skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many countries without an extensive history of colonialism have achieved the similar prosperity to the great European colonial powers

That only makes it worse.

> Hard to make the case that colonialism is the sole or principal factor that produced the prosperity of any of these countries.

If I make 300k a year via human trafficking can I then point towards a doctor also making 300k and say "see, that means I didn't make my money through human trafficking!"

> But if it is true that Portugal (23k) is an evil white supremacist economy and Lithuania (23k) is a virtuous economy, we should study Lithuania! Great job lads!

Now you make it a race thing when nobody else has even mentioned race.

> Does the Republic of Ireland (#4 per capita GDP) need to pay for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

I can't see any way you could make a case for that. What's next, making Israel pay Germany?

> Is the Ottoman Empire also very bad? Do the Turks need to pay up? The colonialism people seem to pass over them for some reason.

Nobody in this thread has mentioned Turkey but you. Seems like you want to make this a racial thing.
I also read, the nurses that were commuting from other EU countries to work in Germany are now going back to help their home countries.
Some years ago, I saw a comedian mock the idea that immigrants were a threat to American jobs by joking that he had always wanted to be an underpaid farm laborer and can't make that dream work because the illegal immigrants took all those jobs.

In America, it used to be common for young men in high school and college to do construction work during the summer. Now, it's mostly immigrants.

When I was still a military wife, they changed the fitness test to be less stringent for younger members because they were having so much trouble getting qualified recruits. It really pissed my husband off because they didn't make his test any easier. He was in his thirties and was told "You've been working out for years. You are in the best shape of your life."

Developed countries are turning into nations of couch potatoes who turn their noses up at hard physical labor and probably couldn't do it if they wanted to. Or could but it would be extremely hard on them and there would be additional personal costs akin to training for a marathon.
It depends on what your business is. I know multiple folks who are comfortable with an $80K/year net business who work maybe twenty hours a week.

With managed expectations it's very doable.
So we have labour shortages in countryside and unemployed people in urban centers. Problem?
It definitely does - nothing is perfect, but the core ideas of version control for config, continuous deployment, automated testing, focusing on bottlenecks, and tracking data are all valid.

The dev ops handbook is a good compliment for real world examples. I’ve personally seen good dev ops turn things around and make products way better.
Woah, that sounds scary. Can't say that I don't believe it though. Some people are just that creepy.
It's likely, unfortunately, that the Tokyo data is fiction. There's been a significant spike in new cases starting immediately after the Olympics were officially delayed.
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When I took data structures and algorithms, I believe almost every single lesson was concluded with the caveat that constants are important.
Farmers generally aren't the ones getting rich though are they? I think that says a lot.
In the 1990s Microsoft certainly didn't think about malicious inputs to its software, and the world suffered.
Yes you should ignore the details of friction for the first few semesters.
Spain grows most of the fruit and veg, whilst the netherlands grow mostly flowers.

The demand for flowers has somewhat waned and recently saw an article of flower farmers in Africa suffering as nowhere to sell and case of piles of flowers composting away. The impact in that market will be very impacting.
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There are a bunch of articles about it but nothing scientific. For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894

And it turns out I was wrong. There is one spot 21.7 miles away from a road deep in Wyoming.
I dislike this strategy because then everyone pretends to be xterm and we’re back to square one.
“HN isn't a place for general political arguments”

I wish we’d stop lying to ourselves about this.
Yes, the bailout should've required all flights scheduled during shelter-in-place to be refunded. Millions of consumer dollars tied up in airline credits is a net drag on economic stimulus.
To get past the paywall:

document.body.dataset.paywallOverlayStatus="hide";document.querySelector("#graphics-paywall-overlay").remove();
tldr; needle in a haystack, rolling polyhash
EFF Asks Cali AG to Close Loopholes, Respect “Do Not Track” with Regulations
This is such a weird comment, you might as well say no one forced humans to be such social creatures allowing viruses spread easily. People make relatively optimal local decisions based on the situation at hand. It's ludicrous to suggest they should have foreseen this situation and just paid more for labor. That kind of second-guessing could be applied to basically 90% of the world right now, and the other 10% just got lucky.
This was, and I think still is, CDC advice. (Personally, I disagree, but I'm not an expert.)
>An important property of reuse is that the reusing part ... does not work without the reused asset

Its also naive to expect that implementing your own local provider (if even an option for you) will generally improve on the reliability over a remote/reused provider.
Despite not having any information on American Airline's website, I was able to get my money for a cancelled flight last year from Europe to the US (due to technical problems on the plane) by just doing the contact us form and putting in all the info. But of course, they didn't have any of this info listed on their website in a way that told me I needed to do that. The check was mailed on time, and I was actually pretty surprised.

Definitely try to get your money under the EU regulations! It's worth the time.
> IMO, thinking about and understanding these trade offs is one of the main differentiators between a junior and senior developer.

I agree, but in a way opposite to what you intended. An experienced developer[0] should be able to look at a situation like this and realize that few more minutes of focus can yield a better (array-based vs. list-based) implementation[1]. There are no downsides to that (arrays were only slightly less convenient in that case, syntax-wise), improvements occur regardless of scale. The list-based solution was a bad one at the scale it was originally written for handling.

I believe a hallmark of an experienced developer is writing performant code from the get-go; this is accomplished by not making stupid mistakes like this, and it costs pretty much nothing in terms of coding time or code complexity. All it takes is a little knowledge and caring about the product's performance.

--

[0] - I hesitate to use the word "senior", because to me, whether it means anything depends on the company one works in. In many, a "senior" developer is just the one that came before all the "junior" hires, and it doesn't matter that that developer is a fresh bootcamp graduate. And once you can put "senior X developer" on your CV, it's likely your next job will give you seniorship immediately as well.

[1] - and an extra few more minutes would give an implementation that doesn't allocate new memory unnecessarily - also a huge performance win.
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The real lesson here should be: don’t make assumptions about performance. Take real world use cases and measure!

That’s what my professors drilled into me (I specialized in high performance computing) and it’s served me well.
> A board/council of nationally elected representatives should manage whatever share of these companies the government owns

This has succeeded practically zero times in the history of nationalisation. Transitioning a culture from private ownership to public is highly value destroying. And putting electeds in charge of companies goes about as one would expect in terms of venality and competence.

The better strategy is to have a board appointed by elected representatives with a finite term and mandate to return the assets to private ownership.
Write Less Code, Use More Tools (2017)
One model's axiom is another model's theorem.
I don’t know why I did that, you’re definitely right and it’s about data general so I know it’s non-fiction.

I guess the narrative style made it feel like a novel to me and I just impulsively classified it incorrectly.
This statement works equally all when you swap "jr" and "sr", so just leave it out
> I mean, the market does. Most people won't pay an 50% on food because the farmers pay a living wage.

I always get a chuckle hearing this talk from the sort of people pushing for $15/hr fast food wages.
These companies were shut down under extraordinary circumstances, and the economy also shut down in a very uneven way and for an indefinite time, with another potential shutdown to counter a winter resurgence. About half of Americans are still not under lockdown.

The picture to me is that the country does not consider itself as in the same boat.
_brrrrrr_

Goes a fast spinning motor
The senior dev knows the system, knows what they can get away with, and has choices to use those knowledge powers. A newbie will always follow the programming rules, like never going over the limit on a hwy. as they can’t take much calculated risks
>All bailed out companies should be nationalized to some extent

Is there an example of nationalized company that operates in free market and still manages to turn a profit for the investors(citizens).

I wouldn't make an investment in usps or amtrak as a citizen with profit motive as a tax payer.
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For how many semesters? All the way through to graduation?
There is a faint whiff of hypocrisy in hiring foreign labour, it suggests to me that some sort of cash-in-hand deal is afoot that isn't in line with local labour practices.

This is a serious and concerning situation. However, it also has a certain schadenfreude of wealthy Europeans waking up in horror at having to pay local wages in excess of local social safety nets in order to grow their own food.
Serious question: do we have historical comparisons, can we refer to instances where nationalizing in the wake of a bailout led to positive results?

The one comparable I can think of in the US is Amtrak, which is functional although not exactly wildly successful.
>Nobody forced the farmers to become reliant on migrant workers though

They had the alternative to give up, maybe try to find a job in the city or suicide? I am wondering if you imagine this farmers having a big pile of cache because they cheeped out on workers.

Maybe I am wrong so please let me know what would you do if you own a farm and you can't find a job nearby, some people will abandon their homes and go in a big city to work there but not everyone can do that or enjoy working on some assembly line and live in a concrete block.
"we" aren't lying about it to ourselves. It's enforced from the top down because VCs (such as the benefactors of this site) strongly prefer that their founders ignore culture and society to focus 100% on business. The lack of politics on HN is not some kind of community consensus.
Integration with auto cert would be really nice. That is usually the biggest chunk in the body of my Go servers' main functions.

Edit: Is it also easy to hook up a CRSF middleware?

I guess that's my pain point with modern web development. Most cool features need SSL, you should add CSRF protections, gotta pick a good password hashing algorithm. I know how to do it but it's a bunch of tedious work when I just want to hack something together. Would love a framework that streamlines all that.
This reminds me of how insertion sort is the most efficient sorting algorithm for small values of n. I remember new-grad me always dismissing insertion sort in every situation because of asymptotic complexity. Engineers are supposed to find the most pragmatic solution without biases.
> From Huelva to Hamburg and Newcastle to Naples, Europe’s farmers are struggling to find people to bring in rapidly ripening fruits and vegetables, which frequently must be hand-picked, usually within a window of just a few days. They typically rely on seasonal workers from eastern Europe or northern Africa, but fears of the coronavirus are keeping hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers from leaving home, and controls on once-unfettered borders are stopping many of those willing to make the trip.

This is a recipe for shortage. Unlike funbucks dashed off by central banks without so much as breaking a sweat, it takes actual work to grow, harvest, and distribute crops. It also takes time.

All of these things can't be faked the way that currency can.
I hope it reminds people it's possible to live a life without traveling hundreds of kilometers every week, and that what matters it spending time with your loved ones, having food, shelter, and access to healthcare. We can change our lifestyles towards something less harmful to our environment, and still live happy lives. Nobody is entitled to a lifestyle that destroys the environment.
Senior has a lot more types of ammo to use to solve problems let’s just say
I can see how this wouldn’t be covered in an undergrad cs education. I took only a single computer architecture class which was extremely limited in scope. The only reason I knew about vectorization during undergrad is because a friend mentioned it to me once.
Talk of cuts is a lie no matter how it's sliced.

https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/

"Looking at the wider UK, the amount spent on health has been increasing over the long-term. That’s true whether it’s expressed in cash, cash adjusted for inflation, per person, or as a proportion of the size of the economy."

Population growth puts pressure on public services. The British people have been asking for reduction in population growth for a long time, partly out of concern for the state of the NHS, yet of course have been repeatedly denied by the EU and their own political classes. 4 years after voting to leave the EU largely to get a grip on the ever-increasing cost of public services they still haven't been allowed that.

Doctor and nursing salaries are pretty low in the UK

They're extremely high. The average pay for specialist consultants in the NHS is £120,000 or approximately 6x the average salary. This is dramatically higher than in say, Germany, where specialists earn 80,000 Euro on average. That's £71,600 or a bit less than 60%.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=average%20salary%20for...

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-uk-doctors-salary-re...

if management is diverting capital expense money to salary increases, they are doing a poor job of it.

They've done an excellent job of it. From 2010:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/8206972/Billion...

"Billions of pounds spent on improving NHS hospitals has mostly gone on staff salaries while productivity has fallen over the last decade, a key National Audit Office (NAO) report has found."

"Between 2000 and 2009 the NHS workforce grew from 1.1 to 1.4 million - almost a 30 per cent rise. That included an extra 12,500 consultants, whose average pay rose from £71,900 to £120,900 over the same period - a 68 per cent increase. Doctors' pay rose by 48 per cent, nurses' and midwives' by 36 per cent and managers' by 34 per cent"
Its safe to keep using cash https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-cash/
There’s already a long list of people and institutions that are culpable for deaths during this Pandemic. The whole mask thing is one of the more infuriating. It’s been so obvious to so many from the get go that it was one of things the Government needed to get right and get started on increasing our manufacturing capability ASAP.

Everyone out there that wants to end the lock down needs a plan. One of those items we will need in order to do it safely is lots and lots and lots of masks and a requirement for people to wear them in public.
I'm super happy to see more static tools to prevent or at least find buggy code.
Interesting. what should be saved. Whats weird though is that all that music was sitting in a private archive. What are the chances someone would go through them.. The public can't discover them. So there they sit.

Part 6.

A skeptic might argue that this is as it should be. In the 140-odd years since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, countless recordings have been made under the auspices of record companies. To conserve anything close to all those recordings has proved impossible; it may not even be desirable. The caretaking of canonical material, the Bings and Billies and Nirvanas, must naturally take priority. To ask that the same level of attention be lavished on all music, including stuff that holds interest only for obscurantists, is to demand a preservation standard that prevails in no other area of culture. If the sole vestiges of thousands of old recordings are a few stray 45s lining the shelves of collectors — perhaps that’s not a cultural tragedy, perhaps that’s a commercial-art ecosystem functioning properly.

Perhaps. But history holds a counterargument. Many recordings were ignored for decades, only to be rediscovered and enshrined as Imperishable Art. The Velvet Underground were a commercial bust in the late 1960s and early ’70s but have proved to be one of the most influential groups in history. Then there’s Nick Drake, the English singer-songwriter who recorded three LPs of dreamy jazz-inflected folk between 1969 and 1972, before his death at age 26. During Drake’s lifetime, his albums sold modestly. A cult fan base developed following the release of a box set; in 1999, Drake’s song “Pink Moon” appeared in a Volkswagen commercial, and sales went through the roof. All three of Drake’s LPs were included in Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 tally of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
That has been an issue from the beginning and has a long history of success, failure, etc. See Cesar Chavez etc.

The endgame is for those jobs to be automated also.
We want information about the pandemic, don't we? If we do not pay for it, all we will get is what people figure out in their spare time while confined to their homes. Without paywalls, we would just have Kickstarters like "If everyone who wants to know whether farmers are able to produce fresh fruit gives me $5, I will go and ask them!"

You can always get the information by word of mouth or waiting. The amount you're not willing to do that is the amount you should pay to see it now. (I don't pay and just read the reaction in the comments for free.)
Walls coming down on coal. Good riddance.
I'm usually not that optimistic, but trying to cope with the COVID-19 situation made me significantly less cynical. It's as if my mind avoids certain patterns of thought that could disrupt my fragile emotional stability at the moment.
I’d also add Small Fry to this list - Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir. Very different in style, but very good and focused on the family life part rarely talked about.
I love the concept!

I'd echo what one person said:

It takes 1 word and add suffixes. No need for "AI" to concatenate suffixes from a suffix/etymology dictionary-- I imagine the results are practically the same.

That said, again I really like the idea.

I would like it to support a phrase, however, instead of just one word. I tried a 3 word generation, and it only focused on the first word, and just added suffixes to it.

I'd like to be able to add 3-5 meaningful words to it, and it puts together a meaningful/catchy new word or 2. (i.e. brand name-- doesn't have to be a real word)
There's a special place in hell for the people who work at those fake call centers in India and take advantage of elderly people. They confused my 80-year-old dad, who is slowing down noticeably, about a year ago. Luckily he gave them his debit-card number, and Wells Fargo was great about canceling the charge, but it still involved a lot of time and anxiety. I hope whomever scammed my dad gets scammed himself, when he's older.

I loved the Missing Hit episode of Reply All and need to make a point of seeking out this podcast more. The only episodes I've heard, I've loved. There's another good one that must be at least a year old now about scammy products on Amazon.
When my family was homeless, we would have killed to have had the security of an AirBnB available back then. Instead we stayed in a number of different places, many of which were downright dangerous.

After we clawed our way out of poverty, my parents were unable to afford to take our family anywhere for over a decade. The first family vacation we ever took we slept in the car and brought all of our own food. Poor people need to take a break also and this terrible vacation was blessed luxury from multiple jobs, daily danger and sickness, and grinding poverty.

My extended family is also spread all over thousands of miles as jobs were to be had. A simple visit to meet grandparents, or to meet cousins or other family is not a middle class problem. Poor people have families and loved ones as well.

I'm going to say this as respectfully as I can -- you don't know what it means to be poor with unstable housing, and you should think more about speaking for poor people, what you perceive to be their needs, and should stop scolding other people for not being poor.
You want dual NICs and IPMI if you have more than a handful boxes. They have some trimmed down boxes with less storage and expandability in the "compute" series.

Still, the "rest of us" in the title is more like "you're not Facebook" than home hobbyist or small company.
I'm Paint Shop Pro refugee. I started using PSP back when it was developed by Jasc. Then I bought several versions of Corel's iteration of PSP, but the quality went down quite noticeably.

Affinity series is awesome. I bought their Photo last year, and today - they're running a sale - got the Designer. Very nice product!
What are you saying was copy and pasted? I'm suggesting what you're suggesting: better details, not aggregates that are meaningless.
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> In America, it used to be common for young men in high school and college to do construction work during the summer. Now, it's mostly immigrants.

Because college or college-bound adults are, if they are motivated enough to work in the first place, mostly focussed on work that provides a competitive advantage in college admissions and post-college careers, which trade labor mostly isn't.
This is why I suggest operating the companies via a democratically-elected board. If the management sucks, vote them out.
No. You wouldn't want people slipping on stage.
Your chain is a bit long and speculative now though; and many links in it have become independent of global warming.

Your new links have more probable causes than Global Warming. This current pandemic has done more to global supply chains than the next 50 years of global warming is likely to.
Or perhaps because political arguments online are 99.9999% ineffective at changing anything, and 99.9999% effective at causing discord.

I assume someone, somewhere was once swayed by a random stranger to change their mind, but it doesn't happen often enough to outweigh the costs.
While the Bay Area shelters in place, construction on mansions and luxury condo
O dear.... Am I happy that I never studied computer 'science'..... On the other hand, there must be smart computer science students and/or smart places of education where actual learning about processor caches and the like takes place.....