skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost six years ago, before I took to taxi driving, I spent almost two months as a "seasonal associate" at an Amazon warehouse in Phoenix. It was such a relief to get laid off... In the warehouses, people are servants to the machine, and are entirely replaceable.

"Humanity's Second-Best Hope" was based on my experiences at Amazon: http://www.taxiwars.org/p/humanitys-second-best-hope.html
That is what I meant. The OP is at the airport and wants to set the car charging. This really doesn't take long at all if the charger is working.

If the charger isn't working that's because someone didn't fix it. That's usually because there isn't a maintenance contract and people didn't pay enough for said maintenance contract. When you buy gas there are use taxes for road maintenance. Kinda like that.
Exactly, anyone that wants proof of this just needs to do business with a tradeperson outside of the big cities.

Family has had a cabin home about an hour outside of Minneapolis, whenever I need something (plumbing, woodwork, etc) I always ask for the cash price. You can get huge discounts because the business simply doesn't have to report it (they DO but no way to track it).

I personally don't think it should be frowned upon.
>I know quite a few middle aged women who openly have steady (usu. older) boyfriends, but these boyfriends go home to a wife who barely speaks to him anymore, and yet refuses to divorce him.

>convenient marriage to a busy man who can give her children, financial support, and otherwise leave her alone.

This is likely going further off topic at this point, but between these two comments, why would a guy even want to get married? Even when one factors in a boost in pay/social status, this looks like a bad deal (and that is taking a very pragmatic look at it, but we are talking about marriages of convenience).
Project Tango vs. ARKit
Supercomputers Aid in Breakthrough Cytochrome C Oxidase Research
First you got /bin on boot, enough to mount an external drive to mount /usr and you're set. That's what I heard was the case back then.
These days it's non sensical and I heard about an effort to symlink either of it to the other and consolidate the binaries.

/opt is alright. It's where you dump your tar ball and compile your custom stuff and place it under not to mix stuff up with package managed software. Not sure how people differentiate against /usr/local though.
ctrl + alt + r, btw ;)
Native phone app on both iOS/Android platform
"Each successive version will incrementally incorporate improvements to support more...features such as:
Multiple return values,
Multiple memories + tables,
Threads + shared memory,
SIMD,
DOM/HTML integration,
Garbage-collected object support..."[1]

It does sound like we're headed for some fragmentation here. That list will allow for other scripting languages to run on browsers without having to download a huge runtime, and to interact with the DOM just as JavaScript does. Wasm starts to look more like a multipurpose VM versus looking like ASM.

[1] https://www.w3.org/2017/08/wasm-charter
> But it doesn't stop there: the worst possible outcome of WASM is that entire custom browser runtimes are being pushed to you [1]

If we ever come to the point where all you need to develop a web browser is a wasm vm, don't you find exciting how much simpler a web browser would become? At the moment it is one of the most complex pieces of software out there. It is so hard to build a modern web browser from scratch nowadays that doing so as a hobby would take a lifetime. This takes the power away from individual developers, since it's not very realistic to build a new browser unless you are a big corporation with money to spare.

This situation also poses a big problem for the development of new operating systems. If your shiny, awesome, new research open source OS does not have a modern web browser, it will never reach wide adoption and thus never atract enough developers to build critical mass. The alternative is to make your OS compatible with POSIX and thus reuse the work of others so that you can build existing web browsers. But then you are most likely bound to become just another unix/linux alike, thus hindering innovation.
Oh my god.

I normally find optical illusions interesting and fun. Here it's like the fun guy at the party has had too much to drink and is now obnoxious and a bit nauseating.
A principle well known to economists is that if you tax some activity, you are going to see less of that activity. This applies to business profits. Heck when I started my first business our newly engaged accountant told us "whatever you do don't make a profit" (meaning pay any money mad to employees/managers). Hardly a new or specific to Amazon concept.
I'm not sure the intent behind your quote, but that's very true. Used in a clinical setting, fentanyl is generally the best choice for acute pain management (post-op, traumatic injury, etc).
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> The arrest was initially confirmed by a screenshot that a friend of Hutchins captured of the facility website. When the friend visited the detention center on Thursday morning, he was told Hutchins was no longer there. The website mention of Hutchins was also gone. PJ Thomas, an administrator at the US Marshals office that the website referenced, said the agency has no record of Hutchins. The friend, citing privacy concerns, asked not to be identified by name in this article.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/researcher-who-s...
He stopped a cyberattack that was having a serious impact on the NHS - hospitals where closed and all kinds of things where cancelled.

I'd call him a Hero for that.
A Final Farewell to Apple’s iPod Nano and Shuffle Plus What’s Next
The perfect language? I doubt that. It's probably quite decent.
From Indoor Lacrosse to WNBA, Small Sports Find Home on Twitter
Memory barriers, these are instructions that force memory order. You can read about the ARM implementation of memory barriers here;

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....
For me the article has a somewhat sad component (next to technological awesomeness):

"In retirement, Zottarelli told me, he would like to see Florida again. He wonders how it has changed. In his garage is a 1954 Swallow Doretti, a fixer-upper. ‘‘It probably needs new brakes,’’ he said. I asked him if there was anywhere he liked to drive for fun. ‘‘No,’’ he replied. ‘‘Not anymore.’’"

Imagine that's your grandfather. With his expertise, shouldn't he be able to 'see Florida twice a year'? I would have wished for a way to have both this awesome technological specialization over long stretches of time, but also given the people on the program some more time to go their own ways. And then the toll of being in the same hierarchy for 30+ years. Ack. But perhaps these people self-selected for stoicism, who am I to judge ;)
Kind of interesting, but honestly I'd like to see a much more drastic departure from UNIX roots. If you want to clean things up, go all in. I wouldn't hire a cleaning service to clean 1/5th of my house (especially if they left some clutter in that 1/5th because they thought I might miss it).

A small change like this is cool but pacman/aur leaves almost nothing to be desired for dealing with my programs. I do like the idea, but I would need to see a compelling philosophy for the __whole__ system.
Mark having bought your 1991 "Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory", which set me down a crazy, but worthwhile path, I would buy your Chez/Chicken book in a heartbeat.

I was reading books on neural networks in the late 80s, but your book made me get over some learning humps that allowed me to go back and revisit cloudy areas.

Lisps and Scheme are great for AI still, and Racket moving to using Chez is something I am really looking forward to.
Most Android developers will know this already, but currentTimeMillis() is probably not the call you want for event timing:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/SystemClo...
I can assure you that jellyfish is a "fairly common" dish around Shanghai.

Besides soy sauce, one can also mix it with some cucumber, black Zhejiang vinegar, fine slices of chili pepper, and sesame. It's a common cold dish.

Source: my mom is Shanghaiese.
I disagree. There are two types of content consumption/creation in the modern age. There is "flow" and "stores". Flow of content creation/consumption is seen in Twitter feeds or quickly updated blogs. This content isn't meant to last a long time, but corrects and updates minor facts about the world. In other words, it is good to allow quick Bayesian updating of your worldview.

The other type, "storage" of content through creation/consumption is through books, static webpages, or other historical sets of information. This is important because instead of updating former beliefs to be more true, it tends to open up vistas of information.

You can't function without either. As in all things, moderation is the key. Moderation is easiest if you set limits. For example, never set a "flow rate" thats higher than your consumption rate. So, if you use Twitter, make sure that you aren't following 1000 people. Be very careful. If you use an RSS reader, make sure that your feeds update at a reasonable rate (I give myself ~30 minutes in the morning to read them).

The same with books! Don't get sucked into the cult-of-reading. It is a cult, and reading "books" isn't actually useful unless you have a structured or semi-structured reading plan.
I just saw an article recently about core.async and the "go" macro, which seems to effectively give you goroutines in Clojure. I'd be very tempted to use it for that reason alone. I love Go's concurrency, but it can be a little on the verbose side. Good for some projects, but not all of them.
Avoiding double taxation? Evil!

How about removing the corporate income tax?
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/abolish-the-corpo...
That is up to whoever edits and\or maintains the page. This is an open space. So either they are okay with it or consume information other way.

I doubt there is a big difference between german and english ways here though.
She accepted payment from a friend to murder the friend's boyfriend's other girlfriend. Not only that, she decapitated and dismembered the body. Did we read the same article? Having a "just doing a job" attitude about killing other people is sociopathic.
Ask HN: Password Character Limitations
I was recentially creating a password for an account and all characters were allowed except '&'. I am interested if anyone knows a reason why that character and that character only was left out of their 'mandatory' characters for a strong password.

forgive my ignorance if the answer is obvious, just seemed weird to me.
I suspect it is even older than 1550s. I'm a farmer with land who needs seed. Another farmer is willing to front me seed in exchange for grain in the fall. That is a contract.
> All GnuPG authenticated

No, they have their own key and encryption scheme (called saltpack), which is - to best of my knowledge - is not compatible with GnuPG.

I'd wish they have made it compatible with modern GnuPG, making it possible to transform the container format for keys and messages (I'm not sure it's possible for messages, but certainly must be possible for the keys). Sadly, it's not.
I'd build a multiplayer economic management game akin to Capitalism II [0]. Economic concepts are dry and difficult to learn, and difficult to explain. If I could build a good simulation of how an economy really works, it might lead to greater and easier understanding of how it works.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_II
GitPwnd allows attackers to communicate with compromised devices via Git reps
When you say it works across Java/JavaScript - could you expand? Can I essentially write Clojure that compiles to JavaScript?
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You are basically saying we shouldn't bring good scripting environments into the web, because if we do, people will use them.

As much as I hate all the "javascript required to render text" sites out there, I can't agree. Scripting has its uses, and a proper environment will not only make it easier to deal with those accessibility and compatibility problems, it will also make it easier for browsers to sandbox those scripts so they won't mess with your computer.
I built Virwire to auto curate news from thousands of sources worldwide 24/7.

https://virwire.com

Original motivation was to to scratch my own itch for news. I found I was spending far too much time foraging for content so decided to automate discovery and relevance filtering. The app is web based but formatted for mobile.

The story stream is increasingly global, random and tolerant of competing biases, I hope a new way to experience news and see the world.
Silly me, the time is only updated once every half a millisecond. That's virtually zero CPU usage on a 2GHz chip.
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain
https://clojurescript.org/
Or you could create a problem to solve! Uber is trying to underprice the taxi industry into bankrupt, then there will no more taxis and only Uber! Capitalism!
Yes, that's ClojureScript.
> This is not like pot. This is not a drug that you can eve use casually

What do you think the addiction rate of opioids is?

What is it for fentanyl?
Short answer - yes. https://clojurescript.org/
The struggle is real, unless we're in a simulation.
The higher level question is how should we respond when machines, trained on facts and data, systematically make decisions that go against our sensitivities?
There are companies providing tools to 'hack' other devices/systems -- and they sell those tools to the U.S. Government. Similar to what Mr. Hutchins is being accused of, only the U.S. Government wasn't a customer.
Requiem for a Shuffle
The perfect language to expand your brain. In a world dominated by java, php, c++,... In my opinion yes, Clojure could the perfect language to continue learning concepts, at same level would be Haskell.
Colour me surprised.
> Some background thread regularly updates three double-words there, which contain the high part of the value, the low part, and the high part again.

So to implement a clock, they are using a different thread that updates a counter every millisecond or so? Isn't this a bit inefficient?
> I wonder how much the big car companies will pay for them if they get close to the edge?

Why only car companies? Any party with enough cash is a potential buyer. Google, Apple, Facebook, any large VC consortium, super rich individuals, ...
"I know the dangers. I have read Aldous Huxley’s fiction and it’s not pretty. But come on, if designer babies is the only argument against trying potentially life-saving treatments, what gives someone without an incurably debilitating disease the right to debate the future of our health? If we’re going to debate anything, let’s debate the science. Let’s debate the risks. Not could-bes or scaremongering predictions. And then we can get on with saving lives."

It isn't just about designer babies. It is about those who would use engineering for dangerous purposes not just to engineer out genetic errors or genetic time-bombs. How long would it be before it is used to engineer super soldiers? This could lead to domination by one country over all others. We have already seen gender selection change the balance of genders such as in China and this is a far greater threat than gender selection if used for such purposes.

Having a child w disabilities I find it difficult to argue against anything that could make a child's health or safety better but which future children benefit? Would it be those who have wealthy enough parents to afford to benefit while the remaining population remains afflicted with diseases, disabilities, or genetic time bombs. And how much would be spent on research to find cures for, or treatments for, conditions that only afflict the poor, or particular races, etc? How do we ever get to a world that is better to live in when we continue to go down a road that benefits some but not all or positions a few with ethical choices that could so negatively affect so many?

Taking the religious aspects completely out of the equation, just the few concerns noted above should give everyone pause to think this is not only a slippery slope but one that could slide into an ethical quagmire. Who decides who? Who decides which conditions? Who decides availability and cost? You get the picture.
Thanks, will try to check out that book at some point, and Pharo too.
That's a nice idea, definitely stealing that. Making myself get out of bed to feed my internet addiction would work wonders.
I didn't know Sammy Hagar was moon-lighting at NASA. Very impressive.
How I Just Saved $5,500 on My EC2 Bill by Switching to a Reserved Instance
There are lots of sources for mocap data if you know people in the film, games, or entertainment industry.
Ha, good one, and welcome.
> I am so sick of the cult of Elon.

I failed to see any arguments.
Why should a society tolerate seditious speech, that seeks to topple the very society that allows it to flourish? Free speech should be used responsibly, to promote the values of a society, not destroy them. Few countries share the extremist US point of view of allowing all speech (with few exceptions, e.g. libel and true threats). Instead, they approach it more maturely, to safeguard their values and not allow extremism to take hold.

It saddens me I have to explicitly tag this as sarcasm.
I live in South Florida, in Palm Beach County, where the bulk of these centers are. You see a lot of addicts. I don't know of any success stories to come out of them. But its a bit unsettling to be driving down I95 and see a billboard: "IMAGINE BEING SOBER". It's really sad and scary. Delray Beach used to be a nice place before the treatment centers came in, too.

I was looking for an apartment on Craigslist here not too long ago. More than half the rooms for rent I saw were "sober living" half way houses.
They are exactly the same and use sans-serif (you can easily check this via DevTools). Maybe you have some sort of extension installed that does this. No other way for the same font to look different for two pages in this case. Once again - post screenshots.

I've checked both pages on two different desktop OS' and see no issue you are describing.
You don't think felony tax evasion should be frowned upon? That goes far beyond tax avoidance.
The Man Who Invented Modern Wellness
> Why would he ask that? It is strange.

To make a blog post about it.

His blog title is The hacker known as "Alex" and his previous articles are similar to this one.

See a discussion about one of his previous articles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130688
Unrealized capital gains aren't income because I can't pay my rent and buy groceries with Amazon stock. Even if I could once I did it would be realized same as if I sold it for cash, and I'd owe tax.

You could argue that capital gains rates are too low, but that's a different argument than saying stock owners are getting "invisible income".
Maybe when large poppy and coca fields were needed enforcement could have worked had it been pursued vigorously. But we apparently really didn't want to do that and it was mostly all lip service.

But now? Super powerful chemicals being continually adjusted. A zillion e-packets zipping around the world. Forget about full enforcement. That is no longer possible if we "just try hard enough". Unless maybe you want to stop the mail and bomb 35 countries into smithereens. And incarcerate even more people than the ridiculous number we already have. We can still "discourage" with occasional busts (and probably should for deadly drugs for now) but maybe it's time to sit down and rethink rather than continuing to playing wack-a-mole.

Make better drugs. Less harmful ones. That's the eventual answer I think.
South Korea spy agency admits trying to rig 2012 presidential election
Interesting, has this actually happened?
This is AWESOME!! Great work. I noticed that the GitHub repo is missing source code; when do you plan on releasing it?
How do you retain such talented people for such a long time? These people could get jobs in the most cutting-edge company in their respective fields. Still they choose to stay at the same place for decades.
> The vDSO is mapped to a new address each time (probably, some security feature). However, the function is always placed at the same address as above (0x00007ffff7ffae50) when run under gdb (I’m not sure what causes this).

GDB (≥ 7) disables ASLR by default:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Starting.h...
6 Keys to Marketing Customer Experience vs. Products
Fascinating story.

Colombia still has a ways to go, but luckily things have improved a lot in the last 10 to 15 years. It's my favourite country I've ever travelled in and I was met with nothing but hospitality and generosity.
It's our society that is better, not our people.
Go is verbose? I'm surprised to hear that, to be honest. Can you say what it's verbose in comparison to? What production language/framework has terser concurrency with the same expressiveness?
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10% of divorces in Ontario, Canada were through an AI driven app last year
> only the U.S Government wasn't a customer

Are we going to start pretending the identity of the customer or employer doesn't matter? It's accepted practice for the government to have a monopoly on certain goods & services.
let clojure = Haskell
Ask HN: Feedback on my Saas relationship management tool
I'm building a relationship management tool to help professionals (i.e. startup executives, consultants, sales VPs) build and strengthen their network. It still has rough edges and there's more development work on the way but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community: http://orchestrahq.com
Ask HN: B2B chicken and Egg Problem
B2B space problems:
1. Enterprise customers won't deal with new companies.
2. outside sales people want 10k+ deals.
3. VCs/Angels want traction.
4. inside sales works for $250/mo sales + some traction
5. self service takes a large investment in refining "on boarding" funnels, exit funnels, self-support etc.
6. most developers don't like sales. period.
7. contracting services too cheap remote, but too much like a job without benefits on-site.
8. if you want to sell software as a service you would need to sell "small" enterprise clients for about 2 years(read: little money) or large self service clients with custom needs until you've either built a decent self service process or complex enough enterprise product(with decent track record).
9. if it has some kind of marketplace/communication network effects all the better(but even harder to get off the ground).
I'm an EE who is getting more and more interested in software development and computation in general. I've been reading Paul Graham and Peter Norvig and decided to learn Scheme. Any thoughts on Scheme vs. Clojure for learning?