skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then one day I thought to myself that this whole project was basically equivalent to wealth redistribution and was not at all the meritocracy I had envisioned it to be.

This is precisely why I have loathed the cult of "pay per performance". Bonuses, salary bumps and promotions become a sort of (I wish this were an exaggeration of terms but it isn't) conspiracy to pass wealth and prestige to buddies. But they fill it with phony paperwork and propaganda about how the buddies have been objectively evaluated and are all top performers. If you are an honest worker doing good things but not in a management in-crowd, this can have crippling effects on morale.
Tcl/Tk 8.6.8 released
I noticed a lot of outsourcing work is going to Ukraine and Belarus. India got a head start because of English language but right now many devolopers in Eastern Europe speak fluent English as well.
Prove it. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded trial.

There are plenty of quality and health savings organizations that would fund such a trial if there were any hint of benefit. But there isn't.

I'm glad to hear that pseudo-science still gets shut down in social circumstances.
A table of estimated externalities for various careers
Dear Tech: A letter to the deadbeat teenage son at the end of a tough year
I think there's a lot to be said for sleep, diet, and exercise for combating many what are often termed lifestyle illnesses. That said, I think there's a lot of use for tech (which is really just applied science) in monitoring, diagnosing, and researching illnesses and treatments, as well. And not all maladies can be treated by sleep, diet, and exercise alone.

I can easily imagine anecdotal evidence like that you mention while dismissing the rest of the medical establishment (with loaded phrases like Big Pharma) is likely to get you dismissed as well. Perhaps that's not how you intend to come across, so perhaps you might look at tempering your arguments to make them more palatable to those you believe are brainwashed.
See, that's why I admire Billie Jean King so much. When she got fed up by the hypocrisy of the world tennis association giving men 10x more price money then women, whilst women were 50% of the spectators she just created her own association, tour and sponsors, and persuaded all of her colleagues to go with her. Even when they told them they cannot participate in any grand slam. In the end she won, and it was a huge victory. There's a lot of shady corruption going on with these tournaments there. They should just create their own association.
For those of us who don't know any field guys with experience in India, can you elaborate?
Very little danger, especially to the core language. One scenario is that someone wants to add support for all kinds of features by adding large, external dependencies, thinking it will make Red more marketable. But the language isn't the thing to sell. Really hard to do that anymore, sad but true. The thing to sell is tools that help people get their job done and make their lives easier. Red is just the thing we want to use to build those tools.
A Virtue Epistemology of the Internet [pdf]
relatable, but not written coherently; by no means a failure for a personal piece - so why dilute that with a "call to action" at the end? it's painful irony at best.
Want to make college more affordable? Reform the accreditation system
Step one is getting to consensus on sugar = toxic, then refined carbs = bad, then getting people to stop believing we were evolved to eat consistently throughout the day everyday

It’s amazing that “you are what you eat” has become so controversial
Loads. A functional EHR (UX). An easy way to keep track of what medications a patient is one and has been on (?blockchain). Better quality and cost measures (big data).
My "favourite" is "re-imagining".

For example, "reimagining customer service", as in, complementing 20yo kids hired for peanuts offshore with bloated and expensive contact centre software.
> She can’t help me with any of that.

Oh she will, eventually.

Already she can basically do all your shopping. That's a servant job alright. And there are plenty of other things that you would typically ask of "the help", which I bet you can already do:

"send an Amazon gift voucher to my cousin on 25 december."

"call a Uber for 5pm and send it to address X to pick up the kids."

"find plumbers near me with good ratings."

"call my lawyer on Skype."

And there will be things that will likely appear very quickly:

"create a new document with template X and the following text: ..."

"make a mix of songs A, B and C and send it to my girlfriend."

"share photos of holiday X with Dad"

... and so on and so forth. As more and more things are plugged in, it will really feel like you had an invisible servant at your disposal, doing all the dirty work for you, starting with "dealing with computer interfaces" which is what it does right now. Some things are obviously difficult or pointless to automate (like sorting dirty clothes or loading a dishwasher - note how the actual washing is already automated). Some are easier, like sweeping floors with a Roomba.

It's like we were looking at the Apple II, and you were complaining that the desktop cannot write a letter and send it for you. Vocal recognition is an enabler, an interface. If the interface is successful (and it looks like this is the case), programs and "peripherals" will come.
Honest question: is that a lot for a whole country?
It is slowly trickling in.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/fasting-for-th...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684131/

I personally know multiple people that did listen to me and others who told them about the healing powers of a water fast, and cured their illnesses by doing it. There's really no downside. You are not "starving" yourself. That is such an insane myth.

I myself did too - got rid of a bad arthritis in the knee that I've suffered from for years - just 20 days into a fast (this was 6 years ago, no inflammation of any kind since).
I wonder if this will prove to be an opportunity for cities outside of SV to grab a bigger piece of tech. Nashville?

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/09/22/health...
pfffffft
Top 20 UX Design Blogs and Resource Websites of 2017
Ads are not a great way to monetize many things - it's better to have some kind of product/service that people actually pay you money for. It creates a much shorter feedback loop between you and your customers.
Apple and Samsung entering the healthcare space to compete with Epic (their name isn't all-caps) and Cerner, in reality, is going to be closer to this: https://xkcd.com/927/

Most of the employees at Epic and Cerner in the healthcare space are actually operations. Like, at least 60% of their workers are operations. Not only that, but they're not traditional IT workers who go out and get certs, they're really closer to devops professionals who are able to provide both IT support and have an intimate understanding of what they're working with. Last time I checked, Apple and Samsung don't really even have this tier of customer facing support. It's going to take organizational shifts for them to break into this sector, and it's not so sure a thing.

That said, I completely agree with your observation that hospitals need to become tech companies. My parents are medical professionals and I have also worked at a medical software company in the past, so I think I'm pretty well grounded when it comes to saying this: hospitals hate developers, and developers hate hospitals. From the perspective of the hospital worker, developers make overly confusing systems and as soon as the worker gets used to it, they completely change everything and make it even more complicated than before. From the perspective of developers, most hospital professionals are luddites who oppose all change and progress as a matter of principle. If the two roles were more closely integrated, these severe communication issues would be mitigated. Medicine needs to be redesigned form the ground up with these two fields learning each others' skills and understanding how and why the other field does what it does.
It probably is, but there are pseudo-English idioms in use that just hurt. For example, "public viewing" is used in German for featuring sports events on large screens in the public, "handy" is used for mobiles, etc. See https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/40586/why-do-germ... for a discussion about this phenomenon.
For some background, the 'model minority' myth that you're perpetuating here is being increasingly rejected by the Asian-American community because its both reductive and dehumanizing in its characterization ('Asians are all inscrutable math wizards that get straight A's but are essentially invisible in any romantic or leadership capability') and most often trotted out by race supremacists in some twisted form of concern trolling as a way to attack other minority groups who are seen as less subservient. Asian-americans are often seen in america as the "perpetual foreigner"[1] no matter how far they go to integrate, and the 'model minority' myth just makes integration and the freedom to be treated as an 'American' _individual_ so much harder - unlike Caucasians in the US who in their virtue as the majority demographic do not have each and every one of their actions/behaviors scrutinized as being representative of "white people."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_East_Asians_in_...
I've worked with some Ukrainian devs and they were very smart guys
The USPS actually subsidizes the shipping of packages from China to the US. It is due to a treaty that was signed before China was an indistrialized nation.
Like some other languages, one of the two is both specifically male in some contexts, and generic in others (which is why vir- exists, to clear up confusion in otherwise-generic contexts). English even retains some irregular words of this sort, such as dog vs. bitch, where dog is male in contexts where gender matters, but bitch is female in all contexts (at least when it comes to dogs).

Only one gender can get the shorter prefix, and there are only so many vowels (many people say that Esperanto already has too many vowels). Real surviving cultures aren't so petty that they'd make all their words longer by two characters for the sake of "fairness".

As for -in* being two extra characters for explicit-feminine, it's just something you trade for regular conjugation with such restricted phonotactics.

Now, you could make the argument to ditch grammatical gender altogether, and I'd probably be on board with that. In most cases it does not shorten or clarify sentences.
You can already do that? Apple has a charging pad for the iPhone X, watch and earpods.
Thank you for this. For the longest time, I actually thought the blockchain was powered by git, or at least the DAG and associated tech concepts.
But I assumed that because it's not too far off, but it is a critical difference.

Out of curiosity, I wonder if there's a reason why it's not just built on top of git? Is there an inherent incompatibility between the two, or some sort of benefit to forgoing using existing tech?
Agree with tools of Titans, disappreance of childhood (older book), on tyranny, and trust me I'm lying
I disagree. The media (left and right) is forever trying to twist things to their narrative.

Social media democratizes this. But if I post crazy things all the time, I'll lose balanced followers and will probably pick up biased followers.

The national media has little other governance. CNN ran amok for years-- it's time some balance was imposed.
"per tam-tam' disiĝas la kri'" should be translated "the cry [shout] is broadcast by tom-tom".

One thing I've noticed about the Esperanto community is that, owing to its small size, it is very easy to make one's voice heard. So you get a lot of, "rough edges" shall we say, in the published material. (Ex: I came across about a year ago at an Esperanto book sale a book of jokes or "ŝercoj". Unfortunately almost without exception the jokes were crude and sexist. I don't know why it was even up for sale, alongside works of much higher quality.)
Yup. One of the problems we have is that we've given up on making useful tools to let people filter out what they don't want to see. We've given up on client-side filters and are telling everyone that we know what is best for them, and they should only see the comments we want them to see.

The internet absolutely needs to be filtered, but by the users themselves, not companies who are just "innocently" doing it for them. Let people decide for themselves if they want to see something or not.
If you want a thicker phone, why not put a battery case on it?
That's my secret tell to see if someone is a good, experienced developer or not.

I've never met a good, experienced developer who was a slow typist.
>Do you think it's a coincidence that a stereotypical Asian American is reserved, disciplined, and good at math, and that Asian Americans in America make considerably more than any other race[1]?

You are stating a set of what you believe as stereotypes of "Asian American[s]" and then citing a wage survey. There seem to be a lot of assumptions you are making.

What would you define as "Asian" in this scenario? Do you consider all people living in America having some form of roots in the entire continent of Asia, Asian?

Next, are you attributing personal traits listed by you as: reserved, disciplined, and good at math, which equates to "make[ing] more than any other race". Do those traits really do that?

The comment that you posted, from my own personal experience, is disheartening because it attributes qualities to a broad set of peoples and cultures which may or may not be related. Even if you might consider some things like being disciplined as positive, it's disempowering because it removes each "Asian" person's ability to achieve based on their own merit.
I can recommend to read this comment chain as well, IMO it shows the arguments of both sides very well (and avoids us having to re-argue this every time).
Yup. First company I worked for had a team in India and they couldn't do a damn thing. The next company had some REALLY great talent in India. Having local managers helped. Paying market rate instead of bottom dollar helped.

Another problem with outsourcing to India is now so many companies do it just because XYZ other company does it -- no regard for quality. Just copying the moves someone else does isn't enough. You need to understand WHY and HOW to do it well.
One major issue with the tool is you're valuing all page views equally. 10 page views from 1 session will pay far less than 10 page views from 10 sessions. Advertisers cap their impressions per user, so revenues drop off fast as the number of page views per session increases.

Also, don't forget about ad blocking. Over 50% of my users block advertisements, since they're young and tech savvy. That's a big drop in revenues right from the start.

The first site has about 30 million page views a month from 3 million sessions. The second site has about 1.5 million page views from 250,000 sessions.

Typical CPM rates...

* $0.20 - Ad exchanges for low value regions.

* $1.00 - Ad exchanges for high value regions (US, UK, Australia, Canada, etc).

* $3.00 - Direct sales for MPU spots in high value regions.

* $5-10.00 - Direct sales for background advertisements in high value regions.

This is in the entertainment niche.
Mainly relatively unskilled is an understatement. I have a bit of contact with DXC (based in bulgaria, iirc) through a customer. We usually get someone with 'expert X' or 'senior Y' as a job title who lack the most basic skills in debugging and problem solving. It mostly ends in them 'taking a break' (during the call) and in the end we have to do their job.

I don't take an issue with doing their job, but I'm still baffled how DXC can function like that.
There is often a significant amount of data flowing around in the public sector. When there is a constant baseline of a task to be done for the foreseeable future, it is often less expensive to fill that with a FTE rather than a contractor or consultant.

Things from the city jail management (transferring to state or federal when appropriate - or to the hospital and back - or to the court and back, etc...), payroll (and staffing management), data mining, managing assments of property, scheduling housing or business inspectors, budget forecasting based on weather models, keeping track of all the permits and where they are in the process...

There is lots of places where information technology has a role. Not necessarily high tech, but rather managing the information that is flowing through the system to make sure that the proper data goes to the proper places.

Its not going to be glamorous, but it sure beats paper and excel spreadsheets in email.

While big consulting shops may be brought in from time to time to do a project - the role of integration that software with the existing systems often falls to a FTE employed by the city, state, or whatever. Keeping that institutional knowledge about how things work is often priceless (well, you can put a price on it - how long does it take to figure out the system that Stan left behind... and if that's a consultant doing that, how much are they billing you for that discovery work?). In many public sector shops, the preserved institutional knowledge that a team may have can easily run into the collective century or more. That is a lot of understanding of how things work that can't be effectively outsourced.
The problem is creating many hurdles to purchase.

For example, a contract gives the scientific distributor the right to match a price [1]. Scientists need to make this request through their procurement office or to a sales rep. which takes a couple of days and additional paperwork to complete. These extra steps create enough friction that researchers will often by through contracted providers despite them being more expensive.

[1] examples: https://procurement.fsu.edu/vendors/VWR https://www.dfa.cornell.edu/procurement/news/improved-prefer...
The cost benefit is that if you are small, most of it is free, or near free. It gets expensive when you scale, but if you use fabric instead of VM's, it's nearly effortless compared to hiring two or three top notch net admins and running / renting a datacenter for eternity.

The hook is at small scale, the catch is at medium/large scale. For Azure, licensing is included.
That doesn't sound right to me. There were config utilities for that sort of thing and even if not, that kind of change would take a small amount of disassembly - you could do it by hand in a pinch. How would you even compile CP/M's 'primordial' PL/M source?
"The distinction between an "error" and a "bad choice" isn't all that interesting to me"

I definitely wouldn't agree personally, but to each their own.

" and this approach more or less makes it meaningless to criticize the design of literally anything."

I can't fathom why you think this.
All i answered is what the difference between the two types of criticism are. The only problem with this criticism is that the author is trying to claim these things are objectively wrong, repeatedly, and they are not. In fact, the author doing that just makes the author look silly, for starters.

I can't see why that would make it meaningless to criticize the design of anything. It would, IMHO, be much better than current situation where the author pretends his criticisms are not subjective, when they very clearly are.

Remember that objective things are true for all observers. So the author presenting it this way also means they claim it can't be viewed another way. That's not exactly an invitation to a discussion about the tradeoffs.

It would be perfectly reasonable for the author to say "I disagree with these choices for these reason, and i think my choices are better for these reasons". Awesome! Let's talk about it.

It's like writing an article claiming that choosing random pivots in quicksort is an error versus choosing median of 3. Or even better, claiming that using median of 3 is an error compared to median of median of 3. They aren't errors, and claiming they are is honestly not a very useful criticism.
This is true, but
(1) Amazon likely has special agreements with NVIDIA for all sorts of reasons, if they did this kind of thing against NVIDIAs wishes they'd just push back with those agreements (e.g. pricing on proper GPUs, etc)
(2) Many big customers won't like it

This kind of behavior works best for smaller players, who are the ones they don't really care about either.
I disagree. You're arguing that it's OK to deploy, it depends on how its used. But that normalizes the use of LRADs, APCs and so on, and by the time they're used in a repressive fashion it's too late to do anything about it.
Probably not very many practical reasons over another language. From the little I've been exposed to it (brother took some college classes) Esperanto speaker seem to have their own shared culture and close community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_culture

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8672371/learn-esperanto-l...
This "futurist prediction" assumes that there will be no more innovation in footwear other than supply chain optimization and no desire for craftsmanship.

Moreover, the kinds of "self driving vehicle" software it is predicting are kind of assuming a new kind of software that doesn't have bugs (what happens on your unmanned container ship when something goes awry?).
It's unfortunate there is so much wealth inequality but that's a bit of a separate issue. In certain situations there should be a threshold and that's why estate taxes exist. However a lot of us not only work for ourselves but to better our childrens' future station or at least give them a better chance at not being riddled with debt like we are / were.

I think your sin analogy isn't an apples to apples comparison nor does it make sense in this context. However I'll play devil's advocate.

If your father was a felon / committed "sins" then most people in society are going to be skeptical about how you might turn out. It's an unfortunate truth. Not to say you will be a felon but based on the environment you were raised in you have a statistically higher likelihood of becoming a felon / deviant. So yes, you will be judged by the sins of your father whether you like it or not. That's why people leave their home towns for to start new lives or change their names. I'm not saying its right but that's the reality.
A secular shift in the economics of production by definition can’t be monopolized, thus competition should, as it has through history, force the cost of goods towards the marginal cost of production.

Believing this does not require belief in the goodness of people nor some abstruse economic theory+, just look at the examples of history.

+I love such economics but must admit its predictive power has been poor.
> Can you imagine my frustration at hearing this? It's this massive problem with an obvious (CHEAP!! SO FUCKING CHEAP!!) solution.

I suspect the nurse is there to perform the “getting the patient on the scale” function, not the “reading out the weight and tracking it” function.
Couldn’t be more timely. There have been a couple of front-page stories that were flagged into oblivion just today. Look forward to seeing how external tools will help us keep track of these stories.
The old "a calorie is a calorie" that Reddit/HN geeks like to point out wearing their science hat. LOL. Oh man... Sometimes I think we've gone too far. My kids have a hard time finding classmates to play tag with because most of them are overweight and prefer to sit in the shade and eat their Costco bought school lunch. It's really sad what's happening.
Nope, it's a limited grow-only stack. Linked lists are unlimited, and you can insert and delete everywhere. A blockchain not, you can only add to the top, with deletion forbidden.
You could say that estimating a paper's worth by the quality of the authors' previous papers is an approximate solution to the NP-hard "paper quality assessment" problem, which offers an exponential speed-up. :P