skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> missing the human factor.

because reasons addresses this, each individual reason given is not really that important to understand what can come from it over time.

> Or how lawyers have made it illegal for people without the right credentials from practicing law.

This might be true now, and for when it comes to representing others that are not yourself, but this does not have to remain true.
I think your view here may be a little more pessimistic than mine.

I don't think the majority is opposed to critical thinking, although I think most people are bad at it. I also think most people are bad at civil and effective communication, so you may get toxic communities even from well-meaning people.

I'll be interested to see what happens. You may be right that communities will select mods that create echo chambers.

I'm a little more optimistic. Whichever way it goes, I think the ability to experiment (e.g. with weighted or modified voting schemes) with this sort of mechanic is definitely worth pursuing.
North Carolina?
I wonder why can't one just pick mods for themselves. E.g. "subscribe" to a mod, meaning whatever that mod hides, you don't see. It could even be mutual.
I agree with this position and wonder if there is any supporting evidence that speaks to this point that you know of?
If you’re concerned about and increase in minimum wage, I’m confused about why you have extra staff.

Alternatively you’re saying that the remaining 9 workers are going to be doing an additional 1/9th of the work, so presumably the hours.

So all you’ve done is kick someone onto the street (I do love the claim that you are on their side, while fighting against wages rising), while paying the same amount - possibly more due to overtime wages.

So yeah, if your business is poorly run you may get a significant impact from a fairly minor wage increase, but mostly because your business was already poorly run.
Indeed. You could easily find places for $50000 or even less if you wanted to.

The problem is any job I’ve ever had is in Tokyo.
Yeah but most people don't have the environment growing up to appreciate learning and knowledge.

Learning itself is a skill...and University teaches you how to learn and to appreciate knowledge...no matter what degree you get you're better off afterwards.

It's sad the capitalistic cynicism about University these days.

I have a feeling it's going to hurt us massively in the long run.
I’d love to know how you get to that conclusion.
I tried reading the Java Language Specification once, but it was such insane garbage I stopped and never give it another look.
I had a recent fun experience where I did a code screen for a company. It involved writing a very basic key value store API in Ruby. However, the challenge was extremely unspecified. There were no specification for persistence (database? file? none?), the precise semantics of the requests (should PUT-ing the same object multiple times overwrite it? According to the HTTP definition of PUT, yes, but who knows for sure?), or even how the code was being run (rackup? Separate script?). Note that there wasn't a clear way to ask questions either. Even better, the code was to be tested via an automated script. Yeah...automated scripts and unclear specifications are not a good combo.

I wrote the code to the best of my ability, then submitted it. I got a rejection a few weeks later and when I asked the person who sent it for feedback (I will say, that the company at least had a real, very nice person contact me), they cited a policy of no response.

Granted, I messed up in that I refused to use Rails, since, c'mon, it's a key value store. Instead I decided to just write it in pure Ruby with Rack and the SQLite gem. But I suppose that could have been a mistake since A. Rails is a lot more robust when it comes to input space and B. the testing harness is probably designed for Rails. Second, it's quite likely my code was just not good. But I'd at least like some feedback then, or even a printout of test failures.

This is a company I hold in extremely high regard, so I sincerely hope that this is just a fluke.
I installed it one a pixel 1 xl recently and it runs great
So going back to the original commenter's points: how does Swift handle top-level code? Where is it legal for me to write print("Hello, World")?
Loft it: https://www.jefftk.com/p/lofted-grand-piano
The study did look at loss of employment as well. The conclusion states:

> Evidence indicates that these workers experienced no significant decline in their likelihood of being employed and a modest reduction in their hours worked over the six quarters following the first and second wage increases.
> Why would you have 10 workers if the job can be done by 9?

Because not all work is the same. If you clean the equipment weekly it breaks down less often than cleaning it monthly. If the cost of an employee increases then the cost of more employees can exceed the cost of more equipment failures, so you cut staff (or hours).
I ride my EcoReco electric scooter from Mountain View to Cupertino every day. It’s great and I don’t have to wait on buses. Are you going to spend billions to run a train from Mountain View to Cupertino? In the meantime, I have a heck of a fun commute.
I'm not convinced this is really true in a lot of the "actually desirable to young tech people" areas of southern cities. I just checked rent prices in Franklin, TN for a contract project opportunity and found newish apartments are going for $1300+. Trendy parts of Raleigh are renting apartments for $1100+. Meanwhile, it's very difficult to live in the South without a car, and salaries are far lower than $24k under a Bay Area tech comp structure (assuming you rent at the $3k level there).

I will grant you that if you have a family it's way cheaper due to availability of real houses in the burbs combined with cheaper daycare/nanny/housekeeping/etc., but a young, successful tech worker is probably better off on the west coast despite the higher cost of living.
Details please? As far as I know neither NYT nor WaPo nor others have issued any retractions.
I think you may have misunderstood. I want cars gone. But the public transit system isn't good enough in many if not most places to warrant that, regardless of the last mile, so we should fix that first. Fixing that would change the world (incrementally).

Scooters have been around for literally decades, even electric scooters have been around for a while. Changing people to accept a bit of physical effort to get to their job, be it cycling, walking or electric scootering, is probably a great thing, but it won't solve the underlying lack of infrastructure.

You can't organise around infrastructure that isn't there. In cities where it is there, people use it even without electric scooters and people already move to be close to good public transport.
I have yet to come across a situation in which it is not worth the effort to figure out how to attach a debugger to a piece of code I'm modifying.
Are PhD degrees required to do machine learning research? Or can someone be completely self-taught and contribute to the field as much as those with PhDs?
I installed ubports a year ago on a nexus 5 and it ran great. The only reason I switched to lineage was for authy and anki. They really did give up too soon
foobar'd
Generally speaking, you should have more employees than the bare minimum required to operate. That way, you have enough staff available to, say, cover when someone calls in sick, gets in an accident and takes short-term leave, goes on vacation, quits unexpectedly, etc.

When wages are already close to the marginal value add, increasing the wage floor means needing to cut hours. When wages are not, then increasing the wage floor has little effect on hours or people hired. If there's already sufficient buffer, it might even result in fewer jobs over time as companies attempt to get by with less wiggle room in headcount.

Just a thought.
I had a screen with Uber last month and had the opposite experience.
The North Carolina government is in the hands of the Republican party, with the exception of the governor's office, which is one of the weakest executive branches in the country and due to get weaker with some of the constitutional amendments on the ballot this year.

NC has some potential to improve its standing, but so far the gerrymandering has proven insurmountable as even when the courts rule the districts to be illegal, they allow them to continue to be used because the next election is always "too soon".
The article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323689604578220...) said nothing of the sort. It said that while the bulk of the tax increases were at the high end of the income spectrum, many individuals and couples with incomes in the 180k-500k range could see significant tax increases, too. That was contrary to the general portrayal of the "American Taxpayer Relief Act" as retaining the Bush-era tax cuts on everyone with less than 400k in income.
Regarding the other comment: you probably meant "anecdote"
I ditched the Mac for the iPad, and I’ll never go back
I remember being struck by a snippet of pseudocode in a discrete mathematics textbook[0]:

https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu

So basically being able to run an arbitrary number of dependent, nested loops. Now imagine you want to run arbitrary code in the interior, rather than just incrementing a count.

It's a simple idea. And it can be expressed so succinctly in just a few lines of pseudocode in a freshman-level computer science textbook.

And yet I wouldn't want to touch this in Java. The lisp macro to write this isn't much more verbose than the pseudocode itself.

[0] Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 7th e.

Edit: Traded formatting for pastebin
I think that's cynical. Even if it's about the degree you gain alot of benefits along the way.

That's like saying people work ONLY for the money.
An excellent point. This data was much harder to find, but I finally got it.

You are correct in that infant mortality rates have had a huge impact on life expectancy as a whole. An infant in 1900-1902 could expect 49.24 years, while one born in 2003 can expect 77.4.

But non-infant life expectancy has risen pretty dramatically too. A 20 year old in 1900-1902 could expect to live another 42.79 years, while a 20 year old in 2003 could expect another 58.4 years.

This trend continues the further up the age bracket you go. A 30 year old in 1939 could expect another 39.67 years, while that's up to 48.9 by 2003, a solid gain of 9 years.

Of course, Boomers are not 20 in 2003, they were 20 somewhere between 1966 and 1984. So the gap between the Boomers and their parents is a bit smaller than that (although the gap between Millenials and the Greatest Generation is huge). By my very rough estimate, the gap between the Boomers and their parents life expectancy hovers around 4-7 years, depending on how large the age gap between the Boomer and their parent. The gap appears to get the biggest around middle age, presumably because of improvements to medicine and reductions in Tobacco usage.

I tried to list out the data points I'm looking at, but it just didn't work in sentence form. Instead look at the raw data at [0]. Table 11 is my source, but I was just looking at all races and genders. Presumably one would see different results once you start breaking it down by demographics.

0. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_14.pdf
It’s appalling how one-sided many orgs see the interview process. Instead of treating the candidate as a partner - someone to work together in making a decision - the candidate might as well be a box of staplers to them.

The candidate is barely a human being to these mega corps. They freely dispose of the candidates time without any consideration beyond what the hiring team needs.

An interview CAN be as much about helping the candidate find what’s best for them. Heck where I work we actively talk and promote other options where someone might be happier. We make referrals for people. When it’s not a good fit we try to give them feedback and genuinely want them to succeed.

Ugh
Most dev teams above 4 or 5 probably could do the same amount of work if one of their co-workers got the axe. But it'd probably come at the expense of other factors: employment fatigue, tech debt, less reliable quality.
I’m in pretty much the reverse position, and also bought a house recently. Any time I was feeling frustrated about the housing market here, I just pulled up a search of Bay Area properties, or talked to my California colleagues about their struggles with real estate, and I felt a lot better.

This is not a cheap area by any means, but it’s far from the rarified heights of the more usual Big Tech areas.
Thankfully I’m rarely hiring for positions where someone is developing software with a gun to their head.
I've recently come around on Java (although I'll still rarely choose it), mostly due to the idea that "all things get complicated, so what matters is how you manage that complexity".

Java started to "click" when I realized how much you build objects out of other objects like layers of an onion, just adding a bit at each step, and it clicked a bunch more as I understood Spring's bean system, which itself clicked more when I began to understand that the object-based dependency graph is basically the equivalent of the top-level Ruby script. All the code describes how X and Y relate to eachother, and then you go to the bean definitions to find out what X and Y are. That's actually pretty neat.

I still prefer the "simple script" approach you can do in Ruby; and I'm loving the way Scala is kind of Ruby, but in Java, and so (and to relate to the actual content) inherits a lot more from Lisp.

So, PS, author, if you're reading this, seriously give Scala a try. It's been pretty fantastic so far for me!
"What we really need is [large project x] and [public good y] so therefore no one should work on [other project z]" is a stale argument and even if some benevolent dictator got their way, wouldn't even work.
You're right about that particular video. But actually there were several articles and several videos. I only linked to the first one in the series.

These two will add more details- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/insider/secret-pentagon-u...

The second has the really spooky video. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog...

Around 27 seconds it starts rotating about one of its axes. Does not follow a fixed wing pattern, and it doesn't show any propulsion emissions on FLIR.
Looks like you’re not running your business but rather a 9 to 5 office slave
yeah but does that take into account reduced benefits. Amazon raised minimum wage to $15/hour, which got a ton of press, but simultaneously eliminated stock compensation for those same employees, which got much less press.
A PhD is not required.
You're really underestimating the power of Java's boring workhorse methodology. If you're looking for love there's a lot of other languages that are more pure and more beautiful for certain use cases.

However, there's a reason Java is in the top 3 most popular languages. Its pragmatic, it scales, it plays nice with tooling and the language itself is pretty passable.
The name of the poster and the name of the domain are the same. It is for all intents and purposes a Show HN post.
We don't get where "almost ready" message since I have been coding Crystal.

You knew each languages solve different problems in AI or space age.
You can have your cake and eat it though thanks to kotlin.

It is way more concise than java but does not become ambiguous because of it.
Congrats, this seems like a cool product. Fantastic name. You didn't mention that it has an IMU in it.

One other thing, you should say something about what, if anything, you'll do with the contact information of people who sign up.
Physical Addressing on Real Hardware in Isabelle/HOL [pdf]
Do you mean to be able to do machine learning research or to be able to get someone to pay you to do machine learning research?
SoK: The Challenges, Pitfalls, and Perils of Using HPCs for Security [pdf]
You are comparing states with groceries...let's compare the Afganistan war with an afterschool fight or terrorists with pranksters and see where it leads us.

Spying activities are hostile actions. They are used to gain unfair economic advantage, overtrow governments, win elections(for their fav candidate) and other nasty stuff.

If the british government needs more data to find terrorists they could use their political power to improve the data sharing at the EU level.
You bring up an important point, implementing equal rights does not reduce the rights of those who previously were oppressors, no matter how delusional their thinking is.
More importantly you're paying minimum wage: you clearly in no way value the skills any of these people bring to the business, otherwise you'd be inclined to offer more in the first place.
I completely agree with your assessment. At least once a week I deal with people being late for meetings / interviews / whatever. Heck, sometimes it's me running late. That's just how life happens sometimes. Yes, in an interview situation, we all want to be treated well and for the interviewers to be prompt and positive. When they fall short, however, it's a far cry from a "horror story". Just my opinion.
I tried it, it didn't work. Sorry
Not sure about the article’s “world changing” claim but I do love electric scooters. The Segway ES1 is $600 on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2SH2zYh
Its basic accounting. If you have to pay someone $15/hr, they better be providing at least that much value back to you, otherwise you're running a charity
I think you're on to something here...
I was thinking about custom widgets too (seems like your idea is somehow close to them).

Widget here is a class of custom DOM elements that knows how to represent itself by HTML means. Such classes constitute that 'library' of yours, AFAIU. When you load document containing such widget, the class instantiated and it can check HTML structure it gets assigned to and morph content if needed. So it is a matter of loading/saving the document to get updated structure.
It's a great aside. And as the debate about over-crowding of the last remaining wildernesses is bound to develop, I wonder whether some "price/cost" which involves the effort expended to get to those places is appropriate.
I could do this if the iPad Pro supported a mouse. For something that I do I need to point and click and tapping the screen wastes a lot of time.
If the general population of buyers does not expect to find grand pianos on craigslist, then why would they end up on craigslist to find it? More likely, the best hope you have is to sell it to someone who found it by accident, probably not even looking for such a thing at the time. And if selling grand pianos on craigslist is sufficiently rare, then it’ll naturally not change anyone’s expectations; it was just a lucky find.

And ofc, if you the adversarial company are purchasing out these rare sales as soon as they’re up, you can trivially maintain the illusion.

That individual sale might cost you more, but if the average seller sells for less because they don’t see a real market to sell in... it’s probably still a profitable illusion.
> Learning itself is a skill...and University teaches you how to learn and to appreciate knowledge

True that learning is a skill. University is not the only place people can "learn to learn", it is one option out of innumerable many that people can think of if they can so dare to imagine.

>...no matter what degree you get you're better off afterwards.

I think some people would question this when they get to the point where they are destitute trying to pay off loans that they can't discharge, which I'm not sure how capitalist non discharagble loans are. Usually, a lendee being able to default on a loan is the risk lenders take when underwriting…

> I have a feeling it's going to hurt us massively in the long run.

I disagree with that statement, the church (like universities are now) use to be a massive powerful force that acted as a gate keeper to knowledge, and over time, became mostly irrelevant to such ends…
Similar amusing math terms are "almost everywhere" and "almost surely"/"almost never". For example, if you pick a random real number between 0 and 1, it will almost never be exactly 0.5. It's possible that you'll get 0.5, but the probability of getting it is exactly 0.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely
Replacing the car for last mile transit is world changing, if it happens.
You’re also assuming that there is no price elasticity. When all parties see the cost of resources go up, the prices go up or margin goes down.

Anyplace with a geographic monopoly demonstrates this. Rest Areas, large institutions and places like airport usually require a cut of the gross sales are part of the lease agreement.

I know of one where that cut is 15%, but the restaurant charges a 30% premium since it is also a near monopoly within the institution. People are still buying coffee and burgers.
Anywhere outside of things like a class or structure definition, if you have a single-file project. In a multi-file project, only in main.swift.
Looks like that’s not counting the whole metro area, so it’s kind of misleading. DC is a fairly small chunk of the region as a whole. It’s only the third most populous jurisdiction in the area.
Last mile problem, always the Achilles heel of public transit.
Chances are the slack will be taken up by people on a salary so they won't get anything extra pay wise -- managers and whatnots.

Or they cut the service level so maybe the table will be wiped down before you sit there and maybe the garbage will be taken out before it gets so full you can't throw stuff in there.

But the most likely scenario (which I witnessed the last time they raised the minimum wage in the AZ) is they just raise the prices on everything storewide. Well, that and reduced "amenities" like mopped floors and clean parking lots.
This is very nice looking and I'm going to be following the project wishing for full markdown support. I love editors like these!
Oh hey! This looks very interesting!

> Transient
phenomena
associated
with
forward
biased
silicon
p
+ -
n - n
+
struc-
tures
at
4.2K
show
remarkable
similarities
with
biological
neurons.
The
devices
play
a role
similar
to
the
two-terminal
switching
elements
in
Hodgkin-Huxley
equivalent
circuit
diagrams.
The
devices
provide
simpler
and
more
realistic
neuron
emulation
than
transistors
or
op-amps.
They
have
such
low
power
and
current
requirements
that
they
could
be
used
in
massive
neural
networks.
Some
observed
properties
of
simple
circuits
containing
the
devices
include
action
potentials,
refractory
periods,
threshold
behavior,
excitation,
inhibition,
summation
over
synaptic
inputs,
synaptic
weights,
temporal
integration,
memory,
network
connectivity
modification
based
on
experience,
pacemaker
activity,
firing
thresholds,
coupling
to
sensors
with
graded
sig-
nal
outputs
and
the
dependence
of
firing
rate
on
input
current.
Transfer
functions
for
simple
artificial
neurons
with
spiketrain
inputs
and
spiketrain
outputs
have
been
measured
and
correlated
with
input
coupling.
Again, attaching a debugger is occasionally not helpful–for example, if you're trying to figure out why your program isn't loading certain plugins at launch, you trying to attach the debugger may happen after this step occurs. So you don't get to debug this process.
Technically there are plenty of tech company HQ in the south. Just off the top of my head, RedHat, SAS and Epic Games are all in Raleigh.

As for the giant FAANG companies, I think the south is better off without them. They skew the market so much that it’s very economically disruptive, and since US cities are generally very resistant to building housing, I suspect that you’d see the big company offices would mess up the housing market anywhere they went the same way they have in SF and Seattle.
Lisp is the best language in the world. ^^