skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDK man. "Free market will decide" is great, but the issue is becoming that the free market has decided that low wage, non-skilled jobs are low hanging fruit to cut. Replace someone with a kiosk or a robot or just outsource the whole store to an online location and a warehouse/shipping department.

The biggest issue with these sort of stories are that there are these Neo-Luddites who think that we can keep/make jobs in the face of online retailers killing many types of work. Giant corporations don't hire the same number of people that they used to, and the people they do hire don't tend to be low skill positions.

Retail is dying by inches, but it's dying. People can make "customer service" a rallying cry, but "customer convenience" seems to be the actual metric that matters. We're getting rid of these jobs, and too often we're either not replacing them or we're dealing with people who were in JOB X for 10+ years and are unwilling/unable to change to a new field.

I'm not saying any of this is "bad", just that "soft landing and help finding new work" is a cute dream, but not likely. This is what disruption does. It ruins the current paradigm.
Yeah, I imagine that bit about needing needing a human is a direct insult to their intelligence. It's just there to distract them until we no longer need it and they are entirely out of jobs.
This is me right now. I want to work on more go projects but I need to complete this legacy backbone javascript project that hasn't been touched in like two years....The code I'm working on right now is pretty notorious even to other teams.
Laduma to Unveil World’s First Floor-To-Ceiling 360° VR Dome
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Any way to create randomness?
See https://youtu.be/gHdTzdXkhRY?t=8m4s for a list of high-profile projects that have moved or are moving to meson.

While my parent comment is over-simplifying, the talk goes into more details on the strengths of Meson.

Also, I'm not saying there's no open-source community around JVM-based projects. Just that adding it as a dependency is a very expensive decision to make. Python3 is pre-installed in major distros (e.g in Fedora/Ubuntu/Arch), and the binary package for ninja is about 300k installed here. Python3 is about 10m; openjdk is about 100M. Then the runtime requirements the article talks about add up.
It's irrelevant whether anyone was actually fired - there's now a news article saying that someone was fired over this, which is the same (if not wider reaching).
yes, its a weakness that they discuss at the wiki

http://wiki.c2.com/?OpenCroquet
@bryanrasmussen , ah yes:

- You can have more than 1 graph at the same time, yes.

- Storing data on edges can be done in GUN by having an "edge node", Neo4j has a special built-in edge node which makes things easier (including bidirectional edges, which can be done in GUN, but requires making an edge node).

- Neo4j's Cypher query language has a lot of built in edge search algorithms, we have not (but plan to) built these yet.

- Neo4j has a very nice dashboard, our community has built a couple similar tools, but nothing as comprehensive.

Summary: Neo4j, being over a decade old, has a lot of features that we haven't built yet.

Why use GUN instead? The biggest kicker is it being based on a P2P/decentralized (Master-Master) architecture, which makes ops/scaling much easier and a ton of other things. If you don't need this, probably stick with Neo4j for its feature set.
Weapons of the future: new war tech Lockheed Martin is pitching to the Pentagon
And a lot of places freeze your property tax at 65, so you never have to pay more.
Why would you have less pesticides in the end product if more is used when they are growing?
I hereby invent the race classifier of tongue-dexterity. Society consists of those who can and cannot roll their tongue and there is a high priesthood of the folks who can bend their tongue into a 'W'. It is just as arbitrary and capricious, but has at least one benefit I can think of over classifying people by latitude adaptation.
Ontario First Province in Canada to Introduce Pay Transparency Legislation
Java EE Renamed 'Jakarta EE' After Big Red Brand Spat – The Register
"Everything just works" - this is the reason I use macOS for my workstation and laptop. I don't have time to fumble around for six hours patching a driver for it to work with some slight variant hardware component (you know what I mean). I'll do that stuff on my free time, with systems other than my workstation.

TimeMachine and comprehensive HiDPI support are great bonuses. If I need to work in some other environment, I have VM's, Docker, and external development environments. The primary concern with macOS is security: both inherent (telemetry, etc) and what's been in the news lately, but with some easy tweaks and good security practices otherwise, it's generally not something I worry about.
Oh man, I watched Donald Duck in mathmagic land so many times as a kid. Good find!
Ah, okay, sorry. I understood it literally, like "this is the same link".
Does this remind anyone else of the FSF High Priority Free Software Projects ?

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
You're right on your first point. I responded a little harshly to OP because I believe they responded too harshly to the blog post. The P99 GC latency data they give is us not sufficient to explain their perf gains. More likely, the metric they were tracking was well-correlated with their perf gains, but not the only or even primary cause. The other perf gains could have been caused by reduction in older generation collection times, for instance.
https://github.com/ZeeRooo/MaterialFBook is a great app for anyone who finds mbasic a bit basic.
Of course, I understand your take and it's fine... I just grew up with a very similar life situation and feel as though the movie glamorized it to the point where it almost becomes dismissive.
Eh. It's pretty typical and even mentioned on Family Guy(https://youtu.be/6daEbA1jBXg?t=50s)

Personally, I'll support a local store even at the cost of a few dollars if it's a store I respect, such as an independent operator. Otherwise if it's just another corporation, I'll just go with the cheapest option available.
Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking in Voluntary Exchanges
Coping with Mutable State in Rust
> What's stopping you from using the software you've listed on a more modern laptop?

Nothing, of course. I just really liked the form factor of the X40, and using it was a satisfying experience.

> with a newer laptop everything would be faster

From my perspective, the experience would not be faster. I had everything working fast enough that I never had to pause or wait for the system to respond to me. The only things I was doing that would be noticeably faster would be compiling, but reducing hypothetical compile times from 20 seconds to 5 seconds still requires me to stop and wait for the computer to compile.

> you could run Quake 3 without lag

I could do this on a newer computer. However, I found other games to play instead, and never missed Quake 3. Even though I'm back to my more powerful laptop now, I haven't played Quake 3 since the time I tried playing it on the X40.

The point of my post was that I was able to do everything that I wanted to do on the X40, and that I never felt like it was inadequate. There are all sorts of things that my newer laptop could do that the X40 couldn't, but I don't do any of them.
Even if (and that's a very big if) we get to a point where we decide we need someone behind the wheel of these truck, but it's okay for them to be staring at a laptop the entire time, I can't see a whole lot of quality code coming from someone who is sitting in the cabin of a truck with one eye constantly on the road.
freenode, ##gucs; there's still a bunch of us hanging around.
If the writer couldn't be bothered to study the gorillas herself what right does she have to write the article?
"A core proposition in economics is that voluntary exchanges benefit both parties. We show that people often deny the mutually beneficial nature of exchange, instead using zero-sum thinking."

If one doesn't fully conceive of trade as value-for-value as a principle, there are many other human interactions and relations one will perceive in a completely distorted fashion.
Well, the oldest founder in the 2015 Winter batch (first I could find data on) was 66: https://phaven-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/files/image_part/asset/...
You're right -- it was actually OpenArena, not Quake 3.
Last quarter we went from $1000 profit to $1001. This quarter the profits were $1003. "Our profits grew 200% compared to last quarter, stocks are through the roof this morning".

Is there some phrase in stats used to describe this nonsense?
Hold up... when did Moore's law meet its demise?

I've heard that the conjecture is failing as we run into certain physical limits of making computer parts smaller, but I think what you've written indicates the opposite?
Best Buy once told me that I was prohibited from taking pictures in their store. They said it was for loss prevention.

After I got over the shock, I handed everything in my hands (small stuff) to the manager and then went to Office Depot and bought my new Color Laser Printer there instead. They lost at least $600 in sales that day over that policy.

Why was I taking pictures? I saw a game that I thought my friend in Norway would like, and I was going to tell him about it.

It's a ridiculous policy.
can they be flashed with a custom rom and still be usable? 10 years ago I had half a dozen firefox browser open with hundreds of tabs, now I can barely have one or two with a dozen tabs -- same with mobile, I buy the cheapest phone and do the minimal I need, but sometimes I need a special app and I expect it to work a year later and not get hung up on required upgrades and then get locked out with a useless phone. I just want a phone I can buy and not worry about evil corporations forcing me to upgrade or that it will be slower then stuff I used 10 years ago.
Can you provide a link to a shop where to buy a smartphone for $5?
Insane Project : Playing video on nokia color LCD just using an 8 bit AVR Micro
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> Is already at the beginning of the article, but should be more visibible how MS Research and Don Syme seen the opportunity to add generics (neeeded for F#) and added that. With design already supporting later addition like variance.

I definitely agree, that's why I put it right at the start of the post :-)
Mumford's Megamachine and the Disposable Human
To be fair, Azure is no less opaque.
Not sure what the point of this article is. There are plenty of Quad core, 2gb ram, 16gb phones for under $100 already available in the US. Of course some are initially locked but they are locked to MVNO that have relatively cheap plans $20-$40 a month.

This configuration (Quad,2gb,16gb) seems like a good minimum that you can use most apps without major problems and have enough space to not uninstall stuff all the time.

Plus now the used market has many high quality phones that are available. A used Samsung S5 should meet most people's basic needs. The difference between a 2018 phone and a 2015 phone is much smaller than 2015 and a 2012 phone.

As for place like India, there are plenty of phones in the $80-$99 range that meet these specs. And many that are at the $40-50 price points that have worse specs but still usable.
Yep. And erasure meant that it couldn't interop with generics, which was a big deal for them.
tl;dr: Intelligence ("talent") has a Gaussian distribution, but money ("success") follows a power law. The difference might be "luck", and they use a simple agent-based model to simulate intelligence+luck to get power-law success. "The most talented people [almost never] reach the highest peaks of success, being overtaken by mediocre but sensibly luckier individuals."

Some interesting policy analyses, too. "[I]t is evident that, if the goal is to reward the most talented persons (thus increasing their final level of success), it is much more convenient to distribute periodically (even small) equal amounts of capital to all individuals rather than to give a greater capital only to a small percentage of them, selected through their level of success - already reached - at the moment of the distribution."
No, I'm equating one statement of economic nonsense with another statement of economic nonsense. It was a reductio ad absurdum. Unless there are severe external market constraints pushing down the demand of labor, an employer would never be able to "exploit the basic human need for food and shelter".
I never had financial success without being lucky. Without luck my talent is not worth a dime.
Retweets are essential for discovery of new people to follow. As such they are too valuable to dismiss, even with today's popularity of twitter.

The empty-state is a big problem for the onboarding of new users on social platforms, especially less personal ones.
It's unethical to use a store as a showroom and then order the item at a lower price from someone who doesn't have to cover the cost of maintaining said showroom.

Either take the gamble and order online sight-unseen, or pay the higher price involved in maintaining floor space and inventory.
What makes you think they would be easier to hijack?

Part of the ease of hijacking truck is that you can drive off with it. What if the trailer locks its wheels and bricks itself, if it determines it's being hijacked, all while recording 360 video and sending immediate alerts to management and law enforcement?

Certainly better than a driver afraid for his life.
I read the article as speaking more about (1) developing a disciplined mindset, and (2) applying that to coding in the context of game development. For me, the article is a reminder that productivity is a mentality and commitment, rather than a metric.

Were you to apply the mentality of "get work done productively" to other domains such social / mobile, IT, or ecommerce, you get a different approach, which is exactly what you described: taking an 80/20 approach of coding and designing, optimizing for team productivity rather than individual.
> It's usually centered around the idea that we were just about to win in Vietnam, with just a couple more months or a couple more thousand troops, and that it was the cowardly liberals who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

After browsing through the article I have to say that I don't agree, or that the article comes close to suggest your interpretation. The article simply states that after the Tet offensive Westmoreland asked for reinforcements, and his request depleted the US's reserves. It points out all the reasons why that request was impossible to fulfill. More to the point, the sheer number of troops (over 200k) made it quite clear that the involvement was too great to justify.

In short, the general fended off the Tet offensive and requested reinforcements to keep fighting. A general in any similar circumstamce has no option, as he has no power to simply call off a war, even if its too drawn out and with a heavy social toll. So as his forces weren't defeated then he did the only thing any general would do: petition for the reinforcements he felt were required to win (better yet, keep fighting) and kept up the fight as best as he could.
>> India has shown no signs (any more than before) of the Hindu nationalism that was supposed to sweep the nation once Modi came to power.

I see a bubble here. There have been plenty of killings in the name of "beef"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Dadri_mob_lynching) etc., for starters.

The social media/MSM discourse is more polarized than ever. The actions (or more importantly, inactions) of this government have given a clear indication that spreading venom of hatred is cool, and that "Hindu vs. Muslim" debate is still important and relevant.
I think the main problem with the personal care assistant isn’t so much the pay is so low but rather it’s hard for people to actually pay someone full time (or even part time) to care for someone.
I'm not a fan of a vegetarian diet because it leaves out the most nutrient dense foods.

I haven't done research into it specifically, but I would avoid carbs and sugar (and all processed foods), and eat a lot of avocado and protein from non-carby foods (beans and quinoa are ok, but still have a lot of carbohydrate).
this is a good thing

Well, maybe not for the drivers who see 90% of their income earning opportunity automated away and all they get is the local driving on each end. Well, probably on one end -- the warehouse where the truck is loaded will be located where an automated truck can drive to it easily.
Uninstalled all Facebook apps as soon as I got my phone, a few months ago, but only recently discovered there were two remaining hidden apps that didn't show up in the normal app list: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-v10/help/suspici...

Before I disabled them, one of them was running.
Most voters in most countries are stupid. See the 2016 US election
Just as an FYI, Motherisk is a much larger program than just it's drug testing lab (which is closed as of 2015). It's primary purpose is teratogen (study of abnormalities of physiological development) information service providing up-to-date information about the risk and safety of medications and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Translation: Info distribution on the pharmacology of medications on kids. I.e. is it safe to take Advil while breastfeeding? This kind of information changes as the latest studies are done and motherisk has people take studies and translate them to opinions mothers can use.

I've personally used their info and it's been very useful. Their drug testing lab scandal is a travesty and should be condemned, but other offerings of motherisk are scientifically sound. Did you know cough syrup for children is ineffective and shouldn't be given? It's a new thing apparently.

Off-Topic: Why the hell motherisk decided to run a drug testing lab is beyond me. It has nothing to do with its original MO.
Peter Diamandis on how Silicon Valley can make 100 the new 60
Genetic study of Quebec residents finds air pollution trumps ancestry
Sound modulated over ultrasound
I am looking for a few things:

Did you own the mistake. (responsibility)

What steps did you take to resolve it. (accountablity and ownership)

Are you able to laugh about it, or did you learn something from it. I would hope that you can make claim to one or the other. (personality)

Can you tell a story. Because the story is personal, it is topic where you have "mastery" and should demonstrate how you communicate. (communication)

An understanding of your professional background - most of these stories have other "players" in them that help move them along and tell me who you have/had to interact with in the past. (experience)

Remember I give my own example that not only hits these points but probably illicit a laugh our two out of the candidate, and remind them that I am not any different from them. I tend to be able to have more conversational interviews after this question, and get better responses and answers from candidates.
Is a point of view. We could even say the same to describe a spaceship. Other point of view could be that they are refugees in a safe zone. Would be naive to ignore than the same animals in the wild are being wipped at very fast and increasing pace. We could talk about the 3.000 orangutans killed each year in the wild for example.
My non-lawyer opinion: I would be shocked if a motivated Illinois Assistant State's Attorney couldn't turn this into a criminal conviction. The definition of wire fraud in Illinois (720 ILCS 5/17-24) is "A person commits wire fraud when he or she... devises... a scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain money or property by means of false pretenses, representations, or promises" and as part of that scheme communicates using a wire or radio waves. Basically, if you lie in connection with a financial transaction and use a telephone or the internet, you've committed wire fraud. The state doesn't prosecute many wire fraud cases as far as I know, but nearly every white collar federal case includes a wire fraud charge, because basically anything nefarious is wire fraud in addition to whatever else it may be.

Of course, just because a prosecutor _could_ prosecute someone for a crime doesn't mean they will or should. And I think Reserve's lawyers have probably come to the conclusion that the State's Attorney probably has better things to do with her staff's time than prosecute this case.
Ocasta: Clustering configuration settings for error recovery
recognizing the right to life is a lot easier than figuring out how to provide shelter/food/water to everyone without expecting them to pay for it. those resources come from somewhere. that somewhere is other people, and taking food/water/shelter from them could kill them, and forcing them to provide whatever they have in excess of their own necessities is going to cause many of them to become "net consumers" and expect you to find food and housing for them.

the nth order effects of these programs need to be considered.
I needed a readonly key value system.

I ended up building out my own key value store for several million entries using a memory mapped file in Go. The total file size is about 17GB.

I originally wanted to use Boltdb for this, but it was taking too long to load, and the author mentioned in a github issue that just using a memory mapped file would be faster.

I use a dictionary of keys to offsets in the memory mapped file to perform my lookup.

My total loading time only takes a few minutes.

If you only need to query on a simple key value, this approach may work for you.
"Stimulate the economy" and "provide prosperity to some billionaires" correlates very well. :-/
I’m not going to disagree with your overall thesis, but there is something I find oppressive about the idea that society manages 75% of your life, rather than managing your own life during adulthood.
I can't say in my 37 years of life, that I've ever considered what label a band was on, before I listened to them. I couldn't even name four big labels. The statistics point that way, because the four biggest, have the most artists under them.
You can, at the very least, make sure that your prepared for the random, lucky opportunities that come your way! Be in a position to seize the opportunity.

I also don’t see why you couldn’t increase the number of opportunities that you do come across. For example comparing someone that explores their field talking to different people versus someone that does the bare minimum.
Depends on how it's handled. If it's bastardized with US companies coming in to exploit the existing low salaries and then suppress them by co-ordinating and fighting to bring in others from other low-paid countries, then yes it's likely going to be ruinous to it.

If it's a small, European centric scene, by Europeans and for Europeans which grows organically outward then it stands a chance to enrich the city.

Personally I'm not much of an advocate for Europe welcoming SV folks and their VC masters in.
Interesting. If I read this correctly, they chose to let talent affect lucky events but not unlucky events. I wonder what the rationale is for that and if it changes the results significantly to allow for probabilistically avoiding unlucky events.
I severely misread this and thought you meant that Alan Turing backwards was another name for Galadriel for ~5 minutes

/sigh.
Even on the current path, if no changes are made to improve solvency, social security will pay out at about 75%.
SAIC: Identifying Configuration Files for System Configuration Management
True, unfortunately many mothers have latched on to breastfeeding and "natural birth" as a way to feel superior to other mothers. We had to go through a lot of that during our first, including people working in the hospital. One worker even called formula poison.
In Brazil, voting is compulsory. All those people are going to be voting anyway