skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that a phrase that might have meanings {A,B,C} when translated might end up having meanings {A,D,E} (keeping its primary intended meaning A but also gaining unintended meanings D and E while losing B and C) or, at best, {A,B} (merely losing the nuance of also meaning C).

There's still a difference between mere provocation ("I will live longer than you...") and a direct threat ("...because I will kill you first"). The former could still merely be a statement of confidence (i.e. "our form of government is more stable and resilient than yours, whereas you're overextending yourselves and will deplete your resources").
Exactly. They ruined the mobile startup I worked at. I don't have a lot of love for Cisco at the moment.
I think I'd blame the English language for the same word havint two different meanings. Not two different words meaning two different things.
Some construction jobs are better than others. In SF, for example, there are many undersea construction jobs that pay very well.

The CTO of Coinbase envisions that construction[0] as an industry is ripe for disruption, reaping the fruits of technology like VR controllable drones[1]. If you make construction like a video game, “young people” will flock to it.

[0] https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-bala...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18Z3UnnS_0
I don't think that the concept of a phone-trying-to-be-a-PC is limited by what CPU or RAM it has. You can run complete Linux and Windows CE desktops on devices with way less resources. Doesn't mean that it's the UX the world needs ;-) On the other hand, as long as you know what you want, and know what is available, then none of it really needs to be in competition.
Same. I always love looking at buildings in various stages of construction. I designed and built a shed from scratch five years ago and it was highly enjoyable (and of course a lot of hard work). Just the amount of research to figure out how to do everything properly really satisfies that "geeking out on a new hobby" urge.

I think people underestimate how bad the whole "being outside during all four seasons" aspect of these jobs is, though. Most other jobs are indoors, whether they're highly skilled (e.g. SWE) or not (e.g. fry cook).
And part of telling them not to do those jobs was the college for everyone idea. It was a good ideal, but the problem is, going to college and getting that English 4-year degree doesn't really help you get a job that pays enough to pay off those student loans and save for retirement.

What they said on Prairie Home Companion was correct, everyone does thing their child is exceptional and should go to college instead of trade school.

The truth is, some of those people working at Starbucks for minimum page, with huge debt, would be far better off had they gone to a trade school and be pulling down serious money as an electrician, etc.
Quick recap:

Article: "there's a labor shortage"

'crooked-v: "So pay them more"

'rhexs: "No need," because there is plenty of cheap labor.

Something here doesn't add up.
Wow, so when soviets kill civilians in the aftermath it’s “restraint” but when the US bombed an active enemy it's unreasonable use of force???

I can only imagine what the soviets would have waged on Japan had they landed an invading occupying force.
Found this: https://www.esfi.org/resource/what-is-a-tamper-resistant-rec...
The geography of power generation is important. The losses for a 345kV 1GW transmission line are about 4% over 100Mi. As I understand it, they also increase in a compound manner, so over ten times that distance would be 48%. Higher voltage / superconducting lines would reduce this, but they're expensive. The difficulty of transmission losses, combined with geographically specific power sources (hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, etc.) means that power costs legitimately vary throughout the world, and within countries the size of the United States.
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Seems like $14.07.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Construction_Labore...

Even "Construction Worker" doesn't bring it up much ($14.75), which means there's nothing in that career directly.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Construction_Worker...

The next step in that career is to be a manager or foreman. The Foreman only gets $22.36. ($38k/yr)

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Construction_Forema...

What does a college grad make? $50k/yr.

http://time.com/money/collection-post/3829776/heres-what-the...

Carpenter, handyman and general contractor do better than construction.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Home_Renovatio...

So yeah, I'm not surprised that people aren't excited about a career in construction.
It's implied, isn't it? "I goofed up" is admitting that "I didn't test it thoroughly".

A more interesting question, imo, is: how does the user/customer community receive an honest admission of goofing up? Do users/customers think less of the programmer? Or do they value the honesty?
> this article has overestimated china's tech level, naive.

It's not bad to overestimate your adversary's tech level. The US developed the far-superior F-15 because it overestimated the capabilities and role of the Mig-25.

In this case, the overestimation could spur policy and technology decisions to increase security.
Fascinating and saddening read.
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They do mention wage, but they don't seem to agree with what you think they are "a job that is generally well-paid".
Like what, “self-driving AI will never improve past the state of the art in mid-2018 so it’s useless to speculate about it ever doing so”?
For example, Wookiepedia shows the cannon articles by default, but at the top you're able to select the Legends version of the article, which uses sources that were retconned. Just replace Legends with a different name/bias, and add multiple tabs.
maybe not all things...
but most things :)
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> in fact it's used extensively in the JVM internals

I've not seen Prolog used in the JVM internals myself - it's just being used in this document as an inference notation to explain things as far as I know. Unless you know specifically where it's used, which would be interesting?
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I wonder if that factored into the discussion. I'm also hearing a lot of buzz about major OS (Windows, macOS) supporting ARM as a consumer platform in the near future.
> Little do they realise (or they do and are playing along with the usual lazy stereotypes and tropes about Scotland)

Why is it either of those? I think you're willfully taking "rebuild Hadrian's Wall" to have an extremely literal meaning that isn't intended by anyone saying it. Clearly they mean "build a wall between Scotland and rUK", not "follow the exact line of a 2000-year-old wall".
Having some experience with both languages (though not professionally), I personally much prefer Prolog to Haskell. There's an initial hurdle with Prolog because it uses such an unfamiliar paradigm, but once you get good with it, programming in Prolog is pure pleasure for me.

I like Haskell just fine, it's an excellent language, but my heart belongs to Prolog.
It may be gauche to say it bluntly, but I would consider it a huge difference if German companies held my data vs Chinese ones. China needs to reckon with it's deeply immoral political structures before I will ever feel safe as a consumer if their products.
> The BEAM is a preemptive VM.

The BEAM Book shared by armitron disagrees: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/#_scheduling_non_preempt...

Though an Erlang programmer never sees this in practice, because compiler
inserts yield points appropriately.
The end game used to be wealthy retirement because it paid extremely well. And on a side note people's bodies can and do handle that kind of manual labour for 40+ years. Not all of course, some get hurt, some are not cut out for it, but go to any manual work site and you will see older people in their 50's and 60's still in excellent physical shape doing it and younger people doing the really hard shitty jobs since time immemorial.
Search "Tamper-resistant electrical receptacles". They don't really look all that different, there's just a mechanism in the holes that prevents some foreign objects from being inserted.
> On the one hand, not having one seems like it could cause isolation

That may be true for banning individuals, who might end up excluded from activities everyone else is doing. A blanket ban would have different effects, since it's excluding everyone, who can find other activities (or ways around the ban) to do together.

You're definitely right about practical/logistical problems though.
there are few things as useless as taking a picture of the whiteboard
When Costco reduced the electronics return period to 90 days, they also started extending the manufacturer warranty to 2 years, so they still have your back more than most retailers do. They just cracked down on people returning computers and TVs several years after purchase, and getting a free upgrade.
>> Name 1 OS + hardware combination where you have the ability to fully audit every part of security-sensitive software. I'll wait...
>https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems + any open source os

OMG, I don't even.... You do realise none of those are phones right?

>That aside: Just because we have shitty foss offerings doesn't mean Apple has a good offering.

The contention was that they lead, not that they are perfect.

>A) Currently that is not Apple. There are many other systems that do a much better job of protecting your privacy that Apple.

Name one. I really don't know of any. Android is a security car crash. The MS offering is effectively nonexistent.

The fact is there is a very consistent consensus among security professionals that iOs is the only platform that's even close to being secure.

>B) I'll choose to whine about things that I'm "never going to get". I'm in the business of reality, not wishful thinking.

And yet in a thread about phones where you're asked what systems you can compile your own stack on you give a list of OS friendly laptops and servers; you reframe a thread on which is the best option to one about whether that option is 'good'; then invoke vague assertions about 'other systems' without backing that up in the slightest. Bearing in mind the last time you were asked to back up a statement you changed the subject completely, I hold out little hope.
3D printing construction tech should be a great way to offset this. Also great for space explorations.
Having used other DI systems, I think the parts that most confused me were that the injector would usually be hidden away (meaning you couldn't see _what_ was being injected), and also the conflation with various initialization patterns (factories, providers, singletons).

In Fusion.js, the injectable registration is done in the entry file, and initialization patterns are the concern of the service API. I think these design choices simplify things a lot.
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The "Experienced users on desktops --> Morons on phones" trend seems to be inescapable, especially in web design.
I think it was this, and the source it links to.

https://community.jisc.ac.uk/blogs/regulatory-developments/a...
Many states don't have unions.
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I agree that stigmatizing trades has contributed to this issue, but we've also simultaneously made trades worse by allowing their unions to decay and be deregulating the industries that use them.
Man, looking at the past articles on SemiAccurate paints a pretty dark picture for Intel. Or at least, the teasers for the $1000 subscribers-only content do.
City council determines the areas within a city; it is NOT made up. Some areas are much more popular than others. Leaving this to random people is absurd. The areas don't suddenly change.

Anyway, this is how it is like in The Netherlands.
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> I think a lot of the time when a developer shouts “technical debt” what they are really shouting is “code someone else wrote that I’d rather rewrite than understand”.

Is it obvious to you that it's not just me?
Good point about the pension (or other retirement provision).

You won't lose fingers or lose your hearing if you take proper care. You won't destroy your back if you stay in shape. There are pressures to do the wrong thing. People can resist them. There are risks; this is why people wear hardhats and steel-toed boots on worksites. But the risks can be managed.

The pay remains .. a challenge.
We knew this almost a year ago [1]. Tesla held a panel discussion during NIPS 2017 in Long Beach where Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, and Jim Keller talked about AI. (I was at the event.) Jim and Elon talked briefly about how their hardware will overcome the limitations of current GPUs by making the bus massively parallel, along with other interesting tid-bits.

Here's the direct link to my notes from the event: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/7iczp7/elon_mu...

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/08/elon_musk_finally_a...
IMHO the danger is not just limited to China, but anyone putting these kinds of invasive technologies into cars, without the car owner having any control over it.
The JVM is extremely good at dynamic compilation. I think BEAM only has very basic dynamic optimisation capabilities and I don't think BEAMJIT or HiPE were ever as successful as was hoped. But I'm not an expert in BEAM.
AAPL high at $207.05 with 4,829,926,000 outstanding shares
Bull-fucking-shit; you know why Spotify's engineering team does well? Stripe's? Netflix's? Because they have money, they have money so they can buy the best engineers. You ever see a small business development team compete on their level that isn't a bespoke design firm?

In my world, my team isn't an olympic-performing high-end software engineering pack. They don't lead in particular subfields in FOSS in their spare time. So you know what? They need fucking plans.

This article is a glorified, "Well if you're good you don't need process," piece.
$100 > $210 is an ridiculously high interest rate. In a world today where borrowing cost for a lot of people are ~10% APR.

But I do see mobile payment and mobile borrowing could be mounted together.
Why not bring labor on demand from South Asia or Africa.
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The endgame is being replaced by automation.
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I just think of whoever wrote the software that tells Amazon warehouse workers how many seconds they have to fetch the next item, so they have to pee in bottles in order to keep up or that monitors call centre workers. Would that person want their own keystrokes counted and their webcam scanning to make sure their eyes are on the screen?
I'm sorry but out of those only the WSJ and Bloomberg are what I consider impartial, with NYT doing a better job than CNN and WP because they at least refrain from loaded language, though are not entirely unbiased in what they choose to report.
So, try to start out as a new person in that area of construction unless it's highly specialized (line work, specialized welding, specialized fabrication, large machine operation with specialized licensure or training...)

Generally speaking, the old pension plans are only for those grandfathered in, new pay scales are lower, and hours to get better service time and benefits are higher.

Also, watch what companies do in terms of carving off subsidiaries with more of their retirees for intentional bankruptcy (see Patriot Coal). Those benefits will be cut in chapter 11 and then offloaded to the PBGC to be paid by the public.
AWS Lambda costs about 20 cents per million requests. A billion requests would have put it just a little south of 200-300 dollars. Factor in a few additional read units for DynamoDB, but I don't see it going to total $30,000. The serverless architecture should scale as well.
> You have never been seriously sick.

For a comment arguing that I'm being dismissive of sick people, this is a genuinely insulting and exceedingly false assumption to make. Yes I have, yes I am, and those experiences absolutely support my point.

> Who are you to decide what level of risk should a patient accept? ... Are they presumed to be too dumb and must obey your decisions? ... Should patients be consigned to disability immediately without even attempting some procedure, simply because the chance of success is too small in your arbitrary definition?

I did not say any of this at any point. I did not say anything remotely resembling "people should be consigned to disability because some procedures rarely work". None of what I am proposing is about denying patients treatments they make informed requests for.

Please actually read that Atlantic article. It is not in any way about denying medical care to a sick patient who wants it because "doctors know best". It is exactly the opposite - a patient was being railroaded into major heart surgery that made sense as a malpractice precaution but not as patient care. He did his own research, obtained multiple opinions, and independently decided to what should be done with his body.

That is what I want more of. In a discussion of cost-cutting I focused on the straightforward case of expensive treatments being pushed on patients without giving them full information, but over-treatment and under-treatment both happen. If it would make you happier, I can list some of the ways I think we can get better care at lower costs by providing more treatments and emphasizing patient wishes over current medical consensus.

I'm painfully aware that the 'patients are clueless' attitude you're attacking exists. I mean that literally, as a result of that attitude I'm in pain right now. But you read an entire worldview into one sentence, in the face of examples that specifically disagree with it. The thing you're objecting to is terrible and deserves opposition, but you're picking a fight with someone who already agrees about that.
That's a very Right opinion, even though it may not be right. You do have that right, however. Anyway, I've got to get back to work right away.
As with any field, specialized skills command higher pay.

Plenty of opportunity to learn a proper skill, like drywall finishing, electrical work, plumbing, or carpentry/cabinetry, and command better than $15/hr in the USA.
Your POV only works if you assume that Soviet Union invading Japan is an undesirable outcome for the Allies.

Japan had good reasons to want to avoid a Soviet occupation because they had only just recovered territory they had previously lost to Russia.

Was it in the US's best interests to escalate the use of force? Sure. But I'm not American and this isn't the 1940s so I see no reason to judge the decision on those terms.
Sure it's probably better if your data is held by a democratically elected government or a company that's under strict privacy jurisdiction, I would often prefer though if the data wouldn't exist to begin with (or at least would be properly anonymized). Let's face it, such detailed data sets can be very dangerous to a person and his/her freedoms if used by the wrong people, so they should not be created for purely economic reasons.
Depends on the market you're in and what you can do.

> A crane operator in New York City earns $82.15 an hour in base pay and benefits, according to the Engineer News-Record, a trade publication. That's well's above the $66 an hour he would earn in Chicago or the $39 an hour in Washington, D.C.

> But the real reason New York crane operators and other operating engineers earn such big salaries is overtime and benefits. A relief crane operator working 56 hours of overtime per week for 52 weeks will earn $332,667 in overtime and $159,053 in overtime benefits at the World Trade Center. As a worker's salaries go up, so do the amounts employers must kick in for annuities and pensions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303936704576399...
Hey it's nothing personal. I'd apologize for trollishness, but I really believe what I'm saying.

Edit: I apologize for beating a dead horse.
I know a few people in construction, they started working for someone by fixing doors, do painting etc. until they learned enough to find their own clients. It's easier than you think to find a friend who needs something to get fixed and get more clients from there by doing local advertising or even door to door knocking to check if people need some fixes. These people I know now hire their own workers (and still work themselves too) and make more than many college graduates I know.

Not saying anyone who gets into construction makes millions but there definitely is a path for growth and good pay is possible. It is however not a glamorous job, you need to get your hand dirty and work with some unhealthy products you need to protect yourself from (as much as you can at least...). It's a tough job but it does pay well. I personally wouldn't do it because of the physical aspect but financially it is definitely interesting.
I wonder if the decrease in consumption was really just a side effect of the onsetting dementia that was as yet undetectable?
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Panasonic Automotive | Staff DevOps SRE | Denver, CO USA | ONSITE, Full-time | https://careers.panasonic-automotive.com/careers/position/sp...

Our engineering team is looking for a Senior level Dev/Ops SRE to take our connected vehicle project out of the lab, and bring it to scale.

You'll will be working with a small team of all senior level and above developers working at the ground floor of the connected vehicle industry as well as actively contributing to reducing traffic fatalities. You will have the opportunity to work directly with governments and vehicle manufacturers to help shape and set the standards for the data and hardware platform that will power the next 10-15 years of automotive IoT.

We currently leverage terraform to standup our infrastructure which includes ecs clusters, lambdas, kinesis and s3, but this position would have free reign to architect the infrastructure using whatever tools and services that are best for the job. We just want someone who has built highly available, highly scalable systems and can communicate best practices to the rest of engineering, and isn't afraid of learning something new everyday as we build a new industry.

I'm a senior engineer on the team, feel free to message me directly about any questions! limc@panasonicautomotive.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Atlanta_Motel_v._Unit...

(note: I am not saying I disagree with a decision to outlaw discrimination, just pointing out the absurdity that the Commerce Clause was 'interpreted' as being the only way to do this [which ultimately resulted in government limiting free speech])
I wonder what the chances are that you eat industrial animal products while signaling how concerned you are about the environment.
Over the last 40 years the trades also had influx of illegal immigrants entering the profession. These have been folks who were willing to do the very difficult work for less pay and no recourse if the conditions were unsafe.

Obviously not all trades as most firms won’t gamble using unlicensed electricians and plumbers. On the other hand roofing, drywall, concrete, etc... have been more readily given to folks who work for pennies on the dollar.
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You can make quite a bit more. It is pretty easy to start your business as a tradesman when you have experience, without employees you can easily net over 100k a year in low cost of living markets. Also, many construction workers get the benefit of side jobs and overtime. Definitely not an easy life, but there is something that can be said about the satisfaction you get after building something physical.