skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same situation on the LSI Logic (actually, it came from C-Cube Microsystems) processor. One SPARC core running VxWorks and applications and the other SPARC core running bare metal and MPEG-2 codecs.

The first version of the chip was introduced at CES 2001. Pretty early for a multi-core CPU. Only 150 MHz clock rate though.
But marginal cost for whom? The entity manufacturing the drug, the entity that holds the inventory, the entity that owns the IP, or the entity that the pharmaceutical rep works for?

Any sufficiently large corporation is more likely than not to be an amalgamation of interconnected subsidiaries, for a wide variety of purposes. Once you're at that stage, there's a lot of room to get creative with how you structure intra-company charges to form whatever optics you want. It's entirely plausible that one internal entity may charge the marketing entity full retail price for samples, if they feel it's beneficial and have enough justification to satisfy accounting and auditors that it's a fair market value for the product (which list price would generally satisfy that requirement).
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Deng Xiaoping
I get the impression that the Rust community is wholly burdened in this third wave mindset. Everything is dual licensed Apache / MIT to guarantee maximum developer freedom. There have probably been a billion man hours poured into developing the Rust ecosystem at this point and I personally really think its destined for greatness. But the licensing style is already coming back to haunt all the projects - with growing popularity game studios, big megacorps, Mozillas own competitors, etc have started adopting Rust.

And they give nothing back. No money, no developer hours. They take the fruits of a fledgling ecosystem and experience great productivity and performance improvements in their commercial products and reap increasing profits on the backs of people who naively just thought "I just want people to be able use my code is all".

The third wave does not recognize the tremendous costs associated with giving away productivity to corporations. It costs society broadly, because it empowers business interests to exploit workers and customers for greater revenues not through their own ingenuity or innovation but through the labors of others given away freely. That isn't being generous on the parts of the developers who wrote the code for those that most need generosity.
I think it's fair to point out since homeownership can be a very poor decision if you aren't considering these things when you go all in.

People "guess wrong" about the perception vs. reality of their self all the time over plenty of things, and a lot of it results in them buying junk they rarely or never use. ("I'm totally going to learn how to shred on that ukulele.") Houses are just special given how royally screwed you are when you're trying to get some liquidity out of a several-million dollar asset you stupidly bought because you thought it matched your fantasy lifestyle and realized how wrong you were after it was too late. That said, I don't feel too sorry for these people, but I think it's definitely worth trying to teach others not to make the same mistake.
Quick comment before addressing your points: I'm not actually a Walmart hater; I just think TFA overstates the case for them being beneficial.

> The author implied "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "without directly receiving tax dollars" which is true. Taking "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "ensuring their employee's received no government benefits" is quite a stretch.

I disagree with this characterization of "without costing taxpayers a dime;" I'm willing to forgive opportunity costs, but e.g. moving people from private healthcare to subsidized health care is IMO a direct cost.

Even if I didn't disagree, Walmart has certainly been directly receiving tax dollars in one form or another, as any large corporation will do (see e.g. Amazon's recent attempt to get cities to bid for their presence).

> they specifically structured their compensation plan for their employees to extract a maximum value from the social welfare system

> While the outcome of Walmart's actions might have been this, I think it much closer to Walmart's goal to say that they worked to minimize the total cost of labor. The two are very different ideas of what Walmart's obligations are.

For low-compensation jobs these are roughly the same thing because, once you hit a certain level of compensation, cutting wages must result in either your employees ending up starving to death or beneficiaries of the social welfare system.

>> Even if Walmart employed more people than the smaller stores they replaced, if even 1 employee of Walmart would have otherwise had a job that provided healthcare, then "not a dime" is overstating things.

> This is a really tricky standard. By this standard. Imagine if Walmart employed 50 people, 40 at minimum wage, 10 with full benefits, and drove out of two smaller stores that provided 25 full benefit jobs. There is a net loss of 15 full benefit jobs, you say this is really bad. But, 25 more people have jobs. This very well could net decrease government welfare to the area.

> The details get really tricky and the truth could be one way or another. I personally have no data to inform an opinion one way or another.

I agree, though my intuition is that more people will be beneficiaries of government services post-walmart. This does not necessarily imply walmart is a net-cost though as if walmart sufficiently drives down the cost of living to everyone, then the total cost of the services could potentially go down.

I'm thinking it's a net cost though just because walmart has little effect on two of the biggest costs for low earners: healthcare and housing.
Although based on that book, with which I agree here, the plural seems unambiguously the preferred term for this article's context, I'm not convinced of the book's examples of incorrect use of the singular form. It seems like in the given examples, the word "bacteria" is treated as singular when referring to a specific strain of bacteria. It seems unwieldy in referring to one particular strain, IMHO, to say "the bacterium that causes <x>", since one typically gets infected by a vast quantity of the individual entities, not just one. Thus I think "the [strain of] bacteria that causes ..." [for one strain] sounds just as natural as "bacteria that cause <x> include <a>, <b>, <c> ..." [referring to multiple strains].
Speaking as a child of the suburbs, transit-accessible urban areas are a lot nicer for the kids themselves. Even the nicest American suburbs suck for anyone who can’t drive.
The point of me copying the structure of your comment with my own is to point out that your line of argument ("look at how complex this seems on its face") applies just as well to your own position as it does mine. When you say "yes" you're just repeating the same argument that I used to refute yours. I don't get it.
From my experience, the feeling of loneliness has little to do with face time with friends. You can feel "lonely" even if you're constantly surrounded by friends/family.
I think the good rule of thumb is to have longer names in bigger scopes. So a variable for short loop or an argument to 1 line function can be single char, while arguments to medium length functions are a word, and globals (including functions) are one or multiple words.

To get to your example, the preferred signature would be:

square:{x*x}
Money is the root of all evil, etc
By all accounts the experience varies enormously between troops. I’m sure someone who learned enough wilderness survival skills for it to be useful in their military career will pop up in the comments, and some more who suffered as you did.
Write a flamebait article, and you should expect flames.
People who would make that decision don’t end up making decisions at Firefox. Browser behavior consists mostly of arbitrary decisions which have been codified into rules to keep things from breaking.
When you say allies, what comes to my mind is US-UK or US-Israel relationship.

It's quite a narrow view, I dare to say. There's no need any for any stable special relationship, or even shared objectives to form an alliance. Expecting some sort of positive returns is quite enough. E.g. since Germans attacked USSR the latter became ally of UK, and then US in spite of the fact that Soviet ideology made it a natural enemy to both (and predictably USSR became an enemy once Germany lost).

There was an addendum to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (Secret protocol) which was a plan to divide Eastern Europe between two empires, and it means Soviet-Nazi allyship in 1939 was neither an accident, nor a forced decision.

Well, Nazi plans to expand into the east were well known.

It's not correct in the context. While wish to expand Reich was certainly known, Hitler didn't publicly advertize any clear plans regarding territories under Soviet rule. And Stalin obviously trusted Hitler because he personally discarded intelligence indicating German war preparations as ridiculous. Soviet press in line with party directives kept neutral, or friendly tone towards Germans till the moment of the invasion.
When you own the entire vertical, all the way to end user, it makes sense.

In practice, the final steps that are necessary to deliver something useful to the user are often considered the most boring and tedious (UI, documentation etc), so many F/OSS projects either don't bother at all, or provide something half-baked. But if the underlying libraries allow for a proprietary derivative, then that might motivate some businesses to come and do all that tedious stuff for $$$. Such businesses might not contribute back much, but they are also unlikely to fork - less code to maintain that way.

When that happens, I don't think it's a loss for anybody, really. The open code stays open and can be improved further, and it also gets used by more people in better ways. Some would argue that library developers aren't properly compensated, but the act of voluntarily releasing something under a non-copyleft license is explicit consent to that.

In the hypothetical "suffering an annoying bug" scenario, I would, of course, prefer to have the source so that I can fix it. But if the real choice is between having a product with an annoying unfixable bug (but plenty of other added value), and not having one at all, because nobody wants to build my extremely useful GPL'd library into a polished product, the obvious pragmatic choice is the bug.
Thinking more about the issues, it really seems this only affects a subset of software, specifically server software. A SaaS company won't be able to turn and sell some desktop software as a service. We sort of seen this in the past with hosting companies selling services with apache, php, and various other software together, but I guess the maintainers of these projects were not competiting in this area so it never mattered.

I also find it odd that one of the reasons to use the term open source was because of the ambiguity with the meaning of free. Even with this reason, the majority of open source software is free/gratis.

I agree with the problem we are facing now, we are just not educating many developers on free and open source software. It is probably something we need to improve on.
We're held responsible for our work in San Francisco as well.

My take is that the overwork aspect is raw culture - arbitrarily needing to stay as late as your boss while you fiddle with your phone, lacking any actual work to do.

Underpay is because of market forces - the average salary is 30k because the average salary is 30k because the average salary is 30k.

My advice to you is learn to pull solo contract work off US companies early.
There is no nationwide social credit score system, and there's certainly no large-scale effort to score people based on their political and religious activity as part of China's social credit system. For more informed and nuanced understanding of what China's "social credit" is, I invite you to read Inkstone's earlier story: https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-social-credit-sy...

And a podcast featuring a scholar who's closely followed the development of the system, and whom we interviewed for the article above: https://chinalawandpolicy.com/2018/11/12/whats-the-t-on-chin...
I don't get the point of this article. Some people regret buying mansions?

I agree that as someone who is passively looking and going to the occasional open house, my "dream home" is one that is 1) in an urban center 2) does not require a car to get to/from 3) is priced so that the mortgage payment is comfortably below what I expect to earn 4) has a good amount of natural light 5) small enough to easily maintain and 6) the small space is functional.

Basically, I just want a small, functional, well-designed space in an urban center within budget.
Yup, that easily fits in the evil genius category
Context: I spent five years as an engineer at Amazon, the last two as a tech lead on an internal developer tool (think SaaS for performance engineering).

This article is not untrue but it misses the fact that teams are empowered to own their solutions are not restricted in how they setup their environments and which tools they use. It's true that fixing these problems feels like wasted effort, it's by design: Amazon operates as many separate internal entities and I think replication of effort is an acknowledged downside of operating this way.

> 1. Deployments
> Their internal deployment tool at Amazon is Apollo, and it doesn't support auto-scaling.

I had to manually scale up my service once in two years and we weren't over-provisioning wastefully. Before I left my product was supporting +40K internal applications with an infra+AWS cost < 2k / month.

We had good CI with deep integration with Apollo, you could track any change across the pipeline, we had reproducible builds and we had a comprehensive deployment log listing all changes.

Apollo is sloooooow though and the UI is very 90s.

> 2. Logs
> Any self respecting company running software on distributed machines should have centralized, searchable logs for their services.

We were using Elastic Logstash Kibana powered by AWS ElasticSearch. I wrote a thin wrapper around logstash that was used in over 1K environments internally, so weren't the only ones doing this.

> 3. Service Discovery
> What service discovery? We used to hard wire load balancer host names in config files.

Agree with this one. I will never forget the quality time I spent configuring those load balancers and ticketing people about DNS.

> 4. Containers

As other commenters mentioned, if you want to use containers, you're free to bypass all of this and run your service in AWS where you can use ECR, EKS etc if you want.

> (As far as I know, Node.js was used inside in a limited capacity, but they had an alternative for npm for security reasons, and you had to get an npm package approved to use it internally.)

I built my UI from scratch using create-react-app and yarn offline builds (no mystery meat) and I bypassed all the internal JS tooling, which I thought was very poor. This was changing though.

Finally, my personal anecdote: you could onboard our product in less than an hour (including reading docs), it required no further maintenance and gave you performance stats for free. So not all was bad :)
Instagram Crawler – a Ruby gem to crawl instagram photos and videos for download
Revolut is available outside the UK.
I think you’re looking at performance all wrong.

How long until the sender’s ad targeting subcontractors know you read it?

How long until they can act on that information to manipulate you into sending cash, voting to sabotage the government, or otherwise act against your own interests?

With static email, all of these latencies are in the days, or at least hours. With amp email, it can be accomplished in 100’s of milliseconds.
Yards are great if you like gardening or have a dog, but I think most people overestimate how much the kids would use a yard. Some do use it a lot, but I think more commonly kids end up indoors, at the park, or in the street even when there's a yard available.
MaxMind is ridiculously cheap, and has solid public metrics on their own accuracy. What is this bringing to the table?
Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement
Tiny board is smaller than Raspberry Pi Zero and optimized to run Python
It's really not as good as Monzo/Revolut and not available to everyone in the US (lots of permanent residents can't get Simple).
This quote was in reference to trying to grow the Chinese economy after Mao.

Given how many people go bankrupt for drugs, and how much high drug prices distort the economics of healthcare overall, id argue our current setup is not catching mice.

A good alternative would be Public investment in healthcare to add fluidity to the labor market, and to prevent a single sectors profiteering from dragging down overall economic growth.
Even so, that makes for an unproductive use of money. Housing is no doubt a necessary evil, but nothing to dream about.
Google can be very difficult when it comes to approving add-ons for their add-on store as well. They approved my add-on that blocks porn ads on a certain website, but won't accept a trivial update on the grounds that it is too NSFW.

They make you provide a screenshot to submit an add-on. I used a screenshot of the website it works on with the porn ads it blocks heavily pixelated. I can't think of any other way to take a screenshot of what my add-on does. So I guess users will have to do without the new update.
Speaking from experience, it's not worth it even if you are on a mission.

We're in a world where the incumbents have more resources and the talent to execute on big ideas. There's no reason why you need to choose between mission-driven and 1/3 the salary anymore. You can probably achieve bigger things at a big company these days.
It does a similar thing on iOS and is super annoying. I run into it on Firefox Focus (where I google most often), but presumably it affects other browsers as well.
Came here to say this. The generative version has no story, so the emotional aspect is quite watered down, even if the general mood persists. Funnily enough, that is probably perfect for the use case of this kind of thing: background music.

Given that the way the phrases evolve, and also repeat, is what tells the story, maybe a second layer of markov chain driving the phrase choices would help?
If you want to box up the cost for accounting purposes why not just hire elastic search consultants? From the buyers point of view its not any different from a proprietary company
FTFA "People who drank hot tea daily but didn't smoke or drink alcohol every day had no increased risk of oesophageal cancer."

Also the study indicates it the "hot" thats at issue not the "Tea" so Im calling bullshit on this headline.
The Gmail Developer Preview of AMP in Email
>The downside of the new board is its price, which at £43.80 (~$58)

I was interested for a while, but wow
I feel like I've been tricked into reading the same sentence twice. My precious time has been wasted. (I'm half-joking.) In the case of this article:

> A house is an investment, except it’s also a necessity, and it’s also an expression of status, which together make the investment wildly expensive and illiquid.

This sentence exists twice. Why include it as a header? The sentence is long enough and this isn't poetry, so it is fair to assume the repetition wasn't for any sort of artistic effect. Just leave that sentence within the context of the paragraph where it's written. Maybe even bold it, but the reader shouldn't have to look at those words twice.

I can maybe understand it when it's a quote from another person, under some arbitrarily small word count, like ten. I assume there are some rules in journalistic writing that allows for that style, such that it's normalized to the reader.
It’s the “public interest” folks that demand all that stuff. Municipalities see franchising as an opportunity to get stuff for free (fiber to schools or whatever), and to give service to residents below cost (requiring all neighborhoods to be covered, even ones that aren’t profitable to serve). Yes, it helps maintain the de facto regional monopolies (actual monopoly franchises have been illegal for decades), and it’s all the fault of the public interest people.
Do you have guests on your podcast? Does Mumble have a one-click web client for the session? Interested in this as I had an idea about remote-recording interview app, but I don't really know the space as of now.
Utopia can only enter cities that allow & fund it, so for most cities this not an option. Nothing like Comcast.
i'm a private pilot and a software product manager - and i similarly don't know for sure - but think your conjecture is completely plausible - agile is fine and does have cost/productivity advantages - but i rather doubt you'll see the textbook version of it implemented by NASA - but everyone in commercial software is falling all over themselves to reduce software development costs and Agile is supposed to be the holy grail - I've seen it work just fine for line of business software - but I similarly share the concern that manufacturers of airplanes, medical electronics, power infrastructure are adopting it for cost-savings purposes and are not sufficiently concerned about the edge cases where it goes bad with devastating consequences - but that is the hallmark of capitalism - shareholders come first...
Don't shift the goal posts. Nobody is objecting to "mandarin being supported". The issue has always been with working with a totalitarian state and working on censorship tools for said state. Saying "the jobs will go elsewhere" is not a tenable argument. Google providing those tools is not better than another actor doing the same thing.
I keep saying this, and while in some cases it's arguably very much deserved, we're already here. We have a very Scarlett letter mentality. Don't get dinged once or your life is ruined. We even see something like getting fired (which can happen for many reasons), as an albotrose a person should carry forever.

Obviously, I need to point out that in many ways we're not like China, and plenty of people who get fired, commit crimes, lose their drivers licenses, default on debt, ect. live happy and prosperous lives.
That's basically what Brave does - web browser with a built-in adblocker. Or, for that matter, Chrome with any adblocking extension. It's not illegal, but it's not exactly popular with webmasters, and they're within their rights to block access to these browsers. In practice it tends to evolve into a cat-and-mouse game where adblockers block the ads, websites try to detect the adblockers and show you a pop-up encouraging you to turn off the adblocker, adblockers try to block the pop-ups, and so on.
Do the claims sound ridiculous? Because I'm guessing you have not even looked at the claims...
AMP is not an industry standard either. At best it is a spec, and a seriously broken one at that.
Nearby, CenturyLink has synchronous 1 gbit fiber with no data cap for $65/mo.
> Google has counsel in house to cover a that more or less for free, and still essientially failed. There's deeper issues at play.

Google refused to build Fiber in places that imposed most of those conditions. It demanded the opposite—free use of municipal resources for fiber huts, etc. and it absolutely rejected any attempt to impose one of the most common franchise stipulations: build-out requirements that require universal coverage of neighborhoods.

Google failed because even with all that special treatment, building fiber is not profitable compared to selling ads.
Excuse me good sir but Jurassic Park did nothing wrong

https://youtu.be/6F8mJZkP-Hg