skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that getting better food options to millions of people and enabling tens of thousands to start businesses does impact the poorer half of mankind positively.

We've seen for decades that the typical Western approach of throwing money at the elites of a poor country really doesn't help improve life for the impoverished; it's when we create opportunities for them that their lives become measurably better.

Contra the racists, there's no inherent reason for an African, Indian or Chinese peasant to be worse off than a German. They're not genetically inferior: they just had the bad luck to be born in a developing country. But if we can give those countries the same uptick in prosperity that Europe had from about 1812 to 1914, then approximately a billion people will be raised from poverty to something approximating a decent standard of living.

That'd be amazingly impactful.
That argument works better for openness than honesty. How often do they need to outright lie to citizens to protect national security?
If there're 4-5 of us ridesharing, the system should pool people going to similar destinations. I expect the commute to be something like 35 minutes, with the added flexibility I could bear the increased time.
Yes, and this was known to the main developer. There were easy ways to make it at least private if the other server was trusted, but they chose to not implement them.
Just do a samba share from the Linux vm to windows
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I find it a little bit concerning that the release note of V18.00 beta does not mention any fix for a security issues. I guess it's included in the "bug fixes"...

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/6...
NVidia's product line extends beyond 1060. 1070 or 1080, anyone? Radeon can't touch those right now.
In the Tanakh, Satan is "The Adversary". And to me, it always seems that he almost necessarily existed by gods will and permission in order to provide god with an agent. The Adversary almost seemed a force of nature, not moral, but bound to provide humanity with something to choose instead of god.

If on a spectrum of God <--> !God, humans were supposed to turn their interest toward god. But, rather than having God and Void apposed, there is a personified force there that is "the adversary".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329
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Of course, you needed to write down the code instruction in order to play video games in the 80's

Kids were only motivated by the idea of playing, like kids today, the difference is that nowadays you can just launch League of legends
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For historical reasons, in case there were ever some account on some rarely used service where I forgot to change the email, and in case I ever need to build something on the MS Graph API.
So, a corporate browser using technology funded by corporate excess and State research efforts. Oh, and it's actually proven to be only a mediocre baffle on security when attacked at scale.

You rebel, you.

My dude, privacy is dead and we killed it. There is no hiding anymore, short of bombing us back to the victorian era.
Automation, the Future of Work and the New American Dream
It's not surprising that Moorcock likes Le Guin's work, since at least some of his objections to Tolkien are ideological (others are, of course, stylistic), while Le Guin is closer to Moorcock's viewpoint.
I think that a discussion of bitcoin's price today is incomplete if it doesn't talk about market manipulation, Bitfinex and Tethers.
This is a good point. But it would increase compensation for the remaining executive. Perhaps a middle manager could nix the decision for some time, but someone higher up would benefit.

I think it’s also faulty to think that automated executives means fired old executives. Most likely would be that executives are freed up from rote activities and would then do higher value activities.

Kind of like how Amazon Go didn’t fire a bunch of cashiers, but is a new venture.

Automation results in new jobs on the macro level because it removes the boring parts of jobs.

I think the end game would be to have all of Amazon automated except for Bezos. This is an extreme example and don’t think it would go to this level, but this seems to be Amazon’s model.
Can't the technique itself be used to better train the speech recognition systems?

Using the first example where it sounds like "without the dataset the article is useless" but the speech recognition thinks it hears "okay google browse to evil dot com"; you could use that to train the recognition system to recognize it correctly as what humans think they heard.

Of course, many attacks would need to be used to create lots of training data.
Will you support clustering in open source version?
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> Where I live, the buses cause significant traffic problems.
> They stop in driving lanes to pick up and disgorge
> passengers.

Is that really a BUS problem in your area? This happens in Italy as well. But the root cause is cars - cars that happen to be "momentarily parked" in bus stop areas, that force bus drivers to stop in the middle of the road.

> They are slow.

Very often, that's true, they're painfully slow.
I've been doing a lot of Haskell on Codewars.com recently. This is exactly what I see. I write up a long solution, that uses the basics like pattern matching, heads of lists and such. The solution that has the most "Best practise" up-votes are usually something involving importing control.monad and other similar stuff.
Perhaps a blog? That will allow communicating with potential customers, provide feedback on the material, and provide a proxy for market interest.
I used to think that but was surprised to discover that Tolkien was actually a revival of the fantasy genre that had declined.

The Conan series, for instance, predates Tolkien by a decade.
> The sign of a good developer is attempting to look ahead and wonder how else will data need to be presented and manipulated - building the system open-ended enough to allow for the evolution of business needs.

I've gradually become convinced of just the opposite: a good developer doesn't think ahead at all. The best way to prepare for the evolution of business needs isn't to add extension hooks in the middle of your code, it's to keep the code as simple as possible so that you can change it in a very direct way as and when you need to.
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That's a good counter-example, but still pretty far from 'accept any net-positive benefit' (however close to zero).

Moreover, there only seem to be three such zones in the entire state: parts of upper Manhattan, parts of the south of the Bronx, and some parts of Yonkers.
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hi,

can anyone tell me where to buy refurbished or cheap laptop compatible with Coreboot / Libreboot or preinstalled?

Thank you.
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Ah yes I misunderstood from "The fine represents 4.9% of Qualcomm's turnover in 2017." as mentioned in the official press release.

I know its offtopic, but GDPR calculates based on global revenue.
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Oh definitely. When I ran my 1099 business it was impossible to get insurance similar to my employers at the same cost. I had to pay a lot more.

But that’s what I mean by building it into your rate. If you know insurance costs you $20k to be similar to what a big company pays only $10k, then add it into your contract. Of course, contracting isn’t for everyone, especially if you can’t get a high enough rate to be more valuable to you than w2.
We recently integrated TimescaleDB extension into our PostgreSQL database at https://nightwatch.io. For performance reasons, we decided to implement time based table partitioning. We were evaluating native PG 10 partitioning vs. TimescaleDB, and concluded the latter will spare us a lot of work, maintenance and headaches. We were right - we got table partitioning basically "for free", query performance improved, and there is no partitioning maintenance involved, everything is automatic behind the curtains with their concept of hypertables. Support is really good too, they are very helpful on Timescale Slack channel.
Please don't give anyone any ideas.
I used litecoin when I transferred money from biterex to coinbase because of the transaction speed versus bitcoin.
:) I had to made my own video games. And I had to type them if I wanted to play. I really didn't play that much since I had already spent my time typing them.
Fantastic, thank you! I've reached out to a few local colocation companies so we'll see what they say...
I'm normally not in the business of defending government agencies but wasn't that interview done in an open forum? Perhaps he would have been more honest if the information wasn't going to be immediately reported on in the media.
Misread as 'Decentralized Pub', am sad I was wrong.

(although, that now just sounds like 'drinking alone')
We're following the classic "open core" model (similar to MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent), and we already have customers paying for features related to enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and support. We'll have more to share in the upcoming months.
I don't think we can go back. It's like cars. The first cars were sold with the understanding that they needed a lot of maintenance by the buyers. Naturally car drivers got to understand their cars because it was necessary. Now you can drive a car without having a clue how it works. Same with computers. In the 80s it was assumed that would fiddle with your computer all the time. Now you can get a device and just use it.
Simplifying in order to gain some clarity about bitcoin is good--and this is a good piece--but you can't make the bitcoin bros listen no matter how simple. They still need to chose to understand.
In 3 hours you guys downloaded over 1000 copies, which was my goal, but I'll keep it open a while longer. I'm blown away and totally grateful. Thanks!
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If you read the script, it copies the relevant qemu binary on line 52 to the chroot's /usr/bin/.

What's happening here is binfmt-support on the host has a path registered for arm binaries as the file you just copied to /usr/bin - whenever the chroot tries to run anything, the host directs it to this bianry which is your arm emulator :).
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I guess the spokesperson is already implementing the new policy by not being honest.
I don't get that Animoji thing at all. I was really surprised when watching the NFL playoffs how stupid and pointless I found the iPhone ads. To me it looked like they are so clearly trying to sell their phones to... I dunno... maybe college kids for whom a phone is a toy? Like those ads didn't sell the phone on any useful/practical features at all, while the Pixel ads did.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those ads, it just amazed me that NONE of them seemed to be aimed at adults or tried to sell the phone as being a productive computer.

I suppose Apple is just selling the brand?
Serious question: If you're not selling work to be printed or resold as stock, how important is calibration these days?

Given the proliferation of the screen as a photo consumption device, and considering how just about every screen out there has slightly different properties (color temp & gamut, brightness and contrast, OLED vs LCD), what will calibration necessarily accomplish?
> Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and a ton of others operate almost exactly like a market that uses only U.S. one dollar bills ... if you need less than a dollar then you and your counter-party have to agree how much of a one dollar bill you each own.

I'm not sure I follow - can't I just send 700 Satoshis to someone's wallet?

(I don't use Bitcoin so may be missing something)
Which is why they switched to dual OStatus / ActivityPub broadcasting – except for private messages, which are now only sent over ActivityPub.

All of this without breaking compatibility across instances running different versions; quite a nice piece of engineering IMHO.
Seems a bit short sighted of the lightroom developers high end mac users have been worried about Apples ignoring of the high end for years now.

Ryzen and Threadripper is supposed to be a beast for content creation that can use a lot of cores

I recall reading in SoS (sound on Sound) years ago that the big name recoding studios where worried about this back then.
I agree in the sense that your system will be the most flexible provided you use composeable and easy to understand code as much as possible. Overengineering is overengineering because it trades complexity for "flexibility" but the real goal is to keep complexity down as much as possible.
I was one of those kids who started with BASIC at age 8 in the 80s.... and I really disagree with modern scripting languages being more difficult. They have more things you can do, but it isn’t harder to make a simple program.
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Is deception in general illegal in the EU? I don't think that is the case in the US. Fraud in the US requires that the person being deceived suffers an injury as a result of their reliance on a misrepresentation of a fact. That would be the case if you were applying for a loan because your income affects your ability to repay the loan, but I don't think it would be the case for an employer because they aren't harmed by your income being lower than what you tell them it is.
We're discussing that situation here:

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/820

We have two different p2p social feed apps that are compatible, but as we plan for future development we're considering ActivityPub/ActivityStreams
Evaluating the worth of a company and stock options is very hard and usually requires several skill sets the employee doesn't have, as well as information the company is reluctant to give out.

If I asked the founder for all of the financial documents the company has signed so I could know it's obligations, I can't imagine that a majority of the founders/CEOs would say "sure here you go". And even if they did, the cost of a lawyer to go over all of that paperwork to make sure you didn't miss anything would be expensive.
> Occasionally a reviewer will spot a bug

Isn't the code review generally pretty late, i.e. just prior to release? At that point, the code should be passing all unit tests and I'd expect obvious bugs to be pretty unlikely. Non-obvious bugs generally won't be spotted in a code review setting.
I think alot of ICOs should be looked at as prepaid gift cards. If a new target store was about to open up in my area I might buy a few dollars worth of gift cards at X% off to help the store open, but I wouldn't invest my life savings in it.
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/106

This is not a vulnerability:

https://www.rarlab.com/vuln_sfx_html.htm
Although I agree to a certain extent, I hope there would be certain licenses that allows third-party to distribute meals (Like how Uber licenses their drivers through the company)
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Keep in mind, the concern does not apply if you are a US Person. It is not possible to query for your calls or traffic.
I simultaneously hate them and am mildly impressed they have managed to print over a billion dollars.
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This is a good question to ask the moderators using the contact link at the bottom of the page.
Basically you want Yahoo but with a Wikipedia-like hierarchical tagging. You need a reputation system though so the editing isn’t just seo’d getting us to the same situation we’re currently in.

If Facebook had an api, you could filter based on the tags just provided by your contacts or something like that.
Yawn, bold opinion piece "Robert". This guy is a hack, he predicted IBM would be reduced to a 20B sales company (I laughed out loud), and apparently scammed a bunch of kids with a "Mineserver" crowd fund that never shipped which was just an extant Minecraft server installed on an ARM device.
If they're offering such wages and getting candidates to work for such wages, then that's the (local) market wage, by definition. Pay of developers elsewhere and cost of life are not relevant, "market wages" is the salary level (in that particular market) where the job offers and willing candidates meet.

All your arguments state "the market wage here is low compared to other markets", not companies not offering market wages - "not offering market level wages" look like a large number of job postings that are not getting filled for a long term because candidates reject these jobs. However, if those job positions are getting filled at that rate (even if begrudgingly) then that's the market rate then and there.
your original announcement of it already had a HN discussion, please don't spam additional press reports about the same announcement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16167964
Something seems awfully convenient with a medieval man going "I need to have sex with you to restore balance to my bodily humors or I will die".

I know for certain that masturbation was not unknown to men of the era (or any era).
Just let me buy some put options with low enough counterparty risk and I won't mind.
That might be true in theory, but in practice most people I know with that title (& most with titles above it) do this sort of thing more often than junior developers.
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What's frustrating is that is a regression-- I used to be able to queue up many jobs and never got the job failures (which, again, give no error message whatsoever).
I have problem with understanding the mindset of people that don't want to learn how the car work or how the computer work. But that is probably because for me it is easier to understand how something mechanical or electric work than to understand how people work..
I'd be interested to hear more about what you think could be improved. In the vast majority of cases, new data points only occur during a patient visit. "Day to day" or "week to week" tracking aren't really useful in those cases, "visit to visit" is as good as you're going to get.
It's not about "we couldn't get anyone else as capable and experienced," it's just about "we couldn't get anyone else as experienced."

I don't think that anyone in these situations deludes themselves that the management team of a company are paragons of greatness, but doing a sudden replacement of the entire senior management team at a time when the company's morale is very low to start with and where you're certainly trying to make some major changes to the organization is a recipe for disaster. Bringing on new senior management takes time. Coming up to speed on the workings of an even moderately sized company takes time.
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Sure, but most mothers in the UK are not driving Range Rovers :-) It's very much a rich people thing. Working-class mothers don't drive massive SUVs in general, even if they drop off their kids at school - tiny city cars seem far more common than tanks.
You can, I think the article alludes to the psychological issue of using whole numbers.

Also again, you can, but it'll take a while and/or you'll end up coughing up a big fee.
James Clapper lies to senate intelligence committee and is outed only days later. On March 13th the statue of limitations runs out on prosecuting this crime.

This data is misused and no one is punished, even for the overtly blatant crimes.
I worked for a company that offered me 2000 shares when I was hired. I asked two questions,

How much is the company worth? What is the number of shares outstanding.

Both of which they wouldn't give me. I told them the stock was worthless, that I wanted a 25k pay bump, which they granted.

Years later they ended up getting acquired for a hefty sum (950+ million) and people who were in the employee 5-50 range and worked there for 8+ years literally only received enough for a good used honda civic. Only two people in eng made over a million, 1.5 and 6, but that was only because they were managers that kept the cattle inline.
What about the people building gimmicky apps and starting ICOs leads you to believe that they are "great minds?"
Another example (that may be related to yours) is the general linear programming problem, that is, for vector x,

max c^T x

s.t. A x <= b [component-wise]

If problem instances (A, b) are chosen at random, from a rotationally-symmetric distribution, Borgwardt and others showed that, with high probability, the number of steps of the solution method is bounded by a polynomial in the number of dimensions. But on the other hand, there are explicit constructions of (A, b) that cause an exponential number of solution steps.

The usual interpretation is that "most" problems are friendly to the standard linear programming approach, but a few are not.
"What are you trying to tell me, that I can trade my bitcoin for millions someday?"

"No Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready... you won't have to."

- The Matrix (1999)

People just have different interests these days, and a lot more options to find like minded people to share them with.
" It’s not backed by “the full faith and credit of the United States of America.” It’s not backed by, well, anything. In that sense of innate value cryptocurrencies are worthless. "

I take issue with this statement in this article. I would argue that in the same way that 'dollars' are considered to be irreproducible, and this is central to the 'full faith and credit' part of why people consider them valuable, the irreproducibility of crypto is their innate value.
> old people don't pay for health "insurance" more

They do in fact pay much more for health insurance. US law does now limit how large of a difference there can be to lower than the natural amount, though, so young people are subsidizing older people's health insurance.
"Pride, and worse ambition."

Essentially, his hubris in seeking to overcome the nature of things. While Satan's sin, in the personified tale of the story, boils down to not doing what god says, "going against the will of god" essentially means being foolish enough to think you can live out of harmony with the natural order of the universe just because you're intelligent and have the desire.

The entire god/adam/eve/satan/christ narrative is essentially a parable to illustrate how the wise, to live calm, harmonious, fulfilling lives, live acording to the Dao, as some in the East would say.
> Another big change that can be attributed to developers starting at a later age is that programming is a lot harder now. The BASIC dialects, which many people learned to program with in the 1980’s, have largely taken a back seat to more powerful (but more complicated) languages like Python, JavaScript, and Java.

I think the author is romanticizing the past too much and could probably use a good refresher course on the history of CS and programming languages.
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Personally I went from Oathbringer to Mistborn and found the characters to be worse.

Perhaps it was too far into the twilight-y romance through the first half to keep my attention. Great world-building, but I dislike the characters.
Give then context of the conversation I think the company was limited to one team or perhaps a few. Even within a larger company multiple languages limits the effectiveness of Human Resources. You can't as easily move people between teams.