skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about being able to afford basic living conditions.

If these people can't get enough human contact, we failed them. There's no reason we shouldn't be able to create meaningful interactions for the elderly.

There's no reason whatsoever they should be isolated.
I believe in everything DDG stands for but just earlier I did a search comparison to see which search engine provided the most helpful results. I searched 'asus block third party firmware' (no quotes) and objectively I have to say that Google provided the most helpful results. Search yourself and see if you come to the same conclusion.
> I think it gets traction with self-driving cars because people, stupidly, expect computers to make perfect decisions 100% of the time

I don't think it's that people expect perfect decisions.

You are right that it essentially never happens with humans. But why doesn't it happen with humans? I think it is because if we are driving down a highway at high enough speed for this issue to arise, we probably aren't going to be aware of what is in our swerve path, and even if we are we probably don't have the time to recognize that we have to make a choice, nor the processing power to make such a choice.

Hence, there isn't really any need to consider this issue with human drivers because humans cannot make a decision in such a situation.

Self-driving cars, on the other, should have the sensors and the attention and the processing power to take into account everything to the side of the road in addition to what is on the road. With them, unlike with human drivers, it is actually possible for them to make a decision in these situations.

I think it is getting traction simply because with self-driving cars, unlike with human driven cars, it is actually a meaningful question. It's meaningful even if you assume that computers don't make perfect decisions--they at least have the time and data to make a decision, unlike humans.
Thanks for bringing up this point. Anyone who has grown up in the US knows well how far down wages have gone.

My father was an accountant. He could afford a house and raised a family of 5 on his salary at age 40, earning ~60k/yr. I'm an experienced developer. I make $200k/yr. I'm raising a family of 4 on my salary and i'm 40. I cant afford a house. Heck, I cant even afford more than a 2br apt.

To me, it is completely meaningless that i earn 3x+ than my dad, the wages have not kept up with inflation. My 200k/yr doesnt buy me as much as 60k did a generation ago.

How is this "no loss in jobs or lowering of wages". If anything this demonstrates that Increasing supply lowers wages.

Who knew, economics was right all along!
We wrote Shifty, the testing robot that randomly swaps cryptocurrencies
This comment only makes sense in a world where politics are just a personal preference, instead of an power struggle with actual effects on others lives.

This position should be as non-controversial as not wanting to sell matches to arsonists.
The workforce grew, look at the link and table 5. Basically woman and minorities joined the workforce. Worker to population ratio went up and the total number of workers went up faster than the growth in population.
What logical system isnt axiomatic? I can't envision such a thing.

The only way out I see is uncountably many axioms.
Homogeneity is good only if you are moving towards the optimal goal. Diversity is good to bring in new ideas which helps adjust the goal and keep the society robust against failure. Like autocracy vs democracy. If you have a benevolent godly dictator, that's perfect. But we accept that no such ideal exists, so democracy is the compromise. Diversity in the workplace exerts the same goal. It lowers efficiency, but efficiency is pointless, even counter-productive if it is towards the wrong goal.
Not a kid, but I’m allergic to nickel and my daughter threw some quarters in my bed. I didn’t realize it and slept with a quarter burning a hole into my side. I woke up with a quarter-shaped rash that lasted about a week.
The US didn't have an income tax at all until the 20th century, at least at the federal level
NEM Almost Bankrupt, Plans Layoffs and Pivot
Anything but web development is fun :)

Unless you write the web-server, or course. That is fun.
It actually is significantly "weaker". You make the wrong analogy when you say the dynamically typed case maps to a statically typed one with an exception (which presumably is a value in your language).

The correct analogy is to a segfault, meaning the program exited abnormally because it's inconsistent in an important way. It's the reason statically typed languages are faster than dynamically languages: expressions have a fixed meaning than enables optimisation guarantees you can depend on.
so more privileged/rich chinese and indians and less anyone else? (including american workers?)

(watch anything not pro-immigration be downvoted to hell)
I don't feel that snake oil salesfolk deserve any empathy.
> Stack Overflow has answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Nowadays heavily discouraged, and would probably be deleted as unconstructive; that one still exists because of historical significance/was grandfathered in.
My parents are set to turn 70 next year and I worry so much about their wellbeing when they get older. My dad, in particular, is a generally happy person, but doesn't have many friends. I worry that if my mom passes before him, he's going to have a rough time. I feel guilty because I'm one of those children described in the article who moved to another city to chase economic + social activity.
This is a sad day for the USA, as we move further from the principles that made us great.

This is discrimination, and nothing to celebrate. People without degrees deserve equal treatment. People who want to work lower-paid jobs deserve equal treatment.

America should stand for liberty, personal responsibility, and equality of opportunity. Not racism and elitism.

Our immigration laws continue to be a stain on this great nation.
Import tax on crap would solve it.
It's crazy to me how Google almost telepathically guesses what I will search for in all of the web, but it doesn't know what videos I will watch.

YouTube's recommendation algorithm is one of the worst I use. I have to actively manage my subscriptions and many people I know mass click "not interested" on videos to try to improve it. Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, and pretty much every other recommendation works like magic by now.

There's something really wrong with it.
Kindergartens in Kazakh Capital to Use Blockchain for Waiting List Management
This ”cpn tools” the book is about is cool for a number of reasons but I will start with two: it’s written in the Beta languange and it has its own ml dialect called cpn ml. I look forward to diving in deeper!
Amazon Echo and Google Home only send data to the servers when they detect the wake word. That's a lot different than sending everything.
Consider moving away from a CMS like Wordpress. It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it. Static content generators might help here. They let you edit off line and compile to a static version of the web content you currently serve. I'd suggest looking at Hugo or one of the many specialised for blogging. https://opensource.com/article/18/3/start-blog-30-minutes-hu...

You can then push the content to something Amazon's s3 and put cloudfront in front to speed things up.

You'll have to then offload the comments to a service but that is relatively easy and cheap. A service like discus is only $9 a month. Moving to s3 you'll save that in hosting. (I run two sites like this and pay $0.07 on average per month). Not to mention those services are pretty good at filtering spam.

There are some other options around too. https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

Wordpress is nice but it will never out perform static content.

EDIT: I just read this in discus
"Free
For small, personal, non-commercial sites who do not run any ads. This plan includes everything in Plus except Direct Email Support."
Also, if anyone has any good suggestions for sites similar to weworkremotely I would love to hear about them :D
April 1st would be a much more appropriate date for this monumental screw up.
1 million per year, not millions, in a country of 325 million (0.3%), for comparison Canada lets in 0.33 million per year in a country of 36 million (almost 1%).
Stackexchange sites are far better than subreddit if you're looking for more reasonable and constructive discussion.
Who Is Juan Guaidó?
> I agree, and I don't think this is a bad trend, once upon a time I think static vs. dynamic was a clear distinction

I think there's still a very clear distinction, but there's often value in having access to both in one language. The dynamic typing features can often make up for limitations of your type system, for instance.
Having worked in a French university, around 2005-2010, we actually received an explicit memo that male should not receive female students in their office without a third person being there.
Even at wages closing in on 3x minimum wage, we cannot get enough farm labor[1] - obviously low skilled American labor still doesn't want the job. What's the solution?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/
GScript
Show HN: Colored Noise Generator using Web Audio API
I’d hire you. But I don’t have a company. You need to find a place where the person interviewing you is the person who has the final say in hiring you. Which isn’t most places.
Ben Krasnow at Supercon: Making Alien Technology in Your Own Shop
I'm pretty sure a crutch isn't a crutch-crutch but a body-crutch.

Ducttape is a crutch-crutch when applied correctly.
Most people would rather read article than terms.
>Where does the growth come next though

I'm amazed they haven't taken a crack at Google with a search engine in their app. Imagine how valuable combining Facebook's data with the user intent of search? A lot of users would never leave the facebook app on their phone if they could get a search engine that's halfway decent. It seems like they are leaving a ton of money on the table as it stands

If its too much to develop their own maybe they could team up with Bing or something?
This is discrimination, and nothing to celebrate. People without degrees deserve equal treatment. People who want to work lower-paid jobs deserve equal treatment.
Where are the companies that reject you? In San Francisco many companies would never even ask. I certainly wouldn't mind. No one should be eternally damned for a mistake made in college.
G+ was _the_ place to be for one of my hobbies (OSR/DIY D&D). A massive blow.

I made jokes about if we hang in there and don't get taken in the Google+ Rapture, things will go on like normal. Turns out G Suite users get to keep G+ and I'm a GAFYD user since the beginning. Yay for me?

Everyone is now displaced. Facebook is universally reviled as an option, Mastodon/Diaspora has attracted a whopping several folks. Some others tried starting forums to no avail.

Discord seems to be doing well for many but not a majority. MeWe is the only platform that people seem to "get" but it has a controversy to it.

Nevertheless, the blogs still seem to be ticking along.
Occupy your attention? Why can’t you just ignore opinions you disagree with, or offer a different one? It’s not that hard to scroll past something you disagree with or to not click that link or not watch that video. People do this all the time.

I feel the motivation to censor or deplatform is not about improving one’s own personal experience, but really about limiting what others can access and waging a dirty war of competing ideas. Otherwise why do people push to deplatform channels on YouTube that they can simply block?

It seems imminently unwise to claim that what you or some subset of society deem acceptable at this moment in the current set of circumstances should establish limits on what ideas can enter societal discourse. What if we have it wrong? Should a currently popular idea never be challenged? It’s a massive risk to take such a view because sentiment around right/wrong/acceptable is so variable over time.
Played around with it a few months ago. The syntax is peculiar, clojure-inspired, but still very different. Breaking changes have been made, leaving most libraries unusable. The documentation didn't mention this (and is lacking in many other ways).

And btw. many of these changes weren't even features. Like core functions getting removed for philosophical reasons.

Feels like they broke and abandoned it
I agree with what you say, but I think it has more to do with (perceptions of) control than the failure modes.

When you’re in an automobile, you could choose to drive faster or slower, safer or more aggressively. You can tell yourself that you are more alert or a better driver to the people who die in fatal car accidents. You can tell yourself that you have a superior ability to avoid that drunk driver who might suddenly veer into your lane from oncoming traffic. And once your car comes to a stop, if you’re not seriously injured, you can just get up and walk away.

In an airplane there’s none of that. You can make vanishingly few choices to affect the safety of your flight. And you’re stuck in that tin can until it’s on the ground and you’re either alive or dead.
Haha, thanks! Yeah, that is how I got my current job. My boss helped me so much by giving me a chance but I feel that I am hindered from advancing at this point. I appreciate the response, bon soir!
Apple Maps is the way to go in China, unless you read Chinese and can use one of the local apps. Apple have done a great job here.
Emacs is my favourite software, but elisp is one of my least favourite lisps. The other day I stumbled upon Shen language after some years and noticed it now has BSD license and an elisp implementation. I tried to add it to spacemacs and, to my surprise, it just worked. When I have some spare time the next thing I'll do will be to learn some Shen and see if for shell scripting it is an improvement over elisp.
What does language have to do with "use multiple cores"? Python has both multiprocessing and threading libraries.
It can be done, but it's neither easy nor a good idea: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ARJENV0qGdY

You'd certainly struggle to do it by accident.
$50 seems quite a bit of money for a wordpress blog, when you can have wordpress.com host you for $5/mo.
I want to use this but the scroll responsiveness is slow and it lacks a solid way to refresh.
Right now I am in Philly but I have begun looking for jobs all over. Typically no one ever asks me, but I feel like most places (even after extending offers) do default background checks. If I am not upfront I feel like I am not being honest so it's a catch-22. Thanks though, I will start applying to more out that way. My sis lives at Stanford so I may see if she knows some startups that need someone who is willing to do do whatever it takes!
>It seems like the teams working on autonomous vehicles need all the crutches they can get, and it seems like a good idea to lean on superhuman sensors to make up for subhuman "cognition."

In a perfect world, yes. But cost always comes into the equation. Companies like comma.ai and Nexar are getting their devices in to the hands of hundreds of thousands of people at this point. When you can get that level of training and autonomy from a simple camera based device it becomes a really compelling product, even though you're nowhere near full level 4 self driving.
Atomic swaps don't make WBTC feasible in a trustless decentralized fashion. The swap itself is only a very small part of the problem. The article states they are using custodians to hold Bitcoins.
The big issue for me and a lot of the community was their policy on mandatory use of real names. Facebook wanted to own your online identity but Google wanted to own your real-life identity. The moment they started pushing that policy G+ turned into a ghost town.

The mandatory G+ integration, btw, was one of the core goals of G+ IMO. They wanted to tie everyone's accounts together into a single entity (again, owning your identity) and G+ was the chosen vehicle.
Ironic that participants were initially contacted via FB ads.

In light of the recent "Research" app disclosure, and that in both cases a fee was paid for participation, it makes me wonder what people won't do for a few extra dollars in their bank account given a similar scenario.

The NYT article is almost apologetic about its inconclusiveness. I might wonder - should I happen to be wearing my tinfoil hat - that it is designed as a means of placation, an ode to the status quo, rather than a deterrent for the average consumer.
> How many security updates did Flash have over the course of its life?

One. When they finally killed it.

All other updates were more or less security sidegrades.
I developed and maintained the landing page for a top-100 website that was powered by Contentful, ExpressJS and aggressive in-memory caching. The setup was very stable.

I’m guessing your Wordpress install has a bad theme or plugin that is writing errors to the request body and then attempting to send the remaining HTTP headers.
Every time we have this conversation we have to do this silly song and dance routine instead of, you know, doing a quick google search.

WSJ > https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-look-at-the-h-1b-visa-pro...

Fortune > http://fortune.com/2017/02/15/h1-b-silicon-valley-wages/

Science Magazine > http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/economists-h-1b-vi...

I particularly appreciate the part where you passively-aggressively calle me a xenophobe not knowing I'm an immigrant too. Classy move.
"Anyone with a modem" is not a trivial bar. It's like saying "anyone with a CNC setup has been able to 3D print for decades".

Yes, but it was the introduction of easy-to-use 3D printers which actually, rather than theoretically, democratised it. As it was with AOL and Usenet.
I really liked the rest of the comments but I’d like to offer an alternative to all of the advice about limiting the amount of work.

I suggest finding a project, feature or initiative at work that ignites your passion and puts you into flow (as defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). 12hrs will pass by quickly and you’ll be able to regain some of the focus you are missing. If you can’t find this at the place you work, maybe consider changing workplaces.
you're being downvoted but i think it's crazy that people ignore the obvious economic incentives that a publicly traded company like the new york times has to wage war against a company that has siphoned their main source of revenue
The difference is that software isn't such a unique get out of poverty ticket in rich countries. People in rich countries who are ambitious and no good at development and / or don't care about it can just do something else to earn a good living.
> Such a function does allow you to make an unprovable statement, but that is an extra step at least as large as the given proof.

Not at all. An unprovable statement is, in fact, exactly such a non-computable function. Supposing S is a non-computable function, all we need is a meta-logical jump from "computing S(x)" to "checking if the statement 'S(1) = 0' is correct" -- the latter of which is also trivially not possible (because S is not computable).
Yep, absolutely agree. For the Netscape generation MySpace was annoying, for the newsgroups fun ended with IRC.

Anyone tiktok-ing around couldn't care less about MySpace and the codeblog rant.

The real fun is, that you can make the internet fun. So the codeblog's shoot was a nice PR stunt, but that's it.
Humans also have 576 MP quality eyes with a computational engine behind them the likes of which humanity isn't even remotely close to replicating.

The idea that you can throw a cheap camera in a car and think you can achieve the same always seemed strange to me.
So, it went from one person making $41K to two people making $72K ($36k each)? That doesn't seem like a growth situation.
Reading articles and books with the subtext of "what Gödel REALLY meant was..." reminds me a lot of literary criticism, in that it doesn't really matter what the original author REALLY meant any more - what's far more interesting is how the author's ideas affected the thinking of others and how much those people will argue about how their interpretation is the only true one.
The 20,000 for advanced degree holders already holds in the current system, and it already over-subscribed. So this would not reduce the number of H-1Bs issued.
It really doesn't depend on the jail, at all. Having to be incarcerated to have a good livelihood is unforgivably disgusting.
For 50$ (Canadian, I guess), will not someone like wordpress.com do better? Their business package is USD25 per month.
Just curious, what program did Elon Musk enter? I think he has said he entered with an H1B previously: https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-have-legal-authorization...
Lidar can create a great 3d representation of an environment, but then you're back to the same problem as cameras. You need some sort of AI to identify objects in the data. So the question is how much of an advantage does lidar give you in object identification? It's hard enough to identify objects with confidence in 2d images. Where is the confidence level at for identifying and/or discerning 3d objects with AI?
The Google version has a browser extension though, which is as good as a root cert.
> "You realize that in the US 50% of all PhD candidates are foreign born."

That number sounded really high to me and I went looking for information to refute it. Turns out 50% may be a rather modest estimate today:

Foreign Students and Graduate STEM Enrollment https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...

> The report found 81 percent of full-time graduate students in electrical and petroleum engineering programs at U.S. universities are international students, and 79 percent in computer science are.

The Disappearing American Grad Student https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american...

> The dearth of Americans is even more pronounced in hot STEM fields like computer science, which serve as talent pipelines for the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft: About 64 percent of doctoral candidates and almost 68 percent in master’s programs last year were international students, according to an annual survey of American and Canadian universities by the Computing Research Association.
Your look at the situation is naive at best. The fact that wages are growing doesn't mean they couldn't grow more, or that are growing for everyone.

WSJ > https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-look-at-the-h-1b-visa-pro...

Fortune > http://fortune.com/2017/02/15/h1-b-silicon-valley-wages/

Science Magazine > http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/economists-h-1b-vi...

There's huge age discrimination at work in the tech industry, and older, very qualified workers struggle to find good jobs because tech employers prefer young and naive serfs.
Apple revoked Facebook's enterprise developer certificates
I watched a 45 minute video "Web Development In 2019 - A Practical Guide"

Its him just listing off upto date technologies you need to learn to call your self full stack in 2019 for 45 minute.

It's really ridiculous, how complicated web development is.
The technology is broken. No one wants to admit it. They just keep building on top of a rotten core.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTQVlqmDQ0
That's a great point. Specially because L-2 holders can work. I never understood why it was different for H-4
He is right about lidar being a crutch, but he is wrong about the amount of time needed to develop machine vision software good enough to make lidar unnecessary.
The trouble with this argument is that both sides agree with it.
This is just baseless accusations, but ok.
"some some" Is a typo?
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