money laundering. Like, by the time you centralize operations enough to comply with AML laws, you want to be using a database and an API with access tokens and resource identifiers that you hand out to approved participants. At which point you're a fancy bank, pretty much.
I've done both and you'll just have to take my word for it or try it yourself, but the two activities are not even remotely comparable.
The reason isn't a flaw in technology, because many alternatives to electron do in fact offer markup language like GUI creation and css/html like styling including Qt with its QML offshoot, or JavafX.

Not to mention that I don't see any obvious reason why HTML would be easier to use than the WPF / Swing / Glade Gui-builder paradigm. As a not web-developer, I certainly have less issues building a Gui the good old fashioned way than having to learn HTML.

It honestly baffles me that anyone would consider HTML to be a good fit for a complex desktop application. I am actually very glad that I can drag buttons on a canvas and click on elements to understand their apis and adjust settings visually. I am not excited about building complex gui's by interacting with plain text that was designed to put text on webpages.

The reason why Electron has dominated has a much more trivial reason. There are a lot of web developers, and the javascript ecosystem is so large that it allows the quick reuse of a lot of code, saving those developers a lot of time.
Maybe they're not all that useful for small projects, but they're still useful for open source libraries.

And the area example use-case holds if it was a read-only property.
To be fair, an i3.4xl has 10x the disk and 4x the memory as a c5d.4xl at 1.5x the cost. If you are optimizing for GB/cost, i3s are still a reasonable choice.

There's also the i3.metal which has no hypervisor. I'm curious how the performance of one of those compares to a traditional i3.
Your example doesn't tell me which I have. It's assuming that err = 0 means success, but that's an assumption not a contract of the type.

By comparison some something like https://github.com/oktal/result will tell you if it's a success or error without any magic error codes that actually mean success.

You could do this with a type bit + union in C, it's just more painful without templates
Honestly, for that kind of workload I'd adjust my sights to Digital Ocean or Firebase.
In addition to the connection to Fela Kuti in particular, Byrne founded Luaka Bop, still a premier world music label. They have released hundreds of world music albums.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luaka_Bop

And this historical interview— https://luakabop.com/history/
log4net + java dev app server + debugging the db layer + database outage on a Sunday = annoyed exchange admins on a Monday.
I did and I still did not understand it well. I thought someone could explain it better and it'd maybe start a dialogue. Thanks for a worthless comment.
I sort of like what Amazon is trying to do, but until they start paying their delivery drivers livable wages, I refuse to buy anything from the company. Jeff Bezos is the richest person in human history, and he's employing like 100K people at laughable wages. I dunno -- I just don't want anything to do with that.
They want people who want to ride in driverless cars. At this stage, that is the demographic that matters most. Price is a good way find people who see a value in the trip being self-driving. The worst demographic they can find are people whose main criteria are price, the benefits of self-driving vehicles are not front and center in their minds.
> Metacomment: geeks who believe they have outmathed a financial firm should ask themselves "Are financial firms likely to be bad at math?" and "Are financial firms incapable of hiring their own geeks?"

reminds me of the first time i interviewed at google, and one of the interviewers asked "if you could set up your own project and get a team to work on it, what would you do?". i answered that i would get a bunch of maths phds together and have them work out graph-theoretic ways of detecting link farms (this was 2004, and i had actually been wondering for a while why google hadn't done exactly that).

the interviewer (who was a pretty senior person) asked "why do you think the spammers don't have their own phd mathematicians to defeat such measures?". i was only a few years out of grad school at the time, and it was honestly the first time i thought about the fact that people who were both smart and educated might nonetheless go into a shady and declasse activity like running spam sites. i consider it a valuable lesson to this day.
Eric Cartman would be proud of this theory. Who sank the titanic? KYLE!!!
It's not ridiculous. It merely conflates (as do most statements in this thread) two orthogonal aspects - how repressive a society happens to be internally and how much of a threat it poses abroad. Historically, there doesn't seem to be any perceptible correlation between those two factors.

The U.S. is indeed by most metrics one of the freest societies on the planet in terms of the state repression imposed on the average citizen, certainly far better than China in this regard. At the same time, in foreign policy it behaves exactly the same way any other nation state does - pursuing its perceived interests without consideration for anything else other than objective constraints to its power. Since the U.S. is by far the most powerful nation state in the world, its list of foreign atrocities far exceeds that of anyone else since WW2. However, that's not any different from any other major power in world history and there's absolutely no reason to think China (or anyone else) would behave any better or worse given similar ability to pursue its interests unchecked.
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Yeah, postage on reply envelopes used to be unlimited in the US. In grad school, there were lots of lead bricks around. So we did that once or twice, for laughs. But you know, the lead was actually worth something. But not as much as the postage.

That stopped working in maybe the 80s.
I was confused why the author called it a "new" documentary. It's 2 years old.

Also the link in the article to the documentary is incorrect. Here's the correct link for "Titanic: The New Evidence": https://vimeo.com/198568091
In the UK the National Health Service is a fair old size. A test message caused a few snags for a while:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/31/nhs_reply_all_email...
By nature large companies have massive global teams and there is no single provider for anything. Team A could using AWS, while team B cloud be using GCP, and team C is using Azure. Just because team B says they are using GCP doesn't mean the others are lying. Or, that there is anything weird going on.
Presumably the law also applies not just to devs but to anyone who updates software, e.g. a password protected word file or any file on a password protected system, i.e. all computers/phones, etc.

The problematic wording is here, which defines a "provider":

the person develops, supplies or
updates software used, for use, or
likely to be used, in connection with:
(a) a listed carriage service; or
(b) an electronic service that has one
(a) the development by the person of
any such software; or
(b) the supply by the person of any
such software; or
(c) the updating by the person of any
such software

It is far broader than just software entering into production, but can include ancillary software.
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Once the bank has more than $10 billion in assets, they legally have to reduce their debit card swipe fees to 0.05%.
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The average person shouldn't day trade. I buy stocks and basically hold them for years. I've picked some losers and I've picked some winners... but overall my return over the last ~5 years is 19%.

Buying stock with dividends helps even more, now you get money back to invest into more stock :-D
Large smoldering fires contribute roughly 15% of total greenhouse gas emissions according to Dr. Guillermo Rein.

http://guillermo-rein.blogspot.com/2016/06/erc-haze-reducing...
Nice way to humblebrag there.
Which is why buying into funds that track the S&P 500 and holding for a long time is a valid way to go...
I am pretty sure that hypervisors update just like any other software, via the package manager.
I had a similar interview question for Google. I was given a graph of both average user latency and server load, where average user latency was inversely correlated with server load, i.e. latency went up when the load on the server was at its lowest and vice versa, and was then asked to brainstorm reasons why this could be the case.

The actual answer (I could tell this was drawn from a real experience) was "China". The valleys in server load corresponded to EST nights, which happens to correspond to the workday in China. During these time periods, there are fewer users online, but the vast majority of them are located in Asia, where a response to them needs to get through the Great Firewall of China and cross a trans-Pacific cable. Meanwhile, the U.S. west coast is just going to bed and the U.S. east coast & Europe are sleeping, so all of the low-latency users drop out of the population sample. It was a nifty application of both Simpson's Paradox, correlation-is-not-causation, and speed-of-light limits.

Extra points if you can think of how to avoid strange debugging situations like this in the future.
The infamous Rudy Giuliani tweet needs to be added here