skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people I socialised with at university had live-in housekeepers, and I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of them had a rough time.

Most of the students from Asia or the Middle East, whose parents were paying tens of thousands of pounds for their child to attend a British university, had staff at their parents' home.

One close friend was a British girl who'd grown up in Hong Kong, with a full-time au pair. She complained that the other HK and Chinese girls she shared a kitchen with didn't know anything about cooking or cleaning, since their au pairs had always done everything for them. In her case, her parents told her to "help" the au pair with chores, in the same way I helped my mum, so she'd learn. Presumably, her parents knew the arrangement in Hong Kong wouldn't last forever.

I've also met a couple of people working as au pair's here, both ~20 year old women mixing the work with studying, which is the usual sytem in Europe. It looks like a very poor deal, for example [1] £320/mth for what's not far off full time hours (37.5hr/wk would be full time in a government job).

[1] https://www.aupair.com/en/job/lisburn-united-kingdom-765795....
"wow" I'm taking about stuff you could easily source.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1223066_re-get-ready-f...

How many times did the Clinton's visit that island?

Bernie people: Please read Skippy's email.
I agree. I upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17 (and 1.18beta), and both feel much more snappy on my Macbook Air. Before that it has felt slow but tolerable and has now gone to barely annoying.
>each other, the maximum is 33,000 cars per hour.

Yeah, but that's 33,000 cars per hour without any of the cars stopping to exit the tunnels. The trains used in BART and other public transit systems can very easily exceed 60+mph already, but they don't because they have to stop, bringing down the average speed of the system.

BART, by the way, does 28000 passengers per hour per direction in the Transbay Tube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Tube). You can probably fit over 200 people into a BART train car at absolute crush capacity.
The really scary thing about over-engineered environments is that even when it works you probably do not know why. If one ecosystem makes me check in 12 files for my change, full of dozens of lines of XML, and another environment needs just a few lines in one file, which do you think will completely collapse under its own weight in a few years?
I don't get this at all.

Wouldn't the "nasty game" be to hire them then fire them after a few weeks because they don't bring the level of intrinsic motivation that the environment requires?

Or are you saying that no employer should be able to demand this level of motivation, even if they're totally up-front about it?
This sounds bogus to me:

>...newer areas such as digital and cloud, which require engineers to engage with clients instead of working remotely

Does that mean trends in remote work contribute to a measurable erosion of their collective markets? Or that their workforces cannot function in a face-to-face environment?
We've been using Zoom for the past 2 years and their Linux support is outstanding. Not the prettiest of UIs, but very reliable.
> Any workaround on mac other than using Safari?

Yes, The Pirate Bay. If users don't vote with their money nothing will ever change.
Are they secure? Do they have undocumented PSP arm cores with dma access?
Reminds me of Snowden
Programmers should be good at email too. Leveling up your Gmail game
The PCIe SIG released relevant cabling ten years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_Extern... and noone bought it. Molex has it: http://www.molex.com/molex/products/family?key=external_pci_...
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Putty is 18 years old and only reached 0.69
It looks like it's a real quantum processor and not just a simulated annealing engine like D-Wave?
Presumably we would get better at building more tunnels after the first one, and presumably once an existence proof is in place the economics will justify accelerated R&D, resulting in a technological feedback loop.

You can only layer so many roads above ground. But as said in the post, tunnels have no such limit. 100 years from now one could imagine a very thick subterranean transportation network. The interchange and routing problems I'd guess are solvable iteratively over the course of decades, since you have a lot of free space to work in with minimal constraints once you are deep enough to allow "forking" the network as you build more advanced technology.

Slapping two freeways together is not strategy that lands you ultimately in that future, but starting on the problem building cheaper tunnels is.
With the kind of scrutiny that comes from a mass dump of internal communications, yes, everyone is "just as bad".

Regardless of whether he ever actually said it, remember the quote attributed to Richelieu. Even an honest person's email can be spun to make them look like the greatest villain of history. Or if you prefer the modern reality-show metaphor: everyone has a "loser edit" lurking in their private data.

WikiLeaks basically only publishes "leaks" of people Assange personally dislikes/opposes. That's the definition of a partisan outlet, no matter how much you may dislike it.
So hire a product manager with previous experience in another position, ideally the kind he'd be managing. Sure, if the program can impart all of those skills onto its graduates then it sounds great. But having gone through school to the point of quitting my PhD, working at various companies of various sizes and starting my own company, I put very little weight in degrees - especially anything with an emphasis on business.

Yes, I am biased. But I would be happy to be convinced otherwise if someone can provide the data.
I am confused - Is this something new? As far as I can remember the perils of layoffs and afraid Indian IT professional is the "go to" story each year during the performance review cycle.

Back in 2015 - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/02/27/indi-f27.html

2014 -
http://indianexpress.com/article/business/business-others/la...

2013 -
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/less-than-5000...

The only reason this is being played up is the perceived notion of protectionist environment throughout the world (not only US). Then there is the whole thing about "AI" and automation.

Or if you want to go full tinfoil hat on this - It is a ploy to stop people from asking better pay or searching for a new job.
> Issues glossed over: Soil variability. … The back end.

Good points. And beyond the technical aspects, there's a lot that the FAQ doesn't say about the service:

- How do you tell your sled where to go? Does it always go to the same place? If so, do you merge lanes? If you merge lanes, wouldn't there be jams there? If instead you build many parallel tunnels, don't you remove the gains you had from building smaller tunnels, by having many more tunnels?

- How is it meant to compete on price or human bandwidth with subways? Surely at 200 km/h you need to maintain space between sleds in case one fails. Plus, the sleds are not large, which limits human bandwidth. Finally, if you have lots of tunnels (at least one for each origin/destination, instead of subways with many stops), you will need to maintain and repair that infrastructure, which will require service tunnels and backup tunnels, which adds to the cost.

Another thought: they don't mention how they'll design the tunnel network yet. My guess is that it will be backboned by double circular tracks (one for clockwise driving, the other for anticlockwise), from which you have regular exit/entrance ramps at each stop. The circularity would avoid having a terminus where everyone slows down.

Still, any design would have a maximum capacity corresponding to how fast vehicles can exit in the worst case, if they all suddenly decided to leave at the exact same stop.
No you're not the only one :)
I quote 100% what you said. Also I think you don't hear much complaints simply because people quit GitLab once they try it and just move to GitHub instead (or something else for self hosting).
That's not businesses - that's humans. Or do you apply for a new job every two weeks whenever you see a higher salary advertised?
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well said -- I just came here to post that same link
"Show me the code" --Linus
So it's monadic error handling in C++? Looks quite Rust like as well.
The last mile problem isn't about difficulty to drive, it is about congestion. Tunnels, however long they maybe to take advantage of the speed, must end. At the endpoint is where the problems start with trying to accommodate capacity everyone thinks it'll achieve.
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What if you used the heat to melt rock?
Harbormaster is the Phabricator CI tool.[1]

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/harb...
I think both the 'people' Kay refers to and Kay himself are right. It just depends on the scale you're looking at.

Darwinian processes are near-perfectly optimized ... for an extremely local maximum. Once there, they fail to make jumps to much better nearby maxima.

If you look at a somewhat larger scale, where there are better maxima available, then the correct conclusion is that they are absolutely not optimized.
The lack of strongly advocating is a good point actually - any expert in a field should never strongly advocate for one thing or another when it comes to subjects like these (which depend on things like objectives and the people involved).
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Put a rocket on it; converting the thrust to electrical energy to drive the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_xfTUs3R0

(These things are pretty inefficient, but it'd be a way to wrap SpaceX into this new company along with Tesla.)
This is a little crazy. Because of too much surface traffic, let's bore tunnels and develop sleds. The problem is: inefficient use of the existing infrastructure, 1 person per car, and the like. This wii be improved by the sharing of vehicles, and the driving of vehicles in formations by filing flight paths, using driverless technology. Cars are a highly unattractive investment anyway, a $50,000 car sits unused 23 hours a day. I am also skeptical that right of way, permits, and local governments could ever be satisfied by this scheme. And one pleasure of driving is looking out the window. You want to go in tunnels? By yourself? Oh you will work?

Nahh.
They're making $150 billion/year by selling software engineers, not software to US/EU clients;
Lessons from history’s great innovators that you should never forget
One of the company I worked with had to design an audio interface for blind people. I proposed something relying on several stereo located sounds of different pitches and intensity. I was told this would be too hard to use for a normal user. I wish I had such a video at the time to show the kind of bandwidth a blind person is able to get from audio alone.
Yeah, huge amounts of work from prototype to world changing platform happened after i left. Nobody created twitter, rather it was the collective work of many.
What's going on with the website? Does any know what the 'amp' in the URL stand for? Is it the same as Google's AMP project?

Here's the non-AMP version:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/17/ibm-quantum-q-experience...
> The problem with Marx is not that his analysis is nonsensical, as Mr Gauke maintains, but that his solution was far worse than the disease.

What solution did Marx propose? In the afterword of Capital, Marx notes "The Paris Revue Positiviste reproaches me in that...[I] — imagine! — confine myself to the mere critical analysis of actual facts, instead of writing recipes (Comtist ones?) for the cook-shops of the future".

Also Marx wasn't worried that CEOs were paid well as The Economist and "shareholder advocates" seems to be. At least that would be paid to someone who showed up for work. Marx was more concerned in noting the dividend checks that went out quarterly, if joint-stock company dividend checks went out quarterly in those days.

The Economist is being indirect in stating Marx's concerns. I'd guess more out of ignorance than malice. Even the first chapter of Capital is famously a hard slog to get through. I doubt the young Economist author made it through Anti-Dühring.

More importantly, Marx thought the various contradictions of capitalist production would lead to economic crises that the world saw in the 1930s (outside the USSR, whose economy was booming at the time). Eventually, the companies which are too big to fail really would fail. Capitalism's taxpayer bailouts of big business that worked in 2008 will in some future crisis not work, according to Marxian thought.

He also noted how various world economies and societies were swept aside by new ones over the past ten millennia - hunter-gatherer bands for slave societies, slave societies for feudal societies, feudal societies for capitalist societies. In the red flags and worker's councils of the Paris Commune, he saw the hazy, nascent harbinger of the social relations and forces of production of those cook-shops of the future.
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If you are in for the money, being the good guy is not worth it. Which, counter-intuitively, is how you get incorruptible good guys.

Also, if he were in to save the world, I would bet he had a good week.
I think not.
To be honest I think automated sandwich/burger making has been possible for a long time already. But fast food level labour is just so cheap that it never caught on.
With the capacity in mind, this project will end up having much lower throughput than a regular road, even when taking congestion in mind - unless they build dozens of parallel tubes, in which case the costs will become very, very large. I also don't see it becoming a long-distance alternative, again because tunneling is a slow and long process.

It would be interesting I guess if they combined it with the Hyperloop concept, board the tube system in the city, transition to a (cheaper?) above-ground vacuum tunnel system at a transit station.

But it's all very science-fiction and, if anything, it's not going to be cheap. Like, at all.

At least it's a commercial project, not something a government has to pay for.
What does mental health have to do with heroism?
Books aren't distributed and written the same way they used to be.
I believe they're usually heavily subsidized. Possibly, if a private company could reduce costs enough they could operate a transit system without subsidies and make money doing it, but I think ordinarily a private company running public transit is heavily reliant on government support. (Bus networks might be an exception, since they can use the roads that already exist and there isn't a huge up-front cost.)

It sounds like the Boring company is mostly interested in providing the capability to make small tunnels cheaply. The car sled thing is just one possible way to use the tunnels, but if some city wants to do something different with them that's up to them.
What is your opinion about other offshore locations for IT stuff ? (South East Asia, Eastern Europe) ?
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Because the majority of the customers are not IT companies, they just want a bunch of developers to help them provide a customized solution to a specific problem.

After that they are perfectly fine not having IT people around.

The time each company had a set of developers to sit around and help them on as needed basis, is gone and won't be coming back.

Those that want to keep around onsite development need to upskill their social skills, and also be able to bridge between developer, architect and business relations.
Wait, so how I can write quantum instructions and run them through IBM's cloud? How long before someone gets Shor's algorithm running and destroys the world?
Modern parking meter systems are very cheap — especially because you just put up one ticket automat every 200m where you can pay with cash, phone, debit card, etc and get a little printed slip of paper saying date and time until when you can park, and then put that in your car.

Veeery cheap compared to actual meters.

And no, no marketing campaign or subsidy can be as effective as the parking costs. As long as parking isn't at least twice or thrice as expensive as transit no one will use transit. Its a serious issue IRL here. For a while they even did free transit, ads on every single billboard, bus and train, and still people rather parked for 10$ a 30min in the cuty, or even parked illegally.
I think there are enough people doubting Musk's "Boring Company" here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355051

That said, the other to way to look at is this - articles or news items are not a 24hr feed. They will focus on one act of a person - heroic or otherwise. It is up to people to decide if that particular act defines someone as stupid or smart.
if i had to pick something, i would at the least give phabricator a serious look to see how it stacked up against gitlab [https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/]
> Americans are adverse to change

I don't get it, where does that come from anyway? I mean America's mostly a country of immigrants; most inhabitants' forefathers, only a couple generations ago, abandoned everything they know to build up a new life. If that's not change, then IDK what is.

I think that at one point it's not about what they want - having the option even to drive anywhere is a luxury a lot of people don't have - it's what's practical. Driving in New York isn't practical, so people take the tube - regular services, high capacity, etc. There's no way a tunnel system with individual cars, which will have a much lower capacity than a regular road, will be able to compete, neither on cost nor capacity.

Of course, if you're rich then it doesn't matter. I'm sure it'll work in SF, where there should be plenty of people that can afford it.
Twitter started out as Odeo, we started with Ev's investment in Noah Glass's idea for a podcasting platform in 2004. After a few months in early 2005 Ev joined full time. Biz and Jack joined in the fall of 2005 almost a year in to the company. Twitter itself was created as a prototype in Feb 2006, and the current version was launched as a side project in March 2006.

Companies name co-founders based on what's useful going forward and of the dozen or so folks who were at Odeo when twitter was created it made most sense to name Ev, Jack, and Biz as cofounders. Goldman probably turned down the offer to be named as a cofounder, and the rest of us weren't given an option. Later Hatching Twitter came out and Noah was added to the list of founders.

Starting companies is hard, running them is hard, the drama of who said and did what is interesting but it doesn't teach us much about why the platform ended up like it did or provide insights in to creating new companies.
Trump, Trump, he's our man, if he can't do it then no one can.
TBMs can turn, albeit slowly. Bigger tunnels are not necessarily more efficient than parallel tunnels. Consider changing a 1 lane to a 2 lane tunnel. You can dig two adjacent tunnels, or you can use a TBM that is twice as wide, and therefore has to remove 4x as much material. Even if you can only build 2 or 3 TBMs per bigger TBM, it's a win.

The tunnels are still pretty big, and the sleds could be 10' wide and 10' vertical if the tunnel ID is 14'. That's pretty comparable to a subway or bus, and the increased distance between the sleds is made up for by the increased speed.
Monadic error handling is quite nice for domain specific errors, but for exceptional situations which are not supposed to happen, you still need some sort of an exception system. And even with domain error conditions, exceptions has a nice property of saving a stack trace, which can make error hunting a bit simpler.
It's a general artificial intelligence. You don't need to code it to do anything! It will learn to conquer puny humans all on it's own.
All the German companies that belong to Fortune 500.
At an average speed of 50mph, 2000 running hours comes out at 100000 miles. If the spec aims for all engines to last this long then you'd expect a good majority of them to last a lot longer. This doesnt seem too bad a goal to me.
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As someone who works full-time in this field:
- You are right about the definition of life expectancy.
- I have never ever heard this definition of longevity. It is sometimes used as a synonym for life expectancy.
- No one dies of old age.
There are ways to detect this, but since express declares itself as an "minimalistic, non-opinionated framework" it's up to you to do it and do it correctly, or have correctly implemented logic that does not run into this issue.
Indeed, and it is generally cleaner. The functional equivalent is continuation passing style. However, it just pushes the problem one level up, so is not a full solution.

It works well when combined with the some usual techniques like the error singletons and exceptions. You can also set an error code you need by capturing the result variable. Or just do what you need in the handler itself.

Returning a special type is about as annoying as returning and handling an error code.
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Gradients are their speciality.
The french media are still reporting on it. Mostly to say they couldn't find anything damaging, and that it was most likely meant to push a conspiracy agenda ("press is hiding scandals").

(fr link)
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/05/17/les-macronlea...

I've also heard it was pretty bad in term of privacy with personal details of Macron supporters being published in the dump (and at least in some screenshots I've seen, there were random person address including their building access code).
School curriculum's are though.
You need around 4000 qubits to break RSA-2048; IBM's system only have 17 qubits so far.
Oh, there's many problems with suggested approach.

- Callback-oriented programming is its own deep can of worms. What do you want to inline where? In case of leftMap, it's easy for a compiler to inline flatMap, because it's small. What if you're providing a lambda to a huge function? What about variable captures? Really, we've been there with JavaScript.

- It will either incur a yuuge runtime overhead or will require a new calling convention.

- What if you want to transform your data multiple times? Will you use nested lambdas?

IMO, using sum types is the best solution to this problem. Sum types are not "weird special type", they don't require "weird calling convention", C++ is weird for NOT supporting them.
For the same reason we still need classical physics and chemistry and biology and psychology and sociology even though in principle it should be possible to model everything ab initio with just quantum mechanics. In practice we can just barely do that with single molecules before the complexity grows insurmountable.
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No... no, it's super obvious. Other people making that claim include, say, everyone reputable in the infosec community.
You must be overlooking the `Helper` processes. Running a clean install of Atom takes about 400MB memory (macOS Sierra).
Probably Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and/or Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). See e.g. http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/...

Think of it as AMD's answer to Intel SGX, albeit with a quite different design.
The tendency I see is that old stuff requires more repairs while new stuff is much more likely to become unrepairable. Pick your poison.
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