skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine an island with 100 people and let's make a reasonable assumption that everyone's occupation contributes positively. Everybody works and is able to live comfortably by trading their products and services.

Now imagine an island with 100 million. On this island, some huge fraction of jobs dont contribute positively, or at least value is not > pay. A lot of this comes from anticompetitive markets or from highly regulated ones.

Then imagine on that big island, a central bank prints out a significant portion of that island's GDP in cold hard cash and trades it only with Wall St (they could at least buy healthcare, education, housing or food, but they buy bonds or "toxic assets"). Or maybe they make a sneaky argument and claim to buy housing by buying CMOs, MBSs, etc, as a way to hide the fact that they are paying Wall St.

Now are the problems anything but obvious?
If you have an ever wider empathic perspective, maybe immigration hurts poor Americans but helps poor foreigners even more.
Here in Oklahoma there was a police shooting last year at a rural church. An ex boyfriend showed up in the parking lot to stop the wedding and flashed a gun. Cop shows up, ex boyfriend races down the road on foot. Guy is made 50 yards away sprinting full speed, and you can just make it out on the body cam, but he twists quickly and points his gun at the cop, who just manages to shoot first hitting him in the head. The cop was an absolute ninja to make the shot while running, and likely saved his life or someone in the crowd behind him. Long story short people running with a gun can trivially turn around and shoot.
Hmm, or they are warning Mercedes owners as well?
Well this is news to me, because I am looking fora remote software developer , I know nodejs, golang.....
and every company I applied to says. must be onsite,
or they advertise a "remote developer" and then they tell you in the interview it's remote 2 days a week, the other days, you have to come in to their office, in santa monica california, trouble is you live in new york. go figure.

If anyone is hiring for a 5 day a week remote role, be sure to hell to let me know, callagg3@gmail.com :)
Exactly. More people entering the labor force was only good for the owners and employers, it destroy the bargaining power of the actual workers. Add to that the fact that having two parents at work seriously harms the family, making it more difficult for their children to develop in healthy ways. This is the future we asked for. Given the statistics that say women only want to marry men who make more money than them, it seems to have done even more harm than we might imagine, because there are few women wanting men to stay home and fill the role certain ideologues claimed would be open to them.
I've started using type hints with python and they are amazing, not just for historic code, but improving my productivity in real time (especially in conjunction with an IDE). I think what's great is when you use hints, you get benefits in linting, but you can also get away from it when you need to. With mandatory types, you are always having to work in the type system. Best of both worlds. But not everyone is as excited about or as thoughough with them as I am.
As long as we tighten up the rules for offenders.

EDIT: I now noticed that the link provided claims the officers did not wake the criminal in the car but the video clearly shows his hands moving within the car.
No Sonic The Hedgehog 2 by the looks of it - what a wasted opportunity.
> We built an incredible industrial and commercial base to support and profit from the war.

Doesn't this conflict with the teachings of free trade? That other countries growing their industries and rebuilding themselves left the US worse off (if that is the reason)? If you buy that logic, then shouldn't you be very worried about moving production abroad?
I could do that in C# as well if I felt I needed it. Define classes representing the "syntax/AST", utility functions to build the AST and an interpreter that compiles the AST to an expression tree which in turn is an executable lambda.

It's what EFCore does, translates C# method calls into SQL statements via lambdas bound to expression trees.

So, no, LISP is not special in that regard.
I believe grand juries are always secret to protect those involved in the investigations.
A random machine-id doesnt help. Use a static number instead such as 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Even a 20% pay raise would let you retire several years earlier, assuming you don't spend any of the extra pay.
Economists dont need their models to work, they need people to think they are smart.

Imagine writing software that never had to work in the real world.

I at least have some formal training in economics to feel confident in making this statement.
I've bootstrapped everything I've ever built. Yet, I constantly get investor pitches from bootcamp/accelerators/etc.
One of them I got just the other day put forward this interesting offer: "$25K for 6% equity" on my current bootstrapped project which is earning about $20k per month in profit.
Thanks, but no thanks!
Exactly this. All the security features apple and google have put in to their devices need to be done by car manufacturers.
DEC Terminal Modern, fitting the old character shapes but having smooth outlines, is rather nice. It's almost like the new Chicago font, which Apple remade as a vector font that would produce the original bitmaps if rendered at the original size.

I'd like to see that for the "fixed" font used as the xterm default. I got addicted to this font, but pixels are getting smaller and my eyes are getting worse.
I started a job at a new company about 6 months ago after a stressful 20 months at my first real engineering job. I didn't know that I had one of these 'bad managers' until I had a good one. The difference between a manager that knows what they want, and know the product/environment over a manager that simply knows what they want in very broad strokes is staggering.
Someone who is armed like that is not one I would want wandering the streets freely. This is why police give chase. Not just so they can be prosecuted but to keep dangerous people away from the populace.
There are vim packs on vim8, and neoplugin, vundle, vim-plug.

Easy to add new plugins, update and so on. And it’s usually just download one file to make it work.
This is like saying that if you have sharp nails you do not need a hammer. (IDEs can be, and are, extremely helpful; even simple text editors like nano or SciTE try to include some of the features normally found in an IDE.)
blue osprey 80litres.
A scientist was called ‘foolish’ for arguing immune system could fight cancer
Or would incentivize investing in said foreign countries with lower labor costs?
What I haven't found is a peer-to-peer way of mutually-authenticating identity for a WebRTC connection. Perhaps it is possible to build it out of this:

https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-identity/

but it seems that the assumption is that a remote domain acts as a trusted match-maker. Ideally two peers could use a pre-shared secret or an offline-signed message to authenticate instead.

If this were possible, then two browsers could act as a basic serverless VPN, layering an encrypted link over the WebRTC data channel which is safe even against an SSL-decrypting MitM.
Have you tried OpenBSD?
> starting a Typescript project is like accepting unnecessary complexity from the beginning

Dynamic typing is what really hides complexity. The higher order component pattern in React is a prime example. What seems like a simple idea is revealed to be extremely complex once you try to implement it using Typescript. Writing the types is a great way to get feedback on how complex your abstractions really are.

Deciding to use Typescript is about making a commitment to reveal and deal with unnecessary complexity from the beginning.
Right, because the police always have to exact a price on society in exchange for oversight.
When you have good memory, you don't need to google anything twice.
While I fully agree, moving from 2.7* to 2.8 default bindings is killing my muscle memory! I’ll get there eventually.

For me eevee is probably going to make a huge difference, I throw together various renders and animations and bits of code to help my students understand what I’m teaching and the reduced render times really help.
Importing Actual 3D Models from Google Maps
Static Type Checking in Lisp
For a brief moment I had a flashback to my early university days pecking away at my pine email terminal, and wondered how in the world that client was still kicking all these years later.

Alas, no such luck. Pine is dead.
>> In Airbnb, they found out that 38% (!) of bugs could have been prevented by using TypeScript[1].

I don't buy these hypotheticals and also I don't believe in this kind of anecdotal evidence.

I think that the real root problem is that they didn't break down the code into logical components and didn't test them correctly - That was the real problem, not JavaScript.

When you look at reports of bug density across large samples of projects, it's clear that TypeScript does not solve any problems. See https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-shocking-secret-abou...
Part of what makes cities nice is people actually living in housing. If a neighborhood is significantly underoccupied by residents it kills local businesses that need foot traffic, increases social isolation, and decreases perceived safety.

In practice new planned cities work out badly, because location is everything and cities need an underlying reason to exist. Residents don’t want to move to a place with no jobs, and jobs don’t want to be in a place where it’s hard to attract workers. An interesting article on how Songdo, South Korea is failing even though its location next to the country’s biggest airport should’ve helped it: https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas...
Blender is awesome. It really is one of the best open source projects out there. While it had a reputation for being inaccessible this hasn’t been the case for a long time and 2.8 makes it even easier.
These things are hard to think about.

A new worker (or 50 million new female workers) does on one end increase the supply of labor, which should lower the price (wages) of it, but s/he also starts spending an income, which increases general demand in the economy and acts to push up wages.

It's not obvious what the net effect is. Economists probably have a (or several :) well thought out and validated answers to this, but my gut feel is that it all evens out.
It's because of the Android Support Library (or AndroidX/JetPack nowadays). It is basically a backport of many features found in new Android versions to devices running older Android versions, and is embedded in (almost) all apps to make them work and look consistent across Android versions. It shows up prominentely in decompiled apps, but it's not found in the original source trees as it is added as one of the final steps during the build stage. No one actually implements text selection themselves.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court disagrees with your rationale.
Assuming we are talking low skill illegal immigration:

https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/docs/IllegImmig_10-14-10_430pm.pd...

Highly skilled, educated, legal immigrants are going to be a net positive.
https://www.booqbags.com/products/cobra-squeeze-15-inch-lapt...
To me this was a well written, no bullshit, super helpful piece. My thanks to the author, from someone relatively new to freelancing. I feel extremely lucky to have landed an 80-hour monthly retainer as one of my first gigs, but this article gives me plenty of ideas on how (and how not) to make sure things are going in the right direction over the next few years.
I always find it interesting when people want to restrict the police but feel that restricting criminals is a bad thing.
Can anyone suggest a good book that would serve as an introduction to finite field arithmetic? I keep randomly running into it (e.g. this post), but don't understand it well enough to follow the discussion.
readwise is so good that even though I LOVE physical books, I don’t buy them anymore. They wouldn’t get into my Readwise notes, which is now a crucial part of my daily workflow.
I agree, the base of the Democratic party has pursued a self-congratulatory image of inclusivity and righteousness to the point that many working-class whites think they're an afterthought to the Dems. I remember watching the 2016 DNC, seeing a procession of speakers who represented cities and minority communities, and thinking "if I were a poor white person and I thought the Democratic party had forgotten me, this would play right into that belief."

Ironically Democratic policies regarding education, environment, and labor would give a better deal to working-class folk of any background, and Republican posturing about education has more to do with image than with preventing unskilled work from entering the country (after all, business loves Republicans and business loves low wages). But so much of politics is an image game, and once Nixon pioneered (ew) the implicit politicization of race, the Dems never controlled their narrative again. They more or less embraced the role defined for them by their enemy, which is a classic strategic blunder. I'm not sure how they can reclaim the narrative upper hand.

And yes, I agree. By sticking too moral principles in the immigration fight, Dems are losing that too. But the alternative is to be logical, which doesn't tend to work with a loosely informed electorate that votes on feelings. Curious if anyone has thoughts on a better strategy there. It almost seems like the left needs an orator who can precisely walk the line between acknowledging and speaking to lower-class white outrage and also acknowledging all peoples' humanity.
Right, that's why I brought it up. In Italy, they were selling houses for $1 but the regulations around it plus the ongoing property taxes change the entire calculus.

Regardless, land is valuable but only if you own it and have some control over monetizing your ownership.
That's a pretty cool arrangement. How was "getting job done" defined? My experience as a developer is that there is always something to do. So where is the line drawn?
There are also magnetic USB-C adapters that do USB, power, and HDMI. I use one to dock my laptop.
Lots of people with litte money are a dramatic increase in the labor supply, pretty much by definition?

I’m not sure what other evidence you’d be looking for.
Very cool efforts here. Curious what the speed is without those instructions present on the cpu, and what hardware this was run on.

The concept of a fountain seems interesting but what is a good use case? Variable strength error correction?
Facebook is ‘exploring restrictions’ for live video
Regarding UI, the Android environment encourages layout customization for as many different permutations of display size and orientation your app's likely to encounter in the wild, easily a dozen? Despite the many layout adaptations suggested best practices would not include the use of multiple, large bitmaps.

[0] https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_suppor...

[1] https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/graphics/
As foobarbazetc noted, the listed packages have been specifically developed for Nokia (HMD). And although many only actually send telemetry on Nokia phones that have been sold in China, there is still quite a lot of data at stake that can be used to track the device when combined with data from other sources.

I wanted to share my findings to create the awareness that the mechanisms are there and it only takes a little misconfiguration (see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia...) and all this goes straight to the Chinese authorities.
Should it really be economic policy to fuck part of your own population so that another countries' migrants can make more money?

Dunno, when I did my econ degree economic development was still talked about. It seems that everyone has given up on economic development and would rather plunder a nation's workforce to benefit their own capitalist class.
I am sympathetic with your broad POV, but in fact there is precious little evidence that immigration has harmed workers wages. For reviews see e.g.

Kerr, S.P. and Kerr, W.R., 2011. Economic impacts of immigration: A survey (No. w16736). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dustmann, C., Glitz, A. and Frattini, T., 2008. The labour market impact of immigration. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24(3), pp.477-494.

By contrast, there is plenty of evidence that trade with China harmed US workers' wages, starting with:

David, H., Dorn, D. and Hanson, G.H., 2013. The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States. American Economic Review, 103(6), pp.2121-68.

I don't say academics are guaranteed to be right, but they have looked pretty hard for labour market effects of migration, and not found them. There may be some specific groups of workers who have suffered a lot - but you don't see broad overall effects.
well, I can't speak directly to your situation, but my comment is mostly hinging on my belief that all the mandatory meetings and 'just one more thing' emails we currently deal with would suddenly be less frequent if management had to be mindful of their time and cost.
I don't know what you're talking about but I would quickly lock my doors if I knew such a criminal, as in this video, was wandering my neighborhood.
Anything outside of rust (like assembly or simd) is not safe-ensurable by rusts build-in, just like interfacing with c libraries in golang is not safe.

I would imagine without these simd optimizations you would see a 2X slowdown at least.
Sounds difficult. Have you ever asked for feedback? Good luck.
There was a recent posting about Nokia phones calling-home to China recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824) which I guess prompted this.

Personally I think it would have been useful to see the java hosted directly in the git repo rather than as a zip, then we could have casually browsed or searched for tell-tale things (e.g. HTTP/TCP stuff in the java) within the repo without having to clone, decompress them all individually, then search on a local drive. Smali works I guess, but I am personally not familiar with it.

For anyone interested, I had a month-or-so old Nokia 7.1 on Android 9 (UK one bought from a high street retailer). A lot of these packages look similar to that (not done an detailed check but the names look familiar).

After the "phoning home" posting I installed NoRoot Firewall to examine what was going on and if any of these evenwell packages were calling out. I was not able to find any evidence of "phoning home" from the several days I was running NoRoot Firewall. The main weird thing was the camera app connecting to Facebook (for the live streaming) even though I hadn't set any of that up or have a Facebook account. Original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450847 I am not saying that they never send anything, but I did not see any evidence of it happening for the 3 or 4 days I was looking for it.
I appreciate the intent, but I think this is folly. The FBI has imaged Icelandic servers, like Silk Road's, with the cooperation of Iceland's law enforcement. Iceland's ISPs are also not neutral and have been pressured by other countries to block access to websites like Pirate Bay, which would be beyond the pale for US ISPs.

There is no country on Earth that will meet your requirements for hosting. For example, if you host in Russia, you probably can evade the US government's prying eyes, but then you have to deal with the Russian government's prying eyes.

I strongly doubt Digital Ocean would give customer data to anyone without a warrant from a judge. And there could be some scenarios I'm not thinking about, but I also doubt a judge would ever grant a warrant to collect bulk analytics data. And I think it would be unlikely that law enforcement would want to request a warrant just for some narrow analytics collected on a few specific individuals.

Also, as others have pointed out, you actually make yourself totally fair game for US intelligence agencies by being in a non-FVEY country, and even more so because Iceland's ISPs peer with ones in FVEY countries.

But way more importantly than all of that, the threat model is wrong. You're likely at far greater risk from cybercriminals and regular blackhats than you are from any government. Digital Ocean (very much unlike Linode and some other big providers) has never had a (known) breach, and probably invests way more into security than the Icelandic provider you switched to does. DO likely has many world class security engineers employed; maybe your Icelandic provider does, too, but it's less likely.

And this isn't even going into the added management and latency issues.

I feel like you're kind of handicapping yourself without any significant privacy gain or increase in customer acquisition. You're getting feedback from very suspicious people who want to block all use of your, and others', services. You should take feedback from such a group with a heavy grain of salt.

This also does nothing to actually get the domain removed from the block list - there is probably nothing you can do there, other than gray hat stuff like constantly rotating domains and IPs, or pivoting and changing your entire business model and company.
2 hours shared, 4 hours alone, then 2 hours shared?

The extreme case actually seems good; pair doctoring where shifts start four hours apart, so you spend the first half of your shift with one doctor, and the second half with another.

Maybe instead do 2 x three hours, and give doctors really reasonable work hours or time to keep up on current research.

I fear the conclusion to that would be managers saying "what are all these doctors doing, we need to lay 3/4ths of them off and make the rest work twice as much for 50% more pay!"
earlier today I had a problem with Xcode always opening the wrong file, a README

Turns out I am not the only one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53132398/xcode-10-1-open...

half a year old at least, as long as the first file is a readme it will open that one instead of the actually clicked file in a new window no matter what. Only fix is to remove the file

but if Xcode is instead set to open as new tab instead of new window, instead everything works just fine.
What is the patent situation with Raptor codes nowadays?