skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd strongly argue you want to deplete reserves of foreign immigrants that want to come fill in any population deficit you have before you start subsidizing reproduction. Humanity as a whole is still growing, that population growth is largely limited to poorer nations, and as such it just doesn't make financial sense for nations to be paying people to have kids (and bear the associated stresses, complications, and expenses from having often full time laborers also burdened with trying to raise a family) when there are billions in poverty that immigration could uplift.

It also has historical context. Colonization around the world happened on the back of permissive immigration - when early America needed labor it didn't pay every family to have more kids, it brought the poor over from Europe with the promise of opportunity. And while the investments needed to make a worker productive are much higher today than back then it applies to both a natural born or immigrant citizen all the same.

A lot of it is cultural though. The unrealistic expectations heaped on most western working class peoples to both have a successful career and somehow produce a well adjusted functional progeny feels to me like the same kind of fantastical unrealism of the titular American Dream - where everyone could have two cars and a separated house anywhere, drive everywhere, and that scaling that up to hundreds of millions was both practical and optimal. In practice, no, very few members of the working poor are skilled in parenting enough to somehow magically balance 40 hours a week between two parents on subsistence income with raising children effectively. Perpetuating that lie causes real harm to everyone involved. Its the same kind of doublethink that keeps global warming off the agenda as a legitimate threat - the need to protect culturally established norms even if they cause real harm to perpetuate.
A lot of webhost + domain offers come with complimentary email. Just remember to pay your renewals or all hell breaks loose.
I want people to be free to make the tradeoffs that they prefer. If someone wants to choose family over work, they should be free to do so (that doesn't mean that they should get the same rewards as the person who prioritizes work over family). Similarly, those who prioritize family over work should be free to do so.

It is an awful injustice to restrict someone's individual freedoms on the basis of their gender (and no, it's no consolation that it's in service of some arbitrary desire to prevent differences in distributions for some trait between the genders).
You probably know this, but for others, onion (and other veggies) freeze well. I'll usually chop up most of the bag and put all of it in freezer bags and freeze laying flat (breaking them up during the freezing process to they stay loose). It is then easy to pour out half cup or whatever the recipe calls for.
(Context: I'm an intermediate developer at a medium-sized tech company.)

For my 6-7 year career, there was always large ambiguity about how I can get to the next level. I'm so down to try DevPlan, seems like a huge gap in the market for this kind of planning and training.
I do not think he is suggesting any course of action beyond awareness that their position is less stable than it might be in other jobs.
Economics is a post hoc explanation for how the market works. It's not like somebody came up with the theory of how a market should work and then built one, like you would a computer. Rather, markets existed back in the middle ages before economists did, increased the wealth of its participants, and economists later appeared to explain why that was the case. Nowhere is the prerequisite that this system is the result of logical design.
A Collection of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior – Snopes.com
Google suspends Podcast Addict for cataloging publicly available Covid-19 feeds
Yes, but vitamin D production relates to direct sunlight ... I think the angle of the sun and amount of atmosphere it has to go through affects UV amounts so a warmer European country does have less direct sun therefor more potential for vitamin D deficiency ...

TBH I am not super solid on every one of these details.
French officials have admitted they lied initially because of the mask shortages, which weren’t solved until recently.

I agree they lacked preparedness. They also reacted far too late ( the lockdown was postponed in France to hold local elections mid-March. From what I’ve heard all political parties were on board with that plan, even though the opposition is now using it against the govt.).
This is one of the reasons that "open source" by itself is not enough for "user liberation" as it is usually painted.

What point there is to forking a platform where the upstream is as big as a mammoth as Google, changing millions of lines per release and actively breaking API compatibility?

Your fork will stay stuck in an API version that in a couple years will have almost no programs written for it. Who would use that?

Your only choice is to try to match the manpower from Google and try to keep your "fork" up-to-date. But that is also guaranteed to eventually fail as someday Google will change something that you literally _lack_ the manpower to revert.

Which is why I can't recommend an "open source" _Android_ phone. I don't feel promoting Android at all, even if open source, encourages my user freedom.
And how does driving fit into your argument? It is both putting others and yourself at risk and yet we allow it... My point being that we can each sit here and pull out example after example that proves either side is correct. As such, is it not pointless to do so?
A more fitting parabole would be, a US company banned from operating in Germany that could provide German citizens with an incredible amount of information if only the German government didn't block any access to its service.

Because in case you hadn't noticed, Google is entirely blocked in communist China.
Also - It's not the companies competing in the unicorn market, it's the VCs. The reason why there are no competitors to Uber and Lyft, is because the unit economy is completely broken. If you're not backed by billions of VC & banking money to let you lose on every transaction, the market doesn't really exist. It's artificially created on borrowed time, cashed out in IPO, and numbers shenanigans. VC's virtual limitless access to capital is dangerously giving them powers to choose winners and losers and control the markets, economies, and the fate of large workforces in the world.
Not wearing a helmet on a device whose front wheel is a fulcrum of a lever that can smash your head on the pavement at a moment's notice is monumentally reckless.

The helmetless riders are a real issue. And the injuries caused by the morons using them are a business model externality that isn't dealt with.
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Aren't tablets just laptops without keyboards?
There’s no reason AI can’t happen from a single jump in innovation
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It is. It's just that most western people are not willing to admit that.

But then again, why do US citizens travel to Asia for medical procedures? Because it's cheap and good enough.

Oh and didn't the UK pick Hong Kong and Singapore as their role models for revitalizing the country after Brexit?

And you maybe noticed that many high-profile Google research papers are full of Chinese last names?
Europe's supercomputers hijacked by attackers for crypto mining
Lyft also set such pretentious goals for 2021 last year. Not sure what crystal ball they were basing their forecast on but, such jokes are meant to be reserved for a late night comedy show not in an earnings call. [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-expects-to-be-profitable-a...
>It's way easier to find someone you know to help you on Windows than Linux, for now.

Really? Windows seems to be losing developer mindshare pretty fast and I’m not convinced this isn’t already the case. In college the capture the flag group had a serious problem finding people familiar with windows development and most junior software engineers I’ve met are much more familiar with GNU/Linux than windows.
True, but that still makes them a market fad. Even if you got cities on board, the costs are fairly fixed, so while the scooters are fun, it was never a feasible business at scale.
Worth pointing that your position at a unicorn is probably more secure than at a random small startup.
About 3 severe and 8 less severe panic attacks since the start of the pandemic, I sure as fuck don't either.
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I've had hard disks fail in a PVR setup (heavy load), I've had memory fail, I've had motherboards fail, I've had power supplies fail, and I've literally typed laptop keyboards to death in ~2 years. I'd be utterly unsurprised about a GPU failure.

The best case scenario is "selling it because I'm buying a new one", the worst case scenario is "selling it because it's starting to flake out", and "selling it because the warranty ran out" is not much better.
I'm already looking at the competitors to the Model 3 that are coming out in the next few years. I have loved this car, but Musk is toxic and I don't want to be finding him anymore. I know maybe 5 other people with Teslas, and two others have already said they're looking to switch too.

Part of the Tesla story was that it could be a California pride thing. When Musk makes the state his enemy, and acts like an idiot, and is simultaneously an absolute publicity whore that claims credit for all sort of work that is not his, well, he had better be ready to accept the consequences for acting like a traitor in a war.
just to be clear: I had not intended/endorsed any double posting. It just happened that someone submitted it as well.
At this point in Carmack's career, I doubt money is a top three reason for why he takes on a project.
You might want to check your sources on that.
I am a big fan of sleeping. It makes sense to try to optimize how you use your time awake than to try to do everything in a sleep-deprived state. I've definitely spent days after 4 hours of sleep pounding away at code, seeming to be productive, and then waking up the next morning, thinking "wtf is this garbage", and then deleting it. That's 16 hours wasted, to save 4 hours in bed. Doesn't seem like a good deal to me.

I think if you really want to micro-optimize, you need to be able to set up quantitative metrics and then start playing with variables, and then make very small changes. Maybe you only need 7.5 hours of sleep, not 8. If you are set up to measure the differences in mood, wakefulness, etc., then you can probably detect when you've not gotten enough sleep. But, you might not like the results. Rather than fight them, you probably have to embrace them (or seek medical intervention).
I am, and I've written both production and non-production software. I know that every piece of software has limited development resources, and has different demands on those resources. We're in the midst of a pandemic right now and demands are particularly acute for fresh simulation data, with simulation parameters changing constantly based on new information and policy proposals.

So what do you do with your limited resources? Do you tell the government you can't get them any preliminary data because your multithreading system doesn't work, and you need four months to refactor the code (even though you could just run single-core)? Do you tell them that because you have to write a complete unit testing framework, you can't give them any modeling data or update your model parameters, sorry, good luck with everything.

Do you tell them that another 30K people may have to die based on wrong policy choices because you have decided to prioritize "shipping-production-quality" software standards, even though you are not shipping your software?

You can pretend that this is not a trolley problem. But in this case it literally is. You are standing at the switch in the tracks, and on one side is a detailed set of unit tests and multi-core support, and on the other hand might be tens of thousands of living people. And you know your code better than anyone else in the world. What do you choose?

I don't have an answer. I'm saying the answer is hard, and we're not equipped to lay claims on it based on glancing at a Git repo.
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You're being slippery, which comes across as dishonest.

Why does the resource weight have anything to do with the choice of defaults? Settings don't care how often they are read, they only care how often they are set. Large jobs use a disproportionate amount of total resources, sure, but they are tiny uptick in total configuration.

The stakes are higher, but so is the 'budget' for getting things right. I can deploy 5 servers and just wait to see what happens. If I'm doing an overnight job to process a billion records, I'd better be doing some due diligence beforehand, or I have nobody to blame but me. And the failure mode here is that I didn't spend money fast enough to get the job done.

With the current defaults what happens is I blow my monthly budget in one night. Which is very convenient for the vendor, but not convenient for my company.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
It is interesting to me how far apart in time some of these were. It must have been quite an experience for it to stay in the minds of revelers for so many years between them.

Or perhaps it it one of those things where it dropped out of though for sometimes decades at a time, but the Thames was such a large presence in their lives that when it froze over stories from parents/grandparents came flooding back and they wanted to recreate and have their memory of standing in the middle of it?
With touchscreens and Microsoft branded/built UEFI.

Except the RT - that was an ARM tablet.
Bridgewater is not an HFT, they are a hedge fund.

That being said - Bridgewater are looking for more than just skills. Bridgewater is very heavy on meetings and those meetings being recorded.
You can ace the skillset, but would be completely inadequate.

Their interview process is great. It's very honest and revealing. I don't fit the company and I made the decision at their campus interview, their opinion matched mine as well.

But, unlike most other companies, you are shown exactly what the company is. Which is very good.

If you can land an interview, you like them and get an offer - I hear that it's a pretty good place to work.
Interview notes on running a technical consultancy
Check this if you've not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042618
I think when mentioning exploitation, this was in relation to the precisely timed pregnancy to gain full benefits, or leaving directly after the benefits period ended. Not necessarily the use of the program, but the “playing the system” aspect.
Ohh....I get it now. Jeez, I need more coffee.

I've always worked in manufacturing so people aren't that easily expendible. Takes a long time to train someone and without them, one of the line shuts down or gets less productive / slow.
This is based on a book one of my friends wrote:

+ https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/45806

Thought it would make a cool website and the rest is history

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// the stack is rails+fullPage.js
Every additional factory is good news.
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No. It's in all the news. But the truth is people love Google. Google gives them so many services for free that they didn't have before.

In many 3rd world countries, smartphones were the "couple months salary" iPhone or an Android that's literally a tenth the cost.

To most of these people, Google has been an unalloyed good. Google is probably one of the most resilient brands worldwide. Even in America it's well trusted. For good reason.
The classification as an "essential service" has only to do with the service being essential to the _users_ of the service, and nothing to do with the workers.

You are completely twisting the label of an essential service in a way that makes it effectively meaningless. For every worker that depends on their salary for their livelihood, their job is essential, but that has nothing to do with an "essential service".
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As a former founder working on the sharing economy/delivery space, UberEats will most likely fail, unless their ATG departments hit home-runs (~5% probability)

The economics are impossible to sustain, and I've been on the ground first hand talked to over 1000 owners at restaurants, grocers etc. Every single one of them has a timeline to get rid of Eats, Doordash, Instacart etc. They're just waiting for the right time to build out their own systems.

There was an enormous opportunity to help them build their systems out that I might pursue if my current venture fails.
I'm good with someone who doesn't think the free press is the 'enemy of the people', who doesn't suggest ingesting disinfectants, and who is ok with releasing his taxes because he's not up to his eyeballs in corrupt schemes.
Well in an argument about Nationwide social policies your opinions and anecdotes are perfectly irrelevant and useless.
These are all excellent ideas and honestly better than the article. You're being too modest.

We solve #2 (and more) by having a highly restrictive default PodSecurityPolicy. We started with a combination of GCE and OpenShift default examples (although we use neither) which are published on github. PSP lets admins and security relax a little at night.

Anything #3 is solved by setting highly restrictive LimitRanges in each namespace that must be overridden in the deployment specs.

It's not mandatory that you override the defaults, but if you don't you're going to get poor performance. If you're fine with that the admins are also fine with that.

Sometimes some occasional throttling during spikes is totally acceptable - it all just depends on whether the app actually needs maximum performance. There are many other apps in the cluster that DO, and in the grand scheme of things they benefit by having the ones that DON'T get throttled.

Apparently Borg handles CPU differently (and better) than k8s in the multitenancy model, but this is the best "poor man's" borg I can come up with and it works for us.
Android offers app-local storage that no other app can write to. Epic simply failed to use it. The alternative would be no shared filesystem at all, but then people would complain about that as well since things like file browsers wouldn't function and sharing things like photos between apps becomes tricky.

Notably, all operating systems that allow programs to write to files have this "pathologically bad security". Download a .exe file on Windows and check its hash before installing and you have a TOCTOU bug where malware can sub the file after you've checked the hash.

Another alternative is to not permit any application to be installed unless it is signed by the OS manufacturer or some other finite trusted list of signers - but then we are right back at the app store model that pisses people off.
Hah, my immediate thought was "no, we don't", then I saw the 15-20 Stephen King books on my shelf... Well, simple answer is they are enjoyable and they easily grab and hold your attention.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219427
Then car is essentially a luxury good, since it's the same - just someone else is driving it.
Android is horribly buggy even on good phones, people used to tolerate it because it was cheap and let people do things they needed.

Now android is just buggy (and literally unsexy) There’s no reason at all to use it.
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No, because subthreads like this are eternal and no effort to prevent them can succeed. They can only be somewhat contained sometimes. If moderation mechanisms need to be changed, it needs to be for more substantial reasons.

Each generation of internet users thinks they're the first to come up with these things, and in a way they are, it's just that every previous generation was also the first to come up with them. It's an eternal cycle of internet forum life. The points you raise have been raised on HN for over a decade (HN Search is your friend!) and if they weren't those points they'd be others.

That probably sounds too dismissive. I don't mean that we're uninterested in hearing from users, getting suggestions, and answering questions. We do that all the time, and it's welcome. But making meta-posts to HN is not the best way to do it, especially in any inflammatory context, where they are almost guaranteed to blow up like the gas station in Zoolander—and then consume all our limited resources for the day, which ought to be going into making the site better.
Thanks. It's kind of sad that there's no single instruction for horizontally sorting in vectors of integers. Horizontal merge/reduce would also be cool
OpenBSD doesn't need their code cleaned-up. Theo is the Liam Gallagher of development mangers.
>The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.

The Founding Fathers used this to their advantage.

They colluded with the handful of major publishers of the time to orchestrate a rolling, synchronized release of the Federalist Papers, saturating the already-monopolized (due to the massive expense of presses and paper) media market with their ideas.

The authors of the Anti-Federalist Papers had no such deal. They had to print out their responses on their own and distribute them by hand.

The country probably would not have even gotten to the point of needing a debate about a constitution, one-sided as it was, if it hadn't been for publishers telling non-conforming opinions to fuck off.

And please, nobody chime in with "publisher v. platform": it is irrelevant, you're wrong.
I was working on fundraising materials for a client that was just-about-to-get-a-term-sheet when lockdown happened. They were reliant on airports and the likelihood of any deal closing soon is slim.

Once I detached myself from the project, I took a good look at my financial models. For every $50 the client took in bookings, they had to pass $30 to operators, spend $9 on marketing, 5$ on refunds, and $7 on overheads.

The assumption was while operator payouts grew linearly, marketing, refunds and overheads grew sub-linearly. There is going to be this nice breakeven point when everything is going to make sense, if only they procure enough capital to get there.

These Uber for X / Casper for X business models are all largely dependent on this belief being true. Whether that's the case or not depends on the unit economics of the market in question. The only way to know for sure is to run experiments.

That, I believe is what easy money has allowed in the US - mass experimentation. In my home country, we don't have the resources to even attempt to find answers to such questions.
How are the followings stats at all "ridiculous":

Google controls 91.89% of the search market [1]

G controls 68% of the browser market [2]

G's android is on 84% of phones operating systems [3]

G has 73% of the search advertising market [4]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/544400/market-share-of-i.... [3] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/16433 [4] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-gaining-google-search-a....
Silicon Valley helps spread same sterile aesthetic across the world (2016)
...and you would recommend they choose a worse setup? Don't we all use programs (e.g. buy insurance then go see the dentist) routinely like this?
Also worth noting that one of Google's long-term goals is to make Android bootable on mainline. They've been slowly upstreaming the patches they built into Android's base kernel, and their Treble roadmap involves further isolating the hardware drivers, to enable running a generic kernel across devices.