skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the article doesn't contain the word "shortage". It's just the continuum of supply and demand: if people like the ones you hired last year can't be found this year, you have to pay more, or consider those you'd have overlooked, including felons. If they have a stronger bargaining position, they get a better deal.

Note that the article also doesn't contain the word "immigration". It deserves to be noted that the jobs being discussed here have a huge overlap with the jobs often filled by unskilled immigrants. Whatever your views on ex-cons and low-skill foreigners, I think it's important to understand that there is a trade-off between them.
This article is very weird. It's written by someone in a first world country, presumably USA, for companies based in West(Amazon, Starbucks , IKEA etc) on how to monetize in India. The primary complain is that India doesn't have enough people who can spend money on certain luxuries, when compared to China.

I find it hard to believe that companies had to make only minor tweaks to their business model to succeed in China.

For ex, Amazon is making a "killing" in China, by doing exactly what it did to bolster it's business in USA.
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-struggling-to-find-...

It's no wonder that businesses have to adapt to local markets. Lamenting that there are too many poor people is a bad idea, because as many comments here have mentioned, it's a different mindset in India when it comes to spending than the West.

If companies can adapt to break into the market, let them. But claiming that its not worth it, would be a bad choice.
What is this like lost where he had to put the code in hourly? Why was someone in a position where that mistake happened in the first place?
People don't go to prison for smoking a joint. They go to prison for distribution or possession of large quantities. And even those people represent less than 10% of the prison population. There are certainly lots of improvements to be made to the conviction and prison system, but misinformation and hyperbole doesn't help the discussion.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...
I am wondering if someone could explain Chinese iCloud accounts transfer implications.

I see that iCloud Keychain is still secure, but pretty much everything is fucked up, right?
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Buying an expensive coffee from the largest coffee brand in the world will not open new markets, increase competetion, etc. That seems tautological

What will do what you seem to want is buying from the 'road-side chai stalls' you say are dangerous?? Which is a pretty strange claim to make but I can almost see where you're coming from
> If you cook a full meal seven nights a week, where ever meal is different, and cooked with quality ingredients, it absolutely can be more expensive.

True, but most people will probably cook maybe two to three dishes and make them last a week. Even then, you may spend about $30 for the entire week on materials. If you ate a typical fast food combo once a day instead, you're looking at roughly $50 per week.
Last time I checked Cloudflare had incomplete support for CAA (no issuewild or flags).

OHV also mentioned they are working on it but that was half a year ago and so nothing.
A better measure of “effort to write code” is the number of lexer tokens. So, identifiers count as one (regardless of length), operators count as one, each paren counts as one, and spaces count as zero. Code that has had more “blunt force” applied to it to get it working will end up with more lexer-token length. Code that has had most of its repetition factored away will have few (although, in turn, its cyclomatic complexity will go up, meaning that it might now be harder to read, however much easier it is to maintain once grokked.)

You could also measure the compressed size of the code, since compression eliminates redundancies like long identifiers being repeated. But they’ll also sort of “cyclomatically optimize” your code as well—effectively re-rolling any hand-written unrolled loops, and shortening repetitions of a(b(x)) into the same result as a_b(x). You might say compression shows the optimal lexical size of the code. :)
Here's a HI resident putting his kids in a storm drain: https://twitter.com/JemiSHaaaZzz/status/952268726971363328
In a setting with much arithmetic "x" is also vastly easier to read. See pretty much any mathematics or physics paper or textbook -- made for reading...
OK, fair enough. I've posted defenses of my position in other branches of this thread, so I won't reiterate them here.

Apple is better than the competition with regards to security and privacy. But that's a very low bar.
The ICON was a computer built specifically for use in schools, to fill a standard created by the Ontario Ministry of Education. It was based on the Intel 80186 CPU and ran an early version of QNX, a Unix-like operating system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys_ICON
Especially in the Linux world, you can't expect upstream to supply binaries for all possible architectures and configuration options. For example, you might be running on armv5 with libressl. Or you may be running on sparc64 with openssl. Or you may be running on 32bit windows with WinSSL. An upstream is unlikely to have access to build all possible configurations and provide binaries every time a security patch is announced.

Also, as a distro provider, you will want to be sure you can build the application yourself, because you might want to ship an updated library dependency that is ABI-incompatible and so you must be able to rebuild the consumers of these libraries. For example curl, in the case of openssl.
It's the protestant puritan spirit.

People can go towards atheism these days (and strangely few do for such a modern western country), but a cultural bias (that those people that ended in jail are somehow inherently bad and must be punished in life) is less easy to shake off -- even when the original cultural leaders of the country (WASPs) have been superseded by a much more diverse population.

(Part of the Politically Correct movement have that protestant dynamic in play too, as does the obsession with "evil", and this or that thing or person being it).
I bought 2 packs of their cedar pencils. Very nice quality pencil that don't disintergrate in your sharpener.
Off topic, but the same guy (Michal Zalewski) has an absolutely amazing guide to his CNC work.

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

For something a bit less depressing.
>I take a very different view (similar to the guy who made a toaster from materials mined from the earth)

Sure, you can take a different view but that doesn't change the truth of the essay. Citing an experimental toaster is repeating the same mischaracterization in your previous comment. The essay is not about making "any usable pencil" or "any toaster".

It seems like you want the "I, Pencil" essay to be something other than what it is. You want a MacGyver[1] themed essay but instead, got an unwanted essay about the cooperation required to make a simple manufactured object.

>I can learn [...] a well-educated person can learn [...]

The essay isn't about what a single person can _learn_. Instead, it highlights the counterintuitive point that no single person with the complete knowledge _exists_.

>A much harder thing woudl be to reproduce a modern quantum physics lab

Yes, things like silicon computer chips, communications satellites orbiting Earth, and particle accelerators are much harder but it misses the poetry of the essay. We already have intuitive sense that no single person knows how to build advanced technology projects. The author deliberately chose something that looked deceptively "simple" and dissected how much coordination in society it takes to make it. The "hidden" complexity is high enough to exceed the knowledge of a single person.

Take just the wood of the pencil. I'd have to chop trees. I don't even know how to make an ax tool to chop the tree. Sure, I guess I could learn how to make an ax -- which means I guess I could learn how to smelt steel... which means I have to learn... and so on. The groove channel in the wood to hold the lead?!? Another series of rabbit holes of learning to manufacture that cut. Glue? Again, the learning is not impossible (given enough time). It still doesn't change the fact that no single person knows it all. I suppose I could make _a_ thing that people might call a "a pencil" in a few days... but to replicate _that_ specific "Number 2 hexagon painted pencil with a synthetic rubber eraser"?!? That would take me a lifetime of learning. Most of the learning time is spent learning how to reinvent tools that make other tools that are several steps removed from the final assembly of the pencil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver#Plot
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I will go out on a limb and say someone hacked the system and decided to prank an entire state.

Fun fact, in my small hometown you could and possibly still activate the tornado warning system using DTMF and a transmitter on some frequency in the 149mhz range.

To clarify, I never actually attempted it but I had a uniden radio scanner in my teens and noticed the pattern for the 12:00 test.
He/she probably meant the AI that is perfectly capable of understanding human sarcasm.

ps: explanation: AI is at best at simple insect level intelligence and sarcasm is especially challenging for "AI assistants"
American infrastructure needs to invest and hire/pay for the same quality that bay area startups do.

Looking through the Github and Slack system status pages for this month so far ... I don't know that's exactly the model to follow.
Seems to have been reposted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140799

Check that link for discussions, this post was 10 hours older but meh.
CDC was going to. But they decided to postpone it.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/cdc-delays-nucl...
I guess this is the biological equivalent of mailing hard disk.
Perhaps similar to that town in Texas where hackers set off the air raid siren nonstop in the middle of the night.
The benefits are that Medium is now more of a social network than a writing platform: you can follow people and give them digital applause (claps) if they’re doing some fine thought leadering.

The downside, as you’ve pointed out, is that content is becoming watered down and the UX of Medium is going downhill.
Superfluous but still somehow angering part of the article:

"Per White House pool reports, Trump was out on a golf course when the alert was sent."
I agree. Who knows the types of problems we will encounter once AI agents become sufficiently intelligent. We will face unprecedented challenges, even way before AI agents' intelligence gets close to human intelligence.
I think that the author is trying to point to the contains relation of CS, Maths and Engineering to AI. I think that Engineering is tenuous as AI in Aeronautical Engineering is obviously of interest as an application that would create extrinsic value. But of course AI for software would also create value!
So a test drill went wrong.

It makes sense to have drills right now, India (tests with war against China and Pakistan), China (Telling their soldiers to be prepared to die for China), Russia(tests against Nato), and North Korea (getting ready for war with the US) are all having military tests for basically what will quickly become another world war.

We are really at a big crossroads as a large amount of people are rejecting globalization in many different countries. And with such major powers willing to fight hard for resources like Ukraine, South China Sea, Oil Eu pipelines, and not even mentioning the increasing gulf between various countries on core ideologies and creeds.

We really are at a new and dangerous crossroads.
This seems like a half-solution though. It's not like those who have committed violent offenses don't need to work.
So it took 38 minutes to send out a new message informing this was a false alert. How is that possible if this was simply a human error during a "shift change"?

You'd think the people who "pressed the wrong button" would be able to press the same button again?
The government needs to employ lots of people. This necessarily means they will employ some low-quality people. It's such a difficult problem to produce high-quality work with low-quality employees that most tech companies of scale have optimized their hiring process to pass as few low-quality workers as possible at the cost of turning down many potentially good ones. It'd be nice to see some effort to make working with high quality-variance employees successful, but I think the reason we haven't seen much of a convincing, scalable answer yet is simply because it's a really hard problem.
Reminds me allot of DRAGNN: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04474.pdf

Both are multi-task endeavors with novel encoding techniques.
Throw more money at it, the bay area solution. Right. It's just the lazy inept workers you say! Pay someone twice as much and surely they will be more competent!

In my mind the focus should be on the process for sending such an alert and how it could of gotten through by accident.
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I would've called my parents and then try to find cover. As pessimistic as I am sometimes, there's just enough paranoia on this issue to make me take it seriously.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you have never run an ISP.

The answer is people. You need people to "provide a route to the Internet". To answer phones. To fix things when they break.

Running an ISP is far from glamorous and far from just leaning back and skimming the profit.
You'd assume a potential strike by an incoming missile is important enough to interrupt said meeting?
> What is open about a system that only very few organisations can use

I'm sorry - as a consumer, I'm going to want the most stringent checks before giving a third party direct read/write access to my bank account. The biggest criticism people have of the scheme so far is that it 'sounds like a security nightmare' and who is liable if I give someone access and they do Bad Things.

Is your criticism really that it is insufficiently open in that certification is stringent?
Then you'll get people yelling about "special treatments for prisoners!".

How about no cost vitamins for everyone? Seems like that might ultimately save the tax payers money.

Really the argument can extend beyond vitamins. Meeting people's basic biological needs (adequate nutrition, shelter, clean drinking water) without pre-conditions seems like it would save a lot of problems and thus money in general.
IT's not disapointing if you ever want consumers to actually trust the system. Even I'm not convinced about opting in yet.
(1) Nat. Gas causes much more deaths per PWh produced (5 vs 0.1 for the US) and still produces quite a lot of CO2.

(2) Renewable + pumped hydro is much more expensive that just producing electricity directly from nuclear. The environmental impact of dam failures is also bigger than that of an nuclear accident.

For example the Banqiao+Shimantan dam failure killed 110,000, displaced 6,000,000. For comparison Chernobyl killed 9,000 to 93,000 (probably closer to the lower end) and displaced ~130,000.
Have you ever heard of Homeboy Industries? Their motto is actually "nothing stops a bullet like a job." It was started by Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest out in LA, and basically he opened these bakeries (and some other businesses) specifically to give former gang members jobs in addition to offering free tattoo removal and a lot of other counseling/therapy services. The idea is that people fall into the cycle of gang violence when they have no hope and no prospects, so by offering them gainful employment in spite of their pasts and the additional support to address their psychological traumas, HBI helps them to break the cycle and pave the way for them to become functional, contributing members of society. They do amazing work and I would love to see this model replicated across the country.

I'm an atheist but Father Greg is one of my greatest heroes. I highly recommend his recent interview on Fresh Air.
This is clearly coming from an "if it's not open source it can't be secure" angle.
I sincerely wish the images were svgs, or at least higher resolution pngs.
> you have things like Task Manager, Device Manager, Disk Management etc. On Vista and 7 you can access them by mousing about in the start menu a lot or by trying to search (or using run, or right clicking on Computer and selecting manage).

Windows+X is your friend. It's the power user menu with all of the things you mentioned on it.

There are a ton of useful Windows+key shortcuts. Try all the letters and the arrow keys too.
I'm not seeing the angle for an NSA-type agency - what would they benefit? There are enough events of significance that happen organically - they could track those much more easily. They don't need to create an artificial event.

The pattern is fairly predictable, too. Twitter users will hear of this first, followed by pockets of people with close friends in Hawaii. Then it will make the news sites and TV news.
I'll go right ahead and call you a conspiracy theorist. If you think The US intelligence community would go out of their way to stir up a panic like this just because CoIntelPro was a thing 50 years ago, with no other evidence or reasonable motives, you must be a UFO chasing loon.

If there is anything nefarious here (seems like it), this is the work of a foreign state actor probing our infrastructure for exploitable weaknesses and sizing up our response. I'll put my money on Russia, who has already been attacking our elections¹, energy infrastructure², social media, and spearphishing candidates and elected officials³.

They have conducted similar attacks in the past, sending out tweets and text message alerts to hundreds of people for nonexistent emergencies⁴.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-b...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...

[3] https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-group-4127-targe...

[4] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.ht...
UNDP maintains data [0] on Human Development Index (HDI).

[0] http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/MPI
It could. If you’re in the inferno, no. If you’re outside the thermal flux, protected from ionising radiation by simple structure (i.e. away from windows) and within the pressure flux, duck and cover works. If you’re in cases one and two, you die, quickly or painfully. Since you don’t know ex ante where the bomb will burst, duck and cover makes sense.
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Hawaii started 6 months ago though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/2...
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No, my criticism is that it is an interface for third parties only that locks out the first party!?
For low skilled jobs, the immigration crack down might have had some effect. It's certainly had a big effect in construction. The legit bigger employers might have always been hiring people with their paperwork all in order, but the smaller contractors are now competing with them for the same pool of legit workers. The ex-cons are the ones who can fill the gaps for people looking to get cheaper labor.

I knew a guy a few years ago, when things were more lax, who lived in Bisbee, Atizona and he said that since it was right next to the border and their was a big border patrol station there that there weren't ay illegal immigrants around, so if he wanted cheap construction help he had to hire ex-cons.
20 minutes after everyone has already figured out that they've been hit by a missile, you'd get an alert: "We are currently investigating reports of increased explosion rates."
My real concern is not that Apple will one day announce that they will change their business model to be more like Google bwahahaha, it is that they will either be, or have already been, infiltrated by foreign government agents (most likely Chinese) who will advance to positions of authority inside the company and use that authority to insert back doors surreptitiously. The other plausible scenario is that Apple management will decide to put patriotism or national security concerns ahead of commerce and decide to cooperate with the U.S. government to insert a back door. I think it's not unreasonable for someone to assign Bayesian priors to these events that are greater than zero. The problem is that there is no way to obtain any data to update that prior.

What makes this attack plausible is that it's relatively easy to mount (for the Chinese government) with a potentially huge payout (by their quality metric). It's hard for me to imagine that they haven't tried, and once you get to that realization, it's only slightly harder to imagine that they haven't succeeded.
Very very cool.

Boys and girls, this is how you do a resume. :)
> curl <some url> | bash

That's still not a package manager worth using.
Consider this scenario. You can buy two different databases, one using your ML learned indexes, or another using the hash discussed in the article.

For the hash database, it's 2x faster, up to 20x more memory efficient, and doesn't need training. It works on your data reliably from day you spin it up and throughout any changes to the stored data.

Meanwhile, your ML indexed database is going to be much slower out of the box, it will only be fast after learning on the data. Worse, if the data changes significantly it will need need to be trained again before being performant. And after all this, it still won't be as fast as the hash database.

For development, the ML based index technology won't be faster to build either. If anything, it will probably be much slower as there are all sorts of tricky nuances to building production grade ML systems. When do you train? How do you validate the training data? What do you do if the results don't validate to a sufficient accuracy?

I think it's fascinating that ML can be applied to problems like indexing, but if you can produce a deterministic theoretically optimal algorithm, you should use that instead of ML every time.
> For instance, today we don't have text terminals. We have high-dpi displays. So why is the first thing you reach for a text buffer? Stop it.

+1. The familiar ideas and approaches are 'easy' but not necessarily the best (or even good) today. Lets start with the notion of an operating system and why it's needed? What purpose belongs within the OS vs outside? Some fundamental research along these lines would go a long way.
There's no fundamental reason. I expect it was just chance that mRNA evolved as the messenger for this signal. One possibility is that an mRNA signal can be amplified on the receiving end with only basic cell machinery, whereas a protein it other messenger generally requires a dedicated receptor to transduce the signal.
It's going to make a huge difference is the blast is far enough away for you to not be in the "obliterate everything" zone, but still close enough to be dangerous.
If possible move upwind, as far away from any military or industrial targets as possible. Otherwise, shelter underground or in a concrete/stone building. Put on the best dust/gas mask you can find. Put on heavy or waterproof clothing and try and cover as much skin as possible.

I work in nuclear security so this is kinda my thing. If you're in the fireball zone you're pretty much toast, other than that it's mostly about avoiding the blast pressure wave (as well as secondary effects like buildings collapsing on you) and exposure to airborne fallout, which is most dangerous in the first 24-48 hours. After that it becomes much safer to move around.
A bank is a third party company which manages your money.

Illegal things are illegal. It's a risk vs. convenience calculation people make, as with banks themselves.
I tried to transfer some coins in earlier today, still no sign of them hours later.

Doesn't seem like there was any improvement despite this upgrade. Sadly there's really no alternatives for Canadians.