skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I receive messages from Google's recruiters once in a while (maybe twice a year). Always through LinkedIn so I would recommend to polish your LinkedIn profile.
Automation Kills More Jobs Than It Creates, Or?
I dunno we are 3 software devs, 2 network admins (also playing the role of top tier level, on call support) and run our own bare metal servers in two geographically separated collocation data centers. We also have 2 device hardware/firmware guys and the CEO also does a bit of coding sometimes.

Our solutions are sometimes a bit clunky but our infrastructure is audited yearly by an outside firm and certified to carry banking data through the wireless device we designed and through our network. There is another 15-20 people doing financials, payroll, hr, tech support, sales, marketing, assembly, hardware testing, shipping etc..

We maintain multiple backend interfaces to a bunch of (sometimes old and archaic) bank networks and to our wireless devices as well as multiple front end portals for our users.

It's hard to imagine ever being able to make use of 57000 bodies, but I suppose that's a totally different context. We could use a few more.
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No, they are both the same, where else can you evaluate '5' + 2?
Alas, where I live, $25 is a day's wages.
I wonder what kind of impact brexit had on their decision. Presumably not much since Switzerland is outside the EU anyway.
That's a fair point
Some needs to make a lambda competetor too
Davis square is sparse and suburban?
A "smart" refrigerator theoretically saves you money by reducing waste; a long-marketed feature for a hypothetical smart-fridge is that it tracks when you bought stuff and also knows, for each food item, how urgent it is to consume—and thus, could make meal suggestions for the sake of "using stuff up."

The thing is, that logic doesn't need to be in a fridge; it could just as well be in a grocery-delivery phone app or something. It just seems like a fridge is the place to put it because fridges hold food. So we keep trying to imagine smart fridges, instead of imagining more ambient software to achieve the same purpose—e.g. a "home guru" app for the Amazon Echo that would just tell you, the human, to go do something in your home at the right time for it to have an optimal effect.
Dead Sea drying: A new low-point for Earth
360 joints per month? That's an absolutely insane amount of marijuana. Even if marijuana isn't inherently unhealthy, I have to imagine it can't be healthy to put that much smoke into your lungs.
Shouldn't be actually. The regenerative braking system on an electric car is just the regular drive train. The energy just flows in reverse. The wheels drive the transmission that drives the motor that charges the battery.
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It would be really smart if it did the one thing it is supposed to do. That goes for any appliance. Internet connected, high definition, VR toaster? No thanks. $7 and puts out a good toast? Yes, please.
The private key is on a separate note, Darwin.
I want my blender to be smart enough to soft start the motor and to notice that it's stuck on an ice cube and not blow it's internal fuse. Fuse blowing = Insufficiently Smart Blender. You can avoid this by oversizing electrical components, but being smart is probably cheaper.

Smart doesn't have to mean complicated UI.

Smart appliances could also learn which ones are on the same circuit by watching voltage fluctuation and coordinate current usage. You see this in a primitive form at some older motels where the coffee maker is plugged into the refrigerator. It knows to not run the compressor while heating water.
> But they are certainly insightful as to the beliefs of the early church

this i can agree with, and is also what i take issue with.. the church intentionally left these other ideas out of their beliefs so of course they would do little in directly granting insight to the beliefs of the early church, but indirectly they do present insight

> Does not bring any particular degree of enlightenment regarding the life or teachings of Jesus

but this i completely disagree with, that excerpt from mary is very enlightening to the life and teaching of jesus

just for clarity:

> I prefer discussion of ideas, not appeals to authority.

are you implying that admitting you believe would grant you the authority by which to appeal?

also, it feels like you are only selectively discussing ideas by refusing to answer the question while espousing others

some other ideas, interesting to discuss:

do you think jesus and mary existed as these texts describe?

was jesus a saviour and son of a god?

do you think jesus discussed somethings only with mary as the gospel of mary excerpt implies?

do you think jesus was married to mary? do you think a definitive answer one way or another would, or should, bear consequence for the christian religion?
No, they would also need the private key, which is on the Darwin Note.
It is rather messed up that a broken infotainment system can kill the climate control.

If your infotainment system is down but there is nothing physically wrong with the AC compressor or fan system it should not prevent you from using the AC in 43C weather. That's as close as I've seen yet to a touchscreen-system software problem breaking the mechanical driving functionality of a car.
> No double caching: most of our applications have an in-memory working set, and no disk state. Some do (eg, Cassandra databases).

I see no disadvantage for unikernel on hypervisor setups versus applications on a container host setups in applications where there is no disk state. However, I see no advantage either. The techniques used to talk to hardware directly work in userland too. netmap is a fantastic example of this.

I had expected unikernels on hypervisors to have a disadvantage against a container on a traditional kernel, but after reading your remarks, I think that the two ought to perform identically (at least where there is no file system IO), with neither being theoretically better. However, the world is adopting containers in traditional kernels and unless a unikernel on a hypervisor can be better, I do not see much value in devoting resources to unikernels too.

> Oh, so it's more efficient to be running where paging (aka swapping) is allowed? Sure, for memory footprint, but for runtime performance you're banking on it reaching a state where paging is minimal. The amount of memory saved is depending on the working set, maybe a lot, maybe a little. One downside is you're paying a small CPU tax to manage this (maintaining kswapd lists, and scanning them).

I was referencing cache efficiency when I talked about page replacement algorithms rather than paging to disk. Imagine a global ARC algorithm in a traditional system versus each unikernel having its own. The global hit rate would be better with a global algorithm than it would be with a local algorithm in each unikernel.

Even if your application does its own cache, the principle of a global algorithm being best ought to apply to filesystem metadata.

> Again, usually no file system cache in use. And most apps are started with a fixed heap size that consumes all of memory. There's no left-over/wasted memory that could be used by other apps.

This is not the sort of application that I had in mind. I am still skeptical that unikernels are better, but I agree that they are not worse here. In this case, it seems to me that they are (theoretically) just a different way of doing things and are not better or worse.
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Why not both? Eventually whatever connection you're using will be dated and considered inefficient crap. Would you want to have to deal with Bluetooth 1.0 today?

Use a standard modular platform so you can hook up whatever SoC you like. Whenever the old one gets dated, upgrade it and get all the latest fancy radios.
Our universe is a hologram, and we’re floating inside of it, suggests new resear
In an upper-middle class leafy neighbourhood in my hometown of Melbourne, there's a retirement home run by a charity, for people with special needs. They wanted to expand to double capacity, and the complaints came rolling in. The usual to be expected "The expansion is ugly, and will bring down the tone of the neighbourhood" (read: lower house prices with more homeless retirees around), with the best being "The expansion will need to cut down a beautiful 100-year-old tree"

Getting services for underprivileged people in a wealthy neighbourhood was always going to be tough, but the kicker for me was this - the residents against the expansion were clear to state "We're not NIMBYs!". Really? What kind of things do you think NIMBYs complain about, if not exactly what you've just said?
Smart TV, smart thermostat, smart lighting, and a smart fridge are really the only connected household items I can see myself enjoying (the ad where the guy looks at what's in fridge in the grocery store worked on me). Other than that, some kind of smart electricity (turn things on and off remotely - more about remote management than anything else, ensure all lights are off, etc) is about all I can see myself wanting.

I don't need a smart doorbell when I could just have a peephole or a camera (that isn't networked anywhere that isn't local). I definitely don't need a smart blender. And I absolutely do not need a smart bed or smart bed sheets (unless someone invents a way for them to wash themselves - I'd buy that).
Have you ever weeded a garden for a summer? It's quite a chore.
Right. I used to put up posters for stuff, and people did say that it was illegal to put them on utility poles. But everyone did.
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I had a 2003 Camry. I recently bought a 2nd hand 2014 Camry. I have not done any research, but I swear that the car is magically doing things for me.

Eg.

When the parking break was on and you forgot and tried to drive, the 2003 had some resistance. On the 2014, it seems that it disengages the brake for you if you are not in Park. Which can be annoying if you have to stop on an incline with traffic.

It also seems to regulate your speed in very wet conditions. On a straight road, in moderate rain, it definitely feels like I need to push the accelerator down more to get up to speed.

I admit the 2014 model is nicer to drive, but I don't know what will happen if the electronics get fried.
This isn't what "smart" refers to these days though. You're just describing a higher quality product. Smart, today, equals connected and part of the Internet of Things.
Well, I'm still confused, because then possession of the circulating note doesn't actually allow you to redeem it... or do you have a sort of central issuing bank that holds the Darwin notes and honors redemptions on request?
That is neat. It looks like fire. Probably intentionally ;)
I'd be happy with it costing twice as much and lasting twice as long. Your total outlay is the same but you get to use a better device the whole time.
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That's basically Android Auto.
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"Smart" is only really a benefit for devices that I can reasonably want to do something when I'm not there.

Smart blender? When could I possibly want to blend something when I'm not physically near the blender?

Smart thermostat? I don't personally want one, but you can at least make the case that adjusting your home's heating/cooling remotely is a value add.

Smart fridge? When is the last time you even changed a setting on your fridge? I've lived in my current apartment for nearly 2 years and have never once even touched any of the settings. How does adding intelligence to a passive device provide any benefit whatsoever?
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I think there are two seemingly-disjoint perspectives in these discussions, mostly based on whether people have enough time and engage with these appliances as part of a hobby; or whether they are strapped for time and engage with them as necessities.

So, I think a clarifying assumption might help: assume that you already have a person who acts in the role of the "glue" for your household—a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo. Assume that they then have further staff under them, to whom they can delegate tasks—but that they also have the option of purchasing technology to automate the same tasks. Under this assumption, all the tasks in your household will get done, "magically", by combining some degree of technology with some degree of human effort.

The question that's really being asked in these discussions of "smart" appliances is: where is the optimum ROI between "fully automated" and "fully done manually by a paid human expert"? For any given task, how should the majordomo best allocate your dollars between paying labor and buying "smarter" equipment?

Automation usually lowers the total amount of human labor that must be expended (both by the expert, and by you to earn the money to pay the expert), but it also tends to lower the quality of the result—or "confine" the result to certain strict output products—compared to the results the human expert could achieve. How "smart" can we make a tool without taking away its precision to achieve great results in expert human hands? How "dumb" must a tool be to continue to allow for optimal results to be achieved, rather than mere satisfactory ones? Etc.
This is one of the best books to know-how of starting an enterprise.
I believe you can use a Managed NAT Gateway now instead of NAT instances in each AZ for outbound VPC connectivity:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-managed-nat-network-add...

> In general, Terraform is doing a lot of cutting-edge thinking with orchestration tools and represents IMO a best-of-breed approach.

Terraform isn't really doing anything that snazzy compared to Cloudformation [1] (an AWS tool) unless you're also orchestrating in concert with non-AWS services.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/details/
Using a Windows version of the 2015 edition, and it's pretty damn nice. Honestly, I'm just waiting to see how the July update with Ubuntu tools for Windows 10 pans out. If it doesn't, I might just throw Linux onto this one. The only problem is that the Linux Edition of the laptops use slightly different hardware that's better supported by open drivers--in this case, the Linux version has an Intel wifi card as opposed to a Broadcomm one so as not to need a proprietary driver. That's definitely a concern if I do decide to throw Linux onto it, since this thing doesn't have an ethernet port.
"... seeing team as family, with shared values..."

Should have tried pay cut across the board and see if folks jumped ship. A good test to see if that culture held up.

(Just a thought. I know it is more nuanced)
The earthquake/tsunami was in 2004 but youtube didn't launch until 2005. Unless you are talking about another tsunami.
We can fix this, we can take the carbon out of the atmosphere [1]. There is reason for optimism. We. Are. Not. Doomed. The optimum level of carbon is probably slightly above pre-industrial levels. We definitely need to get back below 350ppm to keep human civilization... civilized.

400ppm+ is a trajectory to anarchy. The chimpanzee raiding impulse is alive and well in our DNA, a survival adaptation for stagnation and decline.

We have the technology, bio-energy with carbon capture and sequestration, its a scaling problem, but first we have to stop pumping so much carbon up into the air. We have made progress there as well:

1) Cheap Solar PV has arrived, growth has been exponential for two decades. [2]

2) Energy storage is possible. Think underground maglev trains, on circular tracks, working as massive flywheels.

3) Fusion is attainable in the time frame we need it in, if we increase research funding, but its not required. That said if we cracked fusion, we would have all the energy we would need to desalinate seawater and sequester carbon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-energy_with_carbon_capture...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
This is a special case example of why middle-boxes, especially those that actually modify traffic rather than just scanning or prioritizing it, are evil.
It has the highest density because it doesn't have any large parks or open space unlike boston which has the islands the arboretum and the airport or Cambridge which has a large pond
This is great, I'm glad that they are tapping into the many very smart Europeans who aren't willing to leave Europe to work in the states.

That being said, I'm pretty sure this is almost an entirely tax based move. By doing this, they now have a way to spend a bunch of the money they have "stranded" in Europe.
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In an electric vehicle, regenerative braking is free. It's just the motor turning kinetic energy into electric energy, rather than the other way around. There aren't really any extra parts or systems involved.
What's the difference between emergency auto-brake and adaptive cruise?

I think a charitable interpretation of that driver's actions would be that they expected the car to act like it was adaptive cruising, not that they expected it to abruptly brake for them.
Assuming you know basic algebra and calculus already, learn introductory statistics and linear algebra first. Then pick up a book like http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ (or companion lectures http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...).

If you're a beginner, don't start with deep nets. Start with basic data analysis.
But what if all I want to do is spread butter, not murder someone?
Have you ever spent days fighting poor decisions you'll end up accountable for through no fault of your own? Gardening and woodshop please.
This means a 2016 S60 will still have 208 miles of EPA rated range when it's off-lease or up for resale in 2019, whereas a 2013 S60 most likely has a smaller range than when it was new.

Tesla cars will depreciate more slowly, with resale prices closer to original MSRP. That's all good news for their leasing program, their resale value guarantee program, and their certified pre-owned program.

There are a lot of upsides to reducing battery wear. Battery wear is a big reason my 2012 Nissan Leaf is worth less than 1/3rd of its original MSRP.
If you have never taste the limit of Webkit/HTML/CSS/jQuery for client side application, you should stay away of QtQuick criticism.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing. If you're running only one app, there's a lot of things you don't need. No process groups, no scheduling hierarchies, no user privilege checks, likely no filesystem caching (maybe even no filesystem?), no legacy device handling, no terminals. We're kind of going towards replacing the big kernel with a posix-to-virtio layer already, and it may not be a terrible idea.
As soon as Houston stops being the 4th largest city in America or people come up with a plan for how to kill a city's main industry without it turning into a hotbed of suicide and violent crime.
> And all because you couldn't come up with a universal plug for car entertainment systems.

It will have absolutely zero impact on their bottom line sales to stop updating their carOS, since they have been doing it for years already and have never done it in the past. Every car with bluetooth / cellular / wifi support has to, by design, contain a computer to provide that service. Every car with a dash more sophisticated than dials has a computer in it.

Nobody has ever considered the security or ethical consequences of these wholly proprietary computers in their cars, and in the same way modern John Deere tractors are complete black boxes with no ability for quote unquote "owners" to inspect, audit, modify, or replace the software part cars have been the same way for years, even if the computer hasn't given you an obvious touchpad UI to notice it.
Lately I've been wondering about very slow technology adopter groups/individuals. Let say that "Amish" are content with 1700's technology. If you want to move beyond horse and carriage, you could be a practitioner of the steam engine era of the 1880's, and reject other modern conveniences. If you like electric lighting, refrigeration, and automobiles, then you might be a 1930's type person. Maybe personal computers are useful, but you don't need anything beyond very basic computational needs, and are fine with 1980's technology. Is there a name for this? I suppose some-sort of derogatory Luddite term might apply. But what about voluntary groups, who don't care about the rest of the world, they just want to live a "simpler" life. Has anyone written on this subject? Are their any practitioners?
Regardless of actual amount of effort Microsoft is putting here, just putting their feet in the water and showing interest is a very smart move. Marijuana is poised to become a multibillion dollar industry, and Microsoft (being based in WA) is in a unique position among the tech giants to capitalize.
I think the difference is that we're still valuing marijuana at prohibition prices, which means the producers have enough money left over they can bear the price of a system like that and still make a hefty profit. With something like corn, it takes an acre of land to net as much money as you'd get from a couple ounces of weed. [1]

[1] http://smallbusiness.chron.com/profit-margin-raising-corn-34...
I disagree entirely. Particularly for a big display platform like Tumblr, that had a reputation for tons of porn and generally low-quality impressions, big companies need to see other big companies take the risk and do cool branding stuff that gets talked about. That takes investment, and means that you need to focus all of your business efforts in attracting that target, and then making sure they are successful.

With small budget direct response advertisers, all too often you get people who promise they will spend more if it is profitable, but because they don't know how to properly value display (see my last click comment) they won't see last click success, and will thus not be a repeat advertiser. Beyond that, they will also contribute to spreading the word that Tumblr is not a quality inventory source, which could kill them before they had a chance to really shine.

If I'm trying to grow ad sales on a property as large as Tumblr with the reputation it had, the first thing I'm going to do is make it clear that the focus is first and foremost on big brands and not the little guy. That's what brings in the dollars, not the latter. The little guys come in once you are already at scale with proven success for big brands.

Once that is successful with your limited sales resources, then and only then do you create a self-serve platform for small direct response advertisers with minimal 1:1 contact (ala AdWords, Bing Ads, etc.).

You need to think of the long game and think of where you would prioritize your resources. Would you rather get a small inconsistent cashflow of people who are likely to talk crap about your inventory because they don't know how to properly measure it if they don't see a positive ROI after spending a couple grand? Or would you rather focus all your efforts on big brands who know what they are doing, have the budget to do highly visible tests, and aren't afraid to "waste" 10's of thousands of dollars testing something new that might not work out?