skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know Canada well enough yet, but I can tell you what life used to be like in the UK in my mum's time as a kid, around 55 years back in the North East of England. All families lived near each other and you lived near your school. You'd walk home past your nan's house and stop in there or at your uncles. Maybe when you got home your mum was out at the shops - ok go to your nan's a few yards away. Or just go to your neighbour, she knows you and should your mum be delayed long will feed you.

Then people decided that housing was an asset, an investment. The people that decided this were in finance, they made the credit available which sets the price. Access to local housing was limited. You had to go and get the best paying job you could just to compete in the "market". This meant moving away.

There were other reasons too like the destruction of local industry (forced out in part as land prices rose making them uncompetitive vs countries without efficient rent extraction). Plus brain drain into rentier activity in the capital. But for me land prices are at the heart of destroying communities.

I don't see community returning until we expel the usurers from the temple. Why is living on a piece of land so damn expensive? We don't have time for each other any more as we work insane hours. Both husband and wife have to work, leaving no time for other work in the community like stopping in to see a neighbour. All these tasks that were unpaid are now "on the clock" and the banks get a cut via renting money via debt creation for land.

My mum didn't have loads of libraries or "urban design" somehow coaxing people to interact. What that street did have is that they were not living in a time where ever single person was giving a big wedge of their wages to the banks thereby forcing them all to work all the time.
Not OP but it could be very much possible and that's what OP is trying to say. Just taking it on Intel's word that they haven't done it is not the correct way to go. For the truly privacy minded, it's better to err on the side of caution.
Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense. It feels weird there aren't basic worker protections against such agreements but I think I get it - people are free or not free to enter into such agreements and receive benefits for doing so.
A good friend of mine owns a corporation in Japan. He'd worked in the US for a decade or so before going home to start his own business, so he was in a pretty good position to compare the work cultures.

He said in Japan expectation #1 is you're at work for many hours. You show up before your boss arrives and you go home after he leaves, unless you're out drinking with him. Which is mostly mandatory - "My wife is sick" is an acceptable excuse. "I'm tired" is not. In the big companies the people from your college class at that company all get promoted as a group, so there's a whole lot of pressure from your college friends not to do (or not do) anything that will delay their own advancement.

But when you're at work you're not expected to look for things to do. Your boss will tell you when he needs you to do something. If he doesn't come by and give you a task it's perfectly reasonable to sit at your desk and do nothing. As an employer or manager you are not supposed to run your people ragged, either. My friend spent most of every morning going around to each employee and making sure they had something to do, but not so much it would reflect badly on him as an employer.

In the end he figured Americans and Japanese people get about the same amount of work done every day. The social dynamics are totally different, though. In Japan your work is like a second family.

There's also a sort of macho culture there, where as a salaryman you work incredibly long hours and deal with crazy commutes without complaining. And if you do complain you sort of lose social points.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862303 and marked it off-topic.
And how is this different from taking your car to a mechanic with some odd problem that isn't easily diagnosed?
I have always wondered why nobody ever talks about this. Outsourcing, even to US run companies, you are looking at a massive efficency hit.

Always makes me wonder if these companies even need an IT staff at all because once they outsource almost nothing ever gets done.
Sublime's out of the box theme attracted people and it's demonic speed and the Goto-Anything feature got them talking about it. Atleast that is my take.
Please don't compare. I don't give a damn about certificates, and I think it's totally fair for them to be paid. Actually, as I think it's only normal to not give a damn about certificates, I'd say even some kind of "full track" with exams is ok to be paid for. They still provide good learning material for free.

And, by the way, the quality of the course material on edx is arguably better. It's a shame that coursera's got way more recognition somehow, apparently.
Professor Boneh is pretty busy... I've been waiting for a while for this too. This has been the never-starting tease course.
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I appreciate this perspective on understanding national economies. After the big meltdown in 2008-9 I started thinking that major economic events could also be seen as information processing events.

Some Tofflerian quotes from the article:

"under the hood, products are made of order — or information"

"the actions we use to make products are acts of computation"

"just as objects are a more fundamental form of economic value than currency, the ability to create objects is a more fundamental form of economic value than the objects themselves"
A guy I know from Tokyo witnessed just such an event. He was on a train so packed you couldn't move, and when one of the commuters started yakking on his neighbor neither of them could move, so the victim had to just sit there and take it.
I'm pretty sure you can apply for an invite at http://www.ycombinator.com/demoday.
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I have what is perhaps an off tangent question, do you know if the idea is any good?

I ask because its probably question number 2 when I'm looking at things, its #1) I wonder if I could build a product to ... (is it even feasible) and then #2) I wonder if anyone would pay money for it? (is it any good)

There are lots of ways to figure out if it is any good, but the best is by far to talk to the people who would buy such a product and tell them what your idea is. If they think it is something they would buy (or subscribe to, or exchange any sort of cash for) then as others have mentioned try to prototype something which can be really simple (like sheets of papers that you shuffle around when people select "items") to an actually wireframe running which gives a view of what it would look like.

If you're still getting positive feedback, take what ever you think it would cost to provide the product, multiply it by 10 and ask people if they would pay that for it. If they say yes, offer to sign them up right now for a 10% deposit. If they decline it would be helpful to understand why.

The thing to remember is that for a product to be successful, the customers have to both "need" it (at lease in their own mind) and they have to believe that giving you their money is the best way to get it. Not a lot of ideas pass that particular test.

If you can sign up 10 customers with 10% deposits you'll have some cash to start putting things in place for the minimum viable product (MVP).
Cliffs notes:

- http://j-core.org/ ("Webpage was written by developer who knows <p> tags ... If anyone would like to donate a stylesheet, that would be welcome ..."), git repo coming soon

- Corporation is https://twitter.com/seinstruments

- goals were: not to license any IP, in order to have truly open source SoC that you can trust, minimum impl that can run linux, open source toolchain

- minimal impl supports 32-bit addressing, no MMU, DRAM controller, UART

- named "jcore" to avoid infringing on Hitachi's brand

- target market includes IoT, (AC) power-quality monitors

- in order to avoid the well-encumbered semiconductor space, the strategy is to duplicate an arch whose patent has just expired (Hitachi SH2, SH4)

- VHDL is BSD-licensed

- The cheapest dev board (3rd party, minimal FPGA dev board with little/no I/O) is only $50 + shipping from India

- discussion about breakeven for fab for ICs

- How is this distinct from OpenRISC? Automated transformation from high-level design to low level design outputs

- Chuckles from audience when simulator is revealed to have been written in Ada

- jcore design doesn't fit in biggest FPGA (Xilinx ICE40)

- "We've got linux booting to a shell prompt on real hardware so you can start with a known working environment and then break it."

- SH-FDPIC is working w/musl
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Mathematicians who write software are no more likely to be "truly making the world better" than those who prove theorems and teach hundreds or thousands of students every year.

How can this be true in the case of a mathematician who writes something that many/most of the others use?
In Canada Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program was changed. It was getting to the point where entire industries changed overnight out with long-time employees and in with near slave wage "TFWs" (many people just say refer to the people as TFWs).

It got so bad it became a huge political hot potato and the law was changed resulting in many TFWs disappearing as fast as they arrived.

The law here was similar to the TFW laws in the US and it was abused the same way. The law was meant as a way businesses could get help by hiring cheaper labour if they couldn't find local workers. But of course hiring someone at $5/hour versus $11/hour is strong motivation for a business to cheat.

This was every industry too each had its own preferred ethnicity mining (Chinese), fast food (Filipino), IT (India), agriculture (Central American). It's only now changing back to local people born in Canada.

I don't have any ill will against the TFW workers it's the businesses who are the ones who ruined the purpose of the TFW law and now have to suffer for it.
Fair enough, and I'm not defending the "it will kill you" line, I was just pointing out that they were likely referring to DI water, not distilled as mentioned in the comment, since others may not have heard of / known the difference. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

I'm not arguing it will kill you, even in more than a sip amounts, and my "don't make a habit of it", was more on the lines of "it's likely not great for your teeth and mouth", since its a bit more reactive, not "OMG THE SPECIAL WATER WILL KILL YOU. ALSO WHAT DID MY 5TH GRADE TEXTBOOK SAY?" Again, sorry if I wasn't clear in my first post!

Quick edit: I don't know if you edited your response or I just missed it the last paragraph (probably the latter) but I whole-heartedly agree on the point of addressing this kind of thing! Totally wasn't trying to argue for accuracy of that statement, just being very nit-picky about it being DI vs distilled...for really no reason what-so-ever, haha.
How old is this video? What is described would have barely been state of the art in the late 90s. 5 stage pipeline written in VHDL. This is now on every student's resume, as a project for their computer architecture class.

Their proposed "two-process" coding methodology for VHDL is weird. They pretend their entire CPU core is written in a total of 3 VHDL processes.

I guess their only argument is that their target a 180nm process (from 1991), which costs only $25K.
One institution not mention (and given the publication, I find it a bit odd) is the local churches. It is one of the large connection points that have started to fade. The amount of social welfare the churches supported has not been replaced.
HN is all about technology, but I think many people here don't realize that technology is about access. Aluminum is the third most common element on Earth, but up until fairly recently, it was prized above gold and other precious metals because it was seemingly so rare. People just didn't have the technology to access it in large quantities.

And just as someone stranded at sea can die of thirst, so too is it paradoxical that one can find themselves brutally alone in a city with millions of other people. The problem is that they don't have access.

My company, Krewe (https://www.gokrewe.com) aims to be that technology that will give people access to each other and help them form meaningful connections. It places people who all live in the same neighborhood into small groups, and encourages them to meet often. The pernicious scourge of loneliness must end, and I hope I can provide a solution.
> The major metropolitan areas are far less safe

That mostly depends on who you are and what you're doing.

I've felt scared in cities more often than I've felt scared in rural areas, but the most objectively dangerous situations I've ever been in have all occurred in rural and suburban areas.

E.g., it's far easier for someone unfamiliar with an area to avoid "the bad part of town" in urban areas than in rural areas. And suburbs are way more tricky than rural areas in this respect.

> And in fact, the more gun control, the less safe

Anyone claiming -- explicitly or otherwise -- that there's a clear-cut causal relationship here is disingenuous, completely new to the US gun control debate, or blinded by prior belief.
It must depend on the neighborhood, or on the social class. As a middle-class frenchman living in the outskirts of NYC and accompanying my kids to plenty of birthday parties or playdates my experiences are anything but "structured". If anything compared to France parties tend to happen more often at stores or specialized venues than at people's home, but schedules are pretty much the same: play, eat, and more play, with light parental/staff supervision.
One may find Introduction to Functional Programming [1] by Erik Meijer interesting.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programmi...
> Unless you need AWS for the scaling it offers, it tends to be the worst possible host you could choose.

Unless, in turn, you use reserved instances, which bring the price down to equal or cheaper than most other options. "dedis and EC2 on demand" is an order of magnitude more complex, probably actually more expensive, and increases your failure cases significantly.
To mitigate issues with cold weather, 2nd generation Nissan Leaf battery packs with the 'cold weather package' include a 'battery warmer' between banks. This is controlled via the BMS which was already monitoring temperature with some thermistors. It's a resistive element like that used in heated seats or an electric blanket.

The Tesla battery is a liquid cooled battery and thus can be warmed via coolant that is heated by the inductive heater for the HVAC. Same for the GM Volt/Bolt.
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> It eventually has to come down to, "I'm an American, so I'm entitled to get paid more than everybody else on the planet for doing a given job."

Sure, if you don't want to think critically about the issue at all. Absolutely agree under that circumstance. But since many foreign workers are not able to job shop, they become a lower-cost source of labor that depresses wages for everyone (other foreign workers included) because their commitment to their host company is like a figurative gun to the head. I have literally no problems with the H1B system except for when companies bring them on primarily to lower their own personnel costs. I don't even mind when companies use them despite there being existing labor in the talent pool for them (which is usually the case, despite protestations), but then to pay them below going market rate* is my issue.

I'm not a software engineer here like most, though I dabble for fun. I am, however, experienced in labor market analysis and workforce planning. And, again, I don't care how many foreign workers any given organization has provided they aren't used primarily as a cost-reduction mechanism (if they are onshore). If a company wants you to work in America they should pay you like an American.

*This isn't a terribly fuzzy metric. Typical compensation for a given job in a given geography is readily accessible. Market-specific salary surveys, benchmarked by contribution level, are a transactional norm for any company with a competent compensation team. They typically guide vs. determine and are often 18 months out of date (at least in my experience), but they're not a white whale and very useful.
This is something that needs to be addressed. We are becoming more secular over time, but we aren't replacing the communities that churches create with secular equivalents, at least not on the same scale. Feeling connected is important, we really need to work on that.
I remember a previous employer asked me to talk to one of the authors because I have NLP and search engine design experience (I forgot which author). I remember he kept saying they don't do big data and that most NLP stuff other search engines use are irrelevant because their product works with the type of search they do. I asked a couple of complex questions which they disregarded as not important for their product.

This was probably 3 years ago or less so the product might have changed, but what I got out of that chat was that Algolia is for websites that want to add a search functionality with a nice UI without much hassle.

But if you are doing something complex it's does not compare to Solr or Elasticsearch

Again this was a while ago.
Date on video shows April 4 2016. "Every student's resume" and yet I wager none have released their design in order to foster an open computing community.

The video clearly indicates their motivation to make silicon that won't get a C&D as soon as they get to market.
From what I've seen, Intel ME is the set of CPU features that supports applications such as Intel AMT. As Intel ME is built into all modern x86/x64 Intel CPUs, the possibility for exploiting Intel ME is still a security issue, even if some features aren't enabled by default.

To put it another way, what are some of the details that the author(s) of this article got wrong?

https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
They intentionally chose an old design because they know all the patents have expired. Thus, they don't have to worry about licensing woes or anything like that. There are a number of situations where you don't need a fast processor, just a processor that is fast enough. Additionally, an older core means it's a smaller core, so they can stick more of them on an FPGA if they need to respond to several realtime events at once.
Could you share any details of a) how you code blindfolded and b) how you learned to code blindfolded?
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In the chrome browser on Android, selecting the browser option "request desktop site" bypasses the restriction on messenger from the mobile browser.
Why would one use Algolia over Postgres's built in text search features? Ex: http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

I already have Postgres search queries running on the order of 1-3ms for large queries, basically faster than Algolia, with seemingly the same feature sets.

I don't understand the value proposition over something like Postgres, for sites that already have Postgres databases. (And I'm sure other databases might offer similar built-in search capabilities, I just don't know those other RDBMSs)
Everyone has their own story around this. For me, the reason I did not go with Octave when I chose to migrate from Matlab to Python was that I wanted to be part of a general-purpose language community. Octave had the nice advantage of being very close to the Matlab syntax --- which has some nice properties (e.g. easier matrix-math expressions and matrix-building expressions)

However, I felt there would be more innovation around the programming language itself (think decorators, generators, futures, compilers, and coroutines). The boundary region between "applied-math-programming" and general purpose computing requires a lot of sometimes tedious work. Having a general purpose computing language would mean that more people would be available for that work.

Even now, one of the principal challenges of NumPy which is the foundation of the Python scientific stack is that it combines applied math (fft, linear algebra, polynomials) with computer-science (type systems, data-structures, and multiple-dispatch functionals). Maintaining all of that with one group of people is difficult.

If we could re-factor the NumPy code base into 1) a data-declaration type system --- i.e. look at datashape.pydata.org which is a generalization of dtype, 2) a multiple-dispatch generic function system (the ufuncs) and then 3) a container object. These could all be maintained by separate groups (and even #1 and #2 could be pulled into the Python language itself). See the libdynd project for a reference example of what it could look like.

Then NumPy could be maintained as a set of math libraries on top of that.

Then, it would be relatively straightforward to build the octave DSL on top of the Python computing stack and we would be able to share work.
How did they define and report "work", and are they including breaks in those averages?

I know several teachers. The burden of proof would be on you to demonstrate that teaching is a higher status profession with endlessly respectful and eager students.
> It eventually has to come down to, "I'm an American, so I'm entitled to get paid more than everybody else on the planet for doing a given job."

Fuck no, it's about getting your "membership benefits" from a communal system that you've contributed to. Americans get paid more by Americans because those Americans pay more to Americans, and invest in the American economy and interact with American laws.

Who you ought to be disgusted with are the people who break the rules in order to enrich themselves from "arbitrage" opportunities. On a fundamental level, that's called theft, the only difference is the kinds of rules being broken.
Why the hell would you hire a blind coder to ship your feature by next week when you can find an equal or better (white/Asian male) engineer to do the same thing. By definition, the blind coder is limited compared to non-disabled people. It's a purely business decision. No hard feelings, but I'd rather not have a blind person on my team or organization. Unless it is for PR.
I doubt we will since it would take a common belief that emphasizes charity and group togetherness. The most interesting secular meeting place is McDonalds for a lot of older people. Its cheap and you can often sit there a while, but McDonalds doesn't really have an equivalent of the local preacher.
I could see that if it was a pill or injection taken periodically over 15 years, but not a single procedure. In general, you have a point but the fact a single procedure has been curative for 15 years suggests with high confidence that there is real effect.

Also claiming that MS is largely psychological is, at best, insulting to MS patients.
"[A]cademia is currently organized so that it invites communal reinforcement, prevents researchers from leaving fields whose promise is dwindling, and supports a rich-get-richer trend."

A really awesome quote there. (Perhaps a bit self-serving for me).
I see this a lot in high anxiety parents. People who have rearranged their lives around their children rather than letting their children follow their lead. It's bad for you and them.