skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know where or what happened with this machine, as he was the technical lead for his company and they were a sub-contractor on the machine. But it was supposed to be a lot more sensitive accurate and smaller than what they had at the time.

From my understanding they completed their part of the contract and never heard anything else about it.
They should be mild, really, so long as immigration makes up for it, and the US is historically good at attracting and assimilating immigrants. Trump aside (which is indeed a big aside), it seems like that will probably continue.

Politically, it probably means increased racial tensions as the majority white population finds itself on a more and more equal footing with other ethnic groups.
This is interpreting previous decades as "normal" and current status quo as "abnormal".

Hypothetically, though, if previous generations (a) did not need as many farm hands, (b) did not need as many factory workers, (c) had access to cheap birth control and (d) enjoyed low child mortality rates, do you think their high birth rates would've stayed as high?
RFID resolves this and other problems including inventory and theft. Even if you had to do this via visual inspection its still very possible.(http://mentalfloss.com/article/501060/man-buys-two-metric-to...)
> Two-party consent laws raise an interesting point: how could Duplex operate legally in California?

They're not testing it in California, is one option. Two party consent is not the standard in most states.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...
ask Japan, they seem to be doing OK.
Also the number of people living alone seems to be rising. I wonder what % of that are active choices.
Ask HN: What STEM field is currently the wild west
I work at a generic large corporation writing software. My main gripe is how checked out everyone is and how shitty our process is. This seems to be the case across the board. MBAs join exec teams and gamify work and come up with grandious policies.

I hear stories from the 90s of all these rockstar engineers and scientists that would go from job to job just getting shit done and not having to worry about corporate bs.

So what field is that? What field is in it's corporate infancy were the life hasn't been sucked out of it by execs and shareholders. What is the get-shit-done field? The pre-IPO google? Is that a thing or am I building up ideas in my mind?

Background: I have an undergrad in electrical engineering and applied math. I got into software. Currently I work on low level sutff and firmware. It has the potential to be really amazing, but realiztically kinda sucks.
I would assume a lot of recruiter-types or folks just getting their feet wet into programming would assume C++ is just a newer or more powerful "Edition" / "Version" of C.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." -- attributed to Andy Finkel
They also did so in an environment where childcare was free (Because grandma was doing it for you.)

Most people don't live with grandma anymore, and the government will happily take your children away if you don't keep every second of their lives supervised by an adult, prior to the age of 13.
Doesn’t that still track? Having children makes it harder to get/stay rich, not having children makes it easier.
You tell your boss(es) about your concerns and onboard some new people, and you do something new. Either within the company; find a team that needs people or try to pioneer a new app, or change companies. Or accept being the expert and enjoy a promotion!
Replacement level fertility is by definition non-exponential (or if you prefer, has an exponent of 1.) A reasonable number of macroeconomists would be ok with replacement-level fertility. The economics get really bad when the birth rate falls below replacement though - you get fewer workers supporting more retirees, which has the bad consequences you can see now in Japan.
People do learn over time. I remember Steve Jobs (maybe his stanford address) talking about getting fired from Apple. He said it was a humbling experience but one he learned from.

Job's wasn't 100% successful in all his products, but he was persistent. Even the failures didn't stop him from trying the next thing (Lisa, Newton, eMate[1], Pipin). Even the original mac had lac-luster sales at first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
Huh, I did a blog post about this just last night. Basically, people's personality has an impact on whether they have kids, personality is heritable, fertility won't be low forever given current conditions but who knows how conditions will change.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2018/05/falling-fert...
It would be that if it was used by people as an "assistant" -- and not to play games, tweet BS, send dick/vagina pics, and watch cat videos...
In 2014, my phone got cut off[1] and I went without connectivity for about 6 months (I was poor, doing a startup right after a previous failed startup, maybe not the smartest circumstances). The phone was basically a wifi device during that time.

I could have got a prepay SIM easily enough, but, oddly, I found being unreachable weirdly liberating. Yes, it was awkward that I had to plan ahead by organising when and where to meet people, checking messages (and maps) on wifi and so forth, but knowing that once I stepped outside, that I would be completely disconnected, was actually a great feeling. I knew that while I travelled to the office, nobody would bother me, I knew when I was out shopping, nobody would bother me. It was my time, disconnected from work, from friends/family/random people, from news that I really didn’t need to read...

Nowadays, I have an iphone which I use for whatsapp/telegram/signal, email, idle browsing when I’m not at home, very very very rarely a phone call. I think when this phone eventually dies, I’ll replace it with a cheap emergency-only phone, basically, like when I didn’t have a phone except that family can reach me in emergency. I have an iPad for when I do need to access everything else but am not at home or in work. Although, I don’t bring it everywhere.

[1] it was a bill phone in the name of my back-then-newly-deceased startup, I had tried to change it to my name, the account manager and other people said yes no problem and I went home waiting for a bill, which never came, then a few months later they disconnected me and wanted more money than the phone or the contract were worth to get it reconnected. I decided its not worth it.
Proof-of-Stake units don't have to be acquired via public exchange, so ownership can concentrate without visibility; same as any other crypto system. It would likely work well enough for a period of time but as the system starts to show it's age, lots of unpleasantness follows.

I fully expect governments will embrace and utilize crypto to terrifying effect. Maybe it's time for Mars colonization?
I don't see the value in large numbers of unskilled workers entering the US every year.

With a potentially large wave of automation coming, the US shouldn't straddled itself with lots of unemployable drivers, farm workers, etc.

I hope we can move to a much more sensible immigration system, similar to Canada's, for example.
Not true at all. Turns out that the poor people who actually cant afford to have kids are having more kids. Hispanic and Black growth is much higher than whites and asians.

Asians with the highest income level have lowest birth rate.

Given that it is mostly whites who have been leading in STEM there is a high chance that US will lose its competitive advantage in these fields.
I'm a bit pissed because the article doesn't really discuss what they promise to discuss.
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I read the article title and I think "good."

I would love for governments all over the world to finally reach a scarcity mindset. Unfortunately, the earliest governments to try that were pwned by imperialists.

But these days power dynamics aren't so linear anymore due to WMDs.
I don't think that it's a matter of worldwide standard of living. I wonder if developing nations have an easier time with a young person reaching a comparable standard of living with their parents, and the developed ones have a much larger discrepancy. In a developing nation success might be somewhere to live, and a job. Before someone from north america is "doing well" you need a partner, a 5 bedroom house, two cars, two jobs, and a university education. We can't meet our "needs" until much later in our life.
> think their idea is legit and just inflate some numbers and their capabilities to get the money they need to prove it

how is that not "legitimate fraud?"
Pluralsight Form S-1
Not to mention that it has become more of a speculative tool than an actual currency for general and everyday use.
When Bitcoin hit around 14K my mom had heard all about the rise on MSNBC/CNN. So she asked me how to buy bitcoin. She needed to replace her radiator. She had about 500 and needed 1200 so she thought it was a reasonable gamble. So I had her send the money to me and I told her I would invest for her.

I did not..

But I did inform her that when it crashed I just stuck her money in my savings account. And nothing was lost. I was willing to eat the loss if it had gone up when she wanted to cash out.

And I did buy her a new radiator. I don't have to give a shit about mothers day for the next decade.
Nope, but I've had one sit next to me before on a US bound international flight (in 2005 ish). So they definitely exist.
The ESP8266 is sort of a unicorn chip.. prior to that chip existing virtually everything in that space was $10 for getting wifi bolted onto a design unless you were a super high volume company who could get Broadcom's attention. In fact, the Electric Imp which was the SDcard / wifi combo thing was actually designed by somebody who left apple and managed to actually get broadcom to sell them chips -- I'm fairly certain they just happened to still remember how to use the broadcom chips that virtually nobody in the world has outside of samsung and apple and the associated SDK's -- so when that tiny electric imp startup used that chip I was optimistic that broadcom would make their chips more avail, but nope.. no change, and finally ESP8266 came out and changed the market completely for wifi.. pretty amazing thing..
Fewer low-skilled immigrants in those countries compared to the US, is the usual explanation given.
The Economist loves to talk about this topic. One recent example:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/08/30/immigran...
From a couple decades of gaming experience, you don't need much more than eyeballs, fingers and a little bit of forearm.

I am convinced people who talk about immersion in VR have never been addicted to any game. It doesn't take that much to lose yourself inside of one. After the first few minutes both VR and non-VR games are the same once you're fluent with the controls.
An employer buys your time for the period you work for them. If they’re not paying you, they have no moral right to dictate who you work for next.

How have we become so far removed from the idea that you sell only your labour to an employer?
Facebook claims to have 150m active daily users of its Stories product
This. The real answer isn't as simple as not having enough money.
Looking over other people's shoulders while they job search I've seen plenty of openings that require a bachelor's but don't require it be in any particular field.

These may or may not be the best jobs but it's not an uncommon requirement and they are typically better in some dimension than openings that require a HS diploma only (at least within the same organization).
I see where you are coming from. Perhaps my original wording didn't do justice to my thought process.

I agree with your take about STEM majors being pushed due to both ROI potential and/or market demand for skills. I also agree that this is an unhealthy approach to education. However, I don't see this changing. I see it as the fundamental motivator of education for many people. Likely, the people to which I am referring are not readers of this site, who are of the highest skills in their respective fields (most likely technical).

I am interested in your opinion that "university does a decent job of making people credentialize in generally important concepts" but then following with your personal interest (later realized) in an education based on (and in) philosophy.

I think this actually reinforces my point, because the motivator is the credential, or some creditable skillset. This is the economic utility motivator I was referring to, rather than a more abstract education in philosophy or other arts. The skills gained from these more abstract educations are not as highly valued by their economic potential, however they could actually be more beneficial to both the person and society as a whole.
That's pretty much how it's done here - if you freeze up during the "official" presentation you'll get helped and prompted and so forth.

The Certificates I refer to are completely separate from proficiency - they're "add-on" exams / certifications from Grand Lodge that show you've learned the work 100% backwards and forwards. I think GLoTX now requires an A certificate for anyone moving up to WM.

I do have to say I love the formality of dress/uniform from the Scottish and English brethren that have visited my Lodge. Makes me feel way underdressed. :) One of the things I was told when first inquiring about joining was that "We care more about the man inside than their exterior, we're not going to reject or kick anyone out simply because they don't have a suit and tie or a tux. Wear the best clothes you've got, we'd rather you be here, period."

There's sometimes that I have to go straight to Lodge from work and I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt - I get the feeling that would be scandalous in an English lodge (I do wear slacks and a polo shirt when possible).

We do now require jacket and tie for anyone participating in a part in a degree ceremony, though.

I love being the Secretary in an EA - we have a certain bit that's specific to Texas and Louisiana that I started adding a little flourish to, that's become tradition at my Lodge :D
Defense guys love that kind of language.
There are also ramifications with older people who have no one to care for them at the end of their lives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/24/feat...
More to the point, though, adjectival forms of proper nouns are not. (a German man = ein deutscher Mann)
There are more grandmas alive than ever in past. What is stopping you from doing it now ? Go live with grandma.
Anyone know of the minimum and maximum accuracy of the cell phone triangulation methods are? This article states that they were getting results from within a few hundred yards to 1.5 miles

And the scariest thing me in the article (besides being able to bypass the auth) is that they were able to send several requests and track movement in near real time. Did they really not have a request limiter in place?
In a debt-based growth-dependent (to repay ever the increasing debts) economy, it crashes everything. Turns out assuming infinite growth does not produce a stable civilization. This is why there are concomitantly erstwhile calls for people to both reduce their "footprint" by not reproducing and also that immigration is crucial to every (western) society's survival.
> you get fewer workers supporting more retirees, which has the bad consequences you can see now in Japan.

With the productivity gains of the last few decades this shouldn't be a problem. That is, if those productivity gains actually went into something useful, instead of appreciating my 401K.
To be fair, it's only really big on the homepage, all other pages it gets much smaller.
Ha! I know it sounds stupid guys, but I actually think paintball is a really fun environment to meet people and build friendships.

I wasn't trying to put you down. I was just trying to call back to the old joke. A coworker of mine is into paintball.
When you have nothing in your life and none of your achievements will outlast you, the prospect of having children is more interesting.

There's also the whole "not being aware contraception exists because you couldn't go to school" thing.
Unfortunately many areas have outlawed living 10 together in tiny houses and apartments.

Boarding houses have become illegal, and their modern equivalent of micro apartments are in danger of becoming illegal [0].

To add a personal story, when I was college we had about 20-30 people living in a medium sized single family home. We were mostly students, but there were a couple of kids, and a grandmother too. Our neighbors hated us, and constantly tried to report us for overcrowding. However in our locality there was no cap on the number of residents, so long as conditions are sanitary and safe. But we'd have the zoning person come through frequently to ensure we didn't have things like too many ovens or broken bathrooms.

0: http://www.sightline.org/2016/09/06/how-seattle-killed-micro...
I am in the uk, I just have a normal sim in the watch which I pay £10 a month for.
It's the kind of language that makes colonels' and generals' ears prick up.

Just like how the marketing verbiage for enterprise software ("scalable", "five nines", etc.) is meant to impress decision makers in the private sector.
I think adoption is falling in the right places. I think it's wildly premature for a crypto-currency to be used in everyday transactions. So if, say, Amazon decided to accept bitcoin but is now moving away from it, I think that's a good thing.

Cryptocurrencies need to solve several issues such as energy consumption, price stability, and scaling before we see anything useful.
It does on my Android. This is not standard (on a rooted device, with AdAway installed)?
>Why do people hold up the NY Times as such a great newspaper?

Because it's been in business for 167 years, and in that time has changed the course of history and our understanding of the world around us multiple times.

What have you done today?
for what sort of workload?

I'm primarily in text editors, IDEs, browsers and command line.

jetbrains stuff is cross-platform, and I'm assuming runs well on windows. the surfacebook world looks enticing, and my macbook is ... well, i'm getting enticed by the surface world. What sort of problems do you encounter?
Not everyone in the world can live in the same place.
> Spending all day at the beach with no sunscreen hasn't always been insane

Huh?!
For PR purposes.
- You could say that for cash and internet as well, but I hate it too that currently the majority of the space is overrun by scammers & useless ICOs.

- As for wallet bugs: if you're talking about Ethereum or low-quality software projects yes, but for Bitcoin it's been a long time since that was an issue

- Regarding power: setting aside all those sensationalistic headlines. Crypto-miners are a way that enable renewables to be optimized when there are imbalances on the demand/supply on the powergrid. Contracts with renewables enable further development of that infrastructure. Of the top of my head BitFury, one of the big crypto-mining firms are in majority if not completely powered by renewables.

- Also compare that to the multiples of power used today by gold mining, or infrastructure that Bitcoin aims to replace.

- In the end, it's like any other power usage, the market will decide if it's viable, govs could probably tax power usage on cryptocurrencies, but it won't matter since the market will adapt.

- There are decentralized exchanges trying to break through along with various different type of projects, albeit the space is crowded by scammers/ICOs like any new space it's the unfortunate nature of the people.

- Although it's illegal in Venezuela, Venezuelans protecting their wealth from the dictatorship is quite a use case. Also, what's the legal use case for owning gold? I do commerce legally just fine with Bitcoin although the tech is still evolving on that front.

Judging on a tech based on its current state is being blinded to the evolution of tech and I'm surprised to see it from an HN user.

I personally don't care about Blockchain or the ICOs, scams etc. unfortunately pop everyone, but I see value on Bitcoin, using your money completely permissionlessly with other people is a great feeling in our days.

I also see great applications in the future where we can have more native money on games/apps.

Like internet, people will abuse, scam and it can be dangerous but thing how it would have been if there was no free internet to browser any website you want, but only a regional app store.
> Not true at all. Turns out that the poor people who actually cant afford to have kids are having more kids. Hispanic and Black growth is much higher than whites and asians.

You're technically correct, but minorities are only slightly higher (birth rate wise) than whites.

"It’s official: Minority babies are the majority among the nation’s infants, but only just"

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-official...

I would argue, based on historical data, that if wealth inequality was reduced in conjunction with higher education levels of minority women, their birth rates would dip again (higher income levels and higher education obtained by women are prime drivers of lower birth rates). This discounts cultural drivers, but my hunch is those decline with each passing generation (ie catholicism and its disdain for contraception/family planning).
Precisely. What happens if the system makes a mistake and tells you you're confirmed when that's not the case? Then you show up for a reservation that doesn't exist and you wish you'd spent 3 mins making the call yourself.

The question will be what is the net time savings? If it works 99 out of 100 times, maybe that's good enough for many mundane tasks. But if it's 75 out of 100, that's almost certainly not worth it.
> Advertise on a dog community site is probably pretty spot on if you want to target dog owners...

Give me a list of dog community site to target 1 millions dog owners.

Now tell me how expensive it would be to show ads on theses websites.

Plenty of dog owners are on Facebook, much easier to target 1 millions dog owner there instead.

Did I forget to mentions that it's for a dog shop in Montreal? Good luck!
There are only a few houses (approx 15 residents) on the island.
Again, I completely disagree. I see someone who is being called out for shitty things they're saying. I'm not seeing free speech shut down at all; on the contrary, I see a lot of other people using their free speech to express their disagreement.

And the person in the video, Jordan Peterson, is someone who expresses views that basically say that a lot of people don't deserve to have freedom. He claims that women should not be able to leave abusive marriages. He claims that gay marriage should not be legal at all. He's used a lot of pseudoscience to make it appear as if he's being rational, when really all he's doing is expressing disdain and scorn for lots of marginalized groups. And I can't be upset with those groups for finally getting tired of him disparaging them, and telling him to shove it.
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Phablet?