skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will be proposed job offers from «Pôle Emploi», the unemployment office. The job will be "within your abilities" and in a certain distance from your residence but in practice, Pôle Emploi is known to send pretty much random job offers to people. They have something like 50 categories for job seekers and job offers and make matches automatically.

After two refused job offers, your unemployment benefits will be discontinued.

Programmer and cook are probably in different categories, but there is no way for someone to say "I don't want to work with meat" like the comment I answered to suggested. As a programmer doing robotics, I made the choice to refuse military jobs but I know that in France that's more than 50% of the jobs in the field.

I would not be 100% sure that sex workers would be put in a different categories than "entertainers" making it plausible that an actress would be proposed a job in a porn studio.

Thing is, a member of a porn studio reacted to this scenario: he basically said "we know Pole Emploi does not filter offers at all. Porn acting is very specific, the last thing we want is to force people into it. It would be contrary to our work ethic and probably to the law."

They know they would be blamed for it, so the unlikely part is that they would post such an offer. If they did, however, it is likely that it would be send inappropriately.
When I read the title I was wondering why a comedian would give out password recommendations. Different Bill Burr...
I replaced my Thinkpad by an XPS15 with a small fear that I would regret the Thinkpad, and I absolutely not. Under Windows, the Dell software is far better than the one of Lenovo (far less bloated, and far more discret).

I thought that I would regret the Thinkpad keyboard, but the keyboard of the XPS is actually not bad at all (well, the Thinkpad one better, but the XPS is still largely ok for me).

The only thing that I clearly regret are the lack of dedicated Page-up/Page-down keys. This is even ridiculous given there are empty space next to the arrow keys where they could have been put (same place as on the Thinkpad). Well, I can live with that.
Thanks for that link! I was never able to find any details from someone who works for Numerai (or claims to at least)

I still don't think it's fair to market their method as comparable to Aslett's scheme or "standard" notions of homormorphic/order preserving encryption, no matter how "chill" they are :)
The author used the word "terrified" groupthink bullies. I say it is not a fear as being grown up means outlandish words are understandable ( ie not grown up)

Its not about dissent...

I put opinion texts in the same category as amazon reviews: the first few are not to be believed.
This is basically a given/open intention.

There was an HN thread a week ago [0] wherein Google indicated they were using new metrics to identify and remove "terror content". The metrics include input from a variety of groups. One of the top HN comments said, "Those groups have very specific agendas. They shouldn't be allowed to block articles which disagree with their agenda." [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14903370
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14904016
It might also be that "longer worst case wait times" risk turning into a different failure mode entirely. Like maybe if the rush hour train is 5 minutes late it's just uncomfortably packed, but if it's 10 minutes late it gets so packed that letting people off at each station now takes 3x longer than it should, the wait time spikes further, and every other train in the system gets stuck behind that one.
funny how D already solves all these issues.
Glad it was useful! Once I get started writing about GAs I have trouble slowing down. By the time I posted my comment it was three or four pages back, so I'm encouraged that somebody actually read it!

Here's a link to my dissertation:

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/28690

I forgot to put a disclaimer in my post: Tim Simpson was my advisor, which is how I know about his paper with D'Souza.

For DE, your best bet is probably to start with Rainer Storn's website: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~storn/code.html

For CMAES, Hansen has a good website: https://www.lri.fr/~hansen/cmaesintro.html
What I've learned by saying VR will be wiped out by Apple in September
This fast robot will make Adidas shirts cheaper – and kill hundreds of jobs
If we are lucky they will go with 3:2.
This is actually a pretty useful site

Don't get to say that a lot around here
I am proud of that as a New Yorker, but I would much rather replace it with buses at night if that would make it actually work during the day.
> But that destroys your argument, because these things are not automated and won't be any time soon.

After the limited time I've spent in my life paying attention to this, I'm not assuming any job, including my own, is safe from automation.

> Historically, farm laborers whose jobs disappeared went to the cities and started working in factories or learned a trade.

And that is the difference, except this time the cities jobs are being automated and there's no where left to go, as even the farms don't need nearly so many people. And yes there's certainly an argument to be made for the trades which I'm sure are (mostly) safe from automation for awhile, but not forever, and there's a limited pool of people who are skilled enough to do those jobs, and even past that is a limited availability of those jobs, AND AFTER THAT is the fact that as more and more former factory workers, truck drivers, and coal miners all sign on to be plumbers, electricians, etc. all of which are needed that the supply of those workers will explode and the wage they make will therefore shrink.

> Agreed, but my argument is that if those are the only two choices, we're doomed. Basically, you're saying society will, in the fairly near future, end up stagnant--all important jobs will be automated and all of the humans will just sit around watching soap operas (except, perhaps, for the small number of humans who oversee the automation).

That't not at all what I said: I said we should have a system in place for that certain group of people who have nothing to contribute, because there's nothing wrong with that. The alternative to feeding and clothing them in their homes is to feed and clothe them in prison, and the former doesn't enrich private prisons and we don't need to pay for guards, not to mention the ethical cost involved in the current situation which is mass incarceration.

I'm saying, by virtue of being born, you should be fed, clothed, and sheltered because we can do that and the notion that we simply shouldn't so Mark Zuckerburg can have a fifth house is I'm sorry, a DISGUSTING idea to me.

> I would put this differently. I would say that the idea that someone could receive a basic living without producing anything that improves anyone's lives is offensive to huge numbers of people. And it should be.

Why is that offensive? With what we currently spend on defense, we could feed, house, and clothe every homeless person in the United States with Gucci bags, mansions and caviar. Why is it so important that we not? And if you cannot answer without citing tradition or work ethic or something equally arbitrary and archaic, then I'm sorry but I'm not convinced.
Making the issue key for reelection to congress would have an impact. Absent that I think we'll have to wait for a favorable court result, which may be difficult or impossible.
> It's not predatory when private property gets seized to pay for thirty years of back taxes and then sold to the highest.

As I said in a different reply, I think it's highly dependent on situation, and facts that may not have been presented. Was the money for the taxes paid in good faith by the residents but not delivered to the city for some reason? Was fraud involved based on some management company? Was the city informed by the accountancy at some point that they were no longer a valid recipient of tax requests and did not follow up (and is it required to act in good faith in situations like that)? Given the low cost of the taxes and the relative wealth of the residents, it's not impossible that they paid a large lump sum to some management company to just deal with it for the next 50 or 100 years and something went wrong.

Details like those are what would swing my opinion in this case. The residents seem wealthy enough that there's little reason for them to let it slide this long, but if they had reason to believe it was being taken care of and that there tax responsibilities were paid, I think that puts the situation in a different light. We just don't have that information, one way or the other.
Why would we expect to need a full modern CPU? An 8080 had thousands, and that's still general purpose. Something built for a specific task might well be substantially smaller. Still slow, but possibly realistic for some tasks.
> Organizations really don't like to hire anyone in computing over 35. By age 50, no way.

52. Just got a new job less than six months ago, with one of my biggest salary and total-compensation bumps ever. So I'd have to say my sample of one differs from yours.

> They just don't want experienced worker bees.

No, they don't. They can find plenty of worker bees. At 10+ years of experience (and associated salary) they expect some very general kinds of skills - e.g. evangelizing an idea, mentoring others - and probably some very domain-specific ones as well. Above all, they're usually looking for someone who can be the core of a team, not just one of its members. Can you be that person? I have no idea. What I will say is that what you've presented here does not support that case. I could say more, but don't want to give offense. The only point I'm trying to make is that "experienced worker bee" is not a much-sought role. The jobs go to those who are something else, and who present as something else.
One thing I'm thinking about is about much is how money the Dutch (and their southern neighbors, the Belgians) are going to make once the rise in sea levels will have a direct impact on wealthy regions.

In the world top 5 of dredging firms 4 are either Dutch or Belgian firms. And once prime real estate, in for example Florida or the Hamptons, is in direct danger large amounts of money will change hands to reinforce the coastline. And those top 5 dredging firms have all the engineering expertise needed.

Moving extremely large amounts of rock & sand like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Jumeirah and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Suez_Canal are just warmup exercises for the amount of work that needs to be done in the next 50 years.
Why? Surface buses can run quickly at night when there is light traffic, and the air quality is far better at surface level than in the subway.
This is basically how Hapi works in the NodeJS world.

If the event loop is too long (you configure this) it means you're doing too much! So it issues 503s to all new traffic until the server can cope with the requests it's receiving and get the loop time time.

Works very well and you can configure it to do the same with memory limits as well.

Doesn't fix all issues, but it's a good way to keep your site usable by some users at least.
ok so they squeezed some more battery life for watching jackass the movie.

How about they figure out the combination that leads to consistent kernel panic when plugging in/out external monitors.
In theory, perhaps. The real-estate economics of charging stations versus gas stations seem to work against a similar model. In part because:

1. The fastest turn around times for charging are about 10x the fastest turn around times for fossil fuels. This presents a queuing problem limited by real estate.

2. The typical fossil fuel refilling time allows high turnover in supplemental facilities such as a Quickie Mart (or in many cases the fuel pumps are auxiliary to retail sales as the primary business). The recharge time of an electric vehicle does not support as high a turnover.

3. Fossil fuels allow better arbitrage for business operators. Cheap gasoline can sit onsite or in transit in tanks to be sold later at a higher price. Electricity prices are typically set by a single local provider and electricity cannot be stored.

The real-estate is the real problem. The Tesla charging station near me is on the parking lot perimeter of a shopping mall. It's almost certainly cheap, but not exactly convenient to either the nearest interstate (ten minutes in traffic) nor the stores in the Mall (1/4 mile each way across a sea of asphalt and it's not really a shopping mall anyone would pull of the interstate for).
Can anyone give me the gist of this article? Paywall...
"We can measure Market Overvaluation by looking how much the stock market costs vs how much it is providing." Isn't this the opposite of what the stock market is supposed to provide? I assumed valuations for the most part are guided by what a companies outlook is for the future, not the present.
https://archive.fo/A613V
Because you were on Twitter? The most annoying thing about this back-and-forth ping-ponging of increasing outrage is that everyone, on both sides, only reacts to the silliest arguments. Sturgeon's Law holds up pretty well for hot takes, and the majority of anything written on an issue is likely to be bad. If most of the responses you read struck you as irrational, that's a function of the infrastructure that sends you information more than the quality of either side.
That stretches the definition of "monopoly" awfully thin. They can always park on the street a couple of blocks away and walk home, like lots of city-dwellers do.

Yeah, it sucks that they've lost something they assumed they'd have forever when they purchased their property. But that's why you need to make sure that the HOA is in good shape when you buy a house that has one. Apparently nobody noticed, for thirty years, that the HOA wasn't paying taxes on its property, or that the wrong address was listed for it. Did they never have an internal audit?
We're seeing the big companies move in that direction as well (Xbox Game Pass, EA/Origin Access, PSNow)
is "dirty air" nothing more than particulates suspended in the wind gusts or is it some special term of art? Just curious, is there a relationship between dirty air and laminar flow?
The thing that trips me up along with request caps a lot is timeouts (briefly mentioned). There are so many network / API / retry timeouts set to arbitrarily large amounts (e.g. 30 seconds) that it's hard to predict how they'll interact, and often you don't know that some of these exist and at which layers they exist (application layer, network layer, DNS, etc).

How you often see this is that your request limiter keeps booting new requests (FIFO/drop tail), and then when you check your currently processing requests, they seem to be all in some busy loop, and hopefully you have some means of checking why. You check, and you find that they're all querying a service that accepts the request but doesn't respond ever (e.g. server down behind a proxy), but for some reason the timeout on the client side is set to 30 seconds so stuff keeps hanging until it's killed.

Anyway, this is to say that in any sufficiently complex networked system scenario, it helps to review all these timeouts holistically and in the context of your application.
http://archive.is/EoUOS
A loan, to pay for the toll road, to be paid back over an expected course of N years.

Ooops toll road use isn't what was expected... that N years is now literally forever.

I don't remember the article mentioning that example. But here's another one with bait-and-switch of the promises of toll roads...

-> http://abc13.com/archive/8671067/
> biological justification to exclude a class of people from a high-status career

No. He's proposing a biological explanation for why the career is not split 50/50 between men and women. An explanation which frankly sounds plausible.
Just another quick note why I got the idea, it seems, at least to me that some sex workers depend on pimps for finding clients, protection and other services which reminded me of the mafia and their racketeering (my mom had a restaurant and was threatened for protection money as well).

This sort of action is targeted by the government because it in a way negates the government's legitimacy and influence, because the taxes you pay ensure that you are under the protection of the government and mafia/pimps are in a way usurping that power.

Thus instead of depending on underground/illegal organizations, it could be better to rely on a more public and generally more stable legal organization for protection and marketing, etc.
That's all well and good, but one of the core instincts of libertarianism is a deep distrust of angry mobs.

I don't think the SV crowd gets how reasonable the author looks to everyone else and how unreasonable the angry rants on Twitter look.
My grandpa lived in a FLW house for the better part of my childhood. I don't remember much of it, but I do remember how in awe I was every time I saw it.
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BuzzFeed Trained a Computer to Search for Spy Planes. This Is What We Found
We think there's a few key differences:
First - we're focusing on personalized curation, in other words, the content you get recommended to you will be based on your preferences.

Second - There's a whole host of technological and model difference that will allow us to be financially better for developers, and to include larger and more technologically demanding games.

And as far as that pay cut goes, I think you'd be surprised as to how much subscription revenue can add up over the year. After all, we won't be 5/month for very long at all. We've definitely seen more replayable games doing better - per user- than they would have on a traditional storefront.

When it comes to integrating those 60 dollar games though, we're going to need to make sure we're not re-creating the problem for the indies that we were trying to solve though.

Oh and, unlike jump, we're currently up and running ;) (sorry, couldn't resist)
In summary, the meteorite collided with a small shallow sea, and vaporized a large volume of sulfur-containing gypsum deposits. The sulfur in the atmosphere interacted with water in the atmosphere and formed sulfuric acid in sufficiently large quantities to cool the earth by about 10C, and make photosynthesis non-viable everywhere on earth for long enough that large herbivorous dinosaurs incapable of hibernation died off entirely.
A lot of cities have or had rent control, usually with disastrous results. What makes Montreal different (non-rhetorical question)?
One thing that is being done is to reduce the amount of clear text available for collection: more and more data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Our revenue model doesn't focus exclusively on global time played. So we hope to minimize time wasters that aren't fun. But you're absolutely right, there is definitely risk there. We hope our curation will also help combat that, since it's something we want to actively avoid.
No, he's using a biological justification to openly discuss different ways to foster diversity. This is one of his points: the most common argument against him is just that you think he's a sexist, not because you don't think his ideas will actually foster any kind of diversity. And I don't understand that. The reaction here is the opposite of tolerance and diversity.

edit: I'm going to give a personal example: I strongly supported legalizing gay marriage, but I also support the right of anyone to refuse to bake a gay wedding cake or to run a church and not perform gay marriages. And I've had numerous former friends chew me out and shun me for being "intolerant". It's that attitude that makes reasonable political discussions harder and harder (at least in the US right now) because it makes everyone fear to give up anything to reach a compromise or to even understand each other.
Most of them are. But my problem with this claim is, good papers could still be classified into this formula as well. If talking about field like image recognition, almost everything after ResNet is incremental improvement to it, most of them are BS, but there are still some interesting new ideas even their gain is just marginal.
One of the most common mistakes in the industry is to think that games are different than other types of software. That people "consume" them and move on to the next game. That's wrong. Only a very few games get all the play-hours. Most people ever really play one game. The "game of their life". For some it's starcraft, for others it's minecraft.
Games are software, the same rules kind of apply: there are only 15 (say) unicorns per year.

A subscription service doesn't make sense in this context because it doesn't make sense for the unicorns to collaborate with you.

What I wish would exist however, is YC for games.
humble bundle (http://humblebundle.com) has a game subscription plan as well. While they hook you in with AAA games, most of their bundle is indie. I feel most people subscribe because of the price, but I wonder how many people actually play their games in the age of Steam?
Definitely - subscription means recurring revenue, which is a whole lot easier than having to sell individual copies of anything!

Even if you end up doing a little worse per-unit gross, chances are your COGS goes down a fair bit.
I think that's a poor example for the following reasons;

* if it's a one off payment to all recipients, why not just send it manually?
* what happens when you need to add or remove recipients? Compared to just phoning up the bank to amend a standing order.
* what happens if you accidentally pay someone the wrong amount?
* what happens if you lose your wallet and you can't continue paying?

I would rather have a bank handle all of the edge cases and provide the consumer protections I want out of a payments/account system than some random script that I (or someone I have to pay) has to maintain that could be responsible for vast amounts of funds.
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I don't know that those details really change the specific question of property ownership here. I would think that if it was the fault of a management company, then the management company would be on the hook to make things right, for example by paying to buy back the street. But I don't see how a management company screwing things up makes a real estate purchase by a third party predatory.
"for declaring a large fraction of his co-workers sub-standard engineers"

Are you blatantly lying about the content of the memo? Like, I wouldn't think so. I think you're hallucinating your own meaning to it. Would you mind explaining the thought process that lead you form this representation?