skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly the ranking in figure 1 is ridiculous, as the method the authors used. First of all, very few people uses emails nowadays. According to CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), only 38% of chinese people still uses emails, and even fewer of them utilises emails for contact use. Secondly and the most importantly, there are lost and found Centers in China. These organisations won’t contact owners of lost items. They usually wait for people to come and ask, then confirm their identity. These two characteristics would obviously affect the result. Thus I would suggest the authors to do a proper cultural research before the investigation. Best wishes.
I don't think this excuses the cloning.

If you wanted to keep the project running, the first step would be to speak with the real site's maintainer to develop a plan.
"Universally hated" only in the HN echo chamber.

And even then some AMP defenders show up in the comments. It makes the mobile web suck less in a way marketroids can understand.
Sorry, we don’t use email in China. We will leave stuffs someone lost in police office or lost and found office
End of 2019 is only phase 2 of 4, and significantly less than half of the money spent.
Move. Somewhere. Else.

I'm not trying to be hateful, but those are both very real solutions.
One piece caught my eye:

> In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need, with each team making its own decisions about what it needs from that central log.

Then, from the linked Jon Kreps post, 2013 [0]:

> In order to allow horizontal scaling we chop up our log into partitions. Each partition is a totally ordered log, but there is no global ordering between partitions (other than perhaps some wall-clock time you might include in your messages). The assignment of the messages to a particular partition is controllable by the writer, with most users choosing to partition by some kind of key (e.g. user id). Partitioning allows log appends to occur without co-ordination between shards and allows the throughput of the system to scale linearly with the Kafka cluster size.

In practice, wouldn't the end "centralized log" be essentially a collection of the logs from each original/logical database, now managed by a specialized log team? To read the log, the interested consumer team would have to create the appropriate read-only replica of the original database, using the respective database technology / binaries / schemas. As such, isn't the overall system better described as "database replica as a service", as opposed to the finer grained implication of the "unified log as a service" of the article / Jon Kreps post?

I'm trying to figure out if the implication of such decisions are organizational, "who's responsible for the logs, who's responsible for the replicas", vs. architectural, "where does data bit X go, how does it maintain consistency with data bit Y, how do we read its current state?".

[0] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
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> That's really too bad.

You people are never happy, aren't you? You're still getting more stuff for basically the same price...
Interesting service. https://www.revolut.com/help/exploring-revolut/exchanging-cr...

> You will not be able to transfer cryptocurrency interests to outside of the Revolut platform, eg. external wallets.

And https://www.revolut.com/en-DE/help/exploring-revolut/exchang...

>
You can receive cryptocurrency interests sent by another Revolut user. However, you will not be able to receive cryptocurrencies sent from outside of the Revolut platform, eg. external wallets

Nonetheless, they must be buying and holding crypto"currency" which is enough for me to disqualify. It's better than going full exchange but still.
As a faculty in statistics and probability, I need to clarify this publication is based on the most annoying and unbalanced experiment I have ever seen. The reviewer and journal should be responsible for this mistake. It is obviously related to trump politics strategy these days.
>"I had it hard, so we shouldn't let these soft youngsters get off any easier."

No, they are presumably angry because they are still paying for being responsible enough to pay off their debt in the form of opportunity cost. If they paid 100k off in debt in the past, that's money they don't have now to invest or spend.

Also, having taxes imposed on you for something you didn't get to benefit from at all (but easily could've) is pretty angering.
What is so baffling is that much of that debt was accrued as basic living expenses with extremely low interest rates, where the poor have to rely on 20% interest cards, but no bailout?
Having been in the position of wanting, in a very real and immediate sense, to end my life, and having sought help for it, let me relate my experience a little:

You get what you pay for. Yeah, all this "seek help" stuff is actually kinda just marketing. No one really wants to help you, at least not enough to commit serious effort to do it. This is the unfortunate reality.

However, I obviously did not end up killing myself either. For me, escaping the crushing hopelessness involved a deep examination of why I felt the way I did, which ultimately resulted in two significant realizations: 1) The universe is under no obligation to make sense to me, and 2) most of my criteria for judging myself came from people trying to sell me something. These seem obvious on the face of it, but knowing and understanding, it turns out, are different things.

I'm not going to suggest that what helped me will help you, because I remember hearing all sorts of bullshit advice from others when I was in your position and it only made it worse. I'm not even going to suggest that life is worth living, because that's very subjective, or that there's hope for you, because all situations have their own nuances that I would be exceedingly arrogant to assume I could understand.

So what am I trying to say? I don't know, man. I guess that despite your pleas for help being met with this low-effort "help" from the great internet wanking session known as Hacker News, and how that must make you feel right now, there are sometimes ways out, if you can manage to find them.
Ask HN: How do you guide graduates or new joiners at your company?
Incredible how people like you consistently think high student loan debt is exclusively due to immoral choices.
Capitalism isn’t a “challenge”. Capitalism is the reason our world is much more comfortable today than ever, as the cost of luxuries goes down through competition between multiple companies.

So really, just climate change is our problem. We need a sustainable way to obtain resources to further fuel capitalism and approach post-scarcity society.
It is, but closing a mortgage is more time-consuming than the buyer handing over a check and requires some delay. There is also a chance that a mortgage sale won’t close.
In the kv stores I’ve used the client and the server are mostly the same process, or started out that way.

I don’t know many sane people who want to use the kv store as a system of record, and even the people who expect it to be exhaustive (all possible keys) make me doubt their sanity for that and other reasons.

So far, everyone has a bit of code that looks for a key and, if it is missing, performs the work necessary to build the payload. The code that creates the payload is never more than a couple function calls away from the retrieval code.
Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994. They have yet to produce an impressive profit margin (outside web services which isn't really relevant to this specific thread). How long sighted are we talking here?

The raw numbers are impressive, but they clearly aren't in the game of profit maximisation as we knew it back in the 80s. That is why nobody is really managing to compete with them.

I don't really see how they could maintain a monopoly and a margin at the same time. If they had actual profit margins then other companies would compete with them. The reason they look like a monopoly at the moment is because they have no margins. If they change that, competition will spring up like mushrooms.

Amazon is basically a web services provider by profit. All the other stuff they do is a mysterious distraction. If you want a company making for-profit decisions, look at how Apple runs itself.
Mental illness is one - very modern - modality for why one may want to do any number of seemingly irrational things. I think that a blanket lumping of everything into the bucket of "mental illness" is problematic for a few reasons:

- the only implied remedy is seeking help from a mental health professional.

- said professionals are in short supply and high demand and are inaccessible to many people for financial and other reasons.

- there is often a proximate cause of acute depression that may be remedied to prevent suicide without addressing deeper underlying causes.

- a blanket labeling of "mental illness" is about as specific and helpful as "demonic possession" or any similarly vague term.

- many psychological issues have organic components that are better addressed by a doctor.
Every time there's a discussion about tech antitrust (google, fb, amazon, ms) people point to each of these as being their competitors, therefore, there is no monopoly or antitrust issue.

Perhaps we need to rethink antitrust in the context of the internet however. These laws were written in the late 1800, and early 1900s, long before Google existed. I think there should be some evaluation on needing a new framework of what is antitrust for tech companies.
> Conservatism has consistently been on the wrong side of every social issue in history

Given that Progressivism was very much on the side of things like Soviet Russia, Maoist China and Pol Pot's Cambodia, as well as all sorts of "fun" stuff like racist eugenics in the U.S., I'll gladly take the "consistent" losses of conservatism over the know-it-all attitude of progressives, thanks you very much.
In china，if we picked a wallet or anything looks important ，we will take it to the police station or lost-and-found office ，the government can content the owner more quickly，because nobody would leave a e-mail address or phone number in their wallet！
Stop talking rubbish in the name of science ！！！
I did the same thing a few years ago in a healthcare place about faxing. I just issued a decree that we were done with paper fax. One my my team had identified a great product, my team ran with integration, we staged everything, tested, did training, then on rollout day we switch over all 45 locations, and terminated analog lines in each location (unplugged them and took the cords if we had to). A few people bitched but most people loved it. Sometimes you have to be the benevolent dictator.
College has gotten a lot more expensive lately. Anecdotally, after the recession my in state tuition doubled because of less funding from the state.

I agree it's a great question of what should be done but I'm mostly happy to reframe Sanders' proposal as a minimum.

Further reading - I'm a big fan of the schedule idea:
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/23/providing-re...
Lots of dev opt for DBs like Redis or Mongo specifically because they're simpler and easier to develop for. Not for scaling. I think that can easily be a trap though because they are very easy for simple use cases, but get hairy really quickly when you start needing complex relationships.
> ...instead of just learn it on your own on postgresql.org...

The world is full of people who "learned things on their own" and still created nightmares.

The important thing is to just do it, accept failures, apply some self-criticism and keep going. How you get started is far less important in terms of quality of output as time progresses in one's career.

Courses are a perfectly good way to jump-start the process as is learning from source materials. Different things work for different people.
This has been around since the early 90s or previous. ONC-RPCs did this where you define the interface file and it generates the client and server stubs for you.

NFS is based on this, as with other services. Conceptually it’s exactly the same, with some underlying differences.
Even so, A72 is a highly-inefficient chip (which is probably why they set such a low clock speed for it). Cortex-A73 would've been much better. But I guess there always has to be at least one obvious lacking in Raspberry Pi generations.
Did you happened to take on many more life responsibilities in the intervening years, e.g. parenting & home ownership?
Or, be diligently prepared for it to go right. After one or two regions succeed, you've got a pretty good idea of how the rest will go.
I can't read that article because Medium has decided that I have to login to do so (and possibly sign up).

Needless to say, I won't be reading that link.

Wordpress.com wouldn't have done that with your content. Just saying.
Why? Do you think they're deep-faking their videos of people admitting to nefarious things?
As a general rule, give them a few days after the initial sensational posting to see if they post the full interviews in context. They like to stagger releases of footage.
Journals like science has no sense to publish such low quality stuff. It is truly shocking.
Even a 3 yrs old Chinese kid know the best way to return lost stuff is giving it to a policeman nearby or returning center not by sending emails. How can this kind of article which has no solid basis can be published!?
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"Being associated to poluting industry become a career terminating scandal waiting to happen in a society composed of vegan, composting, plastic avoiding, electric car driving, eco-home living population. Similarly poluting companies become easy targets for a new generation of politicians."

In society there are, however, needs that have to be covered by the said poluting companies, and I've encountered plenty individuals oblivious to the fact that we don't have working alternatives yet, unfortunately. I understand why the struggle against polution trend had to adopt religious attitude, but I'm a bit worried about the (current cultural stigma) collateral damage and especially about its eventual long term fallout.
This is a slap in the face to anyone who made prudent financial decisions to get themselves through college without debt, and even more so to those who recognized they couldn't afford it and didn't go. Now they get to fund a bail out for the managerial class they couldn't afford to join and spend the rest of their life working for.

Let's see a plan to fix the system for everyone, not populist handouts for people who are already ahead.

This is also fixing the wrong problem. It removes the pain that generates pressure for real reform. Without addressing the ridiculous costs, this just props up the problem.
Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries
https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/Linux%20Bootstrap/x86/cc_x86.M1
It also appears to be bootstrapped from hex
Indeed. My education was no free ride!
These days even programming mainstream FPGAs with Verilog is not really “bare metal”. Lots of complexity and control is hidden.
That might actually be untrue. While India through out its history was ruled by countless small kingdoms, most of them were part of invisible empires and connected through marriage, alliance or principle.

There were very few genocidal wars or wars of total annihilation. This strangely was a common problem not only in China but in Europe where loosing a war would mean total annihilation. This only came to an end in India with the Islamic invasion - whose strategy like in Persia or Mesopotamia consisted of raid, loot, murder and flee. When they found themselves more permanent rule it was mostly about conversion, taking slaves, destruction/defacement or appropriation(repurposing) of non-islamic buildings.

It is like saying the Soviet was united and the EU was never. The Soviet was held together by force, the EU is held together by consent.
Why does it have to be a competition of loss? The student loan issue is something that should be addressed in and of itself. The constant whatabout-ism when it comes to the less privileged/wealthy (and especially when it comes to being a white male versus a PoC) is exactly what I am complaining about. It feels as if the middle class is constantly being told that our problems don't matter because we have just enough to do OK for ourselves.
It happened with things like lignin after their evolution in the carboniferous, but it took hundreds of millions of years. In the meantime we got a significant fraction of the Earth's fossil fuels as indigestible plant fibers were deposited and turned into rock.

We're in the early anthropocene. After a few hundred million years there might be bacteria eating away at plastic waste in the abandoned basement layers of the cybernetic hybrid post-human/AI city-organism that covers most of the planet. DNA importation from off-world organisms exposed to cosmic rays might help.

In the meantime there will be layers of anthropocene-specific minerals deposited just as the carboniferous left its own unique signature.
Windows on an SSD is pretty amazing when it comes to boot time. My computer spends more time on the BIOS splash screen than it does booting Windows.
>What is 'strategy of tension' [0]?

pcj50, I-I don't even... know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
"Otherwise, everything is caveat emptor"

Does it even reach that level?

Buyer implies contract -> contract law -> rule of law -> government.

And caveat emptor is a legal concept which again reinforces the above.

What's the Latin for 'Trade and hope the other guy doesn't have a bigger weapon'?
Don't rely on a single IP routing through multiple ISPs, use DNS.
Interesting... NYTimes used a play button instead of autoplaying the top video graphic. IIRC they used to autoplay in their more advanced media articles.

I'm curious if the graphics team has some UX insight into this.
Do you think it's different in other countries? Everywhere, the email service will have to give your emails to the police when they come knocking...
Yes, every single item on every single line is tracked. Nothing (can) get sold without being in the system.

Doubters abound. Even now a decade later, folks meet this story with disbelief and doubt.
There isn’t a source. It’s just a rough estimate based on what agency work and their internal salaried time might cost.
I imagine it helped the train drivers a lot too.
The old Honda CR-Z was basically equivalent to a hybrid Miata but there's little market demand for such impractical vehicles.
I personally am not a fan of canceling student loan debt. However what I am a fan of is lowering the interest rate to nearly 0.

I still have some of my student loans left and most of them at at 1.8%. However I have some friends who went to college after me and theirs are at nearly 7%. That just doesn't seem fair.
I left school after sixth form and quickly discovered a love for maths.
Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Plex, a small Nginx, and soon a Pi-Hole and VPN. It's a great companion for an iPad Pro, so you can also use it as a development machine when coder.com finally release an ARM docker image ! (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/35)
well technically, if you type-annotate the dict you should be fine:

dispatch: Mapping[str, Callable[arg_types, ret_type]] = {}
This kind of excessive fixation on perfect fairness is exactly what got us into this mess. They thought they could help the poor attend college by giving them grants, then the middle class would have loans, and the rich had to pay their own way. Then it turned out that both the poor and the middle class had to take out loans because grants were too expensive, and the "rich" were fine anyway. Here's a crazy thought: if these debt holders are so well-off, why haven't they paid off their debts yet? Being in debt is a huge psychological burden, and forces people to choose high-paying jobs in expensive areas (which makes them appear to be well-off), instead of doing work that is more meaningful and socially beneficial.

It's good to remember in these situations that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and what Sanders is proposing has the advantage of maximum simplicity. If you listen to the advice of perfectionists like David Leonhardt, you're going to neither eat nor have your cake.
You can have your own private web-based file transfer server in maybe around 100 lines of PHP where you have total control over file expiry and no need to trust any third parties except perhaps your VPS provider. If you need more secure than that, courier an encrypted thumb drive or something.
It is very dangerous to use banking apps or sites from Android phone. Please Google how many "root" exploits are around. Any application or website can attack your phone, and if it succeeds then your money are gone. You should use a phone only as a second factor for authentication.
Looks like this is hosted on https://blockstack.org/
When I suppose the separation architecture of computing layer and store layer is go without saying, others begin talks about stateful service.
> Once that URL/password get out, whatever "secure" file I've uploaded is exposed forever.

That is true even if you can delete the uploaded file. Once someone else has seen it you no longer control distribution.

That said, you are right to distrust file transfer services by default. They are in a position to mess with you in many ways.
All of those apply to physical illnesses: they usually mean you should see a doctor, doctors are in short supply and often inaccessible for financial reasons, oftentimes there is a proximate cause that a healthy lifestyle can get rid of, and being told you have a "physical illness" isn't specific enough to be helpful. All of these things are true, but it doesn't make "physical illness" a non-true or useless idea.
Hue has a Labs addon that does this. You can try that easily. Didn't work for me though.

If you have Home Assistant, someone built code for that: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/circadian-light-with-p...

As for mine, it's a total hack job, but for what it's worth: https://gist.github.com/fpgaminer/7840a6f2fb2d3a3be83625d7ac...

I don't do the fancy minute by minute adjustments to the color temperature; just a couple fixed settings for time of day and based on when the sun sets. And I just have it adjust a scene, which I have my Hue switches configured to use when I turn the lights on.

There's no good way to have this system work with, for example, turning on the lights through Alexa/Siri/etc since they won't use the Circadian scene that's been setup. But what I've got works well enough for now.
This is really incredible. Enough motivation and unaudited C code can get one really far on building console exploits.

That said, I wonder about a hypothetical world decades from now where new game technology uses safer languages like Rust instead of C primarily. The gain in stability would be offset by making finding exploits like this much harder, if not impossible. People might pine for the days where you could just download a custom C toolchain, compile a piece of homebrew and be able to run it on your own console somehow.
Yes it is. Reminds me of the case where NYU installed fences in the Bobst library to prevent more suicides [0]. Basically it comes down to not being concerned about the causes but find a solution to prevent the suicides on the premises of the campus. I see it as, go kill yourself someplace else, we don't want the negative image.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyu-bobst-library-suicides-al...
I see you got downvoted for it, but I respect your faith that the problems will be solved. Just don't let it lul you into inaction, because believing they will be solved and believing they will solve themselves are two different things.