skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well most people do drive Corollas and use mid-tier GPUs and buy cheap clothes and all those similar things.

And we're seeing this on the mobile market as well, especially in lower income places like China and India - the 300$ phones these days can do pretty much everything what an iPhone does. With a bit less pixels, slightly worse camera and less words like "Magical!" in the marketing pitch.

So it's getting really hard for people to throw away several months of their savings to get a marginally better product with an Apple logo on it. And you can see this in sales - people go for Huaweis and Xiaomis in Chinese market in droves. Even in Europe, Huawei is gaining a massive piece of market due to their cheap and good offerings.
"Corporations are so big you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system."
What do you mean? Categorical logic is hardly restricted to syllogistic reasoning.
This is over 10 years old, and I just tested 3 browsers - NONE of them got it right!

For image editing at home I use my own software to do resizing, using Lanczos-5 in linear color space.
>He discounts immediately the obvious solution for the problem houseless people face: providing them homes.

Keep reading. He leads by highlighting flaws of the commonly proposed strategies for addressing homelessness but later goes back and proposes a solution tying several things together, including providing housing.

He essentially says 1) build housing, 2) enforce laws against low-level offenses associated with homelessness (e.g. littering, vandalism), 3) provide services for addiction and mental illness, 4) create a jobs program.
>but the stories became much more opinionated

same here, OSNews become Thom's personal blog, and I left the site permanetly after he went full SJW in the gamergate days.
I really dislike it when people downvote perfectly valid political opinions they disagree with and don’t even bother to respond to you. I agree with you that building homes for the homeless is a fantastically effective way to deal with homelessness. I’m sorry you’re not getting the respect you deserve. You’ve got my upvote.
Are you saying that Amazon does not support nested virtulization because it is too broken and is unusable technology. I've never heard that before.

Can you reference anything tangible to say that nested virtualization is too buggy to use in production?
Does this mean you're not signing up for the course? :D
Ask HN: Best ways of letting someone go in an early stage startup?
I'm in a 1 man startup (not by design - cofounder left) and I have been struggling managing everything by myself.

I was introduced to my current contractor through a friend, so I thought she was vetted. Her background is product management. For the most part she is better than I am at picking up the phone and calling. But overall my gut tells me she can't really execute and can only delegate - typical of middle management.

She wants to come on full time. Her expectations are that the compensation package meets industry levels (self proclaimed $225k). I told her this is not possible. 1% equity and a salary at the most $100k is the most I'd be willing (assuming I find anything for her to do). But she wants 20% equity.

Any recommendations on how to handle this situation, particularly on how to let her go.
Most people buy Honda Accords and similar class cars, so you're kinda proving his point :P
If you look at the european POPs of major eastern european and Russian ISPs, everything in Russia that counts as a major carrier or ISP has established a presence at DE-CIX Frankfurt. The various buildings in Frankfurt that house DE-CIX switches are full of PNIs between big ISPs.
I think it is well established that the price range for iPhones has always been skewed towards the high end of the market. But iPhones at the low end of that range have always still been considered premium phones relative to the entire market.
No rail project anywhere has spent even close to what the MTA is spending per km

Eyeballing figures for certain other modern projects in comparable cities readily indicates this simply isn't true.
If I'm working on Application X, wtf do I care about infrastructure code? Or for that matter, as a specific... if someone is working on Google Maps, should they care about the codebase for Google Inbox for Android?
Heh... "compiles to Python code" - so still no efficient multithreading :(
General availability of significantly cheaper, but still quality, phones from Huawei, Xiaomi and other competitors.
Oh, you've gone and personally asked every single one of them, have you?

What a ludicrous generalization. Not only do I personally know Indians who own iPhones and Macbooks for exactly the same reason I do - we like them better - but you could make the same specious argument about anything, anywhere.

And really, does merely owning some sort of iPhone really confer status anywhere anymore, if it ever did? I haven't noticed anyone besides high-schoolers caring at all about whatever brand of phone someone happens to prefer for a decade. Time for that old trope to lay down and die.
"Job posts not specifying a seniority level are excluded."

13824 senior positions / 120548 total openings = 11.5% senior. If we assume "senior" only applies to "dev" and "engineer
it becomes 13824/(15484+9723) = 54.8%. Somewhere between those sounds right for ratio of senior position ads I've seen.
It probably didn't become a large enough issue until the tail end of last quarter. I expect this will be the quarter that we start to see antagonism between Trump and China have a real effect.
POC Firefox extension to load web pages via torrents
You could do a rough approximation of gamma correction with squares and square roots, which wouldn't add to the processing time like a full sRGB conversion would.
Alibaba has a cloud hosting service. Don’t know anything about it though.
>So 7.7 - 5.4 = 2.3%

Seriously?
0.946 * 1.077 = 1.018842

So about 1.9% which is about 2.4x 0.8% return on US Treasuries.
All of the big defense contractors suffer this too.
3x given the risk involved? Not worth it
the fact that essentially 100% of big tech companies use monorepos seems like evidence that it is at least possible to do it in a scalable way...
Not only that, but you are basically incentivizing people to quit their jobs and and live their lives on taxpayer dollars getting high 24/7 and some of those drugs have extreme effects on their futures like heroin and meth. This is WALL-E to the extreme.
Consumers don't think like that though - noone goes and calculates a percentage inflation from the previous product. What they see is the previous price tag and the new price tag... and the amount of money on their bank account.
It will be interesting to see how they fare against the pythons[1].

[1] In a new study, researchers found that the voracious appetite of the Burmese python can outpace even the reproductive speed of the marsh rabbit, a small brown bunny that seems to have disappeared from the Everglades National Park. -- https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-invasiv...
strange how things change, not many websites stay the same, even arstechnica which was one of the best became more and more mainstream and spammy
How exactly does one purchase their solution? Or more exactly what is being purchased? Do you place your servers on their rack in various data centers, and then have access to their backbone at cheap rates?
Been doing that for over 20 years.
Ex-Apple engineer invents new UI that's shaded by lights in your room
If it's a "small" company then I'd expect that one Git repo would do just fine for all or at least most of the code. When I think small, I think ~10 or 20 developers. If you have reasonable hygiene about things like keeping binaries out of your Git repo (excluding consideration of e.g. LFS here) then the whole repo size will stay fairly reasonable. As long as you have one or two Git mavens on your team it should be dandy.

I'd expect to see problems with this approach once you get into the 100s or 1000s of developers. The tooling for this scale of repository isn't as mature.
>I think agreeing on outcomes is a much harder issue than you think that it might be.

This. People will pitch their idea going into the experiment then torture the resulting data until it suggests that their proposal was the most effective.
TBH my anecdotes are probably somewhat out-of-date; last time I was looking into this was back when single-window mode was a controversial idea, being rejected for years, with users who requested it being told "it's not our fault that your window manager sucks, just switch to a window manager which handles multi-window mode elegantly" (which at the time excluded users of windows, osx, and most mainstream linux distros :P)
And to add to that the relay satellite is named Queqiao (鹊桥, Megapie Bridge). It is how the separated lovers Zhinv (织女, Vega) and Niulang (牛郎, Altair) meet once every year. Zhinv is the seventh daughter of the Yuhuangdai (the god of gods, like Zeus), and fell in love with human Niulang. After discovering with anger, Wuangmuniangniang (wife of Yuhuangdadi, like Hera) separated the two with the Milky Way. Touched by the love story of Zhinv and Niulang, the magpies form the Queqiao bridge to help them meet once a year on July 7, which became the Chinese Valentine (七夕).
Disagree, see my reply to your parent.
If the debt is in yuan and under chinese law, foreign investors don't have much say on their economy.
We pay people based on their output, in particular their ability to take create situations where money changes hands.

In other words, corporations make a cost/benefit calculation. In the case of software developers and lead software developers, my experience is that most corporations can concretely read the dollar amount as cost, but often drastically underestimate the potential cost of bad software.

There are situations where many people are valued below market for a long, long time. Markets aren't omniscient and infinitely fast.
Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source
> Really? Seems like the past is ripe with abuses by corporations - pollution, child labor, tax avoidance.

And before the Friedman Doctrine, they could be more easily condemned for their lack of social responsibility without the constant refrains that the only duty a corporation is to make money for its shareholders.
Now you just need to persuade people that paying 500$+ more to get a tiny little less delay after capturing a photo is worth it to people.

Since Apple seems to be failing at that.
And boring is not bad.
I completely missed the boat on that one with home prices. I guess that's why it's a tough issue. It's not something you can just answer without knowing a ton of variables which maybe is a task for AI. My bad. I really liked this video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL22WCE regarding a man who tried to help (in LA) by making tiny homes.
> make the addicts much happier and safer

This is the current trend in many progressive cities, and so far it's a massive failure. Perhaps it's not surprising that when you work to make addicts happier, you attract more addicts. You also wind up with an entire industry that spends hundreds of millions of tax dollars catering to the addicts, and which perversely needs addicts to remain addicted in order for the industry to survive. The situation only gets worse.

These policies put the addict's needs above those of the non-addicts, since most non-addicts do not want a neighborhood filled with junkies who moved in to get free services, free needles, and legal injection sites.

Common knowledge used to be that an addict needs to hit "rock bottom" before they will turn their life around. If this is true, by making addicts happier and more comfortable, you're not helping anybody.
I don't understand. Where is the argument for more productivity?
It is not feasible to be always monitoring the mirrors; that takes attention from what is in front of you. You in fact must not be constantly monitoring the mirrors, but only glancing from time to time.
HE is a major "IP transit" provider, if you're a small to medium sized ISP, they are one of your choices in the market for buying absolutely necessary transit to reach other parts of the Internet. Grossly simplified, you as a tiny ISP get your own AS, and at least a /24 of RIPE, APNIC or ARIN IP space, set up your own router, and announce your AS and IP space to HE over a BGP session with them. Usually via a singlemode fiber crossconnect from within the same carrier hotel or datacenter.

Or if you're a colo/dedicated server company you can use them as an upstream. They also sell layer 2 transport services (built over MPLS) between any two of their POPs, for ISPs that want to establish a new POP somewhere and get 10 or 100Gbps connectivity between them.
> Meanwhile Scandinavians have to prove they can recover from a slide to even get a license.

Not entirely accurate, at least not when I did it. You do have to go take the slide test, otherwise you're not actually eligible for even taking the driving test. The slide test isn't so much a test though, but more of a forced (albeit very fun) experience to get you to experience first hand what it's like to hit a patch of ice or pool of water and all of a sudden lose all traction. It used to be a way to teach people to simulate ABS brakes as well, but I think nowadays that might be less relevant since pretty any car has them.

If you took the test in the summer time the sliding was simulated by some pretty interesting contraption that had wheels that would just point in whatever direction you where going, and at the instructors command would lift the car of the ground to remove traction. Somewhat like suddenly putting the car in a shopping cart at full speed. It's a lot of fun, when done in a controlled environment!

I wonder if it's possible to retake this test every year or so. As it stands you have to renew the license every ten years, but you never have to take another test once you have it. You just send in a new photo basically. I can tell that I'm most likely a worse driver now than I used to be, at least in some situations, and I don't really keep up with changes in traffic regulations. (Signaling requirements in roundabouts have changed apparently, I had no idea.) Sometimes I think maybe we should have a mandated refresher course every few years, with another slide test refresher as well, just to keep up with things. Modern cars are basically sci-fi space ships now I feel, half the time I wonder if I'd even be able to drive with all the assistive technology that's in there..
At the game studios that I'm familiar with the term "game developer" refers to anyone working on the game and not just the programmers. So an artist or writer would generally be considered a game developer but the studio's accountant and CEO would probably not be considered game developers.
What does the spending have to do with becoming unemployable?
> How do we expect people to agree to reduce meat consumption, or fly/drive less, or just consume less if we don't get enough of them to actually do it willingly?

40% of the United States does not believe the scientific consensus about anthropogenic global warming. Two out of every five people do not actually believe there is a problem to be solved! Start there!

Most of the behaviors that need to be changed will come as a significant disadvantage to any individual who undertakes the change unilaterally. You're going to have a hard time competing in the job market if you're one of a very few who won't drive. You won't be out of a job if everyone is in it together. Everyone will think you're a weirdo if you're the only person who doesn't heat their house. Your parents will be very unhappy if you're the only child who doesn't fly home every year. Your HOA will object if you incinerate your own trash instead of sending it to a land-fill. So on, and so forth: no man is an island.

And of course, what's particularly inappropriate is that so many vegans like being contrarians, prefer feeling morally superior to those around them, etc. Contrarianism and vanity will never motivate the unwashed masses to do what is necessary. Your virtues are a sand-castle beneath a waterfall.

>What makes you think this is a lazy and timid group?

Because they're putting the majority of their efforts into things that make them feel good! Look at you: "I'm not happy just waiting". I'm not interested in being happy, I'm interested in stopping a catastrophe.

You don't like arguing with conservatives. You like feeling good about what you eat. Stop doing what you like. It's not about what you like. You probably really won't like forging a compromise with people who couldn't care less about animal rights or agricultural land use or nitrosamines, but you will have to do it anyway. You won't like trying to appeal to their beliefs so you can make them do what you want, but you have to do it or they won't do what you want.

Climate activism is a political quest, not a personal one. The bottom line is that we must win. Feeling good is useless.
Lindsay Wagner: The Inner Strength and True Beauty of “The Bionic Woman”
My posts are all about teaching, as opposed to more research-oriented academic labor.

> $90k (9 month salary) is the bottom 10th percentile for a starting assistant professor in CS.

That's only because your data includes professors at R1s and also not including instructors at R1s. This is doubly misleading, since those professors you are including spend most of their time on research and those instructors you aren't including are the ones doing the bulk of the teaching.

And outside of R1, 90k is damn good for ast professors.

If you are teaching for a living, as opposed to doing research, $90k is in the upper 10th percentile at the asst prof rank, and $100k is a ceiling for tippy-top candidates at the asst prof rank.

> $200k (9 month) is the 90th percentile for a full professor with 16+ years.

...and is also bottom 10th percentile for wet-behind-the-top- ears top 10 PhDs, who don't have 16+ years experience on top of their 5+ year phd...

> This obviously varies by school and region, but $60k-$70k is what you would expect for an instructor at a very low rank school, which is not a position PhDs from top universities would be applying for.

Sure, but outside of top 10 $150k is still pretty typical industry salary for phds.

The same problem exists at every scale.

Your assertion is also fairly confusing; lots of smart people decide to teach at places where they can have the greatest impact, which is typically not a large-endowment private school...
Why Reputation?
I'm unsure if browsers will cache 400mb from a single site in a single file. Also, where are you going to cache it... all of said APIs would have to request to expand local storage interface... which may not be bad.
One of my computer science professors who defected from Cold War Hungary was very anxious to meet me. It turns out that my Korean Catholic name is also a perfectly cromulent Hungarian name!
A segment of the homeless population is excluded from housing services because they are not willing to give up their addictions. If they use drugs, they are kicked back onto the street.

I by no means think this should be the only homeless solution, but for the subset of the homeless unwilling to stop using drugs, our currently policies literally leave them out in the cold.
Lynda Carter: The True, Original Heart and Soul of “Wonder Woman”
Yeah, and areas of that "wind belt" can get pretty violent at the extremes. It includes Tornado Alley [1], which we got to experience in full force in 2017. The house got hit by a mile-wide EF4 tornado. We were fortunate -- it only took half the house and one of the vehicles -- but the three houses around the corner were left to slabs, swept clean as the day the foundations were laid -- and hundreds of heads of cattle from the surrounding ranches were just gone -- no one ever figured out where they landed; however, other items were discovered 50 miles away. That was a crazy day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley
Because they can buy a brand new Xiaomi Mi8 for 400$ and have a high-end phone not something 4 generations old. And they do - Xiaomi has incredible growth.
Redhat seems wary. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inception-how-usable-are-nest...

"While Red Hat is now doing some level of QA for cascaded KVM, we are not supporting it - so it is clearly not meant for production use."
While completely off topic, for some reason in the back of my mind, I had the thought... "just wait until they can talk and develop tools," weak reference to Planet of The Apes.
> House/rent prices have gone way up.

No they haven't recently from sources I have seen. Housing prices are falling [0] (admittedly might be due to rising interest rates) and rents fell earlier this year [1].

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ar...

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ar...
Why do humans have motivations?
Not saying it's morally defensible, but they probably see electric cars as an existential threat. Taking away the existing gasoline based auto industry threatens to leave many jobless and thus unable to provide for themselves and their family.
So .. like human brains that chose a particular president?
I'd be curious to know what the ratio of location dependent remote jobs compared to world wide remote jobs are. I suspect that the latter are practically non-existent (i.e. 10s total at best), but you never know...
I think it might change the sport a bit as gymnasts seek to emulate the machine's ideal. Might become a bit stale.
Another challenge is that most direct funding (aside from Medicaid) comes from municipalities rather than the state or the federal government. So other areas are incentivized to ship their homeless to Seattle or at the very least consider it not their problem to begin with.

With state and federal funding you could enact a program where the addicted people living on the streets rather than in shelters (who are the homeless people who cause most of the problems) are committed to involuntary sobriety programs, and then on completion provided with private housing (not a shelter, some 1bed public housing) and, as the article mentions, some low-skill job like picking up trash on the condition that they remain clean (kind of like a halfway house). You could also long term house the severely mentally ill who cannot live on their own in psychiatric facilities. That would cost a lot of money up front but could actually solve the problem long term.

Also note that even in Seattle over 2/3 of homeless people live in cars or shelters. Most homeless people aren’t the crazy people on the corner harassing you for drug money and camping in public parks, even though those are the most visible
Riot Games does, we're hiring: https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/welcome
Eh. Having the car self-stop is overrated in my experience. It's really hard to trust it, and not particularly difficult to drive stop-and-go yourself, so long as you accept that you can't rush it.

Adaptive cruise control for fast but varying speeds is great, however - it makes the spacing much better, which makes things more relaxing. It also reduces the active brain load to 'what lane do I need, what's coming up in the next mile, and do I need to be preparing to stop/exit', rather than needing to worry about the car in front of you so much. For me at least, it also makes things like lane changes more deliberate, so instead of "need to change and keep speed" it's something more like "I'll get there when it's safe, and change lanes if it's really clear", which is a much better mindset.