skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting to me because I see a lot of need for better work/life balance and people trying many different ways to achieve that. But I think personally the reason you'd have a hard time finding a company willing to take that compromise (lower salary, fewer days per week) is because it's just you which makes you kind of stand out a bit compared to everyone else there. It also opens a can of worms for the employer who will have to make case-by-case decisions about every other person in the company who sees you getting 4 days and 4/5 the pay, and suddenly all run to ask HR for a similar deal. It's just going to be a big logistics headache for them.
Or they could make grandma and grandpa do some baby sitting here and there which is traditionally how this problem has been handled. Not everything needs to be solved by the state.
Judging by the comments in this thread I think people just want to be angry at Amazon. I don't think I would want to work for an Amazon fulfillment center but most of these tweets are just facts. If you don't think these facts are correct you should debate them and find sources to back up the claims. Amazon wouldn't have employees do this if they weren't confident with the information they were providing. I don't think it excuses the working conditions but I think its good to see actual facts instead of biased information that is full of shady wording.
The incentive would be to escape the eventual heat death of their sun or insure their race against any other solar system wide extinction event, I guess
Easy? My phone currently shows 77.2GB of 256GB used. Can you routinely download 77GB of data in a foreign country as soon as you clear customs?
eBPF comes to Red Hat customers: RHEL 7.6 with eBPF for tracing
The the requirements for food stamp eligibility should be changed?
The plan is to build something based on conda.
I agree. I was responding to your question, "Why didn't LionBridge find them more work?". If LionBridge principally works with Microsoft (as is common among contractors) and Microsoft cut QA work, then LionBridge likely couldn't find work for those contractors.

This may be _especially_ true if those contractors were demanding a certain salary that is infeasible in LionBridge's market.
My WORKOUT: How One Silicon Valley C.E.O. Masters Work-Life Balance
Here's the link to the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Correct.

> According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at our borders. For example, at border crossings (also called "ports of entry"), federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a "routine search," such as searching luggage or a vehicle.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
If you're a software developer or an advertising executive, you have a lot of options in terms of freelancing, consulting and remote employment. You have more choices than just conventional employment or voluntary destitution.
That kind of fundamental cultural shift might require moving to a new planet. There is simply no way we will be able to achieve this, and ESPECIALLY not in the US.
How to Short Tesla?  What You Pay to Pull It Off
I believe we have had a few efforts at direct cellular level and genetic intervention - things like treating immune cells to teach them to attack cancer cell. These efforts have often been disappointing. And in general, genetic engineering has faced a lot of road blocks.

The problem one faces is one is using debugging-techniques on a lasagna of only "code-like" commands that no resemblance to the code-divisions or processes of human-generated code.

IE, Nearly all "genetic engineering" is cut-and-paste changes hoping that such operations can give one-for-one changes in the attributes of organisms. Sometimes this works but it seems like it have inherent limitations. It seems to me progress will require understanding what the genetic code does and that's going to require different progress than what we have now.
> It does create jobs.

Poverty-level jobs, by definition, because the prerequisite to being a good fine-sink is having a low income.

> A progressive fine isn't going to solve inequality.

The problem is that it makes it worse by effectively imposing higher fines on middle income people than the super rich.
It really depends on you current skills. If you already know about electronics, and roughly what an FPGA is, and if you know C programming, then you can jump rapidly to FPGA and Verilog.
One good and very condensed training course below:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/pcheung/teaching/ee2_digital/Altera%2...
File a bug over at https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide/

I'd love to get to the bottom of that.
Certain rights not being fully applicable != No rights
Is it possible that the timing on your contact with them made a difference? It seems that NASA/NHTSA concluded in 2011 that it was a mechanical defect, but research concluding in 2013 showed that it was totally possible to have been caused by the software.

At least according to the summary based on sources used for Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...
This has very comprehensive options. I can see using this. I know you support links under org headings, but is plaintext under headings included or ignored?
100% agree!

The world is still 99% JS and 1% every compile-to-js language put together.
Even if this were true (and as another commenter says, it's not) I don't see how that fills in this gap. It would make sense if the first step were "MCU goes crazy," but not with a simple reboot.
It's very difficult to get financial aid when you are a part-time student. I don't know where you live, but in the US university education is absurdly expensive.
What's wrong with ASP.NET? It might not be the most sexy framework out there, but it's great for this sort of thing - there's a huge business application ecosystem surrounding it.
Let's say you're Jeff Bezos, and you genuinely and completely care about the situation and are doing everything you can to remedy it. I'm not saying he is, but just for the sake of argument. Would you then make that strong public statement?

I wouldn't. To explain why, why do you think it is that most of all politicians give non-answers or the most banal safe, focus tested, and inane answers to everything? I mean we elect these people. Do we like that behavior? Well ostensibly no, but consider how we react when a politician does or says anything that might outrage any possible group or segment of society. It spreads like wildfire and we collectively freak out and ensure they're replaced in rapid order by somebody better. Who's that "better" politician? The one who doesn't tell you anything. So while we complain to no end about having lying, duplicitous politicians who never give a straight answer - we ensure that they're the only people that can make it in to office.

Back to Amazon. You admit some weakness and acknowledge a problem and assure people you're going to try to focus on doing better. Are people going to positively receive this message, appreciate your forthrightness, and look forward to future developments. Or are they going to focus on the fact that you just acknowledged a very major issue and utilize that to try to generate even more outrage? And should something, completely outside of Amazon's control, some freak incident occur again - will society understand that they can't stop every single thing? Or will people instead use that as "proof" that Amazon was lying all along and use it generate even greater outrage. You see, since one bad happened - they must have been lying all along...

And on top of this all, we have no attention span. Remember Equifax? Of course you do, but they've probably already started to slip from your mind and become just another blur in the history of things we were fumingly angry at for a week or two, before something else caught our attention. Amazon acknowledging the issue not only stands to turn against them, but makes even less sense given that the issue will disappear from the public mind imminently - especially with elections just around the corner. Our online behavior is shaping the optimal way for companies to treat us. And I think that we're doing exactly what we do in politics - ensuring nobody but demons can survive, and then complaining when all we have are demons.
Let's wait and see how the new RTX cards with tensorcores do behave... Converting from and back to fp32 is welcome.
I wasn't making any claim to the tendencies of many/most/all prisoners. My point was that putting non-violent petty offenders in jail/prison puts them in the path of a concentration of sociopathic people, those who really should be kept out of society.
Even if someone has a college degree, it's still incredibly difficult and competitive to get jobs at Google or Apple. A college degree really isn't that special for the sake of employment unless it's from a top-tier university. Connections or experience are stronger employment influences.
Yep. You can "import" python objects over to the Javascript side and start using them from there. It's not as pleasant as working with Numpy in Python, of course, due to lack of operator overloading, of course.
You'd think so though the leading one in the UK, Wonga seems to be going bust from customer compensation claims. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/07/wonga-loans...
Do you know any 21yo white mothers? None of the ones I know are married. A co-worker informed me she was "getting divorced" this morning, but of course since she isn't married in the first place this amounts to the two families of "in-laws" coming to an understanding concerning visitation and support. They're smart enough to avoid the courts if they can...
I like your approach, but something can be said about an all-in-one solution as well.

Additionally, the website mentions:

> Install

> To install, run this command in your terminal:

> sh -c "$(wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaronkjones/noobs-term/mas... -O -)"

> If you do not have wget use,

> sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaronkjones/noobs-term/mas...

I smirked at the "if you do not have wget" cause whilst I was reading it I expected an alternative to executing the shell script, but no. What if I don't want to download a .sh script and execute it? Why teach "noobs" this behaviour?
It certainly was in 1994.

https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/
I know the guy who knows the guy that sells Cold War era vehicles to the western countries. Personally I wouldn’t buy it. And it might be expensive, because it’s old and rare.
Self-Experiment to Fight Aging
Ask HN: Can I ask a potential new employer to see the code I’d be working on?
I’m considering a lateral move to a competitor. There was a recent Ask HN post (linked to below) asking about speaking up about the quality of a recently acquired source code, which is inspiring me to ask. I’m fine signing an NDA.

Are there any hiring managers or employers here who would let potential candidates review their source code before accepting an offer? If you wouldn’t, why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819771
Podcasting the Past
“Russia is the 16th largest export economy in the world. In 2016, Russia exported $269B and imported $180B, resulting in a positive trade balance of $88.6B. In 2016 the GDP of Russia was $1.28T and its GDP per capita was $24.8k.”
The impossibility is not just a problem of scale.

Even if Facebook does everything right, and moderates every single thing they aim to moderate, they will still be blamed by conservatives and/or the alt-right if they censor too much, and by liberals if they censor too little. There is no type of moderation that will make all sides happy.
This is extremely harsh and your complete ignorance tells me you are not a woman.

Fertility in some women declines as early as 28. Most women do not talk publicly about how difficult it is to conceive, because people like you think they should have it easy at age 27-30. Guess what? It can get really hard as soon as you're in your late twenties.
So, summarily we have:

1. Enabling debug mode in production

2. Running publicly-accessible app with publicly-accessible crash screens without any monitoring system noticing it's happening

3. Relying on auto-cleaning in debug facilities to sanitize security information (never works)

4. Using over-powered serialization protocol which allows for code execution for storing user-accessible data

5. Thinking that merely signing content prevents abuse of (4)

Not bad.
Yes. It uses the C implementations of BLAS and LAPACK that ship in the Numpy source tree.
Well the thread is about search & seizure, so you pretty much have no rights in that respect anywhere near the border.
I understand that.

I guess I was commenting more on the general messiness he was describing. I can empathize with it is all. I can see how quickly and easily it happens in the small apps I build, I can't imagine how hard it would be to reign it all in at Tesla scale at the pace they've been going.
Thought a bit more about this. What I can do is filter out all processors/gpus that are slower than cheaper processors. Proof of concept implementation: https://www.pc-kombo.com/benchmark/games/cpu?optimize=true. Those are essentially the best price/performance choices, with some restrictions as explained in the other comment.
Gizmodo did, in fact, verify that 30% claim: https://gizmodo.com/on-amazon-s-time-1826570882

> The amounts associates reported receiving in VCP [Variable Compensation Pay] were underwhelming. One claimed his highest monthly payout was $48. Another averaged around $60. The only reason these paltry bonuses are relevant at all is that Amazon itself uses them to arrive at the over $15 per hour figure it estimates as its average Fulfillment Center worker’s pay. “Hourly pay rates are competitive and we offer great benefits – we encourage anyone to compare our pay and benefits to other retailers,” Amazon told Gizmodo in a statement for this piece. Glassdoor lists average warehouse pay for Amazon at $12.33, less at, Home Depot ($12.96), Costco ($13.43), and Target ($14.57). Even stacked against Walmart, its main competition and a business with its own set of unsavory practices, Amazon still comes up twenty cents short on hourly pay.
Interesting, thanks! My only dress shoes are brown, so that should help me stay out of fintech at least. :-)
If a company engages in false advertising, which is against the law, they should be fined by the FTC at the very least, and certainly someone visible should lose their job. It's not complicated.
Shoot. It did not strike me. I thought it was good only for web apps and not in-background running processes like Pickle (a binary protocol )
> if you aim to high, they won't admit that they don't understand, and if you aim too low they might get insulted

Yes, it's a tricky balance. Another way to frame the importance of this topic is: if you explain too much, you make your readers wade through a flood of information, which slows them down; if you explain too little, the doc is unusable.

> How does one communicate the basics without sounding condescending?

ASinclair's suggesting of adding a prerequisite section to your doc is a good strategy. It also helps to develop "content types" where you describe in general what types of information you include in each type of content. For example, suppose you define 3 content types: overview, tutorial, and reference.

* The overview contains conceptual explanations.

* The references contain everything you might possibly need to know about a given topic.

* The tutorial contains task-based, step-by-step workflows. Rather than explaining concepts in the tutorial, you link them to the overviews. Rather than going into the nitty-gritty about a topic, you link to the reference.

You probably get the idea from here. Each content type contains clearly-defined amounts and types of information. Rather than jamming all the information into a tutorial, you link off to the overview and reference. The people that need more information can follow the links to learn more. The people that don't need it get a straightforward tutorial without extraneous info.
Ask HN: Best alternative to an X1 carbon
For the last 4 years my 1st gen X1 carbon has been my most beloved possession, but time and my miserable treatment of it have taken their toll, thankfully ive come into some cash so its time to retire this old war horse and choose a new machine.

Normally id be all too eager to just grab a more up to date X1 and e done with it but a few little things are stopping me doing that, namely that i want 16gb of ram which makes an x1 very expensive and that id rather like to play a few games again so something with a discreet GPU would be ideal.

based on current press the word is that the Huawei Matebook X pro would easily meet all my needs as would the dell XPS 15,unfortunately both of those are rare as rocking horse turds here in the UK, not impossible but generally very overpriced

the next nearest match ive seen to the matebook pro is the xiaomi notebook pro but it just seems too cheap, so could anyone either reassure me of the xiaomis quality and chance of surviving 4-5 years being carted about like a sack of spuds or suggest another device that can match the incredible durability, battery life and lightness of the X1 carbon with a half decent GPU and 16Gb ram
The use of Pickle isn't uncommon for session cookies in Python apps, from what I've seen. Pickle isn't really a problem unless you end up unserializing untrusted data... which a sign+encrypt scheme is supposed to ensure doesn't happen. You just can't leak the secret key or you're in trouble.

Though, there's no excuse for leaving Django debug on in production.
Are you married? I really hope your wife never experiences fertility issues. Fertility is much more complicated than data points.
Should the same be done with time based fines (prison sentences)?
> This feature is the sort of thing that a clever person will use as a shortcut to actually writing robust ETL code.

With mysql_fdw you can write the ETL code itself in PostgreSQL: you expose (a subset of) the MySQL tables through the FDW, and then you write SQL code to transform it and copy it to your analytics tables. That's exactly what I did in one project: at night the whole analytics database was recreated in 15 minutes or so (the biggest table had about a hundred million of rows).

Most of the caveats don't apply in that case:

> 1/ Strict upper bound on how much data it can pull in.

I don't know what you mean by that. As far as I know, there are no such bounds.

> 2/ MySQL migrations need to be run on both Postgres and MySQL

Since the analytics database is recreated every night, that is not the case.

> 3/ No way to gracefully migrate or version

Same as 2.

> 4/ MySQL’s “loose” typing doesn’t play well with Postgres’s “strict” typing. This means data can break the fdw.

I never ran into that, but it is possible.

> 5/ Pain in the ass to debug.

Much easier to debug than ETL scripts that talk to two different databases, in my opinion. You can interactively write the SQL code in psql. I used pgTap to unit test the SQL code.

> 6/ This is debatable, but I don’t believe that application code (SQL code in this case) should live in the database.

I don't see any problem with that.

> 7/ Postgres and MySQL have different performance characteristics. This can lead to hard-to-debug performance problems if you are explicitly or implicitly using a fdw in your query.

In my approach you just do a 'SELECT * FROM x' on the mysql side. All performance problems are easily debugged on the postgres side.

> 8/ If you want to keep a local copy of MySQL data in Postgres (to solve for #7) you then have to write code to keep it up to date. This defeats the convenience of the fdw.

If you recreate the analytics database periodically this is a non-issue.

> 9/ At least when I was using fdws, they didn’t have predicate pushdown. This causes you to do structure queries in a weird way to get filters to work as you expect.

PostgreSQL has had predicate pushdown for years now.

> 10/ You have to manage schema type mismatch between MySQL and Postgres. This isn’t fun or productive work.

You have to do that anyway, even if you're using ETL scripts.

If you use the FDW, you can implicitly create the tables on the postgres side:
CREATE TABLE my_analytics_table
AS
SELECT foo, bar FROM mysql_fdw_table WHERE ...;

That way my_analytics_table will get the postgresql types corresponding to the mysql_table. If anything changes, it gets automatically propagated. Analytics queries against my_analytics_table might break, though. Usually, when it's a change from e.g. int8 to int16, things will continue working.
I (think I) was just discussing a way to make the master key easy to backup.

Isn't what you're discussing (prevent unknown backups) more a function of how the private key is held in the Solo itself (and in my example, how securely your seed phrase is stored)? Or is there an element of U2F that I'm missing here? (Does the token itself have an identity that you want to be unique while still preserving the same key for authentication, or is there some other detail I'm missing?)
Sure that's less hyperbolic and more reasonable. And I can appreciate how someone can arrive to the conclusion that overpopulation represents a significant problem.

Thanks for updating your wording.
Good point, there's something to be said to try software in its default settings the way the developer(s) intended. However, there's also something to be said for optimisation. If you fire up a game, do you first configure the graphics and keybinds or do you go right away? Its up to you, the user.