skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but with regards to the minimum wage, which is the topic we are on, republicans are typically against raising it.

> Let’s also not forget that while Repubs have traditionally been pro business, Dems, since the 80s have also got cozy with business and get humongous donations from corps —something which was not the case pre 1980s.

I don't intend to engage on "x is better than y." or whataboutism comparing political parties. It is simply a valid observation that republicans are more likely to be against raising the minimum wage, so it would follow that if Amazon is only doing this in the hopes that the government will raise it anyway and other companies would have to pay more, it would be an absurd risk to take.
As a former trader/developer/quant I often felt that "automating myself out of a job" was my goal. If we could build properly architected systems that were self-healing when things went wrong, turned themselves on before the market opened, traded all day, made money and shut down for the night... then eventually my role would devolve into monitoring and ultimately into nothing...

In practise, achieving some sort of "steady state" or status-quo doesn't work for a few reasons:

1. Inherent system complexity ensures something always breaks. Human attention is always needed.

2. Markets evolve rapidly due to technology changes, regulatory changes and the very nature of markets: Strategies and ideas that worked in the past cease to work in the future.
Poll: the future of voting is digital or paper?
In light of Defcon's report on the vulnerability of US electronic voting machines.

https://www.wired.com/story/voting-machine-vulnerabilities-defcon-voting-village/
The commetization of the CPU market was bound to happen eventually. As modern production techniques for chips and FPGA programming start to converge rapidly.

What is the ETA until we get a GNX "GNX is Not X86"? An Open source i386 core that people can run existing applications on? Much like GNU offered a standardized FOSS platform people could run existing Unix workloads on.
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Wow, that was not well researched.

I suppose if they had titled it Google's Keystone problem it wouldn't have gotten as many clicks./cynicism

Lets take the article though for what it purports to be, a review of Medium's first online book, which happens to be a piece of fiction that pilloried Google's culture because the author felt unheard at a company driven by engineering.

It isn't a surprise that voices go unheard in companies (large and small). If I had to guess, I would say the most common refrain I have heard from any employee who quit their job, it was "I tried to tell them what they were doing was wrong but nobody would listen, now look at where they are."

Does that point to any deep regional insights? No. Does it point out that people running companies are human and have blind spots? Well, yeah it does but that isn't exactly startling news.

My suggestion for folks reading the book and this comment are to take away one thing; "Learning how to communicate with the corporate hive mind is an excellent skill to cultivate." and the more practical corollary, "You can't tell someone anything they are unwilling to hear."

You just can't. Get over it. I have had the experience of telling the CEO of a startup that their blind spot was hiding a train coming at them, and that it would take down the company. They couldn't hear it, they rejected my analysis as fanciful and guesswork. And when the company was destroyed by that very train wreck? They were mad at me! Not the situation, not their inability to hear what they needed to hear. No the messenger was the problem, not the situation.

What I learned was that you can't tell someone something they don't want to hear, and if you force them to hear it and are correct, they can end up hating you for it. It is better to ask gently if they are open to alternate views and if they are not, just stop. Let them learn these lessons in their own way and be supportive of them once they fall down and are working their way back up.

There is a theme in "Bad Blood" where they start falsifying their test results because they believe that they are close to having things working and they just need a bit more time. I am sure more than one person said, "Wait, this isn't the right way to deal with this." But to hear that, you had to accept that maybe the whole test with only a drop of blood was not a practical idea. And to hear that, you had to consider the idea that the whole idea was not going to work. Net result, ignore the 'haters' and move on.
What podcast?
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I use safari quite often and do not see this very often
While I haven't listened to your linked episode, 'privacy laws' by definition come into direct conflict with the 1st amendment (i.e. free speech) to the U.S Constitution.
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> Who says Amazon doesn’t pay taxes?

A lot of people!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/10/amazon-uk...

https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...

Amazon deserves credit for raising pay before it needed to, but to sell this as a justification for their tax avoidance everywhere else is absurd.
The employer is paying you for the product, not the effort. I see no moral quandary here, nor any compulsion to notify the employer. They're getting what they want, that should be the end of it.

EDIT: And I would add, for anyone that has automated their job in this way...what you should really be doing is scaling it up, and finding other companies who are probably paying employees to do the same thing. Then start your own company that does whatever this task is as a service.
You can get Empire (http://classicempire.com)

for the PDP-11 here:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11
When using google analytics, when I try to switch to my default property/view (which GA knows), Station opens it a separate window, meaning i can't navigate there from within the app.
Where did you see that?

I doubt hourly warehouse workers are getting RSUs to begin with, that tends to be for salaried positions only.
Just trying to put some reasonable bounds on this estimate. I assumed 12 weeks is "the holiday shopping season" where Amazon has a lot of extra workers who would benefit. And I guessed 250k of them getting $3 raises. You could also guess at the total cost in other ways, many of which would be superior.

The overall goal of these lazy estimates is to understand how significant a cost this is for a company like Amazon. Could activists have hoped for more? Are other companies, for whom the costs would be felt quite differently, likely to offer something similar?
I've automated large chunks of my job away, but I've never felt that I ended up not having things left to do as a result. There are always more tasks to automate and more problems to solve.

I get the impression from these stories that the dishonest part of what the self-automaters are doing is that they could do other tasks and use automation to increase their productivity, but instead chose to keep their productivity the same and relax with the extra downtime.
It should be noted that programmers are not automating themselves out of programming jobs. They're automating themselves out of data entry, or testing, or any number of other mindless tasks easily done by computers.
> if your car's engine fails after 100,000 miles they are not paying for anything

And exactly what car companies will pay for engine if it fails after 100K miles? Come on, 100K miles and you want to complain about reliability?

> which has personally affected me.

And here you've clearly announced that your condemnation of VW has nothing to do with morals or ethics and everything to do with your personal inconvenience. Your indignation about the diesel scandal is a front to mask your self-serving agenda.
Your website says pagerduty is an integration, but i cannot add it from within the app.
I am using it for classification right now - but pretty sure you should be able to do object detection quite easily as well.
Jeff Bezos paying sales tax on his morning coffee is enough for the people looking for an extra dopamine hit by rah rahing Amazon. $15/hour still isn’t enough to live on in many cities and large scale tax evasion by corporations is one of the single most insidious epidemics in our society today.
Is it meant to be a better alternative to Keras?
Lots of them.

Burroughs designed ESPOL in 1961, improved into NEWP, still being sold by Unisys as ClearPath MCP.

IBM did all their RISC research with PL/8, before creating Aix for their RISC systems thus adopting C instead.

IBM i and z mainframes made use of PL/S, C and C++ only came later into the picture as the languages got industry adoption.

Xerox PARC initially used BCPL, but quickly followed up with Mesa, then Mesa/Cedar.

Wirth was inspired by Mesa to create Modula-2 and then by Mesa/Cedar to create Oberon.

Mesa/Cedar designers went to Olivetti and created Modula-2+ and Modula-3.

Apple wrote Lisa and initial versions of MacOS in a mix of Pascal and Assembly.

VAX used BLISS to develop VMS.

PL/I was used by multiple companies, not only by MIT to write Multics.

This is just a very brief overview.

As for Assembly embedding, it is a language extension not part of ISO C, and was quite common in many languages during the 70 and 80's even some BASIC interpreters had it, like on Acorn computers.
Looks interesting. Is auth0 the only option or am I missing something? Also, just FYI I'm getting an Access Denied when clicking on the auth0.com privacy policy link.
A disaster happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476
Yup, I get it, I want that too, but I don't want to learn another language just to do that :/
There's a brightness adjust, which goes from "off" to "really quite bright thanks". Ambient light sensor was added with the Voyage? which is relatively recent.
This kind of stuff annoys me to no end. I think everyone realizes that Silicon Valley and the overall tech world has a diversity problem. There are aspects of our society that systematically under-develop and discourage minorities and women from following the path to becoming an engineer. It's a problem and it's one that our entire society needs to address.

But do we have an "engineering-and-data-obsessed monoculture" problem? Hell no! We've got a whiny, non-tech contingent that is frustrated that engineers aren't willing to be high-level abstractions on top of computers problem, which is only a problem for those people who are shut out of guiding the direction of the tech industry by their lack of ability to actually do the things the tech industry does. The notion that we'd magically arrive at better decisions if we allowed more non-tech people to make those decisions is ludicrous and insulting. There's no reason to think that without the benefit of hindsight, those people would have made better decisions than were actually made. It's the same specious thinking that leads non-tech "idea" people to approach tech people and generously offer 5% of their sure-to-succeed company in exchange for the mere trifle of actually building it.

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Execution beats opinions every time. People who are actually capable of doing the work don't give seats at the table just because "diversity." There's no reason to allow a PR person, like the one discussed in this article, to have outsized influence at a tech company. Engineers seek out engineering-focused cultures because they want a greater degree of autonomy in their work and they want to have a larger influence on the success of their company. Changing that would just mean that the best engineers would choose to work elsewhere, even starting their own companies if need be. That's why we have engineering-focused cultures...because these companies need people that can actually do the work. They've proven that it's not hard to find the non-technical talent, so there's no need to put as much emphasis on that when it comes to the culture and leadership of the company.

The one exception to that that proves the point is the current demand for enterprise tech salespeople. We're reaching a point where that talent is in just as high a demand as technical people. And to the companies that need enterprise tech sales, the cultures are adapting to value those employees alongside engineers. But when I read articles like this one from the NYT, it just feels naive and entitled. If you want to be involved in determining the direction of the tech industry, provide a reason and a value proposition based in reality or your going to be ignored.
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What can't Smalltalk be used for?
I think every nail has its hammer and C is a good tool for certain things. Other tools are also good for certain other things.
Top Frameworks to Start with Machine Learning
That doesn’t truly set things right, though. It’s a compromise for you, and doesn’t fix things for the country itself. In fact the ‘good’ people leaving makes the country even worse.
On Friday I decided to count the number of drivers running reds, since everyone gives cyclists a hard for doing so.

My commute in San Francisco involves crossing 16 streets. It's not very far, about 2.5 miles.

On Friday I observed 35 cars run red lights--not even "it's yellow and time to speed up because drivers don't give a single flying crap about safety" but literally the cross traffic lane is green.

Cars are a terrible unsustainable mess, ruining the environment and ruining city livability. It's not surprising that the risks they impose on the rest of the world are resulting in less people willing to bike
This has to be one of the biggest leap in boot technology for a while! I can't wait to apply this to other distros
No way! That's the New York Times' keystone problem as well!
This is actually really nice. A couple of questions though:

1. Are there more built-in templates, and how do you add them?

2. What's the easiest way to zip up a site and transfer it elsewhere?

Good work btw, i'm going to donate to this.
How is the process for that? I'd like to get that integrated into RhodeCode as well.
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I think you have that backwards? In competitive gaming I was always of the mentality, and taught the mentality, that you shouldn't play to win. You should play to not lose. The best players I've spoken and played with also share this mentality.

For example, in competitive games in general focus on minimizing mistakes rather than focusing on capitalizing on your opponent's mistakes.

Particularly in combo-based fighting games, worry about your ability to execute rather than when to execute. Without fail you should always be able to 100% execute a combo without dropping it, even if you don't always go for the best combo for the scenario. Always going for the best combo but unreliably executing it and dropping it will lose you more games on average.
Startups, or companies pretending to be startups, usually offer lower wages for doing essentially the same technical work.
Oil has been cartelised, in one form or another, for virtually its entire modern history.

Standard Oil, the Seven Sisters, the As-Is agreement, Texaas Raialroad Commission, National Producers, OPEC.

There are economic reasons.
I recently came across your repository and have been recently on a kick to start organizing my knowledge in a more structured way.

I've been using workflowy a bit for random notes, but I don't have much of a process or structure for my notes there so far. It's nice that it's available online. If I get more seriously into using it, i'd have to upgrade to pro to get the dropbox back-up option so i'm at less risk of the service spontaneously disappearing someday.

If workflowy doesn't workout, the next approach is text files in a git repo.
Funnily enough I have been trying to do that today - I don't think you can. You create the per app VPN with a UUID, but the only way to associate an app to a Per-App-VPN definition is through MDM - I think.
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Parsing the html or traversing DOM is the easy part. Doing request queues, ip rotation, data quality management, exponential backoff etc. on scale is much harder.
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Hey Jeremy, just wanted to say thanks very much for making the course and the library, both have been invaluable for us in getting started with deep learning (and achieving useful results) quickly. Both parts of the 2018 course have been a really great tour through the different areas of deep learning, and provided good jumping off points for digging deeper on the parts we got interested in.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/spanish-public-...
Maybe we both have loose morals but I don't see it as cheating the employer anymore than one "cheats" an employer by driving to work instead of walking.
A system that requires no outside intervention to perform its job optimally is equivalent to a solved problem. So quants will be out of a job once we understand how to perfectly trade on the stock market.
I agree. You can force diversity in gender and race (eg. require 1 woman on your board), but they can all still think the same.

When I asked a few tech friends about launching my business, it was this: create a minimum viable product (MVP), apply to a start-up accelerator, get funding, eat ramen, do things that scale, do things that don't scale, move fast break things. That is "the way".

The instant my wife (business partner, computer illiterate, masters degree in marketing) heard of the MVP idea, she went on a mini-rant: "huh? what? Advertising is sooo expensive. No way are we spending all that money at launch to bring in people to see a minimum product. When customers come to our website, we'll have 5 seconds to hook them, so we better have all the features right in their face. If they don't see what they like, they're never coming back"...

Her perspective is so far from the tech scene that this happens repeatedly. Tech guys repeat what they read in some blog which then boggles my wife's mind.

In a different HN discussion regarding MBA degrees, it was stated a couple times that you could just read 2 books and get the MBA curriculum. They don't realize all the different perspectives that you get from business school discussions. It's not about the hard skills. In business school we spent a lot of time doing Harvard Business Cases and hearing from a diversity of opinions.
Everyone could use a large dose of empathy. Either you're a Nazi fascist or a spineless socialist. Everyone is so quick to dehumanize each other and have zero tolerance for thoughts outside their circle. This isn't unique to SV, but it's definitely more apparent there.
American cities keep investing in bike share programs and other "bike friendly" initiatives that have no impact on rider safety.

That a broad generalization based only on your specific experience.

Chicago, for example, continues to build bicycle lanes separated by concrete medians, bollards, and in the case of the big new developments in the South Loop, bike lanes separated from traffic and sidewalks by trees.

The biggest downside to cycling in Chicago is the winter. Not just the cold and wind, but the fact that snow from the sidewalks is often shoveled into the bike lane.

I'm sure there are other American cities doing the same thing.

I think the one advantage unprotected bike lanes have is that they're easier to maintain. Re-paving is simplified. And you don't have to invest in tiny bike lane snowplows.
I rue the day when I gave away my H-11. It's the background pic on my twitter account:

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I made a comment on HN some time ago now that I didn't see much PyTorch being used in the wild or in research, and so was pessimistic about its wide adoption.

Happily, I was thoroughly mistaken, and PyTorch has gone from strength to strength. It's a real joy to use, and I'm excited to see its further development.
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Prices go up for some reason. That's not a bubble.

People want to buy that asset because that's where the returns are (because the price is going up). Those people drive the price up further. That's still not a bubble.

People see that the returns are really good in that asset class, so they borrow money to buy into that asset class, so a ton more money moves in, limited only by banks' willingness to lend against that asset class. Now it's a bubble.

And the problem with bubbles is not that people lose money when they pop. It's that people lose borrowed money when they pop, and if it's a big bubble, that threatens the banks, which can threaten the whole economy (not just that asset class). And, because people invested borrowed money, as the bubble starts to pop, they panic sell, which drives the price down further, which leads more people to panic sell, so the whole thing comes apart very quickly.