skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as it is a much simpler question: Is this gallon of milk worth my $3.27? Maybe this has been a good week and they choose the $4.27 organic variety.

In contrast, when voting for a national milk producer, voters need to take into account the needs of the general populace, the future efficiency of each producer, possibly the weather and health of cows in different regions of the country. It is a much better deal to have the producers take on that risk, and let the consumers choose once the price and final product are known.
If you squint, I could buy that as a way of describing the execution of policy (a state machine could, for example, oversee wealth redistribution payments) but not as a description of policy making entities.
> But some of US citizens are communists

I really appreciate the business climate of the US, the tax and accounting rules are so complex that even communists likely wouldn't achieve much if they gained representation. they'll focus on "income tax" and "wealth tax" because its all they know, and their state planning would never gain consensus.

Mark to Market elections on securities transactions at arbitrary prices causing Net Operating Losses forever no matter what the income tax rate is? 60/40 rule on futures trades? Its unlikely they would ever notice.
You talk about survival in the long term yet you talk about getting certifications for technologies that can become obsolete after 5 years (although AWS, specifically, will probably be around for a while). Also I’m almost positively certain that if you do this certification without knowing nothing about computer when starting, as you say, good luck finding jobs for anything that would deserve the « architect » title.

Also going to university isn’t 50 000$ everywhere, this is mainly a weird US thing. I am a firm believer in the importance fundamental CS education, and picking up AWS from there shouldn’t be hard if that fundamental education was any good.
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$20 trillion is the yearly output of the US economy. A fair comparison would therefore be the revenue of WeWork for a year, which was $1.82 billion for 2018.

That makes WeWork about 1/11000th of the economy and so about 0.0091% of the economy.
Perhaps shouldn't would be more accurate
Charles Petzold (who wrote "Code") has written a very good book which goes through Turing's paper in small sections:

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
The illegal conspiracy here was real, but "wage theft" has a specific, different meaning.
I can only imagine there will be a prop 65 warning covering ever square inch of every building for miles.
We did mockups for the whole ux for webauthn before implementation, to get the concept right:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/webauthn-support/126454?u=falco
I really, really miss Dashboard. It was a nice quick way to have access to my stickies, a calculator, the weather, and a calendar all in one place
I appreciate the engagement.

I'm not Chinese and either way I wouldn't speak for 1.6B people. I'll just note that there have been way more revolutions in China than in America over any timeframe, and they were all terrible. Things are going great for average Chinese people right now, and they have living memory of revolution, bloodshed, starvation, etc. Why fuck with it? Lock in the economic gains, and slow-march towards democracy.

Xi is trying to move things in the wrong direction on the freedom front, and that's bad. The solution here is alliance with Chinese intellectuals, not opposition to 'China' that forces them onto their people's side.
It’s fine when wealthy people pay $200k for their children to have extended playtime crafting sculptures and writing papers. It’s extremely depressing when the poor are convinced to take out enormous loans to finance such playtimes, which then ruin their lives.

I simply can’t feel sorry for an industry that yokes 18 year olds with $200k+ in loans for undergraduate degrees, especially in useless subjects. The faster there is consolidation the better.
I talked to the author of that article. He hasn't done testing on AMD processors but his guess was:

micro-up fusion means the seven-instruction loop is actually five micro-ops
Zen2 processors can retire five instructions per cycle
Therefore the loop runs at one iteration per cycle (wow!)
The cmp [r8] instruction occasionally has cache misses
This means that the seven instructions get synchronized such that the cmp [r8] instruction is the last of them to get retired in a seven-instruction block
Therefore the next instruction is usually the jne

TL;DR - the jne gets most of the samples because the cmp [r8] instruction is the most expensive.
KSA leaders have been more predictable than American presidents.

International rules are set up so that people have incentives to follow them.

Any leader, elected or not, may decide to nationalize and confiscate assets in his country. There are consequences to that and they are pretty serious.

If you own assets that get confiscated in KSA, depending on how your organization is set up, you can get judges to seize KSA assets in another country.

It does happen: https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-fund-elliott-capital-m...
Hey - thanks for commenting on this thread. I personally enjoyed the article.

>> I think I'm allowed to share a few criticisms about the direction Mac OS is going without being called a 'whiny entitled teenager'.

I do as well - and, to boot - I wholeheartedly agree with your critique for the most part.

>> Progress should mean making things better, improve what we do with the help of computers and devices.

For sure, and removing access to a lot of my commonly-used applications doesn't help with that, for sure.
The Cantonese for "Canada" is gaa1 naa4 daai6 in Jyutping transcription (your transcription of "Mexico" is fine though).
> I still cannot get them to tell me how exactly the Ride Passes work in the SF area. There doesn't seem to be an unambiguous description on the website, the receipts don't explain, and different customer support agents give contradictory statements.

As a user of Ride Pass in LA, I'm also confused about what it does and does not cover. When I first bought it, it locked in a rate on a route I used frequently - but now I'll see Ride Pass discounts for trips to/from LAX and other unrelated places.

Still supposedly saves me more per month than I spend on it, though.
> Tim Cook will work closely with Chinese government officials to promote Tsinghua University's economics and management school

Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.
95% of my college education was listening to the professor lecture with chalk and a chalkboard, taking notes, doing the homework, going over the homework with fellow students and the TA. The dorms were pretty spartan. The fun was hanging out with one's fellow students.

All the expensive facilities added little.
FreeBSD has an interactive kernel debugger that you can use with a serial console. Super useful to track down some things, not usable on AWS -- you'd need to (somehow) do a core dump and hope you can figure it out from there.
> Getting out there and developing the sites/apps you want to see will bring change. Be proactive. Be the change you want to see.

I now have my own stupid blog again[0] trying to add some good old fun and weirdness to the web along with some hopefully useful or thought-provoking posts in between.

I wish we could have a thread (possibly even a monthly thread here, like who is hiring) where people could mention their blogs, web sites etc.

Back when Google+ arrived we did that and I followed a number of interesting people from HN based on that I think.

Maybe it could help us rebuild a mini web of interesting blogs, websites etc.

Me, I'd be particularly interested in linking to pages related to electronics, programming, outdoors (but not slick "travel" blogs) etc. A little politics OK, but not much.

[0]: link in profile should anyone be interested.
+1 for reminding me about fuckedcompany.com — that was the first thing I read every morning. We didn’t pop up on it but I heard the news of our layoffs on the radio that morning when I was driving in - we were public and it was a pretty big layoff. As for what life was like after, my wife was pitching in midtown NYC on 9/11. It took her a week to drive back home. I knew a lot of founders who for many months kept pitching VC’s after 9/11 like everything was going to turn around the next day. I remember one who was just floored when a VC literally said to him: look, I took this meeting to do you a favor: stop pitching. Seriously. Anyway I don’t think it was until 2005-2006 before I stopped looking over my shoulder for news of layoffs in whatever job I had.
How wonderful for Tim!
It's interesting that Jagmeet Singh's "nom de Chine" in Cantonese is 駔勉誠 (roughly, "dzong min sing"), which sounds a lot more like his real name than the Mandarin ("zang mian cheng") does.
>if you barred the doors to a theater and tossed a few gallons of bleach and vinegar in you could also just gas hundreds of people, but it doesn't happen.

Well during the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting the guy used homemade tear gas before killing 12 and shooting another 60. But you're right he didn't lock the doors. The 2016 Pulse shooter did lock the doors and killed 50 and shot an additional 50. So it's not as far fetched as you make it sound.
$200k for an undergrad degree is very far outside the norm. Don't get me wrong, the norm is still pretty shit. But it's about an order of magnitude less shit than that.

> As of June 2018, Forbes reported that total US student debt was $1.52 trillion and that 44.2 million people owed debt.[3] The average student debt is $38,390. The median student debt is between $10,000 and $25,000, while 2% of borrowers owe $100,000 or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_debt

$200k is closer to the kind of debt you'd expect from a medical school graduate.
> If you can't tell which is which

This isn't a comparison test. There's only one version uploaded. With only one version, it's hard to tell if many flaws you hear were introduced by sloppy uploading or if they were present in the master.
"...spending ... hefty amounts on vacations, entertainment, and a weekly date night". They spend too much money on non-essential, so they don't save enough. Great article! I earn a million dollar a year but spend 2 millions in night clubs, so I am very poor.
This is a great candidate for the Vulkano rust library:
https://github.com/vulkano-rs/vulkano

It's currently using shaderc to compile glsl -> spir-v but it's clunky and takes forever to compile.

Would be great to have a more Rust-centric way to send spir-v over to the GPU
Ohio is an interesting case. Any "high school" student that can't get an appropriately difficult class at their local school can take the class at a nearby college for both high school and college credit simultaneously. It is paid for by the state of Ohio.

It is obviously a really good thing for smart students in small towns and rural school districts and probably a big reason Ohio has a lot of small colleges, though in recent years Ohio has allocated a pool of money to pay for it all and when it runs out (it always runs out), then you have to pay for the classes yourself.
Updated to note that.
I unfollowed everybody until my Facebook feed was empty. I still clicked compulsively for a while to look at my feed, but now I haven’t logged in in 6-12 months except to ask for somebody’s phone number
Air pollution 'triggers hundreds more heart attacks and strokes'
Your link does not support what you are saying. The linked article says that: (i) there aren't enough studies for the toxicity of depleted uranium (ii) we know that uranium is chemically somewhat similar to lead (iii) there are a lot of studies about the toxicity of lead, so (iv) because of (i)-(iii) for the time being it and for modelling purposes it may be useful to assume that depleted uranium has similar toxic effects to lead.

In other words, the article admits that the author does not really know about the toxicity effects of DE and uses lead only as a best guess.

Furthermore, the article clearly distinguishes between the toxic effects and radioactive effects. Depleted uranium is less radioactive than the usual uranium, but it is still plenty radioactive. And the effects of radioactivity are pretty bad when you are breathing the stuff in.
Part of that was a higher barrier to entry to push content online. It wasn't hard per se but it wasn't easy.

Now, my 5 year old nephew can do it. Before, it took dedication and creativity to put something together. It's now more difficult to find needles in the haystack.
There is a difference between PhDs typically not introducing themselves as "Doctor" and saying that it is a falsehood when they do.

That said, a doctor misrepresenting themself as a physician and giving medical advice where not licensed to do practice medicine, as done by Dr. Phil, is wildly unethical.
You make a $100 pair of jeans, but with a new stitching pattern, new colors, or different material properties, and cash in on the novelty
>鹅 = goose

鹅 can refer to quite a few birds in Chinese[0], and in this case, since the article noted:

Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) [has a] beautifully phonetic and semantic rendering of her name

鹅 is probably referring to 天鹅 ("swan")[1], which is part of Swanson's family name.

A bit of an explainer: In names, a word that's usually two characters long is often truncated. For example, the name of the kirin (麒麟) is often used in names, but is often truncated to 麟 (麒 is also possible) so that another character (e.g. a verb) can be introduced, e.g. Alan Tam's given name[2], 詠麟, means to rhapsodise about the kirin.

>Usually the more chars resembling wealth in your name, the less educated family you may be from.

Swanson's an anti-poverty activist,[3] so perhaps that may explain something about why 金玉 might have been appealing as a reference to 金玉滿堂.

Her party "has traditionally been associated with tenants, environmentalists, and the labour movement"[4], so I imagine that perhaps she wanted something green in the name as well, and jade (玉) fits the bill.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%B5%9D#Chinese

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E9%B5%9D#Chinese

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Tam

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Swanson

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_Progressive_Elect...
The broken window fallacy requires forcefully destroying someone’s property to get them to replace it with the same thing. This doesn’t fit that model at all.
Local NAT does barely anything for an average household, and I'm not behind CGN. My IP is extremely pinpointing, way more than a "couple" bits.
They require what?
> all mainstream CPUs guarantee precise exceptions

Yes, and precise interrupts, too.

> CPU picks wherever it wants to stop in the program.

I've used profilers quite a lot, and based on my observations they're quite accurate, to exact instruction.
I'm utterly confused on how Neumann walks away with so much. Given the burn rate and the capital requirements, I cant imagine many other players who can step in at this point. And if no one steps in, the firm is worth zero.

So isnt this a recapitalization of the firm? Why would they need to pay $200M for control if the alternative is some variation of bankruptcy followed by a firesale and cheap buy?
I went to a liberal arts school for undergrad. The emphasis on writing has been very important to my career- I've found as I've advanced in my career as an engineer, being able to write well has helped in writing design documents, pitching ideas and in lots of other ways. It's funny, because at a time when the liberal arts skills are maybe more valuable than ever, liberal arts schools seem to be concerned less with what makes them valuable.
> Most hearing aids don't deliver sound directly to the damaged ear canal, but also utilise other sound delivery mechanisms. Like induction.

I don't think this is correct. All hearing aids do work this way, and I also don't know of any way that (electromagnetic?) induction could be used to deliver sound.

In a person with hearing loss, not all frequencies are affected equally. Hearing aids can compensate by

1. Amplifying the affected frequencies (this is by far the most common approach) or

2. Compressing and pitch shifting the sound to a range that the user has better hearing.
> Tsinghua is not a random Chinese school - it’s China’s Harvard.

But it's still not Harvard.

The question is, "Why not Harvard? Or any other top school in the US?"
Technically that could still be random ;)
IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop
It is true: free players are a resource that makes the game better for players who are ready to pay for the cosmetic add-ons they give.

I DO like the game though. I feel it is becoming something like chess that is its own thing. I may end up totally boycotting it, but right now I was happy to see the sentiment in the community.

I'd like to see more names (you can change account names every season) and clan tags about it. I am not a high enough level for my game to gain any visibility through contests but I may enter some silly streamers challenges.
At least one GBA game (Megaman Battle Network 4) had a major glitch (game hangs in the WoodMan scenario, in a particular area of the game, after a random battle) that only occurred on some hardware (Nintendo has acknowledged the issue on the original DS [1]; I've seen a Let's Play [2] claiming it happens on the GBA SP as well but cannot confirm that for myself)

The cause is different behavior on trying to load invalid sprites; to my understanding, the NDS keeps reading until the address wraps around to a valid sprite, locking up until then; other hardware stops reading immediately. That scenario has a problem with one particular animation when the map reloads after a battle. It seems plausible that other games would have the same issue, but MMBN4 Blue Moon is the only one for which Nintendo's got an acknowledgement of the issue on their site, so maybe literally nobody else made that mistake.

I wonder whether they caught that? On the one hand, it's a (relatively) known issue, in that Nintendo has mentioned it on an official support page. On the other hand, it seems to only impact a single scenario in a single game, which has a load of other bugs anyway. But then, they're not trying to support DS games, so the only way for the bug to get in (if they're going for an as-close-as-possible emulation of the GBA and doing so successfully) would be if the bug does in fact cause hangs on the SP and they used that one as their reference.

[1] https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/gameboy/trouble_sp...
[2] https://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/Update%200...
Do you have concrete evidence that systemd is in fact worse from a technical perspective?

I'll readily admit that systemd isn't perfect, but my overall experience is that it is better in many ways to its predecessors, and did solve real problems.

And when I referred to "systemd hate" I was not referring to healthy criticism, but to those who take very chance to claim that systemd never should have been invented and their init system of choice is clearly superior. Rather than, say trying to make systemd better, or make their init system fix the problems that systemd was designed to remedy.
WTF am I reading?
In terms of a full college enrollment scenario, i.e., everyone goes to college, there wouldn't be enough supply. About 70% of HS grads start college, and considering many stop out along the way, we're way off from college having the sort of enrollment that High School has. However, enrollment has been increasing steadily. The rate at which students attend college has increased about 10% since 2000. In that sense, as long as we don't add to the inventory of colleges, gradual enrollment growth will fill the ranks of existing colleges.

However, the above assumes that the value proposition of college in society doesn't significantly change. There are pointers that it is. Although the problem is there isn't any alternative ready for it to switch to en mass. If people doubt the value proposition today, they're left with not going at all, which is a worse value proposition, or looking at something like a trade school-- that's a perfectly reasonable option, but issues of social perception/prestige make it less attractive, and many trades have low salary caps. A "medical assistant" tops out around $45k for example, though the more rigorous "physicians assistant" can pay up to double that. But overall, trades are fairly likely to have a firm ceiling on wages. Not that graduating college as an English major is always going to pay more, it's just that there's less of a ceiling baked in to it. (Though I'd argue the floor is much lower, like $10/hour barista low)
(Unrelated to the thread, just saw your profile):

Based on your comments, you seem like an interesting guy. How do I get in touch about potential opportunities?
>please take this article with a grain of salt as it reeks of whitesplaining.

Agreed. Also, most Chinese names are "invented" anyway, so why is that in the headline?
Does it include 401K?
Life After Being Acquihired
I co-founded a company for 4 years with 2 other cofounders. Early this year, we decided to pursue acquisitions because our business went on the trajectory as a lifestyle business and we wanted to have the best outcome for our investors.

We basically went to all the possible companies and got 3 acquihire offers. A) One with 3 cofounders with jobs and some consideration, B) one with 2 tech cofounders with some consideration and C) one with 2 tech cofounders with no consideration.

To make the investors happy, make sure the non-tech cofounder having a job (and the non-tech founder basically wanted to pay me to accept the offer A, but I did not take his money), I decided to agree to go with A, however, the buying company gave me a low ball offer while giving the two other founders great pay packages. My other offers from B and C were far appealing than A, with higher pay and far better levels (because both B and C truly needed me to build their tech and respected my seniority).
From joining the company A, I have been told myself every day that choosing A was a rational decision, but I'm sad every day. I don't like working for corp especially for climbing the corp ladders, but now I have to face being judged by levels every day. Company A basically told me, "if you think you are good, prove it to me", but I have been requesting to get a bigger scope project to get a chance for promotion, but there has been none.

I'm just sad because this choice may be rational but I have sacrificed for other people.
>> US commercial real estate market by revenue is ~$1.1T [0]
>> Office space by value is about 1/8th [1]

I'm a big fan of the WeWork concept, not commenting on specifics of how the business was run.

The way things worked in the past was just silly -- you signed a multi-year lease with no elasticity. I paid WeWork for personal space before and now my employer pays. It is expensive, but only on a unit basis. The model totally makes sense to me as a purchaser.

I guess the WeWork risk is the buy-long sell-short model which is always risky unless you are earning sufficient spread.
Sure, fair point on siding with the people. I'll just add there is an element of holding the people accountable for what their government is doing, which is also why Americans got some flak during the Iraq war. I'll try to read more on this though.
Definitely, and if you read my original comment, I defended the engineer because he wasn't using the title as a deception or in soliciting business. Though he was potentially commenting outside his realm of expertise.
Since you've talked about single-source GPGPU for Rust, I should point out that I'm working towards a pre-RFC to add SYCL-like multi-target for Rust.
It's hard to say whether to admire the disregard for potentially bad optics or not. Very tense times.