skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't have a top internet company without top notch developers. You can't have top notch developers without paying them what they're worth. The best developers know what they're worth and know what they can get paid in just about every country on earth. I know that right now there's 3 places on earth that I will get paid what I get paid just now for what I do and have a high quality of life - Switzerland, Canada and the United States.

Without top quality developers, you're not going to have a top internet company.
> and you can write Chef cookbooks in very clean Ruby

you can, but in reality, this doesn't happen. especially for people who just want config management, and not to learn Ruby, or exactlty the "sysadmin/developer divide" as you've so aptly put it. all I got from Chef was loathing Ruby and all it's magic.

anyhow, the point was to illuminate how/why Ansible came about. i don't really like or use Ansible much anymore.
Exactly.

FRB is essentially a form of "double spending", but under certain conditions to maintain stability.

Bitcoin doesn't allow double spending. Neither does gold.
So in some segment of the 1800s economic growth was larger than deflationary pressures which might have been linked to increasing economic efficiency... Seems pretty narrow.

Unfortunately I don't see how bitcoin would be likely to maintain a deflationary rate anywhere near balanced with economic growth if it were used as a primary currency considering its hard capped at 21 million BTC, and an unknown number of coins are pretty much permanently lost. I think it'd have an effect of making primary interest rates have to exceed the rate of Bitcoin's deflation which sounds like a death spiral to me.
Note that if you are currently using Falcon, another route to get many of these features is to use hug (https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug) which inspired many of API Star features back in the day - and is part of the Falcon ecosystem. But there's also a lot of really amazing work done in this ecosystem that hug doesn't currently support - I may have a busy couple of months ahead :).

(DISCLAIMER: I am the creator of hug)
Yeah the “with ads” is what led me to cancel mine - those prices are already high relative to other subscription services and they include ads?

Canceling the nytimes was also about as difficult as canceling Sirius XM radio (forcing a phone call). One level up from canceling a gym membership.

Maybe apple can force them to be better.
It’s immediately obvious that increasing the money supply and spending the money will result in inflation.

MMT says that the only constraint on spending is inflation, but also turns around and says that you can always print more money. That’s a contradiction.

Printing more money does not change the real wealth in the economy. You can’t create additional purchasing power with an increase in the money supply because prices will adjust to the new level.
Competitive Programming Notebook
https://salil03.github.io/Competitive-Programming-Notebook/

A large part of this book has been taken from https://cses.fi/book/
Perhaps you should learn to read?
Conversely, why are US tech companies not outsourcing more to drive up salaries?
Here's then Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush getting confused by a phone call on his watch[0]. Here's Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi getting a notification on her watch during the State of the Union Address a couple of years ago[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4in1AUemxqM&frags=pl%2Cwn
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/why-was-nancy-pelo...
All I know about PewDiePie is that they are a YouTube user. What's the connection with terrorism and ransomware?
Deflation and deflationary episodes aren't the same as a deflationary currency.
>The public sector can't finance private institutions because it's against the EU laws.

This isn't actually true.
Its not upscaling. Its taking what it knows about other non ST pictures and creating new texture and information.
It's what the media and the extremist left call everyone who isn't extremist left.
Do you remember when you became bitter and jaded?
Its a weird narrative the MSM tried last year, clearly a few people fell for it.
The most important and easiest step is installing NoScript and going temporary whitelist only.
Nothing is problematic here if you have a 100k dollar salary.

For the rest of us, yes it is.
Tesla has displayed a chronic inability to manage their own supply chain

I thought Tesla brought manufacturing in house to simplify their logistics.
Can you provide an example of this? People always say this, but never provide the query.

Because anyone who's used Google in the last 10 years knows that Google tailors its results to what it thinks you want to see.

So a search query that fails for one HN reader may work for another, or at least work differently.

A repeated frustration in my life has been explaining to bosses that the search results that appear on their personal phone are not the same as what will appear on a client's computer.
Or, even more abstractly, they serve as an alternative to inflation, which devalues money indiscriminately. Printing money and taxation both transfer value to the fed; but the latter can be crafted & targeted while the former cannot. In practice perhaps the most significant realization of this is that inflation is a tax on wealth while our system today is mostly a tax on income.
It's designed to be very helpful while building web APIs that communicate JSON over HTTP.

You can have semi-automatic data validation, serialization (converting from JSON to Python data types, etc). And an automatic web user interface that documents your API. You don't have to do anything to have that web interface, it's done automatically from your definitions of the data types that you need.

It is also compatible with Jinja templates.

It's like a modern Flask with several benefits, especially for web APIs.
Ask HN: Pitched my startup to a VC, he offered me a job. What should I do?
This was my second time ever pitching to a VC. A week after the pitch the managing partner asked me to grab a coffee with him, we spoke for about an hour, mostly personal stuff, nothing special really. Later in the day, he called me and said point blank: "You suck as a CEO but would make a legendary VC", then he proceeded to tell me that he could give me a job and mentor me, ...

He's probably right about the first part but I'm really not sure why he thinks I'd make a good VC. I'm a purely technical guy, I dropped out of school, don't have any great business success under my belt, and in total, have pitched to 2 VCs in my life! I love my startup but he's really persistent and has offered me a great starting salary. People with more experience, has this ever happened to you? Is this a great opportunity that I might regret?
You can see the cabling in the video on the official site: https://www.sprayprinter.com/
For ARMv8, gcc favors mov+movk over pc-rel loads
im not discounting ML being able to do this better. kudos to the op. but for fun i tried it using conventional methods (NR+sharpen); similar results but an order of magnitude faster. you be the judge:

https://pasteboard.co/I6tvYmP.png
It's the "now I have to do two things?" obstacle. When the goal is "join Mastodon" and "here's Mastodon" leads you to a common, busy instance with open joining that's a fast path without a lot of extra friction. The "this one is closed, here's a link to a searchable list of lots of Mastodon instances options" instead adds a lot of new steps and cognitive analysis paralysis friction that many people would rather not do.

One of the best techniques I've seen for bringing people to Mastodon is the opposite technique to general purpose servers, such as the approach that is that used by instances like friend.camp and idlethumbs.social where a lot of the users were directly invited by the instance admins (because they were friends in RL, or on other social media) with basically "here's your account, welcome, ask me if you need anything" (or similar). That reduces friction to the bare minimum. It scales appropriately in the decentralized way Mastodon was meant to (as lots of small instances), and that sort of "high touch" of "I'm your friendly neighborhood admin" is the sort of "human scale" that Mastodon can sell a lot better than other social media, when done right, helping differentiate from first impressions why Mastodon isn't just "nerd Twitter".
Apple quietly aquires Stamplay [website scrubbed]
Yeesh you live in a bizarro bubble. Wish you well :)
Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles
> "PewDiePie fans"

More like trolls piggybacking off PewDiePie as a meme.
Agree. I did a round trip about 12 years ago: Boston-DC-Chicago-Sacramento-LA-San Antonio-Chicago-Boston. Ten days on the train over 14 days. It was awesome. I brought lots of electronic entertainment and never used it. I spent endless hours just looking at parts of the country I've only ever flown over and met many interesting folks.
Completely crazy.

Ten years of QE produced nothing, so we need to try harder. MMT and Unveraal Basic Income - that will like totally save us, dude!
Counterpoint strawman: keeping these systems proprietary might also drive more innovation, as companies "re-inventing the wheel" will come up with different solutions or features that will continue to push the bleeding edge of the industry.
You need decent manufacturing capability for decent motors like these: https://www.siemens.com/press/en/feature/2015/corporate/2015...
Just because something is more affordable than the two most expensive housing markets in the world doesn't make it affordable.

Yes, by Bay standards, Amsterdam is not bad (especially for rent). It's still bad for virtually everyone in Amsterdam who isn't on rent control.
Just from a graphics design standpoint, the shadow of Snow Fall[0] still looms large.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html#/?...
When that's your comparison, almost every city in the world is more affordable compared to the Bay Area. Europe, barring London, is typically much more affordable in my experience (extensive transit systems helps as well). There's a reason cities like Berlin are hot spots, they're not just culturally fantastic, they're affordable for all working classes.
Are you comparing salaries or purchasing power?
I have domains on namecheap and would like to transfer to CF. Does the transfer process involve disabling whois, temporarily exposing my personal details to the internet?
The mainstream way of thinking says "the government must tax in order to spend" whereas MMT says "if the government wants to spend it will have to tax".
This may be a controversial opinion, but it also seems that Google's (intentional or unintentional) biases are severely hobbling results. Unpopular political opinions and non-mainstream narratives are increasingly de-ranked. I get a sense that naive individuals at Google are applying their world views when training algorithms to weight results based on content.

This didn't used to be the case. It used to be, if I searched for it, I could find it, no matter how popular or controversial it was. I used to live in China and it reminds me of how Baidu works.
There is none. Felix is popular, "Subscribe to PewDiePie" is a big meme. People like to trash talk others I guess?
OP didn't say he was alt-right, just that he likes to lie down with them.
I agree there should be fines. It's something like negligent endangerment, to me.

As for sweeping it under the rug, anonymous whistleblower bounties?
It doesn't take a huge amount of research to learn of altenatives like uncensoreddns.org so I think it is a little lazy to just go with Cloudflare.
High profile person who attracts way too much unwanted attention.
Exactly...This is a cool gimmick to try once, but it will seriously distort the intended art style.

It is another example of forced intrusion of DL techniques creeping into places where it is not needed in the first place.
There was plenty of actual innovation with the iPhone. It was the first consumer capacitive touch device, it invented a whole host of new UI concepts and inter-app integration that wasn't available on other devices at the time.

I agree that there are plenty of good examples of incremental innovation (which the iPhone may debatably be). It's a very well known and obvious example of meaningful innovation (society is different post-iPhone) that demonstrates the point I was trying to make which is: not all innovation can happen at a grass roots level.
High speed rail is 200mph, New York to Chicago is 4 hours at that speed, 2h30 by plane. Toronto should be under 3 hours.

These city groups would also work with French style TGVs

Miami to Orlando, Jacksonville, Atlanta

Seatle/Portland/Vancouver

SF/LA/San Diego/Vegas/Pheonix

With sleeper trains you can connect New York to Miami in 12 hours, LA to Seattle, Chicago to New Orleans. You need the trains to run at about 110mph, which is normal local line speed.
Not expensive at all.

It was and is much more expensive for the big companies and established players.

Only use the data that you need, and you’re 90% GDPR compliant. The other 10% is making sure that you can delete data.

If your startup relies on sending private data to hundreds of ad agencies and trackers, for example, it’s a good thing your startup struggles.
This is so disconnected from any experience I've ever had searching anything I don't even know how to approach it.

Then consider yourself lucky. The post was a little rambling, but it wasn't wrong.
Ask HN: Ever work as an employee, but do a side hustle at night
Say your side hustle means you're working on a company that say would be a vendor to your 9-5 job if they were interested in it.

How did you manage that? Is it legal to do off hours from the 9-5 hours?

IANAL

Thanks
An internal tool that allowed for logging clear text passwords was a mistake. A culture that allowed said system to exist for 7 years without being surfaced by any type of internal security audit is something else entirely. Financial penalties could/should/would target the latter not the former.
Yeah, generally that's true.
I think I may be a different case (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08233).
I am pretty aware of that and was already expecting such a reply from you.

The point was that while for consultancy projects, customers do refuse to pay for what is considered a bad piece of work, for other kinds of software delivery, with exception of app stores, that never happens.

It is very interesting experience to take part in a customer meeting, which isn't very pleased how things are going, regardless of the outcome.

I also have my share of being part of such teams, similar to your examples, yet that doesn't mean one should stop pushing for quality as much quixotic endeavour as it might seem.
I think that changing the price is sensitive, but having better quality content would entice people to watch it (reducing pressure on producing new more costly content)
The Christchurch gunman name dropped PewDiePie at the start of his feed of the shooting.
a combination of a world model, along with non-source enhancements.

i imagine upscaling the Phantom Menace podrace to 4k, and giving the model a bunch of NEW rock texture info to use to create new detail.

Kinda of an automated way to combine these two ideas.

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparis...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ai-turns-sketches-i...

What you dont want is every upscale to start looking homogeneous, so it would be best for a design team to specifically map old to new texture sets, giving each upscale a unique look.
Well done! This is made by Miguel, Blogcast is one of the most unique awesome product, congratulations! much love from Singapore
The three problems I see with prohibiting renting are:

1) It doesn't solve the problem of affordable housing.

2) If the owner leaves the property vacant instead of renting, it makes the problem worse.

3) The less well off usually rent instead of buying, so prohibiting it disadvantages them.

While it's presently the trend to blame foreigners and/or investors for economic problems, I don't think this will end anywhere good.

If you have 8 households who want to live in 5 houses, there is no way to make them affordable to all 8. Full stop. Not with paying all 8 more. Not with rent controls. Not by making everyone own, or everyone rent. It's totally impossible.

The trend now seems to be that affordable housing will be allocated to a lucky few who win a government lottery. Whether this is a politically superior outcome to building more (and allowing the character of the neighborhood to change) is subjective.
> Yeah, the advantage here over Go would be to have automatic data validation, serialization, and documentation, all based on standards: OpenAPI and JSON Schema. Including automatic web user interface for API documentation.

Golang has libraries for all of the things you mentioned, and web tools to generate APIs based on those schemas. There's no advantage here over Go.

> And maybe the dependency injection system.

Go has interfaces, which facilitates easy DI. No advantage there, and Go sells itself on not having a magic DI framework like the crap Angular 1 had.

> And Python's ecosystem with lots of packages.

Python's ecosystem may have more packages taken as a whole, but Go has a richer web and infrastructure community thanks to being a web first language and growing out of the DevOps community.

> And that Python is the best/main way to do Machine Learning/Deep Learning.

Which means nothing. You shouldn't be running ML in your web server. You use grpc or http to make requests to your ML backend, or generate a config for the web server to consume.

> I personally don't think new asyncio (Python 3.6) is more difficult, but that's more personal taste.

Even if it isn't more difficult, functions have to be colored async which leads to ecosystem fragmentation. It's a huge pita.
> Shouldn't they be paying those taxes in China or the US?

Well for one, Apple contracts out the manufacturing of the products to multiple Chinese companies so I fail to see what taxes on profits they would be paying in China wrt manufacturing.

The EU(~508m ppl) is not the US. Apple have a massive presence in Ireland dealing with everything EU specific from before the products hits the shelves to after they're bought.
They should, but I'm not sure how that changes things for Europe?

It still wouldn't be getting any more tax money if Apple was paying more tax in the US rather than stashing it away in tax havens.
For years he was a relatively normal YouTuber. Then, for some bizarre reason, he decided that he felt more in common with trolls, incels and alt-right assholes and he became news.

Compare his output now with that from a few years ago. He's become a total dick, and he gets the followers he deserves.

It's cute that he has so many fanbois though.
Ya, I can't think of any show with such a long lasting, rabid fan base. Just look at that recent "fan film" that CBS tried to sue over. Production quality was off the charts for a fan film.
You should definitely take it.
"Subscribe to PewDiePie" has been adopted by white supremacists. Part of it is due to the 'fight' to get to 100m between PewDiePie (the 'white') and T-Series (the 'browns'). Part of it is also because PewDiePie has or has been accused of retweeting, posting, promoting, etc views, channels, and memes that are racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, etc.
If you're into robots watch one of the FirstInspires events on Twitch. Sitting in the stands at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional ATM ... It's pretty amazing what high school students can build!
Right, but how much does it actually add over a decent upscaler?
Just people piggybacking off his fame, and the media's eagerness to rebroadcast their claimed association to him if it makes him look bad, thus making this attention seeking tactic effective.

The more it happens, the more the media is willing to cover it, meaning it will happen even more. What would you call this, a Virtueless Cycle?
You may be correct, but your argument doesn't yet convince me.

Rephrased your argument is:

1. Tesla has to show that Zoox is using or used the information.

2. The above point only likely if Tesla's logistics processes are valuable.

3. We know know that they are not valuable because Tesla has had trouble keeping its supply chain optimized.

I take the most amount of issue with #3, but also with #2. That they have trouble shipping whole cars on time does not prove to me that some sub-process of their manufacturing isn't well run or novel. Quite the opposite, really, since they're much more likely to have found alternate approaches since they were building lines from scratch and, thus, not tied to the old ways of solving things. That they're failing to ship on schedule is normal for operations at that size for the first time.

But even leaving aside #3, I still think #2 presumes a level of understanding at Zoox that I don't necessarily think is fair to assume. It may have taken Zoox time to realize that the Tesla approach was wasteful, but that doesn't excuse them from using stolen IP.
> we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.

Truly astounding to see this from a big tech company in 2019!

> This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way.

Why not reset their passwords and force them to change it?

> To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.

That’s way too confident to state like that. Depending on how long this system was in place, there may not even be logs to query and verify if any kind of unauthorized access happened.

> We estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users. Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity.

Hundreds of millions? More number of poorer people usually live in regions with lower connectivity. Why is that, coincidentally, poorer people always have to live with poorer security, poorer privacy protections, etc.? The difference in these numbers seems appalling...as if someone in FB decided that this segment doesn’t bring in enough ad money and so solutions for it could be developed with lesser effort and no oversight or reviews.

There is no talk about security as a process in this post. Considering that Facebook hasn’t had a CISO for quite sometime, this is a damning finding.
Yes, but you can steal by diluting the value of existing money.
Perhaps Europe doesn't want giant corporations that pay no tax, create a few thousand decent jobs at most, and are in all other ways detrimental to society and all the other workers they employ. It seems to me like the laws are generally created to avoid this kind of predatory, vampiric corporation that Americans love so much in favor of corporations that work for workers rather than corporations that work only for their owners. But who knows? Certainly the lack of giant tech corporations is a feature, not a bug. Who wants a company like Facebook or Amazon that brings very little to society, pays no taxes, and creates very few well paying jobs sucking up resources for its own profit only when they can have an actual competitive economy and marketplace? Perhaps European regulators want to avoid the monopoly and oligopoly that dominate American markets, especially American tech markets.