skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the current expressions of capitalism can be improved, and probably will be:

"What does the future hold for Western capitalist societies? The answer hinges on whether liberal meritocratic capitalism will be able to move toward a more advanced stage, what might be called “people’s capitalism,” in which income from both factors of production, capital and labor, would be more equally distributed. This would require broadening meaningful capital ownership way beyond the current top ten percent of the population and making access to the top schools and the best-paying jobs independent of one’s family background.

To achieve greater equality, countries should develop tax incentives to encourage the middle class to hold more financial assets, implement higher inheritance taxes for the very rich, improve free public education, and establish publicly funded electoral campaigns. The cumulative effect of these measures would be to make more diffuse the ownership of capital and skills in society. People’s capitalism would be similar to social democratic capitalism in its concern with inequality, but it would aspire to a different kind of equality; instead of focusing on redistributing income, this model would seek greater equality in assets, both financial and in terms of skills. Unlike social democratic capitalism, it would require only modest redistributive policies (such as food stamps and housing benefits) because it would have already achieved a greater baseline of equality."

"The Clash of Capitalisms
The Real Fight for the Global Economy’s Future"

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-1...
Urllib3 Python 3 downloads exceed Python 2 for first time
Do you find it is easy to come back to your Clojure code and understand what is going on?
I think, just because of this attitude, you won't fail. All the best!
I am very against cars and very pro-biking, and yet I find your comment immensely simplistic.

You seem to be forgetting that buildings can't be moved and big infrastructure projects go into the billions. The USA was build with cars in mind, you can't simply undo all that and now ask people to simply get rid of their cars when everything was built specifically for cars.
I think we're lucky that many companies have this attitude.

I've experienced the polar opposite in a Japanese bigco where we were given extensive material to learn (generally about the industry, or certifications), and it was very clearly understood that we were to learn the material off company time. As an American naturally I had an allergic reaction to this culture.
So the article is a bit confusing, as it says in a year the state processes over 18 million dollars in transactions.

However the pilot program only analyzed transactions from Jan to Sept. For all state agencies (which seems impressive from an aggregation and governance stand point). With in that time period it found 117k in duplicates, so assuming that dollar/transactions are at a constant rate through out the year (they aren't).

117,000/(18,000,000 * (8/12)) ~ .975 % loss in state to vendor(?) transactions.

Put another way, with in the time period they studied assuming 12 million dollars in transactions were made, they can potentially recuperate roughly 1% of the total value transacted.
Where do you sell Flutter plugins? How do you come up with ideas?
This reads like someone who had already made their mind, and looked for anything to support their prior bias...

For starters, who said RN is not having work done to run on "TVs, smartwatches, thermostats" and so on? Here's a post about work done for smart TVs from the official RN blog:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/building-for-ap...

Second, who said those concerns aren't orthogonal? Given a good modular design work done for the framework to work on a TV should not impact work done for the framework to play well on the Web or mobile.
And what I'm saying is the opposite. It's fine for it to be common as long as there are still enough single floor dwellings for the people who need them.

There should be all kinds of everything. A city should be a massively diverse cacophony of individual choices. That means that finding exactly what you want is going to exclude >90% of the properties -- but means that finding exactly what you want is going to be possible.
Just because the page didn't actually include pricing...

E2-Standard:

- 2x vCPU, 8GB: $48.92/month.

- 4x vCPU, 16GB: $97.83/month.

- 16x vCPU, 64GB: $391.35/month.

E2-HighMem:

- 2x vCPU, 16GB: $65.99/month.

- 8x vCPU, 64GB: $263.97/month.

- 16x vCPU, 128GB: $527.94/month.

E2-HighCPU:

- 2x vCPU, 2GB: $36.11/month.

- 8x vCPU, 8GB: $144.45/month.

- 16x vCPU, 16GB: $288.90/month.

I didn't list Preemptible Pricing because it is very workload specific/niche.
> It's a very broad application, when you consider that it is exactly the set of people who had any political rights at the moment (i.e. voting citizens), who were also deemed fit to serve.

That's very explicitly not a broad application, which was exactly my point. It's a very narrowly defined group of people who can be "trusted" to perform their militia duty. If we are to follow that original intent, we absolutely have a right to qualify those who keep and bear arms to people who can be trusted to faithfully execute their duty. This group does not includes "all the people, excluding some political officers".

I always find it amusing when the same people who argue for originalism also place all kinds of qualifiers, inferences, and mind-reading around that intent, as you have done here. If militia service wasn't an important idea to include in the wording in order to gain consensus, they wouldn't have included it. Some states wanted militias to keep slavery in check, others valued individual rights, and others yet wanted to make sure they could repel the British if they came back. It's a bit arrogant to try and assign any one motive to a diverse group like the founders.

Not that any of it matters. It's a piece of paper that's open to interpretation. Currently we are stuck with a radical interpretation, but any reasonable person can see how that policy is failing us, and the popular will exists to change it.
Yeah, I got it from a GoDaddy auction, so the markup would have been much higher from a domain reseller.
I think that’s a hotly debated topic.

Personally I think that you should be paid the same wherever you live. Why should someone make more money because they choose to live in SF versus a farm somewhere.

Cost of living is funny. Whose cost? What if I want to live like a king in a big house?
Are states required to be in the first place?
Since commenters are saying that the technical post is more interesting, we switched to that from https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-comput..., which is the announcement post. Maybe we'll keep the original title so it's clear it's a new thing.
Agreed. In those cases, where the business is stubborn, you might have to consume the entire business [1] [2] to be able to enact automation in the underlying functions. That's also the question, right? What tools can you develop (Similar to Brex and Stripe) that make it exceedingly more simple for upstarts to compete against the entrenched? If I can't sell to your internal divisions, maybe I go get some VC and compete against your whole business. Lots of margin hiding as inefficiencies in the economy still, just have to go get it.

Give me a lever long enough.

[1] https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/software-is-eating-the-wor...
Actually we're bootstrapped so we don't need an AI/ML story :)
If the purpose of equity buyback is to more efficiently allocate capital, then individual companies executing equity buyback are doing so because can no longer make efficient use of capital by using it to fuel additional growth and higher returns.

If that's the case, then equity buyback is tantamount to admitting that the company has no future potential for growth. As a company's stock price reflects expected value from future growth, a buyback should therefore trigger a drop in the stock price.

But it usually doesn't, usually buybacks trigger increases in the stock price as fewer shares remain in circulation in the public market and the company improves executive flexibility by consolidating control, and as investors expect to be paid a premium over market price through the buyback program.

Why? Because private players don't care about macro performance metrics. Buybacks have nothing to do with what may or may not be the best allocation of capital in the market.
There really needs to be a new rule added to the posting guidelines about not complaining about the format when Twitter threads make it to the front page. No, it’s probably not the best possible format, but every single time the comments are inundated.
If your benchmark harness has performance properties not reflected in your benchmark suite, your benchmark suite is incomplete.

Benchmark harnesses are real programs too.
What you said really resonates with me - especially re: resting your back up against it.

Just built my first single-page website with React and I ran up against the new Javascript ES6 import system. It makes no sense that people keep introducing this kind of unnecessary complexity into their tools. What was wrong with good old "require"?

This is just one instance among many many many. It feels like I'm aging a year every day.
SEO? Many people still call ANSI and Unicode art "ASCII art".
It's good for senior developers and the self motivated. Difficult for junior roles which need hand-holding. Difficult for parents or those in condos without a seperate space.
It depends on what goal you see being defined.

I see one public and one private:

Publicly, organize social engagement. As long as they are at the helm, and at the forefront of tech innovation, they won't have issues on that goal.

Privately, diffuse regulatory pressure. If unlike Facebook, they can share blame with other actors, they won't singlehandedly be responsible for political mayhem, so there won't be calls to break up Twitter. It is the whack-a-mole approach, similar to BitTorrent vs. Napster.
I haven't tried IDEA so I can't compare it. All I can say is that CLion is great :)

If you write a lot of Rust, I suggest that you download the 30 day evaluation version of CLion and install the Rust plugin and see how it compares.
Amazing that HN flagged this one but not previous Time's Person of the Year posts.
Macro, it seems to mean that owners believe in their companies and want more equity. Hardly a bad thing unless you're trying to predict the next recession
This seems a little odd, like refusing to use a programming language that's too portable. There are C libraries for various embedded devices you've never heard of, but you don't have to use them.

Flutter is targeting a lot of platforms. Part of this is that Google has a lot of hardware projects that need a UI, and the duplication from building a new UI stack each time was getting tedious.

But this doesn't mean that Flutter apps are doing the same. You can just target the platforms you want. It's not going to run anywhere else if you don't deploy it there.
For me personally, it alleviates a lot of stress from coming into the office.

I'm way more productive because I'm actually working and not BS-ing with my neighbor in the next cube/desk. This in turn brings down the noise level and reduces interruptions to "flow". For some reason, people will walk up and ask stupidly trivial questions on a regular basis in person, but when in a remote environment they are more reluctant to ask questions over communication mediums. I'm not sure why that is. Concentration++;

I don't waste any time in traffic. I've put about 3,000 miles on my car all year (excluding long travel vacations). I used to average 15,000 miles! One could say this significantly reduces my carbon footprint :)

Not having to waste time commuting to work, commuting to an appointment (e.g. doctor) near my home, commuting back to work then commuting back to my house.

It saves me a ton of money. No fuel expenses, less maintenance expenses on my vehicle, and I don't have to get a babysitter for no-school days.

I dodge the typical office bureaucracy and badmouthing of colleagues.

If I have to attend a useless meeting, I can tune it out and still get work done while they chatter about. In the office I couldn't do that because it would appear "rude" or even some meetings had a no laptop policy.

EDIT: oh another bonus... because i'm not sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day, I get to spend that time exercising or enjoying more quality time with my family.
Can’t SpaceX just provide a database of Starlink satellite locations, allowing astronomers to query the database, and shutter their imagers at the appropriate time? Seems like a simple solution.
Ah, I've been assuming that a vCPU == a CPU hyperthread since forever, hadn't realized that changed.
I am not sure your point. The original argument made by the parent was that "In other nations with a better social system this worked quite well however." Is your hypothesis that these better social systems lead to comparable rates of major crime but significantly lower rates of petty crime? On the face of it that seems unlikely, but I'd be interested in any evidence you have.
Linux and Windows have both supported it, but use tends to be at the fringes on mainframe/datacenter machines that are validated for it and so those paths aren't tested on a very wide variety of hardware and running applications. And adding CPUs and memory is one thing but removing is another.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Yes, but most workloads are fairly unprepared for this sadly. And they're really not ready for memory unplug. (I also miss the days of my multi socket boxes and plugging in CPUs and memory).
Crazy Ideas
Wisely so: eventually two autocrats are going to pressure him to remove the other for policy violations. Better to decentralize than collect Interpol warrants.
I haven't found any cases in my (admittedly brief) search that actually rule on this, but there's a pretty clear pattern in CA jurisprudence that suggests that a broad application of "related work" is unlikely to be looked upon positively. To me, it's pretty clear that use of trade secrets would be about the only thing that courts are _likely_ to agree upon as out of bounds for personal work.
My boss 'encourages' us too, but then they pack the schedule with other stuff. I think I get maybe 4% (friday afternoon, a couple weeks a month).
I use fulcrum.wiki. It is a bit like Zim in Google Drive. It's still in beta, but works quite good for me.
Though it's less direct than the NHS benefit, I think it's a pretty good argument that everyone benefits from an educated society, even if you can't point at every single person with a degree and say they're contributing to the greater good.

Educated people design infrastructure, products, services, (public and private) that affects every aspect of everyone's life.
Trying to find out how much cheaper these new E2 instances are, these are the Monthly prices taken from their Compute Pricing page [1]:

Machine type VCPUs Memory Price Preemptible price
n1-standard-2 2 7.5GB $48.55 $14.60
e2-standard-2 2 8GB $48.92 $14.67

So how does E2 offer "31% savings compared to N1"?

Whatever it is, there seems to be some kind of disconnect as it's not obvious from their pricing pages and they should provide better transparency on exactly where these savings are.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing
I don’t get the comparison. I don’t see why it should be a good or a bad thing. Seems like two completely arbitrary numbers being compared.
The full article has a cost associated with it, but it looks like the writer has also given this past speech with (hopefully) similar content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellIRUe2mpU
Their English could have been excellent. People can communicate effectively and yet have small gaps in their knowledge that remain unnoticed for years.
I mention this at the end of my comment, but yes the second very significant factor is the nature of transformation.

A SASS (CSS preprocessor language) compiler can be very fast because it does very little.

Native compilers must do significantly more transformation than other compilers, e.g. F# CLR compiler. This is doubly so if you request optimized output (but that's probably not the case in this discussion).
Maybe if everything would be archived forever, we could understand that everybody makes mistakes, and stop paying so much attention to old posts? Though I admit this is very optimistic view on human behavior.
You can't fight semantics. Words take on new meanings all the time. "Literally" and "nonplussed" used to mean one thing, now they mean the opposite thing.

"ASCII" is becoming ubiquitous for "Of or relating to printing characters in the style of a terminal shell/CLI"

Just look at the package that was the #1 link yesterday - Asciinema or whatever.

I bet you a dollar Asciinema isn't actually printing ASCII encoded characters.
Is building plugins faster/easier than building apps (using Flutter)? Looking to learn flutter so wondering if I should build a plugin or app when going beyond hello world.
I've been a React dev and after a couple of years of being Vue-curious, I banged around with it a little for a work project.

My reaction was the opposite of yours - I found the syntax to be some confusing "not really JS" that follows hard-to-discover rules and scoping. It felt very much like JSP - simple enough if you're just dropping in values, but as soon as something gets even slightly complex, it gets ugly quick. Error messages were also far less informative than React (to be fair, React has done a ton in the past couple of years to improve their error messaging).

Example: In react, if I want a <ui> with a bunch of <li>s, I tend to output a JSX <ul> with a bunch of <li>s from some JS loop. A 1:1 relationship between the tags I produce and the tags that are generated. My loop logic is pure JS, so no surprises there.

In Vue, the syntax is:

<ul id="example-1">

<li v-for="item in items"> {{ item.message }} </li>

</ul>

Which seems perfectly readable, but...The "<li> tag doesn't represent what gets rendered, it's a TEMPLATE of what gets rendered. Can I reference "item" in another "v-" attribute of the <li>? What happens if I wanted to conditionally include/not-include an <li> for the list of items?

A list shouldn't be where "complex" problems start. A list should still be "simple"

My anecdote doesn't beat yours, (and, generally, your anecdote is the more common one), but I wanted to offer an opposing data point, because I expected Vue to be less involved than React, and I found the opposite to be true.
Choice of your instance, moderators, and client. It enables smaller, self-policing communities to run a compatible instance with minimal costs.
sctb. But yes, they say email is the surest contact method.
Appreciated! And you make a great point that a blog post with the story would be better. At least the author did include a bit of that in the thread here.
I strongly agree that the real story is in why R&D spending is stagnating or dropping in comparison to earnings. Personally, I think there a number of contributing factors including less competition from new businesses (new businesses starts with employees are way down from previous decades), decreased competition from large competitors (see Disney buying up everyone in the entertainment industry as an example), regulatory capture, increased risk aversion in the corporate world, and just the fact that low hanging fruit are mostly picked at this point so that the next major improvement might require way more investment than a lot of companies are comfortable with (see the massive increase in new semiconductor fabs and drug discovery as examples).
It's not called out in this blog post, but back at Google I/O earlier this year, they did say Fuchsia is powering the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. So those smart displays Google is making are Fuchsia + Flutter.
Build pipelines with Pandas using pdpipe
That's more like Gambling 101. Investing 101 would be dollar cost averaging.
> Even an under-provisioned network that tries to fairly deal with optimizing for both low volume low latency applications and high volume latency tolerant applications at the same time while filtering out bad actors can still be net neutral.

How? We seem to be discussing QoS. As in ranking and prioritizing different services. Something that is fine for your local network, but has been used to punish torrent users by ISPs. Possible solution the wiki-page [0] describes are over-provisioning (as in never-even-needing-QoS) followed by a bunch of protocol stuff that would be problematic once being payed for.

I'm very much in favor of regulations like net neutrality for e.g. situations with no effective competition. But at the same time, I'd also accept specific connections with special properties for services needing them. A remote surgery wanting a highly reliable connection with consistent latency being the classic example. And also needing high bandwidth, in case your model only allowed for low bandwidth ever needing high priority.

I don't see a way to allow this while keeping a hard-line net neutrality over everything else stance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
They were at some point, and/or offered by private companies with an "implicit" backing of the government such as Sallie Mae and whatnot.

This may have changed in the past few years.
Companies need to be good at remote for workers to be successful. Merely offering it isn’t an option, you have to know you will be visible and able to not miss out on communication with the rest of the team.

Companies that are 100% have to be good at this. Others may sleepwalk into operational mistakes regarding your career.
Who's matching the donations?
A DNA-of-things storage architecture to create materials with embedded memory
The closest comparison I can make is as follows.

This was 117K was found in transactions during 8 out of 12 months in the year. The article doesn't specify the amount of money transacted during that time. It doesn't give us the total amount of transactions either.

It gives an estimate of 18 million in the total year so the closest estimate is 117k out of 12 million. Which is ~1% and seems like a win win. State employees and folks should feel good that they aren't fucking up very often and the analysts should feel good because functionally this number should go to 0. Operationally no idea what it would cost to maintain though. cough
You're right, let's burn the library down because one book has a liable chapter in it.

This argument is so horrible as to be actively harmful to Archive's work. Jason Scott is a god, and if we didn't have him, we'd have to invent him.

WE DO NOT GET TO CHOOSE WHAT THE FUTURE FINDS INTERESTING.

We live in the only point in human history where we can actually save all of humanity's knowledge and culture, and we can do so without having to worry about physical space or staff to work the "library." It's a remarkable time we live in, and yet, 99% of our society either doesn't care, thinks this work is stupid, or actively works against it through horrific copyright laws.

We know more about how Rembrandt painted and lived than we do about how Atari 2600 programmers worked and lived. I can go to Rembrandt's house and see where he lived, where he painted, how he worked, where he slept and ate and mixed his paints and taught his classes.

Atari's old HQ is just another office building. The source code to those games is mostly gone (thankfully, it's assembly and easier to disassemble). We need to save our culture and digital heritage, else we forget where we come from.

Deleting some old tweets is one thing, but actively worrying about Archive's work is just harmful to us all. We need 10,000 more Archives, dammit. It's supremely important work that is helping stem the tide of lost culture due to stock market forces. Geocities is gone forever because Yahoo! didn't find it profitable. This cannot keep happening.