skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that we'd probably need a lot more. Diagnoses would be more accurate so people would be inclined to use the health system more. Health work would be cheaper because the expensive doctor component would be used less. Time to go to the doctor could be more efficient (still working through the car ride) so people are even more likely to go. Overall that could likely mean higher demand for healthcare, including the human component.

Your food shopping point still needs middlemen. You have "chain of trust" issues with the producers. How do you know that you'll get good oranges from the orange grove. Who capitalizes the distribution system and designs the business model.

Considering historical examples, we'll see more use for people in the economic problems that are still machine hard. Machine easy economic problems will converge to resource costs + any premium for monopoly. This will free up more demand for other products. People still want to buy an easier, better life.
> You don't need protections from your abusive employer because you can very easily find a better employer.

You are assuming that employment in a given industry is not a monopsony (or an oligopsony of similarly-abusive employers.) But every company wants to be a monopsony just as much as it wants to be a monopoly, for largely the same reasons, and the same forces that are behind the changed employment relations are also driving the formation of large, single market players that are forcing out large networks of smaller employers.
pay someone to help make firefox stop running like ass, it's turning into the Yahoo of web browsers.
I read this that you have a preference for a number of mid-cap companies which employ modest numbers of people at "decent" jobs. (decent in quotes because as a subjective description it's hard to pin down what a given individual considers decent and another individual doesn't).

The current economy supports a large number of those. And they provide steady employment for a large number of people. But often times in this forum (HN) companies providing jobs which are considered "CRUD" are not held in high esteem and so you don't hear about them. So perceptions can be biased as well.

I worry more about non-allocation when you can't get credit from banks and you companies sit on giant hordes of cash. That slows the economy down and makes it hard for new experiemental companies to get going.
Indeed.

Germany, in the 1930s, also had a rewards program, where you would get additional rewards for every child you had, plus a special reward every 4 childs.

(Obviously, to create a larger army. One could argue, though, that such a program would be necessary today again, in the time of 2 million more jobs than people, and birth rates of 1.2)
Journalling Revisited: XFS vs. EXT4
Ritz method
Only much, much moreso.
Interesting. At this point, I think the VW executives are trying to avoid going to jail. They will say almost anything to bend and distort the truth.
Historically, Yahoo! operated for the first 10 years of their existence without formal QA teams. The first USA QA hires were for Japanese product QA.

Nowadays OpenCV is used a fair amount, and they're migrating to modern industry-standard tools.
The way you're asking the question implies that reasoning inherently has agency/sentience that needs suppressing. It doesn't need to; there's nothing to "suppress".
But if they decline too many requests for pickup on Uber, they get blackballed.

So... They only get paid when they are working - and when they are not working, they are punished for moonlighting.

You can't just pick and choose which part of the contractor, and which part of the employee relationship you want.
Show HN: Fakid – generate fake identities
Microsoft reduces free OneDrive storage and removes unlimited option
I know, I was approaching it from your angle, the current state of ML, and explaining it from that context. You support ML but then refer to humans as 'just apes' in a derogatory fashion. I was just pointing out that in fact these dumb apes solved all your ML problems a very long time ago.
By the way, a bunch of preloaded OEM binaries on ASUS machines are signed with that very certificate.
There are often 3+ intermediaries between many farm products and the consumer. Dropping that to 1 chould be a huge change. Cow, wholesale, bottler, distributer, store, you. Granted, there is a lot of variety in this as some farms do there own botteling etc, but some products pass through even more hoops.
you originally said

> X is the best method for me to learn a language

if this statement is true, then it is evidence that researchers should not dismiss it.

This:

> X works particularly well compared to other methods for one person

is not the same statement.
I don't think I'll care as much about delays when I don't have to do the driving and I can be occupied doing things on some mobile device instead.

I suspect that any service which operates shared driverless cars will figure out things like cleanliness if they're a serious issue. They can just let people complain / refuse this care / send it out for cleaning/service and charge the person who made the mess a surcharge.

I'd be more worried about driverless cars not getting proper maintenance. When the driving computer starts going bad, I want to be sure it's fixed properly.
In a lot of work places, another common threat is I deserve a raise, or I'll go work for (other company).
Hm, could this be a business application of zkSNARK proofs? https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark
Partly true. There are degrees of awareness.

Most people are not at all aware of microbeads.

Most people know they are supposed to recycle, but are unable to comprehend the negative consequences of not doing it.

It's even harder for people to be aware of their carbon footprints and the consequences of global warming. It never enters the brain of anyone I know that they might be increasing their footprint by flying. And they could tell you by what percent, even approximately, if you asked them.

You know and still fly. I literally feel nausea when I think about what I do when I fly, but I still do it to make my family happy. If anyone is behaving criminally you and I may be among the worst.
Note that this was specifically in the context of bequests and registrations under the provincial Vital Statistics Act. Stillbirths were registered differently from live children; and I don't think anyone would expect a stillborn child to be considered for purposes of dividing up an estate.
I was thinking post-consumer. But your comment reminds me of horror stories from India. Regulation there is even less well enforced, based on what I've read.
Or Uber wants to employ contractors, only pay them for the minutes of the hour that their labour is required, and forbid them from moonlightning.

This is not so dissimilar from the McDonalds manager that gives his employees an unpaid two-hour break in the middle of their shift, but fires them if they leave the franchise during it.

If you want people to be available for a period of time, pay them by the hour.

If you want to only pay people when they are working for you, don't call them a contractor, but prevent them from moonlighting.
1. I don’t think we can use examples from nature to make any predictions about the growth rate of computing power.

2. I didn’t say that we are close to human level intelligence, just that if generalised Moore’s law holds then we will not get much warning - we will move the 1% level to human level in 10 years. How long it will take to get to the 1% level is currently unknown.

3. I was talking about generalised Moore’s law (a doubling of processing power ever 18 month), not the mechanism of how we do this. Just increasing transistors counts does not have much future (it appears), but there are many other ways of increasing computational power that I am sure will be used over the coming decades.
H1B was for skilled workers. Note that I used "was". Some of the ways to help H1B system.

1. Stop TCS,Infosys,Wipro & Cognizant bringing in unskilled workers for low salary. They bombard the system every year and eligible skilled workers should depend on their luck rather than their skills to get H1B.

Solution : Increase the minimum level wages requirements 2x times.

2. There are lot of Indian bodyshops in US,which will apply visa & initiate greencard,so that they can hold a lock on the workers for a very long time.

Solution: Make the H1B visa transfer flexible. Job portability should be made easy.So that body shops or employers cannot abuse H1B workers.

3. Conduct a very high level technical interview for the candidates which the consultant companies present. Many consulting companies bring unskilled workers with fake resume. So triple checking the background & skills will put a stop to H1B abuse and skilled candidates will get visas.
Which has nothing to do with whether a driver is an employee or a contractor for uber...if a driver wants to go gypsy, they lose the dispatch functionality of uber, but gain the ability to negotiate fares with riders directly, as they are not encumbered by a previous agreement.
I was really excited about the possibility of using Cloud SQL. Unfortunately, the lack of private IP whitelisting forces you to make some tradeoffs that don't make sense from the security perspective.
That's incorrect. You only need 3 for the EB-1. See:

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers...

> * Criteria for Demonstrating Extraordinary Ability
You must meet 3 out of the 10 listed criteria below to prove extraordinary ability in your field:
Anyone who cares about science rather than religion want to link about issues with microbeads here?

Can't say I've ever seen any, other than the normal anti-science, stuff is 'scary' point.

That alone annoys me with this conversation, how about starting with a real reason this is bad rather than we can track it.
Whether you're a fan or merely tolerate the Python environment, to me the biggest advantage of Django above literally every other web framework I've worked with, is the fact that the developers are extremely serious about maintenance, compatibility, and documentation, things which matter in large, long-lived projects much more than the newest bell and whistle.

The core team has been willing to rip out and improve central infrastructure but never at the cost of unreasonable backward incompatibilities, and all changes are documented. Upgrading is never easy on large projects but it's been the easiest in Django. And the third-party packages pretty much fill every niche in a very modular way.

I see other devs complaining about their current frameworks' lack of documentation or testing and I feel like I'm in a parallel universe. I can never go back trivially to year-old JS code (and Rails isn't that much better) without some level of breakage or a new way of doing things.

Of course other technologies share a similar position on the matter, but they generally don't move as fast as Django does.
In order to build confidence in the results of a personal experiment like this one, it's best to (double-)blind it as much as possible and log lots of concrete data every day (e.g. keep track of your bowel movements, sleep quality, alertness levels, blood pressure, etc). This should help limit the impact of any (conscious or subconscious) preconceptions or other psychosomatic effects.

Also, change as little else in your life as possible while you're performing the experiment to control for confounding variables.
A tiny job queue in around 30 lines of python
But it's not precise: A Floating-point Values Primer
Not sure about that. Many companies have successfully creeped up the responsibilities of people while keeping their pay the same. Add a few tasks here and there, tell them that this will look great come their review, but then lead them along.

Not saying this is good or that the practice doesn't result in increased turnover, but that doesn't stop companies from doing it with some success.
Your cost estimate is a little too low. The Zenmuse gimbal is about $2,200 alone (without the FLIR camera) and it's designed for use on the Phantom or Matrice platforms, both of which cost more than $3k. Total cost is likely in excess of $7,000 including the FLIR camera.

Even so, that is still much cheaper than owning and operating a helicopter!
The vast majority is no doubt going to subsidizing rides in an attempt to achieve market dominance.
What do you see as the downside of creating this organization now, as opposed to in 100 years? Artificial Intelligence in its current state has shown itself to be incredibly useful and effective at small tasks. I see no harm in researching and expanding this field (besides opportunity cost).

Also, I see a distinct lack of "fear-mongering" in this post.
Maybe something like Humble Bundle where you donate a certain amount and you either pick who you want to get a share of it, or Humble Bundle gives it to everyone involved the best they can. I guess humbloss or something? Then even if your list expands, you just keep adding projects. Of course the service can get a cut for themselves as well. Lots of "GoFundMe" and "KickStarter" services, and even one's based around github and bitcoin, but I wonder where the one's for Open Source groups are? Anyone?
I was thinking the same thing about building the technology of today in the future with respect to integrating Django REST Framework rather than GraphQL.
Sounds to me like YCombinator wants to fuel their growth by creating these tools for their companies to use. The YC business model is absolutely brilliant, but I can't see this being some purely altruistic mission. Or if it is then I am jealous that they have the power and resources to put up against such a project. I'd spend all my time trying to build an AI if I didn't have to work! (Though I am trying to steer the company I work for in that direction anyway...)
One thing I noticed in my most recent job search was that I don't see nearly as many postings for junior and entry level positions as I seem to remember in the past. Seems like everyone is looking for a rockstar or a genius or a code ninja miracle-worker.

I'm curious if anyone else sees that trend, or if I'm just making it up. One of the reasons is that several friends of mine have been bugging me for a while to help get them started with code. These are people around my age. Professional musicians from back in the time of my life when that was what I did for a living.

There five of them now who have been asking, so I'm finally putting together a structured curriculum and working with them on a regular basis. When we get done in six months or so, they will have some abilities with Linux server administration, databases, Python, C#, web application frameworks, javascript,front end work, version control, and testing. I'll work in some CS theory as we hit appropriate points.

Obviously, they will be very green. But they are all incredibly bright, professional, adults. One of them has a master's in Math she got after her Doctorate in music just because she was curious, and another has most of a PhD in Physics. I don't think any of them expect to waltz into a high-powered job after 6 months of me spewing at them. But I think any of them would thrive in a junior position with people around them who had the time and the inclination to do some mentoring.

Are those kinds of jobs disappearing? Am I being unrealistic hoping that this could be an option for some of them? What do you think?
That's a pretty ridiculous ad hominem. You don't seem to even try to engage with the substance of what she's saying.
Millennials embrace a long-standing tradition: Letting others fight their wars
Dow sells nano materials? There's a market for nanomaterials??
Actually in humans raw computational speed (nerve impulse speed) and intelligence (g) are quite correlated.

We have a rough idea of how much processing the human brain is capable of by looking at the eye and optic nerve. Our most powerful computers are many orders of magnitude below human level processing.
You've got that backwards - a rate hike has a downward impact on equities, because they are priced in dollars.
German plasma success raises nuclear fusion hopes
Looking at pics of what she was wearing, I think it's sad that she still doesn't realize she was reckless.

I'm not saying she deserved everything that happened to her, but wearing a breadboard with a cluster of lights and a 9v hanging off your chest, at an airport, might be the very definition of reckless.

Ok, I get it, you're a maker. That doesn't give you the right to scare the shit out of people. Would it be ok for air-soft fans to start a shooting war at an airport and expect people to understand?
> This just meant that everyone made sure they were writing well tested code before it got released because you didn't want to be the guy who made yourself

ha, yeah right.

What it really means at Amazon is build your service then bail for a new team before you have to maintain it.

Exaggeration, but somewhat true. I have a friend there now who has an oncall rotation that's split into day/night. nighttime oncall basically means you are working graveyard this week. Of course that is really because that team should have a proper support staff, it's a vital service.

Amazon, to me, is the epitome of a company that combines dev/qa/support because it's cheap rather than because it's actually good.
But would hiking boots meet this dress code, if sneakers won't?
Those arguments are based on the premise that the free market can solve all problems. Thus when something fails it's because there's not enough free market.

The other explanation is that the premise is wrong.

If the free market doesn't work together with anything that isn't organized as a free market then it's a flaw of the free market system. There always will be things that aren't a free market.
We know that we are not going to get anywhere near human level intelligence using current technology so it really doesn’t matter. What is important is there anyway of building the computational power of human level intelligence other than making a baby.
You're right, but the average person isn't very discriminating or very able to keep track of who can and cannot be trusted, so I would expect problems to occur.
>> Perhaps globalisation isn't international cooperation as much as international action

> I'm not sure what kind of cooperation has a more positive impact than economic. It brings peace and prosperity.

I agree that economic cooperation brings peace and prosperity (speaking very generally). My point is that many see globalization not as cooperation but as an economic assault.

There's a long history of it: Back in the 19th century at least, trade "agreements" with weaker countries were often signed under threat of military action. In the early 20th century, the US military protected US corporate investments in the Americas. The U.S. overthrew Iran's government in the 1950s when they threatened to take control of their own oil industry. Many trade deals long have been considered to be one-sided, benefitting only a few narrow interests in the U.S.

I'm not advocating that side, only making the case that they have a strong reason to doubt that globalization is cooperative.
How is wearing a tacky bowling shirt "persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person"? Can you, at the very least, point to that person?
Quotas, seasons, and permits aren't really as good. As a fisherman you have no incentive to catch below your quota, since you aren't rewarded for leaving anything on the table. And the quotas are usually too high for political reasons, to avoid losing votes. Either way, they are centrally planned.

A market solution would allow a fisherman to catch below quota and be rewarded in later years by replenished stocks in the waters he controlled.
This story has been "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" for more than the past year. Every 4 weeks they threaten and no change.

I'm hoping they finally move, because rates have been too low too long. Yes I realize this is likely the worst time to raise rates in the past 5 years, but that's only because they waited too long.
This is great news! My Django installation feels pretty bloated with various 3rd party libraries to handle post-request tasks and serving data via web sockets. Can't wait to shed those dependencies. Congrats Django team!
> relying too much on automated crime prediction

Including many variations of that same problem. "Sorry, you don't qualify for ____ because our 'clever' assessment algorithm doesn't account for your particular situation." Humans with decision making power correct these kind of problems all the time.

Computers with clever algorithms can be incredibly useful, but they are still just tools. Unfortunately, given how bad we humans are with statistics, it's easy to overestimate[1] their accuracy.

In addition to the raw accuracy problems, there is a risk of prejudices being baked into algorithms. We already see this with "redlining" and other housing practices, where loans availability ends up being coded racism. With the added complexity of machine learning and other prediction and analysis methods, it is probably a lot easier to hide improper discrimination.

[1] reason #57 why statistics should be a mandatory HS math class, right after algebra
For what it's worth, the Fed Funds future markets are priced at a predicting a ~70% chance of a rate hike.
Why don't you make any mention of domain knowledge relating to frameworks in your hiring criteria?

You state that "a good programmer can learn a language quickly". I think most people who have experience with hiring developers disputes this. Learning a language is also one of the easier hurdles to overcome when moving into a new programming domain.

If you're hiring for a Ruby on Rails team, and you want to hire someone who has prior experience as a developer but has never touched Ruby in their life, you're probably not going to be too worried about how quickly it will take them to learn Ruby. The real challenge will be learning Rails, and then becoming proficient enough to work alongside the current development team and the pre-existing codebase.

Also, how do you approach hiring for mobile? That seems like a domain where language is important, since it's tied to the domain if you plan on native development (which you should). If you're hiring for an iOS position, are you not going to prioritize a candidate with prior iOS experience over one who has only done Android?

It's difficult for me to imagine a scenario where you would have to resort to a former Android dev unless you aren't willing to pay a fair hourly rate or salary, and you're going to bargain for the opportunity to learn in exchange for lower pay.
And the Philippines in 2005...

But, hey, we're getting there!
Not in any sense of the word free market is an enforced artificial market "free".

In fact, free market socialists see property rights on any productive property as skewing markets to favor the owners, which leads to wealth disparity and disproportionate ownership, making it not a free market. We see that today with free-market capitalism and the top 1%, which is why we have social welfare programs in place to redistribute wealth.
I think the actual threat from AI is far more pedestrian than "Skynet" or killer robots. The real threat comes NOT from AI itself but from people who will be able to afford to exploit AI for profit at the expense of increasingly large numbers of people who just become redundant. The rich will get fabulously rich while everyone else just becomes marginalized into serfs.

Another scenario that is less likely but still more likely than killer robots would be AI that simply loses interest in human affairs, stops interacting with us, and does its own thing-- like depicted in the movie "Her" !