skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The market colluded to drive wages down

When you say things like that, do you actually have a mechanism in mind that enables this 'collusion'? Because to me, it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory on the level of moon-landing denial.

And what wages are down? Programmers make very good salaries. There are people who go through a few weeks of coding boot camps and land good paying programming jobs - what other area (outside of commission sales) could you land such a position with a comparable level of experience/education background?

>Market rate means absolutely nothing about real value.

It means something. It tells you how valued your particular skills are to another individual.
That's a different topic, as signalled by the words "Meanwhile, a new study has found ..."
Dont be bullied. Healthy discourse within reason is important.
Xenblocks – Litecoin clone built to help people learn about crypto
I assume you mean this Raymond Chen of Microsoft[0]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin...
You just reminded me of Agent Tcl.

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/agents/papers/kotz:jmobile...
Plenum is also used to describe automotive intakes, and has a physics meaning as well.
This excludes the world of high-power JITing like JSC and HotSpot server. It’s possible to have an “all the optimizations” compiler outside the ahead of time space.
Here's the relevant page in Archive's scan of The Book of Saint Albans: https://archive.org/details/cu31924031031184/page/n111
I don't imagine this is true at a place like Google.
What an embarrassingly (for him) short sighted 'walk through'. Just having more capability to perform ariel launches will encourage companies to make vehicles. The likely reason nothing exists today is because there really aren't any options today..
Anti-Ghosting with Temporal Anti-Aliasing
I'm reading this differently. To most Americans, the issue is pretty clear: American geopolitics, industrial espionage and global surveillance benefits them, China doing the same does not.

For Non-Americans, it's different, therefore their reactions aren't as simple as US good, China bad.
That's a fair point. And although I didn't explicitly said "laws", I guess I meant that.

My view comes from being tired of seeing how the market forces always incentivize the most scummy garbage that can be gotten away with. The only control point we have here is the "gotten away with" part. I'm not very into telling other people how they should live, but a stable and happy society does require some of that.

(That said, I currently have very little influence over this, so I resort to what little of a market signal is created by ranting about this publicly, voting with my wallet, and discouraging people from using solutions that are user-hostile.)
Sigh. We literally went through all this with SQL Server's xp_cmdshell feature already. All the same flame wars apply, I don't have the energy to argue it all again.

The community consensus was the MS should make this thing disabled by default, and they did. Postgres should too.
It's not a "query" and can't be executed by normal users.

It's a command, and it's closer to other commands that do similar things, like loading a plugin (i.e. a ".so" file).
Care to elaborate? Never played such games (or any lol)
Build systems can (and should) read $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it's set, and fallback to the system/CVS time otherwise.

$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was created exactly for your use case. https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
To their credit, Amazon is pretty diligent about making sure that high performing employees get pay raises to match their market. My record is a 30% raise, mostly by switching job functions from non-tech to a tech role.
That must be the famous Mognodb compatibility layer kicking in. ~/s
How is that related to asking someone what they mean by "it's easy to run out of gas in BC" and then giving an anecdote about running out of gas in AB instead? Without further details, it says nothing about BC (it also says nothing about AB, but that's not the province the news article is about).
You also forgot to mention that it is crazy expensive if you have lots of collections
May I ask that we shouldn't use the term Document Store or Document <anything> for JSONish data as used by Mongo, and by extension AWS "DocumentDB" and Cosmos DB. The term supposedly emphasizes that data graphs are stored as they are posted and requested by simple webapps (as opposed to normalized relational data), but that still hasn't anything to do with documents as understood by most people. It just poisons the search space (and AWS calling their impl DocumentDB doesn't help either).
What country? In my experience overtime is never mandatory. I think if you work for a startup with young (unattached) engineering staff there may be social pressure to spend inordinate amount time at the office - is that what you mean?
I suspect this huge, complex aircraft with it's very expensive, highly explosive cargo isn't as straight forward as flying a drone.
Erlang is an actor language, see https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~imas/readings/shoham93.pdf for agents
The term "privacy" has become a hollow word that people use to criticise anything they don't like.

Generally, I see the concept of "you shouldn't be able to know anything about me, but I should be able to know everything about you" everywhere.

Notably in tech circles, this is prevalent in how we see hacking.

People who hack into other people's computers, IT people who snoop onto employee accounts, and people who support personal data breaches like the Fappening (saying stuff like "if they don't want to have their images become public, they shouldn't have taken them"), and publishing of personal emails (e.g. Wikileaks), all have had conversations with me complaining that Facebook is violating their privacy rights. None have recognized that what they are involved in is way, way worse than anything that Facebook has done.
Sail: Appian’s UI Framework
A great story with great pictures. Interestingly, the tenant agreement from the 1950's required the original three tenants to both pay rent and help tidy up the building.
So where can I order a European rail map printed as a poster?

If I buy one of the folding maps it will be creased, naturally.
When there's a thread discussing Assange, or the NSA, the top comment is never "but China does it too, this is an unfair attack on the US."

Right now there are millions of people in concentration camps for belonging to the wrong ethnic group and practicing the wrong religion. How bad does it have to get before we can agree that the Chinese government isn't just the victim of US propaganda?

Do they have to start executing Uighurs en masse? If history is any indication, that's the most likely next step in this story.

Edit: I noticed this article just moved from #8 to #38 in under 5 minutes. What's the reasoning behind flagging this.
> That is, beta blockers are usually a band aid rather than a fix,

Anxiety is complex and is not just the mental experience, which is why therapy for anxiety uses "hot cross bun diagrams" to describe the feedback loops that physical sensation contribute to.

See the "physical" boxes: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Five-aspects-of-the-hot-...

http://cbtmidsussex.co.uk/aboutcbt.html

So they're not really a band aid, they're helping with one part of that feedback loop.
> It's binding the hands of future generations.

That's true in the sense the statement is true of every human action.

> Once something is designated a historic, it's hard to undo

Only because there is widespread support for the general idea of historical preservation; it's usually not more difficult than reverding or passing a normal law to either eliminate a particular designation or an entire system of historic preservation.

People who find it difficult do so not because their hands are tied by the past, but because their hands are tied by their present opposition.
That's awesome. Means someone can add extension support for mobile...
Isn't this like a multiplexer/demultiplexer in electronics/signal processing?
AKA Kessler syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
> Most Americans have never heard of Huawei, in part because it has been obsessed with secrecy since its founding in 1987

They're not terribly good at this secrecy lark, then. The phone sitting on my desk has got "Huawei" written on the front in big letters and has the word "Huawei" filling the screen every time it boots.
You should absolutely question the US intelligence community and its relationship with the business community. And I'm sure you do.

You should also be suspicious of China, for exactly the same reason. And the fact that you explicitly refuse to (and get upvoted to the top of the topic by the HN community!) is... well, it's fucking horrifying.

Seriously folks? You're so pissed at the NSA that the PRC is a "good guy" to you now and you need to defend them on the internet and cast aspersions against the "assault" on them by the media?
This is really common in Italy. Some years ago there was also some politicians involved. They rent houses of public property for an epsilon of their price.
In the palace where I live, there are families paying 50 euros/month for their apartment (near 100 square meters)
Shouldn't STEM (and to a greater extent STEAM) refer to degrees that combine the component areas into a program and not a degree that is solely a single component?

Yes, I understand you do very little Chemistry or Physics in a Comp Sci program, but your fundamental building blocks are almost entirely pure Chem and Physics, even more so in engineering.

I mean, ultimately the response really should be:

1. The overall macro measures still support success rates of STEM trumping other areas of study,

2. All hype is not created equal; even within Comp Sci or Engineering there are winners and losers.

3. Use general trends and measures to guide your overall strategy, not set specific tactics
You’re not skipping staging, your carrier is your (reuseable) first stage.
I thought Agent Tcl was about half way there. It just felt like the infrastructure didn't quite get over that hump that would have allowed it to be a success. I do admire the effort.
I'm sorry man, but it really doesn't. In over ten years of using yaml I haven't seen a single instance where the whitespace rules were in any way weird or counter intuitive.
As a state employee, my salary is published for all to see.

https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-data/state-expendi...
> Is [lower asymptotic time complexity] why “quantum computing is faster” is a common belief?

Yes. Quantum computers are not faster classical computers, they are a type of computer with access to a wider class of operations. The asymptotic advantage is needed in order to overcome the fact that quantum computers are actually slower (due to the overhead of error correction).

The slowdown is not small, either. When I estimate the cost of error-correcting an AND gate under superposition I get numbers like 1 CPU millisecond. Bad enough that mere quadratic advantages may not be enough to overcome the constants in practice.
Scott Alexander has a good post on bird intelligence here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/25/neurons-and-intelligen...

Though they have much smaller brains, there is evidence to suggest that their brains are 10x more computationally dense.
And JS :-).

let x = ()=>42
let y = ()=>42
let z = ()=>x()+y()
z() // 84
y = ()->69
z() // 111
That’s very shortsighted. First of all the spying that your own government does has to be lawful, whereas in the eyes of a foreign government you have no rights.

Also in your own country you have legal ways to fight the spying conducted by your government, whereas you can do absolutely nothing to a foreign government.

I’m an EU citizen and this is precisely why I got mad about the Snowden revelations. Because under US legislation as a non-US citizen I have no rights above whatever the trade agreements between the US and the EU are saying. And once that data gets collected, it will get abused sooner or later.

And let me tell you, being born in an ex-communist state from the Warsaw Pact, the thought that another communist state is watching me is freaking me out ;-)
I'm perfectly fine with a ban on companies and institutions recording individuals. They are very rarely, if ever, the 'weak'.
Every pro communist and pro Russian is a hero, any pro American is a sinner. Very clear philosophy Mr Chomsky.
Large numbers at work :). Congratulations, out of great many people reading HN today, you won in the lottery of "obscure thing I thought about recently is suddenly on the frontpage"!
If you're smart about what you learn and what jobs you take, you can build a skill set that will keep you in demand forever. If you just spend 20 years building boring crud apps using the hot stack du jour, of course you're going to have problems.
> I feel it's reasonable for an individual to be concerned about your own country's human rights abuses first and foremost as those are the ones you're personally most likely to contend with.

That is why you should tell your government to stop making such false claims against Huawei and violate your human rights.

When your government keeps telling your that Huawei is spying on US citizens, what is the evidence they have? If there is no evidence, how such behaviour is not for intentionally creating fear to US citizens? How that is not human right abuse?

Trust yourself, you deserve to know the truth and see the evidence, you don't have to live in the fear created by the government funded using your tax $. Tell them to show you the evidence or just shut their big mouth up.
Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s
On the langage on itself rust lack many expressives features (but "slowly" catch up) that modern c++ has.
As for memory safety, I'm not aware of safety features on the Langage on itself but the rust tooling is like third world in comparison.
First of all rust has a very incomplete sanitizers support.
Ubsan, Msan etc
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39699
Secondly there is an order of magnitude more static analysis tools that support cpp than rust (but Facebook (a leader in static analysis) is developing a promising one for rust.
As for Fuzzers I'm not aware if they're Langage agnostic.
Finally there are less (if none?) program provers for rust code.
Why would people who attend Princeton care about price, though?
This is why you should never add your user to the docker group. Just use `sudo docker` or put your docker commands in a script that can only be edited by root and execute the script via sudo with NOPASSWD.
What this does is remove the ability of the employee to negotiate and possibly get a higher wage. Companies will love this law, because they will just pay everyone a lower rate (no negotiating).

Even if you are better or have more experience at a certain job, most companies won't want to deal with public pressure or employee jealousy.

If you look at the wages of Norway for instance, they are almost all the same across the board over multiple industries.

You have effectively removed the wage gap, by making most people poorer. This doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Why can't we remove the age gap, by investing in education and helping people earn a better living? Why does it always have to involve taking money out of the pockets of everyone else?
Much higher than 90%. The most recent poll showed the numbers hit their highest -- 4.5% of males.
“Sharing is caring. Privacy is theft. Secrets are lies.” - The Circle. Look how that worked out for everyone...
That was my point..
There is no rational, people who simply don't understand or use a certain feature are more likely to write it off as a bad or useless feature. Pay them no mind.

COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM has been valuable for our data warehousing operations.
If you have some cold symptoms, you can't call around to find a doctor who will diagnose it for a reasonable price, because they won't give you one.

But that's not a stick up, it's a lack of price transparency. So how about we get a price transparency law?

The "stick up" scenario is limited to emergency care, and there is an argument that emergency services should be provided by the city for that reason. But most healthcare is not emergency services, nor would having your city do that require any kind of national policy -- you can go implement that right now.

It's the exact thing that works perfectly at the local level, because the stick up scenario itself is what prevents arbitrage. People in Houston can't vote to cut local emergency services and then go to the emergency room in Boston when they have a heart attack, because it's too far away.
Have you seen Lilypond? http://lilypond.org/
The debris fields are in considerably lower orbits so its unlikely any material has reached geo-synchronous altitudes. Meteorites are a problem but the most common are very small. Yes, they can cause damage if a critical part of the satellite is hit but usually, they're mostly harmless. Larger meterorites are much rarer so the probability of an impact is quite small.
you must understand that authority will selectively use evidence as well. Especially considering deepfakes, I don't see a path towards the use of non-approved devices with secure digital evidence possession chains as evidence in court.
I think databricks recently released an alternative jsonnet compiler/renderer written in Scala that's faster than the standard Google one (including a workaround for the slowness of JVM startup/shutdown) but compatible with it: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/10/12/writing-a-faster-json...

It was discussed on HN though I don't have the link handy.

But sure, if you are okay with a single yaml file, that's certainly simpler.
LilyPond comes to mind. http://lilypond.org/
A side note on country differences:

A JPL intern from Spain basically told me that the day end when sunset in Spain, it's very easy there. In California sunset can be around 5 pm and that's too weird for her. From the a quick google look, it seems like Spain daylight start from 6am or 7am and end around 8 or 9 pm. It's super interesting.
Cant do that and be an actual worker coop one member one vote (share) - here are also legal complications as coops have a different legal structures.
allegedly, the reporters only edited their article after publication and widespread criticism.
In the era of graph databases that doesn't work so well as it used to if transparency laws are set properly.
League of Legends produces a data stream that can be replayed later on. You can save the record of your game and look at it later, share it with people, etc.
I wonder if the IRS will hit the heirs with a huge gift tax?

EDIT: if you sell/rent something much below value it can be considered a gift. And tax authorities regularly do so.
Not when they bite your toddler and it dies damn near instantly.
I expect weaponization of drugs from malicious governments will come in a far more effective fashion. There's no need for oppressive cops if you can simply drug your population. Not only wipe away their anxiety, but any concept of fight or flight (the root of anxiety disorders) whatsoever. Pair it with increasingly endless entertainment, plummeting testosterone levels, and a general effeminization of society and you'd never need concern yourself with losing your grasp on power.

In Brave New World, this was soma. "A gram is better than a damn."
And, I presume, much much more efficient
In your world, we wouldn't have multiple terminals in *nix, cuz why wouldn't open source devs just expand on vi instead of wasting resources and time on developing emacs...
Few people heard of them until they were making knockoff Cisco devices 15-20 years ago.
> There are varying degrees of bad behavior

As a Chinese citizen, my tax money has never been used by the CCP to launch foreign wars killing innocent civilians. You have blood on your hand every time when you pay your tax $ to fund those wars.

Take that and reconsider your "whataboutism" comment.
FTFA:

"However, new data from ExoAnalytic Solutions, which has a network of 300 telescopes around the planet to track satellite movements in geostationary space, shows the situation has gotten markedly worse."

Apparently, there are.
Who cares unless literally all of them do.
Here's a very cool Google Creative Labs experiment that used tSNE to organize thousands of bird chirps/songs/calls. The result is an interactive map that groups similar bird sounds (click/tap to play any of the sounds):

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/bird-sounds/view/

source code:

https://github.com/googlecreativelab/aiexperiments-bird-soun...
That’s because HN is filled with shills.
As a person with depression and anxiety, I've definitely noticed my memories change based on my mood whenever I recall them. I'd remember professors having harsh tones and cold body language, but then see them acting completely different in a class a year or two later. They hadn't changed; it was that, during my depressive episodes, I'd always obsess over classes I skipped or failed.

I took it as a product of not having a photographic memory. When my mind recalled the memory, there were a lot of parts missing: hand gestures, voice volume, other students, etc. So my brain filled in those gaps with "reasonable" guesses. And, during a depressive episode, it was reasonable to assume other people didn't like me. These additions became part of the memory.

Even with the depression and anxiety under control, I keep in mind that memories can be emotionally altered. So I'm more willing to believe my memories are wrong. And I don't let myself obsess over a memory, which was never productive, anyway.
This isn't a university - what the hell is a semester?
Nobody is blameless, but some nations have better track records than others, and America's, all things considered, is pretty good for a superpower.
I've always wanted to do courseware from Tactical Network Solutions [0]. I'm not sure if any of their courses can be done remote, but it may be closer with regard to travel:

[0] https://www.tacnetsol.com/
Aliasing is checked in the calling code, not the callee. You’re not allow to create a mutable reference if another exists in the same scope. If you use “plain” safe Rust, there’s simply just no way to create alias mutable references unsafely.

(The C default you refer to is at the compiler internals level. The Rust alias prevention we’re talking about is at the language level. C compilers will try to avoid generating code that will behave incorrectly in the presence of aliasing, but do nothing to prevent aliasing and the possible logic and thread safety issues caused by aliasing. Rust makes almost all of these cases disappear for the programmer.)
Ask HN: Fun math resources for young kids
Our four year old has just become super-interested in numbers. All of a sudden they want to do lots of counting together, and are asking questions like: "why does 12 have a one and a 2?"

I told them about prime numbers earlier this week, and now I'm fielding questions about prime numbers that have pretty much exhausted my knowledge.

For obvious reasons, I'd love to encourage this interest in numbers, if it stays fun. I could really use some pointers to activities, books, etc about counting and math -- ideally, targeted for preschool age -- but stuff for later would be great, too!
Let me try to give you my personal perspective. Not a fan of the PRC (though strangely fascinated), I'm from western Europe. China has little to no influence here, the US has gigantic influence. China hasn't been wholesale spying on us, or hasn't been caught doing that yet. The US has, and probably still does. Chinese companies don't practically have monopolies here, US companies do.

From my perspective, China might become a threat at some point, the US is a giant threat right now. I have a feeling that I'm not alone with that, and it might explain why you get a more nuanced reaction from Non-Americans to the China/US-conflict.