skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might sound crazy, but a previous team I worked on would build solutions in this exact space (public sector) in 10 weeks using one PM and 3-5 engineers. And we would do it for free.
Thanks for rephrasing it so much better! This is really what I meant!
At the very least, that should be provided for NPM packages, since Microsoft now own NPM.

Having those packages verifiably built from source could technically be done by any trusted third party, so it's a pity that this project didn't take off:

https://hackernoon.com/what-if-we-could-verify-npm-packages-...
Along these lines, it would be really cool to see GitHub begin to approach the source code infrastructure that Google has internally. If they added a good build system (heck, just use bazel) and a feature to build code in the cloud (of course, all with open protocols — it’s git after all), we could have a much more standardized open source environment— the overhead to working on a new open source project would be lower since you wouldn’t have to figure out how to build it or how to build dependencies. It would also make it significantly easier to add dependencies and integrate software together.
Musk warns about AGI, Tim Cook is talking about the algos that are currently being used to increased engagement of services.
I am a non immigrant. I just came here to study and want to return once I am done. But one thing I can say for sure, back in my home country I never worked as hard as I did in America. In America, I worked my ass off, I feel like its the robust education system that made me this person. I enjoy studying/working more than going outside and partying. I feel America helped me discover more about myself than I would have ever learned in another country. I thank America and its predecessors who created such a beautiful country.
I make $400k/yr as an immigrant, and boy do I feel exploited :)

Edit: Sorry for being sarcastic and flexing here. I’m friends with many IMO and IOI medalists (per the paper) who are studying/working in the US and I think it’s an amazing opportunity for them. Where I grew up in Singapore, tech salaries are way lower, and as a new grad I think I easily 3xed what I could’ve made back there. I’m not representative of all immigrants but I believe I can represent a class of highly skilled immigrants who appreciate the opportunity. It’s extremely insulting to call people like me exploited, because the next line is - I’m bringing down your wages.
Robinhood has also halted 50 other stocks including arbitrary ones like AMD.
https://investorplace.com/2021/01/robinhood-bans-reddit-stoc...

There must be more to their internal situation they aren’t telling us because they probably just imploded their IPO
Immigrants everywhere are brought in to work for smaller wages than locals. What’s so new or unusual about this? The situation is unfortunate, of course. But the U.S. is not much different here. However, doing the same thing as everyone with less damage to economy (and therefore local working people, taxpayers, etc.) because of productivity is not necessarily such a bad thing. IMO, it should be much easier for productive people to enter any country than it is now. And it should be harder for non-productive ones (it’s too easy now in many places).

Context: I am an expat myself.
But, are they paid 6x the salary?

If not, why not? What is depressing the salary levels at 6x productivity gains? Who are benefiting from gains in productivity and depressed salary?
Thank you for linking this. IMHO the reddit thread is useless (I'm looking for older evidence of this term) but the linked post from seekingalpha is from 2014:

https://seekingalpha-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/seekingalpha...

The description of a short ladder attack from 2014 strongly implies that the short party is attemping to manipulate a stock from its prevailing fundamental value. There is a key difference in that GME's fundamental value is nowhere near the $300+ range that it was trading it on Thursday!

There need not be a misinformation campaign or "attack" for well-capitalized fundamental traders to see opportunity to sell into this. Especially after seeing the capital crunch nailing retail brokers.
New Book: Data-Oriented Programming
Better C Bracing Style
Apache Arrow 3.0.0 Release
The idea is it starts as simple as a docker build (e.g., as easy or easier than GitHub actions, orbs, etc) but scales as your code/infra does.
They don't, there are hundreds of exchanges and plenty of competitors for listings - CSDs & clearing are a pinch point.

But in some ways exchanges also function as a natural monopoly; especially for primary issuance. e.g. look at AMEX's IPO slate compared to the big two, where the market is right now - it's insignificant, and they are the #3 exchange in the US. People want to list to make money, and that means going where the liquidity is until there's a really good reason not to, like with NASDAQ's move to electronic trading in the '70s.
But... why?

Github has very few attributes that make it suitable as an app store. Sure, you could add payments on top of it, you can make an interface for downloading releases or subscribing. Or anyone else could build an app store and just use Github repos as an upstream if they care about that stuff. The Github API is good, it wouldn't be hard to for any existing app store to add more integration.

And how would this help with anything? Is Microsoft better positioned than Amazon to get apps onto Android devices? Is anyone positioned to get a 3rd-party app store on iOS?

What does this solve that FDroid doesn't already solve, how would it better than what we have, and what does Github's core functionality (hosting source code) have to do with distributing apps? If the goal is just to have reproduceable builds or something, most consumers don't care about that.

I don't understand what's unique about Github that means they would have any advantage in this space. Most of what the author is saying is that they trust Microsoft. But Microsoft has an app store. Why wouldn't they just focus on improving that? If they can't get that store on Linux or iOS, why would Github be different?

I really just don't get what Github could do that would make me as a consumer prefer it over FDroid as a distribution channel. And Windows is already a reasonably open platform already. Certainly on Linux, there's no advantage whatsoever. I feel like there's something I'm missing, I don't understand the gist of what the poster is trying to say. I don't get what the point would be.

The only thing I can think of would be adding better support for payments and buying things from repos. But going down that path is problematic because the whole point of Github is that the releases and code that you list is public. A tightly integrated system that made paywalled build artifacts would be a downside, not an upside. The stuff they're already doing with sponsorships is a much better direction for them to go.
In theory could range be extended (for this tech and similar types) through a string of nodes to cover Metropolitan areas?
> I don't agree with the notion that we must "close off" the country in order to preserve said success.

I would argue our success would significantly decline. A majority of Americans believe they’re entitled to the lifestyle and resources they have. A lot of immigrants from poorer areas understand that’s false.

It’s why you see hard working immigrants being successful and their kids riding their coattails.
Nobody is really a fan of the SEC breaking trades, but many view it as a necessary evil to promote stability of the system in the face of fallible humans and potentially buggy systems.

Shortening settlement reduces the time window where the SEC can reliably intervene. Take the example I gave earlier[0] of a pension fund manager fat-fingering an order with a hypothetical 1-minute settlement window. With one-minute settlement, by the time anyone realizes the pension fund has made a 10 million USD mistake, that money may be spread across a charity, a new baseball stadium, and thousands of stock trades indirectly via an ETF arbitrageur indirectly via an options market maker's delta hedging. It's a fictional tale, but it's not far fetched in a world of rapid settlement.

Hopefully some day we have much more reliable automated systems and humans further from the loop, but until then, slow settlement increases the window to take corrective action.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25953459
Book author here:

Let me know what you think about a the book TOC and first chapters.
Government pay scales probably end up costing them more right now anyway. I would rather hire two software engineers at $250k/yr than ten software engineers at $60k/yr. Because those ten software engineers aren't going to produce anything at all usable.
Blockchains are about decentralisation and removing the need for trust. But neither is necessary in the case of stock settlement. If you accidentally have the DTC send someone a bunch of your shares, you politely ask that person for them back and you’ll likely get them. Try doing that with a blockchain (especially if you accidentally send them to a nonexistent address)
The author also created a video demonstrating a PoC https://youtu.be/uf08omKOoxY
Imagine thinking you are representative of US immigrants.
<< laughs with tears and a devilish look in eyes >>

Regardless of the fact that most of the banking sector is still stuck on IBM mainframes from the 60s-80s running COBOL:

I have seen accountants who's only job it was to come in every day and do the same sums on Excel.

I've seen people insisting on a calculator and a printout so that they could sum up columns of an Excel table and send the results back via email.

There are valid reasons to move slowly. Transition costs to new systems are usually immense and the process is a nightmare for banks, but none of what I described fell into that category. It was just people refusing to change their ways. A report for treasury could've been instantaneous with a super simple live updating dashboard. But no. Instead, the CEO got an Excel file emailed to them every week that was put together by 40 people – many of whom entered the numbers manually.

In the industry we have come to call people involved in these tedious processes "hamsters", because they might as well be going up and down the escalator all day.

I don't think many people understand how excruciatingly slow banks move and how inefficient they are.

/cathartic rant over

Edit: (I should add for context that this was a fairly large bank in continental Europe)
By default, you'll write this debug code piece in your program and it will print to console. However, you can design your own callback so it can work whatever way you like.

Also I already implemented the pdb hook so this could work like breakpoint() in built-in library.
It's very hard to make an app that is usable by both casual and power users. So some companies have taken the approach of just appealing to the larger of the two userbases, the casual users, and trying to scale out as much as possible.
I paraphrased, because I don't think the nuances matter that much in context. The subject is a broad disclaimer of implied warranties, after all. Quoting the UCC and commentaries would only distract the reader and make the post longer.
I had heard that Schwab and TD Ameritrade suspended GME trades as well, was that not true?
And their support of the NFL which leaves their students with CTE. We could say it's their voluntary choice to participate but when they're being offered such a juicy carrot to trade off against their health, some people are going to favor the former. It all makes sense when we consider the University is foremost a business.
Actually a large part of financial operations goes through Excel sheets automated by mountains of VBA code.

Hilarious. It's definitely out of the if it works then don't touch it idiom.
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2020/12/27/War-on-License-Not...
Using their logic, should Google itself be banned?

Seriously, you can find some real bad places on the internet when searching in Google.
I train college students as part of my job, and there are definitely some power users, but I am generalizing.

What I am thinking of is, someone who was a programmer ~20 years ago would probably have a lot of *NIX, IT, and networking skills that you could take for granted, whereas today there are coders from many different backgrounds (which isn't necessarily bad).

I've met a surprising number of 20-year-olds who spend their entire day in Visual Studio Code and don't know that Home/End go to the beginning and end of the line. Or they don't know how DNS works. Just two examples off the top of my head.
>I am not following the argument. Are the UK government under any obligation to disclose that to EU?

I don't think I get the question... is a country obliged to say they won't export something to other country? I guess so, how the hell is the other country supposed to know?

Because that's literally what Europe is saying: get the missing stock somewhere else, because there are nothing stopping AZ from doing it.

>Let just say AZ demand a price increase for moving stock from UK, then what? When the contract for that price was signed, even though it did not explicitly state from which plant, the price are considered as a factor for production location. Hence the best effort. Morale issues aside this is no different to literally all supply chain in other industry.

Well AZ is the one that told 2 days ago that it won't fulfill a order of 100 million doses due to March, 30-60 days away, by 70 million, so I guess they are the ones that should figure out that fuck up, if they have to do it at loss or if they have to ask more for it.

They only figured out 2 days ago they will slip a order by 70%, and hide behind their "best effort"? They had be preparing this shipment since at October 2020, at best November 2020 - and only now they figure out they will miss out on it?

Again, something doesn't add up. The EU could have done a lot more if they knew they couldn't have fulfilled this order.
> Before you make money, you need to pay tax?

In countries with corrupt and/or incompetent tax authorities, they try to introduce a fixed tax amount / pay in advance scheme for ... reasons ... where they can.

Usually they squeeze freelancers first. Or random liberal occupations. In Romania freelancers and landlords have to prepay taxes based on last years' income, for example. With the exception of some kinds of freelancers that they just gave up on and make them pay a fixed amount per year. Freelancers prepay taxes in Greece too, as far as i know.
I don't see the privacy issue here. They're just measuring physical activity per quadrant. They can use it to study which products and product areas seem to be attracting the most interest. They specifically don't use photography or wifi that follows people around.

Although the vibration/light sensors are a somewhat novel idea, in the end a retailer already knows exactly what products are sold, in what quantities, which ones are returned, and (anecdotally at least) which ones spark the most questions from shoppers. It's not long in coming before UHF RFID chips will show the products being carried around the store (or out the back door, etc.).

Probably this system would be most useful for determining which products are "hot" and should be moved to an end cap or special display near the entrance. Or they might choose to "bury" the products to force shoppers to walk past tempting tangential items.

Retailing is a science, perfected over many decades. The lights, the music, even the aromas, all conspire to influence shoppers in ways that online can't compete with. I wonder if retail in fact will eventually find a formula to outcompete the online folks. (I'm still kicking myself for ordering a Pi Zero W online when I could have driven the same day to the Microcenter and picked one up.)
It's unclear that this particular project has learned from Larrabee hindsight. The graphics part of the GPU doesn't seem to be thought through at all.

That said, if the goal is to compete with existing GPUs for general compute workload, the graphics part is unnecessary anyway. That could work out, though calling it a GPU is a red herring.
Just to be clear, after a quick read: This paper applies to science and innovation only. Citation-weighted publications are used to compare.

There are countries where migrants are much more productive than the U.S. in non-STEM areas, but it is essentially accomplished by means of almost-forced-labor, and the working conditions are atrocious[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25969442

Edit: Original title of this submission was "Migrants to the US are up to 6 times more productive than migrants elsewhere", until dang edited it.
> But the U.S. is not much different here

The US is profoundly different. Very few developed countries have at-will employment.

It puts immigrants at risk of being fired and losing health insurance in any moment and with 0 warning.

This creates a very exploitative environment.

Not to mention how difficult it is to immigrate, or to get a green card or citizenship compared to many other countries.
Fitting that I see this article when I'm almost done with the book Bullshit Jobs. Working on a TV series that was only made to fulfill a contractual obligation; talk about a bullshit job.
A change feels like it would help. But I do have a family (wife, two kids), a mortgage, and I am the sole provider.

And you may be right about the job rot. It’s been 15 years for me... Maybe I’m just too afraid to take risks given my situation and the job market situation in my country.
Coincidentally, I recently got into running too and have adopted a similar strategy - except mine was inspired by Kaizen principles as adapted to daily life - improvements in small increments so they aren’t overwhelming my existing routine so I have a better chance at consistency and habit formation.
> 171 words every programmer should understand

Except there really isn't any agreement on some of the finer details of the license, no matter how much you want to study and understand it. Does the license text have to be included in only the source code or the compiled software? What if the source code of the derived software isn't made public? What is "substantial portions" of the software? Can a MIT project be relicensed? What is the point of any of these clauses then?

While it is a great license, I wish something closer to just public domain would have become the OSS default, since that is what 99% of developers want anyways.
So I guess you're saying it's much easier to be an entrepreneur in the UK/US. Aren't most people employees, though?
Could you make that or higher amount in your former country? If not, why not?
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The thesis of the illiberal left isn't that universality under the law shouldn't exist, the free speech shouldn't exist, that individualism shouldn't exist, that color-blindness shouldn't exist, that equality of opportunity shouldn't exist, or anything else.

The thesis is that those things don't exist in the real world. And it goes further than that, by saying that those things cannot exist in our society unless major changes happen. But the goal of abandoning liberalism is not actually to abandon those things, but to actually really realize them.

The thesis is that our current systems are not principled either in their means or their ends.

And it is true. Free speech is proportional to your means to challenge threats to your livelihood. Rule of law, universality under the law, equality of opportunity, simply do not exist - depending mainly on your socio-economic status but also on other axes such as racial perception of the individual by society, and so on.

Equally, the thesis isn't that we shouldn't have color-blindness, simply that the current social and material reality makes this impossible. As a result of this, attempts/pretensions at color-blindness simply make the problem worse.

If you didn't notice, the conclusion of the lefitst project after gender equality became progressive weakening and then almost abolition of gender - and I mean this in the strictest sociological sense of gender as the perception of a set of social attributes related to sex. The exact same set of theories are applied to race, before racial abolition there must be a realization of the existence of racial identity (which is indeed the definition of race in the leftist sense - racial identity is completely orthogonal to traits and genetics, it is indeed a completely cultural and social phenomenon and process), then true racial equality, then essentially complete racial abolition.

Systems that actually provide real equality of opportunity will always provide actually equitable collective outcomes on the average.

Equally, the leftist opposition is not to markets themselves. The leftist opposition is to our current set of property relations and to the relationships of productions. Attempts to change those when the time is not opportune have been disastrous, so the aim is to compensate and slowly work towards actually fixing them using state intervention that ancillary limit the freedom of the free market. But there is no inherent opposition to markets at all.

This worldview is only a few decades younger than classical liberalism itself, and started with the disappointed third estate of the French Revolution. Put simply, the thesis is that classical liberalism failed to achieve its promises of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and that making good on those promises requires more careful and less idealistic theories of society and social change than the idealist ones of classical liberalism.

I just thought you would enjoy not arguing against strawmen.
Here's the pilot, for as long as it lasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ywpyIRVH8
> American whites

Um, yeah, *^#{! all American white people from the 1950s (note the lower-case “w” because they don’t deserve the respect of upper-case)
The same outrage (or worse) would occur if they halted sells. Could you imagine if the price tanked and people couldn't exit their position? It is a lose-lose situation. And I think a lot of people would consider a full block to be worse.
What’s better to invest in once you have 50k?
How could they lose $7B?

Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/

It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are worth zero, their max loss will be $757mm. GME loss would be $55mm.

Hedgefunds don't have to disclose everything? Just trying to understand how did they lose that much.
Maybe this particular system doesn’t do it, but Bluetooth beacons can identify you in conjunction with other device identifiers. And those things are accurate to the cm. If I bring my phone out at all, I tend to turn my wifi and Bluetooth off until I need it.
I was on a 28.8, after pitching my parents for weeks about the benefits of keeping the telephone busy for 2 hours per day...
Imagine thinking you speaking as a representative yourself...
It’s not about smarts. Funding, culture, infrastructure, and institutions mean on average someone in say India would be more productive moved to the US when doing just about anything.

Advantages like cleaner air don’t care about how smart someone is, their useful across the bord.
It was reinstated like ten hours before this was posted here.
> And who knows if it's actually the software they deploy too.

The whole literal point of the protocol is so that you don't have to trust the server, assuming you trust the client and protocol.
I agree somewhat. But I think your ability to TOS away your liabilities is greatly increased when your service is free.
"By contrast, in the EU, we have land borders without border checks."

That's the thing you change.
The only thing that is overpriced in the US is Education and Health, anything else is cheaper than any other developed country and no other country has so much variety it terms of cost of living like the US.
Lol good luck, there is a large uphill battle here this $100M likely won’t be enough.

For starters in Atlanta one tech hub building cost around $80 million