skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you don't have kids, don't get sick, and don't do anything fun, you'll definitely be a millionaire in 30-40 years.
Frankly, it's awful. Measuring performance apples to apples, React Native is nearly strictly slower than a web application on mobile. As PWAs gain feature parity, I think there will be little to no point to React Native. Because of a lack of JIT capabilities, React Native JS just can't run nearly as fast as React on the web for example. That, coupled with bad architecture. Too much is deferred - you have deferred batching in react, followed by more deferred batching to create native layouts. This results in poor responsiveness. For toy applications you may not notice, but the architecture simply doesn't scale.
There are legal avenues you can use for that. the bigger danger (for most cases at least) is raised by your sibling, you can't trust the data anymore to be the same either innocently or maliciously.
Your example of a person with $10,000 accumulated wealth and no job makes perfect sense. However this does not hold true higher up the scale.

People with mid 8 figure liquid net worth, ex: $50-70,000,000 do not need to have any income for extremely long periods of time without having any large negative effect on their spending ability.
For anyone interested, LavaPS can be downloaded from https://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/

Building requires the old gnome libraries (180mb on ubuntu)
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Jesus, talk about hyperbole. "Far"? Trailing a couple percent behind Alibaba, a chinese only hosting provider? Get real
It's not true that the VM changes focus mostly on the GCs. There have been significant changes to startup time and low-overhead profiling. And there are constant improvements in the JIT compilers. Project Loom's lightweight concurrency also involves big VM changes, but without any bytecode changes.

Reified runtime generics for reference types is a bad idea; it destroys language interop for very little gain. Value types and specialized generics for value types, on the other hand, are in the works. You can download and play with them here: http://jdk.java.net/valhalla/
I wish he posted the draw percentage.
I could easily believe that. I just went with the data I had. If you can find a source please share.
"It’s not perfect but I’ve spoken to enough Esperantists in Asia who have remarked that English is way way way harder and speakers are less forgiving."

Anecdote: We had a Japanese Esperantist visiting a local meeting in the US and of course asked if Esperanto is really ten times easier than English for Japanese speakers.

His reply (in Esperanto): "No. It's a hundred times easier."
A lot of helium use is for machines that need to have parts around 0 Kelvin for superconductivity. It is the only liquid at those temperatures besides Hydrogen and Hydrogen is much more dangerous and reactive.
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Mostly on the design side that fit a high quality mid 2000s perspective. The next step for content aggregation is tiered ranking of qualitative properties of each news piece. I have a few ideas on what might provide that but it is not a fully formed thought yet.
I’m not sure you understand opening theory. It takes years to learn a single opening, and I don’t think any serious player would claim they know all variations/sidelines of a given opening.

There’s no single “best” opening because you can always employ a defence for a specific opening. For example, there’s a trap against the London which is to play 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 h5. 3. e3...
This is a channel worth subscribing to.
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It's crazy what Google is willing to kill. I mean if GCloud gets shut down, what hope is there for Stadia?
Yes, but public leaks of customer data are a GDPR violation that you get fined for. If the data is end-to-end encrypted, this mitigates the risk substantially.
Sweet! I used 1Password for years and then went LastPass for Linux support. At the time only the recovery mode worked to the best of my knowledge. This was in the 1Password 4 days.
OP is probably talking about Research Triangle Park, which does have a lot of interesting technology jobs.
Capital is more powerful than income.

It is harder to accumulate capital but still worthwhile even if you can only do it slowly.
How is it ridiculous? The article said GCP would receive reduced invesment if that target isn't met. It's a bit hard to grow without investing, so it smells to me like a precursor to sustained engineering.
Yeah, I agree that finding a "good" place for some products is hard, but "computer parts" is not one of those categories, as Microcenter is perfectly fine.
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I never thought they would shut down Google+ either. It may have been a “failure” in the sense of not beating Facebook, but it had enough traction among hacker circles especially that I assumed it was here to stay just as the cross-Google identity system if not a standalone Facebook-alike.
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You mentioned WaPo. Here is an article[0] about WaPo publishing a story about "Russian hackers infiltrating a US electrical grid." In addition to the article being inaccurate, WaPo edited the copy several times to correct major errors of fact without adding an editorial note and refused to explain what led them to their incorrect conclusions.

The article is a bit too long to accurately summarise, but essentially WaPo published a story under the following headline: “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.”

>The lead sentence offered “A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials” and continued “While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation’s electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.”

This is at best a deeply misleading intro. The malware was found on a laptop not connected to the grid. The allegation that "Russian hackers penetrated the electrical grid" because they found tools which once may have been developed by Russians is about as accurate as me concluding that a hypothetical murderer was American because the murder weapon was an American-made AR-15.

There are several more concerning parts to the story but alas, I'm on mobile and have slacked off long enough.

I don't buy into the "MSM are knowing purveyors of fake news because profit!" but humans make mistakes and the desire of mainstream newspapers to beat bloggers in timeliness and pageviews can ultimately lead to standards slipping even among writers who would never knowingly publish a false story.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-ne...
Pride? They want to be #1 or nothing at all?
Do you have an example of these huge effects you observed?
Thanks for the correction!

I wish I could edit my comment. :-(
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Asserting rights you don't have means breaking the law by definition, and it has always been that way - from civil rights movement to the revolution.
As a resident of India, from personal experience, I can say that while it is true that the print jobs of the Indian editions may be inferior to those of the US editions, the Indian edition books do not miss prefaces/chapters/appendices or solutions.

The only difference is that usually, they have shuffled chapters/ end of chapter problems( but with proper index ) and a black and white/ two colour print job instead of a full colour print.

I would much rather prefer to pay ₹300(~5USD) for a black and white Indian Edition than $900+ for a coloured US edition.
It's so stupid that they've got this reputation now. A lot of the things they've killed could've instead been sold/spun off instead. Shutting down successful services that are not successful enough by Google's standards has given them a bad rep at the same time as destroying value.

Reader could've been a successful company on its own for sure, for example. I wasn't a user of it, but there was enough people who loved it enough.
Well, SSR. Almost all indexing bots (Google, 'Microbrowsers', etc.) will require it or at minimum heavily recommend it.

I doubt you will need to rewrite it if you use React or VueJS (or any other big framework) as they have SSR support.
In my case, I am self-studying, so I prefer there to be some solutions in the back of the book, a preface to explain the author's point of view and approach to the text, and a print and binding job that is durable enough to last years (rather than just long enough for a class).

I can understand why someone would prefer an international edition -- I've certainly been there, but my expectation with Amazon.com is that the non-international edition would take preference in the search results -- and furthermore, that the international edition would be clearly marked as such
> A safe assumption would be that you’d have to call a plumber once per year.

Wait, what? Is that a "safe assumption" in America? Because I'd calculate with "once in a decade".
I RECEIVED AN OPENED BOX OF BABY FORMULA FROM AMAZON.

I've basically stopped using amazon for all but a few purchases I can't get elsewhere. They lost a lot of business from me
Ask HN: Should medium, pinterest, WSJ, etc. be banned by search engines and HN?
Weblogs that are based on medium.com have no control over how their content is delivered. Basically, if you don't buy a plan, you cannot read an article on such websites.

Another, less greedy, approach is also taken by pinterest.com in which you must have an account to see the rest of the content. I think such websites should be banned on search engines and also on HN [0].

I understand companies may have different strategies to stay profitable, but I believe what medium, pinterest, and others (e.g. WSJ) are doing goes against the very nature of an open internet where information is freely available.

[0] Right now for example, 4 out of 30 links on HN's first page fall into this category of websites.
Google Cloud was always a "become number one or die" thing. Same with Google Plus.

Google has assigned so many engineers to building and running the platform. That means the platform has a high ongoing cost to provide. Unless the platform grows rapidly and grabs a significant chunk of the market, it will never be profitable at Googles current level of investment.

You can't scale a project down from 5000 engineers to just 50 and expect it to carry on running as before.
Downvote time: Why HTTPS?

I made my own security: http://talk.binarytask.com
Wow, that is so shoddy, thanks for sharing.

Seems like Amazon needs to police its own marketplace...but does it care if its revenues are all coming from AWS?
Ali,

Funny that China has a new law allowing them access to any data stored there, so it may stick to operating only in China...
My old ISP gave me only a /64. That's absolutely useless for doing anything more than there most basic of configuration. This seemed to be because of limitations in their own infrastructure as they were using 6rd. I ended up switching ISP's to one that gave me a /48.

I seem to recall general recommendations that ISP's assign at least /56 to customers?
> What happens if I change one attribute every week or so until I’ve completely changed the product?

"Five stars! Would recommend this ship to Theseus or anyone else."
The Duolingo course is also very good. https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto
Yes, the thumb buttons seem much better. USB-C is an upgrade.

Only thing that is missing is a wireless charging. Some competitors use Qi charging or a special mousepad, so there's never a need to plug it in.

In 2010, Logitech released a solar-powered keyboard called the K750. Now that batteries and PV cells are improving, and low energy wireless technology is improving, I bet this would be less terrible.

Also in 2010, RCA invented an "Airenergy" device that could harvest ambient wifi signals for use as a power source.

I imagine some combination of the above technologies could eliminate cables from peripherals entirely.
"If the company fails to achieve this goal, some staffers reportedly believe that Alphabet could withdraw from the market completely."
> > Fact 3: Water vapor accounts for almost all of the greenhouse effect.

> Water vapor has a habit of coming down as rain.

The GP is using a non-sequitur, taking a correct fact to support a falsehood. That water vapor comes down as rain does not make it any less important as a greenhouse gas.

What the GP does not say is that the amount of water vapor on the atmosphere is roughly proportional to the temperature, so it's only participation is in increasing the effects of the other gasses we emit directly.
It’s a well-deserved reputation. I’m glad it’s sticking
Wanna hear something funny? A couple months ago the New York Times did a vignette of four families around the country. The only family that was actually saving money / financially sound was in friggin’ Iowa City!

The problem isn’t really just housing costs (though that is a huge pain) it’s the cost of everything, the commute, and the near requirement to have two incomes just to pay your bills every month. The benefit of higher coastal salaries only works if you can somehow contain the overall cost of living from eating it all.
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Tell that to the financial industry, real estate brokers, etc. etc. etc.

We didn't make this reality, we just live in it.
Here is an article from CNN criticizing NYT on their terribly botched Kavanaugh story recently.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/media/new-york-times-kavanaug...
You mean like Google Fiber?
If your company has a widespread perception to have some of the worst support in the industry you have a problem, even if that perception isn't entirely accurate in all cases.
Doesn't that break end-to-end encryption?
For California specifically, there are three factors:

1. Originally, the area was home to several very good universities. Today, these provide a ready source of workers with advanced job training. On the other hand, I'll bet they are a small minority of the workers in the area now.

2. That's where the money is. Much of the "capital"[1] comes from previously successful businesses and those people don't want to move (and don't have any problems with high rents).

3. Density promotes density. More workers there makes hiring new ones easier (and replacing old ones), and the availability of "attractive" jobs draws more workers.

The area hasn't (and probably can't) adapt as fast as money and immigrants, hence the infrastructure issues.

It's hard to fix that from the top down. Take Austin, which did it from the bottom up; a number of foresighted rich folks boosted UT's tech training, leading to it's success in recent decades, but it's now facing the same problems.

Options:

Hold your nose, go to CA and make your money and get the hell out.

Wait for the next cyclic bust, buy property when the prices collapse.

Organically start the process elsewhere, with the same results.

Choose to go elsewhere and accept the salary reduction.
MicroCenter has a good website. For mass market things, I've switched to the Best Buy that is only 2 miles from my house. Fry's or MicroCenter if I need anything else. My wife bought a iPhone to HDMI adapter from Amazon (against my advice) and got a cheap knockoff that cannot even show Netflix on TV - her actual use case is to show movie clips to patients in a group session. I ended up buying her one in person from the Apple Store.

Edit to Add - She KNEW she was getting the generic adapter but still thought it would do what she needed. So this is not Amazon's fault in this case.
"They wouldn’t let me consult with anyone, including a lawyer"

Yikes, that feels so dystopian to me...
I find it amusing how much Amazon has reminded me of the rise and fall of eBay. eBay was a fun experience when it first blew up. Then enough people decided they were going to leverage it into becoming a business, and it turned into an annoying mess of ads.

It's not a perfect parallel of course, so some lessons were learned I suppose. It just seems like it was somehow fun at first, and then the people who sell on it find a way to ruin the experience.
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This reminds me of the machine starred in the "Casper, the friendly ghost" movie i watched as a kid. I hope you run more QA though. Would love to see your 2nd Prototype. Keep up the good work!
What is funny is the link reads as "google-reportedly-wants-to-be-top-two-player-in-cloud-by-2023.html"
BestBuy or MicroCenter. NewEgg is good too, but it's pretty much like Amazon in the sense it's a marketplace for other stores.

The big issue is that there aren't a bunch of independent e-retailers to choose from. If you want to make it, you gotta make stores on Amazon, eBay, NewEgg, Etsy and Reverb (not all of course; depends on your products). I wrote an article about this recently:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-...
saving your entire salary won't make you as rich as Jeff bezos, but the end of your life will look a lot different if you save $1000 every month instead of $500.

if you have any disposable income, you can save for a decent retirement. it's useful to have a framework for deciding what indulgences you can pay for in the present without crippling yourself in the future.
AWS is unassailable as number one, but Azure is more fragile than they might appear in their #2 position. They use their Office online revenue to boost their numbers (EDIT: apparently they don't do that anymore), and their utilization is probably lower than the competition because they rely heavily on bundling new cloud services into legacy contracts at renewal to reach their targets. So lots of Office / Outlook / AD / Windows Server customers are getting hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars worth of Azure that they’re not using, but count against their revenue number anyway.

On top of that, Azure’s technology stack is dreadful. Definitely the worst of the three.

What Microsoft does have is focus and dedication, they are clearly willing to spend billions of dollars in capex to strengthen their lead.

I think if Google were to get serious about communicating focus and dedication to their cloud business (the opposite of what they’re doing now), they could conceivably catch up to Microsoft.
> What does that mean?

It means that if you are dealing with a complex multivariate system where the behavior of individual variables is not perfectly understood, let alone the behavior in an interactive system, and you are building multiple systems to model the environment and output a prediction between 1 and 10, undoubtedly some of the models will be correct (since you are predicting within such a small range), but there is no good way of knowing whether the correct prediction is due to proper modeling, to chance, or to some combination of the two.

> You surely don't think that physics works by people randomly guessing answers...

No, I do not think this.

> ...and then one of them "happened" to be correct?

Yes, in that I am suggesting that this is a possibility.

> You don't, do you?!

Rereading my comment, I see no actual content that suggests I believe this.

I wonder, if you were to reread my comment while keeping in mind the theory of System1/System2 thinking [1], do you still reach the same conclusion?

And for clarity, while this may seem (again, see [1]) that I am antagonizing you, I am actually and sincerely trying to make what I consider to be an incredibly important and overlooked point: the manner in which human beings think, on particular (culture war, identity related) topics, is a core problem that is preventing forward progress on not only climate change, but a wide variety of issues.

I am completely open to the idea that this theory is incorrect, but it seems almost no one who is even willing to acknowledge the possibility that it may be correct - an observable phenomenon which I proclaim further supports the theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Summar...
GCP is more customizable/better for edge cases of power users, but AWS is better for something like 90% of users
Note that converting a boolean matrix m to an adjacency list is easy. In k:

adj: ,/(!#m),''&:'m

In fact for something like SCC, &:'m is good enough since you are going to iterate over all the rows any way.
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if proper procedure isn't enforced, especially if others are routinely encouraged not to follow it, then it isn't proper procedure.
The next big step - pyramid schemes, where you can drop your own price to pay, if you convince others to pay up or infect them.
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The listing price of the non-international edition isn't a thousand dollars -- it's about a hundred new, with several $50 listings for a used copy. Which is pricey, but not as egregious as e.g. Stewart's Calculus which runs close to $250 new for the latest edition
In the end, how much would unionizing hurt Google's shareholders/executives? Surely they have enough riches already, why not allow the employees to improve their lot as well?
Bye bye Jive.... Great day for competitors in the VOIP space.
==it's worth keeping in mind that what looks like redundant waste is sometimes an important guard against some kind of failure. Just because it isn't always used doesn't mean that it's not worthwhile.==

Even more likely is that the redundancy exists because of something bad that happened in the past. That is how most regulation comes into existence.
Reddit barely has traditional ads to block. You don’t see them on any mobile client I’ve ever used. The native ads vastly vastly outnumber them anyway, and the only way to get away from those is to leave the entire site.
You realize Amazon went their route because of inspiration from eBay? There's a good ReplyAll podcast about that.

All the big mega-sites (NewEgg, Amazon, eBay, Reverb, Etsy) are really just sites for tons of marketplaces.
Similar, using triggers, Python, aiohttp + asyncpg: https://github.com/frafra/postgresql2websocket/
The United States has no data protection laws to speak of (over this kind of data). Renting/selling access to run queries over this sort of data is entirely legal. All it
would take is another half dozen years of our society continuing to move in the direction it has already on privacy.

It may just be de jure legal though; I bet it would be shown to be de facto illegal once people started mining data from federal judges and legislators...
It is awesome to me that you have apparently entirely missed the point of Colbert's SuperPAC. You should check out Les Misérables, a standard legal procedural about a dedicated police detective on the trail of a dangerous felon.
I wouldn’t say that, they also kill things that are working out.
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Perhaps the community has changed, then? I was learning about 10 years ago and almost everything I found was political or arguing about Esperanto itself. I never found anyone talking about hobbies and such, beyond basic pleasantries.
Subverting internal security systems by going through the usual approvals process for a code review? When it was her job to add notices to the tool she was working on? And arguing that she deserves to have her career sunk because of it entirely?

What absolute extreme bullshit. By your own arguments if a security engineer was advocating for increased security against management, they would be considered an activist and someone that deserves to be fired, tarred and feathered and tried as a witch.