skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just code bloat, typed languags and frameworks like spring have to dance through hoops to allow for easy testability. Spring is founded on the idea of dependency injection that's supposed to overcome that. In Rails/Python and friends you just don't need that, and consequently things have much less bloat.
Tempted to be dismissive while China’s best, brightest, and richest seem to favour the political environment in the West.
> If you envision other means of distributing the planet's vast resources

Whether you pay for yourself, or others pay for you, is a binary choice. There are no other options that don't fall into those two categories.

> is predicated on the belief that the current structure is the result of some static law of nature

Nope, just on the nature of boolean logic.
Because he should be employing Americans, or because he should be paying the developing-country worker $50/day? If the latter, how do you think that workers in developing countries are going to go from making $5/day to $50/day if they never make anything in between? Surely a 200% pay increase given immediately is better than a 900% pay increase that’s purely hypothetical?
Interesting, thanks for sharing that.
Wow I think this is the first time I've been mentioned on hacker news! That was a super fun project and I use the header utility very often!
I would agree with that. I was kind of just trying to guess what I thought parent _might_ have thought based on some things I've heard a lot of people say about nutrition in recent years.
Wow. This is by far, hands down, the best way I have ever seen this explained. Just excellently done.
Key point here is Chris Lattner is working on this stuff. He’s the creator of Swift and LLVM and one of the smartest minds in the industry. Pay atttention.
I always considered self directed learning to be less like forcing a child to learn in a vacuum and more like letting the child drive the educatiomobile while you help with the maps.
The first time I stumbled onto Neocities I also pined for the web as it was 2 decades ago and wondered if I shouldn’t encourage everyone I knew to put a site up there in hopes of spurring on a movement to change people’s tastes away from repetitively-polished-for-commercial-exploitation websites. Think it could work?
If we use his example of Atlanta, Georgia an income of $30,000 would be over the requirements for Medicaid for quite a lot of families [1]

The poorest states it would seem to me are also the ones most stringent with offering Medicaid.

[1] https://medicaid.georgia.gov/sites/medicaid.georgia.gov/file...
Smaller than normal HDMI would be great for running in wall (less bulk to run into stuff; the active, thinner cables are pretty nice, but the connectors need big holes drilled), but I wasn't able to find any keystone jacks with normal on the outside and small on the inside.
The FTC staff had already recommended antitrust action against Google over its abuses back in 2012 but Obama killed the investigation to save them. Google was smaller back then and it was also before the EU had 3 antitrust cases against it. I fail to see how Alphabet is in a better position now. And Facebook should have never been allowed to buy WhatsApp and Instagram. It was already big enough at the time.
One-Shot Training of Neural Networks Using Hypercube-Based Topological Coverings
Most modern jets are worse in key ways than the 767. More freaks and rattles during take off and landing. Airbus are particularly bad in this regard. The 767 by contrast feels like a big old Buick. (The triple 7 is my favorite though. Marvelous plane. It’s been downhill ever since.)
You'd be surprised a lot of things are overlooked with the premise of shipping faster.

Don't worry about security, we need to ship.
What's code war?
This reminds me of something I read on reinforcement learning playing Atari / video games ... often you see the Deep net (I think the game in question was a tank game) just spazzing out on the controller when there’s no enemy, the tank was spinning on the spot while waiting for a door to open for example.

Initially thought just to probably be some numerical instability when the next actions are all equally likely (I.e. there’s nothing for it to do) but what was actually happening is the pseudo RNG was partially fed by controller input, and certain patterns of controller input would make random rewards more likely to spawn.

I always thought it was cool how these exploits get discovered by the deep nets
It makes more sense when you remember that they are building the whole software stack, or at least have a lot of control over it. A lot of Wayland's issues are with backwards compatibility, but Librem doesn't have to deal with that as much, plus they have a defined set of hardware so driver support issues are much less of a problem.
This same pilot wrote a love letter to the 757, too. In contrast, when I worked among all the aircraft nerds at Boeing, there was, interestingly, a clear favorite. The 767 was cool, and the 757 was a piece of junk. I don't think I ever got a straight answer as to why. It just was.
Hey, if Stalin could do it:

“The scientists and engineers at a sharashka were prisoners picked from various camps and prisons and assigned to work on scientific and technological problems for the state.” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka

“Well-fed and well-clothed but supervised by Party and police functionaries with little knowledge of aviation, Tupolev and his team of 150 specialists worked under the threat of harsh reprisal for the least setback.” - https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Aviation-Gulag-Memoir-Tupolev...
It's easier to change your ISP - even in the US - than it is for your data not to land in Google's or Facebook possession somehow whether it's through web site tracking, its own services, or partnerships with hardware manufacturers and other data companies.
I often think about this.

My parents combined make roughly 30k/yr with little to no retirement savings. They are immigrants (including myself) and neither of them attended high school. They have four children including myself: three girls, one guy (me). My dad, the person who brings in most of the household income, is close to retiring, at least I think he is: he's in his early-mid 60s and has his own gardening business with his own workers. I assume his body is taking a toll or even more so, can't handle the 6am to 7pm, 7 days/wk work days. My mom, on the other hand, is in her late 40s and works as a part-time elementary school supervisor - looking after kids, etc. She recently, as we were joking around this past holiday break, mentioned that I should already get my degree and that fancy new-grad gig so she wouldn't have to work anymore. I laughed it off, secretly wishing I could so immediately.

We, as in our 6 person family, live in a two-bedroom apartment in the Orange County area. My parents have been edging to move to some place cheaper like Perris, to finally be able to achieve that ol' American dream of owning or renting a home. I'm not too fond on the inland empire, and prefer the southern coastal cities of Orange County, etc. I've been wanting to say, "Wait a few years. I'll have a full-time salary job, and I can definitely help you rent a lovely house in a nice, quiet area I think you would all love. I'll send 2.5k/mth and maybe my sisters can help out too." But that's a big commitment to make.

It's difficult. Thinking about this adds a load of pressure on my shoulders, and it's even convoluted with a deep rooted sadness because I think about life and death and their respective lives and feel this what my parents need/want and I can't help them immediately. This might be part of the reason why I've been engulfed in eastern religions and eastern mysticism these past few years, maybe as a coping mechanism. I mean, these are just "cultural" problems. After all, a bed and roof over our head is all that will do fine and dandy. But I don't want to tell my parents that, they probably know it, and despite it, they just want their own perception of a little happiness. Alas, all is well. I hope I play my cards out right these next few years. If not, that's okay too.
> Finally, make sure you understand in advance what costs and expenses the firm will pass on to you (e.g. photocopying, postage, couriers, travel)

(emphasis mine)

Is there something particular about the US legal system that forces these people to live in the stone age? I mean, photocopies?
I agree with the sentiment, but the problem is that it's actually quite hard to distinguish "legal" and "illegal". Judges do that for a living and see how long a single case takes them. It's simply not feasible for an automated system to do it properly.
You could have made many of the same claims about operating system kernels not very long ago.
Bungie wasn’t acquired by activision, they were an independent developer that had a publishing contract for the Destiny franchise with activision. Seems like the contract was renegotiated at the request of one side or the other.
Sounds like you haven't had to deal with family members in abject poverty before?

My parents can't work, for example. They're both disabled and rely on food stamps plus medicare just to survive. This puts a rather large financial burden on me at times to say the least, because I would rather not see my parents starve to death.

If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty. Imagine that.
I ran my k8s dashboard behind a ClusterIP service - You could get to it through the kube-proxy, but you already had to be auth'd to the cluster, first. This was fine for a cluster small enough that any user already had admin, though we did worry a little bit that someone would compromise a pod, scan for a bit, and escalate through the dashboard.
A fair enough question.

1) Of course private education can be superior, but it also can be corrupted by political and religious agendas as it is commonly being done today. Mandatory public education in America tries to raise children free of such narrow-mindedness, a necessity for a free democracy.

2) Alexis de Tocqueville wrote a seminal book on the nature of America called Democracy in America. Its central theme was how common public education (as well as severe inheritance taxes) prevented the creation of a permanent privileged class which would otherwise eventually destroy freedom and democracy. Mandatory public education is or at least was a great unifier and leveler of American society. Today we are being torn apart and set against each other, and I believe we must have a common education to counter that.

Not taking offense myself, but using an expensive education so children can outshine other children rather than reach their greatest potential is at its core anti-democratic and hugely offensive to those of us who understand and strive to sustain America's traditional values of freedom from oppressive forces. We aspire to a meritocracy (however imperfectly we achieve it).

I can not think of anything more basic to the American way as the ideals of equality and meritocracy. A mandatory public education of high quality is essential to who we are and to our aspirations.

Please understand I am NOT offended by your post. This is a free discussion among people of good will seeking understanding.
Facebook may have not "sold" the data but they were "sharing" it with other companies like Huawei, Acxiom, etc. I don't see how that's any better. They were giving it in exchange for other data or favor instead of monetary compensation.
Exactly my thoughts also. Thank you Jez!
Our [Unity's] response to Improbable's blog post
Very impressive end enlightening indeed.

SmarterEveryDay published a video on this topic few weeks back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds0cmAV-Yek
Can you talk a bit more about these side gigs of yours? As much as you can, without affecting your biz.
> Of course private education can be superior, but it also can be corrupted by political and religious agendas as it is commonly being done today.

Public education also can be, and often is in the US, corrupted by political and religious agendas.
This research will make it easier for purveyors of fake news to target those who are more likely to fall for it.
Hack is quite good.

https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
John Giannandrea interview [video] (2017)
Well.

No reasonable person would ever say that your website derives its value primarily from the database engine.

But lawsuits aren't forced to be reasonable.
They said text input, not process control.

It would be nice to have a universal "pause" shortcut in GUI apps. Why would it instantly hide the app?

Would you pay to watch someone kill a process when they meant to copy text?
Really sad for the AR world, these guys actually had a product on the market.
I even think it's intentionally obfuscated. The obfuscation misleadingly suggests the arbitrarily chosen thresholds 30k and 50k are somehow meaningful. This encourages group-association-based / class-divide-based outrage-sharing, reinforcing the infighting between lower middle class and upper middle class.
http://c-faq.com might help too!
Eh, but some of the texts are pretty good at pointing out both useless as well as well liked rulers, and contains long lists of "Z, son of Y was king of X for K years, he did not fear $deity and was useless and died and his son was king after him", in between all the success stories.

Correlating them to other historic texts, filling in the missing parts, removing thing one doesn't care about etc is the job for historians.
How is this getting upvoted when all you have on the page are photos of people? Am I supposed to play the lottery and hope that I land on an editor that's working on a publication I am interested in?
No he can't pay you anything, you'll get shares in the company which eventually will be worth gazillions because the idea is so good.
I’m certain that This is a critical time of the political time of a long time coming change, everyone has had enough time to think about it
> There's probably less than a few thousand people on earth with the level of skill and expertise to build something at the scale of UE4

Thankfully, there are millions of people who can build something at the scale of linux or firefox. Why else would it be possible for them to be open source?
Don’t you see yet? It’s regulation that’s giving ISPs so much power.
Noam Chomsky once said something like this .The hardest part in liberating people is to make them understand they are being oppressed.

Most of the times people who advocate for oppression are the people who benefits out of it. Like the caste system in India or slavery elese where
Did neolithic man practise surgery on cows? (2018)
Couldn't agree more. I had been travelling and backpacking for 8 years when Airbnb came along. To me my website was just a booking platform. Then I realised I could have done something huge. Oh no wait,I did, I traveled full time for 8 years. I sometimes try but I just can't regret this.
You realize, that the business we are talking about is performing arbitrage on labor. That the very definition of this business is that the workers are receiving less than the full amount of the value they are creating.

Its literally how the business makes money. Paying them less than their output.

This business cannot exist and at the same time not have more money to pay the people doing the work.
Trumps tantrums are not getting anything done
I'm a marketer who has gradually gotten more and more technical over my career.

I refuse to believe that people with CompSci degrees can't quickly pick up the more basic (and even many intermediate and advanced) marketing skills, particularly in the digital realm.

Yes, knowing how to apply them, and learning about audiences messaging, etc. are going to be challenging, but you'd be shocked how far you can get for many products and services just by semi-intelligent testing and implementation of best practices with things like paid search, SEO, email marketing automation, analyzing web analytics, etc.

In fact, I'm often shocked at how many marketers are not technical enough to do those things at even a basic level.

There's a LOT of good information out there, and sometimes it really is just a matter of honing your bullshit detector to weed out the guru spam. Heck, spending a week reading through the Google Ads and Facebook help docs would set you ahead of quite a few of your peers, AND you'd have a leg up on implementing the more advanced approaches that require technical integration.

That said, finding an experienced marketing mentor or consultant can help you short circuit the learning curve and guide you away from wasted time and money.

Spending $5k with a consultant to help you create your initial plan might be wiser than say, randomly spending $5k on FB ads without having known you should setup conversion tracking, how to properly structure your account and audiences, how to build great creative, etc. and then not even having any clue what the spend did for you because you don't understand what the data is actually saying.
There’re are some difference between a codec or OS with a game engine. One is the user base. I think there’re simply not enough game developers to extensively use the open source engines, every single computer needs an OS and in most cases needs a codec. But not everyone is a game developer.
Another one is requirements I guess. For OS and codecs, I think the requirements are much more defined and manageable, but for a game engine the user uses it to create something else, hence the capabilities needed from the game engine may change wildly per project.
This sounds more like an excuse rather than any sort of rational argument as to why game engines can't be open sourced. The reality is that there are plenty of projects out there helmed by incredibly talented engineers with extremely high level knowledge that exist in the open source realm; one only has to look at the geospatial community to see this.

Unity fucked up hard here and I hope that their planetary-level screw up will lead to game developers pushing for open source engines to avoid the control of their games being stolen.
The way you phrased this stuck with me, reminding me that my own response time is not all the time I need.
He’s not going to spend his billion dollars on the wall?
https://github.com/BourgeoisBear/DaddyTimeMono
> Whether you pay for yourself, or others pay for you, is a binary choice.

No, it's a continuum where those are the two polar extremes.

> There are no other options that don't fall into those two categories

That's true in the sense that all options aside from those two extremes are a mix of them.
>I'm wondering if someone should/already invented a more modern and user-friendly language atop HTML/CSS

Just buckle down and learn it. You're honestly not going to find anything much more basic than those two.
Godot doesn't get much interest from AAA developers because typically they are interested in shipping on consoles, and it's impossible to support the current crop of locked-down proprietary consoles in a free and open source engine. Despite this I am actually very surprised at the speed that Godot has accumulated features. I think we will start to see it shape up a lot more when Vulkan support becomes first class. The culture change is happening, give it time.
Quite out of touch. No Russian I have ever worked with in the US has ever wanted to return to Russia. Russia has truly squandered their deep talent and potential over the decades.

While more than half the Chinese friends I made during grad school in the US after completing their PhD's or after getting work experience have returned home.

The results speak for themselves in the kind of companies the two countries have produced. There is no comparison between how Russia and China have treated their talent.
This is funny. I’ve been putting off having my boss sign a contract because a vendor sent me a stupid e-signing link instead of a PDF I can print out, get his signature, and scan back. Paper is easy and everyone knows how to use it, which makes photocopying still a thing.

Also, although most court stuff is electronic these days, courts still insist on papers courtesy copies (which have to be mailed or couriered over). Reading on screens sucks, and marking up documents on screens sucks double hard. When I first started practicing I was like “I’m a millenial, I’ll do everything in an iPad!” Now I print everything out, mark it up by hand, use colored tabs, etc. Even a big monitor is incredibly claustrophobic compared to piles of tabbed printed pages.
Yes, the Soviets lagged in consumer and commercial computing but for supersonic aircraft, radar, SAMs and ICBMs , space, etc, they held their own.
Turning, Milling and More:Machining Design Adds More to Their List of Operations
It appears that the censors have struck again and remove a thoughtful and fair-minded discussion.

I have had enough I will never again contribute to HN.
I haven't driven in such heavy traffic, but you do everyone a favor if you can leave enough following distance not to have to brake so hard. It leaves a traffic shock wave that makes people slam on their brakes behind you, and starts a jam. If you can drop back just a little, you can maintain a more steady speed, which increases throughput for the road. Plus, longer-lived brakes.
I think that is usually true that big companies have little autonomy. And I've usually noticed that the people who say they have autonomy are those who control other people - and disregard the fact that they reduce the autonomy of others.
Six months ago: "Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile stop sharing real-time cell phone location data"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/senator-rebukes-carriers-shari...

But this time they mean it.
GTK uses CSS files. It even has files for Emacs and macOS shortcuts.
1. life expectancy is going to be affected by the suicide rate and opioid crisis. On the bright side, we've practically cured cancer, with about 70% actually surviving.

2,3. The improving economy should help. We are at historically low levels of unemployment for many subgroups, including hispanics and blacks. Factory employment has recovered to levels not seen in decades.

4. Labor participation should continue to drop as the baby boomers retire. It will rise again as they die. The normal unemployment numbers, which don't include the retired, are showing a situation that is wonderful for American workers. The numbers would look even better if not for the fact that large numbers of "discouraged workers" are reentering the workforce; these people had not been counted because they had given up looking for work.

5. Wages are starting to rise. Of course, businesses are demanding immigration to "fix" the "problem" of rising wages.
Some notable airlines have retired their 767 fleets recently. British Airways did a few months ago, a former BA 767 pilot posted a fantastic retrospective: https://tim-the-pilot.co.uk/2018/11/23/a-personal-reflection...

And just this week, Hawaiian Airlines is flying their last 767 flights. More details: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20974085

It looks like their last 767 revenue flight landed in HNL a few hours ago, HA43 SJC-HNL flown by N594HA, a 767-300 originally delivered to Delta in October 1986! An airframe that predates the Macintosh II, still flying. Crazy to think about.
> That's really bunk. I mean "only elite can do it" it claim. Sure, it's not something you can create in one day, but it's not something that out of reach either, especially when people are collaborating on it.

You need to be damn near Johnathan Blow levels of skill and perseverance to create a decent game engine.

Maybe you wouldn't classify him as an "elite", but I sure would.
It runs in the cloud and on every player's computer.

Not that unity charges per copy in the first place.
Clicked through the link to find:

>>Increase your media coverage chance

>>%10 percent of PR is about how to reach reporters, on the other hand, %90 percent of PR is about which reporters do you reach.
‍

>>We will search all around the web and find the journalist who writes about the endistures which common with your company.

Not the most confidence inspiring text.