skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's discrimination to only hire people who will take below x$ an hour. You can make the argument that this is a bad type of discrimination and should be controlled, like discriminating against race/gender/age, but the fact that it's discrimination at all is not a strong argument
Seems to have no IPv6 support. I'd prefer to be able to access other peoples' blogs and have my own blog accessible at all times.
As a prosopagnosiac, this is sort of like a feature in a firmware I don’t have the license key to unlock.
I was going to post that!

What are “reasonable” rules for autonomous vehicles? Should they stick to the limit literally, so only start accelerating after the increased limit sign? (There will need to be warning signs when a speed limit reduction is ahead to give the vehicle time to comply.)

Would a vehicle speeding up before the sign indicate a failure or error in the system?
Right? They leave out the feature Facebook was created for.
> They want to put you on call? No extra pay required. Change you to the night shift? You still have a job, that’s sufficient.

How is it not? You can always threaten to quit if they don't give you a raise. The only way that doesn't work is if they can easily replace you with someone willing to work harder for less money.

And in that case that's what they're supposed to do. You would only be willing to quit if you had a better option that the person willing to do this job for less money apparently doesn't. So then they should get your job and you should go take the better job.
Not just this year, but by the third quarter.
You also need to offer other options within the company if they exist.

So if you're reducing the number of staff employed to support "system A", but you have vacant positions supporting "system B", then you you need to offer those positions to any affected staff, or show why those employees would not capable of doing the new job.
It would be interesting if you could explain this a little better, or find the source. Sounds a little vague but I'd like to know more.
Social.coop is a cooperative instance of mastodon. A better kind of network also needs a better kind of business model. You might like it. We do.
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I love the way this idea evolved across threads, to stimulate a great discussion! As this idea attracts attention, the limits of scaling this become clear, as does the need for well balanced network incentives. This is one of those problems that actually does benefit from a blockchain token, and a few implementations are just emerging. I imagine success with this concept will include Homomorphic Encryption or Zero Knowledge Proofs, in order to prove unique processing took place. Value added services seem to be a natural fit as well. Check out Openmined ( https://github.com/OpenMined/Docs) Cardstack (particularly this recent post “The Tally Protocol: Scaling Ethereum With Untapped GPU Power” @christse https://medium.com/cardstack/the-tally-protocol-scaling-ethe... and Ocean Protocol, and as others mentioned, SONM, iExec, Golem, and all the BOINC tokens (pascal coin). I so look forward to this whole niche maturing.
I can't help but feel the real problem here is China. Those death threats and angry tweats were likely coming from China employed shills. Such a ticking time bomb the CPC.
You can amend any contract given to you before signing and dating. Simply cross out the sections you do not approve of and initialize the amended sections. I have done this several times with both contract clients and employers and not yet been met with any opposition, but it always went a bit different each time. Every time I advised the employer or client of the contract amendment, sometimes with no detail, sometimes with reasons why. Only once did the customer sign and give me a copy of the amended contract, while in his presence at the office, no questions. All other times the employer or client never sent me a co-signed copy of the contract, but things went forward and I was paid.

As others here have already suggested, I would agree that not signing the given contract and just going forward is not the right approach if you truly want to avoid the non-compete trap. Instead, amend the contract (or have a new contract drafted, as also mentioned earlier) and return it signed; it shows both your commitment to the work, and your attention to detail. The ball is then in their court. YOU now possess an amended, signed and dated copy of THEIR contract, returned to them along with an advisory of amendment.
And Silvercar was funded by and now acquired by Audi.
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Considering for hosting. One concern is that I have to expose my IP address to unknown users. I don't know if it's possible, but it will be great that if I can hide my location and purely lend my GPU with less security concerns.
If you were paying enough that it was worth people buying GPUs just for this, you'd be better off just buying them yourself.
I wonder if Uber will have the capital or credit to roll into acquiring a fleet of self-driving cars by the time the tech is even ready. Remember, they don't have any fixed transit assets now -- their driver contractors are all on the hook for that.
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He's been talking about Mars since day one. It's just some people refuse to listen / believe that he really means it.
She's jumping to conclusions. Lots of people enjoy living in camper vans and RVs. It's a fun, cheap, and adventurous way to live. I know people who own a house in a ski town, and they'll take off for weeks at a time living out of their camper van.

TBH there's a good chance they make more money than the author.
> Have you tried parsing a PSD file? Have you seen the PSD spec? It's pure nightmare afaik...

Of course, you can't forget this somewhat-legendary commentary on the PSD format: https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#...
> They're in the collaboration market, which is bigger than the storage market.

They're in the "file sync" market. They want to be in the collaboration market. Hence the John Lennon-esque post.
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I know this is likely to be an unpopular opinion here, but I'm not sure that websites ought to scale in the way we've been building them to. One of the biggest causes of frustration and concerns is that websites that are operated by only a handful of people are used by millions of people, with no serious way to seek relief if problems emerge. Think of how disastrous security oversights have been, from companies too small to adequately compensate those who have been wronged. Or think of how disastrous technical glitches or mistakes can be (such as deleted Google accounts or Facebook privacy setting glitches). Or think of how Uber seems to have rushed to reduced the human oversight of their autonomous cars before they were ready. We are giving far more responsibility and social power to companies than they are truly capable of handling.

The power of computers to make transactions and interactions more efficient is great. But I'm not sure that efficiency needs to come at the limit of our technological capacity instead of at the limit of human attention.
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Great idea! I really hope you are still doing this when my product becomes available. I don't want to waste my time on day to day selling. Your service would be very valuable to me and I like the simplicity. I hope others here will appreciate what you provide. Keep at it and good luck. Talk in (about) a few months when I have a finished product to sell!
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You don't need to expose your IP address at all! The AI/ML researchers can only connect to one of our proxy servers instead of directly connecting to your machine. This means hosts do not have to mess with port forwarding or networking (even if your computer is behind a university firewall, you can still be a host!)
And they have less to do with what consumers want, and more to do with what companies offer as available options to choose from.

The point still stands. Voting with your wallet doesn't work for any meaningful interpretation of the word "voting".
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I suspect that the 35 mph reports came from the other side of the street.

On the northbound side it changes from 35 mph to 45 mph right after the bridge just before the freeway. Southbound, it changes from 45 mph to 35 mph about 140 feet after Washington St, well before the freeway and bridge, and about 150 ft north of where the accident occurred.

If someone near the scene wanted to find the speed limit, and failed to consider that the two directions might have different speeds, I'd expect them to be more likely to find the southbound speed. That's because it is common to place speed limit signs shortly after intersections so that people turning onto the road won't have to go long to find out the correct speed limit. So I'd expect them to head toward the Washington/Mill intersection to start searching for a speed limit sign.

For the curious, here is the accident location on Google street view [1]. Back up 17 steps from that, continuing to face north, if you want to see the applicable speed limit sign. Or cross to the other side from the accident location and go north 8 steps to find the speed limit for the southbound road (it's on the last street light before you reach the intersection).

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4363673,-111.9425082,3a,75y,...
Thank you for your time, it was really useful!
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Wait, seriously? Can you provide the data? I think you have a seriously huge hole in your model if you're basing your housing costs on a mortgage on a 2012 priced house. Try nearly doubling that part.
Surely at-will employment is not all it takes to suddenly have lots of successful startups. Otherwise the US would have a more spread-out distribution of startups, instead of the cluster in Silicon Valley.

When you do get interviewed by French TV, I hope you won't pretend like this is a single-cause issue with a simple fix.
Possibly one could make some money - albeit in the short term ( Fb has to buy back stock in order to support falling shares ). However, considering FB has lost 50 percent of real visitors, according to Google Trends, dealings will be highly speculative. africasiaeuro.com/FB
The republican form of government is clearly an unsuccessful form. Where is evidence that it works at all? Every single country that has it has huge corruption problems, election problems, or both. Maybe it's time to let go of this dumb idea that should have been left back in high school: "let the popular kids in school rule." We have the technology (USPS) and have had it for well over a hundred years to do direct democracy and have the people actually rule instead of this metaphorical "rule by the people" that is a joke. As far as I can tell, other republics are no better. Whether the corruption is legal (US) or not (most other countries), the outcome is the same. But perhaps it is not man's nature to desire freedom. I think few people actually do and too many pretend to.
Gmail has the best spam prevention. I'd love to hear arguments against this, but its why i stay.
FB is still very much in the news, and could drop more before it goes up. More bad news will emerge as legislative bodies around the world start issuing subpoenas for FB to testify about privacy violations, political meddling, etc. I don't think there's an end in sight yet, since politicians can still get publicity from beating up FB in the name of protecting privacy and democracy. Journalists can also score points by digging up new dirt about FB (especially if it's linked to politicians), and they'll continue to do so for a while.

Also, all the major stock indexes plummeted this week, and if they continue to go down, FB will go down along with them.
Twitter users are up in arms because of the decision to retire production systems with a 2 months notice - https://twitter.com/thomashermine/status/976398123215065088

https://twitter.com/garethdiz/status/976188140670017536

https://twitter.com/LenioLabsLLC/status/976201790482915328
In Arizona it is the driver's responsibility to yield to all pedestrians on the same side of the road. She somehow crossed 3 and a half lanes of traffic without the Uber SDV ever perceiving her. Their fault.
> Imagine how much better equipped we’d be to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges.This is the world we want to live in. We hope you’ll join us.

"Imagine all the people sharing all the world...I hope some day you'll join us. And the world will be as one."

- John Lennon

Drew, you picked worthy source material.
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A lot of good comments in this thread.
I am a data scientist and of course I love playing with the latest deep learning frameworks, but If I'm putting an ML model in production I want something that: will pass QA, is easy to interpret, will run in real-time and for those requirements it's hard to beat random forest, boosted trees, logistic regression and naive bayes
The whole Web showed up for net neutrality and this bill was completely ignored until they took down Craigslist personals. What the hell happened?
The mistake was letting people who don't accept that Tibet is its own country send death threats to you and kowtowing to them. It's enabling their bullshit.
Yeah but in Denmark they compensate with very high unemployment benefits paying up to 90% of your previous salary for up to 2 years (that's much higher than in France), I don't recall any of that in the US.
If you can pay for a single fully trusted node to do the calculation once, the cost of n nodes redundantly calculating the same result in order to establish trust must require those untrusted nodes to be cumulatively cheaper than the one trusted node, in order for there to be an economic incentive to do so, no?

My assumption is that you would have to be faithful in a low number of untrusted nodes in order for that to end up cheaper.

The cases of folding and SETI are particularly different because there are institutions which have in interest in funding these programs in part due to their goal being a public cause. The same clearly doesn’t apply to micro tasks if you will.

But I can imagine cases in which you can accept bad actors giving bunk results for some percentage of the calculations you run. As long as you’re rotating nodes often enough (provided that they’re from distinct actors) I’m imagine it could work out to be economically more feasible to spend the time to work around that bad data than it would be to directly hire fully trustable compute power.
> For decades gaming has been the programmer equivalent of the waiter-actor/waitress-actress in Hollywood trying for their big break

The game industry is not made up entirely of programmers! There are lots of other roles that do not map to the software industry such as animators, modelers and artists. They can't just switch to making enterprise CRUD apps. Even the programmers might have difficulty meeting the requirement of having 2-4 years experience on framework that got its first stable release in 2017.
And 5.2 mil in copper
A mortgage on a $90k income would responsibly top out under $300k, and that's after putting down 20%. Average house in Seattle today runs just about $800k. It was closer to $400k in 2012.

Unless you come back and specify that you meant Kent or Renton, $90k unquestionably and unarguably would not provide an upper middle class lifestyle in Seattle. Not in 2012, and definitely not today.
There are also 2 cases of tunnel vision that I started noticing in reviews.

1. You've been working on some non-trivial change for long enough that you find some element of it trivial and not worth documenting, but others have no idea why it's there.

2. You've been looking at something so long that a "temporary code, I'll fix it later" starts looking natural and it takes someone else to call it out.
I really enjoy reading Charlie's work, especially the speculation around transition societies. You can add Accelerando to the list of his works that include some serious consideration of economics (in a way that whilst reading you don't think, 'eww - economics' :)

Actually, Singularity Sky also has a lot of good - and stealthy - economics material.
Whatever your views on US foreign policy, I'm not really sure you can equate invading a country with liking a tweet or making a mistake on a web form.
You and a lot of people in this discussion seem confused the other way. The amount of things in C that are implementation-defined is relatively small and most has to do with character encodings and byte size (storage unit). The kind of behavior people are pointing to is definitely labeled as undefined, and there is a lot of it. Take a look at Harbison and Steele for example.
They can find out who's running a node, send the cops and put them in prison. It's not hard. Look at China. The idea that we can technologically solve political problems is a bit of a fantasy. If the government wants to get you, they will.
Wow didn't realize it was so tangled. Considering all that turnover, it's even more of a miracle! Thanks for the recap.

I agree with the philosophy of "grinding it down". Writing quality software is largely about doing the straightforward thing, and not regressing, for years on end... At a certain size, it's too big for any heroics to make a difference, and you have to rely on plain old "engineering" (tests, prioritization, etc.)
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Chinese citizen here. A few points that I want to make after reading some comments:

1. I would be personally offended if anyone or any organization lists Tibet as a country.

2. Lots of Chinese people would be offended too by this.

Reasons for 1 and 2:

- It is a piece of wrong information

- The wrong information directly contradicts what is considered basic knowledge in China

- That basic knowledge happens to be on the topic of sovereignty

- Chinese people care a lot of sovereignty (see https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6006)

Why do Chinese people care so much about sovereignty? Culture and history.

It is the same question as:

- Why do Americans care so much about freedom of speech, democracy and race equality?

- Why do Japanese people care so much about respect and etiquette?

Now addressing the obvious issue, that some people support the idea of Tibet becoming independent and they should be free to express their ideas. Yes, they are free to say so, but there are two things to keep in mind:

- Opinions are not facts, you can support whatever you want, but don't say it as a fact like "Tibet is a country as of 24 March, 2018." That is not the right thing to do.

- If you choose to freely express your opinions or spread false information, you will face consequences for them. For example, a PR firm would likely tell you that expressing such opinions would results in negative brand image and boycott in China. In addition, saying something like that in China would result in more serious consequences. You might not like it, but that is beyond your control and you should be aware of that.
> If you're worried about this, you can buy a prepaid SIM card for pennies, or use an online service.

In many countries you cannot buy a prepaid SIM card without showing identification. The seller must take a photocopy of your identification or enter your details into a government website. Consequently, any global network based on telephone numbers will force usage of real names just as much as privacy-violating commercial services.
That's not true at all.

A lot of expat Chinese are strongly patriotic.

I would also add that a lot of the pro-independence Taiwanese I know actually see Tibet as a part of China too. It's weird, I know.
It's not insulting. It's a threat to their sovereignty. It's comparable to if lots of map makers changed the borders of the US to give Texas to Mexico, and it was acknowledged by international companies operating there and it was taught to kids in school. Eventually, by massive popular belief, it would be nearly impossible to retain it under US control because everyone would think it's obviously part of Mexico, including vtoers. Of course there's no risk of that happening in the US so they don't have to police it. For recently taken territories though, the position is weaker and easier to lose, so the new owners have to control the popular belief about whose it is.
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What is your proposal for craigslist to continue their personals/mixed connections and comply with the law? Stopping is an easy solution to eliminate liability.
To those that are unfamiliar, the "50 cent army" is China's version of America's "Operation Earnest Voice."

It's basically "an astroturfing campaign by the US government.[1] The aim of the initiative is to use sockpuppets to spread pro-American propaganda on social networking sites based outside of the US. [1]"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice
For an American perspective, I've thought about this a lot while talking to Chinese friends, and I wonder if the closest thing to this in American culture (while not being at all equivalent, just analogous) would be claiming that Puerto Rico is the 51st state.

Factually, it is not.

Emotionally, some people may want it to be and may very well have valid arguments for it.

People across the US and Puerto Rico would have strong opinions on either side of the argument.
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I love Tomorrowland and I recommend it to all my friends. I'm sad it bombed; I only discovered it accidentally on Netflix last year. Now I rewatch it from time to time to get a boost of motivation and positive energy.

I love this movie because it's positive about humans and future - which is unlike pretty much anything made in the last two decades. (Hell, it even goes meta on that point.)
Agreed we shouldn't cherry pick countries.

One interesting thing about France and Australia is that by the Ease of Doing Business Index over the last decade, France is gaining on but still behind Australia. (FRA: 44 -> 31; AUS: 6 -> 14).

So suppose we agreed France was performing worse economically than Australia over the last decade. Then we might conclude that absolute position matters and liberalization is important. Or we might as likely conclude the complete opposite, that gains on the index don't matter and liberalization isn't important.

And that's not even bringing the Economic Freedom Index into things, which has a radically different ranking based on similar criteria.

It's almost as if a lot of of what people believe about economics on both sides is under-determined by the available evidence.

But eh, maybe that's too cynical. That's just two countries. I'd really like to see some data analysis on how much "ease of doing business" (or some similar metric) matters to GDP--and maybe also to surveys of feelings of job security / satisfaction as well. Looking across most countries, maybe hard patterns would emerge. Or maybe economics is all noise unless you're at Weimar levels of malfeasance, who knows.

South Korea, Georgia, and Macedonia have skyrocketed up the EoDB chart, so I guess for any of us who suspect there's a sufficiently strong link, we have an opportunity to put our money down.
What's the next city to have the fate of Seattle and the Bay Area? Will it be Austin? Denver? Still somewhere else?