skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because the people making the argument come from privileged backgrounds doesn't invalidate the argument itself.

I came from Canada where drug offenses of all kinds are penalized much less harshly than the US. Even in cases of addiction, the social safety net to deal with it is much better: free hospital stays, free counseling, cheap college, better employment insurance, etc.

Effectively, everyone in Ontario can be considered as privileged as the people in your example in terms of leeway given even though I've never been given 10 million dollars for a phone app. We made that decision as a society and since I left the government has started selling marijuana: www.ocs.ca

So when talking about lives being ruined, we have to start asking if the cure of prohibition is worse than the disease of addiction.
Workers cooperatives are too risky, the liability in case of default is not limited in all legislations that i'm aware. There are successful cooperatives in most countries but those are the exception not the norm.

It's always simpler, safer and more wise to incorporate.
Living in Brussels and was searching for a job not so long ago. I just didn't even sent my CV to them beceause they where too far away.
From Brussels to their town it's more than hour and half and that's an optimistic number.
Having lived in several European countries, I would say that ÖBB offers some of the best services anywhere in Europe. In addition to those night services, they are also frontrunners in other highly innovative lines of business, for example train services that allow you to take a bike or a car to solve last-mile mobility problems etc.

That said: ÖBB gets € 700 million per year in subsidies from the Austrian taxpayer in addition to loans guaranteed by the taxpayer etc [1] some politicians use the number € 4.7 billion per year if you some up all the different modes of wealth-transfer (although that number is contested [2]). To put this in context for a very small country: It's a similar order of magnitude as all of the taxpayer-funded science funding in Austria [3]

[1] https://konzern.oebb.at/de/ueber-den-konzern/fakten/subventi...
[2] https://konzern.oebb.at/de/ueber-den-konzern/fakten/steuerge...
[3] https://investinaustria.at/de/forschung-entwicklung/forschun...
My main problem with protobuf isn't the actual serialization or the proto files. It's the use case. They actually pitted this up against REST. REST is slowly going out of favor, so of course it makes sense to start gap filling. But when we look at two major competing technologies: GraphQL or Protobuf to fill that "I don't want to use REST anymore feeling" GraphQL actually solved something useful and pushed the notch forward. Protobuf really just said, hmmm, let's put TONS of constraints down on top of REST to make it more reliable and faster. Basically Swagger 4.0 maybe?

I keep seeing people saying things like well, protobuf can be used to make your GraphQL faster, etc... So you're actually trying to argue for "some" usefulness for protobuf for someone that made it to the next level. That might last, what, 1 month? The only thing that should be responsible for adding a binary encapsulation format would be something built into Http specs, not some kind of custom Rest->graphql->protobuf stack.

/rant over
was the account you created with your personal information? because if you create a throwaway it will be flagged immediately, but if you use the image of a friend for example, you can continue for a couple of hours before getting flagged
Same happens in India with Ola/Uber
A female to C male adapters exist, but C female to A male adapters are forbidden by the spec.

That means you need to create A peripherals if you want the largest audience.
One of the big caveats is that embedded engineering is very location dependend.

Barcelona (where I live) has big demand for web/app software engineers, but embedded engineer jobs are way rarer.

For embedded engineers getting >40k€ is just not a thing around here. In the mean time my friends with backend experience (2y) get that kind of offers on a regular basis.
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Your faith in your religion is touching. You keep believing, no matter the evidence.
Big list of ransomware or possible ransomware attacks in 2019 at:

https://techtalk.pcmatic.com/2019/01/09/ransomware-attacks-2...

I think the date should be December 2019 (not January), judging from the list of incidents by month.

One I know of, against Regis University in Colorado, occurred in late August (first reports from August 22).

https://www.regisupdates.com/regis-quick-updates/test-post

It's mainly a Windows shop. Lots of disruptions for weeks (I teach there part-time, but was not teaching that term). By November(!) things were pretty much back to normal:

https://www.regisupdates.com/regis-quick-updates/its-updates...
I can't wait for the day when we finally get rid of these coordinated assaults on our senses, both online and in the real world. Things like Ublock Origin & SponsorBlock have opened my eyes to a world without adverts.
Isn't that just an extension of the "empire building" that the OP was talking about? If your team is functioning fine with top level or senior developers, why do you have to train anyone? Because senior/top-level developers don't need training and will quickly pick up your system and swim-along relatively fine and learn as they go. That is, if your docs are good, your coverage is excellent and your process is unhindered otherwise by corporate games.

Or maybe they can't spare anyone because they're all busy being trained or training someone.
"The only reason Russia comes out okay in your comparison is because it simply lacks the capacity to project power the way the U.S. does"

Why do you presume this?

"like Chechnya, for instance"

There are no other instances.
And in that particular case, we don't know what the alternatives are. Considering Chechen raids into neighbouring regions and Saudi Arabia's and Turkey's influence in Chechnya, we could've gotten another Islamic State.

As for the US, we don't know what would the US government do if there was an armed rebellion of Hispanic population in the southern states sponsored by Mexico.

"geographical malady of being next to Russia"
This sounds Russophobic. When you want to write something like this, try replacing Russians and Russia with Jews and Israel, and see if it still sounds okey.
So I thought about implementing some type of comment system or Q&A feature, but decided not to right now because I often find that posts on many websites don't have much activity on them, the original poster not responding (especially in a timely manner), as well as having to deal with spam.

Instead, I was thinking about encouraging people to include their emails in posts for people who are open to being contacted with questions. What do you think about that?
I agree. I wonder how confusing it would be to make `is` not allowed on integers or strings. Or define it to be equivalent to `==` for those types. Using `is` in these situations is almost always a big, if for whatever reason you really need it you can do `objectid(x) == objectid(y)` which is usefully explicitly.
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For sure. $1000/yr is excessive. For a third the cost, you can have a three node, small cluster on DO that you can experiment with. I did it prior and will probably do it again in the future when I have something worth hosting out on the web.

I agree with your second point, too. If you don't view K8s as something you need to know _everything_ about, it's a powerful tool that simplifies things that you'd need multiple tools for. I never really learned provisioning tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible and Systemd, so k8s was a fresh experience for me. I like it, though, because I really like containers over VMs as the unit that's running my code.
Don’t know what’s up with products and services replacing C’s with K’s for no reason. This is Klan member syntax, and is a bit of a dog whistle.
This is real, but not the worst thing. Seattle is building out light rail to replace existing commuter buses because

- there are not enough buses or drivers to fill demand

- training more drivers is hard in a tight labor market

- buying more buses would require an additional storage depot, and for various reasons people don't like being neighbors to a bus parking lot

- buses are lower capacity per driver

- buses suffer from traffic congestion as well even in dedicated lanes or streets, and the congestion requires allocating more hours to provide an equivalent amount of service

So Seattle is railstituting to more efficiently provide transport service in the core, and redeploying saved resources to feeders of the rail in less congested suburbs.
Every PM needs to do that, but working directly with a customer isn't always an option for the engineer. Point above is just to point out that thinking about whether you'd use or pay for the service yourself goes a long way in changing a mindset and building empathy. It's not a recommendation to make up stories.
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Thanks for your answer Dave. Yeah I could do consulting as a LeadGen professional, I do have experience in that and have all the tools needed, but as I just moved to the US from EU I dont have a network here. It would take me months until I get the first client.
Disclaimer: this is my brother's company :)

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(ToS language rarely makes me smile -- at least non-sardonically.)
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Why not use APL for matrix multiplication

Minimalism without sacrafice in performance

Look at kx.com, shakti.com
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>> And it's interesting work.

It's also a hard slog, and something very few people _really_ know how to do. Ideally you have to be both deep learning / HPC expert _and_ low level programming expert, and on an "exotic" platform to boot, not on the CPU. Such people are scarcer than hen's teeth, and they have no problem whatsoever getting mid-six-figure employment at companies that don't treat them as an afterthought, and where they can hope for a strong upward trajectory career-wise.

I agree with the rest of your point, and in particular that this is an existential threat to AMD as a whole. I don't get why they don't treat it as one.

Be that as it may, I think you're severely overestimating the present level of "management competence" allocated to something that's not currently perceived as a do-or-die situation at a company that was dying just a year ago.
You do then link to the GitHub repo which has a PDF of your resume with all of your contact info.
that's not a network effect, that is just supply. If the gas station runs out of gas you also go to another gas station, that doesn't mean there's a gas network effect.

There would be a network effect if them having more cars would make it much more likely for them to get even more cars, or add value in some other way beyond the fact that they have one additional driver. That is not the case.

For facebook say, it's much easier to get more users because each user themselves increases the value of the business, because the users interact. You don't care if Uber has ten thousand or ten million drivers, it does not improve the service (significantly) apart from increasing supply.
Oh they're out there. I spend a lot of time trying to convince people to try running. There are so many excuses I hear: it's bad for my knees, bad for my back, upsets my stomach, gives me a headache.
5000 sq ft?? My family of four lives in 1000 and it’s only a bit cramped. Each kid has their own room. I knew homes in the US are larger than in Europe but I’m surprised about the difference.
I doubt it, but, I have been hit up for Go Fund Me money multiple times by people trying to cover unexpected medical expenses. They included friends, neighbors, and my literal actual boss. So, while I doubt it's an appreciable amount in absolute terms, it definitely seems normal.
Pentagon tells military personnel not to use at-home DNA kits
I wish I could read the article but it got the hug of death, so I'm basing this on your comment:

I agree with you -- that's why I think clean code is less important than clear boundaries. All that messy code for matrix multiplication poses a lot less risk for consumers of it when the API is clear. eg. Pass in a 2D array of integers, receive an integer in return.

That's pretty obvious for me to say, I think, but you run into situations where an app, for some reason or another (the main culprit IMO being Not-invented-here-syndrome), couples code like these matrix calculations to constructs unique to the codebase (objects, database structure). That's when it turns to hell.
Show HN: libceque, a pool allocated C11 deque with value semantics
I wonder if they support allowing AVX2 optimizations on non Intel processors; Intel MKL refuses to. I think for that reason alone I’d never use an upstream Intel library directly...
I tried consulting as a LeadGen pro but as I just moved to the US I have no network here so it would take me months to get the first client.
Extensive discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872216
Would be interesting to do some sort of high throughput screening of Jumbo Phages versus bacteria or CRISPR versus viruses to see what other systems might exist.
The conclusion is simply not backed by reality. There are certainly realms where open source has supplanted proprietary counterparts and they all mostly fall under infrastructure type software.

We all use these infrastructure open source software products because they serve needs that practically anyone doing technology work will find themselves to have.

The larger universe of commercial software is HUGE and most of it is proprietary and will remain that way.
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Because people could emotionally connect the ozone hole to bad sunburns.

Plus, the scope was much smaller, which made it easier to move the needle.
Tax refund fraud is big business.

These two are not very smart. The smarter criminals steal someone’s identity, file a fraudulent tax form using their identity, steal the refund, and then let that poor soul deal with the IRS when it comes after them to get their money back.

If you ever try to file and get a notice that you already filed, jump on it right away because you may have been targeted.
Bringing that up in a thread about tokamak reactors would almost certainly break the site guideline against going on flamewar tangents.

I know that can seem arbitrary to people who have strong feelings on the topic, but it follows from HN's first principle: intellectual curiosity. We have had hundreds of generic flamewars about China. Will yet another one gratify anybody's intellectual curiosity? Of course not, because nothing new can be said about any of it. Everyone who cares about these arguments has already heard all of the lines and probably recited half of them. The only thing left to do is invent even nastier variations of the same thing. That's why flamewars get hotter as they become more predictable.

The root phenomenon is: we can have intellectual curiosity or indignation but not both. On HN, we choose curiosity. That means indignation needs to be actively contained, for the same reason that fire does.

If you want to see previous explanations about this, there are tons:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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> there is no proto2 library for C#!

Looks like that's getting fixed!

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/docs...

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...
Eh, running is partly a skill sport. You can have a pretty garbage stride and still run sub-6-minute miles by compensating with good cardiovascular fitness. In fact, most people accidentally improve their stride simply by getting quicker and unconsciously transitioning to a fore/mid-foot strike.

Compared to, say, rock climbing or downhill skiing, running isn't that much of a skill sport.
And the US allies created ISIS. Pretty clear which side to support, don't you think?

Russian meddling in Ukraine has cost hundred times less lives than American adventures in Iraq. And Crimea has been Russian for over two hundred years before it was reassigned to the Ukrainian SSR in Soviet times.
I worked on trying to make flatbuffers work at google and it just never was as fast as proto2/c++. I guess the author of this piece would describe me as an amateur because like the authors of protocol buffers I only have about thirty years of industry experience. AMA.
What sector is the small company? Why did you decide to move there from google?
Stop thinking too much. Look at the crazy stuff North Korea is doing!
Sure, but that doesn't mean they think running is bad in general. Excuses don't equate to an opinion.

If someone told me to run, I'd tell them that I can't because I pass out when I run (medical condition). Doesn't mean that I think running is bad... I just can't do it.
Indeed. I imagine some people do think Java has a well-designed type system. However, you probably don't consider those people to be authorities on the subject.
That's because Boise is not investing enough in transit.

If you have bus routes every 10-15 minutes, you can operate them in straight routes forming a grid without major timed transfer centers, because a bus will more or less show up in the next 5-8 minutes in the average case and that's not the worst thing in the world.

At lower frequencies, like half-hourly or hourly, agencies run something called a "pulse", where every half hour or hour all the buses meet in one location so that people can make their transfers, and it looks like that mall is a pulse location.
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I get your point, but you keep supporting it with examples of products that are well outside the auspices of the GCP business unit.

Yes, it's true that Google capriciously kills products for various business reasons without any regard for customer sentiment. My counter-point to that is that GCP products exist under different conditions, specifically legal and business realities. They have contractual obligations to corporations with very large legal departments. There is also the business reality that if they're going to compete with AWS and Azure then to be competitive they have to behave in similar ways. If they piss on customer sentiment as they have with their b2c services, they'll fail and I think this is very clear to them.

That's not to say that they aren't already failing. As I mentioned up thread, their support is laughably bad and when pressed about that fact, they don't seem to actually acknowledge how that could be a problem.
It wasn't much like being rocked to sleep :-) It's an irregular shunting and shoving. I guess it works for some people, but not for me.
The light from a star moves at lightspeed. His books have FTL drives. You want to see into the past? Hop a starship away from whatever is of interest and then have another look. You're seeing it at an earlier time than your original observation. Repeat as many times as you want. (Note, however, that each hop puts you farther away and thus makes it fainter. Eventually it will be too dim for your instruments.)
It's the norm for entire nations.
They are pretty much holding the funds till it's no longer subject to card dispute/chargeback.
> and they do seem very similar to me.

Maybe on a superficial level, as a lot of the English vocabulary is taken from (older) French, but once for you example read D.H. Lawrence and Proust in original (two great writers both of them) you'll be able to see and most especially feel ("feel" as in not "scientifically" provable) that the two languages are indeed very different. The same goes for French and Spanish or French and Italian, even though all three of them are Romance languages once you go down to the specifics things are starting to look and fell more and more different.

I know that this being a programming-oriented website everything out-there is seen as either data or information, and as such languages are just seen as ways of forwarding or communication that data/information, but in the real world languages have a lot deeper meaning than that.
Even though "we" and "our" sounds better in principle and rightfully gives credit to the team/company as a whole, I've noticed that management oddly like people that speak the opposite way. Speaking about things as "my" team, what "I" would like to do, or what "my" idea is. Saw it recently, even. Coming from a (mediocre) junior developer, coupled with a cocky attitude, and it absolutely infuriates me to watch it.
It is one thing to understand that you are not perfect and you could learn something from everyone and to respect your co-workers.

It is another thing to be a legitimate expert and to not voice your opinion to avoid conflict. I have seen smart people who avoid direct conflict at all costs. Even if that means working on something you know is a bad idea.
Interesting idea! The name is a little hard to take seriously with the misspelling.

Some of the reviews are very detailed with expected salary ranges and career progressions, and others are really sparse- the Sales Engineer for example, or the Flight Nurse which is basically an anecdote that tells you nothing about the field, how to get into it or what it's like. I'd have a template or guidelines for your reviewers, and reject anything that doesn't match the quality of, for example, the Investment Banking VP or the Crane Operator.
Wait, so they report earning some large amount of money, and claim they overpaid taxes on that? And then get a refund?

... is that seriously all it took?
That point is actually about emotions. I think what it means is that children are only developing brain circuity related to emotions and so develop emotional associations with the words in a second language, while adults already did and can understand, control and ignore emotions better and do not develop emotional associations with the words in a second language, or at least not as much.
“One of my colleagues in IT had the pleasure to tell a board member who came to be serviced right oway to fuck off (his words) and to open a ticket, if he knows what this is Then he picked up the phone as someone was calling and turned away.”

This is great. Usually the board member would get preferential treatment and never experience how things really are.
Why is that like marines?
And if you run a 400m once, you will have PTSD when you are on the blocks getting ready to run the next.
If he thought Uber stock would take off, wouldn't he have kept at least some of his stock? (The article notes that he's sold all his remaining stock.)
As explained in the post, it's been 180 days, which is out of the window in which customers can even file disputes.
It seems like it's going to take a long time for people to accept that college has a positive removal cost.