skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Real wages are the standard."

Standard for what? What are real wages? There is no "real wage" that can be compared across sectors very meaningfully.

What really matters is access to the resources needed to live a fulfilled and healthy life. "Real wages" as measured by discounting nominal wages with a number called "inflation" is a indication of that access. It is imperfect because the measure of inflation is far from perfect. Duh!

Social policy matters much more. Does society care about housing, education, health care, nutrition...? In many places accommodation cost inflation has wiped out many families. Proper housing policy would knock that on the head but in anglophone countries (and now it seems in West Germany too) it has been abandoned. But this study is not about that.

Back to the point: Incomes matter. Wages are one indication of income. Purchasing power matters. Real wages are a indication of that. But a lot else matters. And studying nominal wages on their own is not a pointless task. Nominal wages can be compared across all sectors that use the same currency. Inflation, as a single number, can not. So looking at the changes in prices people face would be interesting too. But that is not what this study is about.
free lunch is also good economically though, without free lunch most employees spend 1+ hours outside the company.

With free lunch, most employee spend less than 25 minutes eating, then going back directly to work.
Applying Occam's Razor:

It's an elaborate disinformation campaign to persuade foreign adversaries to spend money on threats that don't exist. Inflatable tanks and planes of WWII taken to the modern era, long-con fakery facilitated and amplified by social media. NORAD could also vector a large white, odd-shaped aircraft with much separation from commercial traffic with their transponder switched off to seem like that rogue UFO. Throw in some CGI deepfakes to bolster the story. Testimonials about radar tracks with outlandish claims of impossible acceleration sans verifiable evidence to reinforce other-worldly mystique.

Santa Claus isn't real and neither are purported robotic ETs reccying Earth's flora and fauna for an invasion.
uzbl seems to be more dead.
This is some classic conservative dogma, here. Of course, though much of it has been demonstrated to be wrong for at least 40 years, people continue to repeat it.

For the most current example, we can look at the recent tax cuts, which lowered corporate taxes significantly. We heard no end of promises of reinvestment in the US, higher wages, etc. We got stock buybacks instead. No need to believe all the left economists like Krugman that said this would happen - the ratings agencies predicted it as well [1]. Skyrocketing incomes indeed - for the owner class.

You advise closing the borders, which not only goes against American principles, but would reduce business creation -

> “Immigrants are about twice as likely as natives to start new businesses,” says Arnobio Morelix, an analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship. [2]

> 216 companies on the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or their children [3]

Frankly, I would expect that one of America's continuing strengths is that the people willing to make the journey here are driven folk, willing to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to start a new life in an unfamiliar place, even if they have to work endlessly when they get here.

And truly, I am confused why zeroing corporate taxes would reduce offshoring. If I can pay someone in a different country 1/10 of what I need to pay here to make my goods, corporate tax rates have no impact that I can see on this calculation, and the offshoring would be done regardless.

Is there a reason we need to reduce social spending? Or reduce taxes, as was demonstrated to have little effect in 2001, and 2009 [4], and 2017 [1]? Perhaps if you clarified what you meant by handouts, we could get to some kind of useful discussion - but then it seems frequent that "handouts" is used for a catch-all with no real meaning, and when it comes to nuts-and-bolts changes to government spending, people that advocate for reductions never seem to actually pull it off - I think we can look at Paul Ryan as the most recent example (tax cuts now, we'll figure out spending cuts later, or maybe never).

[1] https://www.axios.com/trump-tax-cuts-companies-stock-buyback...

[2] https://www.apnews.com/ab44ff583d194070a5eae431231c4450

[3] https://qz.com/1151689/216-companies-on-the-fortune-500-were...

[4] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2011...
$50k/month comes out to $600k/year which is the cost around 2-3 engineers counting overhead.

To manage infrastructure at that scale themselves they'd need someone who knows DevOps. To write services at that scale they'd need someone who knows backend engineering and micro services. Then they'd need to be able to have 24/7 on call rotations for when things break. And of course, like any rewrite it seems like a "couple month" project until you get into the details and it becomes a two year project. Soon you've got a full 6+ person team and are paying them a lot more than $600k/year.
I just added an entry for archive.is in my etc/hosts.
thanks for pointing this out
Hi all,

I want to release version 1.0.0 soon, but would love some input, as I added a complete native JSON storage about three weeks ago (several layers) :-)

I've just published an article called Asynchronous, Temporal REST with Vert.x, Keykloak and Kotlin Coroutines: https://hackernoon.com/asynchronous-temporal-rest-with-vert-...

And another one about some use cases and internals:
https://hackernoon.com/sirix-io-why-copy-on-write-semantics-...

I've also added a bunch of documentation on the website :-)

Have a great weekend :)

Kind regards
Johannes
I've had very good results using memrise's spaced-repetition tool to learn Korean vocab. I find it's a good way to get words into this unindexed "staging area" in my brain. And then when I need them during a real life situation, they sort of pop into my consciousness out of nowhere.

I also built a tool to build spaced repetition flash cards from the captions in YouTube videos. This uses the SuperMemo-2 algorithm, the same algorithm as Anki. This has helped me a lot with my listening comprehension.

https://www.captionpop.com/flash-cards/splash
Nope. Maybe I should restart Nightly again but...I just added Google back, and it was not as easy as I'd expect. The Firefox "add search engines" page is a mess and straight Google search was like 3 pages down.

Also I found another dark theme that is somewhat similar to what I had (but not official Mozilla) and installed that. All the default ones are still disabled.
One of the issues is that even if it causes a net positive, if a minority of people are disproportionately hurt by it, is that worthwhile? Democracy is about respect for those in the minority, not just what's good for the majority.
The answer is white. Sunlight when viewed outside our atmosphere is the definition of white.
Hey, I think so (but I didn't go that route), now you either need to wait or use one of the tricks to cause it to update right away.

If I was you I would ignore Mozilla's advice to do it their way and do what I suggested above, of just clicking on the .xpi link and disabling shield studies. It will act immediately, which will give you a better idea of whether or not it will actually work with 58.0.2. I'm not sure it will (I suspect it won't in fact).
Apple's move is solely based on greed. Sell people a product they eill easily lose as well as having a limited lifetime. Easy money.
I wonder if there is someone out there in the middle of the ocean with a browser extension based communication and navagation system which is dead in the water?

It sounds to me that the real headline here is that every copy of firefox out there was timebombed and we only noticed because someone forgot to elongate the fuse.
A direct one is a thermometer, but I think a much more interesting one is a possibility of cooling things with a laser.

You shine laser on something with strong anti Stokes luminescence, and cool it by having reemitted photons carrying away more energy from an object than being absorbed.

Along the same lines, I suspect an efficient enough gas dynamic laser can be coerced into working as a heat pump. If true, that can revolutionize cooling in spacecrafts: ISS have to carry huge radiators weighting almost as much as its solar panels; imagine replacing them with relatively small lasers.
So many weird jarring points in this article. Self taught, but masters in physics? Takes 10 years to produce original research? Lots of PhDs graduating without publication?
I'd say it might take 10 years to develop a taste for interesting research problems but it isn't at all unheard of for undergrads to get a paper for some research project they did in final year. I think it would be really rare for someone to get a PhD without a publication these days.
I recently discovered https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/

You get a nice overview of movies in a certain language available in your country. I don't use their Chrome extension though, so I can't say anything about that
Winning app store optimization strategies and tips, with AppFigures CEO
A lot of people have impressive streaks - https://duome.eu/
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true but it could also be very efficient, especially in cases where you have the exact hardware to test on like a game console
I do think something was there on those occasions and that it was not an anomaly. Again, because this was viewed multi-spectrally (visual, FLIR, video, radar) across multiple vessels.

I’d need to witness it myself to form any stronger opinions. I do believe the crew people being interviewed are stating what happened to the best of their knowledge.
oh I thought my local pdns instance was misconfigured.. interesting
I want reddit, but on given topics, but without newbies. Age might be a nice filter, but being able to chat about {fitness, running,travel,entrepreuneurialism} away from the crowds that barrel in with "Does anyone else ever..." or "Where/how do I..." 1st year stuff.
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To be fair to druid, those 6 are really just three types. They recommend deploying them in groups of 3 types:

http://druid.io/docs/latest/design/processes.html
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> If you don't want security, you're welcome to have a malware-ridden system

No, I am apparently not. Microsoft, Apple, and others insist on making it difficult. At least I found out today that I can install unsigned Firefox extensions once I switch to a special "unbranded" build. I'm glad Mozilla, at least, still offers that.

Here's the thing: I disable a lot of the security stuff you're not supposed to disable, when I can. I use a Jailbroken iPhone. My Mac has SIP and Gatekeeper turned off. Windows Defender is turned off on my gaming PC, and I lower Microsoft's driver signing requirements to the greatest extent allowed. I also ran an unpatched day-1 build of Windows 10 for around four years, with the autoupdate system forcibly neutered. (I now run LTSB, instead.)

I have never been bitten by a virus, ever†. I don't know if that's because of all the security measures I'm not able to turn off or because I've been lucky or something else. I suspect it's because I don't run dodgy software. Or maybe my life is a lie and all my devices have been infected for the past decade, and I never noticed.

In the meantime, I'm not seeing the upside to software forcing hardened security.

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P.S. While I share their frustrations, I don't endorse the GP's attitude. I know that a lot of people really are doing difficult work with the best of intentions.

† Except for a handful of times when I was testing suspicious software in a disposable VM. That doesn't count for obvious reasons.
Maintaining a certificate bundle is not something to be taken lightly - it's a central root of trust, and is something that should generally be deferred to the system or user and easily configurable globally. As a system administrator if there is an advisory over a certain set of root certificates, I want to be able to address that and remove that from one or maybe two places on a system. Not wonder about every last package that thought to award itself that authority.

Especially the way a lot of python packages are used - as deeply nested and possibly pinned dependencies that maybe never get updated.
Funny, I only just noticed my extensions were gone because of advertisements on youtube.

I just assumed I somehow messed up my browser and started looking around the settings.

A banner displaying why they silently updated FF and disabled the addons would have been nice as well :)
So they must have some form of business model, right? All I can see on their website is that everything is for free, even their API which can be used for free without any limits or restrictions. And given the already huge Imgix costs, abusing or over-using their API to request and resize images would directly increase their overall costs. According to Crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/unsplash#section-fun...) they raised $10m last year, but they must be churning through $3m+ per year on staffing and hosting costs.

I use and love the service but I can't see how it can last for more than a few more years.
There are people who are incredibly shitty people with zero remorse who genuinely enjoy hurting others. They seem to count on people believing that they are miserable, they have a sob story, they need compassion and understanding because huge sob story etc while they intentionally and on purpose shit all over everyone around them.

They love it when people promote the kind of dumb ideas you are promoting because it helps them get away with figurative and possibly literal murder indefinitely.

At no point will they ever actually have any compassion for anyone else. They talk a lot about the importance of caring in order to manipulate fools into catering to their whims. They absolutely don't care about anyone at all except themselves, not for a single nanosecond. Their claims that they care are all entirely fabricated BS. They laugh up their sleeve that anyone believes this shit from them.

Promoting the idea that such people aren't truly happy is both clueless and enabling. It helps them keep victimizing everyone they interact with without negative consequences while they play the victim card, pretend to not know how to behave better due to an unfortunate childhood etc ad nauseum ad infinity.
It's on my list! I should probably prioritise it a little higher...
That's... not what Ashkenazi means at all.

The European components (called, in Israeli discource, Ashkenazi) of the secular Israeli mainstream overwhelmingly trace their roots to Eastern Europe; Ben Gurion was born in Poland, Dayan's parents were from Ukraine, and the fathers of both Tzipi Livni and Bibi Netanyahu were born in Poland.

As Eastern European Jews secularized, many of them began to use non-Jewish languages for secular literature, while others (notably the more nationalist or socialist ones, e.g. the Bund or the Folkists) began using Yiddish as a secular language. However, those who went to Israel used Hebrew for these purposes, and those who stayed in Europe were killed.

Generally, it sounds like you're working under the misconception that the ultra-Orthodox and National Religious [1] are ethnically different from European-descended secular Israelis. They are not. They are distinguished by the ideological leanings of their grandparents in the early-20th-century, after which point individuals moving between the blocs became less and less frequent (though not unheard of).

[1] Very different groups, by the way - the National Religious uniformly speak Hebrew, and are most of the religious people in the settlements you're talking about.
I'm the author of jijimaku, a free app to add dictionary definitions to subtitles if that helps.
I learned Japanese to a level where I can read novels without a dictionary, more or less. I just looked the words up one by one - I think the amount of time to look up a word actually made me learn them better. If I only saw a word once, I would be less likely to look it up. If a word I didn’t know always came up, I’d look it up and write it down. You also get lots of examples of how to use a word if you look it up - a definition alone is not always the best way to learn. If you are reading online, you can use the chrome plugin rikaikun to get a mouse over lookup. But I still prefer a hard copy and an electronic dictionary.
reddit has /r/AdvancedFitness/ and various other subreddits exist as offshoots of more newb-friendly ones
That thing is just shockingly ugly.
I like the idea of blending together "old and new". But it has to _blend_. That 'abomination' is not really a blend. They just stuck together two incompatible pieces :P

edit: upon seeing it, it reminded me of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Which was designed to give a feeling of 'unrest' due to the holocaust. It turns out, the ROM and Jewish Museum Berlin are designed by the same architect. Not sure if he was the right person for the job there :P
No reason to believe the UFOs reached the Earth in a "reasonable" amount of time, though. There are many other interesting possibilities.
My very elderly paternal grandfather has a similar condition. He had a minor abdominal surgery (spleen or gallbladder) in the 1960's, and it took an unusually long time to find the correct surgical site.
Is there any particular reason they are still using Heroku instead of something like DO or AWS+S3? They can probably save a lot of money that way. Unless Heroku is offering them some good deal?
Yes there is something very disturbing about the thought of doctors potentially opening up your body and shuffling your perfectly functional organs around because they think they’re supposed to be somewhere else.
Like half of world bank systems are running on Cobol. No way its going out any time soon.

And i dont see a problem if ots working and there are people willing to maintain it if needed.
Given their weird insistence that European-descended secular Israelis are not Ashkenazi, I strongly doubt that this person is from Israel. Their political and ethnic vocabulary is totally divorced from Israeli discourse.
I think the US government probably does do this - I know Intel chips have IME, and it runs Minix, that Intel (and whoever Intel reports to) has access to it, and it has it's own IP stack.

But I have no idea about phones - what about ARM? Is there an equivalent?
> Please note: The fix does not apply to Firefox ESR or Firefox for Android.

Damn it, Firefox, because it supports extensions, i.e. uBlock Origin, is the only usable browser on Android :(
Creating the iPhone (Computer History Museum, 2017)
you can just target OpenJDK and then it is completely irrelevant what Oracle does or does not do

If Oracle's copyright argument holds up, then they can kill or cripple OpenJDK at will by denying it the ability to implement new Java APIs.
This kind of photography was not the only means of capturing pictures. Paintings for one captured all the details: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=goldie+portraits

I think the effect is a bit like what infrared photography does to freckles: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/28/this-is-what-infrared-photo...
US mil folks are having a good laugh behind the scenes. They probably trade X-Files memes.
I'm in no position to comment on that, unfortunately. Not sure if Andy's group has detailed why their first-take didn't come off apart from this terse note on GitHub which notes that building an autonomous-db is what they're main goal is (rather than a nvme-first db, which seems like a sub-goal):

> The Peloton project is dead. We have abandoned this repository and moved on to build a new DBMS. There are a several engineering techniques and designs that we learned from this first system on how to support autonomous operations that we are doing a much better job at implementing in the second system.

Here's their alleged unannounced second-take: https://github.com/cmu-db/terrier
If they still outsource, tariffs will stop it.

It's only been about a century that we've had an income tax. Prior to that, we funded the federal government on tariffs. It built the nation. People who buy local goods are unaffected. People wealthy enough to insist on exotic foreign things must pay the tariffs and thus fund our government.
If you beg the question, you get the framing you want.

What if you've got 3 inexperienced candidates in front of you?
Not much to explain. Many moons ago, SomethingAwful was founded by a bunch of people that nobody wanted around. Some years later, 4chan was founded by a bunch of people that even nobody at SomethingAwful wanted around. Some years after that, 8chan was founded by a bunch of people that even nobody at 4chan wanted around. It's the dregs of the dregs.
The experience for the user is that the page just keeps loading indefinitely, while showing a blank page. Is there nothing Cloudflare could do to inform the browser about the situation, so that the browser can show some kind of a message to the user? As it stands, to the user it just looks like their connection died.
Yes, they gather data from all possible sensors. This data is aready there though. Their product just visualizes it and their consultants/forward deployed engineers (or w/e they are called) basically create pipelines and transformations to feed it into their visualization service.

I don't remember exactly, but one example improvement was that they detected temperature fluctuations inside the reaction tank (e.g. upper side hotter than bottom) during bad production batches.

This was detected by visualizing the temperature across the reaction time on good vs bad batches.

It's an interesting find, but personally I think the work they have to do to get there is super boring.
> Oracle has just open sourced the entire JDK.

Last time I had to download a JDK I got a warning about having to pay a license for commercial use. I think most enterprises care more about the licensing arrangement than access to the source.
It's like every week there is a new company with their escooters here is Zürich, Switzerland.

Biggest irony is that two of the companies are from Berlin (Flash and Tier) yet in Germany these scooters are currently against the law and they cannot operate in their country.

Lime seems to have disappeared after there was a serious accident because of some firmware issue that would engage the park brake at full speed.

Is it actually profitable if you can only operate half the year?
How is that nonsensical? Trusting someone does not imply trusting anybody, and even less everybody.

I trust my mother; it does not mean I trust you, and even less the entire crowd here on HN.

I've stopped using Windows years ago because I didn't trust Microsoft anymore. I'm having minor trust issues with Canonical and Mozilla. I still trust Debian and Arch.

Trust is personal. Hard to get and easy to lose.
I find LED stop lights very annoying because they flicker.
Those Eastern European Jews are also the secular Israeli mainstream, and also most of American Jews. They are, as the paper says, mixed European and Middle Eastern. That paper's results had the mixture for Ashkenazim as approximately 80/20, while others have it at 50/50 or 40/60, with varying low levels of admixture from the Caucasus.
This reminds me of Soundcloud a few years ago when they were giving away API access for free for unlimited plays but then were almost close to bankrupt and pretty much shut down all API plays. I ended up shutting down my 3rd party app then but not sure what's their API limits now. Twitter recently made huge changes to their API limits too which impacted a lot of 3rd party apps.

I hope Unsplash doesn't end up similar to those.