skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US defense budget is more than that of the rest of the top 10 combined.

Not quite. It's slightly less than the next 8.[1] Also, that number appears to include the $79B spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs[2], which is exclusively used to support post-service personnel.

There's a lot of shit we can and should cut, but let's not distort the facts.

[1] https://sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_bud...
1) Move everyone on kubernetes (the platform of platforms).
2) Set of new kubernetes apis and operator customized to your domain. This is your "platform"
3) Integration of istio and knative (serverless).
4) a new UI for your platform UI.
How can a private business be required to perform a public service at its own cost? If the service is public, the public should pay for it; if it's not, each pays his own.

Consider this: a public service is financed by taxes that are proportional to one's income. The way it works now, both a minimum wage worker and Jeff Bezos are asked to pay $1k to walk into a ER, to "subsidize" what is effectively a public service.
Deep Learning Containers
How will Libra cut into the US credit card processing margins? Stripe will charge small customers 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, and I'm sure large customers get as low as 0.9%.

Does Libra stand to cannibalize that margin/business model over night?
Run this python jewel:

exec(''.join(chr(int(''.join(str(ord(i)-8203)for i in c),2))for c in ' '.split(' ')))
I do get where you are coming from and I do have to admit that even to me the entire reverse currying seems kind of alien…especially as someone coming from a very functional style where functions stay very short…

Unfortunately most JS code I work with is not written in such a functional style, so function bodys very often become larger than a couple of lines and in these cases having to search the argument somewhere a couple lines down does break the flow for me a bit…

It's the least problematic trade off I could find so far, trying to marry FP and procedural JS dev styles :)
In the disassembly we can see a bunch of fine grained operations but the meaning behind them is opaque. For example, we see two array access operations but its not clear what they do. They might look like this:

mov al, [array + ebx]

Considering the assert statement from point 2:
"plr[myplr].InvGrid[i] <= plr[myplr]._pNumInv"

From this we can see what the variables were named in the source code. Assuming "plr" = player and "InvGrid" = Inventory grid, we can deduce one the array access operations is to get the current player and another is for getting an item from the inventory grid.
I don't see your point. Is your argument "I don't use this feature, therefore it shouldn't exist"?
The word underrated in the context means that it is not given sufficient credit for enabling European countries to spend more of their wealth on social services, not that it is less large than in it is.

> This has got to be the most egregous case of pot calling the kettle black I've read in a while.

The point remains that the kettle is black, regardless of who calls it so.
I was able to opt out in Dublin at the secondary security point (where one clears immigration in Dublin for US-bound flights, so I think that particular scanner was operated at the direction of the US authorities).

I have not tried to opt out of a pure-EU/UK scanner, so your point is still valid. I suspect Toronto may work the same way.
Not only Facebook, but Instagram (which shares common infrastructure) has also been mostly down (read-only mode it seems). The most popular Twitter hashtag right now is #instagramdown
Lambda Labs: https://lambdalabs.com has 1080 Ti GPUs for rent. We also sell GPU workstations and servers for AI.
Vernacular Modernism
I've always found materialized path does me proud for this sort of use case.

Also nicely easy to back-populate after you add the column using a CTE, if you didn't have it originally.
It's worrying because the regulations are designed explicitly to prevent the creation of competing services. Startups are requires to either pay an arbitrary tax to a company that's likely owned by record labels, or do like Youtube and create an internal service that performs just as well as other systems and probably still face a flood of lawsuits.
Hope you don't mind the plug, but my project is roughly "Tinyletter/Mailchimp for small startups/SaaSes" — https://buttondown.email
>people who can't pay

How does it work? Do you need to apply somewhere that and get certified for "cannot pay" status? Do you need to do it before the bill? What if you can pay 1000$ but cannot pay 2500$? What if you can pay but after paying it your life standards lower significantly? What if you have some money and you were about to go to college but an appendix happened and now you cannot affor college?
Should Senior Developers Refuse Interview Coding Challenges?
But what if the "Enterprise" was a server in your house?
Facebook Makes It Nearly Impossible for You to Quit
They end up having to do it anyways.
Oh god I’ve had this happen before. At my first job our CEO was so proud of the splash screen she designed that she asked me to slow down the apps loading time by three seconds.
Oh man, well played!

Gave up at the user agreement, where you can't "accept" or dismiss until (presumably) you scroll to the bottom. The scrollbar is screwed up so that (1) wheeling is super slow and (2) you can't grab the elevator and drag it to the bottom of the shaft.
The Switch is slightly different since it gets bespoke ports/remakes, as opposed to simultaneous releases with parity with other consoles/PC.

Nintendo does do sales on their own games, albeit very rarely. But you definitely can't play those on a PC.
Tradecraft Report: State of Cyber Intelligence Practices in United States [pdf]
Joining Monzo after a failed interview
I was just talking about this with a friend. I think every few months I have one of these crises. And I don't even know where to begin with talking to a therapist about this. I feel like I would just steamroll the conversation with "look I already know X Y Z about your approach and I understand there's nothing I can do about death, mortality, or the meaninglessness of it all" and start ranting about Kierkegaard and Sartre. So I just spin my wheels enough to exhaust myself and pull myself out of it.

I've found meditation to be helpful - but it can be both uplifting and pull me back in. Being in the present can get you to appreciate the fact that you are even living (positive), but that recognition of life's ephemeral nature and it's complete insignificance in the cosmic landscape of the universe can drag you right back down (negative).

So long story short: acceptance is helpful. I haven't totally gotten there but it can alleviate the crisis symptoms. In fact I'm currently reading "Radical Acceptance" right now as a means of dealing with this and other issues.
I don't think you're recognizing the effective tradeoffs that exist between the German and US economies. In Germany per capita average individual consumption is more than 30% lower than the US. ($25,000 thousand per capita vs. $36,000)

That translates into some major differences in material living conditions. The average German home is about 50% smaller than the average American home. Germans have 30% fewer cars per capita. Meat consumption is 20% lower.

Many German homes don't have common household appliances that Americans take for granted. 30% of Germans don't own microwaves. Same for dishwashers. Most Germans don't have air conditioners. Only 42% of German homes have clothes dryers. Only 50% have freezers.

It's not just an issue of America being stupid. Things like strong social safety nets, universal healthcare, and free university all come with major major economic tradeoffs. Europeans do sacrifice a lot in terms of middle-class luxuries to enjoy those benefits.

You may say that things like bigger houses, fancy appliances and steak dinners aren't worth the stress and struggle, you need to recognize that that's a personal preference. One that many Americans are unlikely to agree with you on.

The reality is that Germany is a fundamentally different culture than America. And most Americans wouldn't choose to sacrifice their creature comforts for a Western European lifestyle. I'd be shocked if any more than a small percent of Americans would move into a house half with half their current square footage, even in exchange for free healthcare and eight weeks of vacation.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
[2]https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/fun-at-home/news/a765...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
[4]https://www.homeappliancesworld.com/2018/09/18/the-growth-of...
They submit the data to the CBP database and get a result back. It will help to validate exit reporting and ensure that the right people are being reported as leaving the country on their I-94s
Technical SEO Questions About The Wirecutter / Affiliate Sites
Hey HN - I'm sure many of you are aware of the rise of The Wirecutter (purchased by the NY Times for $30 million). There have been a number of other sites in this space that have also gained prominence (Best Products owned by Hearst, Best Reviews purchased for ~$30 million).

I have a client wanting me to expand their site, by adding long content, and affiliate links. In studying The Wirecutter, I'm a little confused as to how they are getting away with using redirects/cloaking for all their affiliate links.

Instead of a URL with Amazon in it, they are using something like: wclink.co/link/31680/152376/4/89397?merchant=Amazon

Normally, Google penalizes sites that do this VERY harshly. Yet Wirecutter remains in the top 10 for very competitive keywords.

Would I be able to do this, for my client's site? i.e. Instead of amazon.com/dp/646767474/+their tag - use something like: myowndomain.com/unique-tracking-id?

Secondly - is there a hard and fast rule for # of affiliate links per word count? I know the Wirecutter has 10,000 word pieces, but I see other sites ranking very well, with 1,000 word articles, and 10-20 affiliate links (sometimes even more).

Groom And Style is one example - I do not understand how they can rank so high, with what is mostly spun content, and so many affiliate links per piece?

Lastly, does using your own URL for redirects, fool Google into thinking that you are not using Amazon affiliate links? Typically you don't want affiliate links above the fold, but The Wirecutter does this prominently, with no penalty.

Any help on these questions would be very helpful, thank you!
The 737 MAX exists because it's so onerous to get government certification for a new airframe (and for governments to certify pilots on a new airframe). Boeing would love to ditch all the legacy cruft on the 737 and start from scratch, but doing so would not be cost-effective in today's regulatory environment.

The only reason this same issue didn't happen to Airbus is because the plane was high enough to give the pilots time to troubleshoot:

> The Alpha Protection activated forcing the aircraft to pitch down, which could not be corrected even by full back stick input. The crew eventually disconnected the related Air Data Units and was able to recover the aircraft.[1]

1. http://avherald.com/h?article=47d74074
This is the worst kind of attitude to have and is why I see incredibly poorly implemented databases all the time. Databases that are are often not properly normalized, not properly permissioned, storing lists of delimited strings, extensive use of cursors, use of scalar and table functions where constraints could've been used, etc.
It's very annoying to come in and see things like this, most of which would've been resolved if companies didn't treat development like a silo derived from abstract communication.
Unless I'm missing a parent reference you're referring to, the article explicitly mentioned this:

>In terms of deaths from suicide, Bernstein writes that there is a huge disparity between urban and rural Americans. The suicide rate amongst urban residents is 11.1 per 100,000 people, as opposed to rural residents’ 20 per 100,000.
Stephen Wolfram Testifying at the Senate about A.I
For a while I ran a box as a combo LAMP and ZoneMinder server; I ended up shutting it down as I wasn't using the LAMP server much any longer, and ZoneMinder was overkill for my purposes...

...but if you've never played around with a security camera system like ZoneMinder allows for, it can be an interesting experience. Like I said, complete overkill for my home security camera system - but it would be perfect if you set it up like an appliance, on a beefy system - because it needs a lot of CPU to process frames and such - and you have a lot of cameras to work with.

You can hook up virtually any kind of camera; from a simple USB webcam (heck, you could probably even get a parallel port black and white quickcam to work if you were crazy enough), to a set of cameras on a multi-input video digitizer card, to a full-on professional level PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera (with PTZ control!).

It is fairly complex to set up properly; one could easily create a business around it selling turnkey camera security appliances if one wanted to, I believe - though I don't think I've seen any such business like that (unlike how there are/were tons of companies doing VOIP using custom Asterisk systems).

The whole application is written (IIRC) in Python; I don't recall what it uses for the video processing (whether OpenCV or some other library). It uses multiple processes to handle everything (it isn't a monolithic system), so it is fairly robust. But as I mentioned, the more cameras/video streams you have (and the higher resolution those cameras are), the more CPU you need to process everything. I'm not sure if there is a hard limit, or a way to segregate things across multiple systems (ie - some kind of clustering?); I think you can specify a separate DB server...

Anyhow - it's something different; I had it at one time running on a PII-350 with 64 Mb of RAM years ago - the last machine, IIRC, was a P4-933 with 256 Mb of RAM - and I could process a couple of streams of 640x480 color video from a couple of IP cameras (all I needed for my home system). But that was the limit for that machine. A more modern machine would probably work much better.
It's a jobs program.
This. I will never touch mailchimp again after what they did to us when they shut down (priced out) mandrill.
This froze and then crashed my browser (Chrome on iOS) while I was trying to type in a password. I’m not sure if that was intended, but I would definitely consider it a “worst-practice”.
I used to open the CD drive when the entire computer would freeze up. I wonder if its the same thing.
TypeScript, babel, webpack, eslint: my configuration
Mashgin (YC W15) Is Hiring a Fullstack SWE Interested in Computer Vision/AI
I'm a bit confused, regarding why this is considered news. That is, beyond the typical need for sensational headlines.

Humans are, as most animals, highly specialized organisms. Plants and fungi on the other hand, are far more generic in their basic organisation. They generally are more capable of recovering from random localized damage (including, but not limited by, radiation), usually far better than animals. It's a direct result of their evolutionary design.

What might be the only real shocking part in the reporting I've read about this, is that the involved scientist are allegedly surprised about their findings. I'm honestly not sure what to make of that.

I hope it's just a product of bad reporting, because otherwise it should raise serious questions about the state of scientific knowledge/education. Maybe I just missed something. I hope it's not just cynical abuse of ignorance, in a hunt for more funding. Still, it feels weird, that with only high school education on this matter (30 years ago) and a little common sense, none of this sounds even remotely strange or surprising to me.
I opt-out every time. Only once have I even seen anyone else opt-out and that was leaving a tech conference in Vegas.
Also

>Gender and Title don’t match
My politically correct spin on that: "There's a customer born every minute."
Cutting costs by 100x? What's the math on that?
There's also the issue that there is not a "US health system". There are 50 slightly different health systems. Health insurance is still a state-level thing with different state-level requirements. We can't create a German-style compulsory insurance system until something is done about that.

Of course, nothing except political will is stopping individual states from doing so.
what do you mean by "after Defcon". Could you please elaborate what you're referring to?
Borders make perfect sense. Why shouldn't groups of individuals have self-determination including the power to limit who can enter their country?

Different groups make different decisions about how they want to run their government (which is a good thing). Some of those decisions work and some fail horribly, thus borders are needed to keep a functioning system. For example, if you didn't control who can live in your country, you'd never be able to have a generous social safety net.
France Moves Toward U.S. Model by Endorsing Corporate-Led Investigations
What is misleading about it? The Pi specs are clearly labeled "POWERED BY PI". They go on to say "At the heart of pi‑top [4] is the brand new Raspberry Pi 4".

They say the purchase itself includes the base plate, which houses all the extra sensors and ports. Judging from the pictures, it has a lot of ports. That is extra value added.
This is abstraction. How do you apply that to the case of a teacher sending misbehaving kids to the principal's office, and what would you want instead?
Now the only thing left is to figure out why Dungeon Keeper II crashed roughly 50% of the time at startup. Don't ask about my procurance of said software; we do not speak of such things.

EDIT: And of course, a person who should not be named at the time remarked: "Computers always do the same thing, DKII can't be crashing sometimes and other times not..."
You're certainly correct it's more complicated than that, so the downvotes aren't due to being wrong. shrug

Healthcare in the US is neither free market nor socialized. It's an absurd mess of both worlds combined into a singular nightmare.
No teacher can watch the entire classroom constantly and unfailingly.
Human females always had a much lower economic output until recently. Even in the most matriarchal cultures, men were in charge of >90% of the agriculture, military, politics etc. Human matriarchies have never existed. Men have always been selected by dominance competition, though dominance is frequently very subtle; it's mainly about status, affiliation, competence, attire, ornamentation, art etc., but also ... pecking order.
Because discipline can be made to stick- Timmy can be suspended and when Mom comes in to say it can't be his fault, because that would imply it was her fault and she's never been held responsible for her actions before, oh well too bad video doesn't lie. Otherwise admin backs down about 50% of the time.

If you want to point out that this doesn't help Timmy, I'd agree. It does help the other 29 kids in the class, their parents, the teacher, and admin though.
Choosing the right data types for columns is not "solved" by switching to entirely different RDBMS's. Particularly for the TEXT requiring a length comment. None of these reasons were discussed or deliberated in detail as people point out in the comments.
Not out yet but maybe the PINEPHONE [1].

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Fair enough, and this is a great argument that the press are failing to sufficiently publicize that Amazon is collecting a repository of these private recording.

Without being aware of what is going on, people can’t make these choices for themselves.
I rather miss those early days. Web 1.0 is looked down on for its visual clutter (and definitely the hatred of image backgrounds and animated text was well-deserved), but Web 2.0 has just as much if not more clutter, and of a darker nature.
FWIW my spouse has a few of these keyboards. He expressly went out of his way to buy the split Freestyle because the two pieces fit into his (hefty) laptop bag. When he traveled with a different keyboard it was so long that it needed to go into his checked luggage.
it's very naive to think that Europeans don't pay for their healthcare. Germans make monthly payments for insurance, etc. Are they that much lower than 1300 a month?

according to posters here, basic insurance is 800 dollars a month. Average net disposable income in Germany is 34K.3 a year
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/germany/

In the US, it's roughly 45K. So, Germans pay less for insurance, but not that much less, considering it as a % of disposable income. And this is for the basic public option. Many Germans pay for private insurance.
Install Asterisk and run your own home PBX using SIP.
I Rip Movies
You think that's bad, try downloading ST Visual develop IDE software from this stmicro site:

https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stvd-stm8.html
I want to do this as my career. Could you please provide a link or more info?
MailChimp is shockingly expensive.
That makes setting up new systems a pain, and is user-hostile

Users need to create a new profile for each new computer I buy. Firefox sync sortof works but I shouldn't need to store this data externally if I don't want to - and if I do want to it should still auto setup.
Perhaps the same is true when choosing how to use video recordings?
> This defendant schemed to export to China semiconductors with military and civilian uses, then he lied about it to federal authorities and failed to report income generated by the scheme on his tax returns

Funny how it always comes back to taxes

These people were rank amateurs. You don't do something in this category of activity, unless you're planning to move back to China and you know the government authorities there will have your back. You don't commit a US federal crime that involves defense secrets, continue to live in the USA, and have that income noticed by the IRS. Also, the payoff needs to be commensurate with the risk. If you're not set for life, you're not doing it right. In fact, if given the opportunity, assume you won't do it right, and just don't do it.

I'm also curious how he was contacted by that Chinese company. Did he just get an email one day asking for chips in exchange for money?

I wonder if there are foreign agents conning US citizens into ex-filtrating sensitive materials and information? The average person would have no way of knowing if someone was using an assumed identity. Such agents could arrange to be out of the country when the deal went down, and certainly by the time the IRS gets involved.

Chinese business practices can sometimes be a bit scofflaw. I know that some Chinese exporters (at least used to) ignore certain procedures and documents, because the US personnel didn't have the manpower to enforce certain regulations, despite the fact that jail sentences could technically result. I'd bet a lot of IoT startup projects have run afoul of those regulations.

There's also a startup culture idea that people should be a "bit naughty" or engage in civil disobedience in the name of disruptive capitalism. That stops when it comes to the interests of the US Defense Department.
Kinda similar thing here. But ironically, this is eroding the country away. Once you get a considerable amount of job seekers that got free education elsewhere and can retreat back for major healthcare issues, the inflation-adjusted salary levels drop to a point where you can't afford those things off your regular paycheck. So North America is becoming a rather weird place that attracts the brightest people from all over the world only to offer them the conditions where they will likely not afford having a family and will not pass their knowledge and traits to the next generation.
Goofy is good, no? There's just so much you can say about a device with keys on it.