skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree... but I just find that automation leads to more productivity which leads to more demand. There are always additional projects and features to be developed. The way development has focused in prioritizing features over handling technical debt, or adding bodies for features which escalates accumulating tech debt more quickly will always lead to more work.
Then they get lots of calls from other people saying they’ve seen it and it’s actuslly the search and destroy drone...
I think the logical outcome is rather than Google avoiding ethically dubious, but highly profitable behavior, they will simply run a tighter ship of classification, isolation, and control. Companies and governments have become pretty decent at fingering over-eager leakers. And that's before you even get into who we're talking about. Google may rival even the NSA at this point in terms of the reach and breadth of their digital surveillance and data collection/categorization capacities, at least in the Western world. They're going to learn from and work against their leaks, not give up their 'ambitions'.

Consider the NSA for an example of what's possible. They were doing what Snowden outed for years. And not a peep. Actually that's not true. There were plenty of 'peeps' but they were brutally silenced. See, for instance, Thomas Drake [1]. He tried to obey the law relying on whistleblower laws and an assumption of good will from other government organizations. He got destroyed and lost everything he had, and was unable to effectively get his message out on top of it all. That's another topic though...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake
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How would launching a drone help you look for another one if you don't know where it is? At least when you're looking from ground level you can be sure the drone is above you.
I think the key difference is the ubiquity of smart phones and the changes to the labor market after the panic of 08.
Typed useState with TypeScript
The most effective thing for my mornings has been motion. I don't "get more work done" in terms of sit and think time, rather, by making the first thing I do be jog a little, maybe pick up a coffee, and relax, then I can face everything else.

The alternative is that I spend the first hour of the day in the way that I spend the last hour of the day, in front of a screen. Which doesn't seem to work well for me.
Drones are likely flying around in pretty well defined frequencies. And the noise isn’t a problem because the receivers are receiving.
How can you say there’s no disadvantage?

Even if their contracts with airlines don’t lead to penalties then an airport that gains a reputation for drone shutdowns will lose passenger and airline business over time.
I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year).

I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I get tired, friends want to hang out, sometimes I just want to relax after work. But getting up and getting my workout done in the morning has many benefits: Being physical in the morning gives me an energy boost and is a great wake up call, I get my workout out of the way and I don't have to think about it the rest of the day, the gym in generally empty compared to the afternoon, helps me control my sleep cadence, and I feel great knowing that I already accomplished something significant so early in the morning (My whole workout usually spans between 1.5 and 2 hours, I do a lot of stretching and like to take my time). I also try my best not to use my phone aside from music and my workout/fitness apps.

Since I've had such great results from this, I'm thinking of trying to switch it up by working on my side project in the morning and attempting to do the gym in the evening.
Of course there was. Deciding what not to add is just as much of a design decision as what to add. I spend no time in physics labs, and like the parent i too find the aesthetic quite striking.
> Also: the strategy seems to depend upon a "greater fool," or just high risk-takers to fill in the complement with what is ultimately low or zero profit product.

It's the other way around; the commoditizing actor is that "greater fool", and others can then join in commoditizing the market out of pure self interest as consumers of the good. The agent which is commoditizing its complements is most important as a first-mover and solver of coordination problems.
When Australia had a government shutdown
At that time, they may not have had a central database of what items were in stock in which stores. Might not have been possible to route the order to the closest store that had the item.

Agreed that Sears never moved much beyond the 1970s in store layouts and merchandise display/organization.
So, shooting someone in the head is 'humane' then?
Then, what does 'humane' even mean?
One important aspect is that this industry requires constant learning and keeping up to date. You must make this a priority. When I started CSS did not exist and there was no front-end or back-end, you were a webmaster. I learned how to make interactive CD roms and interactive kiosks with Macromedia Director in school....

Technologies you learn now will be outdated tomorrow. Learning is a journey, not a destination. Try to focus on the larger concepts since these generally carry over across technologies.
Maybe this anecdote will convince you to pay attention in the future.
Also, it's voluntary. Taxation is involuntary.
As soon as older people and younger people learn to have respect for one another. I mean, what other answer is there? If tech doesn't want older people then they don't have respect for what older people bring to the table. Why is that? Could be older people are less flexible? Less willing to change? I don't know. Specifics probably aren't important. It comes down to respect.
> all the things we missed about Delphi!

Except the insanely fast compile times, native WYSIWYG editor, etc, etc.
Some anecdotal trends from first hand observations in a few co-working spaces: 1] Startups that do well tend to outgrow the co-working space and leave for their own offices. 2] Higher salaries/interesting job openings in larger companies due to economic growth and low unemployment at the macro level means fewer people co-working at startups that don't do well. 3] Remote workers want to arbitrage living costs so they leave big cities and go to low cost areas.
Seems to work on Chrome. I've grown quite accustomed to having to rely on Chrome quite a lot because a lot of websites nowadays are not optimized for any other browser.
In the UK you need a licence to watch live TV broadcast (however you watch those, and where ever they're broadcast from), and also since 2016 for BBC iPlayer.

"live", "tv", "broadcast", etc are all defined in the law. It's a bit cumbersome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Uber and Lyft have worse economics than traditional cab companies. Traditional cab companies have the advantage of fleet maintenance and higher utilization rates. Without VCs and financially illiterate drivers subsidizing fares, Uber and Lyft would be the high cost providers.
Can you explain why that is to me? I would think that if the expected return on college loans drops significantly, fewer large loans would be given out that can be passed on to universities which would see less demand for their product and would need to lower their prices accordingly.
Same here. I believe this is due to will power depletion (plenty of studies conclude that will power is finite resource) and after our normal 9-5 drains away our will power, people have a heard time being self-motivated - very true for me at least.
Saying that food is 'processed' is meaningless.

What matters is how it is processed.
Another angle: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/ The aggregated side is the commodity.
It won't take that long.
Somewhere along the way I think we got it flipped around. No one was calling Sears a tech company in 1969 just because they bought an IBM 370 to computerize their accounting and inventory. By probably 1975, if you were Fortune 500 and still doing your books by hand you were probably just a dinosaur rather than your computerized competitors being so advanced.

Uber, Tesla, okay, maybe there is an argument to be made for them to be "tech companies". Like the referenced investors, I fail to see how WeWork is anything but a real estate play, and consequentially having to work from that rulebook. Oh, you have computer systems involved? Welcome to the 21st! Where everyone else does, too.

In summary, I don't think simply using a phone app to do some form of collaboration or logistical deployment using assets owned or contracted by the company qualifies one as a "tech company" anymore. I think they're still a traditional company doing what everyone else ought to (and eventually will) be doing to begin with.
Ah, thanks. I didn't know that was a common term.
As for the rest of your arguments...

>Here you engage in the logical fallacy of 'whataboutery'.

I'm not the one who started it. I simply brought up China's remarkable economic success, and you responded with a laundry list of "China Bad!" that mostly had nothing to do with economics.

>If, instead of relying solely on GDP per capita, we factored human costs into our assessments

Sauce for the goose. Rather than the abstract theoretical exercise you presented, you should offer a measurable scale, so we can compare China to western nations. Otherwise, it's meaningless. Otherwise, I'll see your human costs and raise you a slavery.

If you'd stop thinking about why China is more evil than the west for a bit and step back, you might see that economic acceleration from agrarian poverty to modern middle class is a widespread phenomenon that seems to happen to nations regardless of their history, language, culture, government, etc. A bad social structure eventually falls away and is replaced by a better one, and over the course of a couple of generations, the nation accelerates radically. It happened in China, in Iran, in Ireland, and many other seemingly unlikely places.

Read Factfulness. It'll change your life.
The mechanics aren't the hard part, I don't think. Managing emotions and being energetic are. If I were trying to start a company on my own I'd make sure I had a hobby that involved interactions with other people, and then try to find people to talk to about company building stuff.
The mining reward is a special transaction in the newly mined block called the coinbase transaction. It's a transaction with no inputs, only one output pointing to an address of the miner.

Bitcoin does not allow these kind of transactions to be used as input for another transaction unless a certain number of confirmations has passed.

Currently this is set to 100 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/1d9d314573ee48f6f511...)

So roughly 1000 minutes need to have passed before the network will accept a transaction with a mining reward as input.
The $0.006 Object in a Sushi Container
If a sheet of paper is roughly .1 mm, then this must be running over 300GHz, or what is more commonly called infrared light, no?
My prediction is that the tech industry will be resilient over time but getting a job in tech will get harder and harder. In the golden years of the web (early 2000s), all you needed was some experience and "passion" to get hired. These days, outside of specialized positions, getting a regular ol' CRUD job requires Leetcode and experience matters much less. Combine this with the fact that you are now competing with an ever-growing global talent pool, most of whom have masters/Phds and don't mind working 24/7, you can see where this trend is going.
Just looked at a WeWork space today. The use case is an attractive place for a remote employee to work for us in a job that attracts (and is best done) by a highly social person. I can't get the right person leaving them at home, and I can't relocate them to me.
> This is about the only kind of vegan proselytizing that I can stomach. If you can make food that tastes as good as meat, with nutrition similar to meat, and sell it at a lower price than meat, I will switch overnight, and never look back.

I'm wanting to try it out someday, and am willing to pay the price for a "restaurant burger" made using the product - but the cost is too great currently for the home market. If they can reduce this, while making the product better, then I'm all for it.

That said - before I would be willing to switch fully, they'd have to be able to replicate a few kinds of cuts that are currently - well - impossible:

1. Well marbled aged rib-eye - steak and roast form, bone in

2. Pork shoulder

3. Full-size beef brisket, fat cap and all, plus tip

One day, perhaps...
Wasn't the Amazon factory thing a bit overblown? Or are the abuses actually on-going and not rare in number?
> Even high quality publications like the New York Times have been struggling for a decade-plus now to figure out a way just to break even online.

False. "New York Times Co. Reports $24 Million Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers" [1]. 3/4 of NYTimes subscribers are online-only. They take in $100mm in online subscriptions and $50mm in online ads per quarter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/business/media/new-york-t...
I've heard professors argue that college as a physical location is only useful for meeting people, and the learning itself was not even relevant. I don't think this is a 1950s outlook.
I have a college degree. I hope for my kids to take the path of earning college degrees. I think that college is great in the abstract. I also think that until we sort out our health care system in this country (USA), a career in the trades is a very frightening prospect.

Even so, this comment is very interesting to me.

I frequently see on Hacker News the sentiment that modern higher education is a bubble. That if we don't actively encourage young people to consider a life in the skilled trades, we should at least be teaching respect for those who do.

But at the same time, it's hard to ignore the open derision toward non-college grads.

I mean, in this particular example, why SHOULD non-college grads support a politician's promises to subsidize colleges, at the expense of other more direct interests? There are obvious cultural/tribal resentments in play, as you're talking about transferring wealth from one class to another class which openly looks down upon the first. But even separating emotion from it, it's hard to criticize strawmen for opposing policy that might well reasonably be seen as voting against their own interests.
Sears reaches 11th hour deal to stay in business
If you're willing to pay a small fee, you can sign up for blendle, and WSJ articles are 50 cents a piece through them.
Interestingly, the article linked here argues that monorepos are good at small scale (e.g., startups) and multi-repos are good at large scale (e.g., Twitter).

The author does not discuss the fact that Google has used a monorepo. (Not sure if it still does.)
Obviously, the number of people who think that GDPR and its rollout has gone perfectly is probably zero.

I think the reason there's so much defensiveness about GDPR is because it is legitimately a rare and valuable victory of data privacy advocates. From that perspective, the smug "just don't do business in the EU" meme might seems like a sentiment that ignores that victory so much that many probably assume it was born out of hostility to data privacy advocacy.
With sufficiently stable social circles (also not available to everyone, but at least not an identical requirement) you could replace storage with distribution.
Microsoft President Brad Smith: The Top Tech Issues for 2019
In the US, based on personal experience, I'd recommend Morningstar Farms for their variety, Beyond Meat if you can find it, and Field Roast Grain Meat.
I wonder how much the purveyor makes a difference in the quality of the product (I'm hoping not much). I had the opposite experience as you, but I bought my Impossible from an Umami Burger and it was seriously a surreal experience for me and my gf. I was so pleasantly surprised by how good it was that we went back the next day to get another.
Last time I was involved in hiring I created a very simple coding challenge. I've seen far worse on the other side. The goal was to read in a CSV file, read and transform it to a different format (newline separated json) node.js preferred and put it on github. There were no restrictions on what libraries could be used, no requirements for unit tests, etc. It's something that literally took me about half an hour to write at the time. Only one candidate had a working example, even then there were a couple bugs in the transform, but at least the process worked. It's surprising to me how many junior devs cannot do a simple ETL in a scripting language.
"I can not remember a single instance of missing wired NIC drivers on install"

Were you pre-installing NIC drivers with your images? That'd be a good reason for the high success rate.

It might also have to do with specific manufacturers/vendors. Most of my installations were on Dells; it's possible HP or Lenovo stuck with chipsets that Windows properly supported out-of-the-box. Linux worked fine in all cases.
What are the chances of attending Harvard / Stanford later in life? I have a life goal of going there but the older I get (24 now), the less I believe it can form into a reality.
Are IP addresses personally identifiable information under GDPR?
How old were you when you did it?
I did not know about Sears owning part of Prodigy. I bought Blades of Steel on NES through Sears on Prodigy. Back then delivery was weeks and not days.
New Journal Article: “Social Media Use and Perceptions of Physical Health”
My brother-in-law was doing a Master's in Chemistry. In May 2018 he knew next to nothing about CS. In November 2018, he landed a junior data scientist position at a prestigious healthcare company.

Granted, he's very smart and basically coded all day for 6 months, but I'd say it is possible for a motivated individual.
Is there a single company in the world that pays for its machinery with cash, upfront? I don't think so.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

This might be a criterion among others, as there will always be ads that do not have subaudible tones.
Weren't XAML and XUL supposed to be user interface markup languages ? Wikipedia thinks so:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_...
I thought that that was the point. Bezos covered over his kids drawing with a meaningless quote because he is that kind of a jerk.
Thirded, even as someone who has no intent of going full vegetarian anytime soon, in the past year I've significantly reduced the amount of meat, particularly red, that I eat on a regular basis. I'm just fine with reserving my meat meals for special occasions.
Just noted the same in the front page post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858282 that is no longer accurate.
But is it faster than Rust?
I think that if we use purish FP as our system language it doesn't make sense to just emulate imperative/mutable system.

But mm... why you would want to mutable state like current directory in first place? Or even mutable filesystem? Why aren't those just immutable parameters of your program?
Posted a mere three hours before this thread, regarding writing code in a language more reliable than Bash.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852855
Sigh. I bet worldwide we end up being 2-3% up. Few more years and we'll be at 40 gigatons a year and IIRC forests only sequester about 2.5 annually, seaweed and kelp less. We're probably producing close to 6x what is currently sequestered annually and losing the capacity for uptake that we have daily by ocean acidification, damage to seaweed and kelp forests, clear-cutting forests etc.
Firstly, I think (though I could be wrong) that when they talk about privacy concerns they mean the sort of concerns the average person would have about having a camera about... I.e. naked or compromising pictures of themselves getting leaked. I would guess this wouldn't be a problem with radar as it doesn't create images.

Out of curiosity though, not having much knowledge on the subject myself, what would be your security concerns? I would be genuinely interested in knowing what we should be looking out for, privacy wise, with such technology.
So is this the first quantum computer available for a company to buy?

How does one interface with it? VT100 terminal?
Absolutely, good point.
Graphite Publishing supports offline storage (not yet implemented but will be soon). But some level of network connectivity is required to at least create your username and sign in for the first time. After that, network connectivity is not necessary (after the offline storage feature is released.

Great question!
Eclipse is a generic IDE for multiple programming languages. And so is IntelliJ IDEA...
Mid 50's here. As my kids are hitting college age I'm starting to get the itch to go back and complete my degree. My company has a facility near Cal Poly, where I went, and I drive by on my way in and out of town when I go onsite. Really don't know what to expect, figure I'll just wander on campus and stop by the admin building and see what they have to say. I'll bring my old student ID with me, just in case.
Can someone explain how the world is a better place by outlawing business with Iran? Remember, the crime here is selling telecom equipment...
I feel like the recent 51% attack against Etherium shows that seizure and censorship proof isn't strictly true.
The capabilities and utility of the pencil and a touch screen can't be underestimated for those whose work involves drawing.
It's never too late to get into debt.
The theory is very easy to understand.
Its the differential notation and manipulation of said notation that is challenging for people who dont math often
"Blockstack stores the content" -- today this is true in that you are provided with a default storage bucket by Blockstack that amounts to Microsoft Azure space. It's been Blockstack's vision that you could select your own cloud storage upon account configuration (i.e. your own S3/Dropbox/IPFS storage), thus decentralizing your data storage away from the App developer. If you're willing to get your hands dirty, you can theoretically spin up your own Blockstack GAIA node and store your data there instead of the provided defaults. More info here: https://github.com/blockstack/gaia
The thing is, making Anvil open source now would virtually guarantee that outcome.

The market has spent the last few years demonstrating that the sustainable number of large companies whose main product is open source is...One. (Red Hat, if you were wondering.) Even trying to become that kind of company requires a highly speculative VC-fuelled trajectory, which is famous for turning sustainable 100m-scale companies into 1% unicorns and 99% rubble.

Even Docker, which utterly transformed its target market, is barely making any revenue ($25m/year on a $1.3bn valuation). All its value is busily being subsumed into Kubernetes, itself a loss-leader from a company (Google) that makes all its money from something else.

Anvil-the-company is sustainable, profitable, and growing, and Anvil-the-product is getting better all the time, because we charge for what we produce. We would love to be able to give it away and keep doing that - but basically, we can't.
It can work in B2B, but maybe harder in finance as you say.
Essentially a real-world denial-of-service attack.