skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except when they aren't.

You should really evaluate the current housing market at your city, the mortgage rates, your other investment opportunities, your income, your potential future income, plans for moving/marriage/children.

It's not as simple as buying being always better than renting or the other way around.
How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
I got the opposite problem focus but not discipline
Amen. One of my favourite movies is Labyrinth [1]. From 1986, the entire movie is live action with puppets and practical effects. Plus David Bowie, of course.

I could imagine one day somebody might try to remake this movie. They'd shoot it entirely in front of a green screen. The music would be compressed and auto-tuned to oblivion. I'd see it and sigh at the death of another little piece of my faith in humanity.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/
Isn’t this the guy driving all over Africa in his converted Jeep?

I wouldn’t be surprised if he is being sincere about visiting Sudan
Do not mistake campaign arguments for facts. They're more of the "arguments as soldiers" variety. It's rational to only care how effective they are at influencing public oppinion, they're not peer reviewed publications.
Honest argument about these issues is no longer possible on HN or elsewhere on the Net. People immediately move into ideological formations and the rational conversation falls away. The down-votes and up-votes have nothing to do with content or even the subject but only with the perceived team. I would ban politically charged conversation on HN, if this was up to me.
Since Vantablack (the very very black/light absorbing paint) is licensed (for artistic use) exclusively to a single art studio, another artist has made their alternative and is now starting to sell it.

Found it interesting, hadn't heard about the above before.
Anyone have a solution that can snapshot a running VM that has a PCI or PCIe card passed through to the guest OS? I use snapshots on ESXi, but they don't work for guests that have a card passed-through.
There's the fact that nobody appointed them the global cops in charge of boogiemen.

There's also the fact that more often than not, they act based on internal power plays and national interests of its own, and not for some "greater good".

There's also the fact that they have fucked up tons of countries with their interventions -- 4 countries in the last 20 years ago, turning relatively stable regimes into hell-holes of civil war, mayhem, and terrorism.

Not to go into how they have been historically worse than the boogiemen they complain about (from funding dictators, to directly invading countries, toppling democratically elected leaders, and so on).
Try going on a hike sometime...
Extra mouth to feed, extra room (bigger house), constantly changing wardrobe, yearly expenses on school materials and books, extra phone and computer, childcare, etc...

You must have a very weird definition of "cheap".
That's definitely an argument that comes up, with purchase, in politics.

I don't really think it has much (if any) validity. Taken as a whole, skilled migrants ar just to unlikely to be net recipients of redistributive governance. Skilled migration usually means educated, healthy, employable young (< 35-40) people. That's almost always a population in terms good tax/consumption ratios.

I'd also note that I'm more comfortable (as a liberal) with denying migrants certain positive rights (eg unemployment payments) than basic freedoms.

I think the welfarist-natuonalist argument amounts to a kind of "optimising-in our-favour." Why not get an even better tax/expenditure ratio out of migrants.
It seems to be a phase. Things are fun and weird when they are new and fresh. Remember early Facebook and Stack Overflow?

After a while, they attract more serious types and evolve to be more... well dressed. When people start to put Stack Overflow and Facebook branding on their resume, they start to take it real seriously.
Two central banks are issuing a digital currency
You might want to make the Premium price a bit more prominent, took me a while to find it.
The h1bs salary requirements allowed large companies to import cheap workers and compete with American labor.

It's not a coincidence that the biggest numbers of applications went to some of the big Indian IT companies.

It's a good thing they will be changed so that the cost get equalized rather than allowing big companies to import cheap and skilled labour. If it's skilled it should be paid the same of course not less.

This has been known for a long time to be a problem but was mostly ignored until recently.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcin...
creating 13,000 jobs include all supporting business (e.g. cook, servers, bus drivers, etc..). Not all of them are hired by foxconn.
Erlang too, fwiw.
Very interesting - thanks for the link. (This is exactly what I hoped HN would show me!)

Several interesting things there. The use of Structured Similarity Index (SSIM) is probably better/faster than the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that my project uses. And then, at runtime, I'm still doing a brute-force match (which is really slow) -- clearly there are big performance gains to be made by training a classifier.

Their results are really good!
Let's see in 10 years.
"Dhruv Khullar (@DhruvKhullar) is a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, an assistant professor in the departments of medicine and health care policy at Weill Cornell Medicine, and director of policy dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership."

OK. Also noted that this is an opinion piece and not journalism.

From the opinion piece:
"A recent study found that some facial recognition programs incorrectly classify less than 1 percent of light-skinned men but more than one-third of dark-skinned women. "

Study link:
http://news.mit.edu/2018/study-finds-gender-skin-type-bias-a...

Exact stats:

"In the researchers’ experiments, the three programs’ error rates in determining the gender of light-skinned men were never worse than 0.8 percent. For darker-skinned women, however, the error rates ballooned — to more than 20 percent in one case and more than 34 percent in the other two."

From the NYT opinion piece:
"A.I. programs used to help judges predict which criminals are most likely to reoffend have shown troubling racial biases, as have those designed to help child protective services decide which calls require further investigation."

Associated links:
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/magazine/can-an-algorithm...

Relevant quotes from each:

"The formula was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants."

"48 percent of the lowest-risk families were being screened in, while 27 percent of the highest-risk families were being screened out. Of the 18 calls to C.Y.F. between 2010 and 2014 in which a child was later killed or gravely injured as a result of parental maltreatment, eight cases, or 44 percent, had been screened out as not worth investigation."
We should have embargos on the US for pursuing a climate change program that destroys the planet.
>"I worked these jobs while trying to support and educate myself so that I could get a better-paying job."

So did many of us. People are not supposed to have to support a family as a primary earner on minimum wage and they never were. According to the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics, full time minimum wage earners earn over the poverty line by more than $3,000 per year. Two minimum wage earners can support a family of four and live above the poverty line. Avoiding poverty is all about choices.

>"At the same time, if 6-8 hours a day of Instacart deliveries isn't enough to provide you with an apartment, tuition money and food & entertainment for a wife and two children, then it's a service that shouldn't exist and it is only propped up by investor cash."

>"Because that is what minimum wage was originally meant to provide for an individual in America, before nearly a century of propaganda and misdirection convinced people like you that someone on minimum wage is lazy and doesn't deserve enough money to eat healthily, rent a decent apartment and have enough cash for some entertainment, and generally live better than someone in a third-world country, much less afford something like an annual vacation or car payments."

You have your facts quite wrong about the minimum wage and what it was originally meant to provide. The minimum wage was first enacted in 1938 by FDR. It paid a meager 25 cents per hour (this is $4 today when adjusted for inflation). So it has become substantially more generous as time has gone on. This is the opposite of your claim.

People in third-world countries earn less than a dollar a day. I'm sure they would love to earn even the 25 cents per hour that the original minimum wage paid.

Everyone I know that has been stuck in minimum wage jobs have definitely been lazy or made very poor choices (like stealing from their employer ETC.) in fact, only 3% of people above age 25 in the US make only the minimum wage.

Get the actual facts before making biased and factually incorrect claims (and cite sources when doing so). It really hurts your credibility to just make things up and try to sound like an expert so maybe no one will call you on it and you will appear to make a valid point.

Source:
https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/
> Wait? Isn't the future supposed to be OLED

Depending who you ask OLED is just a stopgap measure before mLED. Thay being said LCDs still have a long life ahead of them. Not sure if anything worth such an investment but they're definitely not going away anytime soon. They offer a combination of cheap and good enough for most purposes.
Not interesting in the least. You need a re-education course in HN-correct thinking.
> I hope we can all avoid being the person who said to Boisjoly, when it appeared that Boisjoly's testimony might be fatal to Morton Thiokol, that he would leave his children for Boisjoly to raise if he lost his job.

That's the tribal impulse right there. The one that says: screw the rest of the world, what matters is us and our in-group. Circle the wagons. Be a team player. Prize loyalty.

Maybe the type of person who bends this way has something valuable to contribute during their time on this earth, but often I struggle to see just what that might be.
> What I meant with that is, ...

I know that, yeah, but what I meant was just that Winamp 3 isn't a great example :-)
I've just created an account. We are getting tons of feedback, so your product sounds interesting.
In my experience, nobody runs into that many problems without making a whole lot of bad choices and not reaching for the opportunities that exist. If you were a minor, you would have been a ward of the state. They would have paid to take care of you. You wouldn't even have to work. You could live, go to school, and get all your needs met for free. The life of a guy I grew up friends with reminds me of you and what you went through. He never listened to good advice and always ended up in bad situations. It is clear just by your demeanor and manipulation of facts that you have some challenges brought on by yourself.

If you are a minor, the state will take care of you.
If you are broke and not a minor, pass a GED, then get financial aid for a Junior College or Trade School. Join the military. Take one of these entry level skilled labor jobs, they train you for free and pay good (though you will probably have to move to another state). As you work there, put yourself though an online or local college (if you wish), or continue to work your way up in your trade.

I had another friend growing up that had a worse family situation then the first. He made good choices and took the opportunities that the other didn't. He stayed out of trouble with the law and others. He steered clear of drugs and alcohol. He is now upper middle class with a family and doing great. Life is hard, but in America,anyone with at least average intelligence can succeed.

Making laws based on emotions and feelings have got us nowhere in the last 80 years (in fact they have caused a lot of damage). It's because they proport that all those who start out less fortunate are victims and cannot succeed. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Look at all the government programs and affirmative action that have been made for African Americans over the last 80 years... Yet their poverty levels remain exactly the same. Why? We have created a culture of public assistance dependence and generations of "victims" with all the welfare. We have created a generation of fake achievers where employers have to wonder if a minority really excelled, or was just given a pass. Even some progressives are admitting to much of this finally (especially those arguing for a guaranteed basic income).
Another good read that says something similar.

Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393973867

And the documentary based on the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGw8kZnJxE
I'm always curious when I hear this. How did a social media platform get to the point where you can't use self-control and discipline to simply use it less and within moderation? Why does it have to either be nothing at all, or total immersion?

I see a lot of friends juggle with some sort of internal battle between being off and on with this stuff, and then there are friends who just slowly "cruise" with it without affecting them.
ZFS is great, but it has it's own quirks sometimes. I had an extremely hard time getting rid of a broken zpool a while ago.
Top exports from the UK to the US, in order, appear to be: cars, pharmaceuticals and mechanical power generators, works of art and refined oil:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44802666

Interestingly, the UK exports rather a lot more to the US than it imports from there.

Edit: What is worrying is that investment in UK car building has drammetically reduced

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/uk-car-manufactu...
Looking at his map[1], I think you are correct. He's in Kenya heading toward Sudan. Probably giving South Sudan [2] a wide birth though.

1 http://theroadchoseme.com/africa-expedition-overview

2 https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/south-sudan/safety-...
ZFS is copy-on-write, so in most cases, it is safe.
Doesn't an exercise like that come with a high risk of getting shot?
If you use a consistent snapshot of the volume it should be ok. The database would perform crash recovery on startup but data should still be consistent.
Using relatable stories to market to the target demographic
Zillow’s Zestimate got an upgrade – and this trio got $1M for the new algorithm
This may be true, but it happens today as well without AI.
Big pharma corporations choose to do research on treatments for diseases that affect the ocidental world. Often setting aside the needs of poor nations.
iirc FreeBSD is sticking with svn because git is GNU licensed
> The commitment to the product was so complete that nobody involved could see the wood for the trees, and we saw the damaging impact of reality distortion first hand.

This is where I find this 'you must have passion for your job & company' to be problematic. You get this worker cult environments where how dare someone use a competitor typer scenarios. Or managers surrounding themselves with yes men.

A bit of neutrality in job attitude is good. You still take pride in doing a good job but the pride should be in your actions, not the company/product.
You already see this in many online games. There are over 60 only clans on steam when I looked years ago. Its a great way to 'socialize' when you arent very mobile.
It would appear so. Text again proves to be a poor medium to convey emotions
I wonder why I never heard about this contest? I would have loved to get involved. I bet there would be a lot you could do with computer vision on the images.
This is the wrong way of doing backup.

Raid for backup is not so good, specially if you have only 2 drive...

Using software (all provided is too a not good example.)

Just copy to another hare drive (network, other machine) and mirroir rsync that damn folder, the cost is low and easy to setup and recover.
Your parent wasn't being sarcastic. Check his profile.
Hundreds of Indian students face jail, deportation in US college scam
They have thankfully stopped trying to force that link between your account and YT. Was so annoying when happening.
James Mickens on this topic:

https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k

> Some people enter the technology industry to build newer, more exciting kinds of technology as quickly as possible. My keynote will savage these people and will burn important professional bridges, likely forcing me to join a monastery or another penance-focused organization. In my keynote, I will explain why the proliferation of ubiquitous technology is good in the same sense that ubiquitous Venus weather would be good, i.e., not good at all.

> Using case studies involving machine learning and other hastily-executed figments of Silicon Valley’s imagination, I will explain why computer security (and larger notions of ethical computing) are difficult to achieve if developers insist on literally not questioning anything that they do since even brief introspection would reduce the frequency of git commits. At some point, my microphone will be cut off, possibly by hotel management, but possibly by myself, because microphones are technology and we need to reclaim the stark purity that emerges from amplifying our voices using rams’ horns and sheets of papyrus rolled into cone shapes. I will explain why papyrus cones are not vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, and then I will conclude by observing that my new start-up papyr.us is looking for talented full-stack developers who are comfortable executing computational tasks on an abacus or several nearby sticks.
Let's generalize:

I do feel that companies should have a social and moral responsibility to their users.

Sadly, companies only have a social and moral responsibility to their shareholders. It's one of the reasons why corporations are not people, they're more often immortal sociopaths.
Disabling old Lets Encrypt validation will break HTTPS for Debian/Ubuntu users
Evan Ratliff (the article’s author) has a book on this subject coming out in February: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVBNCS7/
python comes with IDLE. Which looks dated w.r.t current IDEs. I guess for most languages, stability is the key - changing UI also means maintaining two different UIs(the old and the new)- that time could probably be better spent on language features.
On the contrary my mom (age 60+) finds G+ more intuitive and easier to use than Facebook, and the fact that there is less noise there is a positive for her.

I think G+ could've had its place in the world if Google allowed it to be its own thing rather than just a competitor for Facebook.
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Nice arguments. I never thought about it that way.
It isn't hypocritical unless you see both types of government as equivalent - liberal democracy vs theological roughly democracy.
Beware of chaining array methods in JavaScript
I love Oliver Knill! Not only does he have very broad mathematical interests, he also has this crazy YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/knill101/videos) where he sometimes uses a synthetic voice (!) to give talks---supposedly because he cannot talk as fast as he wants to.

He really is quite an interesting charactern!
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Sure, except the bill rate for my services hasn't changed since like 1998. It sucks, dude.

Reading through the comments, people already said it all, but I came back to vent. After 20 years in this shitty business I can vent if I want to.

I currently work in the US Midwest with a lot of foreign colleagues. They're pretty good people, OVERALL, but the ones that aren't are super-shitty, but that's true of the pastey-white native born Americans, too. But when the going gets tough, and when you need to be creative, the folks from, let's call it "that other place" just don't have any solutions.

Many of the people I work with wait for me to build a solution, then they literally copy and paste it into their project whether or not the design suitably fits their problem. A lot of projects here are a mess because of this "square peg in round hole" behavior. Worse, many of those guys get promoted above their mental capacity and now they're calling the shots and making horrific decisions because they networked with each other and shut out the truly competent people. This is the tippy top of the Fortune 500 here I'm talking about, btw. This is not some Mom & Pop podunk shop and the stakes are high. And so if this constitutes "best and brightest" we're in deep doodoo.
Google has gone from incredible to shitty over last few years. When I am looking for specific things, Google will most often present me with links to big websites. This happens most with medical searching like when I tried to find if low body temperature is somehow related to depression. Google showed me completely irrelevant links from WebMD, nhs etc. I had to go to page 4 to find some links to forums where people were discussing about it.

I've found myself using double quotes more often now than ever before. Google just doesn't seem to understand what I'm looking for.

The growth of content marketing has ruined Google search results.
I'll give it a try:

We choose some element s out of the set S, but only if x > y. That element gets fed into a function whose output is the value of x in the next step. y stays unchanged.

If x <= y the whole clause doesn't apply.
I personally use a term of "Extended Gödel Theorem" to explain many non mathematical topics , some paradoxical phenomena in daily life, even politics. But what I really mean is "Godel Theorem Inspired Theorems" which have some parallel analogies with real mathematical Gödel Theorem to avoid dispute.
There's a $200M abandoned village of Disney-like castles in Turkey
How to Use Google Colaboratory with IClojure
They are intelligible if you know Java and Clojure 1.10 improved stack traces.
You've misunderstood. Practically speaking, the UK needs to buy shit, the US needs to sell shit. UK has effectively blocked out 1/3 of the world (Europe) from a trade deal because we'd never get one as good as the current free trade agreement with the EU. Our politicians won't be stupid enough to say "we've left the EU, but have made a worse deal with Europe than we had before". Similarly EU won't make a deal with the UK which disallows freedom of movement and other "core" EU values, so any deal made would either require circumstances similar to pre-brexit EU to happen, or would just flat out be a worse deal.

Distance really isn't much of an issue at scale, when your cheap stuff comes from China - - edit - to clarify, the point i'm trying to make is that it really doesn't cost much to ship stuff halfway around the world, especially en masse. -, or meat from New Zealand, this isn't much of an argument. This would be a purely US beneficial deal, the UK wouldn't really be bringing anything into the US, other than maybe finance services, specialist products or (i guess) softer products like educational visas?

There's quite a big controversy over here at the moment about the possibility of a US trade deal. We are being told that for it to happen we would have to accept terms like chlorinated chicken/steroid injected beef, and then agree to other things like labeling the origin of the product (so you would never really know if you were eating US or UK products). There's a whole other host of subtleties which would degrade the UK whilst being beneficial to the US, just do a bit of googling about the proposed deals.
> How is the government (or whichever organisation) going to solve all its citizens' personal problems?

Money ?
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