skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YMMV, but with my college education I've been able to work on critical upgrades for our networking infrastructure, write a code-generation tool which automated a substantial library migration, and diagnose/solve difficult bugs which come up late in the release cycle or in production.
I take on tasks/projects which would usually require multiple offshore developers. Additionally, I spend nontrivial amounts of time fixing issues in our development environments that are caused by our offshore team. I end up taking on responsibility that no one else can, or perhaps wants to. On average, college graduates require a greater ramp up, but also have a more solid foundation and higher skill/impact ceiling.

Before landing at my current job, I was passed on by lots of tech companies because I was good at theory and bad at interviewing/coding.
Would you rather be COO of Github, or a VP at VMWare?
Backblaze has a bandwidth limit setting if this is a concern.

Yes - your first upload is going to be painful, but for the average user the following incremental backups are just a blip.

And if you're a business and have lots of files to backup, well, it's leased line time.
The Orville (especially season 2, but really from ~Ep 4 onward) is actually a really solid series. I'm a big fan; after the second season it's really more like "TNG with minor Seth McFarlane moments" than "Family Guy does Star Trek".
It also take just as little effort to ignore this usage. I understand why you would say that, but what someone writes is their own - they might feel differently. Besides, "he" (or now, just as appropriately "she") is very common when referring to an unknown in English. Anyone reading should understand that there is usually no intent to exclude and that it's merely a side effect of the language.
It's the same size, but smaller impact on credit cards. If there's a $1000 hold on your debit card, your bank account needs to have at least $1000. If there's a $1000 hold on your credit card, you only have to wind up fronting the cash for what actually ends up getting charged.
I'm not sure why you think hosting diversity is disappearing when it comes to WordPress. The past 2 years has seen a huge surge in great companies offering premium managed WordPress hosting services.

Liquidweb, cloudways, wpengine, getflywheel, pantheon.

Granted, many use google cloud or similar for actual hosting rather than their own metal... But the services built on top have never been better.
Photos of paper brandished by Trump divulge details of secret Mexico 'deal'
It's a deepfake for Zuckerberg saying unsavory things about Facebook's control over data. Facebook has a policy that these types of videos will not be removed and this is a test of that policy. Facebook has de-prioritized the video since, but has not removed it, although they might as well have by de-prioritizing it. There was a deepfake of Nancy Pelosi previously that wasn't removed, but I'm unsure if it was de-prioritized too.
Caste system: lack of social mobility
CloudFlare Hurts SEO, and building my own caching proxy with Nginx
تحميل اوبرا ميني متصفح Opera Mini السريع لتصفح الانترنت
"[...]You cannot annotate a function as returning `auto` in C++. `auto` and its variants in other languages are useful for eliding redundant type declarations. Especially long ones that use generics/templates. `auto foo = MyContainer<Tuple<int, str>>();` or whatever is nice than having to double write the type declaration. But, in C++ or java, if you write a function that returns a Mycontainer<Tuple<int, str>>, you have to write that in the function.[...]"

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but one can write a function auto foo() in C++ and the return type is inferred. Lambda functions infer the return type by default.
Everything you mention is true and is compounded if the data healthcare related. Privacy concerns, data from different systems that claim to be the same. Preventing reidentification.
> ~30mbit up cable

If you think this is bad, I recommend you stay 100' away from Canada at all times.
Congratulations, it's very heartening to see a new open application-layer protocol get to a stable v1.0 :)
I think you are setting up a bit of a straw man argument. The parent comment said "existing designs." While you apparently refuting their statement, you are saying something different by jumping to "existing products." Products and designs are not the same thing.
>Originally it was an awesome solution based on OCR'ing books that usually worked quickly on the first try, and almost never took more than two.

People kept trolling it by typing the test word correctly, and random garbage instead of the OCR word. It was easy to spot which one was which. Source: I was one of these people.
If it becomes a problem it will be too late to not pay Oracle huge fees/fines for using it against the license. Oracle is known for their license enforcement, it might even bankrupt your company.
Sounds a lot like ZFS.
Uk commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050
I thought the "climate change is really produced by a dozen CEOs, all we need to do is eat them" idea was restricted to cheap memes. Now it's on HN?

Yes, corporate activities produce the bulk of human carbon emissions. But they're not doing it out on an island for their own amusement- they're doing it to produce things that individuals buy. (Or that other corporations buy to produce still other things, but it always grounds out in things-made-for-humans in the end.) Saying that oil companies are to blame for, e.g., automotive emissions, instead of motorists, is bizarre.
Plastic bottles are recycled/downcycled when collected properly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling#Global_st...
Huh -- when I read this:

> This pattern is hard to achieve in practice in a high level language, although you might have luck emulating it with gcc’s labels as values functionality.

it sounded familiar, and immediately made me wonder if it's the same as the 'direct threading' technique used in the BEAM VM under the hood that uses that gcc extension -- it sounds like it is, if I'm reading this right:

https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_dispatch_directly_th...

(A language based more or less on embracing context switches is of course funny company for an article about performance speed limits)
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I recently added type annotations to my Python 3.7 project and found it very helpful. Just the process of adding the annotations caught a handful of bugs!

Some things I found useful:

1. from __future__ import annotations

As I mentioned in another comment, this lets you write annotations naturally without worrying about when something gets defined.

2. typing.TYPE_CHECKING is only True while type checking.

This allows you to conditionally import files that would otherwise cause a circular dependency so that you can use the symbols for annotations.

3. def foo(bar: str = None) -> str

If an argument defaults to None, then mypy will recognize that its type is actually Optional[whatever]. So in the example above, bar is an Optional[str]. (I'm not sure if this is mypy-specific.) Optional[T] is equivalent to Union[T, None].

4. You can make typedefs easily.

MyType = Union[Sequence[str], Dict[str, int]]

Makes writing complicated annotations easier.
Do any cloud backups provide sneakernet uploads by mailing drives to them and they return them?
Minor correction. Will support USB media in iOS 13.
Fake News Generator Created by Neural Net Researchers to Fight Disinformation
Reminds me a lot of 10/GUI http://10gui.com/video/
> By March 2019, US import bans of LTO products of both manufacturers were in place.

Never underestimate the profit of a suitcase full of tapes hurtling through the airways?
Taxis managed to exist before. Why do you assume Uber and Lyft can’t still displace that market like they do now but at the same fares as taxis?
it really does sound great but as a Canadian, this is what I think will happen:

- Retail will jump right away on this bandwagon and spend massive amounts of money advertising how they have done away with single use plastic

- Retail will introduce alternatives and jack up price for pretty much all their products citing cost of new materials

- The plastics industry will complain about their loss in business (despite majority of single use items being imported from China) and hence will jack up prices of all their products

- All manufacturers now using more expensive plastic will raise price of their products

- The poor ol' Canadian will get slapped on their faces by multiple business layers because of this.

- If alternatives are biodegradable, it means likely some food source or wood product will be used hence causing increase to that source which in turn will cause 'shortage' and 'high demand' and cause domino affect.

Sure, great for environment but the economy over here is such that, all businesses and industries are super opportunistic and will not only pass on cost increase to the consumer, but I suspect that they will also use this as excuse to increase their profit margin.

Because of our oh Canada's 'Governmental' concerns, us oh Canadians will probably end up paying 100s of dollars per year out of their own pocket...
And Haiku, its open-source successor does also.
For most desktop users this is solved with links and shortcuts; I might navigate directly to a document's location in the hierarchy, but it's more likely that I'll rely on an automatically generated link in the 'recent files' area, or a shortcut I created somewhere to the folder containing it.
If you actually follow activists such as @walruswhisperer you will realize this is much more than a feel good law, this is huge and they have been pushing for this legislation for a very long time.
Text Chemistry Review: Here’s the Inside Story
The high school idiom is not inclusive. I agree that 3PP is rarely felicitous to those who speak English. In this case it contributes to confusion: "they" refers most naturally to the entire organization. The best alternative depends on the context. In this case one could have written, "That person is the boss."
WSJ didn't break the story. Other people broke the story. That story was "broken" on forums all over the internet. A WSJ journalist just collated the story and wrote a book about it. And keep in mind the WSJ journalist who broke the story refused to criticize the reporters from forbes, fortune, etc who created the theranos story. I'd have more respect for John Carreyrou if he had the professionalism and morals to go after obvious bad journalism. But he chose to stand by the journalism's equivalent of the "blue wall of silence".

Lets not forget that elizabeth holmes and the theranos nonsense was built up by journalists. Lets not forget that she was the media darling of an agenda driven "journalists" who wanted to push a narrative rather than search for the truth.

Crediting the WSJ or journalists for the theranos story is like crediting an arsonist firefighters for putting out the fire they themselves set.

Lest we forget.

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/11620036/theranos-ceo-elizabe...
Intentionally ignoring millions of Apple customers is a No-True-Scotsman.
The world of 1984 does indeed seem unsustainable because everything seems to be based on negative emotions, and there are no(?) examples in history of such a system surviving for a significant time. Nevertheless, I was willing to suspend disbelief because of Orwell's amazing prose. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever".

Or let's take this one from Wikipedia:
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
Sort of going off on a tangent to Backblaze's post. I know big enterprises still use a lot of LTO tape. But the total market worldwide for LTO drives and LTO tapes (two manufacturers, total!) can't be very large compared to the number of spinning rust type hard drives that are manufactured yearly, and sold into distribution channels. Economy of scale matters a lot. If you can buy a product that's manufactured in the dozens of millions and piggyback on everyone else's purchases, it may be a better solution.

Backblaze's system architecture is fairly failure tolerant, so they use a huge number of "consumer" grade drives that would cause enterprise people to run away screaming. They're successful with it.

I know a number of people who have self built ZFS servers in the $2000 to $18,000 price range, who also use consumer grade drives with a failure rate no higher than the expensive $450 enterprise drives.
very interesting...

Would you extend that observation to other areas : like Seattle?

Where outside of California would you invest as a future place that's likely to increase like Mountain View (a have a few friends that live there that also say "it's the land").

Thanks!
Just as the on-demand ride service was disrupted by ride-sharing, I see ride-sharing ready to be disrupted by an on-damand ride service aggregator.

If Uber and Lyft are like arilines, what happens when a travelocity equivalent enters the game? Does all that market position that was bought through VC money matter if all of a sudden many (or most!) your fares are being viewed side by side with every competitor that feels like being in that market?

What matters more to a consumer of these services, the past good behavior of the companies they've used, or the fact that it's a dollar cheaper and picks you up a minute earlier, or in a nicer car? Even if they are reticent to use an unknown company, everyone knows Uber and Lyft, and the damage done to the VC funded low-fare strategy just by showing those two head to head would be enormous. And what happens when entry is that easy and localities start forming co-op groups to provide the benefits of Uber or Lyft but funnel all profits back to the drivers?

All I can say is that I'm grateful for the VC backers of Uber and Lyft for their generous donations.
> have somebody please clone and sell them out of a country that doesn't really care about patent infringement

How would one “sell out of a country” when it’s an import ban?

“By March 2019, US import bans of LTO products of both manufacturers were in place.”
> You want to be in a position where if your investors ask you for something you can just ignore them.

What reasonable investor would put themselves in that position? They're just going to give their money away and not have any say in what happens?
Do power/technical users care more about branding or about features?

HN users are not the majority of Firefox's users. We are not the entire target audience.
Is it new? The banner says 2016.
Oh, I don't assume that, and you bring up a very good point that goes over most people's heads. In fact, it reminds me of how I learned that most organizations of appreciable size don't care much about efficiency. When things become more efficient, it not only rocks the boat, but people can be put out of work; once the cash-cow has been established, people want things to stay the same, lest they lose access to the udders of said cow. This is despite the fact that such an organization will publicly value "innovation", "creativity" and "hard work".
I've been in the opposite situation once and it turns out upper management wasn't really fine with a self directed team without a designated manager / leader.

Granted they wanted to introduce changes and needed someone to enforce that. We ended up sort of pushing in unison for the person who we thought would be the best and he did a fine job managing that team.
Near-Ubiquitous Critical Microsoft RCE Bugs Affect All Versions of Windows
What does discoverability has to with productivity ?
Is that a serious question ?
How can {} return a Badge object? Some kind of operator overload?
Yes, this is absolutely key for me. Effectively never needing to worry about being able to get a ride to and from wherever I need at any time removes a huge amount of stress and overhead from my life. The minute that stops being reliable, I have to start planning my travel and movements around transportation methods that ARE reliable (e.g. rental cars, or driving my own car). Once I've rented a car or driven my own car, the chances that I will use an Uber or Lyft for any part of that trip drop to near zero.
Google confirms presence of Triada backdoor in cheap Android phones
The Layout Instability API
Each supported device has always had its own image, so I assume it’s not exactly the same codebase.

The only reason I know this is because the last time I had to upgrade iOS using iTunes - going from iOS 4 to 5, I had three separate devices that required separate downloads for my iPhone 4, iPod Touch, and iPad.
psychedelics don't reverse taupathies
Let's Play the Storyline Way FIFA 19 England vs. France
Ask HN: Workers Comp Insurance for Remote Employees
We have had employees work in a single office location in the past and had no issues getting work comp insurance. Now that we are transitioning to remote, Farmers Insurance is denying us. What provider do those of you who have remote employees use?
I think Google and Amazon both offer that for their storage products. I imagine most large providers have something along those lines.

Edit 4: And because it wouldn't be right to mention all those and not Backblaze's own offering in a submission spurred by Backblaze, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/datatransfer/fireball...

Edit: AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/details/

Edit 2: GCE https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Bust-a-move-wit...

Edit 3: Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/databox/data/
Car sharing? There is no sharing involved, all transactions are done with money. They're taxi dispatch services that live in a grey area of employee/contractor.
Brace initialization, I suppose.
July 2016? Are you sure? If I was a US company, I'd certainly be cautious of overseas investment from China. Everyone knows they don't respect IP or Copyright laws, steal technology, and more. You would want to very carefully weigh the risks before doing business with a non-democratic nation, even outside of this administration's policies. Anyone planning on doing business with the US Government would be very aware that China is not an ally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...
"With which company would you share your health data?"

https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/#view/287

This certainly isn't what you'd guess from reading comments on HN.
Yes: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/details/
Sounds like the price of reusable bags is too low where you are. There needs to be a price floor to discourage single-use. Eg 50 cents minimum per bag?

In the UK we charge 5p for a single use bag, although lots of stores now only sell multi-use bags at 10p or more. I think it’s making a difference, I now actively carry a couple reusable bags around “just in case” I decide to visit a supermarket or spur of the moment shopping. I now hardly ever buy plastic bags (single & multi use), and from what I’ve read, overall the country has seen a massive reduction in plastic bag waste: down from 140/year/person to 25/year/person [1] (this doesn’t track sales of multi-use plastic bags though afaik)

1. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charg...
Correct. The compiler can be trained to utilise it efficiently but it's not a exposed feature
I'm pretty okay with this as a Canadian. It's been on my mind quite a bit actually. Much of the visible debris comes from momentary indulgences that are then carelessly discarded. Thats the natural way for many people, not that I agree with it. Rather than try and change their behaviour, it's an interesting thought experiment to think about the effects of not allowing such flagrantly wasteful products to be made in the first place. In Canada, much of the visible debris inland comes from cheap coffee cups and shitty packaging design—if I understand single-use plastics correctly, which I may not. It's pretty gross, and I'd like to see more innovation towards non-detrimental disposable goods. Of course, I'd also like to see a cultural increase in having pride for the cleanliness of urban areas, but that might be a pipe-dream in Western Canada outside BC (I'm from a prairie city)
You’re overestimating how good the cab systems are outside of Chicago and the coasts. There is a lot of value in just having a reliable hailing system with a review system and tracking of where your pickup is, even if there is a 30 min delay.

The state of the art of cabs in smaller cities is getting hung up on, ghosted, or massively delayed when given a different ETA if you don’t book the cab hours in advance.
a somewhat similar phenomenon happens in basketball. when the game is not competitive, no leader is needed and everyone just plays to their ability (and hopefully to their strengths).

but when the game gets competitive, it's easy to fall apart and get beaten without a leader. on offense, that's usually the point guard (e.g., steph curry), who implicitly chooses who gets the ball, when they get it, and for how long. on defense, a forward/center (e.g., draymond green), who can see the whole floor in front of them, often has the responsibility of coordinating the defense to minimize gaps and mismatches.
When I took the Acela a few times this year, I was surprised to see only Dunkin Donuts coffee served. I would expect Starbucks or better on a train marketed towards an upscale crowd.
I would like both as well. I can see value in tags but I am thinking from a developer perspective, I'm not sure how I would target a specific file in my code without a tree structure? Maybe I just haven't thought about this enough but it seems necessary.
49 goddamn books and not a single one that integrates environmental destruction and survival of the human race as the foundation of its theme.

The list basically incorporates everything that frustrates me about the field of economics.

It pretends it is key to everything in the world (and there are many applications under certain circumstances), but it has pretended like capitalism and various policies enacted under economic (especially laissez-faire) recommendations have led to a fundamentally unsustainable world order and economic system.

I remember the first time I read about externalities. It was the perfect term. A tack-on to economics. A minor side concern to the primary task of making money for the rich while the world steams toward oblivion.
Yuck, apparently I missed this happening. Its still (I think) true in java, where you can't have a function return `var`.
> This doesn't make sense. They "File -> Save" to a location, right? That's a tag.

The folder-hierarchy version of "unwilling to go through and tag all their files" is saving all files to the Desktop.