skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh look, he used a sarcastic comment as a comeback. That means all illegal immigrants are scabs! Such a well reasoned argument can't be ignored, can it?
Why so pessimistic? Maybe when writing a blog you won't get more than a handful regular readers, but keeping it public stimulates you to talk about you, your job, and the solutions you got when encountered a problem (sure, you won't talk about how much you love your dog, I hope).

I'd also say that a well kept blog may be more important than a CV since you can actually tell how good you are in your job.

To answer the question: I used to blog with pelican, and now hugo.
Though it's easier to attract bright and hopefuls to work for Palantir than ICE, right? And it's easier for these employees to excuse their actions with an "I didn't know my efforts would end up being used for that purpose", or "I just wanted to work on interesting problems".
How about the United States, where a person's value depends to a large extent on the amount of money they make, and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is the prevailing mentality?
Large societal changes are fairly rare events. Personally I think the next stage is a new form of worker revolt, some new spin on Unions or Communism, the next Marx has yet to write his magnum opus yet though. Those words are still viewed as bad in the West, so it will need new terminology too.

And to be clear, I don't ascribe to communism or anything, I'm simply speculating that some sort of new ideology, with a focus on the common person, will arise in the next 50 years to direct and fuel the next revolt. You'll know it when you see it.
I don't think anyone has said they think they should pay 0 taxes. Just that perhaps 50% is more than is needed, and that we waste a lot of tax money.
>Edit: Predictable downvotes. Everyone looks at this through a lens that says the commenter surely is showing disrespect or lack of knowledge for how special YC is.

What makes you think they don't deserve a sabbatical?

More people in general should have longer vacations/sabbaticals in the US. The US is behind on this, and it is detrimental. The sabbatical itself has shrunk from historically being a year or more to just three weeks in some places here.
> The article indicates a 15-year trend of rising wages, yet we don't see American farmhands flocking to CA, so it seems like a fair headline to me.

That's because you're biased. Its a small trend over a long period of time that doesn't outpace the cost of living. There is also a massive shortage of farmers thanks to big agriculture killing them all off.

Most farmers want to own the land they work. Good luck with that in CA
The moral police are here! The moral police are here! Wee-woo wee-woo.

The amount of moral policing these days is way too much. It seems to have grown significantly these past couple decades.
Because prose doesn't use bulleted lists.
"Trump’s border crackdown is supposed to help U.S. citizens. For California farmers, it’s creating a desperate shortage of help."
(Disclamer: I am an immigrant whose paper work is still ongoing)

From the article, it seemed like at least for some their business model was questionable. If the only way to be profitable is to rely on illegal immigrant or non-competitive wages (one of the farmers mentioned could only stay profitable at $8/hr but it seems anything above $10/hr seems unprofitable. "Wineries paid $700 for a ton of grapes, and Klein could make a solid profit paying $8 an hour, the minimum wage.") than you're better off growing something else anyways. (almond and olive trees in this guys case). Even if there was a way to get visas to get labor, the cost of application and transportation might still prevent some of these low margin farms.

Googling shows that other manual labor type jobs in Napa valley [1] seems to be $17+ and often offers training + transport. Seeing as how grapes seems to be used in wine industry, wouldn't the wine industry pay more for the grapes as supply dwindles and make it profitable again?

If I could go work at a farm during summer to save some money for my college, I would consider it. But looking at cost of living/risk involved/ lack of benefits for season workers/ pay, it doesn't appear to be worth it.

So, yes, preventing people willing to work and make it work from doing so it not a good solution. But the narrative that Americans would never work on a farm given the choice is also not true, imho. I've met plenty of white Americans who would like to do it, but lot of the work seems to be seasonal.
That may have worked in the past, but now we have the option of robots that can do the work and maintain margins long before wages raise that* high.

*Yes I know it's a hypothetical number.
Right on. No idea why you have been downvoted.
PanelKit: a UI framework that enables panels on iOS
The more interesting would be to see how feasible is to crack the in band SAS authentication string, when callers verbally verify it.

Deep learning and ability to train on a specific callers' voice [1] then mimic it might be an interesting attack vector. In practice Silent Circle's implementation does something interesting and instead of SAS numbers use dictionary words. So you end up with something like "Pink Elephant Salad". Could probably MitM that. However callers are then supposed to make some extra puns or discuss it a bit and say something like "Ha-ha! Wonder how tasty the an elephant salad would be". And if after MitM-ing, the string to the other side was "Plastic Blue Llamas" then a MitM attack becomes more obvious.

[1] http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-production-quality-text...
I was excited for a moment, but then I saw the PDF.

This is a tabletop RPG not a regular RPG usually connotated as a video game.

Nonetheless, it's still pretty interesting.
Re lucrative:

"Private" doctors exist also in single payer models.

If you want the premium model pay for the premium model. There is just a good enough alternative available to everyone.
Ah, you are right. I forgot about that.
"WiiU has a lot of great games"

Out of curiosity, other than standard Wii games which ones are you including here?
we need to merge hippocratic and asimovian branches in future.git
Extremists made £250,000 from ads for UK brands on Google
Ghost(Pro). Support has been fantastic with responses to emails measured in hours, not days (even on weekends!).
> I'm saying worry about ICE's conduct, worrying about Palantir is unproductive.

How so? Exposing and holding people and companies accountable for wrong behavior does not stop anyone from trying to change the government policies that encourage the wrong behavior. The added media exposure probably helps, especially with people that are interested in the person/company but are not aware of the government policies and their impact.
I'm glad they chose a title that highlights the feat, instead of the fact that they are women. And it's weird that most comments here focus away from the impressive feat.
Show HN: Butter, a low contrast color scheme for reading code all day
They don't have franchises like the other chains. That is also why their rollout seems slow. This means the boss is the company, not a franchisee who will have their own way of doing things. They then make a reasonable effort of benefits for their employees: http://www.in-n-out.com/employment/restaurant.aspx
Several fiasco's with the Nest, Glass and now this have convinced me never to buy a Google appliance anymore.
Nope. Small Midwestern town, same deal.
If it weren't for the human suffering involved in all this, I'd be laughing at the farmers, who are simply getting what they asked for[1]. Well, do I still find it funny, but in a much darker way.

I still think the answer to all of this is to call the Republican bluff, and just continually push E-verify any time anti-immigration nonsense comes up. Demand universal E-verify use, hit recalcitrant employers really hard (jail time, or at least business-crippling fines), and send the ICE thugs currently tormenting immigrants who try to speak out after the employers.

If nothing else, it would be amusing to listen to Ryan explain why he's suddenly soft on "illegals"[2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac...

[2] There is no such thing as an illegal human.
So, honest question (not trying to troll) - what jobs are available in Raleigh/Boulder/Austin/etc?

Because where I'm sitting, facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, which are 5 of the top 6 most valuable US companies, are HQ'd in the Bay Area or Seattle. So if you want that caliber of job, with the opportunities and pay ($200-300k+ for mid-level people), you really do have to live in SF/Seattle.

I don't work a BigCo job for other reasons but the reasoning does seem sound.
PipelineDB 0.9.7 – Delta Streams and Towards a PostgreSQL Extension
Nor nori Nork
https://nereagaite.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nor_nori_nork...
> If the wages and cost of living were there people would come

People who lack assets may not be able to afford to move, even if the wage/CoL balance would favor a different location discounting moving costs. Facilitating that through targeted lending (especially if the recipient would otherwise be drawing public benefits) is win/win/win: good for the government/public, food.for.the employer, good for employee.
This post doesn't get into the why very much, which is what you're asking about. Yes, locks will eventually be implemented with a primitive instruction. But it's not so much the cost of the mechanism but what those mechanisms allow you to do.

Generally, when you protect a data structure with a lock, that means that the thread which has the lock has mutually exclusive access to it. Other threads which want access must wait. When you have many threads which want access, you will tend to have serialized that part of your program. That will tend to hurt performance, if you gain performance from parallelism.

Lock-free approaches tend to allow multiple threads to access and modify a structure without having to get mutually exclusive access. Yes, if two threads are trying to touch the exact same part of the structure, they will interfere: one will succeed and move on, and the other will fail and have to retry. That's not much of a win over locks (generally). But, if it's common for the threads to touch different places of your structure, then they can do so without interfering with each other. That tends to allow better performance through parallelism.

I'm using a lot of weasel words ("tends to", "generally") because there are tradeoffs. If you have a shared structure which is accessed by multiple threads very rarely, then it may actually be better to use locks. Lock-free data structures tend to be more complicated (and hence, take a bit longer in the unconteded case) than simply protecting a data structure with a lock. So if you're almost always going to have uncontended access, it may actually yield better performance to use a lock.

But, locks can also be problematic when they're held too long or indefinitely. What if a thread dies while holding a lock? Or does I/O? Or is rescheduled? Other threads which want the lock must wait. Lock-free approaches tend to be free of such issues.
"Guess what will happen to the price of produce?"

Produce prices will rise - and surpluses will get distributed from the middle/upper classes to the working class and ease inequality.

'How to share the surpluses' is one of the most difficult problems in any society.

'The best' way is usually to let market forces take effect without some kind of non-market intervention.

Well - if we didn't allow businesses to 'cheat' using non-market intervention of undocumented labour - guess what? A good chunk of inequality problems would go away.

And it would also drive automation and towards other efficiencies - which is good.

The very same people who are concerned with inequality are the very same people pushing the fundamental driver of inequality which is undocumented labour, which wipes out the only little bit of leverage that working class people have.
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I don't mean to be overly sensitive, but I can't help but think there's a more appropriate way to state your point without calling all of Africa "AIDS infested" - if HIV/AIDS is even relevant to the story.
I'm the exact opposite. I don't care about main quests and such. In terms of gamer persona I'm more of an explorer and just like poking around and seeing what's out there and what I can do. For that, BotW has been perfect.
Isnt obesity usually linked to economic inequality which links to not being able to properly afford health care?

Basically: a) "poor people tend to be more obese" b) "healthcare costs are a problem for people who struggle financially"
Australia was about to try that but then a different government came in that intentionally sabotaged it to prevent their opponents from getting credit for it succeeding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker

Educate yourself.
The "everyone should go to college" attitude is a big contributor. Once our society got this idea that having everyone do the 9-to-5 40-year office career as an ideal, and started measuring the quality (and funding) of high schools based on how many students go on to college, you start getting career advisers telling students about how they should all be going into debt because "you don't want to be like those icky dumb construction workers right?". Then the market gets flooded with bachelor's degrees which are little more than an expensive status symbol to most.
That's fair, cheers.
That may be true, but markets can take a while to balance, there are frictional costs associated with switching jobs, and you may need internal migration to happen to fill these jobs etc.
Whenever british friends get frustrated about Heathrow turning into meltdown mode because of 5 mm of snow I enjoy posting them this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myaH9ClDjW8
> Tech really is quite high paying and good for people at all levels. I know people who did bootcamps and are now making 100K with a couple months of training.

It depends on where you live. I'm in Texas; you will never see that kind of salary where I am. I know a guy who had something like 15 years of experience, and he didn't break 100k until he moved to NYC.

When I graduated college in 2007, some of my friends got jobs at a local video game company. They got paid 38k and worked at least 80 hours a week, if not more. It was your stereotypical exploitative "crunch time all the time" game developer. I personally got a job in telecom, and I was making 42k. From talking to various people, 38-45k was the norm for a fresh college graduate then (it might be a little higher now because inflation, but not much). Back in late 2013/early 2014 I was looking for a job, and I was told by everyone that the going rate for somebody with my experience was 60k. I ended up putting my job search on hold for personal reasons, picked it up again in late 2014, and landed a position that paid 65k.

Those inflated six-figure entry-level salaries are only found in high-cost-of-living places like the Bay Area and NYC.
Right. There's no strict value to higher or lower complexity in the Kolmogorov sense, so you might as well assign the value to something more tangible (like pseudocode terseness or something)
Naw, I live right next to there it was worse five years ago but now it's fairly clean. 90% of people 'homeless' are panhandlers but they're not in dire circumstances and have homes.
It's like buying a cat at a Monsanto pet store and complain afterwards it glows in the dark.
The nascent Mozilla was Netscape and a well funded company that achieved a multi-billion dollar exit (final valuation $10 Billion per Wikipedia)[1]. As a commercial operation it was able to hire a significant engineering staff to work heads down on browser development over a sustained period. In contrast most non-profits have to hire for and focus on donor development and don't have a period of massive commercial growth fueled by venture capital.

The Mozilla Foundation has a wholly owned for commercial entity, the Mozilla Corporation.

[1] If there was a nascent non-profit in the chain that led to Mozilla, it would be NCSA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Supercompu...] where Andreesen was developing Mosaic.
Predating that by a few years is the classical Melville story of Bartleby the Scrivener, who, stuck in a dead-end white collar job, 'prefers' not to do anything at all.
Well, they could drugtest your wastewater [0] and measure your water consumption with one of these "smart" meters at small intervals. It's not at the scale of data that an ISP could sift through, but with a little imagination, water can be a source of metadata...

[0] http://www.dw.com/en/experts-on-drug-wastewater-analysis-say...
Lojban-style formal legalese could work, but then it would threaten the legitimacy of contracts, since you'd need to understand law-specific distinctions in language to have a meeting of the minds.
We loved Houston and since going back to visit the area has only improved. Neither of us had ventured south of the Mason-Dixon before moving there.
The decline in equipment deaths and injuries is mostly due to automation. Not nearly as many people with their hands near a PTO as there used to be.
I agree Lain was an odd choice.

For a more recent exploration of it, ReLIFE is interesting. The main character is a former salaryman-turned-freeter, not a hikikomori, but the "experiment" is for helping NEETs, and one of their other subjects is implied to have been a hikikomori.
I recently worked for a project in a Norwegian bank. Despite the claims of gender equality in Norway over 80% of IT personal and management there are male and most women work in testing.

It was rather interesting to see then when the bank signed a contract with an Indian company, women were like 50% of their IT folks with no gender devisions like testing/development. There were still less women at management positions from the Indian company, but the ratio is better than in the Norwegian bank.
Knowing how to show up on time, follow instructions, and be polite to customers is a future job skill.
How many teachers are there in this country? Safe, seasonal work isn't exactly common but it's certainly not shirked due to not being busy for 3 months. A lot of teachers find that to be a benefit.
Water is also pretty good at muffling explosions. If you can take out torpedoes at 30 meters (80% of energy wasted, needs 5x more power), it might still be worth it as a point defence.
> But why OpenGL 2.0?

Good news! After looking at the code for a bit, there's an SDL1.2 backend (disabled by default) that allows for software rendering. The game runs wonderfully on the Beaglebone Black sitting next to me.
People are easier to move than agricultural land, and employers with jobs that can be moved easily and realize cost efficiencies by doing that usually get financing to do so (though government programs to incentive moving jobs into depressed areas aren't unheard of.)
There's also Yume Nikki, which is surreal and fascinating, about a hikikomori girl who travels through her dreams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_Nikki
Along these lines, I'm trying Github pages with Jekyll; works for me.
Well not with that attitude.

I host an (unknown) personal blog on AWS running Django
As it happens, I was born in a well-to-do family, given preposterously easy access to education and healthcare, and now make plenty of money in a job that I like doing. And yet I'm still capable of caring, at least ideologically, about the less fortunate. Life isn't fair and perhaps it never will be, but if you don't want it to be fair something is wrong with you.
too granular.
He wrote about VR two months ago: https://blog.ycombinator.com/vr/

> Recently I’ve heard a lot of investors say “There isn’t a whole lot of new stuff to do in consumer. There’s already an app for that.” With VR, there isn’t already an app for that.

> I think we are no more than two years away from an explosion of new consumer startups and I cannot wait to start funding them at YC.
I'm used to calling metro areas by their major airport callsign, then again I fly 2-3 times a month, minimum.
for further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I like this solution, though the order might be meaningful. Perhaps the author wants to put his mother first.
That's correct. As a society, we ought to either accept this, and the resultant (probably large) increase in wine prices, or create a legal program for transient low-wage workers.

But by trying to have our cake and eat it too, we're placing illegal workers in a rather unpleasant situation (or motivating them to place themselves in such situations, if you prefer). They're ripe for all kinds of abuse, and lack the kinds of stability we all want.
Assuming linearity is atomic multi-key updates:

1. There are tasks which don't require atomic multi-key updates

2. Atomic multi-key updates can be implemented on the client side (see RAMP, Percolator transactions or the Saga pattern)

3. Once the data overgrow the size of one machine you need to shard the log and at this time you're in the same situation
Neocities. Static files, I rarely post. I pay the $5 to have a custom domain and support the site.

Mostly because I support what Neocities wants to be and I loved the old Geocities community. I'm not active in the Neocities community due to time but I do my best to encourage others to join. :)

I could find alternative hosting for $2/mo that would suit my needs but don't.

The main purpose of my site is for easier sharing of things: programs I use, anime recommendations, music recommendations, and how to contact me.
I am crucially aware of all of the "failure" scenarios and I find few of them plausible - even respecting that they are simple thought experiments.

What every author Bostrom, Eliezer et al. seem to miss is that there will be a practical mechanism for a digital AGI taking physical control of systems out of the hands of humans. Eg. they would need to control the resources around mining or recovering the metal, then building production plants etc... So we either incrementally cede power to them, in which case in theory the humans previously controlling the systems are doing so "rationally" and thus see the AGI as better. Or the system outsmarts the humans controlling the systems in which case it is demonstrating that it is smarter.

There is a tautology here that seems to be ignored: If we create a superhuman-AGI then by default it's goals will be more universally optimal than ours. They may or may not be aligned. However the definition of term is based on the fact that it is "better" in outcome than all manner of humans.

So if we create one and it decides to maximize paperclips, then that means maximizing paperclips is more optimal goal universally than whatever humans could coordinate as a goal on our own.

If we create a subhuman-AGI then we will be able to overcome it's goals by virtue of the fact that we are still superior.

I'll go back to a very old example. An ant can't determine if building the Large-Hadron Collider is an optimal global goal - it's inscrutable to the Ant. All it knows is that it's house and all it's friends were destroyed.

If it is the case that an AGI can in fact take the physical control reigns from humans, then by definition it is smarter and will make a more optimal long term goal than we could - to the point that we probably wouldn't understand what it's doing.

I think the true concern is that we will make something that is superhuman-powerful without being superhuman-intelligent. Like the doomsday machine in Dr. Strangelove, but to me that is an altogether different question.