skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a lot to attribute to Hegel. I've never read him. Where should I start in order to not absorb the wrong interpretation that is apparently so prevalent?

I have a historical bogeyman of my own: I think Newton--perhaps accidentally--encoded a lot more of his own non-mathematical perspective into his work on Calculus. These biases got baked into our current theory of "real numbers" (which are pretty spooky, once you get to know them, and don't strike me as befitting their name). This was done primarily because the pure mathematicians in the centuries following Newton couldn't justify his results, which was an embarrassment since his work was so useful that it obviously was true. As you say:

> people are self-interested not truth interested

So now we have this element of arbitrariness baked into our numbers, theories that underpin the sort of methods that the article refers to here:

>Faith in this methodology certainly unites a much larger number of research psychologists than does any kind of commitment to a particular theoretical framework

Somewhere between physics and psychology, an assumption that worked for Newton stopped working for us, but we didn't notice because we had only it to compare it to.

I similarly extrapolate this accusation to wider political spaces (i.e. the failure of standardized testing to make the kind of differences we wanted it to, or the propensity of our economic system to generate jobs that don't actually matter).

I see some parallels between our reactions to this piece, so I want to read Hegel and see if we're just similarly out there, or if we're out there in similar ways.
Having intelligence in most cases just means you're better at post-hoc justification of your emotionally-driven decisions.
Also you don't necessarily have to live in Zürich city... Outside the city or in other parts of Switzerland you can find a decent flat for ~1500 CHF.
I find D easier to use than Rust or Go because of familiarity. It is very obviously C and C++ inspired but without all the sharp edges.

I also love D's metaprogramming. It feels almost like lisp. Go's lack of generics doesn't allow this and Rust's macros don't feel as comfortable for me.

Yes, D is smaller but it's also big enough for me. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much when I'm using D. If I need a library to do something that isn't already in the fairly generous stdlib, I can find it on DUB.

http://code.dlang.org/
> Since 5G is a vastly different technology

5G is not a vastly different technology. There are some very novel tricks under the hood, but it's still just fancy radios.
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> there is speculation that Redhat might do it

If they're going to do it, for the sake of the community they should announce that soon. Even if they don't plan on taking up the responsibility until the middle or end of 2020 it might be something that distros and companies would consider when making their plans.
Do I understand correctly that you're asking why a distribution would remove a package at all, if it currently works just fine?

The answer is mainly security issues and compatibility bugs. If a package is abandoned, it is typically removed. Someone needs to write updates both to fix newly found security problems and general issues with other new packages. Perhaps we'll switch from the init system systemd to systemf, and some package depended on that. Then it won't work in a new version anymore. Like someone else commented, it's nothing but work.

I'm not sure why it is removed before any such issues arise or become known. My best guess is that it should prevent the removal from becoming super urgent once a vulnerability becomes known. If it is still used by anyone, they should either become the maintainer or (in this case the more realistic option than becoming a maintainer for python2) update the code to python3.

Not sure why you're being downvoted though, it seems like a legitimate question: "it works, why bother even removing it?"
They pay interns $6,000 a month don't they?

That $188k is total comp as well.
Also stop supporting the Nobel Prizes. They’re bullshit.
I love the real-world example, but I couldn't help but wonder if this article was more about Sed and Awk than actual regex.
I don't think either of those brands have maintained their reputation. Everyone knows Craftsman is overpriced junk riding on yesterday's heritage. People old enough to know Craftsman was a good brand know enough about tools to see they're junk now.
Multicore Linux VM performance was 1/8th of what it should be for almost 2 years
Except most cars don't rewrite their flash every few seconds.

Most modules with flash in 'em are programmed once at the manufacturer, reflashed once or twice during assembly, maybe reflashed once more at the dealer before delivery, and that's it. Maybe again post-sale if there's a recall or TSB or something that can be fixed in software.

Flash quite happily lasts 25+ years if you don't abuse it far beyond any flash manufacturer's wearout specs. Go figure!
> Not being snarky, genuinely curious as to what benefit I could derive as I've always seen as something that I'd eventually pursue.

Very little unless your company grew to a huge scale. MBA courses don't help that much with smaller organizations because historically there was little research involving small companies. This has possibly improved, but the focus is probably more on fast-growth startups since this is a much more comfortable and sustainable area for MBA-types.

That said, there are things that you can learn from an MBA education that can stand you in good stead. It can give you a broader worldview on topics like finance and economics, if you haven't had time or previous exposure. Strategy and case studies of other orgs successes and failures can be helpful for the analysis skills versus the exact things you learn.

Whether it's worth it is going to be up to you. There are some rules people seem to follow like doing it more cheaply if you can't get into a top school. The things you need are accessible in other places. I grew up outside the US and my enterprising business and economics teachers covered things when I was 16-18, that just got repeated later on. Perhaps find a Coursera course for topics you are interested in to see if you want to go further?
This is excellent news for D, Atila is a great choice for this role.
UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors
Its actually closer to 400 per month, significant and mandatory payment. And so far it keeps rising every year (was 230CHF in 2010 for me). But its completely untied from employer, you find your own model and finance it yourself.

Plus with this you have 2500 'franchise', meaning only after you pay 2500 CHF in given year, insurance kicks in. Lesser threshold costs obviously even more. For teeth care there is basically no usable public insurance, people just go across the border (or swallow the cost in case of emergency)
Wow! Congratulations to the engineers. Oracle digs in deep. Bet that is a massive headache off a lot of people's plate.
You've never been in an expo hall with 10k people all trying to post an instagram photo, have you?
Was Robert Mugabe's Legacy Good? (Views from a Zimbabwean)
We're not discriminating against black people, our algorithm just doesn't allow loans to anyone who buys things that black people just happen to buy.

Asshats.

EDIT: In case anyone thinks I'm kidding: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613274/facebook-algorithm...
And the $100s it will cost to send out a service guy.
There are lots and lots of people who have claimed that porting to python 3 is easy. Stop twisting the truth.
I'm in Zurich, moved recently from South Africa - also in the startup space, currently working remotely, also from home.

Would love to grab a coffee sometime if you're keen - your website in your profile doesn't resolve - does the email work?
> Traditionally this is done by specifying data structures and RPC calls in an Interface Definition Language (IDL) then translating that to the supported languages, with a wire protocol to go along with it.

> With D, none of that is necessary. One can write the production code in D and have libraries automagically make that code callable from other languages.

If you're using an RPC IDL you explicitly do not want to share that code, you want to share that API.
> Salaries are certainly not capped at 140k CHF, I've seen a number of job ads for 180K CHF
Are you speaking about CH or USA? Because in CH it pretty much seems to be capped at 140k CHF and below. Unless you are speaking of a very specific role/technology stack.
When the alternator in my 1983 Mercedes 300D quit, I started the car off a jump and drove it dead-electric to the store for a replacement part.

I believe the only semiconductors in the car are in the timing circuits for indicators and wipers, the tach and fuel gauge amps, and the radio.

Past results do not guarantee future performance: no new cars are this simple.
It is lovely that you have that option. For many American workers, if you work through your lunch, you do not then get to leave early. You've just donated your lunch hour as extra work time to the company, and you will often not get it back. It does vary, of course.
To be honest, I think that the school was going through a very tough time itself.

Around that time they had an award they had previously won for being 'exceptional in physics' actually stripped from them and the country's ratings board reduced their rating.

While I don't know exactly the official reasons that those things were done, I do know that the quality of teaching in many subjects was very bad, not just for me. For example, in physics, we often had to lie to write up experiments we had not done, because there was neither equipment or time to run the experiments we were supposed to for the curriculum.

The year after this, the teacher told us that the exam board had started to get suspicious, and had demanded we include photographs of ourselves performing the experiments. So we had to mock up as best we could the experiment test setup with what broken or substituted equipment we had.
Probably not, unless you really want to hear Stroustrup's opinion on spaces vs tabs.
> In Zurich, you can rent a whole flat (50+ square meters) for something between 2500-4000 CHF
> In Switzerland a Software Developer can easily earn over 100,000 CHF (1 CHF is around 1 USD)

So... A little bit cheaper apartment combined with a salary that is half or third (from what I read, I don't live there) of what you can get in Bay Area. WTF is this article trying to say?

Edit: And of course, not to even mention that living in $8000 apartment on $200 000 salary is much better than living in $4000 apartment on $100 000 salary.
You don't need tests or do you?
How was the process of moving from the US to Switzerland? I'm a senior engineer, and I'm open to moving there to work, but I don't have the slightest idea of how I would go about finding places to interview or find a job. How did you find yours? Are there recruiters to bring in out-of-country talent? I feel like that would be a massive hurdle, considering you would need a visa. Any advice on finding a job?

Edit: I'm an idiot, that's a job site. Some of the question still stands, how was the process of finding a job out of the country and getting a visa?
Isn't the 46$ just that part you pay? In other words, isn't your employer paying the rest?

This is just for clarification that we're comparing apples to apples.
Adblock on the web is equalivalent to antivirus on Windows.

If you're not running it, you absolutely should be, precisely because it is a security issue.
I've heard similar stories, but all of the regulation surrounding citizenship is not so homogeneous between towns, cantons, etc.

So some cantons might only require a basic understanding while others grill you like this. It'll be a few years before I discover how it is in St. Gallen. :)
Yeah but the client interfaces are all MySQL. Oracle should buy off PostgreSQL too. And then it should start charging only Amazon for using these interfaces.

moar sarcasm.
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That is a fascinating suggestion! We should rigorously debate its merits first.
That is how Linux and FreeBSD handle it. They both present a block layer device that you can then put ZFS on.

The ZFS specific encryption IIRC is owned by Oracle, and they do not open source it.
By API I don't mean published API. I mean it subverts the normal client usage and makes calls directly, masquerading as the intended client. Internal API if you will.
SAP and Salesforce would love to, but haven't achieved Oracle-free status to the joy of Larry.
The right network is worth its weight in gold. Stanford or Cal MBA gives you access to all the right people. A huge contingent of other Bay Area high achievers to mix and mingle and start companies with and take investments from.

MBA from the University of Alabama would probably not do much for you in the Bay, but could be 10x as valuable as Cal in Atlanta or Birmingham.
I just tried and there is literally no mention of golang in any of the search results
X stops at a very low level. Scroll Wheel events in X are treated as button presses. There's no X API call to get a "scroll by this much" per Button4 or Button5 events. It wouldn't even make sense in the context. All of that is handled by libraries above the X level.
If you're single or a couple dating, love tech, move to SV. Don't deprive yourself of that experience.

Hire a professional relocator to find your apartment. That's what we did. Company paid for it.

Every third person you will meet is an engineer, generally working on something cool. Everyone has ideas as to how you can do things "better" - from tech to processes to politics.

You can attend all sorts of product launch parties, meetups, company socializers. So many that it's impossible to go to them all.

You can meet many of the founders and engineers that you read from on HN. Either they live in SF/Bay Area or end up visiting. Just tweet at them and ask.

I've never regretted those years.

The financial line gets much blurrier when we started having a family, along with the SF school system isn't that great.

But for tech culture, it was one of a kind. So. Much. Tech. And I loved every moment of it.
I love how readable this report is! If more research study reports were written in this approachable manner we might end up with a more scientifically literate society.
The problem with focusing on big questions in economics is that it is very difficult to produce convincing evidence. Humanity is complicated and it is impossible to control for unobservables in cross country studies.

The Nobel winners see this and decided to focus on smaller, provable questions instead. I'm not saying RCTs are perfect, but they are much better than a lot of the snake oil that still comes out of the discipline. We need more of them, not less.
Or you can read some good books and learn from your peers through networking with other "business" people.
I'm guessing OP had in mind "buggered" — i.e., to be sodomized.
Ask HN: Recommend Me Your Mattress?
Sleep is important and mattress shopping is hard. What mattress do you have and would you recommend it to other HN users?

Please include the price if possible, as (personally) I’m trying to keep costs reasonable.
They are what?? $2 to just to say I'm attending an event? What a blatant shakedown. I should also become a corporate executive and steal a bunch of money if this is the level of thought the job requires.
I don't know if Sears selling higher quality stuff would really matter.

Departments stores seem almost entirely doomed to fail because of the combo of more specialty retail (buying clothes at a clothing store as opposed to department store), Amazon/ecommerce, discount retail (TJX family), and, of course, giants like Walmart being able to operate better.

Stores like Target and Meijer are able to fill the void of shopper wishing to avoid Walmart so I don't see a ton of space for anyone else.

Certainly Sears could have positioned itself better to evolve into something closer to Target but that ship sailed at least 20 years ago and Sears being mostly anchored to shopping malls didn't help its cause much.

The Sears attached to my hometown's mall was shut down 2 or 3 years ago. The space is currently being destroyed so they can develop an outdoor entertainment space.
It’s almost like silicon valley mostly makes broken crap.
I'm based in Zurich, also happy to connect.
Python has built-in facilities for that, there is no need to write wrapper by yourself.

from functools import partial
with open('mydata.db', 'rb') as f:
for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64), b''):
process_block(block)
Somewhere at the bottom of the site with very small letters:

* requires German C1-level or better
EDIT: I found out that there isn't 2 requests, only one and only with the prefix. The prefix is first lookup in the client database, and if it's there, a request is made to get the URL related to that prefix. My idea still works but then they would need to give theses specific prefix in the database already, which will be pretty obvious.

> If it's a hot new URL that hasn't been firewalled yet, then it's also not going to be in the safe browsing database, which means that your browser won't make that second request (with the full hash) to verify it.

Who say you need the full hash? Keep all prefix with the timestamp and their IP address and believe me, you can get a pretty good picture.

All you need is to keep a bunch of URL you don't block but consider harmful, and a bunch of of others URL from theses same domains.

Here's a partial hash that I'm pretty sure would be quite useful:

> 18ec

It map to this URL:

> https://www.reddit.com/api/submit

From your database, find everyone that called for 18ec. It may matches many other URL, but use your backup for Reddit and the timestamps. You now got the username linked to their IP.

Someone doesn't post? Use 1483, B5E7, 13F9, 5B58, 0859, etc...

The funniest is that you could probably find the URL yourself using theses prefixes... but yeah the goal is to find out who went to theses URL, not really which URL they went to. You don't need that many matches to confirm they truly went there.
You're totally exaggerating, been living in Spain for the past 10 years and previously worked in Switzerland, I often get job offers from Swiss companies and the difference is minimal.
> Same salary? That's funny! I lived in Spain before moving to Switzerland.
Regarding "free healthcare" and "better weather, no crunch culture, better social life" yeah, I agree on that!
From my experience getting my MBA from Darden in 2008 and then starting my own businesses by 2010. The number one benefit was how it helped to build my professional network.

Before, I was a shop floor manager in a few fabrication facilities in WV and Southwest VA in rural areas. Without my MBA experience, I'd never have a chance to meet people working at major Wall Street banks. I didn't have any finance industry experience.

Fast forward into my summer break between 1st and 2nd year, I received an offer from Bear Stearns to work in NYC. I didn't take that job. Instead, I took an offer to work in Newport Beach, CA as a management consultant. Hard decision, right? NYC or the beach in Orange County - I chose the beach. These are options that never would have happened without my MBA. Now as an entrepreneur, if I want to go raise funds, I have a network to help with introductions.

Also, studying for my MBA at Darden changed my thought patterns in making decisons under conditions of uncertainty. Courses in quantitative decision analysis and option valuation introduced me to monte-carlo methods and real option analysis. Now, I don't often break out a black scholes model to help me make decisions. But, I gained a fundamental understanding of how to analyse uncertain situations and find decision points to cut downside and increase upside. This has helped me to stay in business working for myself for 10 years now.
Whenever I see things like this, I wonder why are they talking about gallons per nut or tree or whatever? Shouldn't it be relative to how many grams protein/fat/carbs it produces per gallon compared to other food sources?
Airbag control modules do constantly write data. The last 5 seconds or so of sensor and input data is recorded for crash investigations.
Just fixed up the domain, thanks for reminding me. :)

Yes the email works: hello <at> lukeseelenbinder <dot> com. Let's definitely meet up! I'm in St. Gallen, so not far at all.
It is really useful to compare a company to itself. If the company as a whole pays less than others and they are self consistent that says two notable things.
Russian propagandists found a new bone to latch on to and sow chaos in the world (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-h...). Meanwhile Huawei and Ericsson are building 5G networks in Russia with full support from its government.
> I find that slow walking is way more tiring than going fast.

The physics is probably something like: A leg is a pendulum, so its length determines the natural frequency, which corresponds to a gait requiring least energy. Move away from that frequency and you have to do work.
The list:

https://emamo.com

https://kommunity.com

https://joinmobilizon.org/en

https://cete.io (not yet launched?)

https://eventy.io (not yet launched)

And the not-yet-build one by FreeCodeCamp: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241

I've never heard of any of them. Opinions?
Let's! My email is in my profile.
The argument of this article is strange.

The "randomista" revolution essentially states that we know (or knew) very little about what actually work to foster development and that RCTs are the best tool we have to obtain this knowledge. Macro-scale policies are important, but we have no tool to evaluate their effects appropriately.

The article essentially says that this approach is wrong because we know that some macro-scale policies will have a much bigger impact than all those micro interventions. In this case, reducing barriers to immigration.

But we do not know that, that's the whole point of doing RCTs in the first place.

You can make an argument that we should spend less time focusing on micro scale interventions and more on macro-scale interventions because the former will never have a large impact and thus the best way to foster development is finding which macro intervention work.

However saying that focusing on the micro scale is useless because we _already_ know about some macro intervention that work better than the micro ones is unfounded. The evidence on macro intervention is much, much weaker than the evidence from RCTs.
The whole point of switching to technology for systems like this is to block people from holding you accountable. It puts the burden of proof on the accuser to show that an inscrutable software black box is biased.

It very much resembles the shift from human tech support operators to software-based robo operators. In effect, it’s a wall to keep you away.

The apotheosis of this concept is Google, a company that goes to ridiculous lengths to stop people from being able to contact a human being that works there, unless you’ve paid them money for the privilege.
What sort of books are they reading that only has 50,000 words? Lord of the Rings has over 480,000 words for all 3 books. Harry Potter has over a million for 7 books. Enders Game has 100,000.

Plus this isn't taking into account that I like to read more technical about my profession which take me longer.

> The average American reads 200–400 words per minute (Since you’re on Medium, I’m going to assume you read 400 wpm like me)

and that assumption is probably a bad assumption. I do tend to read rather slowly.