skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then let me try. I concede the GP's tone is off-putting. I don't watch John Oliver regularly because I generally find him more entertaining than informative. Yet I still think this piece is largely disingenuous claptrap.

Kevin Mims is not a moderate voice. He's a unique voice. A white man "in my sixties" with bylines with NPR and the NY Times who works a second job at a small bookstore and still finds time to turn out well-written longish-form essays. This is not a balanced piece. It is a piece with a skillfully deployed pro-Amazon shareholder-friendly anti-organized-labor agenda.

As someone who is critical of Amazon and believes it does not pay its warehouse workers a living sustainable wage and works systematically in ways that make society a worse place on balance, I am not surprised by anything Mims writes. I expect most workers get through their shift without getting sprayed with bear repellant or getting physically injured. I expect a lot of Amazon's warehouse employees to be grateful for the work (largely because they're not empowered to expect or demand better). These should be table stakes for any employer, large or small.

How long has Mims worked for Amazon? He tells us:

> I’ve worked about 70 shifts since I started at Amazon, and I still wouldn’t presume to offer myself as an expert on the conditions of the entire workforce.

Between 3 and 4 months?

How much longer does he expect to work for Amazon? Why is he swallowing his "litany of gripes"? What happens to him when one of the injury he acknowledges as inevitable ("warehouses are hazardous environments and, somewhere today, an Amazon employee is likely to be injured") finally strikes him?

Finally, this article misses a critical dimension of this issue. It certainly matters how Amazon treats its employees, especially those with the least negotiating power. But it also matters how Amazon presses the levers of power that help the market and government set constraints on companies' ability to tyrannize and exploit its workforce. Amazon management works aggressively to cripple unions. It is a topic covered by professional journalists fairly writing about the trials and tribulations of Amazon employees.
So you’re just going to seize private property?
Except my system has 16GB and it idles at 4GB. My old system with 8GB idles at 4GB even my system at home with 16GB idles at 4GB. I dont understand why it would idle at 8GB.
There is something to that. Not that TV as such has really been a draw for me, but screen time (including just surfing the Web) is. When I'm with relatives that still don't have broadband, I do tend to go to bed early -- not because I'm "bored" as such, but because I don't have something else competing with being tired.
Hah, indeed. "An all knowing colleague" suggested in Slack to use DisableWinTracking* tool for greater privacy and security. I had already done the most of the usual privacy enhancing stuff manually to Windows 10, but decided to try if the tool would know something more. Some weeks later IT realized there are several desktops in our domain which stopped installing Windows updates on a same day. And some administration tool couldn't reach those computers anymore. Basically we ended up wasting about 20-30 man hours on getting those desktops to function properly again without reinstalling.

*) https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking
AMD couldn’t have timed bringing a genuinely competitive product to market either on the backside of the Meltdown and MDS and Intel struggling on process.

Will be interesting to see if intel begin pulling the same kind of shenanigans they did back the last AMD was competitive (early Opteron/Athlon days).

I don’t think the market structure is the same and given they got slapped for it last time by the regulators I’m curious to see if they’ll try.
> It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies.

We have a ton of dependencies so that you can get out of the box support for most of your projects. With React, Vue , Webpack(+ common loaders), Babel(+common plugins) e.t.c and Quark's internal dependencies, the package still weighs uncompressed ~300mb. Now compare that with an average node_modules folder on your machine. You get the picture. If you still can't justify the dependencies, open a pull request on the git repo and we can debate which dependencies are allowed to stay. :P

> It still doesn’t allow you to easily share your dashboard with other internal users (unless they have the same Quark environment), does it?

You are right there, you cannot share projects built with Quark unless they have Quark installed on your machine. Just the case you have with Node.js or python or any other runtime.
I run Windows 10 on a 10 year old htpc with 3gb ram. Leaves enough memory to run a few background services and kodi with zero problems.
This is a piece in Bloomberg, it’s written for people who work in the banks and money managers, so naturally they are interested it’s a slow period, jobs will be cut.

There is a vast amount of technology involved, but someone sets the strategy and that person takes home millions if it works. They are supported by thousands of other workers who also, in total, take home millions.

Small correction: way more money is made by actually buying and selling than by taking a commission on someone else’s trade. These roles are called “dealer” vs “broker”.
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What is your point exactly?

My initial interpretation is that you're saying the equivalent of "tough shit, sucks for you", which ignores the negative impact of poverty on the rest of society at best, and is actively inhumane/callous at worst.
I Wrote a Simple Mathematical Library for Vectors in JavaScript
The speaker in the video is making the argument that the term "Shitcoin" is used to denote a centralized cryptocurrency (as opposed to decentralized, such as Bitcoin).
Note that most people currently paying a mortgage has not bought at current prices.

And with the reasonable assumption that high-income households are more likely than low-income households to buy a house in any given year, we can expect the buyer of the median house to have better-than-median income.
Elasticsearch requires some sysctls set on the node and some of the helm charts around use a privileged init container to set those. A solution that’s obviously more or less accepted, though one I personally dislike.
Let me get this straight, this does not involve handing private keys to F-Droid? The app is verified reproducible minus the signature?

AFAIK it should work that way but I couldn't tell from the diagram and skimming the text.
More importantly: in the situation where the majority of "free" press is controlled by 5-6 people, it's more profitable to exert this market power rather than to do government bidding for free. So US press is not quite Pravda, but it also has very little to do with reporting the facts, and that factual component has markedly diminished as the press entered a period of decline 10-15 years ago. Now it's just mostly driving clicks through opinion columns misrepresented as news, and fomenting outrage.
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A nephew comment posted the docs:

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
How do you implement a whole ALU in diode logic? All i know about diode logic is what it says on the wikipedia page, but according to that, you can't implement a NOT gate, which i would have thought would make it very hard to implement anything of significance - even a half-adder requires a NOT!
Agreed. You are better off trying out Linux and using that if it meets your needs than breaking your system if thats an option. Or even considering using a Mac if its an option you can afford. Anything above breaking your OS.
Yeah. It is a mistake to believe that technology can only progress forward. If a generation dies without passing on certain knowledge, it's lost and has to be rediscovered the hard way, and that can certainly happen to technological know-how just like anything else.
I think it is more about why it works than how they did it. It’s probably going to be a challenge to apply that knowledge to a modern process that produces the quantity of concrete we need today.
You're making a few massive assumptions here.

The first is that PTO is accrued by hours worked. This is not the case everywhere, some places refresh your PTO allowances at the start of the year and some will give you partial PTO when you start working.

The second is you assume that they, literally, want to take it right now. They might want to start making plans, or they might've been hired close to a holiday etc.

Also the way you phrase it as 'entitled' is worrying, because it's a two way street. I signed an offer letter because I felt working at X company would be beneficial for me. If a company is giving me PTO, then I'm going to use that PTO and I want to know when and what restrictions there may be.

I'm owed whatever the company decided to offer me during the process of interviewing and recruitment.
While all of that is true, it is also incredibly powerful, giving you access to all of the Node.js and electron's API. Plus very flexible with the tools of your choice as we use webpack behind the scenes to build your projects.
“Son, you got to know vi just enough so you don’t look stupid.”

Put that on a t-shirt.
I don't think downvote counts are shown, even to high-karma posters.
Bogus rationale. So, because minorities couldn’t afford houses, let’s take them away from everyone?

And then the minorities wind up living in, yep, other apartments. That’s a lateral move at best.

Fix the social or economic factors that preclude house ownership for minorities, instead of bringing everyone down.
>My biggest question is... what percentage of the market is really buying the latest generation of processors upon release?

That really isn't relevant. Most consumers buy a new computer when their old one breaks or becomes unbearably slow. Most corporate buyers have a consistent 3-5 year procurement cycle. AMD don't need everyone to rush out and buy new computers, nor do they particularly want it - huge spikes in sales are detrimental to the supply chain, as we saw with the GPU mining fad.

AMD want and need to consistently beat Intel on value over a protracted period, so that whenever a customer does choose to upgrade their computer they choose an AMD processor. At the moment, they're looking good in terms of both architecture and fabrication; the main problem AMD is likely to face is with partner relationships, because of Intel's historical dominance and use of anti-competitive practices.
There's an entire ecosystem that surrounds sideloading apps that are not in the app store. They're not all developers or technically inclined people, it's a very easy thing to do and can be done on any OS. Developers can distribute an IPA that isn't valid for your device, and you use an extremely simple GUI tool (Cydia Impactor) to resign, repackage, and install all in a few steps. You don't need to be a technical user to do this. You just sign in with your Apple ID in the app (or any Apple ID, it just needs to be in the program as a free or paid account).
I live in an European capital and a decent enough meal at an ok restaurant for both me and my gf costs about 25-27 euros (no wine, just sparkling water for me and in most cases some tea for my gf). I don’t find that terribly expensive, Europe is a big place.
well you can run that on the host directly and disable the init container.
An important component to the survivor bias argument in this case is: we have no way of knowing what roman concrete didn’t survive. Maybe the ones standing are atypical, or were in some way a fluke as opposed to the marvel they seem to be.
Ask HN: What was the biggest program you developed on your own?
This is just yet another demographic map of the United States that happens to be using an extremely high quality data set.

If anyone wonders why Raj Chetty can't seem to reach the obvious conclusions the data points to, it's because his job and reputation depends on him not doing so. So instead the work has absolutely no explanatory power and just suggests relocating poor performing people to good performing zip codes. Why that won't reduce inequality is left as an exercise for the reader.

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I'm criticizing because this supposed solution will be harmful to everyone. I want to improve outcomes for those who are doing poorly, this just won't do that.
DataSpii – The catastrophic data leak via browser extensions
> why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux?

Well I get the linux dev tools, which is all I really want from linux, in wsl. Windows works well on my machine, and I find it less trouble than linux. I wouldn't say I like it, but there isn't a good desktop OS in 2019 - it's a matter only of 'least worst'

(That said, I'd never run this silly script)
Who said the chemist was ever that valuable except for a small period in time? Maybe his children will make better choices
See reporting regarding WMD or any other official justification for any war.

It's just a necessary part of the military to be able to distribute information to motivate overt activities. Because soldiers and the public will not tolerate military action without moral justification. And the reality is, military activity is not based on moral issues. Rather it is strategic. For example, activities in the middle east have not been isolated instances of "preserving democracy" as portrayed. Rather they are part of a continuous, many-decade regional strategic effort related to resources, territorial control, etc.

Look at a map. Does it seem like a coincidence that the bad guys just happened to be in a small section of the world and just happened to be on either side of Iran?

In fact in some ways the roots of this conflict go back centuries.
more rough numbers: I live in an Australian city with decent public transport -- well, decent in patches. It costs about USD $3.3/day for public transport fees if you take the train every day all year. I don't need a car. Now I mostly commute to work on bike (15km return). It costs maybe USD $140/year for bike parts and repairs on a bad year, call it USD $0.4/day. I still use public transport a day or two per week, so that's maybe plus USD $1.2/day on average.

On the other hand I pay a bit more in rent to live somewhere with easy bike and public transport options.
I had that initially on my road-map and that surely could be done. I have a few ideas on how to implement a "no runtime found" situation, but that is not happening in near future.
Apparently the ideas and mental concepts in one person's brain are roughly similar to those in another's, at least similar enough so that common sets of symbols, semantics, and syntax can be agreed such that communication is possible. The fact that various observers get the same impression of the scintillating grid is evidence for some commonality, although I think that in this case it arises from processing in the retina.[1]

I don't see how this obviates the possibility that individuals can have a private language that is in principle not understandable by others, per Wittgenstein. Consider an oenophile who has a most sensitive palate, and who can describe a wine using a whole set of adjectives that are meaningless to most and which must only vaguely represent the actual sensations being enjoyed by the expert. The expert may have a whole internal vocabulary, and due to imprecision of terms, one expert's internal vocabulary may be different from all others. You could say the same for perfumers, cheese mongers, color experts and others who have extraordinary powers of sensation, and which well might be unique to the individual. And the internal language of the individual may not be intelligible by any other because their olfactory or retinal apparatus may not be exactly alike.

I also suspect that this applies to conceptualization as well as sensation. Quite possibly Einstein's internal language was unique to him.

[1]There was an excellent MOOC on the visual system. "Light, Spike, & Sight: The Neuroscience of Vision" - https://courses.edx.org/courses/MITx/9.01x/3T2014/course/
There are worse things than no documentation when doing one of these excavations. Design docs that were aspirational and only partially implemented. Code comments that are incorrect, or reflect how things used to work. Reams of beautiful code and through documentation that it turns out are not the production implementation anymore because of a feature flag change or migration elsewhere. Migration trackers with open action items and deadlines 7 years in the past, creepily abandoned mid-flight like Pripyat.

Detective work can go a long way, but in situations like this there's no substitute for ownership continuity and institutional memory.
Wayback Machine has it.
It’s gotten better but yeah there still issues, that’s why I like dual booting, windows gives me no issues for gaming if that’s all you do and Fedora has been rocksteady back to 25 when I switched, my work machine has gone from 26 to 30 via in place upgrades which I always expect to fail but so far never have.

I may play with Proton at some point though if the games I play are properly supported, mostly though my gaming time is spent on the Rift S playing Project Cars 2, combined with a nice force feedback wheel and pedals (Logitech G920) its a really good experience, I didn’t expect VR to be so compelling actually, it’s not perfect but damn is it impressive when you are going the Nurburgring in the dark as snow blows past your car and you look left and see a car coming up in your mirrors.

I think I’m a convert and I’m eagerly waiting for what the next generation can bring.

Elite Dangerous is incredible in VR as well btw.
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Clustrz is a City Specific Privacy Focussed Social Network (No Ads)
I saw that this was a link to the quillette and wondered how they would tackle the topic. I thought, "I bet they are somehow going to say working there is great."

I guess if nothing else you can say quillette is predictable.
Render farms scale horizontally, you can just buy more CPUs.
Tech generally arrives in the consumer space only after becoming the standard for developers.

Literal wizards, they build from source.
To paraphrase Keynes: as time (t) => infinity, we're all dead.

We don't live our lives in a society at the end of the long run, we live our lives in a society that exists here and now. Social mobility might end up at zero in a thousand years (or ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand years) but here and now we can make real people's lives better.
> "...roads [are] different, because we will not see orders of magnitude improvement on road capacity, ever."

you don't need an orders of magnitude increase in capacity. doubling it is probably enough.

you can do that by putting roads underground, right under existing roads. it's expensive, but we have concentrated and idle wealth that could be unleashed on it. let rich people who really want less congestion pay for it. people in LA willingly pay $20+ for one single-occupancy trip in the toll lanes.
Linux does the same thing, they both use RAM to cache disk reads for performance.
Typescript is fantastic. So grateful it exists.
Uh, don't you need to HIRE some SREs to get that multi-everything setup engineered correctly?
I agree, I think geoengineering is unavoidable. As far as geoengineering projects go, this one looks like the most feasible and safe so far:

https://projectvesta.org/
If your DC had limited rack space it might start to make sense. Buying a cheaper processor means you would need more of them to accomplish the same amount of work, but also you need more space.
I laughed at this. Yes, this is what basically every economist suggests because of the way questions are posed (i.e. confusing correlation with causation...if all great salesman wear Rolexes, just buy all your bad salesman Rolexes...it is so simple, how did these simple-minded, non-rigorous managers not realise this!?).

Political scientists (actually, this is more policy work...where I am this is done within politics) have been looking at these questions for decades. And, about thirty or forty years ago now, they discovered that historical contingency is very important. You can't just import policies from somewhere else, you can't just move people to where the successful people are...there is other stuff going on. Unfortunately, as economists can't measure these things, they remain wholly (and often wilfully) ignorant of these points.

Economists seem - boosted no doubt by laudatory articles about how precocious they were as a child - to have infinite self-confidence. Decades of research on a topic? Irrelevant. "Did you know I have tenure?". "Did you know I use lots of equations in my research? That makes me a scientist you know...rigour!".

It is also baffling that someone chose to write an article about someone failing to do any significant research (particularly as so much research already exists on this topic). Perhaps doing useful research matters far less than telling everyone that you are just about to do something important...just around the corner...did you know when I got tenure btw? Very young. I am genius. I was a very smart child. Look at this photo I have of myself holding a piece of chalk when I was a child...just around the corner...
One could also go single-boot GNU/Linux for almost everything, and compartmentalize gaming on a console.

Bonus: much fewer online multiplayer cheaters on a current-gen console.
So why didn’t you say a thoughtful argument with quotes to make your point the first time? Why open your argument with a blanket hysterical statement that immediately makes me question everything else you say?
Probably referring to the contents of this:
https://quillette.com/2019/06/05/superior-the-return-of-race...
And/or sell the service where you BYO keyword list and this ranks them. Keyword lists can themselves be scraped from forums and websites in the marked the client is interested. The scraping could also be an add on service.

This would lock in nicely with the keyword research that ahrefs, moz, etc. offer. And other various colour hat seo software.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132 - original article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup - unit of flow for ocean currents

145GW of power needed to raise water up 640m. Desalination not included, may be necessary. Would require 12k high-end wind turbines given local wind conditions. This is around 25% of current global wind capacity.

https://wwindea.org/information-2/information/ - "UPDATED: 4 June 2019 Wind Power Capacity Worldwide Reaches 597 GW, 50,1 GW added in 2018 China with more than 200 GW, USA close to 100 GW, Europe in decline Bonn, 25 February 2019 (WWEA) – The overall capacity of all wind turbines installed worldwide by the end of 2018 reached 597 Gigawatt"
Many run into this when they learn the hard way that “RAID is not a backup” as wiping out all your data on one set of disks also wiped it on the other. Ditto for naive replication with no rollback capability. It’s a fancier version of the same thing.

“DROP TABLE customer”

“Oh crap! Better failover to DR. Oh crap! It’s dropped there too?!”
> because timing correlation works great

I have read that research. It works great in a controlled environment without the parallel requests of modern browsers, where packages all arrive in order, and where a high rate of false positives are acceptable. Outside of a lab settings the research gets much more muddy and more speculative that it maybe can be used, but I have yet to see an actually experiment that demonstrate it.
So why do you say "You need to prove that China's totalitarian policies are A) responsible for the growth"?