skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's another way poor people lose their rights. Why didn't the family, who must have know what the poor guy was doing, didn't prosecute or appeal? Because they were immigrants, didn't want attention on them, whether they were legally here there were probably people around them. These poor people are almost like slaves. They can leave, but they don't have civil rights, they can't safely tell the police about mistreatment.
How Red Hat has come to dominate Kubernetes
I've had 2 instances where the IRS erroneously concluded that I owe them large tax bills. It took a few months of back and forth paperwork and phone calls to resolve, and have the IRS note on paper that I owe them nothing.

With this law, an erroneous IRS decision can limit passport issuance and international travel. Three letter agencies are probably salivating at the prospect of 'errors' in possible suspects. This just unjustly empowers the government.
That is correct, the article is written to support the narrative of 'National Disaster' rather than 'Stretch goals, slowly being reached by continued development.'

What is left unspoken is that while the JSF is behind schedule and over budget, it has design specs that are currently unavailable to the "enemy" forces. So when the US builds and fields a new fighter (like the F-22 before it) it forces opposing forces to build a counter to it or some way to defeat it. In a "cold war" situation where nobody is actually shooting at each other and are just running simulations to see who would win if they did start shooting, it allows a larger economic nation to defeat the weaker economic nation by driving their economy into dirt. It also means that as long as a country is far enough ahead in that calculus it can make threats (implied or overt) that people who don't want to lose power will respect.

The first F-35 squadron has reached operational status[1] and that means that war planners have to include the F-35's capabilities in their simulations. And if in those plans they find their own aircraft are now obsolete[2] then they will have to back down rather than "poke the bear" as the vernacular goes in order to avoid a conflict that would see them removed.

The F-35 is an expensive weapons program. People want to "kill it" for different reasons. That is has encountered issues during its development are not good reasons, nor were they good reasons when they were used against the F-22 either. But the F-35 is not a 'disaster'.

[1] https://www.f35.com/news/detail/first-operational-f-35a-squa...

[2] Obsolete means that in a fight all or most of their aircraft would be defeated when faced with an aircraft with the F-35's design capabilities.
>Thank you for the link, it is very interesting. Having read the Wikipedia article, I think that metonym here is a bit too heavyweight for the simple thing expressed in the comment.

Metonym is just a linguistic term. Such terms are not constrained to describe high uses of language by great masters of writing. They are merely names for specific constructs or linguistic phenomena.

A drunken sailor swearing at someone at 3am could be using a metonym just as easily as Wallace Stevens.
Another nice intro to Bayesian statistics is McElreath’s Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan. There are also recordings of the lectures based on the book. http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
Capabilities are not inevitable.

Yes exactly. The complaint is that the integrated development-procurement process proceeds as if they are.

For instance, https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/02/16/report-e... while they work on building the JFK.
> Then why levy taxes for anything?!

Because people owning tanks and bombs want to be paid for not using them.
Love the function-first design approach -- e.g., "start with left-aligned black text on a white background, and to apply styling only to solve a specific problem."!

But I'm not sure that "Brutalist" is the best name for it, as it carries a connotation of harsh, even ugly architecture designed around the materials, which brutalizes the user, whereas this web design is all about presenting the content in the best, least distracting way for the user ("When in doubt, do what Tron does: fight for the users.").

Sure the name is edgy & gets attention, but...
I'm not sure I see how. Seems like a great incentive, actually. Your passport is about to expire, but you're not going to get a new one unless you settle your debts.

I doubt people with more than $50k in tax debt are the kind of people who can't come up with the money, they're just the people who don't want to.
> Last time I suggested something similar, it was pointed out that unmanned aircraft are highly susceptible to jamming. Thus, the only way to make them really resilient is to make them completely operable without any human intervention.

What would a human pilot be able to do if all the fighter instruments are jammed? At best the human pilot may be able to escape the battlefield I guess.
I think they are, but I imagine the profit from their first party game IP and the licensing fees from other game publishers probably dwarfs that profit.

So, they shouldn't be in dire financial straits if they don't sell games, but it sure isn't the winning strategy.
Impact of spending time in nature on long-term well-being: study
Until they’ll use a combination of UV and IR cameras which will penetrate the makeup (UV can be blocked with sunscreen but multi spectrum sensors do defeat these masking tactics).
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Yes! I had the same thing happen probably about the same time. Was sitting in a hot tub watching whichever ones happen in August and started to notice that the aluminum flashing on the deck would make a hissing/sizzling sound when the bigger ones hit.

It was also the first time I noticed a greenish trail glowing after the meteor.
But that's between you and this private company :)

Plus, I think at least part of the reason why airlines would be reluctant to board you is exactly that - knowing that the destination country wouldn't be happy with them dropping you at their doorstep with no passport in hand. What would they care otherwise?
And of course we should have just built more f22s. And we need something to replace A10s. Why can't we just redesign new planes like the f22 and a10 using today's tech, repeating the excellent design elements, no need to make them that different than before - they should be relatively cheap, right?
> Morally, more people are saved from this experiment

That's not the biggest difference though. The elephant in the room is that animals are not humans, and they are worth less than humans. Else, why not use humans?
Not only does Japan still have the death penalty, they don't tell people which day they're to be executed.

https://twitter.com/TimothyS/status/1015029767450423296
> As I mentioned, even if you don’t get the job or lose the job, you’re still ahead of not trying.

I fail to see how poisoning your own reputation comes out as "still ahead"; that is absolutely guaranteed to get your résumé silently discarded. The tech community isn't that big, even in the tech hubs, and word does eventually get around both among engineers and recruiters.
I agree. Mass unemployment is not a concern we can start to address because we do not know the nature of the coming unemployment. We're talking about 20 or 40 years away.

Meanwhile, we have real fucking problems right now:

1. Sky high housing prices.
2. Extreme wealth disparity.
3. Environmental degradation.
4. Cybersecurity failures everywhere, just as everything goes autonomous or otherwise cyberphysical.
5. Information operations threaten both democracy and the openness of the internet.

You can still make $100k a year editing English. The demand for talent is sky high, it's investments in education and society that will help us, not fretting over how AI will take away jobs long before we can do anything about it.
> Let's say an hostile space alien invasion happen in 10 years : would it not be better to not sacrifice human at all in the fight?

Our plane technology is quite useless in such a situation (and considering that alpha centauri is 5 light years away and aliens likely use the same physics 10 years is quite unlikely ;) )

> With technology, we can create an arbitrary numbers of new sensing capabilities into the machine. A human will be surpassed by a machine before our generation passes away.

Often times the combination of human instinct and machine capability is still the best for many tasks.
America is one of I believe only 2 countries that demand tax on income from its citizens who live and earn abroad (and who have almost certainly already paid tax on that income to the country in which they are living).

My understanding is that they won't always even accept a renunciation of citizenship if they believe you're doing it to avoid paying them taxes.

It's no surprise to me that there are significant numbers of expats with large unpaid tax bills, possibly from years of working, paying taxes in the country in which they live but never paying US taxes.

Point being that this is probably not primarily targetting rich people who aren't paying their share, but people who are paying their share in the country in which they live and work, but are failing to pay an extra portion of tax to a country they left years ago.
And of course it turns out we use A10s frequently right now, so it's fantastic that we have them. We need more. They are cheap. We need a variety of different airplanes for different scenarios.
Humans often only repeat patterns they've seen before as well, and quirky output comes from wild guesses and requires significant skilled labor to clean up.

For every new design you see, there may be 100 or 1000 that were thrown away. All of those discarded designs cost money regardless of if they were used or not.
Please let's not forget that text debt in the US is calculated with penalties and interest retroactively, upon discovery. I absolutely know people that had unknown tax debts (from assets they unknowingly "owned" and got in divorces) pop up, and loom large because of accumulated penalties and interest. (Penalties cannot exceed 25% of the original tax debt, to my knowledge, but I don't believe that interest carries the same cap, and is calculated at the federal short term carry rate + 3%).
Of similar ilk and made by the community super star sprite_tm: https://pocketsprite.com
Not sure all the hate with Docker. It works and has a good ecosystem.

The DB command in the first approach seems like something docker got rid of a long time back when they deprecated the —link stuff. Just create a network and attach containers to it and then you get DNS for free.
C++ 20 embraces design by contract
Not a stupid idea, but it requires whole approach to farming, together with machinery to be reinvented from the ground up. Agrokruh is one example of electrically driven machinery which was already proven to be energetically efficient and profitable: https://vimeo.com/99343531
IDK, brutalist architecture is great when done right.
I’m pretty bullish on radiology going first too. I keep telling my radiologist friend but she refuses to acknowledge that the computer is already better and faster than her.

But she also makes a good point — even if the computer is better, in today’s lawsuit happy America, it will be a long time before anyone will accept a result that wasn’t at least reviewed by a human.
Same question (basically) was just asked 4 days ago, FWIW.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17454009
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17465068
Containers have much greater flexibility than OS packaging: use different libc library easily, install the same versions of the same package in the official sources without needing to re-package, use a different distro’s packages for a single use-case, isolate permissions and users along with the software, ...

Containers are much easier to use than OS packaging: Docker documentation is easily readable online, there are tons of Stack Overflow answers, it makes complex processes like multi-stage chroot builds trivial, it works the same on every OS (including Windows and macOS), running a custom package repo is a single command. ...

With a tool that’s so powerful yet easily to use, it’s no wonder that users avoid single-OS skills like Debian or RPM packaging skills.
I have to disagree with the “phone are not high-tech” part having worked in switching systems. Phones themselves are pretty crude implements but the backend has been very technologically advanced for the last century. Bell Labs earned their reputation properly.
Blockchain – Does it represent human behavior or a technology marvel?
Modin v0.1.0 – Unify the way you interact with your data
Flutter is not React
Most of the worlds developers aren’t working for FAANG companies. I would even say that many aren’t working for software companies. They are working for corporate America writing bespoked apps that just want to get stuff done and want to hire someone who can hit the ground running. If you are coming in at a senior level to a C# position with prior knowledge of Java. You’re going to waste a lot of time. It’s not about the language. It’s about the ecosystem, knowing the popular third party packages that will make your life easier etc.

How many Java developers would come in knowing how to use LINQ efficiently and know the difference between

customers.Where(c => c.Age > 65).ToList()

And

customers.ToList().Where(c => c.Age > 65)

when using Entity Framework or the Mongo linq driver? They would both give you the same result but one is much more efficient.

You can’t imagine the number of times I’ve seen people use a Func<T,bool> instead of an Expression<Func<T,bool>> and wonder why their code is so slow in production.

How many Java developers would migrate toward log4net because they have heard of log4j instead of using the much better Serilog?

How many would come in knowing how to efficiently use ASP.Net Core and plug things in the pipeline?

Knowing the language is the easy part. Knowing the frameworks and the ecosystem takes time.

No one would hopefully ever say a Windows system admin could function at the same level with Linux as someone who had Linux experience.

That’s just like the “AWS Architects” who translate all of their knowledge of on prem deployments to AWS without knowing AWS best practices and wondering why the same infrastructure costs more.

I’ve been a hiring “manager” - more like the architect. I’ve got deadlines and deliverables. Why am I going to hire a Go developer when I can find perfectly competent C# developers that have the skill set I need? Why would I learn Go knowing that the local market wants C#, Java, and Node developers?
Likely yes, but it's already been designed for humans at great cost (financial and limits in terms of size/shape, forces, etc), so this is arguably much worse than designing it solely for unmanned operation.
Run fast programs.

Skip Electron based shit like Slack, Spotify and the like.

Don't overload the system disk. Keep it at below 20% full.

Upgrade to a SSD if you don't have one already.

Bump up the RAM (there are aftermarket RAM options).

Grayscale mode wont do much. It will only affect the graphics pipeline, not actual speed of the program's you're using.

Disable most always on third party services and run them on demand (you know, programs that want to run in the background all the time, like third party updaters, clipboard services, and such). Can live some programs you find essential though.

Don't hack into Apple's settings for anything aside enabling/disabling "defaults write" like options. Don't go removing folders etc and following BS web advice from random tinkerers.

Best of all, why do you want to make "MacOS High Sierra faster"? It's fast enough as it is. On a 2016 MBP I edit 4K video, write music, program in IDEs and VMs, and so on.

Do you have a specific workflow you want to make faster?
I think it will mean that school will just take longer.

Even though we have calculators we still make kids learn basic math in school because it is necessary for doing the higher level work.

I suspect it would be the same here. Even more schooling to learn what the computer already knows, so that you can do novel work.
> They are ideally institutions built by people for the purpose of maintaining a state of civility and addressing common concern that might undermine that state of civility.

I agree but they are built by specific people - military. The state of civility is not a goal by itself just the best way for the military to get paid for doing nothing of value for the rest of the people, in predictable and stable fashion.
Not much. You're at the mercy of a capped number of practitioners getting sanctioned into practice a year. This creates artificial scarcity.

Also, you still have the blatant consolidation of the medical industry into a gigantic monolithic hybrid of pharma, hospital, insurer, and artificially scarce doctor.

The solution is not to pump more doctors into a system geared to extract multiple industries worth of profit. Instead, it should be investing in increasing the capability of individuals to provide and manage their own medical care.

This means more accessible diagnostics tools, fewer barriers to entry in getting access to good medical literature. Investing in teaching people how to do research, and make medically relevant observations, or to at least be able to tell when "First Aid" stops, and more advanced facilities are needed. When "First Aid" can encompass using a small, affordable X-ray device cheap and easy enough to safely use in a residential home, THEN you start seeing healthcare costs plummet.

Same goes with Pharma. We have an exceedingly low capability to create environments conducive to productive research per capita. The brain power that can crank on these types of things are artificially limited by the inability of many who may have the interest and time to get access to facilities to make meaningful observations and potential discoveries.

Come up with acceptable test analogs. Document, enumerate, and simulate as much as possible so someone can pick up a protein, shove it into a tissue and see what interactions may happen.

Make the information accessible, and start working on boiling it down into learnable paths where a person can get the 80%, but still drill down into the more specialized.

Cheaper, more prolific research and education is the key. NOT letting the market sit on top the misery of the hurt and dying and demanding the toll be paid. Empower first. Optimize last.
Good for you, not practical for most of us though.
If these years of grind are replaced with a higher-level and more intentional early-stage practise of monitoring and managing the automation, then I think we could get better skilled people.

EDIT: Although I suppose that these professionals would need at least some practise of manual work too, to be able to monitor the machines' output.
I recently worked on a 4k 24" monitor (~180ppi) on a 2017 MBP.

The text was either too small when rendered at 1x, or the framerate dropped to a crawl when using a scaling option. Everything was rendering at under 60 fps.

Plus I could clearly see the rendering artifacts when scrolling, mentioned in the article.
For everyone freaking out about this consider that half the country doesn’t owe the irs any money because they make too little. So poor people are by definition unaffected. In addition, not paying taxes is literally illegal so not sure why you should be able to blow money on vacations to europe when you are breaking the law and owe the people of the united states money.
Zstd 1.3.5 Released with Greater Dictionary Compression Performance
For some accountability, both patents list "inventor" Alexander Jay Converse
Like I said, some fields care. Some don't. YMMV. Getting an interview depends on a million and a half factors, it's hard to say one is more important than the other.
Agree. Differences in information input and processing of a human should not be tied to capabilities of a human, and humans are awful at assessing humans and assisting development .
Although incredibly expensive I suppose, I'd also advocate for early stage fmri as an assessment tool: https://youtu.be/rdEX67wAuMk?t=12m29s
Good luck with the new site.
I agree with what you wrote, but let us not forget they also:

11) Started blacklisting ideological conservatives

12) Directly supported a political candidate of the worst sort

13) Lied about influencing voting by biased search results associated with opposing political campaigns

Simply put, Google is now Evil
Yup, indeed. False dilemma (false dichotomy)/bifurcation.
So what does this actually do to the sound? Improve directionality? Amplification across all bands? Speech processing? Noise reduction?

I have a set of NHS hearing aids (free and with a lifetime supply of free batteries), and they're effectively given a custom EQ profile to match my hearing loss (frequencies above 4khz). They also have feedback protection, which I can occasionally hear kicking in.
There's room to deskill white collar work, and to a magnitude people may find surprising. I think science and marketing are most at risk from automatic causal modelling.
The treasure hunters on a deadly quest for an eccentric's $2m bounty
Pocket and sprite (singular) indeed... wow that is small.
> Apparently your experience was better until your box committed suicide.

My previous experience was with Ubuntu/Unity, which was the first Linux Desktop system I ever ran. It was ... not a whole lot better.

> You don't have to do much work to use Linux.

I've explained multiple times that this isn't my experience with Linux. Maybe it was for you; but it certainly was not for me.

> People don't buy windows or mac because its easy to configure. They buy it because .. work out any kinks with the hardware/software.

The second half that statement is certainly true. But as for the first half? A good portion of my family, most of whom are programmers, disagrees with you, and so do I.

> People will only buy Haiku EVER if its sold preloaded on a good looking box.

TuneTracker does this already.
The title of the book sounds a little depressing (spending your whole life as a developer for various corporations?), but chapters 11-15 sound good!

> 11. Freedom: How to quit your job

> 12. Freelancing: Going out on your own

> 13. Creating your first product

> 14. Do you want to start a startup?

> 15. Working remotely survival strategies
Maybe you've lost me, and I misunderstand your post.

Initially I replied thinking you were talking about getting training in a specific set of tasks or platform, you mentioned "Product X".

But it seems, now you're talking about training a worker "to productivity", which is a bit more oblique and not as specific of a regimen against what you initially posited-on this I have somewhat of an easier time giving you the concession.

Let me just ask, before going further: which position are you taking? Training an employee to use a specific tools set that we've established isn't widely used, or training an employee to be most effective and productive day to day?

Or have I misunderstood you altogether?
>You also had to suffer interlace for the high resolution modes.

1200/AGA should have the double-scan (31KHz-ish) "productivity" modes. VGA monitors work just fine with these. The graphiti would have offered chunky modes (vs bitplanes) from AGA, for major performance improvement. Else, Amiga video cards generally do chunky.
I like this one: https://www.manning.com/books/soft-skills

It's good in general and gives great life lesson how to navigate your career and the choices you may face.
I think for some of us it is just our only recruiter experience are the folks who talk to you and never call back who work for a specific company, and the folks who want to spam your resume or something. It's hard to know who is who.
I meant sensibly invested, so removing the caps would be part of the investment.

I figure if you move from a tight doctor market to a looser doctor market, it becomes more likely that people are working for themselves and competing for patients and so on.