skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a guy the Japanese police will not be happy if you take candids of women or kids

That's true. There is a lot of fear, prejudice and prudery around gender and age in the arts.

That doesn't mean we should stop thinking: It's crucial to assess for ourselves whether a picture appears to us as offensive as we are confronted with it.

Otherwise the criticism is just meaningless, recycled fear.
Well, presumably the clickbait sites are also for-profit companies.
Perth on the frontpage of HN, womders will never cease...

Cool idea if it works though, especially for disaster events and rapid construction
"because of Napoleons ambitions" - it is pretty unfair to lay the blame for the wars solely on Napoleon. The wars started because the monarchies of Europe ganged up against France after the revolution because they saw France was weakened and they wanted to prevent the ideas of the revolution to spread. Napoleon rose to prominence during these wars but just happened be be an extremely successful general. When France started winning, the propaganda of the monarchies like England painted him as a "madman" who wanted to "conquer the world", but from the viewpoint of France these were defensive wars.

Of course England at the time was fighting merciless wars of conquest all around the world in building their colonial empire. So they couldn't claim there were anything morally wrong with conquering the world. Instead their propaganda focused on the fact that Napoleon was a commoner rather than of old royal stock - something which was both offensive and scary to the old monarchies.
> Many of the jobs in that category are payed little because it's not really economical to pay more. Wages are constrained by productivity and what customers are willing to pay

What do you mean by that?

> E.g. if you have to pay people a lot to wash cars then those will simply disappear.

What will disappear? The cars? Cleanliness? What I think you mean is that people will demand fewer car washes, which is true. But so what?
So this is their video from 2 years ago : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bW1vuCgEaA and they are a penny stock (3.5 cents to over 20 cents on the news). The video on the web site doesn't work for me but I would be interested in seeing a video of this thing building an actual house.
It blows my mind how people spend so little on food. Any sort of meat on a regular basis can quickly surpass $50/week. My wife and I budget $150/wk for food, with some weeks coming in under budget admittedly.

Maybe these types of budgets never factor in snacks or coffee shops?

If you add any sort of fresh meat then the prices go up even more. I would love to buy grass fed beef and pasture raised chicken but I can't justify the price when I have $70k worth of student loans to pay off.
Isn't the answer then that said businesses simply shouldn't be trying to hire too many new employees yet, or should shut down? Because at the end of the day, if your company can't function without underpaying employees, then perhaps it's simply not a sustainable business/not sustainable to hire that many employees yet.

If a company's business model doesn't work, then it shouldn't really stay open/continue to exist.
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> Scale matters.

Newspapers already had sufficient scale to start major wars, prop up and/or tear down governments, etc. And, while we may blame those newspapers, should we also blame the companies that manufacture printing presses? Direct mail can be used for similar things; should we blame the USPS?
Unsure about the Q.Score, but for large data, MeowHash appears to also be a solid choice for non-cryptographic hashing:
https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash

A comparison that a user ran vs. xxHash:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9pr5ir/meow_ha...
> bacterium, sure... I don't think we'd find that very exciting.

I think that most people, be them scientists, religious leaders, politicians, or even laymen, will have their lives changed forever. For the religious, discovery of extra-terrestrial bacteria will upend most of the interpretations of their holy books. Those books are the foundation of modern Western society (Do not kill, do not steal, do not take another man's wife, etc). By upending the basis of society we have no idea how humanity will end up. Will we throw everything based on the bible away? Reinterpret them? Will the Jews and Muslims reconcile? Will the Christians set out on another crusade? Will that crusade be to the extra-terrestrial bacteria to sterilize them?

> event that created Eukaryotes ... happened only once.

The insemination event which led to your birth also happened only once. However, it is does happen often enough in systems that have the right conditions. And there are trillions of available planets, right here in the Milky Way.
There are definitely businesses that wouldn't exist due to their inability to find labor cheap enough to make their unit economics work. We usually say "those businesses shouldn't exist, then".

For instance, you could make a version of AirBnB that was supported by ads alone, if instead of paying homeowners for the use of their homes, you simply compelled them to let you rent them out for nothing.
> Include preprocessor directive literally copy pastes stuff with no intelligence what-so-ever.

Well, it's easy to reason about them. The thinking goes about the translation units.

The real problem is that the actual interface is not enforceable: the symbols in the binaries are just names.
Wow that's a new low. Bringing in his personal life to insult his professional life.
The whole point of slate is an immutable representation of a document. Without getting too much in the weeds, a document is an immutable object. Edits to the document are transforms. The obvious benefit is undo/redo is pretty simple. The more subtle benefit is that really complicated document rules become tractable. I built temi.com using this (https://www.temi.com/good-audio-quality). One feature that Slate enables pretty easily is incremental saves. Since the object is immutable, you can pass changes to the server instead of the entire document by just checking element ids. You can get multi-person edits relatively easily as well.
I thought software engineers with even a hint of talent were in short supply? Have I read the market totally incorrectly?
Ah, someone did not read the Turbo Pascal manual! :)

Thankfully there is Bitsavers.

"Circular Unit References" chapter on the Turbo Pascal 5.0 programmer's user guide.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturVersion5.0Us...
Productivity has been increasing. Wages have not.
I've always thought of Canada as a very tolerant country. That hostility is surprising to me.

When you say that people in Saskatoon are not treated well by just about anyone, how do you experience that over there?
Maybe. From an overall perspective of entrepreneurship and job creation no. The reason being that many companies are bootstrapped on the backs of cheap labor until they reach a point where they can sustain jobs. You are basically saying that bootstrapping should never happen and you should always have investors to create companies... unless maybe if the founder can make a company based around a very small team work somehow who are working for next to nothing for equity.
> It IS a new communications medium, but very unlike those before it. Its a medium that allows rapid propagation of both information and misinformation. Its sold as a family-friendly media to connect with those you love and care but ends up as a firehose of targeted ad consumption.

You could literally say the exact same things about the postal service.
This is something I may switch to, if it proves to have any significant advantages over Quill (https://quilljs.com/) which we currently use.

Currently it seems to not support customising and/or creating your own blots (like here — http://quilljs.com/guides/how-to-customize-quill/#customizin...)

Also, while we're at it, syncing operations (and example of which is shown here — https://www.slatejs.org/#/syncing-operations) was a hard concept to wrap my head around until I found this — https://operational-transformation.github.io/visualization.h...
> How does giving companies more money automatically make employees more expensive?

Giving companies more money by itself (e.g., “here, have $100,000 no strings attached”) doesn't.

OTOH, taxing retained profits at a lower rate does (it increases the after-tax cost of any reduction in before-tax retained profits; any expense is, considered on its own, a reduction in before-tax retained profits.)

In exactly the way deductibility of charitable donations subsidizes such donations at the taxpayers marginal tax rate deductibility of business expenses subsidizes such expenses at the businesses marginal tax rate, and cutting the tax rate cuts the subsidy.
On a similar subject, you may have noticed that the two most common sampling frequencies for digital audio are 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz (along with their multiples, such as 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz). Why is that? Specifically, where did 44.1 kHz come from?

It's because early digital audio, before compact discs existed, was done by recording data onto video cassettes by the use of an adapter that converted analog audio to digital, then generated a signal that looked (to the videotape recorder) like a video signal.

In non-interlaced NTSC video, there are 30 frames per second, and 525 scan lines. But not all 525 are usable because of the vertical blanking interval. (Essentially that interval is just the time it takes for the CRT to move the electron beam back up to the top of the display.) So these adapters just encoded 3 samples' worth of data into a single row of video, and used 490 out of 525 lines because of the vertical blanking interval. And 3 * 490 * 30 == 44100, so 44100 samples per second.

NTSC also has an interlaced mode, which is 60 fields per second (two interlaced fields equal one frame), but each field is half as many lines, so the math works out the same.

PAL video is similar except that it is 25 frames per second instead of 60, so to compensate, when encoding audio into PAL video, there are 6/5 as many lines used, and 3 * 588 * 25 = 44100 as well.

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz#Recording_on_video_e...
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In this case these businesses should invest in tools that make fewer workers more productive.
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There is no deep integration. Some plugins yes. It is driven by that motivation. I use VS Code daily and never read the word Azure there.

My opinion on your question: Not much. The interesting question is: How much the good will (VS Code, .NET Core, Linux support,...) of the last year's pay out
In a counterfactual scenario where the Facebook news feed sorting criteria never changed from "most recent" to whatever it is now, do you think anybody would actually feel differently about the issue?
I posted this above, but it's a good answer to you as well.

I think that most people, be them scientists, religious leaders, politicians, or even laymen, will have their lives changed forever by the discovery of extra-terrestrial life. For the religious, discovery of even extra-terrestrial bacteria will upend most of the interpretations of their holy books. Those books are the foundation of modern Western society (Do not kill, do not steal, do not take another man's wife, etc). By upending the basis of society we have no idea how humanity will end up. Will we throw everything based on the bible away? Reinterpret them? Will the Jews and Muslims reconcile? Will the Christians set out on another crusade? Will that crusade be to the extra-terrestrial bacteria to wipe them out as well?
It’s a fair criticism. But if that’s the social contract - that a pedestrian in an urban area is obliged to empathize with and offer support for all the destitution along his path - then we are doomed to drive around suburbia forever. Walkability is a compelling goal, but at that price, it seems impossible. So I reject the notion that it’s the price. I realize that’s flawed reasoning.

It’s in San Francisco’s DNA to welcome the desperate and downtrodden from everywhere in the world. I don’t begrudge it that. But it means the streets will never be free of poverty until utopia reigns on every last inch of the earth. Which seems unlikely to happen soon. There’s got to be a pragmatic trade off for the next 50 years.
Is there something similar for JSON? Thanks
This is about how much one would spend in San Francisco as well, if not more with commute costs.
"For a driver, there would be problems getting it to run correctly in 2004 already,"

This is unthinkable on Solaris / illumos kernels because of DDI / DDK interfaces: I can take a driver from 1993 for Solaris 2.5.1 and modload(1M) it into the latest nightly illumos build and I'm guaranteed that it will work.
Won't work if you have more pointers and buffers in the structure.
There are apocryphal stories about elevators that let you push/hold buttons to cancel floor selections (eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSdKe5kArA) or skip floors. I often forget to try them, but on the few occasions I've remembered nothing has happened.

All elevators accept a standardized fire/security key that enables "exclusive" mode that lets you tell the lift "go to this floor" and it will do so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uh_N1O3E4E (a reasonable sink of 1hr)

As for traffic lights I'm aware (at least in Australia) that they all tie back to a realtime system that lets a control room instruct lights to turn green and so forth. (Presumably the immediate action is that the lights that are currently green immediately turn orange, then red after the normal delay.) You can get summarily fired for misusing this though. I've also heard (IIRC on a TV documentary-type show) that ambulances tie into this system with live GPS tracking such that lights turn green as they approach, but this is sufficiently fantastic that I'm waiting to trust-but-verify it before I quote it with confidence.

Under normal use some traffic lights are traffic based while others have timers. The ones that are traffic based will take into consideration whether the pedestrian crossing button has been pushed and reduce the threshold value needed for the actual traffic lights to turn red. The other timer ones - like the really annoying ones outside my local mall :) - are on a fixed timer, and I try to run for that one when I know it's about to turn green, or just accept and twiddle my fingers while I wait if I miss it.

It'd be nice if elevator simulators were satisfying to write. Although, actually... I've just realized that with Unity you could have _quite_ a lot of fun :D... (hmm, I've had GPU on my wishlist for about 15 years now, now I really want one)
> You have to pay attention to include order! You have to write forward declarations! You have to write include guards, in 2018!

Include order is a valid complaint, the others truly are non issues.

I mean, we have other more pressing issues. Such as the fact that garbage collection is still a thing in 2018.

> ...but nowadays a proper documentation generator gives you better...

Examples of that?

> I like seeing function-level documentation alongside interface and implementation, but if I put the documentation in both the .cpp and the .h file it's duplicated in two places and easily gets out of date.

This is the only thing that I dislike about header files. And it is a constant reminder how bad IDEs are at handling this.
You can probably blame readability tests, SEO and other related stuff for that. There's a lot of advice online saying that simply written, clearly broken up articles divided into small sections/lists and aimed at a fifth grader's reading level are the way to attract more traffic/readers.

Well maybe that and lowest common denominator marketing. Or the need to pander to social media users, most of whom have at best about five minutes to read an article and not much knowledge of its background.
So. Much. This.

Google has done an excellent job with their Cloud documentation, including many useful howto sections. When we raise issues with them, they are quick to update the documentation with "gotchas" so there isn't tribal knowledge about this floating around in every company.
Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking of how one could file a bug using GDocs and it was an interesting idea. Thanks!
>This may be the dumbest thing I've read on the Internet today.

I don't understand it ergo it is dumb. One can only wonder how many other "dumb" things you dismissed today the same way while obviously feeling yourself as the smartest guy on the Internet. :)

Regarding that specific topic of expenses and profits you probably never had your own business, nor did any business related financial calculations/analysis, i.e. not having any related business experience and not understanding such basic things you feel like you can pass an outright judgement on the topic. Check out another dumb thing from the Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Price transparency. Require medical providers to publish a price list for every service they provide, then let there be Expedia for scheduled medical procedures.

> Don't force insurance companies to take a fixed percentage of revenue as profit so that they are actually incentivized to care about the cost of medicine.

This wouldn't really work. The nature of the insurance market is they predict how much it would cost at what probability and then add a percentage as a risk premium. If you lowered the risk premium in absolute dollars against the same level of risk and cost, nobody would provide insurance. If you lowered the cost of claims for the same absolute dollar amount of risk premium, more companies would provide insurance and the competition would reduce the absolute amount of the risk premium per customer back to the original percentage (which is based on risk-adjusted reward) of the now-smaller cost/risk -- which is what they're trying to prevent.

What you need is for people to be buying less insurance, i.e. insurance covers what it's supposed to -- losses greater than what you can afford -- rather than covering routine low and medium cost procedures and removing anyone's incentive to care about prices when choosing a provider.

All your other ones are good.
No photos of the house, a broken video, and zero details on things like roofing, plumbing, in-wall wiring, etc. Oh wait, it’s a penny stock? Color me surprised...
I meant that an IDE could provide you with the overview that a header file does.

But they don't.

Also, a header file will hopefully be logically structured by a human. Something generated by the IDE will not.
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I haven't found an editor that can act anything like word in relation to object placement. I should be able to drag images around and have it automatically format with my document. I should be able to resize just by dragging on the edges. Same goes for embeds, graphs, etc.

I believe wordpress has had some commercial plugins that could do this well, but I have not found an open source editor that redefines rich text editing at all.
You’re welcome to set up a company and pay yourself as little as you want - that doesn’t mean you can compel others to accept mediocre wages too.
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Probably Video Backup System. It displayed black and white patterns on the screen.

https://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id...
The article is kind of saying the opposite of what the headline implies. It says that Kashkari had previously been making the argument about paying more, but that, with unemployment falling to its lowest level in 49 years, we might now be getting to a point where there might actually be truth to the notion that there are just not enough bodies out there.

I see a solution to the problem: Remote work. Put people who are on site into jobs that actually require people to be on site, and fill jobs that don't have that requirement remotely. That way you can get around the absence of bodies in the U.S. (coupled with the tight immigration regime) and the skills shortage.
I think it would be good, when Facebook is made aware that their platform is used for systematic genocide, that they don't stick their fingers into their ears and chant I can't hear you! I can't hear you! for month.

At least they do that until genocide in Myanmar turns into a Facebook public relations problem.
Bootstrapped usually means cheap labour of the founders, as part of the risk they took founding the business. Not paying unreasonably low wages to all around.

Job creation comes after the business has become self-sustaining.
Can you provide sources for the accidents you are referencing? I'd like to get more detail about what happened and whose technology was at fault.

It boils down to execution and application of the technology. The key elements, radar and lidar make it really easy to detect objects around the vehicle in real time and react quickly. Now how an autonomous vehicle company decides to use these technologies matters in the overall effectiveness. For example, Tesla doesn't use the lidar at all for cost savings. Tesla relies on radar and machine vision for localization which to someone like me is scary. On the other hand, waymo uses lidar. Look at their accident rates, very impressive indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#Testing
Shooting without a viewfinder is a great way of taking photos. I used to use a Minox 35 ML, the so called "spy camera": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minox_35#/media/File:Minox35ml...

It's very small, if not the smallest 35mm camera out there, which makes it inconspicuous. Also it only has zone-focusing, which means you have to guess how far your subject is away from you. You'd only use the viewfinder for framing and setting your exposure. However, since I also used the flash, the exposure was fixed anyways. I usually put a roll of Portra 400 in, which I pushed to 800. All that allowed me to stop down the lens quite a bit, so I knew that everything in around 1.5 to 15 meters distance would be in focus when I press the shutter. And I didn't worry about the framing, so I didn't use the viewfinder.

This gave me an instantaneous access to situations and pictures that otherwise would've been long gone after looking into the viewfinder and setting the focus and exposure. I didn't worry much about how I held the camera and just used my intuition. It really was a kind of liberating way to create images. So yeah, the camera does matter! Although I think I only paid around $100 for this one.

Those are a couple images I took in Paris that way:

* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-2.jpg

* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-3.jpg

* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-4.jpg

And one I took in Cologne: https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/cologne-man-with-...
A Random Walk Street by Burton Malkiel. Very easy to understand and entertaining to read too. The book is basically divided into 2 parts, the 1st about the arguments for market efficiency, and 2nd about practical steps in investing considering the conditions explained in part 1. In it the author argued that there is very little chance for anyone to systematically beat the market, and so the best way to make money in the stock market (in the long run) is by following the market (e.g. by buying an index fund).