skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't just start focusing on China now. Not sure what prompted this particular title, since there isn't much substance in the paragraphs before the paywall.
yeah. my comment was as stupid as the article. Unlike the article I just don't have a first page on HN.

your anecdote barely holds btw. comparing nairobi on of the most expensive cities of africa to a third tier city in england. just compare it to london to see.

Consumer Prices in Nairobi are 43.15% lower than in Reading
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Nairobi are 49.86% lower than in Reading
Rent Prices in Nairobi are 63.97% lower than in Reading
Restaurant Prices in Nairobi are 49.25% lower than in Reading
Groceries Prices in Nairobi are 44.13% lower than in Reading
Local Purchasing Power in Nairobi is 78.67% lower than in Reading
Imagine Tinder on university mainframes of the 80s. Imagine everyone could just go there and use the computer, taking control of its very limited resources and do whatever they want. I guess hacker culture would have had a hard time in such an environment.
One of the main reasons they started to invade other countries was their population growth at the time. They were looking for resources and land. Nowadays their population growth is so abysmal they have no need to land grab.
What is a good alternative? I'm going to be looking I to our login system soon and have been meaning to read about the options
Above Us Only Stars – Exposing GPS Spoofing in Russia and Syria
Azure recently announced South Africa datacenters are available.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-south-africa...
And we don't pay for the LTE bandwidth. Tesla covers the cost of uploading the data.
Seems like this calculation completely disregards the emotional effects of that many people in such close proximity.
The problem as ever is geography. For example, Korea is strategically important to Japan, because the peninsula is the perfect starting place for an invasion of the islands of Japan (they were only saved from such an invasion by the Mongols because of a tornado). Japan also doesn't have many natural resources of its own.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pcdofW_pV6Q
Sorry - I wasn't saying accountants "didn't do it" - just that "they shouldn't"
My pedantic (and massively down-voted post I now notice) was just an expression of my annoyance at mixing syntax.
I'd also have accepted "M" as "a million" and therefore MM being 1,000,000,000,000... but they didn't do that either..
I wondered this as well. It sounds like Scientific Linux was more just a convenient and consistent package of applications and interface than any significant changes to linux proper.

However, if the various particle labs who used to use Scientific Linux end up requiring any significant code changes for performance reasons, it seems like this change would mean sharing those changes upstream would face an easier path.
Similar and just as scary - tainted blood products taken by haemophiliacs leading to countless HIV infections, and plenty of deaths from AIDS.
> What are some other examples of American restaurants that followed this playbook?

I would argue Panda Express is spiritually similar in some ways.
Where I live, we have a deer problem but houses are too close to hunt. I drive to my folk's place about an hour away to do it. Some towns hire professionals to take some out, but it's expensive. The meat does go to feeding the homeless though. I'd happily pay for the ability to hunt right in my town. It can be done safely.
Obligatory fanboy comment: it seems that every project you create moves web dev in a better direction, and you don't seem like a bad chap either!
I looked specifically at: "refactor: changed stdout statements" and had no idea why this has been done, what was the problem with it before it changed, how does the patch make it so the problem now gone?
Sorry, it's entirely unclear from my post, but i assume the authors DID expect this to happen.
"Other acts to oppose discrimination are protected as long as the employee was acting on a reasonable belief that something in the workplace may violate EEO laws"

That's pretty vague. And nothing else on the government site supports protests. That's not any sort of normally protected activity in regards to labor laws. Plus, I think it's fairly common knowledge that if you walk out of your office to protest anything (your employer, the government, the weather, whatever), nearly everyone would say that you walking out is you not performing your job duties at that specific time. And I don't think Google or any other company has a written policy to take part in protests. The government's site seems to indicate that following the company's policies and HR practices with regards to raising the alarm bells at alleged/suspected improper activity cannot receive retaliation.

EDIT - I was wrong. It is protected. https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/11/01/when-a-walkout-hi...
They might believe it would act as a visible deterrent to other employees. If employees at Google see activism go un-retaliated-against, then it may become so rampant that it actually does pose an existential threat to Google.

This way, even if she sues them and wins, it will scare a lot of other employees and make them second guess if they want to be put in a position to have to hire a lawyer, be dragged to court, risk losing, etc.
Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/bLtYCK

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> MORE THAN half of American millennials, the generation of people born between 1981 and 1996, believe that they will one day be millionaires; one in five think they will get there by the age of 40.

This, to me, is absolutely insane.

Given that it's from a survey by Ameritrade, is it possible that the survey strongly self selects for fiscally healthy people (proximity to ameritrade is probably a strong signal here), and who understand that you can be a paper millionaire with, say, one really good property and a modest retirement account?

I somewhat hope so, because if this means "half the people who work at chipotle expect to be millionaires" then that's admirably ambitious but a little miscalibrated.

Hell, I've got a decent tech salary and my brother's running a healthy lifestyle business. I wouldn't say with certainty that either of us are going to become millionaires, despite being unusually well positioned to do so.

What happens when these people's dreams collide with reality? Are people content to drift through life saying "any day now, things will turn around and make me rich..."?

Nevermind that being a millionaire isn't that important. I'd take median wealth and top decile meaning over median meaning and top decile wealth any day.
Which might explain why he's a crummy CEO. If your job is to strategize for the entire company and you're busy learning the minutiae that you spend a lot of money for other people to worry about, maybe you need to consider using your time a little better. If you want to build neural nets, keep your stock, fire yourself and go build neural nets.
Wireless Industry’s Newest Gambit: Terahertz Communication Bands
That depends on the circumstances:

Their salaries, too, put [competitors] in the same state with a merchant who attempts to trade without a bounty in competition with those who trade with a considerable one. If he sells his goods at nearly the same price, he cannot have the same profit, and at least, if not bankruptcy and ruin, will infallibly be his lot. If he attempts to sell them much dearer, he is likely to have so few customers that his circumstances will not be much mended.

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter 1.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...
Are there really people like this? Isn't this absolutely exhausting in the mid and long term?
Google Employees Say They Faced Retaliation After Organizing Walkout
Too late.

The future is here, and computers will see everything in excruciating detail via multiple planes of information. The power you consume, the data you send, the money you spend, the media you watch, the words you write, where you go.

It’s all out there in the world. There’s no taking it back, though we may be able to legislate about its use.
They provided an awful lot of information on where exactly it was found. Haven't we learned not to provide poachers such a nice little map of where to find <rare organism>?
TurboTax will also give you the complete return free... if you download it right after you file it.

(This sort of thing is why it's a good idea to do just that regardless of which service you're using.)
> >What do people mean by this exactly?

> Historically, “race” was a term invented to group/categorize people by language. From there it evolved into a reference of nationality. Most recently it has become a word to define an attempt to group people by physical characteristics.

Do you have more information about this? It has been my understanding that throughout history, some languages became the "lingua Franca" so to speak while not introducing race conflict. So I'm curious to hear more about the origins of race as a social construct, specifically its roots in language.
Who's saying they didn't expect that. Expected or not you still fight that tooth and nail and that's exactly what they are doing here. The work is not done but it's important that they not only organize and unite with other workers who are affected but that they do exactly as they have with this article and get word out to people outside of the organization they are fighting. The public can be a powerful weapon
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> the lower and upper bounds, given current technology, are 0.65 billion and 98 billion people, respectively.

The answer is "anywhere from a tenth of the people currently alive to 13.5 times as many as are currently alive." Absolutely useless. A range covering more than two orders of magnitude. May as well say, "We don't know."
Karpathy's presentation is really good. Watch it later if you get some time. The key points are

- Telsa is using fleet for learning (Fleet learning). This has 3 components,
a. Trigger infrasture that collects the kind of data telsa is looking for training. The rational here is we don't need massive amounts of same kind of data but needs right kind of data for training neural networks correctly.
b. Data Engine which learns from these examples.
c. Shadow mode where they deploy the learned model and test how its doing in real world and iterate this process.

- Drivers are themselves acting as labelers and tesla is in a unique position to take advantage of this.

- People drive vision only. Visual recognition is essential for autonomy. Lidar has much less information than vision, for example to identify the thing on the road is a plastic bag, lidar provides few points. But vision gives more data for telling this.
The presentation makes it clear your claim is entirely false, you should watch it.
You are referring to the concept of "constructive dismissal". This would also be illegal.
"the sentiment is accurate"? To how many decimal places?
It's not like the animal is going to live forever if you don't kill it. In nature animals are often eaten alive by predators, die from disease, starvation and get horribly injured in competition for mates.

A free range animal that's being humanely put down by a farmer has a much more pleasant life.

If you go down this rabbit hole deep enough you can begin to question whether life itself should exist.
I'd suspect some weird selection like that, given that "average millennials are in a crappy economic situation" is a very widespread sentiment (which of course is also probably a biased impression)
The government does exactly that for the majority of tax residents in most countries in the world. US, with its Byzantine tax return system, is an outlier.
When it is heavy near zero Celsius windy rain outside, I sometimes drink coffee to force my self to do runout. Coffee makes me want to do something, instead of reading 'Nutrition and metabolism' book on my sofa.
Well, given compounding interest and inflation, is this so out of the question?

At least I keep hearing I need a net worth > 1 million to retire. If one puts away 10-15k a year for just 30 years, plus interest that would get you there comfortably.
Author here. Our application can handle concurrent requests just fine. The problem was actually that our application was partly that our application was trying to handle too many requests in parallel instead of queueing them, and partly that later requests were timing out because our load balancers were configured to expect clients to make a request, wait for the response then send the next request, not send all the requests, then wait for all the responses (which means the last response will take longer to complete from when the request was first sent).
You're not going to "save the world from environmental destruction" by telling people to give up meat, because as India and China (not to mention Africa) develop, meat will become a minor component of their CO2 footprint just as it is in the United States. The anti-meat messaging will be seen as both stupid (because it won't help) and hypocritical ("how about we continue to eat meat, and Americans take their turn living the way Bangladeshi subsistence farmers used to live").
In the PNW wild salmon is usually only about 40% more per lb and definitely worth it. Also most of it is pretty sustainably fished in Alaska (though in the puget sound region the population is reduced from what it should be). You shouldn't eat it raw but it tastes incomparably better cooked
Very cool write-up, thanks!

I've long appreciated the wizardry that Common Lisp's macros enable, and knew (distantly) that Racket does macros, but was completely unfamiliar with this separate compilation guarantee. If I understand it at all, it's basically a way of getting the benefit of macros without permitting some of the crazier stunts you might be tempted to pull. Neat.

In any case, figuring out a way around that guarantee, and taking us along for the ride, is greatly appreciated.
TLDR; Being a developer in Africa means paying 2X-4X in hardware prices, no viable Internet packages, hard to build team, unreliable electricity, no angel investment, 10X lower salary compared to US, hard to find learning resources, ban from PayPal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720753
> Government is elected by society to represent.

Some people are selected by some other people, neither representative of society as a whole.
The vast majority of meat is not 100% grazed. You have a point, but it's largely a theoretical one. If one can find a source of meat that is 100% naturally grazed then they could probably go through similar effort to eat non-meat products produced in minimally destructive ways.
Bull.

You can't say "You can query for anything!" and have it be anonymized.

In fact, if you're taking a camera shot, that's the most broadband sensor imaginable, and no thanks, I don't trust any company with profit motive not to crumble and pop out a software update to selectively disable picture blurrers, or to not have a Boolean flag in your data scrubber.

As a company, making that statement is just trying to slip one past and hope nobody asks inconvenient questions about it.
FBI/IC3 Releases 2018 Internet Crime Report [pdf]
I guess this is a good place for a rant for some down votes. The concept that death is cruel is ridiculous to me. EVRYTHING DIES, every animal in nature either dies of starvation, freezing to death, dies in a conflict with their own species for breeding rights, or gets to be attacked and eaten alive by a predator. The entirety of nature revolves around life and death struggles. Dying isn't cruel, to think so is a rejection of nature itself.

That being said there are quicker and better ways of taking an animals life, the quicker and less painful the better. I will categorically state that for me how they live is more important than how they die. I don't agree with many of the practices in the production of chicken, pigs, cows, and yes even farmed fish and generally try to avoid them.
> That manager is the one who ought to be fired.

True, but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
Vegetarians and vegans are an expanding market. Some of them still miss eating meat, especially comfort foods like burgers. There is a good article that talks about the research done on the heme used in Impossible Burgers. It talks about the protein, how it's produced, and how it's digested. There was even research done to see how someone with a soy allergy would react to eating heme. Obviously, it's no match for a long term study and the article mentions that but from first glance, it appears to be safe. One thing the article mentions but doesn't expand on is what is in the other 20% of the extract from the heme production.

https://newfoodeconomy.org/plant-blood-soy-leghemoglobin-imp...
Without providing sources or proof you’re just regurgitating highly anti-Chinese propaganda.
The market values Tesla like a car business that is growing ~50% per annum.

> 10 years from now the margins and capital expenses of electric car business will be like the existing ICE car business.

Tesla already has margins similar to existing car companies.

> So this is Tesla saying: "Yeah, our financials are starting to look like a normal car company, but we've got this thing that you should keep value us even more like a tech company than you do today."

Yes, they're saying that, but the market is obviously not buying it.
Apropos of just shootin' the breeze, could you have also met the animal? I wonder if that would make a further difference. I eat meat, but I put my hand up and say that if I ordered a steak in a restaurant and they brought out the cow and gave me a rock, and I had to beat the cow to death with the rock myself, I think I'd change my order.

I'm not trying to make any points here; just freewheeling in conversation with what I know about myself.
One of the more interesting semi-recent additions to stable rust is the question mark operator. It's not covered in this Rust Error Handling article, but it's got some of the early-exit appeal of exceptions without too much unwind magic.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get the question mark operator to work yet with my code, but it looks appealing. It's not 100% obvious to me what qualities my Result type needs in order to be able to make it work. Or whether it's bound in practice to the Result type(s) defined in std. I'm sure those details are all in the docs somewhere but I spent the time to look yet.
Better them than corporations.
This fits the [Weirdtopia](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cWjK3SbRcLkb3gN69/building-w...) model too much to not have merit.
Galaxy S10 review: Too many compromises for the sky-high price
This is the reason why american people don't vote for more taxes on the rich, illusion that someday they will be rich too.

working great for the people with money who created this illusion!
4 hours is a bit extreme unless you are getting it delivered from the store in your apartment complex (which happens...a lot).
While I too love Rust's error handling, this explanation of it seems incomplete without discussing the ? operator and its interaction with the From trait. The convenience methods on Result itself are nice of course but they aren't really the main mechanism of error handling in my opinion.
Capcom Home Arcade Uses an Open-Source Emulator
what an absurd thing to say
Musk: "You're only going real fast in the forward direction."

Dozens of times in my life, I have been driving down the freeway at 70 MPH in a 60 MPH zone, and I've noticed someone weaving through traffic behind me, going closer to 140 MPH.

I need to know whether to change lanes, stay in my lane, stop changing lanes, pump my breaks to indicate there is slowdown ahead of me that car might not see, etc.

Just food for thought.

EDIT: I'd also like my vehicle to be good at avoiding a car that's about to T-Bone me, at night, with no headlights on. I may not be very good at avoiding that kind of accident today, but if LIDAR is necessary to protect me from that kind of accident, then I might think it's a wonderful idea.
It's absurd to compare a simple interest rate to an compounding interest rate on revolving credit.
I wouldn't advocate using these abbreviations in a technical document that has safety implications, but in an S-1 it's fine. If you make a mistaken trade because you can't keep your scales straight I don't really have a lot of sympathy. If they don't know the difference in the first place they're not reading this document.
Here's a snow cover map of North America on a random day in January:

https://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/U...

Here is Europe and Asia on the same day:

https://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/E...

For someone who lives in or close to that white part, "most scenarios" includes snow. Arguably for Level 4 autonomous cars in those areas, you either need to fully disable autonomy in September and enable it again in late April, or you'll need to handle snow.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122

See #5.

And...

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3095
I was giving a chance to Svelte when it was upgrading to version 2 and releasing this compilation thing but it failed badly during a project that I was building due to some bugs of Svelte had with transpiling. Should I give it another chance?
Cheesecake Factory? They're famous for having terrible decor, service, and food, yet somehow being an essential part of the American high school prom experience.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/dude-goes-viral-for...
Author here.

> How many requests does your page make on initial load (that can't be handled by a CDN)? If you're making more than six XHRs to your application servers concurrently, this sounds like a problem that would have existed anyway had it not been for the browser's (rather arbitrary) connection limit.

I don't know the exact number, but definitely higher than six. And I certainly agree that is a failing in our application. The point is that the browserd _did_ arbitrarily limit connections, and our application (unknowingly) depended on that.
I've shown Rust's Result type to folks on occasion because I like it so much. The other aspect I like is the `?` operator, which allows for easier error propagation.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-02-recoverable-errors-wi...
If you make the median tech salary of $300k and live on a fraction of that it doesn’t take that long to save $1m...

Point is there’s no magic to becoming a millionaire if you have minimal expenses and single.
Home spun was important. Now business has changed and companies are in a race to get up the learning curve quickly and capture new markets. It might be better if they partnered for foreign direct investment (FDI) in exchange to tech assistance. They don't have much to offer otherwise. There are many who would like to get a piece of the action in India, and the companies that try to go it alone will miss out on the globalization wave.
Yes, the release I've been waiting for. I started to dabble with Svelte v2 right before coming of v3 was announced.

Are web component going to happen with v3? I am trying to combine Python server app with Svelte enhanced HTML and got good results on v2. I noticed they are marked as todo: https://svelte.dev/docs#Custom_element_API
That these same employees once again have created a media firestorm for their employers shows that Google was correct in demoting them (I would have fired them). They run to Wired because their role changes and they "lose" direct reports? These are not people that you want in your workplace. They are creating a toxic environment and Google is sending the right message to those of us that would rather get work done than play activist on the company's dime and brand.
Given India's protectionist stance towards foreign companies, I'm going to guess not Amazon or Walmart.