skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Same for trucking.

That strikes me as an exaggeration. Notwithstanding "sitting is the new smoking", I don't imagine trucking has nearly the permanent health risks of welding, especially considering that maximum-time regulations are now actually getting enforced, thanks to electronic logbooks.

> Who wants to spend a month at a time away from family?

Someone without a family (usually modified by "yet") or who's into making shorter-term sacrifices for the longer term. The latter would apply if the pay were high enough, but it isn't. The latter type seems to exist in the military.

The question makes an assumption that isn't necessarily valid, as there's another kind of person: one who has no kids and brings a spouse along to drive as a team.

None of this, of course, necessarily translates into an attractive long-term career, but it's also not high- or increasing-skill labor.

> improvements in working conditions (safety, hours, etc.) as a perhaps more cost-effective way to make these jobs attractive.

I suspect the reason such measures are particularly unattractive to employers is that many would be practically impossible to roll back once the job market turns. Wages are a "knob" that turns both ways, but once you've spent money on all those safety upgrades at the plant, there's no un-spending it.

As cynical as that may sound, for low-margin businesses, the fear of being out-competed is always on their mind. Whether the fear is exaggerated compared to reality is another matter.
It's the same reason people believe aliens or Jesus is coming. People seem to feel the need to believe in unprovable bullshit because the idea of there being only fairly mundane things and nothing beyond us or watching us is terrifying to them. Without myth and fantasy all we have is the drudgery of every day life and the knowledge that we're all just going to work and suffer with brief periods of happiness and joy until we die. I've spent a lot of time reading people discussing conspiracies. People don't give a shot about reason, common sense, logic or evidence. They need their make believe. Without it the rest of their fantasies can't be real and their lives become the meaningless existences all our lives really are and that nothing really special will probably happen to them or in their lifetime.
And it's not just owners of equities that have this worrying pattern. Consider, for example, the market share trends for SSL certificate authorities:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif...
Somehow I'm sure the bots hammering POTUS' tweets will be left intact.
I bet organizations such as the KKK would love to advertise on reddit, so hey, if they want to turn this into a money thing they should have plenty of monetization opportunities.

My popcorn is in the microwave..... ;-)
If there is a pay gap, I suspect it's at least partially determined by a person's tendency to negotiate salary. There are many articles about how salary negotiation is crucial when applying for a job, yet many women and men often accept the first offer a company makes to them (which is usually a low ball offer).

Negotiating a higher salary requires a bit more drive/aggressiveness than the average person has. Making up numbers here, if you say that only 20% of the population has that personality trait, men seem more likely to have that trait (perhaps 15% of men have it and 5% of women), which would contribute to the equal pay for equal work gap.

To rephrase my above statement, the current job market rewards certain personality types with higher positions & salaries, and men seem to have a higher chance of having that personality.

A completely separate question is: Is the above an acceptable situation? I would say no.

For example, more men are three times more likely to be psychopaths than women [1], and CEOs have a much higher chance of being psychopaths than the general population [2]. There's a strong chance that certain psychopathic tendencies are rewarded in the current corporate structure.

Similarly, there are other stories you hear of there being a lot of backstabbing in certain companies at the higher levels. Personality types that are disinclined to engage in that will be unlikely to climb the corporate ladder there.

It's probably in the best interest of all companies and society in general that these kind of personality traits are not rewarded unless they are actually beneficial.

By fixing the problem at this level we'll not only be solving the gender/pay gap between men and women but also the gender pay/gap between differing personalities within a given gender as well.

[1](https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disord...)
[2](http://www.businessinsider.com/ceos-often-have-psychopathic-...)
Why Are We Obsessed with Superhero Movies?
Thanks for the input mneil. That's why I installed and tested with Chrome Canary - latest version, and no data in the profile. Same result and never visited YT with Canary. To make sure I should setup a clean VM and test again.
Nope no requirement that they be a bank. Plenty of places allow you to pay online by “direct deposit”, which in every country other than the US involves them providing you with their bank a/c details.

In the US you give them /your/ bank account, and /they/ initiate the withdrawal. Anyone with your account details can pay for something from your account, including to a service they can withdraw from.

Better yet fraud insurance covers credit cards, not debit or “cheque”. Specifically: if someone uses your bank a/c# you are responsible for recovering the money.
Indeed.

But I think that doesn't go far enough: I want to provide K8s with a YAML file and have Kubernetes itself go and create and provision a VM for me. I.e, I want to "kill" Terraform. I don't care about a 'fabric' network (although that could be convenient), just give me an IP that I can reach even it if is external to the cluster. VMs could be just one more resource that can be created or destroyed by k8s, just like network-based storage today.

I haven't found this exact use-case implemented yet. If noone else builds it in the coming months I'll probably start doing it.
I don’t live in SF, so I can’t speak to their public policy effectiveness (or their public policy in general, to be honest). Would you have citations you could link to where I could familiarize myself with its failings and how it relates to “leftist”/progressive policies? I’d rather not get too much into it here for fear of attracting a thread detachment.
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Well there are other factors you need to control for too, men are more likely to try and choose higher paying jobs because social status and attractiveness to potential mates is impacted by a man's wealth. This is not the case for women, studies show that men are indifferent to a women's economic status when it comes to mate choice and focus more on physical appearance.

There certainly is sexism in the workplace, although the court ruled different I think Ellen Pao was a victim of this. That said, I don't know if it as prevalent and widespread so as to lead to meaningful and statistically significant wage gaps when all the factors are considered. Certainly the evidence for this sort of widespread institutionalized sexism is lacking in my mind.

Still I think the conversation here is more that the wage gap numbers are not as significant as they are often presented in discourse about gender equality
I went to SF for a tech conference this spring. It was held in Moscone, previously a prime location.

I did see poop on the sidewalk and legions of homeless just blocks from the convention. It really is a problem.
Nope, the items with negative value cause significant problems. CRT displays are the largest design problem that recyclers are working their way through.

Just this week, ECS Refining, Apple's main recycler in California, shut down. All of their unprocessed material is now the responsibility of their landlord.
https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2018/07/03/ecs-refini...
What metrics to track for a real-time human dashboard?
Glucose, lipids, ketones, cholesterol to name a few.
Of course only small communities have a majority of btc. Too many people - geeks included - spent too many years believing the fud being broadcast about Bitcoin while others were collecting btc. I've seen the blistering scorn from some here on HN over the years.

When I first ran across Bitcoin in 2010, I thought it was a scam but was intrigued by the tech. After studying it for about a month, I realised it wasn't a scam (though scamsters abound in cryptocurrencies, as in all things money) and went around to my friends in the tech community in my city to show it to them. They know me to be literate in networks and cryptography but only one person in the ten or twelve I approached was equally interested. The rest poopooed Bitcoin, some outright laughing me out of their offices.

Institutional thinking is what kept a lot of smart people from even looking at Bitcoin early on. The findings in this study shouldn't be surprising. In five years, should the internet still be functioning, Bitcoin will be more spread out than it is now.
Agreed. I've tried several times to use google maps with bluetooth headphones on my bike in London. Unlike in the states, the roads are never straight for very long and there are lots of roundabouts. If you take a wrong exit, it will recalculate a new path, but without seeing the screen you don't know you messed up. I found myself wanting positive and negative feedback via audio. "Take the third exit at the round about." "Good job" or "Turned to soon. Recalculating"
Can you discuss blockchain projects here?
Need to understand this community because sometimes you simply ignore messages.

Can you discuss blockchain projects here?
Have the client weave them together. Sever A says extra data is on server B and the UI sends another request.

This is easily solvable - and certainly far easier than splitting up the corporation. At worst some features don't get made.
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Why should it be a priority? Who should pay for it if customers are ok with the status quo? Where is the competition offering to fill the market gap with products that are security minded? I'm not in love with free markets as the end all to solve all problems worth solving, but I think these questions are worth answering. It's either customers willing to pay for something or taxes. Security will probably end up being much like national defense. No one willing to voluntarily pay for it, but it being in the best interest of all to be "forced" to pay for it.
Sure, but was money diverted from mosquito netting programs to pay for this rescue? It certainly doesn't seem that way. Rather it the resources seem to have mostly come from the Thai military.

Why weren't you asking the Thai military to divert its resources to mosquito netting programs last week?
From TFA

> Kubernetes is not aware of the deployment details of Postgres. A naive deployment could lead to complete data loss.

That sounds ominous, but is actually a tautology.

You have the exact same challenges anywhere else, but since K8s makes some operations so easy to do, you need to be careful. RDBMs are specially tricky because most of them expect a single "master" which holds special status. And it so happens to hold all your data too (as do your replicas, provided they are up to date).
That's very true. The effectiveness of Internet censorship has depended a lot on the resources that governments have brought to bear, and I assume the Ugandan government won't have the resources the Chinese government does, maybe resulting in less effective Internet blocking programs.

I remember a time when we used to make fun of governments' lack of understanding of the Internet and the unlikelihood that they would be able to control it. Unfortunately, that was a very different time.
Oh yes please. Seconded.
I would focus on patterns for remote collaboration (structured and searchable chat, VR hangouts) combined with old-fashioned face time (monthly or quarterly in-person activities).
Bitcoin is not marketed as anything. There is no company and there are no marketing or sales people. That is part of the beauty of it.

The decentralized claim refers to a decentralized network where the miners and nodes connected to the network are decentralized and no single entity controls 51% of the network (if they did it would collapse). Ownership of coins is not the same as hashing power.

Nowhere do people claim that the coins themselves are decentralized.
The Neutral Theory in Light of Natural Selection
Am I allowed to plug my own site? - crack on, no need to be shy.
This approach could save journalism from the scourge of fake news. The specific issues are:

1) opinions masquerading as news.
2) misinterpretation of facts/data.
3) misrepresenting the facts.
4) cherry picking (not showing full picture, such that the meaning changes).
5) insufficient context / history about the topic.

All these issues with reporting could be mitigated with expert + crowd annotation — esp where the author and the subject (say people mentioned in the news) can come and add more context.

When objective function is speed and clicks, sometimes depth on a topic suffers. This is true whether news is human or machine generated. In that case, continual engagement with the original article, amendments and updates become a very important tool.

If journalism is defined as a search for truth, then news annotation could be the thing that saves it.

HN, thoughts?
There's the possibility that money isn't his top priority.
Would you fly on an airplane that had a reputation for crashing? Me neither. Crashing airplanes is very, very bad for profits.

Would you bet your life that reputation alone was enough to keep an airliner from crashing? We know right now airlines shave every possible extra cost to achieve the lowest prices because passengers are very price sensitive.

Even more, right now a lot of people don't know they're flying on any number of regional airlines, some of which may have terrible reputations when they fly "United express" [1]. Consider that one of those airlines beating a passenger to get them off the plane didn't change the situation.

Of course, now we have safety standards rather than just reputation preventing crashes, which seems like the appropriate thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Express
Not true. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
I remember seeing this a few years ago:

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/10/gps-tracking-devices-cat...

http://www.ban.org/trash-transparency/
The material you are looking for is called a scintillator. It converts higher energy photons to visible. Of course it has its own issues / cost. Plus, you have to get the light from the rooftop to plants.
GlobaLeaks: Open-Source Whistleblowing Software
He mentions it here: SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk
if you're going into business for recycling or refurbishing, you're probably not taking a shotgun approach and doing everything. Specialisation is key. Is your focus on gathering electronics, refurbishing, refining metals, being a middle man, etc.

Yes, there are lots of people who legally refine precious metals from electronics and make a living. There are also lots of people who are middlemen and sell it to others.

High value metals like gold are refined by LOTS of companies.

"Mining " gold from dumps could be very productive because the concentration is MUCH higher in electronics than in the most productive gold mine. Profitable Gold mines typically mine and process an average of more than 2000-4000 pound of ore to obtain one ounce of gold!

It is much more environmentally conscious (In some instances more profitable) to recycle electronics than to mine for precious metals.
I am not surprised by this. The excuse they gave came from the left-field though ("investigating intrusion reported by anonymous sources"). I also wouldn't be surprised if there are Italian/Israeli/American "security consultants" doing the analysis behind the scenes in the mold of HackingTeam. A dictator's dollar is just as green, I guess.
"If you look at the money supply for the US it has a pretty constant growth rate over the last 8 decades"

I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion given it is common knowledge and fairly obvious that the Fed has been inflating the economy at absurd amounts to get us out of the 2008 crash.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASE
DIY is the way to go. Shell out for a dehydrator with a half-dozen trays, have your butcher thin-slice the best cuts of meat, spice to taste..
Our decentralized, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted data diary app, https://tallylab.com :)
Fellow raw tomato hater here, you summed it up well. Sometimes people dislike food because of taste, who would have thought?
If you're actually interested there are a few companies taking this on such as Athenahealth and DrChrono, both EHRs for small to mid-sized companies. Or if you want to focus on healthcare billing, you should check out Cedar, which focuses on large systems.
That sounds about right, and reflects my experience and expectations as a backend developer well.
Does neocities survive solely from donations? That's pretty impressive if so.
Nahuatl is spoken by something like 1-2 million people and is probably the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the Americas

http://www.native-languages.org/most-spoken.htm

and the most-spoken in Mexico.

I think the title (and to a slight extent the text of the article) make the language sound like a rare curiosity but it's actually a major cultural phenomenon. Grabbing some numbers (which are always subject to definitional quarrels), I think Nahuatl is as common in Mexico as Tagalog in the U.S. (by absolute number of speakers) or as Chinese in the U.S. (by proportion of the population).

Among many other things, our words for tomato, avocado, chili, and chocolate all derive from Nahuatl.

(Edit: of course the social role of indigenous languages in Mexico is different from that of Tagalog or Chinese in the U.S., and the main indigenous languages there are strongly associated with rural and semi-rural communities, as this article points out... which might mean that city-dwelling Mexicans might have quite a bit less contact with Nahuatl and Maya languages than city-dwellers in the U.S. would have with Tagalog or Chinese.)
Pearl's landmark rigorous book is Causality
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Recruiters are not the same as job boards. I have recruiters that I’ve worked with for years as both a job seeker and hiring employees, I have met them for lunch.

I can sit back, tell recruiters I’m looking for a salary that pays no less than $X and sit back. It’s never taken me more than a month from the time I’ve started looking to having another job.
Show HN: Beehive – a header-only C++ behavior tree for game AI and more
Hi, this is my first Show HN. I've been working on this modern C++ implementation of behavior trees as described by Chris Simpson.

I was looking to make something that did not require you to subclass anything in order to use it -- just make your function, functor or lambda match the expected signature, and you're set.

I hope some of you will find it useful and/or interesting! It's released freely under a permissive (zlib) license. Of course, I would love to hear what you think.
journalism from the scourge of fake news.

Journalism isn't suffering from a scourge of fake news.
> why did this kind of behavior evolve?

It's just an extension of the competitive nature of humans/social animals. Social animals despise animals of the same species that are of different social groups. They all want their social group to prevail, and will attack (actively or passively, e.g. by refusing culture) the others. Humans like to think they are above this 'primitive' instinct, but I think the vast majority of human behavior can be summed up by this.
The signal to noise ratio is really low around blockchain.
Isn't the aphorism "beggars can't be choosers" exactly about price, though? (Just the price happens to be zero)

That said, I don't actually mean to merely quibble over semantics and wish to clarify: Is what you meant that many tech tech companies are hoping to hire someone that just doesn't exist at all [1], rather than not existing in sufficient number?

[1] Expecting, like Dilbert's pointy-haired boss that, just because qualifications can be listed in a job description, there must exist someone who fits them all.
I PERSONALLY decided if it seems like 20-25% probability, this is 'likely' because it means I can accomplish it if I can try 4-5 times. If it is 1%, I'd have to attempt 100 times to make a thing happen.
It contains almost no relevant information
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/san-francisco-...

> high taxes, inane regulations, petty nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness and disorder on its streets in the name of "compassion"
BeakerX: Collection of kernels and extensions to Jupyter
Wow, that's 110% of the population of Canada.

Simply staggering.
> It's probably in the best interest of all companies and society in general that these kind of personality traits are not rewarded unless they are actually beneficial.

I have another theory. Some people are so incompetent that they end up as C-level execs. Incompetent people tend to promote equally or more incompetent people.
That exact fact makes it not an oligarchy.
I don't even have alt tab... lol so no. Don't do that at all. I just use windows/mod + left/right to go to the next tab over in whatever window is focused (i3wm).

Or mod+workspace# gets me to the window the screen I want is in, then mod+right tabs over to the application I need.
Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers Over Three Startups
Ah, the post is kinda unclear on the command line requirement. It says they're loaded by default.
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I'm being that pedantic guy now, but I think you misunderstand opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of eating food wouldn't be the negative consequences of eating food. Rather, it would be the negative consequences of not doing something else that you would have done if you hadn't been eating the food.

The easiest example is that the opportunity cost of going to university is 4 years of steady income. But students believe its worth it because the future income they'd receive instead is hopefully more than worth the opportunity cost.
Assuming that syntax is the hardest part of programming?
Issue 101 – GraphQL-Weekly GraphQL Finland Speakers and More
I saw Marco speak at Railsconf 2017 and he was wonderful at challenging some of the social norms that I had around development as a career.

Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6fBRwi6cqc
+1 to this, I'm a big fan of Casella. I personally think it's most useful as a reference, moreso than a textbook.
Hmm... some people I know, are right handed but use the left for that because of right mouse positioning... lol
And they make no money, recently took on a truckload of VC money, and people want out.
When a language no one uses meets an OS no one uses: top of HN.
I'd let them go. Keep the best 5. Or have a contest where you narrow the field down to 5.

100 people fresh for 100 days is a disaster. If you're lucky they'd all ignore one another, group into small teams, and find their own way to do cool stuff.

3-people teams can grow into 100-people teams that do some awesome things. 100-people teams dropped in from the sky are trouble. I've seen it done. It's rarely productive.