skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
explain how China is the world's fastest growing economy and has the fastest growing living standards while being one of, if not the most protectionist countries on earth?

According to most economists and their textbooks their growth should be terrible because they are so anti free trade

The only people who benefit from low tariffs are the rich, who can then outsource production and ship goods back into the country with no consequences. That's why income inequality has skyrocketed in the last few decades. The supposed savings of outsourcing weren't passed back to consumers, it was pocketed by the rich
A collection of responses can be found at https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10768

I agree along the lines of Peter's comment: "These hard-won null results are not a failure of the experimental program, but a great success of it. The only failure here is that of the theorists who came up with bad theory and ran a hugely successful hype campaign for it. I don’t see how the lesson from seeing an experimental program successfully shoot down bad theory is that we should stop funding further such experiments. I also don’t see how finding out that theorists were wrong in their predictions of new phenomena at the few hundred GeV scale means that new predictions by (often the same) theorists of no new phenomena at the multiple TeV scale should be used as a reason not to fund experimentalists who want to see if this is true."
I wish Apple would crack down on this. Especially annoying are the games that let you pay to remove ads but then force you to watch a video ad (or buy real money gems) to get another play. So I paid to remove ads but I still get ads. And all of these in app purchases and ads are a really frustrating experience for games that would otherwise be fun. Not to mention they've all effectively turned into pay to play with a slot machine like experience.
You do realize that food and wood literally grow out of the ground and water falls from the sky right?

If there is all this automation in your predicted future, how would people not be able to automate growing plants, filtering water and cutting down trees?
To learn a solid theoretical foundation: Caltech's "Learning from data" [1]. It is one of those rare courses where the professor is so good that he manages to make tricky concepts seem almost trivial (like Paar's "Understanding cryptography").

Look elsewhere if all you want is to learn tools and start practical projects ASAP without really understanding what you are doing. Tools come and go and will serve you for a while, concepts are timeless and will serve you for life. You need both, of course, but I wouldn't skip the theory, specially when such an amazing course is on tap.

[1] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
This could lead to a scenario with what happened when there was aristocracy. Land was a major necessary means of production and was overwhelmingly owned by the aristocracy, it was guarded since they had no reason to sell it and could rent-seek with it, and they simply owned nearly everything.

Don’t look now, but that’s still the case. In England it’s really the case, and the old joke that it helps to have an ancestor who was close to William The Conquerer is genuinely true.

Craftsmanship and high demand for skilled labor led to the middle class. Automation could be the new land. A wealthy "owning class" owns all the means of production (and less skilled labor) and has no incentive to open it up. Automation could lead to a small wealthy class, but a rapidly expanding lower class with little access to self-ownership of means of production.

Again, that has largely already happened, and never really stopped. We just see things differently because we’re not one of billions who can only look up at everyone else’s boots, and because we’re at the tail end of a stable period born from two world wars and the teror of nuclear annihilation.
It's eternally appreciated when creators consider doing that!

Unfortunately I use Safari so it's not an option for me, sadly one of the very few downsides to using Safari is relatively weak extension support.
That steel is only cheap short term. Once China has a monopoly they can charge whatever they want. The only reason Chinese steel is cheaper is because it's lower quality and their government subsidizes it with long term strategic intent
What Workers Can Learn from “the Largest Lockout in U.S. History”
Another framework for thinking about this comes from some of Jonathan Haidt's research in The Happiness Hypothesis: most people have a residual equilibrium of happiness.

One example from his book: if someone gets in an accident and becomes paralyzed, they'll suffer great sadness, but that first sip of orange juice through a straw through, man, what a joy.

So essentially humans will adapt to find sources of happiness as circumstances change.

Re parenting: it's not like you suddenly discover a hidden passion for changing diapers, rather, your body will adapt to find a way to derive happiness. And the interesting thing is, it will be totally genuine!
Neither of those are targeted advertising... you are arguing for the opposite point of the parent comment. From the article, the EFF is saying that ads relevant to the content being shown are effective (like you’ve described here) without needing to collect a wealth of information about individual users.
The game devs are not the ones caching your CC and letting kids reuse it without proof they have parental permission. Come on, not even close in terms of who is at more fault here.
You seem to be suggesting that the golden rule is a flawed premise because people generally suck and fail to live up to it. I don't understand how one implies the other.
All I'm saying is we shouldn't be pointing fingers. Expecting poor nations to stay in poverty by making sacrifices we refuse to is both unfair and won't work.
On the other hand, a finger smudge on your cell phone camera lens will destroy contrast and the resulting picture, especially is there is any degree of backlight in the image.

Make sure you wipe the lens with your t-shirt every once in a while.
Can we make Facebook a Schedule I narcotic? It's more addictive than marijuana. It's also taking plays out of the old tobacco playbook by working tirelessly to make it even more addictive. I'd rather see that than a bunch of Baby books that in a few decades all get bought back into the mothership again.
The unix way is 'decoupled microservices', breaking down components in to small pieces for reuse, it continues to be used and reinvented in different contexts. Both monolith and decoupled components have their cheerleaders but simply dismissing either as 'not a good thing' doesn't add anything to the debate.
But websocket connections are usually long lasting. So the cost of the fork is less important.
> Badger provides better performance than RocksDB, both in terms of reads and writes.

It's not that simple. It's never that simple.

These are incredibly complex pieces of software designed as generic solutions to a thousand different problems on dozens of platforms. For some combinations of platform+problem these KV stores will do great. But it would be terribly naive to assume it will work in every situation. I can guarantee there are workloads that RocksDB will do better with.

When badger was first released I was pretty skeptical of it... it seemed to be quite buggy, and I tinkered with swapping out our metrics database MDBM-based implementation (yeah that ancient yahoo KV store no one talks about), but it didn't turn out to be a good fit for the use case. It wasn't even in the same ballpark performance-wise. But I hoped that maybe in a few years it would mature.

This puff piece isn't changing my opinion of it...

The RocksDB folks seem to be a lot more honest about the realities of tuning KV stores: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/RocksDB-Tuning-Guid...

> Unfortunately, configuring RocksDB optimally is not trivial. Even we as RocksDB developers don't fully understand the effect of each configuration change. If you want to fully optimize RocksDB for your workload, we recommend experiments and benchmarking, while keeping an eye on the three amplification factors. Also, please don't hesitate to ask us for help on the RocksDB Developer's Discussion Group.
There was far more to it than that. Whole communities arose around the pit, steel works or ship yard. Hundreds or thousands of local families depended on it. Family, friends and everyone in the street was a part of it. When it goes a few shop or driving jobs may be possible but leaves the majority up shit creek with no paddle.

> Sure it can crush a generation (see the american midwest from 1960-2020), but most people move to where the work is geographically and intellectually or just die out.

That is possibly the most heartless thing I have read on this site. I imagine your perspective would change markedly if it were you that were stuck, unable to afford to move, in a dead town whose industry left, while you contemplate your time until you die out.
I don't see how any of those things relate to open borders. Having different cultures doesn't preclude an open border; see Scotland and England for reference. Can you please clarify?

It's funny. I asked a friend of mine if she would oppose open borders with Canada, and she said that the US couldn't afford to deal with all of the Canadians that would flood into the United States. So which is it? I feel like this is a reflexive conservative argument that all of these X are going to come to our country and change our culture and take our stuff. Why is the first one bad, and is there even any evidence for the second?

Meanwhile, we're all leaving money on the table because of our fears: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382400
Facebook payments platform was always far behind Apple & Google Play in terms of transparency.
Making sense of this week's media layoffs
Bigger companies aren't going to buy up smaller production that is not efficient. The smaller production just goes offline and gets scrapped. Solar panel production is at the point where you need to be doing economies of scale to really churn a profit at it.

You guys need to read up on what happens when a government subsidies something. The subsidies allows inefficient producers to stay in business and it also results in over production....which is what pushes the price artificially low. Once the subsidies end. The weakest go out of business and only the most efficient producers stay in business.
Single use cards like privacy.com provides might be the solution you’re looking for
I look at it as follows:

Developers have the following core competencies: project management, ui/ux, distributed architecture, programming (including programming tests and devops), security, and data management (sql, back-ups, etc). Obviously people are going to specialize at some point, and some systems need entirely different skills, and I'm leaving out SAs, DBAs, UX designers, Product owners, but for most work you need a team that can cover all that, and imo, senior developers should have a pretty good handle on all of that even if they specialize in one area. (By project management, i don't expect them to be project managers, but they should know how projects go down from start to finish)

As an engineering manager your core competencies are vision (do you know what needs to be done), leadership (can you sell a vision and get buy-in), administration (follow sdlc, do all the HR stuff), and mentor both junior and senior people in all of their core competencies.
Your main job is to deliver in the short term but also build a more capable team. If your senior staff know more than you, that's awesome, as long as you can tell when they are getting off-track.

It's a big space to operate in. Few do it well and most dev managers get by ok for decades basically sucking by this criteria, so don't be scared to just jump in.

Most days, I'm not sure I do it well, but that is the framework I use to guide myself and evaluate other managers. The vision/mentoring comes pretty easily to me (i have a very strong dev and architecture background), the leadership, especially up and across the org chart? Well, let's just say I'm working on it.
The targeting only looks bad because you don't know how valuable a lead is in the relevant business. If you're a tenth as likely to click on something with ten times the customer acquisition cost, then from the platform's perspective these are equally profitable to show.

Case in point: do some searches on mattresses and see what ads you see over the next weeks. Huge value per customer, so if you can plausibly be lumped into mattress firms' targeting options they'll win the auction.
Alan Turing name-checks his predecessor Charles Babbage (2012)
> Every metro region in the country must be a unified under a single transportation agency. They should have enough power to force major changes. If transportation is designed at one level above a single city (esp in a metro area), there could be a lot of efficiencies that can be derived. E.g, coordination between bus and the subway system to pick up passengers within a few minutes of disembarking from the train. Expanded subway coverage for arterial routes at least. Mini buses instead of big ones for feeder routes - with increased frequency. This is not uncommon outside the US btw.

New Jersey has a single, statewide transportation agency (local jitneys notwithstanding). It's better than nothing, but it fucking sucks.[1]. Increasing the scope of an agency, at least in the US, isn't a panacea; it just replaces one set of serious problems with a different set of serious problems. The US needs more fundamental changes than just changing the power/scope of agencies. Unfortunately I don't know what that is.

[1] https://twitter.com/FuckNjTransit
Because Facebook also harms non-users. It's worse than 2nd hand smoke. It's like the drug and the junkie at the same time. It's the drug to the users, but then it's the junkie that steals things from others to continue its habit to survive.
> The main concerns are not the ads themselves

The ads themselves are a concern too. Especially when they are annoying, malware delivery vehicles, disguised as content and so inefficient that 90% of the memory and cpu cycles of a browser are consumed by rendering the ads instead of content.

The user tracking for targeting ads is a big issue, but not the only one.
Nitpicking here. The element you can touch is not the lens. It is a protective cover.
Because bullshit untargeted ads aren't worth much. There's no point in accepting worthless ads that don't adequately fund the sites that serve them.
How many use their DVR to skip those ads vs watching live?
Ask HN: What book will make me a better big project programmer?
I started on a team that has a 100k+ lines Java codebase. The code can be difficult to understand and it has the typical situation of every class having too many dependencies.

I have 10 years of experience, but I’m new to Java. Which book should I start with that will help me make the code better for everyone?
Well, I tried to reproduce it with a private browsing window.

That Jordan Peterson video was in the #4 position in the sidebar from the Musk interview. However, it was the first video that did not include Joe Rogan. So far so good.

Thereafter, clicking the first recommended brought me to another Peterson video, then Gordon Ramsay, and then into an endless loop of Kitchen Nightmares clips.

Certainly, there's some stochastic element here, but I'm still not convinced.
Live Coding is like a Cooking Show, and should use the same tricks. Prep everything in advance, and then show it off live, and demo little snippets, but not the whole process with all the long and boring parts.
Zuck: "There's not such thing as privacy any more"

Zuck: Buy all of the houses in my neighborhood so I can have privacy.
Yeah, those Tom & Jerry cartoons are HORRIBLE.
Over the long term it's entirely possible that the current historically anomalous growth rate might be maintained but it's of little comfort to me and, say my children and grandchildren, that my great grandchildren will be living in the land of milk and honey if immediate generations are consigned to some kind of economic purgatory. The negative slopes and valleys that appear, but don't necessarily dominate economic charts, represent people. It's cold comfort to someone, or even a generation, at the bottom of a chart to know that "on average" things will work out.
I suspect vertical integration works when your key intermediate manufacturing inputs aren't commodities. And you have enough scale to overcome production granularity issues.
The price disparities between untaxed "reserve" cigarettes and non-reserve cigarettes is still there.

But they're often manufactured in Ontario now and find their way around.

Currency exchange rates can play some element.

New York State already has a lot of domestic demand for untaxed tobacco now that they're upped their taxes (again).
Actually websites were supposed to be the app basically. Safari would be the container etc... But then they decided to go native instead and take a 30% cut.
How would it? GDPR only protects personal information of individuals, and even then only in specific cases.
Let me give you an analogy that actually fits the truth:

You went to the candy store with your child and paid via CC. The candy store saved your CC by default, and due to deceptive UX, made it difficult to figure out that you needed to opt-out of the saved CC.

The next day, your child was walking past the candy store and the candy seller runs outside and says, "hey kid, you want this candy? its super good and you can have it for 5 dollars! just take it, its yours!"

kid takes candy, you get charged $5.

and in reality, even the "you can have it for 5 dollars" part is generous. facebook did not require the game developers to make it obvious when things cost real money or not.
Also, I discovered awesome electro music and house music along with the Seven nation Army Remix by Glitch Mob. That’s song is now in my main playlist.
If a union goes on strike they have the decency to tell the company they are striking. That's the difference between ghosting and quitting in protest. If you had no employees because they all quit you still have to shutdown even if they told you they were quitting.

This has very little to do with whether someone actually comes into work and everything to do with what they say or don't say.
Phone employees must be given drop-dead quotas or something because they really resist not being able to do their won’t-you-please-stay spiels at cancellation time, no matter what you say.

Once when cancelling an AmEx card, I TOLD the agent immediately “I am cancelling my card, and I decline in advance any offers you make to keep me on this card”; she still couldn’t seem to resist interjecting about 3 or 4 time-wasting counter-offers. It was extra annoying when she started prefacing them with “I know you said you just wanted to cancel BUT...”. (Really?!? That means you know I don’t want it and you know you are wasting my time, yet you choose to waste it anyway! Is your manager behind you or something?)

I have seen this with everything from cards to cable companies. All I can figure is that these companies simply have too much power. There just aren’t that many cable choices or card choices for example, so how exactly am I going to storm off and never return?
There's an incentive mismatch that's fundamental to advertising. Advertisers bid on platforms for specific cohorts identified by some piece of data, and their bids are determined by the value of a lead in their business. So from the perspective of an ad platform, advertising to you isn't just about what interests you and what you're likely to buy, but the product of producer surplus times likelihood to buy. Interested in something that makes a company more money? You'll see proportionally more ads for it at the same interest level.
Check out https://laobubu.net/HyperMD
Wondering if it would be more "unixy" to use sock files [1] ? I think some WSGI servers such as Gunicorn [2] support said functionality. I do think there is a place for websocketd provided you do not use tools like WSGI servers already.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket

2: http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/deploy.html?highlight=soc...
This is the reason why everyone should use privacy.com.

No need to cancel anything. You just shut down the payment card that is paying for the service lol. Once they see your card getting declined they will just close the account.
On the contrary with web content you can get enough context about the information being served. Combine that with IP geolocation and you have more than enough information.

But this is not about users or ads, its about self serving people thinking its ok to stalk people and hoover up data without a care about privacy because of an absence of regulatory constraints and inadequate privacy protection.

The end result is the continuous building and expansion of highly invasive profiles to offer more and more extreme segmentation to advertisers and a toxic business model.
Right. The problem is anything at all other than people who had credibility as their only asset have demonstrated repeatedly that they no longer have credibility.

They will always come up with absolutely anything other than "we stopped objectively reporting on current events." Anything but "we started generating pages of entertainment-oriented crap and snarky opinion pieces that a sophomore in college could have (easily) written."
I would also recommend the MIT calculus courses on edX. It has been a great refresher for me since the last I looked at calc was 8 years ago.
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” - William Gibson
dust on the sensor shows up a lot more than lens scratches
‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’
Sure but private cars aren't generally on the road all the time. They go to their destinations and park. TNC's spend a substantial part of their time between fares. If they were displacing all private car trips they would only marginally increase congestion by 1-utlization factor but that's certainly not the case in places where public transport exists.
I can't be the only one who remembers the Perl Quiz of The Week.
The statistics I've seen indicate only about half of households that have a TV have a DVR. (And of course, not all households that have a DVR will fast forward through every ad.)
I’ve had that happen to me once in all the years I’ve been doing this sort of thing. A BBB complaint sorted that out pretty quickly.
Thanks for clarifying that. VoltDB is a really cool project!
Even CEOs who don't start the business and are paid more money that seems necessary are probably worth it. Lloyd Blankfein gets 50M+ at Goldman Sachs but with profits of 10B its hard to argue hiring the best possible CEO won't help improve profits by a tiny percentage.

Is it fair that society lets someone keep so much money? Maybe not. But if you are an owner (directly or through stock) or even an employee who de facto wants the company to succeed, it is mutually beneficial to have such highly compensated executives.
Progress has always come with some consequences, unfortunately. I'm not saying that we can't do better, but we're only human afterall.
If it's a handful, they might just give a fee exemption of some sort and eat the cost. May as well prepare them for Canadian university that they'll inevitably attend because it's cheaper since they'll pay local rate.

> That same year, a 16-year-old [...], 10th-grader <redacted>, allegedly smuggled $25,000 US worth of marijuana across the Peace Arch border on school buses designated to transport Point Roberts students to Blaine, Wash., schools.

lol, but makes me wonder where/how they picked up their stock.
It's quite remarkable how quickly certain topics on here are reduced to a sea of light grey comments. Not always the ones you might expect either.
Undefining the C++ Pre-processor (2018)