skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are fine, I totally understand your scepticism. And you are right, there are definitely issues in communication.

First of all, I built it for myself. I needed a high level representation of scraping logic, which would run an isolated and safe environment.
Second, I needed to be able easily scrape dynamic pages.

So, what I got is:
- high level, declarative-is language, that hides all infrastructural details, which helps you to focus on the logic itself. that helps you to describe what you want without worring about underlying technology. Today, I'm using headless Chrome, tomorrow I will use something else, but the change should not affect your code.
- full support of dynamic pages. You can get data from dynamically rendered page, emulate user's actions and etc. Heck, you can even write bots with it.
- embeddable. now, I have only CLI, there are plans to write a web server where you can save your scripts, schedule them and set up output streams.

But the main idea is to provide high level declarative way of scraping the web. I'm not saying you can't do that with other tools. I'm just trying to come up with something more easy to work with.

Regarding examples, the project is still WIP, so as more complex features I get, more complex examples I get.
Here is more or less complex, getting data from Google Search. It's not that difficult, but it showcases the core feature of work with dynamic pages.

https://github.com/MontFerret/ferret/blob/master/docs/exampl...
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it's a pretty big exception, even if the other part is true. (And thanks for acknowledging the exception up front!)

At the high points, 20% of the total U.S. population were enslaved. At that point, it's not just an exception, it's a problem with the entire premise, even if the entire rest of the population was 'middle class', which they weren't.

What allowed the U.S. economy to function with an unusually large portion of _white_ people being "middle class" (compared to Europe)... was all the African people who weren't. There's no reason to treat those 20% of people as not part of the U.S. economy, they were a _crucial_ part. If we were to look at what portion of the _entire_ population of the U.S. was "middle class", including those 20% enslaved people, for whatever definition of 'middle class', that'd be closer anyway. There's no reason to look at things without them though, as if they were just a footnote. 20% of the population!
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I am willing to concede that OCaml is a small language (Having not used it, I dont have any evidence for or against).

As for C, I was looking at small purely from the views of a new comer who is using a book to come upto speed with a language. You can write the programs from c books as is in a simple text editor and just compile / run them. C Books dont spend a huge amount of focus on arbitrary textual macros so in practice you do not run into macros as a newcomer.
At least there's some "sign of life" from the OS in this case - although I can totally imagine this being a confusing experience for people as well! If it's technically infeasible to replace the OEM logo while avoiding a modeset (flicker), maybe a small spinner or animated logo would do - an animated Fedora logo could look extremely cool there!
I wonder if management would be happier if you said "I'm going to quit and be a consultant, our company will do my current role for 80% of what you're currently paying me."

?

Not only does that release you from the unnecessary expense of going to work, it frees the company some space and employment expenses too. They save money on getting the task completed, so that can be labelled as a management win "we outsourced and saved with no drop in quality".

In addition you are free to do the same for other businesses. Or indeed to sell extra seats of your solution and put your former colleagues out of work.
> If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block

Jogging is really boring and those large goas are only way to make it fun. In the past, people typically were not jogging at all.

It is not that competitions killed causual jogging - more that they made people stick with it and like it.
It's probably impossible to satisfy the level of 'wonderfullness' you'd demand in a modern (even if minimalist) processor. There are a lot of competing demands on what it should do. RISC-V seems to have made good decisions w.r.t. modularity and efficiency at least.
I don't really have an opinion on whether or not you should take your laptop home, but I just wanted to point out this imaginary line between "work" and "home life" is a total modern construct.

Tell your distant great grandfather, you know the small farmer in rural europe in the 1700s, that the cows just escaped the pen and see if he says "But its saturday evening, I'm off the clock".
I remember this! Good memories
They already did:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong

It's a part of Graal itself now. It runs C, C++, Rust, etc.
Check out the Kali distro
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When I bring that up to many people, they gawk. That’s just abhorrent. But, at some point, that must be the end goal, right?

For at least five generations, my ancestors have been working hard to “give their kids a better life.” But, at what point will the goal be to give one’s kids the time and resources to be idle? If I was president of the world, I’d make that Humanity’s moonshot project.

Of course, it may not ever be possible. But, hey, there are 100 million people out there smarter than me. Surely, someone can figure it out.
>For a profitable company where wages are a major expense, it seems like lower prices with higher wages can only be achieved with higher productivity.
Productivity vs hourly pay has pretty famously stagnated since the 1970s[1] after being closely correlated for years before. The issue is simply that people aren't being paid enough for the value they add to companies.

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
I had senior people change habits and practices but at the expense of huge failures or years of leading by example. The patience and the effort are humongous and almost ridiculous when you compare them to how quarterly or even bi-quarterly planing cycles look.
The idea is to create a high level abstraction that represents your web scraping logic.
The project is still WIP. I will create a web server which will help you to store your queries, schedule them and set up output stream to other systems like Spark and Flink.
It would make sense that Phobos, like Earth's moon, was the result of an impacting object versus a captured asteroid. I would think that captured objects, such as D-class asteroids would eventually have an orbit degrade over the course of a few millennia.
No, git packs do store base blobs and diffs, which are not visible to end users; the git plumbing hides this and only presents blobs to the user.
Not to harp on about this too much, but that is exactly the problem: results that speak for themselves but don’t have any rigour are sham results and leave you open to accusations that you are simply using marketing flash or selective statistics.

Now, a real study can open you to this as wel, but it is harder when you have some ostensibly objective results.

There is no such thing as achieving results unless you can prove it, it doesn’t make sense
To;dr: female liberal arts majored marketer says Silicon Valley has too many male nerds at the top and is too engineering and data driven.
I don't think the shift to $15/hr will make as much of an impact as this article theorizes. It's not barely enough to live off but the buying power still isn't substantial. So giving workers more 'freedom' because of the hike to $15 won't make much of a debt imo.
That's a really good example. I bet there are plenty of hispanics, asians, men, women, christians, hindus, liberals, conservatives, and homosexuals, all spouting "The Startup Way" so to speak.

What diversity benefit is there in having any of those people around when you, yourself, already have the perspective? (Because you already read all the same books and blogs.) Having your wife take a look could certainly provide a more fresh perspective than having yet another tech monoculture drone look at it.
That makes no sense. If people were doing jobs that could literally be replaced by automation, they were not great jobs and either soul destroying or they would have gone away anyway.

Progress enables productivity which is a net win for everyone, your work has contributed to productivity a LOT more than the work of the people who needed to move on. Without technology we’d almost all be in poverty.
I was interested when he mentioned infectious diseases (I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, there there are lots of stories I can tell about what I find interesting, but I was curious from a funder's perspective), but the list was...somewhat less light-the-world-on-fire.
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job
Those are actually silicon hardware cores all of these are soft-core applications.
How did you get into SRE? Did you start off as a software engineer and transition over?
They largely hunt minke whales, which are not threatened. The entire industry is basically a boondoggle too; there's no massive demand. I'd be more worried about tuna fishing.
Thanks for replying.

From appearance alone, everything about fast.ai seems to be positive with no obvious negatives over native pytorch.

I often require to train baselines for my projects. That will be the perfect place to start using fast.ai. I am sold.

I have heard a few people lament the lack of keras in pytorch. Fast.ai also appears to take care of that.

Thanks for the great work.
Exactly. Maybe we could say that for 99% of software C is the lowest level. Its implemented in something, that's implemented in something, that's implemented in C. So, if you learn it, you can understand your software stack completely.

Also, C is learn once, write anywhere. If there is some kind of computer, then there is probably a C compiler for it. That's not true of any other language to the same extent. Know C and you can program anything.
I think the issue is really just one of scale. If you ship 400M drives a year (as the global hard drive industry did last year), a cost savings of $1 is a lot of money that goes into your pocket/R&D. If you're making 10000 of something, making a custom chip is almost certainly going to cost you a fortune; if you're making tens or hundreds of millions of something, that cost gets amortized very quickly, I imagine.

If WD is making their own chips, it almost certainly isn't to save a couple grand a year; it's probably to save many millions.
I've only seen it work on Windows with the default basic display driver :/ I haven't seen it work for a dedicated graphics card driver.
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That isn't an Amazon specific thing though, it is an American workplace thing that is more like a dictatorship/feudal empire than anything with rights.

In the US, we live in 'freedom' but then go work on a feudal/sharecropper mini states that act like fiefdoms for corporate overlords.

Labor rights are not even along for the ride anymore, they got left at the station somewhere in the early 80s.

Look at how companies even see raising wages when they know that is a critical part of growth and as American as apple pie, however wage increases have been efficiently metric optimized and worked out of the system.

SCOTUS just recently agreed that forced arbitration is legal [1].

> In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court’s more conservative justices ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses to block employees from banding together in class action suits.

Corporate overlords, who serve the next quarter earnings only, might even get non-competes to be valid with the way things are going, not looking good for labor. Amazon employees might be able to change conditions if they were weren't locked into forced arbitration.

Raises are very American and needed in a consumer economy that requires growth and new demand, those are almost gone.

Competition is very market friendly and American, non-competes are everywhere and are the most anti-American, anti-business and anti-competitive thing that currently exist, they only favor established and large corporations over investors, entrepreneurs and small/medium companies coming up. If arbitrators are allowed to determine non-competes validity, competition, entrepreneurship and innovation is over.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/business/supreme-court-up...
It is not uncommon to have lots of simple processors in one chip. One could manage low power mode, another encryption and boot, and another core functionality required in a hard drive. When you have 3-4 cores per device the license fees start to add up.
David Graeber in Bullshit Jobs, says people have been conditioned to insist that you can't be productive without suffering in the process, and he goes on to makes a case for Universal Income (because modern society is productive enough to feed and house everyone). I think it misses the point. People want a job where they grow as human beings, and you can't grow without suffering/trial. Pointless jobs are depressing. If you figure out how to get paid without doing anymore work, that's cool, but then what are you going to do? If you want to grow and make society a better place, it's better to find something else to do, either with the same company or somewhere better that isn't so dysfunctional.
$15/hr in Seattle (and Tacoma/Bellevue) is $1.61/hr above a living wage for the average single person with no kids. [1]

I thought the goal of the living wage was to ensure that, in general, people can cover their necessities without having to resort to welfare.

Once the first couple levels of maslow's hierarchy are taken care of, doesn't the usual advice of "start climbing" apply to the rest of it?

[1]: http://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/42660
> clearly riffing off Bertrand Russell's well-known essay

Originality takes ... work.
Not technically a new browser but check out Get@ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get/id960699421?mt=8

It is a curated web experience.
Interesting view, given that Whites are proportionally underrepresented in much of Silicon valley companies. In fact, Google's tech roles are now majority non-white. Not that this is necessarily a problem, but it does not align with the idea that SV's monocultue comes from an overrepresentation of White people.
We're currently at one degree above preindustrial, and the world looks a lot like he described for that level.

The book was published in 2009 but most of the news since has not been encouraging. A recent book that covers similar ground, also with a lot of references, is Unprecedented by David Ray Griffin; the conclusions are similar. If you want more detail on the geologic evidence, see Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen.

You're surely right that there will be things that improve. However, we know from geology and paleontology what's happened in previous major warming periods: mass extinction, and a huge loss of biomass, with most of the survivors clustered around the poles. That doesn't bode well for us.
The Physics of Nerves (2010)
In that case, let's build it right in to RhodeCode!

A good place to start would be opening an issue on your product's issue tracker and start discussing requirements there.
When you get large enough, doing it yourself can become cheaper than buying it, and small %0.5 improvement projects can have big benefits since they accumulate.

RISC-V feels like CPU hardware's linux moment right now.
Well WD has total sales of $15.13bn with a cost of goods of $10.8bn if the chip and license for arm costs $3 and they can get the costs to $1 with the chip doing exactly and only what they need at that scale it’s a meaningful impact on cost of goods thus bottom line.
Yeah, anyone trying to disrupt waste pickup, construction, concrete, pretty much any local services had better be ready to fight well-entrenched incumbents.

Not that it can't be done but it's important to acknowledge local governments have many competing objectives beyond "providing the best service possible at the lowest cost", including promotion of diversity, creation of jobs, supporting local businesses, the perception of fairness, etc.
Yep, everyone here (small sample size, completely anecdotal of course) wears some form of bike-specific clothes. Couple of the guys actually wear lycra, some just wear sport clothes appropriate for the weather.

Portland is not a very dense city except in a small number of residential blocks in and around downtown. There are many neighborhoods of mostly single-family (or small apartment complexes) in the <10 mile distance which accounts for the majority of bike commuters in my experience.
Thank you very much for your valuable feedback and I'm glad that someone has finally got the idea :)
Heh. I don't disagree with that. I go full fledged hobby mode in most of the stuff I do, but I like competition. Unfortunately, I'll never be the best at anything I do.

I have the 10% theory. That is, you can be top 10% in anything with deliberate practice and a really solid effort. After that, it gets exponentially harder, and natural ability plays a larger and larger effect.

I'm really into cycling. I've been doing it all my life, but I broke into the top 10% with relative ease (judging by Strava). It took me a lot more consistent effort to break into the 5%, and a whole lot more effort (and some luck) to break into the 1-3%. Beyond that, there are some serious outliers who are just so much faster than even the 1%ers. Who knows though, maybe they're car KOMs or on e-bikes. In any case, I enjoy the competitive aspects of Strava, but some people think it ruins cycling.
At some point, these conversations seem to always turn into a contest to see who can be the most pedantic. Which I think is pretty fun - and pretty well in the spirit of the original article - but that's me, and I can't fault anyone for being turned off by it.

's funny, I am certainly aware of having, at some point, at least skimmed over the C99 standard encountered the concept of a storage duration. But, aside from that brief few hours, virtually the entirety of my C-knowing career has been spent thinking and talking in terms of stacks and heaps.

Meanwhile, in my .NET career, I really did (and, I guess, still do) feel like it was important to keep track of how .NET's distinction is between reference types and value types, and whether or not they were stack or heap allocated was an implementation detail.
> A lot of the laws are bought and sold for. That's not just true for US but for most of the world I think.

That's the point. The problem is the content of the laws. Their consequence is an inevitability that follows from their content.
His father, Emperor Hirohito was also a marine biologist. How much better would the 21st century have been if he indulged that career rather then emperor of Japan during Japan's actions in China and world war 2...

At best, he failed to reign in the military, at worst, he was the warlord of the worst butchers of the modern era. Members who served him talked about how Biology was his real passion.
Most amazon warehouses are not located in Seattle. This compensation might be very attractive to more rural/small town folks and could considerably improve their quality of life.
> An open app runtime

The .Net / Mono / Xamarain toolchain try to do this.

WebAssembly also tries to do this, but it's so premature it's almost impossible to do anything with it.
Having had mostly cheap bikes before, I finally ponied up the cash for a decent bike. Not a racer or anything, a not too expensive ordinary 8-speed flat bar city bike, with a good aluminum frame, fenders, luggage rack, good ergonomics and quality Shimano components.

Compared to the cheaper bikes I used to ride, the difference is night and day.

You don't have to go crazy, but you should spend enough to get good quality.
What's your source for Tensorflow being in the lead? I'd love to have some actual data on this. In my experience, for a long time now, I've barely seen anyone outside Alphabet doing anything with TF. Everywhere I look and everyone I talk to uses PyTorch. So from my perspective, PyTorch is (IMO deservedly) miles ahead in usage, and TF 2.0 will probably do only little to anything to close that gap. Disclaimer: I'm in research, things might be different in production environments.
> work two jobs

I wouldn't consider working two jobs to be middle class unless you meant two people in the household working one job each, unless there are a lot of people working two jobs to maintain a middle class lifestyle.
Look at it the other way. Suppose they honestly believe that $15 is the right minimum wage. If they just raise it to $15 for their workers, why should they let other companies freeload?

Look at other sorts of pro-worker laws, like safety. If Amazon were lobbying for increased OSHA oversight of warehouses because they didn't want to compete with companies who treated worker bodies as disposable, would that be bad? I don't think so.
>brick and mortar competitors cannot automate retail workers

Actually, Amazon is looking to do just that with Amazon Go: smart speculation is that they plan on developing it to the point where they can license and sell it to other retailers in much the same way they did with their cloud services.
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They eat the food we grow or raise, an artificial construct. Not since agriculture have we directly competed with foxes for our dinner.
> While law enforcement in the US can force a suspect to unlock their Apple device via Touch ID, this is believed to be the first recorded incident in which law enforcement in any country has used a search warrant to force a mobile device owner to bypass the facial recognition technology

So–at the very least–no less secure than Touch ID.
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It works with an FPGA based PDP-11 emulator as well: http://pdp2011.sytse.net/wordpress/things-are-moving/
$15/hour in some cases is enough to move above the maximum for Medicaid (133% of FPL for various family/household sizes).

Many low-income workers DO NOT want to lose Medicaid as it is a big benefit, works well, esp. for large families (consider a grandma that has adopted three of her grandchildren and needs to care for them, I talked to one last week).

I own a small business with a few part time employees, and I run into people asking for less pay but more in other benefits (PTO, holidays, etc.)

Will be interesting to see the impact of this.
Kong does handle security in that layer: https://docs.konghq.com/0.14.x/auth/
We lose messages alllll the time due to moving between wifi and lte, or when in transit and entering a tunnel. Annoying.
Hetzner is great - we run a couple of Ethereum nodes (non-mining) on there and we've had zero issues with it for nearly a year. Great support, had SSDs installed almost immediately, almost no downtime. Cheap!
I am wiping my trusty Ubuntu 14.04 soon and was thinking of just going latest LTS Ubuntu but THIS has me leaning towards Fedora!!!

This is a huge deal!
>Zhong explained that the planet's mantle, which lies above

>the core, generates vast amounts of heat. To cool the globe

>down, hotter rocks rise up through the mantle and colder rocks

>sink.

Unless I misunderstand something about the geology of the earth, there are no energy inputs to the core - it is simply hot, and always cooling, right? Maybe some heat is generated from the friction between counter-rotating layers of core, mantle etc., but bottom line is (as I understand it) there are no energy inputs to the core, it's a closed system that is always running down.

I'd love for someone who knows more about geology to confirm/deny/expand on this point.