skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an accountability, both international as we saw here, and domestic which we likely won’t see unless it becomes overwhelming. A monarch who loses support of their people is not long for the role either. Just as one who loses support of their international benefactors. Yes they may get away with more of these “domestic” matters than might a democratically elected leader but that doesn’t mean much in the long run. Just look at Venezuela. Maduro won’t be around forever.

There’s no such thing as absolute power in the realm of governance.
> That's pretty much what my copy does. I'm grateful the profession has TAOCP as a resource, but the reality for the majority of workaday engineers is that most of the sort of art described in that series is abstracted out into libraries.

The books are a collection of algorithms and commentary on them. That is not that different from a collection of algorithms in a library.
We are pretty clear though that Tor over VPN is for convenience and not necessarily more security or privacy, depending on your threat model.
At the End of a Dirt Road
Expiration vs. freshness. When I buy coffee or anything at a supermarket, the expiration date is about as far into the future as you can get. When I order on amazon, it's always much shorter. Coffee is a great example. It's usually months fresher if I buy in store. Not an issue per-say but you are totally buying the end of life stuff.
Where's the blackjack and hookers?
People keep saying this, but from what I could find on DDG's website, Bing is just one of several sources they use, one of which is their own crawler.
I would heavily dispute your claim that their refusal to fire has hurt their bottom line. They had two options: fire or don't fire. In both cases, they were going to lose customers for their choice. I would assert that this choice lost them fewer customers than the other choice.
YC W20 late application – any response?
We have applied for the winter batch of YC on October 6. As YC famously wrote they read all applications, when should we expect a response?

Has anyone been in this situation?
I am not at liberty to say the company name, but i do directly know of one person at a director level who was fired for using AWS.

They turned on encryption for an option and did not realize the huge price difference between the encrypted and unencrypted option meant $9000 per day in additional charges. After 1 month (30 days) this came to light, and he was fired.
The option also exists to say "I don't care for China's culture of values", you just have to not worry about selling your media there.

You're speaking from an incredible position of privilege - from the point of view of a net exporter of culture. Countries that were net importers of culture never had this concern.

Nobody in Germany would care about this sort of thing, for instance, because, I am sorry to say, nobody outside of Germany consumes German culture. Nobody in Germany needs to tailor their speech to not offend China, because nobody in China cares to listen to what they, their films, or their sports teams have to say.

This whole thing is uniquely an American problem - and you're discovering what it feels like to have your culture be shaped by the orthodoxies of a foreign set of values. It sucks, but that's how the rest of the world has had to operate for a long, long time.
hundred percent transferred over to DuckDuckGo very rarely did I ever put an exclamation G for my search to redirect to google
> I don't really know what I'd do in a leadership role at Blizzard or the NBA.

Simple.

Keep ... your ... mouth ... shut. Do nothing and let it all pass.

Yeah, China gonna China. But if China gets smart, they'll just be quiet and let it pass, too.

The fact that everybody has been so heavyhanded has been a wonderful gift to the Hongkongers.
When an IPO happens, for example, and a company owner holding 50% of the company is suddenly valued at $20B, that value did not come from taking $20B from other people.

Unless you were the first to market in a completely new field, it's very possible that some of a firm's worth comes from gaining market share from existing players. That's the whole 'disruption' effect. This might be more economically efficient from one perspective, but that's not necessarily better - both because perfectly efficient systems lack slack, and because people are bad at valuing things.

So take Amazon back when it specialized in selling books. Good part - Amazon has pretty much any book you want, yay. Bad part - it kills brick-and-mortar bookstores. even today, while I'll go to Amazon for a specific book I want, I'll usually wait until I've looked around some other bookstores first. Not only do I like the chance discovery of books I might not otherwise have picked up in bookstores, I like bookstores themselves, especially used bookstores. And I don't like the fact that there are not as many bookstores as there used to be.

And saying the employees could have just worked somewhere else is shuffling the truth - to have somewhere to work, someone has to start a company, which often takes significant money and risk to begin with

So what? Make co-op financing better, figure out a tired grant system for allocating startup capital from a public pool. You're just underlining the article's hypothesis - rich people often get that way because they start out with or have access to more capital than others of equal or greater ability, rather than through any inherent virtue.

In a previous life where I worked at a boutique computer supplier, I got a client who was running a small stock market research/analysis business with only a few employees, and needed high power workstations. I'm not a big people person, and I was looking at his operation and thinking that I'd prefer it to what I was doing, and (from seeing his work product and helping him get going technically) that it was well within my capabilities. So I put in a bit of extra effort to get friendly with him and to figure out how he got his operation off the ground. Turned out his dad was an investment banker and had given him a million $ to set up (at a time when that was a much more significant investment than it is now). I also learned that his biggest obstacle was not his competitors but the chip he had on his shoulder about how his brother was the favorite son and had been given $10 million.

That was the day I realized that wealth isn't a meritocracy.
> High profile layoffs in $whatever

Does 'high profile' matter? My layoff months ago closed an office locally (25 people laid off) in a country-wide effort affecting about 200 people. It wasn't in the news, there was no PR around the action. Further layoffs followed around the world, and still no news (publicly traded company - doesn't The Market love a layoff?) The former parent company (who had created the spinoff 9mos previously) wasn't aware (you'd expect networking between execs to maintain a grapevine, right?)

Interviewers were often incredulous. I feel like this was a factor in being declined an offer in a few cases.
I remember meeting Evan back in 2013 when we both rented rooms in the same apartment. I didn’t see him much but the first time he introduced himself, I got to see an early version of the Mario demo.

I can still remember how I didn’t understand a thing ( was just starting my internship) but still knew that he would achieve great things with Elm.

So happy to see him succeed and being able build such an amazing community just by being himself.

Finally, I love how his personality has become a part of the language, most obvious when reading error messages.
!equifax123
To stick to the more theoretical interpretation of "computer science," and with a focus on theory of computation/programming languages:

- Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications, Kenneth H. Rosen (this is more foundational, but it's definitely targeted at a CS audience and touches on things like automata theory)

- Types and Programming Languages, Benjamin C. Pierce

- Semantics of Programming Languages, Carl Gunter
I can confirm. I received an obviously fake book that seemed to have been printed on a cheap printer.
Who cares if you can saturate it? Breakeven is 18 terabytes/month, or 0.6% utilization on that line.

You could do this even just pegging the line 9 minutes per day and otherwise leaving it unused. ;)
Yet another diversity study is discredited
Not nearly in the same way.

This is like saying that "You also need to have a cashier!" when you're comparing a shopping mall to a corner store.
Can I ask what you consider a "real job"? Trust me, it becomes progressively less fun to "play" a game because you have to, not because you want to, to keep up your income.
how does ddg get its google results? Last I checked the api is gone. If I wanted to do the same thing as ddg, is it still possible?
I think relying on China is about to become a very risky growth strategy. While China's population is much larger, the US is still large and very rich, and an American company is always going to understand how to develop and market products better for Americans than for China.

China's political censorship abroad, enforced via sheer economic muscle, has received extremely strong bipartisan condemnation in the US during a time of unprecedented partisanship; even AOC and Ted Cruz have blasted Blizzard. What China's trying to do goes against everything Americans have been raised to believe, from the most conservative to the most liberal. Political outrage within the US about domestic US affairs is often ineffective because it's too partisan, and it tends to just energize the other side (e.g., the Chick-fil-A controversy in 2012/2013 actually increased their sales). This is different because everyone agrees and there is no "other side" to energize, not within the US.
If you have, for example, chronic fatigue you will struggle to work out. That would be 4 constraining 3. And if you have significant social anxiety, or are bedridden with illness, or various other health limitations you will struggle to have a good conversation and go out every day. That would be 4 constraining 2.
-u equifax123 -p admin
> If this were available tomorrow, safe for human applications and without any side-effects other than what it says on the tin: would any of you opt for this?

I think the real question is, if I as a hypothetical parent wanted to help out my newly-diagnosed child as being on the spectrum, I & my spouse would most definitely strongly consider it.

The ethics are an interesting point, but kids don't get to choose parents or their skin color. If I as a parent/caretaker have authority to make this decision, it should be my decision to make (with due consideration of the impact it might cause).
The entire premise here seems to revolve around university admissions.

Who measures success based on which university someone went to? Isn't that just the preamble to one's life after graduation, which is when people actually hit the road and make something of themselves?

Of course going to an Ivy League school has advantages, but constructing an argument against meritocracy based on access to institutional higher education is strange.
I thought we weren’t having the CCP dictate western values

Kidding they dont use gulags, just firing squads
My mother's mother came from a low level German noble family. She was a full-time military wife for a lot of years, as was I.

My life mostly worked when I was a military wife, but a lot of the values I was raised with only really work if you are in a position that involves a. Responsibility for a larger community and b. Somehow provides for you so you can look out for other people.

Looking out for other people is a real skill, but it doesn't automatically come back to you. Many people feel zero obligation to do anything in return for you when you do something for them and this seems compounded by being a woman. "Social contract" seems like an alien concept for far too many people.

I think I could do good things in an urban planning or economic development type role. That would sort of be the modern equivalent of what European nobility did.

Historically, merchants had a terrible reputation because they just wanted money and felt no obligation to the community. So it was socially problematic for wealth to be controlled by rich merchants rather than nobility. The nobility were beholden to the lower classes and held responsible for using their privilege to serve society by filling roles that required a certain level of privilege and education.

This is why our legal system uses the term "court," which is the same word used for audiences held by the nobility. Originally, nobility heard and settled complaints amongst the townspeople "at court."
IMO there's just a lot of factors that will vary from business to business.
Is VPN advertising increasing due to content restrictions from online streaming services?

If you travel overseas, you can't access Netflix, AmazonPrime Video, etc. so a VPN service allows you to still use your service while you're away from home.

And then sports streaming. You can sign up for a yearly subscription to watch sports, but not the teams closest to your physical location due to local blackouts.

Utah is in a terrible place too. No NFL, MLB, or NHL team. But the closest teams are all blacked out from streaming services.
A major issue is that in most markets outside of Europe, peering is less common, and transit prices are significantly higher.

Europe is probably the most competitive and best market in this case, almost all other markets are dominated by monopolies. Yes, even significantly worse than the Telekom monopoly.

Look at transit in Singapore, Japan or Australia. Or even in Brasil. You’ll go bankrupt even from trying to deliver a single movie to customers.
I'm seeing a lot of people support or dismiss these findings for bad reasons. Hilariously, some people are dismissing papers because "the authors have a history of publishing papers about this stuff". In other words, papers on X are wrong because they are about X. This is reasoning on the level of "God exists because the Bible says He does, and the Bible is true because God wrote it". It's just going in a loop and spitting back your original preconceptions, without actually processing the evidence. You can't actually learn anything that way!

I scanned through some of the mouse studies, but they all had the same problem for me: to see effects, they blasted the mice with huge powers, on the order of 1 W/kg absorbed. For reference, the human body itself, through all its metabolic activity, barely generates that much. If you were absorbing anything near 1 W/kg of power at any frequency, you would start overheating, as if you'd just stepped out into the midday sun. Increase that by a few times, and you would probably shortly die, by literally being cooked. So I think most of those studies can be safely discarded. Anything is bad for you at those crazy intensities, which are far higher than what you get from a cell phone.

Of course, this leaves a lot of other studies that may or may not be more solid -- but without more time I can't draw any solid opinions.
Bullshit ... that they invited me out to demo to discuss putting my technology (SpeakerBlast) into the Moto X in 2013 or about the MIT student? In her blog post she has emails showing them getting caught in the act.

As for me here's the now expired NDA they had me sign; Google in 2013 just bought Motorola and they were working on the Moto X.

https://ryanspahn.com/motorola-google-Expired-NDA2013.pdf

I don't lie! What do I get from telling people that Google kicked me in the face? Only thing I can do is tell my story in the hopes it helps out other little guy/girl inventors when Google comes knocking in terms of what they should do.
Yup. It is like a gravity well. Escape velocity is your egress data charges ;)
Obviously lacks the privacy aspect, but I've noticed Bing is also politically neutral.

This seems to be a Google-specific problem.

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Example that I just double-checked: (I don't claim any political views here; JUST an example)

Reddit's largest subreddit for a political candidate is r/The_Donald. Objectively, a rather popular site.

Google (with or without SafeSearch) returns zero results for "Reddit The_Donald" linking to the subreddit. [1] It's only results are indirect discussions about the subreddit.

Whereas DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Yahoo show the subreddit itself as the very first result. [2] [3] [4] (https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ which is Reddit's public non-logged in site.)

So Google won't display a high-traffic site. I can only assume they find the content objectionable and so will not link directly to it. I understand how some may want that, but that's not a simply not a service I want my search engine to perform, especially when SafeSearch is disabled.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+The_Donald

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Reddit+The_Donald

[3] https://www.bing.com/search?q=Reddit+The_Donald

[4] https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Reddit+The_Donald
No. The authors are purposely obscure and arrogant.

There are much better books to learn algorithms from. Even Elements of Programming Interviews is better.

It is worth coming back to if you want to read proofs to understand things in depth. But it is terrible as a fundamental instructive text.
I mean.. I'm still on the hook for Kubernetes nodes being available..
I guess it makes sense it would be legal in states where the sale of hard liquor is allowed in places outside of dedicated liquor stores (and WA is one of them), I've just never really noticed it (never been to RiteAid in WA, though, only to Bartells/CVS/Walgreens). Thanks for the correction.
Godwin's law is very clearly dead, have you seen the state of discourse in the US? "Nazi" is thrown around so liberally it has lost all meaning.
Sorry for the late reply. I'm curious why you think an aerospike nozzle would help expander cycle engines scale up to bigger sizes?
I think it's probably also downvoted for another reason:
it's a new profile created 12 days ago, it appears green, and so at first sight this is just a troll.

Now looking at his other comments, it does seem like this account is legitimately new and wasn't simply created for trolling.

Thing is, this comment brings nothing substantial to the conversation, nor does it try to create one. So, it might be "an honest statement" but that's all it is, which I'd think goes against the HN guidelines.
Competition is always a good thing for consumers, of course. I'm loving it.
Do you count signals as inter-process communication? I'd argue they are, and the init system definitely needs to cleanly shut down the system (using signals, at least). What degree of inter-process communication is acceptable, then?
I downvoted and flagged GP.

It has nothing to do with the idea behind the comment, and everything to do with how it was delivered. As delivered, it's flame bait, and unlikely to lead to a high quality discussion.
No question that this idea would be pure hell on a cramped plane in cattle-class. There's even mention in the article that, yes, the plane can manage the flight, but even with a full fuel load they can't spare the weight of more passengers and cargo. It seems completely disconnected from the real world, which, okay, it's mostly science at this stage and looking at severe jet lag from such a long flight. The implication is that it's nowhere near ready for the masses and is a curiosity at best.

The most I've managed on a plane is a 12-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, and that's enough. Nobody will be able to afford beds on such a flight except the ultra-rich, and that's assuming you can sleep on planes at all (I can't). In an era where fossil fuel emissions are dangerously damaging the planet, this is also a strange time to unveil such a concept as we need to fly less. On the other hand, versus a a stopover flight, if you're flying this distance, doing it in one go is much more fuel-efficient as the plane spends far longer in the upper atmosphere reducing drag, and only burns take-off fuel once. But this isn't something that needs to be offered to the masses if there genuinely is a market for it.

Even if a 20-hour-long flight was completely harmless to both physical health and the environment, I cannot think of anything I would rather do less than sit in a tin can at 40,000 feet for that duration.
I was a heavy Workflowy user for my own personal notes for a few years, and then I switched to Dynalist after a colleague recommended it to me. It can do a lot of things that Workflowy can't (or at least it could when I switched a couple years ago) such as format LaTex code. I rely heavily on this software for organizing my thoughts in both work and my personal life, and I use it daily.

I've tried using these tools in a work environment but my colleagues have never really loved it, so it's more of a personal tool. We just use Google Docs in my current work environment.
I think the OP meant s6 and not s9.

runit, s6 and also nosh are all daemontool-style init systems, which have a somewhat different idea how to do things than systemd all, but all are inspired by the original daemontools package.

s6 and nosh have decent overviews:

https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/guide/introduction.html

The original daemontools:
https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#why

I'll let others decide whether these are better or worse than systemd. I go with whatever my distro would give me, since picking a different init system is too much work...
I've found the internet to be a pretty generous community.. of course with any community, there are bad actors that will attempt to commodify that generosity by subtly asking for more and more, all the while profiting on the generosity of humans as a whole. Stack overflow needs to start paying it's workers.
What about the head? Is it time for tinfoil hats?

Working in a Faraday cage seems more appealing.
You could request a sweat chloride exam. If it comes back with some weird result, you can email me.

But the odds are rather poor that you have what I have.
Aah! I just saw this on my terminal after a routine install of elm-live on a different machine:

Your elm.json says this application needs a different version of Elm.

It requires 0.19.0, but you are using 0.19.1 right now.

Smile to my face! So I came here. Awesome :-).
This corporation should be dissolved, its assets expropriated, and its management consigned to finding jobs through the classifieds.
See: all those undocumented kids who grew up in the USA and now are stuck hoping that DACA doesn't get cancelled.
From a Socket to Webframework in Nim
>"Nazi" is thrown around [in the US] so liberally it has lost all meaning.

I fail to see how that implies that Godwin's law is dead.
Vizio isn't sold in the region of the world I live in and a quick Google tells me it still has nonsense I don't want built-in, at least the version they're advertising on their website.
What I find D interesting is that it is a really good fit for scientific programming. Maybe Julia is an answer, but in terms of producing interoperable code, it is the holly Grail. And people can port their Java code mostly painlessly. Science is the killer app of D where GC is a blessing in disguise.
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