skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon should invest in Colombia or Panama instead.

These two countries (which ironically were originally the same a century ago) have the best geographical position in the continent to reach both North and South, lower amount of earthquakes than Argentina and Chile, more opportunities to benefit from clean sources of energy (solar, wind and sea waves), and the internal politics are better than the neighboring countries.

Colombia, specifically, would benefit a lot from more investment from the tech industry. It will also allow the country to reduce the number brains escaping to the United States, Canada and Europe where companies pay more than the local ones for doing the exact same things.

Cloudflare has already invested in a data center in Bogotá [1] and Medellín [2]. Both cities have some of the best business executives and software engineers in Latin America, so this would be a win-win situation for all parties and a good excuse to continue making business there.

Reuters reported back in March 2019 that Amazon will open a Latin America infrastructure location in Colombia and help train 2,000 students in cloud technology [3]. The news came after the first-ever Latin America AWS Public Sector Summit in Bogota on March 28th, 2019 [4]. This edge location will become the sixth in Latin America, but first outside of Brazil [5].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bogota/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/listo-medellin-colombia-cloudfla...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-colombia/amazo...

[4] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/president-of-colom...

[5] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/aws-plans-edge-locat...
> Nearly 6,000 pedestrians were killed in U.S. traffic accidents in 2017, the latest year data were available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That was up 35% from 2008

I wonder how much of this is due to distracted driving because of smart phones. I would bet it's more than we care to admit.

This is where the material from the college engineering ethics course I was required to take kicks in. It's stuff like this we should pay attention to.

> At 20 miles an hour, the cars struggled with each test, AAA found. The child was struck 89% of the time, and all of the cars hit the pedestrian dummy after making a right turn. The systems were generally ineffective if the car was going 30 mph. The systems were also completely ineffective at night

When companies advertise these systems, I wonder how many people feel they can pay less attention while driving.

I also wonder what's up with their QA testing. This stuff could use some chaos engineering thrown at it.
I was excited to look up and see what I had gotten wrong but I don't see it in that entry. It lists the "first uses" as being definition 1 of noun and verb, i.e. precisely my example (UN sanction on restriction of trade).

They do quote (the wonderful) Molly Ivins, who passed away in 2007.
The current system is because of wage fixing by the government during WW2. It was a way for employers to differentiate at a time when wages weren't available as an option. I agree that the free market is the place to do this.
Steampunk HQ in Oamaru, New Zealand.
> I'm asking what's the nuance in privacy vs crime prevention.

This is the whole problem. There _is_ nuance. Users can still report content, even if it's private. Automated detection systems can still run client-side. Public forums like Facebook itself are still targetable, and we can increase funding and counseling for moderators in those public spaces to reduce turnover.

Barr is the one here saying that, "mere numbers" aren't enough to talk about the problem. How exactly are we supposed to compromise with that? What exactly is a 'nuanced' response to the argument that any system that allows even one child to be abused is unacceptable?

Barr isn't going to be happy unless law enforcement can read every single message. And he's going to trot out the same arguments every single time. And every time we respond, somebody is going to be jumping in to say, "but why can't we just have a little nuance? Why are all of you so dogmatic about this?"
I guess FB could just respond by linking to this blog post: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/end-to-end-encryption/
By the time they cover the world properly it’ll be year 3000
If it is so much better and easier to read than regex, why not show any examples? Even the examples page is void of any examples.
I agree. I was expecting something sort of like the good Blind posts, but I guess these are controversial because... one said "fuck"? Another said that people put too much emphasis on career advice, which is probably controversial for the site/community the article is from?
Reddit is still majority owned by Advance Publications, no? They’ve had 3 fund raises since Advance Publications spun out reddit as an independent company. That’s up to 30% taken by investors. The only other shareholders are employees from the spin out. Reddit can still go another 1-2 rounds before Advance Publications doesn’t own more than 50% of reddit. Maybe the latter two rounds have deals that will force an IPO sooner, but otherwise it seems Reddit doesn’t have the same pressure as your average startup that has raised $500M+.
> Please show an example of a 150 year gap where the average person wasn't significantly better off in written history.

AD 1200 - AD 1350

I think the average person was significantly better off in 1200 than in 1350
They realized that something was off, obviously. They were just saying it was confusing at first because without the context of knowing who Barr is, "AG" is a nonsense word. The only remaining parse is a soft-drink company.
> When you’re in college... Your time is less valuable

This really jumped out at me.

As a college student, I've never had so many opportunities available to me at once -- nor so little maturity with which to take advantage of them.

That said, I certainly agree with taking care of low-level health problems, the sooner the better.
I have long wondered why we can write "ORDER BY 1" (meaning to order by the values in the first column), but it's illegal to say "GROUP BY 1". This article shows why that is.
Who said anything about the US being a shining example?
No need - america free, china bad. Indeed in america if you are not white, or white but against the norm, you pretty must “censored” by society. Not to mention government monitoring and rapid standard of living decline because of corruption at the highest levels.
I thought the steampunk genre was born with Wild Wild West - that awful Will Smith movie from '99. That's what I remember from living through it. I would actually have a bit more respect for steampunk as a subculture if it's genesis resided elsewhere - that movie was so ridiculously stupid that steampunk has been tainted for me by association.

Edit to add: apologies all around, dear steampunk enthusiasts! Fwiw Steampunk really didn't enter anything close to the mainstream in my corner of the U.S. until that movie came out, and afterwards seemed to be everywhere I looked, so I don't think it was a totally unreasonable assumption. (And yes, I knew the movie was based on older material, but didn't know to what extent the visual aesthetic had already been defined.) As penance I will purchase one Steampunk item from my local costume store and wear it to my next all-hands work meeting.
I valued my stock options at 0, so I left after 2,5 years in a 4 year vesting. I didn’t believe the company would IPO. It did. The founders were good types, after all.

Those 2,5 years are now worth 1,7m$, which after tax is about half. I do wish I had stayed the 4 years, instead of valuing them at 0.
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> Honestly, Amazon, you don't need tax breaks from Argentina.

They don't need tax breaks from Argentina sure, but they do need one to justify building a data center there. Do you expect them to just hold off building one there because they believe they could get a tax breaks later on?

> (Argentine peso has lost more or less 90% of its value against the dollar in 5 years)

Which is exactly why this move is great for Argentina, attracting big contract in your country is how you increase its value.
Honestly this is bad advice. Sure, you shouldn’t plan your life around striking it rich but if you’re going to take a job thinking the equity comp is worthless then you are probably choosing the wrong company and/or going to negotiate poorly.

Late stage growth companies that offer RSUs can be sold on secondary markets, so even though it’s not as easy to sell it is probably not worth 0 unless something is very wrong, which again is something you should assess before accepting any offer.
I've worked at a place where running time-sensitive batch file submission was the company's main line of business. It is always fun when the optimizer heuristic suddenly makes a 3-minute query take over 3 hours! And there's basically no way to defend against this while still using SQL, short of moving everything to incremental generation.
They can be any data type; just a name, a struct, a tuple struct, or even another enum.

I think also, likewise, “union” sounds strange unless you have C experience. Many of our users do not know C, and so that name doesn’t help them either.

In the end names are hard.

Happy to, you’re very welcome :)
Do you have any idea where these people are or names associated with them? I am very intrigued!
Some bonuses actually are contractually guaranteed. They might be variable by performance, but every company I've worked for with a bonus plan has guaranteed some bonus outside of the absolute worst performance (in which case you should be looking for a new job long before this becomes an issue)
Good luck fighting for democracy in the us. Wondering how soon will you get beaten by the police if you did the same as the hk people do?
As far as I know, it supports the WITH keyword, so you can reuse those expressions.
The corrupt and criminal AG recruiting foreign governments to interfere in our elections? That one?
Some describe PMF as the market pulling the product out from the startup. This level of intensity is also seen in going viral.
Ask HN: Is ML a universally understood acronym?
Or is it just understood by people who have in interest in the machine learning space?
Google commits to White House job training initiative
Is this article what happens when an apple fanboy does drugs?
The problem is deeper than just protecting your data against the government: One of the products these guys sold to corrupt goverments was a tool to plant CP on people's computers.

https://hacked.com/italian-hacking-team-hacked/

How do you like those apples?

I can't think of a technical defense against a threat like that that doesn't involve disconnecting all the computers in my house and throwing them away.
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Lately my (foot) commute has come to involve a whole lot of people blasting down residential streets at 40mph while staring at their phones and only barely slowing down in acknowledgement of stop signs.

My current belief is that the single most effective pedestrian safety feature that car manufacturers could possibly implement is some mechanism for preventing Waze from working.
Google is one of those influential companies and I could totally see them declaring that their crawler is going to stop visiting IPv4 after some date.
Which FAANG company hasn't been giving you bonuses or refresher grants?
`group by 1` is actually allowed in several SQL implementations, and there's no reason it can't be -- the same as with column aliases the db engine can just rewrite

select name, count(*) from table group by 1

as

select name, count(*) from table group by name

before executing the query
Fair point. In that context your question makes sense.
If we are playing a game of semantics, it could not be dead it was never alive to be alive one has to meet the definition of living and a artistic period certainly would not fit said criteria.

That being said, I would assume dead was a reference to out of fashion and sure it is out of fashion, but there are still people that enjoy it as an art. 70's Disco is out of fashion but there are still people making 70's disco music.

So it is indeed not dead, it is just not popular.
I usually see it in a retro-futurist parallel universe. Depending on the definition of "literature", Wild Wild West was a movie set in The Old West, but exhibits technologies that definitely didn't exist at the time. Those technologies seem to aesthetically fit in the movie's semi-fictional era.
They support the use of alternative OSes. They may also bring back a version of their OS without the G-Apps.
No, steampunk as an aesthetic goes at least as far back as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and the term comes from the 1980s.
Depressing?!? It’s incredibly exciting!

The United States wasn’t going to build these. Americans have been making excuses since the 1970s.

Jerry Brown tried to build the CA bullet train 4 decades ago.

Electric cars, electric buses, bullet trains, low-speed maglevs, high speed maglevs... China is making it happen!

In America, all we want is “drill, baby, drill”
Right, I saw basically nothing there that would be controversial.
An alternative hypothesis is that it takes that long or longer before you can really see that level of "success".
For those who are unfamiliar, Óscar Toledo G. (and his family) are all world-class hackers (and teachers) when it comes to low-level computing[1]. I learned about his family's work (as well as his own) on this website[2].

1 = http://www.biyubi.com/tecnologia.html#resumen

2 = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20570154
Some crimes can also be aided by whispered in-person conversation. Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office?

The societal default used to be that substantially all conversations were inaccessible to the government except through testimony. Encryption does nothing to change the availability of information through testimony.

Previously, remote conspirators could collaborate through the post, and their conversations could only be accessed with a warrant specifically targeting those communicators. End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation; it just means it's a little more difficult to access the information than entering a phone number into XKeyscore. Investigators can install malware on the device, or microphones and video cameras in the suspect's home to hear or see what is being communicated.

Forbidding end-to-end encryption, in combination with our mass surveillance apparatus, changes the societal default to be that substantially all conversations are trivially and automatically accessible to the government.
Ah yes... the ever sinister, omnipresent shadow of "they," with their arbitrary power to strike anywhere and force their dark agenda to oppress all speech everywhere.

How dare I forget about the ever-present menace of that group of people?
It's complicated:

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2282
A common pattern for that kind of thing is small condo buildings with 4 to 6 units, run as co-ops by the unit owners (no HOA or management company). It's a simple way to get some economy of scale benefits in general maintenance and public utilities, and to have a few neighbors to deter crime that might otherwise target isolated homes.
I wasn't knowing this before. Thanks for sharing!
> I wonder how much of this is due to distracted driving because of smart phones. I would bet it's more than we care to admit.

Not just drivers. Plenty of pedestrians which just walk straight across the road with their eyes firmly fixed on their screens and earbuds protecting their ears from the sounds of the world around them.
Nice!

I wonder if they have other tech on premises with the LPR cams doing BLE sniffing for "loose your keys" BLE tags and other UUID fingerprints like 802.11.
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The higher end Huawei devices were nearly as good, but significantly lower priced, or better for similar pricing. Was actually considering a Matebook as a future laptop purchase in a year or so.
I’ve voted in every election since turning 18.
Try taking a packed subway where everyone else is also wearing Bluetooth headphones.
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You can also have a subquery in from as in

select * from (select 1) as temp;
did you just forget about snowden?
How about the (now former) head of the FBI recommending we cover our front-facing cameras?

https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/23/the-fbi-recommends-you-c...

and, mostly because it's mentioned in the engadget article:

https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929/ph...
Has to be Amazon or Apple. Probably Amazon due to the skimping on RSUs and bonuses, have heard that they’re upping the PIPs lately
A universal DNA database may actually improve things by showing how common false positives are.
Definitely not Google or Netflix. Netflix they’re automatic and basically the same for Google.
That's still much better than the original source (NY Daily Times) which literally just says "Google".
Of course they don't start with SELECT, which is also why SQL is a terrible language.

When you type the fields you want to select, there is zero context as to what those fields apply to, meaning that there is zero contextual help that you could get from know the table and group by ahead of typing select.
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SQL is the most WTF notation/language I've ever seen... How the hell did someone start from the beauty of relational algebra and end up with the this misordered confusing and verbose abomination that we've all standardized upon?!

...even Mongo's JSON-based query language has more elegance to it. SQL seems designed on purpose to be annoying to write, hard to read, and never look like anything, not the math logic, not any query operations that could ever be executed. I may be superficially similar to English, but English is horrible, why would you model a notation after that?!

Everytime I see someone yelling that Haskell or Lisp syntax is weird and unintuitive I think they need to have their face bashed into a printout of a complex SQL query!
Maybe you've had good experiences; mine are that this is excellent advice - companies are there for themselves and not (repeat: not) for you.
KDE. Don't bother with fractional scaling though.

If 2x isn't the natural scaling for your monitors, set the toolkits to 2x anyway and then using xrandr to render into a larger buffer that is scaled down to the "effective" resolution you're looking for. This is basically the same approach macOS uses.

It also works on GNOME, there's nothing KDE-specific about it.

For example, my X1C6 has a 2560x1440 resolution, but the effective resolution I'd like to see is 1600x900:

xrandr --output eDP1 --fb 3200x1800 --panning 3200x1800 --scale 1.25x1.25

I have 27" 4K monitors hooked up to my desktop that I use the same approach with, but rendered into a 5120x2880 buffer and scaled by 1.33x1.33.
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Also I'm assuming homeless people would be much happier about a 5$ gift card on average.
I used to work on a San Francisco team with a Zurich counterpart, mostly staffed with people of Italian descent. There was a quite confusing situation once involving a misunderstanding of my use of "terrific"; they thought I was calling something horrifyingly bad. Another such situation went something like this:

Me: "I tried what you suggested and now everything's hunky-dory."

Them, 12 hours later: "Well if you're going to complain about my suggestion, I wish you'd have at least explained what was wrong with it.
Mobility but no means, versus means but no mobility.

Most people find later in life that they actually had more means then they realized.
I think gao8a is probably right about data analysis providing a more comprehensive answer to the question in lieu of a greater quantity of subjective responses.

Two sides of the same coin.
> 3. The documentation is the compiler. So... no documentation.

I don't understand this one. Shouldn't small compilers for small languages be excellent documentation? I can't really ground the point or my response, but it seems that clever tooling should be able to analyze the compiler to create good documentation. Information could include type annotation, a timeline of the creation of features of the DSL or any other number of things that could be kept during the creation of the compiler.

> Sounds like you took the long way to implementing a library

DSLs aren't Libraries. When would you want one over the other?
The Racket languages I've seen have impressed me with their simplicity and focused scope, I would never think the same of C with includes or js with requires. The point is to be writing a file which is perfectly scoped to the issue, right? I imagine it would suck to "write" html if it were a library in C, rather than a file format with all the benefits that comes from being its own thing.
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I very much agree that a microkernel can be both more robust and secure. I'm arguing against being easier to understand. Modularity does not require address space separation, which is a runtime property, not a code organizations feature.
Basically every family? That doesn't seem right.
The wikipedia page you linked says that nearly all affluent families had dachas, making up about a third of the overall urban population.
How are those things not specified in the contract?
The most important point in this context is that non land-owning or poor white men were also disenfranchised.
Those Soviet Khrushchyovkas are the most depressing, abysmal buildings built in the history of mankind and I for one cannot wait until the day they demolish the last one of those despicable creations.
Just guessing that after China will be portions of Africa in terms of economic growth for cheap labor production. However, I'm not sure that cartel warlords (also an issue elsewhere) will be worse or better than the PRC govt.
I wonder if the US will start building love hotels like they have in Japan so that young couples have a place away from home they can spend intimate time together away from family.
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Can someone explain who is OpenID, what's the OpenID Connect Self Certification Test Suite, and why it is so important that Apple follows their spec?
The "from" syntax also exists in C#

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
and he was delicious.
People are installing and paying for them already. IoT / Alexa / Ring / etc...
Same at Facebook and Apple. At least, they're entirely formulaic.
> * Gain the trust of people who have a lot of influence. One big benefit of working with such people is that you can learn a lot; another is that if you do good work, they come to respect and trust you — and that can be crucial in getting the best jobs.*

Best advice in that article. Find the people who are clearly the thought leaders and ask them to mentor you.