skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, this is an instance of someone seeing a business opportunity and exploiting it.

Although that kid should try out renting a bigger car.
A combination of hard work and good luck. But of course, it was a lot harder to inherit massive wealth in those days. :)
Interestingly, Toronto has pretty terrible congestion. I haven't lived there in a while, but IIRC "rush hour" is more like 3 hours (morning an evening). And (apparently) the bus network still does a decent job. Not sure how true that is, but I hope they at least added dedicated bus lanes wherever possible.
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Well, most jobs are salary so there's no notion of compensation per unit of time. I rarely expect overtime but sometimes I need help outside of regular work hours; I also don't make you get HR approval and book off time to go to the dentist or pick up your kid.

It seems like the same people who complain about a lack of employer care & "greedy corporations" are also the same people counseling "always be interviewing" and the only priority is #1. It must be exhausting.
> Dependencies change, assumptions become invalid, holes in your intuitive proof become apparent, etc, etc, etc, and the thing falls over.

I apply encryption to storage. I can't tell you how often people try to push back on encrypting storage with stories like, "But we have access controls and auditing in place. And when we have a deprovisioning process for our drives. Encryption is costly and redundant, so why should we do it?"

Through the years I can recount several after-the-fact incidents where encryption ended up saving their bacon because of weird and entirely unanticipated events. One notable one was where a hypervisor bug caused memory to persist to an unintended location during suspend/resume, and the only reason customer data wasn't exposed in production was because the storage target was encrypted. In another case the "streams were crossed" when assigning virtual disks to virtual machines. The (older) base disk images weren't encrypted in that case, but because the newer machines were applying encryption in the backend before the blocks were exposed to the guest OS, the "unencrypted" disk content came across as garbage (plaintext was "decrypted," which with the algorithms we were using was equivalent to encrypting), again preserving the confidentiality of the original disk images.

The concept of "belt and suspenders" is often lost on people when it comes to safety and security systems.
Neat! You can VESA mount NUCs, too:

https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/articles/0000...
> Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.

Or it may aid in processing traumas that were blockades to meditation, with a net result of it being easier to do meditation practice afterwards even without psychedelics. It's all speculation until further research is done into how all this works exactly, no?

But FWIW, this research seems to suggest one does not need to keep using psilocybin to have its long-lasting beneficial effects:

> Compared with placebo, psilocybin enhanced post-intervention mindfulness and produced larger positive changes in psychosocial functioning at a 4-month follow-up, which were corroborated by external ratings, and associated with magnitude of acute self-dissolution experience
That's a fair point, I'll restate: the level of abstraction that developers were exposed to was 95% the same. Exposed message loops, window classes, window messages, unpacking window params, post and send message semantics, painting, single cooperative input queue (window app hanging would hang all apps), and other equivalences.
In NYC for extra special occasions (a United Nations dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for instance) the police will close the street around the venue. They prevent all motor vehicle traffic with an extremely practical, temporary and unglamorous security measure -- parking two garbage trucks across all the adjoining intersections.
> Inequality does not mean we need to have people who can't satisfy their most basic things. It is possible for people to be allowed to compete for wealth and at the same time ensure those that don't want or can't compete have their basic needs like food, shelter and medical care satisfied.

How?

I get that there's a lot of waste and inefficiency in those industries. Whenever zoning laws prevent a developer from building new housing, that's a third party actively preventing someone's basic needs from being satisfied. Whenever med-school admissions hold the number of new doctors below that needed to service all the uninsured, that's a third party actively preventing basic needs from being satisfied. Whenever food just gets thrown out because nobody bought it or it didn't meat the supermarket's quality standards, those were peoples' basic needs that could've been satisfied.

But in most cases this inefficiency happens because of a quality/quantity tradeoff that society has collectively made in the past. When the Bay Area was first settled in the 1930s-50s, it was common for workers to move here, setup tents, and then go to Orchard Supply Hardware, buy some lumber, and build their own houses. Can people do that today? Absolutely not - we have building codes, year-long permitting processes, zoning requirements. Much of that original housing stock still remains, and is a disaster waiting to happen in an earthquake.

Similarly, a common response these days to the shortage of health care and the need to provide affordable health care is for nurse practitioners to get certified (often via online courses) to be a physician's assistant, and to use PAs for much of the routine medical care (coughs, colds, rashes, etc.) that takes up the bulk of a doctor's time. I have several doctor friends who have railed at length about this practice. They have an obvious self-interest in doing so, but they also have a compelling argument: children will die. For most visits, the PA just needs to tell you to take some ibuprofen, but in some rare cases, those recurrent bloody noses are actually a sign of a serious medical condition that needs treatment ASAP. A doctor will have run across those conditions in their training & practice and know what to look for, but a PA is very likely to miss it. Thus, you are literally killing children if you relax the regulations that set the bar for becoming a licensed MD.

Many of our current societal ills come because "the perfect is the enemy of the good". Unrestricted capitalism is very effective at "good enough" solutions, where the product is good enough for you to buy but may be a little rough around the edges or have corner cases that, well, kill you if you get unlucky. To mitigate the corner cases, we've added a lot of regulations that generally prevent suppliers from killing their customers through negligence, but a side-effect is that it's dramatically reduced the population of people who could be potential suppliers. That lets those few trained practitioners dictate the terms of supplying the service, so they can raise their prices until only the wealthy can afford to pay.
Ruby REALLY Uses Memory: On the Web and Beyond
University educations are one of the most expensive, time-consuming, and meaningful purchase the average American will ever consider purchasing, comparable to a house. People will shape their whole lives around attending them, potentially choosing to move far away from their families. If there's a market for rating average purchases like headphones, it stands to reason that there would be a much larger market for rating purchases like colleges.

The problem isn't that ratings exist. It's that relative rankings are hyped so much among perfectly good schools. I don't care if the University of Washington is five schools above or below Georgia Tech. I just need to see that both are "great," and a little breakdown of their pros and cons.
Kinda. The breadbasket became the Great Plains, which resulted in the destruction of that habitat. The question is, is it worse to replace forest with farmland or plains with farmland?
I think that's a self-preservation tactic for many that often backfires.

Most non-marketing management people want immediate and huge results... which are both hard to quantify and impossible to get without overspending or having an insanely lucky idea that goes viral.

Naturally this leads to asking for a bigger budget and promising bigger results, then KPIs aren't met for X, Y, Z reasons, then they're forced to justify the spend, then they either get more budget or get fired and the cycle repeats. Marketing has too many intangibles, so marketers always feel a need to justify themselves out of fear of being an easy target.
Ask HN: What would it take for you to buy this service?
Hi,

I posted this to the Freelancer thread, and got a lot of clicks but no inquiries.

https://www.fiverr.com/users/agavesam/manage_gigs/write-comprehensive-unit-tests-for-your-python-code/edit

I was wondering if this wasn't a service anyone would purchase or if I could emend my listing to make it more salable.

Thanks,
Max
I worked for an ad network for 6 years. The level of fraud in online advertising is staggering. It might work for some but a lot of it goes to waste, not even seen by humans.
Do pepsi and coke taste the same? Are all soft drinks interchangable?

I don't really care about this, but Krispy Kreme donuts taste much better than Dunkin Donuts.
GINI coefficient should not be used as a target measure at all. It's entirely irrelevant.

If you want a target measure for the economy, let's do it this way. GDP per capita should be as big a number as possible. Wealth distribution should be correlated with productivity. A measure of productivity should be some combination of output, competence, and effort.
Don't forget the biggest reason - the LES system used the same fuel as the propulsive landing system, and they only carried enough for one of the two. Which meant that landings after using the LES would require a parachute, and if you're carrying a parachute with you anyways why not just use it all the time?
Mark Zuckerberg Became the Most Reviled Man in Tech
Bauhaus: Last Rites
Likewise you are indirectly saying "screw the car driver", "just go slow", etc

You can try to ban cars from cities but of course, I would not support it and I hope it be challenged.

"Just go slow" is in itself an entitlement too.
The core point remains which is - wealth is not static. It is _created_.
Now add a neighbor who has no wealth and is unhappy. Does that make you unhappy? This isn't just about you, it's about all of us.
I grew up in Minnesota, and Krispy Kreme was legendary while they had stores here. Schools and workplaces would commonly bring in hot, freshly-baked donuts to motivate students and employees.

And then Krispy Kreme left the state. After that, it became common for university students to do fundraisers where they drive to the nearest out-of-state Krispy Kreme to fulfill orders. Of course, now the donuts are not hot after the 250-mile drive, but the brand is still very powerful.

I just don't understand why Krispy Kreme doesn't open just ONE store in Minneapolis. Maybe we don't have the demand to fulfill one hundred stores, but only having one store would be clearly profitable.
I think it's funny that people feel entitled to these property tax breaks. I'm less concerned about individuals feeling left out, and more concerned about the systemic issues lack of home ownership for this generation will cause. We've distorted the market so much through a variety of bad policies, i don't think it is an unreasonable request to start reversing the trend.
Unfortunately they don’t exist in a lot of countries.
Centralization of power might still be good for wealth (at least temporarily).

Centralization of power improves (potential) competitiveness through ability to make and implement decisions.

For example, China was able to progress very quickly from a very poor to superpower by implementing unpopular changes, breaking what we think as "human rights", etc.

One could say that "on average" Chinese people are better off having strong central government for the past half century than if they had ineffective democracy.

Again, "on average" Chinese family might not care that their communications are being monitored, that they are being lied to or that they have no rights. What they might care is that they have electricity, food, education and work.

The democracy is not a solution for fast short term progress and wealth. Democracy was meant to maximize freedom and the chance to keep it in a long run. So it all depends on what you value. Freedom seems to always cost and if society is not ready to pay a little bit for it it might just end.
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We’ve reached total work[0] globally. The world is a heterotopia, particularly for those who are in low skilled service sector jobs. This will not change, it will only get worse.

[0] https://medium.com/the-ascent/is-total-work-taking-over-our-...
>Wynne Godley's Maastricht and All That[1] is a great explanation of why the Euro was, and in fact is, doomed to failure and the UK was correct to stay out.

The Guardian speculated in 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/jun/... that if Britain had joined the Euro:

* The mid-2000s British housing bubble, and its collapse in 2007, would have been even bigger.

* Britain would have had to ask the IMF, ECB, and EU for loans.

* The Tories would in 2010 have promised a referendum to leave the Euro and won a majority. Labour would have won fewer than 100 seats, and UKIP would have "made spectacular gains".

* The anti-Euro side would have won the referendum, and the currency would have collapsed.

* "after a deep and painful recession economic recovery began".

* "Britain would have destroyed the euro on departure, and would now be on the point of leaving the EU altogether. The idea that Farage might be the next prime minister would be quite credible."
VA Beach for me. I paid to park. The meter was broken do it didn't properly register the amount paid. Still got a ticket even after explaining. They told me my only recompense was to spend more than the ticket to fight it, in person only, at some unspecified date in the future. We spent nearly nothing we didn't have to for the rest of the trip. Hope you got your parking money.
Not sure how to understand your concern. Yes, it's not 05AB1E. Yes, namespaces are necessary if you have code bases with millions of LOC. But for the most part, C++ is as verbose as you make your type and variable names.

Do you actually find it verbose to read or also verbose to type? I don't consider the latter an issue since 1. you normally spend much more time thinking than typing while programming, and 2. code is read much more often than it is written.
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Absolutely agreed, but I think part of what distorts this perspective for tech products is often the influence of VC. If you need to convince investors that you’re lined up for explosive growth, something like “we’re Tinder with branding that captures a different market segment” is probably a less compelling story than “we’re Tinder with an AI gimmick that will crush our competitors, burn their villages, and salt their fields”.

Also, totally unrelated tangent, but I hate the way internet discussion makes us go to absurd lengths to qualify statements as a preemptive defense against pedants. Like, for the purposes of this discussion you’re 100% right that all bottled water is functionally identical, but you still have to couch it in “I’ll generalize” and “most” and “pretty much”. I do it all the time too and it drives me nuts.
Just what I needed, Thanks!
Most of your DNA is not your own.

So this isn’t about sharing a selfie, this is about sharing a group photo, where other people are partly out of frame, but you can still make out who they are. And if we stitch together enough photos, we can make out a lot of people, people who never even took a photo.

Although, some would be sharp to point out that in the case of a selfie most of your facial features are also not your own. So it’s mostly a question of where we draw the line as to what is personal and what is shared. But in the case of a murder, if we had an actual selfie of the killer at the scene, we would be able to solve the case fairly quickly using standard investigative methods.
E also have to philosophically proves it’s bad. If everyone has their needs met, should we care?
I have a very cynical view, but I think the consumer AV field has gotten less competitive and more scammy. With Defender/Windows AV/Windows Anti-Malware bundled into Windows since 7 (thanks to one of the dumber parts of the anti-trust litigation expiring, second perhaps only to Office not being able to directly bundle PDF export for several versions, which expired at the same time), consumer AV has work very hard to convince users to install it, and even harder to convince users to keep paying for it. Some of them are just scarier dialogs repeating what Windows Security Center shows (like they aren't even pretending to bundle their own engines anymore) and twelve ads for other security products in their "family".

Consumer AV is nothing but a mafia protection racket shaking down poor people that don't really have the money to pay for it, but think they have to because of that one time their Windows XP computer got a virus when Microsoft wasn't legally allowed to have their AV product in the box and on by default because a couple of companies convinced US judges that somehow AV was a value add and not a critical platform need for an operating system.

I feel sorry for someone every time I see they have consumer AV installed.
I do not think that it is dialogically interesting to critique the reporting when the subject matter is clearly what is in scope here. As with any new reporting if you have interest in a broader context or more details after consuming a story you should, you know, check it out. I'm fuzzy on what your expectation would be... a comprehensive telling of an enormously large scale of data in a mainstream press story? The story is that it was the hottest-ever October. The reason for the telling is that October 2019 just came to a close.

But, to do as you ought to have done rather than type and copy and paste this story in the comments, I googled: global temperature data for last 100 years. The first response is from NOAA which has reasonably accurate temp data since 1880.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series/globe/land_...

October 2019 data is not yet added, but it does already indicate that September 2019 was the hottest on record, and that the top of a sorted list of hottest months ever recorded features very few months not in the 21st century. It's interesting. Poke around.

Also, friend, .69 degrees C more in the global temperature average is not, not at all, a narrow margin. Variations exist in these global averages for sure, and they are often naturally occurring and they can be bigger than that but .69 is not small. Check it out.
Russia bad.
This is actually a not-uncommon occurrence. The transponder code for a hijacking is 7500. For lost communication it is 7600 and for a regular emergency it is 7700. It is very easy to confuse these or enter 7500 by mistake. It happens on occasion. The only thing that's new is people freaking out about it.
I have a saying: don't let your gravestone say "But I had right of way!"
>This is borderline criminal negligence.

Thank you for flatly and plainly stating this. That is unacceptable and anyone involved with approving that decision should be prosecuted in the death.
It would be nice to see how this compares to Firecracker (https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/) the runtime behind AWS Lambda
Well an engine explosion and a gas tank explosion are very difference failure modes, and in rockets, pedantics matter.
They do have grenade launchers though. Much cheaper than the robot.
It’s largely only a hole against state level adversaries, which may not be a realistic element of many people’s threat model.
> There's this belief that being available 24/7 is a positive attribute in employees and we really need to squash that. It's unhealthy for everyone.

For whatever reason, employers seem to value this for certain roles, and they often pay a premium for it. This is a Good Thing for people who value money over flexibility; why lock them out of a natural fit? Perhaps you would argue that this isn't good for them, but surely they should be free to make the choice? For those who value flexibility over money, they shouldn't take those jobs. As long as expectations are communicated, there shouldn't be a problem.

Maybe this isn't a real problem, but I want to address it just in case: I'm concerned that some people may feel entitled to a high low-flexibility salary _and_ high flexibility. This sort of entitlement comes up often, and as far as I can tell, it fundamentally ignores economic realities. In other words, if these things are compatible, then proponents need to explain themselves (and provide a lot of support for their arguments) because it's far from obvious.
Absolutely agree with the above.

I would suggest psilocybin and LSD mainly for punctual experiences. They can make you understand what lies "behind the veil".

Once you know that, once you have lived that, your life can take a huge turn.

One of the best case outcomes is that you no longer have to believe or hope that life is way more profound than society wants us to believe, but you know it (intuitively, that is, not intellectually speaking, of course).
It's still not clear to me how we are going to get the outcome you're looking for.

If the wealth is redistributed to the people (the mechanism isn't important) then that amounts to a few thousand dollars per person. This isn't the kind of money that would allow wide-spread reduction in work hours. My expectation is that most people will liquify that wealth and spend it over a long weekend. Do you have a different expectation?

If rather than being given directly to the people, instead the state keeps that money, are you predicting that Donald Trump will use it to build you a new school?
Sad story. I belive that you need to be working side by side in a team to understand the dynamics in it. It's probably really hard to spot who or why a team works from the outside. All the right micro-optimizations decisions taken ...
Re-Licensing Sentry
They are giving him 500 dozen donuts. He is charging up to $20 per a dozen. That is $10k right there!
>> Just start doing it, in your free time. You'll be burning the candle at both ends for a while as you build up clients, but you're young, you've got the energy and the time.

While you're employed? This is terrible advice. You get consulting money for combining expertise with availability. Younger employees have neither of these. If I found out one of my salaried employees was moonlighting I'd immediately be looking for evidence that it had the slightest impact on their responsibilities & performance. I'd be very surprised not to find any PDQ
No it shouldn't have applied the brakes at that point. There are lots of vehicles around in most cases. If the car braked every time it spotted another vehicle it would almost never move. Only take corrective action if the paths look like they will intersect instead.
> It’s dough and sugar, the name on the box is meaningless.

Agreed. This is why I don't bother with CPUs from Intel or AMD. I just pour sand onto my motherboard.
SQL database of prominent Neo-Nazi forum hacked, published
Ah thanks, yes this is what I was trying to say.
> I am saying that if someone chooses to do it, then it is not stupid.

That may be the worst argument I’ve heard in support of anything ever. People do stupid things a lot and I’m your model that’s never true solely because they chose to do that. I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith, anymore.
Thanks for your gracious reply, Mark. Your humanity-first approach to everything, as well as the the Gun community are what make it so very promising to me.
Uh, main feature of graphql is a graph cache and graph model itself. It has nothing to do with HTTP2.