skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least they are paying these workers something? That's the standard we're defending? And who is in a better position to help the worker...us, or, I don't know, their employer? I think we'd get much farther shaming companies for their treatment of employees than hacker news commenters for not doing their "fair share". And for that matter, this a forum: what we do here is talk. It's silly to suggest people shouldn't speak their mind because it's not a "contribution".
I believe "shame" in the grandparent post just means "pity".

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/oh-wh...

> used for expressing sympathy or disappointment
Excellent post, thank you!

By the way, I've sometimes heard that it was the popularity of emoji that finally made American and Western European coders learn about the particulars of unicode. Is this just a jokingly told anecdote, or did emoji really help?
This low slung, suburban sprawl is strangling growth in California, and eventually towns like Vista won't be able to afford the maintenance costs on their aging infrastructure, at which point Vista ends up like Detroit.

We should be building centrally located, high density developments that are transit oriented, instead of light rail and commuter rail stations being surrounded by 1 to 2 story office slums, they should be surrounded by 6+ story mixed use buildings, with retail, office space & residential appropriately intermingled.

Even with land prices in SoCal & the Bay Area, safe & comfortable housing can be affordably built without government subsidies, we only have to lower the barriers to allow this to happen. Additionally, it will put our towns on a solid financial footing with lower taxes to boot.

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-...
Wave functions do not collapse in the realist view, as explained in the article. The cost, however, is a giant explosion of alternate possibilities all having equal reality, summed in superposition.

But, the point is, there is at least one interpretation of QM where the wavefunction never collapses: it just evolves unitarily according to the Schrodinger equation, forever.
Hostile much?
It really is.
I guess you are right regarding Deep Learning. Even then, it might be hard to beat the Bay Area. Unfortunately it would take a lot of work to do a proper ranking (and many companies might not make the info public). Maybe we need a better AI for that. ;)
In all seriousness, if they really wanted to I would be down for helping rewrite mission critical stuff. I don't think they are there yet, though.

Note: I'm not sure who they are in this context, but I assume package maintainers, and much of it I believe is GNU.
Would you say that Pinyin run through ROT-13 is just as easy as Hanyu Pinyin, because it's still 26 characters and you just have to memorise the rules?
I found the ambiguities of Hanyu Pinyin really annoying when learning Chinese. Probably still more time-efficient than learning Bopomofo, but Pinyin is definitely a "least worst" choice for me.
The article's author does sound resignated though. It seems she does not expect any (whatsoever) disruptive things to happen until death. I could not live with that feeling.

I do have 2 kids and will marry soon (living together for >10 years now), so I can believe that one could dissolve herself completely in family life and what she calls romance. I just could not bear the thought of "this is all". For me, family is where I thrive and relax and love, but it can't be the answer to all questions, can't be the self-serving means to an end.
Best i recall, there is a option called tearfree that one can apply to the adapter section in xorg.conf to alleviate this.

Why these things are not enabled by default in the driver i do not know, as it makes X11 seem worse than it really is.
>"and not once did she mention one thing she did for her husband."

If you act out of self-aware point scoring you'll never understand why. Also, the woman is being self-deprecating throughout the whole article, did you not notice that?
> "tool that every developer uses regardless of language, platform, or framework it's the terminal"

I'm not sure I agree with that. If you work in a decent IDE and your vcs is not git then you can do pretty well without a terminal. Especially on Windows.
The many faces of consistency
Intimacy is more than just fucking.
I asked myself the same. Maybe it is a way to say: if you found the topic interesting, you should start studying it by yourself now!

You can also kind of imagine how they get into the minutiae of the particular fern now, and how they are different from others.
Mark Fisher, 1968–2017
You are an absolute visionary and could be the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk even. Please keep sharing your predictions and I can stop my 401 contributions and invest in those companies you mention and beat Warrent Buffett soon.
Yes, but how is the performance?

Also, I read that not everything works.
This has been true in my academic career also. The ability to say no is important.
Simple Mac window management with BetterTouchTool
I immediately asked myself what would happen to the Society if lots of HN users appeared at the next meeting.
> The Uber Pool prices are still obviously fake - it's half the price of UberX for the same long trip even at 4am when nobody else gets in the car.

I wish this were the case. Well, at least for me. I'm in the East Bay and Uber X versus Uber Pool is no question because Pool is $2 cheaper AT THE MOST, typically closer to a $1.50 cheaper. That's for a trip that typically costs roughly $15.

I'm curious how they determine their Pool prices.
Meh.

Doesn't everyone just restores from a previous backup? Why would one start from scratch?

Most importsntly, I doubt a developer wouldn't see there's a process draining the battery.
Ask HN: Are “expensive” Masters a scam?
Hi guys,

Long time lurker but this is my first post.

I am a recent law graduate from the Netherlands (I did my Bachelor + Masters there). I have a Bachelor of Law and LL.M. in Corporate law. I paid about $2000 a year in tuition fees to get my bachelor + masters.

I see a lot of people around me doing expensive "law" or "business" masters after their degrees. (example: LSE, Columbia Law School, Imperial College, ...). When I checked the tuition fees it is minimum $30,000 a year up to $90,000, and that does not account living expenses.

What is the reason for enrolling in such expensive degrees? What is the payoff? How can people possibly spend 100k$ on their education where it is practically almost free in good European public universities? Are law firms / Big 4 only hiring you because you went to a top school and showed you could spend big bucks?

I want to be an entrepreneur myself (I launched a business during my studies and still work on it today, providing me full-time income) but I do wonder what the goals are of my friends who secured top spots as Lawyers or Investment bankers.

Thanks for your insights fellow HN'ers :)
There was a post on HN in the past couple of months pointing out that the list of Toy Story character names is growing faster than Debian can consume them. Should be safe for a while.
Because corporations are absolutely servile to the bottom line. They have no concept of national pride or taking care of the nation's workforce. They just want to pad shareholder wallets: and they don't give a flying fuck about the quality or nationality of the code.

"But we just need so many workers" is the classic bourgeoisie line uttered a thousand times before. Globalization is ugly, H1B Visas are ugly and it should be ended immediately.

Invest in Americans first. Always.
I think it's the other way around and it's a big difference. She describes the popculture romance as hesitation and suspense over sex. She doesn't describe the sex as the reverse.

And the word sexy is already popular in many non-explicitly-sexual contexts. Like "intelligence is sexy", "sexy car", "sexy clothes". I'm pretty sure I've described code solutions as sexy a number of times. But unless you're into mechaphilia sexy cars are not sexually attractive.
tl:dr

ctrl-r search in history, ctrl-r again to skip-
ctrl-p previous command (instead of arrow up)
ctri-n
This is an open source and community driven project. It is your job/responsibility to improve things and try to submit them upstream and convince people that your solution is better than the existing one.
> If you accept that using the async call in an asynchronous nature doesn't have overhead

Obviously that's not the case. There is a lot of overhead.
It's phase two (2020+). Once the tech is ready, Uber will have to order at an enormous scale with large discounts from whoever gets the contract. There were rumors that Uber considers Daimler as a car hardware platform partner.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-uber-idUSKCN0WK1C8

However, quickly there will be many new local competitors. Who wouldn't start such a business in their own local town anywhere? Buy a few cheaper autonomous cars (10 Model III+upgrades) and have them drive around your neighborhood. Call it 'EcoGreenCar LLC'. There will certainly even be an open source software platform to manage autonomous micro fleets.
If you're on macOS and looking for something with a nice GUI, check out IINA [0]. I saw it on HN [1] last week, and it looks very promising, although it's still an alpha. It's based on mpv.

[0] https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337444
I think it would also help to expand -iu to -iou and -ui to -uei, and of course u->ü where applicable. IMEs could still accept both forms.

Pinyin is pretty well-adapted for entering Chinese, but I think that goal is at odds with being easy to pronounce. I'm not sure that having one ISO standard for both purposes is a good idea, although if China ever starts to export more culture, maybe everyone will eventually learn how to pronounce Hanyu Pinyin.
You are conflating terms: in this narrow case, the 'consumers' are app developers.
To "execute Lisp directly" means to interpret the AST. No hardware machine does that that I know of. It can almost certainly be done, but arguably shouldn't. Interpreting the raw syntax is a bootstrapping technique to which it would seem foolish to commit a full-blown hardware implementation.
So a http server is a web framework now? Okay, let's go along with this.

Node.js is popular, but it's not 'standard'. It's not part of any ECMAScript standard libraries, which would be the requirement if it was to be standard.

I don't know the situation with Go that well, so if it has a http library in the standard I'll take your word for it, but there do seem to be some popular non-standard http servers like Caddy.

As for Python, this is probably an example of where the impact of standards is not that great. How often is the standard http server used compared to popular third party alternatives? Are there any web apps you know of that are using the standard http server in production?
Thank you for your reply, I am going to look into the figures of blood exchanges between countries.
"X is leading Y"

I thought that kind of marketing died in '00s.
I highly doubt Shkreli was interested in treating toxicoplasmosis, or had a "small company."

I think the HN moderators need to remove things like this.
Twitter does not represent humanity. Far from it.
You are side-stepping the question by explaining how scheduling works.

You can not say that there is NO overhead. Using async code in a synchronous fashion is not going to be as fast as using plain sync code.

Look at the wait() function: https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-rs/blob/master/src/f...

All this code IS overhead that wouldn't exist if the code was synchronous in the first place.
There are certain gotchas when importing a Xiaomi phone, one of which is being wary of replacing the software the distributor has put on it with official Xiaomi software. Clearly you didn't do that.
Asking here because this might have some visibility:

What's the status of hardware acceleration of next-generation video standards (h.265, VP9, something else)?

It's my understanding that after VP8 was pushed and then superseded rapidly, hardware manufacturers are now leery of implementing anything other than h.264.

And as a follow-on: what makes generic GPU hardware and software not sufficient for hardware acceleration of video decoding? What is it that makes my GPU stupendously good at pushing pixels and training neural nets and physics calculations and so many other things, but not better than my CPU at video decoding? Is there a reason h.265 and such aren't implemented in CUDA?

I don't know much about video encoding, not even enough to be dangerous, so to speak.
Show HN: Web push notifications for newbies
Is the prescribed dose tailored for the specific patient, though? I don't think so, at least not in the UK on the NHS.

I can understand why many people think it's just a standardised fits-the-medicine-jar prescription when the label says 'take two a day for two weeks' as if their ailment adheres to strict calendar periods.
I'm taking a C++ semester course in 2 days.

I'd ask you for pointers, but I think we're ghosts or something.
Considering the ease with which "correcthorsebatterystaple" type passwords can be cracked, I hope Randall Munroe updates that page and recommends people use a password manager.
I find it pretty accurate, but that's just anecdotal from how I've seen software I use change in that time period, and how I've seen attitudes of people online change.

I'm sure plenty of Western programmers were aware of this stuff, though. Just not enough.
That's the point. Calling a blocking system call is cheaper that artificially blocking on a non-blocking operation.
The economy factor is the main point here that many seem to be missing. SpaceX has already more than halved (and in some cases quartered) the cost of sending satellites into orbit. Heck, even NASA is finding it cheaper to contract satellite launched to SpaceX, and several countries who wouldn't previously have been able to afford to send their own hardware into space are now finding it viable.

For all of the marvellous things done in the 60's space program, we are now half a century down the track from that and things were still expensive with a lot of throwaway hardware. The orbiter (shuttle) program never really delivered on the reduced cost it promised. It has really only been in the past decade or so that private industry has taken up the reins and pushed the technology for more cost effective space travel.
With GNU rm, you can put the -f at the end, which I do for safety.

rm -i x y z -f
If you arbitrarily dismiss things because you "don't think it involved something new" that's a fairly random criteria.
It would be reasonable to assume that someone who reads HN will understand that "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would not be good, even if it is 30 characters long. Donatj probably considered this.

That said, your point is valid and it's possible you're right.
This seems to be just a fraction of a bigger TV piece by ABC called My Reality: A Hidden America.

Some other portions of it found on Youtube:

* Firefighter with 3 jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_8lgs9GCQ

* Fastfood worker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I28_9eAwEW4

* Stanford U worker who commutes 4 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3O4Xat1C0

I don't live in the US, but the situation in these videos looks pretty sad.
Back at the beginning of of 2016 my circle of friends in their 30's was excitedly forwarding each other links to a 50% off Groupon [1] for this circus. We all have small kids, ages 4-10 and probably never considered the circus before - I don't think most of us went as kids. The excitement died pretty quickly after someone found the PETA website with videos of the animals being abused [2] and that was the end of that.

[1] https://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-ringling-bros-and-barnum-ba...

[2] http://www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com/
And then we will be regretting the fact that they killed off the taxi companies who, in some cities at least, were in a very competitive but sustainable market before uber came along.
See, this is a reasonable presentation of ideas, not accusing me of being hateful, thanks for being polite and stating your points. Maybe i don't agree with you, i still don't believe that Israel wants to give back anything when they are building more every year. So the exchanges of land they are so proud is returning land they have stolen before so nothing to be proud of. Apart from that i still think that Hamas is stupid not trying to reach a real peace, it would be good for all, cause having a neighbor like Israel could help to accelerate the development of a Palestinian state. IMHO the problem is that both sides think they can win and the other side lose and that makes real efforts for peace look they are in vain.
Getting your entropy for crypto purposes from a 3rd party is not a great idea.
Is the Elixir ecosystem being shaped (too much) by Ruby?
I Found a Major Facebook Glitch
> in fact, everyone tries rather hard to downplay the risks and to hide how things actually work.

And why is that?

It's because doing the opposite is in the way of maximizing your ROI (return on investment).

Put simply, it reduces the company's (investor's/owner's) money. It's always about the money.
Passwordless Authentication in Phoenix (Elixir)
"radiation isn't a substance" but plumes and liquids carry the Cesium and other elements. Immensely little contamination in catastrophic events has been through radiation; Most has been through inhaling, eating, depositing radioactive dust.
To keep the analogy, some species we remove from the biosphere and replace with others. Airbnb and Uber etc look like the fast spread of an invasive species.
Chrome should trust Let's Encrypt, and it does on every Chrome I've tried. Which version/OS are you on and what exactly is the message from Chrome?
It will be interesting to see what happens when autonomous cars are wide spread, we may see a democratisation of the industry. If I own a Tesla I might want it to pay for itself by providing rides while I'm at work or sleep, the amount of vehicles with the capability would drive up availability and drive down costs. Because the cars are all smart the value of an uber or a lyft as a middle man is decreased.
You are right and I am wrong. 1440p was max I was offered forcing flash player in opera and mp4 in chrome.

Out of curiosity, why was this article safari framed when it affects all browsers that want to use h264 4k including chrome and opera? Is there some way that this is actually a safari-centric change?
I took a picture of a busy Street in a large city,only to be approached 10 seconds later by some lady telling me she's a teacher and her group of pupils is in my picture,and she doesn't feel comfortable with it and she wants me to delete it. I remember the intense embarrassment I felt that moment, like she was calling me a pedophile in public or something,even though in hindsight I should have told her to just fuck off, this was a public space and the shot was of the entire street. I'm really worried about taking pictures in public places now because of that one incident.
One does not preclude another.
Book review: The DevOps Handbook
for a country like USA, I found this video quite sad. We also have issues in Germany, we also have our problems

but zero vacation.

no sick days.

working from 3.am to 11 am.

sleeping in a car.

I don't judge, is just makes ma sad.
"The necessary support of the VP9 video codec for 4K playback today seems to currently apply to videos being watched directly on YouTube’s site. A quick way to check is to launch an uploaded 4K video on YouTube, and attempt to change the resolution. Recently uploaded videos only show HD options up to 1440p in Safari. Interestingly, if these very videos are embedded on an external page, then 4K video playback is still an option."

So it looks like they're encoding h264 in 4K, just not if you're on the actual Youtube site.
Officer: "Sir, Do you classify as human?"

Korbin: "Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
Lemonade, a tech-powered insurance agency, settled a claim in 3 seconds
I always hear about Safari being described as "the new IE", but after switching back to a Macbook I've tried to force myself to stay on Safari as a default browser and it's pretty great from a user perspective.

It saves an incredible amount of battery life over Chrome (which makes me that much more weary of Electron apps eating up battery and memory at idle). Is there any specific architecture decision by Safari that enables those battery savings?
In my experience being productive is more a matter of setting a clear scope of goals on which I'm going to focus on the next X months. Other than the strict necessary tasks that might interrupt activities related to these goals, no extra goals may be added until one is finished. After that, at the beginning of each day I decided what micro-tasks I want to do (write paragraph X of paper, fix bug Y in project Z) and I don't go home until I am done. Everyday it seems like I am only doing small tasks but after time these tasks add up and I finish big projects. Big projects/goals are not finished over night, you need time. It's easy to get demotivated when there are big tasks ahead. The key is to chop them into do-able, reachable tasks and you hold yourself accountable to fix these tasks no matter what.
Start Writing More Classes (2013)
Lots of <rect>'s in that SVG :D

I wonder how big can the SVG DOM be in browsers before things start to get painfully slow
We were getting personal computers one way or another, there was a growing tide of CP/M machines inching forward by 1980.

The IBM label on the product of a skunkworks division in Florida just put the blessing of Mercury on that particular outcome.
In the last paragraph he concludes:

If you are really smart you will begin using a password manager like 1Password or Keepass to generate and database your passwords across devices.
If you pick completely random words from the dictionary, you get about 17 bits per word. That's worth between two and three random characters.

If you take random words and arrange most of them into a sentence then you drop slightly but you're still okay. If you add any common words like "the" or "was", don't include them in your word count.

While you could boost it with spacing, capitalization, misspellings, etc. you gain very few bits for each modification you have to remember. You're better off tossing a random character or two onto your phrase, or simply making it a word longer.
On the question of "why is Alice poor and Bob well-off" a difference of $10k on the income side is 5x more interesting than a difference of $2k on the expense side, no?

But more generally. "Do you really need this?" is the right question to ask about the expense, effort, and unpleasantness you tolerate from the overhead in life, such as education, work, housing, transportation, sustenance, etc. And yes, you probably need at least the minimum viable product in each category, and the savings to continue purchasing it during unemployment and retirement.

For the rest, I'm much more interested in, "is this worth it?" Good food, books, TV, movies, concerts, theater, and yes, Sunday afternoons at the coffee shop are what all that overhead is for, particularly when shared with people whose company I enjoy.

If I need to find an additional $2k, I will pull it from overheard (be slightly less picky about my next apartment, or put up with a less pleasant commute). Not cut all the enjoyment from my life.

I use (and love) You Need a Budget. My entertainment category is about 5% of my take-home, with savings of about 25%, and I'm satisfied with this. (Of course, I am extremely fortunate to be early in life with a great education, high income, and good health).