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>It feels like lying to the user to me

I think it's fair to say that in general, users want to be lied to. That's why UX patterns like screenshots of suspended apps being displayed while the app actually loads became standard. The appearance of speed is effectively as valuable as actual speed, just like the appearance of polish is valuable regardless of the cruft that lies beneath it.
This whole controversy wouldn't even have happened if Wikipedia wasn't controlled by Deletionists. Maybe this will be the help the Wikipedia community needs to take a step back and be a little more relaxed about inclusion.

To quote Paul Graham on the subject, Deletionists are "constrained by print-era thinking." There is no harm in allowing a large number of articles that people don't frequently read, and being quick to delete articles does have harmful side effects, as evidenced by this case.
John and David will be giving a talk next week Wednesday (October 10) in Stanford's Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380). The topic is Computer Architecture; the title has not yet been announced. Expect it to be up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSp... on Thursday or Friday next week.
Unfortunately we don't do much of that, we're a very local based business.
The closest things I can think of are Google Glass, MagicLeap, and Microsoft's HoloLens.
So now that Amazon's worst employee gets $15 per hour, what happens to the salary of a more-skilled, more-motivated employee who busted their ass to get their salary up to $18 per hour when the minimum was under $8? Does it stay the same or increase proportionally?

What happens to the prices at amazon.com? With a 3.8% profit margin, can they really eat this cost without consumers noticing, and if so, will they elect to?
California Law Bans Bots from Pretending to Be Human to Sell
sorry for kind of tweaking the title, I didn't want it to bee too click-baity
Read "Japan's Longest Day" (the book, not the movie) [1] which is a serious attempt to reconstruct in detail the events leading up to the decision to surrender. Nobody was really in charge. The civilian government didn't control the military. (See "May 15 Incident" for why.) The army and navy didn't get along and had no unified command. The Emperor was respected but mostly an isolated figurehead. The decision making process, which the book describes in detail, makes the current US administration look well-organized.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Longest-Pacific-Research-Socie...
This isn't the first Nobel for optical tweezers. Steve Chu used them in atom trapping experiments at Bell Labs, although the award is for the atom trap results, not for the tweezers themselves.
I think he should be used by the governments as a sockpuppet.
Then they get to pay you less because you work fewer hours to do the same job.

Or they fire you because they don't need you anymore.
Originally, sure, but I think it's been perverted over time (in the USA at least) to the point that it's really only applied to the destitute. Also, I think it's become enough of a cultural norm that the non-religious (or those subscribing to a different religion) still feel some pull towards the concept since they were raised where it was prevalent.

It also comes down to it being easier to spot someone in poverty than to spot someone that's rich but hasn't worked for it themselves. That might explain most of it.
Will serving be as fast as TensorFlow? I assume PyTorch's dynamic network is inherently slower than TensorFlow's compute graph approach
With the way things are going, I’m not sure learning a little bit of programming will help. Digitization has really begun rolling with RPA, because we now automate system processes for systems with no apis and no direct data manipulation.

But even though RPA is mostly screengrapping and macros, we’ve found it impossible to teach to people who aren’t developers.

Similar with better BI tools it’s become possible for sql savvy business process people to do BI, but without s fundamental understanding of data efficiency, which we can’t seem to instill in these highly educated people, what they make is often useless because it slows the systems.

Programming is completely trivial, but understanding what you’re doing, and why. Is much harder to teach than programming. Especially when you’re working toward productiveness where you can’t just write best practices for everything because best practices are often unnecessary for some systems and necessary for others.

I know this wasn’t really that related to the article, it’s just a general observation, and believe me, we tried to decentralize our RPA processes because maintaining them is hell.
I think the game changer (one way or another) will be webassembly, which will level the playing field in term of portability. Then the popularity of the different languages being ported to wasm will be based on their own merits.
Ask HN: Anybody moved from ReactJS to VueJS, and why?
Now it'd be nice to add some kind of animated logo to the boot process. Windows has the little spinner, macOS has a progress bar, and even Ubuntu has a five-dots progress bar thing to indicate boot progress. I mocked up an animated logo really quickly here: https://imgur.com/gallery/Zt6K55V (disclaimer: I don't have rights to the logo, it's just a toy test and shouldn't be used for anything serious, etc.)

Some other ideas: a little ball rolling around the infinity logo (maybe eventually rolling back to center and unfolding into the "f"), a pair of "tubes" moving around which occasionally intersect to make the "f" shape, etc. I think this is a good opportunity to do something interesting with the boot screen!
The C = PDP-11 meme doesn't really line up with reality. Those features that people normally point (ie. the auto increment/decrement) were taken from BCPL, which is older than the PDP-11.
I think I only got a reasonable understanding on the stack and heap concepts when I got to make a compiler in my undergrad classes. Some 2 years after I learned C.

I'm not even sure the C memory model depends on the code/stack/heap separation.
I don't see why web scraping should be declarative at all. XPath is declarative, and hard to use. When a human browses a website, they do one thing at a time. That is inherently imperative. A DSL for highly-imperative "human-style" web scraping is a nice idea in my opinion. That's exactly what Ferret appears to be.
SuperSU has been removed from the Play Store
Isn't that precisely the job?

I had to automate my job when working full time in grad school, otherwise I never would have passed a class.

Since I entered the work force, most jobs have been some version of "automate some task for other people (customers) to exchange for pieces of paper representing effort($)" or "automate some internal task so company spends less $ paying meatware to do things saving effort($)". Rinse, and repeat until either:

a) company makes $$$$!
b) company runs out of $

If you manage to automate all-the-things and haven't hit state a) or b) then you start flame wars on internal mailing lists about how the free company snacks suck or whatever. :-)
This crap is why we need coreboot.
> If it's not "in style" they think you are sticking them with old tech

Is that even true? Is there any survey showing that users consider those bad or old tech? Because with things like the reddit, ebay, paypal, gmail redesign, the common thing i ve noticed is that nobody asked for those.
No we don't. Because it is hard, thankless work, and the people doing this work are often harassed endlessly online to the point where nobody actually wants to do the work anymore. And yet, some people are still amazed by how bad things are, completely oblivious to why that might be...

The magician engineers at the core of making things like this just work and be pleasant do not get anywhere near the credit they deserve - this is a herculean task to have Just Work(tm) on white box hardware.

Hans deserves a huge thanks from all of us for slogging through this thankless work.
Real estate is surprisingly cheap in Japan in general. My wife and I often look at listings when we are there and consider how many apartment buildings we could own if we just sold our one house in Sydney.

The Japanese generally don't view real estate as a speculative investment so capital gains are quite low.
> As long as the rules are the same for all competition in a market will still happen.

Sure, but in continental law the rules aren't the same for everyone. The laws are defined such that technical breaches are almost impossible to avoid. They empower a regulator with capricious and arbitrary power to sanction organisations - or not - with no requirement for consistency or recourse.

The answer to any technical question along the lines of "Is X illegal under the GDPR?" is "Nobody knows - we'll find out once the regulator fines someone."

That's bad law-making.
Maybe GDPR is okay, I'm not terribly well informed about it. But every couple weeks the entire internet is up in arms against a new attempt by the EU to censor the entire internet, and I've been dealing for too long with the damn "We use cookies" pop-up they ignorantly required.

So I'm just saying their track record isn't great.
> Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to be better?)

Not really - it's more that the functionality for copying the firmware's mode configuration into the kernel exists for the Intel gpu driver and nobody's done the work for the others. I spent a while back in 2011 or so looking at doing this for nouveau but never got things working sufficiently well to merge it.
I've been using TheBat! around 2000-2003, back in dial-up days. It wasn't free back then (Opera wasn't either), and isn't free now.

It was/is great, but I didn't find a compelling reason for myself to shell some bucks over their way vs. using Opera Mail or Thunderbird. What are the killer features for you?
Our strongest trap is powered by 1.5 W 1064 nm laser beam. (For comparison, laser pointers are usually under 0.005 W.) Unlike most other light sources, laser power measures the output power rather than electrical input power.

The beam will instantly ignite paper, and will cause damage to the most common type of laboratory laser beam blocks, which are made out of stainless steel.

We don't take the air out the system. Air is basically completely transparent in the visible and infrared. We sometimes flood a portion of the instrument with helium, since its index of refraction is ten-fold closer to 1 than air's. This causes the beam to fluctuate less due to air movement.
What I’d really love is Linux to be able to unlock a fully encrypted root partition similar to macOS. On macOS the user is prompted to login at a very early stage of the boot process, and after this the disk is decrypted and the OS is booted. The user is then logged in automatically, so they only need to enter their password once to decrypt the disk and authenticate their account.
When most people or organisations are purchasing a service, they're usually mainly concerned about the value that service will bring them.

The amount of effort required to produce that value, helps to dictate market conditions and the amount of competition; aside from this, ultimately I don't think effort matters so much when you consider it in terms of B2B transactions.

Eventually, if a service is easy to supply—competition will drive down the price—and the economic system will readjust accordingly.

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Strangely, it's only when you consider an individual in permanent employment that automation seems to present itself as a dilemma.

There's definitely a lot being said about automation. We're regularly told via news outlets that a large percentage of the populations' jobs will be replaced by robots.

But aside from the idea of universal basic income; I believe there's a more general trend towards working independently, i.e. in a freelance capacity.

Maybe automation becomes far less of a dilemma when this is this case?
As someone who grew up in Northern California an hour from San Francisco and works in the tech industry in that area, besides that difference I could have written your comment myself.
No business would be willing to pay that.

Once you've shown them that the job can be done easier/faster/cheaper, they will insist on that as the new standard.

Rinse and repeat until you are penniless and they have all the money.
What happens after the 70 years is up? How does one pass the property to one's children if it's a "lease"?
He's making too much in nominal profit and needs to put money somewhere productive. Today, that place is his workers' wages.
All of it.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. I feel that you and I must have drastically different starting assumptions, because your question seems meaningless in my context.

Do you dispute that Homo sapiens has a higher intelligence than H. erectus did? Than other primates?

Or are you alleging that the genetic basis for that intelligence difference shows no variation across human populations?

I feel like I have to stretch what you said to give it a charitable interpretation, but here goes: are you asking whether there's any evidence that the genetic component's variation across human populations contributes to significant phenotypic variation when compared to environmental factors?
So much cynicism in this thread.
In what sense is station not a web browser?
Great, I look forward to sending the same message and documentation for the next decade.
"owning property is a hedge against variable property prices"

One of the best pieces of financial advice that I've ever heard centers on this. "The purpose of owning a house is to fix the cost of housing." Its brilliant in its simplicity and I had never thought about it until hearing it a few dozen times. :)

Unfortunately, it is also a vastly different mindset from many home buyers (and, for various reasons, sellers).
Very well said, thank you.
Past economic studies have shown that by increasing the workers' wages, the company can also increase their own revenue and earnings, especially if the company is a sort of baseline goods provider like Amazon is.
> It's just perhaps possible that there might be some further room for subtlety.

Always, it is humans we're talking about after all.
Many people are choosing where to live based on income/expense differential instead of just income. Talent is choosing not to relocate to high cost of living areas, so many companies are opening up offices in these middle-tier cities.
I've told this story a few times and I always get surprisingly diverse reactions to it, especially on Reddit.

Back in the late 90s I worked at a place that sold all kinds of automotive parts. Everything from nuts and spark plugs to turbochargers and large assemblies. The secret sauce of this company was a small team of people who worked through thick supplier (paper) catalogs and figured out which parts from different suppliers are in fact interchangable by comparing their specifications. This all went into the database for the sales team's use.

Well one younger guy in this team worked out a way to largely automate his job using OCR and spreadsheets. Instead of taking 8 hours to work through his day's load, he would do it all in an hour or two. Then he'd slack off for the rest of the day.

Soon the manager found out but the manager was not upset, instead the manager was disappointed. Why didn't this employee share this system with the others? Why did he think it was OK to slack off for 6 hours a day instead of doing 4 times as many catalogs? If this employee worked for me, I'd be putting him to work finding other things to automate!

In the past I've had many comments from people saying 'oh he should have kept it a secret' or 'he is getting paid to do X and if he is more efficient then why cant he slack off' or even 'oh no this is a disaster now most of that team will be laid off'
IIRC GDPR is considered regressive, in the same sense that a flat corporate tax is regressive: it imposes a higher burden on small bootstrapped companies than it does on larger companies (in this case, because of the legal fees required to get audited for compliance, and the extra engineering work that's not going toward product.) Very small companies can get priced out of the market entirely, and so never live to become large companies. Insofar as those companies were potential innovators, GDPR can be said to be stifling that innovation.
Is there a guide available for image segmentation? I've only really used TF in the past
It is a lazy list in ways, though I try to be generous in saying that because the author is reading these comments and my intention isn't to be mean or unkind. It also doesn't make total sense to write about potential startups and then list problems that require tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.

Andrew - I hope you see my other, longer comment and maybe consider that you could approach brainstorming differently. There's a lot of opportunity to do really good things for the world and still make money at the same time, it just requires more risk and creativity.
September’s Top ETH projects by dev activity share what they’re working on
But they were just paying that, in the form of paying you. If they don't think the task is worth paying that much to get done, they would have just been not-doing-the-task.

Also, note that I never suggested mentioning that the SaaS service you create should make any mention of its service being automated.

Consider an entry in the "cloud bookkeeping SaaS" genre: they sell you on having real accountants looking at your books, with automation to ensure the reliability of those accountants' work. They never mention that they'll also be using automation to make your workload easier to handle, such that each of their accountants is handling the books of 1000 clients. That's an implementation detail.
Uh, good publicity? A cheap way to wash off his name? (the attitudes I see about him in Seattle are surprising, even to me, even after being here a while). A great way to buy good publicity before steadily reducing your workforce through automation over the next decades as is surely the plan?

Bezos has shown few, if any, signs of altruism and the one instance I can think of would be roughly the monetary equivalent of me giving a homeless person a penny.
iOS 12 Allows Passcode Bypass
Nice! Thanks for the info. I think that an update to the post is due, turns out that I missed quite a few!
* Manypixels

* https://www.manypixels.co

* Unlimited premium design services for a fixed monthly fee

* Launched, $40k MRR

* Launch a new client dashboard
Web scraping "at scale" ends up being a lot more complicated than blinding firing HTTP requests. Scrapy, for example, supports arbitrary "middleware" that can, for example, follow 301 Redirect, respect robots.txt files, follow sitemap.xml files, etc.

To what extent is this supported (or, to what extent do you plan to support it?) Similarly, since the front-end language is essentially a compiler, would it be possible to write an alternative "backend" (e.g. something that distributes requests across a cluster)?
IIS integration - you publish your website to IIS

Database management - sql server management studio has always been a free tool.

Architecture modeling tools - not required for development.

Directs debugging - how many enterprise developers are doing anything with DirectX?

Share point - you couldn’t pay me enough to do Sharepoint development. That’s not exactly a popular use case these days.
Why do minimum wage discussions almost never take cost-of-living into account? Minimum livable wages vary widely.
Nice! Thanks for the info, I'll check those out, I'd not heard of either of them.

I think that an update to the post is due, turns out that I missed quite a few!
Why? The bootloader and OS are free to ignore BGRT entirely and draw whatever they want.
Yes, but high-power lasers need to be treated with respect. Reflections are capable of instantly and irreversibly blinding. There's an overused joke in labs that work with them: "do not look into laser with remaining eye".

If you're going to attempt to build one, please get a pair of laser glasses that are rated for the wavelength you are using.
It's possible to combine the parts from a disk with failed bearings and a disk with a failed controller to end up with one working disk, but it's not worth the effort unless your goal is data recovery.
In addition to "worried about not being good at them", I think the competition for hobbies has greatly increased, too. My grandpa used to sit around on his porch in Indiana whittling because there was nothing else to do at night besides read and drink Budweiser (his other two favorite hobbies). Now, I can think of ten fun places to go at any hour and a million things I can do online and, all of a sudden, whittling doesn't seem so entertaining. That being said, I think that the author doesn't fully acknowledge modern hobbies (gaming comes to mind) which are part of staring at screens. In general, I believe we should always pursue hobbies we find enjoyable, no matter the difficulty, for their own sake, so maybe we just need to reset expectations a bit.
Show HN: 100- xyz Lets wifi guests land directly on your webpages
The YC W19 is just an optimistic joke :-)

We, http://www.100-xyz.com are in the process of launching our product.

Our product is a small hardware (a Raspberry pi) programmed to be a captive portal and a local web server. Here's how it works:
1) User visits a business and joins its wifi
2) User is alerted that log in is required
3) User clicks and lands on the local web server which has wifi owners web pages, along with a log in for internet section.

Use cases:
Restaurant - client lands on the menu and can place order. Waiter can take the order.
Salon - client lands on different styles. Can choose those she likes and discuss with hair dresser.
Household - neighbours can see what the owner is up to and leave messages, things to sell, activity partners etc.

Looking for folks to try it out. You would need a Raspberry pi with a minimum 16GB SD card. We can supply you with a system image that you can burn and run. Please contact if interested.

I am quite new to Hacker News. If this posting or parts of it are not within guidelines (which Ive read), the higher powers can edit/delete.

Thanks
(author here)

If your take here is that I'm interested in "rich-white-guy" problems, I'd encourage you to re-read the list from the perspective of emerging and frontier markets. Most of what I have listed there is actually more important in those places than it is in Silicon Valley. For example -- receiver-centric package delivery is a far bigger deal in places that don't have addresses than it is in the US (and billions of people around the world don't have addresses!). Ditto with energy, waste management, etc... even an open web platform is a bigger deal in India than it is here.

Personally, I spend more time these days focused on those markets (especially Haiti and Africa) than I do on the US.
> Or they fire you because they don't need you anymore.

This is the kind of ridiculous thinking I'm talking about in my other comment. You just made your job into a cheap, automated process. That's the most valuable thing you could do in a company! If you did that in my company, you'd get a promotion and you'd be put to work finding other things to automate. You're the kind of person every company wants! Why would we fire you? If we're dumb enough to fire someone like you, you're better off at another company anyway.