skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would probably be true if all other conditions held constant.

However, Silicon Valley can pay handsome money because many companies located there run well and outperform their competitors for a fertile global market. And those companies can beat their competitors because (at least part of the reasons) they have the best talents available. If the skilled engineers from China, European, India all went back to their home countries, would the competitiveness of those SV companies be no different relative to their foreign competitors? If companies in SV were losing its advantage to another tech hub outside the united states, would they still be able to pay so well? I doubt that.
Just wait to see Central European countries in 15-20 years. Prisons are quite rough though, it’l rather impact suicide rates.
A single engine on reverse is enough to mess up the the flight violently enough that it'll break apart before hitting the ground (see the Lauda Air case).
As you just said. It means nothing. When people want blood they get it
It averages to $X of value per head, sure. Does the median head actually capture value worth anything close to $X?
On page 9 of the PDF it shows expenses, and it lists marketing and sales as taking as much money as Research and Development, which sounds crazy to me. Facebook seems to spend an outrageous amount of money on programmers, I assume all of which goes to R&D. Do they also have this massive sales org I wasn't aware of? Where is this cost coming from?
El Reg has always combined intentionally tabloid headlines, by way of satire, with mostly decent reporting. Whilst tabloid they're generally accurate. Someone might get booted over an abomination of a headline, but not destroyed.

It's part of the appeal.
Well,

You also say lidar isn't a crutch because self-driving cars aren't ever really going to be able to go by image recognition and enough logic to know what to do - rather, they're going to go by the complete plotting of the traffic grid with lidar being there for object-avoidance. This is Google's model and they are furthest along - and set-up in Arizona where the unpredictable is kept to the minimum.
Junk science or the real thing? Inference journal publishes both
I really hate the use of "unplugging" lately because it implies that Facebook IS the internet.
I think they were, but by then everyone I knew had stopped using G+.
I think the LIDAR usage in this context is not to identify objects but to detect them. There are many situations where a camera-based-only vision system falls down e.g. bad weather, glare from secondary light sources etc.

The main downside is cost.
> Statistically Fox is the least biased MSM outlet, they are 52% negative towards Trump, compared to over 90% for the others

And how negative were fox towards Obama? Of course they won't be as a negative with "their side" in.

> A Harvard study compared Obama to Trump media coverage their first 100 days in office and found Obama got 59% positive coverage compared to 20% for Trump

Negative coverage doesn't make them biased, undeserved negative bias does. Whether it's deserved or not is a debate for elsewhere.
Please don't post garden-variety political articles to HN. There needs to be something unusually intellectually interesting about a political story for it to be on topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know about what's in America's favor. I know for a fact that I would not willingly compete with all software developers in a global marketplace. I'd lose my big4 job in a split second. Canada's tech sector may stand to gain, but I'd lose half my real income if I were to relocate to a sister office across the border. So much for progressive visa policy.
Lidar will get cheap before this happens, at which point it won't be question of whether it is "necessary" but whether it is useful.
By what mechanism would increasing the tax rate result in getting less money from rich people? I can only imagine the answer is because they reduce their income, though I don't know what your explanation is for rich people reducing their income when the tax rate hits 70% ± 10%. What's more, if rich people are reducing their income, it seems to me that this means they're not taking advantage of as many opportunities to earn money as otherwise, which hopefully means not-so-rich people are now taking advantage of those opportunities (or, more cynically, are not being taken advantage of as much by rich people).

So yes, if taxing rich people more means getting less money from them, and if the reasoning for this leads to not-so-rich people earning more money, then that seems like a win.
Iran’s Central Bank Issues New Rules on Crypto, Bitcoin Ban Lifted
That’s just a bad hosting service.. I manage somewhere in the neighborhood the OP gets with a basic Wordpress deployment. It’s extremely stable, and only ~7/month. I use limited plugins and have optimized for speed.

My guess is a plug-in or theme is bugging out here. Easy solution is to remove all and slowly add until the problem exists again.

In 2015 I had “Crayon Syntax Highlighter was Killing my WordPress” for instance:

https://austingwalters.com/crayon-syntax-highlighter-was-kil...
I, at least, thought this was funny.
Open Project: Author Name Disambiguation Using Self-Citation
Unfortunately “fair” insurance - one where everyone pays the same premium - is an unstable equilibrium without regulation. As others mentioned, self selection without regulation leads to the fair carrier getting the highest risk population, effectively leaving it no money to pay out. It is definitely a race to the bottom.

There is the other unstable equilibrium if insurance is fully fair but non compulsory - it’s participation bias. What’s the benefit of getting insurance now when I can get it right before I go to the doctor (health) or on my deathbed (life)? Obviously at that point there’s no insurance - risk dilution - it’s a subsidy.

Which makes the only way to have fair insurance is to require everyone to have it and enforce very simple underwriting criteria. It will also require most folks to pay more than they could otherwise. Unfortunately the US has historically been bad at attempting to pass a law with that kind of effect, though the ACA got closer than most attempts before the recent changes.
How to 'Ride on Giants'
More and more? I recall software engineers were panicked over outsourcing just over 15 years ago. Have you watched Office Space? This is not a new phenomenon.
Personally, I don't think Lidar is needed to make self-driving cars. Otherwise we have a problem since humans do not come with them to date.

The problem I have with the article is he said Lidar will never come done in costs to that of a headlight.

Tech marches on and headlights are not really that cheap, in the future I would not be surprised with mass production that Lidar does get that cheap.

How much did the first Kim-1 computers cost? How does that compare to a simple Arduino with a hundred times the power and memory cost today?
I didn't get the Uber reference, have not they given up on driverless cars, at least for the near future? after the sensor / lidar failure resulting in a fatal crash.
Attacking another user like this is a bannable offence on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
It wasn't a rural city council that made this deal. It was Gov. Scott Walker. The executive for the entire state.
If labor/labour supply doubled wages would drop for most of the market.
That's their whole point - each page was individualistic, people were trying crazy things and showcasing their own personal style. The one thing that it wasn't was bland.
Optimize Images for Free to Drive More Business in 2019
From #113, Artificial Intelligence

The lebowski theorem of machine superintelligence: No AI will bother after hacking its own reward function.

once the AI has figured out the philosophy of the “Dude” in the Cohen
brothers movie Lebowski, also repeated mischiefs does not bother it and it “goes bowling”.

I'm relieved to learn that this is a theorem.
:D
Many private banks have strange ways of conducting business. I've been receiving calls from ICICI Bank (through private numbers) to verify my Credit Card. The procedure eventually ends with the operator asking me to enter my CVV through IVRS. Now how am I supposed to know if the IVRS(or even the operator) is legit? On one hand we are not supposed to share our details with anyone and the on the other hand the bank itself asks for these details through shady numbers. It's sad that banks don't do anything properly without RBI guidelines.
>Negative coverage doesn't make them biased, undeserved negative bias does. Whether it's deserved or not is a debate for elsewhere.

That's the point, you can report a bad story about somebody neutrally and just lay out the facts, but the media has consistently reported things negatively
About search engines, https://searx.me works great on local content, per country.
I think it's a great list but the typos bothered me. To me, they seem to indicate sloppiness; and if there is sloppiness, could the mathematical results be sloppy too?

e.g., on page 2 itself:

"Anticipated by Babylonians Mathematicians in examples..."

"Let f be a function of one variables..."
I was once at the poker tables nearby and a group came in at 1:00 in the morning dressed head to toe in derby viewing apparel. They proceeded to play the mechanical horses and it was absolutely hilarious.
I appreciate that they are willing to pull the plug on something like this early in order to stop potential data breaches when they can see that they don't have to tools to reliably prevent them. I feel like many other companies would not take these risks into account and instead keep their services running until a major breach did happen.
Is there some kind of violation?

It would be better to state it vs posting a link with lots of information/suggestions......

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This was trending/upvoted super fast so it was "On-Topic"..... and clearly was gratifying "one's intellectual curiosity."
Further to that, delete the folders. Plugins are often targeted directly if written poorly, so if you don't need 'em, delete 'em.
I haven't rated apps in years thanks to this policy. I wonder what other quality of life improvements will resurface after G+ for consumers is shuttered.
This touches on an open question and design challenge in the crypto field:

- How to programmatically/formally measure/characterize decentralization ?

- How to show the decentralization level of a particular dApp function execution to the user ?

In that case, a contract could be totally decentralized but the monetary value part of WBTC is external and centralized. That could be potentially very confusing and unexpected for a user if the WBTC redeeming process ultimately fell through, and they may come to blame other unrelated parts of the process.
Yes, no engines is bad but thrust reverser in flight is a instant killer.
Couldn't read this due to the Subscription/Sign-in wall. May I know how does this affect Masters(Computer Science) students in the US. I've got few friends studying there now.
> I imagine Japanese jails are nice, esp for small crimes

I did some Googling of this around the time we were in Lanta, and they sounded terrible
A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)
Lucky bastards, get all the fun features...
Here is the architecture: https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-wordpress-hosting-wit...

https://www.getshifter.io/ seems to be a relatively turnkey solution for existing Wordpress sites to migrate to serverless hosting. It spins up a Wordpress docker image when somebody is in the admin panel, then builds and deploys a new static site to S3 when a change is made. Each build is immutable and easy to switch between.

There are limitations with static site hosting. Their approach to comments is: Use Disqus.
I've imagined a world where prisons and homeless shelters look almost identical, save the prisons don't allow you to leave.
How are you subsidizing them? You're getting cheap food - truck crop farming is notoriously low margin. Are you prepared for $15/pint strawberries?
Hugo is indeed a great tool. I like it because I can write all my content in Markdown and have full control over how the site looks. Editing a Hugo template, or creating my own, is also much easier than it is in WordPress.
Why are you looking for a job if a company you founded has Coca Cola as a client?
It definitely works pretty well. I'm doing work currently with a robotic arm and hand doing random, unplanned tasks. I'm testing out different scenarios with lidar units placed on the ceiling and walls, and directly on the arm and hand, in combination with traditional camera based object detection.

Combining the real-time data together is straightforward, but figuring out how to optimally take advantage of it all is definitely a challenge. Having the extra dimension or sense definitely helps though.

I see it helping most in tasks that require a lot of dexterity, such as multiple digits working together, where a camera lens would be too close to the object or covered by the item in the task (folding a blanket etc), blocking light.
It works just like dx.exchange, if you've heard of them. :)
I did read the comments. Keep in mind that it's a subreddit for that particular podcast and the members will be partial to it. Still, the fact remains (I heard that episode too) is that the show portrayed the fellow in the wheelchair as being screwed over by the village, when his mother pocketed the entire amount allocated to the household.
30 to 50k uniques per month really isn't that much. At a rough guesstimate, I'd say I've got at least one hosting customer that does that much with Wordpress, gracefully, on a site that's not optimized even a little. I charge them $10/mo.

Static site generators and everything else are lovely and all, but it's hard to beat Wordpress when it comes to being able to just plug in a new feature. Which, of course, also gives some folks the rope they need to hang themselves. As other folks have pointed out, there could be a plugin issue.

But my guess is it's the hosting provider. They can have professional-sounding support but still be running an architecture that hasn't been updated very much in the last 5+ years. mpm-event and php-fpm alone really changed the performance characteristics for bog-standard LAMP hosting.

The error logs should give a number if memory's exhausted. I bet it's super low, because a lot of shared hosting providers still try to cram as many sites as they can onto a beleaguered colo'd box. At a glance, that does look like the csoft.net architecture (they have "Two Dedicated, Redundant Servers (with Private Gigabit LAN)").

There's certainly a broader point to be made about the gross, inexorable bloat of web-based applications, but there are also plenty of people running even more bloated, busy stuff for less money with less trouble.

Oh, and you can install the traditional editor for Wordpress, they've made it available as a free plugin and it works just fine.

There are plenty of people around who can sort out stuff like this. I'm one of them, but I'm heading to bed. Email's in my profile, or just accept help from anybody else that knows what they're doing.
Well, all of them are still in extensive testing with bug reports from small-event disengagement, not in customer bought cars involved in fatal crashes.
Show HN: Boolean Game – Created with AngularJS
I've always wondered this about LIDAR. It's all peachy with one car wandering down the road on its own, but a busy freeway with half a dozen cars all busily scanning everything is a different situation. Not to mention issues with sun glare dazzling sensors etc. Nobody talks about it so maybe it's not an issue in practice, but my own experience with sensors of all sorts is that they're never as good as you'd hope they are.
They terminate in a GC or you go home. Only one renewal, not like the work visa I had in China that could be renewed indefinitely with no path to permanent residency.
It doesn't do anything on mobile as extensions are not supported, no?
Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook’s Privacy Problem
Let's not forget about malice. If social media profiles become more important, they'll be broken into more often. The people doing ransomware can make threatening to raise your insurance rates a feature of their software.
This Is Your Brain Off Facebook
Because that's the game: e.g. Its not 'bad' or improper that Russia tries to influence American elections, its a failing of America that American elections were influenced. Countries exist to serve the citizens of that country so damn right America should tell other countries to fuck off: because they can and do so when it is (presumptively) good for Americans. (and damn right the Russians should try and influence American elections, Brexit, etc. if they feel it is in their interest)

What superficially is a hypocritical position is merely 'I do what's good for me'. Not endearing I suppose, but its not supposed to be.
Skittered right into the arrestor bed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...
Seems like Wordpress has outlived its usefulness. It's like the Windows XP of the internet. It was great and simple, until the security problems and feature creep plagued it to death.
H1B is indentured servitude, that’s why corporate America loves it. This measure will do nothing but increase masters mill programs, punishing both smart immigrants and Americans. Basically, another brutal, but expected, betrayal of campaign promises by the hapless Trump administration.
You might consider getting in touch with Jason Scott at the Internet Archive (@textfiles both here and on Twitter), and shipping him a hard drive to put the files you mention into cold storage (where they’re archived, but not accessible).

The Internet Archive has an emulator to enable the playback of orphaned video games in browser.
It is perfectly rational to be scared of flying. Hell, you're sitting in a pressurized cylinder at 30'000 ft flying at 700 mph. But you have to realize that the crew would not do this job if they weren't sure to come home to their families and dogs every night. Most pilots I know aren't thrill seekers but their love of flying are more a drive due to interest in travel and technology.
Is there any decent mouse gesture solution yet?
YES :)

The idea of putting together an article about dapp is trying to explain the concept of dapp in a simple way. Maybe we should write a separate one about frontend, wallet and others!

Thanks, Nicolas, always appreciate your comment.
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
There's proof of the media conglomerates not liking Facebook and doing everything in their power to stop them and similar companies, one just needs to look at the whole situation surrounding the EU copyright directive, Art. 11 and 13. The main reason it almost passed and threatened to screw with the state of the internet as we know it is because major German media conglomerates lobbied for it heavily to use it as a weapon against companies like Facebook and Google. The whole directive being inspired by a similar legal solution that's been tried in the past by Spain, under similar consequences by similar actors towards the same targets -- it failed spectacularly. Regardless, media conglomerates were willing to use money to force a legal win against online entities they fear are in control of some of their revenue and future.
In Silicon Valley? I've observed that the H-1Bs in Silicon Valley are extraordinarily high skill while the Infosys bodyshoppers are out in Des Moines and Cleveland.
Not even peer-reviewed.
And if you're in IT consulting like me instead of a software engineer, you absolutely should not cheer every immigrant. Many people wrongly assume that most H1B visas go to truly high-skilled individuals working at large tech companies. This is not the case. Take a look at the numbers in [1]. The top 5 companies bringing H1B workers are doing so specifically to outsource IT functions at lower cost than US workers. These H1B workers are absolutely taking away jobs and higher salaries from Americans who would like to do this work if it paid more.

What we need is to revamp the H1B system to be bid-based rather than lottery-based so it can actually fulfill its intent of bringing in workers that are truly needed rather than workers that are convenient.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/08/03/companies-h1b-visa-holders/
I can recommend you Publii CMS (https://getpublii.com), it's excellent static blog tool I use from over one year and manage four blogs.
> Fox as a whole is NeoCon and they are NeverTrumpers

This is full of shit. Trump regularly appears on Fox and Friends. Hannity regularly talks about or interviews Trump (not to mention sharing the same lawyer). Carlson regularly defends White House policy.
23, 0 savings. I don't have any savings account.
Except for the lidar equipped uber that killed a woman you mean?

Sure, watching a Disney movie while a Telsa drives is stupid and got someone killed. Seems like a pretty poor proof that lidar is superior. Not to mention Tesla hardware and software has some pretty far since then.
How would this be a greater downward pressure than now where H1B's are used to undercut?
Tips to Attract Angel Investors Towards Your Startup
You can lock bitcoin up inside the BTC mainchain by using certain OP codes. This allows you to create a sidechain.

For example Liquid does this: https://blockstream.com/liquid/
If you really enjoyed them you wouldn't post them on hn
Seems like overkill to me! I’ve seen people given reasonable doses of benzodiazepines be quite compliant!
>I do wish, though, that people would stop equating all radar with the adaptive cruise control style radar - imaging radars are a thing that exist, and can be competitive with lidar.

Notably however, the radars employed by current Tesla cars lack the angular resolution to distinguish between stationary objects next to the road, and stationary objects in the middle of the road.
What's the Difference Between Artisan Bread and Regular Bread
Cars deteriorate, materials are disassembled and reused, the orderly world in your head is not real and materials need to be safe for a chaotic one
I am running multiple Wordpress customers on digitalocean $20/month plans, and some of them get more than 50k uniques per month, never had any issue. Never did much optimization. I am pretty sure the issue is your hosting. Also check your Apache error log, maybe you are using some plugin or theme that is overloading the memory with some crap code like majority of free Wordpress plugins/themes.

p.s make sure to update to php 7+. The speed difference was very noticeable when I upgraded
So what’s the incentive for governments to become more efficient, need less tax money and attract more business?

I like the fact that states can choose to compete for companies.