skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worry about this. I have a well-developed gut (in all the ways) and it tells me things that I have learned to trust, but I cannot explain to others clearly.

Are my gut instincts still correct, or were they correct in the previous context, and now not so great? How do I develop a heuristic for telling the difference?
> Never mind balancing the budget; we can’t even pass a budget.

Lol. But seriously, I guess it does come down to the politicians running a country that determines a nation's success.
Don't worry. With Tim's money driven approach we might see macOS XR on Lenovo targeting the Chinese market
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If they can't pay out in a case like this, they shouldn't be in business. I hope the affected insureds sue this scumbag insurance company into the bankruptcy it deserves. And if the whole cyber attack insurance industry goes belly up, it sounds like a win for society: maybe these other idiot companies will start to take security seriously rather than just trying to collect money for their insurance companies.
it feels nice
I know of a few unicorns that have already started moving their interesting jobs to other cities when a few of their leading engineers express interest in moving out of the SF Bay Area. When I told my boss I was planning on moving, he and my director offered to let me start a satellite team in the office I'm transferring too.

I wouldn't be surprised if some tech companies start creating "moving charters" where a team gets slated to move to another satellite office and engineers interested in that satellite office transfer into that team and then the team is moved after like 1-year.

The SF Bay Area still leads in interesting jobs, but I increasingly see interesting jobs with leading engineers in other cities and that trend will only continue over time. In my company, I can think of four satellite offices that I know has strong engineers with interesting projects in low cost of living cities that I'd consider moving to.
Again, anecdote. I've had a very minor problem with my MacBook Air(the case was making a creaking noise when pressed in one place) and got the entire case replaced without any question at an apple store here in UK. That was the best customer experience I've ever had with any company. My point is that I'm not sure why you say this kind of treatment is only limited to US.
Thank you for your input, it is true that I am much more passionate about software. Hopefully this will reflect in my abilities.
I'm not the original poster, but I think they were suggesting that K8s supports better bin packing than you get with virtual machines, so you can run the same applications on fewer (or smaller) servers.

In terms of the cutting edge of bringing "declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management" see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
On due diligence projects one of my temperature taking questions for AWS is "are you using services besides EC2 and S3?". Of course we'll dig into things, but it does give me a good idea of what that part of the DD engagement is going to look like.

It tells me whether they have bothered to learn how to do stuff in the cloud or are just applying their old patterns to the cloud (at that point, they should just have colo/managed servers - they would save money, but usually the driver for the cloud came from the C-Suite in those situations - either way some training and a cost cutting project usually pays for itself in those situations).
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It's hard to argue, because your argument does not make any sense. For ~$200/year you can offload the non-zero risk of a $25k loss onto someone else. IMO, that's a great deal.
The table of hardware is a good start.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

I've converted some devices in the past, the latest one being a small TL-MR3020 box which now connects my Ethernet printer to my home AP.

Though I like openwrt, the web interface could be improved (meaning: making it more clear and simpler) because the above task, although trivial, required a lot more time than it should have.

Openwrt also doesn't forgive errors: on another little router I mistakenly deleted or disabled the wrong interface, and now that box is unreachable from anywhere until I'll take the time to open it and connect a serial port to reconfigure it from a terminal. But that's more of a feature :)
> if you are a millionaire and have a $200k house, then you don't really need to buy insurance for the house since you have ample funds to purchase or build a new one if the need arises.

Unless that fire spreads to someone else's property or kills/seriously injures someone, in which case you'll wish you had insurance.
"Suffrage" is the right to vote :)
Take a stroll through Outer Sunset/Richmond and let us know how many buildings front up to the property line, thanks
There was a conspiracy theory making the rounds for a bit based on Simons connections to Columbia. He rode a moped down there in the 50s, and I think won a tile or carpet factory in a card game. I don't think anyone but the haters give it any credence, but it shows you what kind of person Simons is besides "smart."

I think it's a fair guess that they are just better at playing the game than most. The people I've known from there are all very good, and alums have included people like Lenny Baum (aka hidden Markov Baum-Welch) and Elwyn Berlekamp. They also were almost certainly the first or second (Thorp knew) fund to truly figure out optimal bet sizing via Berlekamp's association with Kelley. Mercer's work in speech recognition at IBM is also evocative; speech recognition has been around for a long time, but it's always been really difficult and inherently a time series problem, like markets. Lots of Mercer's old team got pulled into Rentech looking at different kinds of time series.

Tax optimization is just another part of the game. I know a bunch of guys who renounced their US citizenship and moved to Bermuda to run their fund; 36% compounds pretty quickly.
That is the good side, but the cost of it is too high. To make another imperfect analogy, is a bug infestation on a Hughe source of food. Yeah, the first generation will have it great with all that energy. But later...
Indeed.

I have to admit that as a DEC alpha user starting in 1993 (using OSF/1), and also one of the main FreeBSD/alpha port authors, the itanium being phased out fills me with joy.
Know that Gell-Mann amnesia effect that comes up all over Hn?

As a physician, former health insurance exec, and guy with a graduate degree in health policy: propublica deserves deep skepticism.
Same mess on Windows with the My Documents folder. I simply abandoned it, treating the folder as "My Spam From App Programmers", and keep the meaningful stuff in a totally different place.
Insurance paid for all of a new roof after my 14 year old roofing was struck by a hail storm. I’ve heard of others having problems with various aspects of insurance, though, and given the size of the insurance market, statistical patterns or data would be more useful to read than posts by one or two people on HN.
10 is a low estimate. I'd say it's more like 20, with Scala dominating the rest.
I appreciate that this article doesn't just end with the complaint but follows through on a recommendation on how to do handle this correctly.
For a lot of people speculative chatting about the tools is the point, more than taking pictures per se.
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I’m most worried about the rise of Fintech apps enabled by APIs like Plaid. The media seems more worried about 10-year old Facebook likes being sold than a perpetual real time feed of bank transaction data ending up in the wrong hands or in the hands of a nefarious developer.

For the record, I’m highly critical of Plaid and hope the tech media catches on soon. They do not require developers to communicate which permissions they are asking for when onboarding new customers (I don’t even think that is an option even if developers wanted to) and there’s no central UI for a end customer to review permissions you’ve granted across developers and revoke them. I don’t think they have any requirements to encrypt this data on the developer side and have no idea how they audit developers to make sure they are using various endpoints without violation of their developer terms.
Running something with sudo?
The same can be said for Australian prejudice against aboriginals.

But I've never met a European traveler who expresses an anti-Roma opinion. I've met several US travelers who have expressed some really severe anti-African-American comments.

So, yes, the prejudice is probably the same, but the level of hatred, and the willingness to express it, is not.
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NJ isn't NYC

That's like saying Chicago isn't expensive if you just buy in a different state.
Moving is really quite expensive, especially if you're moving a family. On top of that, many people have a support network of family and friends that they would leave behind too. If you have small kids, these support networks are super useful since you'd have the added cost of daycare or babysitting in a market where you have no support network.
What are the people that you know like? Are they all multimillionaires now? Are they genius level smart by conventional standards. Did they apply for a job there or where they “plucked” from else where? How do they make such a shitload of money there?
This comment managed to take the thread down a nationalistic flamewar tangent, a racial flamewar tangent, and a religious flamewar tangent. That's a hellish trifecta. I get that you didn't mean to, but can you please not post like that on this site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just checked and indeed there is research.

The most popular model that we all know is called the Gartner Hype Cycle. https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...

Arxiv has a few articles on hype cycles for example:

"A simple interpretation of the growth of scientific/technological research impact leading to hype-type evolution curves", Campani, 2014. https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8685

"Hype Cycle Dynamics: Microscopic Modeling and Detection", Hashemi, 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08939

You can also type "gartner hype cycle" in Scholar or sci-hub and there are many hits.
I have the opposite perspective. Dotfiles are fine, and I find the proliferation of XDG directories confusing, mostly because they're misused. Why should a game's save files be under .config? Making dotfiles under $HOME is a simple approach that's worked for a long time and that doesn't cause serious problems, and I see no need to adopt the XDG approach, which I see as overengineered.
Well, from a user perspective you might enjoy having an app on every platform. So no need to wait until the developer rebuilds some app on a new platform. No need to bother the dev to port his app to Mac/Linux/BSD/(other non-mainstream OS).

In my opinion, the single most reason not to use a PWA from a user perspective is the performance. But I still use my Samsung S3 and when I look at the current flagship smartphones... They have more RAM and CPU cores than many laptops nowadays.

So I think the performance issue is going to be much less relevant. Others might say that usability is an issue too, but with the upcoming component libraries, that is going away too. After all, projects like framework7 [1] support quite good components already.

[1]: https://framework7.io
I know some folks there too, and I sincerely doubt they're fraudsters.

But character references aside, the claim that Medallion is skimming the other funds just doesn't add up: Medallion is at capacity and has been for at least a decade. It's been producing at least $3B / year in profits during that time, and that's redistributed to RenTec employees as cashflow, either as bonus (from their infamous 5/45) or as profits returned to the Medallion investors. So, we're talking about minimum $30B spun out in cash over the past decade. That's basically the total AUM of their other funds.
My wife makes this observation in Banking. If one goes through 20 years without examining their experiences properly, someone with 2 years might well know way more.
Do new employees get to participate in Medallion?
I think dot files in home directory for configuration files are fine, especially if the user creates the files themself rather than the program created them (although sometimes a program may wish to create a user cache file, for example Free Hero Mesh creates a file ~/.heromeshsession by default but you can configure a different name if you wish; also some programs such as web browsers may store cookies and so on, although you should be allowed to reconfigure that, too). A program might also support a command-line switch and/or environment variable to override what file (in what directory) to use.

Requiring files in your home directory that do not have a dot at first (with a fixed name) is no good, though.
Even more absurd to me than Cortes' conquest of Mexico was Pizarro's conquest of the Incas, an empire which was larger than both the Mayans or Aztec.

IIRC Cortes had ~1500 conquistadors on his side and Pizarro had ~500
Quite a few applications still have their config path hardcoded.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_supp...
> It’s a damn NEW DARK AGE

It's a business, and if you give them money that makes you a consumer. What's wrong with that?
Maybe yes

Something is better than nothing.
Flexibility is the key.
Think it is day 1. Helps to keep learning.
I respectfully disagree.

We are not less superstitious than our forebearers, at least not the ones we know something about, such as, for instance, members of the Enlightenment (including the Founding fathers of the US). When we say we are getting less and less superstitious we usually compare ourselves to some version of the "cavemen" we know absolutely nothing about, that we use as a straw-man.

Secondly, "actively fighting deeply held beliefs" is probably the only way to go, because if we don't, then said beliefs simply win over. Black doors don't matter any which way, but there are things that matter. For example, anti-vax people should be convinced first, but if they can't be convinced, they need to be ostracized, because they threaten the existence of the group. They may resent it and be very upset about it, but that's a small price to pay for survival.
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Their last update is from 16 months ago?
Disgustingly simple title, to be honest. Even these so-called believers in science turn out to have a single brain cell.

I can't wait for a world where we understand that people with an opinion different than mine doesn't make them the only trait that defines them.
The firmware for routers like this is stored on SPI flash memory, and the size of the SPI flash chip determines how easily you can fit third-party firmware like OpenWRT on the router and how many compromises are necessary to do so. It's soldered on so not really user replaceable.
This does not appear to be officially supported. On top of that, it appears to require one to use Xiaomi mobile software and accounts to set up the router initially prior to any flashing.
even Microsoft has rules in place for their HR people not to do this...come on its 2019
Although that's true, that wasn't quite what I was tryingt to explain. At some point buying cover for very likely outcomes or reducing deductibles really starts to look more like a payment plan than insurance.

By doing this I know I am costing myself money, ie the additional cover costs more than I think I am ever likely to benefit from it. I know this upfront but it is still valuable to me because I can rationalise it as a fixed cost and then simply not have to think about a later spending decision, which means I do things which make me happier and/or healthier, even though I could do those same things for lower cost.

It's some combination of valuing certainty and being able to separate the spending from the activity.
Demand is likely to increase in the longer term regardless of construction; until you get to the point where your roads and housing are so oversubscribed that people are not willing to pay $10,000/month for a sublet in a studio and have a 4 hr each way commute -- people do have limits.

Considering road or housing construction as something you can do once to 'fix' the situation only works if you are able to limit demand. Most metropolitan areas are encouraging of population growth, though. Areas with limited population growth generally can build enough roads and housing to satisfy demand and have a static demand, so there's not a lot of congestion or rapidly rising housing costs.
The term 'surveillance capitalism' has become rather misleading, especially since Snowden pretty much showed the whole thing wasn't either all about terrorism or capitalism but control. It is forgetting about the relationship between big tech and the state, which today sometimes mean the same thing.
Yes, but they're restricted in how much they can contribute.
This entire post is a perfect example of the awful corporate jargon infecting our culture right now.

For example

> As our take on this organizational model evolved to align with our needs as a distributed engineering organization, we realized we wanted to distribute leadership more.

- "organizational model": "We divide our team into smaller sub teams according to X"

- "evolved": Something failed and we need to fix it.

- "align": (trendiest word in corp jargon right now)

- "distributed engineering organization": People working remote.

- "distribute leadership": More leaders.
I have liked Corey Quinn's advice about saving money in the cloud. Here's a tweetstorm about the topic:

https://mobile.twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086...
I was surprised to see this so far down the comments chain. What will OpenVMS do without Itanium?
Whatever it is, it is not adrenaline.

There's nothing quite like the first deep breath going outside on a 0F day. Vigor really is the right word. Another would be clarity.

Unless you have the mindset of "I hate the cold, this is terrible" then it's just suffering.
Says the most egregious fake news distributor on earth. Right today they launched the ultimate "Venezuelans are starving, humanistic intervention needed" attack on their oil: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/world/americas/venezuela-...

When you ask Venezuelans onsite they'll shake their heads in disbelief about the third US-backed coup attempt in this decade, and the press lies. This time also backed by the EU.
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When reading an article written by someone that clearly doesn't have English as a first language, I don't believe its altogether fair to criticize the tone of language as if it was written by a native speaker. More so when a literal reading of the sentences I assume you refer to, doesn't seem to support the interpretation you are criticising.

It might be useful for the author to know how the text might be read, but otherwise one is probably better off reading the text with some lenience towards weaknesses, or mistakes in style and tone.

The author clearly did quite a bit of work, writes an article in decent English, and I believe they deserve a little slack for what is most likely a minor cultural gaffe, or a joke that doesn't translate that well.
Can you please not take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950484? They're off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd wager heat shock protein release is doing more for those with biologically depression.
Yes, but there's no evidence connecting it to the companies laying people off.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were compartmentalized laptop designs, with standard-sized places to snap in whatever accompanying hardware that you want?

You can essentially plug a desktop computer into whatever keyboard, mouse/trackpad and display that you want; or at the very least, you have a lot of options. Why, in modern laptops with some of the most advanced industrial designs ever, is the entire experience now a pain in the neck?

A significant number of annoyances with modern laptops are not in the computing itself but in the surrounding components that are just too damned unreliable. What’s worse, these surrounding components have an entirely different useful lifetime than the interior.

I want a Mac laptop but I want to be able to “slide in” $MODERN_MAC_MOTHERBOARD under an existing robust frame that has whatever keyboard/trackpad I want. This could well include a frame that isn’t broken yet from a previous generation, and would definitely exclude unwanted “innovations” like Touch Bars. I want to slide in new batteries. I want to unhook the entire top display and replace it with a new generation of display. And if repair is required, I want to be able to go into a store and borrow a temporary display module (say) that I can slide in to my own laptop, while mailing in the broken display only.

I have a really hard time believing that there are any technical reasons not to design laptops with this kind of flexibility.
There's already a client-side implementation of Python in JavaScript. See: https://brython.info/

But it might not give you the sort of compatibility between the client and server code that you're looking for.
How do I develop a heuristic for telling the difference?

Perhaps this is why, "The unexamined life is not worth living?" One needs to constantly re-examine one's experiences with regards to first principles. This way, one can wrest generalized experience and rational decision making up out of the mire of gut instincts. Toyota's "Five Whys" is a good first step for that.
Even in the US it is common for home insurance to not cover nuclear war -- mine specifically says it doesn't for example. Although I suspect not getting an insurance settlement would be the least of my concerns in that event.
Yes, though if you bought the studio as an investment property I am seeing month-to-month sublets in that building go for $3500-$3800/month.
Sadly, even worker's compensation insurance that the state runs and that one is required to pay into by the state is the same way. I only wish I could stop paying the premiums to these crooks because I sure as fuck can't get treatment for the injuries I sustained on the job. If I have a few thousand dollars to get a lawyer and pay witnesses and get super lucky, maybe I could get treatment but I'd rather spend that money on actual healthcare than gambling on insurance. Some insurance is just a scam to steal money (Washington State worker's compensation) indeed. That's how America treats its workers steal from then and leave them on their own to deal with their pain. Insurance my motherfucking ass.
This is anecdotal, the data does not support your claim: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/05/12/a-fragile-rebound-for-eu...
> a perpetual real time feed of bank transaction data.

Jeez that does sound terrifying. I mean I guess that's already here in my credit cards databases, but at least (in the USA) I have some legal protections.
"But we use PVC-free plastics!!!!11"

It reminds me a bit about the whole "biodegradable" movement. Instead of making things that essentially destroy themselves after a short time, how about simply making things last longer and be more durable? Of course that would reduce their ability to keep selling you new products. It's quite a genius idea: making things that self-destruct but are "environmentally friendly" means they get both planned obolescence and to advertise the fact that they're "environmentally conscious"...