skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HJC is a crackpot :(

Basically he argues using survivor bias. All the countries that tried to pick the winners (support X industry) and levy high tariffs but did not make it are simply not discussed.

https://eh.net/book_reviews/kicking-away-the-ladder-developm...
After working with WebRTC and realizing its potential I immediately disabled it in my webbrowser.

One fear was to become a peer in a (copyright infringing) p2p-network, unknowingly just by visiting a random website.

WebRTC can be very useful but I think browsers should ask for special permissions like they do for camera access etc.
>your company will not receive special corporate tax consideration if your company:

>Enters agreements to refuse or actually refuses to do business with or in Israel

The link does actually include the penalties, which are far more than just losing special tax considerations. It includes hefty fines and even imprisonment under the TRA. The "just losing tax consideration" part is only under the EAR. I understand that part.

It's the fact that they say I cannot boycott Israel independently.

I'm still confused at how this can be fully Constitutional. Say I care a lot about the Palestinians and object to their treatment by the government and military of Israel. Say I make widgets wholesale for people to resell retail.

So I say, if you buy my product and resell it you make money and your government takes some of that money, as is normal. Therefore, I will not sell to any company that sells this in Israel as I do not want to my product to be used to make money for a government whose actions I condemn. I don't care if you are a Jew, a Christian, an Arab and/or even a Palestinian, if you want to sell my product in Israel and taxes which go to the Israeli government will be collected on that, I'm not selling it to you. Not just certain companies within Israel, all of them. Anyone who sells my product and thus makes money for the Israel government, nope, I'm not doing it.

That's the part I have a problem with. If I don't actively try to stop Israel from doing anything but want to take an active role in not helping them in any way, I'm breaking the law? I don't see if how I want to act independently the Arab League but what I want to do aligns with part of what they want to do, that is a problem? I should be able to not support what I see as a bad actor.
why do you think Trump likes to talk about China?

He's more likely to talk about camps in China than he is about the homeless in Los Angeles. One is a problem completely out of his control, another is one he could easily mitigate. You wonder why that is?
It’s not xenopohobia, it’s a hard problem. China actively exploits American tolerance for their own gain, and we have no good way to stem corporate espionage other than a blanket ban.

Even then, good old corruption of non-Chinese is still possible.
Ha, had to google receptive anal sex. Obvious I guess.

It's a bottom not a top. (Antonym is insertive)
Just go read stories from the UK Eurosceptic press over the decades.

You won't find many facts there.
Also I feel like most people now own smartphones?
That's still perfect example of trade. Labor is a very important form of goods.
I'm going to be that guy, but am I wrong on the fact that there's only one woman in the photo depicting what it looks to me like a YC "meeting"? That is compared to about ~40 guys that make the rest of the audience. That's a depressingly low percentage. Are there any public numbers on the men-to-women ratio when it comes to YC alumni?
Looks more like 2.7KB and then it loads some resources from Twitter to make up the rest of the size.
Yep. It also would be nice to provide a form where clients would be able to select race, sex, age, sexual orientation, religion and other employee parameters as they wish to build a real dream team.
To me, Fastmail is the option if you want inexpensive, reliable email where there will be ZERO reading of your email by bots to build a marketing profile of you to be sold to whomever wants to buy it. Anyone presenting a legitimate warrant is going to get access to your content and I'm not trying to hide from those people.
I think Instart Logic does some sort of ad proxying to bypass uBlock Origin. Normal solution is to install uBlock Origin Extra, easy solution is to disable JavaScript for evil sites.
The 40% is an exaggeration, I got the number of the top of my head.

Why did you do that, the facts aren't hard to find and you may well learn something along the way.
Regarding Ha-Joon Chang: https://eh.net/book_reviews/kicking-away-the-ladder-developm... tl;dr his book is a big exercise in the survivorship bias fallacy
Calculators generally don't lie [1], but people do frequently make mistakes pressing their buttons. Calculators' accuracy cannot be trusted, because people's accuracy cannot be trusted. I think this experiment is really simulating things like entering mistakes, and you should pay attention and notice when the numbers seem off. I just finished marking an exam question that depended heavily on calculator work, and quite a few people need to work on their calculator mistrust...

[1] Well, they do! But only things like small rounding errors that usually don't matter.
This is excellent. You should make it easier to see what the underlying css looks like imo.
Is it a constitutional principle that no secrets may be kept from the President? Or is it just that the “security clearance” system is currently based on executive orders that the President issues, rather than Congress exercising its power to “make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces"?
In my opinion, GitHub should have blocked all Chinese IP addresses on the day the CCP decided to try to firewall it.
> What does this say about their ability to participate in an election?

The USA elected someone to Presidency who is widely suspected to suffer from mental degeneration.

IMO it's a cultural difference: there are people who constantly engage their minds even at age 70+ and can make young people look pale against them in using computers, and there are people who stopped using their minds in their 40s and it shows.
I find using Win95 on a network, as well as their entire attitude towards and neglect of theirs tools (for which IT is one) to be embarrassing, but I honestly find nothing wrong with going back to a typewriter (or an offline computer).

Why deal with the implications of an online system when you can just... not do that? An online system is a liability.
Just a simple checkbox for "lives in a data-hoovering authoritarian regime" would be enough!
I wonder what's the common approach that people use to test AWS-coupled features locally without LocalStack (or test features not supported by LS). Do you have a dedicated AWS environment for this use case, or we're not supposed to run them locally (e.g implementation is mocked on local, and AWS-coupled features are tested on a remote test env)?
I'm sure people would do that in many cases (counting in their head). But the point is in a shop without a computer, a calculator is de rigueur if it is accessible and affordable; if nothing else than for accounting, stock taking, book keeping etc.

And as mentioned, calculator I have seen being used as a communication mechanism (You ask what's price? Seller taps on the calculator and shoves it under your nose without uttering a single word : 72.50)
Rojava is no threat for the Turkish borders.
That's the EU loyalist line but look at the comments in this thread.

There isn't much substance.
They have a blog post for each session that covers this:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2019-batch-stats/
What? For me this is a big reason on why I want to use Gitlab.

I am european and I think you're being pretty stupid. You celebrate that the company you work for hire people in Russia rather from where you live. You seem to fail to realize that if all companies in your country would do that you would soon find yourself out of a job since there is always some place cheaper.

No one is saying russians aren't knowledgeable or good at what they do. Maybe you should read what they actually write instead of simply projecting your straw man ideas onto them.
Here is an incomplete list:

https://www.cityfreqs.com.au/pilfer.php

PilferShush is an experimental F-droid app that is supposed to prevent this kind of tracking by blocking your phone's microphone and jamming the Audio frequencies used for tracking. F-droid page:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cityfreqs.com.pilfershushjam...

Edit: Wikipedia says there are 234 android apps that use ultrasound audio tracking, but the article it references is from 2017 and behind a paywall...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat...
I was about not to bother to respond, but I have a few minutes.

There is an assumption that if there's nothing really visible made by one person it means they don't know what they are talking about. So, background: I'm a linux sysadmin at a very large internet company, and has been running hobby and small business sites for 20 years parallel to this. About a decade ago I wrote cache plugins for WordPress and run a lot of tests of 128MB VPS machines to see when they break. The traffic from neverssl.com really should be fine on a Raspberry Pi 4, because the whole app, including the temporary redirect db needed would easily fit in memory. The OS can be read-only, so the SD card wouldn't wear out either, and the Pi 4 has a Gbit link. But as it's been pointed out, the internet uplink could indeed be a problem, so instead of that, there's Hetzner: 33€/m gets you unlimited traffic, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD. That's 400€/year, and that's all the cost. Note: Rpi4 has 1-4GB RAM.

Next time please consider that people may actually know what they are talking about even if they don't have their name attached to an "internet scale" service.
Ask HN: Mentors for Engineering Managers
Where have others found, in person or online a mentor or mentors specifically for your role as an engineering manager?
You could do it on Digital Ocean or Linode or Vultr or many other providers for $5 a month and use just over half the included bandwidth.
It's a societal critic, you can't condensate that, it's already as short as you can make it and the summary is a rebuttal to op's point... HN truly is becoming reddit by the day. Should I post memes explaining the last 200 years of labor history ? No wonder the world is going down the drain and people like Trump and Bolsonaro get elected if smart people don't even bother reading a 300 pages book about on one of the biggest issues of the last century.
Or, at one point, the Qax in Stephen Baxter's novels, although they evolve as patterns of turbulence in fluids, and then somehow transfer themselves to the solar atmosphere. Communication difficulties there were mostly caused by the Qax being arseholes.

There must be a list of fictional alien races living in stars, but i couldn't find one with some quick googling.
Trump never brings up human rights issues in China (or elsewhere), so your point is moot.
The global process automation market: statistics you need to know
There's no such thing as a "current analog of UBI". SSI/SSDI forces you to be idle if you want to receive it, while you would definitely be allowed to work (and perhaps even expected to, because reasonable UBI proposals are quite on the lowish side) under UBI.
Before I had a reference book of the language. Also I would program always in the same language before stack overflow.

Now I switch between so many languages. But still use references. But now it's easier in Dash.app I have references to most of the languages, API, libraries I use. This way if I want to know how to make if then else syntax work in Go or Javascript or Python I can look it up super fast. Same for Libraries and API's.

Now language idioms is something you need to keep on top off. These are better to remember so you can implement it.
I get Linux from people I trust to verify source code and the source code of dependencies and to push back against dependency sprawl (Debian, in my case, and I'm on debian-devel and I happen to see every email sent for every new package; there's an overhead there). Others get Linux from a vendor they have a commercial relationship with (Red Hat, Canonical, even Oracle, etc.)

So, can you expand on why you think one should never run Linux?
By invading another country? I guess that's what the U.S. tends to do.

I believe people have a right to self determination. Borders are just lines on a map. I know America doesn't believe that, and that's a valid viewpoint too, just one I disagree with.
/s

"Gitlab considers" is the new "British scientist" news headline.
Ah man! No joke, I started to outline a project nearly identical to this over the weekend.
Well done though!
Yes, this is the true reason why these elegant solutions don't see so much adoption.

Worse is better. Cheap JS devs to solve everything with heaps of imperative code is cheaper than elegant solutions.

Even long term this is true. Tech debt with code that people can understand and modify is cheaper than tech debt with an elegant DSL that require learning and mental ability beyond if then else.
Any folder called precisely "forwebmaster" gets the content automatically deobfuscated when support view the account. There's probably an interesting blog post in how that's achieved in the JMAP middleware using a reverse index on each blob to allow you to download any attachment that's referenced by those messages as well... but I digress.

The forwebmaster method (legacy names 'r' us) is very useful for debugging issues like display problems with various types of message (often this is an issue with poorly encoded messages where the character set name is invalid or the encoding is broken, and we fix them by adding another hack to our server to detect and repair that particular type of error). We don't explicitly ask for consent to look at forwebmaster, because the process of creating that folder and putting messages in there is an active request for them to be examined.

For more complex issues which require more visibility into the contents of an account, support agents can request full access. For this they need to provide a reason, and that reason describes how they obtained consent or other reasonable grounds for examining this particular account - e.g. evidence of abuse where the determination needs to be made whether to temporarily lock the account as stolen or close it as entirely fraudulent.
I've worked with UX people who were extremely focused on users. Sometimes to the point that developers would wish they would just forget about them and knock out a UI design so they had something to implement.
I should probably have reread the full section. It's more clear in context that 0.96 * 0.8768 = 0.842.
I started using it recently since the manual and all the documentation of Nix, NixOS and nixpkgs are written in Docbook.
>When a hydrogen atom is in its lower energy state, the electron not only orbits around the proton, but rather stays inside it.

This is the first time I have ever learned this is possible in all my years of schooling and working in science. Fascinating, this article changed how I think about the universe.
Ubelievable honestly. While I have a high opinion on Gitlab and am sure they will rectify this error, a CFO should know the audience of the products they offer.

These statements endanger the success of the whole company. I would think a CFO should keep that in mind. At that paygrade I would expect nothing less.
I've never heard of Russian government using their state powers to take advantage of some developer and break into foreign network. That seems like strange and unethical move. I, personally, won't ever use Gitlab after that move.
You have obviously never lived through a civil war.
> GP says not to run anything you haven't looked at yourself for the most part, paraphrasing.

That is a highly inaccurate paraphrase of what I said. You can tell it's inaccurate because I'm specifically suggesting that end users should be able to trust apps on the App Store without auditing the apps ourselves, as long as we trust the app authors, and that app authors should bear responsibility for what they redistribute.
The pocket-sized Las Vegas addicting Kenya's youths
Well let me rant a bit. I have been living in Germany 9 years. My gut feeling is that here if technology is not about diesel engines then it is considered more of a problem than a resource. Something to be worried about in a world that is getting more and more competitive and automated. One example? People still prefer to pay in cash here, many stores don't accept cards. You might be tempted to think if it works... it's ok. But this attitude impacts all things tech. Programmers salaries are low, data analytics jobs very hard to find, BI is still done in SAP/Oracle, etc.. So if you want to make a good salary in Germany you need to go into the more traditional stuff like finance or engineering management, which is what eventually will hurt the country as the talent either is not well used or just flat out leaves the country.
I could not get the WebGL version to run in Safari, and in Chrome it uses the built-in GPU rather than my beefy eGPU.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it a "mess"

.Net Core and Standard are two of the best things Microsoft has done in the past 5 years and part of the reason why .Net is doing so well and is super popular.
I've seen many BIOS that allow you to do that
My point is that people like to talk smack about stuff elsewhere they can't change to detract people from injustices they CAN impact. Its the same with China, what better way to avoid awkward conversations about Taiwan, Hong Kong or the Uighurs than talk about how "unfair" the West is being?

As a Westerner, while its important to understand about the nasty side of China is somewhat pointless to endlessly focus on it because its not a problem we have the capacity to solve.

There are issues that we can obtain Chinese buy-in on like climate-change (we all live on this planet) so we should focus on things like this where we can work together so we can forge better ties instead of focusing on what we don't like about each other. Lets not do evil-empire all over again.
The kind of menial unskilled labor that we're discussing here is far less appealing than any work involving advanced skills - that's what the higher pay would be compensating for. It all works out.
IP address for example.
2019 malware likely won't run on Windows 95. The kind of malware you'd stumble across in your normal online activity will mostly target Windows 10 and back to XP, and will be written to that environment and its APIs. Given the need to minimise size and detectable features.

Naturally I would not rely on this for my own online safety. A motivated adversary with a specific target in mind would no doubt learn that a vintage Windows 95 install was present, or maybe just throw everything at it.
The article says that "about half" of the world's hydrogen is made by steam reformation of methane, and only 4% is made by electrolysis of water.

Where does the other 46% come from ?
How do you expect a Chinese to respond to this kind of "Have you stopped beating your wife" questions?

Whether some of the view points are valid in the first place (at least the second or third one) is deeply contested to Chinese. If you're just parroting Western media view points without showing at least some understanding of Chinese view points, you will likely not get any genuine answers.
Triggers are implicit, have side effects and are not deterministic. They are confusing and surprising.

A procedure call is explicit, a trigger is implicit. You don't call a trigger, it just happens as a side effect of something else. People tend to forget implicit things. Suddenly you notice that something is acting strangely or slowly in your application. You can look at your functions and procedures and try to find the problem. But if your application has triggers all over the place, how do you know what is going on? A trigger can change a dozen rows, which in turn can change other rows, so changing a single row can fire thousands or millions of triggers. Also, triggers are not fired in a particular order, the database is free to change the query plan according to what it thinks is best at the moment, so triggers are not deterministic. Triggers can sometimes work and sometimes not.

Almost everything that can be done with a trigger can be done with a procedure, but explicitly, deterministically and in most cases without side effects.
Have you ever been to China? Such discrimination happens left, right and center. If you’re of an “acceptable” origin and have the right skin color, you might be ok...
What did Bulgarian teenagers do in the early 90s? all links to the story are dead.
Today they have requested GitLab to enforce employment policy and GitLab started to implement it.

Tomorrow they will ask GitLab to inject backdoors and GitLab will implement that as well?

It is probably happening in other US tech companies at this time affecting those who want to get lucrative DoD and government contracts.
Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computer (1946)
It all seems very improbable. FPGAs are great for massive streaming data, real time and low latency. For data searching and operations, not so much.

The same problem that plagues GPU offload is even worse for FPGAs -- and by that I mean Amdahl's Law.

It is puzzling that they don't mention Intel, who have been trying to figure this out since they sent $17B on Altera. This actually looks pretty good, if insanely hard to develop for and very expensive:

https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/products/programmable...

The talk of compilers that will take 'high level' languages like C++ and emit logic is, IME, complete rubbish. I mean, it is possible, but it is rubbish logic design. Slow, glitchy, inefficient. Adding pragmas to make the compiler magic work is an art form even trickier than writing VHDL, and requires understanding both.
I live in Spain but was born in Russia, I moved 3 years ago because I hate current russian government and still I hope russian and chinese companies and engineers will boycott Gitlab in response. Such offensive nationalism should not be forgiven.
mailbox.org is often recommended to me
Highly distributed? Facebook, Google, Amazon and to some extent Apple dominate and they are extremely centralized.
I think I remember this one :) I've certainly had a few of that sort come to me, particularly back when I was hacking on the backend server more of the time.
This is where it is important to get back to first principles, and making distinctions based on nationality is less helpful than making distinctions based on rules-oriented-organisations vs. people-oriented organisations. The primary distinguishing characteristic which we need to pay attention to is rule-of-law and the power-predominance of rules-oriented-organizations across the political and economic system. This is something which should in principle be apolitical and possible to evaluate empirically.
Back in the day it was not uncommon to do important calculations twice, once on HP and once on TI, just in case of bugs.
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Turks and PKK have this issue for a long time. Having precautions on the other side of Turkish border is not an one-nighter.
I think, that it’s reasonable not to use servers located in certain countries and not to use (closed-source) software made by some bigger companies there. I myself would not use much of the software or services from the countries mentioned. Because I know who might well be getting access to my data and what those people’s approximate values are.

But not hiring devs that are maybe trying to get away from those places? As a dev and an immigrant myself I could not just stay silent about that.
That is interesting, I wonder if it is possible to pull apart the factors. I always thought it was a combination of the long shadow of colonialism and things like malaria.
You can export your project :) All sources are included