skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the other way around. With any reasonable safety net, eventually these people would need to take some jobs. And people with no rare/hard-to-acquire skills have to take jobs that do not require rare/hard-to-acquire skills... meaning most people can do them. High supply lowers the price, of labor in this case. Sure, desperation due to low wages forms sort of a vicious cycle that may helps drive wages even lower, but I don't think it's the main reason for the poverty.

With one year no questions asked unemployment benefit, a laid-off delivery person would still be back on the market in a year for the same crappy job (and the same would apply to any skillset - e.g. if there were way more software developers than needed, the same would be true in tech industry)
Even after reading the article and specifically searching for the "sponsored" text, it took me minutes to find it in the screenshot. Extremely deceptive
> But they dont tax the fuel for tankers or airplanes so where is the logic?

Can they ? The only thing that will happen is no plane or tanker will buy fuel in France if it is not a decision made on an international level, no ?
The problem is to become a practicing psychiatrist or even psychologist the professional must attain the hallmarks of a professional academic's career. To be a marriage counselor, you need to publish research that revealing ground breaking insights into the human experience. Go figure, we get shoddy science from people who had little interest in science to begin with. There needs to be distinct separate paths in the field for professionals and academics.
> Macron comes off as a privileged president that has no clue about what his citizens are going through.

Macron is a neoliberal, it was obvious things were going to end badly. Yeah raise the gas tax, cut pensions and let the free market solve everything. Doesn't work with public policy.

It was depressing seeing Mélenchon come in third in 2017.
I just ask myself how I, a person who satisfies quite some nerd stereotypes would be classified by these algorithm (in particular for political advertising).

So for example the small number of categories that Google Ads assigns to me (https://google.com/ads/preferences) are correct - but featureless and quite hard for marketers to target.
Are you a Russian troll?

The second statement you made is just plain stupid. Yes, educated citizens make better decisions than uneducated citizens.

The real class war is making people like me - descendants of dirt poor landless farmhands, have access to free universities, like I had.

In this country 250 years ago, we enforced laws that stated that all kids had the right to learn to read. 150 years ago we got free and mandatory education. 100 years ago we got access to birth control and free universities.

That's the real class war. Not the shit you are doing.

Edit: The first statement you make is actually also if not wrong too simplistic, but I don't want to muddle the important arguments.
>struggling to make ends meet

French wages are on average ~8x higher compared to the post 2000 join date EU countries, prices are same across EU.
So does the Linux/Linux-Kernel, Windows/Windows-Kernel, OSX/OSX-Kernel. Better not install those reputable OSs.
Direct democracy in Switzerland is a good way to distract the population with futile issues ( https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/24/europe/cow-horn-referendu... ) while the oligarchy does its dirty business ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-grenades/swiss-set-... ), and - at the same time - giving the impression that the people are actually in control, but they're not. The parliament can and will interpret people's will ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-... ).
ok having looked deeper into this it seems some of the i replicated studies are ... counter intuitive.
It's not real milk. It's a nutritious fluid that is slightly somewhat similar to milk.
شركة تنظيف منازل كويتيات 94019455
It's basically ropjar, but it scales better
I hadn't seen it since it was in the theater, so I just watched a trailer. The CG holds up surprisingly well (modulo the uncanny valley) considering it will be old enough to vote next year.
How Far Up the Leadership Ladder Will A.I. Go?
It's 200 MPH, not KMH. Going ~320 KMH is not absolutely common on German roads
Good call. I love TypeScript, and wouldn't build a web app of even small scope without a typing solution at least as good as TypeScript, and it's the best.

But, as you say, pattern matching sum types is a weak point in practical use of TypeScript.

Since the types only exist at compile time, maybe there could be a heavier opt-in system that uses something like Symbols to do pattern matching:

matchable type Shape = Circle | Square | Triangle;
const myShape: Shape;
match myShape {
// uses symbol magic under the hood, eg. if (SymbolShapeCircle in o)
case (c: Circle) { ... }
case (other: Triangle | Square) { ... }
}
The sibling comments point out correctly that our brain likely can use the extra sharpness.

The other thing to point out is progress. I used to think 60 inch was massive but of course it’s not that big. Our field of view is incredible, and if we’re going to admit we like watching movies we may as well do the best we can to make the experience immersive.

So I’d hope the advent of 8k will also bring about 90, 120, and beyond. I think in a decade or so this will be the norm for most new TVs, and so this calculation also ignores technical progress which is good as we certainly aren’t near the maximum of an ideal cinematic experience.
This is a very idealized version of reality. France also has high unemployment, especially amongst youth and immigrants, migrant camps popping up, civil unrest, many regions where the economy is going to shit and industries are disappearing, etc...
Your experience is similar to mine in the states. I don't know that they care about their retail service much any more. Their new ventures seems to be masking its decline.
Firearms, Frontline Force, and may others.

I feel like Half-Life was in some way the perfect inflection point of PC mods where the experience was compelling but the art/content requirements weren't outside of the scale of hobby/indie teams.
That's pretty egregious. The fact that is says "0 of 1 purchased" implies that the person making the list asked for it which is a lie no matter how you spin it. Sounds like fraud to me.
Even if you dont care about global warming, diesel produces smog in cities. DPF and EGR delete is very popular among diesel owners, and rarely policed.
> Well, no, I mean, a photo which has been selectively blurred like this has _less information_ than we started with, so it's objectively telling us less, and that's why it's funny, that we are spending so much time removing information.*

You are confusing entropy with information. You can increase the information in an image by selectively removing everything that isn't relevant to some aspect of its viewing. By focusing on a subject our visual and cognitive systems don't have to do that work.
Tell that to the millions of retired people and people making minimum wage with less than 1200 euros per month to live with a rent of 600-700 euros.
LLNL is the core force behind ZoL and it's primarily them who use ZFS-backed Lustre.
Is this true? Instacart actually just raised prices a week or two ago.
We are in the context of an article about a CIA operation to overthrow an Iranian government, in a comment thread about China having benign foreign policy. I don't think comparing China to the US is whataboutism in this context.
Considering that with proper dithering, 12-14bits is the threshold, you already have at least a 400% noise-floor buffer.
I know people from Ethereum Foundation personally and it only strengthens my negative view of the space. You can believe whatever you want, but I'm interested in results and actually useful products. Currently there are zero. There are many who share your religious beliefs though.
No, the tax on diesel was the final straw on the camel's back. People are poor, struggle to make ends meet, and felt unheard by the politicians; that's why the 2 historic parties completely failed at the last election, people wanted to see actual change. With very little effect, of course. When Macron added yet another reform that penalized those poor slices of population, that was the good moment for everyone to mobilize against a government they feel doesn't care about them.
While this estimate is eye opening it has to be compared to the ratio of black men in prison in the US, which is about 7%. One could argue that both high incarceration rates are results of policies to keep certain ethnic groups in control. (war on drugs as a continuation of Jim Crow laws in the US)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578911
China being China will almost certainly come back to haunt them without significant political reform (within China itself). It's great that someone is building infrastructure in these countries, but the cost is a totalitarian state with a few freedoms, enslaved by debt to their new colonial masters.

This can easily be exploited by the West, similar to how the Soviet Union used US hegemony to start (and win) numerous cold war conflicts.

China may never see any returns on that infrastructure when these countries inevitably switch sides in the new cold war.
you don't know what you are talking about.
Unfortunately I think Activision got there first. I even have my copy of the novel autographed by Rob Swigart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(interactive_novel)

I'm still looking forward to playing this one, though. :)
Also tax computation, and sometimes trade regulations.
Unless consumers/people get organized, and get laws passed (and enforced) to force companies to some minimal ethical standards, things will only get worse.

"Voting with your dollars" is just another way of saying to stay divided and alone, while companies unite and get ever more organized. How well has it worked so far?
Prices aren't the same across EU. There are already different across France. Life is more expensive in Paris than in any other French city for example.
This is one of the reasons I really liked Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. A large chunk of the first season was making similar points as you, explaining that Skynet wasn't one system, it was dozens all working together. For example, one episode focused on a traffic camera system becoming it's "eyes" into the world.

One of the biggest missing pieces in my mind has always been, what drives it? What does this theoretical AI want/need, and how does it know to maximize on those values?
I have a theory that the only reason Amazon is the biggest retailer is because Target and Walmart don't have nearly the global presence AMZN does. Amazon is where the customers are -- all of them -- but that's not an insurmountable advantage (in theory).
Am I ill conceived or does this guy have it right? For the next ten years anyway?
Yes, simply compiling the provided code and running it against provided data set does not really count as replication.

Writing your own code and creating your own dataset is the simplest way to rule out the situations where there is something fishy in either the original code or data. And the paper itself should contain enough details to make it possible to recreate the experiment this way.
One should also consider that the Swiss people refused to grant women voting rights on a federal level in 1959 and only did so in 1971. One region in Switzerland still refused to grant them this right until they where corrected by the Swiss supreme court in 1991.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...
> It’s December. One of the month where shops make a good part of their yearly income.

True. But feeling poor during the holidays can be especially painful and frustrating, no?
That's not a very fair comparison. Ropjar is used by thousands of companies at scale today. It takes a bit of effort, but don't undersell the advantage of being able to easily hire ropjar developers (good luck finding a flopnaxer willing to work on your CRUD app) not to mention taking advantage of all the well tested, production-grade woozblats that you get with the ropjar ecosystem.
I've seen a couple direct replications in biomed, NIH even specifically funded some a few years back under the “Facilities of Research-Spinal Cord Injury” project. AFAIK, pretty much nothing replicated:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246348/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18234196

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643041/

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21195070

But yes it is extremely rare. It is very frustrating because it is hard to come up with a precise model when you only half-trust the data to begin with, and when the replications are (rarely) run it appears that half-trusting the reported results is optimistic...
As I said earlier it is not just about profit at the margin to put a plant in China, it is about showing good faith with the government. Intel's technology lead is relative. It faces competitors like Loongson (MIPS), ARM licensees, AMD licensee and even Alpha licensees. It can't afford to take an antagonistic stance against a very large customer as any lost sales would go to supporting a competitor, and more importantly give the competition a customer base to sustain a positive feedback cycle of product improvements.
It's invalid to criticize China policy because America does similar things? Is that what you're saying?
It's also annoying when they say you shouldn't be able to tell that PWM headlights/taillights are flickering but I sure as hell can, at least!
Yes bad mastering is an issue; a properly anti-aliased 4k master would not have any moire effects. By all means shoot in 8k or 70mm film and then master it to 4k, but 8k broadcasts are silly.
Apart from IMAX/70mm film sources...it is satisfying to watch a movie on a 4K HDR TV and know that you’re getting almost all (if not all) the visual information the director captured on the medium. Assuming the transfer was handled well (which most are).

Seeing the film grain detail on older movies is strangely satisfying to me. Even newer movies shot digitally are done so at 2K or 4K.
RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII.

The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm
but if you blur then you've reduced quality.
> The scale of technical achievement is by far more impressive than anything that came before. Metal Gear Solid 5 might be the closest thing in terms of open world technology, but RDR2 is far superior to it.

Yep. MGSV has better graphics and far better controls, but the open world in MGSV always felt dead, especially as you got away from enemy bases or outposts. RDR2 does a much better job of always giving you something to do out in the open world that isn't necessarily mission based. MGSV also basically has no friendly or neutral NPCs in the mission areas, which further contributes to breaking the immersion of being in an actual world.
I would imagine questions about career goals would fall under "diagnostic information" in the context of a job interview. It's not like we're asking for their favorite sandwich.
I know. And if the mob is stubborn and does not want to escalate.. you send some "collaborators" to break the windows or put the fires because everyone knows, the mobs are crazy. I suspect the riot police is down-voting me.. No common sense people would get upset by my post.
Make no mistake, China remembers.
Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018 videos
As the article describes in the end of its second chapter:

Sometimes an existing user would mention that they were happy to hear about us on their favorite show; sometimes a random person (not even in marketing) would remember us from an old podcast mention. Even if they didn’t convert at the time, they thought that Ahrefs was kind of cool—and this brand recognition stayed in the back of their mind.

That’s when it all clicked.

We were going about it all wrong—rather than being a tool for lead generation, podcast advertising is a tool for gaining exposure and brand awareness.

Sometimes converting a benefit gained from service, podcasts in this case, to monetary value is a simple matter of counting gained profit. But one has to remember that not everything can be measured in dollars, such as brand awareness. Doesn't help to pay the bills but I'd think of it more of a long term investment.
I suggest using BabyList, which was launched by a friend on HN 7 years ago and is now one of the top baby retailers in the country.

https://babylist.com
Resolution like this helps experiment with breaking the 60/120 Hz paradigm by refreshing multiple overlaid 4k displays at varying frequencies to to improve realism.

Also has application in AR/VR which can use more pixels up close to the eye to improve clarity.
This is not necessarily the case and makes light of an entire field.
Often times personas are developed by ethnographers, human centered designers, design researchers and are based upon actual users or prospective users.
Furthermore, data analytics can be used to generate personas. Personas can be representative of key forks in behavior patterns or beliefs and are a useful tool when making design and product decisions.
As written your comment seems to write off all of this based upon your claim that "only a real person" can give you insight. While the reality is that personas are based upon user insights and are often distillations thereof.
> So I’d hope the advent of 8k will also bring about 90, 120, and beyond. I think in a decade or so this will be the norm for most new TVs, and so this calculation also ignores technical progress which is good as we certainly aren’t near the maximum of an ideal cinematic experience.

I agree, I think these screen sizes must be where the industry is going. As someone who also likes movies, and owns a 65" TV, I would love if it literally twice the size and mounted flat on/in the wall. This kind of mounting is definitely where the industry is heading, too: the highest-end TVs from LG and Samsung are ultra-thin and have the screen detached from the processing unit.
Copyright is tied to speech and expression the way speed limits are tied to driving: copyright is a restriction on what a person can say and how they can say it.

As for mineral rights, "theft" is not so clear at least based on the history of oil exploration. If I drill a well on my property to tap reserves that span the ground beneath both of our properties, is it really "theft" if I do not pay you a share? Historically the problem was that people were generally incentivized to drill their own land, which led to over-exploitation of petroleum reserves and giant messes in places like Los Angeles. Mineral rights were created to solve that problem by regulating the petroleum industry in a way that minimally disrupts property rights as they are generally understood.

In both cases there is nothing fundamental underlying the regulations. There would be nothing particularly wrong with a system that ignores the ownership of land above a petroleum reserve -- that is how air traffic is regulated in the US (nobody can demand compensation for the airplanes that fly over their property above a certain height). Copyright law has been changed many times since the Statute of Anne, and the original motivation for copyrights was to restore the publishing monopoly that had existed under a previous regulation system (the Licensing of the Press act, which was actually intended to enforce censorship). The rules are mostly arbitrary, and I would argue that in the case of copyright the goal of the regulation is also arbitrary (i.e. copyright was not established to solve an actual problem facing society).
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Researchers can get published for interesting applications of ML algoritms treating them by and large as a black-box. I walked around a ML conference consisting of mostly grad students and found a good 30% of the presenters likely used the same data for training and testing.
Urban would just reduce time/cost of transport of food to cities.

Would also increase resiliance of cities to catastrophies to be entirely food supply independent assuming it can generate sufficient energy.
It's much stronger than meth. Current meth users try fentanyl without knowing what they're getting themselves into and they can easily take too much and OD. It has been a huge problem in the region I grew up in (rural midwest US).
Types make it much, much easier to write useful refactoring tools, and to verify that the tools did the right thing.
I happened to run into a movie trailer verifier in the lobby of a theater the other day. It's something I hadn't really considered before, but really of course someone will be verifying movie trailers.
Interesting to hear. In Turkey, they ship to the whole country for most types of goods. Effectively treat the whole country as a single locale. With few exceptions for things like eggs, milk, I think.
It's very interesting though, following the hashtag the protestors use yields quite a lot of Turkish activity in their support.
> extracting arguments from the first line of an HTTP request.

The reason this sounds simple is that the use of “arguments” conceals a good deal of semantics. Yes, you can cut a huge amount of complexity out by using a subset of HTTP, and I do recommend that, but by switching to a “modern” rpc protocol you also lose a good deal of introspection, low-effort ramp up for new contributors, and highly replicated semantics on server and client side. You can debug or interact with curl (or a number of similar tools), or a browser, or any virtually programming language with many choices for implementations. There are tons of commodity tooling for log parsing, playback inspection, testing, fuzzing, load balancing etc etc. You get a lot for “free”, and the potential complexity by itself is a poor excuse for dumping the baby out with the bath water.

I also realize you may have acknowledged this by referencing “systemic” benefits, but I’d like to spell out just how large they are.
The research says work-sample tests and structured interviews are the way to go and they're well within reach for a startup. In fact, they're easier for a startup in many ways: half the difficulty in implementing a structured process is the internal selling + training + reinforcement necessary to roll it out across multiple teams/functions/etc.

Behavioral questions don't have to be squishy. There's a lot of literature (like, over a century) about conducting and evaluating behavioral interviews.

Here are some example questions one might ask a programmer:

- How do you know when your code is ready to ship?

- What methods or systems do you use to keep track of requirements?

- Of all your past managers, who got the most out of your potential? What made their approach effective?

- Imagine your professional life a year or two from now. What do you want that to look like and how do you hope this job would contribute to that?

- If you realized you couldn't meet an expected release deadline, what would you do? What have you done in the past?

- Tell me about a coding mistake you made in a past job that caused a serious problem. What happened and what did you learn from it?

- If we talked to your past managers, what would they say your strengths are? What would they say you need to work on?

BTW, if this stuff is interesting to anyone, I'm the head of instruction at Strive and we run workshops for engineering managers (including one on evidence-based interviewing). Email me jesse@strive.co if you want to learn more!
It should be more than enough if the experiment's replicated rnough times.
True, I use it as a social filter to avoid my time being wasted those so easily deceived