skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really know anything about photography, but I'd speculate that after smartphones became good enough for most amateur shutterbugs, lens makers were freed up to focus on people who were willing to accept extra mass for higher performance.
> "Finally, time ran out, mercifully ending both my and the candidate's misery."

My first dev job was at a place that had a whole team like this. They would get themselves psyched up for interviews and code reviews talking about making someone cry today.

It was pretty disturbing.

I'm glad most devs aren't like this, but sadly, there are still too many who are.
A few years ago when Mandrill dramatically increased prices there was a big exodus of HN users. I solicited pricing and transition info from a number of different providers and summarized it here[0].

[0] http://gabe.durazo.us/tech/hacker-news-mandrill-followup/
Technically they’re both already legal (in that they’re not schedule I) and meth is sometimes prescribed to children.
>>incentives
>>linus torvalds
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This is a pretty negative outlook on humanity. People do things for reasons other than making money.

Also seeing your boss put in a third the effort and produce 10 times the paycheck is also demoralizing...
Is there a competitor that doesn't have the emojis/gifs/videos? They're easy enough that everyone adds them, so I don't think we can conclude "the market" has made a clear choice.

(Ok, I remember HipChat didn't have gifs but there was a lot else wrong with HipChat)
The best dynamic instrumentation tool for x86 code is probably Intel's Pin tool (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-bina...).
Yes, we have roundabouts where this happens. I also see this at the interstate on-ramp by my office.

There is a long lane, often backup up past a stop light and then it goes to 2 lanes for about 50 yards before the light that lets you turn left onto the interstate.

Nobody ever turns from the rightmost lane, everyone stays in the left lane. When I use the right lane and pass people I get angry reactions, people trying to block me from merging back in, and a couple times people cursing at me and following my car.

Luckily I'm a big guy who's not easily scared.
> I'm sick of waiting for Google's Keep team to improve their app, or even to respond to feature requests. (Crickets.)

These 2 keep extensions have hugely improved my satisfaction with keep. Try them out.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/input-tab-in-googl...

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Forester's model of public housing here is looking only in terms of cost, and not what it can provide.

A very large assumption lies here:
>Housing programs aimed at improving the condition of the underemployed, Forrester warned, “increased unemployment and reduced upward economic mobility” and would condemn the underemployed to lifelong poverty.

and completely ignores the benefits that public housing in a city can provide.

That is, housing can provide security and meet a basic need for those who may be struggling with many basic needs (food, employment, education, health).

Having this need met allows recipients to focus energy and money normally spent on housing on other issues, potentially reducing other costs and allowing them to progress out of poverty.

I think we can see the evidence there are benefits in examples at the furthest end of poverty - homelessness. Many cities found that it is cheaper to house the homeless and provide them social services, than to ignore them and treat the effects of homelessness issues (police and jail time for crimes, from desperation or untreated mental illness, emergency medical services for treating overdoses etc).

This is not even getting to the question of the purpose of government - it is not a business trying to achieve maximum profit, so why should it be seeking to drive out low-income residents?

https://thinkprogress.org/leaving-homeless-person-on-the-str...
Not many people can do this for days. Most will start talking after a while.
I’m not an expert on conservative philosophy, but it seems like the conservative case for sobriety is that happiness and joy should be earned, and drugs are a short-circuit of that.
That's kind of a lot
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> high paying tech job

Employees in Amazon warehouses are not highly paid and don't even have a "tech job". They're paid minimum wage for a physically demanding job.
Kickstarter? Vimeo? DigitalOcean? Shutterstock? Trello?
I and many of my non-local friends and family keep in touch with one another with Instagram, moreso than facebook, for sure.

When traveling, my wife and I maintain a "post-only" and "reply-only" rule, where we can post updates publicly and reply to comments on those posts, but no general browsing of social media. Besides whatsapp and SMS for communicating with whomever is traveling with us, Instagram ends up being our main source of sharing and communication with people at our destination.

For instance, when in London last year, I posted a few photos as we were bouncing around town and ended up meeting with a couple friends who I hadn't realized moved there recently.

Also, anything I'm working on creatively (lately, sourdough) ends up on my feed.
The blockchain emperor has no clothes
Thanks for the response. If the government is inefficient, but provides its population with their needs (healthcare, defense, etc.), does it matter?

I mean, ideally they'd strive to reduce those inefficiencies, but why does it need to be a certain level of efficient to be considered "good"?
Or it turns out B was wrong, willfully so, and A just lost their income. Sadly, this was A's most popular content and, since A was living paycheck to paycheck, they were unable to pay their rent and were evicted.

B went on to do the same to many other small content creators, because B has 100 million dollars in the bank.
> Mainstream news is not information, it's entertainment. The sooner your realize it the better.

A gross generalization. I've been in the biggest newsrooms in the country, seen the autonomy of editorial up front and personal.

You're conflating the bad with the good. You're not alone.
> then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read

Surely that only works if the same combination of journalists and subeditors work on all the stories? Just because Margaret has written some pop-sci junk about robots doesn't suddenly make Malcolm's commentary on Botswana any less valid.
Side note: I really like the photographic style of this article, particularly the man standing on a brick column as though on a building about to jump off, but perhaps instead standing strong having learned to cope with his negative emotions. The dark motif overall is a nice counterpoint to the ultimately uplifting, persevering tone of the article.
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I am not a fan of Picketty, but yes, this is more or less correct. Tapping these monetary reserves is what I want to learn how to do.
I did pretty much every drug imaginable in my 20s other than opiates and sitting here in my 40s I don’t see any reason they should be illegal. Certainly none of them had worse effects on me or my friends than alcohol and smoking.
By that logic willow bark should be illegal. There might be more at play than you assume.
Huh, I never knew "chartreuse" was anything _but_ a color. I agree with you about "pear", though.
Why does every conversation about social safety nets or a more equitable distribution of wealth involve a rebuttal by one group that goes directly to fulminant communism, the likes of which has never existed?

And, how does that same group--that is supposedly so concerned about fairness--see as fair, a status quo which favors capital over labor to an untenable degree?
This was all still true ~6 months ago. Compared to Mailchimp and friends, SES is _very_ low level.

The other things I found really frustrating about SES were: templates had to be defined inline in a JSON file and then sent to SES via the AWS CLI. So, since there's is no online/visual editor, copy changes and the like required a developer to rebuild/sanitize/minify the template source and then update it via the AWS CLI.

It also took _way_ longer than it should have to have our rate limit bumped up to a reasonable level. IIRC, it took ~one week for my request to be processed (after submitting proof that we owned the domain, etc.) and it was only after a fit on twitter that AWS Support followed up with me and escalated the issue.
What ends up happening is that without a shared runtime, now each user is responsible for ensuring he has the latest security fixes in every single of his apps' bundled runtimes, which is much harder to ensure than with a shared runtime.

The users have to track the releases of electron themselves and keep on top of security bugs.

While it may be easier for devs to bundle, it's a major loss and a huge risk to users. Probably much more with non-major apps, where the developer may not care all that much to update bundled runtimes, when he's not adding features to the app itself.

Did you check none of the apps you use are vulnerable to this?[1] Now until every single developer and every single electron app in existence updates their runtimes, they'll be potentially vulnerable to this major privilege escalation bug.

[1] https://electronjs.org/blog/window-open-fix
It's not clear to me that living in a personal bubble should be seen as derogatory. Since there's more media than any of us can consume, and none of us surf randomly over all of it, we all live in such a bubble. To acknowledge that is a start on improving its quality. For instance we can steel-man our bubbles by consciously including the highest quality perspectives from the tribes we oppose.

We can think of that in terms of know-your-enemy, but often the effect of hearing from the best of those enemies is to find the ways in which they are either allies, or at least to learn to empathize with their positions. If we had no bubble, and just took in the loudest most amplified opinions at random, we'd be more likely to inaccurately conclude that those positions had no steel-man positions to learn from. So a well curated bubble is better than the illusion of none at all.
This is why I can see why Kubeless [1], Fission [2] and OpenFAAS [3] are gaining traction.

But my take is always that it depends on the size of your company, your cloud strategy and how much serverless you are using.

* If you are small company dabbling in small serverless scripts, just use Lambda.

* If you are a medium+ company but have gone all in on AWS or GCP, and serverless is still a limited small part of your stack, then also just use Lamda or Google Cloud Functions. But consider the options.

* If you are a multi-cloud company or more invested in serverless. Then they are the ones that should definitely consider OpenFAAS etc and not use Lamda etc for anything but minute parts of your stack.

* If you use Kubernetes and are fairly Cloud agnostic, then use Kubeless etc so that you have full serverless support in local and staging clusters and any cloud provided clusters you expand and migrate to as well.

[1] https://kubeless.io

[2] https://fission.io

[3] https://www.openfaas.com
Well, then, surely, most of the innovation is coming from the poorest people.
True, but destroying people’s lives with criminal records and the barbarism of the justice system is far worse than anything mushrooms have done
How do you propose a bot will ever understand copyright exceptions such as fair use and political speech?
Not having a bunch of shareholders, who are interested in their short-term profit, directing your business decisions is one thing.
Your describing traditional sysadmin vs devops. Devops means repeating the stress points so that they are no longer stressful and automated as much as possible.
I like it way better then the classic, "don't touch this, it's working and the last guy that knew how to fix it is gone.
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How about this (assume inflation adjustment for all numbers):

1. Failure to report a data loss is a fine of $10,000/user (need a compliance stick)

2. An exponential schedule of loss categories:

level 3 items: name, address, email, etc. = $2/each

Level 2 items: username, purchase history, etc = $10/each

Level 1 items: financial data, communications, passwords (unsecured/poorly secured), pictures, etc. = $100/each

Then each category would be multiplicative lose 1m customer names and addresses it would be $2x$2 =$4/each or $4m lose 1m names, addresses and personal communications, it would be $2x$2x$100=$400/each of $400m
The gist of his main point is still correct. If you focus on your atomistic individual interests you'll probably be ignoramt of the status and developments of persons in your community but not in your daily life, and so change is resisted; problems caused by incumbents grow.
I am 100% with this logic.
> What examples are there of any meaningful "responding in the present"

Protest marches? Strikes? You could even include terrorism if you wanted.
The hope the dream, chasing the SaaS.

Lots of developers succeed with side projects, products/SaaS. It isn't easy, but it's possible, worth chasing.

Checkout @DHH's Startup School Talk for some inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Check out the StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com podcast if you haven't already.

Rob is a great story to follow, from drop shipping, to job sites, invoicing app to founding and exiting drip.com. He calls it the stair step approach building up to a SaaS.

Start in the archives Episode 1. All the advice is still relevant.

Good luck.
They are not interested in protecting anybody and they don't claim to.

You have no idea of the communist and fascist tendencies the EU is riddled it. They just use the enhancements of living standards that the high productivity afforded by modern technology to cover their real goals.

British people have a very good nose for this bullshit that is why they voted for Brexit.

Leopards never change their spots. The human leopards only paint them over.
You have access to “the top” through resourcefulness and risk taking.

But if one is not inclined to be that type, I’m not sure what ensures them to the rewards of those willing to do so?
This is very IT-centric point of view, where mostly creative work can be done in various speeds, depending on effectivity and motivation in given time. I know its definitely valid for me and colleagues.

Imagine tons of other jobs where this simply doesn't apply - doctors, teachers, bureaucrats, farmers, drivers, shop/restaurant crew, people working in tourism, many factory jobs and probably tons of other types of jobs. Yes, I just mentioned more than 90% of the world population.

We can gradually improve efficiency of probably every single job out there, but simply slashing 30% will have very direct negative consequences on output for most people, in many cases directly proportional. Now who wants to take 30% pay cut?
The length of that q is halved, imho traffic issues are caused by one bottlenecks tailback into a junction or similar and creating a bottleneck elsewhere.

its like bandwidth. you are keeping twice the bandwidth up until the last possible moment, meaning the bottle neck is going to be "fed" as efficiently as possible with half the chance of causing a knock on effect elsewhere.

but this is not just a german thing.. in the UK there is a curved arrow sign on the road where one lane ends meaning "merge in turn"

you will also see signs saying: "use both lanes" and "merge in turn" (but as text) which are all the same thing.

you will often see it say after a junction or roundabout where maybe 200m later the road goes from two to one lanes. encouraging you not to just queue right through the previous junction and block that up too.
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This debate isn’t about whether or not these drugs are harmful, but whether or not the criminal justice system’s overwhelming capacity to enact harm against people is the way to protect ourselves.
Any plans on dealing with Slack's/Electron's memory footprint?
I feel like there is a bit of a reason to do that for things like say ... crack. Pot is one thing but the ultra addictive stuff, I just don't see making that legal a good idea.

Not all drugs are equal in my mind in that sense.

Granted I've no issue for being measured with how to handle folks who are caught with it.
> Stupid question but how do they create liquidity?

They just open for trading and hope that the buyers and sellers manage to find a reasonable price. (It works better if the company already has a relatively active "secondary market" - many of these private companies do, particularly if they grant stock to employees).

> Don't all the money go into the shareholders' pockets who sell in the listing?

Listing just makes it easier for shareholders to trade, yes. At some future point the company itself might sell stock (what would usually be called a "secondary offering" though technically the first one would be their IPO) or buy stock (a "buyback").
There direct counterpoint here is that many doctors treated opiates in this way - allowing people to walk in and ask for them, and it let to significant issues for society.
It can help move traffic up to unblock exits further behind, which reduces congestion for those not actually travelling through the bottleneck.

Once example I see often that is more length sensitive is dual left turn onto a highway onramp that merges to one lane before entering the highway.

If people use both lanes equally all the way to the merge point you can fit more cars through each turn light cycle and then the merging process continues even when the light has changed.

Often people merge early and leave room in one lane, which leaves some cars stuck on the other side of the traffic light who could have made it through.
Notebooks are very much based on linear order and side-effects, though (while Excel is, as you say, a purely functional DAG).

Not sure how they can converge.
An unmaintained duplicate way of doing things is a mistake waiting to happen.
> following news for the sake of... following news

That's not what they are asking or claiming.
Is this inherently a bad thing, or does it just call for more progressive taxation that can fund services that benefit the broader set of people (transit, housing, health care, etc).
Fair enough, after looking around the big quote seems to be this one:

"Pijul started as an attempt to fix the performance of darcs, and ended up among the fastest distributed version control systems."

https://pijul.org/

It sounds more like they wanted a better Darcs and started from there, rather than actually using any of the Darcs code.
I still miss my old Pentax screw drive lenses. They were high quality, robust and very light compared to today’s offerings. I think the new focus motors added a lot of weight but I am not sure.
Agreed. It seems to me like claiming UK is not legitimately democratic because we don't vote for the PM nor the Cabinet members...?
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Because a longer traffic jam propagates through the entire road network, possibly blocking earlier exits, making the entire network less efficient.

I am German and can confirm that the zipper rule is holy here, but people often have problems following it, especially unexperienced drivers afraid of merging. Very often, there are additional signs to remind drivers of the rule [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.schilder-versand.com/assets/gfx/product/300x300/...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Hi...

[3] https://www.schilder-versand.com/assets/gfx/product/300x300/...
That's not true. Try running anything with VisualFoxPro. There are tons of programs that ran on XP and 7 and don't on 10.
Magic mushrooms (fungi) are closer related to animals than plants.
Who are you to tell others how they should find happiness?
Take a look at MJML.
Go further down the rabbit hole on that one; is makeup a form of fraud? Heels / lifts? Push up bras? Instagram has simply accelerated and magnified what already happens in good ol' regular life (and introduced mass distribution of it).
I've been in Bahrain and UAE for many years, income and wealth inequality is a real problem. A lot of the high earners are either sheikhs, landed nobility and business people who have large businesses in oil, energy, etc. who had opportunities open to them and could grab it while Bahrain or UAE was still undeveloped. It is also why their high earners is so high up in rankings. This coupled with the fact that these places are tax havens or pay much less tax because the govt can rely on oil revenue means you can keep a lot more of your income.

However, it seems there has been an economic downturn recently and taxes have been increasing so the economic landscape of Middle Eastern countries could change.
Was the harm when they started or when they stopped?
For an example of this, see this article about how OPP interrogator Jim Smyth used a non confrontational approach to extract a confession from a Canadian serial killer.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/a-deeper-look-into-the-interrogation-...

There is also a video of the whole interrogation, but I don't recommend watching it, it contains disturbing material, and for me it lingered in my mind for days.
It already has stopped. Nothing fundamentally has changed on the web in the last 10 years. Apart from the size if the major players making it more restrictive and centralized.

DeepMind is the only innovative project Google has, and that was an acquisition.

How long can they be allowed to steal data from their users and sell it, and steal content from other creators and shove and advert in front it?
People need to realize this - every cent you give to the copyright industry will be used against you.
>>Political ads are not inherently bad

Are they inherently good?

In any case, I didn't say they had to ban them, though I think in hindsight they should have considering (as you say) that they could afford to.

Since they decided not to, then they should have treated political ads more responsibly. For example, only a candidate can run a political campaign. No anonymous advertisers.
The problem with early merges is that there's no way people that merge in are at highway speeds when they merge, causing everyone behind them to have to slow down, which eventually can cause traffic jams. Just use the whole lane, make SURE you're going the same speed as the rest of traffic. The confusion there is that because of an existing jam or slowdown, people are already at a matching speed at the start of the on ramp. Or so they think.
Can you tell me in 3 points what are the advantages of using this platform?
I doubt it. I think it mainly has to do with number of glass elements used which is driven by rising requirements because new sensors. Film was more forgiving.

I, too, don't know much about photography beyond lugging my wife's lenses ;)
cough Vivaldi cough
I love this caricature of the media. It's become very pervasive of late.

I went to journalism school. I've worked in news rooms - from small to the world's largest and prestigious. What you describe is fantasy.

In good news organizations the editorial side has autonomy by design. The corporate part is intentionally insulated away from the news producing side.

I've seen fights between publishers and ad directors over content. It doesn't happen often but those conflicts are real.

I've never seen editorial lose.