skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want to live in a world where the CCP is the dominant superpower? They have a perfect Orwellian state, destroy ethnic minorities, purge ideas that don't fit the narrative, steal land and resources, harvest organs from prisoners, ...

I think we should do anything under our power to prevent that fate. Bolster every other nation in the region, give Japan a powerful navy, replace their one belt with our own. Build out Vietnam's and India's industrial capability, and get started on Africa. Unite with all other Democratic nations in a trade agreement that shuns the China/Russia sphere.

Maybe we can make their system rupture from the inside.
Or Doug Jackson of SV Seeker building a 74 foot steel sailboat in his front yard in Tulsa, OK.
I suspect there will evolve a hybrid model:

- a small number of elite institutions will offer largely the same product they do today, possibly in lower volume but even higher price. Some lectures will be online, combined with in person recitation, lab etc.

- these same institutions’ lectures will be available online, perhaps for free or paid. Why get a lecture from state U when you can get the MIT lecture?

- local third parties will offer the recitation, lab etc. Perhaps you’ll go to a completely independent one, perhaps you’ll attend one that has licensed the GAtech name or has some sort of reciprocity deal in order to proctor exams and such.

- the networking value of school attendance will vanish except at the elite places.

- a few professors, the ones actually presenting the lecture, will earn a living wage, or perhaps even a significant wage. Everybody else student-facing in this ecosystem will earn adjunct/ post doc barely-living wage.

- even the recitations could be conducted online, perhaps by third parties in India who can explain the material just as well or better than someone local. You could be getting 1:1 instruction his way.
History of Egghead Software Stores
Yeah, in this case it was just something like mentioning that people stuck indoors in some cases were playing chess (online) for the first time in years.
The problem is ambiguously stated. A "volume of X" isn't well-defined when the point of the problem is to reason about packing efficiency.
are they not responsible for their actions? Are you assuming they will grow out of these racist tendencies?
My guess before reading is the resulting chow has more air in it.

Edit after reading: I think I am on the money. I don't think it is a completely sphere-packing phenomenon. Quinoa is fluffy when cooked, not soggy and laiden with completely with water. Packing might contribute but I am betting it's mostly air inside the Quinoa making that extra volume.
Trickle down does not work period.

First of all your usage above is not trickle down. Someone opening a business is not trickle down economics. Trickle down economics is specifically the idea that tax-cuts for the wealthier and highest income earners is more effective for stimulating the economy that tax cuts for poorer and low income earners.

And when this concept is studied it is shown to be clearly false. [1]

Being against trickle down economics is not "hating businesses", nor being against entrepreneurship, or anything else it's sometimes accused of. Being against trickle down economics is simply promoting the fact that it was a failed theory. The most effective way to stimulate the economy is by giving it to the people with the least income.

Whether you want to enact is as your govt policy is a separate question - but here we're simply discussing what is the most effective way to make the economy productive and it's putting it in the hands of lowest income people. The secondary and tertiary effects simply make it the most effective method.

Separate from the paper linked above showing the effect of the impact of tax-cuts at different levels of income, there is also a pretty readily available intuition (not in the paper).

When people who have little to no money receive tax cuts they spend it. They spend it on food, they spend it on transportation, they spend it in businesses. By spending it in businesses they increase demand which drives opportunities to open new businesses and and increase the labor pool which also drives more demand.

When people with high incomes and high wealth receive tax cuts they frequently spent it in inflating valuations of existing assets. Ex real estate goes up and there is more rent seeking (no effect on economic production), stock prices go up (again marginal effect on economic production). Frequently the wealthy already had the money to open a business so a tax cut doesn't actually create as much opportunity to open a business as people imagine. And the market is already at saturation as there has been no increase in available income, so no increase in consumption.

An additional dollar available do the poorest eventually makes it to the wealthy after moving through the entire economy via consumption production cycles. A dollar provided to the wealthiest doesn't. It frequently ends up adding a zero to an account, which banks then have to loan out finding more places to invest and you get things like Housing Bubbles, or Softbank, or any other of the many credit bubbles.

And finally, quoting the paper's conclusion.

> [T]he stimulative effects of income tax cuts are largely driven by tax cuts for the bottom 90% and
that the empirical link between employment growth and tax changes for the top 10% is weak
to negligible over a business cycle frequency.

1. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21035.pdf
I'm a big fan of Meditations. Having read both the Gregory Hays translation and the George Long, I have a hard time mapping these very different translations as referring onto the same text. My first impression was, "clearly the George Long translation is a real translation of the text, whereas the Gregory Hays is a contemporary attempt to restate the thesis of each lassage without strict adherence to the original." But without the ability to read the original, this is pure speculation/ignorance on my part. Does anyone have any insight into which translation is the most faithful to the original?
Or, more simply - they give us enough space to express complex thoughts, and there's good moderation.

The problem in the online culture is very, very simple: Twitter. The basic mechanics of the service create an incredibly awful culture. The mentality it has created now pollutes the rest of the internet, as do screenshots of its content. Only narcissists use Twitter. I know a lot of people in my real life - the people I like don't use Twitter, those I don't like do use Twitter. I think we should simply shun people use who use it, and treat them with disgust, as if we found out they get their news from supermarket tabloids or post obnoxious YouTube comments.

Many other internet platforms have risen and fallen before, I don't know why that one still lurches on.
Myth 2. It is pronounced "Qwin-oh-wa"
+1 for Proofs from the BOOK, Visual Group Theory, and Flatland, already recommended by others.

-1 for Polya's How to Solve it - I don't remember a damned thing from it.
I’ve always known it, especially since I ran a “kind of popular” chat forum for a while, and trying to please everyone with moderation, etc... as well as having to realize I have to maintain a level of “maturity” in a way...

But things have reached epic levels of mob mentality. I could post something about someone raping someone else, completely bogus, and it would spread like wildfire, with people making memes of it who have zero knowledge or context.
It looks like you quickly copy/pasted some articles from a Google search, but unfortunately your linked articles don’t back up what you say, rather they only indicate it’s somewhat complicated.

For example from the first link:

> “ However, another expert, this one from The Atlantic, says that where you go to school does matter, and he also has a study that backs up his point of view. There are institutions, especially ivy league schools and those with name recognition, that can improve someone's earning and employment potential, especially in the cases of graduate work. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, both someone's grade point average and their school of choice are determining factors in their earnings.”

which includes embedded links to The Atlantic and NCES research on it.

You also are confusing the question of whether school choice at large is correlated to earnings vs whether specific schools produce graduates who earn more, which is a different statistical question.

Consider from here:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/09/14/how-much-mor...

> “ The median annual earnings for an Ivy League graduate 10 years out amount to well over $70,000 a year. For graduates of all other schools, the median is around $34,000.

But things get really interesting at the top end of the income spectrum. The top 10 percent of Ivy League grads are earning $200,000 or more by the time their 10-year college reunion rolls around. The top earners of other schools, on the other hand, are making just a hair under $70,000.”

It’s not too related but I also disagree hugely with you about algorithm hazing trivia in tech hiring. It’s not correlated with career success and it is used to play politics to do gatekeeping on the candidate pipeline (eg Steve Yegge’s classic on interview anti-loops).

I’ve been a senior architect and engineering manager for a while. I have never noticed any correlation between people who whiz through algorithm interviews and people who are effective at achieving business outcomes and project success once in the role.
gently triggered by someone having a PhD in stat mech and not having to do the grueling proofs of this sort of stuff that at least I did in materials science.
I’d technology connections did a 20 minute long episode on the mechanical design of this toaster. I’d recommend it if you haven’t see it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
You gave 4 examples, none of which correspond to the problem in the OP which OP didn't fail in any way.
I digress on the category definition. Public messaging (without PM or DM features) is still messaging; and often far more useful than trying to forward 1:1 messages in order to bring additional participants onboard.

It's worth noting that GH/BB/GL have all foregone PM features; probably for the better in terms of productivity: messaging @all is likely more productive.
Yes, this! Japan's population is 38% of the US population. And yet they have seen about only 1000 coronavirus deaths to date. I have to believe this is because they just do what they're told without defiantly rejecting the advice of health officials or otherwise doing a bunch of armchair sciencing that leads nowhere.
The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neandertals
His first paragraph suggests he was making a general comment, but I agree that if you’re doing very specific things like calling into optimized libraries then its not much of a problem; however, if you have to call into those libraries O(n) or worse, which is often the case, then you’ll very likely lose all or most of the performance you gained due to marshaling costs (not sure how these marshaling costs stack up to Go FFI, but in ago you would just write optimized Go in this situation—e.g., move allocations out of the hot path, make sure critical paths are inlined, etc—which isn’t an option available to Python developers). But yes, if your use case is calling into an optimized C library O(1) (and you have a high degree of confidence that it will never be worse than that) then Python will work fine (or rather, you won’t be fighting with performance, but you’ll still have to deal with package management, poor documentation, huge binaries, etc).
I believe VidaliaOnions.com was born from buying the domain first.

@searchbound on twitter is the owner. It's his thing to acquire a premium domain first then develop it.
If in 2020 you still choose Kafka as your messaging infrastructure, you are well behind the times.

I get it, I really do. Your manager has heard of Kafka, as has your PM and CTO. Nobody has ever fired for buying Kafka. It’s the new IBM.

“Buying Kafka? It’s open source, so it’s free!” you say, my naïve friend who hasn’t heard of Confluent.

Yes, Kafka is free until you go to production and need things like mirror maker, for multi-site replication. Then it’s time to pay up to the company that has taken over and monetized the project.

But its a pain to run, a pain to debug, uses avro as a binary schema, because everyone uses avro, right? And partitions are great! Until you need to change them and then you’re in for a world of strange and potentially unnoticed bugs from a discontinuity in partitioning as the topic grows.

Or... you could have Pulsar. Dynamic partitioning, more expressive subscription models, multi-active as part of the core product. No BS marketing claiming “exactly once delivery semantics”, aka more than once with receiver side deduplication, aka what TCP does and has always done.

There is no reason to be building something new on top of Kafka in 2020.
The racism aspect has been well covered elsewhere. In addition to this, it is the battle flag of an illegal militia who killed U.S. soldiers. Opposing this clearly has an extremely strong moral foundation.

Your arguments are transparently shallow, poorly thought out, and profoundly un-American. If my arguments would satisfy an automated grading system, yours would fail immediately upon parsing. I see no value in continuing a conversation with someone who claims there is no moral foundation in opposing the killing of U.S. troops by illegal insurgents. Feel free to have the last word here on this message board; in the real world the last word was the surrender of the Confederacy.
Even if education is the objective, someone who disrupts the experience for other students is probably not welcome.
Let's just ban people who think differently from education, that will surely be a great boon to the country...
It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not, who are you to decide who gets education and who doesn't, I thought education was believed to a be universal right.
DM = Direct Message
When there are too many changes, being asked to "just deal" becomes exclusionary itself. I know of communities like that, where most people are unwelcome because they don't know the huge set of rules on how they're supposed to talk, and I don't want programming to become one of them.
Yeah??? I remember so much of the media targeted towards me when I was that age involved being racist "as a joke". Most people grow out of it with age. I mean look at these 1920s racial stereotypes being pushed in a game made a couple of years ago[0] or this song made by a popular children's entertainer[1].

A 17 year old can not vote in national elections, can not drive without restrictions, can not enlist in the military, can not drink, and can not marry. Clearly society has decided that they have not finished developing as people.

[0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vadim_Bobrov

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B****_Lasagna
Are students in higher education currently facing different and conflicting ideas? That goes to humanities students, specially. It seems like when it comes to worldviews universities are almost monocultural, or maybe it's just a regional thing here?
Ask HN: Book recommendations
Hey HN community, I've slacked off on reading in the past month or so because I have run out of material. Are there any books you wanted to share? Can be any genre/subject but please leave a title/author and why you recommend it!
There are professional communities on Twitter with collaboration and learning. But it takes effort to curate lists.
When cooking rice a good rule of thumb is to use equal parts water and rice because a given volume of rice is able to absorb the same volume of water. I imagine the rice or quinoa is expanding as it cooks and absorbs water.
Fairphone 3 is pretty open about where parts come from, where it's assembled and which (moral) standards are applied for there selection of suppliers.

It's also supper repairable (iFixit score 10 of 10).

Problems:

- It has not so good spec, for people which need a high-end (or higher middle-end) smartphone not a option.

- For the spec it has it's expensive.

- It's somewhat clunky. (But hey even a non tech person can repair it.)

- The speakers are at a strange position.

- The microphone is so-so. For usage in normal handy mode it's ok, but audio quality in speaker/video conference mode is bad (but then hey, for that you probably should use a headset anyway).

Good thinks include repairability, close to stock android, large battery, dual sim, micro sd card (yes 2 sims + 1 sd card can be used), NFC, known to get updates for as long as they can afford it, I think it's unlocked.

So if don't use your phone for things it bad at and you are not tight on money it's a totally reasonable option.
I randomly remembered going to this store as a young boy and wondered what had happened to it. This led me to read the rather sad story of the company. Seems like there are some good lessons there-- for one, don't make low prices the major focus of your company unless you have some structural reasons why your costs will be lower than the competition. If they had instead focused on a higher-touch, more consultative sales approach at a higher price point, they would have been able to better withstand the competitive threat from computer superstores like CompUSA. Also, it makes you realize how little margin for error there is when you are in a low-margin, hyper competitive business. Their mistake of stocking up heavily on Windows 3.1 really hurt them.
I believe Graham has done more for the study of these questions than all the haters combined!
Expunged... how? If you said some nasty stuff when you were 17, and now it's "expunged" because you turned 18, does that mean I can't say that that you did those things? Doesn't that violate my right to free speech?
They’re not supposed to ponder the issue. They’re supposed to tell the students that if they don’t like departmental policy the door is that way.
I would imagine that the intersection of:

- People who have done incredibly positive things for their family, town, state/province, country, humanity

- People who have said, not done but only said, things that they probably shouldn't have

is much bigger than most people would like to admit.

Once you factor in that modern research has established that a young person's brain isn't fully developed till they are 25, we should, as a society, really consider what kind of trade offs we should make around actions of teenagers. Especially so when most of the people making these decisions would most likely not pass their own current criteria.
Though I was a smoker myself I’m greatful we mostly made away with this habit and banned any indoor smoking, it stank soo soo bad, it’s surprising smoking caught up in the first place. Learned from Adam Curtis documentary Century of the Self how Edward Bernays started the whole thing up. It’s a great documentary btw
Exactly. But most students don't need these resources, and most current teachers don't work at these institutions
I see this question once a month. TLDR they're a juge company and it's a result of PMs building a product and leaving and sometimes products get killed (see Google's Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/).

The multiple apps started out in different segments and areas (mobile, web, enterprise, consumer, etc).

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-have-so-many-messaging...
And that China sees HK to some degree as a symbol of shame.

Else they might just have keep it for some more years because it doesn't hurt them I thing, well more like guess.
I suspect you're judging too quickly. Those you're having low quality interactions with use the platforms in question //recreationally//. Just like with drugs there's responsible use, and limited use for business, and then there's 'pack a day' use.
<3 Art ... boo open culture !

Good culture > open culture

Thanks Omar!
Flexport is hiring engineers in Amsterdam – we’ll get you a visa
Not sure why you aren't more critical of your CEO than the boogie man of cancel culture taking away our guns, oh sorry, what are they taking away? Our right to tweet without fear? Forgot where I saw that was an inalienable right ...

Businesses making statements about BLM is frankly the height of kneeling-Jamie-Dimon hypocrisy, if their business has no view or angle on it. Amazon immediately slapped up "Amazon believes Black Lives Matter" because ... it cost them $0.0 to do so. Even money contributions to [pick the charity you saw on TV last night] aren't much if 99.99% of your effort concerns ... your business.

Here's a tip for CEOs: it's really simple. Either you (a) take a political stand for personal/culture reasons that are very clear to you, or (b) resist the urge to say anything at all. If it makes people unhappy, then listen to their complaints and suggestions. If they make sense, act on them! Or don't. Here's what you shouldn't do: cower and worry that some employees might be upset. Hell, maybe they'll quit: people are angry as fuck. But, yeah, they probably won't, if your business isn't a total shitshow otherwise.

Also I have to point out: being "roasted in the media" as you say implies that people are paying attention. Most startups are simply not newsworthy.

I mean WTF am I missing here? Do people really think Twitter is a nice place to be? Did people forget GamerGate? Somehow we survived that.
Doesn’t seem to work.
It will be interesting to watch our new language lords evolve. We’ve already seen backlash against Rowling for being a TERF. However TERF ideology was fine just a few years ago. Who knows what will become the new taboo.
Or you could just weigh out 120g?
Chinese law may require companies to disclose cyber-security info outside China
Yes this has been a big issue for a very long time now. Google wants to push a release where it will display the hostname of the amp site even if the content is being served from google.com[1].

Mozilla (and Apple) are strictly against it and thank god for Mozilla. If Google had a bigger market share this would already be something we would have been living with. I'm sure there are better sources for this, but here is the first result:

https://9to5google.com/2019/04/18/apple-mozilla-google-amp-s...
I want to elaborate:

Downvotes are good for BAD COMMENTS. Things which do not add constructively to a discussion.

If someone DISAGREES however, that is what a reply beneath stating the disagreement is for.
OP here, I can't post a comment here anymore, just replies, since this submission was flagged.

It is important from the outset to unequivocally clarify that no one is claiming intentional release of the Covid-19 virus. Both the researchers on the forthcoming paper and the former director of MI6 who bought the study to light say that intentional release is highly unlikely.

The research on the origin of viral outbreaks is scenario probabilities at best and speculative fiction at worst. The main takeaway of this paper is to highlight the risks of lab virus research. Earlier, I had posted in April about US diplomatic cables highlighting the lack of safety at the Wuhan lab (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868580).

We are looking at million deaths and tens of trillions in damage. As a civilization have to come to collective decision that virus research with even the slightest risk of accidental release is catastrophic. Most people including the Chinese seem to be in no mood to even consider the possibility let alone take corrective measures.