skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, that's devops.
Twitter uses smart cropping to make image previews more interesting
MIT 6.S094: Deep Reinforcement Learning
I'm more interested in China than OP. How would I go about finding a job in China? Ideally 1-2 years. My Chinese is mamahuhu.
It is AI. ML is a subfield of AI, so in the bigger scale it's AI.
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Thanks for fact checking me, I should have done my homework first.

I still think that the 9.15% stat supports my claim though. I hang out with mostly non-engineers so its a bit comical to be shamed by hacker newsians for proposing that we get paid enough. Most studies on the matter have demonstrated that any income over 75k has no correlation on happiness, so for me I guess I feel more concerned about finding meaningful work than a higher salary.

On another note, I am not sure why all of these people claiming to providing value equal to 10x their salary don't simply work for themselves and see if they can really rake in that much without the support of their company.
It actually contains sufficient primitives to implement either. Mastodon uses it in a Twitter like way, but there are projects being worked on that are more similar to Facebook.
> Infants starving is not a problem. It is the default state. Instead of asking why infants starve when they aren't fed, we need to ask why adults eat. We also need to realize that infants starving is not a good/bad thing. Again, it's the default state.
Tether are not showing that they have any backing, is the problem, and they're using the currency they create to buy crypto-assets on their own exchange. It looks like they're doing it to try to hold up the price of Bitcoin.
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The fact remains that everyone starts with nothing. The parent questions why some are able to flourish, while others continue with nothing indefinitely.
> standing the competition

I'm not sure what you meant by standing, but while competition may be a requirement for generating and amassing greater wealth, it's not a requirement to keep people from poverty.
Yea, I read that most homeless seem to head to CA because it's where the money is...

Here in NL we have some homeless, but also lots of government systems in place to offer housing and incentives to possibly work or get schooling.

In the end this is actually cheaper, as to prevent crime and what not. Not sure how this would work in the US.
I hope no one else copies this idea. I would hate for the night sky to start filling up with all sorts of christmas lights. I can imagine a bunch of red and white satellites moving in tandem spelling out "Coca Cola".
If you've ever dealt with ornery swans, it mostly matches their personality...
There are countless youtube videos of police arresting violent individuals in Europe where they would just be gunned down in the US.

If you want another comparaison, look up dog shooting in the US and in Europe, unless you really believe dogs are somewhat more dangerous in the US, the inescapable conclusion is that American cops enjoy the power trip of gunning down living creatures...

And why shouldn't they, it's almost risk free for them, which is the root of the issue.
That's less comforting when you realise that cyanobacteria likely caused an iceball phase, nearly wiping itself out in the process.
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Turn away if squeamish ... I saw a very similar thing on safari. The other attraction of hunting pregnant animals, our guide told us, was that the unborn animals are nutritionally dense. We did not witness the kill, thank goodness (I am squeamish!) but did see the aftermath - which was the lions extracting and eating the fetus first, while the mother was still alive. Nature is cruel.
Hi everyone! This is Dimitri and Steve, the creators of Count: a machine learning company looking to quantify the organic data inside photos, video, and sound. Anybody that has lived in Manhattan understands the dynamics of the Shake Shack line in Madison Square Park. We thought it would be fun to practice our craft quantifying the Shake Shack line in real-time as our first experiment.
If you are interested in the technology or want to partner with us to quantify organic data sources email us at count@thoughtmerchants.com to start a conversation.

Counting the number of people in a line outside is a challenge and there are a few steps to ensure an accurate prediction. First, the raw camera feed from Shake Shack observes the line, the park behind the line, and outside seating. The perspective captures a dense crowd with most bodies and faces obscured and therefore difficult to analyze with traditional machine learning models. In addition, the line is outside in the elements, with snow, inconsistent lighting, shadows, and even umbrellas.

Count creates a density map predicting the likelihood of each pixel being a person, allowing us to then calculate the number of people in the entire frame. We then use another model to determine the line from the crowd: people waiting at the starting point, side by side. Being able to differentiate between a distant crowd and an actual line has its own set of subtle challenges.

Feel free to read more about it at http://blog.dimroc.com/2017/11/19/counting-crowds-and-lines/
That is currently next in our pipeline for a benchmark blog post. Early results look good on both the read and write side in terms of raw performance, with the benefit of more complex queries being more easily expressable.
I am not sure what we should take from your statement.

Let's go one step further and declare that being dead is the default state. The time when we live is so short compared to the time we are not born yet or dead that it is insignificant.
If I can't add medical records manually myself, this is a useless feature. I'm seldom in the same country for very long, so get medical records from a motley collection of sources. I just want a single place to save all my records for easy access wherever I go.
It certainly looks bad to our eyes. But, beggars in Dehli would probably love to live in that sort of tent city, and have access to all the benefits available to the poor in the US.
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+1 yes please
This is the other side of globalization.

Globalization is super nice when you're secure in your job, "hey everything is getting cheaper!" but when your job is the one in the crosshairs what you're feeling is a pressure that is pushing the living standard of the third world and yours together. That's why I find it so annoying that this board is usually against abundant H1B's but for factory outsourcing. It's completely hypocritical.

And before I get jumped on, no I'm not against all trade. What I'm for however is noting that people don't live in the long-term, economically we are firmly short-term creatures. Good policy won't give everything up for the long-term, it will also protect people in the short-term, we don't need an end to trade, we need a curtailing of some trade.
No worries, I understand and have gratitude towards the folks working on it as well. But I don't agree with that they changed the entire industry.

The second link you posted mentions nothing of Swift. The first one has the following quote about Swift:

> The default language for making new iPhone and Mac apps, called Swift, was developed by Apple from the ground up to support an environment, called Playgrounds, that was directly inspired by Light Table.

Which seems to agree with the previous quote I posted. Light Table inspired Playgrounds, not Swift.
ActivityPub does not use a blockchain.

SSB uses an append-only log similar to a blockchain, but it only contains things your identity knows about (you and your friends and channels).
It seems it can, from behind it's gated content community

In all honesty, though, I'd love to hear some stories from any social workers here as to their beliefs are regarding the extreme lows of poverty and maybe fix it.

I think we've all heard that we should change drug policy, expand government service for mental health and treatment, but does anyone have any other we don't normally hear about?
>The fact remains that everyone starts with nothing.

This is clearly wrong.
Education on all skill levels, better redistribution, people understanding that is in your interest to eradicate poverty.
Yeah, if I'm going to be wrong I'd rather be wrong alongside a bunch of people who are way more qualified than me to guess. What's the P-value on trust in expert advice improving outcomes? For every case where the "x was wrong" there are 1000 non-controversial cases where x was right.
These benefits are inaccessible without a long trip through some really Byzantine application processes where nobody is actually incentivized to help you. These processes ostensibly exist to block freeloaders but they also serve to prevent the needy from accessing the resource too.
However, some tools are not interesting for any job anymore and the only reason we use them is because of inertia. I've done a lot a php in the past, and i can't think of a single task thar I, as a professional developper, would benefit from using php to perform instead of something else in my toolbox.

The only reason i still do php at all is that some clients ask for it. Inertia.

I can, using my imagination, picture a situation were using php is better for someone, for something.

I can also aknowledge that php has been used to create very nice products at the time, including wordpress, joomla and prestashop.

But there is such thing as evolution in programming. And yes, php has been outperformed by several modern dynamic languages out there. There is no shame in it. That's life.
> The poor deserve the fruits of the labors of those giants just as much as the rest of us do.

Who's stopping them?
> The fact remains that everyone starts with nothing.

Not even close to true... Simply look at socioeconomic status across generations.
While I agree that all other things being equal, it's certainly better to not be poor, the reasoning seems pretty clever. It changes to focus, stopping us from looking for events or circumstances that cause a person to be poor and instead tries to identify what it is we as a society can do or provide a person with allowing that person start building wealth.
The "fact" that everyone starts with nothing is obviously false. Even ignoring opportunity, the fetal health is highly dependent on the environment.
LBRY and dtube (and maybe a few others) use a blockchain model, which allows creators to easily get paid by viewer donations as well as by pay-per-view. A good incentive to seed would be to payout some whatevercoin for every view/hour/megabit of video seeded, but I don't think they do that.
How much more can the iPhone 7,8, and X really do that the 6 Couldn't? Apple is shouldn't bank on blind loyalty forever.
It's because they haven't figured out how to keep the same level of experience when scaling past web+worker processes. As soon as you want to split your repo into multiple services the thing falls apart. They should add automatic internal service discovery (withing the same app), and ideally a way to map request path prefixes to different services.

That being said, Heroku+CDN (eg: Fly.io) is a fantastic combo for marketing websites. For $7.- / month you get a really nice development and deployment lifecycle. Especially the review apps matter the most to encourage good quality visual content.
It depends on the application. SIDH is attractive because it doesn’t throw out decades of elliptic curve mathematics because of the spectre of quantum computers. The mathematics is a bit more familiar if you squint at it, though working with isogenies themselves is still very different from normal elliptic curve cryptography. But more importantly, a codebase that implements elliptic curve arithmetic can port much of that functionality to implement SIDH.

And yes - SIDH is also attractive because of the small key sizes. But it’s also significantly slower than lattice-based key exchange using something like Learning With Errors (LWE). In practice the decision comes down to time versus space constraints: if your application is space-poor and time-rich, SIDH is a good proposal for key exchange. This looks especially nice in the context of IoT devices. But if your application is space-rich and time-poor, SIDH looks less attractive in favor of other options.
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Book two is very intense and gripping, but it features a different cast of characters from the first which some people find jarring. The third book returns to the characters from the first, and is definitely where most people find that they've really gotten sucked into it :)
Ten years ago I made a feature-length documentary about the homeless in Santa Monica:

http://graceofgodmovie.com

Santa Monica seems to have successfully exported their problem to neighboring cities since then. In general, things seem to be substantially worse now.
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Seems to me this distinction fits well with the good old Prisoners' Dilemma...

A mistake theorist is the kind of person who always cooperates (because it's best move for everybody!) and a conflict theorist is the kind of person who always defects (because you'll get ruthlessly exploited otherwise!)

A synthesis of the two views might be: "this entire setup is doomed to failure because it's vulnerable to exploitation. We need to change the rules of the game."
I use this (and Scoop) in the Bay Area. It's slower and requires some decorum. A 25-minute trip may take, including waiting, 45. And a ride I might have spent on the phone or napping requires, at the very least, respectful silence.

On the plus side, it's far cheaper (three or four dollars versus $10 for Line/Pool and $20 for X/Line). And conversations with drivers are usually quite delightful.

On the latter, I am mixed about my preference to converse with fellow well-paid, well-educated technologists. I don't know if this is resource-saving camaraderie or a furthering of a classist California where blue and white collars fall into further mutual isolation.
Re: setting up a cluster

With TimescaleDB we've focused on single node performance to try and reduce the need for clustering. We've found performance scales very well just by adding more disk space if needed and more cores. So maybe some datasets are not practical for your laptop necessarily but a single instance on Azure/AWS/GCP is workable. No need for a cluster to get started :)

(Read scale out is available today and we are working on write scale out, hopefully later this year)
"Tax cuts to the rich increase jobs and wealth for everyone" ...are probably the two most glaring examples of trash arguments that should sink under the weight of overwhelming evidence to the contrary

Supply side effects are real. Certainly it's reasonable to say that their impact has been drastically overstated in the political arena, but dismissing the entire concept as a trash argument misrepresents reality.
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To wahsd (dead comment): I get your point, but you should ask if the people are poor because they vote Democrat, or they vote Democrat because they're poor (and see themselves better represented by the Democrat platform)?

Maybe not even/just poor, but excluded from local economy/politics due to race, gender, ethnicity, not being a member of the old boys' club, etc.
There are a few other reasons that American football is popular:

The action is short and violent, which makes it both exciting and yet easy to watch while chatting with your friends. You can't miss a critical shift in the play because you had to look away for a few moments.

Most men (and many women) played it as children and teenagers, and so have a strong sense of nostalgia for it.

Many small towns pretty much only had football as entertainment for many years prior to the internet - it has momentum among the older audiences.

Football represents the epitome of the American dream. Everyone "knows" someone who has "made it" to the NFL, no matter how tenuous the connection may be. It reinforces the idea that anyone can make it if they just work hard enough.
> That's why I find it so annoying that this board is usually against abundant H1B's but for factory outsourcing. It's completely hypocritical.

This forum is not composed of US users only. For example I live in one of those countries who benefited from opening up to foreign trade (I live in Eastern Europe) so it would be pretty hypocritical of me to complain about open markets.
I don't know, it worked really well in Office Space. Potentially too well.
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Probably yes, considering that this technique has been used countless times to identify remains.
Didn't know Google used React (according to Chrome).
> Building bridges is hard

I disagree. It's pretty easy to, say, find a suitable log, stand it up by the edge of a stream, and topple it over. It's more about the strength required than the thinking; and if it's a struggle, we have JCBs, chainsaws, etc. to help.

For something a little more robust, hire an AVLB. For more permanence, buy something like a Bailey or Medium Girder bridge.

Of course, I'm being facetious; but my point is that "programming" covers a vast spectrum. We don't teach kids to write under the expectation that they'll be modern day Shakespeares (or build Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridges); we do it because writing is incredibly useful, even if it's as mundane as a shopping list on the back of one's hand (or a log over a stream).
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>>The vast majority of those 1000 deaths are unambiguously from the justified use of force

There's two problems with this.

1) if you define "justified use of force" like Americans do, then yeah, of course it's justified, a guy pulling up his pants while being dragged on the ground is now "reaching for a weapon" so an officer is fully justified to shoot him dead. He was practically asking for it, and it shows up as such in all official statistics.

2) It doesn't explain how is it that other countries can get through the entire year without police murdering a single person, despite having the same or worse crime rates as US.
I am for immigration, it's just the pseudo indentured servitude that is H1B that I have a problem with.

As to factory outsourcing, I think it's overall a net gain for humanity. Long term there is a finite number of countries and barring societal collapse eventually they will all end up 'developed'. It simply exposes other problems in the US like our horrible social safety net and endemic corruption. So, a small ~2-5% import tax is probably a net gain for US society.
It also exists to give indolent, illiterate, innumerate people 'do-good' jobs to get entrenched in, and suck up all the resources, with no accountability.

It's one of the things that has befallen SF, where an industry funded by the city to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars a year, fails to keep a few thousand people off the street.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/27/despite-241-mill...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-audit-finds-...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money...
You're right about that. It might be that I suffer from a "person B" problem :)

However I still think that the "short-lived" nature of discussions here is a relatively independent problem. I think integrating a way to "subscribe to a story" with email alerts on HN itself (rather than independent apps like hnreplies.com), and _displaying_ the number of people who did subscribe, would pave the way for longer-lived discussions. By seeing the number of people who did "subscribe to the story" you'd know whether or not it's still worth posting a comment even though it's been a day or two.

Maybe that's the reason forums have longer-lived discussions. You can easily get alerts when there are new posts in a discussion where you've posted.
The locals in those places _are_ voting with their wallets.
The research article behind this headline:

Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reports: http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5855
The articles says right there that the hunters are better at acceleration, deacceleration, top speed, and muscle density than their prey. The conclusion of the paper (at least as shared in its abstract) is exactly "the predator needs to be more athletic than its prey to sustain a viable success rate".
I think that all your example comments are entirely appropriate. And, in the case of, "Why does this class exist?", I think it's extremely important that such questions are asked. In my opinion, knowledge transfer is one of the primary functions of code review in the first place. And that question is as much about knowledge transfer as it is about the code. Maybe there's a consideration that led you to create that class, and this is a chance for that other person to learn it. And maybe you will learn something back about another potential solution.

I think the real negative that needs to be avoided is using code reviews to attempt to force people to do things exactly the way you would do them. I think many of the articles points kind of go towards this, but indirectly. Diversity of thought and approach is a good thing, and learning to live code that's not done in the fashion that I think is ideal was a lesson that took quite a while for me.

EDIT: And, to be clear, "Why does this class exist?" is a potential lead-in to such a problematic viewpoint. The problem happens when, after explanation of the class' existence, the response turns into, "You should remove this class." That's where it transitions away from knowledge transfer and into forceful monoculture of approach.
labview is a general purpose visual programming language. it's as general purpose as, say, python. it's just different and proprietary.
> On the latter, I am mixed about my preference to converse with fellow well-paid, well-educated technologists. I don't know if this is resource-saving camaraderie or a furthering of the mutual isolation of white and blue collar Californians.

I mean, if you're not talking to your uber/lyft driver as-is...

I don't know. I'm convinced Facebook's done enough of that class segregation for us already. At least in the case of peer carpools, people are actually talking.
95% what? curcumin or turmeric extract? I ask because I've ordered plant extracts on alibaba and did GC analysis. From the labeling it is pretty difficult to tell which you're getting.

One may be very high purity curcumin while the other is curcumin alongside all the other components extracted.

This, for instance:

https://purebulk.com/curcumin-turmeric-extract-powder/

seems like what you probably would find with a simple search, and there's not even a mention of the actual curcumin concentration.
NB, by “teens” this article is referring to a study of 14 year olds. Also, it seems like the teens had to self-report whether they engaged in “hacking” on a survey.
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I think teams are basically allowed to use whatever makes sense for them. Although there may have been a problem with React's licensing before they changed it.

Same goes for Facebook. I remember they did something within the last year or so that used Vue.
A significant difference is, that American police are arresting Americans. They are likely armed, while in other countries that may not be the case.
They haven't had decades of sustained mass immigration of low-skilled workers.