skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't put words in my mouth.

"I don't understand why some people propose this as inherently a bad thing."

I told you why I think they see it that way - because UNTIL we fix those other problems, increasing automation will make the lives of some people much worse.

If you would like to have a conversation about what to do with all of this information, I'd be glad to.

"I'm sure that cancer patient is ecstatic that we're focusing on keeping people doing unnecessary jobs rather than progressing with technology..."

I love this line of thought, because it's so wrong-headed. I worked in Medical Imaging - turning CT and MR data into 3D images for radiologists, cardiologists.

I didn't just make a radiologist BETTER at their job, I made it so that FEWER radiologists were needed to handle the same case load.

That's right, I put cancer doctors out of work.

I'm not saying my technology was a bad thing. But I'm saying that the relationship between money, jobs, and research is no where near as simple as you are portraying it (I suspect you know that, so I'm not trying to insult you.)

"If you can argue that a robot that makes a certain manual human work obsolete is not good for society,"

I literally helped put some of the most highly-trained people in the world out of work.

It's not just "manual human work" that's at risk.

"then you may as well argue against all technology that reduces unnecessary manual work in order to create more jobs for the less capable."

This is where you're putting words in my mouth.

I'm saying, "Technology is advancing so quickly that we really, desperately need to look at the fundamentals of our economy, because technology is turning Supply and Demand on their heads like we really haven't seen before."

The economists smirk that we have seen this before. I sincerely hope they're right and I'm wrong. 3.5 million unemployed truck drivers should make a good data point, shouldn't they?
Reviewers conclusion: "So my advice is this: buy Pinker’s book and read it. Then work for a future where the book’s optimism is justified."

Please.
99% of people don't care. This changes absolutely nothing.
As they say, don't listen to the naysayers... and you did not! Congrats.
Just to be clear, neural networks typically aren't used to work with lidar in self driving cars. NN for point clouds are still at the research stage.
Absolutely something I took inspiration from, though the primary inspiration was more along the lines of Legend of the Red Dragon, a BBS Door game that hit the height of it's popularity back when MUDs hit the height of theirs.
Finally, a language that can compete with C++ on complexity and size of error messages!
Are theft and murder so obvious?

Obviously murder is among the greatest tragedies, but often it's a product of circumstance. Theft especially so
Maybe because one needs to buy a seat at the table, by making a formal proposal, pay the travel expenses on their own and get to win the hearts of others members when voting comes to be.
"Looks" aren't a consideration for a resume; most people don't mind if it's ugly or not. What people care about is content. Does this resume tell me what you learned and accomplished at your position? Does it show responsibility and experience? Can I see a career path? Can I see any patterns I might not like, like very little time spent at each job, or re-using the same technology?

In terms of getting a job, that's a completely different story. That involves the steps necessary to get a resume on top of a desk, and to inspire the person reading it that this person has more value than the others. Those are not easy things to do, but they often do more to determine whether you will get hired than the content of your resume.
I just redesigned what an offer letter looks like. [1] I think it's cool for a few different reasons: (1) most people don't truly understand the value behind an offer from a startup. Equity for example is tricky for newcomers. (2) Most companies don't share this information unless you push them on it. I wish more companies would be transparent about it, and I think doing this will help.

Here's a demo: https://coinbase.onsites.co/o/aurora-h

I also redesigned the onsite experience. Demo here as well: https://airbnb.onsites.co/joe-zadeh

[1] As with many things in design, I think I should attribute the source of inspiration, which is Carta. They wrote about a new offer letter format back in 2016. I'm basically taking their Apple Keynote slides and moving them to the web.
Exception Handling

Oh no :(
Corporations have no stakes in the culture wars- the only interest they got is to ursurp the Original Cooperation that contains the ecosystem they move in. So they will support whatever side it takes to weaken the state and propel there interest.

You can have a left and liberal party, but when cooperations support you- all that will be left is a liberal party.

You can have a right-wing and conservative party, but when cooperations support you- all that will be left is a big interst- conservation party.

Cooperations with a surplus of influence, will use that influence to corrode away the containment system of the state. Thats why they are taxed. If they are not taxed, the contained usefull accid eats through the stomache and kills societys stability. And in a wicked, twist, as there is always a biggest fish- something like amazon, can burst free- and become state instead of the state.

Unfortunatly, people trading on non-amazon plattforms, have to pay a little extra, for the disruption they cause to the logistic masterpiece.

Its not a tax. Its your ticket to a priviliged life style.

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I'm from the Ruby community, did a year of Scala after leaving Ruby. I'm now with rust and after the first struggle, I don't really have trouble with Rust anymore. I know the design I need to do to get certain things done, I know what is allowed now easily with purely concurrent Rust, and when do you need to split things up into threads. Right now I can refactor a project from threads to reactor in a couple of days and deploy to production with Rust. And I know everything just works.
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I am working on server.js: https://serverjs.io/.
It is cool because:

- You install it with `npm install server` and use modern ES6+ including async/await very naturally.

- Node.js is the most popular "framework, library or tool" [1], but getting started with most of the current Node.js server frameworks has a really steep learning curve.

- Plugins are coming! They will be a really easy way to extend server in ways that middleware cannot by adding some lifecycle calls.

Feedback is welcome!

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-f...
Have you looked at airbnb's sketch/react tools?
Many people can (prep and) eat in much less time than 40-50 minutes.
I'm building a mobile app that's a bit like the anti-Instagram. It gives you confusing set of shutter/filter options that post weird, uneditable and uncanny photos to a feed whose sole mode of interaction is scrolling and drawing.

Mostly it's a conceptual art piece that's meant to offer a different model of being social online — one that's wholly about ongoing presence and participation, not accumulation and curation. I think I'll try to sell it for a buck in the app store.
Your comment leads me to believe that you think this is true of groupings like race but not of groupings like social class, why?

Read carefully please. This is precisely why I made pains to mention that it's the mind which is the most powerful generator of value. Cultural influences are powerful and malleable all at the same time. How is it that Chinese immigrants on almost every continent, across hundreds of years of history, can arrive on new shores in the middle of the "poor" class, but have their grandchildren succeed? Why is it that Jewish and Italian migrants moving to almost the same parts of different cities all around the world achieve success, but in completely different industries from each other, but the same corresponding industries by ethnic group?

Culture is stronger than Livelihood.

Both culture and livelihood are far more significant than the amount of melanin in your skin and the shape of your eyes and nose.

It's the mind that generates value and makes us human!
Only in cases where the benefits gained and the detriments caused by the consumption are more or less in proportion. In many (most) cases, the benefits are internalized by the consumer and the burdens externalized. In all those cases 'vote with your wallet' has no effect beyond personal handicapping and feel good.
Actively pursuing/supporting regulation to curb the behavior is (nearly) always the better option.
https://vrsketch.eu/ - Editing and viewing virtual reality plugin for sketchup. It's a lot of basic research on UI/UX in VR.

http://pypy.org - Python interpreter with a just in time compiler. It's the only alternative python implementation out there, after failures of unladen swallow/pyston etc.

http://bloc11.co.za - Own climbing gym. It's cool to work directly with people and pursue own ideas in a small space.
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No, that still wouldn’t be the Lidars fault. That would be a fault in safely setting the specification for the Lidar sample rate, and not catching the design flaw in testing.
well, that's what I don't understand with OP's

> Considering how hard it is to write truly exception-safe C++

that's the default behaviour in C++ code, how hard can it be ?
I am working on testing ("ground truthing") common observational astronomy modeling techniques against hydrodynamic simulations. The basic approach is to generate synthetic/mock observations from the simulations, apply typical model-fitting approaches, and then see how the model results compare with the properties of the original simulations. Our first paper on this has recently been accepted (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07084) and we're preparing a second paper looking at emission from dust in new simulations which more realistically treat the cosmological history of galaxies.
People not working "enough" hours isn't a structural problem if they're producing enough. If your argument is just that "people will spend more hours at work if their incentives are aligned exactly to making them do that," then I don't disagree, but I also don't find it revelatory.
> It's not like the Soviets where it was blatantly obvious that things are mismanaged.

It's only blatantly obvious in hindsight. My vague memory of the history of it: There were many in the West who supported the Soviets as the future of humanity (not nearly a majority, but a not just a couple of wackos either - especially at the beginning). In the 1970s / early 1980s there was a major debate in the U.S. over whether to compete with the Soviets or just accept their power. U.S. intelligence thought the Soviet economy was doing well right up until the end.
I don't care for this assumption that people who struggle with a programming language are so inexperienced anything they struggle with is their fault. It might be the case that Rust will always be an advanced language that beginners should avoid until they've mastered something else, but feedback from beginners could still make the experience easier for programmers who take the ideal path and learn it as their second or later programming language.

The other reason I dislike this assumption is that it's frequently wrong. Judging by the rest of his blog, the author does grok SQL. I'm pretty sure the Python to SQL example is either hypothetical or describes the author when he first learned SQL well in the past.

I don't mean to pick on you. I just see this attitude repeatedly in software development, and it leads to unnecessarily difficult software.
If they didn't want drivers looking at those displays, why would they put them there? Either looking at those displays is part of the job, or the display should automatically turn off. I'm guessing it's the former.
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I think I see your point - if enough people delete their accounts, it will make the Facebook user experience poor enough to sow further discontent. That makes perfect sense if enough people #deletefacebook to fundamentally impact the social graph. We'll have to wait to see if that happens. Either way, I support the movement - Facebook has had a damaging impact on social cohesion and mental health for too long, its downfall can't come soon enough.
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Hi!

I agree completely that we should not language shiv out legal problems away lest we destroy ourselves in favorable ambiguity. My question was clearly poorly articulated (smells of irony).

The first clause established a clear goal and intent, while the second is the statement of action.

The more interesting legal question to me (my legalese is super weak, so please excuse), why is any law that would not hamper a militia be considered unconstitutional? Other than Heller seems to have set the definition militia to something frankly disturbing.
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> You could certainly define the `ParitalOrd` trait for the two types to make the comparison possible

I don't believe that's possible. Unless something changed relatively recently, the trait implementation has to be either a) in the module where the trait itself is defined (so the standard library in this case), or b) in the module where the type you're implementing the trait for is defined (again, the standard library). Since you can just modify the standard library, implementing PartialOrd would not be possible for e.g. comparing u16/s16 (or whatever).
Hi jsmthrowaway. Could you PM me on Reddit (same username)? I was reading your really old comments about containers and Docker and am very interested to learn more about static binary containers. Would like to get some pointers where I can learn more about this approach.
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I think you are thinking about this device as if it operates continuously. My understanding is that it 'consumes' the temperature gradient created by the day/night cycle.

Could mean that this would be ineffective in the tropics where the temperature between day and night varies less. And presumably the device may 'stop working' part way through the afternoon if the previous night was too warm relative to daytime temperature.
Most nights: in bed by 9, read until 10-11, sleep until 6-7.

So, on average, 8, with occasional swerves into 7 or 9.
Forgot to say that it's in a language that is not english. Aftercredits and Moviestingers are exactly what I'm scraping, plus some other magic...
Working on an SMS crypto trading bot where you can text it trading commands according to whatever exchange you connected to. I've been in many situations where I needed to trade and logging into the exchange on my phone is cumbersome and could sometimes take 3+ minutes, and by then the opportunity is gone.
I'm hooking up a piece of kitchen equipment to a cloud backend. It's for a major restaurant chain.

I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple of years as a demonstration of the technology.

It always ends the same: Every party fights for ownership of the data, but nobody can figure out what to do with the data once they have it. Nobody wants to pay for it, much less support a subscription model. The free sites are held together with duct tape and chewing gum. Nobody wants to support it in the field. There are too many variables in network infrastructure. You can't use the network in the store because the cashier system is on there and PCI says no way. Getting a solid 802.11 signal in a room full of sheet metal is a nightmare. Customers want to use off-the-shelf cellular hotspots that are pieces of garbage and couldn't hold a TCP packet if it was covered in crazy glue.

But the demonstrations always go well. The customers think it's cool.

So on we go, boldly onward into the IoT future. I just pushed the next release up.
That's built into the political structure: The Paramount Leader is not just head of government, but of three separate organizations: The Communist Party, the military, and the government.

(At least, that was my understanding around 10 years ago; I don't know if anything has changed.)
I've been working on Fructika https://fructika.com for the last few months as a little side project. It's an app that helps you manage your fructose consumption (my partner suffers from fructose malabsorption).

It's cool because it makes her life better and I've had some great feedback from other people trying to manage their intake of sugars about how it makes their lives easier :)
Dogs will naturally break away from your gaze if they're not sure they could take you in a physical confrontation.

That's not cultural.

Some things are just built into us, not that we don't have the power to override them through the application of will but they didn't just appear out of nowhere.
I agree with you, but I would also note that the original person being replied to seems to be committing a common colloquial misunderstanding in regards to social constructions; just because something is socially constructed does not mean it's not real. Race is absolutely real, regardless of the degree to which genetics does or doesn't correlate with it, because we make it real in our day to day interactions.

But your point is succinct: just because you can group people using genetic markers into clusters that align well with our society's typical social categorization of race does by no means validate a genetic basis for all the other sociocultural baggage that we associate with those categories. The most it seems to do particularly in regards to the social category of race is show that genetic markers useful for identifying kinship (I'd file that under "duh"). It's interesting to note, for me, that the analysis of the first paper works just fine for 2 clusters as well (basically East Asian and everyone else), but those super-racial groupings don't exist in the US to my knowledge.
Shh... ruining their orchestrated media circle jerk will only get you downvoted.
Yes! They were an inspiration for this actually.

They can generate sketch files from react components (https://github.com/airbnb/react-sketchapp) but not the other way around.

The painting with code demo (https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/) was a step towards that though, and I think it's really interesting as well.
It's pretty easy to claim your location on Google/Google maps, which is usually where I find business hours and contact information.
Congrats Drew!

One of the highlights of my MIT experience was going to your ~yearly tech talks that you did at the beginning of the fall semester. I’m excited to see Dropbox continue to grow as a company. :)
Oh, thanks for that correction, I thought I read it had been going 51 in a 45.

edit: Errr.....
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/news/companies/self-driving-...

"the car was going approximately 40 mph in a 35 mph zone, according to Tempe Police Detective Lily Duran."

So... was it 40 in a 45, or 40 in a 35? It would seem this is critical information.
Why would the Mad King not have all the fireplaces he could want, considering he was a king?

Traditionally heating was easier to come across than cooling, despite cooling taking less energy to have happen.
Let’s redesign the entire platform, they said. It will be fun, they said
Well, yes.

I am salaried, and they do pay me well, so I'm willing to work more than 40 hours from time to time, when schedules are tight.

I think that for me, my criteria for being OK with more-than-40 are probably something like:
(0) it had better not be that much more than 40,
(1) it had better not be an exception, not the rule, and
(2) it had better be something I can plan for, so I'm not jerking around my family/friends.
What if the lawmakers want to hurt the people struggling at at the lower rungs of society?

There can be malice, but I think this is mostly akin to the idea of "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" only substitute ignorance for stupidity.

When I was homeless, I certainly ran into malicious behavior rooted in classism, mostly on a particular forum (not HN). But mostly I ran into people who just couldn't really comprehend my situation, so they didn't really know how to be effectively helpful. This can easily turn into a case of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
I'm working on a technology that will enable people to easily distribute and copy data in a secure and more performant way, the more people are using it. It's basically throwing a local cache over the web, so when you neighbour already have the data, you can download it from them without being afraid if the data has been altered in any way. I'm super excited to work on it, as it combines my two favourite areas, open source and decentralized. The project I work on is called IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System.
That is what ChromeOS is all about.
Www.chipscompo.com

It's a little music production community. You know how everyone on HN laments that small quirky websites have been eaten by bigger ones, so they don't exist any more? My website is cool because it has that sort of community - intelligent and good at music but also funny and super weird. We all kinda know each other, which makes it fun.

Also, a bunch of us have gotten a lot better at making music, which is another nice win. :)
What type of projects?
I understand why this works, but still feels like magic. Very cool.
And before a baseline, start with formulating a problem in a way that’s applicable to a real world product. Not just “image classification” but “image classification to improve QA in underwater basket weaving, a 10 billion dollar industry, from which we could generate $100m/yr in revenue by selling a product that does A, B, and C to an estimated 100k customers each of which would have $1000 LTV”.

I’m in an AI startup right now where the founders are hell bent on doing nothing in particular, and I’ll be bailing in a month or so.
Sure,there are a large number of "computable reals" such as square roots and taylor series expansions (pi, e, sine, cosine, etc.) which can be estimated to greater and greater precision (always with rational numbers) so we can reasonably talk about them in the abstract (such as use them in equations) much in the same way we talk about the imaginary numbers, quarternions, and octonions. But the idea that you need to construct an entire field of completely undefinable infinite chains of decimals just to allow for a small handful of irrational numbers is kind of absurd.

Norman Wildberger (among others) has put a lot of effort into building up the foundations of mathematics using only the rational numbers and it is quite interesting how far he has gone. He's considered to be a crank by many, but you have to appreciate his effort.

To go back to your original question, his Math Foundations video series, especially #14, #95, and #96 might help.
That claim by the media sounds obviously untrue.

And alongside being untrue, it ignores the differing severity of collisions. Even if the car had to use its normal video camera instead of Lidar for some reason, the second or two of applying the brakes that would provide can easily -- and will likely -- turn a fatal collision into a non-fatal collision.
Then why do you have to agree to Google before contributing compared to Mozilla's, where you can contribute right away?

As to "may", you're incorrect. I'm implying that they should have used stronger language, as in "should" or "will", since otherwise the data contributed to this project may not be made public.
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hopefully people deleting facebook don't flee to instagram and think their somehow safe from facebook.
Once I clicked on a slate.fr link et depuis cette occasion tout Facebook apparait en français pour moi.