skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a phenomenon I think a lot about -- how globalization and the sheer amount of information we have available requires you to either drastically increase your expectations of yourself or drop them all together.

Think about what being an alpha among a primitive group of humans (or apes) entails. It's part something that is internalized and demonstrated by that individual, and part reinforced socially by the rest of a small group of people who, within the context of the group, plainly recognize that individual as "best". This same dynamic exists for craftsmen among the group, for instance.

Being at the top is always a function of where everyone else on your radar is at. It's just now you have to be your own cheerleader, because it's a much bigger pond.

You have to make calculated decisions about how different things validate you (recreation vs greatness); being great at something in the 21st century really means putting your head down and having an unwavering faith in yourself. You have to keep lifting yourself back up, as the reward is always 10 steps out and always fleeting. At the same time, you now have an infinite amount of resources and inspiration for what you could become. You aren't limited by the nearest available expert, and you aren't limited by your imagination. It's all there for you to pick off the shelf.
My point is that they have a lot of patents around this tech in actual real EVs. Other competitors would have to license it from Tesla.
> This results in athletes who drive themselves over the brink trying to make up for their lack of training.

Maybe some, but the best athletes are known for their almost super human training habits. Look up the training regimens of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Michael Phelps in his hayday...the list goes on.
Having a dumb moment. What is meant by "flicker-free"? I don't recall a "flicker" when I boot my machine to Fedora <29.
Yeah, IMO the correct combination is spandex shorts and cheap cotton for everything else. Having nice gear doesn't mean you aren't having fun.
It's a great thing, that motto, but creatively employed, it can also produce company towns with "company stores" that accept scrip payments.
Can you post your chaturbate profile instead?
I'd say it's that driving is easier for you, but they get the same result - you attend as necessary. They shouldn't care how you get there as long as you do your job.
He said it's mostly a fad, not entirely. Obviously parallelism is frequently very useful.

I think what he was getting at is that the idea of languages integrating parallelism such that almost all code would be parallel all the time has proven to be a dead end. For the functional language research world promised for a long time that the main benefit for FP was automatic parallelism (no mutable states, you see). But it never really happened.

And in the more mainstream world, Java 8 invested heavily in parallel streams, but I've never seen an actual parallel stream in real code. I see threads all the time, despite everyone agreeing how awful they are. Parallel streams? Auto-parallelised FP code? No, doesn't happen. The level of parallelism is too small for programmers to think about. Most datasets are too small and most loops too unimportant to even take the risk of a bug creeping in through attempting to use parallelism, regardless of how convenient.
I want your random number generator.
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This is way too detailed, but describes how barrels behave while a shot is being fired: http://www.the-long-family.com/shock%20wave%20theory%20summa...

Based on this, it seems like multiple barrels probably wouldn't affect each other in different ways, leading to shot consistency as long as there aren't significant differences in ignition time or velocity.
Maybe interstellar travel is basically impossible but there might be very long lived civilizations that propagate to others stars when one comes near by. Imagine what happens when both stars are populated by different long lived civilizations and they start to get near each other. I would love to read a good book speculating about such an event.
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They just call stack allocation "automatic storage duration" in the spec. If you read it, you pretty much have to implement it as a stack; you just don't have to keep the frames contiguous in memory. They still need to maintain stack style LIFO access though, so the only spec compliant implementations that don't use a traditional stack have back pointers in each frame to maintain stack style LIFO semantics.
An interesting tidbit on minimum wage:

> According to the Pew Research Center, when adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum wage in America peaked at $8.54 in 1968. If the federal minimum wage had kept up with increases in worker productivity since then, in 2012 it would have been $21.72 an hour.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/09/07/there-is...
Yeah, but they could write potentially useful apps or features, instead of badly re-writing libraries that already exist.
Bluntly put, smarter programmers than you are automating you out of a programming job.

Not pretending for a second I'm safe.
Attacking Pearl Harbor wasn't his idea. His generals were power-mad assholes and his ability to check them was limited.
I have a lot of hobbies, some are team competitive and some are only competitive with myself. If I enjoy doing something, I don't care how bad I am at it when I start. I do like to see improvement though.
What's it like to work for Amazon?
One of the biggest Amazon warehouses in the US is in Lexington, KY. The average income of a Lexington-Fayette resident is $29,168 a year. For them, $15 / hour puts them above the average, so that is still an improvement.
This startup is redesigning the products hidden under your sink
I lived with Andrew in a shared apartment for several years. He is one of the kindest people I've ever known, as well as a little quirky in an old-school Silicon Valley sort of way. He grew up in Minnesota, is really into gymnastics, and is one of the hardest-working people I've known.
Almost forgot: while not simultaneous, the AN-94 did not have issues with ultra-fast RPM in one barrel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN-94).
I'm not going to argue that 15/hr is a lot of money, but as someone who didn't grow up with much, it isn't terrible either.

That translates to ~30k/year, which doesn't sound like much, but for a dual-income family a $15/hr min wage (Something Amazon is lobbying for) becomes 60k/year — Pretty much the median household income in the US [1]

Just putting some perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
These are very well prepared elite athletes at the top of their game - not me running like hell and hoping to make up for it

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2018/04/15/agonis...

The coverage I read indicated he (and others) regularly pushed through body warning signs, but i can't find it now.
> The obvious solution would be to move Election Day to Saturday, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

This "obvious" solution would prevent all observant Jews from voting.
> Saying that someone doesn't deserve to be paid a living wage is the same as saying they don't deserve to live.

I’m not saying anything about what anyone deserves.

I happen to know a general contractor who is incredibly charitable and willing to hire just about anyone who can swing a hammer. He mentioned that one year, he hired so many people that the per-employee costs and taxes ate all of the company’s profit. He had to live on savings that year. Obviously that isn’t sustainable, even if many independent coffee shops and bookstores try it.

Companies that pay more for labor than the value they get from that labor go out of business the same as companies that sell items at a loss and try to make it up on volume.
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Truffle solves these problems. Accessing foreign data layouts results in the access patterns of the foreign language being inlined and compiled into the accessing language. In other words data adaptation is done just-in-time and at the read site, rather than by copying entire data structures ahead of time.
But they were the action of his government that supposedly valued fidelity to the emperor above all. He also choose Tojo for his prime minister. The post war story that this was to keep him in check, by making him in charge of everything seems... convenient.

There is no doubt that the military is out of control, but he was the one individual that could have , but did not, bring them back under control.
Yeah but a 386 and an x86-64 are quite different things ....
Inter Alia, this article is another piece of evidence that a lot of pretty smart people are stuck in jobs that aren’t very complex. The accumulated cost of this to the rest of us is quite high...
Straight out of PhD. The interviews went smoothly in part due to earlier experience in an ISP, but these days Google takes in SREs with 4 x coding and 1 NALSD interview. It's the stuff talked about in https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-site-reliability/97... and there's quite a few Google-organized workshops on this.
I was merely pointing out that the parent poster's characterization of bicyclists as third-class citizens is wildly counterfactual.
Maybe not 'fix inequality nationwide', but it seems reasonable that high salaries in Silicon Valley have driven salaries up in the industry across the country.

Source: tech worker in Seattle.
Perl is an interesting choice. Any talk of moving to something modern, like Go (or is that blasphemous :D )?
And just going to throw out there that IA64 split the function return stack and data stack into different hardware stacks, so they've been out for twenty years at this point at least.
The real story is that management didn't hire someone to automate these tasks in the first place!

That's what we have software for, do boring stuff so we don't have to! By automating these people proved themselves to be developers, and not just software-in-a-meatbag, or SIAM, if you will.
Nice try Bill. We all know you said it. :)
It sounds like Horace.
IIRC, his issue is with the easement, not access to the beach itself. Forcing the public to take a boat to reach the public land is probably sufficiently onerous that Khosla would see it as a victory.
Whether we raise it or hunt it, it's still our dinner and we are competing for it.
Well I guess you should let these excited employees know that they should be upset:

https://twitter.com/davehclark/status/1047071466787889154
People are somehow obligated by what I perceive as the groups interests but are really my interests is an argument I see regarding linux distributions.

Perceptibly insert distro here which I use would be better off if it had more labor. Therefore people should all focus their efforts on fewer distros including the one I use.

Therefore people are harming the ecosystem by making yet another Ubuntu derivative with a slightly different graphical environment/default set of packages/settings.

Scratch the surface and they are annoyed by things like hardware support or long unfixed bugs/feature requests because the guys making Ubuntu knock offs are totally going to be capable AND willing to learn how to hack on drivers for insert hardware or fix insert project here before they rewrite it again or add features that the underlying project wontfix
They note in the post that this functionality is coming soon:

> 2. Write a new plymouth theme based on the spinner theme which used the vendor logo as background and draws the spinner beneath it. Since this keeps the logo and black background as is and just draws the spinner on top this avoids the current visually jarring transition from logo screen to plymouth, allowing us to set plymouth.splash-delay to 0. This also has the advantage that the spinner will provide visual feedback that something is actually happening as soon as plymouth loads.
You don't have to have spandex for the legs, for me synthetic hiking pants have done fine, and also courds in the winter. The problem was basically two things- jeans were abrasive, wearing away hair follicles, and they didn't breathe, trapping a lot of sweat/humidity.
this is tractor beam yes?
For conventional small arms, differing muzzle velocity due to different effective barrel length killed Metal Storm's accuracy. Eg, the top round in the stack may travel down 6" more of barrel than the bottom round; in a 5.56 gun, this could be a 500fps+ difference (https://rifleshooter.com/2015/12/223-remington-5-56mm-nato-b...).
It's poorly worded, he means the heat from the core/mantle generates convection currents.

However, your understanding of the Earth's core is incorrect as well. Half of the internal heat is Generated from radioactive decay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget
Do any of them ask for less pay with no compensating benefits? If not it seems like this is still a good result, if not perfectly optimized to take advantage of benefits for those with low income.
It originates from the PEBKAC RTFM subculture of everything being your fault, because you haven't memorized how to touch-type 150 command line tools, and every possible switch to pass each of them, plus the arbitrary positioning of arguments in between.

Everyone's just supposed to know that X.org windowing environments are totally insecure, and that's why system administrators refuse to be caught dead using one, production or not, with or without their custom, backlit Cherry MX keycaps.

Do your homework, and read the entire corpus of source code, no matter whether it contains more characters than the library of congress. If you didn't build the binaries yourself, then you aren't entitled to lay blame. You caused that screen flicker by being part of the problem, and not part of the solution. If you were a guru, you'd already know what's wrong. Learn to fix your own problems.

Have you ever heard of Aesop's fables? Here's a little parable to help relate why free software is always 100% perfect as is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen
To stop a union from being formed. Unions often institute work rules that contractually forbid automation.
One pedal broke off, then I tried riding with one foot on the crank arm, and the other on the pedal. A couple seconds later, the other pedal broke off.

Apparently it was a pretty common issue with the series of bikes.
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Snopes wasn't originally called "Snopes," was it? I seem to remember it as something else, like "urbanlengend" or something. Maybe the movie bought the name?
Definately a good start! But I am not sure it is accessible for a person that had no prior knowledge in the field. It appears the target audience is not assumed to have any. So it is still too complicated. The concept of qubit, gates and circuit (and other concepts) should be explained with a help of some appealing images. Plain text will not cut it.

https://demo.quantumlab.cc/courses/1/2

I don't think this is a good description of the expected output:

The function applies a Hadamard quantum gate to the supplied qubit and measures it.

Returns: A tuple of two objects representing an application of Hadamard and measurement gates on each qubits.

The description refers to the "supplied qubit", but there are no parameters.

The expected return description mentions "each qubits", but there is only one qubit to be processed.

Last, the expected return is described as "a tuple of two objects", but actually it expects the returned object be of MeasurementGate type.

This code was considered valid:

q = GridQubit(0, 0)
q = H(q)
result = measure(q)
return result
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$200-500k in the SF bay area is still considered middle class because housing prices have gotten so ridiculously high.

No, that means the middle class can't afford to live in SF. This isn't the first time I've heard this, and I don't know why anyone might think this. As a more extreme example, "middle-class in Pebble Beach is $1MM/year or $20MM net worth". No, there is no middle-class in Pebble Beach, only rich people live there.
> Instead of moving up to the next level and making more money.

That's assuming your employer will "move you up" and you'll make more money. Or that a future employer will see value in you automating your job. Then there's this story from TFA:

> a user posting as AcceptableLosses wrote, “They took what I had developed, replaced me with an idiot that they showed how to work it, and promptly fired me for ‘insubordination.’ I had taken a business asset that was making them $30 grand a year profit and turned it into a million dollar a year program for the company, and they fired me for it to save ~30 grand a year on my salary. Job creators my ass.”

Which sounds so entirely stupid as to be almost incredible. Why not just take this guy and move him, even sideways, to another role he can automate? But I believe him, because I've seen a lot of stupidity in Big Companies, especially the old school ones.
Heh. I’m an intern on the ops team at a small-medium company (just under 150 employees, at least 50 or so engineers, ~$20 mil rev), and we use Chef for configuration management. I’ve observed that some members of the ops team are actually afraid to converge servers. I also find the precedence rules, node variable (?) rules etc to be horrifically confusing. I haven’t worked with Ansible before, but it sounds more similar to how I would implement it if I hacked away at the problem for a few months (my understanding is ansible basically just lets you run arbitrary scripts thru ssh).

Being able to have chef integration tests (or are they considered unit tests?) seems really powerful. But holy fuck does Chef have a ton of (what feels to me like) cruft
Branch Managers usually make 6 figures there too! Their food is also pretty good for the price.
It's not. Just look at the infrastructure investment. Bikes are lucky to get an order of magnitude less money than walking, or two orders of magnitude less money than cars. Cities spend a few tens of thousands striping a handful of haphazard miles of painted bike lanes, then spend hundreds of millions widening freeways, then pat themselves on the back for how bike-friendly they are. It's absurd.

It's true that many cyclists behave poorly, but look at countries like Denmark or the Netherlands where they actually support biking, and the cyclists there behave normally. Almost like people don't respect a system that clearly doesn't respect them.

Take a Dutch person and ask them to bike in the US, and see how quickly they either adopt the aggressive habits of American cyclists or just give up entirely.
Re: programmers are not automating themselves out of programming jobs. They're automating themselves out of data entry...

That's not always true. In at least 2 different organizations I worked at they were creating a combinatorial mess of search screens and/or reports.

Using a little bit of meta programming, query-by-example forms, data dictionaries, click-able drill-downs, and modular design; such "reporting stacks" could often be simplified into either a fewer number of screens and/or designed in such a way that a non-programming power user could configure most reports on their own. Allowing CSV exports of query results also reduces the number of "paper" report requests because Excel users can then format their own.

The result is something that needs roughly 1/3 as many programming hours to update and maintain.

One caveat is that you have to know the domain fairly well for it to be practical. You have to learn the domain patterns and habits in order to factor those patterns into meta-patterns. When I tried it as a newbie to the org, I usually did it wrong.
Happy to see that link on HN :)
I've been pretty much pushing XMPP for past decade, especially to show that it can also be used as a really decent base to do social networking (we didn't waited for ActivityPub to do federated social protocols, everything is pretty much there with Pubsub + Atom for more than 15 years).

I am working on Movim (https://movim.eu/) to bring the "modern XMPP" in a web platform for all with IM and social features built in :)
Not to mention that, based on some of the Reddit threads I've seen on this from actual Amazon warehouse employees, they're often not even getting full-time hours. Lots of people seem to be getting 4 6-hour or 3 8-hour shifts a week.
If changing the title doesn’t result in actively squelching the old title, I’m not sure how to interpret this. There’s fundamentally a silent middleman choosing the content on the site.

Is this bad? No. This is the whole positive and negative to active moderation.
And what happens when this job eventually ends (as they all do) and the only thing you've had to show for your time spent in industry is your league of legends score? Meanwhile your peers would have likely moved on, gained skills and progressed in their careers in someway. Sounds like a sure-fire way to deadend your career and limit your future prospects.
Unless they got you on that non-compete for 2-3+ years on that 6 month contract, at that point you are their value and everything you brought was theirs, nevermind they might not have had the value if you hadn't brought/created it.
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> * it has some huge flaws*

It's like saying that assembler is flawed. It's not; it's just may not be the right tool for the job.
Certainly, but they'll be working in trades of a couple thousand or tens of thousands.

If you have an investment account (That isn't a 401(k), 403(b), Roth IRA etc.) with hundreds of thousands that didn't happen from a single lucky investment (Like buying Apple or Amazon 10+ years ago), then you're probably more upper class.

Myself, outside my 401(k), I don't have any investments, mainly because I'm more concerned with eliminating my debts than taking on risks beyond my retirement account. But my wife and I make "only" $150k. If we made 300k, I might have some investments.

Again, though, we need to stop focusing on specific dollar amounts, since cost of living varies so wildly around the country. Get out of the SF Bay bubble.
It depends if your employer is nice or not. In one job the boss was thankful and made my job more enjoyable (no extra money though). In another I saved the company a million and got demoted (due to politics). It doesn't give any incentive to share next time.
What taxes are they avoiding? Are you referring to sales tax or something else?
>But, at some point, that must be the end goal, right?

Not necessarily. For some of us work is itself the meaning we need from life. For me, it's not work-work, but it's learning new things.

Idleness is extremely correlated with depression in myself. I can't be idle, or I get bad.
I guess one example would be the ideological push for dense urbanization. It makes sense from the perspective of a city jammed between mountains or packed on an island, but not so much for a prairie city that could survive quite well with low density development if it’s competent enough at managing its sprawl.
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Does there presently exist on the market HUD/AR glasses or contact lens?
I would like to quickly make notes throughout the day and it occurred to me glasses with a HUD (heads up display) or other AR feature would be idea when coupled with a flexible bluetooth keyboard I could carry around with me.

Anything close enough to market for an early adopter?
If its a cross-platform CLI it would be fantastic. Combine brew, chocolatey, yum, apt-get, snap, docker, git... you name it. Surely there is someone on this already?
I have the same theory, except that hard work can get about anyone into the top 1-2% instead of top 10% (well, except maybe for income. I’m talking strictly about hobbies).