skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's what leads to the incredible amount of content spam from all these companies.
Yup I am. My point though is that that argument is largely underestimating the value delivered by these products. And the apparent lack of P/M fit for spreadsheets managing diversity at large companies.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314961
Apparently I missed it. What was the cure?
Renewable technology is so hard. If only there were huge mountains of used tires everywhere around the world, then we could just recycle those.
The market is already incentivized; if the performance of your site is lousy, people won't like it. I think fiddling with SEO incentives is too big of a hammer to swing at what is basically a very narrow technical problem, overall JS parse volume.
The newer solution ("Two-factor authentication") also allows non-Apple phones to receive a code on their "trusted phone number". From the support page linked in a nearby comment:

What if I don’t have access to a trusted device or didn't receive a verification code?

If you're signing in and don’t have a trusted device handy that can display verification codes, you can have a code sent to your trusted phone number via text or a phone call instead. Click Didn't Get a Code on the sign in screen and choose to send a code to your trusted phone number. You can also get a code directly from Settings on a trusted device.
Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?
Is this their new design or did something bad happen? If it's the former, I am lost for words. Why such a depressing color?
Low cost is not defined in this article. Absolutely no strategy is given other than "build new walkable cities someplace else", which seems hard to justify as low cost to me.
AIUI the answer is basically "it's very hard to prove", which is why very few people actually get punished for it. IIRC in the flash crash trader's case he actually had emails that made it very clear what his intentions were with the orders he placed (but I could be misremembering).
The idea that technology will cause widespread job-loss and economic upheaval is such an old fear, and it never works that way. Technological innovations lead to wealth creation 100% of the time, along with more opportunities for more people, even if some jobs are initially replaced with other jobs. "This time is different" is announced everytime, and it's always the same.

This book is very good for anybody wishing to understand basic economic theory and see many examples throughout history of this exact debate taking place over and over and over again: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517548232/ (see the chapter "The Curse of Machinery").
This is the bit I can't understand about the nay sayers. AI promises a world of everything you could want. The problem is the current way of assigning goods (money for labour) is obsolete. The really funny thing (to me) is the people who'd benefit most by this are the ones wailing the most.

It's the disconnects that confuse me the most. "What about houses, how can we afford a house without a job?" is a complaint I hear. Like for some reason AI won't reduce construction costs to near 0.

The hard part imho is the transition where some jobs are obsoleted, but some aren't and some things still cost lots because they haven't been automated yet. This is where we are now I think.
> “A universal basic income doesn’t give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice,”

It may not give them dignity, but it protects them from poverty, which strips dignity. It also protects them from vice-based-on-need, just not vice-based-on-boredom.
If you work in City A at HQ, and then decide to work remote in City B (and the company approves it), the company is NOT on the hook to pay your travel expenses to City A.

You chose to move, it's your responsibility to cover your travel expenses when you need to be in the office.

Now, if you already live in City B when the company hires you, or the company asked you to relocate to City B, then they should cover your travel expenses when you need to travel to City A.
FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B
+ respecting expires or cache-control headers
Which payment process is better for a global marketplace: Braintree or Stripe?
I just launched a showcase and marketplace platform for artists, designers (of various kinds), illustrators, stylists and other creative freelancers to showcase and sell their work and service to their targeted audiences worldwide. During beta-testing period, I frequently got a question from some beta users: "Do you accept Paypal?" Personally, I used both and I had some headache with Paypal: the time to respond to issues, the transaction fee and etc. That's the reason choosing Stripe instead of Paypal. However, there are still countries where Stripe doesn't operate. I want to ask if anyone uses both or either one and can tell me which one they prefer to use more for transactions?
"...increasing every time."? I doubt that. I don't think we'll ever see a dislocation like we saw with agricuture in first world countries, where an occupation that employed 95%+ of the people is now done by something like 3% (depending on how you measure it).
This is only true if a large % of your employees are remote. Making exceptions for a few has no upside to hard costs.

EDIT: And from my experience, 30% of people work more productively remote, 40% about the same, 30% are less productive. That said, there are also productivity losses to in-office people when a smaller percentage work remote, especially if their jobs require frequent team interactions.

For developers it is certainly doable. For other teams it takes a lot of effort for everything to even out. Some companies have figured it out, some have not.
Ask if he would like to join again when he is done with his studies and if you can support him in any way during his endeavor.
> Same is the case with Canada and Australia.

Australia also has a working visa which is tied to the employer.
- Remove zoning restrictions.

- Make it easy for individual enterpreneurs to open small shops.

This ought to help. Small corner bodega will survive if operated by its owner.
Second time this has been posted. It's a cute idea but doesn't solve the underlying problem that most people need to simplify and give themselves time/permission to not be "succeeding" at all moments.
Our ideas about motivation are shaped by self fulfilling prophecy; most people are on the planet a working jobs which are, at best, a compromise for what they want to do with their lives. As a result staying motivated is hard because you're ultimately doing it just for the money.

So yeah; let's give large numbers of people a chance to try doing what they want with their lives. Yes it will not be easy. More education will be required, some will need support to not fall into drug abuse etc but ultimately it could lead to a better human condition
Apple on Track to Buy 50% of Itself in Three Years
Between the censorship, the "banning people for reporting child porn" thing, and the lack of new products and features (what are they spending so much money on, they spend as much as Tesla for crying out loud!) I think it's well deserved scorn from Wall Street.
> Never heard of anyone being paid overtime.

Which Indian IT company (outsourcing or a product) based pays overtime in India?
There are mental jobs being created at greater speed. Hard though it might be to believe, the desire to put things in tables and pivot them and respond to customers' sentiments in real time didn't really exist for the most part before technology made it necessary to hire people to perform those roles. And there's a whole cottage industry of people trying to find Big Data algorithm-enabled solutions to problems companies didn't think they'd have. If they actually work, sometimes, the companies that purchase them can afford to employ more sales staff...
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-...

You are comparing various mobile CPUs for each generation which isn't quite the same thing most people are likely talking about. Desktop and Mobile CPUs aren't the same thing (usually).

I suspect you are comparing the improvements along the lines Intel says it can still improve (lower power chips) but its simply because you keep buying laptops vs. desktops. If you had been buying desktops, I suspect you wouldn't notice the improvement.

My desktop I built 4 years ago compiles within ~20% as my desktop at work with its shiny new Xeon.
In Yugoslavia war, all(6) air-to-air kills were performed by AMRAAM according to wiki.
The Curse of Smart People (2014)
Are there any countries where the nominally expected result of things actually getting cheaper and easier over time are obtained?

Yes.

Japan, Mexico, Chile, Poland, Hungary, Korea, Thailand.
It is interesting to see that they apparently built this as a traditional raised floor environment without hot/cold aisle separation. Looks like something from 20 years ago. Building datacenters on the multi megawatt scale (example: 10-12kW thermal per 44U cabinet, equivalent to two 208V 30A circuits per cab), it's far more efficient to put everything straight on concrete slab, build hot and cold aisle separation and do fiber and power trays entirely overhead.

If I had to guess the PM on this was somebody who'd built traditional supercomputer datacenter environments 15-20 years ago for some entries in the top 50 of the top500 list, and scaled up what they knew how to build.

edit: Looking at the photos in more detail it looks like they're retrofitted hot/cold separation into a traditional 20-year-ago style raised floor environment. The fact that there's zero overhead ladder racks carrying AC power (or -48VDC cabling) and zero overhead fiber trays means that everything is under the floor... Very costly and labor intensive compared to modern methods of building a datacenter. Also means that it's not designed to be changed or modified very often, if ever, and it's a huge forklift upgrade if the power and fiber layer 1 topology ever needs to change.

https://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/about_s...
Hah! I felt so strongly about it I made a chrome extension to put it back to how it was.
I agree with you about the net benefit in purely economic terms, but it's easy to overweight the benefit when you were born after the costs were paid. Industrialization of production also inevitably led to the industrialization of warfare and we know how that turned out.

I can't say with any certainty that we're definitely better off than if WW2 had never happened. Suppose it had not, and that there had been slower technological development without the necessity of war, so that in 2017 the cutting edge of technology was 2400 bps modems and 300 dpi laser printers (ie a ~25 year technological 'peace handicap'). Is the actual progress we've made over that period worth the ~50 million lives lost in WW2?

Put another way, would you be willing to kill 100 million people now, today, in order to take a 25 year technological shortcut (with no certainty about how well it would pan out)?
Suicide Ninja: Game made on Unreal Engine without writing a single line of code
I would assume so. I've written a simple GB emulator and this glitch worked on it, and mine isn't nearly as true to the hardware as Nintendo's VC emulator is.
> Because they won't be able to get domestic forces for that money.

The problem is many companies who can afford to pay good money to Americans dont hire Americans when they can just hire H1Bs at a lower salary.
You could use an XPath or similar to extract the part of the HTML you care about.

Similarly with a library like Beautiful Soup you can traverse the HTML a lot like a jQuery selector.
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> Some people sound like they're planning how to invent enough bullshit jobs to provide everyone a regular 9-5 schedule and a supervisor even after machines are doing all the strictly necessary labor.

I think that's mistaken on many fronts. First, new jobs that get invented aren't bullshit. Just as the internet destroyed DVD manufacturing jobs, it created smartphone app jobs, which weren't make-work. Second, the day will never come when machines are doing all of the strictly necessary labor; this is an affectation of the group-think that happens on this site. The firmly established pattern in humanity is that if you automate all of the existing work, humans will start wanting new things, which creates more work. It just....never....stops.

So while I know there are techno-enthusiasts who think AI is so imminent that it can take over even high value knowledge work in the near term, and while I know that "elimination of the middle class through robotics" is a fashionable viewpoint right now, let me just say that I have been reading articles about how strong AI was just around the corner, just a few years off...for the last 20 years. I feel exactly the same way about driverless cars. Every time I pointed that pattern out, someone was always quick to say "this time is different" without really having much evidence why it was. So I guess I'll wait for my thread reply that this time, no, it's really different, AI is going to eat all of the jobs.

I'm enthusiastic about all tech development, but prognostications about the future are pretty much always wrong. Isn't that intuitive? Does anybody really believe they can predict the future?

It's like Star Trek and the 1960s view of what today would be like. Everybody expected matter transporters and flying cars. They didn't get either. But they did get the tricorder.
This is great. Until now, I have been using the "flex box froggy" game for reference. It has been faster for me to recall flex-box CSs rules by scrolling through levels in that game than reading any "real" documentation.

The link you shared above is a big upgrade.
I can't agree with saying that trying to sell something for more than it cost you is "irrational"
Neat! I was meaning to write a FUSE filesystem for my personal use that exactly accomplished this with EXIF data. I don't feel as motivated to do that now, will give elodie a spin instead.
I just wanted to thank you for putting the point of view of an aspiring immigrant into the conversation. Just recently my sister completed a coding bootcamp in NYC and would gladly accept all the 'abuses' associated with being an H1B holder and then some to be able to work as a software developer in the US.

I ask for no special treatment for my sister, just the decency of not using the immense power of the state from preventing her for working for a willing employer. Sort of how we don't ban black people from working as software developers even if they replace white people.
> without the app ecosystem to back them, it doesn't matter that the phones are great

Is this true? It sounds true but I wonder if it actually is.

(I for one don't care about apps -- at all. I want a "smartphone" because I want the ability to browse the web, and that's it. I can't be the only guy like this.)

And even if it were actually true that apps are important, if you're MS, can't you jump start the app ecosystem? Android being opensource, how hard would it be for MS to make a phone capable of running Android apps (and yet be a different phone with a different OS of course)? (Also, they have Xamarin).

> Microsoft is basically waiting...

Well, yes, they don't seem to be trying very hard. This is quite strange.
It's actually quite possible to get an unmanaged VPS for under $2 a month if you shop around. I'm currently renting one for use as a personal email server for £0.002 per hour, which works out to around $1.85 a month for 1 core, 1GB ram, 20GB storage, and 2TB bandwidth.

https://lowendbox.com/ is a good resource for finding cheap VPS offerings to mess around with.
I suspect you'd want to search for a specific attribute or tag combination, I used the scrape package [0] recently and found it a pleasure to use. Beyond the example provided in the README the documentation [1] is also good.

[0] https://github.com/yhat/scrape

[1] https://godoc.org/github.com/yhat/scrape
If I'm not mistaken, a portion of the interview you mention can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57sPn6pQzUM

I'm not sure if the full interview is available elsewhere without a paywall.
This is not so much a review of the book, but a summary of it.

Coincidentally, I'm reading this book right now - my advice would be to read the actual book as opposed to this summary. It is much more lucid, and gives you a deeper sense of the man as a human rather than a list of facts and accomplishments.
Thanks, but I agree with the sentiment that it we're a lot of HN these days, I can see people getting tired of it.

Frankly, I didn't expect the issue bash to get upvoted. We have our postmortem coming in a few minutes. I'm sure that will be much discussed here. We considered postponing that post but we promised it for this week and feel like we owe it to our users.

I've instructed all our people not to submit articles to HN but we can't prevent others from posting.
One way is for the source to use cache control headers so you can just do a quick HEAD instead of a GET on the whole contents.
I'd only add that for the GB there really aren't tons of quirky edges cases that you can avoid handling. The GB was around in the time when developers pretty much abused the hardware to get what they wanted, and the GB doesn't have tons of logic to emulate in the first place. That said, what you've described is 100% true about more advanced emulators.
Plainly the elites of America are not willing to accept the population trends and immigration laws of the successful nations negotiating the cost disease. You can see that in how they celebrated the power grab in Washington.

Copying the immigration policy of Hungary, Japan, Korea, and Poland is easy if you want all the people of your nation to prosper. If your elite is more interested in keeping the people down so they can stay up, you get a different policy.
This is an interesting submission for educational purposes but I want to warn folks who might be inspired to "roll their own" website change monitoring tool. I started writing a similar tool in C# and since I was hoping to create a generalized tool for any website, I had to deal with lots of tricky edge cases. (E.g. raw HTML that changes vs visible text that doesn't, copyright dates on footers that get changed but the real meat of the page is still exactly the same triggering false alarms, etc.)

I gave up and simply used Aignes Website-Watcher.[1] If you're still itching to program your own webpage change detector, I recommend reading through their 16 years of release history[2] to get an idea of the various bugs they had to solve. The scope of edge cases can be overwhelming if you want to write something very robust.

[1] http://aignes.com/index.htm

[2] http://aignes.com/wsw_history.htm
It's like a magic spell that makes very little sense and is impossible to guess.

If I fire up a reasonable layout system (Xaml for example) which is completely foreign, it's trivial to do there.

I can't understand why html/CSS makes it so hard.
It's called cutting your losses. Buy and hold isn't "buy and go down with the ship".
Thanks for giving it a penalty, I agree it isn't intellectually interesting and it doesn't belong on the HN frontpage.
The premise of my post was a change to an auction-style H1B program.

Let's assume there is a $FooCorp in Alabama looking for a SysAdmin but not having much luck. They'd like to spend $70k and enter the H1B lottery under our current system. Maybe they win, maybe they lose but can hire an H1B for $80k from $OutsourcingFirm. Under an auction system, let's examine what happens instead.

$Hooli (and other SV companies) are offering $135k for SDEs. Because $135k > $70k no H1Bs can be imported as SysAdmins for $70k. This raises the cost of SysAdmin work across the country for employers. The new baseline is now somewhere above $70k which is the price it takes to attract citizens (or otherwise eligible residents) to $FooCorp.

Under an auction system, $FooCorp still needs a SysAdmin and they have 3 options:

(1) do without a SysAdmin

(2) pay more than $70K to attract an already eligible to work SysAdmin to Alabama

(3) pay more for a SysAdmin than SV pays SDEs in order to hire an H1B

Let's look at those options. If they need a SysAdmin, the first option isn't really feasible. If the role is optional, this might be a situation where they decide to do without. That means there are two options left, and the rational decision depends on what the true market value of a SysAdmin currently is. If $FooCorp can pay a citizen $100k to move to Alabama, there isn't a skills shortage. If $FooCorp can't find anyone to move to Alabama to be a SysAdmin for less than $135k, there might be a legitimate skills shortage and then the H1B program is attractive again.

It's worth noting that if $FooCorp can't find a SysAdmin for less than a SDE to move to Alabama, the true value of a SysAdmin is at least $135k (in this example). Under the current system, SysAdmins are being short-changed, both H1Bs and other eligible SysAdmins in our workforce.

There is no such thing as a skills shortage. There are only greedy employers looking to abuse a system to underpay all workers, whether they are H1Bs or otherwise authorized to work. Anyone who tells you there is a skills shortage is making money off telling you that. Don't be a sucker.
>I hope they make the entrance price high

Yeah, that will result in only pre-established games making it onto the store because no one will even risk having to pay that fee for a game there is no market benchmark for.

Have fun seeing only AAA titles and clones thereof in the store. But hey, at least you can be lazy and not have to put a little effort into finding cool new stuff!

Greenlight is a muddy mess of copycats, but imposing a barrier like this to all indie devs universally is a terrible idea. Most likely, it will never even work since indie devs will just move to the next platform where they can actually do their job; Steam will lose all its interest and become a sort of playstation store for PC
stealth drone like X-47B (especially if cheaply mass produced) carrying several fast maneuverable air-to-air (or any other types) missiles gives you the best of both worlds - range and maneuverability. F-35 is just an attempt to get the same using outdated approach of using human to control the plane.

Interesting note from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-25_Stingray :

"Rear Adm. Michael Manazir has suggested that three of these UCAVs could fly with a F-35 for refueling and sensor operation."
My point of view as a WPF developer is that I permanently switched the xaml files to be opened with the plain xml editor rather than with the normal design view.
If I need to design something really specific, in the very unlikely case that I don't do it with Inkscape, I use expression blend just to iterate quickly over that very specific graphical element.
For all the rest I just write xaml.
There is auto-completion, most of the time I don't even need it, and if I had to use the designer view to compose my guis I would spend much more time for nothing.
And after that I had to manually edit the awful design that is spit out by The wysiwyg editor.
So I really can't imagine myself now using one gui editor as I have done multiple times in the past.