skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you could. In 2014. (Using the old asm.js.)

Here's a 2014 Unreal Engine asm.js demo now running on WASM:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/ZenGarden/EpicZenGard...

It's running on your browser's JavaScript VM (maybe in a special mode). The code compiled to WASM just like any other machine language. Quite a few compilers support WASM as a target now.
Another big problem is that 401Ks have a "longevity risk". Saving as an individual, you must save enough to handle the very remote possibility that you will live past age 100. A pension fund, on the other hand, can safely assume that on average pensioners will die long before that. So a responsible 401K holder must oversave.
I wonder if they track their abandonment rate (and forward that to writers).
The writer is mostly complaining about the "utterly average" programmer being slowly being automated out of the industry. How at one point knowing just CSS/HTML was enough, then when it came time to transfer over to Angular some of her friends couldn't make it. And how at some point that same automation will be coming to Utility/Drudge work Angular transitions as well.

Compares it to how many writers are constantly getting laid off in the news industry, while a select few like New York Times writers do quite well. (kind of surprised they didn't go for more brutal forms of writing like novelists to be honest).

Something about comparing both to fatcat bankers, and how those doing well love nothing better than to ignore the people far below their level.

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Don't really get why someone who has a convergence of skills/careers of writing and programming can't find an interesting paid niche for themselves.

Also don't get why Medium would think people would want to pay them $5 a month for stories like this. That's only a little less than a months worth of Sunday Newspaper buys of your favored publication. That will be usually be way above Medium quality. (you do get 3 free stories a month)...
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Most of what i do as a programmer is figuring out how to take the ideas from management and turn them into reality. So I wouldn't say that coders should fear what happened to writers, it's just that anything that can be automated/outsourced will be.
From the author's article:

"It is completely possible that my wife entered her password as the organization name when signing up. In which case—that's not Duolingo's fault. Thanks Hacker News for staying sharp."

To the author - please delete, or refactor your slanderous article if your claims are unfounded then.

EDIT: Author updated= https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679191
UX in the context of their target audience is simple, elegant and concise. Young people have an easy time getting used to different gestures and their respective actions. And once you get used to it (it took me a while cause I’m a bit old), it’s super convenient.
I've seen these kind of requests received better when they're phrased "Is anyone with more experience in the field able to summarise what's cool about this?"
I said in handwritings if not careful.
What communities/projects do this?
Something new to add to your checklist: “I need extra logic that prevents people from accidentally entering their passwords into every other profile field, otherwise it’ll show up in emails and I’ll get accused of saving plaintext passwords in a widely distributed blog post.”
$10 billion of urban transit spending won’t fundamentally fix the problem in Nashville because so, so many people commute in from out of the county because of white flight. We need regional transit solutions but they won’t happen because
1.) The suburban counties currently reap all the economic benefits with none of the costs (transit)
2.) The wealthier suburban counties (Williamson) don’t want people (read: anyone that isn’t rich and white) from Davidson County coming into their county.
3.) The extremely republican dominated state government isn’t going to spend any money on infrastructure for the main democratic stronghold of the state.
> “Why don’t you just call them, and get it all figured out right now?”

Because it's rude. It has always been rude, but now with the phone in your pocket it's that much worse. She doesn't know what her friend isn't doing at the moment, and shouldn't impose.

The featured article gives a better impression of this than I can... but I'll add that the tragedy of the commons is a factor.

You can't just show up from outer space and scream out of someone's pocket whenever you want. This will hopefully be a fleeting technological phenomenon.
I use Truecaller on my Samsung phone and it really helps.
Citicem journalism at its best: making false accusations and finding a way to still blame it on the victim.
Han unification was really a pretty stupid idea.
Err are not USA company pension fund run by outside professionals whose first duty is the members of the scheme?
The Apple example is accurate. But it's also an outlier, and in the context of the discussion even worse.

Agreed. Aldi is a great outfit and gets more of my business because of that. It IS possible to live without Amazon. I don't think it's unreasonable for more people to consider trying a bit to consider that.
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Just to be sure that we're talking about the same thing, by "custom parser" I meant implementing your own barebones "zonal OCR" functionality with just the features that are needed for the specific problem.

I think it boils down to the needs of each individual application.

Some cases have a lot of templates and need the "automatic fuzzy matching" functionality and the extra bells and whistles.

But smaller players often deal with just a handful of relatively simple templates where FlexiCapture would just be overkill (not to mention a couple of other problems that I'm covering at the end of the post). This is of course not an easy task because you need someone who can design and implement an end to end system that possibly involves image processing, "zonal OCR", include an OCR engine and also perform reliable text extraction from images/PDFs (extracting text from PDFs is tricky). It's way easier for a non developer to think about what rulesets/logic to apply and not having to think about the image processing/OCR bits. I think that is one of the main selling points of FlexiCapture. It abstracts the OCR bits so that the system designer can think about the problem itself, design a spec and think about the logic the logic. Do you need deskewing of documents? Click a button and you get deskewing.

Which brings me to the second point. The products sold by ABBYY/Nuance are meant to be used by integrators (no programming needed other than the occasional VB.net script), not image processing specialists/developers. In my (biased) opinion, it makes more sense for some businesses to go the custom route instead of investing in FlexiCapture.

There is also FlexiCapture Engine that is meant for developers.
This has the same problems as the other offerings by ABBYY (I don't know about Nuance but I suspect it's the same):

- expensive
- vendor lock-in
- ridiculous extra costs for things like "cloud/VM license", exporting to PDF, etc.
- limits on how many pages you can process per year or in total (complex licensing schemes)
- ABBYY really wants to sell you their own cluster/cloud management services which is all proprietary
- limited flexibility in implementing distributed services, costs that add up fast, you have to be trained in their own stack

Can you provide an example where you think that a custom solution would not work? I'm curious.
So Duolingo unofficially replied here! Author, take note.
Good to hear, and we know stuff happens and falls through the cracks.

Upon discussing it with my wife, user error did come up—should have had that discussion again before writing the post (adding an update, now).

wipes egg off face
401's have ridiculous low contribution maximums and you don't get any tax rebate unlike the UK where you get relief at your effective tax rate
First, that's at least as much of a danger with basing conclusions on abstract speculation without evidence, and second, that's not a matter of which is stronger, it's a matter of treating either as stronger support than it is.
What makes you think their children are any better off?

The tech industry is engineering these kind of labor conditions for their own profit. Try blaming them instead of the families of poor people.
I find it hard to support Amazon in any way knowing how it treats its employees, both in the warehouses and at corporate. For it to span such different contexts suggests how systemic it really is.
This gets into slightly pedantic definitional arguments, but broadly speaking the assertion is true that all known earliest writing systems were logographic (where a character represents a word, not a sound), though it is also true that no 'pure' logographia has ever been known to exist (except for an artificially constructed language called Toki Pona[1] from c.2001 that's barely worth mentioning). In practice, all known writing systems have some level of phonemic association to characters along with the ideagraphic, be it using a special subset of characters for phonetic representation or by associating the actual utterances of the words with their ideagrams.

Examples of writing systems that used characters primarily to represent sounds did come later, though similarly, it is difficult to argue that any known language is purely phonetic. As a simple example in English, take '&' — though it is not a recognised letter, neither is it punctuation, and it is unarguably a glyph in the English writing system about which one could debate whether it is ideagramatic or logographic. (But I digress.)

There are many types and varieties of phonetically representative writing systems — most of the earliest, like Linear B, are Syllabaries[2]. The earliest known surviving examples date from the mid-15C BCE, written forms of Mycaenian Greek[3].

Fully segmental writing systems (please distinguish 'fully' from 'purely', as elaborated above) are definitely younger than the rest. The earliest examples of these are often abjads and abugidas, which either eschew vowel representations or form consonant-vowel digraphs respectively[4].

The Phoenician alphabet, or more correctly the Proto-Canaanite script that was used by the Phoenicians, is the earliest surviving example of a segmental writing system — it is an abjad of which the earliest surviving examples are from roughly 1000BCE[5].

The earliest preserved writings that aren't just numbers date to about 3100BCE in Sumer[6], so predate preserved phonetic (excluding syllabic) writings by about 2000 years, and are in the order of 5000 and 3000 years old, respectively. So it's a big stretch to call it a 'recent invention', but certainly not as ancient as logographic or mnemonic writing systems.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida

[5]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet

[6]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
Even two different countries is no guarantee of isolation. The 2009 blackout affected both Paraguay and a large portion of Brazil. If two countries are near enough that it's feasible to get power from both, they're near enough that their power networks might be interconnected.
Companies operating in the United States (like ALDI) are going to be subject to all the same labor laws as any other company operating in the United States.

(I believe ADLI is owned by the same parent company as Trader Joes.)
Singapore is also lucky in that the planners matched the routes with actual transit demand (not hard when it's a small island). I think the only realistic way that the US is going to have good public transit is when city operators allow privatized public transit. Singapore's lines, for example, until this year were privatized companies competing for contracts - one of the companies was nationalized, so who knows moving forward... But in any case, Singapore is the cleanest, fastest public transport system in the world, and is considerably cheaper than any in the US.
If that's what the author is referring to, there are less ambiguous ways to express it.

Even so: in my experience in Japan I've seen e.g. 認 hand-written both ways, and specifically remember becoming curious about this variant. My conclusion after consulting with native speakers and university professors I knew there was that they are essentially and functionally equivalent. That is, against the author's point, Japanese speakers do not note a difference at all.
I do deliveries to some buildings that still have freight elevator operators, in a USA city.

I don't know what they are paid, but it is worth every penny for them to manage the elevators. There is not enough "supply" of freight elevator in most tall buildings, so these operators distribute the capacity to the dozens / hundreds of people needing to use the elevator each day.

$50k per year is a bargain for all the time they save for the thousands of deliveries and other uses each year.

If you have experience in this area, then I should not say this: it's easy to criticize some work as useless when one is totally ignorant of the problem space. But buildings don't hire these operators as a charity.
Secure access to the clipboard is probably going to require a permission prompt. Otherwise it seems too risky.
this always happens anytime there's a sale on aliexpress, most of time it actually costs more when it's "on sale"
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Just for comparison I did this search on Google (UK site, logged in with my work account) as well, the first page of 'github' results are listed. It seems their are much more relevant and useful than the DDG results...

1. a clearly marked relevant ad at the top, for the circleci github plugin

2. an infobox at the right with details of the company, their web address, a link to their twitter account, and some related search queries

3. (first full-width result) link to github.com and summary text

4. a sub-search box to continue searching only on github.com

5. a short two-column list of six links to github.com sub sections

6. a link to the github twitter account and three square boxes across the page with its most recent tweets

7. the github wikipedia page

8. github youtube channel

9. github app for slack

10. github linkedin profile

11. github facebook page
User rossisred ported his "Funky Karts" game from C++ (targeting Android) to WASM.

Direct link to the game: https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html

Blog post on porting the engine: http://www.rossis.red/wasm.html

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411328

His post helped me demystify what WASM is capable of and how it fits with the DOM. He shares some eye-opening code snippets, but the game itself is closed source so it leaves something to be desired.
Snapchat+YouTube would be killer combo
https://particle.io and https://hologram.io have almost worldwide availability for SIM's designed for this. There are probably older less-hip suppliers as well.
It is the consequence of past 2 centuries' political struggle in East Asia.

Written Chinese has basically 3 different standards, in Sinosphere:

1. Mainland China: Simplified Chinese. Meanwhile, contrary to most people's understanding, PRC has standardized its own Traditional Chinese writing as well, which is permitted in logo/trademark and research purposes.

2.Hongkong: Hong Kong has its own system, and plus several hundred characters that created specifically for Cantonese.

3.Taiwan: Taiwan's system has some interesting distinction in characters like 骨(bone)，which is different from both Mainland China and Hong Kong's system.

Japan ever since 20 century has simplified and revolutionized its Kanji standard on its own, but unlike China, a lot of Kanjis still follows form from the old Kanxi dictionary(康熙字典). While Korea is an interesting case, where they abandoned Hanja in everyday use, so they don't even bother to simplify it, thus Korean Hanja actually follows the most orthodoxical way of writing of all the systems mentioned above.
Soon even artists will be unemployed.
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"And besides, it really is an interesting story. There are interesting characters, and we're not going to be around forever. I'm 64, and I'm doing great, but we've lost a lot of us. They aren't going to get to be in the movie. They boarded the saucers prematurely. It's good to document this stuff and get it down in the real words."

This part really resonated with me. There were so many things I was in to when I was younger that I liked but really didn't fully appreciate for the uniqueness of that particular time and place. It's never going to happen again, and if it's not documented, it'll just all fade away and no one who wasn't there then will know about it.

So much of it seems so special in retrospect, especially to people who weren't there, but there's no way of going back now and recording it all, or interview all those people I had an opportunity to interview then but didn't.

Something to think about for those of you who might be involved in some "underground" scenes today that the general public hasn't picked up on yet. I know you're out there and you know something we don't. Record it. Share it. Teach us. Interview the people who are involved in it. You might not get another chance.
I literally will patronize business that cost a little more just because they let me schedule online.

For me, I'll give an example - chimney sweep. The company I use lets me request a service appointment online and lists it's prices online. The rest I saw I had to call for both prices and appointments. No, thanks.
Cake had it right almost 15 years ago: https://youtu.be/QT1wOS1v97I
So on one side we have reference materials and on the other we have your anecdote. Even if we accepted its validity, this is just one example of many.
Look at the returns for each of your 401's. Move your money from the poorly performing funds to the well performing funds. If your top-performing funds have about the same return, keep things diversified.
I agree with what you're saying and I'd also like to add that SpaceX could have failed. Based on the evidence available in 2002 there was no reason to think that reusable rockets were necessarily going to work.

Musk is a gambler, and this time he won, but other times he has failed. The reason he can gamble is because SpaceX is funded by private money.
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oh good more neckbeardy “the sky is falling because we’re not writing software how I think we should!”

Hey guess what? Humans don’t visualize or internalize ideas the same. It’s rather vain to say someone shouldn’t/can’t do it that way.

Sorry we’re not all you. But not really

Posts like this take me back to my 80s Usenet days

Look the reality is it’s fine. This isn’t imploding reality.

Focus on real human problems like income inequality or healthcare

This just feels like neoliberal whining. “Eyyy people aren’t making novel things we can extract more value from! That’s bad!”
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I think yeukhon means that if you get lazy and write 已 or 己 with a single stroke (easy to do with a ball-point pen), they are basically indistinguishable.
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So what will? $10bn of freeway widening and maintenance?
Never seen it before, but in Japanese that's apparently "tohjin," meaning the blade of a sword. http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%88%80%E5%88%83
I am not a lawyer, but if you can figure out who is calling you, I believe you can file a lawsuit against them for violating the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act), which carries statutory damages of up to $1,500 per violation.

Sources:

https://michaelrkn.github.io/how-to-sue-a-telemarketer/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2016/08/25/filing...
USPS does not sell or disclose phone numbers to third parties.
I have a crazy theory about versioning, except it's not the idea itself that's crazy, but what you have to do to get it.

Software versioning is a case of the XY Problem. We don't know what we want, but we know something that might help us get it (and we are wrong).

We don't care if you add behavior to your library (unless it fulfills a need we had or didn't know we had). What we really care about is if you take behavior away. And in some cases it's not even all the behavior. If I'm only using 20% of your library and you haven't changed it, I can keep upgrading whenever.

What semantic versioning is trying and failing to achieve is to make libraries adhere to the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP). If you had a library that had sufficient tests, then any change you make that causes you to add tests but not change an existing test means that it should satisfy the LSP (tests that correct ambiguities in the spec notwithstanding). People can feel pretty safe upgrading if all of the tests they depend on are intact.

The difficult part of this 'solution' is that reusable code would have to have pretty exhaustive test coverage. I think we are already bifurcating into a world of library authors and library consumers, so I'm okay with this. We should feel comfortable demanding more than what we currently get from our library writers. In this world, what you version is your test harness, and not your code.
For what it's worth, I think attributing it to white flight is a little misleading. Davidson County is certainly more diverse than the other counties in the metro region, but most of the people I know who live outside of Davidson County do so because of the schools. I'm close friends with a few Nashville Metro teachers, and I think that issues within Metro stem mostly from lack of funding.

As for the support from outside Nashville proper, I think that all of my friends and coworkers who live outside the city have much more to gain from a transit system that extends outside the county. My commute is pretty reasonable, a consistent 15-20 minutes. My coworkers in Williamson, Rutherford, or Cheatham Counties all have significantly longer commutes. I'm not saying support is a given, but for all the people who talk about Nashville turning into Atlanta, it's not those of us who live inside Davidson County that have the most to lose.
FWIW This is yet _another_ reason, albeit probably not even in the top 100, for why we need to get rid of passwords.

It's essentially inconceivable that somehow your 512-bit TLS session key, or an RSA signature, or even the seed of your one time password system would get pasted into some random field in error. But a password you're constantly typing into boxes all day to make anything work is obviously sooner or later going to get typed in somewhere it shouldn't.

How many people reading this have typed their screen unlock password in, only to realise that it wasn't locked after all? Where did that end up - in a Slack chat? A Google search? Email to your best friend? Did you the rest of the day changing all your passwords? Or did you just shrug it off and get on with your life.

Anyway, that's my thought on the matter,
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When i see "...Amazon sweatshops..." on Good Morning America then I'll consider it out in the open.

I never said Amazon's practices were hidden. The question is: Why don't most people care about Amazon's practices?
Maybe just the generic nature of the problem description. Are they talking about Google Analytics? Cloudflare? Black hats running WiFi access points? Infiltrated Tor endpoints? Forced proxies at schools and companies? State actors? Local malware and antivirus? Rogue apps and browser extensions? Via what mechanisms?

Hard to comment on it in a general sense. There's lots of forms of pervasive monitoring.