skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the right way of thinking (ie a materialist view, which looks at what an economic system means in real resources), but it's obviously more complicated than a binary choice between "rich people spending all their money on non-productive toys" and "rich people investing all their money into socially useful enterprises".

The invested (saved, not consumed) resources that rich people have won't necessarily go to socially useful enterprises. Instead, they'll probably be invested in things whose main purpose is to create more capital for the capitalist class to invest, not to decrease human suffering. The two things have historically been correlated, but there's no guarantee that this will last forever, and good reason to think that it won't.

At some point (and maybe we've already reached it) we will have enough capital for everyone in the world to live a maximally happy life. Arguably, any investment beyond that point (beyond what is necessary to maintain that capital sock, and perhaps grow it at the same rate as population growth) is malinvestment, since if our goal is to maximize human happiness, additional capital is useless beyond that point, so we should use those resources to do something else.

The obvious problem with this line of thought is determining when we've got "enough" capital, and therefore when we can stop playing capitalism and whack up the gains. Obviously 1918 Russia was the wrong time and place to do that, but hindsight is 20/20.

Another issue is that a lot of our capital stock is not in the form of physical stuff, but institutions, contracts, and relationships that a socialist revolution would actually destroy. The reason Amazon is worth so much money is not because of all the physical stuff it owns, but because of the structure, contracts, and relationships within the company itself allow that physical stuff to be more productive than other physical stuff employed by other firms, and indeed even by the laws that allow firms to exist at all. Any "revolution" will obviously severely disrupt a lot of these relationships, from employer-employee relationships, to government contracts, IP laws, etc. Indeed, that's the whole point of a socialist revolution, but similar things on a smaller scale are faced with almost any progressive policy proposal: changing the social contract to be more beneficial to workers and redistribute society's wealth can actually reduce the amount of wealth in the society. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, since less wealth distributed more evenly will probably be a net positive for the majority of people, but we can't pretend this problem doesn't exist. It's a conundrum that I rarely see the Left wrestle with, but I think we need to.
just really good trade deals with the US and Europe.
That's the point, most of the day you're not plugged in. I know it works when plugged in, but the Android phones that I named and later ones in their series) work without being plugged in.

And yes, you use Siri hands free so rarely because it doesn't work (as you acknowledged). That's not the case with Google Assistant which works really great for most people - and I use it extensively (almost all day) - both with my phone and Google Home.
These points are true. And note that 2^24 is larger than the population of Italy at that time.

But you should be extremely cautious about presuming that these 2^24-minus-duplications ancestors were anything like uniformly distributed. Top-10% Florentines today may easily have a majority of their descent from top-10% ones 600 years ago. Because the rich had more kids, in a time of very slow overall population growth.
They haven’t shown a profit yet. So you don’t have any proof that they have a sustainable business model.
I would say that privacy helps to hide crimes which should not be crimes and therefore to change the laws in the future. For example, gay relationships or pot smoking.
Nice, this might give me the push I need to try BSD on my Dell Latitude 7370 (the XPS 13's cousin). The 3200x1800 display can be a bit hard to read with a default console font. Not that I spend a whole lot of time in the console outside of a terminal emulator, but it is still fun :)
From time to time I try these fancy journaling apps. A few weeks later I have to go through the hassle of converting the data to my good old plain text file journaling format.
In what field? I work in research and people love to share their software and have you cite their tools in your papers. Software has no chance of being popular or vetted enough to become a standard without sharing it.
This has similarities to a Blazor (C# via Web Assembly) app I've been playing with recently, mainly offline only storage and import/export functionality. It works well but we're all so used to cloud syncing that it takes some getting used to when things aren't magically available on all our devices. https://do.lord.technology/
Is it though?
- land and real estate (commercial and residential): already valued and taxed annually !
- company stock is re-valued on a regular basis as part of the audit process.
- commodities like gold etc - easy
- possessions like art, boats etc - small % of wealth except in the most expensive items, which can be appraised every few years, just like real estate.

seriously: what else is there?
Go to another, usually very close, petrol station. In the UK there are lots of them, they are not as someone else said of Tesla Superchargers spread "about half a charge apart".
Interesting- Reminds me, I wish Postgres would increase this default identifier limit to 255 - or make it easily user configurable.
It can be done by a sophisticated user, but only via special compilation and only when first installed, which is a right pain.
I find Long identifier names useful for constraint names and foreign key names auto generated by code.
I won't say anything about the immorality because differentiating between male and female sexual experiences is incredibly bigoted and I don't believe this is what was meant by their message at all.

I'd expect a similarly advanced fleshlight to be refused on the same grounds as this toy, despite being built for men. I don't think it's fair that this product, advanced as though it might be, is put in the same category as fully articulated sex robots.
Like Safe Haskell?
did you-guys reuse any code from https://guacamole.apache.org/ or all home grown ?
PostgreSQL b-tree index explained article
Hi folks. I've put together a comprehensive article about b-tree indexes in PostgreSQL. Basically details about their implementation and some insights about their influence on query execution. This is the first part, the second part will follow soon, which is why I am very much interested in an opinion or advice about the way it is written or can be better written.

Here is the link to it: https://www.qwertee.io/blog/postgresql-b-tree-index-explained-part-1/

Enjoy!
Intro to Kubernetes and Rancher Online Training Today  1 PM EST
From the article:

"It’s a trait shared by elite families in China, whose high status has persisted since the Mao years."

https://qz.com/314720/heres-the-surprising-social-trait-that...
From his statements after emerging, it appears he might now be saner than the rest of us.
Drupal 8 has a transliteration component (=independent of Drupal). It's ... not easy. And that's still a pretty weak implementation. ICU / PHP extension intl is a better one but in general, transliteration is just a bag of hurt.
Facebook is the new crapware
What do you mean by a Western European language? Germany is usually considered geographically part of Central Europe. Finnish (and Estonian) are of course not Germanic nor even Indo-European languages. But OTOH Swedish, a Germanic language, also uses umlauts and considers them separate letters in collation (Finnish collation rules are actually adopted from Swedish). The most 'correct' mapping of Swedish "Lära sig höra" would be "Lara sig hora". Is Swedish not a Western European language?
That's right. That's one of the big security considerations we've had in mind from the start, so we've provided a lot of documentation and notices about what we do and don't track [1] and how to use Shellvault while building strong security habits. We've done our best to be upfront about privacy throughout the site.

We don't log any SSH usage details, ever.

[1]: https://www.shellvault.io/policies/privacy-policy/
And yet, it seems like basic due diligence seems like a good approach when "acquiring" an extra member state when one bad member can bring the whole house down.
The text sample on the author's site[1] is from Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris, so we can deduce the font's name also refers not to the organ but the other meaning of the word "spleen":

"Melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything."

[1] https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
Going completely off the rails is the norm for reddit and I would never use it as a reference for anything.
Criminals? Not all jurisdictions consider hacking a "criminal" offense.
I tried it but immediately fell asleep. Too relaxing I guess!
Chessboxing: the new craze where brain meets brawn
> I wonder what the author thinks the competition might be?

I think he meant beautiful in the conceptual sense (e.g. a beautiful algorithm) not the aesthetic sense.

Aesthetically speaking, Ruby would definitely be in my top 3 and possibly first. For me its main competition is ML-syntax languages, in particular Standard ML and F#.
No, it doesn't, because it would deal irreversible damage for adults after 6 days of sleep deprivation.
Yes, I've done it too (I am a french native). Especially common is writing code in English and commenting in ones native language. There are other cases, like when the english word is not known or to stay consistent with a data source.

I've also seen the native word to avoid conflicts, like adding "2" at the end of a variable. That's bad, don't do it kids ;)

But here, the "hero" has a "speed" while the "ennemi" (french for "enemy") has a "vitesse" (french for "speed"). That's why I thought that the enemy is more likely to be a later, less supervised addition.

And BTW, I didn't notice any french swear word in that code. That kid is more mature than I was :)
Thanks. Are you planning on selling this as a service? Maybe with blockchain verification? How about creating a marketplace so that others can share journal templates? Is there iCloud backup? Would be nice to have private messages between members and social status that people can "like".

:-)
Zhou Qunfei, the founder of Lens Technology, came from a very poor background and dropped out of high school at 16 to work at a factory. She eventually started her own company when the factory closed.
30K lines of Clojurescript is so enormous on an epic scale.

I think that even the most liberal estimate on line count would be half what you typically find in Elm.
Flamebait. Replace “open source” with “MongoDB” (the company, not the code) then the title makes much more sense, and the article is kind of a nothingburger.
Why do you trust those claims? And why can't they change their mind?
I think PostgreSQL does benefit from Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL indirectly.

Unlike MongoDB, it is a real volunteer-led open-source projects, and the goal is to provide an excellent database to users rather than make money. Having easy-to-use cloud hosted versions available helps with attracting users, mindshare, and perhaps in the long run developers to the project itself. Having cloud hosted versions from big vendors means that it's easy to justify "we'll use PostgreSQL for this project" to management or clients.
I certainly agree that they seem half finished in terms of features and developer experience, but from the point of view of security and data durability they have an excellent reputation. They typically have a pretty good reliability story as well, but it relies on the customer architecture their solution to take advantage of multiple AZs/Regions, which is often not trivial.

As far as being "viable to trust a business on" the numbers don't lie, AWS is number one because customers are running their businesses on AWS. The fact that DocumentDB launched with supporting quotes from Capital One, Dow Jones and WaPo shows that customers were clamoring to use it even before GA.

Remember a lot of these customers are coming to AWS because they tried doing themselves and stuggled. When it comes to data, customers trust AWS more than they trust themselves, and rightly so.
Just curious, what is amazingly brief about driving two 8 hour (~500 mile) segments in four days? Even if I had the largest Tesla Battery, I would still have had to stop and do a full charge during each segment twice.
Why use digital formats offline:

- editing and reordering text
- attachments
- aesthetics
- accessibility
- hassle/weight optimisation

Aesthetics includes theming, and also not everyone has good handwriting.

Accessibility, because not everyone is able to hand-write in the first place.

Weight optimisation, because if a laptop is non-negotiable, going digital means one less thing to remember about and carry with you.

I have multiple physical notebooks/calendars and a digital commonplace book, they all have their place.
Ask HN: I am a huge fraud. Career and life advice
I have 19 years of experience, half of it exclusively with mobile (~2007-2017), some of the rest with backend software in Java, Node.js, PHP, and a few years as a PM/PM Manager. Experience from startups to very large companies. Right now, I'm a Sr. Partner Engineer at a large cloud company. I mainly help partners with their implementations of my company's platform, some solution architecture, hands-on coding, and that's it.

I go tell partners what to do, the "right" way to implement their use cases, and yet, in a brutally honest review of my own career, I have MAYBE 5-6 years of writing production software. The rest is as evangelist and/or PM. So, I feel like a huge fucking fraud.

I'm not particularly deep at anything. I'm a well-paid generalist that can maneuver around software, but I am not senior, not an expert. Sometimes I see the level of some discussions and I am ashamed of myself, for only being able to lurk and not contribute. I'm a well-paid fraud who searches for stuff on Stack Overflow all the time.

I told myself "go get more production experience, go down a level, apply for SDE jobs and get expertise". But I'm afraid I cannot pass the interviews - I don't have a CS degree and all I've learned was self-learned. When I see some of the interview questions in places like leetcode I am just stumped.

I am at a loss about what to do. Most of my identity is tied to my job - I was born poor in a shitty country and ended up in Silicon Valley. I can't give up on life (though it's very tempting) because I have a wife and a young son I love. I need to figure out what to do. Right now I have five Chrome windows, each with 10-12 tabs, covering Spring, Machine Learning, Angular, and IoT. I'm trying to keep up, to specialize, to go deep. Every night I stay up 3-4 hours after work trying to learn more. Just to see a junior SDE in a meeting just shit an ML-based system with a few lines of Python. I don't know what to do. It's overwhelming.

Advice?
Ask HN: Dead Simple Self Hosted CPU/Memory Usage Tool for Linux?
Other than some beasts like zabbix (which I played with), what else is out there to monitor server stats like CPU usage, memory etc ? What is out there in 2019 ? Most of these tools are too bloated for my needs. I just want a dead simple tool that does server stats. Ideally, a lightweight agent should be installed on the server that periodically sends the stats to the service. Bonus points if API based so we can write our own UI if needed.
It takes a lot of work to come through other people’s work in detail. Even revisiting your old papers that you yourself wrote can have you scratching your head and reaching for your notes from the time.

Maybe the authors had some problems using these methods for another more recent project, and found the error. Retraction doesn’t mean ‘it’s wrong please pretend this never happened,’ they will pull the paper as it contains an error, fix it, then resubmit it.
“The archaeologists first thought the timbers must be medieval or even Victorian, and were puzzled to find them so deeply buried. But as 30 metres of timber track were exposed, alongside other unexpected objects too, such as the massive horns and skull of an aurochs, an extinct breed of giant cattle, they realised they were dealing with something far more ancient. The timbers were 4,300 years old, according to the first carbon-14 tests, and underlying ones may be much older.”
A lot of people criticize that part of TLJ as somehow breaking combat in Star Wars, but it is consistent with the established physics of that universe. Of course if you accelerate a ship to some significant fraction of lightspeed it can probably do some serious damage to whatever's in front of it. At least, tactically, it makes more sense than a lot of things in the original trilogy (like the Death Star waiting to orbit Yavin before firing at its moon.)

And it wouldn't have even worked as well as it did if the First Order fleet hadn't been lined up like billiard balls.
Hope he has more luck in the tribalism-free, multicultural paradise that is the former Yugoslavia.
That was a really interesting story. At first I thought it would be tampering to have a voice come through a loudspeaker after 2 weeks of silent darkness with an offer cave, but I'm glad they resolved the bet without anyone getting hurt (you should read the article I don't want to spoil the end).

I'd watch the documentary they will make too.
Shellvault was developed from scratch with Laravel and Vue.js (the terminal is XTerm.js [1]). One of our big design ideals while developing Shellvault was that setup should be just as easy as a standard SSH client, so there's nothing new you need to install server-side to use it.

[1]: https://xtermjs.org/
How else should they word it? MongoDB compatibility is the primary feature, of course they would highlight it in marketing.
What's so painful about whitespace in LaTeX? hspace is horizontal space. vspace is vertical space. I mean, you should use smallskip, bigskip, etc., but if you want specific length, hspace/vspace work.
Does anyone really believe the Earth is flat, or are these people just enjoying a shared joke?
For those unaware: I think parent poster is being sarcastic.

EDIT: my original comment was "Don't know why you're being downvoted. That's sarcasm people!". It was flagged. I wondered why and decided to check the HN guidelines. Sure enough, I violated one: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Sorry about that!
In Defense of “Trusted Third Parties”
Bear in mind we're talking about the company that trademarked "Word" and "Excel" here.
I've read through some of the docs and I'm still struggling to understand the point of the blockchain in this case.

Specifically, what is it offering above, say, self-signed client certificates? From what I've read, you're not adding incontrovertible identity information to the blockchain so what does registering your certificate buy you?

Or put another way, when the server checks your status what do they find out?
With 86% Drop, California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low
> Brave
> privacy

You are aware Brave is Chromium based and as thus can be fingerprinted as easily as Google Chrome? Listing it on a "privacy" list is a literal troll. Or simply a paid actor which wouldn't surprise me seeing how butthurt Mr. Eich must have been about the Mozilla story.

And no the little font size 3 checkmark you have to hover over does not help contrary it only adds to the distrust. If it would have been as big as the header and inside the header that would make it trustable.
When the Millennium Falcon arrived at Alderaan it was established that ships in hyperspace do not interact with physical matter
"Along the same lines as, if the only difference between two people doing the same job is their gender, and one gets paid more, then that's prejudice."

I agree BUT:

How do you know the only difference between the selection of the robots was specifically and exclusively gender? May be other robots contending for the award deserved it and they were actually better robots!?
TensorFlow Privacy: Plug-and-play differential privacy for your Tensorflow code
I think I almost completely disagree with you. The product of MongoDB itself offered less than zero added value when it first launched through a lack of data integrity. The $300MM put into it was put into marketing. Mongo tried to squeeze Amazon and users, which is actually great. They are trying to walk the walk now, and what they're going to realize is that they can't. Amazon will out-execute them and hopefully put DocumentDB on stronger foundations than MongoDB's original creators ever could.

Judging on your other comments, it doesn't look like you're familiar with MongoDB's historical shoddiness. I don't agree with you on practice in this case or any case. If MongoDB's company can't out-execute, then they should have never made their product open source to begin with (and in that case it probably would never have gotten as popular as it did). That's the bargain you have to make to try and monetize open source software -- you don't just get a business for free.

But beyond that, I don't agree with you on principle in this case, because I have nothing but disdain and scorn for MongoDB. Both MySQL and Postgres have fine support for unstructured data now, and provide the entire relational toolchest as well. That's not even getting into other multi-paradigm databases like CockroachDB or ArangoDB. I struggle to think of a use case that it is more appropriate for than another option; and indeed, every time I have had to deal with it in production, I have never thought that it was anything but a poor decision.
Yeah, I've also thought a phone without voice would be great; an iPod touch with data sort of thing.

Having said that, voice calls are simply more productive for quite a few things.

Making "must not interact via telephony" a condition of friendship seems a bit much. Is meeting in person also out of the question?
Would a land value tax necessarily target wealth? That wealthy billionaire with 5 yatchs and a private jet may not own any land. Yes they would probably be hit with increased rent on the rented flat, but that would tend to hit everyone to some degree.

Wouldn't a land value tax essentially end up like an expanded council tax?
This should have " (2018)" in the title.
React create composable components
But they're pigeons. Balconies are their natural habitat. I don't think there's any species of bird that's more at home with humans.
What do you expect from a bunch of "freedom fighters" trying to restore power to the old corrupt regime?
It's actually a book.
Now that we have ReasonML, which has a more predictable and sustainable release cycle, and large support, as well as functional programming from OCaml and smoother JS interop when that's desired, what does Elm still bring to the table? When Elm was originally developed, there wasn't a viable alternative for those who wanted good statically-typed FP in the browser, but it would seem now that new apps in this style of development have far more choices with generally fewer pain points.