skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has Europe solved these things? I lived in France for a number of years and unemployment, especially outside of Paris is very high, the economy is in the doldrums (especially in smaller cities like Avignon,) the Maghreb continue to be treated like second class citizens, and terrorism is a very real and continual threat. Health insurance is good, but the system is running huge deficits. And gun violence? Spend a few minutes with the Marseille police and you’ll see the gangland violence is dramatic. As far as income inequality— that’s debatable. The upper classes are kept from getting too “upper,” but the lower classes still live in decaying concrete block housing. Americans also have about $14,000 more per year in disposable income compared to the French — that’s after accounting for insurance, education, etc. The very poor do better in France, but should we be optimizing society around the ultra-poor? Doing that means that everyone else is worse off and the ultra poor are still pretty poor. As far as transportation, spend some time in smaller French towns. You better hope you have a car or you aren’t going anywhere. There is also the high cost and oppressive regulation around starting a business. Entrepreneurship in France is very difficult despite the word itself being invented there. France rewards mediocrity.
Aren't software engineers in the Bay Area paid much more than other industries?
In what world is $34K/year not "shockingly expensive"?

[Edited to add: Some people have more than one child. Some of them have more than one child in college at the same time.]
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You seem to be talking about reciprocal lists (blacklist of 3 -> whitelist of 247, whitelist of 10 -> blacklist of 240, etc), which is not what OC was talking about. OC was specifically talking about going from a "small whitelist" to a "small blacklist". Not a "large whitelist to a small blacklist" and certainly not anything the other way around.

Whitelist with 3 countries: I have vetted three countries, and know my employees can operate in those countries legally without issues.

Blacklist with 3 countries: I either need to vet 247 countries to ensure my employees can operate there legally, or I am just assuming that those 247 countries are fine without actually doing the due diligence.

Again, going from a blacklist of 3 countries to a whitelist of 247 countries is obviously not an issue. You're operating on the same data. The issue is going from a whitelist of say 3 countries and then not going to a reciprocal blacklist of 247 countries, but a much smaller blacklist of 3. This is what Gitlab has effectively done in OC's estimation. That either means you vetted those 244 extra countries that are now on your "whitelist", or you're making a lot of assumptions.
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I had to turn off the background and change the fonts of the code samples. It was impossible otherwise.
> Letting someone else do it undermines the whole purposes of the independent financial system.

Even small regional banks have their own internal credit rating algorithms. Credit ratings from CRAs are generally consumed either in aggregates (a buyer on the secondary markets wants a traunch with an average credit rating of X) or by less sophisticated parties such as landlords.
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Can´t wait to try the testnet, hopefully soon :D
I don't follow. Docker and LXC do similar things but they don't share a code base and aren't even compatible with each other.
I’ve quit because my boss didn’t have the political clout to protect our team from the expected next wave of corporate mandated layoffs.
Are software engineers in the Bay Area required to be onsite much more than other industries?
If you work at a desk, why do you need a laptop?

I'm glad my employer outfits me with both a Linux workstation and a Linux laptop. One of the little fears of looking for a new job is I'll want to filter out some high percentage (like 90%?) of positions for the petty reason that they just dump a macbook pro on every dev as their sole machine. Thanks but no thanks, I can't stand any Apple hardware or software.

As another comment mentioned, there is no perfect "for devs" computer. Developer tastes are too broad and disjoint.
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> Living in the Bay Area has made me appreciate my people all the more.

Not enough to still live there, apparently. Sounds like Canada is good in some respects but worse in others, like making good money in your chosen career. Every country has trade-offs, and the US’s is that a lot of safety nets aren’t there but the sky’s the limit for high achievers. Some people like it that way.
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I know we need to sponsor more open source development but I worry removing the friction is going to turn open source dev into Youtube. Make the money easy to collect and the vultures will appear from simple "take any project, rename, repost, profit!" (the licenses allow this) to just people trying to find any and every possible way to get the money pointed at them.

Even before this particular feature I've seen projects that are effectively 20 lines of code of glued together libraries asking for donations like they actually did something worthy of donation. (maybe there is some 20 line project out there actually worthy of donation but the examples I've seen are arguably not special 20 lines).

I'll cross my fingers we get mostly positives and few negatives.
Depends on whether you read that as:

X: "Current team members"

A: "moving to these countries"

B: "remaining in a role that prohibits it"

X are prevented from BOTH A AND B.

(X may do neither A NOR B)

Or:

X are prevented from (A AND B).

Whether or not remaining in one of these countries and MOVING to a role that prohibits it is included in the prohibition is unclear.

Someone's future transfer may hinge on that.
Except for the shanty towns. Seattle is the only US city I've been to that has literal shanties built on every flat spot available next to the highway. Take a taxi from the airport to downtown some time to see for yourself.
> It's not reasonable to assume that I could and should deep-dive into every possible nook and cranny just in order to build an application.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that you should.
Good point, although stefano also said "don't charge tuition to students (or charge them a small amount)". In-state tuition is probably still considerably higher than what stefano had in mind (see comments in this thread about costs of attending McGill University in Canada).
Don't fax machines operate over phone lines though? Should be stupid easy to tap into. Not great for sensitive court docs.

Also, by removing digital docs, you make it much harder for those with visual impairments to access such documents.
I never said anyone was doing anything wrong. I'm saying this is new. The average Joe in these cities is expecting to earn 125k+ with just a few years of experience. I know, because I am in that exact situation. And while that might be very nice (and fair) to the specific person earning that salary, it puts individuals without that skill at a significant disadvantage.

Without modifying the system, we're going to see this gap between the skilled-in-IT and the not-skilled-in-IT get wider and wider until anyone not doing IT might as well sign their lives away to unending dept and poverty.
Well, I guess if you tax companies harder, maybe they'd pay their workers less, which would result in lower housing prices?

If you pay people whatever, then they're gonna start competing against each others for the same finite resources (housing), driving up prices to artificially high levels. You see this is cities with tech, oil & gas, finance, or other high-paying industries.
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I think it got interpreted as copypasta, of which there's been some uptick.

I got the point. Then again, I've also walked away, at least from much of the tech Omelas.
I have a life story similar to you up through middle-school - second pick for G&T, bullied heavily, repeated physical abuse from peers, ended up hanging out with losers who were into drugs both in middle & high school. After that it diverges though - I switched to a charter school for high school, went to a top liberal arts college, then worked at a couple startups and had a pretty prestigious position at Google. I've still got some scars from that time, but on paper at least, I did okay.

For me, being separated from the bullies made all the difference in the world. And it wasn't separation as in "hang around only with other smart kids" - my charter school was academically worse than the public school that I left behind, and like I said, I hung around with the stoners, rockers, and drop-outs. But the charter school focused explicitly on building community and accepting people for who they were. In short, it made it a point to address the emotional needs of teenagers that so many public institutions conveniently forget about. That made all the difference in the world.

For you - if you can muster the money or get insurance to pay for it, I'd highly recommend seeing a therapist that works with trauma. This stuff sticks with you a long time, but it doesn't have to define your life.
If you're going to slice up universities by financial components, the university itself is a fairly large component (perhaps billions of dollars per year for some schools.) The income for the university proper (from research, tuition and fees, etc.) is often larger than endowment income. There's often also a fairly large real estate/land management component as well as a (basically professional) sports organization.

Universities differ from regular hedge funds in that they don't have the same sort of investors. In fact, because they're non-profit, they can't return profits to shareholders and instead have to spend them or keep growing the endowment.
Even if not legally bound, it is still striking that we are the one major country leaving it.
-Ofast enables unsafe floating-point optimizations that might give a performance boost for applications which don't need strict compliance. For example, FP operations cannot be optimized by using the association rule due to various concerns, but -Ofast enables -fassociative-math and allows such optimization. If your program just computes a bunch of numbers and doesn't rely on some uncommon features such as NaN or signed zero, it would only slightly change the last irrelevant few significant digits of the result, and greatly speed up your program.

But the general rule-of-thumb is that -Ofast should not be used, unless you know what the program is doing and how the optimization affects it.

A more meaningful comparison is -O2 vs. -O3 vs. -O3 -march=native -mtune=broadwell. Or run the OpenJDK test suite with -Ofast and see whether there are failed tests.
And target dates usually have a higher expense ratio than funds like VTI. So you keep more of your investment income by doing it manually.
You are saying you cannot get into university without a high school diploma?

That seems fairly common everywhere. It seems pointless to me to give a university education to someone that’s illiterate.
> The other reason that students do well in mixed groups is that teachers know they need to “differentiate” work, providing opportunities for students to take work to different levels.

This isn't a reason students do well in non-differentiated groups, but a confounding factor to the basic question of whether or not they do (one directly underlined in the case of the unspecified other bay area district studied where detracking and teacher professional development were simultaneous interventions.)

It's well-known that students do better when material is tailored to their individual ability, so if you are comparing students grouped in broad ability groups without this individualization and those detracked from broad groups but provided individualization, you lose the ability to distinguish between effects of broad group tracking and the qualitatively well-known effect of individualization.
It's weird that the fact Russians targeted also heavily BLM doesn't get attention. They ran the biggest FB page, tons of other on other platform. Mueller pdf is s fascinating read, I suggest everyone to read it. It's not dry at all and has everything for every side in it.
Because if you hear OpenSolaris, you run the other way?
It's all extremely mysterious! ;)

I'm unaffiliated with the Internet Citizen Bill of Rights, this is the first I've heard of it. I don't have any major criticisms of the document, but I still probably would have written my own manifesto even if I had known about it. Some of these seem a little over-broad just based on a quick glance, and at the very least I would have wanted something with more detail than just headers and a one-sentence description.

> For questions, comments, and criticism, write to <prefix-here>@anewdigitalmanifesto.com.

If you have questions/comments you're uncomfortable posting on HN, I'm pretty sure that email address works, but I haven't really tested it.
I personally believe that it is easier to put human/whatever consciousness in a computer than it is to achieve FTL.

Not that the former is easy, but the latter is basically impossible. After the former is achieved, we can basically coast on sleep for eternities.
> The thing with tech companies is their desire for most of their employees to be in-house.

This is true of almost every company. I would say that tech companies have a higher % of remote employees than most; our frustration is only that it can be higher.
Firefox is mostly funded by Google at this point too. I don't have solutions, but I don't like that the web standards are fully owned by an ad company.
This reminds me how Steve Jobs answered the question about how city residents will benefit from their new campus (2011) [1]. So I honestly don't get why in the US of all countries private company have to solve problem that government supposedly taxes them for.

[1] https://youtu.be/gtuz5OmOh_M?t=663
I'm not sure what you're understanding what the article claims - Bitfinex wasn't just increasing the price on their exchange by showing a fake price.

They created money out of thin air and handed this out to players to buy BTC with. Those players then bought BTC in quantities that drove the price up. They created price-inelastic demand out of nothing (you don't care about the price as much if you're buying them for free).
>Supply and Demand is nice in theory, but really, pricing is more a game of "ask the maximum amount you can get away with".

Why do you think that what you are describing is not precisely "supply and demand"?
The tax law of relevance here is California’s property tax, which disincentivizes redevelopment. State revenues on corporate income don’t have anything to do with the housing shortage.
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I've been reading this thread and honestly I'm getting the impression that it matters far more what the kids are separated _from_ that whether they're separated at all.

Which tallies with my own experience, in the UK there's secondary school and college (AKA sixth form) before university, which basically means the last two years of high school are separate from the first 5, you go to a different school (sometimes, some places have both on the same campus). And I made the choice to go to a college further out of my way that added 10 hours of cycling onto my commute every week pretty much so I'd never have to speak to anyone from my secondary again, the new place was just another college, no special grade requirements, but not being around the same people and being able to basically "reset" made my life so much better that I can't really argue that never separating kids is a good option.
People I know have given up on NTFS, and use Linux file systems served to Windows (WSW?) via SMB for anything not read-only. Amazingly, that's faster than native, at least for their uses.

Ultimately, to bring Windows into the 21st century, Windows will need to be transformed to a gossamer-thin Wine-like wrapper stretched over a sturdy non-Microsoft frame.
Don't mobile networks broadcast the time already?
There's a lot of FUD here.

It's kind of a straw man to talk about opening LN channels for 7.5 billion people, as if that's something to be concerned about today. Not every man, woman and child has a cell phone or computer right now, so that's not really a concern in 2019.

Dispute resolution is built into the protocol: it's a two-way channel; both parties have to agree that the transaction in question took place and either party can close the channel if they wish.

And because LN is under heavy development, there are all kinds of new features being developed, like watchtowers that can monitor the channel on your behalf, etc.

You don't need chargeback if you can claim your money and close the channel if thing you want to happen isn't happening, right?

Yes, other cryptocurrencies (such as Ethereum) can create LN as a layer-2 feature.

No, you can't do this with dollars; since there's no cryptocurrency representation of USD with the required blockchain and scripting/smart contracts language required for LN—at least not yet.
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Just $23k/year. Thank god I’m not living there. It’s actually been normalized...

No wonder university is a privilege of the wealthy.
By the time crypto goes mainstream people will be using smart contract wallets like Argent and Gnosis Safe that implement things like social key recovery, daily transfer limits, and other common sense measures.
I have one from around 2005 that sounds basically the same, except with an additional feature that shows its age: It can play a music CD as an alarm.

Also bought at a physical store, though I don't remember how much it cost. I think I last used it around 2011, though I do still have it. Wonder if it still works...
Great point. Here's some articles that provide support to the observation that teachers are more likely than other professions to have to have a second job:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/4/17164718/te...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2018/...

> To begin, how do we know who works a second job? The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts a year-round survey, called the American Time Use Survey, in which it asks individuals how they have spent their time both on the day of the survey and in the very recent past. In addition to asking about a person’s main occupation, the BLS asks if they worked another job in the last seven days. Our sample is made up of individuals with a college education who report being employed full-time from 2003 through 2016, giving us just over 36,000 observations.

> Overall, teachers (defined as elementary and secondary teachers, excluding special ed) are about 30 percent more likely than non-teachers to work a second job based on survey responses. That comes down to about 11 percent of non-teachers and 14 percent of teachers.

Now possibly this difference is due to having summers off and time to take on a job and that job doesn't affect their main seasonal work of teaching. However, we don't know as these studies didn't look into that. Wait, or do they?!?

> What time of year would you expect to find that teachers are most likely to hold second jobs? Like me, you may have guessed summer, but it turns out that’s not what the data says. First, teachers are more likely than non-teachers to have a second job all year, except in the October and November run-up to the holiday season. For teachers, the big months for second jobs are January and February. I would have thought that teachers are more likely to pick up outside work when school is not in session. But you can see from the chart that that’s not what’s going on.
This is I think the point OP is making. Up to this point in time, there has been a steady, and somewhat exponential increase in the supply of Bitcoin. As you say, that is about to start tapering off.

At which point, the behaviour of the entire system can be expected to radically change.
Then I would say gold is exactly the same. In fact, gold would be a riskier betting game as information is less transparent (estimating supply, how fast It's mined etc) compared to bitcoin.
With the birth of the modern IT centric world, the individual has the ability to create unprecedented amounts of value for a company. A good team of 5 developers can easily out value an entire department of 50 or 60 people.

Developers might be compensated fairly, or at least somewhat fairly, but that value isn't pulled from nowhere.

Too often people who critique the economy are focused on the individual view. Economies are large systems, and any good developer knows that a system with weak spots quickly turns into a sinking ship.
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You have to realize a lot of kids who went to Harvard and Stanford were just smart kids from normal suburban families and middle class homes. And many of them have middle class jobs, just like people with similar SAT scores who went to state schools instead.

Be wary of populist urges to tear down people you perceive to be "better" than you because maybe they're really not, or they're not the cause of the problem. Do things that will improve society, not just satiate your urge for blood.
What do you think a younger, healthier Rand would have said if a disabled person had put that argument to her? Would she have said, yes, you've paid your meager taxes your whole life, so you're entitled to a share of my tax money? Or would she have called them a corrupt, immoral parasite, and wished them cut off and left to struggle and starve?

If Rand had lived in her ideal world, unburdened by taxes and the "parasites" that fed off them, she would have had a little more spending money over the course of her life, and then most likely died in misery, unable to pay for food or medical treatment. Instead, she was saved by the system she despised.
Yes some sites will be completely blacklisted, and you have to manually whitelist them if you trust them enough to try them. I usually just skip them if they do that though.
I'm all for that. My only concern is that it starts covering up one of the fundamental problems: a lot people are graduating high school, becoming eligible to vote, to be drafted, and in all other ways be adults, and they can't seem to do the cost/benefit analysis on college, or research a career that they're about to spend 4 years educating themselves for. They're surprised by how much debt costs, when they should have learnt the match behind compound interest years earlier.

We gotta fix that too...
Now you've thrown me a curveball. I will have to test. I think last time I looked, Developer ID is considered a distribution certificate and requires payment.
> There wouldn't be so much money in gaming those things if the AI wasn't doing such a poor job.

This isn't true at all. When the process works well, those who it excludes often attempt to spend money to subvert it. There's no reason that interfering with the process should only happen when it's working poorly.

A simple example is the recent college admissions scandal. You often hear this scandal demonstrates that college admissions are just a way to let in rich people, but actually it demonstrates the opposite -- that the normal admissions process had (presumably correctly?) kept these people out and so they had to pay to subvert it.

Of course, you're not claiming that these things are just ways of separating the rich from the rest; just that they're messed up in some way or another. Which, if not very specific, seems broadly accurate. But the following claim isn't -- people on the losing end of a judgment are going to do their best to subvert that judgment whether it's correct or not, so one cannot infer much of anything about the judgment's correctness based on whether there's then an attempt at subverting it.