skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been involved in two startups that were funded as pet projects by billionaires that I swear were designed to fail. I’ve read about tax dodge record labels from the 70s. It really looked like this was the goal in both situations. Hemmoraging cash, pivots seemingly designed to avoid success, strong focus on the appearance of work and numbers on the butts in chairs. I can’t prove anything and left both operations after 8 months per. I just focused on using the dental insurance and improving my personal skill set, so neither was a loss for me.
Wall Street money is just the money of 1%. The 1% need to get on board.
What a track record for this project... Two people resigning from it because of privacy issues... I am not looking forward for private companies to take over municipal government responsibilities.
There's a wide variety of positions between "open borders" and "forcibly take refugee children away from their families and put both in detention facilities".

One can object to the latter without supporting the former.
This is amazing. The list reads like a "who's who" of the most insufferable sectors of American life. I was surprised not to see auto manufacturers and agriculture in the top twenty, but medicine and telecom have definitely got them beat.
I consider myself a "pragmatic libertarian", and by "pragmatic", I mean I'm in favor of legislative intervention when the free market often goes awry. Examples of this would be combating monopolies (since I don't want feudal system 2.0) , preventing immoral practices (like child labor), and controlling prices when there is no competition at work, such as utilities. It seems that with hospitals, there effectively is no competition-driven pricing pressure due to unpublished pricing. This seems like a place ripe for legislative intervention... but perhaps the medical industry is so bad that it would be better to just nationalize it.
According to the article, it would appear this was not limited to salespeople:

“Most of these people retired with a good pension,” said Jon White, who worked at Sears for 38 years, most recently as a manager in a store in Lithonia, Ga., before retiring in 2008. “Most of them are comfortable for the most part — cashiers, clerks, replenishers, all kinds of workers.”

I would assume that "replenishers" are directly analogous to current Amazon warehouse employees.
I will sound jaded and trite when I say this but if you want to understand American decisions (corporate or government) the most accurate thing to do is to follow the money. If you remember that point, it becomes quite simple that decisions are not really inconsistent. They're actually completely consistent. It's not bad or good, it's just the way it is.
Something that doesn’t get publicized but is as onerous is that Amazon is recruiting engineers to work on facial recognition tech that was implied to be used for their warehouse workers[0].

[0] Amazon recruiter emails that coworkers and I have gotten from Amazon. These emails had a very heavy implication that that particular group was using the facial recognition tech for this purpose.
I work in this field and I can not really make sense of your statement. "Fidelity" the way they define it has nothing to do with whether they have a qubit or any other system (infinite dimensional or not).
Except for that pesky pride part.
I'm sure even 10baseT is more than enough to phone home.
Is that what you had to pay out of pocket? With or without insurance?
Same here - people think, "why do you need a car, I certainly don't need one on the Upper East Side!" - and for them, they don't. In rural Texas, not having one means you're very geographically bound, and effectively unemployable.

You're absolutely correct. I'm lucky enough to live in Melbourne Australia. Until this year "world's most livable city". Public Transport is fantastic and affordable.

However, if you're unemployed and looking for a entry level job, then lets give a few examples.

Warehouse and factory work - plenty of that around. However by nature they're going to be in industrial zones quite far from residential areas and transport. You can probably rule that out without a car.

Cleaning - You might be able to get commercial cleaning, although your inability to get between jobs isn't going to look great to employers. Residential cleaning doesn't seem likely.

Labouring - No chance you can be reliable because the jobsite will constantly be changing.

By nature plenty of the low-skilled work you're immediately unable to do by not having a car, even in a city with a VERY good infrastructure.

I don't necessarily think the posters are lacking in empathy, I think I was just trying to bright side that perhaps the tone of the comments meant there was a bit more societal awareness than we had back then.
Cool, how do you deploy it?
http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-operating-schedule
I just think it's the best out of all the options. Since it's a natural process I think it has less chance of unintended consequences compared to something like putting aerosols in the sky to block sunlight. Just like Elon Musk's plan to put humans on Mars there's going to be tons of problems, but it makes sense to start working on it now so we can come up with solutions.
I love this stuff but how many of us really get to (have the privilege) to doing this kind of work?
Nice, do you have any concerns about vendor lock in?
Conflating things like maintaining a border and detaining children of asylum seekers as a deterrent doesn't help the discussion other than to muddy the waters.
Nice, which version of Java?
> And is 54.55 ms perceptable?

Its probably noticeable compared to instantaneously in terms of "feeling" different due to lag. However, it is definitely perceptible in the terminal based on my testing using `sleep`. For me (on my computer + monitor) down to 25ms is noticeable.

Also importantly, the hello world test shows 2 orders of magnitude simply, but the problem for JVM based languages gets worse for large projects (though not proportionally worse). Real java projects can take a second to launch whereas I haven't worked on a project large enough for that to be true in C++, Go or Rust.
The author of this post wrote klib/khash, and uses it in his very popular cpu-intensive bioinformatics programs such as bwa (short read alignment against the human ref genome).

I've been learning rust recently. As a learning exercise, I compared the robin-hood hashing of std::collections::HashMap in rust to his klib/khash he mentions in this article , and then tried various hash functions to try and match his performance:

https://github.com/gaberudy/hash_test

No dice, his hash table is smaller and faster.

My next step is to try and implement his data structure and hashing functions directly in rust and see if I can get it to near-C performance...
> but for the vast majority of issues, there is evidence that supports one side more than the other.

I’m not so sure that is true.

In my experience there is propaganda everywhere and politicians are trying to build a narrative instead of trying to find the truth.
Truly a scummy thing to do. Something just spiritually wrong about a mega capitalistic entity doing this. Capitalism is about freedom... right?
Anecdotal story, a few years ago my dad had a heart attack. He was self employed, living the american dream so no insurance. He had to stay 2 nights plus ambulance ride. Total bill ~80k. I kid you not, 3 days after he got out my mom shattered her wrist and was taken to emergency surgery. ~40K. They wracked up a bill slightly less than their mortgage in under a week.

Of course they could not pay and the hospital dropped it down to something affordable over a long period of time. How could the hospital expect anyone to pay either of the bills? Don't get me wrong, hospitals and doctors do amazing things and deserve to get paid well, but their has to be some sort of reality applied to the billing process or they are just breaking people.
In theory - in practice though we have had decades of weak borders.
The 1000base-T ports are often not connected to the production network, only the 10G.
I had the same experience. Perl clicked for me, but not Python. A few years ago, I switched to Go for performance and it has clicked as well. Go is a rather sparse language relative to Perl (and TIMTOWTDI), so I'm a bit surprised that it was a natural switch.
Yes, but for many people who do not know how to do X, there is the chance that looking into the problem on one's own will result in a solution that can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. It's just unknown to that person at the start.

YET, if said person raises concerns immediately, there's also the potential for that work to get reassigned in a manner that never gives the said person to learn how to do X.

I agree that this is a selfish action, and ideally we do not act in such ways when under pressure to perform and work as a team. But I've found that this psychology often explains why teams find themselves with facing a Canary MacGuffin.
A small amount of the right data is better than lots of the wrong data. Collecting a lot of some data, because it's easy to collect isn't very helpful if it turns out to be the wrong data.

It would likely be more informative to instrument a few cars with some advanced sensor package and let well ranked drivers drive them around than to try to gather data from smartphones in existing cars, but I suppose it depends on what the end use is.
The foreign exchange market is the largest market on earth, and quite a lot of it is speculative, actually.
Do people have a right to not be identified in public? In public, your right to privacy doesn't protect you from having your picture being taken. Then, what if someone identifies you from your picture? How about if they use a CV system to speed it up? What's the argument here?

BTW, as I expand upon below, I'm against surveillance of private communications, I think we all are. As far as I understand it, this is not surveillance, this is identification technology, which is different.
Married with 3 kids, turning 30 this week, paid cash for a house last year. After tax, I make about $50k / year. My wife stays home. Since Jan 1st I've put $15k into savings, which translates to 30% post-tax (closer to 20% pre-tax). So I'd say it's definitely doable. Probably depends a lot on living in the right part of the country / world.
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For USD, I think the commandments would be the invariants of the monetary policy, as opposed to the entire constitution: "inflation shall average 2%", "grow the money supply to prevent deflation", and "shrink the money supply to reduce inflation". The religious part is made apparent by it being so difficult to explain why 2008 didn't lead to significant inflation - whereas inflation appears a direct result if the reasoning of these policies is accurate - yet we still follow the policy and just pray it will carry us through anyway.
I have to ask if you are speaking from experience here or just dislike lawyers based on tropes in our culture?

Having been through a 2 year legal battle myself, I can tell you that the complexity is there for a reason, and that reason is lawyers arguing a client's case, the court reconsidering their previous opinion, and hopefully a more fair outcome going forward. The world is far more complex than we can imagine, otherwise we'd be able to write perfect, simple laws.

Let me give you a challenge: Say my wife and I are getting a divorce, and we are splitting up community property. I have options and RSUs (any equity asset on a vesting schedule really) that I was awarded before we were married, some that were awarded after, some awarded before that vested after our date of separation. These all have different vesting schedules, strike prices, and hypothetical future value (stock might tank, might leave before it all vests, etc). What is a simple law to determine what dollar value I owe my ex for her interest in this community property?
Generally, connecting more components to Redux is better for performance. The cost of more `mapState` calls is less than the cost of more "wasted" renders, and when a component needs smaller pieces of the Redux state, other state changing means it's not affected.

See my post "Practical Redux, Part 6: Connected Lists and Performance" [0] and the Redux FAQ entry on using React-Redux [1] for more details.

Also, we're completely rewriting the React-Redux docs from scratch, and they now have their own site [2] . We've got some new tutorial material available, and a guide section on writing `mapState` functions. The new section on using `mapDispatch` should be up soon, and we've got a lot more planned, including sections on writing selectors, performance optimizations, and how React-Redux works internally.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/01/practical-redux-pa...

[1] https://redux.js.org/faq/reactredux

[2] https://react-redux.js.org
I've wondered the same thing. It seems like we have the worst of both systems.
I am a structural engineer of moderate capability. I have developed an engineering platform as a startup. If anyone is serous about doing one of these projects, I would love to speak with you about helping and about using my platform to design anything you need.
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Once Private companies advertise themselves as revenue generating entities that aid governance..(fines for behaviour) we are well and truly F*ED in the west. And its already started. This is not what capitalism was meant to be.
could you give a list of the MOOCs you have taken, or at least a list of your favorites? i am interested in hearing about them.
Government monitoring everyone via facial recognition isn't cool either.
So you're saying that Seacouver doesn't exist anymore?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seacouver)
Scott, did you flag my other reply to this comment?
What nonsense. Many thousands of workers will be compensated much better. Other retailers will have to increase their wages. This is a good outcome.
> thankfully the pension benefit guaranty is not funded with tax revenues

Who funds it then?
How will the junior learn how to do it otherwise? Ultimately it's that first hand experience that will be the biggest lesson in teaching the junior.

Perhaps the solution is something in-between - assigning the task to the junior, expecting honesty and communication from them, and pointing them in the right direction as they need it. With competent but inexperienced junior, this works and results in a stronger team.
All the way until the AdBlock page :/
Why does NYT have it out for Amazon? Is it because Mr Bezos owns a rival paper?
Names have the power to guide perception about what they identify.

"Quantum teleportation" is as easily misused as that of "dark matter".

Is it actually matter? If the answer isn't a definite yes then the term doesn't help long term but maybe it's good enough for now. "Dark energy" is another term. Is it accurate? Maybe. It alse works for plenty of people for now.

Both terms assist as long as they help discussion but the lay person easily gets confused and experts can get mislead as well. If you think of it as matter then you design experiments in particular ways. You think about it in those terms. You don't think of it in other ways to the same extent.

Quote from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

"The primary evidence for dark matter is that calculations show that many galaxies would fly apart instead of rotating". Not exactly a ringing endorsement of matter as real. But as long as it helps the overall investigation then it's ok for now. Calculations can accurately describe reality and guide decisions so why not.

"Quantum teleportation" as a term is easily derailed no matter how helpful it describes a portion of reality. Maybe it simply needs a few more words nearby to put the brakes on people's imagination.

The map of the place is not the place.
A similar motivation got a friend and me started with pricepain.com - but the ACA made us take a step back and see if anything changed / got better... apparently not. Though some of these state bills that try to force more transparency have since pushed the topic a bit further. Still so far from a market place.
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In fact, I ask about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/94c4m9/is_possible_to...

So, in short, the answer is no. Rust currently lack a clean way to do this.

The semantics are hard to translate also. I'm doing a little lang in rust and is HARD. However, is possible? Yes.

But I think rust need to be able to run from a shared lib and compile to memory, like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler
Project Euler
https://projecteuler.net
Perhaps using fees from all combustion products (gas, diesel, natural gas, heating oil, coal, etc), to directly fund prairie, forests, gardens, etc will immediately begin reducing CO2 and help increase biodiversity which we are also highly dependent on.
As well as every pension/retirement fund of the rest of us...
Since that intervention may arrive late-or-never in different nations, it's one of the reasons that I believe active carbon dioxide removal measures will be necessary in addition to emissions reduction efforts.

Both regulating carbon emissions and active carbon dioxide removal measures will, in the end, come down to some state or world body acting in a coordinated way to push money at this problem. It seems like people are imagining active removal would be easier in this fashion than basic regulation. Why?
Sure it will, at least at anyplace that could afford me. And hiring for specific framework knowledge is a big red flag anyway.

I've also got 25+ years of contacts. I have to think that talented older developers who struggle with employment must have been antisocial in their careers. I cringed when the guy in TFA apparently threw a sandwich at a fast food worker - maybe there are some deeper personality issues at play besides just being old. It's no less sad, of course.
Uber pulls the drone announcement con, yet again, for free coverage in th WSJ. Nobody is delivering anything by drone anytime soon. WSJ were conned by it, were you?

A more interesting questions is: What is your estimate of how much this is worth in uber advertising?
I’m more interested in why so many Christians quote the Old Testament to justify their non-Christian attitudes and actions.
Listing the outrage du jour is not a good counterargument. The principle of "keep politics where it belongs" is a critical part of your ability to effect political change on issues like yours.

If you abandon it, then it gets much easier to silence unpopular voices -- the cab driver won't take you to the protest march, your ISP shuts down your advocacy domain, facebook bans your support group, all because your politics conflicts with theirs. Total political war is bad for everyone, especially those who are already unpopular.
I don’t necessarily disagree with many of your points, but I think drawing attention to the end of Sears’ lifecycle is an unfair thing. Someday Amazon too will have an end of life, and employees and shareholders will get fucked over then too.

The article also draws attention to how workers benefited _in good times_ at Sears, not near the end. And this is where the comparison is most meaningful, where Amazon is more questionable.
I noticed this "getting to yes" attitude with my lawyer , and realized after a while it was because all the back and forth communication, discovery, on and on... it all took forever, and at pretty much any point the other side could choose to throw a wrench in the works. It's something I really tried to internalize after my divorce finally ended after two years and many thousands of dollars in legal fees, finally settling for near what the ex and I had discussed before we brought lawyers into the picture.
We often remove names from titles, because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Weak borders are still not open borders, and I again ask that you not conflate the two.
Could you please add sri@postbite.co? Thank you!
Out of interest how do you qualify a 'real' problem?

It seems there are very few real problems in the world to solve if we are going to be stringent. Also solving non-real problems can lead to solving real problems (ad industry funding bleeding edge innovation is a good example of this).
Checked out the site, very cool concept. Obviously needs some polish but the idea could be very monetizable if you can get traffic. Nice work.
Illegal immigrants are by definition disenfranchised. They are not citizens, so they do not get the franchise, which is the right to vote. That’s as it should be according to the U.S. Constitution, and the basic law of (nearly?) every democracy.
Yikes. I’ve heard of some American citizens being mistaken for illegal immigrants and being detained with no recuse[0], I could only imagine how bad it could get if the machine errors.

[0] https://nypost.com/2018/04/27/ice-wrongfully-detained-nearly...
I made a comment below about how does this violate privacy rights? I think we all feel at a certain level, making it easier to identify people feels unnatural and unnerving, may be because for long swaths of history we had a certain level of anonymity just by the nature of reality. Should that be something that is our right? Does that mean we should explicitly impede the efficiency of the government in doing things like identify people?

I sort of know where I fall, but that is the discussion that we should be having. Because one could read the law or at least think about the logic of the situation and not see this as really being worse in terms of surveillance. If you're in a public place, you have no guarantee of privacy. Therefore, the question should move to whether this is in fact "okay" or "wrong".
As I understand it, Julia's current implementation is not a JIT in any comparable sense to the JVM. Julia's JIT does not use any runtime information to optimize code; it's literally just statically compiling each function on-demand as they are encountered. You would get equivalent runtime performance by having a separate up-front compiler step, as C has. And actually, this sort of implies that Julia doesn't do inlining, the mother of all optimizations, which would mean that you'd be sacrificing quite a lot of runtime performance compared to an up-front compiled implementation.

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notes-on-the-julia-compile...
Thanks! That list is really cool! Interesting that only a few phones have scores of 10. One of them is called Fairphone, which actually looks like it would be a nice device.
I've seen a couple posts from rachelbythebay that were like this: they expressed an unsettling eagerness to catch co-workers not keeping up. Maybe it's the type of work environment in which she's made herself useful, or maybe it's more the way she expresses herself than how she works in practice; whatever it is, though, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.