skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is obviously complicated.

There just isn't the avalilibity of jobs that were once were.

Yea--I know that goverment unemployment rate looks good, but when I look out my window, it just doesn't look/feel right. People living in a shared home, or watching that bank account dwindle. The only people I see making real money are the rich kids. (Donald Jr. killing a tiger, or Elephant just screams the how the deck is stacked. Those bastards would be homeless, or dead without that family support net.) The occasional Horato Algier pops up, but it's huge when they make it.

Yes you can go to welding school, and join Mike Rowe in the middle of nowhere for six months of solid work. Then what?

Yes you can pick fruit for a few months--then what?

Yes, you can work for "Letgo.whatever", and hope it competes with one of the big boys. Then talk about the good ole days in Starbucks.

It's the lack of jobs that scares me.

I really believe we need to seriously consider a basic income.

At the same time, we need to make living less illegial.

If a guy wants to live in a boat, and he doesn't pollute; leave the guy alone. If a guy wants to sleep in his car, or in a park, don't bother him unless he's causing trouble. (I was listening to our latest Supreme Court justice. He a proud member of The Federalist Society. He stated he's tired of a law for Everything. I couldn't agree more. A man loses a job, and doesn't have a network of support to fall back upon; within weeks he's doing something illegial? If Jesus reappeared.

He would most likely get a ticket, or arrest his first night.
Fishing in the wrong stream--ticket. Fishing without a license--ticket. Peeing in the wrong area--ticket. Taking a nap in the park--ticket. Loose Robe that exposed a testicle--jail. Picking a Apple--most likely on private property--ticket. Turing water into wine--DEA spontaneously appears. I'd give him a week before being having a cop run their fingers over every inch on his body. It's gotten crazy?

We are seeing less, and less jobs by the decade, and I don't see a solution.

Oh yea, "An Infrastructure bill will provide jobs?" With such great machinery; I just don't see it pulling the poor into the middle class. We will have nice roads, bridges, and airports, but the real money will go to the Contractors. And it's a sin to go back to shovels.

I feel blah. I guess that affects my view lately. I hope I feel better tomorrow.
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Specifically,
SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING.
The increasing number of empty blocks along with spymining that has been pushed under the table in this bizarre war, these are the real threats going forward.

Segwit or not, these issues will have to be dealt with at some point.
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Serverless gets its own user that has the permissions needed to apply our CF templates, then the templates define the IAM roles. But I guess depending on the structure of your team and deploy that can be an issue, since having the serverless credentials = being able to create and assign IAMs. For example, if those credentials are in your CI, now giving someone access to your CI also gives them access to an AWS user who's practically a "superuser" (although tbh, I'm not sure how much of a problem that is since access to CI is already a pretty big deal).

We run serverless (which in turn applies the CF templates) on Jenkins instead of locally (which also helps automate passing the correct stage and parameters). I guess the equivalent without serverless would be just be using aws-cli, since serverless doesn't do anything special to the CF templates

There was a great webinar on production deployments with SAM (which you could replace with CF) via CodePipeline, but I can't seem to find the slides for it anywhere. If we "did it again" we'd probably use CodePipline/CodeBuild(We just used Jenkins because we didn't really have a chance to look at other options)
The first draft of the article actually had that reason, but there is also a strong correlation between the size of the dict (these dicts are almost 1Mb, while other languages are closer to 500kb) and compression ratio improvements. Therefore I've played it safe and attributed it to the window size.

Though for languages like Korean and Chinese (whose size is more inline with latin languages) we see 27.5% improvement, which is most likely due to context modeling.

Therefore I assume ratio improvement is split ~50/50 between these two. It was easy to verify that by compressing data with `brotli --window 15` and comparing ratios there, but I was lazy there. I'm sorry.

PS. I've also skipped NFC/NFD part of the post which is very interesting for Korean, where NFC normalized text occupies 30% less space. It also gives additional ratio 5% for brotli and 15% for gzip.
I am guilty of this too. It's why I'm a bit of a constructorist these days.
Glad to hear the seed round worked out. :P
A Case for Underhand Free Throws
Google offers at least $880M to LG display for OLED investment
In education they are calling free textbooks OER: Open Educational Resources. As far as I know there isn't a single go to resource for OER books but wikipedia's article has some resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
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DisneyWorld seem to be planning a gondola-based system for between two parks and two hotels. It is cheaper than extending the mono-rail and probably nicer for all than the usual buses they have.

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/04/depth-speculation-disney-world...
Gomez may be a logical assumption but she has never been mononymous in the media; unlike Selena Quintanilla. It could be that the article is assuming that is the case? I am aware of 'both' Selenas but the elder is the only mononymous one. So it's a confusion of references.
> The idea that you would add a dependency to avoid writing a try-catch in a loop is absolutely bewildering to me.

Reliable retry is very important in some cases, and it's easier to test a retry-agnostic unit of code.

Edit: and I also rather like that it's declarative, rather than needing to infer intention or write my own boilerplate to explicate intention.
So classes on something like British Literature shouldn't have textbooks?
> The community and a growing majority of miners is actually switching to bitcoin unlimited

I love bitcoin too. I might be underinformed but everything I've learned so far is that larger blocks and segwit aren't a dichotomy at all. I think segwit sounds good. And I think larger blocks sound good too (but I realize that they do come at a cost). If the overall transaction throughput increases but the fee income goes down for miners, I will be understanding but not too overly concerned with the miners welfare.

IMO the folks opposing segwit are not acting in bitcoin's best interest. The folks opposing big blocks are heavily optimizing against centralization. I think the latter are genuinely interested in doing the right thing but I wonder if they aren't being a little to zealous.
>an organism going on a full-tilt offensive, using multiple, often shifting strategies to produce and use molecular fuel, win resources, and evade the immune system

Speculation from a non-expert: maybe what is going on is ancient programs preserved in our dna from before multi-cellular life are getting activated, so the cell is treating the body as its competitive environment.
Megatrend: The Demographic Inversion
> Suddenly abandoning something that has constituted a major part of who you are, and taking a job at the bottom of a new field, is not any easier for a machinist or a coal miner than it would be for a professional.

As if blue collar workers are not professionals.
Ahh, okay. That seems straightforward. Might be good to reference that in the main documentation.
> I have an aversion to setter/field based injection because it allows you to instantiate an object in an incorrect state.

Oh yes. I recognise that JavaBeans had its reasons for being, but then you get to JPA and it's time for all the boggling.
Interestingly, here in Canada union membership has only waned slightly over the years and the current unionization rate is almost equal to the USA's peak. Yet, we have all the same problems with wage stagnation for the majority of the population and a small group at the top reaping all the rewards of higher productivity.
Drop the load while there are hardhats waiting on the ground below? Uh ya that's probably not happening here.
Doesn't seem to work when you highlight backwards?
I guess you'll find Toyota stock to be incredibly undervalued with a P/E of just 9.5 vs. GOOG's 30.26. The market isn't treating Toyota like a tech company. The market has already spoken, they've placed their bet on Google, which means that boat has already sailed. If you believe TM will make a tremendous comeback, then you could make bank, but that is a risky bet vs. a safe one (given today's information).
This is indeed what was used there. Here are all the matplotlib docs rendered with XKCD: https://matplotlib.org/xkcd/gallery.html
> Every variable and function definition in Dern must be documented by a documentation string. Dern also makes sure that every formal function parameter is documented in the documentation of function definition.

Interesting. Should this be available as a compiler warning in other languages?
The hidden rule of the web is that anonymity causes social networks to fail.
My point is not that this work is flawed, or that there should not be an article reporting on this research or the topic of interviewing. Rather, I think it'd be better for a third party to write about the topic in a more objective manner, rather than a professor promoting his own research (and thus with skewed incentives).

In particular, I was disappointed to find a (short) paragraph in the article that I find bogus. That does not mean the article shouldn't have been posted in the first place, but just that this paragraph should have been edited or removed.

I think there is something wrong when I feel like I have to look up the actual research paper and check whether the claims made in an article are supported by data and methodology. I should not be a skeptic when reading New York times articles.

To be fair, it is posted in the opinion section, but should we really just take this article as an opinion? That doesn't feel right to me either.

Then onto your last question and Daniel Kahneman, we can talk about that for a long time, but let me keep it short. The best place I know (though technical) is the blog by Andrew Gelman ([1][2] turned up in a 5 second Google, but there is way more on his blog), and Daniel Kahneman himself has "admitted" flaws in his studies [3][4].

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/03/disagree-alan-turing-dani...
[2] http://andrewgelman.com/2016/06/26/29449/
[3] http://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-unde...
[4] https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
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The Core team does not want blocksize increases.

They explicitly want prices to be high/number of transactions to be limited (think, supply and demand) .

This is because transaction "price" is equivalent to "amount of money spent on securing the blockchain".
How do you handle the problem of versioning or changing content with annotations of that content? For example if someone has annotated a piece of text that is changed in the site what is the procedure for dealing with that scenario?
Switch up the coffee with some loose leaf Black tea, It has naturally occurring L-Theanine in it. L-Theanine has been researched fairly extensively to improve GABA production and also reduces cortisol levels caused by caffeine, which also helps calm your nerves and helps you focus. Cortisol makes your brain go heywire and induces anxiety. L-Theanine reduces anxiety by reducing the cortisol.
You're thinking of only 1 part of the solution. 'Energy storage' is a time shift in providing power and that is solved by technological means. But there's probably a simpler solution which of time-shift in "energy usage" which can be accomplished via new business models.

There's untapped business potential to get people to use more power at peak solar hours. For example, free drying in a laundromat with the accompany wash. Low cost or free car charging during the day when shopping, etc.

There's a strange traditional dichotomy of having cheaper power after sunset to not overlap with business usage. But with solar, we should rethink this and have cheaper power BEFORE sunset.
If you're firm on constructor injection, you can typically test the object in complete isolation without necessarily using mocks, without Spring having to be involved.

Or you can use mocks and Spring Boot's test annotations.

But with field/setter injection, that choice isn't as easy.
Why are we limiting ourselves just to the states? Markets like China with severe traffic and parking problems and authoritarian governments to push through changes are more likely to adopt self driving cars than developed markets with plenty of roads and parking.
I thought the same thing regarding legacy sites. My workplace blocks file sharing and image hosting websites, so I've been acutely aware of the impact to UX recently when domains disappear. I can be almost certain now that when there are no images on a blog or stackoverflow post that they were hosted on imgur. I've been considering this for a while but it seems somewhat curious to me that not so long ago hotlinking was a big no-no and as sites disappeared broken image icons on small websites multiplied, and now we have an increasing number of CDNs where hotlinking is essentially the intended usage.
Nice to see Ponzu getting some attention. I used Ponzu to create the GopherCon 2017 site this year (gophercon.com) and really enjoyed how easy it was to put content up quickly. I created Go helpers -- only useful if your website is in Go: github.com/bketelsen/ponzi && github.com/bketelsen/ponzigen

Overall A+ to Ponzu. I'm on my 6th ponzu site now, still love it.
It's more than professional identity: it's social identity too. Conservative society has an answer for everything: how to be a man or woman, who is appropriate to marry, why you shouldn't worry about death or global warming and what is a socially appropriate job, so retraining to do something that comes from outside society is an even bigger identity threat.
Here's a smaller clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPP4i7ENvQ
I am mostly self-patting on the back from these guys. And a very careful language. And a subtle dismissal of competition.

I've read the whole thing very carefully and the only meaningful thing I was able to parse was that they somehow got the hint that their new Macbook Pros aren't universally loved, which is a big surprise. /s

Maybe a second thing -- that they plan to make 3 new Pros targeted at 3 different Pro user segments.

We'll see. But I am kind of baffled by that interview. It almost seems pointless. Looks like it's done mostly to put their foot at the door.
Was coffee being used roughly the same way it's used today at Starbucks or whatever, or was it used closer to the way that the Sufis used it? The article doesn't really make any sense without this context.
Libor: Bank of England implicated in secret recording
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Good question. txtpen uses fuzzy string matching among other anchoring mechanisms. Assuming the change is below a certain threshold, txtpen displays a diff(addition, deletion) of the underlying text.
When users of code I've written complain that something sucks to use, I don't demand they come up with a better solution. Probably I don't even want to know what they think the answer is—unless they design user interfaces for a living, odds are their answer will be terrible and they won't even be happy with it if I build it.

This is as it should be—I'm paid to solve problems.

Why is this different?

The more I read about interviewing, the more I realize too many people think they have this problem solved—their amateur psychology is impeccable and their technical screens test for exactly the right things, no more and no less. Did they do a bunch of controlled studies to convince themselves of this, or are they taking sounding good, or intuition about the statistical outcomes of different techniques, to be equivalent to truth?

Maybe the first step is to collectively realize we have close to no clue what we're doing, and are being asked to solve a hard problem: individually, to talk to someone for an hour and make a hiring recommendation. In aggregate, to make the decision based on a handful of these one-hour conversations.

Maybe the first step is to realize this is a problem worth trying to solve.

Maybe the first step is vocal non-acceptance.
Bosch+and+University+of+Amsterdam+launch+joint+AI+lab
>Lazy millennials can't even be bothered to commit petty crime

Was that subtitle really necessary or are they being tongue-in-cheek with that statement...?
I'm still not seeing the relevance of this compared to unemployment vs. a low wage manual labor job. Are you saying it's better to be unemployed?
The problem with ASICBOOST [pdf]
> it rarely is the bottleneck.

If you're using python, it can be the bottle neck quite easily.

I don't endorse change language as an optimisation; that's just ridiculous.

...but you might look at splitting your application up into parts, and doing some service in a more suitable language; or, up front realizing that you have a heavy data processing workload you need to do in parallel, and python isn't a good choice for it.

Maybe you're right; you can look at optimisations that patch over the problem with queries and so forth as a first pass; but in some cases your choice of language (specifically node and python in my experience) are actually fundamentally the performance problem (but to be fair, not always).

...but basically, if you don't address the root cause of your perf issues (whatever they are), you're going to be patching and firefighting forever.
A coal plant requires a lot of workers to keep running. It requires even more workers to keep it supplied with coal. Per megawatt hour, electricity from coal is more labor-intense than from natural gas, wind, or a utility scale solar PV installation.

A wind farm does not require many full time workers for operation and maintenance. Most present wind industry jobs are in installation and manufacturing. When wind power stops growing and reaches steady-state, employing people for O&M plus manufacturing/installing replacements for aged-out components, the job count is going to plunge.

I don't actually think that wind's low labor intensity is bad. I think it's great that renewables can produce electricity with far less pollution and significantly less human labor than coal plants. But it does mean that switching energy jobs away from coal, even if it were frictionless, still leaves you with fewer jobs than the status quo ante. It's somewhat like trying to switch everyone unemployed by robots into new robot-maintenance-technician careers. The numbers don't work.
I found it hard to believe that a human child could survive on a monkey diet. I also found it hard to believe they would welcome her as a member of their band. And what about keeping up when the monkeys went swinging through the trees?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemileia_vastatrix#History

From the recent discussion about banana monoculture, I read an article suggesting that Coffee Leaf Rust destroyed coffee production in British held Sri Lanka, initiating the switch to tea. Its a silly conjecture, but maybe the lower amounts of caffeine contributed to the decline of coffeehouses.
This friction raises the bar of highlighting, forces the user to read the text again and makes sure that highlight is intentional.
Definitely not. I can't imagine exploratory programming in a language that dictates overhead right from the beginning, and even later on some stuff is just too obvious to document.

Compilers should stick to their job: turning human readable code into efficient machine executable code with a minimum of fuss, a maximum of speed and errors where the human readable code leads to either undefined behavior or is simply incorrect.

Enforcing coding styles and documentation requirements should be left to plug-ins for your favorite CI set-up or, alternatively, to stand alone executables or scripts.

The only thing forced documentation will lead to is lots of boilerplate or blank stuff to satisfy the compiler, it will not lead to better documentation.

This is roughly the state of affairs with lots of autodoc docs, it's rare to see good documentation that has been automatically produced but it is very common to see page after page of extremely poor automatically generated documentation. Which then of course gets no love at all because after all, the documentation is already done.
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It strikes me how expensive these visits must be for NK. It seems that every tourist gets a dedicated guide, while someone (or multiple people) is probably also monitoring them remotely. Then, consider the little details like that empty restaurant they cleared for the sake of a tourist. In terms of manpower it's probably a factor > 1 relative to the number of visitors.

Imagine every visitor to the US was escorted by a government employee, with background surveillance attached. It would cost a fortune!
Thanks for posting the static site plugin. I was looking for something like this. I've been using Wordpress forever and wanted something for personal use, but didn't want to host a public version of Wordpress.
I remember my first exposure to this as a child in the early 80s, a friend of my parents was long term unemployed and I couldn't understand it. My mother's (somewhat unsympathetic tbh) explanation was that he wanted his old job back and that it no longer existed. He did eventually find gainful employment, but in another field.

A little off topic, but a functioning welfare system has the potential to allow people to take the time to find the right job, rather than be pressured into taking the first thing that comes along. It's a question of balance
if you follow what other people do when using modafinil, they sometimes mix coffee w/ small amounts of modafinil which improves it's overall offectiveness. I personally prefer the mental zing of Loose Leaf Black Tea.
Definitely will -- thank you for taking the time to read through.. it's hard for me to know where the docs are too light sometimes. (besides generally everywhere)
FDC comes out to ~$350/month. They always have promos going on, wouldn't be surprised to that number get halved without much effort.
>'first world only' affair, and probably only a very small subset of that first world.

As in, heavily trafficked inner city routes like buses. I think it will make a lot of impact fast.
By the usual definition, they're not – the noun "professional" means a white-collar worker.
> Now, on the other hand, nowadays software companies are huge and have huge teams. Even without llvm's academic base, Apple would have enough cash to build it on their own.

Why make it easier for them? Very few companies can be like Apple (and even Apple didn't write everything from scratch). Compromising allows more companies to wrong their users, it's not helpful to treat companies like people -- without a profit motive most companies won't liberate their software.
That's pretty hilarious that they were doing that even before widespread internet. I think a lot of crackers got so caught up in building and maintaining face in their tiny community that they forgot the actual reason they were doing it, i.e. "people want to play video games without paying for them".