skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Development jobs are shifting as more and more towards "plugging APIs together" and much less end to end development.

Modern web dev is fantastically more productive and efficient than it was 10 or 15 years ago.

Most/many SAAS apps are substitutes for aspects of what previously would have been part of a developers job to put into place.
> meaning you can host it on your own (for free).

You should tell more about it in README.md, IMHO.
I wish there was a auto-merge function for political comment threads. Sameish comments, would get merged to one comment. Emotional sob-story's without links squeezed to one-liners. The enlightenment going with a flaming broad-sword hitting left, right and center of those, who are not trying to see the world, but what they have in there head.
Very good points. Indeed we plan on revamping the background of the app that can be disturbing and make the app icons more visible.
It did occur to me....at my last job.
I’m sorry, no, I believe the precarious warehouse job is many times more stressful. Especially in the US where time off is limited and health care is essentially contingent on your employers goodwill. Stress is very often a function of lack of agency.
I think I have never seen so many negative comments before. Yes, OPs idea might be a bit unnecessary but it surely looks interesting. It could mature to a very interesting project. And depending on your business, if you rely heavily on crawling, having a specific language for it might help with making code more uniform
Yes, but scope could be larger: If you like chatting with someone you can add them to your contacts.

Another take on this would be voice-based reddit, e.g. voice chat rooms organized around topics, similar to subreddits. Everybody takes turns to talk with voice activated microphone on their phone while commuting.
NASA unveils “sustainable campaign” to return to moon, on to Mars
The story on python is much better nowadays. You can install cuda and drivers from nvidia, and then install anaconda, then just run:

conda install -c pytorch -c fastai fastai pytorch-nightly cuda92

If you don't use conda, things can get more complicated, depending on what libs you have installed.
I'm also not a fan of the EU, and I'm very much not a fan of the GDPR. It's a poorly thought-out law, written along the lines of Continental civil law jurisprudence, which I personally believe is inherently inferior to common law lawmaking and is implicitly anti-innovation and anti-market.

The right not to be subject to automated decision-making is a typically short-sighted example.
The wikipedia page says that AMD64 must be licensed from AMD. The market for a new 32-bit x86 clone would not be large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

"...x86-64 may require an additional license from AMD."
I am interested in this too, however the team seems very secretive about this aspect of the project.
$15/hr is not a lot of money, regardless of how positive and mind blown these media websites are. Nobody's "moving cities" for $15/hr. It's still barely above poverty in anywhere that's not rural. $15/hr in Seattle is poverty or living 2-3 hours away from work.
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> Next stop, making UWP crossplatform :))

they do not need.
they have xaml over xamarin.forms, which supports all major platforms (including desktopn and mobile)
it still says that its in preview however the only things that did not work well is when you need some kind of file interaction with the os, you need to create native views for all your OSs (i.e. NSFilePicker, OpenFileDialog, etc..) since there is no Xamarin.Forms widget for that. besides that it is already really mature.
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I just updated the text on the features page to straight #000000. I hope that ends up being more readable for you.
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. I think an economist would attribute this more to Ford's assembly line?

But sure, a high-productivity business can lead the way on wage increases. Other businesses might have to raise prices to keep up.

I'd like to read more about Ford's effect on wages outside Detroit. This "creator of the middle class" sounds like it might be exaggerated?
I like the idea of roughing out the overall cost, but lets see if we can get the numbers a bit more precise. Looking up pay rates on Indeed, here's what Amazon currently is offering:
Florence KY, warehouse fulfillment associate: $12.80/hour
Las Vegas NV, $12+/hour; Ashland VA: $12.50; Florida: $11.30 estimate; Joliet IL: $13.10; Irvine CA: $13.35; Lancaster NY: $12.25; Wilmer TX: $12.85

Let's call it $12.50 for average starting pay across the United States. That would be $5,000 more/worker, or a $1.5 billion yearly transfer. Still a big number, but not quite as big.

Also, experienced workers likely are making a little more. Let's assume that half the workforce is new or high turnover that's still very close to starting pay. And let's assume that the other half is getting paid $1/hour more on the basis of seniority or slight bumps up in job descriptions/responsibilities, etc. In that case, the average yearly pay increase drops to $4,000, or a $1.2 billion total.

It's still a big number, but not quite as dramatic as the first pass might suggest.
I agree. I see nothing wrong with anyone making their job easier.
It’s instructive to wonder why Venezuelan rulers felt forced to print money so wantonly. Ie. why did what should be a prosperous country given their natural advantages need to devalue their currency so massively, where did their debts, ruined oil industry, and fiscal irresponsibility come from?

The answer is at least in part that the state attempted to deliver benefits to the poor not directly and honestly through taxing and redistribution, but through wage & price controls, and outright nationalization. Direct massive manipulation of the market. Obviously implementing occupational safety standards, or collecting resource extraction royalties at a rate similar to Canada wouldn’t have had this effect, neither would have a modest increase in the minimum wage that reflected natural wage growth. However there is something to GPs point; the history of labor laws in developed countries haven’t only altered the conditions a competitive labor market must operate in, but also reflect changes that have already been achieved through the competitive market. The laws against child labor, for instance, were only possible once a critical mass of the population had already pulled their children out of the labor market as productivity and living standards increased and made this possible (and don’t forget that unpaid child labour was rampant in agricultural families, and to this day remains largely exempt from legal censure in developed nations).

As productivity reaches higher levels, labor has been able to demand a greater share of the surplus through competitive labor markets and eventually agitate to institute that in laws, but it’s always been an interplay between these two effects. The massive unprecedentedly rapid reduction in absolute poverty in China where millions have left the brutality of rural poverty to work in factories that many of us in more developed nations would consider inhumane has seen this played out in an incredibly compressed timeline, and I’m certain that there are very few people living in a Chinese special economic zone who would trade places with a resident of Caracas in 2018.
JC Penney Appoints Jill Soltau as CEO
Now I'm curious to know what you created.
> why can't I see the most ordered 5 items

There are restaurants where the whole menu is one page.

> Similar idea for supermarkets: why not have a giant screen at the entrance showing most bought products

If you want that just enter a small shop, it will have the most popular items (typically in a choice of one) :)
No no, haha, that's also not quite right. You can save the stack frame to memory then load it back which is what green threads do [1]. This includes the register state also, which is not what we're talking about here when we say "stack" -- we're referring to stack variables, not full frames. Full frames are even further from the heap, by virtue of including register states which must be restored also.

Although, it sounds like you're agreeing with me that there is in fact a difference between the stack and the heap because to your point one exists supported at the hardware level with instructions and registers, and one doesn't exist or can exist many times over. Hence, different.

[1] https://c9x.me/articles/gthreads/code0.html
I don't have a clue and would also like to know.

Whenever there is a 'contact us' pricing page, I don't even bother. I can't even tell my boss to look into it if I don't know what the required budget will be, and I won't give out information to get contacted by sales teams and waste my time on a project that I wasn't even allocated time for.

Plus it won't even be only my time, it will be finance and maybe even legal. So now there are multiple people involved to get a quote before it's even figured out if the solution fits the budget or if it is even a fit for the problem (unless there is some sort of trial).

Whenever a project does this, it had better be the only thing capable of dousing a burning fire to get even considered.
Why did we change from an official press release with some content to some random blog post?
> "If you could write a program that could replace yourself, would you?"

I've done it a bunch of times, sometimes by accident.

In one case I was going to be assigned to do testing every evening. But I wanted to go home at 6 every day, so I automated the tests on my first day, then came back in the morning and started 'working on my next task'; never realizing that previously the testing job had been a full time position.

I ended up doing about 5 people's worth of work there that summer.

Of course, it's probably because the project wasn't particularly organized, and our team was explicitly given a free hand to find inefficiencies and fix them. Still, it's a nice story to tell people ;-)
Yes, no argument that it is his right to do what he wants with his money. I'm thinking about it in the context of Tyler Cowen giving smart people money for moonshots. In his book Complacent Class he touches on how there are less big ideas now and that is leading to stagnation.
I call this shut up money
Software Preservation Best Practices in Fair Use Help Safeguard Cultural Record
Not really:

> So here are some YIMBY claims and why I cannot be entirely on board with them.
The blog post said royalty free though... I agree its not exactly super clear.
I understand this guilt but it doesn't belong to you. We're rapidly entering a post-scarcity economy and most of the western world are employed in service industries anyways. I think the lack of more societal guarantees to survival is a critical issue especially in the US, it'd be nice to see UBI or alternatives explored more and rolled out so that losing one of these tedium jobs isn't devastating on the former employee.
Yes, thanks. Meanwhile I could think of a good example.

Someone shares a Google+ post via Twitter. Right now I have TweetDeck in my normal chrome instance where I am not logged in to Google (for reasons).
So everytime I click this link I have to copy/paste the link from the newly opened tab into Firefox, where I am logged in to Google.

And yes, this is a homemade problem, I should just be reading RSS feeds, but some people seem to prefer G+ and so I get no RSS feed :(
Not yet according to his post. Only on Intel graphics.
Looking at the industry they also have the approach of announcing or teasing things which then never get build. So thats probably a way big companies test too
Is there any reason u r not supporting epub?

Is it just prioritizing or are there licensing/copyright complications ?
Correct, my old project did not include authentication.
It could be anyplace. You might try calling the vendor and asking to speak with one of their Application Engineers. Their job is to encourage chip adoption, so they will usually take such calls if you tell them you are doing a new implementation on their chip.
I feel the same here, architecturally I've never liked scrapers which are tightly coupled within a service. Websites are prone to sudden change and it seems unsustainable to redeploy each time a selector changes, it's pretty innovative to leverage the power of *QL for this sort of problem.
* The health plan is really expensive, since your co-workers' body parts keep falling off.

* The only thing the cafeteria serves is BRAAAAAAINS.

* Your noncompete agreement is still valid even after you die.

Aside from that, it's pretty similar to working at Google.
Why do you hate variable names longer than 4 characters so much? :b
It's great to do that, in the puzzles we're all trying to sort out in our daily jobs actually managing to entirely automate yourself out of a job is basically solving the equation.

Granted the value created by such tasks usually isn't fairly compensated so there are a lot of societal issues.
I am currently trying to automate my job. This will allow me to focus on more important issues.

In other words, I am automating away the job I don't want to do, to focus on the job that I want to to, and that will bring more value for the company. I don't expect the workload to ever decrease, just that our team will be able to tackle bigger issues.
Short answer; no.

The video is using intel's onboard vga chipset which plays extra nice with intel's onboard EFI. You can bet the framebuffer code between the EFI and 3rd party hardware(AMD/NVidia) sucks much, much worse

I expect ServerFault posts about grephic instability in fedora 29 any minute now...
> never leave the terminal!

Thanks to Termux[0], think, we could get td-cli not only on Desktop, but on Android too ;-)

[0] https://github.com/termux/termux-app
Your buying into the argument people who are poor deserve it some how. That's a similar argument used against the 8 hour day - the working classes would waste this extra new time on drink and enjoying themselves.
> . Pascal is at the same level as C, but no one says "learn Pascal to learn how computers work" because architectures weren't adapted according to that language.

They used to say it though, before UNIX derived OSes took over the computing world.
> other words this is decent news for Tesla

No news is good news, then. Kinda the point I was making. No one's talking about Ford in the papers and their weird inventory methods. :)
YC invested a small amount in a supersonic airplane company and a nuclear power company. Ostensibly, you can start proving that people want what you are building and developing technology before going to market.
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Buying 10 lottery tickets instead of 1 makes no practical difference to the odds of winning.

Of course every VC, CEO, and founder will say otherwise, since they're incentivized to get people excited about their investment. VCs also place more bets in a single year than the number of startups anyone could hope to work at in a lifetime.
I like to add: Won't go out of business tomorrow

Of course, what "tomorrow" is, is highly dependent on your personal situation.
> Most proposed "assault-weapons bans" ban features like magazines larger than ten rounds

Magazines larger than ten rounds are OEM standard on the regular rifles that are in common retail sale.

You're still failing at being internally consistent.
Artists paint GAN-generated graffiti designs
great premise, well articulated. its fairly obvious to me that capitalism in our current environment generates insane winner take all scenarios, which are partially responsible for this mentality of only doing things you are good at. the joy of learning is highest when you move from novice to intermediate, the maximum external reward is when you move from master to the best in the world.
I don't believe one can build lasting relationships like that. A lot of communication is non-verbal.
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This makes alot of sense and now i wish there was something like open data from steam sales but for SAAS products !

I guess if you go deeper you can get a qualitative idea by judging how good a game is before including it as a data point
Yes, since this application is trying to do so much, perhaps have some modular components which are open-source, e.g. anything related to security and encryption.
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Because with them turned off, the executable might not fit on the target platform, for example.

Quite common on games targeting consoles.
If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for the next marathon. If you’re a painter, you are no longer passing a pleasant afternoon, just you, your watercolors and your water lilies; you are trying to land a gallery show or at least garner a respectable social media following. When your identity is linked to your hobby — you’re a yogi, a surfer, a rock climber — you’d better be good at it, or else who are you?

Similar thoughts cross my mind every time I'm passed by a cyclist with a $2,500 bike wearing technicolor corporate spandex.

As someone riding an ancient bike in a grubby, flapping getup, I sometimes wonder who's having more fun.
I disagree, the solution to remove stock market traders is to figure out a way to examine financial data and projections to such a fine degree that stock trading is no longer a sensible thing. Imagine a currency trader focused on USD & CAD, what would happen to their job if Canada decided to permanently pin their currency on the USD with a guaranteed exchange of .5 USD for 1 CAD, the markets surrounding arbitraging the currency would dissolve as .5 USD would always be 1 CAD (now in the real world there might be stability speculators, if Canada was viewed as politically unstable there might be a purpose to purchase .4 USD for 1 CAD, but ignore that for the purpose of the scenario).
> With Rust, it has nothing to do with LLVM; it has to do with the fact that we cannot track things, that's why it's unsafe! Even if an implementation of the language does not use LLVM, we will still have UB.

I can see that any implementation of unsafe Rust would always have assembly-like unsafeness (e.g. reading an arbitrary memory address might result in an arbitrary value, or segfault). But I don't see why you would need C-style "arbitrary lines before and after the line that will not execute, reads from unrelated memory addresses will return arbitrary values" UB?
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Angel investors almost never provide the bulk of the capital for a startup. We provide initial money, advise, and introductions to help raise more. So, yes, I expect the bulk of the "heavy capital" to come from institutional investors in later rounds.

Also note that I invest in follow-on rounds, so my total investment in a startup might get much larger than $250k.
I am currently building and selling software that automates fx and fixed income otc traders out of a job.... Or rather....allows them to spend more time on higher value tasks (so goes the theory!)

It's fairly addictive automation, I'm finding all sort of functions and jobs that could / should be automated to the growing frustration of my colleagues :-)
>What we need isn't just to get the people at $10 to $15, it's to get the people at $20 to $35 or $50.

Exactly. $10-$15/hr is absolute bare minimum to SURVIVE now unless you live in an extremely rural area. $15/hr is coming too late.
As a wise friend of mine once told me, “if it’s worth doing 100%, it’s worth doing half assed”
Good for her!
That's because you probably launched windows from a grub bootloader. What windows actually does is just leave up whatever was the last thing drawn on the screen, which for single-OS systems is usually the manufacturer logo.
Often enough to matter, given that the preferred update method for OS updates in Fedora increasingly relies on offline updates so that correctness can be enforced.

Especially as Fedora moves towards Silverblue (aka Atomic/OSTree) which uses a content-store, hard-link farm, and pivot-root at boot for atomic upgrades.

Systems using A/B partition flipping (such as ChromeOS) would also benefit from this.
Nonono. I've seen a good engineer write C code in C#. I think you should start with Scala or Rust and do the blob languages later.
Midterms will be here in a month. "Bernicrats" (Left progressive Democrats) have been doing extremely well in recent elections and polling.

If you're not afraid as a Republican or a corporation, you haven't been paying attention.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-18/internal-... (Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress)

http://time.com/5411948/national-voter-registration-drive-re... (A Record 800,000 People Registered to Vote on National Voter Registration Day)

https://abc13.com/politics/texas-sets-new-voter-registration... (Texas sets new voter registration record, with 15.6 million registered ahead of election)

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/10/02/ca-voter-registra... (California Voter Registration Tops 19 Million In New Record)
how do you handle chromium updates? Do you produce a new release the same day, the same week, something else?
Well I am trying to see the best possible interpretation. What is the best possible interpretation.

I think the poster didn't think of what it meant besides what only affects himself. I have noticed that is where all discussion ends, but it really is implementing that his bottom line is negatively affected if the working poor get higher wages.
Meet+Michelangelo:+Uber's+Machine+Learning+Platform
I didn't hear anything about improving working conditions. The employees in Seattle making $15/hr already are still being treated like shit.
Does this article match other people's experience? The whole opening premise, that few people have hobbies now seems entirely wrong to me. I can't think of anyone I know who doesn't have at least a few hobbies. Many people I know are significantly into several hobbies, and most people are at least casually invested in some.
It seems like they're accounting for commute in hours worked, which doesn't make any sense.

Perhaps they're saying that the employer has to (indirectly) pay for a parking lot to accommodate them?
I don't see how C passes 2 (it's notorious as a language where it takes 200 lines to make a HTTP request) or 3 (it has arbitrary textual macros, so there's all sorts of "cleverness" e.g. GObject). And I'd regard 4 and 5 as false as even C-with-IDE is less productive than e.g., to return to the same example, OCaml-without-IDE.
You are right that there's no inherent need for UB. However, we made the choice to have it.

The reason to have it is the exact same reason that the distinction between "implementation defined" and "undefined" exists in the first place: UB allows compilers to assume that it will never happen, and optimized based on it. That is a useful property, but it's a tradeoff, of course.