skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my point of view, that you have to support your elderly sounds crazy.

Here most elderly either gets support in their own home by professionals (by the local government) or at a home with professional care (run by the local government).

I'd rather spend time with my family on our own terms and not because I have to support them.
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Is it an international law situation?
> Also could I go to a developing country, get a licence there, then it is valid in the UK and America?

Depends on the country you get the license from. https://www.gov.uk/exchange-foreign-driving-licence has a simple click through questionaire that implies your 3rd world license would be valid for 12 months. Looks like you can also get an IDP [0] which will be recognised in most places in the world, but again only valid for 12 months.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Driving_Permit
> * Or simply admit we are human, fallible, and try to do the best we can while knowing our limits? Sounds defeatist. *

That doesn't sound defeatist to me at all, just realistic, as long as it isn't used as an excuse. After all, Sqlite is one of the best tested libraries available.
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1vN51o-Dg

Is the music also produced by the computer? I suppose that it is but it's hard to believe given the quality. Impressive work.
Those are nominal rms values, the range is plus or minus 10%.

I am not sure where it comes from but in the US it's not uncommon for supplies to be referred to as 220/110 rather than 240/120. They're generally understood to be the same thing.
Phyles primarily based on shared values honestly seem more sensible than nation-states primarily based on geography (although of course these may overlap). The latter often seems to lead to the 51% being the decision makers which leaves the 49% unhappy.
One thing that seems reasonably possible is to get restaurant recommendations if you built your own app for that. You'd have to tag restaurants you enjoy or frequent manually, in order to avoid providing location data to Google, but with that input you could rank restaurants in any area by how similar they are to your preferred places. This has some complications anyway because Google Places API, if you rely on that, doesn't provide access to all the tags you see in Google Maps, and you'd have to replace some of that with freeform text search.

But stuff like search results? Auto-tagging items/locations in your photos? I was very impressed by the stuff Google Photos can do, but those features obviously rely on some very well-trained neural networks.

If there existed a promising "personal platform" solution, I'd happily support it by donating and hopefully code contributions, but I'm not aware of anything much better than Owncloud, which itself isn't dramatically different than using rsync/duplicity in cron jobs.
sorry yes, I should have read this first:

https://support.hiber.global/hc/en-us/article_attachments/36...

transmit is on average 4.1 watts. I get that for satellites that's pretty low power, but that's still in the order of 30dbm (assuming losses). compare that to the peak of 23dbm for LTE-m or 14dbm for lora.

Now the OP author doesn't seem to grasp that the reason bluetooth le can last so long/update so much is because its got a limited range. Hiber at a minimum has to reach 600km, more when the satellite is not directly above. LTE-M only has to reach a few KM at best, lora has tiny packets with low duty cycle.
Because the market doesn't try to solve this problem

You have to keep in mind that everything in the US (health care, education, food industry (which causes the health problem)) is harnessed just for one single purpose: Make money for the share holders. Subsequently the US goverment doesn't serve the people and their interest, it serves the interest of these big companies.

This whole system is optimized for making money for the select few, not to cater for the society by and large. Therefore it creates these unfortunate side effects.
That's sad to hear. (Not using Blendle on a daily basis.)

I was always waiting for more articles to get available on Blendle, but if pricing is going through the roof it will be harder to recommend.
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It can also be done on Windows.
It works in highway traffic, it's not unusual in new cars where I live (Finland). Most cars are manual shift, almost all have cruise control, some of the cruise controls are adaptive.

Of course, in city traffic the adaptiveness is not very useful with manual transmission.
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This means the numbers are meaningless and don't provide a good representation. Needs better data.

Call me inhumane, but a single story doesn't mean anything. It's just some random point in the set. Drawing any conclusions from such a single point is dangerous (the larger the set, the more), as we humans just love to extrapolate single points and even tend have quite strong emotional defenses about their importance.

To remove the emotional part, just think of something from IT, like response times or test coverages. See, a story of an obscenely long API response (out of thousands) doesn't make much sense anymore. Debugging individual cases may even lead you on a completely wrong track. Unless you want to merely resolve that particular single request.

I'm sorry about the tone. Stories about others make humans relate (which is good), but they also have such undesirable effects (hype over facts, extrapolating, etc).
Sleeping the whole day is an interesting metaphor for living off of charity or being homeless, two demographics notorious for being unhappier than the working population on average. Did you choose it because spending whole days in bed is a classic symptom of depression,the illness that makes one unhappier than the average employee? I'm not sure transfering money from the later to the former would correct the inequality between their respective qualities of life, so I wouldn't call that equality, no.
Not if you are doing statistics properly.
To clarify a bit: _Azure credits_ cannot be used to pay for Azure DevOps subscriptions. So if you want another parallel pipeline, then you cannot use Azure credits to pay for that.

However, Visual Studio subscribers do get licenses for Azure DevOps. If you're a Visual Studio Professional subscriber, then you get a Basic license for Azure DevOps. You get additional benefits if you're a Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber. You can find the details at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/...
Man, look at that site. Unimaginably fast, works perfect on mobile, no clutter and readable.

It truly has gone downhill since then.
While user numbers have plateaued, I think the story is more nuanced. It seems like the demographics of FB have been changing rapidly - what it indicates to me that their ratio of acquisitions to churn is decreasing, with most of the new acquisitions coming from an older demographic. So, you're both right - young people are leaving/becoming inactive on FB, while being replaced by older people.
You either know something or you don't.

When you are in a position where you don't know something, then either it is expected of you to know that thing or it is not expected of you to know it.

If you are expected to know something that you don't know, you can either be upfront about it or not. Your choice here really depends on the environment you are in.

No one is expected to know everything all the time. Any basic competency that should be expected of you as a must have is the responsibility of the hiring team at your firm. So the fact that you're there already means you know what you need to know, and if you don't know something then it's okay not to know it but you may eventually have to learn it on the job.

That is, of course, if your firm hires people properly, and if not, then you're essentially a false positive hire, however this is not your fault, but rather the fault of a faulty "successful potential employee competency model" with a non-zero false positive rate.

In which case, this is also not your fault, however at this point your employer needs to determine whether they are better off letting you go and having another go at it (usually in most cases a bad/unproductive decision) or letting you pick up the necessary skill on the job, which in most cases is probably the better option.

On another note, self-confidence is important, and that come what may, believe in yourself and your skills to the point that you can whether whatever comes your way. This doesn't mean that you need to know everything immediately, but that you are confident enough in your learning/adaptive abilities that you can learn whatever it is you will need to be successful in your role.
I guess I'd be curious about how you deal with e-mail, since that was my negative experience with a cloud provider (Lavabit), and I think in-general e-mail is a much harder (and maybe inadvisable) service to self-host.

I always like to read experiences and opinions of people who lean one way or the other with regard to all this stuff, or are at least cognizant of it at all, since it seems 99% of people just use whatever they happen upon first and solves their problem.
Moore's law will take care of the processing cost nicely, especially as more commodity processors become powerful enough to handle it.

The ADCs and other analog stuff might be more of a hurdle, the design of them is quite hard, they aren't able to take advantages of smaller transistors as well, and competition in the space is decreasing as semiconductor companies keep merging (e.g. Analog Devices and Linear Technologies).
Hell are there good WYSIWYG website editors nowadays at any price?
Let's say for example Software as a whole suddenly crashed. It's now one of the worst paying jobs you can possibly get, while being a coal miner jumps up as one of the most profitable jobs. Would you immediately sign up and start working in the mines? Would you be physically fit enough for it?

There are large amounts of cultural and career inertia that you have to overcome to 'pivot' your career towards something wildly different. Not everyone can pivot towards something better especially as times change, education changes and people change. My father never graduated highschool and for him, fishing paid better than other opportunities. It was the same for my step-father.

It was also all that they knew how to do. There were few retraining programs (that they couldn't afford even if they could) and to them, their career was their life. Their friends did it, their parents did it. It was their entire identity.

What I'm doing is effectively the pivot away from the family career. It doesn't change the fact that it left a generation in the dust.
It seems to suck if you are a professional though? Losing a days work over a broken upgrade is hundreds of dollars in lost income.
This difference you've pointed out is starkest here, in 2 articles about the travel ban.

1. Trump’s Travel Ban, Aimed at Terrorists, Has Blocked Doctors - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/health/trump-travel-ban-d...

2. Trump’s Immigration Order Could Make It Harder To Find A Psychiatrist Or Pediatrician - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-immigration-orde...

Both of these are reports on exactly the same issue, but different techniques.

The NYTimes prefers to use pictures of a doctor, along with quotes from various doctors and medical students. "We need him desperately", says someone about an oncologist. "I love this country", says a Syrian doctor about America.

Fivethirtyeight tells the story with statistics. How many doctors are there in America? How many of those are immigrants? How many from these countries? All told in one image. Which specialties do these doctors practice? In which counties do they practice in? No human interest, just the facts.

Me personally, I prefer FiveThirtyEight's style. I read their article and that one image helped me realise what a grave issue it was. They get straight to the point, no fluff. But I totally understand how others might connect more with the NYTimes article. Seeing the story from the perspective of a real, breathing human. Hearing them talk about love, about sacrifice, about family. It humanises the issue and they understand it better. Different strokes.
Completely agree. Additionally, data segmentation is important. For example, if you segment employment data by college degree, you would see that overall employment has not risen at all for those without a college degree.

It's like saying the average net worth of Jeff Bezos and 99 homeless people is 1 billion USD, etc etc
> Thus in the not too remote future, the rate of interest would have to be negative and income tax would have to be replaced by an income subsidy.

Interesting. We definitely have negative interest rates in some places by now. Now waiting for the income subsidy.
I don't have to, but society at great can attempt to make me. There are many ways around this.
Yes, but there are also adaptive cruise controls with manual gearbox, and it's a useful combination in highway traffic. Or even in suburban roads: I don't have it, but I use regular cruise control quite a lot on roads that have traffic lights every 1-2 km, and the speed of traffic varies between 40-70 km/h.
Both article and (so far) HN comments manage to avoid the phrase Protestant Work Ethic. The Protestant Work Ethic is a belief that work itself is inherently a good idea, usually because it is in some sense desirable by God, but this idea has outlasted mainstream confidence in the Protestant idea of a personal God.

If you reject the PWE then very different possibilities emerge and in particular "full employment" stops looking like a good public policy goal and start looking like you're just trying to waste as much of people's time as possible.
Made a Pokemon fan site, must have been 9 or something, I didn't know how to link to other pages, so everything was one page and links worked via anchors...
A problem with raising minimum wages is then marginal businesses will lay off employees. It may be better for the government to subsidise low wages by chipping in a bit on top. eg this kind of thing https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/working-ta...
That's cool, you can do whatever you want, but you may want to re-think that plan. If you study history you'll find loads of examples of both individuals and civilizations that fell because they acted in a way that caused a significant cost to others without thinking of the consequences.

Assuming the natural resources you might want to exploit are living beings, you have to maintain an equilibrium in the environment or you can get resource starvation, which then impacts you directly, either as increased costs or an end to the goods entirely. You can easily see this in things like elephant/rhino poaching, where the unregulated demand will eventually result in no more supply at all. Even slavery requires considering the costs of maintaining the slaves, as if the slaves deteriorate, they won't be as productive, and it will cost you more to acquire new ones. Or if you attempt to take over some new lands, but your diseases wipe out the native population, now you don't have the natives to use as slaves anymore.

In respect to the American economy today, inequality and exploitation can lead to several problems. 1) Lack of skilled workers, 2) ballooning health care prices and increased taxes, 3) political unrest leading to trade problems, not to mention limited business growth, 4) overthrow of government, 5) state taking over commercial entities, 6) economic collapse , 7) massive refugee crisis. Oh wait, that's Venezuela. For us it's just the first few.

No matter what, you will eventually have to consider the costs to others if you want to acquire unlimited resources.
No, you'd be correct.
Yes, there's frictional unemployment. How much, though?

This may differ by country, but you typically only show up in the numbers if you were fired. After all, if you quit your job, you aren't involuntarily unemployed, which is what the numbers are supposed to measure.

How often do people get fired? I remember reading numbers of every 20 years on average (don't have the source handy, I'm afraid), but let's call it every 10 years to make it conservative.

In a situation of true full employment, with a plethora of employers looking for employees, at least low to medium skill workers should be able to find a new job basically immediately -- within a week perhaps. Let's be conservative again and call it two months.

This means people are unemployed for two months every 10 years on average, which translates to ~1.7% frictional unemployment. That's way less than the 5% number you cite.

In fact, several industrialized nations saw unemployment rates below 1% for some time between the Second World War and the 1970s. In other words, achieving well below 2% unemployment rate is absolutely realistic.

If you convert the delta to the 5% number you cite to the US workforce, you get about 5 million people. 5 million people who are suffering simply due to political ideology.

On a more political level, I think it's important to keep in mind that the current situation (where people misleadingly talk about full employment even for unemployment rates much higher than 2%) is very beneficial to employers, because it greatly strengthens their bargaining position. Now add the fact that the majority of funding for economics think tanks is aligned with employer interests, and it's clear why the public discourse may be somewhat skewed and biased towards accepting inhumanely high rates of unemployment.
Depends where you are. In london there is an ISP that does replace your internet connection with LTE.

granted at scale its not 150 megs a second, but thats partly down to resources.

On the train I can get between 40-80megabits a second peak. The average speed is around 22megabits: https://opensignal.com/reports/2018/04/uk/state-of-the-mobil....
"The United States has been the top destination for international migrants since at least 1960, with one-fifth of the world's migrants living there as of 2017."

That doesn't make much sense if the US is a hell-hole of capitalism grinding people into poverty (as immigrants usually have little).

In 2016, 1.49 million immigrants came to the US. The median age is 44, so they're hardly all children.

Meanwhile, an awful lot more want to come but can't get in legally.

> This is the most ridiculous proof that America is the land of opportunity I can imagine.

People run to opportunity, not away from it.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...
This is not an area of the product that I work on, so I don't know what the status is. Let me look into it.
It's arguing that China could leverage Google's Chinese market access to influence how Google behaves around the world, sort of like how almost all airlines around the world now say Taiwan is part of China:

> Once Google’s new Chinese business is up and running, there will be nothing to stop Beijing from seeking to dictate how references to Taiwan are addressed not just in China but throughout the site globally. China may also demand to shape how protests in Taiwan, Hong Kong, or the mainland are addressed or what happens when people search for dissidents such as Liu Xiaobo or topics such as human rights. While Google executives may believe that their company would never accede to such requests outside of China’s borders, there are no guarantees. If China gains the leverage to shape how Google presents what Beijing considers to be sensitive topics throughout the rest of the world, it will deal a mortal blow to international principles of freedom of expression and thought.
I'll call you inhumane then. Despite record employment levels and rising average net worth in the USA, millions of people are still starving and struggling with drug addictions and so on.

Averages and generalizations only tell a portion of the story. Anecdotes can shed light on "noise".
It's not easy to imagine somebody having 6+ full time jobs. Just because the time of the worker is the limiting resource.
Lazy dog is well-rested, can probably take more than 50% from a tired dog that hunted, if not even outright killing the hunter.
But... the conversation was about sending the password in emails.
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I hope there's a build thread somewhere on this. Being able to see construction details would be awesome. There's got to be some interesting solutions to suspension, steering, power transmission etc.
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«In May, Google quietly removed “Don’t be evil” from the text of its corporate code of conduct, deleting a catchphrase that had been associated with the company since 2000.»

So it is now official, Google can not longer be considered as "not Evil". And we know this thanks to this sentence that has finally served as a warrant canary.
You should really look into multistage builds. This sort of deployment should scare you.
Very interesting. For my curiosity I did some searching on VGG vs ResNet.

* ResNets were better at feature extraction for image clustering [0]

* One of the trade-offs of ResNets seems to be their relative complexity to VGG [1]

* It surprises me that ResNets aren't significantly faster to train based on the large reduction of FLOPs (from the ResNet paper VGG-19 had 19.6 billion FLOPs vs ResNet-34 with 3.6 billion FLOPs) - I think people just train deeper ResNets e.g. ResNet-50

[0]: https://medium.com/@franky07724_57962/using-keras-pre-traine...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/6e6mlf/d_i...
One thing I've found that works is asking them to write down free-form what they value, and then give them the list you've prepared and then ask them to rank.

Unless you're detached from your customer, they should be in similar ballparks, but getting the words they actually use out of them, and then ranking what you had in mind can be powerful for clarifying their thought process (and gives your marketing team the messaging from the horse's mouth).
I'm not talking about "drawing conclusions from a single point of data". I'm talking about using single points of data to interrogate the completeness and correctness of your data.
>Learning to drive stick is still a useful skill if you want to operate heavy trucks or ride motorcycles, neither of which tend to have an automatic transmission.

Learning how to shift gears is a small ammount of learning
needed to drive those kinds of vehicles so once you decide to learn them you can just learn how to switch gears.

I learned how to drive 600 motorcycle before I ever drove a car, took me 1 hour to figure out gear shifting (well start/stop/second gear at least), learned uphill starts the next day. After 3-4 hours of driving I stopped stalling the bike. Took me 20-40 hours to get good balance and double that to become comfortable enough in traffic.
you can also use the leaked LGUP software which i personally prefer and if you wish to go even more advanced there is actually a command line utility, on older LG devices you can actually use this util to access a root shell (handy if you need to do any mods or want to permanently root it easily)
All data has blind spots.
That's partly a thing of volumes: the models that sell a lot go cheaper than models that need to be ordered specially for specific wishes. So, in the US, everyone assumes automatic and manual gearbox isn't any cheaper. In many European countries, manual shift is the norm and you paid a lot of extra for the rare luxury model with a weird transmission that eats a lot of fuel.

Nowadays, with DSG and other dual-clutch transmissions, the automatics have become more common also in Europe. I think my next car should be a Škoda Octavia with a diesel engine and DSG automatic.
I’m sorry to hear that. I’m sure you’re aware, but for most people that isn’t really the case. I hope that you can access help in the event that you need it to understand and deal with the society you’re part of.