skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already build neural networks to predict how our own neural networks react to input (marketing, ie facebook).

The obvious next step is to combine that with the findings in the article.

Ie: Create a VR (or AR) headset that can both present an audio-visual experience to the user, WHILE having enough sensors to accurately measure the users brain state (and other bodily states, such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc).

That will place a game developer in a position to predict what events a game can create that would create the greatest possible engagement in a given gamer. They can time rewards, challenges, esthetical or sexual stimuli in the way that generates the greatest possible control of the player's future behaviour.

In the hands of the greatest data scientists, this will allow them to create a hithertdo unprecedented level of addiction, which can then be monetetized through subscriptions, micro transactions, embedded adverticements or just by selling the data.

In the hands of governments, this can be used to pacify any population, drive behaviour in desired directions, or create support (even demand) for given policies.

In the hands of parents, it can greatly help them teach their children whatever they want to teach them. (Be it morality, religion, self-discipline, or whatever)

In the hands of a great psychologist, it would be able to cure most mental disorders less severe than outright psychosis.

How will we face this? Will anyone outside the elite be able to prevent this being used against them?
2010 was almost a decade ago.
From a European point of view I have a hard time understanding your opinion.

In other countries, regulated/public healthcare works better and is more efficient than your system, it's hard to deny it... I don't see how doubling down on cutting regulations would solve anything.

In a way it reminds me of the gun control
issue: the idea that deregulating gun ownership and carrying will make everybody safer seems so absurd from abroad... I guess it's cultural.
Why is this a problem? I just can't see any indication of problem here, this is just supply vs demand: world is globalized now and most of what uneducated people could do can be imported from much cheaper places. If we started to look hard for 'fixes' for this we'd end up just breaking the economy. Force businesses to pay them more and even more of these job will evaporate, because there will be no point any longer. And most of these jobs will be automated away anyway.

My advice is: invest money into better law enforcement, including ML and AI-based, like crime prediction and drones. Make sure, by a combination of legislative and informal methods, that poor and well to do communities are better separated from each other. Invest more in stuff which gives poor people something to fill their time with, like video games, so they don't do as much crime. And that's it.
This appears to be part of the broader effort to make citizenship conditional for many more Americans.

The current state of that effort allows for ethnically disparate impacts ( latino populations were less likely to be born in a hospital, so their birth certificates are more open to challenge ) and due to that disparate impact also serve as a form of vote suppression.

But do not fool yourself into thinking it's not bad. The normalization of stripping citizenship creates a corrupt practice that is very tempting to authoritarians.
In my last project, we had a VPN ( tinc ) between the mongo cluster and the micro services.

Tincd was installed on each virtual server and allowed a secure and unified way for communication.

For example Redis, Mongo, Logstash, etc... all have their own way of encrypting the connection, but once running them in a VPN, you can leave them unencrypted.
Wow. Very well said. I have had years of unsettled conflicts because I didn't do this when I married.
I wish Norwegian post was like Swedish one. We are lucky if the stuff we order gets delivered same week! Also delivery to door is more expensive and they have stopped delivering post every day that’s part of the problem. All due to privatization ans cost cutting strategy.
probably part of it is also inconsiderate developers.
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Re-engineering the clutch sounds like a lot more work than adding a little servo. (Or two: one for 1/3/5 and one for 2/4.) And yeah, like anything in the car I guess it could fail, but something so simple could be made very robust—and if it did fail, it wouldn't be catastrophic. Would also be simple enough to add a mechanical override screw accessible under the shifter boot or something like that.
This doesn’t seem to address the parent poster’s point. Like, at all.
What you've seen is irrelevant, when on the whole the lower and middle classes suffer due to lack of a social safety net and an extreme form of capitalism. There's a large amount of news articles which describe the situation of labour in the US.

If things keep going like this, those millionares will soon have to build their own fortress cities to keep all the undesirable and disgruntled poor people away.

The fact that poor people come to the US doesn't prove anything either, 99,(9)% of them will never be millionares, just like most people won't.
I have driven in both the US and a few European countries, and I would disagree with your proposed cause but agree somewhat with the effect. Having driven on long-distance road trips in the US, drivers are noticeably more competent than in (sub)urban highways, probably because the latter are filled with drivers who don't drive as much at those speeds. This is often inherently true in many western European countries in which driving usually has reasonable public transit alternatives so the selection of drivers on roads may tend to be more skilled and experienced.

That being said, in some European cities drivers are not very keen to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, even when pedestrians are already in the median "island." I haven't noticed any US city of a similar size that had drivers quite so negligent about crosswalks.
That you cannot call capitalism any successful economic system. China proved that a protectionist model with colossal government intervention can successfully reduce poverty.
I don't think classes of buildings are that imporant. Just multiply the resident population by the number of windows per person. Just throwing a number out there, I'd estimate something like 10 windows per resident, counting residential and commercial.
Awesome! I love the idea of keeping the docs right in the code :)

Here's the parent project: http://openap.is/

I don't write code much anymore, but when I do it tends to be non-production stuff like this. (We're a 11-person company!)
Just to add, I really enjoyed Scott Aaronson's essay on this topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
There is "lack of interest by the native population" only because wages have been pushed down by people from the Philippines. Even with odd hours, people will gladly do the job if the pay is good.

The elderly, with failing ears and minds, have enough trouble understanding the speech of the native population. Subjecting your elderly to nurses that can't be understood at all is elder abuse.
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Great, now instead of simply googling my symptoms, I can also attempt to read an ultrasound. Image search maybe?
I find that people who marry young grow together. The post about core values hits it right on the head in my years of experience.

Nothing has come close to ruining my marriage as much as that.
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For many people, myself included, engagement with the transmission and engine speed is part of the "engagement" we want when driving. If you're more interested in the handling dynamics, etc. I could see how an automatic could remove other distractions.
I can’t speak for others but I personally find driving a manual does help prevent accidents. Driving an automatic feels a bit mundane. Just hold the gas pedal in the same spot the whole time. It’s easy to slip into a boredom state (zone out) and not focus on the road. Even more so when tired.

A manual car sort of kicks you in the butt every now and then: “hey, you’re in the wrong gear. Stay sharp, and upshift!”
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Ask HN: Uber Fare Adjustment Rip Off
This week we flew into France. When we got to the airport, we took an Uber to our AirBnB, which was supposed to cost $17.38. Later in the day, we got an email saying our fare was "corrected" by adding $3.26 "du prix de la course", which I believe means traffic.

The only thing was, there wasn't traffic. Our trip was supposed to take 16 minutes and actually took 16 minutes.

I googled around and it looks like Uber drivers are systematically requesting fare adjustments in order to increase their overall earnings.

Now...my issue with this is not the money or even that fare adjustments exist. Riders should pay for unexpected traffic and should probably pay more for Uber overall. My issue is that Uber is not supposed to be a shady taxi service. I don't want to get to the end of my trip and find out it's 20% more than I was promised for absolutely no reason.

Has this happened to anyone else?
Well if you're an experienced stick-shifter and familiar with the car you don't have to think about what gear you're in. Combination of revolutions, engine noise, speed and gearshift position make this and planning for the downshift lag as natural as breathing air.

Only time I think about gears is in low range, when I'm in an off-roader.
It’s more complicated than that though. In Denmark where I live, we have trouble staffing certain industry jobs. Jobs like gutting, freezing and packing fish or general slaughter houses.

It used to be that these were low paying jobs, packed with immigrants. Since you need a social security number to work, and we’re rather good at finding people who cheat the system, illegal immigration workers isn’t really a thing in factories. But the system and legalization was still exploited so paying immigrants less was possible.

Anyway eventually regulation caught up and ended the low pay loopholes. So now a job at those factories pays half a million kroner a year, or more than I earn as a senior IT-architect.

As a result a lot of our slaughtering houses moved production and enrichment out of the country, but the really interesting thing is the fishing factories. They couldn’t move or outsource production because they need to be located close to where the fish are caught.

Despite the pay hike they still can’t hire enough people without relying on immigration. It turned out that nobody wanted those jobs, even when they pay really well.

Ps. Im not sure what fishing factories and slaughtering houses are called in English but I hope you get the point.
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When you're done hiring you've surrounded yourself with people who are good at estimating urban fenestration, but are poor listeners who blame others when they fail.
> The problem with the anti-immigrant zealots is they never provide any evidence for their paranoid fantasies about immigrants increasing unemployment or supressing wages.

Ironically, your post also contains zero evidence for your claims.
You can have the shared source files in the same project with the CLJS front-end and Clojure back-end. This way, at development time, there is no friction related to updating different projects or release artifacts, you just live-reload the updated namespace in frontend & backend.

A common use case for the shared code is manipulating the application's domain data structures. Sharing the code for these manipulations is routine. In SPA apps you frequently do more than just render views for the backend, and then you typically want to have the backend's internal representation of the data at hand even at the frontend.

You can call it a library use-case of course, depending what unit of modularity you choose to call a library. But this way you don't have to update 3 projects for each change (app-backend, app-frontend, app-shared) and you can very flexibly refactor stuff into the shared namespace without breaking the normal flow of development.
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I think that is exactly what he is saying.
I think it would fluctuate depending on the prices of strawberries. And if you spent all your money giving out the maximum possible wage and your crops failed you’d go out of business because you weren’t able to save money.
I find Photoshops filters superior when it comes to converting between data formats
This will fall in deaf ears, and maybe rightly so, if computing history is any guide.

In 1954, the biggest issue John Backus had to overcome for FORTRAN was performance: "it is difficult to convey to a reader in the late seventies the strength of the skepticism about "automatic programming" in general and about its ability to produce efficient programs in particular, as it existed in 1954."

But the world went on to use higher-level languages with worse and worse performance characteristics.

We can't blame developers trying to use better tools (we could, but that wouldn't change a thing). DOM, CSS, and the imperative mutation model was a curse on front-end development, ensuring that only companies as big as Google could write something like GMail (for which they wrote their own Java-to-Javascript compiler first). If something needs fixing it is the underlying browser model. Maybe it will get fixed sometime if this trend continues to its terrible but logical extreme, and something finally gives.

This is also purely a matter of cost - if businesses do care about performance then they'll have to put more developers per team, spend money on training, ask for fewer features slower. If performance _really_ mattered, then they'd see a loss in revenue, and as a natural response start talking about performance in their agile meetings, and JIRA cards.
Ask HN: What's a starting point for learning how to write programming languages?
I've been thinking about writing my own programming language for some time. This to gain a deeper understanding of how programming languages, and by extent, computers work. I've bought the Flex and Bison book by John Levine to have a resource on parsing and lexing. I have come to realize however, that writing a complete language like Java, Python, Ruby, from bottom to the top, is of course not a small task. So therefore I started to think of writing maybe a compiler for another language, writing a "simple" language like SQL, Markdown etc. to begin with.

What are your experiences when writing a new programming language, where and how did you start?
You're conflating two groups. There are legal immigrants who stay, generally under the sponsorship of a company, and there are illegal immigrants who either come by illegally crossing the border, or by overstaying a legally obtained visa. Legal immigrants do tend to be highly skilled and relatively highly paid, though their wages are often lower than citizen workers in the same field - which can depress wages overall. Illegal immigrants by contrast tend to be involved in low skill and low pay labor, often done under the table.

Personally, I have nothing at all against the illegal sort. Day laborers, for instance, tend to be great workers and good people, happy to put in a hard day's work for a $50 and some good meals. At the same time though, I have to consider that this is really distorting the economy since it drags down wages for all people willing to do this work to that level, which is not really fair to people that want to make a living doing this work but want a higher standard of living, to raise a family, etc.
That sounds like a crap deal honestly. Come to the US, you'll probably still die poor, but at least maybe your grandchildren will do well. *

* does not apply if you or your children get shot by the police for being the wrong shade of brown, maimed by unsafe working conditions associated with low-skilled labour, get sacked because you ask for a raise, etc.
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I do that; I ask candidates to code in notepad instead of an environment where you an compile, and it's intentional.

Failure come in three types - bad understanding (failure to understand the problem), bad planning (plan doesn't actually solve the problem), and bad implementation (failure to implement the plan correctly). The third type includes typos and off-by-one errors that I don't want the candidate to get hung up on. I might ask about an issue if I spot it, but if not I'd rather keep going on the more relevant parts of the solution.

Also, you can leave part of the solution in pseudocode without getting distracted by a bunch of squiggly underlines, and handwave away parts of the problem that we don't care about.
If you look at all the modern muscle cars (or in the case of the Corvette and Camaro ZL1) hypercars and supercars camouflagef as muscle cars, they all come with the manual transmission as the standard option, and most of the enthusiasts choose that. I watch Youtube car videos constantly and have seen a very encouraging uptake of manual transmission cars in America by generation Y. It's like a new era is dawning. Very encouraging.
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> On one hand you say your hard work and focus on future got you out of poverty.

I think that was just to add to the shock factor. The point was that his hard work would not have taken him anywhere, were it not for the money brought by his father's accident lawsuit.
The thing looks pretty fragile -- one of the reasons why they use piezo based systems is they are pretty robust.. I guess I am not clear how this system equates to getting a $100 ultrasound machine.. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this system probably is not going to replace normal ultrasound systems for some time.. but could be used to wrap one of these membranes around say your heart and have something like an implantable ultrasound heart monitor..
But make fantastic deflection ammo for those who benefit heavily from the status quo.
$10b here and $50b there and they'll own it all. Shipping is the sticking point but they're working on their own FedEx /UPS ...

At some point you trust Amazon and don't care that Walmart might have a certain item $3.70 cheaper...win some, lose some is the rationale but "Amazon is cool"
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Your story resonates so much with me - thank you for sharing.

Similarily, it wasn’t applying for oodles of financial aid/loans, working throughout college, and applying for scores of scholarships that let me study software engineering - it was the fact that my great-aunt, who I have exactly one memory of, left a fund to cover rent and books each semester. That arbitrary, fortunate fact gave me the substrate with which to form my education.

Hard work will only get you so far when you show up to the pottery wheel without clay.
Calling it a propaganda is a bit too much. However, their quality of articles has decreased considerably:

https://thewire.in/caste/does-india-need-a-caste-based-quota...
The critical component is your imagination. If your imagination is at that level, you are likely to be successful in Holywood,even today.

But I think the greatest utility of this tech is not in the movie industry, but in the gaming industry.

Imagine a photo realistic version of sims where your family and friends know EXACTLY how to react to maximize your sense of meaning, happiness, enjoyment in precisely the way that is needed in order to prevent you from leaving the game?
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i can't tell if you actually think it is simple or not. you and your mother are fortunate for that professional class lawyer who worked pro-bono for no material gain whatsoever.
As a Common Lisp user, I wish more of these one-off lisps would try to be compatible with Common Lisp or Scheme.

Both CL and Scheme have pretty good library ecosystems, though realistically not as rich as more popular languages. Coming out with a brand new, incompatible, Lisp that has an even smaller community isn't very helpful, IMO. Why not at least take advantage of the existing libraries and community?
Amazon isnt cool though. They dont carry good brands, half the stuff is fake, the other half is ads. We all hate Amazon, but use it because it's so darn convenient.
You already have the passport. You are right to worry about aggressive misapplication of policy and an unabashedly nativist administration enabling it potentially causing some bureaucratic problem. Even a very unpleasant problem. You're not going to end up in a situation where you are 'not allowed to return home', though.
We'll see if they ship!

The company that is really killing it in this space right now is https://www.butterflynetwork.com/
> Wages, in real terms, have largely lost purchasing power to the point where it takes two incomes to have the same (or less) purchasing power than one income did prior to WWII.

I don't think that is true. Even if you exclude management jobs, hourly wages have remained roughly steady in real terms since the 1960's:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...

There are also longitudinal effects at play: native-born Americans have seen their wages rise but this is offset by immigrants who generally have lower-than-average wages (but still higher than in the country they emigrated from). Both groups are better off even though average wages haven't changed.
This is why my car has a 'manual gearbox preservation society'[1] decal on it :-). It is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy which I pointed out to a Subaru VP at some length, if you only offer the manual on your 'low trim' cars you double penalize it, both from the perspective of people who want a bit more luxury and the things like radio systems or navigation systems that only come in the 'higher trim' packages.

One of the things he told me was that the cost of getting a car through California smog certification had to be covered by the sales of the car, and limited production run cars have higher production costs because the assembly line has to be re-tooled during the run.

All I know is that it makes me sad, and I'm glad that Mazda, for the moment, still offers a manual on all their trim packages for many of their cars.

[1] https://thecurbshop.com/collections/tmgps
It's reaching but Steve Mann could qualify.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/augmented-reality-explorer...
I know people who profess to be victims, too. I'll tick off the choices they made that got them where they are. Of course, they get angry with me. Nobody wants to hear the truth.

Where I am, the good and the bad, is nearly entirely the sum of my choices. For example, if you floss or not eventually has a large effect on your health. Ditto for the amount you choose to drink, smoke, and exercise. Where you choose to live, who you choose to marry, who you pick for friends, what you do with your free time, do you work to excel in school or do just enough to squeak by, what major do you select in college, it just goes on and on.
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The cost of one AGM-114 Hellfire missile is $100,000+. Most likely they will be used to blow up some random guy in the middle east for no reason.

The cost of a 1 liter water bag at a hospital is $500.

Walmart evaded $70+ billion dollars in tax. They made that money by keeping all their workforce on medicaid.

That's where you money is going to, not $6 an hour fruit pickers spending all their money in food.
Paired with deep learning it would be very helpful for early tumor screening at home. My girlfriend already had cancer twice, but the usual screening is done only once every 6 months.
Imagine an extremely simplified model where all immigrants to a city are experienced taxi drivers. There's more demand for goods, but probably only a small uptick in demand for taxis. The supply of available taxi drivers has gone way up however.