skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might like this, although in Dutch so translate where necessary. It is the website for a recently released book called "Chin. Ind. Spec. Rest." which is short for (translated) Chinese Indonesian Specialty Restaurant. A type of restaurant only found in the Netherlands combining neither Chinese nor proper Indonesian food but which has been a staple for many dutch people for a generation or two.

I have eaten or got take out from a place like this many times in my youth. Think MSG laden heaps of cheap food trying to resemble both Chinese and Indonesian cuisine but with lots of dishes that are neither. Even though I never really eat there anymore, every once in a while my family will still get take out from such a place and even though I have a strong dislike for the food over the years, there is a certain feeling these places invoke which is reminiscent of my youth.

https://www.chinindspecrest.nl/impressie
In this case, the bribes went to individuals at the universities, and not the universities themselves.
You're so well paid that you don't get tax breaks, and you are forced to help poor people through taxes and insurance premiums?

Sounds like a good situation to be in...
Cool! I have the Archive Warrior docker image running on my Synology NAS. I just checked and it seems I've archived 160 GB of Google+ already.
I thought that the article was going to make the more relevant distinction between "transient low income/wealth" and "reasonable expectation of permanently low income/wealth". If we're going to specify a useful word, I think that's more interesting than what she's saying about "so little income it impacts your life stability" vs "low disposable income". I don't think it's useful for this woman to call herself poor, she had an explicitly transient state of unusually high outgoings and low income. She never looked down the barrel of 20 years of the same situation.
I didn’t say that. I said they would IF we had an open “market” for water.
==You can’t build influence and control with $5 million a year in lobbying. It’s just not very much money.==

You still haven’t provided any evidence. Your comments in this thread are mostly ideological arguments.

From the article about them directly lobbying against bills on this issue:

==The disclosures show that Intuit as recently as 2011 lobbied on two bills, both of which died, that would have allowed many taxpayers to file pre-filled returns for free. The company also lobbied on bills in 2007 and 2011 that would have barred the Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, from initiating return-free filing.==
I think you missed the point I was trying to make, I’ll try and summarize. There are two parts. If I’m hiring you as a 10 year veteran “general programmer”, I’m going to be very interested in the non-tech-stack skills you have developed (i.e. the other 60-plus percent of your impact). And let’s be honest, the vast majority of the 3 year experience “general developers” are weak there. The other point is that technology isn’t a straight forward progression, so while it isn’t great if you have been “stuck” in a tech stack you consider obsolete, by itself that shouldn’t be enough to reject you.

Two other points: First, of course when hiring you want to find the “perfect fit”, but you almost never do, so you have to make tradeoffs. Hiring an inexperienced person with the “right” tech stack when you really need to bring experience into your team is a common anti-pattern. Secondly, as a hiring manager you need to properly understand the difference between “10 years experience” and “one year of experience, related ten times”
VAT differs wildly across EU countries, including whole different schemas of the tax. And not only that, we also speak two dozens of languages. What you're saying is simply not a problem - come and see. I've never even thought that it could be seen as a problem because the solution (don't move tags, just the product) is so obvious.
Title should be updated to state this is specific to the United States.
Yet Apple specifically disallows sideloading apps and competing stores, which would drive the App Store to be better.

Ah, that explains why the Android ecosystem is so much more vibrant and filled with useful apps. /sarcasm
Amazing. They had a police motorcade surrounding them.
I wonder if Google will take note and make a specific donation. Might be a good PR move.
>What if we've entered an era where this is the new normal? Where the kind of growth we've seen in the past isn't something we can expect anymore?

You're not allowed to ever think that.

Growth will keep on forever, boosted by magic yet uninvented technology if it ever stalls, bypassing all physical resource limits, and at an exponential rate preferably. /s

If you really want to learn more, though, avoid all mainstream economists and pundits paid to promote state and business interests.
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made a 6 minute video that could have been a 2d multiline chart
Inspiring! The page looks great and it brings me back to the 1990s web (in a good way).

Although I gotta say, I think the criticism of 100% uptime is an ideological position, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. In this case having their website always up would give it wider reach, and presumably convince more people to reduce their energy usage, which is the goal. But I can appreciate those who practice what they preach.

If the authors are here, you can further optimize your page.

For images I was able to reduce image-weight by 494 bytes, using lossless optimization, with optipng.

For the html, using zopfli to compress the page, I squeezed out another 3020 bytes. And although I didn't fix it up, the html code includes unnecessary remnants from pre-html5 like closing P tags, lots of end slashes, etc. I'd bet you could save a few KB (before compression) by removing it.

In all these are over 3514 bytes you don't need to read from disk, cache, encrypt, and send over the network using your 1-2.5W webserver.

For cryptography, you can save some cycles using ECDSA instead of RSA, and prioritizing aes-128-gcm over aes-256-gcm. And what about ChaCha? To me it seems logically inconsistent to spend extra cycles protecting this read-only low-energy site powered exclusively by solar. 128-bits are enough; in practice you only need to worry about side channels, not key length.

Just as an aside, on the topic of webpage optimization, here are some of my favorite tools: zopfli, pngquant, optipng, jhead, cwebp.

And here are some excellent resources:

* https://webpagetest.org/
* https://webspeedtest.cloudinary.com/
* https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Then when you're done, check for html errors with

* https://html5.validator.nu/
* https://validator.w3.org/
The smug Canadian "well, we don't have these problems here" look on my face dropped into a shocked one when I read that she lives in the same city as me. Probably one of my neighbors.

Going to go make a donation to North York Harvest now. Seems like I don't understand poverty enough to say that it's not needed.
It's still unsettling that a country that elected Bush then Trump, considers that any idiot can buy a weapon, has been always at war for the last 50 years (including against the UN will), has the nuclear weapon, has the biggest army in the world, and has huge drugs problem, is molding its vision of the planet through Fox News.

Not very reassuring.
Depends on the case. Facebook at least generally replaces drives as they go. In a pipelined fashion rather than as they fail, though. So, a given drive failure doesn't lead to immediate emergency replacement, but sometime in the next few days as someone makes a drive-replacement pass through that area.
I've actually gotten ticketed for this in Texas outside of Austin on the way back from Round Rock. It wasn't very expensive but was thrown onto a ticket for speeding.

I think it was a speed trap(I got a ticket for going 64 in a 55) and he knew he could get an extra infraction if my address was out of date which probably happened a lot with college students because they move a lot, don't update their address, and are dumb enough to admit it to a cop.
We work in a very fortunate industry with respect to economic mobility.

I've seen many people in tech go from a lower class or lower-middle class socioeconomic upbringing (myself included) to reaching a much more stable and comfortable point.

This is why I'm so excited for startups like Lambda School that allow more people to cross over even if they couldn't afford to take on the financial burden of an engineering degree. The aggregate economic impact on people's lives is astounding.
In the USA, I have no idea. In the EU, politicians don't want that because that'd surely lead to a revolution, especially in the east.
Good catch. I responded to “no evidence Apple is more secure” and missed the “because it is closed” context.

I think Apple’s products would be more secure if they were more open. I appreciate that the core is open (Darwin, WebKit, Swift, LLVM).
What concerns me the most is that as the ruling classes change over time, you’ll end up with an overthrow of the system by people who are under educated, for whatever reason. So rather than building on existing knowledge or improving it, they’ll essentially revert back and repeat past mistakes or invent new ones that would have been avoided if they were better educated.

I have to say I see this all the time in tech with people having no clue why we do things the way we do, why a e2e test doesn’t replace a unit test for example is lost on many developers these days even.
explaining algorithm would help bad actors to abuse it even more..
In the late 19th century rich people in LA bought many properties upstream of Owens valley, on the Owen’s river, and diverted the water to LA leaving farmers in Owens valley without the water they historically had and needed for their farms.
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This is perverse. Since when did we incentivize murder by free broadcast? Seriously the parent is a disgusting comment.
It’s an operator, there are no optional arguments. Though it’s OK to also have a function like you propose.
Airbnb, Amazon, Amtrak, Ancestry, Apple, Discord, Ebooks, Eventbrite, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Intel, LinkedIn, Lyft, Meetup, Microsoft, Netflix, Patreon, Pay Toilets, Skype, Slack, Spotify, Twitter, Uber, Wendy's

...is not the Internet
Yes tax evasion is a great deal!
Speaking of that, I wonder when there will be robots (i.e., with good software) that will help take out the garbage, clean the toilets, and possibly fix plumbing?
I'd even argue that "relative" poverty at least (i.e. once one escapes actual, severe deprivation, which is mostly a factor in underdeveloped countries but not entirely unknown in the West, either) is all about the "being alone" factor. The best "anti-poverty" policy, once material abundance is achieved (and a UBI can help with that) is to promote social inclusion and to strenghten institutions that provide social capital.

Conservatives understand this very well, BTW; strong social capital is key to the conservative worldview, whereas a "liberal" is often more inclined to see the world in terms of material relations of production and an inherently-unstable balance of power, and even the very notion of social atomization might be entirely foreign to them.
It depends on the point of view of management. In a lot of companies, managers don’t care about tech debt much and see “toil” as the rightful majority mode of work that engineers ought to focus on. They may simply lack the capacity to understand what an investment in paying down tech debt to free engineer time could buy them, or they may view that process as too risky, or they just may not care.

There are a lot of managerial reasons why this happens. It’s one of the biggest lines of questioning I pursue in job interviews, to try to understand what point of view people have elsewhere in the food chain about how (or if) engineers add value to the business.
From the article:

> Beside a lack of competition, the investment slump stems from what Summers calls the de-massification of the economy. Developers aren’t building as many malls and stores, because goods now go straight from warehouses to homes. Offices don’t need as much storage space. Cellphones have replaced not just desktop computers but also cameras, stereos, books and more. Many young people have decided they’re happy living in small apartments, without cars.

My reaction to that is LOL. Those changes represent forward progress, we can have more and better stuff easier than before, and/or our preferences have changed. If that somehow is “the cause” of our “economic suffering,” then maybe it’s time to change the way we measure.
Every year the GDP grows while inequality gets worse. This is going to come home when most Americans look at the topline stats (GDP and unemployment) getting better while their own lives get worse. Are we optimizing the wrong thing?
The games are old, but they're still live. So it could just as well mean that the subscription MMO market is viable but saturated, so they're expanding into non-subscription. There's nowhere near enough evidence to go right for the players-won't-pay explanation, when there are literally millions of subscription-paying players.

I'd argue that the drawn out deaths of those MMOs shows how creatively bankrupt the MMO market is - people aren't leaving for new MMOs, they're staying with old ones till they get bored, because there's nothing better out there.
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is there one that stops the GDPR/Cookie law popups that litter the web?
Colo can mean "rent a suite from DRT in one location and a building in another" in addition to space in a rack. Lyft's probably around that size (and it's a good idea to do some colo to gain experience before trying to build out your own anyways)
Ask HN: Is jQuery on its way out?
Due to the proliferation of many advanced JS libraries such as React and Angular, do you think jQuery is on its way out? Is becoming good at jQuery a waste of time?
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I understand you don't like it but every choice, every act has a political significance. I believe it doesn't follow that you actively support or promote whatever comes with a choice but the fact remains that choosing a tech only on tech merits or choosing a tech despite who you support by buying it is still a political choice.

That's why I use Firefox and not google chrome even though at some points one is better than the other.

> We’ve gone from “not choosing is a choice” to “every choice is political”.

> I’m sorry but the latter doesn’t immediatly follow from the first.

Nobody said or implied that.

> Similarly you should argue that eating meat is a religious choice, since some religions prohibit meat consumption.

Now that's a bogus reasoning and I don't see why you twist the analogy like that since it loses relevance.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/09/sweden-how-cas...

> SituationSthlm is a Swedish magazine similar to the UK’s Big Issue, sold by homeless people in Stockholm. But the sellers couldn’t sell magazines to people who didn’t carry cash. The solution? A badge for sellers with a QR payment code. Buyers scan it with their phone, make a digital payment using the mobile payment system Swish, and then the seller collects their cash from the SituationStklm offices soon after.

> “This solution originated to help sell magazines, but soon showed other benefits. It helped homeless people carry less cash – which reduced their vulnerability to theft, and also gave them a way to budget by leaving their money at the office until they needed it,” said the report.

> The researchers also found that Sweden had benefited from lower crime and higher tax revenues as cash usage had fallen, but it added: “We must not demonise those who operate in cash, when many have no choice.”
Will we ever be able to visit sites in peace again? We’ve got chat popups, cookie notices, social widgets, google amp, subscription popups...I’m sure I’m forgetting other annoyances and I haven’t even talked about the 20 tracking scripts degrading the experience invisibly on each page. On mobile it’s getting almost unbearable!

On the other hand, everyone seems okay with the idea of trading privacy for free stuff...
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I honestly don’t understand why this is a bigger deal than what happened at UNC. There was a 30 year scandal of fake classes at the university and somehow degrees are intact, accreditation remains unchallenged.

But a few rich kids getting into schools where they don’t deserve to be is a national scandal?
I mostly get stuck using Javascript because I want to target people’s web browsers. I write a pretty good amount of numerical code. The lack of operator overloading for number-like objects is extremely annoying for me.

There are always hacky workarounds, e.g. https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js#the-inline-function but in this particular case the code to make it work ends up a bit confusing, and the hack is somewhat brittle and inflexible.
It's more complex than that. From a technical standpoint, for many browsers, you probably want a few files but not too many. This is because the browser will download several files at the same time. Small files do have a bit of overhead for each request, so it all depends. Of course I've way over simplified the matter myself.
It's not only reasonable, but is becoming increasingly accepted. I finished this book a little while ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/d...

But it really said the same thing that many other economics books said. If you read Thomas Piketty, you know that inequality basically comes down to the end of growth. He starts with the mostly-factual premises that growth will remain stalled while capital returns will continue at their historical rates. I'm still unsure about the latter premise myself, but the former is undeniable.

But we also need to distinguish economic growth from quality of life improvements. Quality of life, necessarily, has to come from productivity improvements (not in the dictionary sense of those words, but in the macro economic sense). The US GDP could be partially buoyant due to immigration, and partially due to demographics.

To some of the points of the article - companies would invest more if there was an expectation that new technologies were fundamentally transformative. I don't get that sense.
There's a fairly high burden on the financial institution, they have to show you're not complying with anti-laundering legislation, but that falls short of proving actual money laundering. So there's a problem. I think the way it would work legally is that a person would automatically regain access to a bank account if they receive welfare, as said welfare would then be income with a known legal origin, but I am not sure about that.
Actually, there's still massive growth in countries like India, China, but also Ethiopia. As other countries start improving their economy, the economic boom of post WW2 America seems to finally wear off while at the same time the computer revolution is making short work of old-fashioned manual labor.

That's great for humanity in general, as more people can have better lives, but it comes at the cost of luxuries to the already rich countries.

I expect the economy in the west to decline in the next 20 or 30 years as more developing countries are getting their economies in line. With China investing massively in the African continent and with the enormous natural wealth Africa possesses, we can probably expect Africa to turn into a major economic power somewhere in the next 50-100 years.
I think the Lem developers would appreciate if you filed issues that caused you to believe what you do about the project, so they have a chance to improve the state of affairs.
This isn't correct. In states that accepted Medicaid expansion through the ACA, those who make a certain percentage of the federal poverty level[1] would be eligible for coverage under Medicaid. I would argue that the FPL is laughably low, and that an income that is even twice that of the FPL still counts as poverty level income.

In states that didn't accept Medicaid expansion through the ACA, people who are poor are not eligible for coverage under Medicaid.

You can see which states accepted Medicaid expansion through the ACA here[2].

[1] FPL for a single individual is $12,140. For a family of 3, it is $20,780.

[2] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...
The rolls are independent; after an unsuccessful roll your chance P(6) is identical to when you started.

>My algorithm you don't know, it might be instant, it might never finish. //

If it might never finish then it's not [completely] sorting IMO. But I'm a long way off being a comp. sci..
We do have f(x, y) in mathematics notation, as well as notations like { a, b, c }, ( 1, 2 ). The inventor of vector and matrix notation finally had the brilliant idea of dropping the silly commas [ i j k ]. Think of how ugly matrices would look with commas.

Now in mathematics, there is no equivalent of a 200,000 line piece of software. The number of identifiers a mathematician works with in any given work is small, even if the work is large (many pages of derivation).

Mathematics notation is ambiguous and inconsistent. One letter names are preferred so that xy can denote the product of x * y. So much so that mathematicians reach for other scripts like Greek rather than make a multi-letter name. Then, inconsistently, we have things like sin(x).

Consider that xy(z + w) is likely interpreted as the product of x, y and z + w. It has the same syntax as ln(z + w), the natural logarithm of z + w, not the product of l and n.

Professionally printed mathematics resorts to the use of special fonts to visually resolve these things. This problem is so serious that everyone who is anyone in mathematics goes to the trouble of professional typesetting, even in minor papers.

In software, the program-defined functions form vast vocabularies. They cannot all be assigned to infix operators without creating mayhem. Many functions have 3 arguments. Seven argument functions are not uncommon. Those also cannot be infix.

In spite of what the author may say, real Python code is chock full of "import foo" and "foo.bar.baz(this.or.that(), other.thing())".
Lol, plumbing especially will never be automated
If growth is supported by overborrowing the future, perhaps it is better to have no growth
Speaking just to crime, there are still about 10 bank robberies per day in the US[1], plus many crimes against individuals where the goal is to obtain cash. I would think that a cashless society would have much less of this?

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-20...
Just to make sure I understand you and your perspective correctly, I'll isolate just your first point: You are saying that there is, in fact, no difference between a phone with a good battery and a different phone with a separate battery you must attach to it?

I believe this line of reasoning also explains your other points satisfactorily.
I've used those chat widgets a lot and they are by far the best way to get customer service issues addressed. They respond faster than the phone line, it's async so I can use the bathroom while they look up details, I can post links, I never have to repeat myself or ask them to repeat. Blocking these widgets seems like a terrible idea.
Why don't you collapse it instead of killing it ? I sometimes need that chatbox.
I've made personal copies of rare bits of info for my Asus tablet/laptop but shuttered my pages down. But that was the needle in the haystack of g+ content, most everything else seem to have slacked off shortly after the novelty wore off.