skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, wages grew much more rapidly until 1970. Secondly, even since then in the US wages have not fallen in real terms, they have just been level with inflation.

The phenomenon where labour gets more costly despite no gains in productivity because on average society has become wealthier is called Baumol's cost disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease). While a servant is not much more efficient than they were 100 years ago, they cost a lot more because there is now better alternative uses for their labour that bid up their price.
3000 meters is amazing, but the comment and article above said 4000 -- an additional 1000 meters. at this depth, the whale's body would have tensile strength of something like steel. my bullshit alarm is going off. This is kind of like saying the international space station might be hit by seagals. If I told you that, I'm sure you might have some doubts. ???? whats going on here did they discover a new whale or something
It's a clear invite to benchmark.
More efficient security for cloud-based machine learning
Probably my all-time most-looked-up-to photographer, in terms of style, hustle and attitude. "f/8 and be there" is still as true today as it was then, and honestly the bulk of my best photography has been from following his advice. Though I'll never quite have the eye for composition he did!
>200 years ago a king couldn't eat this well

A kind 200 years ago couldn't eat this variety.

But they could eat very much better -- all free-range, well made, top quality cuts (not hastily made, lower tier BS, with all kinds of additives to increase self-life or make it appear more appealing in the shelves), made fresh on their own premises or bought from the best artisans.

And of course all prepared at their whim by their army of personal chefs, and served by an army of servers.

And they had all the time they liked to enjoy those things, with friends and family, not having to gulp them down between 60-hour work weeks...
I basically do the same with my beard within the chin… I usually pick those "not perfect" and also those who are grown slightly longer than their neighbors…
There was a Reddit thread about secret family recipes where a lot of them turned out to be store bought stuff prepared by following the instructions on the box.
Tiertime UP Mini 2 ES Arrives in US and Europe
thank you for sharing the story! I'm a Vietnamese, former marketer/founder, and currently working as a banker.

Can you share with me more about your experiences in Vietnam?

Could I buy you a coffee, sometimes?
I do think so, yes, but I also think that they still could not actually escape. That they'd go bankrupt within a year, or at least that they'd have to shrink their operation to only cover the Chinese market, which doesn't have access to the Play Store, but also isn't terribly excited for yet another US company trying to enter their market.
Positive racism ("I'm trying to help the stereotypical image of what I think you are") is still racism.

There is no such think as 'hardly racism'. That's an excuse for racist behavior you agree with.

It definitely needs to be called out because it's the same level as suggesting that a black person wants fried chicken despite the fact that they ordered grilled chicken.

"I think you actually want X despite asking for Y because of your skin color."

I'm honestly surprised that you are defending this behavior given your otherwise neutral positions. It's disgusting.
> it is sad that the world doesn't force both the PRC and the ROC to the table to simply sign an official peace treaty acknowledging the reality of their situation, but apparently peace, stability and self-determination is not that important to most of the world.

Well, first, it's not exactly like forcing the PRC to do anything like that is practical.

And, second, externally imposed partitions haven't exactly been sources of peace and stability, historically.
Thanks again for chiming in - I'm always looking for views and evidence that shows whether my thinking is flawed. So here it goes ;)

And to clarify all my arguments are against the large scale meat industry - where most of the meat comes from. I'm not talking about meat from animals you personally hunt or personally raised and killed - or meat coming from farms where the farmers truly try to give the animals a good life.

> Are farm pigs less happy than wild boars? Are you against ant enslavement of aphids? Do humans oppress chicken more than cheetahs oppress antelope?

Wild boars are in their natural state, i.e. free in the wild. Most enslaved pigs lead a miserable life and are confined to very small places, i.e. not free. Do we need aphids for our survival? If not, why enslave them? We can't compare ourselves to cheetahs, who need meat to survive. Humans don't.

> Again you're using human values and trying to project them on animals

That's not what I'm doing. I enjoyed meat dishes, but after doing extensive research of where the meat comes from that I buy in shops I stopped consuming meat. I'm not putting animals and humans on the same pedestal, if that is what you mean.

> [...] but there are cases where you would endure pain for a higher cause

What higher cause are animals 'donating' their flesh to? In our society we don't need meat to survive anymore - it's been proven that we can get all the nutrients we need from plants and other non-animal food sources.

So the only higher cause I can think of - why we continue to make these animals endure pain - is because we derive pleasure from it. So it becomes an ethical question - does our need for pleasure justify enslaving and oppressing these beings and creating destruction on so many other levels?

> The fact that current factory farms aren't ideal isn't a reason to give up on these animals completely.

Factory farms are the reality. Those happy ethical farms are rare in comparison and we can't feed the world with this - it's not scalable - especially since most people want and can only afford cheap meat. Interesting to hear how we can have large scale and pain free factory farms? But I think the question should be, is animal meat the best way to feed the world?

> The ancestors of current meat cows evolutionary chose, by being the easiest to capture and domesticate.

I don't understand how this works - do you have any links to some research that show that this is the case? It was easy for us to 'capture and domesticate' other humans - but we gave up on that practice, because we as a society agreed it was wrong.

Look - I get it. It's not easy to give up meat and we tell ourselves that animals don't feel pain, that we need it to survive, that it's natural etc.

We constantly evolve our moral framework - we gave up barbaric practices that once were the norm.
In the future the way we produce our meat now will be seen as barbaric and immoral. Yes there will still be some people who eat meat - those that hunt and raise and kill it themselves and meat will be available to those that just want to continue to derive pleasure from it, but it will be very expensive.

Edit: typos
Redis’ License is BSD and will remain BSD
Actually this is exactly because someone in Windows used the plain old mutex. I'd call that "your granddad's lock". It's old, crotchety, unfair and shouldn't be used in situations where any concurrency can be expected.

This despite the kernel having a nice RCU mechanism inside as well as waitfree queues.
I agree but is it possible this is aimed at avoiding class action suits about false advertised performamce, by attempting to make the new benchmarks inadmissible?
> noindex

So, the browser extension indicating (with big red fonts) that this site is noindex could be a simplest solution?

For not power users who don't know about any extensions that would be not so easy though. If that function will appear in Chrome enabled by default, that would raise questions about Google motives, obviously.
Not directly related to the article but if you visit Italy make sure you go to Florence and see the dome. I was there less than a week ago, it wasn't my first time in Florence but it was the first time I went up to the lantern on the dome, it is that impressive
So this is illegal?

http://phpdao.com/mysql_postgres_oracle_mssql/
> However long you think it will take...double it

... and also don't think that your "double of original estimate" is anywhere near a maximum of what it can take to actually make the code base better and functionally correct.
Sorry, calling BS on this one. By simply copying a site you get flagged as having duplicate content.

Then there's DMCA. I've seen an e-commerce site's homepage get de-indexed, killing the business, due to 1 single image being used for which the site owner didn't have copyright.

SEO undoubtedly has many shady practises, but "professional SEO" is actually really difficult and involves much more than cloning competitor sites and somehow getting away with it.
One thing to keep in mind is that humans have to process the game from the image on the screen and input through a mouse and keyboard. We have to move the mouse to react to things. The computer is super-human in part because it doesn't have to do these things. It will be interesting to see if they can translate their learnings to bots that react from the image on the screen rather than the API.
Apps That Work Natively on the Web and Mobile (Angular Code-Sharing Projects)
> Being able to read and work effectively in legacy code is an essential skill for any software engineer.

This is key advise. It makes the difference between a person who enjoys the art of coding and a professional who get paid for work. Basically you have to first proof why the invest of rewriting brings any financial benefit. Till then, be professional and maintain it.
I already mentioned that Koreans in Japan have obtained a special status that is AFAIK better than any other nationality as a direct result of WW2.
As an example of an attempt to rectify things what about this long list of official apologies that are somehow forgotten in this kind of "discussion"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statemen...
And you are again being disingenuous with what you care to mention. From the list above:
January 1, 1992: Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, in a press conference, said: "Concerning the comfort women, I apologize from the bottom of my heart and feel remorse for those people who suffered indescribable hardships".
Are you perhaps trying to raise the bar? In 10 other official apologies the suffering of the comfort women is acknowledged. You will also see that the Japanese government didn't only spend words on this issue, but also allocated funds.
> 70 mph is not fast if I am leaving adequate distance between me and everything else.

The problem then becomes others tailgating and driving into the space in front of you, effectively diminishing you braking room.
So is the below technically illegal?

http://phpdao.com/mysql_postgres_oracle_mssql/
Thing is, it doesn't make sense to want that lifestyle. It's not an option anymore, the same way living in a cave is not an option.

It would place you in pariah status, for one -- and a lifestyle is not just to putting food in the table or a roof above your head, it also includes making you eligible for a partner, able to raise kids to do OK in society, and so on.
RSA-230 has been factored
The way TI is structured they invite one team from South America. So Pain is likely not in top 20, but still a very good team.
Are developer certifications worth it nowdays?
When I was starting my career as a software developer, around 2004, there was a lot of talks regarding certifications. I remember that companies even advertise themselves as good places to work because they paid for employees' certifications.

But now it seems that this hype faded off. Since I am a senior engineer now, I look through the CV of candidates, and there is rarely a "new gen" developer with any certifications. I do not care about it too much when I am performing interviews, anyway.

But the question is: are certifications any good? Do they help you to get a better salary in your current position? Do they help you to find a new job? Or are they mostly pointless?
I think you really want to miss the point: The problem isn't that Google is collecting performance data and other such stuff. They collect very private data that can be directly tied to you - fauigerzigerk personally. And they make it very hard or impossible for you to really disable it.

First, MS doesn't exist on the mobile side. This might sound irrelevant until you realize that a phone has the potential to be a much more powerful data pump.

Second, most Windows installations aren't tied to a MS account. As such no data can be linked to it and to you in person.

Third, you see this screen (a few settings are off-screen)? [1] It actually disables most data collection, like location. It doesn't just hide it from the dashboard and have you disable it "again" in 3 more places like Google was shown to do these days. Just by disabling Cortana you get rid of most data collection that can be tied to you.

This is the first thing I do on any Windows machine. Between this and the fact that I don't have to log in with a MS account means that my MS activity dashboard only includes my explicit browser logins and this:

We don’t have any data associated with this Microsoft account at the moment.

Or this:

There’s nothing to see here yet. To add some interests in this category, open Cortana’s Notebook on your device.

[1] https://www.bleepstatic.com/images/news/companies/m/microsof...
Also if you get the update via windows update you get the patch without having ever agreed to the no-benchmarking clause, so you're free to publish anyway.
You are right, you never used the word “proud”. You also did not use the words “problem” or “harm” in the post. So the “pride” thing is mostly tone, subtext or between the lines if you will. This is just my opinion so YMMV
A hotshot lawyer could sue them for this anticompetitive clause for big $$$.

(it disallows comparing the product against the competitors)
Can you comment on whether racism is still a thing in Japanese society?
I've been on both Intel and AMD for my self-built desktops, originally a K6-II, then a Pentium III, then a Pentium 4, and since 2011 a Phenom II (first a dual-core 3.2GHz, upgraded to a 6-core 3.3GHz a couple of years ago).

Both have generally been good to me (the P4 was a bit crap), but I'm very likely to choose AMD again next time I do a full upgrade. Now that their GPUs are also working great in Linux on open source drivers, they're a much better choice than Nvidia for me, I just replaced my GTX 460 with an RX 560.

It's a shame Intel has the high-end laptop market locked up so tight. Good luck getting a modern Thinkpad with an AMD processor.
I think https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ does a pretty good job.
Apple won't even warn you which apps are adware, which Google Play has transparently done for years, so there is room for improvement by everyone involved. Previous submission (which got zero interest): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17489987
> I think they were very much inspired by Delphi and other Borland products at the time.

Inspired by is an understatement, the connection is more intimate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
Pro-tip: if you're going to market a high-end laptop then don't make the marketing/landing page look like a cheap knockoff with bad copywriting. Apple is the only one who gets this right.
Facebook Suspends 400 Apps in Developer Data Investigation
You are generally right, but in the tech sector the work culture is highly variable---I'm saying this as a native Korean having worked for Korean tech companies for a decade, and I have heard similar accounts for Japan. South Korea also enjoys a universal healthcare for everyone; there are mandatory healthcare plans for long-term foreigners as well AFAIK. They do generally have lower tolerance on diversity issues (even while the workplace can be much better, the society is not), so that's something to keep in mind.
The modern instance families support Turbo Boost, which is the X% guaranteed and up to %Y extra best effort you desire. On many of the largest instance sizes you get P-state control which lets you "disable that best effort extra bit" — but most operating systems will by default use it to strategically burst some cores even more at the expense of others.

Many workloads really just need a significant fixed amount of memory, and only periodically need high-performance CPU. T2 instances are much faster than you'd intuitively expect, if your workload is very bursty you can easily beat C4.

The newer Unlimited model "just" removes the edge case of being throttled if you run out of earned CPUCreditBalance, so you no longer have to reason about its interactions with other scaling factors.

It also allows a whole new usecase: if your workload doesn't need much memory or high I/O but will utilize as much CPU as it can get, you can save big by picking smaller burstable instances with Unlimited.
The wikipedia article indicates that as recently as 2007, the Prime Minister of Japan did not believe that the Japanese government seized the comfort women by force[0].

When we riot over Confederate statues, and yet we're ok with their government officials visiting shrines which celebrate war criminals[1]?

Of course the United States is not blameless. We gave amnesty to the leaders of Camp 731 in exchange for experimental knowledge and the Tuskegee experiments are of course unforgivable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women#History_of_the_i...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine#Post-war_issue...
Smart contract hacking: how storage works with delegatecall()
If knowledge and intelligence keep progressing while nothing is done about housing, I can imagine the educated poor resorting to ever more extreme "out of the box" solutions:

Why do we live in houses? Partially to meet certain basic necessities:

- shelter from adverse temperature (too hot or too cold outside), adverse weather (rain, snow, wind): outside walls and roof

- a place to wash, a mirror to inspect yourself, a toilet: bathroom

- a place to sleep: bedroom

- a place to eat: a table and chairs

- a place for work: a desk and a chair

- privacy: a lock on the door to prevent theft, or violence

- a place for leisure or inviting guests: living room

Out of poverty leisure is likely to be sacrificed, but it may be possible to live a much cheaper life if these functionalities can be compactly (and probably inadequately) substituted. What features can be portably arranged into a suit? Imagine a kind of space suit -not intended for actual space- with smart temperature control say inspired on a rete mirabile [0] to exchange mass (say import oxygen and export carbon dioxide, while conserving heat), humidity etc, depending on outside and inside measurements. This would probably necessitate a cheap helmet to keep the conditioned air inside (during adverse outside conditionns). It should be weather proof too. It should require little clean-up, or alternatively the suit should be lightweight enough so an it can be carried or washed while the extra is worn. A big problem for homeless people is theft and violence. So the suit should have intelligent motion detectors, and possibly communicate to other high-tech low-lifes to share news of danger, in order to allow sleep. Sanitation will probably be commercialized cubicles of bathrooms. Similarily workspace will probably be measured in desks (with a selectable height limit for your stuff) and archives, and these will be stored as trays by an automated system, such that you can enter one of the vacant rooms, login, select one of your desks or boxes, after which your tray/desk is loaded in front of you, exactly as you left the contents on the desk the previous time. You rent the room at some price per hour, but also each desk or volume of boxes at their respective rates for storage.

[0] Rete mirabile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_mirabile

But I believe we will fix the housing issue in a more fundamentalist way.
Everything you are talking about regarding Japanese citizenship is true, although you are framing it as if it's something that is written in stone and immutable. Some of the ethnic Koreans in Japan are descendants from the Koreans that were __forcibly__ moved to Japan during Japanese occupation pre-WW2. It would only make sense to have some special exceptions for them. The occupation ended, and they didn't choose to be there in the first place.

EDIT: regarding the ethnic Koreans forced labor in Japan, see this reference :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan#World_War_II

[...] 670,000 Koreans, were conscripted into labor [...], about 60,000 died [...] Many were stripped of their nationality and denied repatriation by Japan.
> Clearly, they don't have an answer to AMD at all

They still have a huge opportunity for CPU+FPGA, they bought Altera for the purpose.
There's a world of difference between "speed will sometimes drop due to congestion" and "speed will definitely drop by throttling", and a dedicated line is way out of this spectrum :-).
Those are incidents, and still show that the slave traders are acting in their own self-interest. It is not realistic to think that insurance companies would stand for this if it was standing practice.
I do that. Does not harm. They know themselves :). Good advice!
Not quite a novel, but E.M. Forster's 12k-word 1909 story 'The Machine Stops' famously takes a long, hard look at one possible result of a society dependent on a self-repairing machine that does everything. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/machine_stops....
Ask HN: A great engineering appraisal process?
Throughout my career I've been dogged by poorly thought out engineering appraisal or review processes. Especially at larger companies where everyone from the CEO to the Junior Developer are assessed in the same way.

Generally what I've experienced is an annual "review" whereby employees assess themselves on fairly broad requirements ("Helping build the company") and then receive some feedback and a number. This is often associated with an annual pay rise.

I now find myself in a position where I can have some influence over the implementation of such a process, but having mostly had bad or neutral experiences I find myself clutching at straws for suggestions (aside from "don't do this!").

Has anyone had great experiences with such processes? Or am I being too idealistic or just too negative?
iOS 12 Masterclass – Learn ARKit 2, Core ML 2, and More
I'm curious how many visitors did this. In my very limited sample set of myself and friends / work colleagues, we all use middle click to open a result in a new tab.
There are roughly 18.2 million devs in the world right now, and the number seems to double every five years.

In fifty years, that's 10 doublings, meaning 18.2 billion. Of course, that won't happen, as there won't be that many people, and half of all people will be less than 20 years old.

That means that we'll have to doublings left, at least if we focus on the number of people who code on the job.

This is great news for employers, as that means that half of all developers will have at least 15 years of experience instead 5.

This is poor news for us, as this makes us easier to replace.
Rock on, dude. Eff the haters. People love to make claims like above or downvote as soon as a positive comment is posted on something they don’t like or someone else comes to their enemies defense.
Amusingly, I don't think the summary in the article or article title correctly summarizes the legalese. What is forbidden seems to be to "publish or provide" benchmark results. So let's I boot my machine with the new microcode, run a benchmark, then reboot it with the old microcode and upload the results to my website (hosted on a machine that doesn't run the new microcode). I don't see how this violates the terms of the license.

In general, these terms doesn't seem to be very carefully phrased. Point (i), and independently point (iii), apparently prevent you from running the software altogether.